Definitely a cricket here. 😬 Perfectionist, always putting things away and very stressed out if things are out in the open. My best friend is a butterfly and when I visit her I secretly dream of putting all her stuff behind closed doors so I can focus again. I know that I‘m very weird. 😂
I remember as a child being told to clean my room, and taking everything out of drawers, closets and turning around to see my mother horrified at the mess. To my mom, cleaning meant a quick pick up… to me it meant aligning my markers in my desk, folding every item in my dresser… etc. It would take my hours, but I loved the end result. This would drive her nuts. My mother’s style of cleaning, surfaces clean and don’t look in the drawers. Ahhhhh
Lol this is me and my husband! As long as nothings out my husband thinks a room is clean. To me unless everything is perfectly organized, the room is messy.
I am 100% a CRICKET! I thought you might put up a picture of me when you were describing a CRICKET! Total perfectionist here & find myself NOT doing something because I want it to be absolutely perfectly organized & put away. It can be paralyzing for any progress to happen! Even more so because I live with my husband & 14 yr old daughter who are absolutely NOT crickets!
👌Hi :) totally cricket too in the paperwork area :) since I discover this cricket category, I could understand how my brain works and needs and since i am learning habits that can help me :) I start to walk out more to let my crazy mind blows away and since I notice that I feel better , day after day :) and the days I do not go out many days, the overthinking craziness starts to come back.. ;) it is not an organisation tip at all ;) but if it can help the other tired crickets of their own extremism with their overthinking that sincerely made me even totally paralysed sometimes and even blocked me for evolving in the new dream work path and since i noticed how my brain works, i discover that some habits totally helps me and had impact on my ability to face and do :). Since I move and go out more, walking, cycling, breathing, doing concrete things, gardening, or even just going to the recycling point in the next corner, (as in france we have recycling point on the street sometimes for area and not in each house :) it allows the mental to breath and stop, it helps me to survive 😅 after the physical movement, I feel fresher and more energy to face the pile, as I come back with the positive effect of feeling to have accomplish something :) it can be other manual physical activity, cooking, repairing the clothes etc, depending on each one ability and facilities of course, so then I use that distance taken to dive directly with what stressed me before :) it really helps me to disconnect the mind and use our perfectionism :) to avoid the overthinking that blocks me before.. to turn it into a good thing ;) finally :) we can do it ! :) then i am not on ritual habit.. but I notice to do it more helps me to balance my mind, to let go a bit the overthink and to do more after a break as before I could even block on a task or hide it, and feel not to take a break until i did not find a way to organise this work project , over categorising ideas.. etc :) we can do it too, courage to all crickets and everyone of course :)
My dad's a cricket and has always had "death piles" of paper (yes, it's exactly what it sounds like - he even had a comic strip taped to his bathroom mirror for a long time that basically poked fun at that exact thing - the comic called it the "dining room table system", and I had crossed out "dining room" and written "kitchen"; my dad was the one who told me to tape it to the mirror, just to be clear), and back when I was in 12th grade he actually put one of my school essays in it (I think I had set it on the kitchen table or something like that); a week or two later, when I went looking for it but couldn't find it anywhere (I knew I had brought it home, so I knew it had to be *_SOMEWHERE!!!),_* when I told my teacher that that was likely where it had ended up, my teacher didn't believe me one bit (he basically accused me of outright lying, thinking it was a pretty pathetic and made-up excuse) and almost made me rewrite the entire thing (we had gotten our essays back to make edits before resubmitting), until my parents went through my dad's death piles on the kitchen table and, lo and behold, my essay *_was_* in there, and they promptly called my teacher and told him as such. My teacher was very careful about accusing me of outright lying after that.
A Cricket here too! Never could figure out how I was a perfectionist but had piles and projects everywhere. Thank you for clearing this up. Love how you make us all feel good about ourselves no matter which bug we are. 🦗
The clutterbug styles were such a help to me! I am a cricket living with a butter/bee husband. The breakthrough for me was when I realized what I really needed to do was declutter, rather than re-organizing all the time to make all the stuff fit.
I am 100% cricket! Through and through. Once I became a minimalist, and got rid of nearly everything…(and that really is not an exaggeration, the pandemic purge was real)..It made life so much easier. It became a joy to organize, because it is super easy to organize perfectly when you hardly have anything to organize!
I am with you! I went minimalist over five years ago when I had to downsize my Mom from 3,000 square feet to an 800 square foot assisted living apartment. I was not going to put my kids through that! With very few things left to organize, it's super easy!
@@queenofputrescence5167 This is definitely why the whole Swedish death cleaning thing has caught on. I told my parents, who have a lot of stuff, that when I become responsible for that stuff it’s going in the trash. I will choose a few items that are truly meaningful, that I know they love very much, and that I cherish. But the rest of it is goes. I didn’t say this quite as harsh as the way it sounded when I just wrote this. LOL but it helped, because they have since been motivated to start getting rid of things they don’t need or use anymore.
Piles! Oh my! That's how I knew I was a cricket. Afflicted with perfectionism and always procrastinating. A big part of embracing my organizing style is recognizing it doesn't have to be cricket all the time. I don't mind puting in the work to fold all my clothes and have categories on the shelves for my pants but am I interested in having multiple categories of files? Certainly not. Dealing with papers with a ladybug approach has lifted a lifelong weight off my shoulders. Finding solutions and organizing in ways that work for my lifestyle is more important than chasing perfection. Understanding how other organizing styles think has made me a more understanding person and has proved handy in job related settings, thank you so much!
This certainly describes me. I'm a cricket! I've managed the majority of my home. My piles are in my office. I don't even want to go in there. In fact the "Jaws" music plays in my head when I walk through. I must tackle this challenge!
Your comment of "just put it in order" for now and then decide on the best type of system is exactly what I need to get started. Believe me I'll analyze and plan it to death! At least I'll be able to walk through and not keep the light off! Thank you so much! I'll keep you posted!❤
Even when I was a very young child, I naturally gravitated to and loved organizing. Organizing is 100% fun. I am 100% a cricket. I feel incredible peace and relief when every item is in its hidden designated spot. I love being able to put my hands on any item I need within 15 seconds, use it immediately, and then return it to its spot the moment I am finished using it. I love clean mostly empty surfaces. Tasteful beautiful decorations are permitted, but they are kept to a minimum. 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗
Ms Cass, seriously this is amazing and NEEDS to be part of every pre-marital counseling!😁👍 It would save a couple from so many fights over silly, yet important stuff. Wow I also wish my Dad could hear this bcs he's totally a cricket and I wasn't so that was tough. Thx, great info!! I'm looking fwd to the next 2 videos!❤❤❤
I'm a cricket with a very low clutter threshold and too much stuff. I'm decluttering. I'm married to a butterfly who likes stuff, visible and spread out. I declutter around his things. Knowing about different thresholds and different styles makes it easier to find balance so we can both be comfortable in our home. Thanks, Cas!
ahaha! loved that you dressed in each video to match the organization style. (Yellow/black for bee, green for cricket, red/black for lady bug, etc.!) You pegged me in this cricket video! I am now going to try to settle for good enough. Wish me luck!
I was laughing out loud when you were describing a cricket because it was so spot on...as I put my pile of mail in my spare bedroom to get put in my filing cabinet because I wanted time to purge and file...do it right. I don't want help from others because they don't do it "right". I am 100% aware my need for perfectionism is annoying and totally unfair to others I hold to the same level. Glad to know there are others out there like me lol.
I too am a cricket in most things and a bee in others, but live with two butterflies. I can plan my life to death. Just never have the time (or help) to get it all done. I'm a work in progress.
Same here - all those piles adding to my to do list but never finding the time for that perfect system. And living with a butterfly husband 😆 but I recently embraced his butterfly persona after I learned about the different organizing styles on here - we now have baskets without lids everywhere. So much more maintainable than my previous complex systems - our place is so much more tidy and clean now. Things get done because it's so easy to keep up. It saved my sanity with two young kids 😊😉
Packing for a trip…. Agonizing for me… but I am always happy about putting in the time when we arrive. I remember when my 3 were little and I would prepare ziploc bags of complete outfits for every day, for each child, for a week vacay. My sister in law looked at my like I was nuts … she didn’t say it but I saw the look 😆
It's funny, my dad is a cricket and my mum is a butterfly so growing up I've seen how systems sometimes just don't work in a household. I'm also a cricket and my husband is also a butterfly so since finding this out I'm trying the ladybug method. Sometimes he'll put stuff away because it's easy (especially easier than my cricket system from before) but sometimes he forgets because it's out of sight and out of mind for him. I don't mind anymore, I now know he doesn't do this on purpose and because it's macro organized, I just put his stuff away in no time. Both happy and the house is clean 😊
Cass, I took your quiz awhile ago on organizing styles. I went back and forth on my answers but, in the end, came up as a Cricket. This video sealed the deal. Yep, described me to a tee. The firstborn perfectionist in me gets in the way sometimes. In my next life, I will be perfect. Today, good enough, is good enough!
Bless your heart on the car wax. ❤️ I know it was so upsetting when it happened but, as you said, you embraced it. And now…. a funny memory and a great story!
