Thank you for sharing these great tips!

New subscriber! Love your realistic tips and approach to minimalism with kids. We have three kids 12, 5, and 3. And sometimes I feel like I'm drowning everyday with clothes, toys shoes and random things all over the house haha. I've taken the minimal approach more the last year or so and I'm ready to dive more into it! Thank you for these videos ❤

Very helpful!! Thanks ❤

I would disagree on the trauma aspect: you took this as a step by step with younger children and it seemed very consensual - your daughter remembered the puzzle and hammer and you brought them back out - if it were older children or presented in a form of punishment I would say trauma is not far off of an idea. especially in the sense of loss/ trust and structure each kid is different and each parent will present things differently as well. food for thought love everything else.

so many fantastic ideas!! I love all the playfulness you incorporated. Excited to try some!

My daughter is getting great at letting go for the most part! She constantly gets stuff in the mail from a relative and at this point shes actually getting annoyed by the packages because she realizes that it more stuff that she already has and doesnt need more of- A third backpack after already recieving one from that same relative that had her name on it. Why another? More hats. So much for the yarn we picked out together, intending to knit winter hats. Repeats of the same print socks she got in the mail 2 months ago? Ahh at least my daughter instantly declares all on her own that she will "give them to the poor girl" in our operation Christmas child box.😂

This was so well done and very helpful. Thank you :)

thanks for the great idea!!!

Is someone who loves to organize items, I enjoy watching your videos. I am also in the season of life where I lean more towards the minimalistic way of life experiences over items have been my favorite switch so far.

Thank you! 💚

The cookbook was asking too much of you. 😂 Love it!

Diane in Denmark channel also has some great Christmas vlogs.

And what do you give them for birthdays, Xmas and all those gifting occasions?

Mine is 1 going on 2 and don’t seem to play with many toys 😅 even though we have a lot. So my question is at this young age she doesn’t enjoy open-ended things like blocks, lego, magnetic tiles yet. Can we still insist on those toys?

I put all my baking supplies, flour, sugar, etc in a basket so I just pull it down to bake! Super easy!

I remember when my mom would send me to go clean my room. It always turned into hours of playtime because i found a toy that was lost or I ended up running wild with my imagination and imagined I was Cinderella “cleaning” the room. Looking back it gave my mom a lot of time for herself and I was happy as well after 😂

I appreciate your work and videos SO MUCH! It's changed our family's life -- especially with toys, self play, and values-based decluttering! Thank you for this tool! I just printed it off and will do this tonight.

Advice from an ex-content creator, (not this channel I'm commenting from lol) don't be afraid to really take a break this advent season from the list of "to film" and content idea lists, people really don't understand the hours of planning, editing and everything that does into each video. I have three young kids (6,4, and 10 months) and ended up after years of creating, decluttering my channel by deleting it. It was such a sense of freedom and relief, and gave me many hours back and time back with my kids. Deleting your channel may not be the right step for you but I'm just here to say prioritizing rest is hard in this space of content creating, but I'm rooting for you! God Bless.

LOVE everything about this and cannot wait to try this!!!!! Literally been praying for an answer to my nightmare4 and this is it. About to watch the recommended video too. Will report back in a few weeks!! THANK YOU SO MUCH

❤ beautiful ❤

Thanks!

I love your systematic & detailed way of thinking! I’ve been really appreciating your videos! Thanks for all your hard work and for the free resource you provided too!

@13:20 😂😂😂 thank you for being normal.

Great video, thank you! ☺️

Great ideas, but is the background music really necessary ALL through your videos? I feel as though I'm working to concentrate on what you are saying, and I do want to know what you are saying.

"I'm an idiot with a camera". It's true for the most content creators. But. Lady you're not. I appreciate the transparency. And like how you shared your experience. I myself had like 2-3 toys in my childhood (my parents didn't have much money) and I played like hours with them and created new ones with obstacles which lay everywhere. Now I'm a father of a toddler and had the same experience. Less is more. Nature is good. Provide them a little bit and let them do the rest.

Since when are "hunter gatherer communities" the people to emulate? They are dying out because they didn't learn and adapt.

A lot of the arguments you are taking from them like "never argue", I could see go horribly wrong. For example, arguing over how to do something is how the community gets better at things. Does things more optimally. Never arguing leads to never improving. Inuit society hasn't produced geniuses, or the best people at much of anything.

So lovely to see you and hear your amazing tips. Love and prayers xxxxxxxxxxx

My dad used to just throw away all of our toys and we constantly moved so tv became my biggest source of entertainment. I’m still educated and very thoughtful if I say so myself, but on the other hand now that I have children I feel like I’ve been obsessed with collecting toys “for them” but I think really it’s for me.

Hello, just found your channel (and I'm loving this video). Tell me more about this lantern walk 🧐

Your handwriting is perfection!

The planner is amazing too - thank you!

You have very interesting images to ilustrate your points. Nice storytelling!

For some people (like me) decor that's "just" decor can serve multiple purposes! I want to get decor that is rounded or pointy on top so that 1) it makes me happy when i see it and 2) it uses horizontal space in a way that prevents future clutter. Baskets and storage are awesome, but i wonder if my "out of sight, out of mind" will hit too hard with those. I love how you to phrase things in a way that people can adapt to their own needs and wants!

🐬for me

Why did you rinse your peanut butter? Loving the video so far but I can’t get past that haha.

Hi, new here. 🙋‍♀️I think you may have just changed my life with this. 🥲

“The gesture of winter”… what a beautiful phrase to ponder and reflect on 🥰

I’ve really enjoyed your videos! I strive for a slower life and with your help I’m getting there. I took away at least 2/3s of my kids toys today and they were already happier thanking me. We are doing nature study for our homeschool curriculum and it looks like my kids are roughly the same ages as yours. Would you be willing to share homeschool video? I’m curious how I can more easily slow down and enjoy homeschool with them in this simplified shower living style. Thank you for your help!!

13:20 - As someone who vlogged off and on for a decade, this made me joyously laugh out loud 😆

If you take away a few toys at a time or like fill a small box every day and hide it, i dont think my kids would notice.

2:40 you had me at "I never sweep my porch. ❤😅

Just discovered your channel today. I love this message.

Honestly this video doesn't make any sense. I had a daughter about a year and a half ago and my friends told me that in order to create a space for the child you should only have one room dedicated to toys. I myself don't follow that because my child lives here so they should have free range to have her toys where she wants. But more so it's interesting to know that only a few years ago this was a thing. What I mean is is that I don't know any mom who's now currently doing this with any kid under two. Most every parent I know who has any kid under two only has a few boxes of toys now.

This really made me really sad, there's some comments on here about people who throw away the, junk, but it never occurred to them that they could just keep the, junk, and donate it to kids in need. Those kids that can't afford toys would be happy to take the quote" junk

I didn't realize this was a 30 minute video of watching someone clean their house. Damn. If I knew that I could get subscribers I would just have a camera of me cleaning my house

Just now getting around to watching this video and it's your best one yet I love it ❤

This is amazing, thank you ❤

Thank you so much for this thoughtful, methodical, informative and enabling video. I really appreciated it. Throughout i was thinking about needing to declutter my "stuff", so was so pleased that you linked another video to cover this. I look forward to watchiny it as soon as i can. Thanks again