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5 Decluttering Tips from a Professional Cleaner!
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- Опубликовано: 19 дек 2019
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It's that time of year where clutter really starts to accumulate in our homes, so with that in mind, we thought we would talk about some Decluttering Tips for the Holidays. Join Melissa Maker as she shares some practical tips to help you get through the Holiday Season with less stuff!
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I started decluttering yesterday, I have gotten rid of at least 7 garbage bags full of stuff and i am nowhere near done! I started in my daughters room and just ran thru the entire upstairs. I cant wait to start downstairs. It feels amazing and my house feels lighter!
I must say that since I decluttered I leaned 2 things
It’s much easier to keep the house clean and therefore less stressful when guests come over as the house is always ready ( thanksgiving was only decor and food ) no additional cleaning
2) I deal with things immediately or try to do weekly clean outs
The biggest tip as a mother of 4 children. It is always best to go through your children's things with them present, It helps them to let go and have freedom with the choices they make. Great Lrssons
Melissa: talking about important things that I need to listen to
My brain: *oooh pretty colors*
Same 🤣
Cheers for the Video clip! Excuse me for the intrusion, I would appreciate your opinion. Have you researched - Mahorrla Control Clutter Method (probably on Google)? It is a great one off guide for decluttering your home minus the hard work. Ive heard some decent things about it and my good mate called Gray finally got great results with it.
Thanks for the video content! Forgive me for chiming in, I am interested in your initial thoughts. Have you thought about - Mahorrla Control Clutter Method (should be on google have a look)? It is a smashing one of a kind guide for decluttering your home minus the hard work. Ive heard some pretty good things about it and my cousin after a lifetime of fighting got great success with it.
My adhd related heavily to this comment 🥴
...Yeah, that happened with me as well
To those gifting: think of experiences to gift instead of material things. Passes to a museum, classes, or a consumable like tea, coffee, chocolates, etc. fun and nothing to store.
Yes, but make sure you're not gifting an obligation of time and energy that would similarly be seen as a burden. A great bottle of wine you'll know a friend will enjoy may be a better gift that a ticket to a wine tasting.
Kudos for the Video clip! Forgive me for chiming in, I am interested in your opinion. Have you tried - Mahorrla Control Clutter Method (do a search on google)? It is an awesome one of a kind product for decluttering your home minus the headache. Ive heard some unbelievable things about it and my good mate called Gray at very last got astronomical results with it.
Good idea
As an introvert , I love the consumables idea! I don’t want passes to places. I wanna stay home! Lol. But wine or cheese or a good basket…. Yes please!
agree
We do this with our daughter if she wants to use stickers or stamps we make cards and given to family and friends. Thank you, birthday, Christmas, miss you, thinking of you cards. It shows gratitude, thoughtfulness, an activity that keeps her busy but also gives others her handy work without being in the house.
Finally after benefitting all these years from your videos(and they get better every year), I have a tip for you. You toss your daughters crafts after she goes to bed, instead once a week have a make room for more event, maybe Saturday morning clear the refrigerator or display area and throw them away with her, this way she gets used to the fact that the fun is in the making not the keeping and when she is older you don't have to lie and say "Oh gee, I don't know where your drawing went.." Whatever you do now is what she will accept as normal in the future-like eating vegetables.
Great idea thank you
My mother got rid of some of my things when I was at school. That caused me distress. It felt so sneaky. I would rather have been involved in the deciding what needed to go. And yes, my mother lied when I asked where such & such was. That is not the way to go, believe me. So, Karla, I agree w/you !!
@@patwagner9308 exactly, if you are always honest you never have to cover your tracks.
My mom gave my Barbies and other dolls away when I was in high school. I'm still angry.....Even though she told me she was giving them to my cousin. 😫 #truthhurts
My mom gave all of my clothes away when I got married and moved out of state. I asked her to please keep them as I would be back for them. She was mad at me because I got married and moved out of state. I guess that was her revenge! :
This was actually a "calming" video, ie, since we just purged house (mostly not entirely) for grandchild, and we wont be having guests here at christmas, i found this a "done that" video...calming!