I'm basically a Ladybug but have longed to be a Cricket for decades. I've incorporated "normal" organizing systems that look great when I first set them up but those setups have a tendency to fail because, despite my efforts, I'm really a Ladybug. I have incorporated some of Nikki's organizing tips in my small galley kitchen and bathrooms but I know I would never keep up with most of her methods. I've finally learned to start with Ladybug techniques. I can always tweak them more Cricket-like if I feel I need a more detailed system (I usually don't 😁) Cass, your "Clutterbugs" are the most helpful way to help us identify how we can successfully manage our stuff. I can't thank you enough! XXOO ❤️
Total cricket here 🙋🏼♀️ Can't believe I "misdiagnosed" myself last year and thought I was a ladybug...this video describes be almost to a T, lol Thanks first to Dawn from The Minimal Mom, I began to slowly start letting go of the perfect system a couple years ago and just telling myself, "Okay, this isn't going to be precisely what I want, BUT, the baskets are pretty, and I can always change up how I use them." Lo and behold, these small improvements not only led to a feeling of confidence and success, but I also just felt generally better because it allowed me to face things on my own time (instead of feeling pressured and guilted by something sitting out for months and months!) Over time as I have continued to declutter, I have found that while I prefer to have things hidden away for visual simplicity, I also very much prefer to see everything I have when I open a door, drawer, or cupboard. I also realized after hearing Alejandra talk about preferring binders for important papers that a filing cabinet is not for me except on very rare occasions! So I am very much cricket, but also a little bit bee 😉
You need more visual and clear bins, everyday things should be broader categories so he can maintain it. More detailed sections for your things or less used things so it stays neat. I think the bee style is your best bet at compromise.
Setting him up with his own butterfly space is needed areas.My boyfriend is a ladybug, folding clothes was a big one, I solved that by just buying 4 bins, one for tank tops, shirts, shorts and sweatpants. Nothing is folded but his mess is contained to a bin and he can look through it himself. Or his keys and papers. A wire paper holder for loose papers and a tray for keys/things to empty his pockets on to. Hooks for a butterfly are helpful. Or a small bin for clean socks and one for dirty. I’m a butterfly so doing that helps me catch my mess and hold me accountable for it.
Amazing description of me! Your clutterbugs have also been helpful in understanding my dh. I thought something was wrong with him! He's a butterfly -- we just approach things differently. Very comforting to understand him better (after 35 years).
Hi. My name is Cheryl and I'm a Cricket. This is Crickets Anonymous, right? I just now put things (papers, craft stuff, random electronics, etc.) in neat boxes until I could get bins for them. This video came on and now I am going through those boxes and putting things in OK places just to get it done. I have organizing bins and cannisters on my Amazon wish list and will actually use them but now I see that some of the things I have now are adequate to organize until I can buy the perfect ones. Thank you for pinning me down perfectly. It's so great to know that I am not alone in my piles and binders! (yes, I have binders for everything) You are awesome!
Thank you for your channel! ❤️ You have helped me so much get my apartment decluttered and (on the way to) organized. I agree with your reasons I pile up papers (in a basket lol) and think I’ll get to it later and I would also add that my mind imagines this time of relaxation when I’ll have unpressured time to put them away, plenty of energy and motivation. Haha that hardly ever happens
This is 100% me, especially the piling. The way you explained why I pile made so much sense to me because I am a “if it’s not done right, why do it at all” type person. I love that this video helps me understand why instead of feeling like I’m a crazy lost cause. Lol
I actually waited a long time to watch this video because I didn’t think you could possibly know me or how to help BUT this video is so spot on. It was way more helpful than I expected it to be.
I am very much a cricket. The tendency of hyperfocusing on organization. (ADhD) I love how you explained it and I love that you did a whole video on every single one of your bugs, but I also have another part of me because I need it put away quickly. No lids I don't care what organization system it is I will follow it. Once it is put in place.
Totally a cricket! I remember(many years ago) my friend was not allowed to go out unless she cleaned her room. She sat on the bed not knowing how to start, meanwhile I was picking her things up, folding, putting things in closets, drawers and boxes. I have always loved organizing BUT I hate vacuuming, dusting and scrubing bathrooms! So my house is perfectly tidy just don't be doing the white glove test 😀
Mine is generally tidy and organized like crazy in the main areas of the house...but the master bedroom is where things get piled until they can be dealt with properly. Also not ready for any white glove test!!
I like your clutter concept. I took the quiz and it says I am a butterfly, but I really like learning about all of the styles. You are doing a great job with all of this, thank you!
I’m a bit of a mix of a Cricket and a Bee. It really depends on the space. Also, the way you were describing crickets (mainly when people touch their piles) sounds a lot like someone who is neurodivergent, more specifically an autistic person - I say this from personal experience. I get incredibly overwhelmed and upset when people move my things and touch my things (especially without asking) and don’t put them back where they were. Honestly, it was kind of comforting to hear that others feel this way about their piles/belongings.
Hello fellow neurodivergent Bee/Cricket! Haha I'm also a mix of the two organizing styles and have ADHD. Oh gosh, touching my piles or moving really anything is asking for trouble lol. I know where everything is... Unless it was just in my hand, then it's disappeared into a black hole to be spit out in a random spot and I swear I wasn't there!
Yep, also neurodivergent, cricket and hate when people move my piles! Now that I simplified my home though it is much easier to set up systems and now I just use everything I've set up.
Oh gosh! So true! I'm a cricket, my mom's a bee (dad is cricket, sister I think is part bee, part something else, maybe cricket, maybe butterfly, maybe ladybug, I don't know - I hardly ever go into her room these days). Asperger's and ADHD here (me for sure, I think my mom to a certain extent though she's never been evaluated), and while I admit I had way too much stuff at the time (I didn't start decluttering until after graduating from college), whenever I was away at college (way out of state, so I was home only for Christmas and summer), my mom would "organize" my room, and whenever I came home, I had literally no clue where anything was because she had moved it from where I had left it, and every time I came home, the room would inevitably become a giant mess because things weren't where I left them and I would be tearing things apart trying to find something at the last minute because it wasn't where it was supposed to be. I think what finally slapped her in the face hard enough to get her to stop "organizing" my stuff, though, was repeating the process over and over and over of me needing her to send me something, her asking me where it was, me telling her exactly where I left it, but her looking there and telling me "it's not there" (in a very irritating way), when *_SHE_* was the one to put it somewhere else, *_not_* me, and me basically yelling at her (remember, she always said "it's not there" in a way that implied that it was all my fault) "well, that's where I left it, so if it's not there, it's YOUR FAULT!!" Pissed me off so much back then, and still does 10 years later.
This has clarified things for me. I am a cricket, but I was brought up by butterflies and so there were no cricket systems set up so all I did was pile! I also want to put my things away when I have time to do it properly so I have created more laid back systems, like my paper pile is now a magazine rack so it's tidy until I can sort it later 🙂 My sock drawer is beautiful though 👍
I also totally don't read instructions. I bought mould resistant paint and used it as a primer on our walls. It wasn't until afterwards I read not to paint over it. So that was money down the drain. But Cas! My heart goes out to you for your beautiful truck! I would definitely have cried too 🫂
I love how you both gave me instruction and spoke to me like a friend who needs to hear, “relax!” I’m sharing this with my husband so he can see I’m learning and trying, lol I definitely do instructions and get very frustrated if I don’t feel they are written clearly because I’m not at all a figure it out as you person….shocker, I know.
This channel has been so helpful. Ever since I started organizing my house the conversation between the kids and me has changed dramatically. Instead of yelling at them I am asking them more questions. I am a cricket living with butterflies and a bee.
Jaw on the floor! There are more of me out there? Who knew?! Thanks for pointing out all my faults, it is information that was well needed. Now, I’m off to empty one of the shopping bags I have collected for each room.
According to the quiz I'm a cricket but I'm glad you mentioned a little bit of lady bug. I do have some micro-organized drawers and others that are not. Your tips have been so helpful. Thank you for being willing to help others too.
Weellll I’m obviously a cricket. And my husband is a saint. He’s so nice about things and wants me to be happy. So he puts all the forks in the right stacks. Very insightful about why I have piles everywhere. And that the answer to that is to simplify the organization ideas I have.
I’m a cricket….yup! I have watched every video from @home with Nikki and Alejandra Costello…it makes my heart flutter! ❤️ I don’t make piles though….I make a system just like you were talking about that holds me over until I can get back and tweak it to perfection. I have a few spaces that I need to work on, but I’m still waiting to find just the right organizers and then make my labels. Why yes, I am giddy just talking about it! Ha! Have a great week!!
