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Speaking as a family historian/genealogist, I have a heartfelt plea: When you make up your memory book, have a page or two at the beginning for a family tree with names and dates, or at least a list of the people shown in the albums, with names and dates (birth, death, marriage, etc.). I've seen so many albums where the photos are just labeled "Grandma and Grandpa at the lake house" and the like. Whose grandma and grandpa? Where was the lake house? A better label would be "John and Jane Doe at their vacation home on the north shore Lake Naomi in the Poconos circa 1935" (with John and Jane's birth and death dates listed in the front of the book). Future generations will thank you! 😀

I volunteer in a thrift store and we most definitely do not dump the clothes on the floor and really appreciate nicely folded donations.

I jumped for JOY when I realized the chest of drawers was going!! Amazing job, Mama!

Your mom is really beautiful, so I can totally see her modeling. ☺️

When your mom said she was going to wrap up her husband’s shorts and give them to your husband for a birthday gift…I laughed right out loud..and subscribed to you zany ladies..I needed a good laugh ❤️

It’s sooo satisfying when you can get rid of a large piece of furniture. It just opens everything up and makes you feel free.

Since the first of January I've declutterd 9 large bags of stuff in my spare bedroom and my 22 year old daughter room. What a feeling this is and I'm not done yet.

You two make me laugh out loud. I have headphones on and my husband cracks up. He said are you watching the Mom and her daughter again? 😂 Kathy you helped inspire me to let my hair go gray. 🤗 We are the same age and I relate to so much of your decluttering. It does feel so good to let it go!!! I also have been slowly working on pictures and ancestry. Keep going ladies, you’re great together!!

My clothes also change sizes in the closet and drawers 😂. I love that your husband was able to let go of the chest, tell him a stranger (Lol) said, "Great job!" I'll be 60 this year, and I'm attached to my pictures. I have way too many! My parents left their pictures to me, so I have a ton. It's going to be the last thing I declutter because the pictures are so sentimental. You and your mom make a great KZfaq team and are getting so much done!

Mum was so beautiful n still is. Love the journey of decluttering that both of you have shared.

I spent the pandemic going through about 3000 pictures. Got down to about 1000. Organized albums in order for my daughters. Now, I will go back and sort again. I'm only keeping the most important. Some of my pictures go back to the 1860s! It was a hard task, though. Very emotional. Brought a few tears. Great job, Shannon and Mom. Congratulations!💞

The bedroom looked so much roomier and inviting when that big furniture could go!

Great Video! I have been going through Family photos as well and there are quite a lot. I have most all of my grandparents pictures, my great grandparents pictures and even ones that belonged to my 2nd great grandparents, so there are pictures from the 2000's on back to the 1800's. I have gone through a lot and have given my Aunt's, Uncles and cousin's their childhood and school photos and things like that, but my grandparent's had duplicates of those. There were at least three copies of every photo from the 1940's to the 2000's, not to mention all of the Olan mill photo packages, where there were 24 copies of the same picture. I still have a lot of duplicates and bad photos to get rid of. I have put a hold on going through a lot of them. At the moment I have been organizing photos of me from childhood to high school and other memorabilia from that time to work on a scrapbook album for me. After that, I hope to do an album for my Dad and also add more to my Mom's (I found some more pictures to add). I also plan to do scrapbooks on my grandfather's side of the family as well as my grandmother's. Keep up the great work.

Those slider things are a game changer. My daughter showed them to the man who was moving their furniture all by himself and he was gobsmacked. He had never used them before but will never work without them ever again.

I feel like your mom and I are on the same path. I've been decluttering LAYERS of clutter for several years. Currently almost done my 13th round of The Mins Game...and we too are discovering we're happy to live with less and less Kathy ☺️❤

It’s such a great feeling to declutter. In January my husband decluttered all of his shoes, baseball hats and clothes. 10 bags left the house and he told me it feels better.

