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Sadly, I have do have a messy room that I can never seem to keep neat and tidy :p
It seems to get messed up by itself lol! I think one of the main problems is that I don't have a laundry basket in my room. So when I'm changing in the morning or at night, clothes end up being left on the bed and then shifted onto the floor. I also don't make good use of my space. Like over Christmas, my study desk ended up becoming my makeup desk. I have another smaller desk I should be using for make up and jewellery, but I have other junk on that, which most of could be moved onto the ''junk shelf'' on the top of my walk in wardrobe.

My room is a converted garage, and quite spacious, so I really have no excuse for not having enough space. I also have an en suite bathroom, which is extremely messy! My Mam has given up on coming in and cleaning my room for me haha! I do it myself every few weeks, but it ends up getting messy again after a day. I really should just do a bit everyday and it would be fine.

So, are you a teenager with a messy or clean room? If your an adult, did you have a messy room as a teen, and has it improved now your older?

This is just for laughs :)
 
I had the messiest room growing up. It was always a total disaster. The floors where always covered in cloths and stuff. Out of all my friends, mine was always the worst. It would stay clean for about a day and then it looked like a tornado tore through it.

After moving out on my own, I actually have been very neat. It was quite a huge change.

I found getting rid of clutter, things that I don't really need the most helpful. I also had a fairly large room but I just had too much stuff.

Moving made me choose what I needed to bring with me, what to leave behind and what I just needed to get rid of. Getting rid of all the useless stuff that I just had hanging around made the biggest difference for me.

Now I try to purge any time I find clutter building up. Make a box to go down to good will.

Proper laundry hampers made a huge difference too. I got two, one for dark laundry and one for light. That made doing laundry much faster and easier and I still use two hampers.

Organization is also very important. Book shelves and proper storage for things you want/need to keep but don't use all the time like camping equipment, holiday decorations, text books I want to keep for reference. Keeping all that stuff organized and packed away properly keeps it out of my living space.

And doing a little bit of tidy up every day verses every couple of weeks makes it a lot easier as well. If you can get yourself in the habit of doing 5 minutes of tidying every day, you will be surprised at how clean things get. The clutter stops building up on all the surfaces.

There is hope!

-Dawn
 
My little sister was notoriously messy. She used to pay her friends to clean her bedroom.

She's all grown up and a nurse working at Cleveland clinic - but still has a messy bedroom LOL

I was always the anal neat sister.


 
I'm pretty tidy I have my places for everything, But I hate when people come poking in my room, I had a voucher for a video game store, And someone came into my room and must of been rooting around as it has suddenly disappeared and I have had that voucher for a few months now, I was planning on going into town today to pick something up, So when people stay out of my room rooting into my stuff it is neat and tidy, It is a bit cluttered though since it is kinda small, But still tidy!
 
My room was all ways tidy. Mainly because it had to be with my mum she would have killed me if I didn't! She sees dirt that is literally invisible to the eye! So it was clean to the point of insanity lol!
Nowadays living with my fiancee it's a little bit messy but you can still see the floor lol! It's a case of having to live in 2 rooms and well having a lot of stuff means it can get a little cluttered, we're looking at space making techniques though so it should be tidier soon.
 
I was SO messy when I lived at home still. There was always laundry everywhere and I wouldn't throw stuff away immediately.
When I moved into a dorm where I was sharing a bedroom with another very tidy girl I became super neat too because I didn't want to disgust her. :p
Ever since then I have been a complete neat freak. I can't stand a mess.
 
I grew up in a military family and the room that I shared with my sister was always neat as a pin. My mom didn't bounce a quarter off of our beds in the morning, but it was almost that bad!
 
Strangely enough, I kept my room cleaner as a teenager because I shared a large bedroom with my mom. I picked up my clothes and keep things pretty organized. Only last year did I finally get my own room after my brother moved out. Now I'm a total slob! I don't like it one bit, yet it always happens. I don't put things away anymore. One of my goals for 2010 is get organized and tidy again.

:carrot -Erika
 
My room was spotless, as a teenager:)



Can't say the same now with 4 kids. :p They try to keep the whole house a mess. Lol.
 
This weekend I'm going to try and clean up and keep it clean :p

I think if I invest in a proper bin and laundry basket it would help a lot, usually I just use a plastic bag as a bin and then dump it when it is full.
I'm always complaining that I have no clothes too, because my wardrobe is a mess and so many of my clothes are on the floor. If I clean out my wardrobe, dump what I don't need. I would have loads of space for putting junk I don't use all the time, like old school text books, shoes, CDs etc.

I also want to have Princess as a house bun soon, so I need to de clutter the place, I obviously don't want her hopping on junk and eating clothes or worse! I wish I could move out my sister's bed. She is only here for some weekends, perfect place to put cages. I could put Princess there and move my guinea pigs there, they are kind of half under a desk :p

Does anyone else get the urge to de clutter and clean their bedrooms late at night? Lol!
 
I now have an apartment instead of just a bedroom, and would describe the organization as "controlled chaos". It's not messy, and I get it as tidy as I can, but it still doesn't look that great and gets messy really easily. The problem for me is that the apartment is tiny but we have a lot of stuff. This means there's no place to PUT a lot of that stuff. It would be so much easier if we had a bigger apartment and a place to put everything. I am a tidy person by nature so it disturbs me to have stuff everywhere, even if that stuff is organized. Come to think of it, I'd have a lot more space and a lot less stuff if I didn't have these darned pets! :D I would just donate a lot of our extra things, and I do go through and weed stuff out every few months, but the problem is most of the things are very nice and we actually use them. If I gave them away now, I would be re-buying them when we move into a bigger place. That just seems dumb.

