2021 CLEAN WITH ME MARATHON :: HOURS OF INSANE SPEED CLEANING MOTIVATION :: HOMEMAKING 2020

[Music] hey guys welcome back to my channel and welcome to the first clean of the marathon of 2021 i am so excited for 2021 you guys i know the last year has just been such a struggle for everyone and we've kind of been thrown off of our game but i hope and pray that this new year will bring us such joy and just get us a little bit closer back to our old reality i hope that you guys had a wonderful christmas and new years you'll have to let me know in the comments what you guys did over new year's or christmas if you guys did anything special or just kind of hung out at home but anyway to get back into the video i'm going to be sharing a 2021 clean of the marathon and if you're unfamiliar with what the clean free marathons are they are an idea that my husband actually came up with several years ago now and basically i just compiled several of my recent cleaning videos and put them all into one super long video that you can just put up on your tv tablet or phone and clean it right along with me you have a friend to clean with you have constant cleaning motivation coming your way and in this video i am not only sharing cleaning but also some decorating ideas just for fun and also some decluttering and organizing as well so you have everything that you need in this one video i hope you really enjoy this one and i hope it gets you really motivated just to tackle everything on your to-do list and just get you going in the new year i am going to be sharing a ton of brand new videos coming up this month i'm going to be sharing tons of cleaning motivation on my channel as well as my new whole house decluttering series and we are going to be sharing some finishing work on our basement makeover series so we have a ton of new videos coming up for you guys this year as always i'm so excited to bring you along on this journey but without further ado let's go ahead and get into it [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] hey guys welcome back to my channel today we are going to be doing some super deep cleaning i have a lot of things that i really want to tackle first i want to tackle our fan which is one of those things that always gets away from me i also want to deep clean our couch and kind of re-stuff it because it's looking a bit saggy so i'm going to share what i'm going to do for that and we're going to hop into the kitchen and i'm going to deep clean our oven and actually show you guys how i seal my granite countertops and then i'm also going to do a really really good wipe down on all of our cabinets and everything and then i think once we're done we're actually gonna head down to our basement and just do a really quick tidy down there so we have a ton to get done let's go ahead and jump on into it silence takes a hold i can't let it go change [Music] away from things i'll let go floating [Music] so since our fan in the main room is so high it's something i don't get around to cleaning too often but i found this telescoping duster several months ago and it's made it so nice to be able to reach it without having to get on a ladder since i am super super afraid of heights but i'll be sure to link this duster below just like any other cleaning tools that i use in today's video [Music] everything in my soul shaking through my car left me in the cold [Music] [Music] [Music] before i get going with the couch i wanted to open the window since the weather outside is starting to get a bit cooler and just try to really enjoy the fresh air a bit but let me know what the weather's been like where you're at it has been kind of warm here still but we're definitely starting to get some cool air coming in and it's just been making me so happy to feel that fall crisp air start to come [Music] up we go bottoms up [Music] okay so a while back i had actually cleaned my couches but usually i like to clean them with like the hose attachment from our carpet cleaner and i lost it eight months ago maybe and i have not found it since i have no idea where it went i don't know if it got donated somehow or i have no idea i cannot find it but we did get a new little vacuum cleaner or a new little carpet cleaner and it's super nice it's just like really nice and small and compact that one has a hose so that's actually how i'm going to go ahead and clean this then i'm also going to stuff the top cushions just because they have really gotten pretty saggy over the last like year or year and a half or so however long we've had this couch and so i wanted to do that and i figured i would go ahead and show you guys in case if you guys are struggling with the same issue [Music] i ain't a person who understands [Music] [Music] i just don't know if i'll dance with the lights on if you're gonna be moving on solo wait a second cause they're playing the best sound i'll be there if you reach out to me [Music] [Music] here i'm just starting to restuff our couch i've noticed over the past several months that it's been sagging a bit and i actually got the idea from a few of you who recommended that i use this polyfill to restuff the couch and it honestly turned out so good and as we've sat on it it's gotten less lumpy and it looks so so much better [Music] [Music] so i still have about halfway to go and these are really lumpy right now because i haven't like smushed them out yet but you can already see like how full these ones are looking versus like how saggy those three are looking so i'm super excited to just kind of like get these a little bit less lumpy but it's already looking so much better [Music] but i just don't know i just don't know if i'll dance with the lights on if you're gonna be moving on solo wait a second cause they're playing the best song i'll be there if you reach [Music] i wanted to show these up close shots because honestly if you're looking at it from afar it does not look that dirty or at least it doesn't on camera but when you look up close you can see i was really in need of a good deep cleaning so i decided to go for the option of using this little carpet cleaner because the top cushions actually don't come off and the bottom cushion covers are just so hard to get taken off and put back on so i found that this does the trick just fine plus it's quicker and easier too would do anything at all i know i'm not innocent you deserve a better man let me just hold your hand once more [Music] [Music] sleeping in my [Music] there's a new part of me the part i want you to see you haven't seen the best of me i know [Music] all right we are finally done with getting the couch re-stuffed and nice and clean it just feels like a huge weight is lifted right now honestly just because i've seen it every day for the last several weeks and it has been a mess so i'm super happy that we were finally able to deep clean that we have a ton to get done in the kitchen let's hop back into it [Music] [Applause] [Music] i only care about yourself [Music] yeah he sets my body in motion he just he knows how to turn things up [Music] and he knows what gets me going look at me i'm in a bad situation look at him he's got a bad reputation they've been looking at us thinking we had too much look at me i'm in a bad situation look at him he's got a bad reputation they've been looking at us [Music] why do i need to be good all the time [Music] so now the kitchen is all nice and clean in the dining room too i think i'm gonna go ahead and just steal my granite countertops first i've done this a few times but i always get questions about it and it's about that time to go ahead and steal them again so i figured i would go ahead and just share that with you guys so the first thing that i need to do is take every single thing off of the countertops that way i have a completely clear space and then i can start spraying the sealer on and letting that soak in before i wipe it off [Music] so i like to steal our granite countertops once every six months or so or until they stop looking so shiny or having water bead on them then once i have everything taken off the countertops i'm just going to do a really good wipe down with just water i want to make sure there's nothing left on the counters at all and then you're going to spray the granite sealer onto them very liberally and i'll link the sealer that i use down below in case if you're needing to do this too and then once the sealer has set on the counter top for about five minutes you'll go back through and wipe it off in circles and it's that quick and easy [Music] so look at me [Music] [Music] all right i have the sealer just kind of sitting on all the countertops so i have to let that sit for about five minutes and while i'm gonna wait for that i'm just gonna start kind of deep cleaning our stove top area i definitely clean our stove on a regular basis every once in a while i just wanna like really really make sure i'm deep deep cleaning it my very favorite way to do this is by using the bon ami cleaner i've shared this a bunch of times this will pretty much work for any type of stove top that you have and so that's what we're going to do now [Music] oh [Music] uh [Music] finally once the sealer has been wiped off the countertops i'm just starting to put everything back where it goes i love this sealer because it doesn't take hours to do it's just quick and done and it's definitely been the favorite one i've ever used [Music] baby [Music] baby [Music] crazy [Music] all right we got the counters nice and sealed the great the great we have the stove really nice and clean it looks so amazing i don't really want to cook in here now because i cleaned it all nice now we are going to tackle the oven the oven is something i feel like i used to be a lot better about i'm not anymore it's just life's gotten away from me and it's something that i literally closed the oven door and i don't remember about it until i opened it again to cook then i'm like wow this is gross i have to clean it but we're going to tackle that today and i'm going to show you my favorite way to clean that and then i think the last thing unless i add more onto my list i think the last thing in here is going to be just like really wiping down and deep cleaning all of our cabinets [Music] [Music] so to clean my oven especially when it gets this messy it takes a bit of elbow grease i won't lie but it's so worth it i first just wipe it out to get any loose bits and then i sprinkle some bon ami cleaner along with a little bit of water to make sort of a paste to help scrub everything off now on the glass surface sometimes i like to use a more abrasive scrubber if needed but on the metal i will use just a sponge that way i don't scratch it even though these appliances are about 14 years old and not in perfect condition at all i just don't want to scratch them up any worse than they