For the first year or so of taking your Clutterbug test, I really thought that I was a Ladybug. But now I know that I'm very much some part a cricket, soooo I'd love to share my thoughts on this video from both sides of this coin!!! I can TOTALLY understand how frustrated a cricket can be when anyone else moves there piles!!! I used to be in accounting & when I was in the middle of huge reconciliations, but another project came up to interrupt it, I would take my desk blotter (that otherwise lived on top of my filing cabinet for just such events) and put it over my current paperwork. Then pull out new stuff to do on top of the desk blotter. This way, I could keep my place with the large project safe underneath the blotter intact!!! Soooo, I totally agree that I don't like to put away things that I'm not done with;) BUT ALSO I can TOTALLY UNDERSTAND that other people would get sick of seeing the crap left out in piles before I finish my projects, because I SOMETIMES DO TO (my ladybug side)!!!! And that's when I go around and start shoving everything in sight inside drawers and cabinets all willynilly until I free up my ladybug brain space again to my peace and calming visual space again!!! And I guess bc I'm in the middle of the 2, I only like filing cabinets that are SUPER FAST AND EASY to file (I set up a 1 file for each month folder system when I was an accounting manager! Talk about FAST & EASY! Just shove it all for that month into 1 hanging folder and move on with my life, eh mm, I mean work lol 😂 I used that system for YEARS at various companies!!! But the cricket in me also kept the entire monthly close on my desk throughout the week until I was finished with it. I never was one of those people who put away all their papers each night just to pull them all out again every morning, ugh!) And my bins & baskets in my cabinets at home are actually super detailed where everything goes inside each one, but no lids or covers to slow me down tossing stuff back into the empty 'hole' left by the thing that I pulled out ;)
For as much as I HATE crickets (the insect), I AM EVERY BIT A CRICKET (the organizer)! Cricket = me. My college friends teased me because I had my socks sorted by color and stored in ziploc bags in the drawer! Now, I store my bras, panties, socks, hosiery in PACKING CUBES in the drawer! But I’m stuck now because I’m unpacking after moving 15 years of life in another house. You are helping me to just let go of stuff and stop holding on to guilty clutter. Happiness for me will be my unpacked and organized home!!!!! Thanks for this video that’s all about me!!
I’m somewhat between a 🐞and a 🦗. I’m definitely a hidden organizer, but I’m a little more detailed than a ladybug, but a lot more laid back type B personality than a cricket. Good enough is always better for me than perfect later. My hubby is kind of the opposite. He’s very visual. If it’s not out, he forgets about it. He likes to see his things, but he’s also a perfectionist, so he will have piles galore because he doesn’t have the time to put things away perfectly. Your explanations make it easier to understand, maybe not easier to deal with, but at least I get it now.
Thank you so much for this, Cas! I’m looking forward to the 🐞 one - I’m a 🦗 living with (at least) two of them and I’m so happy to have realised that! Life’s a breeze now that I’ve organised our home ladybug style and everyone seem to be able to keep it tidy. As long as I don’t have to see it all I’m perfectly happy. Macro organising’s actually quite nice with a new baby and all, veeery easy to maintain and very good for combatting my perfectionism!
At first, I thought I was a ladybug, but after watching lots of videos, I think I am actually a cricket. I have had a hard time decluttering in the past, because of financial limits. So because I had way too much stuff, I used ladybug strategies (shove the procrastination piles into a 'messy shelf or messy box' to deal with later) - but the other shelves were still somewhat organised. But when I have the right amount of stuff, I naturally like to keep things organised. I love the visual simplicity, but also crave a certain level of organisation, so I can find things easily. I just had a massive declutter, and now I am going through again, decluttering and organizing every shelf, box and drawer, so I will feel great when I open it. I started this before I found your channel, I might add. :) I definitely get procrastination piles, though the flylady system have helped me a lot with 'good enough is good enough'. Will definitely be using some of your tips as I go through! To combat the procrastination piles, I have actually implimented a 'Monica Box'. Here, I can put the things I want to deal with later, but once full, I HAVE to deal with it. I suppose that is kind of a ladybug strategy, but it helps me keep the perfectionism a bit in check, and still forces me to deal with the things I procrastinate. So I guess I am a cricket, who uses the ladybug method for her procrastination piles? 🤔 In the past, I did have problems keeping tidy. But I think that was mainly for having too much stuff (financial guilt about throwing it away), so the systems I wanted was not possible with that amount of things, on the amount of space I had. Causing me to build procrastination piles. Because when I have the right amount of stuff, I keep up my systems (provided the system is optimal for my needs, of course). I did have a huge problem with dishes/trash, because of a mild fear of germs - but if I had a dishwasher, I would never have a problem. I also had problems with laundry, due to limited access. I was also using the old laundry system that worked for me in the past, where I had better access to laundry machines. But since I set up a functional laundry system, based on my limited access to a laundry machine, that have not been a problem. My dad is 100% the bee on steroids, he is super detail oriented. My mother is definitely a cricket, she is actually pretty organised, but with lots of procrastination piles. I think my father often struggled with that, lol.
OMB! You hit the nail on the head! I am 72 but I can remember being in college and living at home. My desk was piled but my Mother telling me she never touched my desk when she cleaned. I would have had a nervous breakdown if she had!!
This is so true about if the system is set up - cricket will use it. What ever system I set up in my home and showed it to my family how to use it’s working for years. I’m so glad to find this channel years ago and took the organizing test for myself and made all my family took it too. Thank you Cass!
I couldn’t click on this video any faster. Cricket = 100% me!!! And you are so on point in how I think. I want PERFECTION. So sometimes it feels overwhelming to know where to even begin. Because, if you are going to do it, you have to do it right. I also agree about the piles. I do have PILES everywhere and they look like messes. But my piled items are categorized or at least they are to me. As for Nikki - I ABSOLUTELY LOVE her and her channel. I subscribed to her years ago and am always so inspired by her level of organization. Thank you for this video Cassie. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE your content and your TV show on HGTV. Looking forward to the next season. 🥰🥰🥰
My husband is definitely a cricket. And while I wasn’t born a cricket I feel like after 15+ years of marriage to one this ladybug is evolving to be one. I have worked & worked to train myself to put things away, adopting habits etc. and now I’m known as an organized person. I love everything organized but I truly don’t think I was born that way. So if you want to be a more organized person there is hope to become one 😀
AND tHIS IS HOW LOVE MAKES MIRACLESSS 😍 so sweet :) me is the other way, I am a cricket and my loved one not at all :) and thanks to him I learnt to let go the over organisation in all area, as clothes, socks :) after years of trying to get well organised the socks drawer for example, one day, I understood how our brain works thanks to these categories and this lovely channel cricket ladybug. :) and then I felt, ohh perfect :) I try :) I bought boxes for socks, underwear etc creating categories where he can toss all in without rolling perfectly the socks :) as during years I was rolling the socks even organising by winter ones , sport ones, etc, sincerely how crazy we are crickets, it is tiring my own self ! even i was totally over busy with life, family, i was still working full time, crazy to keep feeling the need of rolling but i was not aware of i was doing it, just was a kind of get used to it, and the day I noticed I was doing the other way now, as I tossed my socks in a bin, without caring rolling, just I thought them in the socks bin, that's it and without even caring more than that too and even could sleep without caring of it, alala very huge step for a cricket believe me 😅 ! i felt a click that i took a bit of him and him a bit of me as now i noticed he has tiny cute boxes for his tiny stuff :) still a mess inside it but in smaller boxes for creating a category of mini stuff :) i felt a huge liberation when noticing i do not care more to roll socks for this example :) even if sometimes i admit my crazy nature comes back and I have a urge to roll all ! :) my family abused of my craziness, when they have to move out, they knew I was enough crazy of organising to be happy to create their boxes labelling all by categories... they used my crazy need of clarity for it, we can be professional in moving house (do not know how to tell in english ) :) now, i can use my crazy overthinking brain for my majeur goal ;) as dream work focus :) and even on it I learn to let go as it impacts my whole perception of life and sincerely the famous said that said the contrary can help one and another.... some could say it is not good if different, sincerely I realised how beneficial it has been for both to learn to let go a bit for me and to learn to organise a bit for him as it could felt stress by over confusion :) (not sure to be clear as not native english speaker but I felt so many echos on this video and the comments today :) thank you for your lovely sharing experience :) it conforts me that after only 5 years , still young couple learning to grow :) it conforts me that.. we seems to be on good path on trying to learn tolerate to evolve the best together 😊 sorry it is so many stories on the comments today, i felt very inspired for this video and the comments :) crazy crickets always have matter to do a synthesis 😅 ahhh and believe or not I tried to do it in this comment !
I am so glad you did this video series!! Since I discovered you a year and a half ago, I thought I was a ladybug! But watching this and the ladybug and other videos, I realized, holy smokes, I am a CRICKET!! I never would have guessed. I do not feel naturally tidy, my house has always been a hot mess. But I do think so much of that is due to the MAJOR need to declutter, because since I have discovered decluttering, I have been able to keep up with the organizing that I have implemented. But OH MY GOODNESS you knocked it out of the park. Starting at 3:00 that is ME, ME, ME!! Over-planning, over-researching, buying and re-buying "better" organizing products, bins, cabinets, furniture, etc. And the PILES! Thank goodness I have found you. Honestly. Thank you so much. I am watching this video on repeat to soak up the suggestions you give! (and hearing about being a cricket is now bringing the image of all the 36 crickets jumping around your house now 😂 )
I’m a cricket for real! I have piles that are neat n organized my pillows , such a perfectionist. I had to start letting go slowly. I’m like this in my house too. Ty fir creating these videos cuz now I’m trying to find out my sons style.
I'm definitely a cricket and I'm now dealing with the piles that have accumulated through life. I retired almost 2 years ago and I've dealt with the big stuff fairly well. Now it's paper GGRRR and I'm also the family historian.
My sister is a big time Cricket, a binder for each bill! She has like 15 or 20 one inch white binders w a 3 hole punch. When she pays her bills (old school way- writes checks), she needs her whole dining table to do it. She makes it take longer. And yet she leaves the cap off toothpaste. I 💙 your pink truck story, such a classic!!
