You should definitely make this a series! One hour better.

I love that Dana repeated "Where would you look for it for first?" after Ms. Gardenia said "This SHOULD be under the printer where the other printer supplies go." Where things should go does not mean that is where we would look first.

This was a fun one. I’d like to see more like this.

I. Love. This. Video! Please do more. Congrats to Ms Gardenia for tackling her clutter. And many thanks to Reid for slowing the end credits! You’re a gem, Reid.

Great reasoning on those gum containers, ladies. Don’t get caught up with “someone could use this” thinking on every single decision. That’s a recipe for mental fatigue. It’s OK to just pitch some stuff & move on.

"Go put them there while I talk about you." The sass level is PERFECT, Dana.

So great that her donateables were able to go to the teacher's lounge to help other classrooms. I think that would make it a little easier to donate.

I love your "better" theme. It has inspired me to feel better if I get SOMETHING done, and let go of the guilt when I see more that needs to be done. Better is good for sure. Thank you so much for this simple idea!

Her comment “little boys love eyeballs” 😂😂. Sounds about right (fellow SLP here).

Please come back and do another hour with her. Tackling the less easy stuff in a classroom. Clutter is like weight: the last "10 lbs" is the hardest to address. Watching/listening to your thinking process is SO helpful to us! Especially since you were a teacher. Just. Wow.

"Where would I look for this first".....This is a game-changer, such a simple question, that puts things in order lighting fast! I not only use this at home but at work when I"m sorting emails into separate folders for instance. I just wanted to say thank you. The container concept is pretty cool too, but the questions are AWESOME!! Thank you for the videos :)

You need to do a teacher series! We have a lot of paper clutter, materials, and bags. I started decluttering this school year.

Love this! And, as a crocheter/ crafter who has worked at thrift stores (and loves thrift stores in general), i can guarantee you that crafters love buying craft stuff from thrift stores. That's where i usually go for yarn and other craft stuff. (and yes, it is ever. so. much cheaper than at regular craft stores). and, totally chuckling at the Editorial commentary at the end ;). i am a ponytail/ ho make up person, so never would have noticed! ;)

This was amazing Dana. Your ‘container concept’ and pertinent questions are life changing, even for this retired grandmother. Helpful hint for YOU Dana, - when cutting out items on a large sheet, such as those laminated pages, cut away the entire excess margin first. This makes it less awkward to then cut each individual piece. 💝

You can tell, just by watching this, how much both these ladies LOVE their jobs. And people who LOVE their jobs EXCEL at them! Anyone lucky enough to have one of these ladies' expertise and enthusiasm in their lives is blessed!

Dana, I love your question "where would I look for it first". I find myself using that all the time. This morning I was looking for a lunch bag size, brown bag. I asked myself the question and said I would look in the craft box in the garage. Sure enough...that's where I keep them. I also use the container as space available now. So helpful. I have read Decluttering at the Speed of Life and am reading your first book now. Thanks for all the insight!

Thank you for slowing down the editor's comments at the end:)

Applying your strategy with someone else made what you have been teaching come to life. 👏💡

Love seeing a teacher declutter!!! Also, you can tell Dana used to be a teacher bc she got on cutting that lamination!!!

She was a really good student! Some of Cass’ vertical wall organizers would help clear up her desk papers

as an SLP graduate student and an aspiring minimalist, THIS VIDEO IS PERFECT!!

Take those gum containers home and use them to store Q-tips in your travel bag! They also fit compact tampons perfectly for your purse.

Omg loved this! As a kindergarten teacher I can totally relate to how quickly things can pile up and get cluttered. Definitely look forward to more videos like this 😍

I’m not a teacher but I loved this!! I wanted to help her finish the entire room!

I work in Education too...this can be so challenging for some people because everything is useful. It makes me so happy to see you doing this for an SLP! SLPs are amazing and so are you Dana! Also great tips. Thanks!

