Top 10 Things To Declutter Right Now 

Thanks for the online book-club, that was neat hearing it from you .

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You're awesome! 👍

That is great

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Agreed !!!!!

So sorry,,,, CAN'T stomach, these yappin ladies, go on, and on, and on...... Dam !!!!!-! Shut Up !!!!! And make your point !!!!! I see I'm not the only one thinkin that way... 👌

His videos are decluttered of too many unnecessary words. I love the to the point approach.

..... As he does...... Right to the point !!

He says a lot in a few minutes. Love it.

Josh Bosse I will check out your video Josh, I saved it on my watchlist for tonight.... life living simply, and intentionally is so stress free, and the less you have the less you need or want.

I just started doing that too!

Thank you I'm one of those ladies

@@alysononoahu8702 I hope you are doing well, and I wish you a blessed holiday season xo

I donate to our Humane Society thrift store. Both seem like a good cause to support. When I am deciding what to donate, I picture a cute dog wagging its tail in front of me.🐶. It helps me declutter my home.

It is true I never thought about that! This guy is pretty good I

Animal shelters always need an ongoing supply of towels & linens!

That is what I do - I took large trash bags full of comforters, blankets, pillows etc to our Humane Society No-Kill shelter here in Sarasota, FL - they were SO glad to get them! I have more bags I am filling now - they are taking in animals from Lousiana now from Hurricane Ida so they need all they can get!

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Thinks for writing out the list!

I was just about to list them. Thank you!

Thank you

Thank you very much!!

#4 I took exception to. On one level yes, we must liberate ourselves from these kinds of things. At the same time, we would be better served if we pushed back against this constant obsoleting of electronics.

Thanks for the summary

@@mrsaye499 Absolutely! My point exactly! If they don't work or they're cords that go to things you no longer have, that's one thing, but getting rid of old ones just because a newer one is out makes absolutely no sense.

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Thank you. I don't understand why video makers don't put their list of topics in the description box. It only takes a few seconds and makes it more convenient for viewers.

Same! The Pandemic didn't help either!

Great plan! Mine are done in two boxes that I rotate seasonally (California climate), but I think I’ll follow your suggestion for summer shoes (sandals and handbags). Thank you!

Great idea 💡 U can also buy those vacuum sealed bags saves a ton of space

I used to do that doesn’t work for me, anytime I need to pack for a trip my out of season clothes ended up in a laundry bin.

I do the same

👌🏼That way, your luggage is always ready to fly South in the winter! 😂

@rowan orre Here in northeast Ohio we have a faith-based organization called CORE Furniture Bank that has a similar mission- they take basics for setting up a home. staffed by volunteers, great charity.

Wonderful idea! 👏👏👏 ☺

Fantastic idea about the donated suitcase w/clothes in them - spread your good fortune to others who need these items more.

Great idea

PLEASE DONATE TO PLACES THAT DONT PICK UP. RED CROSS AND A BUNCH OF THOSE PLACES POCKET MOST OF THE MONEY. CALL AND DONATE TO THE SHELTERS THAT DONT PICK UP.

The free libraries are great, and some people really make some lovely hand decorated ones that look very whimsical.

Public libraries (that are usually underfunded) in my city will take books for resale to raise money. Much better than private sellers, which includes Goodwill, NOT a nonprofit. They are a commercial money making enterprise.

Donald Angotta we have several little boxes with glass doors and books inside. Free to take or add one. They are all over our town.

My town has an actual library. You can get a library card and check out books to read at no cost. It's a crazy new concept.

J K sadly, our public libraries are still closed. When open, the wife donates books she has read for their annual sale.

You have hit the nail firmly on the head with your comment about enjoying the peace. A cluttered up home is so stressful to live in. I could feel myself getting annoyed and angry because I could not find some important documents a few days ago.

