Speaking of piling up….I’ve literally been going through paperwork that I’ve been avoiding that dates back to 2002! (The last 2 days, just.decluttering papers) 😳 100% serious! Now I’ve gotten through almost every single paper item…almost. Now I’ve got to tackle the filing cabinet and declutter, reorganize it. Downsizing big time and learning I don’t have to be perfect AND I definitely don’t need to keep so much! Biggest takeaway….less really IS MORE!
I was happy to hear I do several of the activities you mentioned. I recently retired and have been working on purging and organizing with the extra time on my hands ✋.
Loved this list! Especially the part about being mindful about the types of organizing systems someone decides to do. I know this would be a big ask, but I was thinking how fun it would be if you hosted a contest/video idea of people sending in a picture or video of a space in their house and you could do a speedy consult giving tips or advice on how to organize it. It could be fun to see the different ways you could organize the same type of space (ie. Under the sinks, pantries etc), while even utilizing affiliate links for product suggestions. The entries could also have an “about the space” bio so you would know what their intentions and goals are for the area. Apologies for the long comment, but it’s just a thought that popped in my mind while I was watching 😅
I love that you are always full of REALISTIC advice for people! I hate having too much stuff 🥴 BUT my family doesn’t understand my love of a NEAT, TIDY, ORGANIZED, UNCLUTTERED home 😒🤦🏽♀️ lol 😂
This video gives me a +1 to Inspiration. Tonight I rolled a 10, so that brings me to.... Loading my dishwasher with the dishes I've been avoiding all week (and probably most of last week)! *~DO IT NOW~* (there are still dirty dishes in the sink that didn't fit in the dishwasher but it's better than nothing)
Good for you!! Don’t wait until you feel like it because that day is not going to happen. Steady progress will get you where you want to be. Good luck!!
I feel like my rolls are only ever nat 1 or nat 20 when it comes to cleaning motivation. I’m working on upping my modifiers so I can still do average work on a low roll.
Our daughter will donate unused items if she knows someone else could use and enjoy them. She needs a reason/call to action to donate: clothes at the beginning of the season, American girl dolls/accessories before Thanksgiving so they can make alot of girls Christmas’, trumpet at the end of middle school so another student gets to have an instrument instead of storing it forever, etc.
Definitely the routine declutter… I am always looking through our cabinets and closets to see what needs to go. It’s never a “one time & done” declutter. Nice video with lots of good content!
I’m a no lid kind of girl😉 I do like bins though because I love clean surfaces and hate clutter. I have very few trinkets sitting out only the ones I really love. It makes for super easy dusting!
Yes on all of these! Love the "take things on your way"...I find that thinking about what I can take back when I leave the room, really helps keeps things tidy. 😌
OMG! Yes!! Preach it!! I especially love your advice about buying “quality” items. I see all these videos about people organizing with dollar store bins…I’m thinking, “girl! Those aren’t going to last! Go to the Container Store and get some good ones that will look nicer!” Lol 😂
I totally agree. In the UK we have Poundland & some of the storage boxes are total rubbish. I’ve seen a couple that were actually split. That could hurt someone’s fingers. I’d much rather pay a bit more for better quality containers. I’m also the same way with clothes.
Yes! Always try to take things with me from room to room. Also yes, good point about using systems that work for you and not what looks pretty- reminds me of your science based approach for fridge organizing. And labels yes! The husband and boy roommates are actually putting things away correctly and more easily finding things. I don't have to be the mom/ stuff queen people call because they don't know where stuff is (well not as much)
Great tips. I’m one of those who likes to put my coats & jackets on hooks. There’s no way I can be bothered to put them on a coat hanger in a cupboard. I also don’t have the room in my house for one of those. I also prefer to store stuff without lids on. So much easier.
I just watched this for the first time this morning and, Kay, you broke the back of my problem. I'd dealt with lots of un-housed clothes yesterday, knowing I had too many tees even as I found places to neatly tuck them away in drawers and on shelves. My excuse: too hot to try them on, but they were sorted and stored by use in different places so could basically pass muster. You brought me back to those with this video today: I'm going to pull ALL of them out onto the bed (as soon as I make it)...basically confronting myself with the sheer number, and deciding. Perfect season to donate many of them without even trying them on...I'll just know. (Most of those tees didn't make it onto my body last year either.) This was another "never too late" situation, finding this year-old video at just the right time! So, many thanks, Kay. Love the channel, your inspiration, enthusiasm, candor and support.
