We are so grateful that Rachel let us visit her house! And for YOUR support-- THANK YOU!! Question: we had thought about finding a way to post a longer video with more of the decluttering that we did together (so you could see more of the stuff that Rachel dealt with), would you be interested in seeing something like that? Thanks for letting us know!!! We hope you have a great weekend! - Dawn & Tom
Finally, we’ve all been waiting for some decluttering RUclipsrs to go into other peoples homes and give us more examples of decluttering….thank you! You did it! This was so exciting to watch. Looking forward to the next one.
When I'm shopping I see things I like and then I think "my dream self would love this (insert whatever... outfit, decor piece, art supply, etc) but my real life self just doesn't "need" this. It's helped A LOT to keep my inventory reasonable.
Yes! Awareness of my fantasy self and coming to terms with reality is so helpful! I like the idea of acknowledging that the fantasy item has value, just not for me!
Yes, I'm learning to say to myself, "I really like that (item in a store, online shop, or similar) BUT I don't need to buy it"! Just because I like it, want it, or think it's pretty does NOT mean I need to own it.😅
WOW this was the *best decluttering video ever!!!* No amount of explaining was as helpful as seeing it being done in "real time" by a real person with her real boxes on her real bedroom floor. Ding Ding Ding - *Dawn this is an excellent demonstration to get me decluttering - please make more of these type videos!!!*
Same! It's great to see Dawn's house but she has already kinda of gotten past the hardest parts of decluttering and she's on another level now. I think the one on one decluttering with others is SUPER interesting and a great path for this channel to take!
@@kellymhanson Excellent and I can see Dawn is reading our comments on this. Dawn & Tom were recently commenting on a couple of changes and it appears she might be changing it up again based on what we're saying here. And I don't think anyone is doing it besides 'Horders' and we're not that at all - we're just decluttering our -nice- -crap.- domestic items. ; D
Rachel's emotional because she's letting go of the "dream" of doing art with her kids. I totally get that! I realized that every time I looked at that kind of stuff in a pile, it was mocking me and making me feel bad that we didn't use it. It's so refreshing to get rid of the items that "mock" us!
The picture of the person and the boxes going down with all the other things listed out really resonates with me. That's exactly how I feel. I am married, have 7 kids, 1 is special needs with severe developmental delays, we homeschool. Just doing the daily tasks take up alot of mental power. I dont have much leftover for stuff. When we moved our movers were actually very surprised when I told them that the piles of boxes in the livingroom was everything in the entire house. I had packed everything up and stacked it there and taken the beds apart and had them and mattresses up against the wall ready to go. They had quoted us 7 hrs to move and they ended up doing it in 4 and 1 hour was driving. It was 1hr to load, 1 to drive, and 2 to unload bc I had a floorplan of the new house and numbered the rooms on the floorplan and numbered the boxes so they put everything in the appropriate room.
I totally agree that I can get more done if someone is with me. They dont necessarily have to be doing anything other than listening to me vocalize my thought process of what I am going through.
Oh my gosh. This Rachel person is so adorable!! And so relatable! She’s already at a good mental place to do this. Good humor about herself and her expressions are so cute and realistic. And she’s clearly tried decluttering before because she used the container concept (Decluttering at the Speed of Life) and being a Cricket organizer (Cass from Clutterbug)
This is a perfect client; she was so open to literally everything you suggested and did not fight with you at all! My personal experience, this is NOT normal with people who have a ton of clutter and live in a disarrayed space. I feel you got very lucky with this first client🍀😊
I think they have worked together a bunch before. Definitely this client was able to let things go faster than I am right now, though I am faster than I was 5 years ago when I wanted to hold on to everything! And faster than my mom who is in the stage of “I’m ready to sell or give that away if a family member wants it, but not to donate to a store.” So she’ll text me pics and I say hmm I don’t know why don’t I take it while I decide and then if I don’t want it I’ll get it to someone who does or donate to the store. And she says yes. It’s easier for her to gift to her daughter than give away. So i hold on for a week then donate 95% of it (I keep the really cool stuff!) and if she ever asks I am totally honest that I donated it so someone else could use it. By now, she stopped asking if I kept things or not, it seems to get easier for her each time. 2 weeks ago she actually asked me to take her give-aways to the thrift store directly! :D
@@massages_for_world_peace8909 hi, I’m your mom!!!🤣That’s the stage of life I’m in and I’m about to take a whole giant box of crap to my daughter who lives in a small studio apartment…definitely needed to hear this advice! Thank you for sharing your experience 🥰
@@randomharts haha! Well my mom is awesome so you’re probably pretty rad too! Your daughter can be your teammate through this! D it took me a while to feel okay giving away my mom’s declutter “gifts” so one thing I appreciated is she never got mad at me when I donated them, if she asked and I said I gave them away she just said oh okay, moved the conversation along to something else. She never made me feel guilty or bad for my decision to give away. :)
I justify every homeschool expense and have the hardest time parting with it. It goes back to drawing identity from specific books and subjects (and how they’d enlighten my children and they’d be so wise and clever and…) and the reality that they didn’t work-or I stopped caring-has settled in and I parted with a lot of it. It felt really good! And now I know not to even shop for that stuff in the first place. Aside from textbooks and consumable workbooks, everything else is coming from the library this school year. We don’t need to own it, even if it’s a lovely thing.
GO RACHEL GO!!!! I love this series and I absolutely think that all of us can relate to Rachel’s piles, thinking and beautiful victory over clutter!!!!! YYYYAAAAAYYYYYY!!!!! 🌟💖🌈😍
I’m a cricket but I have many more (& pretty sloppy) piles. Lots of papers & stuff that were swept into shopping bags when I needed a clear space or company was coming.
I totally relate to all that she said-- decision fatigue, overwhelming, emotionally draining. Having someone to encourage you as you work it really nice. Maybe you need to make a video that just says encouraging phrases that we listen to as we work on our piles!
Maybe a Podcast covering different topics or areas to declutter would be nicht. One could listen to while decluttering without being visually distracted.
I don’t have piles on the floor but this motivated me to clean out my Amazon music files and delete, delete, delete old music that was sucking up my iPad storage. Another thing I’m doing is clearing my Amazon cache of programs and movies to zero, to start fresh with new things and let the old stuff I never watched go. Very freeing even though these aren’t physical things, they still bog you down.
