If you are sick of decluttering you need the 20-20-20 miracle decluttering method!
Vložit
- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- This is how I am keep myself in the work of decluttering! This method makes it so easy to keep going and chipping away at the clutter until it's gone!
#newdeclutteringmethod #basementdeclutter #thismainermom
💐To share this video, use this easy link! • If you are sick of dec...
📦 BASEMENT DECLUTTER FULL PLAYLIST: • Great Basement Declutt...
📦EXTREME DECLUTTERING MOTIVATION: • Decluttering/Toward Mi...
📦ATTIC DECLUTTER: • GREAT ATTIC DECLUTTER
🧼Speed Cleaning Motivation: • Speed Clean
🧼For cleaning motivation/tips/positive affirmations here is my Cleaning Playlist! www.youtube.co....
🧹For Home Organization help here is my Organization Playlist!
• Home Organization
👩🍳For cooking inspiration, here is my cooking playlist: www.youtube.co....
🎼Music courtesy of: www.epidemicsound.com
💞SUBSCRIBE! Like + Favorite + Share
Real life help for real life moms!
👭For collab/business contact:
thismainermom@gmail.com
💌CONTACT ME! I would love to hear from you!!
thismainermom@gmail.com
In compliance with FTC guidelines, please assume the following about all links, material on this website/videos: Any/all of the links on site/video are affiliate links of which Karen at This Mainer Mom receives product credit or a small commission from sales of certain items, but the price is the same for you. Karen at This Mainer Mom is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. Links on this site may include affiliate links to Amazon and its affiliate sites on which the owner of this website will make a referral commission. Thank you for supporting my channel!
***Follow ME!!
Instagram: / karenatthismainermom
Pinterest: This Mainer Mom (www.pinterest.com/thismainer)
Facebook: This Mainer Mom (m. ThisMainerMom/?ref=bookmarks)
Blog: www.thismainermom.com
Gmail: thismainermom@gmail.com
My name is Karen and I'm a wife of 30 years and a mom of 7 kids! I believe that as women we should join hands, walking together and helping each other. I'll share all I know, hoping to help other women find joy and beauty in their all important work at home. Let's share recipes, cleaning and organizing tips, decorating strategies, and mommy encouragement. I can't wait to meet you!
Category
People & Blogs
I love that you talk out loud your thoughts. Enjoy the variety of videos- outside, basement etc
I’m so glad!! 😃
Karen, you know I am here for all your videos. And I like this 20/20/20 idea because it makes things more acheiveable. Good work you got so much done.
Oh no! I am sorry about your camera 🙁 loved seeing the cute boys in their apartment. loved the stories you told about you and your mum making the quilt. What a wonderful memory. Love all your videos, I watch them no matter what you are doing (and I thought the phone footage was fine too)many hugs ❤❤
I love this idea! The thought of 3 20-minute tasks seems way more doable than working on something for an hour. Alternating active with sit-down tasks is smart too!
I enjoy watching your videos and listening to you. It’s like being with a friend who’s cleaning out or gardening. Thank you for telling the products you use. Keep doing what you do. 😊
Squirrel! 😂 I love that I am not the only one that gets distracted.
You are in VERY good company! 🐿️😂
I like declutter videos because I like seeing people lighten their load...I know how much our things weigh us down mentally. Great job making progress lightening your load. ❤
Thank you, sweet friend! 😍
Love the 20-20-20 idea! And I totally understand the basement struggle- it’s the same at my house. You’re doing great!
Hi Karen loved your story about the floors in the pasturage having gaps in the floor my mother grew up in a humpy back in the thirties and her mother used to fill the holes with newspaper and flour glue to fill them to keep out the cold and bugs we live in Australia
Your cats are hilarious! Such good ideas you're sharing.
Thank you! 😊
Love your basement videos and your stories! I too made a sun bonnet quilt years ago using scissors to cut each piece out. It is long gone now. I have my photos all together. My grls have gone through them and got out what they want. Now I need to go through whats left. There's always something to declutter! Your videos are real life and practical solutions. Something we can relate to. Yes, sometimes things get put in front of things, but, we just keep plugging along! Labels really do help the family to help us keep it organized! ❤❤😊😊
Thank you so much! Super encouraging! Yes we keep plugging along!! 🫶
I love the constant narration best in your videos, but I always really like your choice of music when you use it.