Cricket here! So true about the piles and procrastination! And the fact that I live with a butterfly and a bee doesn't help me feel less overwhelmed. I understand them, but they won't understand me! Thanks Cas for another great video.
I am such a cricket!! Everything you described was on point about me. I live with my mom and sister and they are butterflies and it’s honestly really hard because everywhere i ho there is mess and it gets overwhelming. 😢
I took the test on your website and I labeled a Lady Bug. But seeing this video, my goodness, this is me! My dresser draws look just the ones you are showing. I mean, that is how I organize all the clothes in my home. The towels, I don't roll them, but I do fold them in a specific way and I like to store them by color. My sewing room is a disgrace. I knit and crochet so I have so many patterns printed out that I have not put in binders, so I have pile them up on top of the ones I already have put in binders. But my sewing room is a catch all. I also need to organize my yarns and I feel over whelmed. Yet I like clean surfaces and I love baskets.
I’m a cricket, and I have been working on letting go of perfectionism. My new favorite thing is to break jobs into smaller bite sized pieces, and at the end of the day I will deliberately look around and acknowledge that the space is better even if it isn’t perfect. It’s quite satisfying, actually.
I was just gonna ask if you can be different bugs in different areas, but you answered my question right when I was typing it. I'm definetely gonna use different systems for different areas in my life now. Thank you for all the tips!
A couple years ago, I discovered you and your bugs organization style. I finaly understood my brain why I was messy. My overthinking and my perfectionnalim was the evident answer. I'm still working with it, but slowly adapting my house and my mind with the good enough. I'm a good chameleon, so I can work with the other styles, I just need to put the system in place... when I though about the perfect way to install it.... as I said, it's a work in progress. But thank you for all your help in all your videos to reprogram bit by bit my brain and getting me to an organize home.
🦗here ….. we have moved 3 times in 6 months and have eliminated so much stuff that we had in bins in the garage. It was so freeing to get rid of the excess stuff and to know that someone else can enjoy it! I do NOT leave piles, but I do have a perfect vision of our master closet and walk-in pantry once we have it redone. it is hard to understand why my hubby doesn’t get it! But I have to give some grace that it isn’t for everyone 🥰
Omg! This is the most helpful video ever! I'm so much a cricket, I was just laughing out loud at every description you gave.. I relate to everything you say, about the family members... everything!! I'm gonna change today! Clear piles and create different systems.. thank you
I’m a cricket, who has learned in some areas to be a ladybug because something is better than nothing. Also, I am an instruction reader. Especially if I don’t know how to do something. It doesn’t always help though, because instructions can be mis-interpreted lol. Great video as always xx
Hi Cass, I'm a Cricket, so I always read instructions .. my hubby never reads instructions... love love love these new videos... thank you for being you! Have a beautiful day!🌷God bless💖
Could you do a video on ways to organize a college dorm room that is only big enough for a bed, wardrobe and desk? Vertical storage and basket storage for each "bug" would be helpful. Thin storage ideas especially due to shortage of space. Thank you.
This is so me! I even felt anxiety watching clips of this video because those clips show exactly how I love things to look and I haven't been able to get every space of my home to look like that and some spaces will probably never look like that because of my other family members or simply because it's not always easy to achieve for various reasons. That anxiety sounds so silly to some but it's real! Lol I am also guilty of having piles every now and then and will refuse anyone touching them to help because unfortunately I feel that only I will know exactly how to find the perfect home for each item and how it will be stored. Ugh... I am only making it harder I know but I am a bit stubborn. I am working through it all to get better lol thanks for the video! 🤗🤗
I'm a cricket, my dad's a cricket, my mom's a bee. My whole family loves having a clear kitchen table, but my dad has made many, many generations of "death piles" on it ever since I was in preschool (I'm now several years past grad school, for reference), and he hates when people move them without his permission. So my tactic now, when I'm there over Christmas or another trip, is to schedule with my parents a time to do it, then have my mom clear all of her stuff off the table, then (either during or after my mom) I'll have my dad work on his piles for whatever time he has before he needs to do something else, then for the stuff that's left, I just bring things to him one or a few at a time and he tells me where each thing goes (trash, recycling, somewhere else in the house, in the garage), and I immediately put them there (Dana K White's "take it there now"' rule), that way he knows exactly where everything is going and nothing goes anywhere without his permission, but the table still gets cleared off (the table seats 5 when fully cleared off - there have been times where it has only seated 2 because of the piles); once it's cleared off, I hound on both parents (mainly my dad) every single night for the rest of the time I'm there to make sure they both clear their stuff off the table before they go to bed (unless, of course, it's something temporary that really needs to stay, e.g. bread dough rising), and if they don't, I do it for them (mostly consists of me putting my dad's coffee mugs that he's done with in the sink/with the rest of the dirty dishes) - while they might get a little annoyed with me on occasion for all the hounding, they ultimately are grateful because it means their table stays cleared off. Not saying that either of those tactics will necessarily work for every family, but that's the system that works for our particular family dynamic and combo of organizing styles. I think the most important part for my dad is that he still gets to dictate where his stuff goes, even though I'm the one who's actually putting it there, so he still knows where to find it and won't have to go looking all over for it.
Like! Even I am not a Cricket. I have to SEE things,or I get anxiety. I have all kinds of SEE-THROUGH containers, mesh boxes, open shelves..... I'm a 🦋 ! Thanks to you, I have one of the most well organized, decluttered house. Can't say THANK YOU enough!
I wasn’t sure if I really was a cricket, but your example stories have 100% happened in my life!! My hubs likes everything hidden, so my piles really drive him nuts. I’m going to try to remember your wise advice and take it easy on my family!! Thanks!!
You're so right!!! I can use a system, and naturally put things away ... unless I'm not done with it. I absolutely hate getting things out because they are too hard to access, and they only stay out because it's too difficult to put away. It just finds a new spot (a pile). This motivates me to find a new/better systems. I feel so called out rn lol I'm such a cricket, once upon a time I thought I was a butterfly
A real,cricket here! I am so happy you mentioned At Home with Nikki! I was instantly drawn to her channel several years when she launched it! Thank you for such a fun video!
Omg, I've been over and over all 4 styles and I'm officially a cricket! My loved ones have suffered for sure. Thank you for the spotlight on this and the encouragement!!
I love seeing @AtHomeWithNikki highlighted in this video :-) I appreciate that you differentiate between a true cricket and “wannabe” cricket (which is me - I want to be organized but just can’t find a system that I can use consistently). I love your videos!
Girl, I didn’t get my license until 26 and it’s comforting when I hear of others who were older than a teen also 😂 you’re not alone, although my vehicle is white and is still white haha. Thank you for your practical advice once again 👌🏼
Definitely a cricket here. 😬 Perfectionist, always putting things away and very stressed out if things are out in the open. My best friend is a butterfly and when I visit her I secretly dream of putting all her stuff behind closed doors so I can focus again. I know that I‘m very weird. 😂
me to! if I'm left too long alone in a room I start to unconsciously tidy it.
That is SOOOO me!!
My husband is a butterfly, drives me crazy. 😠👍
@@cindynielson4231 Mine too...
Same!
I remember as a child being told to clean my room, and taking everything out of drawers, closets and turning around to see my mother horrified at the mess. To my mom, cleaning meant a quick pick up… to me it meant aligning my markers in my desk, folding every item in my dresser… etc. It would take my hours, but I loved the end result. This would drive her nuts. My mother’s style of cleaning, surfaces clean and don’t look in the drawers. Ahhhhh
Lol this is me and my husband! As long as nothings out my husband thinks a room is clean. To me unless everything is perfectly organized, the room is messy.
I am 100% a CRICKET! I thought you might put up a picture of me when you were describing a CRICKET! Total perfectionist here & find myself NOT doing something because I want it to be absolutely perfectly organized & put away. It can be paralyzing for any progress to happen! Even more so because I live with my husband & 14 yr old daughter who are absolutely NOT crickets!
That is so me! Ugh!
@@barbaracorbett8234 me too, compassionate thought from France :) we can do it :)
👌Hi :) totally cricket too in the paperwork area :) since I discover this cricket category, I could understand how my brain works and needs and since i am learning habits that can help me :) I start to walk out more to let my crazy mind blows away and since I notice that I feel better , day after day :) and the days I do not go out many days, the overthinking craziness starts to come back.. ;) it is not an organisation tip at all ;) but if it can help the other tired crickets of their own extremism with their overthinking that sincerely made me even totally paralysed sometimes and even blocked me for evolving in the new dream work path and since i noticed how my brain works, i discover that some habits totally helps me and had impact on my ability to face and do :). Since I move and go out more, walking, cycling, breathing, doing concrete things, gardening, or even just going to the recycling point in the next corner, (as in france we have recycling point on the street sometimes for area and not in each house :) it allows the mental to breath and stop, it helps me to survive 😅 after the physical movement, I feel fresher and more energy to face the pile, as I come back with the positive effect of feeling to have accomplish something :) it can be other manual physical activity, cooking, repairing the clothes etc, depending on each one ability and facilities of course, so then I use that distance taken to dive directly with what stressed me before :) it really helps me to disconnect the mind and use our perfectionism :) to avoid the overthinking that blocks me before.. to turn it into a good thing ;) finally :) we can do it ! :) then i am not on ritual habit.. but I notice to do it more helps me to balance my mind, to let go a bit the overthink and to do more after a break as before I could even block on a task or hide it, and feel not to take a break until i did not find a way to organise this work project , over categorising ideas.. etc :) we can do it too, courage to all crickets and everyone of course :)
Ditto, and the cricket organized clips had me 🤤! I also enjoy watching At Home with Nikki 🤗.
