Bless you and be safe❤

@@kimkoon4690 Thank you ❤️

Slava Ukraine! I watch Ukraine Matters, Anna from Ukraine, Officer Starsky, Artur Ruhi, Jake Broe, Ryan McBeth, TVP World, daily (but not every one daily). I also donate to United 24, a Ukraine animal rescue (monthly), and war causes. My grandparents were Czeck and Slovak, relatives grew up behind the Iron Curtain, you don’t have to tell me to never trust ruskies. Thank you for defending liberty. So many in the US are uninformed. They don’t get that you are the first line of defense, and that the weapons that we are sending are due to become decommissioned soon anyway at great expense. And that you are using them wisely and proactively to defend your sovereign country. In a way, we are decluttering the arsenal built in the 80s to defend against ruZZ.

​@@SoundofSilence492 you didn't have to go all nationalist in your "support" comment, plus, finding such a "silver lining" and reframing war as decluttering of weapons is awful too.

@@aleksandra... Well I was not speaking to you. Too many ruskie supporters in the US, need to counteract their traitorous representatives and supporters. Slava Ukraine!

I don't know why I laughed so hard at that😂

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Haha😂

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I resemble that remark!

If cooking is your passion and you actually do it - and in your case you feed others too - why not keep your kitchen stuff!

@@LoveMusic-pd5iz I don’t think she’s asking for advice lol

I use my rice cooker but we know she's not talking to us.

That's great! It's only clutter for those of us who don't use them 😅 We all have different priorities, for me it's office and craft supplies, but I use them so I keep them.

You’re the type of cook I want to be; the reason I need those tools. If your kitchen is the only place you’re cluttered, you’re lucky! I’ve gotten rid of a lot of appliances and set a time limit of use for the ones I kept. If they don’t get used, they get tossed in a few months

100%

Absolutely! I’ve emptied out furniture recently and changing the rooms up and the first thing I do is dance and do Wonder Woman twirls in the centre of each room.

Agree 100%

THIS 💯💯💯💯

My problem is I don’t have the energy or stamina. I know I can do it a little at time and I have. I need to do more. I have Rheumatoid Disease and the weather is changing. The cold drains me. I will get use to the weather soon.

@linaballestas6670 Thank you 😊

Has anybody ever r.e.a.l.l.y fondue'd more than once, or maybe twice?!?!? I witnessed my Mom de-dust her avocado green fondue set from the early 1970's for decades. It was in the Sears Christmas Wish Book catalog. It was a Christmas gift. It was avocado green. It was bugly. (but_ + ugly = bugly) I know we had fondue once, in 1972 I think. Nobody liked it. 😂 I will NEVER allow a fondue set to cross the threshold of our home, period!!!!!

Thank you for this. I always want a list of the stuff mentioned in videos like this, otherwise I forget.

Thank you❤❤❤❤

You just saved me 54:00😊😊

And yes, Cas, you will need 47 pairs of reading glasses. Go to the dollar tree and stock up. Purse, car, bedside, kitchen, office, reading chair, etc. I really do have 10-15 pairs and I’m still always looking for one because I wander off with them and then my reading chair glasses are sitting on my night stand next to my kitchen glasses and my bedside glasses, and chaos ensues. 😂😂😂🤓🥸🧐

That's very similar to the 1-touch rule! I'm trying to instill this in my children

OHIO-only hold it once

Also if you'd ever like to do a family history.

Also, handy and useful if you needed to go to court.

It’s historical information

I loosely use planners as a diary

Yeah, the planner diary thing is not agreeable agreeable to a lot of us.However we could go through and rip out pages that are just like lists of stuff to do or grocery lists or stuff like that and then them out but that would take a lot of time

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We recently sold our house and shredded tax returns from 2007🤦‍♀️

Great idea!!

Love this idea. It's a win-win!

