Ok, so i have a house that is pretty messy…we keep the kitchen and dining/living room area pretty clean…but it stops there…i HAte messiness!! we have one room dedicated to a bunch of old stuff we don’t need…and the other stuff is like floors not vacuumed or swept…etc and the other thing that’s really annoying is the walls..!! they were painted with cheap paint so any little thing that gets on there stays on…i love my parents but they’re going thru a hard time rite now with each other and my mom is pretty sad a lot of the time with no energy to clean…idk where to start!! i try so hard and it seems like i get no where..
i kno it sounds weird that a girl my age would be thinking about this..but it’s kinda up to me to keep things going right now…i recently met the boy of my dreams and partly i’m embarrased for him to come over cuz of the messiness…i have wonderful friends but don’t invite them over for the same reason…i suppose our family is different cuz we don’t have tv…
or very much money…idk why this should weigh on my mind so much…just please any advice on how to start organizing! i have school and sports etc so not much to to clean…but advice from moms would be the best…thank u!! 🙂
p.s. it’s not just cluttered..it’s kind of dirty too..not awful but enough to gross me out…and it’s pretty disorganized including closets cabinets etc
Try not to look at the whole job. Take it on one room, one step at a time. The first step is to get rid of the garbage and box up the stuff you will keep but not use. Maybe you can store boxes in the garage or basement, out of sight. Once the room is pretty well cleaned out, move furniture into the middle and start at the top of the room with a duster and dust away spider webs and dust the walls. Warm sudsy water will help the spots a lot now that you can get to them. Take down the curtains and wash them then put them back up. Dust blinds and around the windows. Put the furniture back in place (maybe re-arrange to look better) and vacuum or scrub the floor. You don’t even have to do it all in one day if the room isn’t used much. Finish off with a nice Fabreze scent.
Step by step and you’ll get it done. I’m sure it will make your parents feel better. Dirt and clutter do cause stress and bad feelings all on their own.
Good luck.
well first do one room at a time its a good idea to look at your thing and anything you don’t need or want put it in the bin next it would be a good idea to find a place for things you want but don’t use a lot if you can get some plastic boxes or something like that you can keep things in them and also you can hide them under the bed out of sight once you have got ride of most of the clutter you can start to clean up if you need help with cleaning anything google it i hope this helps
This is a wonderful idea!
The thing that keeps many people from cleaning and redding up is that it gets out of hand.
What I do is a little at a time.
Begin by getting to the real garbage.
get garbage bags and run them outside to the curb/garbage area fast.
That way nobody goes through them and takes stuff back out.BEtter to do this the night before the trash truck comes.
The sooner they get taken away the better.
The problem is that people keep stuff to fix..
it piles up and just sits there.
So to begin..start small then work up to total success…
working alone will take a bit longer.
Again, more children should feel the need to help their parents the way you are..
you are indeed a special person…
good luck and do not stop till the mountain is gone to the trash or to GOODWILL or if you have decent stuff
AM VETS will come pick stuff up
look for their phone number or some other kind of recycling org..to give useable stuff to.
Or even recycle .
Also sometimes stores sell good paint that others returned for being the wrong color.
maybe someday the boy you like would be helpful? Sometimes boys and girls like to help those they like do things like that.