Oh, thank goodness!! I'm normal. I have a habit of putting things away in drawers or boxes and if I don't label I can never find what I'm looking for. Out of sight, out of mind. The hubs says I "put it away too well" ALL the time.
I love your ten tips to keep your small place organized. I think I do one or two of them but working on incorporating all if them. I printed out the mindful shopping cheat sheet!💡Thank you for sharing.💚🙋🏾♀️
You’re my favorite organizer! Too cute and great ideas and I love seeing clover. I made adorable Maltese printer paper labels for my toddlers cube organizer to help my husband and mom find her stuff when I wasn’t here and my daughter ripped them all up! Made me so sad so that didn’t work for us. I do a quick timed 5 minute clean up and organization after I get both my kids to bed and I usual accomplish a lot more than I expected. Highly recommended this technique even if you don’t have kids.
All good tips! What I have to overcome right now is, “Well, maybe I would use it when things get back to normal.” (when I am no longer wfh my office job in my gym shorts since I don’t have a/c) “Maybe” ….well, that means I compromise…which means half of it goes.
Thank ..I luv the labeling idea …cuz I know where the items belong .. but hubby doesn’t .. and visa versa .. thank you .. please keep these tips coming.. 😊
I have a dishwasher but don’t use it 😳 lol. I have just always done them by hand. I’m Hispanic so maybe it’s a “culture” thing? 🤔 haha My husband’s mom (who is Caucasian) thinks it’s ridiculous that I choose to wash them by hand lol 🤣😂🤣
@@Iris-gy2mi lol! 🤣😂🤣 In our last home, we lived there for 15 years and I think I used it MAYBE 5 times…and that was only because one of my kids’ friends would open it looking for a dish (🤦🏽♀️😂🤣) and I realized it smelled FUNKY lol the seals dried out and from lack of use & it leaked-THEN i had the perfect excuse to NOT use it, much to my husband’s “shagrin” 🙄😂
Thanks Kay, that was a super useful refresher on some great habits. You mentioned at the start 'block scheduling' and I wasn't really sure what you meant by that. Could you do a vid explaining it in a bit more detail? Best wishes to you and the King of Side Eye! :-)
I love this list. And the last tip, I learned the hard way after we went down the Funko Pop rabbit hole. Now, if we buy something, it better serve a good purpose and have somewhere to go!
I'm so glad to hear you've been working out and stuff!! Also, I loved this video. I am working on mindful shopping. I'm going to be someone who uses all 10
I really need to start doing the “do it now”! I’m so lazy and procrastinate all the time. I never get anything done, ever. My depression and anxiety plays a huge part in that though. I have no insurance so I can’t get meds to help so I just watch your videos to help me!
Sending hugs to you, my friend. Do it now…it’s hard. I was the #1 best professional procrastinator. It’s a hard habit to get into but once you get it, you GET IT
Kay that was helpful, but I need you here!!! I've had to move my mother in and now need to condense my closet space considerably. It's literally killing me to get rid of so many pieces of clothing that I do wear. Yes, I have 50 pair of pants, but some are winter, summer, solid, print, crop, ankle, full length, wide leg, skinny, straight. HELP!!! I work in Corp. America 5 days a week even thru the pandemic. I like to look bright & beautiful to match my personality🥰 I'm totally serious - I just can't see how to do this. I've just gotten rid of (6)six black contractor bags full of clothing, pulling out things that did not spark joy and honestly, I can't even tell. I'm still left with a closet full and nowhere to put it. TFS!
How do i train my husband to stop piling his “kickit clothes” on a chair or ottoman in our bedroom? ! I have hooks in his closet and I shouldnt have to remove furniture or hang his clothes on the hooks! Ugh 😩!
You shouldn't have to remove the furniture, but you still should remove the furniture. Habits are hard do break and nagging isn't going to work. Remove the furniture to another part of your home until he breaks the habit, a few months later try bringing it back. I think of breaking habits - my own including - as training a puppy. You change the environment and then say No! when you see the wrong behavior. :)
Ummm Would have given this a like but the commercial in the middle killed it for me. In the beginning or at the end is good but in the middle really tacky
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@@7thCobweb I'm not talking about whether or no she makes money I'm talking about the placement of the ad it could have been at the beginning or at the end of the video and not smack in the middle of the video which pretty much made no sense and distracts from her content. Also might add that You Tube pays presenters for their content after the reach a certain number of clicks and subscribers so it's not like they are broke
@@carla919 it appears you are misinformed about how content creators earn revenue. Luckily, I made a video! 😆 At the end of the day I will continue to place as reads at the beginning, ending or within the video just like hundreds of other wonderful creators I choose to watch and support. You are welcome to skip these. And again, as a courtesy, I always disable mid roll google ads during sponsored videos to improve the viewing experience for you. We all have access to the skip button. Have a nice day. th-cam.com/video/228T1eD9lVo/w-d-xo.html
Speaking of piling up….I’ve literally been going through paperwork that I’ve been avoiding that dates back to 2002! (The last 2 days, just.decluttering papers) 😳 100% serious! Now I’ve gotten through almost every single paper item…almost. Now I’ve got to tackle the filing cabinet and declutter, reorganize it. Downsizing big time and learning I don’t have to be perfect AND I definitely don’t need to keep so much! Biggest takeaway….less really IS MORE!