Thank you! I appreciate that encouragement!! ❤️
Hooray!!!!! My favorite place. My husband and I have finally started in our basement. Only doing an hour or hour and a half. I have decided to do a macro organization. There is too much chaos to do micro at this time. Will do micro later. Looking in containers and labeling it and stacking along the perimeter of the basement about three high. Of course you can’t help but take out some stuff to donate or trash along the way. Have some donation in the car to drop off this week. Also have quite a bit of trash. When my husband says “donate” I am flabbergasted because he holds on to everything.
Yes. I would like to implement the 20-20-20. It’s a good idea. I can do laundry stain spotting,sorting, and filling washing machine/make bed and tidy bedroom/and change orientation of table in kitchen so that we can access the shelves. That should be a full 20-20-20. I’ll start now. Thanks, Karen. 🌻🌼🌸🌻
Yay!! 🙌
We have lived in parsonages over the last 25 years with United Methodist churches. It has definitely been interesting at time!
At times, I get so distracted when I am decluttering and cleaning. I love that you are so encouraging and share ideas you have used.
You’re getting a lot done!
Thanks! 😎
In your videos, I like when the empty cardboard boxes are recycled and gone, stuff is off the floor, and as many of the mismatched plastic containers are tossed/donated. Hi from southeast of you in Salem, MA! 80s will be a shock tomorrow through Friday! OK with 80s just don't want the high humidity!
Yes, humidity is awful!! 😱
Breaking up tasks is very helpful for me. I change up what method of alternating I use, but they all help to keep boredom/fatigue/resentment away.
Good to see you in tweaking your basement. I have so little for paint supplies now, just a shoe box now. Just for touch ups . I no longer paint walls, I get too dizzy. One shell holds all that is electrical, two more are house and cleaning supplies., the fourth is for floral containers and supplies. That is it for the wire Costco stand. My bins are stores on a heavy duty shelf , with just five bins and my big heavy Kitchenaid mixer that I just use about once a month now! I now tidy and sweep up the .garage daily like any other room in the house! I purchased Zone 4 lavenders for the garden along the driveway., hope to plant tomorrow.
Also the video quality on your phone looks great! I still film on my phone too, just keeps things simple 😊
My husband bought me a scanner I can take on the go that has a camera chip- micro chip in it I took it to the basement to scan pictures for my mother inlaw funeral to make a slide show it was so so easy to do the first couple pictures didn't scan right but I just took the chip and put it on my computer to see if it was working and I just had to move the picture over a little to get the picture to scan right and it worked so then I got what I needed scanned in no time at all ❤
Karen, nice idea doing 20, 20,20. Using a timer is always good practice.
Nice clean-up at the end.
Cheers
I'm so glad you took some time to label. It will help a lot in the long run.
It's 80 degrees here today in Central NY. It's a great time to work in the basement, where it's cool! You did great 👍
You might also want to label the shelves that don’t have storage containers
I like the basement declutter and organize, I prefer it when you say what you’re tossing as opposed to just talking for that part. I’d like to hear your adoption stories, I’ve never heard you say how that came about.
Thanks for your input! 😃
She speaks somewhat of her adoption in a q and a video not to long ago
@@angelarothbauer8096 thanks, I’ll look for it
Thanks for sharing ! Im gonna try and implement that.
Glad to see you back. I hope you are feeling a little better. I am so sorry that your camera got damaged. I hope it is possible to get someone to fix it or get affordable replacement parts for those that were broken.
I think you did an excellent job today, because you managed to tidy up a space, sort photos, label boxes and declutter trash all in one fell swoop. Well done you, especially considering you have just been ill.
Regards your 20-20-20 method, I think it is good and will work for those who like more variety in the tasks they are doing at one time. Although, I think 30mins decluttering and then 30mins organising would be better for me, as I hate constantly switching in and out of tasks and prefer to focus for longer on one thing.
One thing I did notice in today’s video was that you said you don’t always like doing the photos, so maybe think about why that is and think of ways you can mitigate that. Keep in mind how good it felt to pass on your son’s box of photos at the wedding. If you prioritise your other son’s boxes, then you’ll be able to pass those over to them when they come to visit in the summer and you’ll have less to manage moving forward.
Hi Karen,love your cat's ,we are a lot a like ,my mind is always thinking about the next project.Loved your video ❤️ Have a great Night.
