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My mom collected all kinds of things, dolls, plates, Hummels. She kept them around and enjoyed them. But, once she died, no one wanted them. It all went to the thrift store. Your mom should enjoy whatever makes her happy now and let the rest go. Nice job! Loved the commentary by Levi. 👏🏻

When I want to sell something online, I do it right then, with one thing at a time. This has helped me a lot, instead of having a pile of things to sell and go through. One thing at a time helps me with actually making progress, because I can do one thing in 5 minutes, which is manageable, but a pile of things to list online is hours of work, which I don't have as often, so the piles just sat. If you're struggling to actually post the items for sale, try doing it one thing at a time. Happy selling!!

I LOVE your mom!! She’s awesome!!

I keep coming back to your videos. I love how you are doing this together. I read the comments and think it is important that your readers understand where your parents are coming from. We were taught to save and reuse or repurpose. It was wasteful not to. Then there are the memories that we have. It has been really hard these last few months learning to let go as we are moving. Some days I just want to sit and cry. You all need to give your parents time. I realize that my things are special to me and only me. So after I am gone my girls will just trash it all. The things I am keeping will hopefully end up in another home to enjoy just not my girls homes. They have taken much just not all and I understand that times have changed. Our collectibles are pretty much worthless as your Mom said in this video. Glad she can find an outlet. Thank you ladies for these videos. They are helping me to let go. We are down to the wire after 38 years in this home and 56 years of married life we are going to a brand new home in just a couple weeks. I cheated today. I loaded up all my closets and just moved them all to the new house and hung everything up in my new walk in closet to deal with another day. Baby steps I will do it just not yet. Glad you can do it together. Thanks again for the comment that sometimes you have to wait for another day.

Love the mom & you videos, they are so much fun. Your mom is such a hoot, the belly dancing garb was fun.

Shannon - I know this video is several months old and while I watched it when you first posted it, I recently watched it again. Something you said in this video really helped me declutter things my grandchildren played with when they would visit/stay with me. I was worried they’d be upset if I got rid of certain things. But, that wasn’t the case. There were a few things they wanted for their memory boxes they have at their house. However, for the most part, I was the one who had the memory and struggled letting things go (similar to the baby doll your mom kept because she remembered you carrying it around). I’m not sure if you’ll even see this comment, but you and your mom have helped me so much. 😊

Shannon! Your face when you were talking about the Paddington Bears possibly being worth something, and your mom started them on a conversation about marmelade 😂😂😂 I watched that three times; it was so funny!! Anyway, great videos; I love when you both are in your videos!

For the favorite photos, my Mom has a digital photo frame that you can play a slide show of the photos. Digitizing photos and negatives are a great way to organize and reduce all those albums. Great job ladies👍👏

I'm going through my stuff at the moment and ask myself, 'What will the kids do with this when I'm dead?' 99% will go to bin or charity. I owe myself the time and freedom to get rid now

It's so funny you brought the old collectible barbies out in the video because I am having a yardsale and I just sold several of mine from when I was a kid. I will say though that the went pretty high! I was pleasantly surprised!

your mom is the sweetest

I am in my late twenties and obsessed with Swedish Death Cleaning 🧹 #lifestyle

I think this is great your mom and you are doing this together! My mom now has dementia and so I can’t really go through all her things with her. It’s important to do this for yourself and with your parents.

"please never wear that" 😅ahahah i love where you are both of you together , so funny lovely mother daughter moments 🥰💕

Shannon, I went through all my photos, decluttered doubles etc. and took them all out of the albums and put them in one box a little bigger than a shoe box with dividers. They are marked as children by name, extended family, our house, holidays, old photos etc. I keep it on the bench in the office and can grab it at any time to look at. No more storing albums that are all different and don't look the same, it's great! Best wishes to you and your mum from Jo in Australia xx

All my sentimental, and extras are all in our garage marked and up on shelves. We found places for so many things. Scrap here in Portland is amazing place to pass on useful things. Extra bikes were passed on to support people with less. Consignment took tons, three boxes per appointment. And I’m close to retirement. Yes!

Love the accountable factor and reasoning when you two get together...informational and very entertaining!

My dad passed away nearly on year ago. My mom is still alive, and decluttering their home after 75 years of their marriage, very very difficult. And, we are moving at her pace. She attaches past value on everything. Consequently, I have boxes of collectibles in my basement, knowing it's best to remove from her house, but she insists they will sell for $$$. Probably, one day, I will simply donate. It's been very hard.

It really helps to do that together. When I was able to go through things with my daughter and talk about them, it was so much easier to then let them go. It’s astonishing to never think again about those things that used to be so important to keep. 😁

I sold 60 of the Danforth Mint collectible plates in 2012 at a church sale. they were worth less than $1 each. After my mom died these companies still keep sending me advertising. Sad thing, they had never been out of the boxes. I don't quilt because no one wants quilts that I know, and daughters in law want their mother's things, not too interested in mine. If your grandchildren or children didn't make memories with these belongings, they are meaningless just because they belonged to a relative your hardly knew. Sad but true. You both inspire me and many others I am sure.