already are [Music] foreign [Music] so i've shared this in the past but these cabinets were actually flipped before we bought our home and they were honestly done really quickly and not really the right way so up close you can see a lot of the imperfections and the paint on the island is actually peeling all over so eventually we will like to make this a priority and refinish them but until then i will just be cleaning them as best i can and then once i got my cabinets all wiped down i started cleaning my trash can and i'm just using my handheld steamer to make this really easy and also really effective if you've been here for a while you've probably seen me use this in a ton of my videos but i love this little thing it just works so well and today it worked so so well on a trash can and recycling [Music] can [Music] [Music] [Music] all right we are getting near the end but i do really want to tackle these chairs i feel like they always look very clean and for the most part they are however there's an area like behind the seat where the poles go down that just gets everything like it gets little drippings it gets crumbs it gets kinetic sand or play-doh just kind of stuck back there and without me taking like a toothbrush or something it just stays so i'm actually going to use my steamer to just really quickly see if i can get that cleaned out without having to take the chairs apart and then once we're done with that i will vacuum and i think we're going to be done it's looking so nice in here you are the one that i will call when i'm drunk you are the one that i just need to feel loving you saved me from the broken [Music] some say that love don't hurt but i got you stuck in my memory some say that hearts come first but they've never known what it's like [Music] but i want you back it's 2 a.m and i can't sleep without you [Music] and every ball is getting close and i don't know what to do okay i am always impressed with how well this little thing works it's like magic it just made that so effortless i was thinking if that didn't work i was going to end up having to pull the chairs apart and actually scrub in there and this just made it so easy so i'm super stoked about that but now we are going to just vacuum the floors because after making everything all dirty in here from deep cleaning everything i just need to do a quick vacuum and then i think we're going to be done [Music] so a lot of you have noticed that we got a new rug recently and have asked a few questions like where we got it and why we also got rid of our ruggable so we got our new rug from boutique rugs and i will have it linked down below but i was super grossed out by our shag rug years ago so i opted to try a ruggable and after a while it started rolling up on the corners and kyle ended up not being a huge fan of it and it was also kind of difficult to wash and just line it up on the mat when you put it back together and i think we maybe would get a ruggable again one day but not as a main living space rug and just one not so big so maybe something like a runner but so far we have been loving our new [Music] this is rug call that you've been [Music] one two three um so it is the next day as you can see i'm in our basement so we do have a little bit more to get done today i did get a ton of deep cleaning done yesterday but our basement needs a little bit of love so we are going to just kind of focus on the space down here now and i'm going to tidy everything up and then once i'm done with the main living area i'm actually going to get all of our boys once they're done with their school and we're going to go into each of their rooms and i'm going to kind of help them tidy up everything just so we can get the entire basement area nice and clean to match the upstairs so let's go ahead and jump on into it we head for the sky it's all right our wings wouldn't fly it's all right if we are crashing down [Music] me a again again and tell me [Music] it's all right [Music] [Applause] our basement has become such a relaxing space for our family we come down here for family time we come down here when all of our work is done and we're kind of trying to take some down time it's just been such a blessing for us and it's been such an incredible space to enjoy together but because it is so laid back down here it gets messy decently quickly but it is amazing how much more inviting and how much more comfortable it is being in the basement once it's clean so taking just a few minutes tidy everything up is so beyond worth the small effort that it takes to get it put together [Music] all right i know that this probably looks super weird but i recently saw that jumping on or punching your couch cushions can help puff them back up a little bit and help kind of keep their shape and it sounded so strange to me when i first heard it but i've tried it and it totally works almost like how you punch a pillow to fluff it up i guess it's kind of the same concept but i have started doing this every now and then to keep our couch looking nice and i've loved the outcome of it [Music] again [Music] know [Applause] [Music] [Applause] as i've mentioned before it's usually the boy's job to take care of their own rooms along with their other daily chores but a lot of times i don't end up showing that in my videos just because it's a little bit different of an experience when you are filming a cleaning video and so i tend to kind of go for the easier option a lot of times but i do like to include how it truly is most days so that way you can get a little bit more of a true glimpse into what our real daily life looks like [Applause] all right [Music] [Music] oh [Music] so once i finished vacuuming we were all done for cleaning on this day and it felt so amazing to have the house deep cleaned i hope this gave you tons of cleaning motivation to tackle your own space also just to let you know we will still be sharing more basement makeovers to add to our basement series life has just thrown us through a loop with online school but we are working to get caught up and hope to share those in the not too distant future so definitely stay tuned for that i hope you have the most amazing day don't forget to subscribe down below and join the family if you haven't already and i will see you in the next one bye [Music] guys [Music] [Music] hey guys welcome back to my channel and welcome to part one of my christmas clean and decorate with me for 20 20. i'm pretty late to getting around to sharing these videos and also just decorating my house for christmas for that matter we have been really busy with the farmhouse makeover series that we recently finished up on the channel and so i am finally getting around to decorating the house for christmas but we are going to actually be starting out in our basement and then next week i'm going to be heading upstairs and taking you guys up there as we decorate in kind of like a winter wonderland theme i've been kind of going with that for the last few years and down here we are doing a little bit more kid friendly we are doing a candy cane type theme and it's just gonna be really fun and more whimsical so i am super excited for both of the styles that we're going to be doing and they're going to be very different so it's just going to be kind of fun to have one down here and then one upstairs but we have a lot to get done obviously the basement is a bit of a mess so we have a lot of cleaning to get done and then we will jump on into the decorating [Music] i've been waiting all year for [Music] so like i had said i'm a little bit late to getting to decorating our home for christmas things have just been so busy especially with having the kids home and then like i said we were finishing up with the farmhouse makeover series and so life just happened and that's how it went but i'm so excited to be decorating today you'll have to let me know in the comments if you have already decorated for christmas or for winter this year or if you are like me and you're running a little bit late or if you just don't decorate till later on in the year no matter what i don't think there's anything wrong with any of it but i would just love to know kind of where you guys are at and also let me know what style you are decorating your home or what you have your home decorated in is it more like traditional colors like red and green is it a farmhouse style is it very minimal do you always like really overdo it with a christmas decor i think it's so neat because there are just so many different ways to decorate our homes and it's just really neat to see how we can all be doing kind of the same thing but in our own different way in our own different style so if you have already decorated for christmas or once you go ahead and decorate for christmas if you do go ahead and tag me over on instagram i would love to see all of your decorations and also that would be a great way for us to just come together during the holiday season and share different decor ideas with each other so i will leave my instagram handle right here so you can go ahead and tag me over there blue and turtle doves kissing on a gas lamp sidewalk underneath so once i got the flooring couch tidied up i just wanted to deep clean our couch a little bit not shampoo it or anything but just pull the cushions off and vacuum everything we always eat down here honestly our upstairs couch we don't tend to eat on as much i think just because the kitchen is right there but when we come down here we are just like lounging hanging out and we are just very very casual about it so this couch does have a ton of crumbs every time i lift up these covers but i feel like this is one of those spaces that even though it is hidden once you clean it it just makes the space feel really extra clean i feel like that sounds a little bit silly but let me know if you have a space in your house that is just kind of one of those hidden spaces that you don't actually see but when you know you clean it just everything feels so so much cleaner i feel like washing your bed sheets is one of those things and also underneath the couch cushions [Music] since last new year's eve santa always comes at nights and always comes at night [Music] so honestly we love playing games as a family all the time but especially during the holidays i feel like we try to play games even more and so i'm just kind of getting some of those ready right now and as you can see me doing here i'm just organizing some of our card games into these little soap dishes you can pick these up at walmart dollar tree target all over the place and they're really great because they're a lot more durable than the cardboard boxes that the games typically come in the snow is falling and the cold wind is blowing hard i'm locked inside tonight but my heart is somewhere else i'm thinking of you babe in all your