Junk!? Or Is It!? How Do You Know? Decluttering and Organizing Tips
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- How do you know it's junk when you're decluttering and organizing your home? How do you know it's junk if the stuff still works or is useful?
On today's Ask a House Cleaner, Angela Brown tackles tips on junk, hoarding disorder, and spring cleaning.
How do you know it's junk? In her KonMarie Method of minimalism decluttering, the infamous Marie Kondo asks, "does it bring you joy?"
Joy or not, it's clutter if you're not using it. Get rid of junk. Stop living in a messy house with these organization hacks.
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I'm a teacher and I get so many mugs from students. I don't drink coffee either. I finally kept my favorite for hot chocolate which I drink about 3 times a year. I finally gave myself permission to donate the mugs.
Ah, the sentimentality, I can see how hard that would have been to donate those, and love the fact that you gave yourself permission to keep your favorite one. Great lesson. Thanks for sharing this.
Man.. sometimes you gotta tell it like it is! I'm so used to hearing "oh you just have to fix this or that don't throw it away!". Sometimes things are just junk 🤷♀️ well put Angela.
Thanks for the feedback and for watching the video, I appreciate it!
Thank you for establishing for me " what is junk. ". Now, I finally get it! Also, I laughed a lot watching this video. You're a lot of fun!
Thanks for the kind words and for taking the time to reach out and drop me a line. I enjoyed spend a small piece of today with you. :-)
she reminded me of the toaster oven i used 2x in 9mos, i just gave it to my grandson, perfect for his apartment to reheat pizza
The "One day your skinny self will wear" took me out lol. I'm moving soon and trying to get motivation to get rid of a bunch of junk. Thank you, I needed to hear this.
Hahaha...thanks for the comment and for watching the video! You can do it, I'll be rooting for you! 🙌😊
I'm so guilty of the candle holder thing. I recently got rid of an entire box of candle jars 🤣
We are all guilty of keeping things we think we might use at a later date or things we eally don't need, you are not alone. Thanks for watching!
Thanks Angela! Great tips. You crack me up, especially getting up on a Sat to fix broken luggage. LOL.
LOL. Maybe this Saturday? LOL.
This is really good ~ the waffle iron, especially. Yes, at one time I made waffles, but I don’t anymore.
Getting rid of clothes that you are going to shrink into or grow into (let’s not go there…). You are right about this. Donation direction!
Glad you agree! Thanks for watching! And donate away...you can do it!
I am 100% clutter free. Thats 100%😃 the only clutter is 1 sanitation kitchen bucket with 2 towels. And 1 all-purpose cleaning bucket on the floor "stashed" 😃 No Clutter😃 and No Junk🤣 I ❤You Angela. great video Thank You.
Love that! You just made my day. Thanks so much for sharing this, I am so proud of you. 👍
I'm pretty good with this stuff, but none of us are ever perfect. you have to be SO vigilent with coffee mugs, if you get a new one, you have to get rid of one, that's the rule, otherwise they seem to reproduce prolifically.
actually i do clean out candle jars, and make new candles with leftover bits, and use the jars for various uses, but i also had quite a few ugly ones, so i've literally just gotten up and thrown them in the recycle bin. that feels good!
I love that you were willing to try to use the last bit of candles by molding them into another - and I also applaud your decision to toss the excess once you had depleted the candle source. Hats off and high five for these conscious decluttering choices.
@@AskAngelaBrown i am a great 1800s Victorian Frugal Wife, haha. We had a bunch of cheap candles i'd bought for a party and still had them lurking about (about 20), thinking i'd use them again, but really they were so cheap, no fragrance and looking shabby. I feel bad for the waste and will never buy such a thing again, it's way smarter to invest in solar lights, which is what i do now.
oh thanks for the reply, i love your no-nonsense approach (which I don't really need, but i hate all those other fluff millenial channels).
also, whilst thrifting the other day both my daughter and i picked up a cassette player. she got a terrible cd/cassette player "boombox" (i swear i had the same thing in the 90s), and i got a 1960s cassette deck that will plug into my 1960s record player i recently bought on Marketplace. trust me, there's a market for some old tech! (yeah, your zip drive is not included in that !)
Lol. My hubby said if I Decluttered some of our separate set of pots, dishes and pans for Passover, he would declutter some of his VCR tapes.
