Cas- please read Woman Code, sometimes as woman we are giving different meds but in reality we need to know ourselves as woman and how our menstrual cycle changes our moods/en every etc….. wish you the best ❤
O M G !!! I’m now a chef because of the exact same reason you’re going to be a firefighter 🤣 I even received the highest grades and had to give the commencement speech to 3,600 grads 🤣🤣🤣 I never wanted to work “in” the culinary industry to begin with 🤣
@@findingaway5512 I make these TEMPLATES when hanging pictures. Knowing where to position mounting hardware. Don’t know why you didn’t think of this before.
I would love a compilation of all the story times with Cas... She is so real with what she talks about and makes you feel like her Bff catching up over coffee.
Oh Cas, please never stop your end stories! I love you so much for them ❤ I came for the organizing content and stayed for ADHD insights and you being you in your end stories ❤
Yes! Cas, you are awesome! And YOU are the right kind of "crazy." I am on the journey of learning about, acknowledging, and accepting my own. Thanks sooo much for your content and for giving us your ADHD moment which was priceless. It's creators and communities like yours that help us neuro-divergents find acceptance and take hold of our Super Powers.😊❤ Subscribed
I was a Vol. Firefighter in a small community - 5ft tiny me- let's just say, I had my limitations. I lived across the street from the firehouse, I helped knocked 10 mins off of their arrival times by raising the garage bay doors and starting the trucks as the other volunteers were coming. Saving 10 mins is a huge deal!
Thanks for summarizing. I might add 2a. Declutter into 3 categories/ containers: a) KEEPING in this room, b) NOT KEEPING in this room and c) MEMORIES. It's always this 3rd category that trips me up & I like how she addresses it. She says to have a separate big container labeled "Memories" so that you can toss sentimental type items into & not get derailed with the job at hand. Later on you can deal with these emotionally charged set-aside items (such as deceased loved-ones belongings, personal cards/ letters, children's artwork, etc).
PLEASE MAKE A VIDEO FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE "ALMOST" DONE! need some motivation to get that final push to feel like my house is how I have dreamed of it being for years!
I can relate to that -- I am in the midst of weeding down my paperwork and books, putting up art, spackling various things, and decorating. I've done a lot, but there's more to do. "That final push" sounds like what I need.
The main part of my home is really quick and easy to pick up - even with 5 kids - because of the systems I've put in place. It is such a great feeling! My husband has even commented on it. So my motivation for other areas of my house is to get to that feeling where clean up is a breeze.
I had big successes this weekend. My husband, who had been dragging his feet about decluttering our house, actually suggested this weekend that we declutter and tidy up 2 of the "problem areas" that had been stressing me. Then, he carried through. I gave him a clear container to put his sewing things into, so that they were no longer all over the living room. Then we found a place to store the supplies that he and I could live with. Next, we decluttered and organized our CDs. They had been a miss for months. I am not entirely happy with they are organized, because it will take me forever to find specific artists. Yet it is done. Finally, we did some decluttering and tidying in the pantry. We filled up a box to go to our charity of choice and did some re-organizing of a few of the pantry shelves. I am slowly working with him to fix the problem areas in our home. I am very happy with the progress we made.
I just got my masters degree. That's after I got my storytelling certificate. And I've applied for the PhD program. All of this at *mumble, mumble, mumble* years-old. No, I can't be a firefighter. But I can do a whole lot of other tthings. You go, Cas.
@@hopeandprayers thx. I'm not able to do much with the knowledge and certificate though... most people only hire if you have experience and I don't have much to put into a portfolio to work for myself. I don't believe it was a waste of money though. I probably just need a few more courses that go with it or an advanced course or something to make it work. Not sure if I'm up for more, lol! 🙂
Oh, Cas. We love you in whatever form you appear. We also love all of your stories because it makes the rest of us appear to have other people just like us, doing similar "crazy" things. Thank you for everything ❣ (especially your organization expertise)
Cas, 1st...hilarious end story. You can do it! 2nd...I needed this video today. I'm going to start decluttering my craft space & your tips are going to be a huge help. Growing up, I made paper templates of all my bedroom furniture so I could change it on paper to see if things were going to fit before actually moving furniture. Now, I do it in an excel spreadsheet. Love the tip of measuring paper to take to the store. Brilliant! Thank you. 😊
Wait, tell us how to do it in excel! I used to do this too: drew all the pieces of furniture on graph paper and cut them out so I cd rearrange on my graph paper floor plan. But that’s kind of time consuming. Please tell us more how you do it in Excel!!! Thank you!!!
I treat an excel spreadsheet like grid paper & make squares. Then I measure each piece of furniture & asign 1 sq per foot of furniture. So, for a couch, I draw a rectangle & make it 6 or 7 squares by 3 or 4 squares (according to the size), etc. I do the same for the room & each piece of furniture in that room. I even color in the couch rectangle the color of our couch so that by looking at it I know what piece I'm looking at. Then I move around the "furniture" to the location & see if it fits. It's awesome. I save it on my computer for each time I want to rearrange the furniture. It definitely saves time & your back. 😊
@@kakylong2 Thank you for answering and sharing. I am very familiar with excel but I am trying to picture how you move the furniture around. Do you just cut and paste? If so, mustn’t you make sure to paste it into the exact number of squares? Bc I’m wondering if it will Resize your floor plan? I admit, I haven’t used the program much lately. But having a dynamic version wd be so much easier!
I add a text box the size of squares needed for each piece of furniture, then fill the box with the name, color or both of the furniture I wish it was possible to add an actual pic of the furniture. (Now, you've got my brain thinking.) Then I move the text box wherever I want it in the "room". I hope this explains it better. 😊
Just when I thought I'd learned all I could from you... This was so helpful! I love the paper in drawer to measure and take to the store part. And that was the best end story😂❤! Keep us posted...
This was one of your most helpful videos yet! I love the paper measuring hack. I have a math background, and it still makes me crazy taking a tape measure to the store and trying to figure it all out. Thanks so much!
With the paper measurement: when I moved I did a drawing of the outline of my room/ apartment and did not draw the furniture into it, but cut them out, so I could move them around in the room to see how they would fit and where I like them the most. That was both times so incredibly helpful for me!