It is so wonderful to see the connection and the transfer of knowledge and confidence! For those of us not in your area who could wish for an in-person visit, this video is definitely the next best thing. In my mind, Dawn and Tom are alongside me boosting my own confidence and achieving my own decluttering as I watch this inspiring video!
Happy to report that I decluttered a bookshelf in my bedroom while watching/listening to this video. I moved a stack of books and notebooks to the donate box, tossed some garbage and re-homed several items. (Why were garden clippers in my bedroom???) It feels so much better. I have a full cart staring at me now, so I’ll find another video to watch while I declutter it after lunch. Thanks for the great motivation, Rachel & Brian and Dawn & Tom!
"Why were garden clippers in my bedroom?" HA!! That gave me a laugh, thank you. My piling spot was my dining room table, and the items were almost as goofy as your clippers. Good job decluttering!
I hide garden tools in with my clothes so I know where they are and the boys of the house don’t claim or destroy them. This is how garden stuff ends up in bedrooms.
Started watching this and felt compelled to declutter my junk closet. I now have 3 boxes of donations by the door and a bunch of stuff that I plan to sell. It really does help to declutter with a friend... even if that friend is on RUclips 🙂
My husband’s dresser was a pile, 3-rows deep. I made him a memory box, which fit under the bed because we had cleaned out under there a few months earlier. A stack of books found a place on a shelf near other books in our upstairs den, because I had just gone through all of the books! He had some big items I knew he only kept there because the kids and I had given him them as gifts. They were in the “back row “so I knew he wouldn’t miss them anyway. Every day he tells me how happy he is to have the top of his dresser back!
I'm glad you addressed the treasures made out of trash from the kids. Of course we want to remember and treasure everything our children make for us. I just can't manage years and years worth of art projects. Memory bins are a wonderful idea for children to see that of course we do treasure their workbut we have to select the pieces we can fit in the box. Let the container be the bad guy.
Dawn, this was such a great idea. You and Tom are very generous in giving your time and energy to helping others learn how to clear their spaces of unnecessary clutter. It’s so nice to share these visits with you. Keep them coming!
Enjoyed this one so much Dawn! Inspired me to go and get rid of some of my floor piles. One room = 15 minutes. Why has it been there for months?? 🤷🏼♀️
My friend had a stash of great baskets (big ones!) with no purpose. Rather than give them away, she lined them with tight mesh and used them as flower planters on her porch! Yes, they will eventually rot, but in the meantime she has the most gorgeous, cute arrangements of pansies, snapdragons, mini sunflowers, pentas and impatiens. She also gives the baskets with living flower planters as gifts to her gardening friends. Too bad I can't post a photo!
I think it can be emotional to give up fantasy items. For me it's like saying goodbye to the "hope" that those things represented because those items were meant for positive changes. I'm finding that letting those items go is helping me to begin to feel more grounded and present daily as it's a mental decluttering from all the subconscious messages from advertisers suggesting "things" represent who you are and how you'll experience the world.
Boy do I relate! I found a few that were really hard to part with. Something that helped in my case was taking a few pictures. When that satisfied my senses I would then be able to move on without the sctual item.
This was so inspiring! Thank you Rachel for showing us your progress. Dawn, the image of how much inventory one can realistically handle was very helpful!
Rachel - I am also a cricket! This looks exactly what my piles looked like - but let me tell you…when you get on the other side of this, you’ll have the time and bandwidth to sit down and put together those photo albums!! ❤️
When she said "I want to read to the boys. Or exercise!" I was reminded that I wanted to get on my exercise bike again. Thanks! I agree that hobbies are more enjoyable with less inventory. Also with one or two really good tools or implements instead of a whole bunch of "okay" ones. :) I decluttered hobbies a while back when I had a new baby and said to myself "if I had a couple of hours alone, which hobby would I do first?" That helped a lot!
I literally just started this video and thought-oh good, it’s not just me? I’m definitely struggling with this right now! Thanks for this perfectly timed video. I love your non judgmental approach with very practical advice that’s so doable!
Loved this! Rachel thank you for allowing us to see the process. What you said about "fantasy kids" is so true! I have been able to let go of a lot of miscellaneous art supplies because that's not my kid either. Also, I let go of the paint and the play doh for my sanity!
I can’t thank you both enough! I’m in my bedroom watching this and looking at 2 empty bins. A “junk” box, a laundry basket of “junk”, a desk with “junk” and a box of papers. 😜 l And just yesterday I was struggling with the essential oils dilemma!! 😂🤣 I come from a family of hoarders/collectors and I inherited a lot of those qualities. Last year I started minimizing bc of you. I used to get true heartache and anxiety when letting things go. But with your help I’ve made TREMENDOUS strides forward. I'm 58 and 2 things I keep telling myself are: 1. I don’t want my son (only child) to have to go through a bunch of stuff when I die. (Whenever that may be.) 2. These things are only temporary. You can’t take them with you. My bf and I are in a 1/1 apt in CA and I’ve set a goal to have my clutter and disarray organized by the end of the year. I’ll keep ya posted on my progress. I’m sending you so much love, light and blessings!
Oh my goodness, it was so awesome seeing you guys tackle piles in the master bedroom! This is definitely a problem area in my home and I just hate it. Donations, things to sell, building materials etc. all get piled in my master bedroom because we have a tiny home. This video has given me a bit of motivation and encouragement to tackle my space too. THANKS RACHEL for being so vulnerable and sharing your space with us all! THANKS DAWN AND TOM for giving of your time and energy!
On paper clutter, I love how Rachel said "I would get the piles smaller, but I would never totally get rid of it" Can totally relate. Those decisions with the smaller and smaller piles seem harder; the decision fatigue and overwhelm sets in quicker! So motivating to finally push past that fatigue and be done ✅ Thanks for sharing!!
Thank you for helping us recognize our “fantasy” selves and the decisions and misguided purchases that we make when we are in that “fantasy” world! Terrific video. Love seeing you help others declutter.
This was great. I did have one question though. Why not put the boxes on the shelves in the closet instead of on the floor? Obviously not above the pack and plays but there was a lot of shelves in there and I would think it would be easier to clean if they weren't on the floor.