I am more of a maximalist in many ways, but I too have been taking the Swedish Death cleaning approach to pare down. My biggest challenge that I have yet to deal with is also the family photos, so this episode was a great inspiration to me to persevere. Part of the roadblock for me is having to deal with all my mom's photo albums now that she is gone. My brother wanted me to keep all their travel albums which are mostly scenery or strangers. Once I scan the ones with mom and dad, I am boxing them all up and letting him deal with them LOL. After I scan the family photos I will keep a curated batch of physical photos in albums and then pass the rest on to my kids if they want them (which most of them do!). If electronics ever fail us, it will be nice to still have print copies to fall back on, IMHO. I am also disbursing all the old family photos that I have scanned back to my cousins on thumb drives to share with their branch of the family - I have over 40 cousins! That way the memories can be preserved and shared.

That’s the job I have been avoiding for years, pictures! I gave away three construction size bags of bedding, three dressers, three bags of kitchen items to a lady who lost everything in a house fire and is finally moving back into her redone home. It just feels so good to simplify our home

Great work, ladies! Kathy has come a long way on her decluttering journey and it seems like your Dad is finally on board, too, Shannon. Great progress. ♥ I do have to say, though, that when Kathy opened the cupboard at the end and said she's decluttered so much, there's hardly anything in there, I had to laugh. That cupboard was *filled* with dishes! I don't think you could fit another thing in there. I guess someone's 'hardly anything' is another person's 'too much'. heeheehee I don't say this to criticize; I know Kathy has let go of a ton of dishes. I just found it funny, since I personally have 3 dinner plates and 3 lunch plates, and 3 bread & butter plates. That's it! Of course, I live alone and never entertain, so that's a huge difference. Love you guys! ♥♥♥

Tip for the carpet where you moved the furniture… put ice cubes on the indentation and it pulls it back up.

Your mom is a beautiful human being and she looked absolutely stunning in that picture! Keep up the great work!

Oh my goodness, I’m struggling with photos right now. 43 years. Two daughters and 5 grandchildren later. I start and then I’m overwhelmed with the memories. 😳😫😭

Great job working on photographs! It is a monumental task. I like to have an envelope labeled "for others" to give any extras or photos that are meaningful to someone in the past. They are always delighted to get an old photo in the mail that they maybe have never seen before! It's actually a great gift to return a snapshot of history back to the rightful owner!

Great job on getting rid of that huge piece of furniture! I know it felt great! Several years ago we had our floors refinished and I had to move a giant oak computer cabinet to the garage. I did not want to put back in the room because it was so huge and heavy. I put it for free on Facebook marketplace and someone picked it up. They were happy and I was even more happy. Win, win! I completely understand the struggle of going through your photos. I retired six years ago, and at that time I pulled out all of my photos onto one table in my basement. Over the years I have moved the table numerous times. This is the year I am dealing with those photos! I’ve worked on them when I can this month and have made a dent, but have a long way to go. I know it will feel tremendous when this project is done! Thank you for your lovely video sharing that conquering photos truly is possible. You are my role model! Your modeling picture is beautiful! ❤

Here is a little tip on how to get rid of furniture depressions in carpet. A fork!! Get on your hands and knees, and using a fork from the kitchen, dig in! Moving it back and forth and every which way. It doesn't hurt the fork, just put it in the dishwasher. It pulls all the squished carpet back up. I swear by this :) It really doesn't take that long either.

“There’s hardly anything in here anymore” and she opens a cupboard with a thousand plates 😂 seriously though, I’m really impressed with the photo declutter.

I have most of my photographs in about eight photo boxes. They're labeled by year. I did this about 10 to 15 years ago. But then I realized that I like to display Christmas photos at Christmas time, so I've pulled out a lot (but not all) of the Christmas photos and have them in one place. I also removed a lot of fall/Halloween pictures too so that I can display them seasonally. I'm doing this with Easter and 4th of July photos now too. Good job getting rid of the old wood dresser. I like your sound effects when Kathy threw the bags over the stair railing. Lol.

Photos are my nemesis. I never know if I should do it by year, event, or person. Leave some digital, print trips in books? So many options. Would love a video to work through some different ideas.

My retirement project was to put my bookcases full of photos onto a hard drive. It took awhile but finally got it done. Then gave each of my kids a copy.

If your mum wants to get rid of the grooves in the carpet left where the dresser was, she can put ice cubes in the grooves and leave them for a while and the carpet pile will just spring back up. It really works.

Thank you, Shannon, and Mom for your inspiring videos.❤

Great job decluttering that dresser! The room looks so much lighter and brighter!

