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As a former military person that moved every 2-3 years for over 20 years... when packing, the final box is your necessities, plus clean sheets for each bed. The final box when moving out, is the first box to open when moving in, boldly marked "OPEN FIRST". The very first thing is to make all your beds, so when you're suddenly beat and tired of unpacking, your bed is ready and waiting! It's also good to do the same with a kitchen box, "open first" that has a plate, bowl, glass, mug, coffee, coffee pot etc for each person... you get the idea! After these two boxes are unpacked, and beds made, welcome to your new place, and start unpacking! Truthfully, my donations went before moving because I did not want to move it or unpack it. This worked for me after many, many moves to practice on!

For the person who asked about organisation styles relating to trauma, here is my experience/personal research. A lot of people who are traumatised in childhood tend to grow up to be perfectionists (we might naturally want to be crickets). Shame makes us believe it is our fault and if we are 'good enough' then we wont be bad anymore. We are perfectionists to avoid punishments and stay safe. But as adults we have more 'life stuff' to deal with, all the the trauma we are supressing and the perfectionism is exhausting and unattainable. Which just reinforces the message of shame we have ben telling ourselves. So, if no one told you yet, you get to decide what is enough for you and your home. You are safe now, and you get to explore what is ok for you. It's ok if you don't know what that is yet, when you connect with your values and who you are it will come to you. If you think your style is complete choas, then I would bet that you go from perfectionistic all or nothing cleaning sprees and then long periods of paralysing nothing at all, shaming youself about how useless you are. You aren't useless, it's just you started the race of life with a starting line miles behind everyone else and you are probably judging yourself against someone who wasn't pushed back by evil *holes. With trauma, slow is fast. Set yourself a realistic and managable routine, even if it is to maintain one square patch on a kitchen counter and focus on that one thing. Then when you have mastered that patch, increase the patch a little. That way you can always be winning at life a little bit each day. You got this 💜 (much love from a traumatised recovered hoarder).

I remember my mom teaching me to make my bed once. I was so proud and excited all day. When I went back in my room, she had remade it. I don't know why that affected me so, but it did. The neighbor kids always had chores, I didn't. I would find my things at the neighbor kids house. They didn't want them. I guess it was her way to tidy but it didn't teach me how to do things, it made me weak and discouraged. It has been and continues to be a battle to train myself and fight the fear of not good enough and learning I do have a voice even if it isn't valued. I tend to wait until someone gives me permission to breathe. Enough of my whining. Thank you everyone.❤

It's so, sooo refreshing to learn from someone who isn't naturally organized that it's possible to get better. Marie Kondo seems like a lovely lady but if I compare myself to her I'm setting myself up for failure. What I CAN do is be good enough. Thanks so much Cas!

Whenever I really need motivation to get started I turn to my Clutterbug playlist. I don't even need to be able to hear your words as I move from room to room getting stuff done. Just the sound of your voice with all that energy and empathy keeps me going. Thank you so very much Cas.🎉❤☺️

Crapalanche is my new favourite not-a-word word 😂

I want to thank you also for telling us a while ago to embrace "good enough". I found it a little shocking when you said that at first and then realized that sometimes if you just do it good enough you can get on to other things and then things are getting done! I love that! It's my new mantra and as someone who is also ADHD I thought you were brilliant, yet again. ❤

Cas, a few minutes before you said it, I realized that I was equating my work organizational style with my home style. When I first took your quiz I thought I was a bee, but trying to be a bee at home has been mentally exhausting. Now I know I'm an office cricket but an at-home butterfly!😊🥰

As a bee I can confirm what Cas said - it takes a lot of effort to organise our stuff, so we often just leave it …. So true, but when I set up a good organisation system I instantly love it and feel proud for months/years. Eg, since I started folding underwear and organising it in colour/type - I can see exactly which ones I wear the most, which I only wear when I haven’t done laundry and know which I need to get rid of 😂 🐝

What a relief to hear you say "don't pull everything out at once". Every time I do that I look at the mess, think oh shit, get overwhelmed & put everything back again!

I love that you tell us we are supposed to throw away photos! I only discovered this a couple of years ago due to desperation. My mother never discarded a single photo in 76 years! Helping my parents move into assisted living made me realize that I CAN throw away photos because I CANNOT move/keep them all. No one can. When I returned home, I weeded through all the boxes of photos of my kids and realized that really only about one in three photos were worthy of keeping.

