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How to clean up my room?


Weird question:

My room isn't in the best condition right now, it's weird.

My room has roaches in it, is filled with dust and dirt, has garbage all around it made up of consumer packaged goods wrappers, left over food containers and bottles, soiled papers, tissues, napkins, envelopes from old postage, postage boxes from old packages, soiled linens, and toiletries bottles.

The rooms carpet is stained and saturated with urine from old urine containers that use to be stored in the room during times of mental illness where the occupant -- myself-- would refuse to leave the room due to one reason or another, and ultimately spill or knock over the containers onto the carpet by mistake -- and it's odor is awful and strong.

How can I begin rejuvenating the room? Cleaning it up? Getting the critters out? The other day I witnessed a cockroach crawling on my mattress right next to me while I laid in the bed. My mattress currently lies on the floor instead of the box spring due to messiness, and my beds headboard has a garbage bag over it to prevent roaches and other critters that lay behind it from crawling onto it or around it and getting onto my bedframe that lay in front of it.

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Didn't I see you on "Hoarders?" 🙄

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I think you're kidding. Because no one lives like that.

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He mentioned a mental illness.

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Yeah, I wouldn't joke about mental illness trust me.

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First, get a box of great big Hefty bags, and just chuck anything that might need to be thrown away in them. You'll feel SO much better once all that crap is in the dumpster and out of your life! Then get all the food out of your room, put it in the kitchen in sealed containers. If the bugules don't follow the food to the kitchen, then you may need to use pesticides and leave the room for a while, or call in an exterminator, and that's not really my field so I can't offer much there.

As for the pee stains on the rug... if you can't afford to just throw the rug or rugs away and buy new ones, try Nature's Miracle liquid or spray. It's meant for "pet stains", and supposedly neutralizes urine odors. You can get it at any pet store, or probably the Target or Wal-Mart. In my experience it's not 100% effective at removing pet odors and I've never tried it on human urine, but it helps with dog or cat pee smells. Sounds better than nothing, right?

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Just 45 minutes a day and you
can tidy the whole place...most of us have no place to go right now

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At least I know now that my room isn't that bad after all. Thank you!

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All the trash removal advice in here is sound. After tackling that a little at a time until empty, I differ in the carpet advice. Your carpet and its padding is probably ruined. I suggest ripping the carpet out entirely and going with the concrete. Put plastic cable riders over the protruding rivets to protect your feet. Use a rug after that. That will make it easier for you to clean it in the future though a bit spartan. Make a habit of having a trash bag in a waste bucket after all that. Put ALL trash in it as generated. Remove/replace as it fills. NO PROCRASTINATION.

Bottom line: If you have pee hazards, you need a hard floor.

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Tile or fake hardwood. Home depot will install it pretty cheap. Then you just need a swiffer.

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This video isn't really instructional, but it explains WHY you should clean your room.

https://youtu.be/Vp9599kwnhM

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Large Lawn and Leaf bag. Throw most of it away.

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