It's really hard to find a channel that doesn't bring their religious views , isn't it

I follow a declutterer who used to constantly drop a little religious reference in her videos. She wasn’t in your face with it, but it was definitely there. It would always elicit an eye roll from me, but her content was good, so I’d largely ignore it. She’s really toned it down recently, thankfully.

That is shuffling, organizing the clutter! Cas says It is not a kitten that we need to find a new home for! She says we waste money buying condos (storage) for our clutter

You are so welcome!

Definitely

I heard this from Clutterbug and Dana K White. They give permission to throw donatable stuff away to ger it out of the house

so true. i think i heard this at the minimal mom. have you done this yet? I thought so many times this would be so relieving as it would make things much quicker but still got hesitant

I first heard that from Dana K White and it finally got things moving for us when I first started decluttering. We live in such a small apartment, that every time there were a couple boxes of donations, I had to stop so things wouldn't start to be in the way (for a while I even started to put donations in the bathtub and then it wouldn't be usable for weeks). With small kids, I was just relying on my husband to help get the donations out and he just wouldn't do it. He kept saying that it's a waste of his time, that thrift stores don't want our trash. So I started looking into it after hearing Dana K White suggesting to throw things when first getting started and feeling overwhelmed. Turns out that he was right! Look into it, there are plenty of articles online about thrift stores not wanting to discourage donations but being exasperated with what people donate nowadays. They even call it a new generation of people who donate who don't know what is an acceptable donation. Many donation centers have the trash right next to the donation drop off. Clothes: 50% end up immediately in the trash and in the end it's 85% that ends up in landfills! The saying one person's trash is another person's treasure is nonsense, that trash doesn't even make it into the sales rooms. I read that two of their major problems are that quality has declined so much things are just not made for resale anymore and that this "new generation" of people who donate just don't know what items are simply single use items, just not intended for a second life. So their trash costs have gone up by 150% which is actually a big problem for them. What they are actually looking for are new or very gently used items - so essentially the stuff people try to sell themselves. Key for a more sustainable life is NOT donating, it's buying less stuff in the first place and actually using it. In the end, we just donate to feel better about ourselves and to tell ourselves that the stuff we built an emotional connection to, will have a second life. It's actually freeing to see things as they are and helped me far better to let things go - I'm literally holding onto trash, not stuff/clutter. Now, I just donate what I would sell myself (I don't sell stuff that brings less than $ 20 or is complicated to ship, so those things are perfect for donations). I no longer donate clothes because after the initial declutter, the things I'm not wearing are gone and instead, I buy much less and wear things until they're worn and torn. I do make an effort to bring stuff to the proper recycle places now that the waste isn't overwhelming anymore. So decluttering made it possible to live a more sustainable lifestyle but not by donating.

@@ronjab4586 Thanks for this. I live in a small condo with no real storage space. We get a dumpster delivered a few times a year that stays for a day or three. the next one should be in June and I want to have some stuff ready up to put in it by the time it comes. I just need it out.

Thank you so much 😀

I’m an old fashioned gal. I love physical copies of books and cookbooks. I know I’m not the only one since barns and noble just opened a new store in my town and you can still buy physical copies on Amazon with tens of thousands of reviews. 😅