Minimal Mom Dawn spills the tea!
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- Опубликовано: 1 июн 2024
- Join Dawn the Minimal Mom & I as we talk housework, decluttering minimalism, family and more!
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“ I got rid of 80% - I didn’t tell my husband”. Ha! Love it! One day he looks around and says where is everything? 😂
😅my husband said I was going for the prison cell look. Bare bones. 😂
I love how women support each other instead of competing. ❤ You're both terrific!
Thanks so much! Great point! 🌷✌🏼💕
Amen! Great interview ladies ❤
When Dawn was describing the simple grocery list and same meals per week, it made me think, “That sounds like a capsule wardrobe, you know you can make many of the outfits you love with all of your clothing items!” It’s like a capsule meal plan 😊 love this! Really makes sense to me how this could reduce a lot of unnecessary decision making! Thanks, Dawn!
Great analogy! Yes! Less decisions to make. That’s a key similarity. 🌟👋🏼
Love that! Capsule meal plan!!!
I’ve been doing this for years…i think i did repeat meals but when my organized daughter went to college she would refer to her meals by the day…so i adopted that more formal plan, Tuesday is always taco tuesday, Wednesday is usually some type of pasta, Friday is cheeseburgers, Saturday is either enchiladas, nachos with chicken or beef, or quesadillas, Sunday is chicken with mashed potatoes and gravy,Monday and Thursday are light meals, soup and sandwiches, or stir fry. I can always make or add something different, but this balances the chicken and beef, also easy or more time.
I also make 3 meals for my Mom weekly, this food is made by batch cooking…after a year of doing this I’ve started batch cooking for myself…the entire ground beef package from Costco is browned and divided into 2 cups per bag, I season as i use it, I throw 6 chicken breasts into my pressure cooker, shred and freeze in amounts i need for most meals….this cuts out so much cooking time per week…i add broth and water to the chicken packs…helps them survive freezing…I don’t create more packs until I’m on my last pack.
I used to buy without doing enough monitoring of the inventory…but having to manage my mom’s food inventory, I have her freezer now for only her frozen meal bento boxes….buying only when you’re out keeps the freezer cleaned out.
It warms my heart that the two of you have connected! Thank you for what you do Robyn and Dawn.
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I love your honest answer to “ how long it really takes “ to declutter our houses and lives.” And to maintain a clutter free environment. Now I really enjoy displaying my special collections, or treasures . This is now “decorating “ instead of holding.
Yes! Good point! ❤️
One thing that you guys didn't mention was the involvement of your spouse. Listening to Dawn for several years , it was clear that Tom was on board with the decluttering from the beginning. However, not every couple is in the same mental place about this. My husband loves the idea but was more emotionally attached to certain of his things than I would be. Over time, though, he's come around to see all the benefits & appreciates the physical & mental freedom that comes with purging. Also, we donate many things that he gets so much joy from helping the less privileged. We are in our 60s & 70s, so it's crucial in my mind to "Clear out the Cupboards" so to speak for ourselves and our kids. They shouldn't have to have that burden. Anyway, fun video guys .🤗 🏖Kj in Tampa Bay 🥰
Sounds like lots of progress! Congratulations! Thanks for the comment! 🙏🏼❤️
@@MinimalistHome You're so welcome, Sweetie. You're always on point & so candid. 😁
You two complement each other; your theories and styles both really help me.
Aww, thanks Judy!
I don’t cook much. I don’t like to cook. I have been this way all my life. I love having my house clean. I clean and declutter daily. My husband grills some meet almost everyday and I bake potatoes. No mess in the kitchen. I love both you ladies. Have a wonderful day.
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Like Dawn's daughter, I also notice other people's homes and am very sensitive to a cluttered environment even if I'm only visiting.
Like you, I also notice other people’s stuff…sometimes to the point of just “itching” to just declutter a few things. 😂😂😂
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@@user-pk9of5yb2p Lol, right...me too! How not to ever get invited back.
I can find it tiring to visit other people’s cluttered homes because I am mentally decluttering and tidying. 😆It’s exhausting I tell ya.
Ya know my grandparents never had these issues. They were minimalist by default. Farmers never shopped. Etc
So true!
Amen!
Waaaaaaaa, Robyn, interview with Dawn!!! Love her!! ❤❤ Your interviews are soooo good!!
