Going Back to Old Way of Decluttering Videos| Hoarded Craft Stash 

I like both ways! Why not alternate them. And do what you want. As long as you are making progress, that’s what matters. ❤

Don't worry too much about all of us and what we think about how you produce videos. Keep up your decluttering because YOU enjoy the work and progress. We'll be here no matter what.

I'm one of the commenters from the last video, and i really appreciate your responsiveness! I definitely find this type of video more engaging and satisfying. However, your health (both mental and physical) definitely comes first. We'll support you whatever you choose to do! Thanks all the same for listening to feedback. 🦄

Yes I didn’t realize this was the type of video I was missing! Thank you 😊

I'm so shocked. 5 years? How have we been on this journey for 5 years? You definitely win the persistence medal!

I have no hoarding tendencies, I mainly watch your videos because I am in awe of your ability to work through your hardships and make a lasting change in your life. It is very inspiring!

Yes! I like hearing you talk briefly about what you are keeping and what is being decluttered!

I love this format, when you narrate the pieces you find as you find them. For the dust, I have found that an air filter fan helps me when I am decluttering.

I enjoy both styles…as long as Miss Pepper is in them! I love her so much! ❤

This type of video makes me feel less shame about my emotional attachment to items and about how much thought and emotional energy I put into any decluttering. It encourages me to keep going. Thank you for sharing your journey!

I also enjoy this type of video a little more than the narration. I think the reason for me is because this way it feels more like I am there with you, by your side cheering you on as you explain the items to me personally. So we are in a way together as friends when you declutter. With narration it feels more like I am just watching from the side and not actually involved in the process. Sorry English is not my language so I hope you understand what I mean 😂 just trying to make sense why I think so many people like this version of videos better 😊 but I truly enjoy all of your videos very much so whatever is best for you is absolutley okay!

I love seeing Pepper.

I enjoy seeing your tossy tossy piles and watching you sweep the cleared space. :)

I also missed this type of video. I love to watch people declutter and see what items they have in their home and hear why they have them. It's such an interesting window into another person's life, values, etc. So many decluttering videos are of influencers getting rid of make-up or other products they were sent for free and possibly never even used, or clothes they've used in lots of videos so they no longer want them. It's rare to find someone like you who has items that have been genuinely collected through everyday living, have real feelings about, and are letting go of them for personal reason. I love decluttering and helping friends and families straighten their houses, and i feel like your videos have helped me be more compassionate and understanding with others. I've loved all your videos over the years, in both formats, but I'd love to see more like this mixed in again.

I'm a hoarder, and I really liked the videos where you talked about the root of the problem. I have physical pain when I declutter. I need to remember that I'm not throwing my loved one away. My grandmom isn't the object. The object isn't my memory. This kind of video is awesome too. I still have diaper boxes from 10 years ago when the kids were little. I can let them go!

May I just mention that your voice has such a pleasant cadence to it in this - I could listen on repeat. It is like having a friend talk me through my own decluttering. Thanks for sharing what you do.

Can I say that I see how much progress you made not to be so attached to objects? Whenever I watch a video of yours lately, I feel it is easier for you to toss stuff you don't need! Also, that dress suits you so well, it is giving countryside vibes and I love it!

I hadn't really noticed that I was curious about your frame of mind while going through a box....but it was very instructional to watch your process. You do you...but I enjoyed the detail of this one. (OMG, paper...paper is the bane of my existence as well, and takes a lot of bandwidth. Soooo many decisions in a box of papers!)

I love these videos so much more!!!

While i love this style of videos more, I understand that explaining each item means it'll take you longer to declutter. Will support you no matter what style of video you produce!

yes, i missed this style too. i don't have the emotional/trauma, i just enjoy watching it, so i like this style better. however, I hope your knowledge helps others who do need it.

Thank you! It's honestly really helpful to see you declutter and think in real time to model for our own decluttering sessions

Hi, you can always record without saying anything when you are in the basement. Keeping in mind the theme you are going for. Later, you can do a voice-over of what you want to touch upon. Until the basement is dust free, you can not talk and decclutter at the same time. It's not fair for you. By doing this, you make people happy and yourself happy. I don't mind either way. All I want to see is your progress and hear the reason behind it because I can relate, and it will help me understand the why of my hoarding.

I much prefer this style of video! While i am so happy that you're addressing your root causes of hoarding, and sharing that with others (which is so kind of you to do) i just want decluttering and how you declutter, as opposed to *why*. I can also appreciate that others may get more from the more emotional videos. I say make what you want, and maybe mark them differently like "talking through hoarding trauma" and "decluttering process". Those are awful ways to describe it, but I'm sure you get what i mean.

