BIG mistakes NOT to make when decluttering

[@erincolleen7436]

Hi Robyn! Thank you for these reminders. As a Floridian (and multiple major hurricane survivor) I am vigilant about emergency prep. One thing people may not think about for their kit is life vests for their pets. I have life vests for our pets with the handles on top along with extra leashes in the kit. That way I can tether them to me if needed. Also, the life vest will allow them to float so they do not become exhausted from paddling. I know it’s horrific to even think about that, but anyone who lives anywhere near water should consider it. Thanks again for the video 😊

[@MinimalistHome]

Wow So true Thinking of you all and hoping the hurricane troubles are done with soon. 🙏🏼

[@erincolleen7436]

@@MinimalistHome Thank you.

[@jkflorida1313]

Loving the chocolate drawer🤣 I need one

[@MinimalistHome]

You DO!

[@purpledonkeylover9988]

Totally agree!!!

[@rhondatallent2396]

Good morning, Robyn!🥰 I was thinking, maybe you should store a can opener in the emergency canned food bin.

[@MinimalistHome]

Yes I do! And thanks for mentioning it though!

[@lennyburdick3192]

I got a batch of cheap church keys (the openers that used to come with c-rations in the older days). Modern MREs don’t usually need them.

[@thatswhatisaid8908]

In Australia, most cans are opened with a ring-pull. The very occasional can needs to be opened with a can opener, and sometimes the ring pull breaks. But although I don't have or need emergency supplies, I now realise that my can-opener doesn't need to be stored in my tiny kitchen!

[@susanoline5823]

Agree with those turkeys! Ive got a few. Feathers with the things they were thankful for!!

[@ear1421]

Aeros and coffee crisps 😂 tell me you’re Canadian without telling me you’re Canadian.

[@MinimalistHome]

haha! Right??

[@Elizabeth-490]

Yes! I’m from the USA and have never heard of these!

[@Karli4Sure]

Enjoying your channel. Thanks 🎉

[@Tha_G0at]

Robyn, I have been watching you for about 6 months now. You along with Cas, Dawn and Dana have absolutely changed my life. My story is that yours. I got my nursing degree but was coming home miserable walking around all night picking up mess. It came to a point where I was utterly exhausted and miserable. Just like you always say, I thought something was just wrong with me. I thought to myself, why is everyone else appearing as if life is so manageable yet I can't even remember a doctors appointment, or a commitment I had made? When you told me that It's okay to get rid of things you don't use anymore, my mind literally exploded. I HAD NO IDEA THAT DECLUTTERING WAS A THING I WAS ALLOWED TO DO! Literally no idea! When I moved out of my moms home into mine, she had loaded up a Uhaul truck with half of her house and loaded it into my new house, and it's all been sitting down my basement, under my beds, shoved inside my closets for 6 years!!!!!!!!! I kept walking around every day feeling so heavy and stress ridden that most days I felt like I wanted to vomit from all the stress of what I needed to do. I have been shoving useless things into every crevice of my home for 6 whole years. I could not even walk into my walk in closet! When people would come over I'd have to stack everything inside the closet and pray the door would close and hope no one would try and open it, and if I forgot to grab what I needed out of it prior to the pile up, well I was screwed. I could never find anything I needed, like ever. I kept wondering why can other people put stuff nicely away so they know where stuff is at and I can't? It never occurred to me that you can't organize and have a stress free home if you have too much stuff in it. My mom and my grandmom have buried me alive inside of my home and I have been so miserable and not the mother I want to be to my kids. You have no idea what you have done for me. You have literally given me the secret key to the light at the end of the tunnel and I want to cry every single time I think about it. I am 6 months into decluttering but I had a 2 month plateu where I burnt myself out. But now I am back on the wagon. I rage cleaned yesterday and got literally 20 plus filled trash bags and 10 large bins from up out of my basement. I am still nowhere near done and I still have way more of a journey to go, but just the fact that I now know what the actual problem is so I can fix it is life changing. I get really sad when I think about my grandmom and my mom living in scarcity mindset for their entire lives and I can now see where this problem exists in my mother and it's so hard because she's just not ready to hear any of it right now. So I've just decided that I have to work on myself first and just get my life in order and then after I'm done hopefully she can see what this lifestyle has done for me and she will want to learn about it as well. You have given me hope that I can find happiness and for that I literally could never repay you. ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@MinimalistHome]

Oh I love this so much!!! What an incredible message! I am SO glad you that you are rage cleaning 🤩 and back on the wagon!! Yess and you’ll create that ripple effect!

[@moniquebutler8572]

Hello! I love your channel and content. Your ideas are helpful and your delivery is unique. Many thanks for your candor.

[@MinimalistHome]

Thank you so much!

[@jennyjenkins877]

🍫 I'm sensing a theme... I'm glad I started with The 30-Day Minimalism Game because it had me just skimming off that top layer of clutter here and there rather than focusing on a specific area at a time and trying to do a deep declutter and get it perfect the first time around.

[@TXPrincessPaula]

Having indoor space for shelves like that would be absolutely amazing!