This video so perfectly describes ME!!!😏
I clicked so quickly . I am sure there is a huge line of ppl that want to be your bestie. I would
Omg this is so accurate 😂 the "later piles" and dreams of having an already-set up intricate detailed system
My 'later piles' have moved to the office. I am organizing room by room and that is the last stop before the garage. 😆
My dad's a cricket and has always had "death piles" of paper (yes, it's exactly what it sounds like - he even had a comic strip taped to his bathroom mirror for a long time that basically poked fun at that exact thing - the comic called it the "dining room table system", and I had crossed out "dining room" and written "kitchen"; my dad was the one who told me to tape it to the mirror, just to be clear), and back when I was in 12th grade he actually put one of my school essays in it (I think I had set it on the kitchen table or something like that); a week or two later, when I went looking for it but couldn't find it anywhere (I knew I had brought it home, so I knew it had to be *_SOMEWHERE!!!),_* when I told my teacher that that was likely where it had ended up, my teacher didn't believe me one bit (he basically accused me of outright lying, thinking it was a pretty pathetic and made-up excuse) and almost made me rewrite the entire thing (we had gotten our essays back to make edits before resubmitting), until my parents went through my dad's death piles on the kitchen table and, lo and behold, my essay *_was_* in there, and they promptly called my teacher and told him as such. My teacher was very careful about accusing me of outright lying after that.
A Cricket here too! Never could figure out how I was a perfectionist but had piles and projects everywhere. Thank you for clearing this up. Love how you make us all feel good about ourselves no matter which bug we are. 🦗
The clutterbug styles were such a help to me! I am a cricket living with a butter/bee husband. The breakthrough for me was when I realized what I really needed to do was declutter, rather than re-organizing all the time to make all the stuff fit.
You described me completely…. Neat organized piler, procrastinator, waiting for the right shelves, etc.
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I’m the same. Feeling bad for my ladybug hubby and butterfly daughter.
I am 100% cricket! Through and through. Once I became a minimalist, and got rid of nearly everything…(and that really is not an exaggeration, the pandemic purge was real)..It made life so much easier. It became a joy to organize, because it is super easy to organize perfectly when you hardly have anything to organize!
I am with you! I went minimalist over five years ago when I had to downsize my Mom from 3,000 square feet to an 800 square foot assisted living apartment. I was not going to put my kids through that! With very few things left to organize, it's super easy!
Yes, same here!! I'm still working on downsizing, but it totally helps.
I'm a minimalist too and I love it! It's easy to tidy when it only takes 3 minutes for the whole house. Now cleaning, that's another story lol
@@jackiem9460 💯
@@queenofputrescence5167 This is definitely why the whole Swedish death cleaning thing has caught on. I told my parents, who have a lot of stuff, that when I become responsible for that stuff it’s going in the trash. I will choose a few items that are truly meaningful, that I know they love very much, and that I cherish. But the rest of it is goes. I didn’t say this quite as harsh as the way it sounded when I just wrote this. LOL but it helped, because they have since been motivated to start getting rid of things they don’t need or use anymore.
Piles! Oh my! That's how I knew I was a cricket. Afflicted with perfectionism and always procrastinating.
A big part of embracing my organizing style is recognizing it doesn't have to be cricket all the time. I don't mind puting in the work to fold all my clothes and have categories on the shelves for my pants but am I interested in having multiple categories of files? Certainly not. Dealing with papers with a ladybug approach has lifted a lifelong weight off my shoulders. Finding solutions and organizing in ways that work for my lifestyle is more important than chasing perfection. Understanding how other organizing styles think has made me a more understanding person and has proved handy in job related settings, thank you so much!
But don’t bees pile too?
inspiring :) thank you :)
Lol, well stated...I didn't realize it is an affliction, yet, it is... realizing it's an affliction; I deal with it and move on!
@@Diniecita I also prefer hidden storage, which was the first clue.
This certainly describes me. I'm a cricket! I've managed the majority of my home. My piles are in my office. I don't even want to go in there. In fact the "Jaws" music plays in my head when I walk through. I must tackle this challenge!
YES, you must! Even if it's just setting a timer for 5 minutes. Just get in there and start!
Your comment of "just put it in order" for now and then decide on the best type of system is exactly what I need to get started. Believe me I'll analyze and plan it to death! At least I'll be able to walk through and not keep the light off! Thank you so much! I'll keep you posted!❤
Jaws music!!!! Great visual of your piles!!! Lol
Good luck with your decluttering and organizing:)
Even when I was a very young child, I naturally gravitated to and loved organizing. Organizing is 100% fun. I am 100% a cricket. I feel incredible peace and relief when every item is in its hidden designated spot. I love being able to put my hands on any item I need within 15 seconds, use it immediately, and then return it to its spot the moment I am finished using it. I love clean mostly empty surfaces. Tasteful beautiful decorations are permitted, but they are kept to a minimum. 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗
Ms Cass, seriously this is amazing and NEEDS to be part of every pre-marital counseling!😁👍 It would save a couple from so many fights over silly, yet important stuff. Wow I also wish my Dad could hear this bcs he's totally a cricket and I wasn't so that was tough. Thx, great info!! I'm looking fwd to the next 2 videos!❤❤❤
agree!!!!!
As a cricket married to a butterfly, I wholeheartedly agree.
It really does have a bigger impact than people realize
I'm a cricket with a very low clutter threshold and too much stuff. I'm decluttering. I'm married to a butterfly who likes stuff, visible and spread out. I declutter around his things. Knowing about different thresholds and different styles makes it easier to find balance so we can both be comfortable in our home.
Thanks, Cas!
I can relate so much to the cricket and low clutter threshold!
ahaha! loved that you dressed in each video to match the organization style. (Yellow/black for bee, green for cricket, red/black for lady bug, etc.!) You pegged me in this cricket video! I am now going to try to settle for good enough. Wish me luck!
I was laughing out loud when you were describing a cricket because it was so spot on...as I put my pile of mail in my spare bedroom to get put in my filing cabinet because I wanted time to purge and file...do it right. I don't want help from others because they don't do it "right". I am 100% aware my need for perfectionism is annoying and totally unfair to others I hold to the same level. Glad to know there are others out there like me lol.
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Your kindness is so comforting.
Oh, I am DEFINITELY a cricket! Ugh....the piles! I have the binders, I use spreadsheets, I plan everything to death! Nailed it!!!
I too am a cricket in most things and a bee in others, but live with two butterflies. I can plan my life to death. Just never have the time (or help) to get it all done. I'm a work in progress.
Same here - all those piles adding to my to do list but never finding the time for that perfect system. And living with a butterfly husband 😆 but I recently embraced his butterfly persona after I learned about the different organizing styles on here - we now have baskets without lids everywhere. So much more maintainable than my previous complex systems - our place is so much more tidy and clean now. Things get done because it's so easy to keep up. It saved my sanity with two young kids 😊😉
Packing for a trip…. Agonizing for me… but I am always happy about putting in the time when we arrive.
I remember when my 3 were little and I would prepare ziploc bags of complete outfits for every day, for each child, for a week vacay. My sister in law looked at my like I was nuts … she didn’t say it but I saw the look 😆
It's funny, my dad is a cricket and my mum is a butterfly so growing up I've seen how systems sometimes just don't work in a household. I'm also a cricket and my husband is also a butterfly so since finding this out I'm trying the ladybug method. Sometimes he'll put stuff away because it's easy (especially easier than my cricket system from before) but sometimes he forgets because it's out of sight and out of mind for him. I don't mind anymore, I now know he doesn't do this on purpose and because it's macro organized, I just put his stuff away in no time. Both happy and the house is clean 😊
Cass, I took your quiz awhile ago on organizing styles. I went back and forth on my answers but, in the end, came up as a Cricket. This video sealed the deal. Yep, described me to a tee. The firstborn perfectionist in me gets in the way sometimes. In my next life, I will be perfect. Today, good enough, is good enough!
Bless your heart on the car wax. ❤️ I know it was so upsetting when it happened but, as you said, you embraced it. And now…. a funny memory and a great story!
I'm basically a Ladybug but have longed to be a Cricket for decades. I've incorporated "normal" organizing systems that look great when I first set them up but those setups have a tendency to fail because, despite my efforts, I'm really a Ladybug. I have incorporated some of Nikki's organizing tips in my small galley kitchen and bathrooms but I know I would never keep up with most of her methods. I've finally learned to start with Ladybug techniques. I can always tweak them more Cricket-like if I feel I need a more detailed system (I usually don't 😁) Cass, your "Clutterbugs" are the most helpful way to help us identify how we can successfully manage our stuff. I can't thank you enough! XXOO ❤️
You are so welcome!