Love it ❗

Mother cluckers mug could be a cute pen/paperclip cup on the shelf behind you. 🤔

I also believe most recent event of Covid and shortages have created a continuation of the just in case, or stock up thinking my grandparents had

Everything I get rid of something, I find that I need it for my differing circumstances. I repent of wasting money.

Too true, or we're the product of those raised by those Grandparents. Anyone feel like times are starting to become echoes of those earlier ones, & we may need that Frugality once again 🤔

Absolutely agreed! It is by far the hardest conditioning to overcome-the need not to be wasteful and to stop automatically looking at something and thinking of all the other POSSIBLE uses for it and just let it go.

You're awesome❤❤❤

It's also a good idea to bring 'rags' to the veterinarian's office,washed in hot water.They use them for many purposes.

Our humane society throws out tons of blankets, sheets and even big bags of petfood when the best by date comes. Incredibly stupid and wasteful!

Donating to anyone who needs something feels wonderful.The restaurant in front of my house throws away towels by the dozen.I put them in my washer on HOT and when they are dry,I take them to my mechanic for his workers to use for whatever.If you can,help out others.

I’m not even a little, but no one will take my melty cheese 😂😂

Hello from sunny Arizona! That sounds like a fun Christmas tradition…..my kids are very attached to all of our Christmas traditions and they recall many happy times as we run through them. That’s what life should be made of…fun family times that mean so much because we are all together. 😎

I’m not Swiss but I love the fondue pot and your Christmas tradition. I also have a tortilla maker and love homemade tortillas.

I had fondue in Chamonix, France many years ago, and it was one of the best meals I ever had.

I just wanna follow up that I shared this video with my mom, and I saw yesterday that she bought some fondue cheese 🤣🤣

If the socks have holes I will use them for cleaning. I stick my hands in them and use them for my hub caps bath tub etc.

Me, too!! My students would store their markers in the socks when not in use!

What a GREAT idea!’

Put it on your hand and dust then pitch when dirty

How can you donate lost socks?

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Yea I just got the extras out of cabinet put on a bag incase we find the container I am waiting to toss them before February lol

I have a new one as a gift fondue never used .

O love my processor can't part never

Used waffle maker a few time years ago lol cost is why money I wish I could sell them oh I followed what you said in tough love video I got all stuff and vets did not come I was up early to be ready by 8am they did not show

Please do dont stop

Ask at elementary schools for a donation center, some have a donation center in the school district now.

A lot of places that give donations to needy people only take new things. They sell the used things to people like me lol.

And donate the boxes for the kitties, they all love those boxes!!

I actually gave my husband a printout of when I wanted him to buy me flowers, and I think he actually crumpled it and threw it into the trash.

Lmao

I never would have thought of this!

One of the better things about living in the north-east is that natural gas stoves are much more common, here. If the power goes out, we can still cook, including baking in our oven.

I have used it too. Also a food plate warmer powered by candles. Believe it or not it works!

I save ends of candles in case Shit Hits the Fan SHTF because they can make fire starters with dryer lint or cardboard curled into tuna cans. Dump in all in the same labelled bin or box. Bin better in case of rats and mice.

I just used my fondue pot when the power was out! Worked like a charm! Don’t throw away blankets either because if the power goes out in winter, you’ll need them!

😅 I did the same, except I never gifted them I ended up using the several I made. 🔥❤️

I employ the "1 item in, 1 item out" system too and for the most part do very well with this.

Some of the most treasured things I own are notecards with messages written in the 1940’s (by my relatives). During my university years, these were seen as a form of what academics call “oral history”. And? Yes, reading these did bring me closer to my (now-deceased) relatives. You have no need to apologize for being sentimental!

How cool is that?!

Yes! They ARE useful and pretty. Anytime you can “repurpose” something , do it, but ONLY if you really will! Donate them. I’ve been seeing the most beautiful things made with repurposed things, so donate them, people will grab them up. Not me, lol

I up-cycle them by decorating them and gifting them.