My dad (engineer/architect background) showed me how to draw floor plans and cut out furniture templates when I was a preteen. So helpful (and I'm 70 now!)
The fact that you were so honest about your "controlled crazy" got me to subscribe. This is real life for so many ppl. Appreciate your honesty and being real. Also, thanks for the tips, I've been decluttering for the past week. It's so therapeutic.
That's how I am when I do a home staging project - I'm just looking at the space. I constantly draw plans on paper, I thought everyone did, LOL. Guess not! I love looking at floor plans and arranging furniture on them. Memory Bins REALLY helped me go through my four kids' stuff.
I have been taken off my ADD medication due to my age. It was wonderful to hear you describe what I am going through. I am trying to organize and you are such a beautiful role model. Keep up the good work.
Wanted to add a comment about your story about becoming a firefighter. I’m in healthcare and many people in my family also are, so I know a lot of people who are first responders/fire fighters/paramedics etc through work or family/family friends and so on. One of the core characteristics that makes for a successful firefighter type (in my opinion from what I’ve seen) is that they “enjoy” the rush of the adrenaline they get from the high intensity and pressure of the job. You seem to already have that experience or feeling of that along with helping people like on your ambulance crew (and seemed to want even bigger challenges.) That being said, I had a classmate who was a firefighter in high school (his dad was the chief firefighter) and he was a very sensitive, compassionate caring person. He gave a speech on his volunteer work as a senior helping his dad. He told us what he had witnessed on a scene at a car accident. He began weeping/breaking down as he tried to tell the story. I will never forget it, like it was like yesterday. My suggestion to you, is to watch or read as many “what’s the worse thing you’ve ever seen” videos or blogs fire fighter stories. Make sure you can handle that first, because you have to have a very strong (and even dark sense of humor or mentality) to consistently be able to see the things you will eventually encounter. That’s another characteristic of them-very different kind of morbid sense of humor. If you fit in with that, that’s another check mark in your favor. Hope that helps.
Hilarious, Cas! Love your open honesty - and of course you are adorable and so funny. But seriously, you give us the good stuff when it comes to organizing. I've got a couple of big storage closets that are going to get Clutterbugged in 2024!
Unmedicated Cas is still brilliant 🤗 Your tips have given me a completely new perspective of spaces I’ve been trying to organize. I have fresh motivation after watching! Thank you so much!
Dear Cas, I'm following you from Spain, you are my friend with whom I'm "BODY DOUBLING" to be able to face the overwhelm of moving from a big house to a small apartment! Thanks for your energy, genius, direction and most of all YOUR GREAT BIG HEART!!! You have found your purpose (for now), your IKIGAI
I love your idea of making the paper template! I am a visual person and even when I took measurements I often got it wrong, but this is brilliant and would so work well!
I build every new apartment in The Sims before moving in. It made it way easier to endlessly re-arrange things until I was happy, haha. I wonder if there's a design app specifically for this...
Epic tips/ideas, Cas! 😘 Making paper templates to take to the store is a new one to me. I’m eager to try it…when I get to that stage. I’m imagining what I’ll look like as I lay out the templates at the store, on the floor, and arrange containers on it. 😂 Can’t wait to see the reactions of fellow shoppers! I’m going to respond with “Cas made me do it”!
@@elizabethwright4784 Ahhhhh. I’ll have to get out my Scan N Cut and make this shirt! It will be pink, of course. Thanks for the great idea, Elizabeth! I should wear it on the next all-day declutter. 😂
🤯 can’t I just move in with you? Then all the organizing would be done ! I love your stories but this one may be the BEST. YOU can be anything you want! But I love when you say “do I want to be a firefighter? NO!” Thank you for your organizing help and the humerous way you express yourself. It always brightens my day❤
This is so helpful! Thank you, Cas! I will be watching this video again! BTW, you crack me up 😂. I'm a retired RN and spent the majority of my career in ICU. The adrenalin rush definitely makes life more interesting. Having said that, I couldn't be a firefighter. I'm scared of heights and I'm not physically strong enough. The biggest reason is it does not interest me, but I'm so Thankful there are people who have that calling.
Go get ‘em, Cas! You’ve got this. They’d be lucky to have you. 🔥 (Also, the breakdown of these steps was really helpful. It’s helped me to see that I really can tackle my office/craft room and it won’t take weeks or months with your approach. Thank you!!)
About the paper templates: I would write on each which drawer or shelf the paper corresponds to AND the maximum height any container could be. The latter is really important, since there's no point in buying containers that are too tall for the space.
Cas!!! You are a GENIUS, friend!! You have reduced my anxiety by 1000%, I have saved this video to my all-time favorites! You have figured out so many brilliant solutions to questions I have always had in my mind and worry about..”is this the right way/best way to be doing this??” Everything you said makes perfect sense, thank you!! You truly are the organization Queen, and that’s a big deal! You are helping us make our homes into havens of rest and love and comfort and fun for our family and friends. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for all that you do! Lots of love, a Mama of 8 blessings :)
I was wondering Cas, have you looked at how the different clutterbug types organise their handbags? I'd love to watch that. I'm a cricket, and i keep things in little zip pouches inside my bag, (hidden, micro?)my Mum is a bee and likes the handbag inserts where things are in small sections but visible at a glance (visual, micro?). Would a butterfly have it all in one big jumble to rummage through? I'd love to see what you thought. 😊
I am a butterfly but I don't have multiple hand bags. I think it depends on the person. Me personally I would throw everything into a cube storage tote if I had them or if they were really pretty I think I would want to hang them on hooks on the wall to swap out. Or set on a shelf.
I absolutely love you. I am so guilty of buying random containers in hopes they will fit where I want them. Then they don't fit and these random containers float around my house for 2 years, creating more clutter. I'm never buying another container without having measurements. Also, I love the fire and drive you have in your soul.