Wow Dawn this is amazing. Watching y'all go through Rachel's piles together is so helpful. We really do all have the same clutter piles! Your talk track makes these kinds of tasks so much less daunting. I wish you could come to Texas and sit with me. I am so thankful for your channel. It truly is the next best thing.
For the essential oils - I never knew what to do either until I watched - ‘thiscrazylife’ youtuber who, after doing dishes, puts drops of essential oils down the sink and it adds a fresh scent to the drain and the air as well. I tried it and it works! Yes I would love to see more of Rachel’s declutter videos
Cool! Check with your sewage company that they are okay with essential oils down the drain. Some oils can harm the water supply, affecting animals, vegetation or bacterias.
Wow I love this type of video! I love your normal content too :) but this new content is exciting. Getting together with friends is always so much easier for cleaning and decluttering!
Rachel did such a great job! Dawn you did amazing in helping her talk through the questions to declutter. Thank you for this video. I look forward to seeing another one!
Dawn, YOU are "the other person helping me," (a la 15:35-ish) and I am so grateful for you and your work. You have helped and are continuing to help me so much 🌿
I currently have 2 piles on my bedroom floor that I’ve needed to go through for months! 🙈 Tomorrow, I’m going through them and then I’m going to time myself to see how long it takes. It’s so nice knowing other people have piles on their bedroom floors! 😁
Awesome, I really liked how you did this together. Glad to have been a part of this with you. A few minutes in and I thought - I can do this along with you girls. I can do a box right here that I hadn’t finished when doing my Minimalist Challenge… I’m so visual though I had to stop and rewind because I don’t like to miss anything. I got my box empty though. I have a bag to donate, and I’m going into the city tonight so can drop that off at Value Village. I wish you lived closer. I’m in Canada, in the area that is right in the Fire Hot Spot - next door to the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia. There are Fires everywhere around here right now. I did almost finish my To Go Bag - to be prepared for Evacuation. My personal spot is ok, but I do have a niece 6 miles away that was put on evacuation alert in the middle of the night…. We live in the only Desert Zone in Canada above your Washington State. So I have also cleaned out some things in my To Go Bag, and need to freshen up some of the 1st Aid Items. So it’s happening… thank you … I enjoyed doing this along with you today.
I’ve been stalking your channel as I am unpacking boxes AND decluttering. I played your Mom’s pantry over and over while trying to figure out food storage with no lower cabinets. Senior living. Tiny kitchen. I’m decanting in all sort of re-used food. containers. Please thank your Mom and Rachel for allowing us to visit their process in action. They are both so kind. And. I finally subbed 👍🏻💕
I've been waiting for this video all week since the members only group post! I think its awesome that you did this (even though I'm low key very jealous that Rachel got to hang out with you and I didn't lol). I've said this before, but your encouragement has helped me clear out probably 75% of the things in my home and I'm still going! Thank you so much, Dawn, for your positive outlook and for sharing your light with all of us. You've helped me through some of the darkest times in my life and I'm truly grateful for you and your family ❤
As someone who loves to start a decluttering/tidying project and get distracted 10 minutes later, learning not to make a bigger mess and take care of things immediately has been a game-changer!
So much compassion and comraderie in this process! I wonder if the is some longing for doing art projects herself with her little girl inside. And maybe also, it would be interesting to recall when Rachel would be going on this art supply shopping sprees. Maybe, just from how she felt supported by another woman here, she would benefit from conducting an arts class with girls. Such a beautiful family.
Good job, Rachel!! I'm a homeschooling mom with 6 kids. The struggle is real!! You've inspired me to start working through my pile one box at a time! Thank you!
I love how you said not to underestimate the power of having someone there to help you make decisions. I just tried that yesterday. I was decluttering the hall linen closet and was finding myself in decision paralysis so I asked my daughter to just come hang with me. It took the pressure out of making decisions by having a partner and it was easier to also not let emotions get in the way of letting something go. My daughter would say things like "Ma we don't need that any more" or "no one actually uses that", or "we all out grown that one". And she started to get really in to it and excited to do another part the house.
OMG Dawn this is just as fun, entertaining ,informative AND inspiring as any big budget network TV show. I love it. I'm just in awe, they need a big production team, lighting, cameraman, etc , and here you are doing with just you and your husband. The dynamic duo. lol. I hope you don't succumb to the big Networks when they start calling you, If they haven't already.
Oh my goodness. Rachel's clutter looks so much like mine! Mystery desk stuff. Papers and papers. Stuff my children want, or not. Stuff we spent money on, but didn't work for us. Thanks to everyone for being real!
Rachel is my HERO! Such courage and determination! And she is blessed to have you, Dawn, as her friend thru this new mindset transformation! Great going, ladies! WOW! : )
This is what do. We live in our clutter and get used to it. Take a picture of it and look at it. Puts the clutter into a different perspective. That's MY Clutter! Then clear it and take another picture. Feels great!
This video was great! Thank you Rachel for letting us into your home. So nice getting to clear piles along with you! What perfect timing for a video…I was cleaning my room as I turned on RUclips and saw this video. Made me feel better to know I’m not alone!
I love an idea I got from you, to set a timer and work in one area for that time. I work in 15 minute intervals and sometimes my issue is staying in the area!
One of the things that has helped me the most with "practical to keep but don't really need" items, is I pretend that someone is standing next to me saying "oh wow I could really use that!" and if I could easily hand it to them, then I don't need it. I like to think that when these items end up at thrift store, they are great finds for someone else.
I recently retired and one of my many goals is to declutter our home after raising 2 kids to adulthood, and being involved in some very time-consuming volunteer activities and hobbies while being employed full time. Meanwhile, the boxes and piles stacked up. Too busy to deal with clutter when my body was able, and now that I have time, just like your mom, my days of lifting heavy things are at an end. I needed help. Along comes a friend from one of my volunteer activities who has been INVALUABLE to getting stuff done. From cleaning out closets with me, helping with general cleaning, to packing my kitchen and all breakables so we can move furniture to get our floor done, she has kept the momentum going. As a helper and a cheerleader, she is what I needed. You are so very right on that so keep encouraging folks like me that need a boost! I will never be a true minimalist, but your videos have helped immensely during this time! Thank you!
