How to be TIDY - one SIMPLE secret! 

Thanks for watching! Will this secret help you?!

I too, am a cricket & discovered my ‘perfect level of inventory’ requires editing season after season until I again feel capable of managing the amount. It’s a joy job, knowing I’m paying myself forward in time & peace. Appreciate your teaching videos so much.🌸🌿

Hi Angela, I am going back to your older videos I haven't seen yet. I enjoy your style - always brief and to the point, and the tone of your voice and overall vibe is calming and gently encouraging🙂. Thank you! (That helps when my frustration level reaches the point when I don't want to make any more decisions, lol.) Thank you for everything you are doing. I wish you and your family well, and looking forward to the new videos!

Thanks for sharing this ❤️ I had been watching your channel but didn’t know all of your journey toward minimal living. My family is the reason I have simplified too. It was refreshing to hear how parenting and motherhood IS challenging but often the things around us are making it harder.

Thanks for your encouraging advice. God bless your family.

You are Such a Blessing !!!😊❤

Thank you for another great video, Angela 😊 I’ve taken to watching quite a few minimalist channels and yours is always the one I return to. You deserve many, many more subscribers, in my opinion! Anyway, ‘prioritise your present reality’ is GENIUS, and you put it across so well. Thanks again 😊

My problem is putting things back to their proper place. Also, things like food get pushed back in fridge, I forget about them. Same with pantry items. So I take time to check out the back of the pantry periodically and check dates. Pull out things and put in front to use before expiration date. I use bins, one for beans, one for grains, one for sugars etc. Small containers like plastic dish pans are great for fridge and freezer. Frozen veggies in one, frozen fruits in another etc. Dollar tree bins work wonders.

Thank you! This is very helpful. Your home looks so peaceful.

Once again UV made compleat sense, thank you x

I love a tidy place but I'm a cluttering and quite messy sadly and weirdly a perfectionist which is quite a difficult personality lol. My problem is definitely the amount of stuff we have!

Dear Angela, thank you for this encouraging video. I was wondering when I got to the point of becoming a 'tidy person' since I used to be a untidy person for as long as I can think of. I guess it all started, when I began to make the bed in the mornings. That's been like around 4 years ago. And all of a sudden I found myself on the way to minimalism. It is amazing, how one simple and small habit can change a whole life before you even realize it. 😊

Absolutely love your channel. You have so many great tips and I want to be just like you.

I’m a cricket and continue to lean towards minimalism. I’m an artist in a small one bedroom 390 sq’ apt. My art studio consumes most of my living space. I tend to be very tidy in the big picture. My struggles are in my art studio….. You touched on ALL the areas that are apparent in my system. (Ex. I know some general areas, but I truly don’t know where everything is.) And conjecturing there’s too much inventory. I know it’s so for me. My problem is-my mixed media/found objects art goes in so many directions, because I have a high imagination IQ. ☺️ I don’t know how to narrow things down, in spite of the fact I need a lot of supplies to create the art I do. I follow a lot of creators. I discovered your channel, and am glad I did. Your approach, calm articulate voice, and getting to the core issues (especially when you mentioned ALL I’m doing) is very refreshing. Thank you. I rarely write a missal. 😁 My heart and mind are full and I’ve hit a wall. Late evening at this writing probably isn’t helping, either. 🤣

Thank you for this eye-opening video. I´ts imortant so say, that belongings should suit your current life. Love your videos - a cricket :).

Yes. I am a cricket. Lol. Sometimes I am Mr Monk also (except not about germs, just order and this weird thing I have with stray water drops). 😅😅 I think I can relate to the mom job lately Bcuz at one point I had 9 cats, one special needs cat, stray cats, sometimes people would anonymously leave me kittens and then the raccoons. Then this enormous house with grating little construction problems, (like a perfectionist’s nightmare), half of it filled with renters). I was really overwhelmed and I had to find a way so ergo…minimalism. When you’re a cricket and if you can’t cricket right it just becomes more like piles and piles and sooo much procrastination. So glad it’s not like that anymore. I still have more on my plate than I would prefer, (down to just 6 cats lol), but just decluttering and using a lot of minimalist advice, it is so much more manageable now. Plus it used to get to me a whole lot Bcuz it’s just so difficult to be this tidy life person and then just fall from Grace so far down like that. But well it was a lot of things tho Bcuz I also had to stop making my self worth be all about my “abilities” or accomplishments. Finally tho I just came to the conclusion that my perfectionism was going to die hard and be so difficult to not engage in that way less stuff just made a lot more sense. That way I could still enjoy a bit of doing some things to the nines without it burying me or making my head explode. Like I would just rather have less that I can do up to the nines rather than a lot that I can only half arse tend to. It would often bother me a whole lot that I had all this or that laying around and that I could not do it “right.” So until I can find some better way to chill about such things, I just made it be a lot less so I could hit my mark more often than not. And this def made me feel better about myself…Bcuz ya know. Great self confidence (independent of achievements) might take a little longer than I have to stay sane in the mean time. Lol. Hopefully that makes sense. Like the goal is loving myself no matter how good or bad I do, but still “doing well” helps me kind of at least start feeling better about myself right now. But then again also there is some part of me that just loves ripping through chaos and mess and turning it into good order. I just really enjoy doing it and I consider it a “fun activity.” Lol. Although I think it’s more fun when it’s not MY stuff all piled up like that. Lol.

I love your approach. Great video....

Hi from INDIA...A good message 🙏🙏

Hi, again. Your video popped up in my feed, so I rewatched. I’m in a new phase where I cannot live with my present organizing/purging/aesthetic system any longer for my entire apartment. I’m finding I desire to conscientiously remove FAR more than ever before. I’m ready for this newest challenge. I need MORE simplicity! This is especially true for my art studio that I previously mentioned. It’s here I’m needing to narrow my focus. I’ve had way too many ideas. It’s time to reign in my imagination. 🙃

Not sure if anyone has this same problem, but I have many many books that are relevant (some indirectly) to my line of work or I think are great references for other things. Given the cost to replace some of them, it doesn’t seem like a good idea to downsize my book collection. But…I have so many books that my office book shelf always seems cluttered with things that aren’t being used now. Non fiction, useful books are so hard for me to get rid of, even if they’re not useful to me right now. I’d love to know what other people do about this. I never hear anyone talk about this.

Thanks

I discovered decades ago that, given my limited amount of energy, I can keep a household clean and tidy if it only consists of two beings: myself and one other, whether human or animal. Right now, I'm looking after 6: myself, my hoarder husband, and 4 rescue cats. You can guess how that works out. Add to that, I'm 35 years older than I was when I came to the realization, 68 years old. My energy level is about half what it was then, plus my sacroiliac in my hips gives me fits. That sounds funny (sacroiliac) but it really, really is not. I am making progress paring down the household inventory, but it seems like a long slog.

Thank you. I am inspired. ❤

Sometimes messy people are failed perfectionists. They haven't been able to keep things the way they want, so they've given up.

I definitely am a Cricket according to Cassie.

I enjoyed this video! ☺️

Fellow cricket watching!

Love your cottage.

I’m a ladybug. Toss it in a drawer, and slam it shut. 😄

I am happy to come across you.. I am personally minimalist but after my child i am unable to let go of a lot of stuff that belonged to her..everytime I pick those things those moments come alive and I can't let it go..this situation is more with the stuff that was bought in her first 4 years..can you give a perspective please?

Oh, my, I'm such a cricket! 😄 Since childhood. Kinda creepy. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

You are amazing! I'm curious to know If you have a Tidy "junk drawer"?

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