Cas, volunteer in a hospital, there is plenty of excitement going on around there. And you will see everything. BTW, I live in a rural area and at the age of 60+ I learned to put out my own fires. Ours is a volunteer fire dept. and it took 45 min. for our fire dept. to come out when my neighbor caught his pasture on fire. The wind was blowing it in my direction. I quickly retrieved a shovel and started to smother the grass fire as it was approaching my property line. I didn't even have the time to inform my husband to come help since he was in the house and of course was clueless about what I was doing. But as soon as I thought it was safe I ran back to the house and told him to bring a shovel out to the field. Finally the volunteers arrived and I was surprised to see that the way to put out a grass fire was with a leaf blower! I learned then and there if I were to have a fire, I was on my own.
I just love your energy Cas... Sometimes there's nothing wrong with being a little more "crazy" than normal... I loved watching you be "rambly" you are so funny and make organizing so fun... Love you to bits!!
Listening to your story at the end, all I could think is Wow Cas, I just love you so much 😅. I know I don't really know you, but I relate to you in a lot of ways. I love watching your videos. They make me smile and give me hope/inspiration. Thank you for posting.
Don’t give up on the firefighter dream! As a young female nurse, I also joined the local volunteer fire department / ambulance crew! I went to school to become an EMT and attended weekly meetings / training sessions. There were 3 crew members on the ambulance. A lot of our gravy runs were to swoop and scoop patients from the local ski hill and transfer them to the hospital. They were already splinted and packaged up by the rescue squad. I attended multiple fires and practiced driving the fire truck. Unfortunately, we were known for saving basements….but that was because we had a large territory to cover and had to carry our own water to the site. My job might be to help set up the portable water tank or direct traffic or drag empty hoses or relay a message to the fire chief, or ride with the tanker to get more water. The firehose required 2 men to control so that was beyond my capability. They guys watched out for me. Thankfully, fires were few and far between. Those years were some of the most fulfilling of my career. I wish you the best! Don’t give up!
I’ve been using Canva to help me with layouts of my organizing. Create a custom size and I use cm in place of something like feet. Makes it a lot easier to see if it would fit rather than redrawing it out on paper.
Super advice I will be using it when I move to a new place in March. I want to start the new space off right and be organised right from the start. Cas you are so funny, I am sure there is never a dull moment in your house LOL
You know what I found? Doing 10 minutes on my rowing machine GIVES DOPAMINE. Focusing on the form, and just 10 minutes, it's not boring. Some days I can do that twice in one day! You can do it, being strong is the reward.
Cas, you crack me up so much! I think I'm a lot like you because I want to do so many things too even when it doesn't make sense for the season of life I'm in. We are just excited about everything in life and there's nothing wrong with that. We just get a little derailed sometimes! 😆😁
❤My Goodness Cass ❤ Can't see you being a Firefighter but I could see you working in their office. Yesterday I was in hospital for two blood transfusions for being Anemic will be 68 next month so my Advise is do what you can that your body will allow you to do God Willing. Sending Prayers & Love ❤️ Your Way From Callie Girl ❤San Diego ❤️ California ❤️ 🇺🇸 ♥️
Cas, I don't care whether you're on your meds or not. I can gage into you as is. I follow you because you motivate me and that's what counts with me. By the way, thanks for being you. 😊❤
My granddaughter was drawing up floor plans at 6 yrs old, she's now 18 and that's still the first thing she does when she wants to rearrange a room. Guess she's got the organizations gene.
Cas! You absolutely crack me up. 😂 First if all, excellent video, one to be saved for future watching. I am decluttering my office and, although I know it won't be done in a weekend, I am giving myself this year to do it. And with that grace period, I have been working on it every day; breaking it down into Zones (floor, desk, paper zone, wall of shelves, cabinets, files), and each week focusing on 1 zone to declutter. 3 weeks into it, is working fantastic! I bought memory boxes (1 for each kid) and the plan is to reduce all the paper into those boxes. Each of those boxes will go into their rooms. And hopefully I will be left with empty shelves, only filled with things I love. ❤ But more importantly, I am so glad tou are eating more protein and doing yoga! You have that fantastic workout room, use it! 💪
Will you be able to go back on your ADHD meds? I am happy to hear you are eating more protein. I had gastric band surgery. I followed all the "rules" and lost 90 pounds. But... I got an ulcer and eventually had to have the band removed. I still use my knowledge from the diet with the gastric band... protein is THE most important food... You can be whatever you want to be but HEALTHY is the most important thing to be!! You are my inspiration... weight loss... decluttering... organizing. You and Minimal Mom are my favorites!!
I'm saving this video for future reference. Your tips are so practical, but I couldn't come up with them myself, and that's why I'm subscribed and watch from beginning to end! Thank you, and I wish you well in every part of your life.
Thanks Cas for another very helpful video! And your extras, you go girl! We all need a little motivation. I don't see you as one with a "label". You were beautifully and wonderfully made to be who you are today. Meds are there to put people into boxes. People don't need to fit into boxes, our home things do. Embrace and love who you are, because your family does, and we out here all do as well❤
You’re the second TH-camr I follow in the past week that said they have a hole in their heart. I had mine repaired 11 years ago. I hear about people having holes in their heart more and more often.
As a person with ADHD, I find your videos to be incredibly helpful and calming in a way. There is hope for those of us who struggle with clutter and organization. I love to be organized, but have difficulty understanding how to visualize it. This video is straightforward and gives realistic tips that I can use. Bonus: my undiagnosed ADHD mother fell into volunteer firefighting in a very similar way after acting as their videographer in the 90s. 30+ years later and she's preparing to retire from the department when they move closer to family this year.
I’m w u! Do it (then absolutely quit)😂 I am a Navy veteran and he’s a retired marine. Neither one of us like to be told not to do something or that we’re old.
This is my first time watching you, I don’t know if you’ll read this, I just want to say I love you ❤️ if you were in my hometown I’ll work for u for free !! I love organizing & I love real people like u ❤
Thank you for this video. You are so inspirational. You would make an awesome firefighter! I started cleaning out the shoes from my closet yesterday, and figured out something else to do, so I left my shoes all scattered around the floor in my bedroom and went to shopping instead! I have the hardest time focusing on the hard stuff.