I tried earthing today and it was fab! Also reading John Eldridge’s book on Audible. Thanks Dawn for sharing so many life hacks and the ups and downs. You’re one of my favorite you tubers.
I loves baskets, too, but when I moved after 42 years in the same house, I decluttered all but a few baskets and decluttered even more after I moved. It was hard, but I’m soooooo glad I did.
This is a great video…so inspiring!! It encourages me to tackle a pile or two…maybe even three! I think a longer video is worth watching because it will allow for variations on types of “stuff” and the Q&A’s that go along with the process. I’ve picked up the habit of saying baa-bye (echoes of Tom) to stuff as I am making the decisions to donate or trash. It keeps my spirits up and stops me from getting overwhelmed.
I really enjoyed watching the process in action in another home. My only cringe-worthy issue was getting rid of the baskets. I'm always looking for nice baskets for gift baskets. I always try to have several on hand because they are great for any gift-giving occasion and make it easy to gift odd items or a themed set of gifts. I especially love using baskets for baby shower gifts.
That's where the container concept comes in. I keep a bin on a cube shelf for re-giftable gift bags. If it's full, that's it. That's the space I have for them, and if I don't want to have gift bags all over the place, I have to keep them in one place. (I used to have them in there, plus a bigger backup stash in the garage, plus some in the shed, lol. We do still keep a stash of oversized gift bags for Christmas gifts with the Christmas stuff now, because we're tired on Christmas Eve and it cuts hours to not wrap last minute, but it comes out in the season when it's used, so that container does get a separate space for the way we do things.) If you love gifting in baskets, then just give them a home, a contained space where they can be found. And who doesn't love receiving a gift in a basket? :) I think this person in the video just didn't have a plan for them.
As a person with 8 kiddos who homeschools and has chronic health issues, I cannot tell you how much I appreciate the idea that it's ok that I can manage less inventory because I manage other things too!
I laughed because I'm the same as Rachel. I collect baskets. Every time I go to Goodwill, there's a basket I need. I also have four sons so I have piles of art (my dream self). GO Rachel! You did a fantastic job!!
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I decluttered a box of paperwork whilst watching ☺️💪🏻
I love watching your channel! It confirms I have been doing well for the last 30 plus years! What most people don't realize it isn't a one and done process..to maintain you must evaluate all the time! She did an awesome job!
One tip for the easily distracted is to have a bin for the items that simply need put away if you don’t have a “put away runner.” It is not staying, and will be put away when you are done with the time, area, etc. you are working on.
that is directly opposite the teachings of Decluttering at the speed of life, and creates another mess to deal with later if you get interrupted, Dawn has videos on that too. Putting an item away as soon as you touch it means that part of decluttering is done and you're not leaving more work for later.
@@christine55416 For people with ADHD if they get up immediately to put an item away they start dealing with a new area never finishing where they were. Having helped many friends deal with their houses, it’s the only thing that ever helped. The basket is their last task to being done.
Omg you just hit the nail on the head … “hasn’t this stuff already been quarantined sitting here for months and months ….” I have boxes that never got unpacked from our move 7 yrs ago. This thought will make going through them so much easier !! Thank you ❤
That pile on my dining room table is calling me today. Seriously though, for the last 15 days I have been watching your videos for inspiration and going through my entire house. My problem area is sentimental guilt. Over the last couple decades my mom has been bringing over stuff, like everything... it's so hard to let it go. The basement is full.
Like her with her essentials oils... I have wanted to be a person who drinks tea so I had a LOT of tea bags. But... I realized recently ever time I looked at the bags they made me feel bad. I just really don't like tea. So I kept about 5 bags and gave the rest away... I feel better and should have done it sooner.
You just have to start somewhere and get that ball rolling. You are going to feel so good after all these piles disappear 😊. Great video! Thanks for sharing your wisdom 👍
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We are so grateful that Rachel let us visit her house! And for YOUR support-- THANK YOU!! Question: we had thought about finding a way to post a longer video with more of the decluttering that we did together (so you could see more of the stuff that Rachel dealt with), would you be interested in seeing something like that? Thanks for letting us know!!! We hope you have a great weekend! - Dawn & Tom
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Finally, we’ve all been waiting for some decluttering RUclipsrs to go into other peoples homes and give us more examples of decluttering….thank you! You did it! This was so exciting to watch. Looking forward to the next one.
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When I'm shopping I see things I like and then I think "my dream self would love this (insert whatever... outfit, decor piece, art supply, etc) but my real life self just doesn't "need" this. It's helped A LOT to keep my inventory reasonable.
Yes! Awareness of my fantasy self and coming to terms with reality is so helpful! I like the idea of acknowledging that the fantasy item has value, just not for me!
Your statement is super helpful, I am going to try and differentiate between my dream self and my reality self going forward 👌
Very well said!
Brilliant!
Yes, I'm learning to say to myself, "I really like that (item in a store, online shop, or similar) BUT I don't need to buy it"! Just because I like it, want it, or think it's pretty does NOT mean I need to own it.😅
WOW this was the *best decluttering video ever!!!* No amount of explaining was as helpful as seeing it being done in "real time" by a real person with her real boxes on her real bedroom floor. Ding Ding Ding - *Dawn this is an excellent demonstration to get me decluttering - please make more of these type videos!!!*
I must say this is the best! I’ve been trying to tell my hoarder friends how freeing letting go can be, & I think this is proof.
Same! It's great to see Dawn's house but she has already kinda of gotten past the hardest parts of decluttering and she's on another level now. I think the one on one decluttering with others is SUPER interesting and a great path for this channel to take!
@@kellymhanson Excellent and I can see Dawn is reading our comments on this. Dawn & Tom were recently commenting on a couple of changes and it appears she might be changing it up again based on what we're saying here. And I don't think anyone is doing it besides 'Horders' and we're not that at all - we're just decluttering our -nice- -crap.- domestic items. ; D
Rachel's emotional because she's letting go of the "dream" of doing art with her kids. I totally get that! I realized that every time I looked at that kind of stuff in a pile, it was mocking me and making me feel bad that we didn't use it. It's so refreshing to get rid of the items that "mock" us!
