- Hello, friends. And welcome back. Today I'm going to be
sharing with you some signs that you have too much stuff that you just might have a little too much clutter. If you are not new to my channel you probably know that
over the last few years I've sort of been going
through this journey of learning how to be a more tidy person, how to have less clutter in my house. I've told you guys this
story a million times, I used to just be so much messier and just like had no control
over my home and my stuff. So I thought I would sort of just share with you like some of the signs and the indicators that
really kind of like pushed me over to the edge to make me realize like it was time to get
control of my stuff, as well as a lot of these
are little indicators just like in my day-to-day life now. That if these things happening,
it means like that space or that room in my house
needs a little purge. It needs a little attention. It is starting to
accumulate too much stuff. I also wanna say that this
video idea was inspired by a video I saw by Mia Danielle. I'm gonna link her channel down below. She's sort of like a newer,
like new in the YouTube space. At least her channel is. I would think it's great to
support up and coming YouTubers. Her stuff is really great. A lot of it is about organization and clutter and like getting
control of your stuff. (light upbeat music) All right. Sign number one that you
might have too much stuff is you think about your stuff even than when you can't see it. I'm thinking about a very
specific example in my life. And this is in the house that
we had before this house. And it was our attic. Our attic had become this
complete dumping ground and it was just utter chaos. And I would literally lay awake
at night, thinking about it. Thinking about how cluttered it was, thinking about how I didn't
have time to take care of it, thinking about when I was gonna have time to take care of it. And I remember it very specifically because it started to get pretty cluttered when I got pregnant with my first child. And so I was like really pregnant. I couldn't really get up
there when I was pregnant. And then our baby was
born and I really like, I couldn't take it
newborn up to the attic, me to organize my attic. And so it was just like
this looming cloud over me. A lot of us have these spaces that they tend to be the spaces that we like close the door on. 'Cause we think it's gonna
be outta sight out of mind. But you know you got too much stuff if you're constantly
thinking about that space or that clutter, even
when you cannot see it. And if you got a spot like that right now like when I talked about
this and you were like oh my God, I have that spot. Let us know the comments down below because we're all in
this together, you guys. Nobody's perfect. Sign number two that
you have too much stuff is your organizational system seem to fall apart pretty quickly. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter how many pretty storage bins you have and how well labeled they are. If there's too much stuff
and it's overflowing those systems are just gonna fall apart over and over and over again. You're gonna organize it and
within a week or two weeks it's just going to be utter chaos again. This is telling you the
space has too much stuff. An example, I will tell you my
upstairs bathroom drawer I've actually got a pretty good
organization structure here. I have little bins where
I keep things organized. I know the space is getting too cluttered when the organization system in that drawer has fallen apart. It tells me it is time
to declutter that drawer. Number three, you have piles. Oh, piles. We all know piles, right? We like create piles. And then the piles get married to other piles and they
become bigger, larger piles. And when you make piles,
it kind of makes you feel like you're cleaning and
you're tidying, right? But the truth is you
haven't actually gotten rid of your clutter. You just like put it into a neat little pile and
then you've put it somewhere. If you've got piles, you
got too much clutter. 'Cause at the end of the day, the only reason that you create
a pile is 'cause the stuff in that pile doesn't have
a home that it belongs. It doesn't have somewhere to go. And so you put it in this pile and you like put it on
the counter and you say you're gonna get to it later or whatever. And then maybe you do. If you're like me, you probably don't. Piles in any room are always an indicator to me that that space
needs to be tended to. And usually a lot of that stuff is things
that needs to get purged out of my home. Because like I said, if I created it into a pile it's because
it probably doesn't have an obvious place that it
lives already in my home. Number four, you own something,
you know you own something but you don't know where it is. You may try to convince yourself that this is just because
you are not that organized but the truth more likely
is you could be organized but you probably just have
too much stuff to organize. We can't be the keeper of all things. It would literally be
a full time job to try to maintain an inventory and keep at all of these little tiny pieces like organized and in
their place all the time. If you very often know you own something and very often cannot find where it is, or you don't know where it is, it's probably 'cause you
just have too much stuff. You don't have time to
organize and maintain it. And I think it's really
funny because I feel like a lot of the times we keep things, like one of the main reasons
we develop clutter is 'cause we keep things, 'cause we think we might need it. Right? We hold onto something 'cause like we just might
need it for some project. We might just need it for
some of event we're going to. And we end up with all of these might need products and items. And then when we do finally
might need that product, we have no idea where it is 'cause we have too many
other might need products to sort through. Reason number five. You're not removing something. when you get a new version of it. One of my favorite examples from my own personal
life for this is mascara. For some reason why I
buy a tube of mascara I don't get rid of the old mascara. I've been trying to get better about this. Like I don't know why. 'Cause I'm like it still has a
tiny bit of mascara in there. I don't know. This can come up for lots of things. Maybe you buy a new can
opener and you like, you didn't get rid of
the other can opener. You bought a new one. You don't need the other one. Just in general, you really wanna be thinking
about getting rid of something if you've brought something
new in to replace it. It is very hard for you to have people over unannounced, specifically because
like you feel embarrassed by how much stuff is out. I would say one of the
