One shitty job a day - mission to get all the crappy tasks done this year

[Shittyyear2025]

I'm an eternal untidy person. I don't see my own clutter. I've tried HARD to find a routine that I can get engaged in, signed up for COUNTLESS get yourself organised apps.

I saw a video yesterday about getting one shitty job a day done. I think I can manage one shitty job a day. So far I cleaned the lounge carpet (over yesterday and today, bad back and heavy furniture) and I've painted a door that's been off it's hinges and propped up against my hall wall for maybe a year.

I reckon one shitty job a day (or for an hour towards it say, after work, longer crap jobs can be done at the weekend) I can do. I can finally finish decorating the kitchen. I can finally finish painting the landing/stairs/hall after the ceiling collapsed in Autumn 2024, I can sort out the front garden one job at a time (hell, I can even get rid of the ironing mountain and charity shop everything I no longer wear for an hour a day).

Anyone want to join me? Or any tips for starting AND STICKING WITH domestic routines?

I hate filling in complex forms. Have to dig out the laptop can't do them on mobile. I do it in the office because they ask so many questions, keep waiting for my bra size request. Documents scanned, photographed. Then take a photo of yourself so that they can check it against photo on driving licence and passport. Then they want a complicated password you'd never remember again.

I lose the will to live. DH gets very grumpy if he has to do it himself.

Luckily I'm barred from the garage it's a workshop too.

Today I emptied out the pullout pantry. Spilt soy sauce makes a horrible mess. Six shelves of stuff to be sorted into categories yet again. Empty and out of date stuff binned, washed out and recycled.

Then I did one cupboard again found out of date and empty packets stuffed in willy nilly.

DH does a lot of cooking so buys weird sauces, ingredients that he sees in the supermarket buys, stuffs them away and forgets them. 🤬🤬

Fully agree with you, @justasking111
And on your second message - I hate doing that cupboard-cleansing job too, and it’s me who fills them up! The satisfaction of the completed job is almost worth the effort of deliberately messing the categories up

Bathroom cleaned
Downstairs loo cleaned
Window in kitchen and the french doors done (on the inside anyway )
Sill in the kitchen cleaned and utensil holder cleaned

Then the worst job I'd been putting off - cleaning on top of the cupboards over the cooker and either side . It was caked on grease/dust (lord knows how to clean that ) but a microfibre cloth, hot water and some elbow grease did it .

Definately a Prepare To Be Dazzled .
But I left the inside of the cupboards for another day

Planted up a couple of pots too for good measure

Top tip: newspaper or lining paper on top of the cupboards. Then you just throw it away and replace it a couple of times a decade, sorry, year.

I said to my DH when I looked at the shelves and decided to leave them till later "Yes, I can see now why my Nana put lining paper on her shelves" , it was the done thing !

My mother does this on top of large pieces of furniture.

I'm currently designing my new kitchen which is going to cost a FORTUNE - I'm determined to have cupboards up to the ceiling wherever possible, purely to cut down on the high-up grot. And as much closed storage as possible - currently there's a lot of open shelving and it's such a pain in the arse to clean

My new kitchen had drawers which were so much better easier than floor cupboards. I've seen foods in drawers rather than cupboards since. OH and my pull out pantry.

Today I descaled my coffee machine, a once-yearly job that is a tremendous faff because if you don't follow its sequence to the letter, it gets the hump. So I followed its sequence to the letter and something still went wrong but anyway, I managed to get it to complete.

DH and I spent several hours in the garage, the only reason being that we are going to move house, so anything we haven't used for the past 5 years we are not taking with us. It's the only way he will even consider sorting things out.

why are men such hoarders?