NO MORE CLUTTER! How to DECLUTTER & ORGANIZE your home

welcome to this week's video today we are going to be doing two spaces a haul closet SL linen closet in an art closet we're going to be pulling everything out trashing it all and organizing what's left I am so glad you are here today let's get [Music] started starting off in the linen closet this is also her haul closet so we are going to be pulling everything out I'm going to show you step by step what I got and why I do what I do to help you on your journey of decluttering as well whether it's a kitchen bathroom bedroom or cabinet it does not matter you can use these tips and tricks every time any of the really girly or younger age sheets I just need to take those off the bed and was them okay you need anything okay the rest of it I think you took them AP I think I did some homeless person is using it to Shield them from the y [Music] mhm so what I always do is I keep two pairs of sheets and that includes one that's on the bed so only one in the cabinet you have to tell me if you're comfortable with that or we can keep everything that's there I don't want anymore I I need to order white on that's what I do white for the entire house so that's a little hack that I keep for my home if I have all of the same Linens it helps me keep everything organized and that way I'm not worried about washing one particular set if I know that I have all white then if it kind of gets mixed up it's okay so my boys upstairs Drew and Liam have full size and queen siiz beds so they have a set for their room and then the other boys have twin and again all of those are white it just makes it so much easier also if they're all way I can just throw everything in the washing machine at once so if you are needing to get some Linens definitely look into just getting white ones I know in the past I said I don't do character sheets and I don't but I will embrace the getting like blankets and things like that for them the only reason why I don't do patterned and colored sheets because in case they decide they're not into them anymore and I don't want to waste that type of money [Music] [Music] [Music] once I got everything off of the shelves I decided to come down below and get all of the games I'm also Al going to give this area a good clean up I was going to use her vacuum but unfortunately the battery was no longer working so a good sweeping always does the job I also like a broom because it does a great job of getting around the baseboards so when you are going to be decluttering and organizing a space I want to encourage you once you get everything pulled out give it a good wipe down even the walls and things like that it would be really helpful to wash all of that as well [Music] okay so we emptied everything out now she's going to go through all of those things decide what she wants to keep and what we can get R up you know I always have to catch my breath I am now placing these baskets in here they're from Target the bright room line and these are the 13in seagrass baskets I like them because you can put them differently like this if you want but it just depends on what you want to do I'm keeping them like this cuz it takes up less valuable um hallway real estate if you will so I'm going to place all of these in here and then I'm going to decide what goes in each but first I wanted to figure out the placement because that's key I know I need to organize the games and some toiletries sheets and whatnot this is a really good way to organize but not see all of the stuff so um for me personally I get overwhelmed with clutter so I like to do things like this or even like a frosted bin I don't want clear acrylic bins where there's going to be a lot of stuff visible so under my sink in the bathroom um under the sinks in the kitchen I'll do acrylic all day but when it comes to something like this especially when this is open and just a curtain I don't want to see all that stuff for me it looks cluttered even if it's perfectly done it looks cluttered so you have to choose what works for you for me that's what I like to do luckily you have these options you have frosted you have colored ones so you can decide these never go out of style baskets never ever go out of style and especially because it's around the new year you have so many people decluttering and organizing thrift stores of any kind have a plethora of baskets now you might not be able to find the exact ones and maybe you will but always keep your eye out these were all on sale I got all of these for her just as my gift to her to um to do this because this is something that's really been weighing heavily on her she's got people coming this is the walkway it can be open we have curtains but it can be open we want to make this functional and aesthetically pleasing that way if the curtains are open it isn't you know a huge ey sore I did also get these really sturdy um home edit Line This is the large bin I love this because you can stack it I have been so pleased with their line so this is going to be perfect for places it's a little more um compact super sturdy that's going to be great for down here so I want to stop and talk about each thing so there's an idea of why I'm doing what I'm doing these are also the home edit Line This is the 10x10 these are by far my favorite I love that there's like a lip on it right here that kind of protects it if you have like um it's not a smooth surface this doesn't get messed up I love that see it still spins I also bought these this is the medium storage bin from Main Stays from Walmart I'm going to have this on the top because I can put things like overflow like extra toiletries in here things that you really don't want to to see like that now I am someone that likes things very how do I put it very