Congratulations! That's so motivating to hear about! Thinking about my own papers now...
You are doing just great!!! Progress not perfection!!!!!!!!!
The things you care about, you take care of. So true. Never really STOPPED to understand this that way.
I love how you described "us". I often tell people I am "lazy", that's why my home is so tidy and clean. Do it now....so I can read. :)
I was happy to hear I do several of the activities you mentioned. I recently retired and have been working on purging and organizing with the extra time on my hands ✋.
So have I. I just retired and now working hard at purging and organizing at home 🏡! Enjoying it so much!!! 🏘🌸 God bless!!
Someone once said "I'm too poor to buy cheap clothes"
AMEN
Loved this list! Especially the part about being mindful about the types of organizing systems someone decides to do.
I know this would be a big ask, but I was thinking how fun it would be if you hosted a contest/video idea of people sending in a picture or video of a space in their house and you could do a speedy consult giving tips or advice on how to organize it. It could be fun to see the different ways you could organize the same type of space (ie. Under the sinks, pantries etc), while even utilizing affiliate links for product suggestions. The entries could also have an “about the space” bio so you would know what their intentions and goals are for the area.
Apologies for the long comment, but it’s just a thought that popped in my mind while I was watching 😅
I think that thought sounds amazing! I hope she decides to do it. 😀
I love that you are always full of REALISTIC advice for people! I hate having too much stuff 🥴 BUT my family doesn’t understand my love of a NEAT, TIDY, ORGANIZED, UNCLUTTERED home 😒🤦🏽♀️ lol 😂
This video gives me a +1 to Inspiration.
Tonight I rolled a 10, so that brings me to....
Loading my dishwasher with the dishes I've been avoiding all week (and probably most of last week)!
*~DO IT NOW~*
(there are still dirty dishes in the sink that didn't fit in the dishwasher but it's better than nothing)
Good for you!!
Don’t wait until you feel like it because that day is not going to happen.
Steady progress will get you where you want to be.
Good luck!!
I feel like my rolls are only ever nat 1 or nat 20 when it comes to cleaning motivation. I’m working on upping my modifiers so I can still do average work on a low roll.
Our daughter will donate unused items if she knows someone else could use and enjoy them.
She needs a reason/call to action to donate:
clothes at the beginning of the season, American girl dolls/accessories before Thanksgiving so they can make alot of girls Christmas’, trumpet at the end of middle school so another student gets to have an instrument instead of storing it forever, etc.
Definitely the routine declutter… I am always looking through our cabinets and closets to see what needs to go. It’s never a “one time & done” declutter. Nice video with lots of good content!
I'm with you on the boxes. If something is in a box it may as well be in outer space, lol
Totally agree with everything you talked about…even the fact that Clover just wants to nap! 😂
He was so mad I was keeping him from his beauty sleep. Being Clover is so challenging 😭
Great tips as always....and please give Clover his "appearance fee". He is such a sweetie (even with that cute side eye!!👀)....
I’m a no lid kind of girl😉
I do like bins though because I love clean surfaces and hate clutter. I have very few trinkets sitting out only the ones I really love. It makes for super easy dusting!
This is a great video, all spot on. The picture labeling is also an idea for my elderly parent who is dealing with Alzheimer's.
I'm definitely an "out of sight out of mind" person. If I can't see it, I forget I own it (and that includes items in containers with lids).
Yes on all of these! Love the "take things on your way"...I find that thinking about what I can take back when I leave the room, really helps keeps things tidy. 😌
Mainer here. Can confirm winter never ends. Wearing my ll bean pullover today. In July 😅
OMG! Yes!! Preach it!! I especially love your advice about buying “quality” items. I see all these videos about people organizing with dollar store bins…I’m thinking, “girl! Those aren’t going to last! Go to the Container Store and get some good ones that will look nicer!” Lol 😂
I totally agree. In the UK we have Poundland & some of the storage boxes are total rubbish. I’ve seen a couple that were actually split. That could hurt someone’s fingers.