I am in the process of decluttering & organizing my disaster of a home. I feel like we're literally 1 dead cat away from a hoarders episode 😹 I've been on an organizing craze & am FINALLY able to get my car in our 2 car garage. My husband asked about his car & I Henny Penny'd him 😁 My response was, "well maybe if you had actually helped me, we both could have fit our cars in there" Now I'm onto my basement. I love your 5 step program & will definitely utilize those tips to help get it done hopefully even faster. Thanks & PS the firefighter ending was AWESOME & HILARIOUS!! I 1,000% get the mindset & motivation. The best way to get me to do something, is to tell me I can't do it 😂
Thank you for sharing these tips I have always bought the bins before the plan but now I know the secret 🎉😂 also pretty sure I’m undiagnosed ADD so the quickest way to get me to do something is to tell me I can’t. I can totally relate
I wish you would do a new Clean Sweep show, you would be AWESOME. This was one of your most helpful videos, so succinct. I love how you are not afraid to show your real self. Don't burn yourself out with this firefighter training!
Cas, I love you SO much! “This my friends is unmediated Cas!” If you’re bored, I would SERIOUSLY have you come and makeover a space in my house. I do have an old farmhouse so you probably actually wouldn’t want the challenge BUT, if you’re bored…😂
I'm a ladybug, and labels on containers destroy the visual simplicity for me. Luckily I don't have a lot of stuff, so my brain memorizes what's in what container where, and I never label lol. Great tip about the paper to measure a drawer or shelf!
Same! I really wish I could handle the look of labels, even the pretty ones, but I hate them. Life would be much easier if I didn't have to memorize where everything is but, alas, such is our plight! (Not sure where the Shakespearean lingo suddenly came from there!) 😂
I'm a ladybug with ADHD and this is such a struggle for me. I need labels but I hate them ... But I crave them ... But I can't stand them. Goodness it's bad. 😂😅
I had to pause and back up the video to do a double take on one of the cookie cutter labels. Then you started talking about size matters and I was just rolling with how perfect the two things went together! Thanks for the laugh!! Glad the heart issue wasn't too bad, but hopefully you can get your ADHD meds straightened out with it and everything turns out okay!
FANTASTIC video! Thank you so very much!!! I'm in the middle of reorganizing my craft room and I found this just in time :-) As for ADHD...it's our SUPERPOWER!!! Thank you for sharing about that, as well. I came across a quote many years ago that said something like "WARNING! I am subject to bursts of enthusiasm!!!" No apology, no explanation, just "I gave you fair warning" I LOVE that❤❤❤
I always love your stories at the end. I realized I missed this the first time around but hearing you talk about applying for firefighter school and knowing now (months later) that you're kicking butt and definitely haven't quit is amazing to hear! You are so amazing!!! 🎉 I hope you know and feel that! ❤
Don't want to burst your bubble but please take your application out. Not that you can't do it, but that you are NOT committed to doing it. Please take it with the seriousness it deserves. It is about life or dead. And just think of the time and resources you are wasting in a team that is usually very limited in those. It is not fair for them to waste their resources if you are thinking of quitting already!! Why not volunteer for them. Help them organize their spaces, or courses. Make it a challenge to see how you can help them better utilize their resources, instead of wasting them. Thank you and best of luck !!
You can watch all my ORGANIZING MAKEOVER videos here: th-cam.com/video/utkhnuVCnEM/w-d-xo.html
This is the year to get 1M SUBSCRIBERS! Take care Cas. We love you.
Cas- This is different,
But how to organize a storage room that is not on your property? Like one that you rent and pay for at a facility?
Cas- please read Woman Code, sometimes as woman we are giving different meds but in reality we need to know ourselves as woman and how our menstrual cycle changes our moods/en every etc….. wish you the best ❤
O M G !!! I’m now a chef because of the exact same reason you’re going to be a firefighter 🤣 I even received the highest grades and had to give the commencement speech to 3,600 grads 🤣🤣🤣 I never wanted to work “in” the culinary industry to begin with 🤣
Making a “paper measurement” of drawers and cabinets IS BRILLIANT
Agreed! ❤
@@findingaway5512 I make these TEMPLATES when hanging pictures. Knowing where to position mounting hardware. Don’t know why you didn’t think of this before.
The paper sizer is the best organizig tip ever!
Totally!!!
Came here to say this!!🙌👏👏👏🙏
I would love a compilation of all the story times with Cas... She is so real with what she talks about and makes you feel like her Bff catching up over coffee.
I second the story time compilation, love it. It’s funny messy and real. 😂🥰
CAs, we need an audiobook of all of your ‘end of video’ stories!! I think it would be a best seller in no time. 😋💕
❤Coffee ☕️ 😋 ♥️ with Our Girlfriend Cass 😋 💕 Love ❤️ Ya 🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤😊🎉❤😊
Yes!
I can’t go to a car wash and not think ❤please don’t let anything happen!
Oh Cas, please never stop your end stories! I love you so much for them ❤ I came for the organizing content and stayed for ADHD insights and you being you in your end stories ❤
Same!!
Same! 😊
Yes! Cas, you are awesome! And YOU are the right kind of "crazy." I am on the journey of learning about, acknowledging, and accepting my own. Thanks sooo much for your content and for giving us your ADHD moment which was priceless. It's creators and communities like yours that help us neuro-divergents find acceptance and take hold of our Super Powers.😊❤ Subscribed
I was a Vol. Firefighter in a small community - 5ft tiny me- let's just say, I had my limitations. I lived across the street from the firehouse, I helped knocked 10 mins off of their arrival times by raising the garage bay doors and starting the trucks as the other volunteers were coming. Saving 10 mins is a huge deal!
My mom has been a volunteer firefighter for over 30 years and she is just a bit taller than you. She's so cute in her bunkers. :)
The realization that decluttering is NOT organizing and the container method was a game changer for me!
Cass, you are putting out enough fires by helping us declutter. This video is motivation for me.
I love medicated *and* unmedicated Cas! You're so funny and awesome and honest and... I am inspired!!
1. Have a plan
2. Declutter
3. Go for the biggest containers for the space
4. Organize/catagorize for the space
5. Labels
6. Apply to be a firefighter
Thanks for summarizing. I might add 2a. Declutter into 3 categories/ containers: a) KEEPING in this room, b) NOT KEEPING in this room and c) MEMORIES.