Love seeing Ms Pepper...too.

😮 I REMEMBER SOME OF THOSE 90'S STICKERS!!! Those were the best 💜💜💜🥺

Pepper is so cute. She keeps you company while you declutter.

As long as Miss Pepper is in it, I'm happy! Great video, as always ❤

I like to hear your thought process while decluttering. It helps my inner voice stronger.

Ms Heat, 💛 I was wondering if you have noticed that you seem to be moving more fully into the organisation stage in your basement now and doing far less actual decluttering. I think this proves the amount of progress you have made. 🌞

From dancing queen to decluttering queen 😊

I am a paper toucher too. I take my Grandson's school work and place it like a collage on a table I take a index card and write his name and grade that they were done in and then take a picture from above. Once I get the printed picture back I put it in his album for the grade/school year he was in. (I usually get a sample of handwriting, math skill, Art Project(s), etc.). When the picture is in the album, the papers are tossed. He is 15 now, and I saved everything from when he was in my child care so you can imagine that is is a project. I am so happy that I am doing this project for him! It means a lot to me! By the way, I am also doing this for my children who are in their 40's...because I kept everything. I get to keep the memories for them and not the faded papers. I hope that this idea might help you and others.

Love Your videos because of YOU... Do what YOU need to do... We'll be here for the inspiration as always!

We do get your comedic side when you film like this and I’m living for it 😊

Great video, but I like the other style, too - please do whatever is fastest and easiest for you! If the dusty basement makes you cough for days, definitely wear an N95 mask and do voiceovers! Or would you ever want to take a few bins out on the patio and work outside, if it’s not too windy? All the best as you move toward creating your own crafting zone! 🦄🧵🧶🥳

It was very interesting to hear your other types of videos where you talked about the trauma behind your hoarding, but I agree that this type of video really helps me declutter along side you. Thank you for bringing this style back also. I feel like I can get some cleaning done today too now!

Love this style of video - thank you for sharing your journey with us.

Yes like these videos. The explanations helps.

Please be well while doing this. If it’s not safe, put a mask on. A voiceover is fine. Btw: that dress looks amazing on you!!

I loved this video, but not at the expense of your health!

This was so much fun! I liked your item by item story telling because it feels like I'm sitting right next to you. I also like your voice-over style too where you get at the root of the emotion. Because I also believe that for us to truly heal, we need to go for the root. So maybe mix and match depending on how you are feeling.

I much prefer the old style of video, but I didn't say anything coz creators need to make what they like to make. This is a lot closer to what I like to see. I don't think you can go back to the old videos exactly because you and your understanding have changed and you have a slightly different purpose now, educating other hoarders.

"Paper is the bane of my existence" you voice inflection was so happy it caught me so off guard i almost spit out my coffee hahaha you are hilarious 😂

I like both styles. But for the more KonMari ones I prefer the talk about the items, while when it is more update/reset videos I appriciate hearing about the mental struggles and how to progress. :) Also, yay, ribbon! 😂

Yes! This is the style of video i really enjoy! Loving that you are getting to the micro organizing stage. Cant wait until you create your crafting section in the basement!💛

Thanks for doing this style of video again. It reminds me of what items I need to go through. My daughter had that poster with all the colors back in 2004. Today I'm going to tackle the craft supplies that I have had stored for a decade.

Sue Wolfe- It's great to see your progress in the basement. Now that you're eliminating bins, have you considered getting rid of the cardboard boxes and putting the items into the plastic containers? I've found that cardboard attracts bugs...yuck! I love this new format, but do whatever is healthy for you! 👍💪❤️❤️

Loved the narration. I would have liked to see one or two more boxes done. Need my Friday motivation

Great video Miss Heart! I love this style! Thanks! ❤️ I feel like you do touch on the deeper things about trauma, grief over passed children milestones, desire to be eco-friendly in this style, too, and it's helpful for me for articulating to myself what I'm thinking about when I'm struggling to declutter particular items.

