HOW I DECLUTTER CHILDHOOD MEMORIES AS AN ULTRA MINIMALIST • HELPING MY FAMILY TO DECLUTTER
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Childhood memories can be really difficult to declutter. Today I deal with this topic and I help my grandma to start decluttering on her house.
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Love this! I have a 6-year-old son and I save EVERY single thing for him but only on the cloud, not physically. So he won’t ever receive a big box of photos, art projects, cards, invitations, school papers, and certificates, but he will have access to all of them through email and he can sift through his entire history divided by year and carry it with him everywhere, even if he chooses to live out of a backpack.
What a lovely idea!!
That’s amazing, thank you for sharing 😃❤️
I was obsessed with all things the Olsen twins did when I was younger! I had their movies, books, and more.
Me too! 💕
I used to keep all of those childhood things and then one day I threw away all of it. Everything. I used to be very nostalgic, but when I made up my mind I really let go of all of it mentally. If I remember something nice from childhood in the future, then great. If forget things then I don't mind that either. I don't want to live in the past.
I like how you help you grandmother to start decluttering.
When i was at school. Our grade sat in a big circle and we had a stack of note paper each and an envelope. We wrote our name on the envelope then passed it 10 spaces. The idea was, when you got the envelope of a classmate, you were to anonymously write something good about them and pop it into their envelope. Once done we had an envelope full of postive things others thought about us. We were encouraged to keep it as we moved through life and any time we felt down, to pull it out and go through it to see how many people thought good things about us. To me though, it reminded me of school and i have nothing positive to say about school, so I purged it. Trophies, gone. All school photos, gone. Anything to do with school, gone. Objects bring memories. When close loved ones die, the small objects become cherished. A photo, a love note, keep those if they bring fondness, discard them if they bring sorrow. A photo of a photo is not quite the same, depending on the volume of course. I have a small biscuit tin for these extra precious tangible items. And a small lolly tin with USB thumb drives of images etc. This works for me.
I got my family really into decluttering this summer because I was home to have yardsales haha. I just had my stuff but each time they would decide that they did have a few items to declutter and look through, even found very old stuff that just had to go to the trash...I'm proud of them for doing that and yeah you can't really force it on people...leading by example really helps tho. Or just being their for the man power, sometimes they just fell lazy to do it until someone's their to help. 😊
Yes that’s exactly that for my grandsparents too, for example they can be lazing about gardening so I’ll do it myself and when they see me working in their garden they come and help 👩🏼🌾 It’s about showing the good example, and you definitely are doing a good thing with helping your family to declutter ☀️
Thank you for sharing! I totally agree. My mother is quite the hoarder. She also has a tendency to leave things in piles around. When I visit, I just help her clean, but have not forced anything. Once I clean, the space feels better. By the way, your grandparents are adorable.
Thank you for sharing this 🌸 Yes they are very sweet 💕
I was very lucky to have married already when it came time to visit my family home where I needed to declutter my childhood items. My husband at the time didn't have any attachment to things and because we lived far away, I couldn't take everything back with me. I was able to show him my life as a younger person and even though I wanted to hang on to many things, he was able to show me that it was unnecessary. After the declutter, I had no regrets! Thank you so much for showing us your own personal journey and I hope we get to see more of your grandparent's home declutter!
Yes I felt to regrets at all too after decluttering, that’s so freeing 💭
I prefer to keep their home private for now ☺️
@@minimalou_yt Totally understand! Just wonderful that you can be there with them and maybe help if they'd like you to! Always love watching your videos. Thank you again.
A good video with sweet memories from your childhood. Ive always been a slow declutterer- frequently, little by little. I ve had 4 children, & Im glad i've kept some childhood things from my own childhood, as my childten have enjoyed looking through some of it, especially at the same age as I was.
It’s crazy to me how similar I find your life to mine. Similar in age, lifestyle, also childless with similar grandparents (holding onto items) and similar in the activities we did when young and love for animals as kids. This video inspired me to prioritize declutterring my childhood things at my parents house in Ohio. I have a lot of medals, too. Anyways, I enjoy watching your videos because I like knowing there are other people, our age, who value minimalism. Over consumption is the norm where I live (United States, specifically Florida). Thank you!