The picture of the person and the boxes going down with all the other things listed out really resonates with me. That's exactly how I feel. I am married, have 7 kids, 1 is special needs with severe developmental delays, we homeschool. Just doing the daily tasks take up alot of mental power. I dont have much leftover for stuff.
When we moved our movers were actually very surprised when I told them that the piles of boxes in the livingroom was everything in the entire house. I had packed everything up and stacked it there and taken the beds apart and had them and mattresses up against the wall ready to go. They had quoted us 7 hrs to move and they ended up doing it in 4 and 1 hour was driving. It was 1hr to load, 1 to drive, and 2 to unload bc I had a floorplan of the new house and numbered the rooms on the floorplan and numbered the boxes so they put everything in the appropriate room.
Yes, the pop up picture of the person and inventory boxes helped so much!!
I totally agree that I can get more done if someone is with me. They dont necessarily have to be doing anything other than listening to me vocalize my thought process of what I am going through.
Oh my gosh. This Rachel person is so adorable!! And so relatable! She’s already at a good mental place to do this. Good humor about herself and her expressions are so cute and realistic.
And she’s clearly tried decluttering before because she used the container concept (Decluttering at the Speed of Life) and being a Cricket organizer (Cass from Clutterbug)
This is a perfect client; she was so open to literally everything you suggested and did not fight with you at all! My personal experience, this is NOT normal with people who have a ton of clutter and live in a disarrayed space. I feel you got very lucky with this first client🍀😊
definitely cherry picked! ;-)
I think they have worked together a bunch before. Definitely this client was able to let things go faster than I am right now, though I am faster than I was 5 years ago when I wanted to hold on to everything! And faster than my mom who is in the stage of “I’m ready to sell or give that away if a family member wants it, but not to donate to a store.” So she’ll text me pics and I say hmm I don’t know why don’t I take it while I decide and then if I don’t want it I’ll get it to someone who does or donate to the store. And she says yes. It’s easier for her to gift to her daughter than give away. So i hold on for a week then donate 95% of it (I keep the really cool stuff!) and if she ever asks I am totally honest that I donated it so someone else could use it. By now, she stopped asking if I kept things or not, it seems to get easier for her each time. 2 weeks ago she actually asked me to take her give-aways to the thrift store directly! :D
@@massages_for_world_peace8909 hi, I’m your mom!!!🤣That’s the stage of life I’m in and I’m about to take a whole giant box of crap to my daughter who lives in a small studio apartment…definitely needed to hear this advice! Thank you for sharing your experience 🥰
@@randomharts haha! Well my mom is awesome so you’re probably pretty rad too! Your daughter can be your teammate through this! D it took me a while to feel okay giving away my mom’s declutter “gifts” so one thing I appreciated is she never got mad at me when I donated them, if she asked and I said I gave them away she just said oh okay, moved the conversation along to something else. She never made me feel guilty or bad for my decision to give away. :)
I justify every homeschool expense and have the hardest time parting with it. It goes back to drawing identity from specific books and subjects (and how they’d enlighten my children and they’d be so wise and clever and…) and the reality that they didn’t work-or I stopped caring-has settled in and I parted with a lot of it. It felt really good! And now I know not to even shop for that stuff in the first place. Aside from textbooks and consumable workbooks, everything else is coming from the library this school year. We don’t need to own it, even if it’s a lovely thing.
GO RACHEL GO!!!! I love this series and I absolutely think that all of us can relate to Rachel’s piles, thinking and beautiful victory over clutter!!!!! YYYYAAAAAYYYYYY!!!!! 🌟💖🌈😍
Hello Susan
If I start decluttering pictures , then I get lost in time looking back thru them...🤣🤣
I love the comment about paper “our goal is to keep NONE of it”. I have a paper pile I’m tackling first thing tomorrow! Thank you!!!!
Just know, you are a HERO for raising NINE boys, I admire you and you can certainly do this and feel so much lighter ❤️
Hello Marilyn 👋
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@@mphil66 How are you doing today?
@@mphil66 Hello how are you doing today?
Right?! I have 3 boys and that’s a challenge most days lol.
That's the neatest floor pile Ive ever seen. For real.
that’s probably a cricket-style pile 😁
Yup! Totally the cricket in her!!!
Curse of the cricket. 🙋🏻♀️
Definitely.
I’m a cricket but I have many more (& pretty sloppy) piles. Lots of papers & stuff that were swept into shopping bags when I needed a clear space or company was coming.
So exciting to see someone getting the one on one coaching. It is nice to see other households with the same kinds of clutter "in the wild".
Hello Theresa 👋
I totally relate to all that she said-- decision fatigue, overwhelming, emotionally draining. Having someone to encourage you as you work it really nice. Maybe you need to make a video that just says encouraging phrases that we listen to as we work on our piles!
um yes please i would be all about this
Maybe a Podcast covering different topics or areas to declutter would be nicht. One could listen to while decluttering without being visually distracted.
Rachel did such a great job and you were supportive and not “judgie”💕
Yep. We eat a sandwich one bite at a time. We climb a mountain one step at a time. So decluttering, one bit at a time.
I don’t have piles on the floor but this motivated me to clean out my Amazon music files and delete, delete, delete old music that was sucking up my iPad storage. Another thing I’m doing is clearing my Amazon cache of programs and movies to zero, to start fresh with new things and let the old stuff I never watched go. Very freeing even though these aren’t physical things, they still bog you down.
I did that with my photos on my phone and computer recently. Made such a difference
It is so wonderful to see the connection and the transfer of knowledge and confidence! For those of us not in your area who could wish for an in-person visit, this video is definitely the next best thing. In my mind, Dawn and Tom are alongside me boosting my own confidence and achieving my own decluttering as I watch this inspiring video!
It is so much easier to declutter when my "fantasy self" is on vacation! 😂 Great job, Rachel!!! Great video, Dawn!
Hello Barbara.
Happy to report that I decluttered a bookshelf in my bedroom while watching/listening to this video. I moved a stack of books and notebooks to the donate box, tossed some garbage and re-homed several items. (Why were garden clippers in my bedroom???) It feels so much better. I have a full cart staring at me now, so I’ll find another video to watch while I declutter it after lunch. Thanks for the great motivation, Rachel & Brian and Dawn & Tom!
