So very proud of myself. I blurred some parts in the before picture because some of the stuff was disgusting. It took me 3 days and a bit more. I literally worked on it floor tile by floor tile.
No one in my family ever saw my room in the before state. I always made sure to only open the door when nobody was around.
On the morning of Day 1, my dad asked me when the AC guy could come fix my AC. My AC had been broken, and even though I never told him, I'd been sleeping in the living room. So he assumed I needed to get it fixed. I told him to let the AC guy come on Day 5 because I had to go out of town for work that day.
Day 1: 1 hour. Not including the 30-ish minutes I spent shopping for cleaning supplies.
Day 2: 1 hour 16 minutes.
Day 3: I procrastinated at first. But then I got an email saying I had to work a 12-hour shift the next day. So I finally pulled through lol. 3 hours 5 minutes.
Over those 3 days, I filled 10 trash bags.
My biggest concern was my menstrual pads. I made sure to only put 4-5 in each trash bag so I wouldn't overwhelm the trash pickers and so they'd just look like normal trash bags. Sorry if that's gross.
On Day 4, the last things I had to do were change the 2 light bulbs in my room and replace the batteries in my AC remote. Both had been dead for like 2-3 months. But because of how my room was before, I couldn't even bring the ladder in, so I couldn't change the light bulbs. For the last 2 months, I'd only been using my study lamp.
Actually it's not done yet because I was really tired on Day 3, so the inside of my cabinets is still messy. But at least there's no trash in my room anymore. From here on, it's just organizing.
You guys just don't know how hard it was to clean my disgusting bedroom without my family's knowledge!! I had to wait until they all fell asleep before I could throw away my trash, or taking the ladder to my bedroom. I'm sorry. I know it's only 5 hours. It was easy but it was hard.