Hello comrades and welcome to the fourth improvement megathread of May! There is one more week left in May, let's make it count.

As usual, some discussion ideas:

  • Do you want to share something you've done in the previous week? Everything counts, nothing is too small.
  • Do you have any goals for next week?
  • Do you have any streaks? For example, "sober for one day." Feel free to post your streak every day in this thread.
  • If you don't have a continuous streak, did you manage to abstain from something for a day or more?
  • Did you come across some useful information or resource that might help others?

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Good luck with your goals! unity

  • LGOrcStreetSamurai [he/him]
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    6 months ago

    This is gonna sound super corny (and kinda sad that I see this as an accomplishment) but I have kept my apartment clean all week. I was truly in cave goblin mode for about eight months, even into my self-improvement quest. For a really long time I was living in a half-step away from total squalor, I resolved myself to pick-up and clean up. It took multiple cleaning sessions to pick-up my place (again it shouldn't have got that bad in the first place but here we are), but I have kept in "good" to "I could have another person in my apartment and they would think I'm a normal person" condition.

    I'm proud of that.

    • ped_xing [he/him]
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      6 months ago

      Oh wow, my update was going to be that I am just getting to the cleaning-of-the-place phase of dry May, throwing out biohazards like last year's oat milk. That's a great accomplishment and I hope to be in your shoes next week!

    • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]
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      6 months ago

      Wow that's so inspiring to read! I just came home from a long trip and my place is a mess, as I left it, plus a whole lot of nasty flies because I forgot to take out the compost. I'm working up the courage to start cleaning for real for the first time in months of depressed trash goblin mode, and I want to keep it clean as well.

      Good for you!

    • ratboy [they/them]
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      6 months ago

      Hell yeah! It can be so hard to keep on top of and I can only imagine that once it gets past a certain point it feels impossible to deal with so good on you! I'm sure it feels soooo nice to have a cozy clean place. I'm somewhat Obsessive about cleaning, which can be nice but also is at the expense of having energy to literally do anything else besides work lol, but I know my anxiety lifts immensely after a good pick up around the house