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Declutter With Me: A Biblical Approach to Letting Go Ep. 2 | Biblical Homemaking
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Jun 30, 2025
Declutter for Peace Series: A Biblical Approach to Letting Go ✨ Episode 2: The Living Room Letting Go of Busyness & Distraction to Make Room for Rest and Hospitality Subscribe to the newsletter for free resources, downloadable content and to connect more! https://motherhoodandhomemaking.beehiiv.com/ Subscribe to our Family Disney Channel if you love travel tips and budgeting!nhttps://www.youtube.com/@OurWorldOfDisney Let’s Connect on Social Media! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/motherhoodandhomemaking/ Access the Motherhood Library: www.motherhoodandhomemaking.com Access the Homeschool Library: www.themomresource.com Don’t forget to Subscribe and Say Hello! XOXO https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAee6gxy3h7ruz0oXFQWbvw
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when was the last time your living room
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felt like a place of rest instead of a
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drop zone for shoes toys laundry and
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overwhelm we say that the living room is
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the heart of the home but if we're
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honest the living room often becomes the
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place where everything ends up but
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nothing really gets put away sometime
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it's where the clutter piles the screens
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distract where connection can be lost
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under piles of I'll get to it later but
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what if this space could be reclaimed
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not just cleaned what if your living
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room could reflect the spiritual rest
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that Jesus promises in Matthew 11 28
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come to me all who are weary and
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burdened and I will give you rest today
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we're not just fluffing pillows and
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cleaning surfaces but creating a space
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for connection for restoration and for
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presence so let's take a deep breath and
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let's just take it one basket at a time
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one bookshelf and one burden one pile at
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a time
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today I am going to be decluttering my
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living room with you guys i am going to
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be starting inside of my coat closet
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because this closet can often fill up
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with a ton of clutter as you can see we
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have way more coats than we need and of
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course there are plenty of cold months
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in the winter here where I live up north
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but I just don't think that it's
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necessary for us to have so many coats
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there are literally some coats that I
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wear specifically for certain occasions
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like if I just so happen to be going to
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a wedding there's one coat that I just
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like to do winter yard work like raking
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the leaves and then there is my comfy
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coat my church coat basically we have a
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lot of coats and so does my husband and
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my son as well so I'm just trying to go
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through and see what I can minimalize in
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here it's literally like bursting out of
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the closet and just overflowing and this
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is just one of the things that we see
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when we wake up in the morning and as
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soon as we come down the stairs and I
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don't know about you but the first thing
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that I see when I come downstairs in my
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home to open up the blinds is definitely
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not a coat closet overflowing with
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cluttering so it was really imperative
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that I focus on this space first as I am
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creating more room for peace inside of
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my home i do think that things that we
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have in our home has a lot to do with
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the peace that we also have inside of
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our heart and I think it's so truly
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important that we steward things that we
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have and steward our blessings there are
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people that may be able to use these
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coats a lot more than we have a need for
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them obviously we you know need coats
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but we just don't need this many and
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there are definitely people in the world
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who just don't even have a coat so when
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decluttering and minimalizing don't just
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look at it as you just throwing away all
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of your favorite prized possessions
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because honestly they're just for us or
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for me personally they're just material
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things but for someone else it might
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mean so much more so it can definitely
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truly be a blessing when you minimalize
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and declutter some of the things in your
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home if you have a purpose of like you
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know repurposing it or donating it for
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someone who really does truly need it a
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lot more than you there's so much beauty
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giving and sharing when we let go of
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something that is just trash to us then
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that's you know that's one thing that's
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something that's easily done but imagine
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if we were to let go of something that
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we actually really do like and we really
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do love but we are giving it away to
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somebody else who needs it more and that
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way it's a bit more sacrificial and
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we're also relying on the Lord to
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provide us with the things that we need
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in full abundance so I like to keep that
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mindset when letting go of things never
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to be so tied to my things that I feel
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like I just can't let it go that I feel
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like I can't share it and give it to
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others i just try to see myself living a
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lot more simple and a lot more minimal
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so that I'm relying on the Lord to
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provide us with the things that we need
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and so here inside of my coat closet
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that's what I'm doing with some of these
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really nice thick warm coats i love
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these coats and they serve a really
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great purpose for me but again it's just
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that we have more than what we need and
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then there's someone else who is going
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to need them more than us i do this with
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clothing i do this with shoes even with
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furniture we're probably like the
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dumpster divers's favorite house in the
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neighborhood because we're constantly
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like letting go of things since we've
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been in this minimalism journey and this
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simple living journey and decluttering
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we're just constantly putting more and
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more things and you would think that we
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would have been done by now just by
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seeing how much we've been putting
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outside and constantly we get to see
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like other people come and pick it up
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and it never actually ends up in the
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trash but in someone else's home and it
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is really like just a good feeling to
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see that someone else needed your item
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more than you did here in this living
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room I'm just trying to create more
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space so that I could just look at this
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place with fresh eyes i'm not trying to
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make it perfect i'm not trying to
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impress anyone i'm not trying to be
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trendy but I'm just trying to make it
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more peaceful and more hospitable so
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that even when other people come over to
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my home it's a lot more comfortable more
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room for the children to sit in the
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middle of the floor and play games and
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things like that the living room is
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supposed to be where we connect but
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sometimes it just feels more like a
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space where we're constantly managing
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than enjoying and just not even a lot of
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space for us to be able to connect there
