7 Organization Mistakes You Probably Are Making 🫣
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Here's a list of organizing mistakes I STILL find myself making and have to correct when I do. But knowing about them and little tricks on how to avoid and fix them help immensely! Let me know in the comments which of these mistakes you're the most likely to do!
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I discovered that the most important part of organizing is maintenance. Taking the extra few seconds to put something back is golden.
That is so true !!
This is the way I live as well. Being a (cozy) minimalist helps as well. So much easier to dust/vacuum/clean in general.
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I think you're right. That is where I fall down the most!
For me the idea of putting things away instantly doesn't work with my brain. But doing a 5-minute pick-up three times a day has the same effect and I find that far more manageable and less stressful.
I suffer from "paralysis by analysis" and find it difficult to start something until I figure it all out.
Me too. Some things I have done is to break it down into smaller tasks like what was stated in the video. I also have started using a timer on my phone. It's amazing what you can get done in 10, 15, 20, 30 minutes.
@@lilypuddthis is my favourite way to get started! I set the timer for 30 minutes/an hour and I say I’ll just do what I can in that time. That’s usually enough to get me going to finish it off.
Same way!!
I think this is my biggest problem! I’m not saying you have it but I have adhd & many people don’t know that this is one of the more problematic symptoms of adhd, just getting started. ADHD is an executive function issue which is why it’s a problem getting started and organizing your thoughts in order to figure out how to go about it. My point is that whether you have it or not, many people find it helpful to follow content creators, Drs, or others that talk about this stuff and give tips, advice etc on it
I am in the process of cleaning out and organizing my craft room. It is taking forever because when I find a large quantity of things that I know I hardly ever use, I can't process what to declutter , so I get overwhelmed, freeze up, and then I give up.
I had to laugh about piles. My husband says I’m a “pilot”……”Pile it here, pile it there”. Thank you for such great content. You are a joy to watch.
LOL- “pilot”😆
In the UK, piles is a non medical term for haemorrhoids. 😂😂😂😂 sort out your piles! Ouch! 🤭
@lindalaw5466, Here in the US ,piles is a casual term for hemorrhoids, also.
@@temi4116
Never heard that before
@@temi4116I feel a little ignorant, I'm in the US but I've never heard this term! Just out of curiosity can I ask what general region?
And I am retired and like I said pushing 70 there’s only so much you can do in a day and then if you have a very busy day, it takes another day to heal but I think my biggest job is trying to get rid of stuff
LOL - loved your beat-up wall. Not internet pretty but the lunch boxes and back packs aren't in a pile on the floor and you know where to find somthing in them at 8 pm at night instead of searching the house for where the back pack might have been dropped. It is simple and convenient and no one has to think about it. That is really how organization should work
"Just because your organisational structure falls apart does not mean you are disorganized."
Thank you so much for that encouragement!
Love your videos!
One of my biggest organizing mistakes: I organized our pantry, but didn’t put labels on the baskets. I just assumed everyone would see what the baskets contained and they’d keep like items together. Nope. Chaos won after only a week or so. I was so discouraged I didn’t fix it for a couple months. Now that the baskets are labeled everyone knows what goes where. It’s been successfully organized for over a year now. 😍
My mom has done this lol. We have very different ways of organizing and associating things. One time I used our PASTA POT MADE FOR MAKING PASTA to make *gasp* PASTA. She got SO mad at me because she always uses a strainer instead when it comes to three of the pastas we use (I can't even remember which ones), and a specific amount of servings determine which strainer she uses. When I tell you this wreaks havoc🤣
All of that is to say, what makes sense to us individually is totally valid, but we as humans sometimes take it for granted and forget that just because it makes sense to us doesn't mean it "makes sense." If that makes sense😅
This is exactly what happened to our family. I organized my parents pantry with the same dilemma. Over time after labeling, everyone got it and now we don’t need the labels anymore
You are a delight, Kallie! I am still trying to organize at 76, and you are a big help!
Me too - also 76 and trying to get organized
Think it’s the Swedish Death
For upkeep, don't walk back & forth in rooms, have a basket. Anything that doesn't belong in your current room goes on the basket. When you move on to the next room, you take from the basket & put in if necessary. This way you don't get distracted before your room is done.
