The WRONG WAY to Organize your Home 

You are beautiful just the way you are! Always love your videos and stories.

Thank you, Cas! You made me laugh out loud. :-) Glad you're keeping your pretty face the way it is.

You are so pretty. Years ago and now you are very pretty. I struggled with acne since 18 after I had a facial and it never went away. As a cosmetologist and working on brides and shows where everyone would tell me I was the one that needed the makeup, boy, talk about dropping your self esteem and stepping on it. It's been hard to recover from that. The irony is now that I'm disabled and don't go anywhere I found a doctor that treated my acne and my skin is finally cleared. Lol that's life I guess . Just keep being yourself.

Oh my gosh! That woman 😂 First of allllll. You are beautiful! Gummy? What is that woman talking about? I envision she looks like Yzma from The Emperors New Groove 😂 I went through hearing how unattractive I was all through my school years. Outside of school people would say I was beautiful 🤔 Now that I’m wayyy out of high school. I am showing signs of aging. I use a great skin care line, take vitamins & try to keep up with hydration. Anyway, don’t go back there. I feel her marketing skills are just plain mean spirited.

Thanks loads. At 71years of age I have found out I am a Ladybug. Old Motto: There’s always a bigger Container. New Motto: If there’s too much stuff in the Container it’s because We have too much stuff. Decluttering, Donating & Destroying (aka Rubbish)

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❤❤ thanks for sharing

Life or death is in the power of our tongue...our words are so powerful! LOVE your story!

We need more of that! God bless you both. 💜

Always!

That was my favorite too!!!

I love that he is like that!!!

If you don't know specifically why you're at the Surgeon's office, maybe you should not be getting Botox injections at all???

You did. Go you!

Wow, I did too! Just today and here I click on this video and you are the first comment! You go Susan! And I haven’t cleaned my bathroom in ... ... ... Er... it’s been awhile. That is because I watched one of her videos last night. 😆 of course I can hardly walk through my room, but my bathroom is now immaculate. 😆😆😆

Came here to say this too! She’s incredible! And she’s got a great smile!

Great smile! Wonderful comments at the end. Thoughts staying in our head Rent free!

Yay!

Sorry for your loss 🕯️☦️🕯️

@@velvetturtles , thank you so much.

I'm sorry about your husband.

@@Carolmaizy thank you.

Same here, husband passed away 4 yrs ago. Every year I go through the whole house again & get rid of things that as the only person in the house, that just isn’t being used. 3 weeks it was my small kitchen appliances, apparently, I owned half a kitchen store. Lol When I was still cooking for a family I used it. Just me, nope. We did one of the attics last week, I have 5. It feels so good to watch the things going to other people who can still get years of service out of them. It’s a difficult journey trying to make the house your own space, that there isn’t anyone else to consider when making changes.

Thanks Linda 🙂

Thank you for putting this in print!!!! I am so overwhelmed right now. 😢

Now…about that commode snake. Do I use it? Rarely. Do I love it…heck no! UNTIL….I need it!

Thanks!! 🙏🏻

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I watch Hoarders when I feel stuck getting rid of stuff. I’ve found listening to the mental health professional’s guidance to the clients about parting with items helps me (especially all the things I have attached sentimental value to).

As a self proclaimed hoarder I’ve watched all those shows too. They can be helpful. One of the doctors, David Tolin coauthored a book “Buried in Treasures.” Really good at helping you change your views about the things you keep so you can learn to let things go. ❤

OMG.. Same!

Joshua Becker has great tips on decluttering. Like Questions to ask when decluttering. Do I need it? Why do I have it? What would I use if I didn’t have it?

@@HeronCoyote1234 Definitely. I like him too. The Minimal Mom is terrific as well.

Thank YOU, Celeste, for adding this comment. I have been attempting to organize for almost as long as you and felt like such a failure b/c it had been so long and I hadn’t done it yet. Thanks to Cass, I’m on the right track now.❤️ to both of you. (And Cass, I have a “gummy” smile that I’ve always been self conscious about. I can’t imagine what that lady would have said to me!)

