Day 23: Clean Fucking Room

Well, my room is clean. This is a massive coup for me. I've occasionally polished it up for inspections and the like but this is the first time - potentially ever - where I actually threw out all the garbage and set up alternate systems in place to ensure it doesn't get that bad again. It isn't perfectly clean as yet - my cupboards still need a spruiking - but it's serviceable.

For those interested in how I went about overhauling a room that had been messy for nearly four years straight, I had four garbage bags going at any given time - one for garbage, one for recycling, one for washing (I washed nearly every piece of clothing I owned so I could restructure how I stored my clothes) and one for clothes to give away to charity. Whenever a bag reached capacity, I'd move it just outside my door and start again. It was a lengthy process - it took me about five days - but it seems to have worked so huzzah.

I didn't get much else done. I did swimming and the bike but I skipped out on the bodyweights stuff both because I needed to get my room finished and because my joints were sore and I decided not to push it. For now, I'm hoping to do strength exercises every second night. When that's good and easy, I'll go back to the full 90mins a day jargon. Maybe. I think, once I up the ante to a solid hour of swimming a day, I may just leave it at that. It's strength and fitness. Something to consider, anyway.

I did additional cleaning around the house but I didn't do anything creative or occupational related. I've been thinking a lot about the need for more structure in this endeavour, though, and I think I may have cracked it. A friend of mine was recently extolling the virtues of my old half-hour method. Prior to this blog, I used to pick tasks I needed done and devote half an hour each day to working on them until they were completed. I did it with exercise and I did it with hip hop. It appeared to work (except for when obsession inevitably took over).

I'm thinking, if I refer back to those categories I came up with at the start and try and do a minimum of thirty mins on each category a day, I should be more productive - and it will stop stuff like bedroom cleaning from taking over my life and stopping my other work. I can't do it tomorrow because I'll be at work pretty much all day but I think I should be able to swing it on Thursday - and then we'll just see how long I can keep it up.

I'm excited. Honestly, having a clean bedroom makes all the difference.