Packing for a Move Using the No Mess Decluttering Method

[@MV-tw9ku]

I feel you, Dana. I'm not going to read old prayer journals, or redo completed Bible study workbooks. Just keep learning and studying what I'm doing now.

[@wyoag12]

Yes! This is something that is hard for me, too.

[@tanyahanson-meier8571]

Hearing you say this is helping me to let go of those same kinds of books.

[@juliatepe5760]

Totally agree, passed on or put in trash old Bible and Sunday School materials. I do need to deal with my prayer journals.

[@lindaharris1941]

I'm just realizing that too! I've got a whole shelf of binders full of notes that I most likely will never reference again.

[@catholicaffirmations9964]

@@juliatepe5760 pls dont put holy stuff in trash, donate to some family member or younger relative. Word of God is not for trash, humble request. There might be people who would benefit a lot from your notes during their difficult times. My grandpas traditional hymn books are a treasure to me now

[@pvg1236]

Oh, I packed SOOOO much stuff for "future me" when I moved into my condo 3 years ago! The future is finally here and I am ADDRESSING the excess that "past me" schlepped here. Slower than I would like, but there is a feeling of accomplishment with each and every box, or bag, or container that LEAVES! Thank you, Dana, for your inspiration - and your wonderful sense of humor.

[@joannewainwright9910]

My sister got me your current book. I love that it is an easy read and the pictures are so helpful. You are a great motivater. Thx so much!

[@eileenlehonnyberg1576]

You go! Slower is good. Better than not at all. Little bits at a time and you may enjoy re-visiting (and releasing) the past or future you.

[@Maloma12]

Pvg123, I've been in the same place but didn't know what to call it: saving for "future self"--so many call it "fantasy self" but that's not who I mean. It's not some unrealistic fantasy of myself but the future I have planned for myself, and am not yet there yet...and, realistically, may never be in that place (actual, physical place). Thank-you for giving me a phrase to google now! lol! And thank-you, Dana, for continuing to not not disappoint just by continuing to be fully you! M

[@ElliephantMommy]

Happy there was one more video you forgot. Likely moving this summer after 13 years. Maybe an "after" video where you talk about what you learned from moving?

[@fleabitz1474]

I think the sass level was higher than 7 in this one. 😉

[@kristigeiger3680]

Haha my thoughts exactly!

[@debizahn5248]

That's pretty normal lol

[@christinec8818]

Lol

[@susanjohnson5824]

Great Video - Many times I pretend I'm moving when I declutter so it gives me incentive to get rid of stuff.

[@glendaholcombe4336]

Thank you for addressing keeping old Bible studies. I have struggled with this and my container keeps. Getting bigger because I keep adding more. It’s good to know it’s ok to get rid of them. You have helped me so much.

[@sandywilliams848]

Same problem here, too. I organized one of our daughters, now I am going to throw my out (recycle).

[@eileenlehonnyberg1576]

Yes, I can get rid of bible study notes. I’ll make more. I can get rid of toastmaster notes too. There will be new material if I ever return. It is harder for me to part with college notes. Not sure I will return to that time of life. Maybe next decluttering (or moving) pass thru.

[@beccismith4454]

Same goes for other workshops and course paperwork. Mari Kondo talked about that, as well, as I recall. And how we are actually more apt to do something with the contact if the stuff isn’t sitting around somewhere nagging at us to pay attention to it!

[@creativelycountry3343]

Just found old Human Resources, insurance info, etc from a job I quit 9 years ago in the back of the filing cabinet!!! Don’t think I need those either 😂

[@shadegarden7375]

I just shredded and recycled 7 tall kitchen trash bags of old work documents from 20 years ago!!😖🤦🏻‍♀️🤣🤣

[@Candiegirl13]

I kept all my paper, work docs thinking they had some value. I kept thinking what if. So I scanned most of the info onto a flash drive and shredded the paper copies.