"Why were garden clippers in my bedroom?" HA!! That gave me a laugh, thank you. My piling spot was my dining room table, and the items were almost as goofy as your clippers. Good job decluttering!
I hide garden tools in with my clothes so I know where they are and the boys of the house don’t claim or destroy them. This is how garden stuff ends up in bedrooms.
@@kobrien7945 I think you’ve hit the nail on the head!
Started watching this and felt compelled to declutter my junk closet. I now have 3 boxes of donations by the door and a bunch of stuff that I plan to sell. It really does help to declutter with a friend... even if that friend is on RUclips 🙂
My husband’s dresser was a pile, 3-rows deep. I made him a memory box, which fit under the bed because we had cleaned out under there a few months earlier. A stack of books found a place on a shelf near other books in our upstairs den, because I had just gone through all of the books! He had some big items I knew he only kept there because the kids and I had given him them as gifts. They were in the “back row “so I knew he wouldn’t miss them anyway. Every day he tells me how happy he is to have the top of his dresser back!
I'm glad you addressed the treasures made out of trash from the kids. Of course we want to remember and treasure everything our children make for us. I just can't manage years and years worth of art projects. Memory bins are a wonderful idea for children to see that of course we do treasure their workbut we have to select the pieces we can fit in the box. Let the container be the bad guy.
Dawn, this was such a great idea. You and Tom are very generous in giving your time and energy to helping others learn how to clear their spaces of unnecessary clutter. It’s so nice to share these visits with you. Keep them coming!
Enjoyed this one so much Dawn! Inspired me to go and get rid of some of my floor piles. One room = 15 minutes. Why has it been there for months?? 🤷🏼♀️
My friend had a stash of great baskets (big ones!) with no purpose.
Rather than give them away, she lined them with tight mesh and used them as flower planters on her porch! Yes, they will eventually rot, but in the meantime she has the most gorgeous, cute arrangements of pansies, snapdragons, mini sunflowers, pentas and impatiens. She also gives the baskets with living flower planters as gifts to her gardening friends. Too bad I can't post a photo!
I can tell I’m going to love this series. Rachel was such a sweet lady.
I think it can be emotional to give up fantasy items. For me it's like saying goodbye to the "hope" that those things represented because those items were meant for positive changes. I'm finding that letting those items go is helping me to begin to feel more grounded and present daily as it's a mental decluttering from all the subconscious messages from advertisers suggesting "things" represent who you are and how you'll experience the world.
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Boy do I relate! I found a few that were really hard to part with. Something that helped in my case was taking a few pictures. When that satisfied my senses I would then be able to move on without the sctual item.
This was so inspiring! Thank you Rachel for showing us your progress.
Dawn, the image of how much inventory one can realistically handle was very helpful!
So interesting and encouraging / motivating to see Rachel declutter those piles :) Thanks for being willing to share!
I love this video series and there is only 1 video so far. I literally could watch a million of these and feel inspired every time!
Rachel - I am also a cricket! This looks exactly what my piles looked like - but let me tell you…when you get on the other side of this, you’ll have the time and bandwidth to sit down and put together those photo albums!! ❤️
Hello Erica 👋
When she said "I want to read to the boys. Or exercise!" I was reminded that I wanted to get on my exercise bike again. Thanks!
I agree that hobbies are more enjoyable with less inventory. Also with one or two really good tools or implements instead of a whole bunch of "okay" ones. :) I decluttered hobbies a while back when I had a new baby and said to myself "if I had a couple of hours alone, which hobby would I do first?" That helped a lot!
I Love this video. Shows just how real people are. Thanks, Dawn and Tom!
I literally just started this video and thought-oh good, it’s not just me? I’m definitely struggling with this right now! Thanks for this perfectly timed video. I love your non judgmental approach with very practical advice that’s so doable!
Loved this! Rachel thank you for allowing us to see the process. What you said about "fantasy kids" is so true! I have been able to let go of a lot of miscellaneous art supplies because that's not my kid either. Also, I let go of the paint and the play doh for my sanity!
I can’t thank you both enough! I’m in my bedroom watching this and looking at 2 empty bins. A “junk” box, a laundry basket of “junk”, a desk with “junk” and a box of papers. 😜 l And just yesterday I was struggling with the essential oils dilemma!! 😂🤣
I come from a family of hoarders/collectors and I inherited a lot of those qualities. Last year I started minimizing bc of you. I used to get true heartache and anxiety when letting things go. But with your help I’ve made TREMENDOUS strides forward.
I'm 58 and 2 things I keep telling myself are: 1. I don’t want my son (only child) to have to go through a bunch of stuff when I die. (Whenever that may be.) 2. These things are only temporary. You can’t take them with you.
My bf and I are in a 1/1 apt in CA and I’ve set a goal to have my clutter and disarray organized by the end of the year. I’ll keep ya posted on my progress.
I’m sending you so much love, light and blessings!
Schools and daycares are always happy to receive arts & crafts donations!! That’s where I send my craft stuff. Great job, Rachel🥰
Oh my goodness, it was so awesome seeing you guys tackle piles in the master bedroom! This is definitely a problem area in my home and I just hate it. Donations, things to sell, building materials etc. all get piled in my master bedroom because we have a tiny home. This video has given me a bit of motivation and encouragement to tackle my space too. THANKS RACHEL for being so vulnerable and sharing your space with us all! THANKS DAWN AND TOM for giving of your time and energy!
On paper clutter, I love how Rachel said "I would get the piles smaller, but I would never totally get rid of it" Can totally relate. Those decisions with the smaller and smaller piles seem harder; the decision fatigue and overwhelm sets in quicker! So motivating to finally push past that fatigue and be done ✅ Thanks for sharing!!
This content is so good! I love seeing real people getting expert help. Super inspiring!
Rachel is such a delightful lady! I'm so glad you were able to support her in the decluttering process.
Thank you for helping us recognize our “fantasy” selves and the decisions and misguided purchases that we make when we are in that “fantasy” world! Terrific video. Love seeing you help others declutter.