I enjoy all of your videos. I do find that this type does help me see your decision making skills and helps encourage me a lot and helps me grow in my decision making. I grew up with hoarder parents and grandparents. My dad is definitely the highest level hoarder you can be. I am trying to help my mom know that it’s ok to let things go. I am able to help her some when my dad doesn’t interfere. I have to tell him it’s her things and she can make decisions on them. I have found him going thru the trash bags after I leave. I have to sneak a lot of it to my house and throw it away there, sadly. His hoarding really depresses my mom and she is having walking issues and I am trying to constantly go to their house and make paths so she doesn’t hit her feet against things. Thanks for your videos. They definitely help people ❤❤❤

Hearing what the tossytossys are , is a guilty pleasure haha

When the time comes to organise the kids school bins, as a teacher, may I encourage you to view the piece of work through the lens of ‘how much of my child is represented in this piece?’ Rather than focus on how young they were. Colouring in and tracing are motor skill activities with some rote learning, it’s what teachers would consider a product and doesn’t show your child’s process (creativity). Pieces where your child has drawn or written from their own starting point are child led and represent your child as an individual.

Loved you doing this style but I totally get that you need to do things different ways. Thank you for continuing to share with us!

I had wandered away from the channel when the videos changed. This is my favorite style video.

I love both styles of decluttering videos - the ones where you discuss each item and why you are letting it go or keeping it and the ones where you talk about mental health, trauma and hoarding disorder. I am in awe of your work ethic. You keep at it week after week and keep making your basement (and the rest of the house and yard) better and better. You have come so far! If the dust bothers you, I would suggest a portable air filtration system or wear a mask. Your lung health is more important than us. Do what works for you.

Pepper always brighten up your videos even if just snozing on a backpack. ❤❤❤

Off topic, but that dress is really cute on you. Have a great weekend Ms Heart & Ms Pepper!

The paper!! When I think that I have dealt with the old paper clutter, I find more of it! 😂

I am happy to watch whatever you produce. I have been enlightened on hoarding and those who suffer from that issue by your more in-depth conversations about it. So would appreciate if you continued to include that sort of content. Looking forward to the day you can set up your crafting nook or room and show us some good crafting projects.

I have so many craft and sewing supplies!! I hoard them like a dragon, keeping the best ones for "Some day..." i need to unlock this attachment and use or let go. I'm 63 and don't have that many years left...some things I've saved for 20 or 30 or more years!! Thanks for sharing your thought processes!! Your videos are starting to sink in and help me let go.

I love this video format for your basement decluttering videos ❤

Please mind yourself if it’s dusty in the basement. Well done on all you went through and got rid of and sorted. Having so many bins sorted already is making it so much easier to put away. Miss Pepper needed a break from supervising. Have a great week. Mary, Joes wife 🙇‍♀️👏💪👍🙏💐🐈

I like all your styles of videos. i look forward to watching and seeing the progress. I also learn a lot about myself and my siblings regarding the difficulty of letting things go.

When I cleaned out my craft room, i donated 5 glue guns. I still have 4.

Just last night I picked up an empty coffee container from a neighbor in my Buy Nothing group hahaha! I have horses and the large plastic Folgers containers are the perfect thing to pre portion their grain and supplements because the lids are relatively airtight but still easy to remove. In the past I would have bought them myself even though it's not my preferred coffee, but there's so much abundance in the community when we reach out and ask for it.

Dear Ms Heart, thank you so much, I was absolutely happy to see this style of video!!! ❤❤❤ 🎉

***My basement used to always make me sick. I bought a box fan and then of good filter that fit over the box fan. Turn on the fan and put the filter on the side that sucks in the air. Make sure the filters little arrow is pointing the direction of the air coming out. If that makes sense, you’ll be surprised how much dust and mold it collects! Make sure to buy filter filters mold! Hope this works for you❤

You may want to consider running an air purifier downstairs if you spend any amount of time down there. It made a big difference in our home.

I love watching you go through and talk about your thoughts! I also love watching you put the items where they go. But I miss watching you actually throw away the tossy tossy stuff😅

I think you should do what keeps you going, no matter the style. I appreciate both styles and it was really good to see you do this again. For the other voice over style, an Idea might be to set a time limit. For example, the boys school papers, or something that isn't that visually stimulating - do a 15 min purge for each boys stash of papers, with a voice over. See if you can challenge yourself to make very quick decision on keep or toss over that very short time limit. Then compare the keep and toss piles at the end. After you've gone through it the boys can have a look at the toss pile if they want to but most kids are never that interested. It's items that we keep for ourselves, it's our memories not their's. My 3 kids are now in their 30s and have never looked at the small amount that I've kept from their school days. Anyway, Make it a game and it will help motivate you enormously. Have fun 🙂

I love your videos no matter how you produce them. I have a new channel and I’m trying different things. Tomorrow, I’m posting a video on how food affects my daughter, who is chronically ill with Dysautonomia and OCD. My father was a hoarder with OCD and it’s really valuable for me to know how you thought so I can understand how HE thought! Thank you so much!

