I know that this sounds crazy but I have a none related to this site question for advice.
I need help with my home, I live in a cluttered house and I have no idea how I can get it all cleaned up on my own. It is from over the years, and every room clutter is stacked with hardly no room to walk.
Its BAD!!! I live with my elderly Mom, and it is both hers and mine. She is really sick of it and it is unhealthy for both of us.
My bedroom is stacked with my junk and she never goes to her bedroom since my Dad died a few years ago and it is the same with that room. And the other bedroom it the same my sisters moved out years ago and left all of their junk in that room.
Plus, our roof leaks and it needs to be replaced, and rats got in through the walls the last couple of winters, because the outside siding is rotten and needs replacing. We need a new bathtub and bathroom sink, the whole house needs a extreme make-over.
I don't have the money to get it done, please any suggestion would be helpful.
I thought about gofundme.com and a couple of years ago put up a small video of the bathtub and the outside damage of facebook and ask for help and then I got embarrassed about it and took it down and closed my facebook account.
Should I go back to facebook and link it gofundme.com?
Towns have a free dump day find out when it is for your town and borrow someones truck. Buy cleaning supplies and lots of trash bags. Clean it up and fix things one at a time.
It's up to you to clean things up yourself it's your house clean it up.
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Lots of trashbags. Buy the cheap Kroger value black bags and get a ton of them. It sounds like you'll need it.
Don't give a darn about recycling, since 75% of the time it ends up in the same place. If it's gotta go, it has to go. There's no "I might need this later.". Either you need to hang on to it because it's important and need to be used in the future, or not.
Wear gloves and mask. Who knows how much dust have accumulated in between the piles. And yes, insects can end up in those piles as well, and perhaps rat waste might be embedded in.
As for repairs, get a few estimates, and see if there are any local handymen that can give you quotes, too. Then budget it in your future paychecks. Loans and crowdsourcing should be your very last options.
Lots of trashbags. Buy the cheap Kroger value black bags and get a ton of them. It sounds like you'll need it.
Don't give a darn about recycling, since 75% of the time it ends up in the same place. If it's gotta go, it has to go. There's no "I might need this later.". Either you need to hang on to it because it's important and need to be used in the future, or not.
Wear gloves and mask. Who knows how much dust have accumulated in between the piles. And yes, insects can end up in those piles as well, and perhaps rat waste might be embedded in.
As for repairs, get a few estimates, and see if there are any local handymen that can give you quotes, too. Then budget it in your future paychecks. Loans and crowdsourcing should be your very last options.
If the OP works for Kroger, budgeting into the paychecks should bring a repairman in sometime in the year 2017. June, most likely.
-- Edited by FrontEndSlave on Thursday 2nd of October 2014 12:29:16 AM
Get rid of everything you possibly can. All the things that are damaged beyond repair or just plain garbage. Use gloves. Get trashbags. Fill the bags up. This is the first stage. Then, you start going through items that you might want to keep, or might not. Things that you might want to try selling or donating. If they're small, use bags for them too but keep it organized so you don't mix em up. The goal is to clear as much rubble from the place as possible. Once you get down to floor or carpet then you can move furniture and get to really 'cleaning' things. Rent a rug cleaner, vacuum, see what needs to be torn out and replaced.
Just start, try not to get overwhelmed by how much stuff you have to do or you'll never want to keep going.
Thanks, for the all of the advice! I started cleaning my bed room the other day and found a old rats nest under the chester drawers, so I vacuumed that up. I'm trying to get a new bed into my room so I want to clean and rearrange everything in there and I have a lot of junk.
I have a ebay account so maybe I should try and sell my star trek junk, and my Mom has one room that has antiques. It has stuff from the early 1900-1940's old wind up record players and tube radio's and lamp's. What ever I sell, I should put the money a side and save it for the repairs.
The rest of the house has the clutter, old clothes and old newspapers, and boxes. Maybe I should buy insurance just in case of a fire. I'm worried that the old central heating unit could catch fire, because of the leaking roof.