[@beccismith4454]

😂

[@stepht5]

Yikes! I felt that Bible Study stuff! Why do we think we’re going to go backwards, when we are constantly going forward? 🤪

[@jennymurrell1688]

Thank you Dana, I am preparing for a move and this was really helpful. I had about 20 Bible Study binders from past Bible studies and I realized that what the Lord was doing at that time in my life was different from what He is doing in my life today. I was able to get rid of them all today, thank you!!

[@lindamusser7370]

"Momentum will happen but only after you get started." Thank you! Someone will LOVE getting that leather bag! It looks like my "Bible Bag" that I was absolutely delighted to find at Ross. It fits all my study stuff, Bibles, journals, etc. that I use every day.

[@connied8507]

Thanks for doing repeats on the process. When I'm having a "smee" moment with my "precious" I will turn on your video to get me over the rough patches. I've donated lots of things I never thought I could part with. 👋

[@lateonaname]

Lol

[@10acrefarm5]

The way you talk thru the items and your thought process makes it so easy to do myself when those same thoughts cross my mind. Thank you!!

[@Mushkiepotamus]

I LOVE YOU DANA and your decluttering method!!! Changed my life and home!!

[@ninak8506]

Mine too!

[@meridelmoss1802]

8:03 The "random stuff" is not an aside. It's where most of us live, and the walls we come up against--even in our best moments of decluttering. I love the way your mind works.

[@linadamsryt2002]

Oh wow…best part of this was at the end when you talk about “future me”. I am setting a clear intention about my new home and I need to consult with future me regularly to ensure my decisions align with that intention!

[@findingaway5512]

Your eyes are just stunning Dana. Love those blues.

[@estherthebeautiful1946]

You remind me so much of my daughter. I declutter when she is in town. I never regret or even think about what we discard . He judgement is on point. That is a beautiful gift that you have. Sound judgment. 😊

[@wandadavis2468]

I’m moving too and just went through a ton of my first marriage items and my son’s memories. I had him come over and go through the piles of items I had saved. He was like I don’t want it but you can keep it if you want it😳 I kept a few items but he only took like 4 items!!! I could not believe it because he is sentimental! I even had the disposal gown his father wore when my son was born. I let go of over 6 boxes of items. It was a hard declutter but also felt good. Thanks for your inspiration ❤

[@ednarose86]

I love the fact that you are an expert in this area, you've got your home under control, yet when you dig deeper, there's STILL more to go through. You're still finding post partum care instructions 15yrs later. It's a reminder that you're not going to snap your fingers and have your house be perfect and never have to deal with decluttering ever again. And that there's probably ALWAYS going to be something to get rid of. "Future Me, isn't going to appreciate Past Me, dumping all this stuff to make decisions on." There's much to be said about the Letterman jacket!!!! I never even had one. I had patches from my activities, but never got a jacket, or a class ring. Now that I've lost my mother and having to go through her things, I "dibbed" very little. I have her ashes, her bible, a framed picture when she was about 2yrs old, the necklace my husband and I bought her when we got married, and her photo/geneology albums. I don't care about having her clothes or her shoes or her handbags or her nicnacks. I don't even have her wedding ring, and if I never got it, I wouldn't be heartbroken over it.

[@beachprints]

I recently got rid of some of my 30+ Journals I found in different places. A lot of my motivation for getting rid of things is so that my adult son, his wife, and my grandson will not have as much to deal with when I am gone. I finally got rid of old bible study, retreat and conference notes too. It go easier the more of them I got ride of. I do have the container of one end table that has a small cabinet to fit them all in that I am keeping. I have still got some to go through and maybe reread before I part with them.

[@vernaruthcornejo4889]

I just want you to know that the container concept has been the most important, useful, how-why-when to/for decluttering helping aid ever ever ever thank you with all my heart! Love Ruthie

[@katsspace4688]

Same here

[@colemine7008]

This video was great. There were all kinds of concepts in this video. The "I am not going to ever use it". The just keep the part you like(cutting the feet off). My kids will never use it. I have never gone back to this. I have something much better that I do use. This thing is gross. These concepts went beyond the container concept.

