u/iluvcherrypie

Hi everyone, I can’t believe I’m even making this post. As the title says, I really need some advice.

At the end of last year, I got out of an abusive relationship that left me traumatized and extremely depressed. I used to be such a clean person (would clean daily, make lists, stay organized etc) and ever since then my life has been in shambles. I finally started counseling last month but I’m still left with the mess in my living space.

I live with roommates and they don’t know the state of my room because I always keep my door closed. They’re very clean people. I’d be mortified if they saw how everything is piled up and that there’s just a small pathway to my bed.

Since I live with roommates, most of everything I own is kept in my bedroom. I don’t really have trash (no dishes, food, wrappers etc) it’s mainly a TON of piled up clean clothes (the majority of the piles), shoes, bags, jackets, beauty products/hygiene products, books, vinyl records/cds, a few things from my childhood/family photo albums, some craft stuff and other random things. I also have a small closet that’s full of a ton of piled clothes as well. I want to donate some of them since I clearly don’t have the space, it’s just hard to sort through everything and part with my stuff.

There are 2 bedrooms upstairs (1 is mine) a small bathroom, and a very narrow hallway that’s like 3-4ft long. I know some techniques are to take baskets and move things out of the room temporarily so you have more space to clean, but I’m not able to do that because of limited home space + living with roommates.

I’ve tried reading some advice left in this subreddit, and also tried watching Dana K White’s advice on YouTube when it comes to hoarding. But every time I try, I am left paralyzed and can never get started.

I stare at my piles and feel like I want to cry. I just don’t know where to start when it comes to my space.

Any advice would be dearly appreciated. I don’t want to live like this anymore.

Hi everyone! I have a 95 dodge ram 1500 5.2L V8.

Recently my check engine light came on when I was driving. The truck runs very well and I hadn’t noticed any issues while driving besides the light coming on. I looked up how to manually read my codes since my truck has an OBD1 system.

The codes were: 12, 21, 55

I had to drive it to work yesterday and the light wasn’t on, and hasn’t came back on since then.

This is my first ever car, I don’t know a lot about mechanic stuff (as I’m sure you can tell haha, I’m trying to learn though!) Any advice would be so much appreciated. Thanks!