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have been times where we wanted to have
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guests or company over and someone
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wanted to come over but I thought about
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how my living room looked and I was like
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"Oh my goodness we cannot have guests
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over right now because my home is a
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mess." Where you know are we going to
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host and entertain and so if you have
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just a few things that you even have to
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manage and keep tidy it's a lot more
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easy for you to be that hospitalitable
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person that you know the Bible
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encourages us to be in Luke chapter 10
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it tells the story of Mary and Martha
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martha was busy like most of us moms and
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homemakers are she was making everything
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ready all the time she wanted the home
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to feel welcoming but then Jesus said
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"Mary has chosen what is better." But
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what did Mary choose it definitely was
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not perfection that's not to say that
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what Martha wasn't doing wasn't
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important either but what Mary chose was
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to be present what if we viewed our
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living rooms that same way not as a
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place to keep looking like a magazine
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but a place where we just sit at Jesus's
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feet through rest relationships and
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renewal how beautiful would that really
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be proverbs 15:16 tells us "Better is a
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little with the fear of the Lord than
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great treasure with trouble." You do not
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need more throw pillows instead you need
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more peace god can meet you right here
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in between the toys in between the
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clutter here I am now decluttering some
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of the hats that we have this is just
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another one of those things where why do
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we need so many hats i am a stay at home
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mom i do not leave the house that often
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when I do go outside it might be to take
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a walk it may be to rake some leaves put
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some salt down but I'm not outside often
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enough to need this many hats and gloves
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they're great to have but it's just not
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necessary and so I'm trying to go
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through and declutter this a little bit
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more as well i'm looking for the ones
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that are still in good shape the ones
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that I know I have gone to this stack
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here is just a pile of them that I don't
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often wear and so I'm getting rid of
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those and putting those in the box so
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that we can donate those to someone else
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who will need it and now I'm looking for
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the matching sets like hats and gloves
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and scarfves that match and go with one
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another and we're going to put those
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away i'm going to try and fit it all
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inside of this basket so that it looks
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somewhat neat at the top of my closet
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and not just like a big cluttered mess
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so that is kind of what I'm doing here
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just going through our hats our scarves
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our gloves it's actually cold more
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months of the year than it is warm here
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so we do put the stuff to get used so
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normally I would just put this stuff
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away in the garage but I'm almost 100%
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sure
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it's going to feel like I just put it
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away when I go to pull it back out so to
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save myself the hassle I'm just It's
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just so much easier like I said to just
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be able to declutter i would love to
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just only have so much stuff that
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technically all of my seasonal items can
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fit inside of one closet like winter
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summer fall all of the things if they
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could all fit inside one closet without
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me having to dig them out of the garage
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then then I would say I have like really
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done a great job at minimizing my
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wardrobe and everything but for now we
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are just starting with the coat closet
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with the hats with the scarves and
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things like that
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[Music]
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if you too are decluttering with me
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maybe you don't stay in a state where
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it's often you know cold or where the
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seasons change up as much as mine maybe
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you've already done this part whatever
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it is that you're decluttering I still
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want to you know encourage you and
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invite you to walk through the space
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with me again we're just taking it one
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zone at a time your journey is not going
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to look like mine's but you know there
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are plenty of opportunity surfaces like
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coffee tables in tables entertainment
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centers these are normally those clutter
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magnets where the books pile up and the
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remote controls the cords i'm going to
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show you guys one very soon and so if
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you're doing this with me go ahead and
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grab a basket and just toss in anything
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that does not belong you know in that
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room and then we'll use that basket
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later on to put things away if you have
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toys like for your little ones this is
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also big pick a small bin that you just
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keep inside of your living room just one
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and then the rest of the toys go back
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into the bedroom books and decor ask
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yourself do those bring you peace do
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they bring you pressure if it's dusty
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broken or never read it's okay to let it
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go and then the same thing with blankets
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and pillows only keep what's cozy and
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just put the rest of them away remember
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it's not about stripping the room bare
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but just about making space where our
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soul and our family can breathe here I'm
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just breaking down the swing that you
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guys see this was baby girl's swing and
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she hasn't been able to fit in this
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swing or let me not say that she can fit
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in it but I'm pretty sure she's over the
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weight limit and she just doesn't like
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it anyway so it was one that we had kept
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like in our gym we would take it outside
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and she would sit in it when we were
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gardening but she doesn't use it anymore
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so I'm going to put it away
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this here is my entertainment table that
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I was talking about earlier when I said
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this is a clutter magnet to the fullest
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and we actually have a lift top coffee
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table here that's what this is it's a
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lift top coffee table that used to be in
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the middle of the floor but when baby
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girl began being mobile and moving
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around crawling and trying to walk we
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got it out of the middle of the floor
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and we like it better here underneath
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the TV out of the way but still game
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controllers and everything just gets
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cluttered here i try not to bother too
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much which I'll talk about later in the
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video but I at least want things to
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somewhat look tidy so this here is kind
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of like the best I was able to do for
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now we will revisit it this is also the
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area where we are homeschooling so I