[@michaelfay9051]

Dana you are such a genius - so funny & so helpful! Your saying that "future me" does not appreciate all the stuff left floating around (or hidden away) feels like a revelation. I can do my(future)self a huge favor by "taking care" of the situation now - which often as not means I should stop "taking care" of STUFF & just get rid of it. Thank you so much!

[@jennalacaria3924]

I know right? Thinking about it in "future me" terms is genius and really helps put things into perspective. I want future me to live in a peaceful and clutter free home. I want her to be doing amazing things and enjoying life... NOT still dealing with clutter and cursing past me for not being courageous in making hard decisions.

[@larissavorhies6765]

I just used your phrase "Future me won't appreciate it." I was doing stuff in the kitchen and was going to put a butter knife in the sink I had just emptied into the dishwasher. Then I stopped and looked at the knife and said your phrase to myself, so I put it in the dishwasher. Right now. I don't know why this can be so hard sometimes. Thank you so much for sharing your journey and insight with us. Love the credits on your videos. :)

[@bethc7243]

OMG! I had all my postpartum care instructions from my seven year old. I only got to it eight years faster than you because I watched the videos. 😂

[@angietrammell1317]

I had mine from my daughter that turns 40 today!! Oh my!! I put it in her baby book. I'm in the midst of making a small keepsake bin for each of my 3 children. They can throw it away if they want, I just can't do it!!! Crying as I go thru memories and decluttering, tossing and keeping is sooooo emotional!! Ugh!!

[@somerset2597]

I actually enjoy decluttering (I know I know, lol) but I find myself always learning from Dana. It’s just so relatable and she’s hilarious. Even us organizing junkies have stuff we keep for no good reason. C’est la vie! Thanks for making the journey all the more enjoyable Dana + Reid! I always watch til the very end haha.

[@moniquefuselier7711]

"Future me doesn't appreciate it!" LOVE

[@LaBambasgirl]

I love how down your earth Dana is! It’s not made into a perfect little video with the perfect smile and perfect space… it’s real.

[@claireburk3801]

This is such a great video. We moved two years ago. As I unpacked, I kept asking myself why I put energy & money into moving so many different items. The move would have been so different if I gave myself a container limit!

[@vazlet]

😂😂😂😂. at none of your kids want to wear your 87 jacket 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Great video! Love your Sass! Lety from Chicago 💞

[@mlauren564]

Love that you addressed Current Me and Future Me! I've been caught by that soooo many times. Glad I'm not the only one. I will also be moving in the next year and love your approach.

[@Maloma12]

Thank-you, Dana K, for these 2 "moving" videos. When you said in the first video that you had gone out and bought the moving kit to give yourselves "containers" in which to limit items, it struck a chord. I knew that there was something in that that would help me... Last weekend's emptying the storage unit (I stopped calling it "my storage unit"), just to stop paying for it (!?!?!), and filling up the garage with SO MANY BOXES!!! was the second note (it was SO exhausting). And the above-video put the third note to the down-sizing chord that I have been listening for for YEARS! I now have the time, the method, AND the motivation (I will NEVER move 34 boxes of BOOKS + everything else AGAIN)! I googled how many and what sized boxes I'd need to move a 2-bdrm apt and got: for a "jammed packed" apt = 40 in 3 sizes (I had 34 JUST FOR BOOKS!!); a "moderate" = 33; "sparse"= 22-27. I'm heading for "sparse" but will be happy to at least land at "moderate". By Spring (hopefully sooner), I will have those storage-unit boxes down to just what I love and need AND it'll be between 22-33 boxes!! (the number of boxes needed for a 2-bedroom apartment). THEN (or at the same time), I plan to go through the 2 rooms I am currently trying to live in at Mum's ('cause they are jam-packed as well--I moved from a fully-furnished 4-bedroom house), and make them into the 2 bedrooms of my "apartment" Thank-you seems such an inadequate word, but THANK-YOU, Dana K, for your help (and that of Clutterbug, Cas and TheMinimalMom, Dawn) in getting me this far! Blessings, M

[@suestone5076]

Dana, I just revisited this video, as I had lost momentum. Working half-heartedly with ADHD and “Mañana Syndrome” has left a mess. I will take it there now before I tackle another box. Thank you, also, for giving me permission to ditch my 13 year old BSF lessons I have never reviewed!