Thanks Cristina! She's great
I could not click on this fast enough!!! I love Dawn and follow her channel!!! Great interview!!!❤❤❤
Yay yay! 🌷❤️
In my house if things are picked up and tidy I am happy. I am good at picking up and doing light housework, but I don’t like to deep clean or dust. I keep up with cooking, laundry, and cleaning up dishes, etc. my husband vacuums and helps with laundry and dishes. Right now I am going section by section decluttering and organizing my house. I want everything to have a home.
Sounds like jure doing great! ❤️💪🏼👋🏼
Jesus was definitely a minimalist. I just take that into account... Happy Easter and I feel the need to have room and space to celebrate and host family
Good point! Happy Easter! 🐣
Yay another great interview! Thank you Robyn and Dawn!! 😍
Glad you enjoyed it!!! 💕
After decluttering a home after 40 years for downsizing my mum home and relocating, I kept everything sentimental and decided to take care of it later... Meaning, in the new home!!!
My mum was sick and depressed and it wasn't the right time.
Last week she found her ex ex boyfriend's letter who she broke up with after being engaged... She was happier then ever. That letter was 53 years old but sooo worth it❤😂
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Two of my favorite RUclipsrs!😀
Aww, thanks!
So excited about this video with you two together. You both have helped me so much!
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You are so welcome!
What a fun interview! Loved it! 💖
Thanks so much! 💕
All of the Moms of her daughter's friends are now wondering if their's is the house that has too many piles. 🤣
I was thinking that too! 🤣🧐
This was awesome! Thank you both so much!!!
Glad you enjoyed it! 💕💕
Love this. ❤
Enjoy both your channels.
Yay! Thank you! 😊🙏🏼
This is a beautifully edited video.
Thank you very much! 🌷
I have learned so much from you, Robyn, and from Dawn. Your advice just makes sense. It was a treat to watch you together. Thank you from Australia.
Wonderful! Thanks for the comment! ☀️✌🏼🌷
Great interview! Loved the meal planning chat.
Thanks Erica! Glad you enjoyed it! 🍲 🙏🏼✅
Erica! You’re one of our favs too!
Two of my favorite!! Did a happy dance to see you both together.
Yay! Thank you! 🌟🌷
So lovely to see you chat and motivation to stop tidying the house as was doing this as procrastination to sort out a full email drive that needs decluttering. Much love to both of you ❤❤
You can do it!
So enjoy both of you!
Thank you!
I love you both so much! My two favorites!!!
Love the cute picture of you growing up, Robyn!
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I love both of you. In my season of life, I can look back and see how different my children were regarding chores and helping around the house. The first two were 3 years apart. They were like living with the odd couple. The older one was neat, organized, cleaned, etc. the second one thought chores were child abuse. 12 years later another baby came along and 15 years later another baby. The last one was ADHD and ODD and physical anomalies that required PT, OT, Speech and vision therapy 3 times a week, on the other 2 days he took guitar and drum lessons. By that time he was the only one left at home, we worked together to keep the toys picked up (by color: all the yellow ones, then the blue ones, etc.). I still was not minimal yet, but very organized. Now he is 26, living with another relative, and does all the cleaning. Once he asked for a new vacuum cleaner for Christmas! He comments on the state of clutter his roommate has and says, “I’m not used to this”. All the kids were different. After 50 years of being a hands on mom, I still ask myself why?!
I truthfully don’t know. We all need to work with (and often to balance out) our natural tendencies, I guess!?
Thanks for sharing all that. What an adventure, all of it! 🌟
Love you both so much! You have both helped me improve my life mentally and I so appreciate your wisdom ❤❤
You’re so very welcome!!! 🌷✌🏼
So enjoyed it.
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As moms we are supposed to work ourselves out of a job, if possible. Good going, Dawn! You do more than enough for your home, business, and family so sharing the housework just makes sense. By the time my daughters left home, they knew how to do all household jobs except gardening.
Great way to look at it! 🌟
Dawn is THE BEST!!!
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Love Dawn!!!
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Awesome …. 2 of my favorite ladies to follow!
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Excellent!!!!
Many thanks! 🙏🏼 😊
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I understand the frozen meat issue. The freezer is just another place I have to keep track of the inventory. It was nice to hear I’m not the only one. 😊
Wonderful! We need to do what works for us and if we don’t, then, well… it doesn’t work! 🤣💪🏼✌🏼
I love u guys …. Could watch u guys for hours!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤
Thanks so much! It was great to talk with Dawn. 🌷
I needed this. I decluttered 2 perfectly good water bottles, an insulated bag that I never use, and put some leftover napkins out to use to lower the inventory in my cabinets even more.
