I remember you saying at one point how a family member had said they didn't feel you should host a holiday...so to hear you say you hosted two family Christmases is amazing to hear!

That's a diffenbacia! You can go ahead and cut off the yellow and dying leaves so the plant has energy to make new ones instead of putting energy into the old ones. Some great begginner plants are: Peace Lily, Snake Plant, and Pothos. Happy Holidays !

Well, you do say you want to hear what we've been working on too. I'm so glad you shared this channel with us too. Previously I thought I should be able to clean the rooms in my home in just one day, now I see It's okay if it takes me a week (or two), I can focus on one area much better, and not feel guilty about getting the whole thing done in a particular time frame. The week before Christmas I decluttered and also deep cleaned my Livingroom, I deep cleaned the front window which took me all of one day and part of a second day (remember the Gus drool?) I had that too from my last dog so you are not the only one, good to know I'm not the only one either! Deep cleaned the Kitchen window too, (tracks in both Livingroom and Kitchen were so dirty!) plus I washed some of the walls in both rooms, I hoping to paint my Livingroom this summer. I painted the ceiling in there a couple of years ago and planned to paint the wall much sooner, but that just didn't happen. I still have to declutter in the cabinets and drawers, but I feel like I've made great progress for my first pass. Cleaning off the paper clutter on the kitchen table is also my nemesis too! I collect it and then it ends up dumped in a box and stashed away somewhere, I'm afraid I'll throw something important away, but could I really find it now?? I make my life such a mess! ♥🐕🤪

Wow your candy tiered tray is such a great idea!You are the first person I have seen on KZfaq that lets the laundry detergent dissolve before putting the laundry in. I always did my laundry this way when I had a top loader the clothes always feel so much cleaner. I wish I still had a top loading washer.

Love that Donna Jean! She’s so willing to help you which is awesome!!

Hey jodi, someone once told me - don't set big goals. just be 1% better everyday. do something that tomorrow jodi will thank u for doing. i mean u pretty much said this in the video. but i hope it helps as well. also repeat this to yourself: don't put it down, put it away. hope this helps you, like its helping me!

You have come so far and I’m glad your family can have everyone celebrate at your house

Your girl are so neat to help you, your such an inspiration to them.

Hello from Romania! I like your enthusiasm! God bless you!

I appreciate your willingness to honestly show us what your house really looks like BEFORE cleaning and decluttering! I myself try not to have clutter laying around, but working 5-6 days a week/11 hr midnight shifts, sometimes it's just too much! I usually watch these before I fall asleep to motivate me to do like you on my days off. You have taught me it's ok for a home to be lived in, but to also have the motivation to do something about it when I have the time 🤗

Hi there looks like you were really cleaning before your guests arrived! It looks very pretty! I love the twinkling lights in the kitchen & all the decorations very pretty! I'm going to celebrate my Birthday today I'm 73yrs we'll probably go out to eat or get a roasted chicken or something! You have a very Happy & Healthy New Year! 😊 ♥️🫂🎊🥳🎉

Love this ❤️

Last year I broke my ankle right after Christmas! Our tree was up until February! I just wasn’t able to deal with it. Plus, I got to enjoy my tree more because I was on the couch a lot! 😁 Will probably take ours down after the New Year.

I love your voiceovers! So cheerful!😊😊😊

I luv it too in the lavender scent

In Iceland we take down the Christmas decorations on the 6th of January when the last of the 13 Yule-lads goes back to the mountains. Then there are bonfires and fireworks and most of the lights are taken down. It´s a bit sad because it´s so dark but the holidays are then truly over and it´s time to focus on the new year.

Merry Christmas, Jodi! Love your cocoa and candy station!

Looks great! Thanks for keeping it real! Working on more decluttering... You are right... It is ongoing! Happy New Year!

You make it look so so effortless cleaning your home. Happy New year 🎉. Thank you for being you.

Your house looks really nice. Hope you had a Merry Christmas.

Jodi I always look forward to your videos. Love your laugh and upbeat personality. Donna Jean is a hoot, jumping in to get on camera. What an awesome helper she is. Hope you have a great new year!! You're come so far and inspire me to keep going. Hugs.

Merry Christmas and happy new year. I loved It when you decluttered your whole kitchen, can you do it again in 2023 .

Your house looks so welcoming. You have the right amount of decorations out. Enjoyed the video. Look forward to all the new ones in the future.