We could have been best friends 😄🏇🏼☀️ I have been once in the US, in Miami, and yes the overconsumption is overwhelming, but most of my subscribers are Americans so I hope to develop a minimalist community here to make a small change in the US after each video… 💭😌
I laughed when you showed the Pokemon cards because, well, two things... 1. I grew up with horses and LOVE horses too (in particular, Arabians - that's what my horse is) and 2. I only collected the cards with horses/ponies and Pikachu cards as well 🤣 Never any others. Seeing you do the same thing literally made me laugh out loud! Also, I love how you said that keeping all of the materials is a choice. It truly is. My parents are very similar to your grandparents and they keep everything. I am the complete opposite.. everything I own serves a purpose. I'm loving your channel! 💙
Arabians (with special Colors) are my favourites too haha seems like we are soul mates 😆🐴🌸💕 Thank you so much for your comment, means a lot 💕
@@minimalou_yt 💗 thanks so much for the content you post! Loving following along!
It seems to me that you were a minimalist even as a child. 😊 You started with two boxes that I ended with after my childhood memories declutter. 😅I had so many things that I decided that I will keep only what fits in two boxes. You just inspired me to go through them again and keep only one box for now. I am good in getting rid of things, but it is so hard to part with childhood memories. You did a great job with gently helping your grandma declutter. 💖
Haha that’s true my two big boxes weren’t even much to begin with 😅
I’m glad I inspired you to check again if you can downsize what you kept! 😄
Don’t hesitate to take pictures of the objects before leaving them 😌
Thanks for your comment 🌻❤️
And now I am laughing again because I was thinking how much you look like the Olsen twins and you have that little book! hahaha!
Oh yes I get that a lot 😆
Lovely video!
As to the dog leash it perhaps might be good idea to donate it to the dog shelter with a pack of dry food etc I think that way you will pass and turn the energy after your first dog into wonderful gesture! Best regards from Cyprus!
Yes that’s exactly what I did! Thank you ❤️
Thank you so much for touching on this topic! That was exactly my question. I find it hard to declutter childhood memories, but I think it is important as well and I am trying.
I love your channel! ❤️
You are so welcome! Thank you for watching 💫💛
I have some teenager things yet at my mums (books, magazines...) but im keeping some of my daughters school or home activities work that i would like to keep for her or me. She is 10. We have time to decide 😊 but she likes to declutter too when she sees me doing it 😉
I thing i heard the other day to get started, was a 30 day challenge where each day represents a single item to discard. Day 1 do 1 item, day 2 do 2 items, day 3 do 3 items and so on. And jot it down as you go. You can get many days from one drawer for example. By the end you have done 465 items. Then have a break or start another 30 day challenge.
So nice grandparents! 😊 we wish them a good health
Thank you so much I’ll tell them ❤️
Aloha that was a amazing video on your childhood a nice story
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks ❤️
I love how gentile you are with your elderly family members. Unf, it was not my case, when my dad were out for a day, I had to take control out of the balcony because I was really scared that it was a risk of a fire, there were some in my area just bc of the tons of the junk they were put there &forget about it. I declutter &cleaned the bathroom, the entrance space, the kitchen, &many more. there were no chance I will ever convince him to just get rid of all that garbage. He was back home, the place was clean, of course he mourned all that sh.t, but what can I do more? He had no idea what was there bc he never use those spaces &he will never know how many tons or at least hundreds of kilograms of random sh.t I took from the apartment &got rid of. Those were not even memories, I will never destroy photos of him or documents, I dont know the words in En for what garbage was there, but I had to do something. I cant let a fire just start in the middle of the night or when we r not at home just bc he store garbage all the time. and all the time, little by little, small declutter he dont even notice.
I watched all of your videos multiple times, I just love your natural &raw content. This is quality content, you became my comfort youtuber. Thank you for your existence Louise and have an excellent day&weekend!