I think your mom and mine would have been best friends!! Same hilarious personality! My mom once dressed up in my school uniform and came into the classroom. The nun cracked up !! Good memories...Cherish yours!!

I love your channel so much, Shannon. You have the most practical, straight to the point, fun content. ❤ I also love when you do videos with Mom. You guys are a blast together. ❤

We're going through some issues with my mom...she insist on leaving everything she's got for us to take care of...she's 87 and doesn't have the capacity to start the process....being a minimalist for 8 years now...I'm preparing myself to have to one day deal with her stuff...we've tried and still trying to change her mindset but I fear she's too set in her ways to change at this time...so glad my husband and I tackled our stuff while we could

It’s so neat you and your mom can go through these items from your past together. I didn’t get the opportunity to do that with my mom she passed away suddenly 18 years ago. I would love to see a video of you going through all your photos and photo albums and what you do with them.

OMG this is why I have so much stuff - I'm forever in limbo and put things back bc I'm overwhelmed! But watching this, I'm sighing, "Just pitch it - you aren't using it and you are keeping it prisoner in a dark space!" So now I am motivated to just pitch it all - even if it may fetch some cash on eBay, it's not worth my time and effort to keep it stored for an imaginary buyer!! - oh, and I love the cooing of the little one in the background, so sweet.

Love you & your Mum decluttering videos She is so much fun 🤩 😂❤

LOL Levi saying " declutter go ahead declutter"🤪🤣😅! Your doing great better to declutter little by little it's less overwhelming! Went through all my photos and I was amazed at how many I decluttered! Take care and sending hugs from Ontario Canada🍃🍀💚🍂🍁🧡

"20 minutes of looking through some stuff, making some decisions" -best comment in the video

I love your mom so much.

Always love the videos with Mom! 💙

your mother is so.....funny!!! love to see her on your video's she is real with her reactions on decluttering

My mom is also a creative lady who has kept a lot of things for a long time because she sees potential in those things. I am also an only child/minimalist and my children are both boys. It was fun to see this process modeled with you guys. It will hopefully go as smoothly for my mom and I when she is ready. ( she is still keeping all of my Barbies and other baby dolls too).

Great content! I have worked off and on with my photo albums. You have inspired me to dive back in to them this winter and just save the best of the best

Love this videos with your mom. I'm doing this to with my 18 year old dauther now, i'm 55 and have decluttering my things for some years now. Keep up the god work, you are doing a great job and are a Big inspiration❣️Love Jannike, Sweden 🇸🇪❤️

I'm 61 now and yes it feels so overwhelming 2 sort thru everything! Lots of WORK! 😩. However, it warms my heart 2 watch U n Ur sweet Momma spend time together! "Time" is priceless! I Always enjoy watching Ur videos because they make me smile n laugh! These days r so special 4 U both because U will always remember the laughter! Thanks 4 sharing! It's Always a process! Keep up the good work! 👏👏👏👍💞 🥰🥰

Great video. Nice that you and your mom can do this together so you aren’t stuck will an over whelming amount of stuff later on.

Go Shannon and Mom!! :)

So well done!

Thank you!! I’m getting brave by watching you letting go. Blessings

This is really great that you can go through and enjoy talking about these things and what they mean/meant and have a good laugh. I call all collectibles beanie babies - my late MIL collected so many and they’re all worthless because everyone else collected them too! Funny thing was that the 1980s Japanese Sanrio toys they got their kids are actually worth 10x what they paid for them. I just sold those and they were so much more popular than the stuff we were told to save because it would be “valuable” some day.

Loved this!!

Well done. I have the same problem with picture albums. Exhausting

You two are so funny.

I completely love your videos, ST, and I recommend them to others. But 60s is NOT old! Good gravy. It's still middle-aged. People re living into their 90s and 100s now. (I especially love the videos with your mom in them! Though I don't think we've ever learned her name.) 💜

Most collectibles that are actually valuable are things made pre-mass production. Good examples are toys, baseball cards, etc.

I’m sure I said this before, but your mom is the best! So radiant and fun!

I am I am about your moms age, in my family my daughter who is your age is the sentimental one, and I can donate anything… I Swedish death cleaned 5 years ago, I sold all my vintage Barbie’s from the early 60s I did very well and made a lot of $$$ , but did donate all my other collectibles.. in the 80s everyone collected, now not so much…. I wish I had the money I spent on collectibles now😂 Photos was one of my last decluttering projects, I did the same thing took a lot of photos out of albums and put in a photo storage box, I only have about 5 albums now and the storage box

Great episode and lots of really useful comments 🇬🇧💙

Wow, your mum is doing so well! And the belly dancing- brilliant!!!!! Xx

I was the only one who watched hoarding and minimalism on a regular basis for sometime now on YT. They have seen me watched those shows and bunch of youtubers. I have influenced my mom, sis, bro and nephew to declutter. Nowadays my mom who is 82 has been into cleaning most times but all the more now. I dont think we would be extremely minimal but we are mindful of all the things we have now and downsizing and decluttering and cleaning a lot. It is nice to see you and your mom spend time together while accomplishing a lot. 👍🏻💕

Well done, ladies! Another good video!