Excellent advice! I have a huge problem with distraction.😵💫😁
Although it’s good exercise to keep walking around. 😅
@@cjhoward409This lol. I'm pregnant with twins and when it got too painful to spend all day running errands, puffing back and forth around the house cleaning was the only exercise I got! 😂
This is genius! I get so distracted all the time and constantly have to remind myself what I was doing
great idea
A pile is where I put the stuff that I don’t know what to do with, don’t want to toss, and think “hey, I’ll fix it later”……knowing full well that I’ll probably never look at or touch again, unless I’m desperately digging for an all important thingy-paper needed right now because my life depends on it…..then the pile’s a mess to never be touched again.
What needs to happen is for someone to invent “the smart paper” that knows when it’s contents are no longer of any use, and voluntarily vanishes.
I'll invest in that 😉
They do that now with receipts, they used to last for a long long time now receipts start to vanish over just a very short time.
For me a pile becomes a mountain when i know i have to do something with it, but i do not have the capacity 😢 to do something with it.
I read the book "The One Thing" which helps. It is about focusing on doing one thing to completion instead of scattered results. Asking yourself, what is the one thing I can do that by doing it will make my life easier. For me, making sure to clean out the kitchen sink, emptying dishwasher is it.
That’s part of the Fly Lady routine which was published 15 +/- yrs ago. It’s (her routine) been so successful that I’m seeing it being incorporated into newer routines, and just goes to show that good ideas bring on more good ideas. 💕
@@libbylandscape3560 I heard it first from Kallie and I'm shocked that it works.
Yes to those, and for me, making my bed, putting newspapers in recycling, and opening mail each day and paying whatever bills arrived.
🤦🏾♀️The way you called me out and laughed at my vertical piles🤣🤣🤣😭❤🙏🏾
The piling up is kind of a natural occurence in my daily life 🤦🏼♀️😅
I never declutter because i dont allow clutter to begin with 😮 Friends say i have Ocd i think its called. The reason my home is always neat, tidy & clutter free is because its the way i was raised. I had a very strict disciplined military father who ran all 5 of us kids like a platoon of soldiers. All orders had to be obeyed pronto. Only sickness was the exception. We all did the dishes, mowed the grass & shoveled snow. We learned to cook, do laundry & how to iron. When i become an adult & lived on my own i had no problems how i lived at all. My entire work career every boss i ever had praised me for my organizational skills in being productive, saving time & money. For me its always just been a normal way of life. Before my father passed away from cancer in 2010 i thanked him for helping me & giving me the basic life skills to take care of myself & my son. Well this has been my story & wish all success in decluttering & any other chores you might tackle. Best wishes 😇💙
Sometimes I wonder if my kids would be different if I was more like your father. I grew up in a very tidy home. I’ve tried really hard to keep those habits alive in our own home and my kids just don’t seem to care. The same kinds of consequences and/or punishments I had as a kid just don’t seem to bother my kids🤷🏼♀️like AT all. I don’t get it.
On the other hand, my mother believed, "If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself." So, I was never taught to cook or clean. While my mother was whipping through the house, I read.
❤you are so blessed to have been raised that way ❤
@@margaretlake
You can still learn it!
It’s also your own interest!
Unless you want to rely always on someone else 🤷♀️
OCD is not just a fairly common preference for neatness. OCD is a debilitating anxiety disorder that can only be diagnosed by a qualified mental health professional. It consists of obsessional, intrusive thoughts, and/or repetitive behaviors, compulsions, that are difficult to stop. Sure, obsession with cleanliness, neatness, and order can be a symptom, but so can problematic hoarding.
I’ve been decluttering my closet for daaaays, reorganizing it, & adding decor (fake plants, for example), and I’m LOVING IT!!! It’s one of the smallest spaces in the house (think of regular sized shower or so - maybe slightly bigger), and it’s becoming one of my FAVORITE spaces in the entire house!! 😂❤
Also, I completely understand function over beauty & AGREE with it, but…sometimes beauty actually = function…the prettier & more long-lasting my cleaning tools are, the more likely I am to actually do the mind-numbingly mundane tasks that have to be done…❤
I know I’ve done a great job decluttering when my calves and feet feel very light! Congrats on the refresh!