I’d much rather pay a bit more for better quality containers.
I’m also the same way with clothes.
Yes! Always try to take things with me from room to room. Also yes, good point about using systems that work for you and not what looks pretty- reminds me of your science based approach for fridge organizing. And labels yes! The husband and boy roommates are actually putting things away correctly and more easily finding things. I don't have to be the mom/ stuff queen people call because they don't know where stuff is (well not as much)
Always LOVE your content! You have such sweet delivery
Great tips.
I’m one of those who likes to put my coats & jackets on hooks. There’s no way I can be bothered to put them on a coat hanger in a cupboard. I also don’t have the room in my house for one of those.
I also prefer to store stuff without lids on. So much easier.
I just watched this for the first time this morning and, Kay, you broke the back of my problem. I'd dealt with lots of un-housed clothes yesterday, knowing I had too many tees even as I found places to neatly tuck them away in drawers and on shelves. My excuse: too hot to try them on, but they were sorted and stored by use in different places so could basically pass muster. You brought me back to those with this video today: I'm going to pull ALL of them out onto the bed (as soon as I make it)...basically confronting myself with the sheer number, and deciding. Perfect season to donate many of them without even trying them on...I'll just know. (Most of those tees didn't make it onto my body last year either.) This was another "never too late" situation, finding this year-old video at just the right time! So, many thanks, Kay. Love the channel, your inspiration, enthusiasm, candor and support.
Amazing! I’m so happy to hear this! Good work, my friend ❤️🙏🏽
@@TheOrganizedSoprano Ditto. 😉
Egads, more in the closet! End of.
Oh, thank goodness!! I'm normal. I have a habit of putting things away in drawers or boxes and if I don't label I can never find what I'm looking for. Out of sight, out of mind. The hubs says I "put it away too well" ALL the time.
We call that “out of sight, out of mind” thing putting it in a safe place! 😂
I love your ten tips to keep your small place organized. I think I do one or two of them but working on incorporating all if them. I printed out the mindful shopping cheat sheet!💡Thank you for sharing.💚🙋🏾♀️
You’re my favorite organizer! Too cute and great ideas and I love seeing clover. I made adorable Maltese printer paper labels for my toddlers cube organizer to help my husband and mom find her stuff when I wasn’t here and my daughter ripped them all up! Made me so sad so that didn’t work for us. I do a quick timed 5 minute clean up and organization after I get both my kids to bed and I usual accomplish a lot more than I expected. Highly recommended this technique even if you don’t have kids.
OH Kay Yes I'm there with you!!! Quality over Quantity!!! Aaaahhh my Dosage of Clover!!!
Do it now mentality = Bless Your Future Self
All good tips! What I have to overcome right now is, “Well, maybe I would use it when things get back to normal.” (when I am no longer wfh my office job in my gym shorts since I don’t have a/c) “Maybe” ….well, that means I compromise…which means half of it goes.
Omg the way that pup looks up at you???? Pure adoration, I can't handle this :'(
Great points!!! Thank you Kay! Loved the video
I love a routine declutter, but it’s not quite as satisfying as the first time I decluttered and ended up with a ton of stuff to get rid of at once.
Hi Kay, thanks for the tips! I'm happy to say I use many of them thanks to you. I definitely need to work on the do it now mentality. 😅
I like the taking advantage of the moment idea; perfect way to complete small tasks 🙂
This touched on all my weaknesses that I had to watch it in two viewings
Oh dear 😒
OMG I just love Clover. I had asked before what kind of dog he is and cannot remember. OMG I want one.
Thank ..I luv the labeling idea …cuz I know where the items belong .. but hubby doesn’t .. and visa versa .. thank you .. please keep these tips coming.. 😊
There will always be more dishes. Let me make my disappointment clear here. I do not have a dish washer (beyond my own two hands).
