Extreme Decluttering and Organizing
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Hey Guys!
I hope that you enjoy this extreme declutter and organization! I finally decluttered my desk and as you can see it was desperately needing it! But at least now it’s done and there were some reallyyyy satisfying before and after clips!
Is there an area in your house that is desperately needing a good declutter?
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I'm new to your channel and I love it so much ❤
Girl, my desk is the same!! Every time I clean it, I tell myself never again but it never fails..it always get out of hand! 😣😣😣
Some tips:
- sort your mail into junk and not-junk before you step foot in the house and throw the junk directly in the recycling before doing anything else
- have a designated bin for papers that gets sorted on a monthly-ish basis
- put a moratorium on buying pens and highlighters until you've actually worked through the ones you have
- considering the size of your desk area, making sure that you only put stuff relevant to the work you do at that desk is critical. You don't have the space to keep general family stuff there, so perhaps make a conscious effort to put that on a counter that gets cleared more regularly.
I wish I was disciplined enough 😂
This makes me wish I still had clutter to declutter!!!
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Girl, we want to be where you’re at!!😂 I’m sure you can find stuff to reorganize.
Yes! There is always a bit of on going decluttering, but never as satisfying as the first big sort out! I’ve been going round friends houses to help them with theirs.... they think I’m mad, but I LOVE a good decluttering and organise... so satisfying!
@@Kate.West. yes... It's Sooo much satisfying... But I don't huv clutter.. N these lockdown is horrible
@@Kate.West. i want to be your friend
I did my desk today...Found receipts from 2010 from grocery trips! I really need to clean more often! Loving the declutter videos.
That happens to me sometimes too 😂
Somehow I find this sooo funny 😂
- yes: 2010 is a pretty long time ago.
Good luck making change.
Marie Kondo helped me a lot in my minimalist journey.
Best wishes from Camilla in Denmark ❤
I made a box of brownie from 2010 over the summer😂my mom then went and bought 2 new boxes 🤦🏻♂️
When I get the mail, I stand by the recycle bin and toss junk mail right away. I've also switched most of my statements to electronic, even utilities. It's just easier and I set up all my bill payments for the month on the 1st of every month so I don't miss any. My paper messes are school related between college, distance learning, and I teach as well. It ends up in the kitchen table since I don't have an office...that is my problem area. Great videos, glad I found you through Love Meg!
I wish I was disciplined enough to throw them in recycling as soon as I get them out of the mailbox lol
@@lovinglifeasmegan me too!
This goes along with the "touch it once" idea. I have also unsubscribed via snail mail and email to reduce the amount coming in. Today I checked my mailbox and had nothing. :)
Jenny B, you sound organized already. One tip I can share with you is to place a nice box on your kitchen table to hold papers you place there. Then spend 10 mins a week to sort through it or as you say, pay your bills once a month then toss. Hope that helps. I learnt that from Mrie Kondo, where she says, its best to place boxes where you seem to place items instead of forcing yourself to use a different place for it, for you might not use that new place and will still resort to the kitchen table anyways.
I am currently pregnant and I'm in my nesting stage! I have one room with sooo many papers in our home. I thought I was the only one so this is definitely motivational for me! Lets DECLUTTER!
🤔 an area in my house that needs a good declutter..... my whole house 😂😂 I am slowly working through. I'm currently working on my son's bedroom, but I'm redecorating as well as decluttering and organising. I have to pace myself though so it's taking a bit longer than I'd hoped but I'm making progress 😊 I need to do a second coat of paint on all the wood work and then paint the walls. I'm then going to run our carpet cleaner over his floor before we assemble his new bed and furniture. I can't wait for it to be finished, he is so excited. He's waited so patiently while we saved up to buy his furniture and he's being so good about the time it's taking for me to decorate 💖 thank you for the motivation 😘
💜💜💜 that is so sweet! I am hoping to do my girl’s rooms soon as well!
