I had a horrible issue with this. Horrible beyond belief. I have completely conquered the clutter and I got into a cooking routine, but I cannot conquer cleaning yet. The trouble is that I do not have skills for heavy duty cleaning - if all there is to do is to wipe an almost clean counter with nice lavender-smelling vinegar solution, then sure. But if I do not keep on top of it and now the kitchen floor and the counters are so dirty, with caked on, almost baked on dirt, that I need heavy duty cleaning. I was going to post about it, asking for help. Maybe the situation in my apartment is so bad that I need chlorine bleach solution - I do not know.

If you have a budget for home organization, I can post links to pretty neat stuff that got me out of the funk (neat products for containing clutter). I have not read any books to conquer clutter, but I did buy helpful products and tools.

About the books - many years ago I checked out a book about organizing housekeeping from our local public library.

The book was interesting, but... I misplaced it somewhere in the apartment and ended up paying fines for being overdue with a BOOK THAT WAS INTENDED TO KEEP ME NEAT AND ON SCHEDULE LOL!

So I do not trust books anymore, but I trust useful tools and products to help me do the job and will be happy to share.

Once again, my case was extreme. The embarrassment, the limits on social life from being unable to invite people over, and in the past the constant nagging of the then H and his mom - oh my. But I got over it - I just need to learn to clean.