crazy ways i miss you more right now it must be these hot days [Music] so finally once everything was all picked up off the floor it was just time to vacuum and i always link my vacuum down below because i always get a ton of questions from you guys about it and i always try to link the best deal that i can find at the time but i did have a question for you guys whenever i edit my videos i wonder if i should talk more or talk less i know everybody has their own preferences and i'm not gonna be able to please everybody but i would love to hear do you prefer to have a lot of chit chat and just like hanging out with a friend the entire time in the videos or do you prefer less talking and more music or do you not really have a preference either way and you just enjoy the videos how they are so either way there's no wrong answer i won't be offended at all just let me know your thoughts and that way i can make sure that i am giving you guys the best videos that i possibly [Music] and can about our wonderful year i can see it now yeah your lip stain from the wine and that sweet smile you have your hand in mine you know you're my everything the only present i want oh [Music] merry christmas merry christmas i got you on my mind merry christmas from a distance i wish you were here tonight merry christmas merry christmas yeah i got you on my mind merry christmas from a distance i wish you were here tonight i'm dreaming you home for the holidays i'm dreaming home right now i'm dreaming you home because you're we have everything nice and clean notice the vacuum lines like my favorite part the couch i'm not sure if i'm going to be using these pillows or not so i just left them on but i knew i was not using the other two and then i'm going to mostly be like decorating the bookshelf we're also going to put a christmas tree down here i'm super excited to have a second christmas tree in the house and then i'm also going to be decorating this little entryway area and possibly like this area just so so slightly because we do watch movies on the projector all the time and so by pulling those down it just kind of gets in the way so i don't want to do too much over there but we're just going to make this space down here really festive really fun and just kind of like that red and white like traditional christmas [Music] don't you tell a single soul what i'm about to say christmas series coming soon now you dear old man whisper what you'll bring to me tell me if you can a lot of these items actually came from the target dollar spot this year or they were items that i had in the past also some of them came from different etsy shops over the years and walmart walmart is seriously stepping up their game so much i feel like they have some of the best christmas decor that i've seen this year of course hobby lobby always does as long as you get it on sale i really don't have much of an idea of how i'm going to decorate down here so you guys will just be going along with me on the process [Music] [Applause] now i will be sharing a christmas home tour in the coming weeks either here on my main channel or over on my vlogging channel i haven't really decided where yet but i will end up going over where everything is from upstairs and downstairs in our basement but if you're curious about where something is from and i have not linked it below or over on my like to know a page you can definitely leave it in the comment and i will try to get back to everybody and just let you know where everything is from if you don't want to wait for the home tour [Music] all right let's talk really quickly about bookshelves i feel like bookshelves are always a bit tricky but i do have a few rules that i try to follow when i'm styling a bookshelf so one thing that i try to do is have one tall item and one short item per shelf and then i also try to use either two to three items per shelf i feel like pairing things in those numbers keeps it simple enough but also adds enough interest to each shelf and then i also like to add different textures to each shelf and it just makes everything kind of flow together and makes it a little bit more interesting also keep in mind that typically when you are styling a bookshelf less can be more a lot of times you can tend to kind of overdo it so step back as you were styling the bookshelf and just make sure that you're not piling on too much decor and then also just keep playing around with it until you love it i feel like that's what you always have to do when you are decorating but a bookshelf is definitely the same so just keep going at it and know that you will find something that looks amazing just don't give up [Music] all right next we are going to talk about pillow covers i always get questions from you guys about where i get my pillow inserts and also where i get my pillow covers so i get both of them from amazon and i love doing it this way as opposed to going to the store and buying full on pillows because pillows are really very bulky to store especially when you're getting them for each season so this way all you have to do is just get a set of pillow inserts and then you can get different covers for the seasons or for the holidays just kind of like however often you want to change them out but they are so much less bulky to store and they are also a lot more affordable i feel a lot of times i can end up buying a set of two pillow covers for under 15 as opposed to a pillow for 20 at the store it's just a lot lot cheaper and more affordable and also like i said is great for storing so i will link my amazon favorites down below and i have a whole category that has all of my favorite pillow covers that i have that i love and also my pillow inserts as well [Music] the season to rejoice [Music] but i'll be missing you now [Music] [Music] [Music] so here i am just storing all of my regular everyday decor in one place and that way it's really easy once i take all of christmas down i can just bring this one bin down and just restyle my bookshelf just like how it was and all the decor is not going everywhere and getting lost so that's one of my big tips when you're decorating for a holiday is make sure that you're storing all of your everyday decor in a really easy to get to place and all together [Music] i just fell in love again [Music] [Applause] looking at you in your mother's hands [Music] i've been walking in the snow searching through the night little did i know that you would be that light like an angel you fell right out of the sky we pray to god and thank him for this blessing every night and i say so this is not our main tree it is a secondary tree and we are so excited to be having it downstairs and we just decided to decorate it as a family but we will be decorating our main tree upstairs a little bit later on in the month we always decorate that one together as a family it's a tradition that i have had since i was a kid and one that we have continued on in our home and we will actually be vlogging that over on our vlog channel just so we can keep it a little bit more casual and it can be a video that we can end up looking back on as a family and just remember that when our kids were young so definitely head over to our vlog channel if you are not already subscribed over there and that way you don't miss that video and any other holiday videos that we have coming up but that particular one will probably be right after thanksgiving this year [Music] so much better than the year before santa's crossing off every wish even moms and dads i made the list can you hear the slave bells it's christmas time [Music] is [Music] so a super quick tip for a budget friendly tree skirt is actually just to grab any throw blanket you might have around the house and wrap it around the tree i feel like this is so much more affordable than the tree skirts that you can find typically and also you can use it all year round once you're done using it as a tree skirt just put it back on the couch and you can use it the rest of the year and it also looks so so cozy [Music] what would you like [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] snow is falling [Music] so this is how our candy cane lane christmas decor turned out this year i am so in love with it i feel like it's so fun and whimsical it's very kid-friendly it definitely has that childhood feel and i love that because our boys bedrooms are all downstairs and so i feel like that's the perfect place to do this theme i love how simple it is and i love how traditional it is and just like bright with all the reds and whites i hope you guys enjoyed this video i also cannot wait to share next week's video with you guys and just let you see all the totally different decor that we have upstairs and the totally different feel it has i don't know that i love one more than the other but they are both just so fun and so different so i hope you enjoyed watching this video and i hope it gave you tons of ideas for your own decor or if you've already decorated i hope it just was enjoyable kind of watching and seeing how we decorated this year and just having fun hanging out with a friend today i am so thankful that you're here and i hope you're having the most amazing day do not forget to subscribe down below if you are not already so you can join my youtube family and i will see you in my next one bye [Music] guys [Music] [Music] do hey guys welcome back to my channel and welcome to part two of my christmas clean and decorate with me i am so excited to share this with you guys last week we were down in my basement and we were doing kind of more of like a candy cane lane theme very traditional with just red and white decor but up here on the main level we are going to be doing like a winter wonderland theme very very neutral and just very warm and cozy and i cannot wait to decorate everything and just get everything feeling very christmassy and wintry in this house so first of course we are going to be cleaning everything up it's just you know everyday life messes and so i need to get everything cleaned up so we can start with a clean slate i'm also going to be building some furniture for entryway just kind of recreating that space transforming a little bit and making it just a little bit more functional for our family and then we are going to be decorating everywhere i am so excited for this i have the cutest decor a lot of it is from last year but i did pick up a few new pieces this year also once we are done decorating i'm going to move into the kitchen and just start making up my hot cocoa bar area i am so excited for this i've shared a hot cocoa bar area the last few years and i always get a ton of requests for a new one so i am changing it up again this year just to kind of make it fresh and fun but i cannot wait to share everything with you guys so go ahead and grab your favorite drink either