Jodi you are doing a fantastic job, your house looks beautiful.

Congratulations to you!! You have done an amazing job on your house 😊 Merry Christmas 🎄

You really have come so far Jodi. Your house is so beautiful. Always love to see your sidekick Donna Jean. Also love seeing Clarke. He looks so soft and fluffy.

Hi Jody, hope you had a great holiday, I’m loving Clarke, he is such a cutie, have an awesome New Years.

Merry 🎄 🇨🇽 🎅 🌲 Christmas! House looks great. Can't wait to see what is ahead. Donna Jean and Clarke along with you are so fun!

I bet everybody was proud of your accomplishments with the decluttering this year!❤🎉😊

Hope you have fantastic New Year's! Can't wait to see what you do in 2023!

Aaah my Jodi fix💓. Merry Christmas to you and your family I hope you had a great time. I love my Shark cordless hoover, wouldn't be without it. Ditched the corded one. Anyhow as usual another great video I wish you Happy Hogmanay from Scotland. All the best for 2023. 🥳🥳🥳

When I was a teen/ preteen, we used to have family yard day in the Spring. Where everyone helped clean/spruce up the yard for a few hours one day.

That sink looks amazing

You absolutely flew through the cleaning, well done. I would not class those wood floors dirty at all but I know the difference is we wear our shoes inside (plus we’ve 3 cats, who don’t get on and a dog that thinks she’s a cat 😂) and that brings a lot of dirt. The habits is a great idea and seems very doable too. We were so bad with the decorations this year they only went up the week before Christmas but we usually take them down 6th January (Little Women’s Christmas). Every year I say I will be organised but this year has to be my worst. Delighted you got to host both families, you are amazing. Clarke is gorgeous 🦮 Wishing you all a happy, healthy and peaceful 2023. Mary, Joes wife 🙇‍♀️👏👍💪🙏🤞💐🐈‍⬛🐈🦮

ABSOLUTELY LEMON FABULOSO!!!! My fav!!!! Merry Christmas Jodi I love both your channels so much!! I’m so grateful for you and your channels!!!

Jodi your home is smashingly turning into a wonderful cozy environment that is soo inviting. I enjoy watching your channel and your family and Clark. He's so adorable. I love your British accent 😂

It was great Jodi. Thank you for asking.

Jodi ,I put my Christmas decor up the day after Thanksgiving and I took it down the day after Christmas. I just can’t seem to keep my house clear with all the Christmas stuff, so I was anxious to get things cleaned up. You little plant will spring back is you cut the yellow off and let it get lots of the south sun. I love my cordless shark vac, it sure makes vacuuming quicker, and I’m with you I love my shark vacuums and yes my stick is top heavy, but it’s ok. Jodi you are so funny about mopping your floors, I love your attitude.

Hope you & your family had a wonderful Christmas Jody. Happy New Year. Looking forward to all the backyard fun with the puppy dog.

I just adore you all. It looks wonderful. Hi Donna Jean ❤❤❤❤❤❤ Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 🥳

I hope yall had a wonderful Christmas 🎄

New here and from UK, looking forward to your videos x

I bought a lightweight stick vac as the shark is too top heavy for me. 🎄

Your home is beautiful! Great job!

Jodi I just love you! I look forward to your cheerful voice each video and think, boy she's just so cute 🤣 thank you for your frank honesty, your get going personality, and your simple "hey this is how I do it, you don't have to do it this way, but I do and I like it so..." thanks for being you in a world of light steppers. Thanks for being real.

Oh I most definitely mop my hardwood floors. Like several times a week. I have dogs that are indoor outdoor and they are messy. Lol I use my spray Bona dust mop type thing and make my own cleaner mix to use in it..

Clarke is such a cutie! Thomas will teach Clarke how to interact. My cats beat the ornery out of the puppies. They learned, but even after 13 years, the cats will still have to give the occasional whack or head bite! Lol! My cleaning project today was my fridge. Ugh! All expired yogurt, cottage cheese, cheeses, lunch meats, sad looking fruits and veggies, and 6 packages of bacon are gone. It filled up 2 huge garbage bags. (I guess I hoarded cheese and bacon!) I also washed the shelves, and drawers. Feeling accomplished. Thank you for the weekly inspiration! Not sure what you're trying to do in the back yard for Clarke, but if it includes picking up dog poo, do it daily. So much easier. I have several poop choppers. I bought them at Farm and Fleet. Has a handle, a lever to open the chopper, and a long pole. Picks up everything, and I don't have to get close to the poo! Lemon Fabuloso is my favorite as well. Washed my hardwood floors with it Monday. Your Donna Jean is a pip! Such a sweet young lady!