biggest motivators for me in learning how to get my house more tidy or to keep my house more tidy and more organized was the fact that I hated that if
somebody came by unannounced. I would be embarrassed that they came into my house and they saw
the total mess that it was. And obviously people
can come in unannounced and there's still gonna be mess around. I mean, I work in my home full time and I have two kids three
years and under, so you know, there's gonna be stuff,
there's gonna be mess. But the idea is that
I always like to think of keeping my home within
15 minutes of guests. Like if somebody called and they're like, "Hey, I'm gonna swing by. "I'll be there, whatever." You know, I could quickly tidy up and the same for my own
personal benefit that if like the house is looking really messy and I wanna get it tidy
so that I can organize and I can get like my
mind in the right space then I'm like 10 to 15 minutes from being able to go around
and kind of tidy stuff up. You have too much clutter if it's gonna take you way
longer than that to get ready. It used to take me-- Like I would need a day's notice before people would come to my house. Your laundry takes forever. This is for me. If my laundry starts taking forever like I just finish a load I put it away and my
basket is already full. That is an indicator to me right there, it is time to do some clothing purging. You should not own so many
clothes that your closet is full and your laundry basket is full. And it's just always, you're just always doing
laundry at all of the time. When my closet is at a
good organized space, like I don't have surplus, I typically can do my laundry once a week. And the laundry's not overflowing. The idea is it's not
just like overwhelming. I'm not finishing my
laundry and putting it away and already have another full basket that I need to take care of. Sign number nine that you
might have too much stuff is you feel like you just
never have time to clean. This what I always tell you guys was, like one of the biggest
things for me prior to sort of learning how to be
a little bit more tidy is like I just always felt like there was just no way. I didn't have any time to do it. And this was before I was even a mom. You know, I just felt like when am I ever gonna have time to do this? And it's because I just
had too much stuff, like the idea, the thought
of having to vacuum and mop my floors, I would have to pick up, you know, the little piles of messes
that I had on the floor. And in order to do that,
I was gonna have to clear off all the stuff that
I had on the counters in order to do that, you know,
I needed to put stuff away in the closet and the
closet was a total disaster. And so it was just like this chain of events that I would have to do all of these things just to clean something. So I just never felt
like I had time to do it. If you have less stuff in your house you don't really have that overwhelm. You know, your surfaces in general are gonna stay pretty clear or you can clear them off pretty quickly. So it's easy to wipe down your counters, to do a quick vacuum, to like dust or mop or whatever. You forgot you had something. Like you go into a drawer or you're organizing
something in a basement. And you're like, "Oh my
God, I forgot I had this." Sometimes that's fun, right? It's like Christmas. You're like, oh, I totally
forgot that I bought this like pair of shoes for
myself or like this book. And it's like Christmas on
a random day in February. But if this is consistently happening and you've got all this stuff that like, you forgot, you bought,
you got too much stuff. Number 11, I love this one because it's a very
specific example for me, is when somebody is visiting or you know, you're
having somebody stay over and they ask where something
is and you like don't know. Or you're like embarrassed
to tell them where it is 'cause you don't want them to go into like your Monica closet. If you watch "Friends,"
you know what I mean by the Monica closet, you know? But they'll be like, "Hey, where do you keep
your extra paper towels?" And you keep it in like this junk closet. And you're too embarrassed for them to go in there and see it. It's because you probably
have too much stuff. You can't keep that stuff organized. If you have a Monica closet,
you got too much stuff. Number 12 is you're
constantly wishing you had more flat services. Right? You're like putting something
away and you're like oh my God, I wish I had
like a counter over here so I could put stuff down. And that's the thing about
flat surfaces, right? It's like, they're so
good for putting stuff on. You got counters, you got
tables, but they're really if you think about it, you
really shouldn't just be like cluttering them up with stuff. That's like not the point of flat surfaces in our homes in general. If you constantly find
yourself thinking like, "Ah, I just wish I had another table here "to set some stuff down." What stuff are you setting down? The point is not to be creating more piles that we're just leaving out. You don't need more flat services. That's not gonna solve the problem. You need probably less stuff. And last but not least, you are constantly
buying more storage bins. You think that like storage
bins are the solution to all of your problems. And listen, don't get me wrong, storage bins, when you
find the right ones, they can be amazing. They can streamline in space. They can make it so much more organized. They can really help you
maintain and keep good inventory of the stuff that you do have
and you are going to keep. But I find if there's a
space where I constantly seem to be cycling stuff out or I'm constantly just
telling myself like, "Oh, I just need some
more storage bins here." It may be time to sort of
step back and reevaluate. Like what do I need these bins for? And is it really stuff
that I need to be storing and maintaining and keeping in my home? Or is it maybe some stuff
that should probably go that maybe I can get rid
of that I can maybe store in a space I already have. All right, my friends. That does it. That was like my 13
different reasons, I think. I don't know, I wasn't counting. That I usually find is a sign
that I have too much stuff. Very personal examples from
my own experience of learning how to sort of get rid of stuff, how to get tidier and current examples I use all the time now if it sort of pops up in
a certain space in my home it tells me there's probably
too much stuff here. I also wanted to let you know, I'm currently hosting a little giveaway over on my Instagram. I'm going to put a link in the description box down below on how you can go over there to my Instagram and enter
to win that giveaway. But as always, thank you so much for stopping by and watching. I hope you're having a fantastic day and I will see you all in my next video.