I thought the same thing too. My whole home needs decluttering and organizing. It is so hard for me to decide where to put stuff at after I declutter. Sometimes I have trouble getting rid of stuff. It does stress me out to see all this clutter and mess at times.
Sweet girl! I adore you and you are so inspiring and motivating to this 52 yr old woman. You are the first you tuber I have subscribed too. Every time you post a new video, I go to the Amazon storefront to see if you have added new items. I shop on Amazon several days a week and would prefer to buy things from your site so you can make some $$ off of it. Is there a limit to the items you can share? I hope you will add more. Thank you for everything. You are such bright light in the world.
💜💜💜 you are so sweet!!! I will do my best to update my storefront and add some more items for you this weekend 💜
For organizing the kids' paper arts and important documents, I have placed each paper into clear plastic three-hole-punched sleeves and organized them into a big binder. This way, you can easily flip through each page and save them in a compact manner. I used to just put all of them into a separate box or like the file organizing accordion-style folder but it just doesn't work after a certain point. Hope this tip also helps you and thank you for sharing a satisfying video! Love the contrast of before and after!
Coffee mugs are SO hard to declutter!!! Great job! 💕
I agree! Definitely a huge weakness of mine!
Tip for the expandable file envelope you have. Try taking the items you had in the mailed envelopes out and unfolding them the tri-folded paper is much thicker and makes it more difficult to store. Also many have a clover sheet that isn’t necessary to keep and can be eliminated. ⭐️ Nice job on the desk💚
Thanks!
A few tips that work for us is we made all our bills paperless. I have a small accordion folder for anything I get in the mail that’s important or something I need to print. Junk mail goes straight to the recycling bin or shredder. We know if we set it down we will let it pile up, so when we check the mail we immediately get rid of it. Any coupons (pizza or whatnot) I clip and put on the side of our fridge (magnet clip). We only keep coupons from places that we know we’ll eat from and that will get regular use. This works for us, but has been really helpful with keeping the clutter down.
That sounds like a great system!
Great motivation!! Yes I have a space in my loft that is overcrowded by scrapbook supplies, Christmas decorations, books from my sons childhood and things I can’t let go of. With my depression it is very hard to get motivated and let go of anything. You are by far my favorite channel to watch on you tube!!!! You have the most calm voice and I just enjoy all your tips!!!!!! You do a fantastic job!! 😊😊😊😊😊😊
Thank you!
I can 100% relate to depression causing a lack of motivation. 💔 hang in there my friend, you are not alone
I went through a box of memory stuff last weekend and found $40 in a Valentines card 🤣
Yay! I love finding money when I declutter 🤗
@@lovinglifeasmegan Is it sad to admit that I hide money in places so when I declutter "HEY look £20" 😂🤭
If you like holding onto takeout menus from your favorite takeout spots put each one in one of those page protector sleeve things and put them in a 3 ring binder...total game changer!!!!
We don’t often order take out so I just throw the menus away lol
Hey, I have been putting off cleaning off my desk as well and this video just gave me the push to get it done!😃😀😂 thanks!
Yay! So glad I could give you that extra motivation!
I don’t know what it is about decluttering videos, but they are my absolute favorite to watch!
I just bought a paper shredder, so I have no excuse to not shred and recycle sensitive paperwork! This way it does not need to be kept until it becomes an overwhelmingly large task to tackle, that I end up avoiding for way too long. Lesson learned, lol!
My kitchen counter is the landing spot for EVERYthing! Last weekend I grabbed a bag and put everything in it and moved that bag to our spare room. Well, my counter is still pretty empty. That's working for now. The spare room is the one that needs help now. I did get the Dyson animal vacuum and love it. I also ordered the Jaws cleaning system.
Lol if we had a spare bedroom it would probably be the same way!
You’re going to love them! I love my vacuum and my JAWS Cleaners!