Thanks for sharing I just wanted your other videos putting your Christmas decorations down. Have a wonderful night God bless 🙌 🙏 ❤️

Getting Christmas put away today. Looking forward to the new year. Lots of new habits to be made. I hope you had a wonderful holiday. Love Clarke 🐶 adorable.

Hi, I love green apple fabulous. It smells so good

Mr. Clean, the blue one is my favorite. Happy New Years!

Took my decorations down yesterday. Feels good

I have never made new year's resolutions because I know damn well I won't keep them. However I do set 'new day' resolutions every day. Each day I set a task that I want to do, then set out to do it, sometimes it takes all day and sometimes a few minutes. When I do one big task that can take a week, its done by taking little steps every day. I can't run around like a whippet any more so I have to plan. New day, new resolution for that day.

Hope you had a lovely Christmas with the family! happy New Year - so looking forward to following your journey...

In catholic parts of Germany Three Kings Day (January 6) is a holiday. But it is pretty common to put down the Christmas stuff on That day in all parts of Germany

Your plant is a dieffenbachia and they don`t like to be overwatered. If the soil is dry about an inch down lightly water it, but don`t make it soggy. In winter keep in light and turn it every now and again., but in summer it can handle less light. And make sure the pot has good drainage.

Hi! 💕 We had a wonderful Christmas. My Mom usually hosts Christmas and this year she had 30 Family members and 1 Friend of her Grandson. It’s always beautiful but I’m so tired after it all. It really takes a lot to clean up her formal event. We had lots of laughter and conversation. I usually take my tree down the next day after Christmas but this year I’m wondering if I should wait for my son to get home in early February. Of course I just don’t know if I can deal with it that long. Really enjoy Seeing you and your daughter together. It I always makes me smile. ~ Janet 😘

I like to set monthly goals towards resolutions!

Happy New Year!!!

The way I squealed when you said you were hosting!! So happy for you!

I started watching your videos this week. Thank you for sharing your journey! It inspired me to get down to my basement and clean it up. Just a couple hours at a time, it’s the best advice and is really helping a lot. I’m making real progress instead of being overwhelmed and frozen. ❤ bless you!

Clark is sooooo precious...I just love him !!!!!

I hope you and your family have a happy, healthy new year💕

I can hear you slipping into your English accent...makes me think of British TV shows (love Doctor Who and Masterpiece Theater). Busy crocheting for the past few days on several projects. Love your videos!

I need to get do to something like this too I need find that sitrus cleaner I hope we have it here 🤔

Jodi you have come so long, I’m so F proud of you ❤ from the bottom of my heart, thank you for letting us in your fantastic family ❤ Me and my bf just took down the Christmas tree and decorations, we host Christmas this year and it was amazing and very chilled, I liked it very much ❤

I definitely focused more on my habits this year, and it's crazy how easy it is to do things now that seemed so impossible this time last year! I also like to choose a word for the year. My word this past year was Light. I wanted to feel lighter, be the Light, bring lightness to others, etc. It helped to see my word posted on my mantle every day. Love you and your channel and your entire personality!

Love the video. Your home looks amazing!! About your plant situation; trim off yellow/dead leaves. Dieffenbachia thrives in humidity, also it is highly toxic to animals.

Hi Jodi. I'm was surprise when Clark wasn't barking at vaccum. My 2 dogs bark like crazy. Alway nice to see Donna Jean.

I've been watching you and Dana K White on decluttering for quite a while. The problem is, I've just been watching! I finally started on Christmas Eve. I live in Ohio and we had a bad storm starting the day before so the family gathering was delayed...maybe it will happen in a week or so. The most impactful thing you said was "I want my house to be consistently clean enough that I'm never embarrassed".

Jodi, tell your family to say "it smells Fabuloso!" Lol! Happy New Year!!

I'm new :D Great video. I love your enthusiasm and cheer :D

Hi Jodi! Do you have a plant pot inside of the white pot? Take the inside pot out, water your plant and leave it in the sink to drain. Then put it back in the white pot. Water at least once a week.

