I love your bedroom, it’s so peaceful. Please share tips on “adjusting attitudes”

Yay! I’ve been waiting for this series!

This Playlist link works, but the one in the description doesn't. Thanks for the Motivation Dawn!

Binge watching 👀

Dawn, these colab videos are great. BUT they are all 20-30 minutes long. I want to see them all, because everyone has great ideas. But I just don’t have the time! I wish you had picked some rooms for each week of March, like you did in January. And then come back in April to organize the rooms. I now see that you show your chapters, but no one else has so far. Just long half hour videos that I listen to while I do other stuff sometimes. It’s very stressful for me not to be able to see it

A 12 day old baby makes me cry over anything! Even happy or sad. I always feel most tired at 12-15 days old, the adrenaline is wearing off. Enjoy your newborn, it’s a special time. Glad for dawn too, our house is much simpler now then it was when I had fewer kids. I have 9 now and they are all home! But I don’t feel overwhelmed because I keep everything so simple

Agree with Susie. Lol, that is such a wonderful but exhausting time. Enjoy these moments because man, the more kids you have the faster it goes. I feel like I blinked and #4 was no longer a baby.

Congrats on your baby. Be easy on yourself. ❤️

Yes! My #4 is 18 days old and I went through severe “nesting” before he was born. We decluttered SO MUCH stuff. I don’t know how we had it all. But if it wasn’t for these videos, I would be so anxious because of how messy/unorganized everything would be.

Awww, congratulations on ur new baby. "The Minimal Mom" is fantastic for all of us! She breaks down "home management" concepts easily & comes across as such a genuinely nice soul.

I LOVE that she doesn’t pretend to be perfect at this! Gives me hope for myself.

Definitely! 💜

Yes! I went through just the kitchen today and ended up with an entire box!

So true!

Agreed!!!!

Yep! There's always stuff we don't use or fit into anymore

I have actually, in 55 years...never stored anything under my bed...that never has occurred to me to use it as storage space...that is like storing things under the couch...! lol!

@@DH-qz2so We store the extra table leaves and some weights under the couch. We used to store canned food under our first couch as newlyweds too.

I loved that part too :D Dawn, you're such a great mom!!

I loved that part too. Usually it's my attitude that needs adjusted though 😬

I love that saying....will use it with my kids!!!

I lol'd too 😅. I have no children but thought of our childhood. At home that would have meant we saw the belt, sandal come out to straighten the attitude. I understand that's not what it meant for Dawn. I can laugh now bc it's in the past 😂

I love this about her too!!! I just started watching her videos yesterday and I love them all so far!! She talks us through her process and let’s us know that we CAN change our thought process about so many THINGS

@@amberdecerio oh thank you to express that.. :) so empowering, :)

I do that too.

I love your channel! It’s so awesome to see your specialized tips as a recovering hoarder. Thank you for sharing your journey. ♥️

I love these videos. I am not much into KZfaq but started watching last month and my life has never been more peaceful

I have been a minimalist for 2 years now and I declutter on a weekly basis...the more you declutter the more you declutter, because you are more and more critical about the stuff you have in your house. And it may surprise you, you will never get rid of everything you have no matter how often you declutter, it could go on forever

I heard someone say recently that we have a lot of ways in which things come into our homes and very few ways that things leave our homes which really helped put things into perspective for me. Periodic decluttering is always necessary because we’ll always be outgrowing things we have in our homes and needing to pare down or replace things, but decluttering gets a whole lot easier once you’ve gone through and done an initial deep declutter

Women & Children's Shelter✔

@@darcyrobb3692, I’d make sure they can accept open products.

@@dorothyyoung8231 Yes. Here in B.C. Canada🇨🇦 Our Youth Center & Womens Shelter & homeless shelter do take used + much of the time they will pour into a travel bottle- cleanliness is important & it's only body wash, shampoo, conditioner; when have nothing & shelters are low on funds it all helps

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Amen 💜

Write that's pretty judgemental. She always says it is an ongoing process. I find it helpful to see that even some one like dawn needs to do an onion process

The proverbial "Spring Cleaning!" ; ) Th, 03/04/2021

Good for you! Big boxes mean more stuff gone ☺️

Thank you!

Moving is such a great time to downsize on clutter!