Total cricket here 🙋🏼♀️ Can't believe I "misdiagnosed" myself last year and thought I was a ladybug...this video describes be almost to a T, lol
Thanks first to Dawn from The Minimal Mom, I began to slowly start letting go of the perfect system a couple years ago and just telling myself, "Okay, this isn't going to be precisely what I want, BUT, the baskets are pretty, and I can always change up how I use them." Lo and behold, these small improvements not only led to a feeling of confidence and success, but I also just felt generally better because it allowed me to face things on my own time (instead of feeling pressured and guilted by something sitting out for months and months!)
Over time as I have continued to declutter, I have found that while I prefer to have things hidden away for visual simplicity, I also very much prefer to see everything I have when I open a door, drawer, or cupboard. I also realized after hearing Alejandra talk about preferring binders for important papers that a filing cabinet is not for me except on very rare occasions! So I am very much cricket, but also a little bit bee 😉
Glad you figured it out!
Can you do a married couple series? My husband is a butterfly and I'm a cricket...so how do we blend our styles?
You need more visual and clear bins, everyday things should be broader categories so he can maintain it. More detailed sections for your things or less used things so it stays neat. I think the bee style is your best bet at compromise.
Setting him up with his own butterfly space is needed areas.My boyfriend is a ladybug, folding clothes was a big one, I solved that by just buying 4 bins, one for tank tops, shirts, shorts and sweatpants. Nothing is folded but his mess is contained to a bin and he can look through it himself. Or his keys and papers. A wire paper holder for loose papers and a tray for keys/things to empty his pockets on to.
Hooks for a butterfly are helpful. Or a small bin for clean socks and one for dirty. I’m a butterfly so doing that helps me catch my mess and hold me accountable for it.
There was an editing mistake so it cut out to another video about time management
Cas-there’s an editing mistake from 5:30-6:46! 😩
Love your videos 💗💗💗💗
What is the "mistake"?
@@bethc8809 I think it got fixed probably:) when the video first came out it switched to and unrelated video for that section. :)
Cricket here!!! I want to turn my husband from a crazy bee to a cricket lolol. Thank you for the car story I was cracking up!
Amazing description of me! Your clutterbugs have also been helpful in understanding my dh. I thought something was wrong with him! He's a butterfly -- we just approach things differently. Very comforting to understand him better (after 35 years).
Cricket describes me PERFECTLY!
Hi. My name is Cheryl and I'm a Cricket. This is Crickets Anonymous, right?
I just now put things (papers, craft stuff, random electronics, etc.) in neat boxes until I could get bins for them. This video came on and now I am going through those boxes and putting things in OK places just to get it done. I have organizing bins and cannisters on my Amazon wish list and will actually use them but now I see that some of the things I have now are adequate to organize until I can buy the perfect ones. Thank you for pinning me down perfectly. It's so great to know that I am not alone in my piles and binders! (yes, I have binders for everything) You are awesome!
I have been learning though that "good enough" doesn't have to be perfect. Thank God. What a relief!
Thank you for your channel! ❤️ You have helped me so much get my apartment decluttered and (on the way to) organized.
I agree with your reasons I pile up papers (in a basket lol) and think I’ll get to it later and I would also add that my mind imagines this time of relaxation when I’ll have unpressured time to put them away, plenty of energy and motivation. Haha that hardly ever happens
Thanks for sharing!
This is 100% me, especially the piling. The way you explained why I pile made so much sense to me because I am a “if it’s not done right, why do it at all” type person. I love that this video helps me understand why instead of feeling like I’m a crazy lost cause. Lol
I actually waited a long time to watch this video because I didn’t think you could possibly know me or how to help BUT this video is so spot on. It was way more helpful than I expected it to be.
I am very much a cricket.
The tendency of hyperfocusing on organization. (ADhD)
I love how you explained it and I love that you did a whole video on every single one of your bugs,
but I also have another part of me because I need it put away quickly. No lids
I don't care what organization system it is I will follow it. Once it is put in place.
I'm dying! Each of your stories gets better and better!!
Knowing everyone’s style is such a game changer! Spaces I use are cricket and family areas are butterfly and ladybug.
Totally a cricket! I remember(many years ago) my friend was not allowed to go out unless she cleaned her room. She sat on the bed not knowing how to start, meanwhile I was picking her things up, folding, putting things in closets, drawers and boxes. I have always loved organizing BUT I hate vacuuming, dusting and scrubing bathrooms! So my house is perfectly tidy just don't be doing the white glove test 😀
Mine is generally tidy and organized like crazy in the main areas of the house...but the master bedroom is where things get piled until they can be dealt with properly. Also not ready for any white glove test!!
I like your clutter concept.
I took the quiz and it says I am a butterfly, but I really like learning about all of the styles.
You are doing a great job with all of this, thank you!
Oh Cas, your story is so sad, hilarious, and heartwarming. I would have cried!
I did!
I’m a bit of a mix of a Cricket and a Bee.
It really depends on the space.
Also, the way you were describing crickets (mainly when people touch their piles) sounds a lot like someone who is neurodivergent, more specifically an autistic person - I say this from personal experience.
I get incredibly overwhelmed and upset when people move my things and touch my things (especially without asking) and don’t put them back where they were.
Honestly, it was kind of comforting to hear that others feel this way about their piles/belongings.
Hello fellow neurodivergent Bee/Cricket! Haha
I'm also a mix of the two organizing styles and have ADHD. Oh gosh, touching my piles or moving really anything is asking for trouble lol.
I know where everything is... Unless it was just in my hand, then it's disappeared into a black hole to be spit out in a random spot and I swear I wasn't there!
So similar to you. Thought I was a Bee but this gave me a little self doubt about that
Yep, also neurodivergent, cricket and hate when people move my piles! Now that I simplified my home though it is much easier to set up systems and now I just use everything I've set up.
Oh gosh! So true! I'm a cricket, my mom's a bee (dad is cricket, sister I think is part bee, part something else, maybe cricket, maybe butterfly, maybe ladybug, I don't know - I hardly ever go into her room these days). Asperger's and ADHD here (me for sure, I think my mom to a certain extent though she's never been evaluated), and while I admit I had way too much stuff at the time (I didn't start decluttering until after graduating from college), whenever I was away at college (way out of state, so I was home only for Christmas and summer), my mom would "organize" my room, and whenever I came home, I had literally no clue where anything was because she had moved it from where I had left it, and every time I came home, the room would inevitably become a giant mess because things weren't where I left them and I would be tearing things apart trying to find something at the last minute because it wasn't where it was supposed to be. I think what finally slapped her in the face hard enough to get her to stop "organizing" my stuff, though, was repeating the process over and over and over of me needing her to send me something, her asking me where it was, me telling her exactly where I left it, but her looking there and telling me "it's not there" (in a very irritating way), when *_SHE_* was the one to put it somewhere else, *_not_* me, and me basically yelling at her (remember, she always said "it's not there" in a way that implied that it was all my fault) "well, that's where I left it, so if it's not there, it's YOUR FAULT!!" Pissed me off so much back then, and still does 10 years later.
I'm a cricket/bee and this video made me realize the areas where I'm a cricket and/or a bee.
This has clarified things for me. I am a cricket, but I was brought up by butterflies and so there were no cricket systems set up so all I did was pile! I also want to put my things away when I have time to do it properly so I have created more laid back systems, like my paper pile is now a magazine rack so it's tidy until I can sort it later 🙂 My sock drawer is beautiful though 👍
I also totally don't read instructions. I bought mould resistant paint and used it as a primer on our walls. It wasn't until afterwards I read not to paint over it. So that was money down the drain. But Cas! My heart goes out to you for your beautiful truck! I would definitely have cried too 🫂
Thanks for sharing!
I love how you both gave me instruction and spoke to me like a friend who needs to hear, “relax!” I’m sharing this with my husband so he can see I’m learning and trying, lol
I definitely do instructions and get very frustrated if I don’t feel they are written clearly because I’m not at all a figure it out as you person….shocker, I know.
This channel has been so helpful. Ever since I started organizing my house the conversation between the kids and me has changed dramatically. Instead of yelling at them I am asking them more questions. I am a cricket living with butterflies and a bee.
Glad I can help!
Jaw on the floor! There are more of me out there? Who knew?! Thanks for pointing out all my faults, it is information that was well needed. Now, I’m off to empty one of the shopping bags I have collected for each room.
According to the quiz I'm a cricket but I'm glad you mentioned a little bit of lady bug. I do have some micro-organized drawers and others that are not. Your tips have been so helpful. Thank you for being willing to help others too.
It's crazy how many things you talked about that is so much like me and yes I'm a cricket, just amazes me how you describe me without even knowing me.
I totally agree, but I reject the perfectionist label 😊 because I am working on it 😆
I'm psychic ;p
@@Clutterbug hahaha
Weellll I’m obviously a cricket. And my husband is a saint. He’s so nice about things and wants me to be happy. So he puts all the forks in the right stacks. Very insightful about why I have piles everywhere. And that the answer to that is to simplify the organization ideas I have.
I’m a cricket….yup! I have watched every video from @home with Nikki and Alejandra Costello…it makes my heart flutter! ❤️ I don’t make piles though….I make a system just like you were talking about that holds me over until I can get back and tweak it to perfection. I have a few spaces that I need to work on, but I’m still waiting to find just the right organizers and then make my labels. Why yes, I am giddy just talking about it! Ha! Have a great week!!