Unfortunately I grew up with my mum needing 2 of everything and Im. Talking fridge, electric fire. Also keeping new stuff for a special day but that day never seemed to arrive. I do like to keep old clothes and towels for cleaning or mopping up. But I'm proud to say I handed in towels and 2 fleece throws plus cat food to our local pdsa. By nature I'm a hoarder so find it difficult to part with stuff. But making an effort after watching this advice on line.. thank you.

yes never replace the stuff and if you do have to i always try to get a dual use or at least a much smaller item

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Did the same thing here. They love towels. I washed everything too so they were fresh and clean.

Great idea on the sheets!!

I only keep 2 sets of sheets total. One for winter, one for summer. This way, I'm forced to get them washed and right back onto the bed. And, what's up with the flat sheets?! Does anyone else have family members that refuse to use those? I find myself saving those to use for covering up plants when frost hits! But I only save two of them!

@CJ DUNROVIN Are you SERIOUS?! My husband does the exact same thing! And our son, as a teen, SAME! I had just thought it was a teen thing, but now, he's 23 and still..no flat sheet. I noticed last time we were at his apartment. Hahaha

@CJ DUNROVINExactly, Me too! I would say it's a boy thing, but our daughter won't use hers either and she's 19. She says it's too much work to make her bed with one. ( when she chooses to make it, haha )

Trudy Ann good for you! I am getting psyched to do a major decluttering. As for you feeling nauseated about the money you spent on stuff.... I read the other day.... If you cringe about something you did or said in the past, it means you have matured. So if you cringe over what you have spent on stuff, it means you won't do that again. There are no mistakes if there is a lesson.

Did you give most of it away or sell most of it?

Thinking about the money wasted is the hardest part 🤦🏻‍♀️

I consider it all money well spent on a fresh start when I declutter gear I’ve spent $ on.

@@mistywindingriver9781 ty. True

I like the gratitude-uness of your speech man, rock on.

That's a good thing to do, things that evoke bad memories are best gone.

Time to evaluate yourself!

The priority is to rid reminders of negativity or past memories attached to certain objects. When I say get rid of ... it can be anything from regifting, to donating or selling online.

I was surprised how many of my “sentimental” items brought back bad memories or negative feelings. It was hard to give away this things but it was also so freeing!

Yep, they’re the one thing I’ll be sorry I’m missing if there’s a water issue.

The trick is separating them from the good towels so they’re no longer thought of as bath towels. Makes sense to keep them with the cleaning supplies...

@L. A. McDonough ...if I can bend that far....lol

Ahh. The toilet. 👍

Also good to use when you dye your hair.

Me, too! We moved our dear mother to senior housing 7 years ago. My sister and I spent a month, working from the crack of dawn until the wee hours nearly every day. She had saved EVERYTHING! I don’t want to place that burden on my loved ones. I feel very strongly about this, as I suddenly nearly lost my life in 2005.

Me too

@Amy Brown As a daughter packing to travel to my recently deceased mom’s place, I can’t applaud this enough! 👏 👏 👏 Our mom went through a couple of rounds of major purging, paring down to (mostly) only items she used regularly or items of great sentimental value. We had all expected to have her around for another 10 - 15 years, but instead she died peacefully in her sleep, quite unexpectedly. It has made an incredible difference to me and my sister that she’d done the bulk of the triage for us. There’s still plenty of work, sorting out what goes to friends/neighbors vs. Goodwill vs. the library, with some stuff just being tossed...but not much, percentage-wise. So far, I’ve found a little less than one storage bin’s worth of items I’m taking home: treasured keepsakes and some photo albums. I do plan to digitize the albums, down the road, but for now I’m avoiding the emotional quicksand. I’ve already begun purging my own things.... 😊 Your heirs will be so grateful for your hard work 💐

@@goosebump801, I’m so sorry about the loss of your mother. That must be so difficult. 🙏💕

It’s the opposite with me. The older I got the more clutter I have at home. My worst habit is paper hoarding ☹️always thinking I’ll need that receipt, invoice, medical document, etc. . . , for later on. I’m glad I found these videos 😊 to help me incorporate better habits and finally live in an organized and clutter-free home.