This was great. I did have one question though. Why not put the boxes on the shelves in the closet instead of on the floor? Obviously not above the pack and plays but there was a lot of shelves in there and I would think it would be easier to clean if they weren't on the floor.
Wow Dawn this is amazing. Watching y'all go through Rachel's piles together is so helpful. We really do all have the same clutter piles! Your talk track makes these kinds of tasks so much less daunting. I wish you could come to Texas and sit with me. I am so thankful for your channel. It truly is the next best thing.
Hi Mary 👋
For the essential oils - I never knew what to do either until I watched - ‘thiscrazylife’ youtuber who, after doing dishes, puts drops of essential oils down the sink and it adds a fresh scent to the drain and the air as well. I tried it and it works!
Yes I would love to see more of Rachel’s declutter videos
Another thing can make poopori too. Bunch of Drops with water in a sprayer. put a sprayer in each bathroom. Your guests will love too
Cool! Check with your sewage company that they are okay with essential oils down the drain. Some oils can harm the water supply, affecting animals, vegetation or bacterias.
Wow I love this type of video! I love your normal content too :) but this new content is exciting. Getting together with friends is always so much easier for cleaning and decluttering!
Rachel did such a great job! Dawn you did amazing in helping her talk through the questions to declutter. Thank you for this video. I look forward to seeing another one!
Dawn, YOU are "the other person helping me," (a la 15:35-ish) and I am so grateful for you and your work. You have helped and are continuing to help me so much 🌿
Thank you for sharing Rachel! It's so good that Dawn can be a help two-fold (in person and for us subscribers)!
Hello Jenny 👋
I currently have 2 piles on my bedroom floor that I’ve needed to go through for months! 🙈
Tomorrow, I’m going through them and then I’m going to time myself to see how long it takes.
It’s so nice knowing other people have piles on their bedroom floors! 😁
Hello Lisa 👋
I put essential oils in our Hyla vacuum to help the house smell good while I vacuum. 😁
thats absolutely brilliant. glad i havent knocked out the bedrooms yet today haha
Great description: Decision Fatigue!
Rachel's paper pile looks exactly like mine. Thank you for sharing, Rachel. This was so motivating.
LOVE chalkboard labels. You can also use chalkboard contact paper and cut it to the size that you need. Very economical.
Awesome, I really liked how you did this together. Glad to have been a part of this with you. A few minutes in and I thought - I can do this along with you girls. I can do a box right here that I hadn’t finished when doing my Minimalist Challenge… I’m so visual though I had to stop and rewind because I don’t like to miss anything. I got my box empty though. I have a bag to donate, and I’m going into the city tonight so can drop that off at Value Village.
I wish you lived closer. I’m in Canada, in the area that is right in the Fire Hot Spot - next door to the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia. There are Fires everywhere around here right now. I did almost finish my To Go Bag - to be prepared for Evacuation. My personal spot is ok, but I do have a niece 6 miles away that was put on evacuation alert in the middle of the night…. We live in the only Desert Zone in Canada above your Washington State. So I have also cleaned out some things in my To Go Bag, and need to freshen up some of the 1st Aid Items. So it’s happening… thank you … I enjoyed doing this along with you today.
I’ve been stalking your channel as I am unpacking boxes AND decluttering. I played your Mom’s pantry over and over while trying to figure out food storage with no lower cabinets. Senior living. Tiny kitchen. I’m decanting in all sort of re-used food. containers. Please thank your Mom and Rachel for allowing us to visit their process in action. They are both so kind.
And. I finally subbed 👍🏻💕
I've been waiting for this video all week since the members only group post! I think its awesome that you did this (even though I'm low key very jealous that Rachel got to hang out with you and I didn't lol). I've said this before, but your encouragement has helped me clear out probably 75% of the things in my home and I'm still going! Thank you so much, Dawn, for your positive outlook and for sharing your light with all of us. You've helped me through some of the darkest times in my life and I'm truly grateful for you and your family ❤
Wow, thank you so much Danielle! This means more than you know!!
Same ❤️
As someone who loves to start a decluttering/tidying project and get distracted 10 minutes later, learning not to make a bigger mess and take care of things immediately has been a game-changer!
I was so inspired by this, I stopped in the middle of watching & cleaned out a drawer!
So much compassion and comraderie in this process! I wonder if the is some longing for doing art projects herself with her little girl inside. And maybe also, it would be interesting to recall when Rachel would be going on this art supply shopping sprees. Maybe, just from how she felt supported by another woman here, she would benefit from conducting an arts class with girls. Such a beautiful family.
I love that you went to someone else's house and worked through things with them! I would love to watch more of these. 😄
This was so helpful. I am a mom of 12 kids and find it hard to declutter as they have so much stuff. Thank you for these helpful tips.
Good job, Rachel!! I'm a homeschooling mom with 6 kids. The struggle is real!! You've inspired me to start working through my pile one box at a time! Thank you!
I love how you said not to underestimate the power of having someone there to help you make decisions. I just tried that yesterday. I was decluttering the hall linen closet and was finding myself in decision paralysis so I asked my daughter to just come hang with me. It took the pressure out of making decisions by having a partner and it was easier to also not let emotions get in the way of letting something go. My daughter would say things like "Ma we don't need that any more" or "no one actually uses that", or "we all out grown that one". And she started to get really in to it and excited to do another part the house.
The paper goal was transformative... the goal is to keep none of it! That was a turning point moment for me. Thanks you!
OMG Dawn this is just as fun, entertaining ,informative AND inspiring as any big budget network TV show. I love it. I'm just in awe, they need a big production team, lighting, cameraman, etc , and here you are doing with just you and your husband. The dynamic duo. lol. I hope you don't succumb to the big Networks when they start calling you, If they haven't already.
I would sit and watch an hour! This was such a helpful video..
I've been decluttering seriously now well over a year!! Its life changing.
Oh my goodness. Rachel's clutter looks so much like mine! Mystery desk stuff. Papers and papers. Stuff my children want, or not. Stuff we spent money on, but didn't work for us. Thanks to everyone for being real!
Rachel is my HERO! Such courage and determination! And she is blessed to have you, Dawn, as her friend thru this new mindset transformation! Great going, ladies! WOW! : )
This is what do. We live in our clutter and get used to it. Take a picture of it and look at it. Puts the clutter into a different perspective. That's MY Clutter! Then clear it and take another picture. Feels great!