You take the chaos/crazy out of the thought of decluttering, it is a relief rather than another boulder of stress/anxiety. Like a lot of things for me, breaking down a seemingly enormous endless job into small bite size time managed sessions makes it "do-able" rather than simply IMPOSSIBLE... My addition is that after you work, spend time being nice to yourself instead of getting that "it's not good enough" thinking if it isn't "all done." Thanks for the great suggestions of where to take your decluttered items! Happy Holidays to all!
Great video! I spent a chunk of my day off today cleaning up my messes in the garage, carport, and my vehicle. I've been getting limited hours this month and I want to take advantage of it, especially with these earlier winter sunsets.
1. It's not my house (but fortunately it's family and not a landlord situation) and I shouldn't have had things messy in the first place 2. I kept having issues knowing where my tools are/missing sockets.
My goal is to have everything cleaned up, rebound from my hoarding habits, and have most of my tools all in my roll-around. I plan on living out of my car for a period of time, so I need to work on downsizing and making it to where it'll be easy as pie to load all my stuff up into my vehicle when the time comes.
I have to admit, as much as I love decluttering, there are a few things I regret giving away. Has that deterred me from more decluttering? NOPE.
Love your content and how professional you guys are. I know you are professional cleaners but you keep your channel professional as well. Been watching for years and have learned a lot with my cleaning habits. You always look so pretty and you have a very nice speaking voice. Lol wanted to compliment you today. 👍🏻
Reorganizing too much stuff never made a difference for me because at the end of the day whether in a better organizer it was still too much stuff. Less stuff equals less reorganizing.
At either Thanksgiving or Christmas I always look forward to real mashed potatoes, stuffing, and green bean casserole. That trio has always been my favorite combo. And I have a small apt. and just finished downsizing and/or decluttering, and all that's left is all my papers, and then the storage unit. Already I'm happier and feeling lighter.
Love green bean casserole too surprisingly there are people that don’t like it.
My best friend with her little girls kept 6 bins of girl clothes (previous Stella's clothes) and with toys, she would roate with toys. she would let the kids play with a set of toys. then after a while, she would put away those toys and bring out the other set. the girls would think they're playing with new toys!
My kids are almost 2 and 4 and this is what we do: we have 4 bins of toys we rotate through, we change them every few days ish and the kids love it. Clean up is a breeze
A friend of mine had a couple of totes for her kids toys and the toys that the kids didn't play with for a while got put in the totes and put in the back of closet. After about a month she will pull the tote back out and the kids thought they had brand new toys again since they hadn't seen them in a while. She would watch and see which toys the kids liked to play with and which ones they didn't. She would then put the toys that weren't played with in a box to donate or sell at a garage sale or take to a kid's reconsignment shop. She actually saved a lot of money on toys doing it this way and the kids had less clutter in their rooms when only half of the toys were out at a time, hope this helps some folks.
This also works with dog toys.
I’m a pet sitter and have counted over 75 cat toys in one house.
You know I thank God for you Melissa I feel so relaxed when I watch your channel. 😊
I love the Green Bean Casserole with the fried onions on top. I wonder why we only have that for holiday dinners because it is so good. Our family used to get our paternal side together on Christmas Eve and the main dish was always chili. I don't know when that started but it was always chili every year as long as I can remember and I'm 63.
I’m pretty proud, and excited, that I decluttered our office area upstairs over the weekend. It’s one of those spaces that is sort of a catch all, and I have been embarrassed for anyone to see it since my last child was born, so about a year. I feel so good about the space now and love being there. Now I want to tackle other areas of the house.
i work with seniors. We have a declutter club to help seniors let go with no judgment. There are lots of seniors who feel guilty decluttering. They have such sentimentality and devalue the ease of life living in a decluttered space. Lots of psychological attachment for senior citizens.