I recently sold my daughters cabbage doll and got $80, plus messsges from People that said they would pay more than $80, so when you sell the clothes Ck each one, you might have a small gold mine 😮

Some of the Holiday Barbies have kept their value better than the other things

I recently took the photos out of my 8+ albums and whittled them down to about two photo boxes. Then I started doing the same with all of my parents’ photos. I counted and have literally 50 boxes of family photos, memorabilia, and genealogy from the past 120+ years that my dad collected.

"((Sigh)).....I'd rather you decide what you want to do with it..." Shannon...your sweet and polite way to opt out of inheriting doll figurines😅 I'll remember this the next time I find something that holds no value to our now 22 yr old daughter..... This "mom nostalgic keepsakes saga" is a real thing! Both my husband's parents and my sweet Mom have these mini newborn baby dolls that fit into your hand. Honestly, and not to be unkind, but they are a bit creepy to me. They cover the entire dresser top in the guest room at my in-laws house. Among too many other things to even count. It really was a popular thing to collect in the 90's too. So. MANY. Collections. And believe you me, they have no plans to get rid of them. There are many in my extended family who would faint in shock at the thought of letting collectibles or any handmade item go. I am more attached to cards or paper notes etc but not antiques i. e. Coin collections and the like...I just really, do not care about these things. I'm just so um... simply minimal. This is so important to face though, truly. Go you!! To both of you! 😉

I was going to mention Beanie Babies as I have around 20 of them. I collected them because they were adorable but at the time certain ones were going to be valuable. A few years ago I sold most of them and haven’t thought twice about it. I just kept two as they were more sentimental. I also collected Cherished Teddies which were the cutest little figurines. I don’t know what to do with them as I still think they’re adorable but I have boxed them all up?????🥰😂

Great job! Dolls, trains, beanie babies, hummels, longaberger baskets, albums, etc. etc. etc.....

Hi ladies, I know I shouldn't be thinking of this but I LOVE THAT BENCH !!! ( for hidden storage lol). That's how I get overwhelmed so easy because I try to work in an area then it turns into a never-ending rabbit hole. It's so mentally draining 😣

My friends and I were those crazy Beanie Baby collectors! I still have a wicker tall laundry basket full of them. Now my grandkids play with them! Memories! ❤

Your mom was like mine...spent tons of money on stuff...collectables...boy...to have had that money when dhe got older to care for her would have been a blessing.

The knitting project looks like a baby blacket to me rather than a shawl! Always love videos with your mom!

Yay good job🙌

Awww FINISH IT!!! Go ahead mom finish it and show the finished Shaw or blanket or what we it was going to be!

You can have photos put in a book. Then they can be out on the coffee table to actually look at.

The collection thing really makes me cross how they get you. Vinyl pops are now the things. How many home are filled with those in boxes! 🤦‍♀️

Your parents house looks huge!

I use to collect a few things but have gotten rid of all of them years ago. I always think....what a waste of money. Wish I would have been smart and saved my money. I actually parted with a few sentimental things this past year ..3 of my dolls I had and a few other things. I was really sentimental but it wasn't out of control....a couple of bins. I've gone through all of that many times...little things here or there. Most was paper.

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every family member should have a memory keepsake box

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You both are so cute together😊😊

Love You Girls 💞

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Hi there sweetie pie hope you are well great ideas love your videos and your Mum love from Eugenie your friend xxx 💪🌞💖🏡

Yes it was the era of collectibles. My parents started buying me those madam Alexander dolls from around the world in the 70s. They were supposed to be worth so much. I put them with a bunch of stuff for an auction. I had no desire to ever have those dolls. I had baby dolls that yes I was attached to. Those I kept. They were my babies when I was little. Those will be the things I have till I die

I have Hummel's that my Mom and I bought for my daughter (one every Christmas) - she doesn't want them. Mom has passed - so I am storing them - go figure. Let us know if the collectibles sell.

Full of surprises!!! Belly Dancing 💃 🎊 🎉 Danya

I feel sick when I total up all the wasted money for material stuff I could have had a lot of money for travel and retirement

What happened with the room repainting?

Please never wear that. LOL

Collectibles only mean something to the person who collects them and company that made money off of us by convincing us we needed them. If you love it great go for it but just remember no one else will want these collections we have amassed. And they are never going to be worth more than you paid for them but always less. All of that clutter used to be cash.

Those Christmas Barbies ARE valuable. The rest of the random dolls, no

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Your mom is very beautiful you look like her 😍

She's not getting rid of much....

Sell, sell, sell