I de-cluttered my son's play room last night and changed things up with pretty baskets and it looks great. It feels good to see it less cluttered. I also sorted my junk drawer and my linen closet.
It definitely is so satisfying to be rid of the clutter!
I open all my mail outside my house and whatever isn’t important goes into the recycling bin. It’s not allowed in! Haha
A lot of people have been saying that lol
One tip I have is I use a small file cabinet for my important paperwork and I have a shredder for other things that have personal information
I’m just not sure where I would keep a filing cabinet 😩
Loving Life as Megan we keep ours in our office closet so it’s out of the way. It has small drawer on top and 2 big drawers for hanging files.
I’ve been decluttering lately and the only thing I can think of as for advice is if you have to second guess a certain item, chances are you won’t need it so toss it into recycling, trash or donation. I’ve especially found this helpful with my clothes. I had WAY TOO many clothes that it started adding extra unnecessary weight in my closet and the poles my hangers hang on actually started drooping a bit. Not good, so I donated it so it can find a new home 😊
That’s a great way to declutter!
I love to clean & organise I ALWAYS find something to do I can’t leave things alone 😂
Same here!
everytime I watch your video, after I finished them, I run and start decluttering and organizing staff in my house! thank you so much, you are such an inspiration!❤
I am someone that can't deal with unattended mess and tasks that could be done instantly as they came by. One of my biggest tips for mail is to deal with it as soon as you get it into the house, also changing your bills to electronic billing is so helpfull.
In our house i set up a folder for all of our paper goods like bills, manuals (if needed), important receipts... This way we have all of them in one area and if we need to check if there are things that are only cluttering up space then it's a lot easier and kicker 😊
I’m glad that works for you!
Amazing transformation!!!!!!! I shudder to think of the number of times I've "decluttered" and "organized" our office space. But I've finally had enough!!! I have one small bin where I put hard copies of photos. My goal is to scan everything I want to keep, maybe keep a few key photos and toss/recycle the rest. I also only have one bin of office supplies left that I need to go through one last time. I RARELY get into it, but still have a hard time getting rid of perfectly good pens, markers, rulers, etc. By the end of the summer, both bins will hopefully be gone!!!!! I have digitally scanned nearly all of our paper documents (in cases where we don't need to have a hard copy), and everything that is left fits into our small fire safe. I even went as far as getting rid of our desk. I have one shelf in our den that holds our office supplies and photos. I never actually sit AT the desk, it was just another horizontal surface collecting junk. And now the corner where it sat is blissfully empty. I love me some empty real estate! LOL!!! I, though, do not have children, so artwork isn't an issue I have to tackle. I do have a friend that takes photos of artwork from her children, puts the photos on a small flash drive, and connects it to a digital photograph frame. It sits on a prominent shelf in her house and cycles through all of their artwork. I loved that idea!!!!
That is a great idea! Do you know what brand of photo frame it is?
I am also going to be getting rid of our desk lol
@@lovinglifeasmegan I don't know the brand....it was one that had good reviews on Amazon, but that's about all I know. :-)
Love your videos. I do hope you have your kids help clean up. They a very abled to do that. Life lessons, responsibilities and also to be a team player. You might have them help already but in this video you were doing it ALL yourself. Keep up the great video and congrats on rocking it
The way that I choose to parent & raise my children is 100% up to me and my husband, and is no one else’s concern. 😊
Loving Life as Megan totally. Didn’t mean it in any negative way what so ever. It was just a thought when watching the video. I’ve on begun to follow. Enjoying it lots and your motivation even inspires me at my age to keep it going. Thanks and can’t wait to see what the future holds for you and your family.
I seriously love every single video you post! Thank you so much for always motivating me!!💗
Thank you for being so supportive!
Oh girl. Thank you so much for this. All of my living spaces are like this atm. I am grieving the loss of my father and our house shows it. Thank you for inspiring me to pick a spot and start! New subby. ❤️
💜💜 I am so sorry for your loss
Best tip for mail clutter....deal with it in 10 seconds when it comes in your home. Take a few seconds and put bills and important mail in a basket on your desk. When you pay bills purge that basket clean each time you pay bills. Has worked well for me for over 15 years.