My husband and I are the cricket and butterfly combo you've mentioned. We often organize with the Bee type products - oeganize in bins (for me) but they're clear (for him). I also love to label everything. This method works for us. It's all about finding the balance.

I've learned from you there's Not just one way to be organized. I now feel successful in my different ways I organize - some detailed, some in bins. Not a failure in my head anymore 🥰

oh my god, the pep-talk about loving yourself enough to get rid of stuff that isnt worthy of me.. that takes from my happiness, from my peace... an amazing reframe, so inspiring. thank you xox

32:20--"when people struggle to let go, it's a trauma response" and then your further explanation about this issue is the most clear I think I've ever heard! "Any time things have been taken from you, against your will." If you have never lost everything, had zero control over basic necessities, or struggled financially to the point that you had nothing, you really don't understand the odd attachment to "things". So many organizing and decluttering sources don't take some of this into account. And people can go through the same circumstances but have totally different responses to the trauma.

I am so happy you did the style summary at the beginning of this video, because I am helping my sister organize, and I told her to watch your channel. This is such a good introduction.

Thank you for the loving pep talk❤

I'm a cricket and my husband is a drop everything wherever he stopped at first.. not necessarily the door ( butterfly, but he would be insulted as a man to be called butterfly) ... even the basket by the door for his shoes doesn't work 😂. One time we both were looking ALL over the house several times for the tv remote... it was in the pantry when he went to get a snack. I found it because I stopped looking to make dinner 😂.

Thank you for this. I often despair that I will never get my life under control. I have “issues” like ADHD, OCD and other crap that messes me up. But what you say makes so much sense and you are so encouraging that you give me hope that I can dig out of the stuff I have buried myself and my home in. What you said at the end made me cry. I Am worth more than this stuff! My family and I Deserve to live in a pleasant home. I’m going to listen to this on repeat! You are the best!

That was a fantastic live Cas. Well done. You're good! ❤

Have been useing your chanel for a while now to help me declutter , clean and organise, after long term illness (10 yrs bed riden on and off) still cann't do things everyday, even the basics. However I now have a tidy wardrobe, an organised bathroom and my towles are put away and organised. I have to do one spot at a time while I have the energy, but after a year and a half I am now starting to see the benifits. Thank you for your encouragement and company on this journey.

My kids knew that anytime they felt like they didn’t want something anymore they could just place it on my bed and I would take care of donating or trashing it. It worked great for us!

Clear bins work great in our house. Hubby likes to see everything and it has to be easily accesible and I just want things coralled "with their friends" as I like to say. So it's a good compromise. So for ex in the pantry I have my bucket of baking supplies that we reach for (flour, sugar, brown sugar, etc) that anyibe can grab and everything you need is right there and it's clear plastic so you can SEE "who lives there".

Thank you. I hit my bedroom closet yesterday and have 6 bags of clothes. Step one. Much more to go. I'm a semi hoarder w some trauma issues that I'm working on healing. Both my parents passed away over the last few years and I've been dealing with 30 years of stuff in a few homes. It's been semi overwhelming at times. I've had to put my own home on hold to tend to them. I'm learning it's a journey not a destination. It takes time. That's ok. Being kind to myself has been quite a challenge. With each step I start to feel better. Your advice has helped me move forward. ❤ I'm excited to see the results and possibilities of new energy coming my way.

I find understanding my energy type (see “Live Your Truth”)extremely helpful, too - regarding organizing styles, clothing selection and more. Great alongside this advice, in my experience 😊

Your channel ist the best for organizing. Don't get me wrong, Marie Kondo seems like a nice person and her results are a revelation BUT there's no way to tackle declutter her way without professional help! The two gals who organize in rainbows create beautiful pantries BUT it's netflix not reality. So thank you!

I think we need an organization style called Dragon. Or maybe we just call it Smaug lol. My mister is a Smaug. He loves his horde and looks lovingly upon the great abundance of the items he collects 😆. I have my own set of problems, to be sure. I just thought it was funny to hear him say "I don't mind seeing my collections. I'm a dragon. I love the horde."