It's always this 3rd category that trips me up & I like how she addresses it. She says to have a separate big container labeled "Memories" so that you can toss sentimental type items into & not get derailed with the job at hand. Later on you can deal with these emotionally charged set-aside items (such as deceased loved-ones belongings, personal cards/ letters, children's artwork, etc).
PLEASE MAKE A VIDEO FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE "ALMOST" DONE! need some motivation to get that final push to feel like my house is how I have dreamed of it being for years!
I’m with you! Sometimes I almost wish I had a true “before” room, so I could experience the Big Transformation.
I can relate to that -- I am in the midst of weeding down my paperwork and books, putting up art, spackling various things, and decorating. I've done a lot, but there's more to do. "That final push" sounds like what I need.
The main part of my home is really quick and easy to pick up - even with 5 kids - because of the systems I've put in place. It is such a great feeling! My husband has even commented on it. So my motivation for other areas of my house is to get to that feeling where clean up is a breeze.
My fiancé and I have a running joke about the last 10%. We always struggle close to the finish line of a project.
I had big successes this weekend. My husband, who had been dragging his feet about decluttering our house, actually suggested this weekend that we declutter and tidy up 2 of the "problem areas" that had been stressing me. Then, he carried through. I gave him a clear container to put his sewing things into, so that they were no longer all over the living room. Then we found a place to store the supplies that he and I could live with. Next, we decluttered and organized our CDs. They had been a miss for months. I am not entirely happy with they are organized, because it will take me forever to find specific artists. Yet it is done. Finally, we did some decluttering and tidying in the pantry. We filled up a box to go to our charity of choice and did some re-organizing of a few of the pantry shelves. I am slowly working with him to fix the problem areas in our home. I am very happy with the progress we made.
Sounds like really good progress and productivity that weekend! What a great feeling!
I just got my masters degree. That's after I got my storytelling certificate. And I've applied for the PhD program. All of this at *mumble, mumble, mumble* years-old. No, I can't be a firefighter. But I can do a whole lot of other tthings. You go, Cas.
Age 62 and just finishing a coding course online! 🙂
@@hopeandprayers thx. I'm not able to do much with the knowledge and certificate though... most people only hire if you have experience and I don't have much to put into a portfolio to work for myself. I don't believe it was a waste of money though. I probably just need a few more courses that go with it or an advanced course or something to make it work. Not sure if I'm up for more, lol! 🙂
Oh, Cas. We love you in whatever form you appear. We also love all of your stories because it makes the rest of us appear to have other people just like us, doing similar "crazy" things. Thank you for everything ❣ (especially your organization expertise)
Cas, 1st...hilarious end story. You can do it! 2nd...I needed this video today. I'm going to start decluttering my craft space & your tips are going to be a huge help. Growing up, I made paper templates of all my bedroom furniture so I could change it on paper to see if things were going to fit before actually moving furniture. Now, I do it in an excel spreadsheet. Love the tip of measuring paper to take to the store. Brilliant! Thank you. 😊
Wait, tell us how to do it in excel! I used to do this too: drew all the pieces of furniture on graph paper and cut them out so I cd rearrange on my graph paper floor plan. But that’s kind of time consuming. Please tell us more how you do it in Excel!!! Thank you!!!
I treat an excel spreadsheet like grid paper & make squares. Then I measure each piece of furniture & asign 1 sq per foot of furniture. So, for a couch, I draw a rectangle & make it 6 or 7 squares by 3 or 4 squares (according to the size), etc. I do the same for the room & each piece of furniture in that room. I even color in the couch rectangle the color of our couch so that by looking at it I know what piece I'm looking at. Then I move around the "furniture" to the location & see if it fits. It's awesome. I save it on my computer for each time I want to rearrange the furniture. It definitely saves time & your back. 😊
@@kakylong2 Thank you for answering and sharing. I am very familiar with excel but I am trying to picture how you move the furniture around. Do you just cut and paste? If so, mustn’t you make sure to paste it into the exact number of squares? Bc I’m wondering if it will
Resize your floor plan? I admit, I haven’t used the program much lately. But having a dynamic version wd be so much easier!
I add a text box the size of squares needed for each piece of furniture, then fill the box with the name, color or both of the furniture I wish it was possible to add an actual pic of the furniture. (Now, you've got my brain thinking.) Then I move the text box wherever I want it in the "room". I hope this explains it better. 😊
@@kakylong2I do something quite similar in Word.
Just when I thought I'd learned all I could from you... This was so helpful! I love the paper in drawer to measure and take to the store part.
And that was the best end story😂❤! Keep us posted...
This was one of your most helpful videos yet! I love the paper measuring hack. I have a math background, and it still makes me crazy taking a tape measure to the store and trying to figure it all out. Thanks so much!
With the paper measurement: when I moved I did a drawing of the outline of my room/ apartment and did not draw the furniture into it, but cut them out, so I could move them around in the room to see how they would fit and where I like them the most. That was both times so incredibly helpful for me!
My dad (engineer/architect background) showed me how to draw floor plans and cut out furniture templates when I was a preteen. So helpful (and I'm 70 now!)
The fact that you were so honest about your "controlled crazy" got me to subscribe. This is real life for so many ppl. Appreciate your honesty and being real. Also, thanks for the tips, I've been decluttering for the past week. It's so therapeutic.
That's how I am when I do a home staging project - I'm just looking at the space.
I constantly draw plans on paper, I thought everyone did, LOL. Guess not! I love looking at floor plans and arranging furniture on them. Memory Bins REALLY helped me go through my four kids' stuff.
You are awesome sauce! I’m 43 and HATE when people say I’m too old for something! That’s BS!! Love your videos!❤️❤️❤️
Pretty sure you're too old to enlist. 😂 I'm older than you!
Hilarious ending!! You are the best! Same principle is how I wound up running a marathon after my mother-in-law said there was no way I could.
I have been taken off my ADD medication due to my age. It was wonderful to hear you describe what I am going through. I am trying to organize and you are such a beautiful role model. Keep up the good work.