We're getting married this summer and our families will be here. My fiance's parents have seen our apartment many times, but MY family hasn't. My family is very into good decorating and having spacious, beautiful homes. I know they're going to hate our apartment because it's really old, small, and not very nice. Add lots of stuff to it and it's even worse :( I think we may rent a storage unit just for the month so we can put our extra stuff in it!
 
I love decluttering. I f I do get round to it I find it totally liberating. Getting rid of half of your junk in your wardrobe is as good as buying something new.
I am very sporadic when it comes to tidyness. I just find it gives me lots of energy having decluttered a certain part of the house (even if I am exhausted from the effort of it):)
 
I always get the urge to tidy or clean later in the evening or close to bed time. I think that was part of my problem growing up, as my mom has horrible insomnia and hated it if I started making any sort of noise she would get upset. Even the sound of me on the computer clicking a mouse was enough to upset her, so cleaning my room late at night was out of the question.

Once I moved out, tidying before bed was much easier. If I wanted to do a half hour of clean up or organizing before going to bed, no one protested.

Both me and Ryan are more active at night. He's a better morning person, but he's also active right up until bedtime and a late night tidy is fine with him.

Getting on top of laundry really helped me. If I was feeling too lazy to fold and put my laundry away, I would put it in my laundry basket so it was collected somewhere rather than dumped on the bed or floor. I still do that now if I need clean clothes but don't have time to put them away until later or another day.

-Dawn
 
When I was a teenager, my room wasn't too messy. Before that, though, was another story.......

My mom and I lived with my grandparents for a long time. My mom and grandma are what I consider to be borderline hoarders. So when I was a kid, my room was absolutely packed with junk. We were pretty low-income, so I never had a nice new toy, but I had tons and tons of things from the Goodwill or stuff my grandma would take from people's trash. Toys filled the toybox, and under the bed was packed, so many stuffed animals I almost didn't fit on the bed, a giant pile of toys that never got used filled one corner of the room. Sometimes I had to clear a path to walk from one side to the other. Laundry wasn't a problem, as my mom piled it outside her bedroom door. (When she couldn't get through the door anymore, it became Laundry Day.)

We moved when I was about 13, and I got rid of most of that stuff. I managed to keep my new room pretty much clean. Sometimes the bookshelf or the end table would get cluttered on top, but no more piles of stuff on the floor.

Now........ I have a whole house instead of just a room, and I'm pretty touchy about keeping things de-cluttered. I don't straighten up every day or anything, but I will go on cleaning rampages. The coffee table will gather a bunch of things, and one day it will just bother the heck out of me and I'll have to clean the whole house because of it. I get very angry when I see my husband's desk, piled high with useless junk, making the whole room look bad, when I've tried so hard to make things look nice. I am constantly thinking about better ways to organize.

I do have a tendency to collect things, but I also have a sort of purge about twice a year. I'll go though closets and such and pull out things for donation or yard sale, and re-organize what is left. My biggest problem now is people who give things to me: I try so hard to not collect a bunch of stuff, to not be cluttered, then people are giving me stuff that I have no where to put.


 
My rooom as a teenager was a trash ben not naughsty just dirty.

Now my whole house is clean mabye because I grew up in a clean house I did not have time as a teenager to clean between sports and school functions.

Now My house is clean not spotless but very clean
 
I was really clean as a teenage and still am. I am constantly getting rid of stuff. I don't keep anything I don't use. I also clean for hours every weekend plus I try to do some things thoughout the week. I can't function with an unorganized dirty house.
 
I have a lot of trouble lately, to sleep. So it's been like.. spot less.
I have a pretty big room, so I too have no excuses. Heck, my laundry room is on the opposite side of my room then the one that ajoins it to the house (yes.. my mother has to go through my room.. but who cares, its huge.

Plus, all the junk I don't need, but want to keep.. I shove it in the storage thats in the laundry room
Works perfectly.
 
When I was a teenager, my room had a path in the floor from the door to the bed for my dog and I. I had piles. I knew what was in each pile, and just where everything was. Then my mom would come in and "clean" and I never could find some tings again.

But she was more snooping than cleaning... I hated that...

My room now is pretty clean. I live with my fiance, who's room at his mom's house is a DISASTER! He still hasn't moved most everything out of it, so it looks just like it did when he was a teenager... and I think he beat me...

Anywho, we just moved into a new house, and our room is neat for the most part. Our old roommate is still using our spare dresser, so I haven't been able to put away some of our clothes... so one of my two laundry hampers has been being used like a dresser... so there is some laundry on the floor, but nothing like when I was younger.

I agree with the rest that said that having two hampers is easier. I keep one for pants and shirts, and one for personals. It makes sorting so much easier, and laundry so much easier to do.

Now, for the rest of the house, it's nothing compared to my room as a teen, but it's still not as clean as I would like to see it... but, being that we are still in the process of moving, I am not obsessed about it just yet... I still have to worry about getting the last few things out of the old house and cleaning that up real good... ugh... I am NOT looking forward to that.

Also, whoever it was that said that Decluttering was invigorating, is right on. This whole move has been so nice, because it has allowed me to go through and get rid of things that I no longer wanted or needed. I have taken everything that someone else might find useful to goodwill or have given it away free on craigslist.

:D Melinda
 
hmmm my room is always dirty lol...no matter what i do.

i have two baskets...one for me and one for my daughter. but its turned into...clean clothes and dirty and i NEVER put clothes away cause im to lazy -.- i really need to go through all my clothes and through out the ones from like 4 years ago that are tiny
 
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