symmetrical and so that can sometimes be a challeng look perfect oh yes five on the dot then I can do another one here here nothing is permanent yet but here's an idea of the layout before I even decide where things are going now the kids she has three kids and um I want this type of stuff to be where they can access access it so toilet paper would be really good here maybe some games and we'll figure it out they might not need all these bins but then we can evaluate then they had kind of made these makeshift dividers which is really genius they just cut them and then zip tied it and that's awesome so it already has dividers I can put the um sheets or I can actually put towels in here and then I can do sheets in here I always like to put sheets in my basket because I will often take the basket into the room when I'm making my bed so I had mentioned this in a couple videos ago but if you don't remember I was mentioning how sometimes with kids they can be really ATT attached to things I mean it's not just kids all of us can be emotionally attached to things or have reasons why we don't like to get rid of things and with her kids they really struggled the oldest son he he doesn't mind he's ready to get rid of everything the middle daughter she say she's ready to get everything get rid of everything but once we got started she was holding on to so much stuff and so I had to give her the freedom in the space to make those decisions in her own time and let her to it to where she feels comfortable where she's in control the last thing I want to do is come in here and just start getting rid of all of their stuff it may have no significance to me but for them it's their stuff so especially the uh youngest daughter she really struggled I had to actually have a um agreement with her and just told her listen we're going to go through your items and if there's anything that you don't want me to get rid of we willon and if there's something you want to think about we'll put it to the side and I had to constantly remind her that that is what I was going to do that I was going to keep my promise and not throw away any of her special stuff because I could see that it was really drawing out this emotion in her so what I did is had both of the girls come and help me go through their items and so some of the things that they said they wanted to keep I would put over to the side and then I would show their mom is this something that you want to keep and sometimes she said yes and sometimes she said no and then I would at that point let her make the decision in another time now there were some things that they wanted to keep that really we didn't know why they wanted to keep it we thought just maybe because you know kids like to keep things it was broken it was torn apart the um parts of it were missing so things like that again we just put to the side and then their mom took care of that she also just to make it not so difficult for them filled up bags and put them in the trunk of my car my boys put them in the trunk of the car that way they didn't see it and because that can be really hard too like we will get rid of things and we'll put them in bags and a lot of times those bags will sit in the back of our car or somewhere in the house for a very long time now sometimes that's because we're busy that's my excuse and it's out of sight out of mine but sometimes it's because actually letting it go taking it to the donation center taking it somewhere else is another part of that letting go and it's not always easy so if you know that's you have a friend or a partner or whoever take that for you take it to the recycling center take it out of the house and so you don't have to see it because if you know yourself and you know this is a difficult process just really give yourself some space to be able to work through each section each part of the emotion that may come up this can be a really beautiful and liberating process but you don't want to push it to you mean you want to push yourself but you don't want to get too I don't know too over the top with it to where you regret it and then you regress and don't want to get rid of anything again so just give yourself some Grace and you know Little Steps make really big progress [Music] so I had already had the placement as you saw so I started bringing things back in here just to see how it fit this was kind of like a trial and then I was letting myself move things around as needed this really worked out really great for this area it looked beautiful everything she had gotten rid of so many things that putting it back in here was just a breeze if you do have little kids I want to remind you and encourage you to make sure you're putting the light stuff lower down um you don't want to add really uh heavy things down there because you want them to be able to access it access it access it you know what I'm saying and like so that's the light stuff so we did like the toilet wipes and extra rolls of toilet paper things like that down below that way if they need it they're not not needing you to get it for [Music] them so there are three bedrooms in this house and so I did the Linens in three separate baskets so the girls have their Linens in one basket the son has his and then the parents have theirs that makes it super easy you can put everything right where it goes and then when you need to go and make the bed it's right there for you you don't have to sift through it and you already know the size that's in there this is something that I do whenever I get these containers I feel like when I get the ones from home HomeGoods and TJ maxxx Marshalls I cannot stand the stickers on there I do not know why we have not come up with a better sticker process I know they do it so nobody steals but oh my gosh it is such