How I Fight My Messy Girl Nature🧼🧹🧺
All my life I’ve had to learn to be organized. While I’m not dirty I tend to just set things down and create piles all over my room. I typically have a good idea where everything is until the mess becomes overwhelming and I begin losing things. So I’ve had to really put in work to keep my space neat to prevent my environment from causing me anxiety. Here is all my tips I use on the daily.
Everyday I try and put away five things that were misplaced.
I even put it in my habit tracker so I always remember.
While this doesn’t make my room spotless when I keep up with it consistently my room is way cleaner.
It also helps build the habit of cleaning as you go. Once I started doing this habit my tendency to leave clothes on the floor and shoes everywhere decreased significantly.
I choose to do them on Fridays and Sundays as a way of wrapping up a week and then starting fresh.
I set a timer and then clean as fast as possible.
While 15 doesn’t sound like a lot it leaves my room pretty clean and usually I build up enough momentum to finish the clean even after the timer goes off.
How I fight my tendency to making piles is with baskets and easy organization .
I never will put my makeup away properly in the morning in a really organized container so instead I have a bin for makeup and a bin for brushes. I am perfectly fine digging through (I don’t have that many products) and it looks cleaner than me just leaving it all over my vanity.
I also have a bin for my papers/mail that I just make sure to go through every now and again.
Shoes are probably my worst habit because I tend to just kick them off and go.
So I gave myself a wrack but I also give myself 3 pairs of shoes that can be off the wrack.
Those are my daily tennis shoes, my house slippers, and my shower shoes. I use these everyday and putting them on the wrack will never happen consistently so I don’t fit it and instead I just gave myself an area to kick the off.
Not the cleanest but at least it’s in one area. And three pairs of shoes on the floor is a lot less than 10.
Laundry is also very hard for me because it just takes so long and anything that takes up a lot of my time annoys me.
So whenever I do laundry I make myself a to-do list and try and complete it before laundry gets done.
Sometimes it’s homework, sometimes it’s cleaning.
If I am on a break or just a little more burnt out then usual I’ll take the time and play the sims because that also takes a long time lol.
I also have made it a rule that anytime laundry gets done it has to be folded immediately. Part of this involved getting rid of the laundry chair(iykyk) so there was no where for the laundry to go but in the closet.
Anyway that’s all I have for now. These have really helped me and my tornado tendencies be a lot more tidy especially while at college in a much smaller room that I share.