It took me 5 years to declutter my hoard too 💜

Great decluttering session!! ❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

I missed these videos a lot! But not to strain your throat or damage your health, how about just a different voiceover method? You could still record it afterwards, talk about the items while editing in the comfort of dust-free room? Also i will say, that as a long time watcher i heard many times about your traumas, but what surprised me today and made it very relatable was how you were speaking about healing and then having no stories to tell about certain items. Maybe giving item descriptions and reasons for declutter but after you already decided to let them go will help you even better voice and connect the hoarder mind processign and the needs and feelings with the items, and help us understand it better or as you said make it less starge or unknown to those who don't suffer from hoarding disorder.

You are amazing! I enjoy both kinds of narrating! I would also love to see videos with you crafting! You’re so talented! ❤

I love just this kind of videos that you declutter while telling us about everything. Did your hubby go through his bin?? 🎉 I am trying to go through my stuff too

Must say that that dress if flattering your body perfectly 😊

July 2024. I just tossed a bunch of papers in the recycling bin. I am going through some of my craft supplies and I realize that I have some that aren't nice enough to donate. I also have some beads to give away to local crafters. I make paper beads and only use a few wooden or plastic beads. Tina, Al's wife

That dress is so cute on you!! So pretty.

That dress is super cute!

It takes a lot of courage to put yourself in a vulnerable position the way you have. Do what you feel most comfortable doing, do it your way that best fits your needs, don't dwell on the negativity or ignorance of anybody else. Everyone is different. I get very overstimulated easily bc of my anxiety,,ocpd & ptsd so its very hard for me to focus, but I do block out negativity that I dont have any use for. I commend you for posting & taking the time,energy & effort to share your journey. It really helps someone like me, thank you for sharing☆☆♡🫶🏼

Fantastic job beautiful lady crafts hard to part with you did a great job love the video ❤💜🦄

I like either style but would love to see much longer videos.

I also like and missed a bit when you would go through each item and talk about them a little. However, I also understand if sometimes there's more things you want to discuss and/or there's so much to go through or it's a dusty spot and you just do a voiceover instead! I like seeing the process either way 💌

First, take care of your health. I think the last thing any of want for you is a scratchy throat. I, too, remember how there would be a story for each and every item. I watch the children's Star Wars basketball hoop go to many places around the upstairs and then move around the basement, but the BEST memory was the little boy at your Yard Sale (this year) practically dance because his parents had bought that for him to take home. Your Journey is just that. I am happy you have progressed to such a place where you can get through more space in one episode that would have been several episodes in the beginning. I would like to see you take the items to the recycle/trash or go in your car for the charity shop. Best wishes on your decision!!!! Perhaps we can have our loved and missed individual comments on the Halloween bins. Best wishes on finding a spot with not so much dust.

I like however you like to share your story. I am so impressed by how far you have come!

Ooooh so excited to see the craft declutter!! It's been a long build-up. Even though the stuff is getting sorted into the appropriate boxes, I bet towards the end you'll start getting empty bins as the "keeps" are consolidated. P.S. Our lil dude Ramen, who looks a lot like Pepper, also agrees that kids' backpacks are a great spot to relax! 😊😺

Great video. Slow and steady progress.

I also prefer this style, but I worried it might take longer for you to make so I didn't say anything. But thank you for listening to that comment 🥰 I love listening to the story of every tiny thing 😂

♥️❤️🩷 loved this video and style. Love from Ireland. 🇮🇪

Im so happy everytime you come up with another video. lots of greetings from germany! i love you content and your whole personality as far you show it.

Do what you want❤

I enjoy it when you spend time talking about the individual items. To me it is more like talking with a friend. Having said that I have learnt so much about hoarding and the reasons behind it from the voiceovers.

Good job❣️

I can only image when you are ready to let go of more craft material, the schools in your area would love those craft supplies!

Thanks for getting back to this style, so much more satisfying ❤❤❤❤

I love the voice overs.

This is the third time watching this and I noticed you had some of Brandon's old Christmas items made on construction paper and you put them in the "tossy tossy" pile, in the past, you might have had to end there and would have placed it with his sentimental items. You now know that you have lots of his arts and crafts. Such a transformation. also recall when you went over every item in the Laundry room episodes you still hid your identity. But now you show your face. Your progress is tremendous in this five (5) years and you give us all inspiration to face our challenges. Best wishes!!!

I cant wait to see you do a "Kon Mari" style declutter on your craft bins. I def prefer this type of video. Although I understand the need to discuss the reasoning, I found that you were repeating the same things over and over about your "trauma". It was really great seeing the old style declutter again

I like this style better, thankyou x