How can I get motivated to do the following chores?

Question

I have to clean my bedroom - I have a lot of clothes lying around because I hate to fold. I also have several boxes worth of clothes I need to take pictures of to sell online that I have been putting off for over a year and it takes up a lot of space.

I also need to organize my kitchen cabinets. I have stuff I never use mixed with pots and pans I use and it's very stressful. How can I get motivated to do these things?

Answer 1

Put your favorite music on and crank it up - it'll help motivate you to move :)

Remove the boxes of clothes you want to sell from the room, and put in the hallway. Make your bed. Then use it as a starting point.

Put all of the clothes that need put away on the bed. Grab a bunch of hangars and hang up all shirts and bottoms. Put socks, underwear and jammies in drawers. In the mean time, if things don't fit well or are out of fashion, put them in the hall with the other items for sale. Hang up everything else in the closet - tops on one level/side, bottoms on the other. Keeping things organized will make it much easier in the morning and in the future.

Now organize your laundry room. Get a hangar organizer so you can put clothes on hangars directly out of the dryer - they don't get wrinkled this way too. I have a shower pole inside my laundry room above the washer & dryer - clothes hang to dry there and get organized as I pull them out of the dryer. Once the dryer is empty, grab them and put them in your closet where they belong. Clothes should never make it from the laundry to your room without a direct destination of a drawer or closet.

Underwear, socks & jammies don't need folded but can be - either way, stick them away, each type of item in their own drawers.

Now tackle the hallway boxes. Give yourself 1 week to do it - if it's not done by the end of the week, load them into your car and drive to the local Goodwill or Salvation Army & donate them.

As far as the kitchen goes - pull everything out and put on the floor. Put the items you use back in the cabinet and bring the rest to Goodwill.

Answer 2

    Pick 1 thing to do and do that right. The next day do another. And the day after and so on. Just remember to keep up on the things you have already done so they don't get messed up all over again, when you move on to your next project. Oh, by the way music helps. Put some of your favorite on and turn it up, it's keep ya movein' to the beat.

Answer 3

maybe if you split the jobs up...  put all your clothes that are laying around into multiple boxes, and sort each box as you come to it.  it'll be like goals being reached.  

as for the cabinets... imagine how much joy you'll get by having all that extra space and none of the clutter.

Answer 4

We all have things we must do at home that we don't like to do.  What I try to do is work on something I hate to do for a certain amount of time and then do another chore or just relax for a while.  Make a schedule and just start with baby steps and you will be able to get the dreaded task done without a whole lot of grief.

Answer 5

Invite your friends over to help you and make them lunch or dinner. Maybe have your friends take some of the pictures of your clothes.  When cleaning kitchen cabinets with friends, offer them some of your stuff they might like that you dont need. It should at least motivate you to start.