I discovered a good way to declutter children's toys! My 5 year old daughter seemed stressed by this task. So we played to the "toy store". I installed all of her toys in the living room. I gave her a shopping cart so she could « buy » all the toys she wanted. We had a lot of fun and she gave almost half of her toys with a smile!
As far as getting exited for decluttering. I've moved like... 3 times in the past year and now the place I'm in has NO kitchen cabinets and no closet assemblies. I have to strategize my plastic bins, shelves and closets the best I can until I get those things! Send me your cleaning spirit power!
My suggestion with an excess of craft projects is to donate them to a children’s hospital or retirement home.
Excellent idea!!!
Pumpkin pie is my favorite holiday treat! Only eat it @ Thanksgiving & Christmas. It reminds me of my childhood holidays with my Mom.
Thanks for the info about Best Buy recycling services. I've reached my limit with the electronic clutter in my house! Awesome job donating the supplies to your local animal shelter!
It's a great program that Best Buy offers! Thanks for watching Diane :)
You are so right about these boxes to put things away in. I joyously found these red totes with green lids, and it perfectly lets me know what totes in my garage are Christmas gear. I don't have very much, but the lights, the way I store them to keep them from getting tangled does take a little space.
The stuffing is my favorite part, little bit of turkey, lots of stuffing. yum
My favorite Christmas dish is dressing with gravy.
I am in the thick of decluttering my home. It’s painstakingly slow moving due to not a lot of time, but it’s getting there. Thanks for all the great ideas, they’re much appreciated.
Happy Hanukkah 🕎
I bought your microfiber cloths and honestly? They've changed my life.
Did they... How?
When I started clearing my home clutter, I became so aware that in developed nations where abundance is common, that our society promotes frivolty and fanciness because it is all about consumerism and companies making profits, thus consumers are bombarded with ads everywhere thereby brainwashed into believing we need 'this, that, and the other'. I just donated alot of shoes to a thrift shop because all I really need are the basics--a good pair of hiking sneakers, winter boots, and a pair of light loafers. I wish I were more enlightened & practical about such matters when I was a youngster.
Swedish christmas ham, finnish foodboxes, beetrotsallad, risalamalta, (swedish christmas dessert) homemade meatballs whit many more that are on the swedish/finnish christmas table
Awesome tips! My favorite holiday food is tourtiere. It is a French Canadian ground meat pie in a flaky crust. My family has always omitted the shredded potato or bread crumb filler and just used ground beef, pork and veal. We serve ours with home canned sweet chili sauce. I actually just ate a piece left from yesterday's feast.
When our 3 kids were young, I was in our church choir. Call time on Christmas Eve was 7:00 pm. Our traditional dinner became: homemade Caesar salad, a mountain of peel and eat shrimp cocktail, crusty sourdough baguette and butter it was perfect. We all ate in our church clothes (for a quick scoot out of the house), so it was even more special. I had a timeline that actually worked. The kids, now in their mid-30’s, still want that. We have three grands too. We’ve moved the festivities to my daughter’s house because there is more room, and we all bring a segment of that dinner. Tradition!
I love your videos. Always clear and concise! You make your viewers feel like you care. Thank you for all the great tips and for cheering along when we have even a small success!
I can sew anything and I made seasonal "clothes" for my favorite throw pillows. I don't need to buy extra pillows and then find a place to temporarily store the regular pillows. Shams get stored with other holiday decor in sealed bins on a designated shelves in the garage.
I'm with you! Latkes are my favorite holiday food 😁. I married into a Jewish family, and the yum of latke melds into joyful memories and laughter in my mind. Instant happiness (and delicious)
My favorite dish is Nom bahn chok which is Cambodian rice noodles served with fish gravy topped off with fresh herbs and vegetables served with a side of Thai chili peppers!