a pain in the tail when you get it home so I will have a hair dryer on the spot if I know I've got a lot of stickers to take off a hair dryer is so great to be able to just heat it up and it will usually melt off pretty [Music] quick I wanted to give you guys a before so you can see how it looked and you the transformation is incredible I had filmed this portion back in January hence why I said after the new year when I was talking about the baskets so it's been quite a few months obviously I also had very long hair then to which PS I really miss it but here is what it looks like with the after it is beautiful everything is organized easy to get to and very beautiful if I might add myself [Music] so we are back here and it is actually several months later you guys and you'll see because now I will have short hair but this is her you know school supply Art Supply just throw everything in there because I don't want to see it closet paper clutter old mail you see what I'm talking about this is another area that when I came over and she was showing me places that just really overwhelm her it was the hul closet this her closet her son's closet the kids closet which you guys saw me already do that room and another closet that I will be doing in another video so I'm not able to get over there right now I was going to try to get over there this week but I just can't so I came over and brought the kiddos with me as you can see there's Miss Emma and we are just going to pull everything out so this house is going to be slowly but surely turning into her dream home but we have to make it work for now and I encourage you guys to do that too don't hold your breath for when your house looks exactly the way you want it or look like somebody's on the internet go ahead and make it work for you now whether or not it's your dream or not this is where you're at and you can make anything look nice listen you can make anything look nice so I pull everything out now my sister-in-law is the best at getting rid of stuff her issue isn't getting rid of stuff her issue was simply that it just collects so quickly that it becomes overwhelming and then it just goes behind the closed door and then she doesn't deal with it anymore but when it is go time oh my goodness that girl will pull out so many trash bags and she trashes everything I'll show you at the end of the V video how many trash bags just this one cabinet got out so she is such an amazing person she can do such a great job so this is a perfect example of body doubling we've talked about this before that is why these videos do so incredibly well for people body doubling that is where you can basically when someone is with you and they can do the task with you or just be there and it can help you get things done these videos are so good because it does the same thing even though we are not there together we are still basically doing the same thing whether it's cleaning or organizing or decorating so yeah she does an amazing job we got rid of about almost four trash bags and so we're taking care of all of the paper clutter and going to organize everything in here [Music] [Music] this is always very interesting when we're trying to do this with kids especially young kids that need you a lot thankfully this was a very entertaining closet so or cabinet so when we pulled everything out Emma was very entertained by a lot of it now this was a really good thing to do because I did not come in here with all of these bins bins can be really expensive and the ones that I did previously in the other section of the hall closet they were expensive it was my gift to her but that's not feasible it wasn't feasible for me right now and it wasn't feasible for her right now so I just came in here with absolutely nothing except for what was already here and I was excited to show you guys this because that is the reality I think more times than not we can't go out and buy a whole bunch of expensive bins I mean yeah it makes it look so beautiful but I'm going to show you how everything looks without buying one single solitary thing so at the beginning of the video yeah those are some expensive bins they were on sale they're not over the top from like The Container Store or places like that but it cost some money and here this was absolutely free this is using what we have this is getting creative with this [Music] space one thing I did recognize while going through this decluttering in her home and like I said I've got more spaces to do is she has the same things in M multiple areas and that is one of the things that she and I both want to fix so we have games in the linen closet we have them in kids closets we have them in this craft closet the um other Closet in a bedroom so I would like to come in here and just put everything in one spot I think once I do that she'll realize she needs a lot less things to hold the stuff so I plan on taking all of these games organizing them because they love their games into the back bedroom closet everything will be there and it will definitely take up some space but then you'll realize you don't need to have like this extra Supply Closet you won't need to have things in the linen closet bins for the linen closet so as beautiful as this Omar is I think it's actually her father-in-law's we could take everything in here and we could move it somewhere else to work better because like I said even so the games but even the um supplies certain school supplies and arts supplies she has a whole collection in her girls room as well so I would like to have one central location where everything is I encourage that for you all as well so whether it's you know batteries or Keys coins games paper anything find one space for it and if that's a drawer then use that drawer but having things all over