20 Tiny Changes to Instantly Simplify Your Home 

What a lovely idea I'm sure it created warm memories aswell and made your daughter feel so special! Good for you!

This is such a good idea!!

Actually brought tears to my eyes. I am an artist and my mother NEVER kept any of our childhood drawings. She didn't see any value in them. My inner child thanks you. 🫶😊😊

@@ac1646 Hurrah for artists! ❤️

I just love this! What a wonderful idea!

Lol

Lol! 😂

Ain't that the truth 😂

Love this lol 🤣

Her children are so beautiful that i enjoy her videos for a chance to see them .. they definitely have their Moms IT factor. 😊

Me too! 63 and I find she has so much wisdom with great tips & ideas. 😊

@@briannab5296That is so sweet! Idk if I’ve ever seen them!

Me, too. 61 and pick up a few things from her videos, but am already decluttered and organized. We grew up differently. My mom kept a clean lovely home so I was blessed with that.

CALM DOWN!!!!!!!

💯 same here!

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😅- hilarious

I think of it more like, if I had to call an ambulance during the night, how would it look? - For the record I know that EMTs aren’t looking at your home when they are giving someone life-saving treatment and I also know from experience that when you call for an ambulance in an emergency, you don’t think about anything else, but afterwards, you take a look around and it is one of your thoughts, “does it look like they need to call social services for my loved one?” 😂

Crime Screen Photos - 😧. I understand what you are saying! At 77, I worry about being hauled off to the home, and the kids telling everyone all the junk I have in my house! 😂. I now throw every unnecessary thing away!

I had a friend get CPS called on them when EMTs responded to their house They absolutely do look around It was easily dismissed as the EMTs were just Karens but it was a hassle for sure

I’ve never cared what a crime scene photo might show as I keep my house clean for me

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Yes! I have one where I charge Everything: Phones, tablets and rechargeable AA batteries etc. Game changer! I even bought one of those little resin shelves that mount in/over the outlet- it holds everything from my phone to my small hand held vacuum.

Yes! I have 1-2 of these in pretty much every room! They make it so much easier!

I do however wish that more towels would have the convenient loop at the corner! I think this is a great idea for my bathroom too.

I would rather leave sink till morning I’m worn out by night

Ditto!!!!! I wouldn’t be able to sleep knowing things are in an uproar in the kitchen and den. 😮

Ditto!!!!! I wouldn’t be able to sleep knowing things are in an uproar in the kitchen and den. 😮

You shouldn't make your bed immediately. You should always turn the covers back to air the bed. You've been sweating in it all night! I always leave making the bed until after breakfast/shower.

Me too. This method really works!

@@SilverGirl-925 I had to clear out my father's house and then two years later, my mother's house. I think that people who went through the Depression and/or WWII are savers. I cleared out my father's house with two of my cousins and we did it in a week. I tried to donate things, but there was just to much of it and I only had a week to do it in. I ended up lining big black garbage bags three deep along the entire front of the property. My cousin then put a notice on Craig's list to "come and get it." They came in trucks and hauled away a lot of it. I had more time with my mother's house but she had much more stuff. I'm hoping not to put my daughters through that but no matter how much I donate or throw out, there will be stuff.

Plus one - and the sanity enhancing benefits are real! So many fewer objects clamoring, "Store me, clean me, insure me!" Our stuff has so many unrecognized claims on us. Those things better be paying my family in utility, beauty, convenience - some kind of gratification or they can depart and serve someone else.

Me as well just recently. My mom kept everything, whether it was necessary to keep or not.

I really liked this!

Haha for me it's more like "if something happens to me and people have to come into my space, do I want to leave that out/do I want to leave this like this?" 😅

My mum always said imagine if you go out and on your way back in, there are visitors waiting at your door. Would the house be okay to let them in 😂. I love this. It’s always made me tidy before I go out. Same when I leave for holiday. I even mop to the front door as we leave. So it’s spotless when I get home. 😊

We also do our laundry BEFORE we pack up to come home. That means less work when we get home and unpack everything, putting things where they belong.