decorate or clean along with me or just sit down and hang out with a friend and let's go ahead and jump on into it [Music] [Music] [Music] hmm when the gathering has begun and concerns should we clean up or have fun for a while it's a sweet sweet stillness there in the quiet christmas there may you find yourself laughing over [Music] with us memories so as you can see i am just starting out cleaning in my kitchen i always feel like i love starting out in the kitchen just because i think it just kind of makes everything go faster when i start something that is probably the messiest area so i have just been tending to jump on the messiest area lately and then that just kind of creates a great domino chore where it just propels me to keep going and it kind of boosts my motivation a little bit so that's kind of why i'm starting in the kitchen but you'll have to let me know where is your favorite place in the house to start and does that place usually give you the most motivation to keep going or is that just a place that you love cleaning like i really don't mind cleaning our kitchen i don't know what it is i feel like i can totally zone out in here it's not really a huge chore to me to clean our kitchen even though it typically is one of the messiest rooms in the home also this is totally not even related to cleaning but i would love to know what you're doing for the holidays and kind of what's going on in your area right now with kovid here in utah we kind of are getting a little bit more restrictions but we're still pretty relaxed here but we are just staying home for the holidays and just enjoying time as a family i feel like that has been one of the best things about this whole crazy year has just been able to make the best of our family time and something that i think we will definitely look back on although it has been a crazy and stressful time it's definitely benefited our family in a way where i feel like we've gotten a little bit closer during this time [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] is [Music] come and be [Music] joyful and [Music] so if you haven't either seen me drop oils down my sink or heard me talk about it a thousand times you're probably wondering why in the heck i would drop essential oils down the sink so the reason i do this is actually to keep our sink smelling really nice and fresh it works so amazing all you have to do is just drop a few drops of essential oil whatever scent you want down your drain and it will make the biggest difference if you have not tried that yet i would definitely suggest trying that out and i always get a ton of questions about what essential oils i use and i use simply earth essential oils i have used them for several years now and i love them so much they're definitely other great amazing brands out there so whatever you find that works for you is amazing but if you're on the lookout for a great essential oil brand i would definitely suggest checking out simply earth just because they have really really high quality oils but they don't break the bank which is definitely one of the things that i really really appreciate about them [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] um [Music] oh [Music] um joyful and triumphantly [Music] and the snow is falling and the cold wind is blowing hard i'm locked inside tonight but my heart is somewhere else i'm thinking of you babe and all your crazy ways i miss you more right now it must be these hard days you know you're my everything the only [Music] merry christmas merry christmas yeah i got you on my mind merry christmas okay we got everything built but we're going to hang the mirror up here and we realized that kyle did not have any more of the anchors that he needs so he's actually running out to the store really quick to grab those anchors so while he's gone i'm actually just gonna start decorating because i am already starting to lose sunlight i feel like just having the kids doing online school at home has been taking up so much of our day and so i don't get around to like getting going with things on my own to-do list until later on the day so i'm already losing sunlight but i'm gonna go ahead and just start jumping into decorating and then whenever kyle gets back then we will finish tackling the entryway space and putting that [Music] mirror to have you here my dear we could sing and laughs [Music] so i know this looks like a lot of christmas decor most of this i feel like came from the last several years i just kind of recycle my decor i don't get all new decor every year at all but i do tend to grab a few different pieces here and there each year just to kind of add to it and kind of change things up and it ends up making things feel really fresh and new even though i'm only spending a little bit of money finding a few new pieces and a majority of the new pieces were either from my favorite etsy shops which i will link down below or i did find some great things at the target dollar spot this year also just in target in general and just because it's not in the target dollar spot does not mean it's still not a great deal they had a ton of things for around five or ten dollars that just looks so high quality so i will do my best to link everything down below as usual and if i'm not able to find it online and link it i will be doing a house tour soon and i will be sharing where every single thing is from but as always if you have any questions on where something is from go ahead and leave it in the comments and i'll try to get back to everyone now [Music] and that sweet smile you have your hand so as i'm decorating today you will see me be moving things around all over the place and kind of putting something up and then taking it down and just stepping back and taking a look at it like for example on this mantel i ended up taking a lot away and just making it a lot more minimal i have been honestly pretty overwhelmed with stuff in our home the last month or two and i found that i've just wanted to keep things a little bit more simple you probably saw that down in the basement as well but i really want to do that throughout our entire home so you guys are going to be in for a ton of new motivation i am going to be doing a whole house declutter probably starting that mostly in the beginning of next year but honestly i'm probably going to get a start on it in december and start sharing a few of those videos because i just cannot take it anymore i need to declutter and keep my house a little bit more simple so that i can keep my mind a little bit less cluttered as well i'm [Music] all right so one of my favorite things to do around christmas time is create some type of bucket list just because if you don't have a plan i feel like the time just goes by so quick especially during this time of year but i also don't want to just write it down on a piece of paper that gets stashed away somewhere so i always try to incorporate it into art of course somehow and this year i had the funnest idea and then i found this tree and it went perfectly with it so basically this one is just from walmart but it just has these little hooks on it it's black i think they had it in maybe like a white or silver as well you can just go to a dollar tree this is the best place to get these these are like the teeny tiny like micro bulbs or miniature bulbs i'm not sure i am just going to write flooding baking cookies or watching christmas movies or whatever we want on our list and then we are going to put that up on the tree and then i'm wondering if maybe like once we do them maybe we'll flip them over or something like that like i said it was just an idea and so i haven't actually done it yet but i think it's gonna work out really cute so i'm gonna go ahead and get that set up now and then also like everything else i will try to link everything down below but i just think this is gonna be a lot of fun and being right here in the center of everything i think it's going to be something that we won't just forget about pretty much our kids will bug us to keep doing everything on our [Music] list [Music] [Music] this nativity set that i am putting out is something that is so incredibly special to me this was something that kyle got for me for christmas several years ago it's something that i had been looking at forever for years and years i love all the willow tree figurines they are always so amazing to me but it was very expensive and so i honestly didn't even ask for it and when i unwrapped the package and found out that kyle had been saving up to get this for me i completely started bawling at christmas i was crying so much just so grateful for this nativity set so i'm sure that i will have this nativity set for the rest of my life it is just something that's very very special to me and i absolutely love [Music] every it [Music] is [Music] only when only you and me i'll be making plans [Music] it's going down on christmas days [Music] so something that i would love for you guys to do if you see something in my home that you kind of would decorate a little bit differently i would love to hear your thoughts honestly a lot of you guys had given me different ideas in my last video and i loved hearing different ideas that you guys had like someone had said to add a north pole sign to above our world christmas map i thought that was such a cute idea and i think a lot of times we just get stuck in our own minds of like this is just how i decorate something or decorate like a certain space and getting kind of like a fresh set of eyes on a space can be so beneficial and just making a space feel brand new so if you guys ever have any kind of suggestion on changing something up whether it be a furniture piece or just a way i decorated something i would love hearing your suggestions you guys always have amazing things to share so if you have anything to share like that definitely leave it in a comment i would love love to hear it [Music] all right so it is the next day obviously it's like super bright out now it's actually snowing but it's snowing so lightly that i don't think you'd be able to tell if i show you but if it picks up i'll definitely show you but look i have corresponding headband and shirt i feel pretty put together right now but anyway so last night or yesterday i got all of the living room decorated and also the entryway area decorated we still have that mess to clean up later but today we are going to be focusing on the kitchen and then i think i'm also going to be doing the railings um just going upstairs and just kind of lining those with probably garland and maybe some other stuff but i haven't 100 decided yet but i actually forgot that i had decorated after i went to bed last night and so i woke up and walked out here and it just made me so happy to see like all of the winter wonderland decorations and just everything