I always have a tray which is used to put papers that I might need for a short period of time or come back to which gets reviewed every weekend and cleared. Once the job is done it doesnt go back to any folder or tray every and goes straight to garbage.. it's so much easier to manage
I wish I had enough discipline to implement that kind of system 🤗
Great job! I handle mail as it comes in. The junk mail goes straight to the shredder next to my desk. The keep mail goes into my file cabinet. Paper has always been my nemesis!
If I didn’t throw any mail away for a month, the junk mail would fill our entire house lol
My closet desperately needs to be organized. It’s not realistic for me to do it all at once but your video has motivated me to start chipping at it. Might even record it. So many great tips to keep in mind. Thanks for sharing girly! Love your channel! 💕
Yay! Definitely start chipping away!
every time i come out of a depressive episode (like once every two months) i get a burst of motivation and clean/organise/declutter everything i can lmao
That happens to me too! So sorry you suffer with the depression though
I just went through my 4 drawer filing cabinet and ended up with 8 bags of shredded paper and one of recyclable paper and one drawer empty! Now I want to get it down to 2! I love your videos.
Wow 😳
I have a whole room to declutter in my grandma's house. I grew up here so there's a lot of my stuff of 31 years, her stuff that is sentimental but not practical... I'm expecting a baby in December and am just so overwhelmed... came here for some inspiration ✨
Hopefully you got some motivation from this video!
Omg you get me motivated girl keep doing what your doing you make me organised and i LOVE it!
I'm so glad I can share that organizing motivation with you!
I’m hyper organized and my rule is that something has to be handled once and its fate decided - trash, file or delegate. I also have a one in one out rule and don’t buy unless something needs replacing. Things are put away immediately - laundry, dishes, mail, shopping bags, EVERYTHING. And when something doesn’t fit where it should go then it’s time to start purging. I purge multiple times a year. Once you see how much you’re throwing away you’ll think about where to spend your money on next time you click the “place order” button. I have zero clutter in my house. I’m sure there’s more but hope that helps.
I declutter often as well 🤗
When cleaning the interior of a cupboard it’s best to start from the top & work your way down, that way it avoids dust & dirt falling onto the shelves that have already been cleaned.
It’s really not that big of a deal
@@lovinglifeasmegan it was just a friendly tip
Fantastic! I wonder if you mount a corner shelf above your desk (up a bit higher) that could fit the printer on it?
I don’t even have the desk anymore lol. My living room looking completely different now
For your desk organization - I have a desktop shelf from the stationary section at Marshalls. It's three boxes in front for pens/stapler. The two verticle boxes behind I use for two catagories...."needs action" and "to be filed" that way I don't just have a messy pile waiting to be completed or filed! Then I just file stuff once a month or so.
As for mail - when it comes in....here's where your two catagories of "needs action" and "to file" comes in. Put junk mail in recycling and the rest will go in one of those boxes!
I am going to be getting rid of the desk, so desktop filing might not work for us. But that sounds like a great system!
I am not sure why I haven't seen your channel before. I was so distracted by your tattoos.... in a good way. I was trying to see what all of them were. Great declutter, thank you for the inspiration. New sub
Thanks so much for subscribing! 💜💜
Thanks so much for posting this 😊 I'm in the process of decluttering my mother's house and it's a whole lot of stuff, stuff, more stuff and unhealthy amounts of cobwebs and dust 😭😭 thank you for the motivation. I wish more people posted about dusty/super messy declutters!
Lol I totally know how that can be! I’m so glad I could help you out here! I have an entire decluttering playlist if you are needing some more company while you declutter 💜
@@lovinglifeasmegan will do, thank you! 🥰
am i the only one you reallllyyyyy likes her voice. it’s soothing
Lol I get a lot of comments like that
Wow, your very focused & organized in your process. Proud of you. Enjoying your vid.
