Great job Emma,i get it we are all experts and like giving our opinions sometimes too freely,You do YOU Emma you are getting there,i am 69 in October and still 4 yrs down the line trying to get a hold on the de cluttering 🤷♀️😵💫🤗Lizzie🏴
If you sign up for the sleepover, though not expected to do it. I can see them finding a reason that they need you and will have to cancel if you don't, guilt-tripping. You do so much for your current guide group, i can see them causing you to do double the work. Sometimes its better to stick to your first no. If you do a couple days they will trap you into more.
Emma, I rewound three times; did you say that your house in chaos would give your mother in law satisfaction? Oh yikes 🤦🏻♀️😰I always enjoy your videos. As always, watching from Canada🍁🇨🇦
@@robindaniels2987 I feel for her 😞. I really do. I've grown to understand the difficulties. I'm also at peace with the fact that I'm not everyone's cup of tea ☕ xx
What great progress you are making! Look at all those clear stairs 😀. The 3 bins/bags system might work for you when you are focusing on a room. Put Away, Give Away, Throw Away - with the first of those being for any items that belong in a different room. Five or ten minutes before you are thinking of finishing a declutterring session, try stopping and then taking the Put Away items to the room they belong in, the Give Aways into the car boot ready for the charity shop (or wherever you are keeping your sale items) and the Throw Aways into the dustbin/recycling bin. That might help to avoid that feeling of clearing up one area only to clutter up another.
Emma ! Fabulous ! You’ve moved a mountain in Minnie’s room !! Well done you ! And well done Minnie Emma too👍. Weeeeee ! I went on a slide just like that with my granddaughter between my legs 😂( while in Australia ) took me back to being a care free child 🥳🥳😁. Sending love 🌸🌷🌸
Absolutely amazing decluttering, esp the stairs! So that they are safe haha....I laughed when you put on the pink bunny hat with bouncy ears and little pink hat too 😅...I would def keep little rag doll you made . Amazing for a 6 year old 🎉🎉I would also have a field day reading all your daughter's books, children's literature amazing and underestimated 😁 Teresa x
Hello Emma, I'm from Australia 🇦🇺 ❤ I love your content, it is so honest and refreshing. You are doing an amazing job decluttering. I have just started out on my decluttering journey and have a long way to go. Do you have a top 3 tips for someone starting out? Your videos are inspiring. I like to put them on, and do "body doubling", working alongside someone else is a great motivator. Thank you again. Bea from Australia 😊
This might be my favorite video you've done so far Emma! Your daughter's room turned out great! I loved getting to see a little of the declutter aftermath (landing & stairs) get dealt with right away. So much hard work! Always great to declutter before birthdays & Christmas! When decluttering I usually have a clothes basket or something I KNOW is designated in the room I'm working in to put things that belong in other rooms. When I finish either for that time, or finish decluttering that room I take it with me and drop everything off at least in it's space and/or if time allows I put it completely away. If you are working on a longer project, it helps to distribute misplaced things whenever you leave the workspace so it's not such a huge amount when you're finished. HTH!
Hello, greetings from Finland! :) I just wanted to share a challenge I learned a while back - 2-5 min clean up challenge. It could be f.e. tv ad break. One uses the time for putting something away or collecting trash items to bin or clean a table. Whatever needs to be tidied. It could even be sorting out a drawer. My children are small but we like to put a 5min timer before evening chores and compete against each other, everyone has some task and the quickest to complete wins a cookie or gets to choose the night-night story. Different prizes, sometimes a small wish kids have. We get to laugh a lot during this little time and parents get a somewhat tidier home, or so we hope, haha. Of saying no, you could be firm and say, I don't do this now. The moment they see you considering, they try more and more. WhatsApp messages are just rude, I would ignore them. Keep on the good job and take care!
Don't worry if things get messy again. It's just the way it happens. I won't even tell you how many videos I watched in a row just in order to get my kitchen back in order. The focus can shift from one task to another. Fresh eyes are always great when decluttering.
@@gettingtidy2495 that does make it VERY hard but try to "procrastinate" the hard NO until after the assessment is done if you can. The more you tell us the more it makes me feel sure you need to do what is right for you. The first time is ALWAYS the hardest.