Congratulations on your small progress with your closet !!!!! Mines next wish me luck !!!!! ❤
Thank you for talking about false expectations on Pinterest versus reality. It's a real source of frustration and a sense of wasted time for me when trying to declutter / organise a space and it doesn't look picture perfect! I also liked how you showed your space with hooks for your kids' bags and talked about functionality and needs over anything else. It's definitely something I needed to hear. Thank you! ❤
I would paint or wallpaper the unfinished drywall going down the basement stairs to look cheerful, though.
The BIG question is -- Do your boys actually faithfully hang up their backpacks and lunchboxes on those labelled hooks? 🤔 Mine would have needed to be reminded/nagged every. single. day. of. their. lives. (SIGH)
What a timely video for me! Two months ago we had our carpets cleaned, we them moved the kids from one bedroom to another, that eliminated our guest room so that furniture ended up in the office/craft room and it is a MESS! I pride myself in organization but you would NEVER know looking at that room. I’ve been in there a million times to get it organized and am so overwhelmed I leave and close the door as tight as possible. 🤪 Tomorrow I’m going to clean the desk. That’s all. Just the desk. Wish me luck! Thank you for such great content, I love what you put out!
How did it go? I have a room like this. I just don’t know where to start, so I never start
@@ChessieChess
I got in there and started. I made very little progress but I started it. My goal is to spend a couple of hours a weekend in there until it’s done! Do you want to work together on our said rooms? Accountability/encouragement partners?
OMG! You hit the nail on the head for me with the piling. I am so guilty of piling. I love (and will now use) the saying “pile pow wow”! 😂. I need more “pile pow wows” in my life. Thank you - I love your videos - so realistic.
If piling up things is something a person tends to do, at least try to pile by staggering items in the piles when possible, so that it can be seen what is in the pile .
Boy oh boy did I need this one. I’m a crafter, live alone, each room is craft supplies, mainly for card making. I have a craft room, it’s filled up, and has been. When I last year other half a yr ago, I felt that All this space can be filled with crafts because no one comes here, my 6yr old grandson when I watch him, he looses it here, lol
Your advice to always be decluttering has been so helpful. It has become my habit as I tackle little areas throughout the week to always be working to remove what isn’t needed. With 3 little people there’s still plenty of extra stuff but it helps so much!
Watching this, I feel like I can absolutely do this! Then... I look around my house and I'm already too tired
I like to work on one room at a time. And I usually like to start with my easiest rooms first to gain momentum.
If your house is really bad, (no judgment, we've all been there) Every day I start in the rooms I've already cleaned before starting a new room. It only takes a minute, but I get my already finished rooms back to 100% . If I don't do this I find by the time I finish my last room my earlier rooms can be bad again. And that's just demoralizing. It also helps to build a "tidy the whole house every day habit" which is important.
I hope this helps!!! You can do it!
@@bunny_0288 thank you! 🩷I'll give it a try! My house isn't really bad. I just have trouble keeping momentum because I have an autoimmune disease that isn't controlled well. So, I make progress but when my symptoms get bad, I lose ground. One room at a time is a good strategy🥰
Baby steps! One item, one drawer, one shelf. You CAN do it. 😊
Same 😂
I love how you said we cannot all the Pinterest worthy at all times. I am legally blind one eye is completely blind and the other one is legally blind. Lighting is the most important thing I can say in my house it helps me function and complete all of my house management responsibilities every day. I can't have those really cute pendant lights I need practical real daylight lights. I would love to have cute lights and lamps but I can't I need real lighting. One benefit is I can't really see Pinterest post! LOL I can see other people's houses if they're lit correctly though. The other thing is everything he has to have a home when you're legally blind when things have a home it's easier to find them. Decluttering also helps because there's less stuff to navigate in order to find what you're looking for when you don't really have the ability to look for it yourself! I lost my vision at 30 and now I'm 44 I am a full-time wife and mother and I take care of my house and cleaning and cooking and laundry every day😊
Wow! You put life into perspective for me. Though I don't know you, I'm really proud of you. You go girl!!