YAY! That big dresser gone! Here's a tip for Kathy: line the indented carpet with ice cubes, all along the smashed line. Once they melt you can fluff up the fibers with a tooth brush and the indent will be much less noticeable!

Ive decluttered my whole house, finally, now too. Only thing left is to go through all my photos on my computer and turn the ones I want into keepsake photo books. My mum gave me a photo album awhile ago of photos she organised of my grandparents, great grandparents and great, great grandparents and to it also a family tree from both sides of my family which was a wonderful gift. I loved seeing the old black and white photos and their clothes from another time. It's special finding out about the family history and I plan to add to the album with the new generations and future ones.

Crazy tip someone shared with me. To bring the carpet back up where the dresser was placed, lay ice cubes in the lines. I don't know why, but when the ice cubes dry it brings the carpet back up! Surprised our family but it works! Love you and your mom on videos!

Oh, the photos and the negatives… (😵‍💫) I am saving that task, since they are nicely tucked away. I have other more obvious areas to get done first, but I like your mom’s thought process in sorting out the best photos from each album. That is what I plan to do, as well.

I've been scanning in all my photos and putting them on a google photo frame. We are all enjoying it so much. Our children are adding their own photos too. It's really fun. I'm getting rid of the old photos. I never looked at them in albums.

You’ll have done a great job! You both have inspired me sooooo much! And wow does the bedroom look bigger without the armoire. I have been working on my photos since April of last year - when I had time. Sooooo many - threw away all scenery only pics and a ton of triplicate. Made my sister 2 albums with all of our parents, grandparents and some great grandparents along with history notes. I feel so much better! Gave the chest of 4 drawers housing some of the photos to a coworker. And have so much space where the 26 albums were. I do have the pics categorized in baggies by location and event. Want to scan and have digital copy. Please let us know where to do that. I would love a Shutterfly book but don’t know how to do. A video on that would be good! Thank you both-absolutely love you two!! You just make my day - I love to laugh! ❤

I am overwhelmed with my pictures also!! Frozen.

Two years ago, I decluttered my pictures. What I thought would only take a few days turned into 3 weeks. But I got rid of redundant photos, trees, etc... and have consolidated to about 6 or 7 albums.

Your mom is so pretty and her gray hair matches her complexion and eyes so perfectly.

You and your Mom are so beautiful and that picture of your Mom is so amazing! ❤

Idea....My hubby bought a digital photo frame and he rotates vacation and family pictures so they are always being viewed and not tucked away. I love it!

Cngrats to your dad for catching the decluttering bug! I think photos are so sentimental and overwhelming to go through that they stay for the last project. That’s what I plan to do when I have more time in retirement. Amazing that your mom has reached the goal of photo organizing. 😊🎉💕

What a difference moving that piece of furniture, made the room so much lighter and brighter.

Declutting furniture is the best!

You and your mom are so sweet together❤ I love the journey she is on and how you help her without pushing her. And you both make me laugh!

You two have me in stitches, you have a show on tv with your antics. xxxxxxxxxxxxx

You really feel like you have reached a tipping point when you can get rid of a piece of furniture that stored so much. ❤

Shannon, it's amazing how much your mum has changed and accomplished over the past few years! 😁 Mines is still in the first phase... research and development 🙈😄 the stuff drives her nutz, but she struggles to part with anything and everything.

I am a scrapbooker….i record the story with my photos…sometimes it’s simply the name, date and place…but if there is a memory write it down…you will so glad you did it!

The dresser was well built !!! Nothing lasts like that anymore 😊 hope it found a new home

Your mom is a natural. Great video 🥰

Ohhh myyy, your mum’s photos, what a treasure. That’s so fabulous to have them all together and sorted like that. What a gift for family ❤

You too are so hilarious😂,. Love watching you two together. Mamma and daughter fun.

YOU GUYS ARE SO ENTERTAINING! YOU MAKE ME LAUGH!

I am so impressed about “Mom” dealing with the photos. I wish I was there already. I think of it frequently.

So much decluttering progress packed into a single video... I'm super impressed with your parents!

Keep curating everything! I just love watching your parents' home being decluttered! Don't stop please.

I have three sisters, numerous nieces and nephews and my 2 children, so going thru pics and sharing spares and others with them helps me immensely. Thinking of doing the photo books for family members and keeping fewer albums for me once decisions are made. Fun watching you work together.

