Day 36: The Dirty Truth About This Blogger

Any of you who have every visited me at home, or even seen my "organizational" method know that I am disastrous. I usually loose my keys, cell phone etc once a week in my room and have multiples of a few things because, well, I lost the first in my mess!

Here is a picture of what my room looks like by the end of a busy week of school, where survival becomes my priority!

This is no good for several reasons (some that I have already touched on already in my previous posts):

1) I have a lot of junk and get more junk because I can't find a specific thing within my pile of junk, so I buy a new one
2) I break stuff stepping on all of my clutter
3) Because I never seem to get around to folding and putting my laundry away, it often gets mixed in with dirty laundry and gets unnecessarily washed, thus wasting water and energy
4) If I keep this up, when I go to buy my first home I will look for a bigger place just to house my stuff - this means more building materials and energy to heat this home
5) A little off-topic, but I waste a ton of time and energy looking for things!

I'm sure there are a lot of other reasons why being messy is bad for the environment, but even just these few are enough to make my new challenge to keep myself, my room, my notes etc organized this year!
Hopefully it will help me to reduce my demand for stuff (from either losing or breaking things) and, un-related to the environment, help me be more organized, efficient and reduce my stress levels!

There have actually been quite a few studies done on how clutter effects stress levels, and I know I get stressed when the clutter levels in my room rise - not aiding my already frazzled state after days of labs, midterms and differential equations!

The resulting "soothing" effect of having an organized space can make me a more productive person and reduce my cravings for comfort foods (cheese & sweets that are oh-so unsustainable!) among other things.

So, most of you probably aren't to my level when it comes to disorder (thank goodness!) but if you are, consider trying to clean up your act like I will be attempting to do for the health and environmental benefits!