That's so stinkin' cute ;p
Thanks for doing this update to the organizing styles. They are so on point.
For the first year or so of taking your Clutterbug test, I really thought that I was a Ladybug. But now I know that I'm very much some part a cricket, soooo I'd love to share my thoughts on this video from both sides of this coin!!!
I can TOTALLY understand how frustrated a cricket can be when anyone else moves there piles!!! I used to be in accounting & when I was in the middle of huge reconciliations, but another project came up to interrupt it, I would take my desk blotter (that otherwise lived on top of my filing cabinet for just such events) and put it over my current paperwork. Then pull out new stuff to do on top of the desk blotter. This way, I could keep my place with the large project safe underneath the blotter intact!!! Soooo, I totally agree that I don't like to put away things that I'm not done with;)
BUT ALSO I can TOTALLY UNDERSTAND that other people would get sick of seeing the crap left out in piles before I finish my projects, because I SOMETIMES DO TO (my ladybug side)!!!! And that's when I go around and start shoving everything in sight inside drawers and cabinets all willynilly until I free up my ladybug brain space again to my peace and calming visual space again!!!
And I guess bc I'm in the middle of the 2, I only like filing cabinets that are SUPER FAST AND EASY to file (I set up a 1 file for each month folder system when I was an accounting manager! Talk about FAST & EASY! Just shove it all for that month into 1 hanging folder and move on with my life, eh mm, I mean work lol 😂 I used that system for YEARS at various companies!!! But the cricket in me also kept the entire monthly close on my desk throughout the week until I was finished with it. I never was one of those people who put away all their papers each night just to pull them all out again every morning, ugh!)
And my bins & baskets in my cabinets at home are actually super detailed where everything goes inside each one, but no lids or covers to slow me down tossing stuff back into the empty 'hole' left by the thing that I pulled out ;)
Ok so I went and looked at the others and definitely a cricket….proud of it too!
For as much as I HATE crickets (the insect), I AM EVERY BIT A CRICKET (the organizer)! Cricket = me. My college friends teased me because I had my socks sorted by color and stored in ziploc bags in the drawer! Now, I store my bras, panties, socks, hosiery in PACKING CUBES in the drawer! But I’m stuck now because I’m unpacking after moving 15 years of life in another house. You are helping me to just let go of stuff and stop holding on to guilty clutter. Happiness for me will be my unpacked and organized home!!!!! Thanks for this video that’s all about me!!
I’m somewhat between a 🐞and a 🦗. I’m definitely a hidden organizer, but I’m a little more detailed than a ladybug, but a lot more laid back type B personality than a cricket. Good enough is always better for me than perfect later. My hubby is kind of the opposite. He’s very visual. If it’s not out, he forgets about it. He likes to see his things, but he’s also a perfectionist, so he will have piles galore because he doesn’t have the time to put things away perfectly. Your explanations make it easier to understand, maybe not easier to deal with, but at least I get it now.
Thank you so much for this, Cas! I’m looking forward to the 🐞 one - I’m a 🦗 living with (at least) two of them and I’m so happy to have realised that! Life’s a breeze now that I’ve organised our home ladybug style and everyone seem to be able to keep it tidy. As long as I don’t have to see it all I’m perfectly happy. Macro organising’s actually quite nice with a new baby and all, veeery easy to maintain and very good for combatting my perfectionism!
At first, I thought I was a ladybug, but after watching lots of videos, I think I am actually a cricket. I have had a hard time decluttering in the past, because of financial limits. So because I had way too much stuff, I used ladybug strategies (shove the procrastination piles into a 'messy shelf or messy box' to deal with later) - but the other shelves were still somewhat organised.
But when I have the right amount of stuff, I naturally like to keep things organised. I love the visual simplicity, but also crave a certain level of organisation, so I can find things easily. I just had a massive declutter, and now I am going through again, decluttering and organizing every shelf, box and drawer, so I will feel great when I open it. I started this before I found your channel, I might add. :) I definitely get procrastination piles, though the flylady system have helped me a lot with 'good enough is good enough'. Will definitely be using some of your tips as I go through!
To combat the procrastination piles, I have actually implimented a 'Monica Box'. Here, I can put the things I want to deal with later, but once full, I HAVE to deal with it. I suppose that is kind of a ladybug strategy, but it helps me keep the perfectionism a bit in check, and still forces me to deal with the things I procrastinate. So I guess I am a cricket, who uses the ladybug method for her procrastination piles? 🤔
In the past, I did have problems keeping tidy. But I think that was mainly for having too much stuff (financial guilt about throwing it away), so the systems I wanted was not possible with that amount of things, on the amount of space I had. Causing me to build procrastination piles. Because when I have the right amount of stuff, I keep up my systems (provided the system is optimal for my needs, of course).
I did have a huge problem with dishes/trash, because of a mild fear of germs - but if I had a dishwasher, I would never have a problem. I also had problems with laundry, due to limited access. I was also using the old laundry system that worked for me in the past, where I had better access to laundry machines. But since I set up a functional laundry system, based on my limited access to a laundry machine, that have not been a problem.
My dad is 100% the bee on steroids, he is super detail oriented. My mother is definitely a cricket, she is actually pretty organised, but with lots of procrastination piles. I think my father often struggled with that, lol.
I am a cricket and it feels like everyone else in my house is a slob (but don’t you dare touch my piles!) 😂
This was extremely helpful ❤
OMB! You hit the nail on the head! I am 72 but I can remember being in college and living at home. My desk was piled but my Mother telling me she never touched my desk when she cleaned. I would have had a nervous breakdown if she had!!
This is so true about if the system is set up - cricket will use it. What ever system I set up in my home and showed it to my family how to use it’s working for years. I’m so glad to find this channel years ago and took the organizing test for myself and made all my family took it too. Thank you Cass!
I couldn’t click on this video any faster. Cricket = 100% me!!! And you are so on point in how I think. I want PERFECTION. So sometimes it feels overwhelming to know where to even begin. Because, if you are going to do it, you have to do it right.
I also agree about the piles. I do have PILES everywhere and they look like messes. But my piled items are categorized or at least they are to me.
As for Nikki - I ABSOLUTELY LOVE her and her channel. I subscribed to her years ago and am always so inspired by her level of organization. Thank you for this video Cassie. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE your content and your TV show on HGTV. Looking forward to the next season. 🥰🥰🥰
My husband is definitely a cricket. And while I wasn’t born a cricket I feel like after 15+ years of marriage to one this ladybug is evolving to be one. I have worked & worked to train myself to put things away, adopting habits etc. and now I’m known as an organized person. I love everything organized but I truly don’t think I was born that way. So if you want to be a more organized person there is hope to become one 😀
AND tHIS IS HOW LOVE MAKES MIRACLESSS 😍 so sweet :) me is the other way, I am a cricket and my loved one not at all :) and thanks to him I learnt to let go the over organisation in all area, as clothes, socks :) after years of trying to get well organised the socks drawer for example, one day, I understood how our brain works thanks to these categories and this lovely channel cricket ladybug. :) and then I felt, ohh perfect :) I try :) I bought boxes for socks, underwear etc creating categories where he can toss all in without rolling perfectly the socks :) as during years I was rolling the socks even organising by winter ones , sport ones, etc, sincerely how crazy we are crickets, it is tiring my own self ! even i was totally over busy with life, family, i was still working full time, crazy to keep feeling the need of rolling but i was not aware of i was doing it, just was a kind of get used to it, and the day I noticed I was doing the other way now, as I tossed my socks in a bin, without caring rolling, just I thought them in the socks bin, that's it and without even caring more than that too and even could sleep without caring of it, alala very huge step for a cricket believe me 😅 ! i felt a click that i took a bit of him and him a bit of me as now i noticed he has tiny cute boxes for his tiny stuff :) still a mess inside it but in smaller boxes for creating a category of mini stuff :) i felt a huge liberation when noticing i do not care more to roll socks for this example :) even if sometimes i admit my crazy nature comes back and I have a urge to roll all ! :) my family abused of my craziness, when they have to move out, they knew I was enough crazy of organising to be happy to create their boxes labelling all by categories... they used my crazy need of clarity for it, we can be professional in moving house (do not know how to tell in english ) :) now, i can use my crazy overthinking brain for my majeur goal ;) as dream work focus :) and even on it I learn to let go as it impacts my whole perception of life and sincerely the famous said that said the contrary can help one and another.... some could say it is not good if different, sincerely I realised how beneficial it has been for both to learn to let go a bit for me and to learn to organise a bit for him as it could felt stress by over confusion :) (not sure to be clear as not native english speaker but I felt so many echos on this video and the comments today :) thank you for your lovely sharing experience :) it conforts me that after only 5 years , still young couple learning to grow :) it conforts me that.. we seems to be on good path on trying to learn tolerate to evolve the best together 😊 sorry it is so many stories on the comments today, i felt very inspired for this video and the comments :) crazy crickets always have matter to do a synthesis 😅 ahhh and believe or not I tried to do it in this comment !
I am so glad you did this video series!! Since I discovered you a year and a half ago, I thought I was a ladybug! But watching this and the ladybug and other videos, I realized, holy smokes, I am a CRICKET!! I never would have guessed. I do not feel naturally tidy, my house has always been a hot mess. But I do think so much of that is due to the MAJOR need to declutter, because since I have discovered decluttering, I have been able to keep up with the organizing that I have implemented.