I try to be 💜 I feel like if I’m distracted when I declutter then I don’t actually get rid of anything
Loved the desk declutter you did, I have done that many times myself but as I'm getting older and we have an empty nest, I declutter my desk every week, don't worry you'll get there 👍
Decluttering every week sounds like a dream!
I go though my mail right away get bills and stuff in the filing cabinet right away. My whole house is uncluttered because I started working with a cleaning company. We go to houses that are very cluttered and hard to clean. So I finally got myself together! I also make sure I use everything I have. If I haven't used it in 3 months I get rid of it!
I wish I had the discipline to go through my mail right away 😅
you did such a great job! I came to youtube searching for motivation and I definitely found it.
Yay! I’m glad I could motivate you!
I love this video, very nice clear voice, very easy to understand. Excellent job editing.
Thank you!
The guided journal "Throw It Away" by Guru Notebooks is great for this. It's on amazon.
You can stop commenting this on all of my decluttering videos.
Would the printer fit underneath the desk below the drawer? That way you could use the whole desk space when working on it. My number one rule for my desktop is keeping it free of everything except a lamp, a can with pens and box for post-its etc. And in general I think it is always helpful to have boxes and drawers with categories (even smaller boxes or something of the sort within bigger drawers or shelves).
We don’t have it anymore, or the desk lol. This video is veryyyyy old, the house has changed so much since I filmed this 😊
One of my tips, is that you should have a place for everything. That way when you do grab something from somewhere you know exactly where it needs to go back and things dont collect overtime!!
That's a great tip! If only I could make myself stick to it!
I have an inbox/to-do tray on a shelf above my desk. Whenever I get mail I open it and toss the envelope and anything inside that isn't important, then put the important stuff in the tray. E.g. Sometimes your bank/insurance sends you a statement/form but it comes with a bunch of other unimportant documents. This keeps my to-do smaller and more manageable!
That sounds like a great system!
Hey dear good to see a grt video on decluttering.... it is quite time consuming specially when decluttering piles of papers ...good job👍
Yes very time consuming but totally worth it!
You did awesome! Motivating me to get some cleaning done today! 💪🏼
Yay! So glad that I could share this motivation!
Thanks for the motivation! I truly needed this today! House hunting and all and I definitely need to declutter! 🙂
Yes definitely always declutter before you move!
I'm about to learn about the "Sunday Basket" from some of the other TH-camrs. I never heard of it before I watched (and subscribed to) 'The Minimal Mom' (Dawn) and she also talks about a "Time Will Tell Basket". The Sunday Basket is for mail, bills, things to do and go through every Sunday. (I'm going to learn about how to set this up.) The "Time Will Tell Basket" is a catch-all for things that don't really have a specific place, for example: paint samples, an estimate for a bathroom remodel, etc.
That's such a good idea! I'll have to figure out a place for a Sunday Basket!
When you come in with your mail have a system with a paper shredder, a recycle bin, an inbox and an accordion file holder. Do It On A Dime and Vassuer Beauty both have great videos on their organization systems
I’ve seen a ton of videos about how to get organized, but the problem is that it becomes so overwhelming that I don’t keep up with it
Grey cupboards 💙My fave color
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Yes our desk looks the same , you are right about the mail my dining room table gets the brunt of the mail great job, thanks 🐝❤️
For junk mail, try the paperkarma app. Truthfully, it's like magic. You snap a pic of the piece of mail and they do the rest. I've used it for about a year now and I'd have to estimate my junk mail has been cut by about 90%...and that's a lot of trees being saved. I will say I am lucky to have a big roll-top desk in my office which hides a lot of stuff that would normally look like clutter on a desk top. Great job on your desk area. Your kitchen cabinet "before" looks better than any of my kitchen cabinet "after" pix...lol
Lol 😂
I’m a very organized minimal person except when it comes to emails and paperwork. Those areas I haven’t found a system that consistently works.