My son was in the same room when I started watching this and heard you talking about your decluttering journey. He then said ‘so this lady declutters, decorates and cleans? Is she your best friend?!’ Haha. Merry xmas and a happy new year Jodi!xx

U cleaned with a breeze. U have done so good this past year. Goals or resolutions I think set us up for failure. I like your reasonable approach for your backyard. One step at a time. Glad u all had a great Christmas. My family dis also. Your plant cut the dead leaves off they r draining nutrients form the rest of the plant and u may need a bigger pot it could b toot bound.

Love spending time with my Jodi AJ is growing way to fast, your gurls are beautiful. I know I'm a week late, Ask me what I'v been doing, I have no idea. Did I see you give Clarke a kiss?

Fabuloso lemon

No lemon cleaners here. Can’t deal with lemon anything smell or taste! I use Mr Clean Gain scent. It’s so fresh and clean and everyone always remarks about the smell. Recently had to order on amazon. Was in a real panic when none of the stores around me had it! At least I have 4 extra large bottles now! Have a great New Year’s!

Clark is the cutest little floof ball ever 😍

You are delightful sweetheart, I loved this video and you are so precious 💖 Lotz of love from Italy♡ happy holidays♡

I have the same plant it needs lots of sun

Good day to you from this Mom of 6 here in Houston!!!! I am soooo happy to have found your channel & you are so fun to listen to....your video is awesome! We have 8 of us...tons of cats...2 dogs...& "a partridge in a pear tree"....LOLOL...thank you for this great video & HAPPY NEW YEAR to you & your family! XOXOXO

I started using the lemon fabuloso after one of your videos. It does smell amazing.

Hello, first time watcher

Plain & Simple….you are absolutely awesome! Relatable, kind & so willing to share your wealth of practical knowledge to help us navigate our lives♥️🙌🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

We leave our tree up until January 2nd, because we celebrate Christmas on January 1st. I have grown married children that use to always be in conflict with who to spend Christmas day with, so I told them all years ago that Christmas with us could be on January 1st. And they loved this!

Just found you. I enjoyed your video.

Jodi, I want to start doing my own videos doing kinda the same things you do. But I only have an iPad and no tripod. I can’t video tape myself. How did you start or what device did you start making KZfaq videos yourself.

Hi Jodi, That plant may like being in your windows in the eat-in area in your kitchen instead to get more light. Murphys oil soap is my favorite cleaning product scent old school I know. 😁😂Happy New Year!

You have a beautiful home

Hi i was wondering how the old Gus room is looking now. I dont think you have shown it lately. And I know you see it and the entryway as soon as you enter

Jodi, for my work I get to go in alot of homes to see people's pets. One of the things I have seen alot of the Spanish women do is use fabulouso like a poopourri scented liquid !! My the house smells amazing ! I'm not saying this is a good thing but man their houses smelled just as clean as they looked !

Beautiful Christmas stuff. As far as plant. Is that the spot you have had it in ? Could be to much or to little light . Maybe try putting somewhere else to see if that helps. Also depends on your heat situation how much you need to water it 🤔 Hope it helps

Hi, Jodi! 👋 Decluttering is great. BUT when surgery happens going backwards is inevitable. Still only allowed to do dishes for household chores. Lifting is limited to 5-10#s depending on pain with it. But I'm allowed to drive again. Car door is problematic with wind blowing. But I'm on e again able to go out. Which is big. Hopefully by middle of January I'll be able to start doing more again. I agree that habits are better than goals as goals are often changeable and can seem unattainable depending on the obstacles we must face without warning. Planning for 1 hour a week working in backyard is very attainable. Clark is barking because he doesn't think his crate area should be vacuumed. That's his personal space. To break that, try vacuuming it every week and tell him before you start, "Clark, time to clean your area,too." - that should help him realize that it's ok. Your first floor looks great! Double hosting days...wow. Donna Jean you did great! Jodi, you do seem way more relaxed even before this video. I think it's helped a lot to get things more manageable around the house. We always did our hardwood floors, too.

Most of the stick vacuums with the bin on the top are top heavy .

I know exactly what you mean, my niece always says our home smells like chemicals & she knows it’s a clean house😂

House tour!! Please

Gee built in house cleaner is Donna Jean snd you don’t have to pay her. She is a keeper 😀

Hello! New here-Cleaning With Gabbi mentioned you, so I came to check it out!

Still have decorations as of Jan 1 st .