​@@Chrissyhappy .. love this!😊

​@@ruthmanor70 .. great idea! 😊

This is beautiful 🥹💕 It’s a clutter free way of a lifetime of memories and stories to live on.

That is an awesome idea ❤

That is a beautiful idea!

What a wonderful idea!

Love this idea! My three children are grown & gone living their lives without me, but one recently reconnected with me thru texting. He writes LETTERS in each text, he is a very intelligent deep thinker with a lot to say and i cherish every word. I screenshot them before deleting. At first I had intended to print them out & keep them in a notebook, but now there's so many of them it would be a MASSIVE undertaking. So now I'm open to suggestions on how to keep them, organized & accessible. Don't know if my phone has any extra space for storing more of them. 😂

Wow now that's a great idea I'm using and passing on! Good thinking 👍🏼💡

@lisas4579 And you can use clamps for the top sheet if you need more than one or its a longer table 😁

I have done this many times. I buy a crisp white twin flat sheet from Walmart. Looks like a white table cloth. You can wash with oxyclean or bleach and it looks new.. of course you have to iron but still it is cheaper than a tablecloth and its reusable

I just did this for Christmas! I wanted two holiday looking tablecloths but couldn't find any I liked so while walking around Walmart I decided to look at sheets, and found the most perfect cranberry-red sheet sets. They are plain with no designs which is even better because I can use them for other occasions. We have a rectangle dining table in a corner of our living room, with a beautiful tall lamp on it. We don't have space for a Christmas tree and haven't found the perfect small tree to put on the table so I wrap a nice classy holiday wrapping paper onto the lamp shade, then before putting it back on the lamp I slip a very thick wreath around it at the bottom, then lay a string of lights all over the wreath. Then we have the rest of the table for piling presents and cute decor. The sheet hangs down the sides almost to the floor hiding the plastic bins we store our Christmas decor in. I have since removed the red sheet & replaced it with a very pretty beige sheet that will serve us well for the rest of the year or until I want a newer one. On the much smaller kitchen table that serves as a dining table I put the fitted sheet and had to cut around it for a better fit. On top of it I keep a lovely lacy vinyl see thru tablecloth protector. I love these two solutions! Easy, affordable, and beautiful.

@@briannab5296 Great ideas!

That is hilarious!!

Lol! That is a great story!!

A funny line in a movie was when Bette Midler and Shelley Long went into Bette’s character’s apartment. Shelley said “Oh No. they ransacked your apartment. Bette’s character said, “No, this is how I left it”.

I use a slightly different thought process when shopping. I get paid once a month, so when I'm tempted to buy something I really like I ask myself if I would use the item BEFORE next payday, which 90% of the time is no, so I leave it with a mental note to put it on my next month's shopping list, but by the time next month gets here I have totally forgotten about the items. Has saved me a ton of money and clutter.

I had twins sons. I feel your pain! When mine were about 12, I got completely fed up with the condition of their room and had a total come-apart and took their door off of the hinges so they couldn't hide the mess. I propped it against the wall right next to the door opening. They used it as a toboggan to ride down the stairs! I had to buy a new door. 😳

@@pauladrennan4223 Oh no!! We have threatened to take the door off the hinges. Guess I better not do that now!