Glad it was helpful! ❤️
Robyn, this was an awesome video! Your youngest son is your mini! He looks strikingly like you! Gorgeous!
Thank you so much! 😊 💕
My motivation vibes off the origin story of yours and the minimalists. And their journey. I'm Curious about others and their journeys im still dealing with anxiety over it all
Glad you could relate! 🌟
I love how Dawn calls out the stuff she decluttered- as it was stuff that was supposed to make our life easier/better - this is the question I use to help decide whether to keep items - does it really improve my life??
Yes! That inventory can get to be too heavy, if we’re not careful. 🌷
Good podcast!!!
Glad you enjoyed it! ❤️
Have decluttered off and on for several years, can't think of one thing I was sorry about, at one point I was sorry about one outfit bc I lost some weight and it would fit again but later I realized I wasn't pulling it out of the closet even when it did fit. ❤🎉
💕 great point! Have you seen my recent “Closet Overhaul” video? A few in there that fit this category for sure!
I love to fry up a big batch of hamburger and freeze it in portions we use. It’s so handy to whip up a quick batch of tacos, spaghetti or other hamburger meals.
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😄 I caught that "share the load' pun when you and Dawn were talking about splitting the laundry duty.
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I have done 1 to 5 items daily and always do "the easy things" for now. I don't have the bandwidth to do more. I got rid of a ton of things so far, just 5 items a day. If I can, I do more but most days it is around 5.
Sounds like you’re doing great! Keep it up! 💪🏼🤩
Dawn can you share your go to recipes ❤
Great question! Ask it again on one of her videos if there’s no reply here. Or search her videos and maybe there’s already one out there! ❤️
I do crafting and sewing, I’m in the process of folding my fabric in a more tidy way…but I’m not purging it.
I always wanted craft and sewing supplies on hand, i can then shop my inventory rather than run to the store always,
Once sewing and crafting become difficult…I have promised myself to donate these items, then someone else can have them at a reasonable price.
Sounds wonderful! 💕
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I think this is my first time commenting so first of all - I love your work and effort you put in it and your spirit because you are just so motivating and encouraging by being yourself, down to earth and honest! That makes it so easy to relate and to ceep on going! Especially when you show yourself being voulnerable (btw sorry for any spelling mistakes. My first language is german...) no matter if it is dealing with sentimental stuff, health issued or other difficulties in personal or business life! So thank you a lot! What I wanted to request though is if you could make a new video dedicated to my biggest struggle - letting go of things that could provide fun..meaning like fantasy-self stuff...it is soooooo hard for me to let go of wood for example😅 I'm kind of a crafty person with a vivid fantasy but am overwhelmed because my whole basement is full of "somewhat usefull" stuff with "great potential"...you know what I mean?😭😂
And it started taking up space in my living areas as well..*HELP*
Love you, Kyra❤
You’re welcome! 💕🌷
Remember this: your actual life now deserves to be simplified and if it is, you’re more likely to be able to do a craft project.
Here’s a way to think of it:
“If it’s all special, then none of it is special.”🤞🏼☀️
Dawn is Awesome! ... it takes time ... gotta peal the onion layer by layer
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I have lived in my studio apt for eleven years. I have never cleaned the oven. I use it regularly. My plan is ..never get it dirty...never have to clean it!!!
LOL - that works! You’re reminding me of the episode of Sex in the City where she says she stores sweaters in her oven. 😆
Hello, i'm from Kazakhstan we as a nation mostly minimalists as a semi nomads, i grew up in minimalist home my mom decluttered constantly everything. we had really good quality clothes, dishes, really beautiful decorated home, paintings, pics, books etc. Home wasn't looking minimal. We all shared cleaning cooking, parents trusted us cooking from 8years, even if meal wasn't good. I married&moved to Italy. I decluttered for 8 years, i couldnt get rid of stuff just gave all to mother in low they never through away stuff😂, even stuff i prepared to give away she picked up all😂 Now i still struggle with much stuff having adhd is not easy, i see my hub uses only few clothes the rest is always there. But yeah he learned declutter too. She's right i still have too declutter, having small house can't&wont keep stuff. Only thing can't involve him to put away things he uses always on me🙄. How to change it?