the house will only keep you really busy trying to locate everything you need [Music] some people don't like to clean and some people don't like to declutter and organize so if you're one of those people but you know it needs to get done for your own sanity then I want to encourage you to also get a friend to help you or just put on an amazing playlist or movie if you can do that I'm telling you it will help so much it's kind of like this and if you're like a science geek like I love neuroplasticity I love neuroscience and all the things so I can get lost in learning about that stuff but it's like this you know what dopamine is it's the Feelgood drug it's a good Feelgood hormone it's what makes you feel amazing I was almost going to say drug but you know what I mean anyway it's the Feelgood thing in your head and when you're feeling good you're feeling full of love you're feeling energetic and motivated that's your dopamine kicking in so when you get that step of coffee and that's the dopamine kicking in when you go shopping and you hit add to cart that's the dopamine kicking in so if you know you know and I would encourage you guys to dig deeper in this but the science behind it is if you can couple a an enjoyable activity with something you don't love it will actually trick your brain into thinking it's more enjoyable than it actually is example you don't love to clean you don't love to do dishes but you just you do love a song so turn your song on listen to it and you're going to get pumped up to hear that song and do a task that you don't love to do and your brain will start to to couple that task with that song you love and then when you start thinking about washing dishes you will get that same excitement that same feeling I know it's crazy it seems way too easy but it is it's the same thing if you don't like to study you don't want to study but you do love a movie or you do love a playlist or you love being with a certain person then do that unenjoyable task with someone or something that is more enjoyable and it will make your whole life change if you can add that if you can put that to every aspect of your life you will find that doing the things that you don't love to do the mundane things the draining things the things that you dread and you just are like I don't want to do it if you can put a task that you actually love with it I'm telling you it is a game changer I want you to try it you've got to try it it will change [Music] everything I was going to add and if you really want to to send the message home you really want your brain to associate that thing that you don't love to do with something that uh you do drink coffee a glass of tea your favorite drink with that task that is that is something else I'm telling you it is like next level so when I know I need to do a deep clean in the house I will always brew a cup of coffee or make myself some homemade sweet tea and I'm telling you it's like oh yeah we are going to get this thing going I also like to do this for the kids too because they don't know the ins and out of all of this but it works like a charm if things are hectic in your home and that energy feels High and the air just feels tense I want to encourage you to add a song turn on a song or something like that and it will help so much it will completely change the mood in the house I've done it so many times especially if like we're getting later to the day we're all kind of stir crazy and Mama's patience is really running thin you throw throw on a really good playlist and it's like it takes a minute it takes a minute for the kids to realize like well you got to do something with yourself but it works like a charm and I'm telling you it just brings the energy down it makes the house feel so much more calm it makes us feel more connected and accomplished it is like next level amazing don't put the kids on the tablets I know we have to sometimes but things get really stressful in your house just put on some good music [Music] [Music] okay my friends tell me what you think now this is a before and I have to show you the before so you can really really appreciate the after like I said we didn't spend one single solitary dime on organizing but she was ruthless on what she got rid of and this is the after I mean go ahead and like this video if you love it as much as I do do you go ahead and like this video if you're tired of buying things I'm so tired of buying things y'all so it was kind of like refreshing to know that I didn't have to worry about any of that I just came in here helped her she did a little body doubling just had me next to her she got so motivated she pulled out multiple trash bags and we did the darn thing okay we did the darn thing if you know you know I was so pleased with how this looks now this armoir is not going to stay here eventually on the other side it is a bathroom So eventually it's going to completely go back to her father-in-law's house and this is going to be a part of the bathroom but for now this is amazing now I am going to do another closet I'm actually going over tomorrow to do another closet and we are going to put all the games together like I said like items with like items but four bags four bags yes felt so good about it we were we felt accomplished and we were so proud of ourselves so I am so thankful that you were here with me today don't forget to subscribe if you haven't to post videos every single week and I'm just thankful time is the most precious commodity and you chose to spend it with me and I am so eternally thankful for you make this world a better place because you are loved see you soon friends bye

Channel: Lynn White

Views: 39,323

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Length: 29min 11sec (1751 seconds)

Published: Fri May 10 2024