feeling so cozy in here so i am super super excited to get going with this today and then also i think luke and i are going to decorate our hot cocoa bar that's always my kids favorite thing for christmas or like as far as christmas decor goes so we are going to tackle that as well but we have a lot to get done let's go ahead and get back into it [Music] [Music] that is [Music] oh [Music] is [Music] so the last thing that i wanted to add was just this garland i might end up adding something to that and honestly i might end up changing some decor here and there um but i'll definitely be adding a few more things once we add our stockings and our christmas tree and everything but i love the look of the garland just kind of strung around the banister i feel like it brings your eye up and also just makes everything look really wintery and really full and fluffy and then i also love adding some little fairy lights you can get these all over the place for pretty inexpensive but it's such a small touch that ends up adding a lot especially as it's getting darker earlier and earlier as the year goes on and it's something that you can really enjoy in the evening [Music] okay so i think that everything is all decorated but we are gonna start working on the hot cocoa bar now so typically luke and i end up doing this together however i called him up to see if he wanted to come help me with that today and all the boys were like super excited to all do it together so i was really excited to see that just everybody wanted to be incorporated into this so all three of the boys and i are going to now transform this kind of bland station into a magical hot cocoa bar and i cannot wait it's like one of our favorite things [Music] so to make our hot cocoa bar i wanted to make sure that it was very affordable and also just not super crazy and super busy i wanted it to be just all the things that we needed and not a whole lot more just to kind of keep it a little bit simple so i will have everything that i can find online linked here but i got our cups from walmart they were only a dollar i got the trays at target and then i also grabbed the cup hanger from amazon and a few other things i will link down below for you guys but i love how everything turned out so the first thing that we wanted to do when we were making our hot cocoa bar was just kind of set everything up and see how we wanted to style it on the area and kind of see what would make sense and then once we got that set up then we started adding in all of our treats and goodies into the different containers and i feel like that just made everything a little bit easier but it was so much fun having the boys be included in this and just have them be part of the process and i think it's made them enjoy this hot cocoa bar even more than the past years just because all three of the boys were very much included in this process [Music] do [Music] [Music] dashing through the snow in a one-horse open sleigh [Music] we seriously love having a hot cocoa bar each year it's something that i started several years ago and it's been so so much fun to have set out because it just kind of encourages us to take it slow a little bit and just kind of relax with a hot drink we usually either have hot cocoa or hot apple cider or something like that sometimes kyle and i will have some herbal tea let me know in the comments what your favorite hot drink is and also if you enjoy hot cocoa or things like that what is your favorite topping for it i don't know if my kids have a favorite topping i feel like they put as much of each topping as they can in their hot cocoa they were putting like chocolate kisses in there they're putting sprinkles they're putting a ton of marshmallows and honestly they would add even more if we had it available in the hot cocoa bars all the way oh what fun it is [Music] [Music] christmas lights see them shine in the eyes of a child let them shine i used to be one of them christmas tree in the sun let them shine as i fell for your spell [Music] so this is how everything turned out upstairs i love this so much i feel like it is very simple and not really overdone but there is enough that it just feels very warm and cozy especially in the evening when we have the fire going and the twinkle lights on it just feels like a winter wonderland in here and it's just so cozy to just snuggle up and hang out but i'm super curious to know which style you like better do you like upstairs how i decorate it up here more muted and neutral and just kind of in that winter wonderland type theme or do you like how i did everything in the basement in part one where i incorporated a lot of red and white and just kind of made it a little bit more traditional and whimsical i think i kind of like the winter wonderland theme personally however for the kids i feel like i just love the candy cane themed just very fun and whimsical for kids i really do love all of it but i think my very favorite part is the diy christmas village just because it ended up looking really magical to me and it's always something that has been on my wish list and i kind of got to incorporate that finally into my decor this year i am so so thankful that you are here i hope you really enjoyed watching this video and just enjoyed hanging out with a friend i hope you have the most amazing day and i will see you in my next one bye guys [Music] like a big family in this [Music] merry christmas don't you want to [Music] don't you wanna [Music] hey guys welcome back to my channel today we are going to be hanging out in my bedroom bathroom and closet we are going to be starting out just by cleaning up our bedroom and bathroom but the main focus of today is actually going to be tackling our master closet it is very disorganized right now to say the least it's very just overwhelming and i have felt such an overwhelm recently with just stuff in our home and i am actually going to be sharing a whole house decluttering series in the new year just because i really want to go more minimal with things and just bring a lot more peace into not only our house but into our mind and just into our life i'm definitely excited to do that but some things cannot wait to the new year and my closet is one of them so today we are going to be really decluttering and organizing my closet i'm going to be getting rid of anything that i don't need in there anything that i don't use and i'm just so excited to not only get this done for us and be able to enjoy that space now but i'm also excited to share this motivation with you guys because i know it will be just a lot of real life motivation like i always share we have a ton to get done today so let's go ahead and jump on into it to get some money for some stuff that i need swear the atm machine was laughing at me but i don't let it affect me so the first thing that i wanted to do in here was just start by tidying up my bed i have told you guys so many times but just making your bed makes a huge huge difference in how your room feels and how much cleaner it feels it also really boosts my productivity i've noticed and i have done this pretty much every single day for the past several years it's just made a huge difference in how my day goes if i start out by making my bed and so i have challenged you guys before and i will say it again i challenge you if you do not already do this to go ahead and make your bed for the next week make sure you do it almost every day and it will be amazing it will probably blow you away just to see how big of a difference it can make and if you do take me up on that i would love to hear a little update on how it goes and just what a difference it ends up making for you but anyway moving on to cleaning the rest of my room i just started tidying up my nightstand and i also tidied up all my slippers you guys know i have a little bit of an obsession with slippers and i recently found some that actually have arch support which has been incredible for me because i actually have nerve damage in my legs and i have really really bad foot pain and leg pain and so finding slippers that actually help me have been amazing but because i found those ones i've been able to declutter a lot of the old ones that just didn't really support me in the way that i needed and so as i go on throughout today my main focus is going to be the clothes and things in my closet however while i am just kind of cleaning up and tidying up i am going to be decluttering a few things here and there like my slippers or cardigans or robes and doing that just makes things a little bit nicer because you are decluttering but you're doing it while you're cleaning and so it doesn't really feel like you're taking on any extra work you were just killing two birds with one stone [Music] good vibes [Music] good me vibes little thing is gonna be [Music] [Music] okay [Music] [Music] so this is something that i have shared in the past but i love to slow vacuum my floors i probably do this about once a week i used to not do this near as often but i feel like i have just seen such a benefit there's been a little bit less dust in the air and everything just feels a lot cleaner knowing that i'm pulling all this extra out of my floors so what i like to do for still vacuuming is i will just go through one room and do a regular vacuum on the floors and then i will empty my desk canister so that i know that i'm starting brand new and then i will go through the room very very very slowly with my vacuum and just see how much more it pulls up now the fast parts that you're seeing here is actually sped up 20 times but then i will slow it down so you can see exactly how slow i'm actually going and it does take about five minutes for me to do my entire room just because i am going very slow but it is really amazing to see how much more you can get out of your flooring when you do slow vacuum i don't necessarily think it's something you need to do every single day or every single time you vacuum but definitely a couple times a month i think it's very very beneficial to do this so if you have not already done this before i would definitely urge you to try it out [Music] okay so the bedroom is all cleaned up now i actually have a little basket over here already started that i'm going to be donating but obviously there's going to be tons more in our bedroom but it does feel so nice i love like the calm before the storm when you're decluttering i always like to clean the space before decluttering and that way i'm just starting with a clean space instead of just kind of adding to the chaos and that way i also know everything is in its place and it just helps me know what exactly i want to keep and what i don't want to keep but now that the room is looking amazing it's time to tackle the bathroom and then destroy the room a little bit more when we add all of the