I have 8,000 emails sitting in my inbox 😳
@@lovinglifeasmegan you understand then.
I love the way how you clean
You clean one at a time.
I can’t clean more than one area at a time 😂
You can keep folder for each child for this year and Label it..In our home all out bills are set up automatically so we dont kept any receipts and bills..We don't need yo worry about due dates... call all your providers and see if you can set it up automatically... less papers filling and less stress too..
They aren’t bills, it’s all junk mail lol
Hey, if you get your mail delivered to your house you can put up a sign that says “no junk mail”. If you get your mail at a post office you can try to request no junk mail or sort it there and they should have a recycling bin. I try not to bring any junk mail into my house at all. It saves me from having it pile up. Love your videos!
Our mail carrier is ridiculous and would not pay attention to a sign like that lol
Hi! New follower, and I'm really enjoying the motivation, as I'm working through the Konmari Method. Unfortunately, I don't have paper clutter tips for you, because I skipped paper, hahaha! One thing I have done that my kids love is to hang "art galleries" in their room for each of them. It's just blue twine hung with thumb tacks, with some white tiny clothespins, and they hang up their current favorite artwork to display in their "galleries." When they create new pieces and want to trade them out, I choose some of the "old" art to put in their plastic hanging file bins (Sterilite I believe-from Walmart.) I have a hanging file folder for each year of school beginning with Pre-school that I stick mementos into throughout the year. Thanks again for the encouraging videos. Your home is looking great, and this was such a great declutter!
Forgot to ask! Do you mind sharing where your white dishes are from? I am on the hunt! :)
They are from Target! 🤗
love your videos and your voice! You're so sophisticated in the way you speak!
Thank you so much! 💜
I actually have to organize an entire little trailer and make it into my room and I’m going crazy trying to figure it out!!! Thank you for your tips 😊🥰
I hope they help you 💜
I’m terrible about our junk mail! One thing that helps is keeping a paper shredder around so I can shred or throw away things every week. But it still builds up like crazy for some reason LOL
Same! I feel like I throw something away everyday and still have piles of junk mail all over the place lol
Nice job on your desk, I have many coffee mugs as well, perhaps one of these days I need to clean my stack. 😩👍👍👍👍👍😉
Coffee mugs are definitely a weakness of mine!
Signed up for skillshare... sounds great... excited for some workshops & classes.
Great video as well, very motivating. Thank you. 😊
Yay! You’re going to love it! My entire family uses Skillshare!
Here is a tip for junk mail...I try to walk in to the garage from checking the mail. We have a trash can by the door in there. As I am walking to the garage I sort out junk and toss it before I walk in the house. It really has made a difference in time spent on it later and cuts down on mess.
We don’t have a garage, but that does seem like a great solution!
Great video megan I just did this yesterday in our home and I even declutter my bedroom. Yesterday and nice and clean too
Yay! Decluttering is so satisfying
Thx for the motivation Megan🥰 Enjoyed the music.
I’ve been trying to play some of my favorite songs in my videos recently 🤗
Omg! This is like watching myself! I just did this yesterday! I’ve picked up pen paling and so I have found sooo much at goodwills and thrift shops thus making my area very crazy! And it doesn’t help when your guy bugs you about all the “crap” you have. Ugh! But I tackled my space and I will be the rest of the weekend. It’s a great feeling to declutter!
Loved this vid! Subscribing to you ! 🙂
Thanks so much!
I get cubes organizing a lot of ore with colorful bins and baskets, I did and continue to baskets and bins for my drawers and bookshelves offices supplies also styles boxes too for small notes and others stuff too.
My kitchen table looks like your desk right now. I hate paper clutter! It’s the hardest for me to declutter.