That’s wonderful thanks for sharing

Girl! SAME!

A calendar will sync the days and their dates every 7 years.

Me too😢

HAHAHAHAHA!

😊Did that too, on the kids' beds when they left home. Now, we've downsized, so only pullout couch beds. Have to store that stuff elsewhere! Ugh!!!

But what department? If I go to the hospital, I wouldn’t know who accepts them.

​@@NettePakerlabour and delivery/post partum are probably pretty regular vase users, or the ICU

​@@NettePakeroncology

Nothing wrong in keeping them if you have a good space for them. These are like journals to you. Perhaps though could ask yourself, are you afraid one day you'll forget those memories, maybe afraid no one else remember you were once here...? I used to to think these things. I kept diaries when I was younger. Then realized I didn't want someone else to read them. I no longer have them and it hasn't made my life the worse off for letting them go. Everyone is different though. But I would consider the question 'why' you have them and cling to them.

​@@JaneH3675lol I just wrote a book on exactly this and then an ad showed up and my whole comment got erased. In short, I have been learning to let go. I don't remember things and that is ok. I have found there are a lot of things in life I'd rather forget anyway. I keep a few things that make me remember only the best.

​@@JaneH3675 that's interesting. I thought people kept old journals to reminisce on their past. I've never been a journaler tho. I'm the type that buys planners and journals and never uses them 😅

I agree. I can look back at who I was with, what I was doing. Interesting and prospective.

Thanks for sharing this I always hate getting rid of mine I threw one away yesterday It had all the memorabilia from last year

You are a loving child, Shannon! Have a great new year with your mom. 💕

You must be a wonderful daughter ❤️

Thank you for asking your mother’s permission before getting rid of her things. I cared for my mother in an independent senior living facility. It was painful to watch my neighbors’ offspring order their elderly parents around (as if the latter were little children). And? To cavalierly toss possessions without consulting dad or mom.

Our towels move from towels to rags to garbage... They just get smaller & smaller till they eventually disappear. I actually have 3 different buckets: small, medium & large. Whenever a towel gets a hole it goes to the appropriate rag bin. Small is washrag size, medium is hand towel size, & large is for bath/beach towels. We use these towels instead of bounty to clean up messes around the house, unless it's super greasy & gross. I feel it saves the environment & money.

@@leahrowe847 way to go!

@@leahrowe847 Even then, you can use used napkins/paper towels to get grease from pans, or if they’re clean enough, to clean small kitchen floor spills or baseboards and around the toilet. I keep a small bag of these also. Works great for furballs, too…🤢 bag never serms to get too big. And I’ve saved literally hundreds of dollars.

@judym3634, 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I have no problem using these pup towels for kitty carrier inserts for a soft bedding spot for the cat. They also make good use for underneath the litter box for collecting anything that is sprayed around the house. Saves using newspaper for that.

And thank you for adding towels too. They come in handy at the shelters during bath time.

They are always needing more. If you buy jackets or sweaters for your dog, they can use those to

I sympathize .I had to move ftom a 3 bedroom ranch style home with a basement, two car garage and a shed. My passion is rubber stamping and I hav a hug stash. I also do some crazy quilting and jewelry making. Like you I do a little at a time

Oh my I’m also a crafter and use old towels for small quilted items. I’ve made quilts from T-Shirts and old jeans. Sewing is a passion so it’s hard to not keep fabric for future projects. Ugh

Can you pick either quilting or weaving & let the other one go. Sophie's choice, I know! You probably don't think so but you like one better than the other. Give it to the person who will inherit it when you're gone. This is how I speak to myself to help me declutter... maybe helpful for you too!

Same here 😂😂😂

I have dragged my moms crap across the country every since she died 20 yrs ago. She made such a big deal about leaving it to me because I wouldn’t throw her special stuff away. All in boxes cluttering my garage. BUT I have been cleaning the boxes out for the last four years and have got rid of a ton.

