u/worm-eyed

My living space has been in a state that looks like I suffer from hoarding disorder, I am disabled but don't have that specifically and my space causes me a lot of additional issues that has a negative impact on me and I absolutely have been bothered by this for well over a year as it's slowly gotten worse. Because of how. many barriers there are to me fixing it, until extremely recently I kind of thought that this was just how I exist now, I stopped living a while ago and have just deteriorated so much since with no sign of improvement or capacity to create meaningful progress. Blah blah blah you get the idea, I only want to give details that actually pertain to this issue specifically to communicate what I need to.

A lot of what I have to do is essentially tetris-like, so much in the way and that needs to be moved around, and the way I'm actually managing to make progress means that I can't stop to organise every thing as I come across it even though I literally want to, it's not that it'd be distracting or waste time for me but that nothing has a place to return to properly right now...So I can organise things if I want, but then there's nowhere to put them, they inevitably will end up dumped into a temporary storage solution (anything I have) to clear space for something to be moved, etc, which isn't meant for it and I have to make use of what I have so other stuff has to go into those same containers for now too, rendering any organising I do without somewhere for the items to go as absolutely pointless...

Which leads onto my question, how do you manage possessions in the mean time? I've used totes and baskets or boxes but it's just so overwhelming and "upsetting" basically?, I'm giving myself a future problem far larger than it would be in the current until I can get to the point / manage to move things around to open up the space for things to go and actually be organised into like I want... I'm actually a very organised, particular person, ironically... I just used some plastic cups to temporarily section out some things on one surface (that need to stay there, but having them loose is worse right but I don't have enough of anything really to continue doing that? And not everything is as easy to contain as a few lighters and my keys, plus I'm really tired of opening a box or finding an item that I know should be grouped together with other things but I just don't fucking have somewhere to put that right now, I'm starting on one box of things that I need to use semi regularly but that's just one box of some self care and wound care items, and that still is going to take time. I can't really mentally handle how slow this way of doing things is with this issue persisting specifically, if that makes sense? It's the one thing making me want to not bother, and I can't afford to not bother anymore.

I know a lot of people say to just shove everything into a box temporarily, and that makes sense for larger cleaning sessions, when I have occasionally managed to spend a few hours cleaning here and there I do that too as they're two different processes, but it isn't viable for how I'm going about this right now... I'm just picking the closest thing to me to do, but I'm already having to ignore things I want to do because nothing has a home so it just feels like I'm shuffling my shit around which is so fucking demotivating honestly

I like to drop seeds on the pavement to encourage them to get out of the damn roads for the sake of my blood pressure, but waiting around for them to be looking my way is less than ideal and if they don't notice me dropping anything there's no guarantee they'll find them at all.

So I'm just wondering, in your experience, what noises are most useful to get their attention? Particularly ferals that don't know you, obviously

Hi. I'm pretty ignorant about skin care, the few things I sporadically do are based on what feels good physically rather than having done any research or having a routine, but even with where I'm at knowledge-wise, I'm aware that not wearing sunscreen is incredibly fucking stupid.

Even in warmer months, I'm typically covered as head-to-toe as possible and stick to the shade as much as I can, but still my face, the front of my neck, the top of my chest, hands, and (sometimes) forearms are uncovered. I believe I'm UV sensitive or even mildly allergic as rolling my sleeves up seems to cause hives... If using an SPF product would fix that it'd probably be a huge relief too tbh

I can't just pick up any product and start using it though, I'm autistic and extremely sensitive to a lot of the sensory components that come along with putting anything on my skin and know from experience that sunscreen makes me want to crawl out of my skin entirely... I can't stand feeling like there's something on me, sticky, or any sort of residue or oil... I also can't reliably deal with lingering smells, particularly strong ones.

I can just about manage to use thebodyshop's hemp moisturiser on my stretched lobes sometimes, if that's a useful baseline, though even then I can't do it without having wipes and tissues in my lap to get it off of my hands ASAP and tbh the smell sticking around is kind of upsetting to me. That does seem to actually sink into my skin, otherwise I'd have to wipe my lobes down afterwards which I think defeats the purpose?

I would rather have a higher factor if possible because my skin is seemingly so sensitive to UV, I don't even really care what the product is so long as it's going to protect me, but I don't wear makeup (some have added SPF as well as something as heavy as foundation blocking UV anyway iirc?)

Also would have to be vegan (& cruelty free)... I have sensitive skin so if there's a way for me to purchase a small size (like a travel bottle) first that'd be great too but isn't required

Sorry if this is too specific, it just seems like the only way to actually get a decent answer rather than wasting time and money or - more realistically - just not bothering. Thank you in advance.

(ETA: you should be incredibly careful when it comes to using any product on your piercings / stretched lobes, jojoba oil is great for lobes, I believe vitamin e oil is as well, I started stealing my mom's product for when my lobes got extremely dry when I still lived with her which is the only reason I purchased it for myself, not because it's ideal for / designed for lobe care)

Later edit: I can't believe how many people replied and helped out, it might take me a little while to reply to everyone but I will; and thank you so fucking much