Great video 👍 as I'm married to a chef all my meals are delicious but I do love his roast turkey & potatoes 😋yum
Woohoo! We'll be right over 😋
If I know anything about decluttering, cleaning is only because of you ♥️
I have a request, how does one make the house smells great all the time especially if you cook with strong spices/smells etc
Here's a few great ways to make you house smell amazing: ruclips.net/video/hpNVGRDVYs8/видео.html
I bought an air purifier wherein I put some essential oils (I prefer Eucalyptus as I have a cat too and I feel it keeps the air fresh). I also burn a citrusy candle after I have cleaned up dinner stuff.
The guided journal "Throw It Away" by Guru Notebooks is great for this. It's on amazon.
Favorite Christmas dinner: roast turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, collard greens seasoned with smoked turkey, mac-and-cheese, apple pie!
You are very smart and beautiful...thanks for all your insight! All these things, are really just things, spend quality time with your family. Think twice before your purchase... all the little stuff, I also box up, and if I don't miss it after six months it goes away. It's all about less stuff to dust...ha ha ha!
My mom makes amazing devilled eggs!! Sooo good. It ain't Christmas without them!
Any excuse to make deviled eggs here! LOL
Favorite holiday food: stuffing, cheesy potatoes, and green bean casserole! My family doesn’t do Christmas meals together anymore, but we celebrate Thanksgiving together.
My favorite food is my mums recipe for prawn cocktail delicious and my baked honey and mustard ham is not bad too!
Love your outlook, with kid toys though, I want to add that my son was hardcore about lightening McQueen. He got worn out from it for 6 months to a year (we saw it as over it) then he was hardcore and revamped about it again and I was glad I didn’t declutter that stuff like I wanted to. So I think if there’s anything they really loved might want to hang on longer than you’d like because they might come back to it lol And I feel that way about the hobbies I have that I do go back to the same things years later. I like your toy exchange deal for that. I am totally with you on junk toys
OH the kid stuff! The struggle is REAL! We have so much, and I try to pare it down but family members keep buying more! We had a Come to Jesus meeting before Christmas because I am losing my mind AND the battle of clutter.... AGHHH!
I always love cranberry sauce, and this year my older grandson (nearly 14) made us GF and dairy free gingerbread!! Mmm
For bathrooms when you're expecting several guests, a local spa has little basket of washcloths / small guest towels in a basket on the counter, and a basket on the floor to drop them in! Easy peasy individual towels! I was recently at the home of a friend who is much neater than me. She was just getting over a bug ... Her bathroom was nice and clean, but only one hand towel out, and it was damp!
We had several rods in our bathroom when I was growing up, and my mom always put out clean towels when someone was coming over, and our personal towels in the laundry.
In the US, Goodwill accepts textile items that are no longer useful for their original purpose. Clothing, linens, etc are accepted and turned over to companies that recycle textiles. It's sold to the recyclers by the pound, which still provides some cash back to Goodwill's charity work, and it still keeps these things out of landfills.
Excellent to know! Thanks!
I love Christmas because it has always been the same dishes since I can remember. Our Christmas dishes are my father’s lasagne, corn salad (I don’t know if this is popular in Canada or the US, I am from Germany; it’s the salad “Rapunzel” is named after) with caramelised walnuts and my Mum’s pana cotta with strawberry sauce. So delicious!
Thank you so much for sharing this video
My favourite food at Christmas has to be Christmas Pudding with plenty of custard.
In the New Year, I want to try and declutter at least one thing every day. If I stick to it I should have recycled/donated/ thrown away 365 things by next December.
Wish me luck.
I really appreciate your advise on how to manage holiday decor: a method we have in our home for decor is to have universal season decor: fall, spring, winter, summer! So like winter: I will have a lot of green, red, silver and gold decorations out. some of it is Christmasy(like santa and snowmen) but at the same time they're not all in your face to where i can keep them up Late Nov/Dec/January. And same with consecutive holidays thereafter... fall, some halloween, but mostly leaves, pumpkins, orange/beige/brown colors, nuts etc. Spring: flowers, pastel colors, eggs... summer: flipflops, suns, teal/amber/neon colors, sea shells. All items are so universal that your not going to insult someone with any specific decoration.
Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas🎄. Love your channels and the Gram 💗
As Riley gets older and the artwork increases, fun project is to take digital photos of her art and download to a digital frame. She can the make the decision what to keep on her frame and what goes into the digital archives. Less glitter everywhere, which is bonus for you. A very Happy New Year
Love your decluttering videos. I have tons of stuff that I've had kicking around for years. So, I've started to remove some of the stuff that I don't use any more even if it's only a few things at a time. 😊
This time of year a few of my favorites are eggnog, fruitcake and any type of anise salad.
Tfs your tips.
Thanks a lots for sharing great tips Melissa😘😊
Favourite holiday food is carrot pudding. Like old school British pudding steamed in a pudding bowl for hours on the stove with rum sauce over it. I only eat it once a year so the anticipation is real.
And BTW, your hair looks great!
I love the lights on your tree what kind are they?🌞
They are called Twinkly: twinkly.com
I would answer the kind of lights that light up. But they are the pretty type.
My favourite is my trifle. This year I'm cooking my father in law a four course Christmas eve feast with all his favourites for the first time, except for the turkey lol I'm still not that confident yet, and his was the best, I know I wouldn't even get close to it! Haha but I do have a couple of really nice, boneless, stuffed chickens, and his pigs in blankets ❤ I'm looking forward to it, he loves my trifle too 😊😍
Thx for the tip on where to take electronics!
4:00 you can also scan them to have on a thumb drive or use something like Plumprint if you can afford it. It's a nice way to keep the memories/visualization-of-artistic-progress without having to keep the actual items themselves 😊
If only I could convince my husband that less toys are better
YOU are the Cleaning Guru❣️ I starting watching when you showed how to clean the Keurig.......been a fan ever since.🥰 Have a blessed holiday.🎄❄️⭐️
So true must get rid if things not usurping some things hard to throw out Dresses pocketbooks I've been wanting to bring to shoemaker to fix but with this pandemic I haven't been doing much as far as this topic. maybe I'll give them away and person can gave fix
My favourite Christmas food is Pavlova yum! Oh that and chocolate ripple cake
Thanks for the tips my favorite recipe to make with my twin sister is coquito it's a Puerto Rican eggnog.
Hi I just discovered your channel and I’ve been needing this! My biggest challenge is how do you start?! Where to begin when it seems like everything is piling up everywhere?
I've used the 3-4 boxes method: 1-garbage 2-donate 3-sell 4-keep If it doesn't "spark Joy" Donate it.
Merry Christmas and thank you for all the wonderful videos this decade.
Great tips! Your hair looks soo beautiful ❤️
Thank you!
When i get in possession of all of the stuff my mom kept for my future daughter (imagine i have a son 😂😂👌) the first thing that is going is that weird scribbling painting that i painted when i was three😂😂
Merry Christmas Melissa, Chad, Riley, and the furbabies 🎄🎄!
Cornbread Dressing (not stuffing) and cranberry sauce is my favorite Holiday food.
I pretty much do the same thing with my sons artwork. I keep plastic shallow bins for artwork and schoolwork. I do one bin for every 2-3years of school.
I look forward to latkes too. I add diced jalapeno and garlic to mine. We are having a party on the 28th, and I'm serving them.
Fave Christmas food? OMG! Where do I start? Where do I end? Turkey, stuffing and all that jazz; shortbread (the whipped kind); butter tarts.
I am definitely in the "let it go" mode, but my" wall" is that I live in a very rural area and it's not easy to get things to donation places...which is why there are boxes...and boxes...and boxes in two houses; however, I am very determined this year and have reached the point that- as much as I want to find new homes for good items/add no more to landfills, I've got to put my sanity first, and I will definitely be more mindful of my purchases in the future.