Oh my goodness! I need to watch this video over & over weekly! I have to say you are quite the motivational speaker & I actually paused you a couple times to fill a bag of donations. It really touched me to hear I’m worth more than my stuff (paraphrased). Thank you for that.❤

I hope skymoon is ok… just watching the replay. 😢

I so wish you were around when my kids were little!! All of my life I tried to live like a Cricket because I thought that was the “right” way, and I was frustrated with my house and felt bad about myself for all of those years. Now that I know that I am a ladybug, and that I have a low clutter threshold, I enjoy my home. And when my kids & grandkids come to visit and make a mess, 😀 I can pull it back together in minutes after they leave. Thank you for all you do!!

I'm so confused about the sky moon discussion

Over the weekend I had one free hour so I set a time and did the yes no.. got rid of one full bag. Then the next day while talking to my aunt for an hour and twenty minutes on the phone I went through four drawers and got rid of a whole garbage bag of jeans, shorts and t shirts…all while chatting. Yes!!! Next will be my jammy drawer and workout clothes drawers that are over flowing. I think I’m a bee…love being organized but struggle with perfectionism procrastination 😍

I moved into this house nearly three decades ago. My mother stopped by, impatient that I still had boxes with stuff in them. So she grabbed one and finished unpacking it, calling attention to her deed, thinking she was setting an example that I should (obviously) follow. It was a carton full of many coffee mugs. We were a household of 3 people. We usually stored the extras in the cellar, taking them out as needed - and returning them later. She'd left no shelf space for glasses, plates, bowls, etc. I thanked her, but pointed this out, then re-packed most of the mugs in the carton. She was so mad at me (frustrated) that day. She also criticized that I kept binoculars on a shelf in the kitchen. "That's not where you keep binoculars!" But only the kitchen and bath had windows facing the back field, where we regularly spotted wild animals. Once again, I'd defied her logic - which didn't sit well. She was more intent on enforcing her technique - regardless of its impracticality - than taking a moment to understand the logical method behind my "madness." The box hadn't needed unpacking - it was just waiting to be relocated to storage. Ultimately, she was happy to take the extras to her friend's beach cottage, where there was often a crowd, and rarely enough mugs to go around. The binoculars are still in my kitchen, where they get frequent use - and remind me of Mom ❤, who's been gone almost 21 years.

This is so helpful, I am a definite bee! So many clear containers, color coordination and piles of stuff waiting to be organized.

Thank you for the "GRACE" advice for others in my household.

Extremely helpful hints, especially about organizing with a butterfly in the house. Thank you!

We use cricket organizing in the frig, freezer, pantry and cupboards. Some ladybug in with baking goods and spices. We use butterfly and ladybug on bathriom shelves. Garage we use bee and ladybug. Hot mess for sure. It works somehow.

First of all, I’m a ladybug. Thank you so much for teaching me to organize! I’m finally organized with my style and I’m happy. I do live with three adhd butterflies. But, I can now help them deal with their things. I’ve had to adjust with their visual stuff. But, everything is working. Thank you again!

You wear a lot of cute clothes, but I have to say the outfit in the thumbnail for this video is the absolute most sweet outfit I've ever seen you wear!

Cas, I am so grateful for this understanding of myself and how I organize. People have said to me that I am an organized person and I disagreed with them. What I have come to realize is that I need organization to not feel stressed. One layer, not having to move something to get to what I need. There is a dumpster in my driveway and I feel the biggest sense of relief at the space and breathing room that this will create. I want to see my beautiful things but I need them to not take over our house.

I really love you, Cas! I am a 🐝 and my husband is a clear 🐞. I am not a real perfectionist but if something is not gonna work for me I don’t do it all, including decluttering and tossing. It’s so hard to get moving. Oh God, someone come and declutter my home!

Ugh... the "big loss" trauma from the past hit me right in the feels. Thanks for acknowledging this.

Thank you for helping me see how others in my life and home cope with clutter 😁 I believe this will help me relax and accept all us little bugs 👍

“Small apartment” also tells me maybe less money which causes people to cling onto things even more. It may seem backwards but decluttering ends up SAVING MONEY not losing. You become more aware of what you have and what you actually need so you don’t rebuy necessities and don’t buy unnecessary things

Empowering the kids is #1 thing you can do for them. We have to go through my mom's house after she passed away. 50 years of stuff now

Thank you so much Cass! Your words are gold! ❤️

I love the inviting way you educate us. Thank you so much

“Bees love that crap“ LOL. You crack me up!

Wow, that was one of your best podcasts!!! Thank you 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Like brilliant!!!!!