I get you, sometimes it can be really hard even impossible to be understood by your family about decluttering. Be strong 💪
And thank you really much, I appreciate your support 🥹☀️💕
Louise I love your videos and they always inspire me to be more mindful of my stuff ☺️
I'm so glad! 💛 thank you for your kindness
I feel old! I was 10 in 1987! No mobiles then!
Thank you so much for your video! You’re my motivation ❤️
I'm so glad you can find motivation throughout my videos 😄💜
i got rid of most of my things from childhood in my 20s because i didn't care about them and the memories were still very fresh for me. Plus my parents threw out a bunch of my stuff without my permission. a lot of the stuff was handmade by family or close friends who have now passed away. and some of it was pictures of people (before digital cameras were a thing!). Twenty years later, my memories of the people I've lost are fading and i greatly mourn the loss of the things that I associated with them. i now very much regret getting rid of some of it because I cannot rely on my memories anymore. have you ever gotten rid of something and regretted it later?
No I never regretted anything that I had decluttered because I’m not attached to the physical objects, but I am sure glad now we have digital cameras so my photos can live in the cloud, that’s for sure. ❤️
This video inspired me to declutter (sell!) some of my own things I’d been keeping since childhood. Merci!
My pleasure! 😃
I was at my childhood home this week and decluttered some of my childhood boxes too! It was hard and I have a long ways to go, but it helps to do it little by little.
Yes baby steps is the key 😌
Cute - I got the French horse books for my daughters way back, we had a grey Bouvier bernois (my daughter kept his collar!) and a Haflinger pony, and the youngest (nearly 29) had a big Diddl collection - and we kept toys in an Ikea box just like that... the 1990s!!
Thanks for sharing your story! 😄
Personally, I don’t believe in regrets, and it is not a shame to not keep much of my childhood, it’s my choice. I prefer memories over things 😊
Great video! Right now I only have one (big) box of memories, but I know for sure I could make it just a small box. I know I have school photos, a small photo album, some drawings and a little stuffed animal (cat) that I am not getting rid of. Other than that, I am not sure what I have in it and will probably declutter. Some of the photos/drawings I will probably take a photo and declutter but not all, for now.
I finally decluttered some childhood stuff, because mice got into a family storage lol. The most thing that hurt was my evanescence collection of stuff and other bands posters, notebooks and books lol. Luckily my hunger games and twilight 🤦♀️ things were with me and not at home, Hahaha...one day I might even get ride of those too. 😊
Haha sometimes the Universe wants us to start declutter and go through our stuff 😆
Wow that was a good declutter :-). I have been trying to reduce my childhood stuff and have got down to 3 boxes but its hard to get it down further. I really want to though.
Ps I am also obsessed with horses and still have my first ponies headcollar and a shoe.
Team horses lovers 🦄🏇🏼❤️
If it doesn’t feel right to declutter more maybe stop and try in another month or year ☺️
Love your videos ♥ Some old pokemon cards can become very high prized and a rarity these days ^^
Yes I heard that 😄 but I want to keep them for now haha they are too cute. Thank you 💜
I hope your Grandmother was happy with the results of the declutter! :)
Yeah she was! 😄
Je pense que vous êtes vraiment courageuse de partager vos mémoires d'enfance avec nous .
Merci beaucoup 🔥❤️
Love that you kept the pokemon cards 😊
I don’t really know why I did keep them but it just didn’t feel right to get rid of them 😅
Pokemon cards are actually pretty valuable and they keep going up in price each year. My partner has a huge collection and keeps track of each one’s value and watches them as they go up. The whole collection is worth over 1k USD so far!
Mockingjay pin 💜
I love this video!
Thank you!! 💛
Je te comprends parfaitement, je reviens de chez mes parents et c est affolant le nombre d objets qu ils gardent, même ceux dans des cartons.. je fais pareil avec mes jouets/souvenirs d enfance ! Bon désencombrement 😉 team ♊️
Haha on se sait ! Merci Sofia ♊️ 💜💫
What apps do you use to sell your stuff? Because i want to do the same, just i know vinted and wallapop and i did sell so few..
I sell through Vinted or for bigger stuff I use « Leboncoin » but it’s a French app !
Apparently there are some Pokémon cards that are worth a lot of money
I heart that too!