UFYH - Unf**k your habitat Challenge

DeafLeopard

I never chose the title but stumbled upon this whilst browsing tumblr

There’s a weird sort of void in the “taking care of your physical surroundings” stuff, in the archaic “how to keep a home” and “how to be domestic” arenas. It tends to ignore single people, or people without kids, or students, or people with pets, or people with roommates, or people with full-time jobs, or classes, or other !!!! going on. It assumes everyone is married with kids and one partner is around a lot of the time, and has a lot of time to devote to “housekeeping.”

Well, we don’t all live that life. Very few of us do. Our lives are complicated and sometimes messy, and we’re often distracted and overwhelmed and lazy. Yeah, I said it. We’re lazy. There’s no real shame in that, but it’s something to overcome, at least temporarily. Because no matter what our situations are, we deserve better than to live in filth. We deserve to live somewhere with nice things we love, and to have a clean, calm place to be, when we’re not at work or school or any of the fifty zillion other places we go.

UfYH is gender-neutral. I don’t buy into traditional standards of who “should” be doing cleaning. If you live somewhere, you deserve for that place to be nice and clean and livable, and you should be the one who makes it that way. I don’t care who you are or what box or boxes you check or don’t. I think gender roles as they relate to cleaning (well, in most ways, but that one’s relevant) are BS and just offer a handy excuse for half the population to be lazy and the other half to feel guilty.

And our homes aren’t the only things that need to be unf*cked. Our finances, our jobs, our relationships: there’s no end to the things we can f**k up. The important thing to remember is that there is nothing that can’t be unfu**ed. You just have to do it. You just have to overcome the compulsion to sit on the couch, on the computer, watching TV, and get up and do SOMETHING.
Anything.

So, Unf**k Your Habitat is about lighting a fire under all of our asses. Because when we accomplish something, especially something that seemed impossible, it feels awesome.

Taken from UFYH


This challenge is here to help those who need an extra push to help tidy different areas in their lives. I'm hoping to make this a monthly thing so that each month would be a different challenge. I may even post some of the mini challenges every other day to get you to do something.


For now I'll just post some of the challenges and you can pick and choose as you wish. Do these challenges in 20/5 (20 minutes of doing work, 5 minute break) or 45/15 (45 minutes of doing work and 15 minute break) and then come back here to share your progress - before and after photos are welcome too as well as any tips you have found to help clean or organize things.

If you want to join, post straight ahead, I will be keeping a list of people and how many times they UnFed their environment and such but really it's only to recognise them easier as members of this challenge.

DeafLeopard

DeafLeopard - 0 UFYH challenges completed

cornishchick

Cornish chick 2 mini challenges complete.

I think this is brilliant. Less fly lady and more me

ginnyknit

I did 2 of the challenges today and that was before I read the thread :j

teaandcakeaddict

Yeeesss, I love UFYH! I have the app on my phone and its brilliant. I tried flylady but I never got on with it really.

I haven't done anything yet (unless you count decluttering two slices of bread and three rashers of bacon into my belly). I need to let my breakfast go down (NOT AN EXCUSE! I'm pregnant with twins, and if I'm active after eating I just throw it back up again), but I'll be doing some 20/10's later and some challenges too.

[Deleted User]

I did one ages ago, stopped being addicted to MSE and wasting so much time reading and posting. Now only a few minutes lurking from time to time, a couple of times a week. Free`d up masses of time for me and have embarked on some very satisfying hobbies for myself

Did the finances and all the random paperwork two days ago as it happens and that is very good feng shui

teaandcakeaddict

Worked my butt off today, pregnancy symptoms were minimal which meant I could give the house a good blitz. I lost count of how many 20/10's I did, I just went from room to room doing 20 mins in each, then coming back to the worst rooms and repeating. Once I've improved the general level of cleanliness I will start doing some challenges.

CRANKY40

I have arthritis in my spine and hands (other places too, but those are the most inconvenient). My general routine is 15 minutes work, 15 minutes break. It works for me and I get results without leaving myself incapable of doing anything the next day.

DeafLeopard

Oh my gosh - I thought this forum was deleted!

wow well done everyone for doing the mini challenges!
teaandcakeaddict, You're let off for not doing anything.

Don't push yourself so it's dangerous just do it bit by bit!
Even if it's 5 mins here and there; you don't have to follow the website exactly how it is, it even states:

If you are someone dealing with physical limitations, chronic illness, chronic pain, mental illness, or any other situation that makes getting your living environment under control difficult, please know that you are not lazy, and that we know that “getting off your a$$” may not be easy or even possible sometimes.
We encourage anyone who has limitations to modify challenges, suggest alternatives, and, above all, put their health first. If you can only do five or three minutes of unf**king, that’s worth celebrating. If you accomplish something that’s been modified so you can do it seated or in shorter stages, we want to hear about it.
Most importantly: do what you can. Some days, this might not be as much as you’d hoped. That’s OK. Even tiny progress is still progress, and small but consistent change is more important than overnight miracles. You can do this. And if you get overwhelmed or discouraged, we’ll do our best to help.


I need to do some serious Un-fing in my room it's gotten such a mess and I don't know how it came to be like it... I'm going to try and do a 10 min tidy up before mum goes to bed (She moans at me for making "noise" when she's trying to sleep - and I have a bed time limit ... and I'm 20 lol)

My plan is to make my bed before I go to bed,
Tidy my floor.

Tomorrow my plan is to:
Do my desk!