Growing up, our kitchen table always looked like that too!
next time please don't forget to wipe the edges of the drawer and the printer🤟🏻 the result is very satisfying
You have unused vertical space. Maybe you can get some folder organizers and dedicate one for junk mail, one for cards, one for artwork, etc. as it gets full don’t allow expansion to somewhere else until you take care of what’s there.
I think I’m just going to get rid of the desk so it can’t be a catch all anymore
We have a China cabinet that collects all the junk but soon we are taking the wall out so I'm sure I'll be finding a new spot soon 😂 we have a couple of those big file folders to keep all our papers organized
We have a couple of those as well, but we’re still buried in junk mail lol
thanks for motivating me to get up and clean my bathroom closet!
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Walk directly to the trash can when you get your mail. If you enter thru a garage, a can next to the door to the house or kitchen trash. Toss all of the junk immediately and you'll never have to deal with it again. A memory box for the cards to drop them in when you take them from display. Go paperless whenever you can, for bills. A folder for receipts if needed. For school papers, a wall folder holder with labeled folders for each kid. And the one touch rule. Touch it and put it where it belongs - you never have to deal with it again. One and done!!
That’s great in theory but not something that has been able to work for us consistently
One tip I have for you that I have found the most helpful in our family is, open the mail outside. All junk mail gets recycled right away and only important stuff comes in. I recycle ads that don't pertain to us, right away. Hope this helps ♡
I do that sometimes too! I always throw away the ads before they even come into the house!
My only tip is to continue to try new things until you find something that works! I tackle the problem spot over and over until I find something that works. Sometimes it can take months and months until I figure it out :)
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I LOATHE paper work! I'm serious. I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one. I don't mind cooking, laundry, cleaning and I do clean but this is my biggest problem.
It is definitely not my favorite thing either lol
@@lovinglifeasmegan I hear ya! Lol
I keep a wicker basket the front door. As soon as I walk in with the door I glance at my mail and junk mail goes in basket. Never makes it far into the house.
I recently got a mail slot to put next to our front door! I’m hoping it helps with the paper clutter! Here’s the link if you want to see the living room makeover! th-cam.com/video/KwjhHefpvMw/w-d-xo.html
Hi from sweden! I really enjoy your videos, I think you manage to set yourself apart from the crowd, keep up the good work :)
1. Is that an awesome LotR-quote above your knees?!
2. Me and my partner dedicate 10 minutes each week to take care of papers and bills. I find it helpful to know it's not all my responsibility and also it is a short time so it is bearable. Always celebrate with Swedish fika afterwards!
Keep it secret keep it safe 💜
In our home..once i collect all our mails right away those that I think is junk will be thrown away... the important letters are filed in our yearly folder. I have this Yearly folder Ex. Year 2020 and all important letters,anything that needs to be kept for sometime are filed in there regardless of whose mail is it...everything are kept in a transparent filling sheet that I purchased at the dollar store...so I can easily see everything...by the end of the year I will go through the folder and discard unnecessary files...
That’s a great system!
Thanks. I have trash bags of mail 😒 I also gave away dishes and office supplies to purple heart. They pick up
I’ll have to keep that in mind for next time 🤗
My dresser is a catch all. I will declutter and it ends up the same way pretty quick. I need to throw away more I know.
My mom was like that when I was growing up 💜
To be honest your decluttering is a hell of a lot less than mine. I am going through this process right now and searched for a video that was helpful like yours. Unfortunately in comparison I have mammoth jobs around decluttering to sort out at my home. My place use to be immaculate, but everything completely stopped for me and turned into chaos when my mum had rare cancer diagnosis and mum received the news with myself present. As a result my priority became my mum, my choice as she was my world and when she died some months back I was completely at a loss, unmotivated and lost. I am still grieving now but recently I have found a little motivation to create a healthier living space once again for myself, especially through this Lockdown as the last lockdown all I focused on was my beautiful Mum, so my own home became very neglected when I did stop the odd night there.
