Autumn cleaning
Nov. 4th, 2006 02:17 amI finally got fed up with living in squalor and am in the process of cleaning my room. I've been at it for two days now, and I've tossed five bags of garbage and five more bags of clothes, with another bag of each rapidly filling up, and I'm not even done with half of the room.
The funny thing is, if given my own space, I'm a very neat person. I mean, all of my dorm rooms were incredibly neat (or my half was, during the times I had a roommate). The only thing I ever let go was dishes, and c'mon, I've always hated doing dishes. But here, it's so much easier to let things go, 'cause it's not really my place, even though it is, and there just isn't enough room for my stuff -- I'll go to put things away and realize that there's nowhere to put them, they just don't go anywhere, and so I end up putting them just anywhere, which is why I have/had piles of crap all over the place.
But I've been working at it for two days, and I've been keeping the cleaned parts vacuumed and a candle lit so it looks and feels like I've accomplished something. Hell, I even cleaned under the bed today, which I haven't done in... years, I think. There were dust bunnies the size of... well, not quite bunnies, but hamsters, maybe, or large mice. And I cleaned a bit downstairs, where a bunch of my crap-without-a-home is going to be packed away once I make room down there.
Somehow, I'm not terribly surprised that with all this cleaning, I've been stuffed up and on the verge of a sneeze for two days. Bleh. It's sorta driving me nuts.
I just hope I can keep up this cleaning momentum. I've still got maybe half to two thirds of my room to clean, plus more to do downstairs, and then I want to find a consignment shop to dispose of my class dinner dresses (they're all way too big now) and a used book store to take some of my books (I go through a lot of them these days, what with the extra time I have most days at work, and they're not all worth keeping).
In the meantime, it's nice having at least some of my space all tidy. I'd forgotten how nice it is, actually -- usually, I'm not all that comfortable in here, but when it's clean, it's actually sort of inviting, a place where I don't mind spending time.
The funny thing is, if given my own space, I'm a very neat person. I mean, all of my dorm rooms were incredibly neat (or my half was, during the times I had a roommate). The only thing I ever let go was dishes, and c'mon, I've always hated doing dishes. But here, it's so much easier to let things go, 'cause it's not really my place, even though it is, and there just isn't enough room for my stuff -- I'll go to put things away and realize that there's nowhere to put them, they just don't go anywhere, and so I end up putting them just anywhere, which is why I have/had piles of crap all over the place.
But I've been working at it for two days, and I've been keeping the cleaned parts vacuumed and a candle lit so it looks and feels like I've accomplished something. Hell, I even cleaned under the bed today, which I haven't done in... years, I think. There were dust bunnies the size of... well, not quite bunnies, but hamsters, maybe, or large mice. And I cleaned a bit downstairs, where a bunch of my crap-without-a-home is going to be packed away once I make room down there.
Somehow, I'm not terribly surprised that with all this cleaning, I've been stuffed up and on the verge of a sneeze for two days. Bleh. It's sorta driving me nuts.
I just hope I can keep up this cleaning momentum. I've still got maybe half to two thirds of my room to clean, plus more to do downstairs, and then I want to find a consignment shop to dispose of my class dinner dresses (they're all way too big now) and a used book store to take some of my books (I go through a lot of them these days, what with the extra time I have most days at work, and they're not all worth keeping).
In the meantime, it's nice having at least some of my space all tidy. I'd forgotten how nice it is, actually -- usually, I'm not all that comfortable in here, but when it's clean, it's actually sort of inviting, a place where I don't mind spending time.
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