This video was great! Thank you Rachel for letting us into your home. So nice getting to clear piles along with you! What perfect timing for a video…I was cleaning my room as I turned on RUclips and saw this video. Made me feel better to know I’m not alone!
I love an idea I got from you, to set a timer and work in one area for that time. I work in 15 minute intervals and sometimes my issue is staying in the area!
Nice...love the fact you are reaching out personally!
One of the things that has helped me the most with "practical to keep but don't really need" items, is I pretend that someone is standing next to me saying "oh wow I could really use that!" and if I could easily hand it to them, then I don't need it. I like to think that when these items end up at thrift store, they are great finds for someone else.
I love that sentiment! And usually someone needs it more than we do.
Wonderful!!! one piece at a time .... not soooooo overwhelming :) love this idea ... I'm already onto my pile in the corner!! love from here xoxo
I recently retired and one of my many goals is to declutter our home after raising 2 kids to adulthood, and being involved in some very time-consuming volunteer activities and hobbies while being employed full time. Meanwhile, the boxes and piles stacked up. Too busy to deal with clutter when my body was able, and now that I have time, just like your mom, my days of lifting heavy things are at an end. I needed help. Along comes a friend from one of my volunteer activities who has been INVALUABLE to getting stuff done. From cleaning out closets with me, helping with general cleaning, to packing my kitchen and all breakables so we can move furniture to get our floor done, she has kept the momentum going. As a helper and a cheerleader, she is what I needed. You are so very right on that so keep encouraging folks like me that need a boost! I will never be a true minimalist, but your videos have helped immensely during this time! Thank you!
I tried earthing today and it was fab! Also reading John Eldridge’s book on Audible. Thanks Dawn for sharing so many life hacks and the ups and downs. You’re one of my favorite you tubers.
John (and Sheri!) Are some of my favorite authors
Oh girl! Cricket speaking my language! Old self says, "put it in a pile until I can go through it properly!" I totally relate!
Thanks Dawn, Tom, Rachel and Brian! ❤️
I loves baskets, too, but when I moved after 42 years in the same house, I decluttered all but a few baskets and decluttered even more after I moved. It was hard, but I’m soooooo glad I did.
This is a great video…so inspiring!! It encourages me to tackle a pile or two…maybe even three! I think a longer video is worth watching because it will allow for variations on types of “stuff” and the Q&A’s that go along with the process. I’ve picked up the habit of saying baa-bye (echoes of Tom) to stuff as I am making the decisions to donate or trash. It keeps my spirits up and stops me from getting overwhelmed.
Rachel's clutter is so much neater than mine! It was great to watch someone going through the same struggles I am.
I really enjoyed watching the process in action in another home. My only cringe-worthy issue was getting rid of the baskets. I'm always looking for nice baskets for gift baskets. I always try to have several on hand because they are great for any gift-giving occasion and make it easy to gift odd items or a themed set of gifts. I especially love using baskets for baby shower gifts.
That's where the container concept comes in. I keep a bin on a cube shelf for re-giftable gift bags. If it's full, that's it. That's the space I have for them, and if I don't want to have gift bags all over the place, I have to keep them in one place. (I used to have them in there, plus a bigger backup stash in the garage, plus some in the shed, lol. We do still keep a stash of oversized gift bags for Christmas gifts with the Christmas stuff now, because we're tired on Christmas Eve and it cuts hours to not wrap last minute, but it comes out in the season when it's used, so that container does get a separate space for the way we do things.) If you love gifting in baskets, then just give them a home, a contained space where they can be found. And who doesn't love receiving a gift in a basket? :) I think this person in the video just didn't have a plan for them.
As a person with 8 kiddos who homeschools and has chronic health issues, I cannot tell you how much I appreciate the idea that it's ok that I can manage less inventory because I manage other things too!
Thinking of my Master Bedroom pile as its own sort of quarantine bin?! 🤯
Another layer off my decluttering onion!
I laughed because I'm the same as Rachel. I collect baskets. Every time I go to Goodwill, there's a basket I need. I also have four sons so I have piles of art (my dream self). GO Rachel! You did a fantastic job!!
I decluttered a box of paperwork whilst watching ☺️💪🏻
I love watching your channel! It confirms I have been doing well for the last 30 plus years! What most people don't realize it isn't a one and done process..to maintain you must evaluate all the time! She did an awesome job!
One tip for the easily distracted is to have a bin for the items that simply need put away if you don’t have a “put away runner.” It is not staying, and will be put away when you are done with the time, area, etc. you are working on.
that is directly opposite the teachings of Decluttering at the speed of life, and creates another mess to deal with later if you get interrupted, Dawn has videos on that too. Putting an item away as soon as you touch it means that part of decluttering is done and you're not leaving more work for later.
@@christine55416 For people with ADHD if they get up immediately to put an item away they start dealing with a new area never finishing where they were. Having helped many friends deal with their houses, it’s the only thing that ever helped. The basket is their last task to being done.
There is a special place in heaven for a mother of nine boys. Loved this episode.
Great job Rachel!!! Such real life moments in this video! very relate-able!
Omg you just hit the nail on the head … “hasn’t this stuff already been quarantined sitting here for months and months ….” I have boxes that never got unpacked from our move 7 yrs ago. This thought will make going through them so much easier !! Thank you ❤
Oh how I loved this teaching… so amazing what having someone with you empowers you to let things go! Thank you Dawn!
That pile on my dining room table is calling me today. Seriously though, for the last 15 days I have been watching your videos for inspiration and going through my entire house. My problem area is sentimental guilt. Over the last couple decades my mom has been bringing over stuff, like everything... it's so hard to let it go. The basement is full.
Like her with her essentials oils... I have wanted to be a person who drinks tea so I had a LOT of tea bags. But... I realized recently ever time I looked at the bags they made me feel bad. I just really don't like tea. So I kept about 5 bags and gave the rest away... I feel better and should have done it sooner.
Loved the "how much inventory can I manage"...really great concept! 🙌💗
You just have to start somewhere and get that ball rolling. You are going to feel so good after all these piles disappear 😊. Great video! Thanks for sharing your wisdom 👍