Thanks for sharing all this! It is interesting to see how different cultures (and families) have different “traditions” around how we keep and take care of our stuff. I am not a relationship expert, so I can’t try to help with the last bit, but maybe the next time you want to declutter, try to sneak things out passes your mother in law! LOL. Good luck and keep on trying. ADHD complicated things a bit, I agree… but just keep on making progress! 💕🌟
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I just get so frustrated. I have a family member I have helped clean numerous times plus my granddaughters room. Piles drive me crazy & I know she didn't have a lot growing up but ugh 😩. How can I get through to them? My son wasn't raised this way, although his bedroom was scary 😂😂.
Oh I hear you! Remember that you can’t change other people and their patterns with stuff and clutter in their homes. Even if you help tidy up many times, the piles may return, but you’re still helping and it might sink in at some point and at some level. 🙏🏼
A great interview. It's an art. 😅
Thanks so much! 🙏🏼🌟
Dawn you should do a gluten free dairy free video and how you adapt it for the rest of the family. We have a lot of different food sensitivities here. Also living on a dime has a gluten free dairy free cook book. It is a great one to add because it is real meals and mostly easy/ simple stuff.
Thanks for the info! I’ll pass it along! 🍲👋🏼
Hmm… Striving to declutter and downsize after empty nesting and deaths in the family. Sooo Hard! Do Not want anyone over while in this process who would not understand and judge. Have found who the positive, supportive people are! We are now preparing for a possible physical relocation and have made a major mental shift in Not being the Keeper of All the Things, esp when it really belongs to someone else. Releasing all the emotional sentimental clutter. Realizing the importance of it all really ends with my husband and I. The next generations are not interested. Has been a shocking and rather sad revelation, but it is being donated or trashed with No regrets. The rest of our life and time is ours. Ahh, emotional, mental, and physical freedom. ☺️
Wow. This is such a powerful statement! Good for you and keep it up! You’re doing great! 🌷💪🏼🌟
@@MinimalistHome Thank you 🥰 Blessings 💖
I really wish I had Al these resources when I was a single mom. My marriage would have have been so much better
you've got 'em now though!
Stew sounds great. I scrambled eggs for dinner.
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I was so crippled when I left home at 18. My mother never had time to teach us how to do chores, so we never learned how to cook or clean. It was not cool!!!
That sounds hard and is a good reminder to moms. 🙏🏼 thank goodness for RUclips “how to” videos!💪🏼👍🏼
Girl I'm with you on the freezer meals and frozen veg in general. Find it easier to buy fresh veg and stick it on a sheet pan with some oil and spices. 😂
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She did also say she has a house cleaner and has for several years.
We didn’t talk about this specifically, so maybe the video title isn’t ideal, but either way, the day to day cleaning and tidying is still a lot to manage, even when people do pay someone to help on a regular basis. 👋🏼
Our family always has house cleaners. Yes, plural. Trust me when I say, our house never looked clean enough until we decluttered. Now we only have one cleaning lady coming every two weeks for a deep cleaning. Our house consistently tidy and clean by us decluttering and managing our day to day life better.
What was the name (how's it spelled) for Instagram digital lady?
Miss Freddy.
Dawn did an interview with her recently on her Minimal Mom channel, that gives you an idea of what she does.
I need to check her out as well! Thanks to both of you (for asking and for the reply)!
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Didnt dawn share she had a cleaner recently?
I’m not sure. 👋🏼
She does but only for deep cleaning. Not on a regular basis.
thanks ladies for letting me off the hook about cooking .... not everyone likes to cook .... e.v.e.r.y.d.a.y.
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Not a fan of Minimal Mom since she showed her barn serving as a junk room. I do love Minimalist Home, though!
When was that ? Haven’t see that one.
In Dawn’ defence, most everyone has an area to keep those items that we need sometimes but do not need to keep them “on hand” (think camping equipment that is used maybe 3 times a year but we don’t want to have to repurchase it every year.) And we definitely do not want it in our main living space. Dawn is fortunate to have a barn to store her seldom used items. I have a double garage and a crawl space. You might have an attic or a shed.
The important points to focus on are the wonderfully helpful tips that Dawn shares with us about how to effectively and efficiently manage our day to day lives that provide us with peace and contentment.
I also believe that Dawn would likely remind us that perfection is not the goal. We are all different. Use some of her ideas if they will work for you. But remember that we all have stuff that must be stored “in the barn”.
Interesting. I’m glad you still watched and I hope we can all remember that each person has their own approach to minimalism, their own family and their own space(s) to deal with and make work best for them! ❤️✌🏼💕
Oh yes! Shed, garage, storage closet… these spaces are also very important to keep decluttered and hopefully organized, but they do exist!
That is real life not just made up for social media! That's why we love Dawn because she is so relatable!