Wanted to add a comment about your story about becoming a firefighter. I’m in healthcare and many people in my family also are, so I know a lot of people who are first responders/fire fighters/paramedics etc through work or family/family friends and so on. One of the core characteristics that makes for a successful firefighter type (in my opinion from what I’ve seen) is that they “enjoy” the rush of the adrenaline they get from the high intensity and pressure of the job. You seem to already have that experience or feeling of that along with helping people like on your ambulance crew (and seemed to want even bigger challenges.) That being said, I had a classmate who was a firefighter in high school (his dad was the chief firefighter) and he was a very sensitive, compassionate caring person. He gave a speech on his volunteer work as a senior helping his dad. He told us what he had witnessed on a scene at a car accident. He began weeping/breaking down as he tried to tell the story. I will never forget it, like it was like yesterday. My suggestion to you, is to watch or read as many “what’s the worse thing you’ve ever seen” videos or blogs fire fighter stories. Make sure you can handle that first, because you have to have a very strong (and even dark sense of humor or mentality) to consistently be able to see the things you will eventually encounter. That’s another characteristic of them-very different kind of morbid sense of humor. If you fit in with that, that’s another check mark in your favor. Hope that helps.
Hilarious, Cas! Love your open honesty - and of course you are adorable and so funny. But seriously, you give us the good stuff when it comes to organizing. I've got a couple of big storage closets that are going to get Clutterbugged in 2024!
Get Clutterbugged! 😅 Can I use that term? I love it!
Unmedicated Cas is still brilliant 🤗 Your tips have given me a completely new perspective of spaces I’ve been trying to organize. I have fresh motivation after watching! Thank you so much!
Dear Cas, I'm following you from Spain, you are my friend with whom I'm "BODY DOUBLING" to be able to face the overwhelm of moving from a big house to a small apartment! Thanks for your energy, genius, direction and most of all YOUR GREAT BIG HEART!!! You have found your purpose (for now), your IKIGAI
My 30 year old daughter is being tested for ADHD, I started her watching your videos on organizing to help her try and stay focused.
I hope they help!
I Love this. ❤. Go be a Firefighter have a party when you’re accepted then have a party when you quit 😂🤣😂🤣.
I love your idea of making the paper template! I am a visual person and even when I took measurements I often got it wrong, but this is brilliant and would so work well!
I build every new apartment in The Sims before moving in. It made it way easier to endlessly re-arrange things until I was happy, haha. I wonder if there's a design app specifically for this...
Epic tips/ideas, Cas! 😘 Making paper templates to take to the store is a new one to me. I’m eager to try it…when I get to that stage. I’m imagining what I’ll look like as I lay out the templates at the store, on the floor, and arrange containers on it. 😂 Can’t wait to see the reactions of fellow shoppers! I’m going to respond with “Cas made me do it”!
Love it... Super funny...
Cute t-shirt idea!
@@elizabethwright4784 Ahhhhh. I’ll have to get out my Scan N Cut and make this shirt! It will be pink, of course. Thanks for the great idea, Elizabeth! I should wear it on the next all-day declutter. 😂
That's great! 👕
Bet you’re not the first. If so, you’ll be the smartest
🤯 can’t I just move in with you? Then all the organizing would be done ! I love your stories but this one may be the BEST. YOU can be anything you want! But I love when you say “do I want to be a firefighter? NO!” Thank you for your organizing help and the humerous way you express yourself. It always brightens my day❤
This is so helpful! Thank you, Cas! I will be watching this video again! BTW, you crack me up 😂. I'm a retired RN and spent the majority of my career in ICU. The adrenalin rush definitely makes life more interesting. Having said that, I couldn't be a firefighter. I'm scared of heights and I'm not physically strong enough. The biggest reason is it does not interest me, but I'm so Thankful there are people who have that calling.
Go get ‘em, Cas! You’ve got this. They’d be lucky to have you. 🔥
(Also, the breakdown of these steps was really helpful. It’s helped me to see that I really can tackle my office/craft room and it won’t take weeks or months with your approach. Thank you!!)
About the paper templates: I would write on each which drawer or shelf the paper corresponds to AND the maximum height any container could be. The latter is really important, since there's no point in buying containers that are too tall for the space.
Spite is the BEST motivator.
"Oh, you said I can't do this? Just wait and watch me Do That Thing."
Cas!!! You are a GENIUS, friend!! You have reduced my anxiety by 1000%, I have saved this video to my all-time favorites! You have figured out so many brilliant solutions to questions I have always had in my mind and worry about..”is this the right way/best way to be doing this??” Everything you said makes perfect sense, thank you!! You truly are the organization Queen, and that’s a big deal! You are helping us make our homes into havens of rest and love and comfort and fun for our family and friends. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for all that you do! Lots of love, a Mama of 8 blessings :)
THANK YOU CAS! LOVE AND APPRECIATE YOU! LOVE TAKE YOUR HOUSE BACK TOO. ❤❤❤
I'm so glad!
I was wondering Cas, have you looked at how the different clutterbug types organise their handbags? I'd love to watch that. I'm a cricket, and i keep things in little zip pouches inside my bag, (hidden, micro?)my Mum is a bee and likes the handbag inserts where things are in small sections but visible at a glance (visual, micro?). Would a butterfly have it all in one big jumble to rummage through? I'd love to see what you thought. 😊
I am a butterfly but I don't have multiple hand bags. I think it depends on the person. Me personally I would throw everything into a cube storage tote if I had them or if they were really pretty I think I would want to hang them on hooks on the wall to swap out. Or set on a shelf.
I absolutely love you. I am so guilty of buying random containers in hopes they will fit where I want them. Then they don't fit and these random containers float around my house for 2 years, creating more clutter. I'm never buying another container without having measurements. Also, I love the fire and drive you have in your soul.
You have been a constant source of inspiration, and your guidance and mentorship have helped me grow personally and professionally. Thank you!
Cas, volunteer in a hospital, there is plenty of excitement going on around there. And you will see everything. BTW, I live in a rural area and at the age of 60+ I learned to put out my own fires. Ours is a volunteer fire dept. and it took 45 min. for our fire dept. to come out when my neighbor caught his pasture on fire. The wind was blowing it in my direction. I quickly retrieved a shovel and started to smother the grass fire as it was approaching my property line. I didn't even have the time to inform my husband to come help since he was in the house and of course was clueless about what I was doing. But as soon as I thought it was safe I ran back to the house and told him to bring a shovel out to the field. Finally the volunteers arrived and I was surprised to see that the way to put out a grass fire was with a leaf blower! I learned then and there if I were to have a fire, I was on my own.
