• Ser Salty@feddit.de
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    8 months ago

    One thing I found to help me, whenever I feel the need to clean but am overwhelmed by the amount of cleaning needs doing, is to just break it down into smaller segments. Could be spacially, thematically, whatever. If I want to clean everything at once, I’ll probably end up cleaning nothing, so I just pick something. One time it was just collecting the plastic bottles in my apartment for the deposit. Didn’t collect the cans and glass bottles, though. Another time I reorganized and cleaned just my little walk in closet. And I’ve got on my to do list for sometime these next few days to do all the recycling paper I’ve got laying around. Doing it like this helps me not feel drained for weeks after the big clean up job. I still gotta test it long term, been only doing it for a little over a week or so, but it should hopefully result in a cleaner apartment.

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      8 months ago

      My problem is that I usually when start cleaning something I get into total hyperfocus mode and start cleaning for hours. And then I’m depressed and in bed for the next few days… don’t know how to just do a little thing at a time, I always feel the urge to do more once I’ve started