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[quote=Anonymous]Do you know how I clean my house?  I entertain large groups of people. I have to clean up then to host.  It is extremely stressful but if I don't do that, I am quite capable of becoming an extreme hoarder. I am at heart a filthy and lazy person. Cleaning and throwing away things are hard for me.  I just put myself into extreme situations to clean.  Right now, I have three days left to clean my house before a big party. Do you even know how stressed I am?

OP - you have it.  You got it.  Do only one box at a time. Only one box.  If you want to cheat and throw the content of one box in another so that you can feel you have cleaned out one box - well, in my books, even that counts.

How am I going to clean today?  In about 1 hour, I will get to cleaning.  I take "before and after pics" of every place I clean on my smartphone.  Initially, I clean the 'already clean' spaces, and just move clutter from all the rooms to one room.  That way, visually I feel I have clean space and I have cleaned many rooms.

Then, I basically do the same for the clutter-dump room.  I work from one quadrant at a time.  My mantra is "A yard is hard, but an inch is a cinch"

So, I will clean with specific things in mind.  I will clean only one drawer. I will bag only one ziplock bag of bits and bobs. I will recycle only two containers worth of stuff. I will give away only 3 bags of laundry.  I will put away only 10 things out of place.   I am able to clean when some areas are very clean and all the clutter is in one room.

You can do Marie Kondo too.  I use Marie Kondo for only doing all the clothes and it is very, very effective for clothes.   Last time was 3 years ago.

Cleaning, decluttering, organizing, making space, repurposing, salvaging - all of these are different tasks.

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