Declutter sentimental and baby clothes. Not done having babies but I think 12 Rubbermaid boxes of baby clothes is a little much. Almost all I was gifted 😕 I'm thankful but now I'm overwhelmed.
I love that you put pictures of your kids over the rack for their coats. It was the perfect choice. So much of your home recognizes that it's their home too, not just that they are living in your home. You are purposefully fostering of a subliminal sense of belonging. Every child deserves that but too few receive it. Great job, Erica!
Hi Erica's Mom and Dad! We love your daughter and her family and are so happy to "meet" you. Have a wonderful new year. Erica and Andy, the sign by your door is priceless. What a wonderful message for each of you to see regularly. Bless you all. : ) and Thank you for the great video.
One thing I really appreciate about your process is that when it is "done" you cycle back and evaluate if "done" really served you. Then you re-evaluate and try something new. 🥰
I love that you focus on making your home ,the childrens home too!!! You make them feel loved,wanted, special!Of coarse , you say!! I just mentioned this because many children dont get, have this in their home.Nice to see devoted parents!
I love the Children's pictures near the coat hooks!! When I ran a Family Home Child Care I put hooks up for the children's gear and right above their hooks was their picture. The Children always knew where to hang their coats.
I love how gentle your words are with your husband. He might not be a minimalist but the gentle encouragement to review things seems so unthreatening and completely helpful
Erica, This was such an awesome reorganization. So nice to meet your parents. Your Mom was such a trooper of a helper. Love the kids' coat-hook area. Added rug and pictures really made it perfect. Also the closet looks super functional now. Kudos too Andy for decluttering another pair of shoes. Cheers
Adding shelving to the closet certainly helped. You could consider hanging the adult coats and off-season kids’ coats on the rod and move your entryway setup as is back into the closet where the hooks are now. I’ve watched a lot of declutters and open hooks and shoes by the door are hard to keep tidy but every family is different. Hope it works for your family. So nice to meet your Mom and Dad, what a treat. Luv your vids.
Great job, Erica! Big improvement. :D ♥ A suggestion - If you have any empty bins/containers that would fit on your extra pantry shelves, I would use them for the canned items (maybe one for soups and one for jams, etc.) and put them on the higher shelves. That way, you can keep them from falling over and looking messy, and at arm level, they would be easy to pull out and see what they are. Having to bend over to search through all those loose cans would drive me crazy. Just a thought. :) Whatever works for you. ♥
I love watching both of your channels! 💕 I get inspired to start my own at times, but then wonder if the pressure would get to be too much. Y’all make it look easy!
Oh Erica! I lost my mother and father a few years back. What a lovely moment to have them with you helping out, enjoying the day, sharing and loving...I miss that so much. Cherish these moments. I love this. This is one of my favorite videos from you. OMG I need to do my closet as well. WAaaaaa And Happy New Year, sweetie, wishing you and your family health, happiness and blessings.
Happy New Year!! Erica You Are AMAZING!! You have come so far in such a short amount of time! I remember the tears in the attic and your look of discouragement when the thought of all the money you had spent hit you and overwhelmed you. Your honesty is golden and because you were honest and accountable you have mastered what I think we all need to do better and that is give ourselves more Grace!! Now it is 2022 and you are on top of the places that you recognize are your "Hot Spots" and they look Fantastic!! You should be so proud of yourself! You no longer let any amount of clutter keep you from finding the Peace and Joy you have created for yourself and your family!! BRAVO ERICA and thanks for bringing us along with you on your Declutter and Self Care Journey!!
Lovely transformation - form and function. MY OCD would love to see three shoe baskets below the coats - one for each child, beneath the child's picture. Thanks for continuously being honest about how hard it is to keep things organized.
Looks great! I would have left the bench where it was and put the hooks to the right of the bench. You could put baskets under the bench for shoes. But looks good how you have it also!
Came to the comments to say the same thing! Plus the kids can sit on the bench to put their shoes on. And having the bench by the door gives you a handy place to set all the things that need to leave the house that day (donation items, sports gear etc).
Hi Erica.. Hello Aunt Pat snd Uncle Rich.. Happy New Year! I love Ericas’ you tube videos’ … she inspires me to “keep my house and life minimal and simple” and less inventory and clutter to manage… pay it forward.. donate! Love you all ❤️
I have never had an entryway so I don't get storing shoes by the door. We've always kept them in our bedrooms. The end result is nice. Your mom is cute!
