i have a royal ton of trouble keeping my living quarters clean - my bedroom especially. i finally managed to clean it up today, but i'm concerned that i'll lapse from the habit of putting stuff away, and it'll become messy again. What do i doooo? Any help would be greatly appreciated... the frustration from my mess lately makes me want to become an hero. ...
I set a day aside (Sunday) to do all of my chores. If you keep up with it, there really isn't that much to do on that day. As for laundry, I try to keep only 7 of each class of cloth, and 7 for each type of cloth class, and so on. This way, I'm forced to do laundry on the day that I set aside. I only eat in the kitchen, where the food is prepared. I am aware of where the waste baskets are, each of them small. Larger cleaning projects such as windows, ceiling fans, bathtubs, toilets, and so on, are done monthly. Each object has a container; the pens are in the mug; the books are in the bookshelf. Shoes and carpet, grease and fingers, oil and hair, shirts and stains, its not the case.
I'm pretty bad. All my clothes ends up on the floor and I simply walk over it. I dump stuff on my bed and when I go to sleep, I dump it on my chair. When I wake up, I dump that stuff onto the floor so it keeps on going.
A lot of things get lost.
I only clean up when someone is about to visit and it takes ages. Being tidy should be a part of your habit. Like cleaning up something once you're done with it and putting it away immediately. It's tedious and easier said than done.
I finally got around to cleaning my own place up. Took me days to get rid of old clothes and papers and put stuff away in some organized fashion.
You could slightly organized approach to being messy. It took me a few days to clean the last three-month old groups of piles mainly because there was just random kinds of stuff in random places.
It may help to at least get to assigning certain rooms for certain piles -- say all the clothes piles go in the bedroom, or any papers and unopened mail go in the den. When you get fed up with the mess and start to clean, at least there you'll have a head start. And you won't be moving room to room, possibly getting distracted, when you put things away.