Unfuck Your Habitat: Bedroom Edition
There is a Tumblr called Unfuck Your Habitat and it is a thing of beauty. It advocates cleaning in bursts/breaks, like 20 minutes of work then 10 minutes of resting. This prevents marathon cleaning, which is unsustainable and exhausting.
The pope and I are getting a brand new king size bed. Our current bed is 10 years old and features a mattress that was rated as a guest bed, so we've definitely killed it dead. It's only been bearable because we put a memory foam topper on it a few years ago.
With this coming change, it became imperative to rearrange the bedroom, since it won't hold a king size bed in its original configuration. On top of that need, the room was a MESS, especially the flat surfaces. It also needed serious dusting, even after I did some of that a couple of weeks ago.
Counts:
Hair ties: roughly 2 dozen
Books: 20 or so
Receipts and such from the pope's pockets: too many to count
Clothing culled from my stuff: most of a kitchen-size trash bag
Time spent: 1 45 minute CD followed by a 15 minute break, 1 60 minute CD followed by a 15 minute break, and about 20 minutes to finish the job
The problem with using a whole bookshelf as a nightstand is that it is really easy to cover it in junk. This went away!
UfYH calls this the "floordrobe." I will say that none of those clothes are clean. My baskets are full of clean laundry.
More books! And totally inadequate storage for too many t-shirts.
The pope has this side of the bed. Enough said.
Some creative storage solutions and culling of t-shirts and some socks later, the dresser looks much better.
Not shown: a moderate quantity of random crap in the nightstand drawer.
It's made and everything. Bonus feature: an overdue library book that was under the bed.
This is small enough that I will have a VERY hard time cluttering it up.
The pope and I are getting a brand new king size bed. Our current bed is 10 years old and features a mattress that was rated as a guest bed, so we've definitely killed it dead. It's only been bearable because we put a memory foam topper on it a few years ago.
With this coming change, it became imperative to rearrange the bedroom, since it won't hold a king size bed in its original configuration. On top of that need, the room was a MESS, especially the flat surfaces. It also needed serious dusting, even after I did some of that a couple of weeks ago.
Counts:
Hair ties: roughly 2 dozen
Books: 20 or so
Receipts and such from the pope's pockets: too many to count
Clothing culled from my stuff: most of a kitchen-size trash bag
Time spent: 1 45 minute CD followed by a 15 minute break, 1 60 minute CD followed by a 15 minute break, and about 20 minutes to finish the job
The problem with using a whole bookshelf as a nightstand is that it is really easy to cover it in junk. This went away!
UfYH calls this the "floordrobe." I will say that none of those clothes are clean. My baskets are full of clean laundry.
More books! And totally inadequate storage for too many t-shirts.
The pope has this side of the bed. Enough said.
Some creative storage solutions and culling of t-shirts and some socks later, the dresser looks much better.
Not shown: a moderate quantity of random crap in the nightstand drawer.
It's made and everything. Bonus feature: an overdue library book that was under the bed.
This is small enough that I will have a VERY hard time cluttering it up.