I would put the bench back by the door. Especially with the shoes and coat rack there, it would make sense to have a place to sit down and put on your shoes.
Ranger is too cute. I love the realistic nature…if it doesn’t work try something else. It’s great that your not afraid to say your expectations for the closet were too high & try again.
Also, a suggestion for overflow pantry items is to get shoebox size bins for each type of canned good. They stack well and you can label them. I can fit 7 cans in each bin. So I know if we use 2 black beans I can easily pull out the bin after shopping to refill it in the back. So then I'm also using first in first out. You'll be able to fit way more on those shelves this way!
I love the door stop!!! 🤣 That truly is minimal! Maybe you could wrap construction paper around it and have the kids guess what the door stop is.... Whoever guesses right at the end of the week gets to pick a dinner off that weeks meal plan! Sorry! I like whacky games! ☺️
Your parents are so cute and helpful. I need to organize my only closet downstairs. It has to fulfill a lot of jobs for our family and it gets cluttered a lot.
I love this one! Looking forward to watching you finish out the homeschool closet. I love watching homeschool declutters because it motivates me to do it lol
Hi Erica, it was good getting to meet your family. You certainly had your work cut out for you. One of my goals for this years is a linen pantry and food pantry reset. Thank you for joining in on our challenge.
Maybe add a bench without a back underneath the jacket hanging area. And if you can find one with opening underneath it for shoes. I think the closest looks great and the rug was a good addition to the entryway.
love meeting your mom and dad. So great they could help out. Love their thoughts about your door stopper :) You could have a nice large basket by the kids coats to put in sweaters or pullovers in case of need when really cold. Still would look good and would be handy. Then another basket for shoes. Leaving only the one needed coat per child. Just a thought The kids pictures are great there. At first I was thinking about the large mirror you have so can check self on the way out the door and would open up the space, maybe.
Thank you for sharing your mom and dad with us....they are adorable! Have you considered putting the bench back on the same wall it was on, only just down from the coats....like where the electrical outlet is? Then it could still function for putting shoes on or for coats when having company. Happy New Year!!
When your mom was analyzing the shelves I could see Rebecca! She looks at the world very similarly. Very interesting. I might be wrong, just an observation
So satisfying seeing that closet now. Suggestion. When you were hanging the kids’ coat rack in the front, the bench was pushed over a bit. Is there enough room to keep it on the same wall? It looked so natural and would definitely help with those putting on socks/shoes at the front door. 😄✌🏻❤️🌈
Wasn’t too sure at first but your finishing touches with the photos and rug made it perfect... great job🤗 It goes to show it is a process of try it and see and more ideas join it ❤️
You look so much like your dad 🥰 I love that they helped you! I feel like you parents are getting you a wedge door stopper for Christmas hahah it looks amazing!!!
Hello to you, Mama and Papa Erica! It's lovely to finally meet - and wonderful to do so during the much anticipated downstairs all-things closet sort out. I agree with Mama Erica, there needs to be a door stop 😁 I remember being entranced with this new house's large storage and bedroom cupboards, but after watching your journey with this cupboard in particular, I've decided large storage rooms are more a hindrance unless they are designed for the use to which you'll put them. That one shelf high on the wall is an insult - it gives you just a taste of what might be if the entire little room was appropriately shelved. Those shelves you've moved in were just the needed equipment to help you keep things organised. I was so excited for the possibilities of those large cupboards, but have learnt through your journey that a large space to put things in without the ability to give everything its place is a recipe for many many hours of re-organising over and over again. Thank you! Also - those three pictures were perfect for the mud room space and to have the rug just around and to have it be as if designed for that space? Amazing! Wonderful make over, thank you!
Welcome to RU-vid, Erica's Mom and Dad. I love your daughter and her family, and all of her cleaning ideas, and her honesty in how things are working or not working for her family. After watching her decluttering vlogs almost since the beginning (Fall 2019), I too have taken the huge step of decluttering and finding homes for "things." If the kids' coats are going by the front door why not use hangers for your's and Andy's coats. That would take up a lot less space. Unless my view is deceiving, the bench looked like it would fit next to the kids' coats. Their shoes could go underneath it and then they would have a place to put them on that is not the floor.
Hi! Happy new year! I think you should keep the bench beside the hooks. Or put it across the hall up against the wall by the stairs. A place to sit to put on shoes... It looks like the hallway is big enough but my perception could be wrong from the camera. Anyways, just a thought. Thank you for sharing! Looking forward to the next one :)