Sad I missed your Live...grateful for the replay!! ❤ 🐝🦗🐞🦋

I learned about fantasy selves from the minimal mom and I started to realize my fantasy self was holding me back. I felt that I have some great qualities that aren't really recognizable so my fantasy self was the person I wanted to be so that others would see how awesome I was. But in the long run I failed at being my fantasy self and didn't embrace the awesomeness of myself and failed that way too. I have since woken up from my fantasy and have started to be kind to who I am and forget if other people see it as long as I'm true to myself.

Enjoyed watching the live. So helpful, thank-you Cass!!❤

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE your videos. You are so much fun and enjoy watching you! So glad I found your channel!

PRICELESS!!❤❤🏆🏆A million thank you’s!!

Thank you for the wonderful video!!! You’ll be sooo proud of me…did dishes and a bit of organizing listening to you 🥰

Such powerful messages all throughout this video! Thanks Cas!

i love the photo storage suggestions. and i really did think i couldn't throw away old photos, so thank you!!😂

Would love these videos more often. It was really helpful. Thank you.

Thank you Cass. You said so many heartfelt, inspiring, eye opening things.

Excellent video! So much great, functional advice. I love giving yourself permission to be imperfect, if it takes too long to tidy you have too much stuff, working with other bugs, one minute rule, non-negotiables, it’s all so good.

Needed to hear this 👏 I like order and everything organised my boyfriend is very laid back and very messy and my adult son has Autism is just as bad 🤦‍♀️ and to top of it my stepdaughter has took after her dad 🤷‍♀️ iam basically only tidy person in the house so listening to this has helped loads Thank-you ❤

Thank you so much. I am definitely saving this video to re-watch

Love you Cas! Thanks!

Thank you for your resources! I took your test and finally realized I’m not a cricket ! I’m a lady bug talk about an eye opener! Spouse def a butterfly ado excited to hear this whole video now that I know that my house is driving me crazy and his piles are getting larger and our house is feeling smaller. I love our home but in a place where I’ve lost that love because I feel like I’m suffocating thankful for help!

GREAT video! Thanks for all the ideas-especially reiterating the Decluttering Rules!

I normally don't have time to listen to videos quite this long but I listened to this one and wow! It was inspiring! You were so on fire! And even though I have been listening to your videos for a couple of years I still found it helpful. I will not skip the long videos in the future!

I love your unpacking method & photo sorting method. Thank you.

I am so a ladybug and I love all you do! It has helped me sooooo much!

Thanks so much Cas!! You’ve helped me SO MUCH!! ❤

That was absolutely perfect timing. You talked to me all the way to my hotel parking lot! Great information.😊

Thank you❤❤❤ I have learned so much from you! Not only have I learned to embraze myself as a butterfly in the way of organizing... I have also learned to embraze myself as a butterfly in so many other ways in my life. It shows through everything! Now I finally know who I am and why. Now I have the courage to be true to the butterfly I am🦋❤ I live with a lovely handsome ladybug and we are slowly getting to the kompromises that are needed. Thank you❤❤❤

Just heard about you so I gave you a try and I❤️ the video. Thank you for your help!!😘❤️

Thank you again, Cas! Love your videos! Both helpful and enlightening. I am definitely one of the ladybugs with a bee husband - we default to visual, which can stress me a bit sometimes, but as I declutter, the less stuff the less stress. Dishes are a non-negotiable for me, too.

What happened with sky moon? I watched this later…

Loved the message at the end. Thank you Cass I needed to hear that.

Cas, Many people aren’t familiar with the word “Duo-Tang.” I hadn’t heard the term until a year ago or so, for example. At about 18:00 or so, you might want to add the following to your screen: A Duo-Tang (once a brand) is a name for a type of folder with brass fasteners. You may know it as “a folder with brads.” OR Duo-Tang = a folder with brads

Butterfly here - I stopped, years ago, folding bath, hand and kitchen towels. Very liberating! I just throw the few kitchen towels into the designated drawer and the bath towels into the cabinet under one bathroom sink and the hand towels into the cabinet of the other sink of the double vanity. After folding towels for like 30 years I am SO over it so I simply stopped. I also just throw my underwear and socks into the drawer, no folding it. I do fold my other clothes because I hate ironing and as an adult I should not look like a wrinkled mess lol. I do fold the clothes for the other family members.