clothes and everything from the closet [Music] so here in the bathroom i am not doing a deep clean this is definitely not like a super ultra deep clean in the bathroom but i did just want to make sure to give it a few minutes just to kind of tidy everything up wipe down the mirrors and then wipe down all the countertops it's amazing what it can do for your bathroom and how much cleaner it can feel when you actually clear everything not necessary off the counter tops and then just give it a good wipe down it just feels like a whole new space and just to keep things nice and simple in here i am using my e-cloth general purpose cloth as well as my e-cloth glass and polishing cloth you can find these on amazon and i have them actually saved in my amazon favorites which is always linked in my description box and then you can also find them on the clef website and i have a link for that as well along with a coupon code that will give you i believe 10 off your orders so if you have not tried out e-class i would definitely suggest trying them out they use just water and they are amazing [Music] bright lights [Music] all right finally we are done cleaning in the bedroom and bathroom and so that means we are to the closet which i am probably equally excited and overwhelmed about but there's just no there's nothing to do but just start i'm not entirely sure on where i want to start today so i think i'm going to start by just taking all of this out and i think i'm also going to get rid of this because honestly i end up not using this much and it's just a place for me to store more stuff instead of getting rid of things i'm not using and then once i get a floor that you can actually walk on i'm going to start tackling the clothes and pulling all those out and then going through that we'll get this done we'll get it done [Music] is falling down [Music] now as i'm decluttering today i am just being really really honest with myself and not letting myself be so attached to things that i never use or really don't benefit me every single thing in my home either benefits me or it doesn't and if it doesn't benefit me then it ends up costing me something either time devoted to managing it or this space to store it and honestly at this point in my life i just do not want to spend either of those things on something that does not benefit me and bring some kind of good into my life and i also know that the things that i am not using can actually benefit somebody else and so that's why i'm just trying to be really tough on myself and just donate the things that i really genuinely don't use [Music] [Music] all right so i have all of these taken out of my closet as you can see this is obviously how i have my hangers like hanging this way but these are ones from last time basically all the hangers i hung backwards but these are all the shirts that i have not worn a single time since my last [Music] decluttering as i was going through this process and starting to declutter my clothes and just kind of go through everything i was honestly really just confused of how this all happened which i know probably sounds totally crazy honestly a lot of times i thrift them i feel which i always feel pretty good about because i'm just kind of reusing clothes and i also am getting a really good deal on them however i do have to keep in mind that even though i might be getting a great deal on a new top or something if it's not something that i absolutely love i'm probably going to end up just keeping it in the back of my closet and not wearing it and it will end up being something that will just declutter in my mind and clutter in my home and it's an item that i'll probably end up decluttering a few months later and so i feel like every time after i do these big decluttering projects i end up being a lot more conscious with what i actually purchase and what i bring into my home because i just do not want to have to devote this much time and effort into decluttering things that i really never loved in the first place so i would urge you to do some decluttering in your own home i know we all have something here and there that we can declutter and it really makes you not only have more peace and calmness in your life having less things but i feel like it also just puts things back in perspective and helps you kind of be a little bit more mindful with what you are bringing into your home and what you are purchasing falls down falls [Music] till the sky [Applause] [Music] i got rid of over half and it was honestly there were a few that i was like unsure of i'm just kind of can i think about but most of them were so easy i was like i haven't worn this in forever or every time i put it on i always take it off because i don't like how it looks or how it fits or it's just not my style and so i have gotten rid of all of these were full i literally had gotten to the point where i didn't even have enough hangers in my closet and now i have so many extra these ones i actually love they're like uh they're not the velvet they're kind of like a rubber but these ones are ones i had had previously and they're really hard to get the clothes on and off and so i'm going to be getting rid of all of those hangers and then just keeping these ones this already feels so good i can't wait to like clean out the area in the closet and then start putting this back in and just see how much more space i have so i might even get rid of more but this is a really great start [Music] as i'm putting everything back into our closet i am turning all the hangers backwards so that i'm able to do an easy declutter in a few months so basically if there end up being any shirts that i have not worn in the next six months i will not have flipped the hanger over and those will be the ones that i know i just do not use and those are ones that will be easy for me to declutter i've shared this tip in the past but it's just such an easy one and it's so so effective so if you do not do this i would definitely recommend doing this one as well [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] so here i'm just starting out on kyle's clothes i know probably a lot of you guys are like oh my gosh my husband would flip out what are you doing i am not decluttering his clothes without him however i am getting the process started for him i do know which clothes he typically wears and i know which ones are either very worn out or just ones that he never tends to choose and so i just want to go through his clothes and set them aside for him and then he can decide if he does want some of the clothes i had set aside or if he agrees and just thinks those clothes are either too worn out or ones that you just never chooses and you can pass along to somebody else found a way [Music] something to keep in mind is that you can feel overwhelmed when our things are organized just because you have too many things so even if everything looks beautiful and everything is nice and organized if you have too much of something it can still feel very very overwhelming and a good example of this is if you've ever gone to a restaurant and you open up their menu and they have like four pages front and back filled to the brim of different items on their menu and you just cannot choose what you want to order because it's honestly just overwhelming and i know personally whenever i get money like that i feel like oh my gosh i wish they would have just picked a few things and just kept that on their menu and not given me like a hundred different options because it is really overwhelming when you just have too many choices in front of you and i feel like things in your house can be the same way like i said even if they are organized and i also feel like when you have less things and just a more manageable amount of things i feel like you're able to enjoy your organizing solutions a little bit more and it just feels actually even more impactful because your organizing solutions are really being utilized but they are not overflowing and packed full to the brim like for example these new pants hangers that i got for kyle's pants and shorts if we had 30 of them it would still work and everything would be nice and organized but it would still feel a lot more busy and it just would not have the same impact as opposed to having just 10 of these which means they all have room to breathe and it just feels like you have just what you need [Music] [Music] sometimes there is nothing lost between [Music] your us some days i'm a mess but i know there's a rainbow but this is [Music] all right i already have everything taken out i am going to leave these in here but this is where we store like our paper storage it has worked out really well for us it might not be like the most glamorous thing but they are really affordable and we just get as many as we need like we might have to upgrade to another one um i'll probably go through that but not today i'm gonna go through the paper storage with kyle sometime definitely see what you can scan into like they have different apps they have computer programs where you can scan things in and then just really see if you can like consolidate that but that would be like one of my biggest tips for paper storage and then anything that you have to have like birth certificates and things like that we just would keep that in those areas so kyle and i each have one and then we just have like an extra one and then we also have one for each of the boys so that's just kind of how we have set it up but i always get questions on how to handle paper storage and that's how we do it so anyway aside from that i have everything taken out and i'm going to go ahead and start going through it [Music] as far as all the bins on top of our closet go i am not really doing a whole ton of decluttering here i'm mostly just swapping the bins to create a more peaceful look since our previous ones were see-through and it just kind of made everything look a little bit cluttered up top and also the things that we store in there aren't really things that we access often they are more of like storage things like keepsakes papers things like that and so that's why i'm not really decluttering that area too too much i'm mostly just creating a better organizing solution for take me that to the nights we felt alive picking up the pieces on a summer night just like my heart's on fire whenever i'm with you cause we go back [Music] here is hoping for your voice on the telephone i know it's a super cut as you walk away playing in my mind all the things in finally the closet is completely done it looks a thousand times better at least it looks so nice and it's just so much more peaceful walking in there and seeing more closer to just what we need instead of just an abundance of things that we aren't even utilizing and somebody else can get a lot of use out of that so i'm gonna