I’m in my 50s and my children are all over the age of 18 and I still have all the problems you just described I wish I had had someone like you when they were six 10 and 14! I would’ve been so much kinder to myself
Guilty guilty guilty of alll the things! I was doing so well a few months ago. Then I got distracted and was sick and now I’m back to being overwhelmed. So you just gave me the boost I’ve needed to move forward. Thank you ❤
It makes me feel so much better to know, that I am not the only one that makes these mistakes! I need to remember that it’s all a process and it’s an ongoing one at that!
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Me too !!!!
Being human is always ok!
Theres an other day tomorrow 🫶
You’re not the only one making those mistakes. I am too!
I've started doing 15-minute decluttering challenges and it's so helpful! I set my timer and tackle a specific space until the timer dings. If I want to continue, I do. But I let myself stop at 15 minutes if I want.
I do a similar thing. I put the kettle on and will race to empty the dishwasher before it boils. I like the idea of the 15 minute declutter - it makes things less daunting.
I’ve been getting rid of polystyrene and cardboard boxes over the last few months and filling the bins each week. Couldn’t believe how much there was as I’ve been decluttering for 7yrs and I’m organised. (Some was left over moving boxes.) Also getting rid of the ‘what if’ stuff and that’s been 100% trash rate too. It’s been helping me go through what I thought was sentimental too. My op shop is going to have to open an 80s section. So freeing!
Thank you so much for your content!! I have to constantly come back and watch videos like this. I had a pile on my dresser for months from emptying out luggage and purses in a pinch. This video made me not only get up and clean it, purge, and declutter but rearrange how my dresser was in my room altogether. Thanks Kallie!!
I am currently doing it all wrong. Reorganizing 450 sq ft apartment all at once. Everything is all over everyplace. But that is me. I sort out the things you do not see, like closets, and work towards the general mess. I am praising myself for seeing the piles go to where they need to go. I am taking the time to put quick masking tape labels on everything, later on I can think about making circuit labels . A lot of the crazy happened when I brought in a LOT of craft materials from my old house. I have been at it for weeks, and I do not recommended it for anyone, but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel and my spaces are so much more organized. So the moral of the tale is, you may have to go about things a way that makes it worse until it gets better. Once this overhaul is finished I can organize like a normal person.
One thing I've learned in the past year is that if you put "the pile" into a basket or bin, it is no longer a pile. 😂 You still have to deal with it eventually, but it just LOOKS so much more tidy in the meantime.
I so know what you mean!!! 😊
@@denisetarabori553 Doing that is my downfall. I'm sitting in my den and looking at all the bins and boxes and shopping bags piled under and on the table that I "use" as a desk. I started tackling the bags, etc. last week and am doing it 10-15 minutes at a time. Now I am able to keep up with my daily paperwork because my table top is clear enough for me to work.
@margaretlake lol every time my boyfriend 'cleans' everything goes into a box/bin/bag not to be opened again for at least 6 mths. Then he forgets what he did and we'll be looking for something specific and its no where to be found.
I’ve heard of that for flat surface clutter. Like your end table or bathroom counter. Put bits that live there in a tray
And some thing about me schlepping around with a basket picking up miscellaneous items I carelessly leave strewn about makes me feel a little tiny bit shamed! L O L, which in turn, makes me more mindful of carelessly leaving things about.
“A pile is Never the place that it belongs” … very very wise … thinking about All the Piles
Piles are my big problem. Overwhelming.
That’s my reminder.. you have to keep it up! Maintenance required.. it’s not a one and done situation!
So true! I am overwhelmed with many areas that require major decluttering! It’s such a big project in so many areas that I wait for a weekend but still can’t start it! I love the 15-30 minute idea!
I was just now recommending this channel to a friend & moments later an upload! Perfect timing!:)
I've been talking about "purging" my clutter for years now. Thank you for making this video - it was difficult to watch the entire thing, but I knew that I needed to hear it. Smaller tasks are definitely the way to go for me. I just have to go into a room with blinders on - looking at an entire room that needs a lot of work instantly triggers my "maybe tomorrow" response.