I love this! Teacher hoarding is a real thing (guilty 1st grade teacher here). Love the one hour format. Feel free to come to my classroom!

What a feeling of satisfaction to watch that space improve. Thanks for your great content. Your videos are so tight now ! Really enjoyable to watch.

Great work! Some teacher is gonna walk in the thrift store and find a goldmine! Edit Oh thats a good idea giving it to other teachers at her school!

Seriously! I follow BOTH these amazing ladies. I am an SLP and appreciated this video greatly. And I love Dana’s everything. Follow on her home decluttering site, own two of her books, follow on you tube! Do more with Ms Gardinia!

My house looks neat, clean and tidy...until you open my three guest room closets! I've decluttered other area of my house, but have been putting off these closets because, while they are not quite Monica closets, they are overwhelming and I don't know where to start. Today I filled two plastic grocery bags full of trash and found several items to donate from one of the closets. It's a long way from done, but better than when I started. I think not feeling like I have to complete a whole closet makes the task of decluttering less overwhelming and more manageable. I keep repeating, "Not perfect, but better!"

Omg! Thank you, Dana & Ms Geranium!!! 💕❤️💋😇. AWESOME, such great clarity! 💕today did 5 minutes here & there & loved saying, “It’s better!”...so easy/breezy! Thank you, Dana!

Procrasticlutter is a perfect word! I’m going to remember that along with the ‘silent to do list’

These are brilliant! I love the "One Hour Better" idea. PLEASE do more of these! M

Please please PLEASE do more classrooms!! I've been beyond inspired by you and Dawn the Minimal Mom and as a new teacher (and kid of a teacher-hoarder filled family) I want to extend this best version of myself into my classroom environment! More tips!!! Eeek!!!

I LOVED this video! I loved it even more seeing your hair all up on your head. That is how we ALL look when we are really decluttering! I didn’t know you were once a teacher! Keeping a home and a classroom organized is really a long task.

I wanted to tell you that I introduced my husband to your method this weekend. We tackled our tool drawer in the kitchen together. Took about 30 minutes. He was confused at first about the wisdom of "take it there now," but in the end, he agreed that the method reduced anxiety about the process, and that the questions are a good framework for us to declutter together.

I have been going back looking at some of your old videos and I have to say you are my very favorite (declutterer)? You are like a festivus for the rest of us. those who aren't perfect and keep recluttering and don't put things where they are supposed to go. But your home has definitely come a long way which gives me hope. .. Just keep practicing what I am learning... Do those dishes every day, throw away those pens that don't write, 5 minute quick clean up, etc. Thanks, you are very inspiring. And I am making my home BETTER.

I had to watch this on repeat 3 times in a row. I have read your book “Decluttering at the Speed of life” 8 times front to back. But seeing the process is very satisfying. Thank you.

I’m so happy you did this! Not just for us, but to help her!

I’ve been wanting a video of how to declutter a classroom. There is always a use for everything. I like how you started on the floor. I can use the where would I look for it and if it doesn’t fit get rid of something method. Thanks

I would love to see more of these! I'm not a teacher, but it is helpful seeing how a bigger project gets tackled.

It sometimes seems like schools hire SLPs just to have access to their stuff. I typically have to bring all of my own supplies and books, bc schools rarely give related service providers the resources nor budgets to acquire appropriate materials. So all of the stuff she has in there? I have to store it in my 800 sq ft home. 😬😳

Hi Dana! I am a SLP as well and a goal this past year was to declutter my room at school. I just kept asking myself, "Where is the first place I would look for this?" and I put it there immediately. No more piles for this girl! It helped tremendously! I also used the container idea and threw away and recycled a bunch of stuff because I just didn't have the space. As to why the SLP in the video didn't put stuff away...it's because she was probably writing an IEP. The paperwork required is cuh-razy! Great job you two!

I’m an SLP and I LOVED this video!!