I’m not for digitizing photos, sorting, downsizing yes. My mom as she grew older and memory failing would look through albums of my kids and family photos. This helped her with happy memories…it’s hard to age…I will declutter some but not computerize. Eventually this method will also be obsolete.

What a project! I went through my pictures in December and got rid of a whole lot! I was a fan of double prints in the 90s, in case anyone wanted a shot or two. I would like to print Shutterfly books, too, to replace my ten HUUUGE photo albums. THAT’s a feat! Congratulations for letting go of that cabinet. My mother has a similar one (actually two…). They’re both full😮.

🤗🤗🤗 so happy to see that cabinet go! Great job, Mom & Dad! Mom’s enthusiasm for decluttering is wonderful.

Wow! This was great! Letting go of a nice piece if unneeded furniture and knowing someone is going to be thrilled to have it is so wonderful! Photos… they are so tiny yet take so much time to go through. Really exhausting. As always, love you ladies, you are so fun and inspiring.

After scanning my pics and my parent’s 100 page albums, I then put them on usb drives. I gave my family a usb drive each. I have one in our safety deposit box, so that it will last and be safe. Our family is enjoying seeing these pics on their TV’s. Congrats Kathy 🎉 on organizing your photos. I know it’s a big job and worth preserving the ones that you want. ❤ Shannon, I look forward to more of your videos with your Mom. You’re both so delightful.😊 Thanks!

Well done, Mister Dad! He should be pleased with this work! 🏆 ... Clothes DO change sizes in the wardrobe, or washing them! 😅

WOW Kathy!!! I remember when that dresser was packed to the gills!😉Where will you store your extra socks now?!?😅 Seriously, the level you have reached with Shannon’s help is impressive! Good job, Ladies! Love it!❤

I have photos on my to-do list also. You have inspired me to take some daily action! I have yet to figure out how to manage the digital photos so if you have some tips on digital management I would be so grateful. Congratulations on donating the furniture. It is amazing how open your room is now. Thank you ladies.❤

Wow, to get rid of this big piece of furniture is amazing 😄 And Kathys grandma was a very elegant and pretty woman ☺️ Thank you so much for sharing 🩷

I love your "mom and me" videos! Your mom has done a fantastic job of decluttering. I was especially impressed with how much she has done with her photos. I am guilty of having many boxes of photos which really should be gone through, digitized, and organized. I like the idea of creating a photo album with the best of the best. I think photo projects are the most intimidating because there are so many of them!

I did photos the first few weeks of 2024. Got rid of all the mismatched albums, bought some beautiful linen albums, and got rid of all the doubles and photos that I had no idea. The shelf is now organized and it’s easier to flip through. I use those furniture slides because I live alone and love to move things around 😉

I enjoyed this video and was able to relate to downsizing photos . This past week I was able to finally make a photo book of my past that included photos of grandparents and parents pictures. It was such a relief to me to finally get this done. The struggle is definitely real and hope your Mom is able to get this done. I know it will be a relief to her. You and your Mom are so fun to watch. Take care!

I have downsized family photos to a few albums, but now with grandchildren that I only see once or twice a year (they live far from us), I am doing Shutterfly books and not printing photos to have to put in albums.

I do sorting in my church opshop. We love it when we get clean folded clothes. Your neat donations would be soooo appreciated. Cheers Julie from Australia

Your dad did awesome! Yeah, dad!!!! Oh my goodness. I am super excited to see your huge dresser go. Well done. 🎉🎉🎉 Oh gosh, photos....still my work in progress. That is a very slow, time-consuming thing to do for me. I think this will take years for me...just because it's sentimental/emotional for me. I did go through an album of 2 vacations and got rid of a lot. Constantly pealing an onion. 😊 I find it so fun to go through those very old pictures. I have some pictures from both grandparents to go through also along with my mom's....besides my own. Good luck, Kathy, with your photos. Sounds like you are doing an awesome job already!!

Love watching you guys together you guys are so awesome and have fun together! Reminds me of my Mom she passed away 7 years ago on January 19. Enjoy each other. Love you guys

That area looks so open now! Your dad got rid of a complete capsule wardrobe's worth of clothes! Good for him.