ME TOO oh my gosh I’m SO overwhelmed by it all
My stepson’s bedroom was so bad, that, even though I enjoy decluttering, it was a hoarder’s dream (mostly clothes he hasn’t worn in years), and, after 20 mins, I had to leave. Fortunately, he’s taking care of it himself (starting with laundry basket after laundry basket after laundry basket of clothes; I’m 68, and never owned that much clothing in my entire life!).
Thank you for this video. It inspired me this week. I have had my fabric boxes out in my living room for.. ok well we don't need to say how long... and just got overwhelmed when I first pulled them out to measure, fold, catalog and organize on boards to make them easier to see and find. Between your advice of breaking the task down on a list of what needs to be done as smaller goals, and Cassy from Clutterbug talking about setting an alarm for an hour and just do what you can, I made progress on this eyesore. I didn't get a noticeable dent, but I got started, and that felt good. Going to work on it more tomorrow and hopefully over the next few weeks... yes there is so much of it... I'll finally have made a "time to go" pile and the keepers on boards and organized.
Thank you for being so real and honest. This is the GREAT advice!
Great ideas, as usual. I have finally learned the there needs to be a designated place to store everything, otherwise, no matter what I do, there are messy piles everywhere. I love your videos, thank you💝💖❣
Agreed, Debra. I like Dana White 's videos, another great person's online videos. She promotes asking oneself " Where would I look to find this item?" Then, putting it there, and thinking of that place as the item's home spot
I realize that I have many things and many categories,and have grouped similar categories together
This has helped a lot.
I am guilty of every single one of things you talked about. I think I may have some direction now! Thank you ❤
Thank you so much! I need constant reminders & nudges to keep working the process! Please keep reminding us through these great videos.
Great ideas! Thank you so much for the unrealistic expectations section. There’s just no way you can have the time, money, and energy to keep a home spotless with small children. I tried in pre-Pinterest days. You can’t control the gifts coming in. Each developmental phase seems to require more stuff, too. It’s overwhelming because it’s overwhelming!
I ended up copying my kids’ preschool; the school had centers for each activity. I called them departments. When someone would ask where’s my book, I would say in the book department-the bookcase. Where’s the glue? In the glue department in the linen closet. I whipped up baked goods in the baking department. It did not produce organized adults, but it did save my sanity and make my life much easier.
Love, love, love what you said about our thinking, maintaining and doing small tasks each day. Thank you!!
Great video. I have one last area to declutter but my problem is that in my basement (and if I am honnest it applies to other rooms) my clutter IS so well organised it looks good … but I know it is there so it still bothers me!
I really appreciate you and your honesty...
You always make me think
You always make sense
You always remind me I'm not Crazy 🤣
And you always remind me to be kind to and love myself 💖
Thanks for sharing this! I often feel my place needs to look like the videos on u tube & tik tok. I like that you said do what's works for me! I really enjoy you videos!
I am on a decluttering journey, I’ve FINALLY realized I have to much. STUFF & all this STUFF is stressing me out, I TRULY feel happy in a clean clutter free home THANK U 🙏 for all ur amazing tips
People tease me that even my junk draw is organized, which it is but it makes me feel good!
I have no junk drawer. Tools in the tool box. Pen on the fridge in a holder. Birthday candles in with baking. Spare keys on the key rack. All items are with likes equals NO junk drawer!
@@ucfhillcollege8296 I don't have a junk drawer either. What I have is a junk room. :)
Love #2! That is exactly what I need to do for my whole house. Thanks so much for the idea.
The most important part of your video for many folks is the health sponsor! I'm not kidding! Many clutter and organizational issues start there. Not just the obvious, but the underlying emotional issues for some. Thank you so much!
Ty again for another great video, awesome tips and organizational ideas. Love your videos!
I appreciate how real and relatable this video is. Great advice as always.
So darn true. Get rid of all the things that we don't use or have a purpose for it.
Less is more and easier to keep up with.
I needed this video/reminder so badly!!! I've been procrastinating too much lately. I told my husband I need to watch one of my organizer people. Hopped on to YT and there was this video! Thank you! I'm making my list now 😅
Everything single thing was spot on 🙌🙌🙌🙌 I was nodding so hard like I was at church and the sermon was hittin my soul!