OMG! She must be my twin! 😂 I am an SLP and I have been working on my speech room also. Bags of animals and crayons -the struggle is real. I always have Dana's questions in my head as I declutter. This video was like watching myself. Very validating.

I’m an SLP too! She is lucky to have a room to work in. Not all of us get that luxury. Also she seems to have a budget to acquire all of that stuff, again us SLPs are often left out of being allowed a budget. I got one once it was $70. I got one book.

LOVE the classroom declutter! I could watch these all day

Loved this one! I’m a retired teacher & can SO relate to the impulse to keep everything b/c we are creative folks who can find ways to use stuff! I also love your video on “BETTER”! I almost didn’t watch it a couple of weeks ago but am so glad I did b/c now “BETTER’ is my watchword! Thanks a heap! [One of my issues is I always just buy more containers.] :)

Hi from a SLP in Melbourne, Australia! (we are nick named ‘speechies’ here) Just love Dana xx

1 hour and what a difference! Great video. P.S. Keepin; it real without makeup and hair. Love that!!!!!!!!!

Your videos motivate me so much. I think I have finally found what works for me, better not perfect. I suffer from anxiety and depression and my house gets out of control often. I have been watching decluttering videos for years and trying to follow some of the methods are very overwhelming and daunting and I really don't cope well with the 'it gets worse before it gets better' stage, it really sets off my anxiety and I just lose motivation and feel like a failure. I spent around an hour yesterday just focusing on better and asking all the questions and following through with putting it away now and it made so much difference. I loved how I could constantly see the progress being made. Thankyou so much. P.S please make this one hour better into a series

Oh I have been using this method with my house..... but now I am going to use it for my classroom. I teach children who are blind and we use tons of real objects and manipulative.... so everything is useful! 😱🤯 but now I will think of my spaces a containers that don’t need to over flow and should be edited down. I can’t thank you enough for your books (which I am reading for the second time) and your videos! Please keep doing more videos they are helpful!!!! 💜 PS if your ever in SC your welcome to declutter my classroom! 🤓😉

Good job, it was great seeing someone learning the process, and while she's doing it demonstrating normal behavior that created the clutter.

More of these, please! One hour and better where you work with a client!

I love this! It would be great if you do more of these helping other people, because it’s like you’re helping me! I have a bookshelf of puzzles in a bookshelf of books that are both overflowing. So if you have any friends that need help with those, that would be great. 😀

Teachers always need ideas and that process really helped me. I'm always having to organize and reorganize my office and supplies at school/in my library. Very very helpful. Thanks for thinking out loud and working through it. We don't always have more than an hour so that is perfect to tackle what we can when we can.

Love this ! Make it a series! As a teacher it’s so hard to accumulate! Gave me inspiration to declutter my classroom!

I never knew there was such a thing as an electric crayon sharpener! Also - thanks for the motivation to clean up my quarantine clutter! Having people over this weekend and really need to clean up my mess!

Well, Dana--if you're gonna be 7-out-of-10 sassy, then you gotta expect your progeny editor is gonna be, also!

Great job ladies ! Dana, I applaud you for not letting your friend, Ms Gardenia, be distracted by regret. What a wonderful life lesson for lots of things.

This was helpful in so many ways to me. I have gone back to school this summer after almost 20 years and I am considering becoming an SLP! Thank you for this awesome decluttering video and introducing Ms Gardenia!

I had to move offices last week as a school counselor and let me tell you, I thought I was doing good in being streamlined but I found more stuff to get rid of. This is such a good and needed series for educators. Thank you and good job

I love your t-shirts! I put in ear buds to clean while I listen, but I always watch a few minutes first to see what you have to "say" 💚😁

This was AWESOME!! I didn't believe this much progress could be made in even 20 minutes!!

You are hard core!😬 I’m a first grade teacher, and I’m moving to an instructional coach position, so from a classroom to an office. I need someone like you to show me some tough love!😂 P.S. I have the same gum containers!🤣

I have been looking for a channel that does just exactly what you are doing! Thank you!