It’s true and I HATE IT 😭😭😭😭😭
I have a dishwasher but don’t use it 😳 lol. I have just always done them by hand. I’m Hispanic so maybe it’s a “culture” thing? 🤔 haha My husband’s mom (who is Caucasian) thinks it’s ridiculous that I choose to wash them by hand lol 🤣😂🤣
@@dogmom371 my mom was the same about not using the dishwasher (Hispanic also). I broke the cycle and run my dishwasher at least every 2 days. 😂
@@Iris-gy2mi lol! 🤣😂🤣 In our last home, we lived there for 15 years and I think I used it MAYBE 5 times…and that was only because one of my kids’ friends would open it looking for a dish (🤦🏽♀️😂🤣) and I realized it smelled FUNKY lol the seals dried out and from lack of use & it leaked-THEN i had the perfect excuse to NOT use it, much to my husband’s “shagrin” 🙄😂
Can’t relate. I use every opportunity to make my dishwasher do the work 😂😆🤣
Thanks Kay, that was a super useful refresher on some great habits. You mentioned at the start 'block scheduling' and I wasn't really sure what you meant by that. Could you do a vid explaining it in a bit more detail? Best wishes to you and the King of Side Eye! :-)
More than happy to! It’s basically changed my life lol
@@TheOrganizedSoprano Aw fab! Thanks, look forward to it! Have a great weekend x
I love this list. And the last tip, I learned the hard way after we went down the Funko Pop rabbit hole. Now, if we buy something, it better serve a good purpose and have somewhere to go!
Should I not google this? 🤣
I'm so glad to hear you've been working out and stuff!! Also, I loved this video. I am working on mindful shopping. I'm going to be someone who uses all 10
Thank you so much for the tips! Love your channel’s Kay! You are such an inspiration and you help my anxiety so much! Love you!
I really need to start doing the “do it now”! I’m so lazy and procrastinate all the time. I never get anything done, ever. My depression and anxiety plays a huge part in that though. I have no insurance so I can’t get meds to help so I just watch your videos to help me!
Sending hugs to you, my friend. Do it now…it’s hard. I was the #1 best professional procrastinator. It’s a hard habit to get into but once you get it, you GET IT
One of my favorite videos of yours. Thanks so much😉
I’m so glad you enjoyed it! I enjoyed writing this one as it made me think a lot about my own habits too!
These are excellent tips. Thanks!
So happy to see Clover! Missed him!
Love your channel. Adore Clover ❤
I don't know why I have close to 80 tea towels!
very good
KISS - I love Keep It Simple, Stupid!
Labels! Labels! Labels!!!! Yeeessss!!! 🥰💕🥰💕😂
Kay that was helpful, but I need you here!!! I've had to move my mother in and now need to condense my closet space considerably. It's literally killing me to get rid of so many pieces of clothing that I do wear. Yes, I have 50 pair of pants, but some are winter, summer, solid, print, crop, ankle, full length, wide leg, skinny, straight. HELP!!! I work in Corp. America 5 days a week even thru the pandemic. I like to look bright & beautiful to match my personality🥰 I'm totally serious - I just can't see how to do this. I've just gotten rid of (6)six black contractor bags full of clothing, pulling out things that did not spark joy and honestly, I can't even tell. I'm still left with a closet full and nowhere to put it. TFS!
Keep doing it! Keep going! Don’t give up! In days you will see the diference!
Hi kayyyyy
How do i train my husband to stop piling his “kickit clothes” on a chair or ottoman in our bedroom? ! I have hooks in his closet and I shouldnt have to remove furniture or hang his clothes on the hooks! Ugh 😩!
You shouldn't have to remove the furniture, but you still should remove the furniture. Habits are hard do break and nagging isn't going to work. Remove the furniture to another part of your home until he breaks the habit, a few months later try bringing it back. I think of breaking habits - my own including - as training a puppy. You change the environment and then say No! when you see the wrong behavior. :)
Nagging kindly works someone published a study about 10 years ago
Like your videos
Dredding......is the first thing that needs to be moved out of the way for me😂😂😂😂 then everything else would be a breeze!!!!
How old is Clover now? He an old man yet?
He will be five this year!
💜
Ummm Would have given this a like but the commercial in the middle killed it for me. In the beginning or at the end is good but in the middle really tacky
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I’m grateful for the quality content. For free! 👍
the woman gotta make some money while she gives us tips for free. let her be
@@7thCobweb I'm not talking about whether or no she makes money I'm talking about the placement of the ad it could have been at the beginning or at the end of the video and not smack in the middle of the video which pretty much made no sense and distracts from her content. Also might add that You Tube pays presenters for their content after the reach a certain number of clicks and subscribers so it's not like they are broke
@@carla919 it appears you are misinformed about how content creators earn revenue. Luckily, I made a video! 😆 At the end of the day I will continue to place as reads at the beginning, ending or within the video just like hundreds of other wonderful creators I choose to watch and support. You are welcome to skip these. And again, as a courtesy, I always disable mid roll google ads during sponsored videos to improve the viewing experience for you. We all have access to the skip button. Have a nice day. th-cam.com/video/228T1eD9lVo/w-d-xo.html