Thank you, I feel so much better about my bedroom, less guilt! I do need to come up with a system that helps me keep it better organized!
Group similar things! Truly believe this makes life very efficient
I love to know that I'm not the only one who makes these mistakes and I love to organize!! I need to organize my deep pantry and I'm dreading it.I wish I had pull out shelves like you. I hate piles!! They drive me nuts!
I’m a pile-maker. How can I tackle it instead of piles?
For kids toys I always got my kids involved. I didn’t say, “go clean up your toys”, I was specific. I would say something like, “put all the Legos in here and tell me when you’re done”. Then, I would praise them and have them do the next small task. They learned how to clean up and it gave them a sense of accomplishment as well. Every mom I shared this with has thanked me.
I tend to beat myself up because my spaces do not look "Pinterest Perfect" - so glad others understand this! I try to keep things organized, and while it's not perfect, it works for me. Same with our clothes - we just need to try to not be so perfect and just be us! I also struggle with stuff that I don't want to/can't throw away yet, but i don't know what to do with it. So it ends up in a pile.....for a long time! Thank you for this video - you are precious and so down to earth!🥰
This is so helpful! Thank you
Learning to leave visual space. Surprisingly calming!
This Video was a Fantastic Help to me 🎉🎉 The Bedroom was Exactly my space with the Problem… while every other space gets my attention and Care my bedroom was always the out in the morning and return at night when done for the day… the amount of time I have spent on guilt and headspace could have overcome it But I saw it as one project ( ha ha) Today after watching your video and Putting Away All condemnation - I tackled it for 10 minute increments four times and got a whopping amount done. I just ended up telling myself - this is not a one project deal and tackled one thing then another, it was Mighty Freeing. I like to make my reset time for areas 10 minutes and under excluding the kitchen ( that takes more time). So I am So Looking forward to decluttering the bedroom So I can just reset Easily ❤ Thank You
Your videos are so in formative and helpful. Love them. 🍁🍁
Glad I watched the video. Learned that I’m not making mistakes with my organization methods. I am a firm believer that organization is about an individuals needs/want within their space. What might work for some, will not work for others.
Thank you, for making this video!!! It was extremely helpful!!
NAILED the "expectations" encompassing so many facets of our lives. Social media definitely has a giant impact on that. You just got a sub!
A lot of good advice. Thank you
I always try to organize so that I could find basic items even if I had a blindfold on. There are so many things to have to think about and process that it really helps to avoid the need to think about where something is or to have to dig for it. Ugh, you are so right about how nothing belongs in a pile. So sick of piles!
Your talks are always life changing and can be applied to all parts of life
Thanks! That helped!
Great video! When I started decluttering I was overwhelmed & tended to get nothing done. It was more...move it to another place until I decide what to do with it. So 1 evening I had about a half hour to myself before bed & I caught my medicine cabinet out of the corner of my eye as I walked past the bathroom. Lightening bolt! I decluttered it within my half hour. The next night it was my spice drawer and my jewelry box the next. I found the key for me! Small bites of time.
My other mind trick (for me) is I ask myself if I could only keep 100 things, would this be one of them? It really helped with sentimental items. Or I pretend Im moving to a smaller house. Would I take this?
Anyhow, it took 2 years but Im pretty much done. Now Im maintaining. I stopped shopping just to shop & I watch what I bring into my home.
Hi Kallie! I just came in here to say that I don’t need a planner, I actually don’t like planners in general, BUT I just ordered your planner because I’ve been watching you for a while and I trust your content! So I have to give your planner a go!! Thanks Kallie!
These words and ideas are So true, make so much sense And are So doable! That’s what stops me in my tracks all the time…” oh my gosh, my entire house needs declutterring “…which makes me anxious, which in turn causes me to freeze up into inaction! This advice makes sense and makes the task seem not so scary!