I just love your energy Cas... Sometimes there's nothing wrong with being a little more "crazy" than normal... I loved watching you be "rambly" you are so funny and make organizing so fun... Love you to bits!!
You are a riot!!!! LOL!! Thanks for sharing yourself with us at the end of your amazing videos! This one was especially fun!!!
Listening to your story at the end, all I could think is Wow Cas, I just love you so much 😅. I know I don't really know you, but I relate to you in a lot of ways. I love watching your videos. They make me smile and give me hope/inspiration. Thank you for posting.
Don’t give up on the firefighter dream!
As a young female nurse, I also joined the local volunteer fire department / ambulance crew! I went to school to become an EMT and attended weekly meetings / training sessions.
There were 3 crew members on the ambulance. A lot of our gravy runs were to swoop and scoop patients from the local ski hill and transfer them to the hospital. They were already splinted and packaged up by the rescue squad.
I attended multiple fires and practiced driving the fire truck. Unfortunately, we were known for saving basements….but that was because we had a large territory to cover and had to carry our own water to the site. My job might be to help set up the portable water tank or direct traffic or drag empty hoses or relay a message to the fire chief, or ride with the tanker to get more water. The firehose required 2 men to control so that was beyond my capability. They guys watched out for me. Thankfully, fires were few and far between.
Those years were some of the most fulfilling of my career. I wish you the best! Don’t give up!
I’ve been using Canva to help me with layouts of my organizing. Create a custom size and I use cm in place of something like feet. Makes it a lot easier to see if it would fit rather than redrawing it out on paper.
Love it how the flowers in the back make a perfect crown to our clutter-ladybug-queen !
Super advice I will be using it when I move to a new place in March. I want to start the new space off right and be organised right from the start. Cas you are so funny, I am sure there is never a dull moment in your house LOL
Cas,
YOU NEED TO BE A STAND UP COMEDIAN...YOU ALWAYS HAVE ME LAUGHING SO SO HARD!!
YOUR GREAT!!
You know what I found? Doing 10 minutes on my rowing machine GIVES DOPAMINE. Focusing on the form, and just 10 minutes, it's not boring. Some days I can do that twice in one day! You can do it, being strong is the reward.
I love it! First of all, the great organizing tips and then, the end story! I'm 67 and now I want to be a firefighter!
I think professional organisers are much like an interior designer/decorator. I love your style Cass, you're wonderful!!!!
Firefighter!! You are killing me 😂! Good for you Cas. Follow your dreams ! 😁
Cas, you crack me up so much! I think I'm a lot like you because I want to do so many things too even when it doesn't make sense for the season of life I'm in. We are just excited about everything in life and there's nothing wrong with that. We just get a little derailed sometimes! 😆😁
❤My Goodness Cass ❤ Can't see you being a Firefighter but I could see you working in their office. Yesterday I was in hospital for two blood transfusions for being Anemic will be 68 next month so my Advise is do what you can that your body will allow you to do God Willing. Sending Prayers & Love ❤️ Your Way From Callie Girl ❤San Diego ❤️ California ❤️ 🇺🇸 ♥️
Cas, I don't care whether you're on your meds or not. I can gage into you as is. I follow you because you motivate me and that's what counts with me. By the way, thanks for being you. 😊❤
My granddaughter was drawing up floor plans at 6 yrs old, she's now 18 and that's still the first thing she does when she wants to rearrange a room. Guess she's got the organizations gene.
Cas! You absolutely crack me up. 😂 First if all, excellent video, one to be saved for future watching. I am decluttering my office and, although I know it won't be done in a weekend, I am giving myself this year to do it. And with that grace period, I have been working on it every day; breaking it down into Zones (floor, desk, paper zone, wall of shelves, cabinets, files), and each week focusing on 1 zone to declutter. 3 weeks into it, is working fantastic! I bought memory boxes (1 for each kid) and the plan is to reduce all the paper into those boxes. Each of those boxes will go into their rooms. And hopefully I will be left with empty shelves, only filled with things I love. ❤
But more importantly, I am so glad tou are eating more protein and doing yoga! You have that fantastic workout room, use it! 💪
Will you be able to go back on your ADHD meds? I am happy to hear you are eating more protein. I had gastric band surgery. I followed all the "rules" and lost 90 pounds. But... I got an ulcer and eventually had to have the band removed. I still use my knowledge from the diet with the gastric band... protein is THE most important food...
You can be whatever you want to be but HEALTHY is the most important thing to be!!
You are my inspiration... weight loss... decluttering... organizing. You and Minimal Mom are my favorites!!
I'm saving this video for future reference. Your tips are so practical, but I couldn't come up with them myself, and that's why I'm subscribed and watch from beginning to end! Thank you, and I wish you well in every part of your life.
Yes! 🎉
Oh Cass. You are something else! I would let you rescue me from a fire anytime!
That's a great use for wrapping paper to measure a drawer or shelf to pre-plan my organizing.
I’m 60…been doing this for over 45years…It has been used every time I’ve moved house and changed furniture…🥰
Thanks Cas for another very helpful video! And your extras, you go girl! We all need a little motivation. I don't see you as one with a "label". You were beautifully and wonderfully made to be who you are today. Meds are there to put people into boxes. People don't need to fit into boxes, our home things do. Embrace and love who you are, because your family does, and we out here all do as well❤
You’re the second TH-camr I follow in the past week that said they have a hole in their heart. I had mine repaired 11 years ago. I hear about people having holes in their heart more and more often.
Interesting.
Thank you for being real and opening up about your challenges! You are amazing and inspiring! ❤️❤️❤️
As a person with ADHD, I find your videos to be incredibly helpful and calming in a way. There is hope for those of us who struggle with clutter and organization. I love to be organized, but have difficulty understanding how to visualize it. This video is straightforward and gives realistic tips that I can use. Bonus: my undiagnosed ADHD mother fell into volunteer firefighting in a very similar way after acting as their videographer in the 90s. 30+ years later and she's preparing to retire from the department when they move closer to family this year.