[@MishaMaze]

Love the donatable bag idea! I have so many bags I do not need! Thanks! I am moving and do not want to take much. My problem is holding on to stuff for monetary value.

[@Samus419]

I, also, had to learn the lesson of "I'm never going to actually go through this information again; I haven't yet and there's less reason to now."

[@bethheerten1132]

With me it is notes taken at gardening seminars. I am just SURE I will go back to look up something later. Instead they just pile up on a shelf until Future Me gets around to it. Meanwhile current me just Google's whatever I need to know. Think I will put them in recycling today. Thanks! I also have numerous tote bags that someone could use. I mean, we all have our favorite few and certainly don't need the extra dozen (or 2). Turning them into donatable donate boxes is brilliant.

[@sandywilliams848]

I donated 3 cutting boards this week! The bad news is that when I returned home, I counted 8 more!!! Immediately told our adult children that we need no more wooden, plastic, or glass cutting boards!

[@Samus419]

This is something I worry about sometimes. Once I tell people about the things I collect, will I suddenly have 30 million of them because I'm hard to shop for and "hey, Samus likes those, right?"

[@beccismith4454]

@@Samus419 😁😄 “Samus likes the ones they already have…!!”

[@Samus419]

@@beccismith4454 Exactly! 😁

[@suzy1676]

I too will be facing a closet with dance outfits & letter jacket from latter 80's ( & NO I'm NOT the same size either 🤪) plus maternity clothes! Yes, my Kids are over 18! In my garage I have journals from church camp too. I can't express how much this video helps me before I Even get there!

[@serenitysummers8514]

I am LOVING this video!!!! Last week I FINALLY decluttered my sentimental items and threw away my wedding dress!!! We took wedding pictures at Garden of the Gods in Colorado Spings and it wrecked my dress. But I still kept it for 24 years 🤦🏼‍♀️.

[@eileenlehonnyberg1576]

I started wearing my letter jacket (same decade as yours) for my morning and evening walks around the neighborhood. Has a great hood, just don’t wear in rain.

[@angelamarden9684]

I just ❤ you. Dana. You make me laugh without trying. Love your methods.

[@charlottesshoeboxes3230]

I do the same with donate boxes. I'd emptied some plastic storage boxes that I no longer needed because of decluttering. The charity shop really appreciated receiving them.

[@RaeInTime]

Thank you!! This is SO helpful! Having a specific number of boxes is an amazing idea! I'm totally going to do that!! 👍❤😊

[@creativegirlhomestead]

Thank you for sharing the real life struggles of decluttering while moving! Definitely following you and your methods! ❤️😊🌱

[@alisonsmith7162]

Love the Bible Study resources example!! Yes, because present me is still doing them, and WHO WE ARE NOW is the result of all those previous studies, we don't need the papers, coz WE'RE still here.

[@creceyvarney6767]

OH MY!!! Last night, I just decluttered post partum care from 13 years ago!! 😂❤ Kindred spirits. Thank you for being you and being real with all of us!

[@4tinytina]

Wonderful and always interesting with good points on how to organize everything

[@Pamela.B]

2 years later... I love you, sister! I need to hear this. I’ve got boxes to go through & this is SO encouraging. So, thank you! ❤️ God bless you :)

[@lindaburnside3832]

So timely ... i'm getting ready to move, and i'm overwhelmed. Love your videos.