Thanks for all the tips and inspiration! ❤😊❤
Wise woman! Thanks for being real and allowing us to not have a perfectly clean, updated, trendy home. Do what works for you! 😊
So helpful!! ❤
Once when I sorted books, I made 4 piles: Keep, Kids, Thrift and Think About. So when I went to get boxes/bags for some of them, my mom came along, saw multiple stacks of books, packed *all* of them in a big box and put it in the garage. :I She was so happy to help me! So I thanked her and after she left, I had to dig the box out, resort again -- and then I was done. Lesson: always make sure you are helping, not hindering.
Great video Kallie❤
As an organizer, you have hit on very realistic things. I will save to share with my clients.
So spot on! Cracked right up with "pile powow"😅
Just have to say thank you and I appreciate every day you commit to showing up for you, because that helps me show up for me. Hugs from Esquimalt
Great video!
Ah, Kallie, you are sooo appreciated at this moment! 😊
The only way to keep a home clutter free is
1. Have a place for everything
2. Have a process to put back everything into that place
3. Have separate time included in your everyday life/ routine to clean, put away, and keep tidy.
4. Have a weekly, by weekly, monthly time to do the bigger tasks
5. Share the jobs within your family evenly
6. Make it fun- it is not terrible if you’re enjoying it!
Good luck!
Take time yo sit down with the family to have suggestions for changes- as they all live there!!!
Also one of the biggest issue-
don’t let repairs get out of hands!!!
Only well kept homes can be nicely maintained!!!
I agree with all this but I think it’s easier said than done when you live alone AND don’t know how to do a lot of repairs AND struggle with mental health + hormonal changes/fatigue/insomnia
@@ChessieChess
Believe me, I can honestly relate!
I learned these from my own miserable mistakes !!!😆😆😆
By the way, cleaning and organizing is a never ending process unless you have so little, that it’s not an issue
( because you are smart and minimalist!)
But then would you be reading this? 🤷♀️
@@funfan515 Hi, the thing most orginazing/cleaning/minimalist channels agree on, is not necessarily to have the hime clean and tidy all the time. You live there, thigs are going to get messy. The point of an organizenld home is, that it is easier and faster to clean up, when it gets messy.
...bi-weekly*... 😊😊😊
Good information. Very helpful
Good points! Especially about how it's not that I'm bad at organizing, it's that I didn't upkeep it. 'Upkeep' is the magic key!
Love your videos Kellie!
This helped, thank you.😊
Great organizing tips!
So true, setting the bar so high, just do it you and manageable.
This video is so true! We moved two years ago, and after decorating all the bedrooms, hall stairs and landing, we pretty much ran out of money! Everything is so expensive!
Pinterest is an amazing resource, but as you say, it’s not real life. I have stopped trying to live up to the ideals I see on there.
I am very organised, but there is always more to learn. Thanks for all your ideas. Greetings from UK.
I loved your bit on piles. I haven't heard that before from any of the other homemaking pros. My mother was an expert at that. Always little piles here and there to put away later. She wasn't a hoarder. But then, when the housekeeper was coming, things had to be tidied up. My sister recalls her sweeping her little piles willy nilly into the nearest top drawer. Quite funny, looking back at it.
Good one !
Just discovered you and am inspired! Side note: If those meds are in the bathroom, I would recommend keeping them in a dry, cool cupboard. The heat, changing temp and moisture can affect their efficacy, even when in a plastic container. Many blessings to you and everyone!
Ugh! The pile thing! I've been working on that one for years.
These are so true!
I did this with decluttering my wardrobe. Instead of doing it all in one or two days, I spent my morning getting dressed and slowly but surely worked my way through every piece I own. The ones that didn't fit me anymore or that I didn't like, I through away, sold or donated them. it took me about 11 months, but now I'm finally finished and exactly know what I have and want to wear. :)
Thank you for your videos sister! 🥳 Keeping a clean and organized house is the best.
Oh yes! I do a lot of these and I am very organised, I share how organised in my own CZcams channel. But I know it’s all about up keep and keeping in top of things. Thank you for highlighting that we’re not failures if it’s not Pinterest perfect.
I wanna hug you!😭❤ Thank you again for another great video!😊
Oh my gosh Kallie. When u said mistake of making a pile. Hahaha That is Sooooo Me!!! I tell my husband the same. Dont touch that pile I know what I need to do. Lol. I was in giggles hearing that😂