[@Elizabeth-490]

Thank you for this important reminder

[@MinimalistHome]

🙏🏼👋🏼🧡

[@SamCurtis-yk8cv]

I’m in SC and we got rain and wind from Hurricane Helene No power but only one day. Thankfully I had snacks and had made extra coffee and put it in my yeti 🙌🏼

[@MinimalistHome]

Ooooh! I hope things are a bit better now. Thanks for sharing and we’re all thinking of you all! 🙏🏼

[@SamCurtis-yk8cv]

@@MinimalistHome yes much better. All of the trees are out of the roads and most everyone has power here. Some of our neighbors lost their homes. I feel blessed.

[@hannahsmerkonich6856]

Ive been decluttering my house hard core these past two weeks, preparing for our 7th baby to come in december... We took the month of September off school (homeschooling - we do two months of school then a month off theoughout the year) and the first half was travel to visit family... Then i had two weeks to declutter before school starts on Monday! Yesterday i took a huge bunch of donations to the thrift store, came home, washed the sheets that were supposed to go back onto the guest bed, only to find theyre the wrong size! They are our second set of sheets for my bed and i decluttered ALL the sheets for the guest room! Whoops!!! Oh well. My kids all have 1 set of sheets for their beds and i have 1 spare set for the wet or night vomits that inevitably happen... My bed has two sets, and ill just have to buy another set for the guestroom. And our linen closet is no longer scary! Plus those sheets i let go of were ten years old and didnt go with the bedspread i decided to keep... I get to choose a better color now! Not all declutter mistakes are terrible. Some just "wipe the slate cleaner than you meant to" and give a fresher place to start again. Now on to decluttering some more for me. 🎉

[@MinimalistHome]

Totally get it!

[@thatswhatisaid8908]

I love that! "Wipe the slate cleaner than you meant to". I have to watch myself though. I sometimes am tempted to declutter a rarely used item JUST SO I can buy a new version when I need it next. Silly, because my old stuff is built to last, and modern appliances are not.

[@lisacarter3952]

Very helpful info. Thanks so much 😊

[@MinimalistHome]

Glad it was helpful!

[@conniekline9881]

Thank you for addressing this issue as many minimalist do not. Yet, my family complains we have too much food and water, rather than things. I on the other had do not feel we have too much stuff and not enough food…Im outnumbered.

[@MinimalistHome]

They would be grateful in an emergency

[@MichelleJones-p4e]

Thank you for this vid - lots of very good tips. I love it that you have a chocolate drawer! Also thought it was sweet that you kept the baby clothes and shoes - one or two baby items is certainly enough for sweet memories, and I agree: you should at least have 1-2 baby items saved - they are so cute!! Last, I loved the tool list. I see value in all of them. I have some, need others, and those 10 items could all fit in one container. Love it! Thank you. ❤️

[@MinimalistHome]

Yesss! Thanks Michelle!

[@MichelleJones-p4e]

@@MinimalistHome You are very welcome!!

[@lauraj88]

Robyn, I clicked on your video and I was like, “Is that a Coffee Crisp bar?!” I had a Canadian friend that sent me one many years ago and started an addiction. But they are so hard to find in Seattle! Bartell Drugs used to carry them off and on, but it changed when they got bought out by Rite Aid. I finally found them again recently at World Market! And they’re ridiculously expensive here. 🍫

[@MinimalistHome]

Girrrllll, they are SO good AND I just tried a Pumpkin Spice Latte Coffee Crisp the other day 🤤 so good!!

[@maryschneider8154]

I file my keep papers on Fridays. Otherwise, once I have gone through the mail, it gets put in a bag to be shredded or put in the rtrash to be thrown away. Everything other than my rent are on line and the rent would Beas well if it would be possible. 😊

[@MinimalistHome]

SO smart!!

[@lauraj88]

You sound like me. I am finishing up a project to scan everything in my 2-drawer file cabinet (of which only 1 drawer actually contains papers). Only keeping hard copies of things like tax docs and home/car purchase paperwork. And planning to go all-digital with tax docs next year.

[@purpledonkeylover9988]

Awesome video, great ideas! Love the candy drawer. Hope you find the chocolate banana bread recipe. It sounds yummy! Have a great day.

[@MinimalistHome]

Thank you! You too!

[@jennesont4791]

I remember that storm! My sister was in one of zones that was 9 days without power. It looked like a giant came down the road knocking trees and power poles over all over the place. She used water from the hot tub to flush the toilet and would come to my house to shower. That had to panic buy a generator to keep the freezer running.

[@creativelycountry1617]

The channel “see mindy mom” has a few videos on emergency meal kits. If anyone is looking for some simple go to ideas. The ingredients for certain meals that can be stored in gallon bags. Can easily be rotated every year if you don’t eat. Just search her name and emergency meal kits. Your video was great Robyn! Not trying to take from you! I just thought it was a really well organized idea and didn’t take up too much space. And all in one place And no thinking of what can make in an emergency, it’s all right there

[@christiS907]

We just had the remnants of Hurricane Helena. Lol. And the worst thing ever was an ice storm like no other 3 years ago. I always keep stuff in my “store “ my kids called it - in winter ! 🥶

[@IQSim]

I‘ve been declutterring for about four years now (I thought my 2 room apartment didn’t contain that much stuff but I was wrong). The only regret I have had so far is throwing away some coffee/tea cups. I tried giving them away but no one wanted them. Now I’m thinking that I could’ve brought them to my office and they’d certainly get used here.