Would love an update! 🙋

@Kim Gordon Hi, we did our move. While packing the old house, I set up an area with several boxes for donation. As I picked up an item, it either went into a box to go to the new house or it went into a donation box (or the trash if needed). Since I had to pull everything out of everywhere, I got to see just how much stuff I was holding on to. It was shocking! My mother's neighborhood conveniently had a group yard sale during that time, so I took many items to her house. (She also purged her house, too!) We sold a bunch, and whatever was left was driven straight to the donation center that day. I have majorly purged my home, but I am still decluttering. Like a couple of days ago, I found an old box of college work. I thought for sure I had gotten rid of all that! Sometimes, clutter will sneak up on you! 😉 Now, if I could just get my husband and kids on board! That is what I am working on now. I've done my stuff and the general house, which makes my husband happy. But all of his stuff is "useful." Ha! So it is always a work in progress! Enjoy your decluttering journey!

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He is still so cute 😍

In this case though, a lot of the items she donated had been gifted to her. There's not much we can really do about that.

Very true. Much harder with gifts. And I didn’t mean to sound critical of Dawn - love her. I just see a lot of decluttering stuff where people are still not addressing the stuff coming into the home or their shopping habits.

Here in Australia disadvantaged connubial are crying out for dibs of clothes including domestic violence shelters

Hi pregnancy buddy. I really need to too. I'm 31 weeks. I'm just so exhausted but I did get the living/play room done so it's ready to bring the swing back in.

I'm 32 weeks tomorrow, haven't had energy for months. I want to declutter so we can find space for baby, but it's mostly hubby's things that need to be gone through and weekends are the only time he can. Those are getting harder too with doctors appointments. He organizes in a different way than I do so it's frustrating to me, because I don't see the progress he does.

I am only 16 weeks and the nesting is REALLY bad (or good) this time. Ready to rip up flooring and get rid of stuff. With baby #4 we are going very minimal. We really need less inventory!

Yeah. I need a shovel and a wheelbarrow.

I’m in the process of decluttering my apartment. It’s mostly my sewing stuff! When I do go shopping, I see things that I’d like but I know I’d have to rid of something else. Usually I pass on buying. It saves me money and the time it takes to figure out how to get rid of the old items. It also saves me the time of shopping! I don’t do that very often anymore. It feels good!

Yes! It has changed my shopping habits. I’m more mindful of my purchases instead of shopping emotionally. I ask myself if I “need it” or “want it” and find that I don’t really “need” most of the things I “want”.

I am working on this but seem to back slide. Especially when depressed

I agree, I love all the advice here, but the landfill! ‘I’ll just Chuck it’ is a simple idea but all those black bin bags of junk we all produce don’t magically disappear when they leaves our homes

Mine too! :)

I’m back. Kitchen is back on track. Glad the bathroom is next after my 5 minutes here.

Me too. 🌞

@@ilvexya 👍👍👍

What a great idea.

Fantastic idea.

Way to go Julie, this is so awesome to hear!!! ❤️👏✨

I was thinking the same thing!

Same! It's not visible, company snd friends don't come in here, etc. So all the donate piles and laundry waiting to be folded end up in here. 😂

My walls are the same, but its because I like color on the walls. I dislike white and beige walls, but that's what you get when you rent. (No, I'm not allowed to paint them.) So I don't look minimalist on the surface, either.

@@shlf2615 We rent too. You're right that the walls would be boring if they were bare.

Hello Marisa

If I know someone in my community needs it right now I’m much more likely to let go of something that I’m not using. It feels good to help them out.

Where does one find the buy nothing groups?

@@TheEllaTB on Facebook (unfortunately). I believe someone is working on a stand-alone app but for now I would search Buy Nothing on Facebook and see if your town or neighborhood has a group yet. My local group is very well moderated. Main reason I still have a Fbk.

Years ago I had a ' junk party'. All my friends brought their superfluous clutter and we organised it into categories in my living room, then everyone came on the designated day...lots of kids too, and everyone took whatever they wanted...for free! It was so much fun. I remember some little children coming up to me with a toy asking how much is this, and the joy on their faces when I said Free! Everything that nobody took we dropped at the salvation army store.☺️

@@kerrywatson8581 wow that's awesome, I love it ! I wish I could see someone do it on KZfaq lol 😁

@@Aprilmarielove Have one. Video. Upload.☺️☺️☺️

I love this! What a great idea!

Love this idea! Thank you!

i found it, yay. it was in the last bag in storage in a halloween bag. lol 🙄😂

Take a picture and then donate it.

I thought it was surprising and odd

Lol yeah, it's fun to see what other people deem significant.