Good on you. I declutter some every day. I have to bcz I live in a 1 bedroom unit. I can't amass more or I won't find a spot to walk on. I've got it mostly under control. My problem are my dressers drawers, and a big chest of drawers too. It's quite big in size and crammed full.

When I was a teenager, an old woman I had worked for told me that every time you buy an item, it will stay with you for life, meaning goods keep on accumulating. Only solution is to pass unwanted and unused goods on, sell them, donate them, whatever. We have to make room for the things we NEED & not just to hang on to everything we buy, and for life. I'm quite adept at decluttering and I actually enjoy it. I do a little decluttering daily. What's usable, I donate, what isn't, I bin it for the weekly garbage collection in my wheelie bins. There are 2 w.bins. 1 for recycling - collected every fortnight and the other green w.bin for the weekly collection. If my bins look a little empty, I dig around for useless stuff to fill the bins at least half way up. It works for me.

Now that's a great idea! Thanks!

And that is perfectly fine…well done. That means you are using up stuff that might be thrown out, so no wastage. Keep it up my friend, and I have adopted your attitude.

I love that!

Yup, always put newly purchased stuff in toward the back of fridge or cabinet.

Great idea. Si simple and practical

It's going to happen. Some stuff you toss you may need to replace. But if you the attitude may need again then......clutter.

That’s terrible advice. Storing something for years “in case” you will need it someday is the exact opposite of the point of this channel. Throw it away. There’s another one sitting on a store shelf if you ever need it.

@@oldcountryman2795 , I disagree when it comes to appliances & tools !!! New appliances brake down very quickly, where as older appliances lasted 30 years or more !!! Best to repair old appliances & save tools ( if they are small ). Things that take up a lot of space, like riding lawn mowers, etc. get rid of if not using ! Keep the best of multiple / duplicate tools ! When we remodeled our bathroom, we kept our old toilet ( can't buy anymore ) & didn't replace.... I'd already had experience with new toilets that clog easily & overflow !!! Instead we don't flush when we pee, and throw the paper in trash next to toilet... which is emptied daily. No overflow problems... and conserving water ( even though our State has no shortage of water... fresh water will be more valuable than oil ( water is a necessity to life of ALL things, us, animals & our food sources !!! )... people who think more about oil are short sighted & don't realize the real necessity's of ALL LIFE & our real survival !!!

@@jeffzest8393 , declutter YES, but not of small tools... keep 1 of each favorite / may need tool... get rid of others !!!

Definitely agree here...have tools from my dad as well as my own. Can tell you now you will never get a new tool anywhere near as good as the older ones. Better made...not cheap stuff from china which is pretty much where todays tools cone from. It would be wasteful to get rid of them.

Hahaha is that why he becomes your ex. it is difficult to make them discipline. To have a neat home we need everyone to take part.

A hoarder doesn't realize how much tension they create with their obsession. I understand the mindset of hoarders: Things don't leave. Things aren't mean. Things just sit there, waiting to be needed. But it takes a special therapist to teach the hoarder that Things are just Things. I've lived (edit: LOVED) a hoarder from the moment I met him 18+ years ago. But I haven't lived with him in over 14 of those years. I learned how not to be obsessed with throwing Things away, and I refused to become legally responsible in any way for the decluttering. It works; he had (EDIT: has) a brother who will step up and take care of his Things when it's needed. Love the hoarder, fear and hate the hoarding disorder.

When my Mom passed away she had....200 pair of paints!!! We donated them...She was almost 90...What 90 year old needs 200 pair of pants? LOL

My husband is a hoarder. I moved out. Sometimes when I realize I have so much stuff, I stop collecting and want to get rid of things so I won't become a hoarder

Hoarders need to be helped

When I moved the last time, the person who was moving out of the apartment I was moving into asked me what furniture I wanted left in there - I ended up keeping only a desk, a chair, a drop leaf table, and the twin bed. When I moved this time, the owners asked me what furniture I wanted left in, and I told them; they took out some of the things I didn't want, but I wish they had more storage space available because there are a couple more large pieces of furniture I would take out if there was just somewhere that they could be stored (in particular, a massive headboard/nightstand combo thing that's designed for a smaller bed than the one that's in the space).

