Use TikTok’s Furious Cleaning Trend to Make Your Space Spotless
Creating a cleaning schedule and sticking to it is difficult , but only because life is complicated. Sometimes it seems impossible to find time to clean, especially if you’ve had a busy day at work, with your family, or in general. But what if you could harness that negative energy and turn it into a cleansing force? This is the idea behind the ” angry cleaning ” TikTok trend, also known as ” furious cleaning ,” and if you’re as grumpy as I am, you won’t mind, you’ll find that it will help you make your home a lot cleaner.
What’s the deal with the TikTok rage cleaning trend?
I see the terms “angry cleaning” and “furious cleaning” all over TikTok, but I quickly realized that they describe something I already do: When I’m annoyed or upset, I start cleaning—usually it involves a little finesse , like scrubbing or vacuuming. It turns out I’m not alone.
There are several advantages here. Channeling negative energy into cleaning can distract you from whatever is annoying you, providing an opportunity to complete a menial task that you can complete without much active thought. This allows you to physically work through your negativity, especially if you really put effort into what you’re doing (cleaning the oven is a good option here). It also gives you a positive end result that will lift your mood and increase your motivation: after some cleaning, your head will be clearer and your home will be cleaner.
How to Incorporate Evil Cleaning into Your Daily Routine
I won’t recommend that you put off cleaning until you’re upset; you should still try to follow a cleaning schedule and try to keep things organized. Also, I don’t recommend deliberately making yourself angry to create the motivation to wash all those dirty pans.
However, when the opportunity to express rage and purity arises naturally, it is worth finding the right way. Choose a challenging task, like cleaning the grout in the bathroom, so you can really put your back into it and physically deal with your anger. It doesn’t have to be anything really stressful. For example, I enjoy folding laundry when I’m angry because I get to throw the folded clothes into the pile with a bang. Whatever works!
This is not really the time to do anything that requires brainpower, like decluttering . Angry cleaning is most effective when you can focus on feelings rather than thoughts, so try to scrub as hard as possible. I’m generally a proponent of cleaning your home in small increments , so use this thought to tackle one annoying and time-consuming cleaning task while you’re nice and angry.
I’m not saying a rage cleanse will eliminate everything that’s bothering you, but it can help you blow off some steam and allow you to think a little clearer afterward—and in a tidier place to boot. Force yourself to quietly work on one task, see it through to completion without distraction, and reevaluate how you feel afterwards. Think about what’s bothering you, or just focus on cleaning, but don’t take any troubleshooting steps until you’ve finished your project and dedicated some time and received an achievement bonus. After this, your problems and your to-do list may seem a little more manageable.
Things to remember when cleaning
I’ll add a few more notes here as someone who has now watched what feels like a million of these TikTok videos and who also likes to clean up when negative emotions arise. First, don’t just channel your anger into cleaning to make it more efficient, but make sure you also use this time for yourself to calm your anger. Of course, this looks different for everyone, but on TikTok you’ll see examples of people lighting candles or playing music they like. Ideally, by the end of your angry cleaning session, you will feel better, which will also help you more effectively address the cause of your irritation.
Secondly, if you are angry all the time, it is really not good, whether you can turn it into productive anger cleansing or not. Obviously, it is more important to get to the root cause of your problems than to constantly use them to clean up. Just wanted to put this out there. In the meantime, though, make sure you notice when you feel inspired to rage-clean. If, say, you hang up on every phone call with your mom when you’re in a bad mood, or you’re constantly upset after your weekly meeting at work, change your cleaning schedule to make sure you’re harnessing that energy. If one parent’s Tuesday 6:00 pm dance class with your child is pissing you off, 8:00 pm on a Tuesday seems like a great time to clean the kitchen weekly, right? Let it work for you, not against you, and your home and emotions will thank you.