This is a great workshop idea to help teachers declutter! This is a job my school must complete by the end of this school year! I will use this video to declutter my classroom. Thanks.

Dana, as a teacher, this video is amazing. You’re amazing.

Loved this video! Very helpful. Please do more videos like this in addition to all the other great videos you make. Love Reid’s commentary. Great tips on the processing of your thoughts and items. Can’t wait to see the next video. Blessings! ❤️

Procrasti-clutter...yeah, I have a bin labeled projects. It's where my projects go to die! 😩 Great video!!

Please do more like this. This is super helpful!

I love to see you applying your techniques this way! More like this please! TY

This was one of my all time favorite declutters!

That was SO motivating! We homeschool and I am trying to organize so this was extremely helpful.

Great visual walk through of your process! Thank you!

So nice having a mentor at your side. The overwhelm can kill ya!

Brilliant 👏! Loved this real life and time demonstration! Great 👍.

Loved, loved, loved this!

I love this idea! What a big difference an hour can make. Thank you thank you. And I love your last remarks, always so funny.

Your sons comments at the end of every video are always a lot of fun to read lol!

Awesome video! Really shows how easy it was to transform the space without making a bigger mess in an hour. Thank you for sharing. Would love to see more of these, they are so helpful and satisfying. Love your "Sass level" tshirt too!

I do love the comments at the end they always make me smile 😂 love the video, now going to find a spot to declutter 👍🏼

I loved this video! Sure, it's not the most technically flawless video ever posted, but the content in this is super. Seeing you walk through the decluttering questions in real life helped to reinforce them (again) in my brain, and seeing how much progress you made in such a short time was incredibly motivating. I particularly liked how you kept Darla from getting derailed by the desk project. Please make more of these!

I definitely used your strategies when I had to pack up my room. I tossed A LOT!

Please make this a series! It is so nice to see your method in action and in a short time frame. Keep it up girl!

Oh my gosh. I loved this video and you all crack me up. Thank you for sharing and being real!!!

Great video as always! Dana, you inspire me to clean!

Awesome! I’m a teacher too. I love the 1 hour limit! ❤️

My observations as a classroom teacher is that the profession attracts hoarders. ;) I constantly look to make the classroom more efficient. That led me to remove the teacher desk a decade or more ago. That is a huge clutter collector.

I love this!! So applicable for me. I'd love to see you work your process in classrooms or with other ladies in their homes!

Would love to see more of these type of videos!

This was great!!! More please

Thank you, Dana! As a preschool teacher, I struggle a lot with letting go of my books, teaching materials, and resources. Would you please consider making another video with tips and hints for preschool teachers? Many of us would greatly appreciate it! Thank you for your videos they have helped me a lot, it's mostly my paperwork and teaching resources that I don't know how to manage!

As a fellow teacher I find it really difficult to get rid of things that I think “might” be useful in the future. It’s always good to have a non teacher with you because they can see the non value of things we think are necessary.

I was away from home for a week and clicked on your channel for some motivation to pick up where I left off in my decluttering. This video is just what I needed to start getting back into the decluttering groove without the overwhelm. And I came home to a home that looked great (minus the library/office room with storage closet and boxes up the wall which is the next paper nightmare to be tamed), because of all of the work I did before I left. Thank you so much. I hope you do more of these one hour cleaning sessions. Thanks for editing it down to close to 15 minutes so I can grab the lesson without losing the other 45 minutes. I have about a 22-minute attention span. 💝

Oh, I love this, Dana! It was so helpful seeing you walk and talk through the process with someone who needed a little guidance. It reinforces the tips you've created and perfected. I hope you do more. You can come and help me!!!

Dana, you are a taskmaster!!! 😁

Dear Lord, please send me a friend just like Dana K. White ❤️

Great video! I love your container concept.

Thank you! I'm an SLP too, so this was really good!