This came across my feed today. I love listening to your ideas! I'm decluttering my house right now with your 30-day Organizing Bootcamp! My kitchen is taking longer than a day. But I heard you say, it's okay. ❤️ I needed to hear that! 😊❤️ Thank you! My kitchen is looking better and better and I already have several boxes of donate stuff. 😁

I love that you give people permission to just throw things away.

Love your motivation soeeches, can hear it tousand Times & it's always effective. Todays New Energy came & I Decluttered & organized my Little "office" Space 🎉 Thank You ❤❤❤

Haven’t watched yet but have to comment that the “cover” photo of you is amazing! Those colours suit you so well 🔥🔥

i was a kid with TOO much stuff, and it would have really helped if we had the tools to figure out how to let more of it go. great advice.

I have really enjoyed this video! I love the deep dive into organizational types. Also your funny little narratives at the end. 😎

Bee with Ladybug Husband here (He hasn't taken the Test yet, but there is no need for it. I know.) Your cute Categorys help me SO MUCH! We realized we struggle to keep Order in ouer home, even though we both crave it. It was simply unfathomable for me how ouer mess can derail again and again after I set up such nice systems..... which my dear Husband just can't use for the life of his.... At the same Time he was frustrated with me leaving out stuff that needs to be sorted later or I just don't want to put it away, as It has its neat home in the open where I can access it.... This wil help us SO MUCH! Thank you for sharing all this for free!

@clutterbug Cass- you are simply amazing!! ❤😁 You have a wonderful and soothing voice so aside from getting great advice and tips, your voice is calming to me as well. I know you must help so many people. Thank you!

Seriously how did I not find you before now! You are going to be my families life saver!!!

Thank you so much for pointing out the difference between organizing and de-cluttering. Big impact on me there! :)

See through bins and baskets absolutely make a difference if you need them. I am never going back to the decorative ones beyond pretty gold metal or whatever. 🦋

Loved this so much! I watched this while cleaning & organizing our hall closet. My mom has bags in here from the 90's 😅 Most of this being recycled or throw away and its really helping get rid of my anxiety every time I open this stuffed closet. I'm a dominant cricket with bee tendencies & my mom is a ladybug. Thank you for this video!

@clutterbug I’ve watched you for years and this time I heard things I’d never heard before. Thank you for what you do. 💕 ✨You’ll never know how many lives are better lived because of you.✨

Detailed and visual!

Great video!❤ thank you!

My god I love u! Ur amazing and have motivated me a lot, have made a good start! Ty from New Zealand! ❤❤❤❤

Great info. Thanks

I have a bit of a unique issue: I’m naturally a ladybug. (I’ve always been a ladybug, since I was a little kid.) about 2 years ago I had a health emergency that has left me with seizures. My kids and my husband have told me that they have noticed that before I have a seizure, I will start to clean the house. Almost in a panic i start to scrub things, or organize things etc. it’s almost like I turn into a crazy cleaning cricket. I’ve found that the intense feeling to clean (mostly a need to “sanitize”) usually lasts for a few days after an episode. It’s almost like I’m two separate people

Love this Cas, your awesome! Thank you!!

I’m a recovering perfectionist, but I have come along ways since I raised my 2 kids at the height of my OCD and perfectionism. My husband and I are finally empty nesters , after these last 7 years that I have been full time caregiver for my daddy from age 81-88. Daddy has mixed dementia ( Alzheimer’s & strokes) and has now advanced to where he requires 24 hr care. He is now living in an Alzheimer’s unit in a nursing home 5 minutes from my house. My solution to my husband’s opposite organization style from mine, ever since our children left home, is my own bathroom and bedroom. That way I’m not resentful of his messy bathroom and what used to be our master suite ( clean clothes thrown on a loveseat etc etc). That is what works for us😊 10:44

CAS!! Can you do a specific video on "shopping your moving boxes" bc I'd love more tips on how to unpack if...when...I don't declutter before moving. Thanks! ❤❤❤

You have the most practical advice!!!! It’s so great! So helpful. Especially just pulling out a few things instead of making a huge mess, getting overwhelmed before I’m done decluttering, and effectively accomplishing between 0 and -20 things. Before I found your content, I thought I had to Marie Kondo everything. I’m not a Marie Kondo. Im a Bee/Butterfly hybrid (mostly bee).