[@jennugent3957]

I'm not so sure about paper piles. I've done that, then someone comes to visit, the piles go on top of each other as visitor is staying in office.... suddenly I'm back to starting again. Ive done this more than once. This is one i need to follow dana k whites method of just dealing with what i can and dealing with it fully, including shredding.

[@MinimalistHome]

Oh, the point is to finish the job and put them away quickly

[@thecamilleshow5415]

Great video. I would enjoy a video about what's in your four emergency totes because I really don't have anything. I live in New England where we could get a hurricane but I live in the city of Providence so I have never lost power in 30 years because I think there's a lot of backup generators for the hospitals but I could lose power and I have no emergency provisions. I would love to know what you have for emergency provisions

[@MinimalistHome]

I have enough food for the whole family for a month in the totes, so we could take them with us if we needed to leave. Plus all the canned food if we stay!

[@deniseharrison1410]

I have hoarder tendencies and I’m decluttering and I must say I’m really pleased with how well I’m getting rid of things. But I struggle with keeping things ‘Just in case or having Time will tell bins’ To me it’s hoarding but what if I do need it, I don’t want to re- buy again but I hate feeling like it’s hoarding. How will I get past the hoarding feelings and know it’s ok to hold on to some things.

[@MinimalistHome]

It's hard, sometimes chatting with a therapist can be really beneficial to get past what's keeping you stuck

[@creativelycountry1617]

Also may I suggest Dana k white (KZbin channel) her book titled “decluttering at the speed of life” is a great place to start. It’s a beyond personal and yet funny step by step. If therapy helps you work through thoughts and feelings. Dana can help work the the details. In a very gentle way

[@deniseharrison1410]

@@MinimalistHome thank you, I think I’ll have to look into that because I definitely don’t want to go back to becoming a hoarder. I’m 61 and I’m learning to declutter and letting go.

[@deniseharrison1410]

@@creativelycountry1617 thank you

[@katie7748]

​@@creativelycountry1617 I wholeheartedly second this!!!! Absolutely love Dana!

[@laurawade4115]

I am watching this on my phone as we are currently without power due to Hurricane Helene 😉

[@LorettaCarlton-z8w]

Same here. 😊

[@MinimalistHome]

Oh no! Stay safe!

[@MinimalistHome]

Stay safe!

[@GrammyAmanda]

Now I need chocolate 🍫 lol😅

[@MinimalistHome]

Sorry! LOL 😜

[@lauraj88]

My revelation with emergency supplies came when I was rotating expired stuff out. There was too much new stuff to fit in the backpack it came in. 💡 I had an empty roller suitcase in my closet - voila! Stored and reduced the room it took up. 👍

[@jocooper3782]

Do you like in Montana?

[@MinimalistHome]

Vancouver Island

[@Shiryone]

We have learned to only keep emergency food that we will actually eat and rotate the inventory. Canned soup is an emergency staple item, but we don't like it and I've thrown away too much expired food.

[@bethheerten1132]

I go through our "emergency ration bin" a couple times year and rotate anything that is nearing the expiration date and replace. I either use it or donate to our local mission.

[@MinimalistHome]

Wonderful!

[@RiaOpperman]

I also made mistakes. Declutterd a top that I wish I did'nt. 😢

[@RiaOpperman]

A SILK blouse 😢

[@MinimalistHome]

Awww, that's a shame

[@naomih7954]

Noticing what we’re missing in the wake of Helene.

[@MinimalistHome]

Stay safe!

[@petrabornman7326]

That is too funny.😂

[@MinimalistHome]

Tahnks!

[@petrabornman7326]

NOOOO! Who eats a Kit Kat like that? 😛🤣

[@MinimalistHome]

haha, my kids were like "you're a monster!!"

[@barbolson8768]

I thought the same thing. It looked like a big hand with fingers.

[@terriej2246]

“ All of your sentimental items should fit in your kitchen table. “. I wonder if there’s a height limit on that pile? 😜

[@MinimalistHome]

I'm thinking a single layer, haha

[@lorig.7127]

Fyi at the end, when you point to where we can click on another video, nothing is there.ooops!

[@MinimalistHome]

Oops! Thanks for letting me know. 🙏🏼

[@lorig.7127]

Unfortunately, it happens often. And you're not the only vlogger that occurs with. It must be a KZbin glitch!

[@melissataylor8910]

Paper work ugh!!!!

[@MinimalistHome]

It’s a hard one for so many people! Keep at it! 🙏🏼

[@krisnyhan2212]

Werewolves! 😂

[@SarahCbyneedleandthread]

Werewolves 😂😂