But OH MY GOODNESS you knocked it out of the park. Starting at 3:00 that is ME, ME, ME!! Over-planning, over-researching, buying and re-buying "better" organizing products, bins, cabinets, furniture, etc. And the PILES! Thank goodness I have found you. Honestly. Thank you so much. I am watching this video on repeat to soak up the suggestions you give!
(and hearing about being a cricket is now bringing the image of all the 36 crickets jumping around your house now 😂 )
I’m a cricket for real!
I have piles that are neat n organized my pillows , such a perfectionist.
I had to start letting go slowly.
I’m like this in my house too. Ty fir creating these videos cuz now I’m trying to find out my sons style.
I'm such a cricket! BUt thank you for having other methods of organizing. It helps manage my house with other people!!
I'm definitely a cricket and I'm now dealing with the piles that have accumulated through life. I retired almost 2 years ago and I've dealt with the big stuff fairly well. Now it's paper GGRRR and I'm also the family historian.
My sister is a big time Cricket, a binder for each bill! She has like 15 or 20 one inch white binders w a 3 hole punch. When she pays her bills (old school way- writes checks), she needs her whole dining table to do it. She makes it take longer. And yet she leaves the cap off toothpaste. I 💙 your pink truck story, such a classic!!
Cricket here! So true about the piles and procrastination! And the fact that I live with a butterfly and a bee doesn't help me feel less overwhelmed. I understand them, but they won't understand me! Thanks Cas for another great video.
I am such a cricket!! Everything you described was on point about me. I live with my mom and sister and they are butterflies and it’s honestly really hard because everywhere i ho there is mess and it gets overwhelming. 😢
I am LOVING this series!!!! Just trying to figure out if I am a Ladybug or a Cricket? Or am I BOTH?
I took the test on your website and I labeled a Lady Bug. But seeing this video, my goodness, this is me! My dresser draws look just the ones you are showing. I mean, that is how I organize all the clothes in my home. The towels, I don't roll them, but I do fold them in a specific way and I like to store them by color. My sewing room is a disgrace. I knit and crochet so I have so many patterns printed out that I have not put in binders, so I have pile them up on top of the ones I already have put in binders. But my sewing room is a catch all. I also need to organize my yarns and I feel over whelmed. Yet I like clean surfaces and I love baskets.
I have the same knitting problem. I’ve major destashed which really helped.
I’m a cricket, and I have been working on letting go of perfectionism. My new favorite thing is to break jobs into smaller bite sized pieces, and at the end of the day I will deliberately look around and acknowledge that the space is better even if it isn’t perfect. It’s quite satisfying, actually.
I was just gonna ask if you can be different bugs in different areas, but you answered my question right when I was typing it. I'm definetely gonna use different systems for different areas in my life now. Thank you for all the tips!
A couple years ago, I discovered you and your bugs organization style. I finaly understood my brain why I was messy. My overthinking and my perfectionnalim was the evident answer. I'm still working with it, but slowly adapting my house and my mind with the good enough. I'm a good chameleon, so I can work with the other styles, I just need to put the system in place... when I though about the perfect way to install it.... as I said, it's a work in progress. But thank you for all your help in all your videos to reprogram bit by bit my brain and getting me to an organize home.
🦗here ….. we have moved 3 times in 6 months and have eliminated so much stuff that we had in bins in the garage. It was so freeing to get rid of the excess stuff and to know that someone else can enjoy it!
I do NOT leave piles, but I do have a perfect vision of our master closet and walk-in pantry once we have it redone. it is hard to understand why my hubby doesn’t get it! But I have to give some grace that it isn’t for everyone 🥰
Good for you!
I love it "Happy Accidents"
Omg! This is the most helpful video ever! I'm so much a cricket, I was just laughing out loud at every description you gave.. I relate to everything you say, about the family members... everything!! I'm gonna change today! Clear piles and create different systems.. thank you
Your stories are so funny Cass! I'm a definite instruction reader... and re-reader, even for the simplist things!
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I’m a cricket, who has learned in some areas to be a ladybug because something is better than nothing. Also, I am an instruction reader. Especially if I don’t know how to do something. It doesn’t always help though, because instructions can be mis-interpreted lol.
Great video as always xx
Hi Cass, I'm a Cricket, so I always read instructions .. my hubby never reads instructions... love love love these new videos... thank you for being you! Have a beautiful day!🌷God bless💖
I'm a cricket!🦗 I love Nikki's channel.😍
This is 100% me. It’s like you’re speaking directly to me!!
Omg I can't wait for the bee!! 🐝
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Could you do a video on ways to organize a college dorm room that is only big enough for a bed, wardrobe and desk? Vertical storage and basket storage for each "bug" would be helpful. Thin storage ideas especially due to shortage of space. Thank you.
This speaks to me on such a deep level. I've been seen.
This is so me! I even felt anxiety watching clips of this video because those clips show exactly how I love things to look and I haven't been able to get every space of my home to look like that and some spaces will probably never look like that because of my other family members or simply because it's not always easy to achieve for various reasons. That anxiety sounds so silly to some but it's real! Lol I am also guilty of having piles every now and then and will refuse anyone touching them to help because unfortunately I feel that only I will know exactly how to find the perfect home for each item and how it will be stored. Ugh... I am only making it harder I know but I am a bit stubborn. I am working through it all to get better lol thanks for the video! 🤗🤗
I'm a cricket, my dad's a cricket, my mom's a bee. My whole family loves having a clear kitchen table, but my dad has made many, many generations of "death piles" on it ever since I was in preschool (I'm now several years past grad school, for reference), and he hates when people move them without his permission.
So my tactic now, when I'm there over Christmas or another trip, is to schedule with my parents a time to do it, then have my mom clear all of her stuff off the table, then (either during or after my mom) I'll have my dad work on his piles for whatever time he has before he needs to do something else, then for the stuff that's left, I just bring things to him one or a few at a time and he tells me where each thing goes (trash, recycling, somewhere else in the house, in the garage), and I immediately put them there (Dana K White's "take it there now"' rule), that way he knows exactly where everything is going and nothing goes anywhere without his permission, but the table still gets cleared off (the table seats 5 when fully cleared off - there have been times where it has only seated 2 because of the piles); once it's cleared off, I hound on both parents (mainly my dad) every single night for the rest of the time I'm there to make sure they both clear their stuff off the table before they go to bed (unless, of course, it's something temporary that really needs to stay, e.g. bread dough rising), and if they don't, I do it for them (mostly consists of me putting my dad's coffee mugs that he's done with in the sink/with the rest of the dirty dishes) - while they might get a little annoyed with me on occasion for all the hounding, they ultimately are grateful because it means their table stays cleared off. Not saying that either of those tactics will necessarily work for every family, but that's the system that works for our particular family dynamic and combo of organizing styles. I think the most important part for my dad is that he still gets to dictate where his stuff goes, even though I'm the one who's actually putting it there, so he still knows where to find it and won't have to go looking all over for it.
❤️😁 total cricket! Loving the freedom filer today.
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Even I am not a Cricket. I have to SEE things,or I get anxiety. I have all kinds of SEE-THROUGH containers, mesh boxes, open shelves..... I'm a 🦋 ! Thanks to you, I have one of the most well organized, decluttered house. Can't say THANK YOU enough!
My heart goes out to you and your family 🙏🏼🌹🙏🏼
I would love more cricket videos. This was so soothing. Would love more help!!
This video so describes ME!!! I needed this video to get me back on track.
I wasn’t sure if I really was a cricket, but your example stories have 100% happened in my life!! My hubs likes everything hidden, so my piles really drive him nuts. I’m going to try to remember your wise advice and take it easy on my family!! Thanks!!
You're so right!!! I can use a system, and naturally put things away ... unless I'm not done with it. I absolutely hate getting things out because they are too hard to access, and they only stay out because it's too difficult to put away. It just finds a new spot (a pile). This motivates me to find a new/better systems. I feel so called out rn lol I'm such a cricket, once upon a time I thought I was a butterfly
Try Dana K White on RUclips.
When all else fails, read the instructions! LOL 😆😆😆🙃 Better at reading them now, but was always in a hurry to get things done when I was younger.
A real,cricket here! I am so happy you mentioned At Home with Nikki! I was instantly drawn to her channel several years when she launched it! Thank you for such a fun video!
Omg, I've been over and over all 4 styles and I'm officially a cricket! My loved ones have suffered for sure. Thank you for the spotlight on this and the encouragement!!
I am truly cricket. When you started talking about this series I said this is ME! Thank you for the advice.💕
I love seeing @AtHomeWithNikki highlighted in this video :-) I appreciate that you differentiate between a true cricket and “wannabe” cricket (which is me - I want to be organized but just can’t find a system that I can use consistently). I love your videos!
"Bubble gum barf"... 😂🤣😂🤣 I am the absolute opposite of a cricket, but I absolutely love your videos and always watch 😊
ButterCricket-Bee here lol. Thank you for all of the helpful videos 💜
Girl, I didn’t get my license until 26 and it’s comforting when I hear of others who were older than a teen also 😂 you’re not alone, although my vehicle is white and is still white haha. Thank you for your practical advice once again 👌🏼