I have been trying to get my best friend to declutter, because he says he wants to, and has seen how I live. We’ll start a room, like his office, but, he doesn’t follow the next part of decluttering, which is: don’t let it get that bad again. I try telling him to throw out trash, papers no longer needed, empty boxes and envelopes, bubble wrap (he buys a lot of stuff), etc. Falls on deaf ears. It’s easier and faster, and less stressful to pick up, and get rid of trash as it’s made, than wait for the room to get overwhelmed again.

I found A Slob Comes Clean and then Cas (Clutterbug Me) - these two together helped me soooo much.

I like Eleanor Roosevelt and I know her statement is meant to be inspirational but, to me, her comment feels like "blaming the victim". People can definitely bully us and make us feel inferior.

@@leilajane4015 that's the point. No one can "make" you feel anything. People can be unkind, sure. The feelings though? That's internal.

@@leilajane4015 The point is that we can allow someone's opinion of us to haunt us or we can brush off their comment and not give it a home in our mind. Our youth need to be empowered with this thought. It might prevent so many tragedies due to bullying.

I've always said, "When I get old, (I'm not there yet!😉) all my wrinkles will be laugh lines!!"

Me too! And Judy Dench! That’s how beauty ages. They are beautiful at any age!!👩🏻‍🦳👩🏼‍🦳👩🏽‍🦳👩🏾‍🦳👩🏿‍🦳🧑🏻‍🦳🧑🏼‍🦳🧑🏽‍🦳🧑🏾‍🦳🧑🏿‍🦳

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To quote Jimmy Buffett, The wrinkles only go where the smiles have been.

I laughed too! LOL

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I came to say the same! Love love love the creative utilization and excessive use of the word 'crap' 😂 also her ripping into the fake Pinterest photos! I love her transparency ♥️ will also subscribe.

Yes! Crapalanche ought to be a real word coz it's a real thing. 😅😅

Radonculous! 😂😂😂

Sounds good in theory, but for some people this would devolve into them looking around and swapping out their mountains of junk for way too many “collectible” $100 figurines or something similar. They’d still have way more clutter than their space could comfortably fit, just now instead of a pile of old linens it would be a giant cabinet they bought to hold a mass of figurines, or expensive handbags, etc.

I’m sorry this is not good advice. It should be determined by how useful it is or how you enjoy it. I used to have expensive crap I never used and while decluttering I could sell them. Also I have cheap stuff that I genuinely like or use on a regular basis that is worth keeping. If you don’t like grandma’s cutlery and you never use it, maybe just sell it even though it’s expensive. If you really like this big whatever then keep it even though it’s cheap 🤷🏻‍♀️

@@noshka I was referring to things like tangles of cords, empty phone/tech boxes, and stuff being saved for “one day”. Example: I got rid of huge stand mixer I literally only used for Thanksgiving and got a hand mixer instead.

Interesting idea. And it's different for everyone. Example: Had I not had a plethora of old towels, I would've been up sht creek without a paddle when we had a sewage backup in our basement. Thank God I hoard old linens! Also, old sheets saved money when moving, as I didn't need to go out and buy bubble wrap. No newspapers in this house to use instead, either.

When I'm moving I use every piece of soft goods in my house before I buy bubble wrap. Also i have huge rolls of paper that I got from a friend in the printing business.

My mother’s voice sticks in my mind; everything must have it’s place. That has helped me but I struggle because of time. It definitely helps me not get too out of control. 😃

I know Right ..

@Manka I am glad to know I am not alone 😁

I have those empties too. 😅

Great advice. I’v been organizing my clutter in pretty containers for years and not getting the results I want. Now I know what to do to actually get organized. Thanks for the help I really needed !

@@jodeeps2287 me too 🙂

I am a fantasy cricket too! Lol I am working slowly to become a less messy ladybug 🐞

Wow, thank you!

Praise His Holy Name.

Bravo!

Praise His Holy Name.