All the decisions were so much easier after we decided we really didn’t want to have people over for seder. No big meals! So a set of 4 dishes is fine. Can declutter the other 4 for charity.
Im getting rid of 2 flatware sets, a silver meat platter with groves.. keeping just enough for the week of Passover for eating and cooking. Im trying to figure if I should get rid of the small cheap fry pan and just use the large.
We want to get rid of at least one tote of Passover dishes. I think we have 5! Hubby had to wash everything also. We are trying to simplify our lives. We are getting too old for this!
Hubby got rid of 16 VCR tapes. I don’t know why he doesn’t get rid of more. We can get everything on Amazon fire stick
Big donation going to be picked up tomorrow from ARC. They provide programs for disabled young adults and children
I love that you both made concessions in what you planned to donate. I also love that you made conscious choices about the things you wanted to keep and why. This is epic! Congratulations on changing your relationship with stuff. 👏👏👏
I never heard of Nextdoor. Will look into
Definitely check it out...nextdoor.com. Thanks for watching!
I have been binge-watching this channel for a few days (really binge-listening as I drive, cook and clean). I would like to see you do a video on a type of hoarder that I'm sure you have encountered but no one seems to talk about. My mother always kept a very clean and tidy home save for short periods when she was busy or ill. She went shopping a lot but donated several lawn sized trash bags to Goodwill every couple months. It was usually stuff she bought at Goodwill. But when she felt overwhelmed with clutter she threw out needed things. She threw out dishes. These were in a cabinet and bothering no one. Sure enough two days later we had to go buy new dishes with money we didn't have to spend and we got a lower quality of dishes than we had before. So while I understand that perhaps most hoarders are emotionally overly attached to stuff, some people on the hoarder lite end of the scale will get into purging fits and will go way too far. I wish there were a video here for this content because it would be the next best thing to having you by my mother's side.
Edit: I can't remember the last time that I donated anything to a charity shop because I buy mindfully and use up stuff until it isn't usable for anyone. One exception is children's dress clothes and shoes that they outgrow.
Thanks for leaving a comment! 👍
Guilty of hoarding cords, but hey, I found a free piano keyboard on the side of the road and one of my cords fit it, so it's all good... I'm definitely one of those 'just in case, I might need it' kind of people...
Very cool! Thanks for watching!
My guy still has his old walkman😅 He swears it's going to be worth money one day
LOL. Pat (my husband) and I had this very conversation yesterday. We were talking about his "at one time impressive iPod." And when is the last time you listened to it? "Well, since all my songs are on my phone now, I guess not at all anymore." And I'm like "BAM! There's your answer." 😂😂😂
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Such a rock star!! I own Moving Forward Foreclosure Cleanouts LLC in Phoenix, Arizona. I adore your videos and have used so much you have taught me.
Thanks so much for all the hard work that goes into making the videos.
Know that you are helping so many. I appreciate and treasure your knowledge. Just had to stop and let you know and wish you all the best. Make your day amazing never stop moving forward.
Wow! Thank you. You have made my day by leaving such a nice comment. Sending you hugs! 🤗
~Well, maybe im playing devil's advocate, but i have actually needed stuff later, for instance, when i started doing intermittent fasting, i did lose weight & i was thankful to still have all my cool 'skinny' clothes from years ago!~Also, for a few years after age made my arms saggy & with crepe skin, i swore id never wear short sleeves again & planned to toss them all, but fortunately i got over being that vain & thankfully still have them!~Not to discourage people from clearing out closets, but a main reason i have trouble throwing stuff out is cuz so often i do need it later on?!~
Kathy, Thank you for sharing!
You touched on every bit of junk I haven't discarded. I laughed,love your style. Above l I a. A emotional hoarde. Have you done any videos on photos,children's art and memorabilia?
Glad you think so, thanks for watching! 🙂
Much gratitude for this. I'm drowning in my mom's stuff. I need all the help I can get. Thank you for the support as well as instruction as I navigate this nightmare. It really helps. 💕
Glad I could help!
Thank you Angela for this video. So many things you talked about, I can relate to. Hopefully, your tough love approach will help me let go. I am currently struggling with my mother's things. She passed last month, and it is so hard to let her things go. I feel I'm disrespecting her by getting rid of her things. Anyway, I'm not on Facebook, and I'm not on hoarding world. I do enjoy your videos and find them so helpful.