[@kallypaschall1178]

I ADORE you Dana! Your method makes SO much sense and has helped me tremendously! PS. Your "Valley Girl" voice is the BEST! 😂

[@shadegarden7375]

LOL!! Your rolling disclaimers at the end are so funny!! Thanks for the real life talks,

[@rachelresets]

Yeah, I hold onto stuff that I'm never going to look at. It helped me when someone suggested to take pictures of documents and things because it freed me to get rid of them then. I can always look back if I suddenly need it, but a picture is sufficient, I don't need the physical copy cluttering up my space. 🥰

[@robyn-mareepenny2926]

Prayer journals! I too have kept mine. They come in a book and I have been saying for years I will go back and answer those questions I missed. Well you reminded me. That they're sitting on a shelf and I know I won't go back to them. There us too much new study to do. So recycling! Doing it now 😌. Thank you lovely lady 🥰

[@lindaharris1941]

During the last few moves, I had limited time and energy before moving day. I put a lot on my future self because I thought she'd have more time to deal with it without a deadline of a moving date. But I still have limited energy due to the same health issues. I like what you said about how the motivation comes after you get started. So I just need to make up my mind to start working on those DOOM boxes that have been sitting around for a year and a half. When we were packing, I used a lot of freebie reusable bags to put donations in. We only kept a few that we knew we could use.

[@jodi9295]

Hey I enjoy your packing videos! don't stop! I love the container concept and I now like the new thought, "is this something that really needs to go to a new place if I do move". My mother in law had to move into an independent living home and she didn't want to get rid of anything. Her daughter had to be the bad guy and wittle down to the important stuff so her mom could live in a spacious room instead of a crowded living space. Her daughter did a fantastic job but her mother doesn't really appreciate what she did because she didn't pick all the things correctly which means everything did not get to come. I don't want to do that to my kids.

[@lynnettelg]

This is so helpful to hear you talking through reality-based considerations! I’m still pretty rebellious on my containers though - I’ll get there. My letter jacket was in the back of a closet years ago and the sleeves had turned to oily yet sticky. Yes, I can relate to how gross that was! It went in the trash, sad it wasn’t even donatable because it was warm. I did take time to cut off the big letter itself for my memory and you did the same thing with the footprints instead. To each her own, right?! ❤️

[@forloveofcedarhill4957]

This episode is hilarious. Just so real!

[@heatherframpton9693]

Talk about the force to declutter items, especially clothing, etc. My husband & I are Midwestern born, raised & residents our whole lives...until we move to the Southwest this year. Goodbye to most of our cold weather items (Yeah, I have A LOT!!). 😊❤ So surreal to pack those items up to give away...

[@WalkingOneLegAtATime]

😂😂😂Dana, you are my kindred spirit…I have so many of the exact same things I need to go through: letter jacket, house papers from every move🤪

[@moonseesme]

Great video! We're contemplating a move and trying to declutter in advance thanks for the encouragement. Current me is drowning in what past me thought I'd be like. Love love the credits at the end 💖

[@belindamcintosh1671]

Books are a sticking point for me. I have been saving some for my future me to have to do when I am past working age if that is ever possible. I can see that it is probably not likely that I will actually read a lot of them but it is hard to let go of them. I go through them a little at a time and put in donatable donate box.I have a letter jacket that didn’t get everything put on it either. I haven’t worn it since the late 80’s.

[@u2abulous]

I’m gonna need one of those shirts. Just saw that you sell them! ❤️ Thanks for another great video!

[@karlaoneill8576]

Your systems really help me. Thank you!

[@deborahp7164]

"Future me" is going to know what to do, LOL I love it!!!!! And..... "future me" is not going to appreciate it! Such great advice, thank you!

[@Sweetest_of_Seven]

Great video, Dana! I adore how real you are… like we’re just having a conversation ☺️ ALSO, I look forward to Reid’s remarks at the end of each video 🤪

[@tonyawagoner7881]

I love watching you sort through stuff and make decisions because it helps me see things in a different way when decluttering my own. Thank you so much!!