I’m w u! Do it (then absolutely quit)😂 I am a Navy veteran and he’s a retired marine. Neither one of us like to be told not to do something or that we’re old.
Thank you for the insider professional tips!! 😊
Bless your heart..I have a family member with ADHD. I’m sorry you’re going thru this stressful time. 😔
This is my first time watching you, I don’t know if you’ll read this, I just want to say I love you ❤️ if you were in my hometown I’ll work for u for free !! I love organizing & I love real people like u ❤
Thank you for this video. You are so inspirational. You would make an awesome firefighter! I started cleaning out the shoes from my closet yesterday, and figured out something else to do, so I left my shoes all scattered around the floor in my bedroom and went to shopping instead! I have the hardest time focusing on the hard stuff.
I am in the process of decluttering & organizing my disaster of a home. I feel like we're literally 1 dead cat away from a hoarders episode 😹
I've been on an organizing craze & am FINALLY able to get my car in our 2 car garage. My husband asked about his car & I Henny Penny'd him 😁 My response was, "well maybe if you had actually helped me, we both could have fit our cars in there"
Now I'm onto my basement. I love your 5 step program & will definitely utilize those tips to help get it done hopefully even faster. Thanks & PS the firefighter ending was AWESOME & HILARIOUS!! I 1,000% get the mindset & motivation. The best way to get me to do something, is to tell me I can't do it 😂
Thank you for sharing these tips I have always bought the bins before the plan but now I know the secret 🎉😂 also pretty sure I’m undiagnosed ADD so the quickest way to get me to do something is to tell me I can’t. I can totally relate
Oh my gosh. Great organizing tips but the end story - always love your video endings - hilariously honest. You are magnificent!
Love. LOVE!!!
I wish you would do a new Clean Sweep show, you would be AWESOME. This was one of your most helpful videos, so succinct. I love how you are not afraid to show your real self. Don't burn yourself out with this firefighter training!
You are wonderful! I absolutely LOVE your stories after your videos. Thank you for sharing your talents and inspiring me!
I am SO GLAD I stayed until the end. You need a hug! I'm still smiling, lol.
Thanks Cas. Always looking for motivational videos this time of year. Happy new year to you by the way xx
Ditto- love the idea of measuring a space in closet/drawer on a piece of paper!!
And I love story time!!!
Cas, I love you SO much! “This my friends is unmediated Cas!” If you’re bored, I would SERIOUSLY have you come and makeover a space in my house. I do have an old farmhouse so you probably actually wouldn’t want the challenge BUT, if you’re bored…😂
For your story, I can't emphasize enough. I Love you Cass👩🏻🚒
Love your channel
Omg the ending. I’m shocked. Please keep us updated with how it’s going. Good luck!
I'm a ladybug, and labels on containers destroy the visual simplicity for me. Luckily I don't have a lot of stuff, so my brain memorizes what's in what container where, and I never label lol. Great tip about the paper to measure a drawer or shelf!
Same! I really wish I could handle the look of labels, even the pretty ones, but I hate them. Life would be much easier if I didn't have to memorize where everything is but, alas, such is our plight! (Not sure where the Shakespearean lingo suddenly came from there!) 😂
I'm a ladybug with ADHD and this is such a struggle for me. I need labels but I hate them ... But I crave them ... But I can't stand them. Goodness it's bad. 😂😅
Omg. I just adore you. Trying to get my daughter on board but she’s 23 so…pray for me 😂 LOVE this video. Thanks for breaking it down, Cas
Anytime!
I had to pause and back up the video to do a double take on one of the cookie cutter labels. Then you started talking about size matters and I was just rolling with how perfect the two things went together! Thanks for the laugh!! Glad the heart issue wasn't too bad, but hopefully you can get your ADHD meds straightened out with it and everything turns out okay!
Came here for this! I was sure I wasn’t the only one who saw that label 😂
I did the exact same thing 😂
FANTASTIC video! Thank you so very much!!! I'm in the middle of reorganizing my craft room and I found this just in time :-) As for ADHD...it's our SUPERPOWER!!! Thank you for sharing about that, as well. I came across a quote many years ago that said something like "WARNING! I am subject to bursts of enthusiasm!!!" No apology, no explanation, just "I gave you fair warning" I LOVE that❤❤❤
I always love your stories at the end. I realized I missed this the first time around but hearing you talk about applying for firefighter school and knowing now (months later) that you're kicking butt and definitely haven't quit is amazing to hear! You are so amazing!!! 🎉 I hope you know and feel that! ❤
I almost made a t-shirt on my heat press that said ISO DOPAMINE 😂
The end of this video! This is why we love you, Cas! 😂❤
:)
Don't want to burst your bubble but please take your application out. Not that you can't do it, but that you are NOT committed to doing it. Please take it with the seriousness it deserves. It is about life or dead. And just think of the time and resources you are wasting in a team that is usually very limited in those. It is not fair for them to waste their resources if you are thinking of quitting already!! Why not volunteer for them. Help them organize their spaces, or courses. Make it a challenge to see how you can help them better utilize their resources, instead of wasting them. Thank you and best of luck !!
You are the funniest person i know...firefighter! 😂😂😂😂 LOL, we love you Cass!
Cas-- My unmedicated ADHD sees your unmedicated ADHD and says, "YOU. ARE. AWESOME!"
That end cap had me rolling. Sooo relatable.
My mom was born with a hole in her heart, she needed surgery in her late 40s, shes 72 now going strong, but will be on eliquis for rest of her life
Lord!!! I really understand 😂. You tickled me when you said, " I don't really want to be a firefighter." ❤ Thanks for the measuring tip.
OMG I did not expect the story time at the end!!! hahahaha LOVE all your organizing & decluttering tips too wow
I can't even stop laughing! Your end stories make my day :) Firefighter?! Sounds amazing!
Love the idea to use a paper template for a space,then buy containers. Great ideas!
Glad you think so!
OH CASS, we just love you!!! Please never change