I have not decluttered my clothes/closet in over 2yrs!! (some clothes way longer) came here for some motivation b/c obviously I have been procrastinating and I don’t know why I used to go thur stuff all the time not sure where & what went wrong to find myself here today ...anyway Thank You & will update once I have finally completed which is going to take some time I just counted my Jeans only (not including capris, leggings, etc) counted 22 pairs of Jeans and this count is more b/c only counted what my eyes can see ....geez why 😩 did I do this to myself
I season theme serving dishes and not holiday theme. I definitely use it more often, about 3-6 months instead of just for that month.
I watch several of your videos a week, thank you for straight forward advice.... My favorite holiday food is mashed potatoes and any kind (almost ) of gravy. A great meatloaf is awesome too.
Meat loaf and mashed potatoes - awww yeah!
Christmas Eve my Dad would do the seven fishes, Italian. My Mom would make Goose or Duck for Christmas, she is Hungarian. Joan Bates
A year ago I think I would have said sugar cookies were my favorite holiday treat, but I removed cane sugar from my diet so I'll have to find a new favorite treat. I really like corn casserole, we usually have that with our Thanksgiving meal.
Everytime I buy my children something, even a cushion, I think to buy for future/years ahead. Save having to upgrade sooner and having surplus to requirements to get rid of
My favourite Christmas food is the gravy that my brother makes. I spend Christmas Day on my own & my sister-in-law always brings me over a Christmas dinner on Boxing Day. My brother is a great cook.
With me, it’s not “Would you like some gravy with your meal”, it’s “Would like a meal with your gravy?” I like it swimming in it.😀
By the way, what exactly is a powder room? Is it like a loo?
It's a half bath; just a toilet and a sink.
The whole time you were talking about holiday themed dishes I kept thinking about the Christmas bowl that I use all year when preparing meals. Am I lazy or an awesome minimalist?
Prime Rib usually on the menu Christmas Day. 🥰🥰🥰
My favorite Christmas food I look forward to is pierogies. We only have them at Christmas because they are time consuming to make. Merry Christmas!!
My aunt makes a good cheesy potato casserole that was my grandma's on my dad's side. I love potato pancakes, my mom makes them for her boyfriend, he's Polish ancestry, so they also like potato pancakes.
Hi love Jewish foods too pastrami etc also turkey with all trimmings cranberry sauce etc
lasagna home made Ravolis this year I'm going to make lasagna. My husband favorite.
for NY prime rib roast with all that goes with it yum Going to watch Christmas Rockette Show on utube great really uplifting
And very continuously entertaining since no more family reunions this past year.
Melissa your hair looks amazing!!!
My favorite food is: Stuffed Mushrooms!
We are Vegan, and my son makes the best ones ever!!
Happy Holidays Clean My Space Nation! 🎁🎄❄️🕎⛄
How are you celebrating the season?
Happy Holidays , to you all in a clean beautiful home.
Don't celebrate the stress wasn't worth it.
Spending time with family and having our traditional Christmas meal- pumpkin puff pancakes with apple cider sauce!
Discovered you a few weeks ago, love your videos. They have really helped with my cleaning. At Christmas I always look forward to single dipped chocolate covered peanuts from the Piggly Wiggly groceries. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
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I'm looking forward to my family's no bake cookies, a recipe based down many generations on my Maternal side. Also Thank you for this as I'm about to have to 'de-clutter' my home after my little one gets her new Xmas gifts this year.
I'd say I look forward to the array of desserts the most - esp. homemade pies and tartlets!
Love them Christmas lights and looking forward to tamales homemade
My favorite holiday food is tamales. Its a lot of work to make them, but so worth it 😊
Nothing like fresh tamales!!❤❤❤
Alton Brown's Thanksgiving Turkey!
I don't know how to cook, but I can cook this!
❤🦃❤