[@adrienne5836]

Thank you! Getting ready to move!

[@lighteninggazelle816]

DANAAAAAA your hangers are KILLING MEEEEEE. 🤣☺️ ps I love you and you and you have Changed my life

[@azlizzie]

What’s wrong with them?

[@awildasade3539]

Lol now I can’t unsee the hangers!

[@GoingGreenMom]

Lol, I just got rid of my post partum instructions and stuff last month.... I've got an almost 16 year old, but I had 2 sets, so some was from my 18 year old. You are not alone. ;)

[@bonniewoodard2771]

So, So, Great!!! containers ... we just enjoy your videos So much ... you've helped us So much! ... things are looking better and even my mind is being uncluttered in the process!!! Thank yoU !!!

[@Cecily-Pimprenelle]

Ooooh! A Surprise Moving Video! So happy that you made this one too. On to Listen Attentively. Thank you!

[@ninak8506]

Thank you Dana! Your thought process is so helpful. I find I have boxes & boxes of many of the same things you're dealing with. And.... Guess what, just found out I've gotta move again 😭

[@Blankenshipable]

Your cleaning videos are entertaining, the finds are hilarious. Postpartum instructions, Hello Kitty watch. 😂🤣

[@Coffeecup.0110]

I adore watching your videos!!! Thank you!!!

[@kayelle8005]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 SASS level 7/10. No way! You’re sass level must be 10/10 ⭐️

[@lhumpy190]

Very happy you found another packing video. Thanks for sharing. Your thinking and talking out your thoughts really resonates with me.

[@kayelle8005]

Wish this video had been available early October 2021 when I was packing for my interstate move. Great tips.

[@helenebedar7636]

I am impressed, Ms Dana, how honest and transparent you are about yourself (concerning all your belongings) and to us; revealing what you are going through and what you decide to do with it is such an enormous help to all of us who ...hold on to ¨ stuff, material, things ¨ that bring no joy, no utility at this moment of our life. Thank you for being who you are and for helping us by ¨ talking ¨ with us in this video! :)) helene

[@fatemakw9990]

Thank you! Moving and loved this!

[@Elspm]

Past me has done me dirty a lot of times. I live for your outro cards, also!

[@alibee102]

You’re so funny Dana.. I love listening to you. Future me, past me, now me. 🤪

[@bethprather9241]

I ❤ your books. Decluttering at the speed of Light was the Best and I first declutered as I listened. I have more and had a somewhat plan .. Trash ... you reminded me.. Trash Trash Trash. ### Because I'm adhd and I'm medicated I can't do the ," IF YOU KNOW where it goes, take it there now." Great exercise and normal none wondering brains it works I'm sure. BUT 😂😂😂 I'm moving and so loved your videos and books again. I'm exhausted and so spacy.. PLUS ADHD. I wonder around the house too much and have no idea what I was suppose to do. SO IF I take it back where it belongs , right then and it us downstairs... I won't make it back to my work place.. for awhile . My husband will need something g, my phone may ring and I will start on the laundry... So I adjusted that step.. Love your books and steps!!

[@thisisme_iamsam]

I’ve always wondered what to do with my letter jacket! Thanks!!!

[@paulacostello6912]

It looks like this was a tough one for you, even as experienced as you are. You did a great job.

[@erinjames4024]

Hands down best Professional Organizer Ever! Has helped my hoarding partner. Trash, take it where it belongs - its slow but its getting done! I helped someone declutter we took out the trash & recyclables and they were already impressed how much we accomplished

[@sheiladiaz9530]

This was full of goodness. Thanks for sharing.

[@kristigeiger3680]

Coming back to this video because we are about to move. Don't know where... probably next month....so...I think I'll be doing a lot of this in the next couple of weeks

[@samantha.phalanges]

I really liked the idea of buying a specific set of boxes but there's no way I could get my husband on board. So I went to the U-Haul website and just wrote down what the package includes. I'll sort the boxes we have and then supplement the rest from Home Depot. I'm decluttering stuff now that I'm so mad that I brought on a cross country move last year so I definitely want to bring less stuff this time!!!