Hi Carrie, I'm so sorry to hear about the loss of your mom. That is heartbreaking news. I'm sending you a big virtual hug. 🤗
Ooo, she got me on the candle-holders. But who wears belts these days? Men, of course, with nice suits, but women??? I haven't worn a belt since 1978.
Oh no, I still wear a belt every day with my cleaning clothes. But I hear what you're saying - the majority of people just flat out don't wear belts for the most part - this may be a sign I need to update my wardrobe.
If you do physical work, wearing a belt is actually very important. All you really need are 2 or 3 good quality leather belts (no 'vegan leather' aka pleather or plastic). Your back will thank you!
As Gen X my dad brought up in the war he kept everything and fixed stuff too it prob better for environmental but I’ve been trying to get rid of so much stuff I don’t need to charity. Lots to go through! I got tons of VHS tapes I don’t want to Chuck lots of memories Tv shows etc and old tv vhs player.
Thanks so much for taking the time to leave a comment and share the story about your dad. Many folks used to be able to fix things because the items weren’t electronic and parts were readily available. Wishing you the best with going through your old tapes. Keep me updated on how the decluttering is going. 👍
I enjoyed this pep talk 😂
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching!
6 minutes and 40ish seconds is when she came for Me Personally!! Haha ❤️
LOL. Hopefully you found one one nugget you could use. That is the goal. Thanks for watching. :-)
As a tech I'm inclined to hoard techie bits however I totally agree with you about hoarding cables, espcially those terminated with specific amp/voltage adaptors. After blowing up a modest yet loud 1-Amp guitar speaker at around 3am with my ex using a wrong adaptor - we are both shite at playing guitar, so no doubt my neighbours cheered - I recycled a whole bunch of my own during my last purge of this type of stuff! Old mobile telephones and chargers I had been hanging onto for no good reason also went.
Thanks for leaving a comment! 👍
Bigger, Better, Baking has a series of meals and desserts made in mugs in the microwave...you only need 1 mug per person...I recommend the 1 Minute Brownie😃
Joanne, Thanks so much for sharing. Yum, brownies : )
Thanks for sharing!
Sadly for me, it has become difficult to get rid of things because I do actually find uses for them. I don't mean alternate uses. After years of being poor, I finally have some money to spend. I recently lost 30 pounds after eight years of trying. I lost it by default, (my physical job). I did not diet. I now can wear all the size 14's I kept for years. I only wear classic clothing and kept only the best items. Some of my 14's I enjoyed for a few months. It was wonderful until I lost a few more pounds. The "skinny" clothing are now too big. I'm between a 12 and 14. A few pounds up and I'm back into the 14's again (the one's I love so much). Choosing what to get rid of is extremely difficult because of the double whammy, keeping them just in case and then actually using them again.
Ann, Thanks so much for watching the show and taking the time to reach out. 👍
My weight changes back-and-forth due to illness, so I keep three sizes
I hate to throw electronic stuff in the landfill. Any ideas on how to recycle them when you live in an area that doesn't offer that service?
Check with the manufacturer of the electronic you are tossing. Many have recycling programs that include mail ins, or locations where the items can be dropped off.
@@AskAngelaBrown Thank you. I called our township's offices, asked about the electronics, and they do recycle them. So happy! I have a drop-off location where I can take all the old wires, cables, drives, etc.
Very helpful video :)
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!
Thank you, Very good way for me to start my week. I appreciate your attitude and your you're straight up to the fact just speaking it , it's junk. Let it go.
You’re welcome! 😊
Oh my goodness I needed this!! Thank you!
You are so welcome! Glad it was helpful, thanks for watching!
I buy my luggage at thrift stores then get rid of it soon after.
I love this idea. Only buy the size bag you need and return it when you're done. ;-)
This is brilliant, thank you!
@@AskAngelaBrown It's like renting luggage short-term so that it needn't 'rent' storage space in your home long-term!
Good idea!
Ty Angela❤
You're welcome, thanks for watching!
Helpful and entertaining, thank you. 👍
Glad to know that you enjoyed it, thanks for watching!
Some very good tips..
I like that U said "junk 4 me"... so many sites say to just throw good stuff into the skip, why not donate it??
Obviously, U did say about the suitcase not being fixable & so that is junk..