@L. A. McDonough I wish I had less furniture in my new place, but the owners don't have storage space for the couple things I wish weren't in it. The less there is, the less there is to clean (especially dusting), and that's something I miss from my old place.

I do the same. This is a great box,I know I’ll use it for something!

Small local libraries love to get donations too

Yep I keep my crock pots and rice cooker on shelves in the garage in their original boxes

You'll love owning less. :)

That's funny. Good point.

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Sounds like me! 🤭

I recently sold a couple of sewing machines online. (I have many) I wished I still had the original boxes and molded styrofoam for mailing. The compulsive packing I did took SO much time.

@@kthybrown007 once in awhile it's great and works out, most of the time I spend more time trying to figure out how to make it go. Sometimes it take two people to wrestle it back in. We use a lot of paper and I often double box when sending postal, UPS, or Fed ex. Used bubble wrap and Styro are your friends as well. Best of luck :)

Same. I have too much emotional attachment to my books. Have gone through 3 rounds of book decluttering but still have 25 boxes of books left. I decided that it's ok to keep them!

I LOVED all my books. But I don't have the problem of decluttering them. My husband's place caught fire and they ALL went up in smoke. I till cry for my old and lost ghost story books which are irreplaceable. My husband was safe and he managed to rescue some of my bags, but there is zero left of my much loved books, some I kept from childhood which my dad had bought for me. They burnt up some 3+ years ago. I am 60 now.

A room without books is like a body without a soul. - Cicero

Keep your books. Grid down and that's all you will have. If you have an extra older King James Bible l am looking for one for my kid

I still have a few books from highschool. And most of the books I read to my children. Now I have grandchildren to pass them down to.

WOW that's amazing! I love my neighborhood. It's rural but I've been keeping us together with baked goods and garden surplus. Maybe the book idea will work for my next, not rural neighborhood. I'm downsizing for retirement in 4 years.😊

....so true......but boxes...and/or numbering in the double digits may be a bit of a problem....

Thank You Josh those 10 things you mentioned helped alot, I tend to hold onto those very items.🤗🤗

Good call.

If they are old and "unusable" why donate them? That does not make any sense to me.

@@ef4zsv You don’t donate these for reuse..you do it in order to properly dispose of so it’s not piled up in the landfill. Might want to watch WALL-E

@@sweetpeace5 Still does not make sense, but thank you kindly.

@@ef4zsv There are components inside the devices that are vaIuabIe and wiII be recycIed, Iike goId and copper, and the person doing the recycIing makes money off your devices’ components, which is why you just seII broken devices on ebay. idk why anyone wouId just give their device to Best Buy to recycIe.

I’ve always been frugal. I don’t need THINGS to keep me happy!

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Hollah!

Got about 7/10 - getting there - at-least passed the test

Working on it.

@Stevie Woo Grow some things in pots. It can be done. Buy in bulk at Zero Waste stores. Take your own bags and containers. Good for cereals, rice, grains and..... No need to get caught out.

Not everyone has access to Zero Waste stores. And as prices for food go up, buying fresh daily isn't exactly feasible as a single parent of teenagers.

I spent 2 days total of 5 hours shredding papers, old bills, etc and filing.

@@karenlaplante2565 I have a hunch you felt great getting that work done! Some of the papers I had were related to a brother who died six years ago. It was strange shredding information about my brother but there is no longer any need for that information to be kept. It was time for the letting go.

@@andrewbrendan1579 your hunch is correct. The work I put into my home this week put me on top of the world. Great feeling to declutter.

Congratulations!!! It's hard but the rewards are amazing!!!

@Mark Prowatzke ...Thanks....I will keep an eye out for one of those! Would make an excellent present for my son in law who teaches at his father's church in Mesquite TX. You should see his office, everything else in the house has been pared down to minimilist, but the office has bookcases lining the entire room. They are all full, all biblically-themed and he donates a lot, gives some to me and others, but continues to buy, and reads voraciously. Thanks again for the suggestion!