Totally agree

I love her smile too :)

"Family is everything" is said mostly by people who are lying to themselves. Very few are actually blessed with decent families. If you, reading this, are one of them, thank the good Lord every day for it because it is RARE.

Your comment made my heart so happy!

@@Clutterbug Cass, it would be awesome to see you do a video where you challenged yourself to use only boxes/free stuff like you mentioned in this video to organize someone's place... truly on a budget, especially with prices so high, instead of Container Store, Walmart, Target, or even $Tree bins! Can you "Make it so?"

@@leahrowe847 I think she showed doing this in a video using cheap and free boxes in her craft room

Glad it was helpful!

Lisa Michele don't give up. We can do it! I am motivated by this video. I've tried just about everything else. There was a cute show once where I saw this girl cleaning out her garage. When she picked up an item she was ready to dispose of, she looked at it and hollered "get out of here!" as she threw it into her yard. I guess it was a motivational thing. It was hilarious!!

Too funny! I raided my cardboards recycling bin last year for temporary sorting bins in my hard to reach cupboards. Shredded wheat boxes, maxipad boxes, tissue boxes, tea boxes, anything that would fit in my awkward shelces to seperate medications, essential oils, dog things, cat things, Of course whenever i opened the doors it drove me nuts because the amount of different shapes and colours was making my brain buzz. So i covered them in a lovely patterned shelf liner vinyl. They are still there! Hahaha. Whatever works, so long as it works!

As a person who has an aversion to "gummy smiles," yeah, no, she definitely does not have that problem. Whoever said that she does is nuts lol

Happy to help!

I was going to say THIS exactly, you beat me to it!!!! Oh Cass, I love you!!! Keep your crap in it’s crappy place!

Absolutely brilliant video Cas! 🙂💜

Noses, noses, noses!! My father offended me by saying that I look better from the front than from the side. And that my ears aren't that small. (When they are perfectly fine! Even I think they are perfectly fine. For crying out loud!) I suspect nobody ever made any such remarks about *his* appearance. The strange things people say ...! What kind of world are we living in?! Things are becoming stranger by the minute, so hopefully more and more people will be inspired to think for themselves and take a stand!

Yes! Feeling inspired again.

While reading your comment I had another idea too: packaged food with lots of colors screams of marketing. And generally all packaged food is no food, just stomach filling. Real food is food what our great great great grandmother would recognize as food. The rest is just a product.

I have watched The home edit, and yes it was fun at first, but after a while I was horrified looking at the celebrities and their overabundance and the gigantic pantries and all the sugary snacks and cereals etc. I'm not used to that big spaces/storage and so much of everything. And almost no one decluttered anything. I understand that not everyone live like the families on tv, but it was very weird, like The home edit way of organizing could apply to anyone. I'm gonna try to organize my black clothes in rainbow order. ;) Thank you Cas for keeping it real!

Praise His Holy Name.

I loved the ending!

I agree!😁👍

It's so awesome your sister has come to help - and now you'll have more of a plan! Last summer my daughter and her hubby came over a number of times to help me declutter and decide what to keep (mostly store!) They are building me a Granny Flat in their back yard, and soon I'll be curating what goes into the new space! He was great at outside stuff, and hauling rooms to storage or away... while she kept me on track with sorting and decision making! It was awesome to have someone else drop things off, and just do the sorting. The garage held some of my daughter's things, and items from my folks (who died 17 and 30 years ago!!) It was wonderful to share memories and pick out treasures with someone who also loved them - and we helped each other let other things go that we didn't need! Some we set aside for her brother (he lives farther away, and was busy with his own life) or other family members. A real treat was when our realtor saw the pretty Blue Danube dishes my father- in law gave me ~ 50 years ago - loved but long just sitting in the tall cupboards - I'd put them on the porch in the more precious 'give away'/ section. She loves blue and white China, and immediately asked if she could buy them!! So they will be loved, and it was a no stress way to pass them on! My biggest tops are to work in manageable blocks of time (set a timer!) And when you're working on your own, use the 'body double' touch of purging on a podcast or calling your sis! And do take breaks