I went through something similar with my daughter a few years ago. We had to gut her room a couple of different times before she permanently kept in order. She’s now 14 and has kept it in order for more than a year. She recently told me the three things that made it “stick:” 1. “2-minute tidy” before bed every night. I had assumed that was obvious, but apparently I hadn’t spelled that out until our 2nd or 3rd deep clean out. 2. “Don’t know what to do with this” basket. I’m sure there’s a more efficient name for this, but I eventually set up a permanent home for the items that did not have an obvious home. Now, she comes to me every few months (and growing less and less frequent) and asks for help cleaning that basket out… which is waaaay better than cleaning out her whole room! This was one of the biggest game-changers. 3. “Kiss it goodbye.” We’ve done this since her earlier childhood, but she says this has always helped her part with stuff… if there’s something that’s no longer serving her but holds some meaning, we may first take a picture of it or just skip to “kiss it goodbye and thank it for being a part of your life!” If we are donating, we also bless the next owner. If it’s not in donatable condition, we gently “bury” it in the trash. In other words, we kinda make it a ceremonial process. In most cases, it all takes less than five seconds, but some more meaningful items need a quiet moment. 😅 It’s funny, but it really helps with the parting of things. I think my kids resonated with this because I was respecting what it meant to them to part with it and I was giving them space to be “sad” about it, yet also giving them a way to channel that momentary sadness.

@@susankruger7890 these are great tips!! Thank you!

hahaha I'm so glad I'm not alone

Yes, my 2 favorite media outlets, TC and organization sum me up!

😂 wearing clean underwear in case of being in an accident is redundant because if I'm in an accident my underwear AINT GONNA BE CLEAN 😂

Same for some winter jackets. Instead of having them inside of a closet on a hanger taking a lot of space, just have a spot on hooks for them close to the door. If they are moist, they'll dry there. I have a row of hooks with lots of space for jackets.

DÖSTÄDNING!

I hear you, I had to do my mother's home. And she was not to bad all said and done. Like you it took time to get through it all. I remember one day when I was visiting my Grandmother and told her how much I loved one of her painting that she painted. She took it off the wall and gave it to me, we were both happy.

This is a major issue, according to EMTs I know. Esp as housing gets more and more expensive, and more people have to fit into a smaller space. They usually don't pare down their possessions accordingly. Then there isn't room for them to load the patient or work on them. My own mother didn't call 911 one time when she should have (after a fall where she hit her head), bc she said her xmas boxes were in the living room, and she didn't think there would be room for the EMTs. Just imagine if she had gotten a brain bleed that night. She could have died over some silly xmas decor!!

Yeah that's a sore point for me & my elderly brother I take care of. We've had to call 911 several times for each other, and every time has been a hassle for the EMTS due to our small cramped apt. 😢

Also, you can rent more than you think you would be able to at home improvement stores. Sometimes people we know don't have the specific thing we may be needing to borrow. So easy peasy solution.

I love this. Years ago, borrowing something was the first go to, and we should all get back to that mindset. I remember my mom and our neighbors always borrowed from one another. Folks couldn't afford to just go buy things.

​​@@infjandcoping4614 .. not in our city! Home Depot and Lowes no longer loan/rent out tools except to professional general contractors.

The library district here includes "Stuff." You can check out a sewing machine, RU-vid beginners kit, and other things.

Love the idea inside closet, above the door!!❤

I like that!

This should be the top comment. Her dollar store drying racks were so cringe.

Better idea is to get rechargeable batteries and not have to have so many.

Ohhhh! What brand are those? I want some too.

I agree. I am not a fan of towels on hooks. I care more that they dry properly than they look nice. Depending on your climate, some towels just never dry (we have lived a lot of places) Pegs or clips are a good idea. Thanks. Thinking of the grandsons who just pull everything down 😂

I just wash mine once they're soiled, at least at the end of the day. They smell quickly regardless of if they dried

Same here👍

A solution to this I've found is buying the thin 100% cotton hand towels like the cheap ones from ikea or daiso, because they're thin they dry so fast but because they're cotton they're nice and absorbent!

Yes, my grandmother did this- secured the towel with safety pins. She was tired of her towels walking away.

That’s all I could think of ,opening it later to a musty smell. One hack that I learned from my mother in law almost fifty years ago was to always tuck a paper towel inside any thing that you want to close and store,such as a thermos,cooler,etc. The paper towel will absorb any residual moisture and no funky smells.🙌🏻

HAHAHAH

Sad but true!😎@@thatpracticalmom