Spurgeon is so good ! ❤️

Charles Surgeon taught a false gospel because he claimed trusting in Christ's finished work was not enough. If one is trusting in Christ plus one's good works, that is not trusting Christ. For more info, read Galatians or search Spurgeon on www.expreacherman.com.

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Excellent idea.

Good Idea Vivian! I am very disabled now, and can hardly move at all. I think it would be a good idea to go ahead and pack a suitcase with a couple outfits, ect. It's what I did a few years ago when my dad was dying. I spent several months going back and forth, so I kept a suitcase and traincase filled and ready in case I got the call.

Great advice!

Having evacuated 5 times in 3 years due to Northern California wildfires. I have a rolling medium suitcase that holds are external hard drives, cameras, labeled keys, important small electronics, extra meds, etc and stationed, ready to go. Lap tops and cases kept near. All important documents and photos have been scanned and on external drives. Home contents have been filmed and stored. We can leave with pet, meds, suitcase in 5 minutes.

@@gerirossideguevara3334 awesome thanks for sharing love the idea of the scanned and external drives

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no Goodwill...they are not synonymous w charity...they are fir profit...find a mission or womens shelter and see if they have a thrift store

@@pjj9491 I give to a church that has a thrift store. That I have donated to them for years. Very sorry, I used the wrong wording. But I do know what I am doing. Thank you

GoodwiII isn’t good.

"unwanted pulp clutter" is what is mostly in the little lending libraries where I live lol

And pan!

@@susie7336 yes indeed.. and then I realized, I have alot of pans that need to go.. like my WOK! lol

I have a very broad spatula that I need for fried eggs, pancakes, and I have a thinner one for breaking up ground beef when browning, flipping burgers, pork chops, etc. I would NEVER not have both. Both serve a different purpose. But I agree with getting rid of stuff you have no purpose of !!!

Maybe simplify your bedroom and then offer to help with another room in the house. It's good that you're learning young not to accumulate so much.

I feel your pain. I was there too, growing up, and complained to my mom about her hoarding. She grew up during the Depression, so any "thing" was valuable to her and you never know when you might need it... She told me that one day when I grew up I would have my own house and I could have it the way I wanted it. Which was true. Still...when my mom died at age 96...when we went in to start disposing of all of her collected stuff from not only her possessions, but both of my grandparentsʻ, it was clear that the last time the kitchen had been cleaned out was when I still lived there, before I went to college. She never learned; she never changed; she never tossed anything; she freaked out when anyone else tossed anything that she "might need someday," even if it was yogurt that had expired two years ago. *sigh* One day you wonʻt have to live like this, when you get your own place.

I think my grandparents went through the depression so they became kind of hoarders. I think it was a security blanket for them.

Why do you still live with your parents?

@@SirenaSpades due to the pandemic

If you love them keep them this is just a guide 💐

Keep the things you love. 🙂

If I love a book, I will keep it. They feel like treasured friends.

If anything, you can always loan them to close friends and family too.

Me, too. Ebooks are the answer.

Same here. Depression sucks the life out of you.Hope everything gets better.❤

Yes, completely agree. I would never throw away canned food. Just the other day I had clam chowder soup that had a Best Buy date of June 15, 2018, and it was delicious.

I agree, especially if you are doing any "prepping" at all. With the economy and the world is these days, I am not getting rid of non perishable foods period

This!

I started forcing myself to use old foods in my weekly cooking. Finally used 2 cans of great northern beans that expired in some chili. It was delicious

@@mandie1456 Before Covid I would always toss expired food and seasonings. Not anymore after doing some research and discovering canned goods are fine to eat indefinitely. The quality just diminishes over time, but still edible. Now just being better about using what I buy and rotating the food so I use up the older stuff first.

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@conniesoares:hi friend how are you and how is your day going todsy

.......good to hear.....but have had very creepy experiences with "Craiglist" in my area (DC, MD, VA) .....Nigerian princes, chain letters, etc......waste of time when you get in their data base!!!!

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