show you all the stuff that we are going to be donating and then just keep in mind with kyle's i do have a large pile for him we were probably going to donate a majority of it i'm guessing but kyle will be the one going through that before we actually go ahead and donate that and so he will just decide which ones he for sure wants to keep or not but like i said i'm going to show you everything that we decluttered and then i'll take you in the closet and show you the results [Music] cause i can't waste another night sitting here alone so here is the before and if you remember everything was just packed full to the brim there was way way way more clothes than we needed there was barely any floor space to walk into the closet easily everything was just kind of thrown about and unorganized in there because there really just wasn't room for everything and we weren't using all the items in there anyway and so we just did not need to keep on working with that problem and here is the after i cannot tell you what a breath of fresh air this feels like it just feels so spacious in here i feel like everything has room to breathe everything has a place that it belongs i feel like honestly we still could declutter more and i think i probably will in the future but this is a wonderful start to have and i just feel so grateful that this is done i really hope this inspired you to declutter a place in your home like i had mentioned earlier i will be sharing a whole house decluttering series on my channel in the new year so definitely stay tuned for that make sure that you're subscribed so you do not miss out on that i also do have a whole decluttering playlist on my channel so if you would like more decluttering motivation i will link that right here and you can go ahead and check that out and get even more motivation and ideas i hope you guys have the most amazing day and i will see you in the next one bye guys don't you wanna feel it don't you wanna don't you wanna [Music] hey guys welcome back to my channel today i'm going to be doing a whole house clean with me i have a ton to get done i'm going to be cleaning all the main floor getting lots of laundry done also cleaning the upstairs and also the entire basement so we have a ton of cleaning motivation coming your way i hope you will just hang out with me and either clean along with me or get motivation for later but without further ado let's jump into it [Music] [Music] feeling every spark shocked in my heart so obviously i'm starting out in my kitchen this is always my favorite place to start out just because i feel like it really propels me into getting really motivated to finish whatever is on my to-do list and in this case it is literally the entire house so i wanted to start out giving myself the biggest boost that i [Music] could [Music] is [Music] [Music] so i had a question that i wanted to ask you guys i was talking to someone recently and they had told me that my videos have just helped them a ton it's kind of pulled them out of a depression and i get comments like this or messages like this all the time and they always mean so much to me i think specifically because i've actually been in that position i've shared this in the past on my channel but i actually started my channel out because i was suffering from postpartum depression after our youngest was born and i was in a really really dark place and i ended up stumbling upon these videos and they really helped me just kind of pull me out of that depression and just get me back into doing things that i typically did as a homemaker and they really have just had such a huge impact on my life just giving me motivation to not only clean but just kind of take care of myself and just get back into things that i love to do and things that i enjoy doing in my life and so i really do love getting those comments and messages from you guys it really means so much that i can be a part of that journey for you guys now i know not all of you are going to be in that same boat of course but the question that i was wondering about is i would love to know when you found these videos was it within the last few years was it within the last few days or the last few months and i would love to hear what kind of impact they've had on your life if they've just been on the surface helping you get things done in your house that is amazing if they've helped pull you out of a depression if they've given you company and a friend especially during this crazy time with coven and everything no matter what the impact of them have been i would just love to hear a little bit about your story and kind of what they have helped you with [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] i know you're gold [Music] i keep thinking it's only us tonight i know that you're not looking for somebody but let me be the one so as you saw it is snowing here it's just kind of been snowing on and off for a few days and i have kind of loved it actually i feel like typically i'm not too much of a snow person i love seeing the snow on the mountains i love sitting inside and like watching it fall however typically we have to send our kids to school and i feel like i just kind of associate snow with all of the hassle that comes with it like you have to shovel your sidewalks you have to be careful when you're walking you don't slip everywhere you have to put 20 layers on the kids before they go outside and it's just such a big hassle but now that they have been home i feel like i've been able to enjoy the snow a little bit more and if they want to go outside and play in it that's great it's just not as much of a hassle doing it every single day for school because they are doing online learning but i mentioned this in a recent video i know that this last year has been so stressful and really hard in so many ways but i also think in certain ways it's been a blessing i've just always been trying to find the blessing in disguise on this and i feel like it's kind of caused us to slow down a little bit more in certain areas and that has definitely been a great blessing for us for example the snow is a really small thing but it's just something that is so beautiful that for years i would just kind of dread seeing snow and now i'm able to enjoy it a little bit more and i think it's something that even after all this is done i will hopefully just kind of try to take that with me and just enjoy things a little bit more and kind of take life a little bit slower even though it's always a bit crazy tell me that you wanna stay baby just don't walk away i need you now faded out all the time we spent alone fighting through the fires don't don't let me down i need you now cause i'm feeling worn out it's getting to me lost some heart trying to get on my feet [Music] next to me [Music] this is totally not cleaning related but i thought it was so sweet that i just wanted to share with you guys so i was obviously cleaning the living room and just kind of tidying everything up and we still had this big bowl of candy canes that the kids needed to put up on the tree and luke had asked me if they would be able to have one candy cane every day and i told him yeah i thought that was really fun just kind of a way to get a little festive during the holidays and they also are getting their advent calendar so they just have like a little chocolate every day as well and it was so sweet how excited they got they were like oh my gosh that means we get a guaranteed two treats a day i just thought that was the sweetest thing one because it was such a small thing and it also just made me realize that really we have so much to be grateful in life for even when things are crazy just try to do your best looking for those little small enjoyments in life and those things can make a huge difference in our lives i feel like i always am learning things for my kids and that was definitely one of them again it was a really small thing but just kind of being grateful for the small things in life can make a huge difference in your overall days i wanna be next to me [Music] so one thing that i get questions about a lot is my duster you guys see this in a ton of my videos and it's actually from grove collaborative but it also is over on amazon so i will have my amazon favorites link down below that you can go on there and kind of check out the things that i get from there or that are available on there that i have and this duster is definitely one of my favorites it's reusable and it works really really well [Music] so here i am just going to have our robo rock kind of vacuum up the hardwood floors and then i am going to be vacuuming and slow vacuuming our rug and that way because i do have so much to get done today it's just gonna be able to save me time but i'm still getting a ton done and i'm actually taking the extra time that i would have had to spend vacuuming the entire floor and just getting a much deeper clean honor rug [Music] [Music] hmm [Music] [Applause] [Music] do [Music] [Music] one of my cleaning dreams would be to somehow have like a robot vacuum that actually clean stairs i would buy that thing so fast and since we were talking about imaginary cleaning supplies what is like something that it totally doesn't exist but you would love like another one i can think of is something that would just put away all my clothes if something could just fold on my clothes or hang them up on hangers that would be [Music] amazing [Music] hmm [Music] from the greatest nights [Music] so once i got my diffuser going in the living room i moved into my bedroom and i recently did a closet declutter and also just like a bedroom clean and once i do a good clean on my bedroom i feel like it tends to stay clean for several days so it wasn't really too messy it was just kind of things here and there so i was mostly just picking things up and then of course doing laundry because there is always laundry to do no matter how much you work at it there is just always always more laundry but you'll have to let me know what is something that motivates you a lot i don't like doing laundry it's something that just takes a long time and it's so monotonous i feel so when i'm doing laundry i like to typically watch a video or watch a show or something or even just like talk with a friend or listen to a podcast if you guys have anything that works really well for you let me know in the comments and also i am always looking for a really good podcast so if you have any that you recommend that you love i would love any recommendations on a great podcast [Music] is [Music] memory [Music] when i hear this [Music] always so as i'm editing this video right now and i'm seeing my slippers these are actually one of the arch slippers that i had mentioned in a recent video and i got a ton of questions about so i will make sure to link my exact ones that i have