I would be interested to hear a cleaners opinion on steam cleaners? I've heard of several times recently where using hot steam on the shower door, just smashed the glass..is this true or not?
It's the same reason that I'm wary of glass oven ware, being set down on a cold surface..Thanks for any tips on this..
Hi Anamarie, Steam cleaners are so cool. You can sanitize a surface to 99.99% with nothing but steam alone. And if you are into chemical-free cleaning this is the way to go. Here is a video of my favorite one so far th-cam.com/video/6rbqArtCClI/w-d-xo.html and here is the paid link amzn.to/3TyXmS3 so you can learn more or add it to your cart. As for shattering glass - I haven't heard that one yet. It has never happened to anyone I know.
I love you yer style
Thank you so much, I appreciate it!
Everytime you have a full declutter every 6 months it wants doing again it’s so exhausting it’s amazing how much you do get rid of every 6 months in our house it’s towels and bedding god how many towels does one need it’s a joke just decluttered them so am hoping no more going to get added
It can feel exhausting when decluttering becomes a recurring task every six months. It's surprising how much we accumulate over time, even with items like towels and bedding. Sometimes it can be frustrating to have to do it again and that is understandable. Remember, decluttering is an ongoing process, and periodic assessments can help maintain a clutter-free environment. By staying mindful of what you truly need and resisting unnecessary additions, you can reduce the accumulation of excess items in your home. Best of luck in maintaining your clutter-free space!
@@AskAngelaBrown thankyou 😊
The neighbor puts stuff outside his yard for free...but I took it all now I have junk😊 the hard part is it was free and really good stuff.yikes! Help Angela❤
It's great that you found some free stuff from your neighbor, but now you're left with a lot of items that you consider junk. Sorting through the items and identifying what you genuinely find useful or valuable can help declutter your space. Consider donating some things to local charities or giving them to others who might appreciate them. Remember, quality over quantity is important. Take this as an opportunity to reflect on your needs and find a balance in your possessions. Good luck with decluttering!
we have a site in the UK called trash nothing or freecycle, you take a picture of it and put it on the site, someone comes to collect it, you just put it under the window,
Oh wow....that is great! Thanks!
Nice idea but it concerns me that the wrong people might target your house if you have good stuff to give away. I'd prefer to drop it off and donate it to a preferred charity.
"Umm...let me check..." 😂😂😂
Lol...thanks for tuning in!
There are actually luggage repair shops that you can take your luggage to and they will repair it for you. There are 12 in my area.
I think the point is that you should crack on and repair the thing or get rid of it. It is just frustrating to open up the Christmas stuff and find the thing that you were going to fix but it is broken and it falls into disuse but still takes up storage. It needs to get repaired quickly.
We have replaced parts in our car (a handle to adjust the height of the seat) and kitchen appliances ( a sandwich press) with wooden handles, used metal plates to make new supports. Repairs are great and often times don't take up a lot of time, but things get out of sight and out of mind.
What about things that may become antique in years to come his is my mindsets keep it my grandchildren my use them .
May I suggest that you speak with your family now about such things? When my Mom and Grandma passed away (they lived in the same house together and each was a collector of different items,) I did not want or need their collections. I still have all the fond memories in my heart and in photos. But because I don't like to dust, I prefer to not keep very much stuff (antique or not) in my home. Your family may feel differently than I do. It's best to speak with them. ❤
Hindasound, Great tip! Depending on how old the grandchildren are they may already know what items they would love.
love it thanks
Thank you! Glad you liked it. And thanks for watching. 😊
How do you clean a plastic shower liner, especially the yellow border at the bottom from showering?
In a washing machine with a 1/2 cup of white vinegar. Run a cycle and then hang back in the shower to dry and open all the way so it can drip dry. The vinegar should clean it. And if it's yellowing from age or something else and doesn't come clean, it may be time to replace the plastic shower liner. 💛
@@AskAngelaBrown Ohh..I was hoping to avoid unhooking the stuff..(LOL) !! Using vinegar what I needed to know..I was unsure. The yellow is not aging. It runs across the shower end to end and begins on the top edge exactly where the bathtub starts, then continues downward til the end of the plastic. Thank you, Angela..I clean my friend's (endless) house and use all of your suggestions and advice. Bless you!
My junk is stuff, your stuff is junk
😆 my mom said that when i was a kid
I love it! Thanks so much for sharing. 👍
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