Hey guys, would this be considered a neckbeardnest?

I'm going to do a through tear down of your pictures here. I'm doing this because, from the sounds of the title of your post, you are looking for inspiration to get the filthy fucking hovel that you are living in cleaned. I'm going to be brutal, almost unreasonably so, because I care and I want to help as best as I can.

Let's see:

  • You've got empty boxes all over the fucking place. Even if they have shit in them, the items within each box are likely not full to capacity. This means that almost certainly, everything could be better stored more efficiently within a single large box that you can tuck away more easily. Additionally, I seriously doubt you use every item stored in every box at least once a month. I doubt you even know what is in the majority of those shipping boxes, what was shipped in them originally, or why you still have them. Throw them the fuck out.

  • Dirty clothes overflowing in your laundry bin(?) Disgusting. If that isn't a laundry bin doubly so.

  • Dirty dishes...but not that many. At least it's not stacks on stacks. It doesn't look like you have any half chewed food laying around or bugs all over your shit. If you clean them regularly, that's a pass. I get thirsty at my desk a lot too, my trick to keeping dishes to a minimum is having a table coaster at my desk and only having drinks on that. Food is not often eaten at my computer desk because I tend to overeat when I do out of boredom. Just get the dishes into the sink for cleaning when you're done with them. It's not that hard, just make a better habit out of it. Getting up to go to take a piss? Grab a bowl and put it on the sink in the bathroom on your way there. Now there's piss fumes all over that bowl and you need to clean it. Whatever you can do to get that bullshit away from your computer desk, the better off you'll be.

  • You've got what appears to be...3? towers. (Under your desk, one behind the fan, one by your bed) Only two of which are even plugged in. Maybe. Why do you have this many? I would call that a slight case of hoarding, IMO but it's whatever. Maybe you have a perfectly logical reason for it (if that reason isn't that you are fixing the 3rd one for a friend are literally about to return it, or sell computers regularly on cragislist, it's probably a shitty reason) but that's the impression I get from just the photos. Honestly, I do the same thing with my computers.* At most, realistically speaking, you will probably never need more then two desktops and a laptop - and even then, that's fucking overkill. That would be assuming that you would have a need for a powerful desktop, a home server for whatever the fuck and a laptop for travel. Do you travel that much? Do you have enough important shit that it can't even fit on your day-to-day desktop and must have it accessible via server setup? I seriously doubt it unless you are doing some off-the-wall shit. I could be totally wrong, but I doubt it. As for using a laptop for travel: even if you do travel often, you barely even need the laptop if you have a decent cellphone or tablet, which I'm guessing you probably do, judging by your: TKL Mech Keyboard, mouse and reasonably nice chair.

  • Your bed is an absolute clusterfuck. I'm not saying you need to do hospital corners for all of your sheets but unless you literally woke up 2 minutes before taking those photos you are a fucking slob. It is not hard at all to pull the blankets off and put them back down nicely. It's good to do this because when you take the blankets and shit off, you throw off most of the dead skin and shit that came off while your sleeping and get a good whiff to the face of what your blankets smell like. If it smells like sweat, ass and misery, it's time to wash that shit. It also helps a lot in winter by keeping a lot of the coldness on the outer sheets while letting you warm the bed up quicker when you lay down for the night. On top of all of that, it can also give you a better piece of mind. When you walk into your bedroom and you see your bed nice and tidy it might help you feel like your life is a bit more together. Like you have a better sense of control on what happens in your life. You were thoughtful. You give a shit about how your room looks. You put in enough effort into making your room look presentable, even if you don't think anyone else is ever going to see it. It might sound weird, but IMO it's a total confidence boost to see a well-made bed.

  • You've got a fuck ton of crumpled up paper on your desk which is now overflowing on your speakers and fucking floor. Do you really need any of it? Do you know exactly what each piece of paper says? When's the last time you looked at any of it? Any of it? What is so important that you need to hold onto it but not important enough to be filed away in a cabinet properly? It's enraging. I do it too sometimes. Just take an hour, throw everything on the floor, mix it all up and force yourself to go through every single thing so you can figure out what you really need and what can be tossed.

  • There's a thick layer of dust on top of your fucking speaker setup, router, monitors, and presumably everywhere else not shown. Get a rag or a duster and rub it across each surface. It's easy. It takes like 2 fucking minutes and will make your room like a billion times better. Attention to detail.

  • Spent bottles EVERYWHERE. WHY? Get a garbage bag, bring it to your room and throw that shit out.

* I haven't powered some of my computers on in a long ass time, so I've got them in a pile in my room. If I don't turn them on by the end of this month, they are going to be given to charity. I've gotta repair the GPU on an old iMac first...just waiting for the butane lighter to arrive in the mail. Really looking forward to the extra room I'm going to get on the floor as result! :)

I kind of hope that you do take these comments personally, not because I want to make you feel bad, but because I hope it motivates you enough to prove me wrong. It doesn't take a lot of effort to clean up a mess like the one you're living in. If you let it get worse, in a few years you might be just another schlub featured on here with all of us laughing and wondering how you let your shit get so out of control. Good luck friend!

Now go grab a fucking trash bag for fucks sake!

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