Many churches will take the old sheet and blankets for quilting . The quilts are used for people who do not have blankets, some quilts are auctioned off to make money so children can go to camp free and may other things

Great idea.

😂 lol!, I’ve been working on mine for a week now. Seriously! What is some of this stuff in here?! My hubby has help to contribute some strange things that I have no idea what they are. We’ve been in this house for 8 years now and this drawer has a triple divider. There are things that I found in the very back that made me go “hmmm!”. When I asked him what’s this or that , he said “ oh that’s a piece that went to such and such which we no longer have but you never know when you might need it “. Really!? I put all his little strange pieces and parts in a container and put them on his workbench in the garage. Problem solved! Still working on the rest though. Hope to finish today. It’s the last drawer and the last of all the cabinets in our large laundry room. Next I move on to finish my kitchen. Like you said one inch at a time. I never in my life thought it would take me this long to reorganize anything in my home. My closet is a nightmare! Saving that for last! I’m not a saver and never have been but my husband is and in this house we share a huge closet. We had separate walk ins in our old house. Now his nightmare is in-cringing on my space. I have to ask him to be able to move any of his stuff. Drives me crazy! 🤪 he has so many pairs of blue jeans that he can’t wear it’s ridiculous! Someone could really use them! When I ask him about them he tells me he’s going to lose weight. Been saying that for 4 years….. as he tells me to go buy him 4 more pairs of jeans that he can wear 🙄 time to let go of the old jeans and make space for the 4 pairs he can wear! I guess I should stop with the venting now! That could go on and on about or closet and his gradual take over of “stuff “ we don’t need! 🤬

@@teresarussell8264 I giggled. My son is like your husband. Once I got started though he helped clear out an entire room and ran the vacuum. Yay.

I am guilty!!!

But memories

Crunchy

You're welcome!

I love this dedicated area for entertaining items! Thank you. My man just lost his area above the fridge😂

I donated a dozen to the thrift store nearby & know where I can get a vase in a pinch... 😅

I agree

My mother saved everything her children gave her forever. When she passed I tried to give them back to my sibling or gifts from her siblings to them. My sister who gave my mother cookie jars told me to just take good photos of them. She has the photos that give her those moments of Nostalgia but do not take up the space. She has since digitized them and Wallaaaaa even less space. Hint hint for those with small artists😊

I am a single female in a 1 bedroom place, so I only have 1 extra sheet set (in pink, I used to have a white comforter to offset. But now with my pink top micro-blanket, I prefer the white sheets to offset:)! The current one that I like to use, I wash and put back on same day (I DON'T use or put on the 'extra set' unless something were to happen, like company sleeping on my couch, or if I was sick and going straight back to bed after remaking the bed and leaving my preferred white sheets still washing or drying). I really don't want any additional than 1 extra bc I don't have any additional sleeping options for more people! Lol As for towels, I DO have at least 6+ kitchen hand towels (on purpose! I like to change them to a clean one very frequently, probably everyday! And since I only have 1or 2 loads of laundry each week (2nd load is the bedsheets. First load fits everything else for just 1 person!) Soooo that means that I need 7 I figure to be able to change it everyday of the week, plus a couple of extras in case they get dirty faster than normal. I currently have 6, and I'm planning on buying about 3 more, then stop. Butttt, that also is my 'space limit' for that item too! As for shower towels, I have 3! 2 usually just sit in my closet as extras unused but don't really take up much room and do periodically come in handy if/when I spill anything OR if I drip a lot coming out of the shower and need yo dry the bathroom floor. OR if I take more showers than normal that week in between laundry so need to go through more than 1 or 2 towels:)

I LOVEEEE cuddling up on the couch with throw blankets, so 2 live on my couch ALWAYS, but neatly!!! And NO throw pillows lol since my couch came with tons of its own cushions;) soooo very comfy!!!

Take all your extra bedding to local churches who make quilts out of them for the poor