Hi Emma, I have quite a big family to buy for at Christmas and we decided a couple of years ago to do a secret Santa. It’s worked out really well and means it’s far less stressful for everyone and it also means we don’t up with endless stuff that none of us need. You are doing a amazing, keep up the good work ❤x
Hi Emma, I have been very down and depressed, no motivation for cleaning or decluttering. Our house is in shambles.😢 Our oldest daughter started cleaning around the house bc she's now taking college classes so her schedule is much more open. That seemed to help me be able to start cleaning again. ❤
@@AndreaSooHill429 So sorry to read this, the problem is the worse it gets the worse you feel about starting. Your health is number 1. You've your birthday to look forward to. After that do 15 minutes a day for 1 week. Then 20 minutes a day for one week. You can do this xx
@@carolynoquinn4573 thank you, long may it last! I've told her "don't let Daddy put things on the floor" 😁 You know my lovely shelf unit my husband has put tins of beans and garlic on it. This is how it starts....
Hi Emma, Reply; yes my son still has allergies, he’s also allergic to cats, dogs and grass. He keeps his allergies under control, so his asthma is under control. When he mows the lawn, he takes extra allergy medication. You are doing a great job in your daughter’s room! I’m glad you cleaned up your hall and stair ways. I got a little panicky when you showed it. My first thought was how are you and your family would get down the stairs if you ever have a fire or need EMT’s upstairs. ( I pray that neither ever happens). Great job. Yes, air fluff is a setting on dryers that fluff things up like down blankets and help remove dust from items. 😊
@@vanaccessible3613 that's good how he manages them, I don't like masks but I wondered about her wearing a mask when the allergen is bad like pollen or hoovering....for airborne allergies. I'd like to go to Marrakech but don't know how she would be in the souks. Hopefully once I've cleared out so much more there will also be less dust too.
Hello Emma 🙂I use a tray, that I put things that don't belong on while I'm busy doing the room I'm in, then I can the take the tray with me and distribute it around when I'm finished and empty the tray. I was wondering , well thinking an idea I have is, your daughters pigeon hole tall bookcase unit, could you empty it and use is behind the door for better storage and neaten that area. With the books could you take off the baskets on the other unit that won't fit under the bed and just put the baskets under the bed free standing ( maybe with only keepsakes and things she and you want to save for her own children etc so the baskets are purely storage right under the bed). That will leave the unit without baskets that you can then put her books on instead, and would that make space for a little desk / dressing table, to stand her lovely new mirror on maybe pick one with drawers for more storage as well. I'm with you on the blue sweets, as you know I have a heart rhythm issue that I'm due a second procedure for on 25th Sept and anything blue soes in fact affect that heart issue , so it just shows how awful it really is for us.
having just heard the other comment about getting the unit under the bed that's a good idea, but with the bookcase behind the door, freeing space for her desk. Could you make little bags ( either with her old little bags or purses or gift bags) for guides, friends, or the sale that have hair bands and little sample toiletries in them?. Would the old mosquito cream be useful to use as leather restorer, as its moisture based could you shine your shoes, bags, handbags, furniture, use it up and then get rid of the bottles, in plastic recycling?
Before I had "almost" fully decluttered, I would either make piles of things that needed to go to different rooms or I would put everything in a basket to carry around with me as I cleaned. Now I just put everything on the stairs that needs to go up and I don't walk past it unless my hands are full, not stopping until things are put away where they belong. Yay! You saw rabbits and goats. 🎉 We had another set of twin goats born today! For our family we tried to practice presence instead of presents. What is something we could do together, not what we could give. When my husband passed away, many of the things his oldest nephew shared about him or experiences they had together like driving out by the airport and watching the planes fly, going to a car show or a train museum. I loved watching you go down the slide! Curious how you could record your daughter from behind when both of your hands were holding the mat.
@@brookhowell8841 how long did it take you to fully declutter? Have you named the twins and how's the Mum doing? Because he remembered the time and memories with his Uncle you can never forget those. Chatting in the car on the way there etc. Valuable time. I held on with one hand 😁 I wasn't going to go on (as you have to pay per person) but my daughter really wanted me to and I watched other children going up and down with siblings so that's when I said "I'm on my way" the only bit I didn't like was when the owner sprayed the slide with pledge and I went through the spray!
@@gettingtidy2495 I had just finished decluttering our home a few weeks before my husband went into the hospital and passed away. We had been peeling away the excess for over five years, mainly because my husband liked to keep things. Here, on the farm, mom and I are fully decluttered. Dad has gotten rid of a few items of clothing and nothing else! The mom is doing well. Our former neighbors gave her to my dad for Christmas when she was pregnant, do this is at least her second litter. Christmas' babies haven't been named yet. S'mores babies are Carmella and Graham.
Jason had tickets to go to a concert with his second oldest nephew. Then the pandemic started and it was never rescheduled. They both were so disappointed they didn't have that time together, but didn't find something else to do instead.
