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Cleaning Room
Okay, I know it's stupid, but I have TONS AND TONS OF STUFF in my room, and I just can't seem to clean it- I just don't know where to start. I'm dead serious, you can't see the floor. And my bedroom has 2 rooms in it, and both are REALLY messy. How should I attack it? I've already tried putting everything in a giant pile on my bed and then sorting through it like that, and picking slips with areas, and neither works. And of course, I've tried the classic 'pick it up and put it where it goes.' Nothing seems to work! Can anyone help?
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Got the same mess before. What I do is, I bought new filing cabinets like those who used in the office because it only need little space. I also bought few boxes that can be move to under my bed giving the floor more space. Try this furniture:
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My friends call me the Clean Queen, my family calls me "The Nazi" so I personally wish I could come myself and clean it but some tips will have to do the trick!
Start by making your bed...it's amazing how much that can instantly help, and inspire you when you're in the dark moments of almost giving up!
1. Get a BIG garbage bag and throw away any trash, paper cups, old receipts, EVERY OLD MAGAZINE IN YOUR POSSESSION, etc.
2. Grab a box (Grocery stores always have leftover cardboard boxes in the back...ask for egg carton boxes, they're a good size...and these are free) and in the box put anything inside that doesn't belong in your room (if you have drinking cups, plates, your sister's headphones, the family cordless phone...you get the idea!)
3. Go around the house and put everything in the box where it belongs until it's empty and use the box to...
4. Make a donation/sell pile! Anyone over the age of 10 doesn't need any stuffed animals, so there's an easy addition to this box. Look in your closet...ditch any shoes you haven't worn the past 6 months. Same for clothing and purses! It will be worth it, I promise you!
5. Buy a cheap paper filing folder thing (Walmart has tons in great colors). Until you purchase this, start a pile of these papers on the floor. Put important receipts, coupons, Birthday and Christmas cards, etc in the pile and once you get the folder, put each in its appropriate place.
6. Mentally divide your room into sections, probably easiest by type of furniture: BOOKSHELF, DESK, NIGHTSTAND, ARMOIRE/DRESSER.
Look on your bookshelf and think long and hard about each book and item...push some stuff on your floor to the side and make a "keep" pile on the floor, and bring over your sell/donate box as well as the trash bag. Go thru each item and put it in "keep" pile, donate/sell box or trash. Don't be conservative...aim to donate/sell a ton! Do the same to each piece of furniture!
7. By now you've probably had to take several trips to the dumpster and Salvation Army...which is GOOD because so much stuff is cleared out by now! Tackle the floor next. Pick up an item and ask "Keep, Donate, or trash?" each time until the job is done!
8. Reserve a large drawer somewhere in your room as your "technology drawer." As a personal organizer, I make sure every client has one, you'll love it! In here, put your ipod, headphones, digital camera, all the cords, computer game disks, old CDs, etc. If you can't find a drawer, buy a plastic drawer system at Walmart when you pick up your file folder thing mentioned earlier!
9. Donate your items, or sell them (as a kid i'd make a TON of
$ selling my old stuff at our annual garage sale!) and throw away the trashbags.
10. With all the stuff cleared out of the furniture, grab windex and some paper towels and wipe down the furniture (there's always some dust!) then go to your "Keep" pile and start organizing items onto your new empty bookcase, nightstand, desk, etc.
*The best trick is to realize you don't need all the stuff. Donate it to someone in need who'll appreciate it versus it sitting on your bookshelf and gathering dust. Or, if you're the one in need of some extra cash, sell it at your next garage sale! Ask your family and neighbors to clean their rooms/homes and voila! You have the great start to a garage sale! Be sure to take out an Ad in the local newspaper for publicity! I bought some packs of diet coke and waters and stuck them in a large cooler at our last garage sale and sold them to our overheated customers, making quite a profit off that as well!
Good luck :)
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Ahh, finially a question I have had actuall experience with!
Alright lets get this mess cleaned up:
. find some boxes or bins, or organizing containers ( cost 1 $$ at store)and label then with a plain old sharpie.
*Clothes/ purses/ shoes
*Office
*Books/Mags.
*electronics
*ETC.
Then turn up some music with a fast beat, put your hair up, and get in the mood to clean. After you sort through everything and classify it to a box catagory, then sort through the boxes, wash dirty things, through out stuff, whatever needs to be done.
Dust, sweap and your finished
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well first i throw everything in one big pile on the floor. then i look at whats clean and whats not. i wash the dirty clothes. and while they are washing i hang up/fold or throw away things. then i take a break for like 30 min. lol. then i start to fix my bed. take out my laudry and put that away. take another break for 15 min. then i dust,sweep,& vacuum. thats it. i am a procastinator but i usually have ppl help me (i pay them or owe them a favor) until im done.
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You're not going to be able to clean it all in one day.
Try cleaning one corner or section of your room each day.
Like, the other day, I tried cleaning my floor, and then the next day, I cleaned my desk.
The putting things on your bed and sorting really works, but only if you are really patient. If you try to shove EVERYTHING you own on your bed, that's why it doesn't work. If you put only a section of what you own on your bed, then it's easier to organize.
I know that with my room, most of my mess was papers and clothes. So, if you send all your clothes out of your room to wash them, it gives you more room to organize everything else.
Take a large garbage bag into your room, and throw out anything you will not use anymore, and anything you haven't used for over a year, or maybe for over six months.
If it's something you absolutely must keep, then get a plastic bin, and put it with similar things and store it away in the basement, AWAY from your room.
Try to beat the inevitable "I'm going to clean my room and then three days later, I'm going to get lazy and make it dirty again" curse. If you can keep your room up for two weeks, then maybe you can keep it clean for even longer.
Good luck! =]
--Jack
(17/m)
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i had a similar issue only mine was a 2 bedroom apartment lmao. What i did is tackle it in sections. Take a box and a garbage bag. Things that are garbage or can be parted with go in the garbage bag. Things you want kept go in the box. Once you have it all up off the floor you can go through the boxes one at a time and put stuff where you would like it to be.
GOOD LUCK
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A lot of "stuff", you say? What stuff? Deal with things by category.
Wash any clothes that are on the floor, and then put them back in your wardrobe. If you have so many that they don't fit in the wardrobe, you probably have more than you need. Get rid of the ones you rarely wear. (Depending on the condition of the clothes, you might be able to sell them at a second-hand shop or on eBay, or you can give them to charity.)
Books should go in the bookshelf (if you have one) or be stacked up (if you don't have a bookshelf, or if your bookshelf is full). If you have old magazines, consider getting rid of them. The information in there is likely to be out of date anyway. (Of course, this depends on the topic of the magazines. This doesn't apply if your magazines are on topics that do not become dated.) Again, go through your books to see if there's anything you don't want, and sell them or give them away.
Small bits and pieces should be kept in containers. Plastic boxes with lids are good. (Lids are good for keeping dust out.)
After you've sorted stuff out, get used to not leaving things on the floor.
Also, if you already have a lot of clutter, do not buy unnecessary things. Ornaments can be lovely, but if you already have a lot of clutter, they just add to the mess.
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