Sorry to hear about your camera, but the phone works very well. I was looking at your Outdoor/going away section... what if you moved the bikes, put the chairs standing up and use the chairs (maybe with a coverup) as a shelf for the things that are leaving the house? (no need to buy more shelves, and you are just making them a "home" instead of leaving)... just a suggestion. Love your videos.
My aunt made us a Sunbonnet Sue pillow when we were little girls. It was a blue appliqué on a yellow background. We couldn’t figure out what that blue appliqué was. We were looking at the outline on its side and we thought hmmmm…a misshapen bow? We asked her what it was (we were young enough to not realize that wasn’t polite). She told us it was Sunbonnet Sue! We could see the shape of her then.
Oh cool! 😃
Awesome job today! Sorry about your camera but the phone is great. Just wondering if there is a better place to store the chairs for now to make it easier to get to the outdoor items.
Must feel good to get so much accomplished. Can you move your automotive/outdoor area over a bit so that you still have access to it, AND create a space for outgoing items zone?
If you have another folding table, maybe it could be an intentional open space over the Cat apartment where you could stage boxes for stuff that needs to leave. Your shelf idea is ideal, but it might be a bit before you get to the place where you could have that set up. This way you have an open floor
Karen - Diana in Denmark has built her Utube channel using her cell phone… as your grandma did with quilting you just keep going with what you have.
That’s the plan! Just talked to hubby about it!! 😃😍
My first thought about the shelves was if it's to leave the house, why put it back on a shelf? Maybe a way to get it out of the house more quickly? Really enjoying these videos...
I agree! I would label one of the empty tubs „Declutter“ and put it next to the bin with empty bottles.
As everyone in your house sees and uses that one often, the can also use the tub to put their stuff in, and when it’s full one of the stronger members (not you, please 😃) can carry it up!
So good to see you back 💜
You already look and sound a lot better too!
I think you should keep the concept but upgrade to 30-30-30, as half of the time you use for telling stories and explaining, but without moving your hands - and it’s easier to add some minutes than to change those habits 😅
I like the idea of a shelf instead of the chairs, but don’t buy a new one please. Maybe you can already condense the photos into empty bins? Would also help entering the stairs (WHO on earth built that so close to the wall?? 😳), and you can place a tub for collecting trash or recycling or donates there. Or all three, as you have enough of them 😃
Great progress!
My basement is filled with tubs I’d like to leave the house, but I don’t have a place to donate to (and no car to drive to one farther away), that’s my big roadblock.
I have to post everything online and wait for people to get it, that’s a lot of work. But I can’t throw it away if it’s still usable.. urgh. A dilemma!
Filming with your phone is fine, but it will drain the battery quite a bit so you might need a new phone sooner.. as a photographer I can tell you, that repairing is not worth anymore most of the times, especially if it concerns the lenses.
But you can look online, if you don’t want the newest model you can get a new camera for little money quite often.
My fingers are crossed for you!
I agree - no more shelving - better to condense and even continue to purge - like the extra nails/picture hangers AND the bin they are stored in.
didnt you have a hanging rack? did you remove it? cause i was thinking maybe chairs could go there.
Maybe do a membership for your channel that would help with wages
True! 🫶
I get too attached to stuff. I'm using a journal called Throw It Away by Guru Notebooks. Seems to help me think through the process.
I’m thinking your clever husband can figure out how to hang the chairs from the rafters and have storage under them. You’ll end up with more floor space for a new shelf for things on the way out.
Animal Shelters take old towels blankets and sheets to use for the animals
❤
I have seen tripods at goodwill - is there one near you- I noticed you missed a few pics in the album- we lived In Base housing for years and usually had the industrial cream/black tiles - ewwww
The green paint was probably marked down.
😊
will you decluttering
Little by little karen I hope they put things back where they belonged. I’m sure woozy and Leo wanted to help
I would much rather listen to you talk than listen to music!
Good to know, thank you Deanna! 😃
drink the coffee
Karen, no! You are NOT an old lady. See, I am a year older than you are. If YOU are an old lady, then what am I? Nope. I am NOT an old lady, and YOU certainly aren’t. 🩷🌻🩷
🤣🥰🫶
Same here - 57 - NOT old - being "old" - that's just perception, not reality.
@@maryl234 Oh, so true, Mary!