below but like i said in that video i have nerve damage in my legs and so my feet and legs end up hurting a lot and so i just need some slippers that kind of give me a little bit more support and i have found a few of them i'm sure there are tons more out there but i have a few that i really like and so i wanted to pass those along to you guys [Music] [Music] as a boy mom i clean my toilets all the time i feel like almost every day i'm cleaning at least one toilet and it's one of the chores that again i truly dislike i feel like i should be pretty used to it by now having three boys and a husband but it's something that i still just really dislike doing if there was one chore that you could hire out like have someone come and do for you what chore would it be would you pick laundry would you do dishes would you choose floors i would 100 hands down choose cleaning the bathroom i hate cleaning the bathroom especially toilets i would love love love to hire that done however i also would feel like almost embarrassed of just how dirty they get sometimes and so i feel like i would probably go in there before someone arrived to clean them and i would just go in there and wipe them down myself which would totally defeat the purpose so i don't know if i would be comfortable enough having someone clean my toilets but if i was comfortable oh my gosh that would just make my life so much nicer i would love to not have to clean these toilets all the time [Music] [Music] [Music] hmm [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] i have been on a roll i have the entire main floor completely cleaned i got every single room now i am upstairs let's see down the hallway i'm kind of debating whether i'm gonna break this up into two days and do the basement tomorrow or if we'll just power through and get it done tonight i'm definitely gonna be having the boys help me out with that one i am so tired but it will be so nice to just have everything totally clean so let's keep going so every time i come up in the boys bathroom i always get questions about the boys toothbrushes that are up on the mirror and then also this little toothpaste dispenser that i have sitting up on the counter and both of them are amazing we love this whole system so i'm going to link them both down below the toothbrushes are actually from a company called quip and i'm not 100 sure about the toothpaste dispenser but i believe i got it off amazon so i will link all of it down below in case if you are interested in checking it out for your own family oh [Music] 10 million suns across the sky won't outshine my love for you far in the [Music] won't dark my love for you every hour every day every step along the way whatever storms may arise i'm forever here right by your side [Music] 10 million sons across the sky won't outshine my love for you far in the dark [Music] so both our guest bedroom and also my office are both places in our home that just accumulate clutter i don't really know why my office does so bad i know the guest room obviously is not being used a whole time especially this year but it's just kind of a place out of the way and so it ends up becoming kind of like a storage room and i really want to avoid just keeping clutter like that so i've mentioned this before but in the new year i'm going to be doing a whole house declutter i cannot wait for that i did share a video recently about my closet declutter and that was honestly such a relief to have that space done but just kind of being in these two places it made me realize even more than i already knew how badly we really do need these spaces decluttered so i cannot wait to share that with you guys and i hope that you guys will tackle your own spaces with me as well and we can just declutter everything [Music] together [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so all right it's actually the next day now i was so tired i just could not keep cleaning and i knew we had the entire basement to get done and it was getting late so i just knew like my best bet of getting everyone in a happy mood and to be really productive and not make this take away long time i decided to just wait until the next day so here we are the basement is a wreck i've shared this before but this is just where we hang out and it doesn't always get this messy but it doesn't always stay clean so we are going to as a family just clean up the whole main living area and then we are actually going to hop into each of the boys rooms some of the rooms are closed but we are going to hop into each of the rooms and i'm going to help the boys just kind of tidy up their rooms just to make it go a little bit quicker and then they also all have all their clean clothes that we washed the other day to go ahead and put those away in their drawers so they are going to do that as well but this is the end of it we have almost cleaned the entire house so i'm gonna get everybody down here and then we're going to get started [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] so one thing that we do love to do a lot is clean up as a family we typically have like a nightly clean up for about 10 to 15 minutes where we will just kind of tidy the main living areas of the house and we will do this together as a family because we are able to get a lot done in such a short amount of time and this has been something that kyle and i have been really trying to focus on teaching our kids just how much helping each other and coming together to do things can make such a big difference in either how enjoyable it is or also just how quickly you can get things done when you really work as a team and so i think that has been really fun to teach our kids and it also has been really helpful as a family just getting things done together like this but one thing that is totally unrelated to that that i did want to mention while we are down in the space is the reason that we have two tvs i get this question all the time especially if you've not seen my entire basement makeover series where i kind of talk on this a little bit more but the reason that we have two tvs is because kyle and i love playing video games together we often do this for date nights or just for fun sometimes and normally we would have to be in separate rooms which is totally fine but because we did finish this basement ourselves we were really able to kind of customize it and make it just we wanted and that was something that we felt would be so beneficial to us just being able to be right next to each other and just playing together like that so that's the reason that we have two tvs i know it's a little bit different and crazy but it's just something that's really fun for us and we love it [Music] yesterday [Music] no one else there's only one way out [Music] inside a prison view [Music] if it's true smoke before the fire no one else can slay the dragon sleeping inside of you [Music] find the moment [Music] take your banner and raise it to the sky [Music] find the moment [Music] take your banner [Music] [Music] since i met you i [Music] for me [Music] finally we are getting to the last few rooms in the house and that is our boys room so i started out in luke's room and i just took some time to help him go through his room and just make sure that everything was nice and clean this is something that typically our boys will do by themselves but sometimes i do like to come in and just kind of help them out it also is really kind of fun bonding time where we get to talk about different things and there's really no other distractions we're just kind of doing some simple chores together and it gives us a little bit of time to chat about things so there are several different reasons why i enjoy doing this with our kids but that is definitely one of them [Music] i was [Music] for me [Music] one tip that i would love to share with you guys is in your kids room specifically or if you have like a play room any time that you can set up really simple organizing solutions it is going to make cleanup so so much easier especially when they are cleaning on their own it just makes it so that they know exactly where everything goes there's no question and there's really no reason at that point that they can't do things themselves especially when you're not around to help them out with it and it made me really thankful for that as i'm editing this video just watching and seeing how liam really knew where everything went he didn't have to ask me where certain toys went he knew exactly where to put them and i know that that is totally because we have put those organizing solutions in place and i know that it's just been such a game changer since implementing those staying pretty busy all i wanna do is get drunk on happiness [Music] good vibes [Music] good vibes [Music] all right finally we are in noah's room which is our youngest little boy's room he is one who really struggles getting started with things like this and so a lot of times i will try to do games with him and just kind of keep him a little bit more interested in this and i actually also did this with liam when we were doing his clothes we counted 220 together to see if we could get all of his laundry put away in two minutes and that just gave him a little bit of excitement and motivation for doing a chore that is really not fun for anybody but sometimes doing that kind of stuff with kids can make a huge difference and in noah's room he and i had a race just to see who could clean up the most first so i took on legos and he took on cars and he totally won and beat me he was so motivated so he stayed really focused during that time and just doing things like that are so simple but it makes a huge difference in not only the experience of it but also it saves you a lot of time and frustration when your kids actually are motivated like that as opposed to you having to harp on them the entire time just like staying focused so that's a great tip if your kids are having a hard time staying focused do something fun and play a little game it will make a huge difference [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] me [Music] [Music] me [Music] all right we have done it the entire house is cleaned from top to bottom that took forever but it was so worth it i hope that you really enjoyed this video and i got you tons of motivation or if you cleaned along with me i hope you enjoyed some of the tips that i shared and also just enjoyed cleaning along with a friend i hope you have the most amazing day thank you so so much for being here i am so grateful for you don't forget to subscribe down below if you are not already enjoying this family and i will see you in my next one bye guys [Music] uh

Channel: This Crazy Life

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Length: 150min 42sec (9042 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 04 2021