[@thelmakatherine5396]

Many times I use large gift bags for my "donation box." Sometime I will receive one but never reuse it for gift giving as I would a smaller one. I keep them behind a wardrobe where they take up hardly any space and can't be seen. I also keep flattened larger boxes back there for the same reason.

[@bethannawhite2275]

I love you , a new follower, I’m a little confused though. About the hangers, I’m so ocd my hangers have to match and be the same distance apart and colors together. I enjoy the beauty of the finished project. As long as your container has what you want in it does it not matter as much about the rest of it, matching hangers etc? Maybe this is your organizing style? My daughter needs your shirt😂‼️

[@stepht5]

This isn’t an organization channel, so the hangers and the order her clothes are in, is irrelevant 😂😂 Personally I don’t know how people don’t have their clothes grouped in colors 😜

[@bethannawhite2275]

And all the different kinds of hangers😂I’m new here but almost looks like she is in someone else’s home as she wouldn’t have hers like that. It’s not criticizing just an observation. I haven’t explored the different styles, ladybug etc. I’m not sure what I would be. I like pleasing to the eyes plus the container concept combined

[@Candiegirl13]

@@bethannawhite2275 She would have hers like that she is a decluttering channel not a organizing/fabulous closets channel.

[@beccismith4454]

There are legitimately different styles and preferences of how we prefer our surroundings etc. to be. For some people the visual structure in order is extremely important, for others the ease of getting things in and out is more important or finding things, or they have different categories for grouping… :-) Great that you know what feels best to you! :-)

[@lyn136le]

Yippee! Another video…..you are just so entertaining and helpful. Love the cute Xmas shirt in the background… I need one of those… 1 in 1 out I promise!🤣

[@lifeoutnumbered]

I saw somewhere that said the question to ask yourself is “Do I want to take this with me into my future?” And that really stuck with me. Because it’s like am I attached to this item because of memories I plan to make with this item because I’m actively using or is it something I don’t use or want anymore but I can’t let go because it’s sentimental and I have fond memories of it.

[@terryruiz7417]

I saved old Bible studies for the commentaries that came with them, being told I would refer to them. For some years I did. But after leading studies for years away from that particular group...after all, that's the purpose of it all...the old papers began to collect dust. I had, over the years collected a variety of commentaries, plus know internet access. It was time to let go. And, it was easy. Great video, Dana!

[@erinjames4024]

Genius tips!

[@craftyx2diy]

I did BSF for years also I love your channel

[@jennyjenkins877]

You may be a sassy lassie but you're also helpful as heck! 10/10

[@AnnaBanana-cv6hj]

Love your personality! Thanks for the think thru! :)

[@lateonaname]

Happy for you! I’ve been looking for a home for 5 yrs 😣 and am still looking but the market is sooo hard… partly because I live in Illinois where property taxes are atrocious ☹️ I love your tips! Will definitely be doing your garbage bag/go box/keep container method if the good lord decides I can finally relocate 🙏🏽☺️ 🤍 i cut the feet off my husbands scrubs for our babies too . When all is together in your space I’m sure it’ll feel so good to have breathing room! Good job ✊

[@bethdawson889]

I needed this assurance that it is okay that I let my letter jacket from 1993 go! Mine was wool with a crazy sailor collar, but perhaps it will warm someone or get made into felt crafts! 🤷🏻‍♀️ I kept the container concept for my memories, and decided to download by one bin to store something else, so it had to go. ♥️

[@j.chayo45]

I moved our entire house on free boxes from my local grocery store.

[@bri-crossing]

The ending scroll made me laugh. 🤣 Thank you for the tips. I'm tired of lugging around my graduation gown I'm never going to wear again.