Don't get me wrong It is extremely hard now and I am still grieving but I am ashamed of myself for letting my place turn into the shit tip it became, but my mum was my no1 priority, slowly but surely I am now tackling big and small areas and also retouching up tatty places that need reviving. I am also working on a memory hallway, dedicated to dear mum. Theme and colours the lot. So whether I am crying or not, I can see my beautiful mum all around me, even though I feel she always is around me regardless of what people say.
I never understood how after someone dying people became hoarders but now I understand as I was heading that way.
I'm so sorry for your loss. I hope that you are able to find the courage and motivation to declutter your home. The state of our home is definitely a physical manifestation of what goes on in our minds. I promise, you will feel better if you are able to tackle the task and clear out your space. It could allow you more time to grieve properly, without the chaotic/guilty interruption.
@@lovinglifeasmegan Thank you for your response. It has taken a full month, but I am all decluttered now, 19 large black bin bags of rubbish later, I have seperated stuff to give to charity shops and did a huge deep clean. I did a little at a time every day and tackled more and more when I could. I do feel a hell of a lot better about my space now, it is back to normal and your right, it is helping me to grieve properly and sleep a little better. I am going to work on other stuff now, onto home projects as I now have a clean tidy slate to work from. I also finished the memory wall I spoke about previously, a wall in honor of my beautiful mum and can see her smile now everyday. It offers some comfort but would much rather her here.
I budgeted to also freshen up different areas of my home. So just taking my time now with the rest of things that need doing because have now purchased everything to make a start. Even sourced a Handy man to help with the tricky jobs I need doing, like a new bathroom as it is 20 plus years old and small. The bathroom was one of the things my mum also wanted me to do. So thank you for your videos and kind words. Appreciate it. Stay blessed and safe. I will still be watching your videos for ideas and motivation to stay on top of things.
Tried to help somone declutter today. Was really difficult as there was so much clutter there was litrally nowhere to clear the space to. Making space so we could start was the first thing to do. Trying to getbas much in the bin or recycle as possible so it was instantly out the house.
It can be very hard when you are in that kind of situation. My advice would be to just start in one area and sort through things until you have made enough space to do some more
Girl you are not alone!!! I definitely have a space that needs to be declutter 🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️
I have sooooo many overflowing closets and “catch-all” spaces in my house lol
Thanks very much for the 2 months offer to Skill Share! Can't wait to get started on learning something new. Not sure on where to start though!! X
I started with self help classes! I would listen to them when I was cleaning or editing, for how to manage my anxiety 💜
@@lovinglifeasmegan That sounds like something that could help me. I also suffer anxiety especially bad over the last few months! Take care. XX
Megan, when you were cleaning the kitchen cupboard of the serving dishes I was having serious deja vu about a chip bowl I have (I've had it for almost 10 years)!! I almost can't imagine getting rid of it!! But, I guess I need to let someone else experience the "joy" of it! :) #sparkaway
Yes! I have to remind myself all of the time that just because I’ve had something for a while doesn’t mean I need to keep it if it’s not being used
Was that a Hogwarts mug?!?
POTTERHEADS SPOTTED 🔥
Yes! My husband got it for me when I was in the hospital having my second daughter 🤗
what i do to keep everything clean is i make sure it is clean everyday
That’s a great way to handle things
Girl I’m the same with coffee mugs I got to many Nd it’s hard to just get rid of some to declutter. I keep buying some lol
I definitely have a problem with constantly buying more mugs lol
Loving Life as Megan Lol
@@lovinglifeasmegan Did you take down the wall unit that displayed all your mugs? I thought that was genius and they looked great!
My big clutter was holding on to my children's school life things as my children got older they said MOM why do you have all this junk we don't need it... it hurt my heart and I tossed it all in the trash! I learn the memories are in my mind and my heart not in a plastic container. Now I don't save anything around the whole house If I can't put it in my daily decore It finds a proper place elsewhere.