Kathy, I'm so proud of the progress you've made, while decluttering. You are truly inspiring! Great video, Shannon! 💗

That is GREAT that were able to get rid of that big dresser. The room must feel lighter and brighter. You can speed up those dented carpet marks by putting ice cubes on them....the rug fibers will pop back. I think you been told wrong about the folded clothes for donation. I knew someone that worked at GW. She said if the clothes all look just thrown in the bag they think it is from dirty/sloppy people that don't care and they throw the whole bag away rather than dealing with the "surprises" they may find....that they don't want to touch. Also, if the bags sit for a while the clothes get too wrinkled, look ugly and people don't want to buy...so throw them away and not waste their time. Yes, there are a lot of eBay sellers, but there are a lot of people that this is all they can afford and they want to buy with dignity. Kathy, as attractive as you are now...WOO HOO you were a movie star back in the day!!!!

Great job, Kathy! You are already making so much progress with those photos! ❤

Another fun video with your mom! I love watching you two work together. Hugs to you both! ♥😊🐦

Photos are my big job for this year. I have a giant tub full of photo albums, photo boxes etc. I bought some nice containers to put the photos in. I'm going to take the photos out of the disintegrating albums, get rid of doubles etc and divide photos by decade if I can. Anything will be better than the current state. I also write the name of the people in the photo on the back.

As a librarian who recently toured special collections keep your photographs just because you digitized them doesn't mean you will have them for the future. I just got rid of 4 pairs of pants that were pilled and holey, and 4 worn out socks.

When I retired I went through photos and ended making small albums particular to nieces and nephews some who had a parent pass. They loved them.

You both are quite adorable! Kuddos to your teamwork. And, thank you for talking it out for us. It gives me more ideas, areas, and reasons to declutter. This round, I've only done my easiest stuff = most makeup and hair products now gone! So, I haven't truly pulled the trigger yet, but you ladies are just the ammunition I need to keep going. The lightness I feel after letting the stuff go and loving the "space" left behind is my guiding thought.

So inspiring as always! I’m in the same boat as your Mom with the photos! I feel like once I manage to do them, I will feel exactly the same way, like a huge weight has been lifted, so thanks for the inspiration🙌🏼!!!!

This is so so encouraging! You and your mom give me the inspiration to keep decluttering! Love you both!❤

Love watching the two of you work together as a team! I hope that your collaborative decluttering videos or working together won’t end after the photo purge!

You inspired me to transfer photos from my computer to my digital frame where I'll see them. 😊

Love it! Your parents are doing amazing! The bedroom looks so much brighter and airy without that oak piece sucking up all the light between the windows. My mom is doing a similar project with pictures. She says she can only handle about an hour every other day now that they are in chronological order. Big kudos to your mom for getting so far on that project.

It was basically empty that big old dresser! Good job Mom and Dad!! More space!!

I love your series with your mom. Your relationship reminds me my relationship with my mom. The items I struggle with is the furniture my dad made and he has passed away.

I helped my sister in law go through her closets two weeks ago. She got rid of over 150 items in two hours! 😳

The two of you are so incredibly fun and enjoyable to watch. You also help me with decluttering my stuff as well. I am slowly releasing more and more and it feels really good even though sometimes it’s hard. Thank you for continuing to turn out enjoyable and worthwhile content.

Great job, your Dad did great! I decluttered photos last, I am going to do another round of photos soon, I’m sure I can declutter more When you move a heavy piece of furniture the rug that has the indent, if you put ice cubes and rub it on the indented rug it helps fluff up the rug lines

I am sooooo glad you are getting rid of a large piece of furniture…There was just too much. 😭💕❤️🥰 I have to watch the rest of this later. I need the photo part badly. 😭

Thanks for showing more of the photo organization, it is also my last big area to declutter and organize. Please continue to revisit the photo organizing bc several people have told me they struggle with them as well. Especially those of us that have our parents, grandparents, our own, our children's and grandchildren's photos...

I volunteer at a clothing donation center and I can tell you that yes it’s true….it gets dumped on a table (not floor) for sorting and inspecting so folding isn’t really necessary. ❤

Another great video! Watching the two of you brings me joy and inspiration! You will have such amazing memories about this decluttering journey! Thank you for sharing and making me want to get more layers peeled off! 💕