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decided to take some things off the wall
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we had a small dry erase board a
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bulletin board we got like a lap in the
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middle of the floor this area like you
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can see it's just not the room that
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gives me like that homeschool piece that
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I'm looking for so this is another area
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that I'm trying to declutter as well all
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right you guys so this room is
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definitely like by far not perfect but
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it's definitely a lot more manageable
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now there are a few areas that I'm going
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to be keeping my eye on over the next
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few weeks i'm going to show you guys
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what it's looking like and then I'll
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show you guys the family room so that
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you guys can kind of see the difference
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in progress I've made i went through
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some mail and the desk and things like
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that so let's just take a look around
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really quickly so
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of course um now over here is probably
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the main main source of clutter and this
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is just my husband and my son's little
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gaming area it is not very organized and
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they are at this area every single day
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so it's not like an area that they don't
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use and so I want it to be comfortable
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but I don't want to just take it away to
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where they can't even enjoy it so yeah
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tons of things here i'm going to see if
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there's anything we can do to minimize
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this area a little bit more we have
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storage underneath this lift top table
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so maybe some things can go under there
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we'll see but that's literally the main
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thing right now i was contemplating if I
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should get rid of that blanket sometimes
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blankets and throw pillows can
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definitely add to visual clutter but the
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goal of minimalizing and decluttering is
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to make your home more comfortable that
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is one of those things I like to snuggle
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up on the sofa with if I'm nursing baby
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girl or if the air conditioning is going
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so I'm going to keep it there it's a
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basic simple color and it's comfy we're
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going to leave that there so that's this
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area here this won't be here forever but
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for now this is like a play pant and I
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even used the top to change my
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daughter's diaper so convenience and
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then here is the homeschool area which
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we minimize to a desk an alphabet poster
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an alphabet rug and a bookshelf we do
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have a basket over here that I like to
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keep in case anything comes into this
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room that needs to be put back in its
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place it can go in this basket and then
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we can get that basket at the end of the
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week and put things back where they
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belong so it also helps with keeping the
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home tidy and where they're not
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scattered all over the home and then you
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can put them back where they go i've
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been recommending that for some years
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now this side of the room i don't quite
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like that space for the vacuum but it's
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not a huge deal for me right now we have
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the keyboard the baby swing that we're
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going to get a box and that's not going
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to be here anymore so feel better about
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that soon because she no longer uses it
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we're not going to completely get rid of
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it because I know we're going to have
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more children in the future God willing
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so we'll find a box that we can put that
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in and where we can store it away neatly
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in the garage i don't want to do it
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right now cuz I don't know exactly where
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I want to put it in the garage that
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swing there so once I figure that out
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we'll put that we'll break it down and
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put it away but we did break down the
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other swing and put that one away and
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then this is my little desk area so over
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here we've got some cord management
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under there for baby proofing my printer
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another camera and then I also have my
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label printer for my business this
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doesn't always stay up here i actually
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store that in the garage i'm able to
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print a lot of labels quickly that's
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here for now so up here on my desk I
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have another basket this basket is
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things that need to be put away as well
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this is just one of those areas that I
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often can gather a lot of things up here
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that I need to later put in its home so
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keeping a basket here is going to be
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beneficial as well and then I can put
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all of the stuff back at the end of the
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week i've got a couple of books that I
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like to read in the morning so I keep
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some in my room and some down here to
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read and that's fine baby monitor the
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only other thing is this wall here
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because we took down the bulletin board
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i'm probably going to replace even that
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calendar with one large board that has
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like multi-use so on Amazon I saw a
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learning board that has like a dry erase
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marker section a chalk section a
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bulletin section and I think maybe a
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calendar section if there isn't a
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calendar section we can always pin a
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calendar to the bulletin section but
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basically it's a montuse board so
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instead of me having like a bulletin
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board and then having a dry erase board
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somewhere else chalkboard in a different
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area a calendar like four different
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boards all over the wall we can get that
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one multi-use board and then I'll put it
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up over there that's what I'm going to
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do in the meantime I still have our
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calendar because it is kind of multi-use
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it's just smaller so I've got some of
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his spelling words here and then some of
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the things from church camp are pinned
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down here and then our calendar so
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here's the family room and there's
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definitely some places of clutter this
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area is cluttered i have some things I
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got to put into the garden over here i'm
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not a fan of that rug there um these are
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my son's toys that he's currently
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playing with right now so he can put
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that stuff away soon up there next to
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the television a little bit of clutter
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over there those toys underneath the
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table those are there purposely so
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that's pretty much it in here so pretty
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much what I have been doing is trying to
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declutter my home for a couple of years
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now but not in a minimalistic type of
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way just recently I began to lean
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towards more minimalism and I will
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explain why about that in a separate
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video um in the next coming weeks i
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talked a lot about it thus far but I
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will do one video specifically tailored
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towards that and what I've been doing is
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trying to basically make it um optimized
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for us the best way possible comfortable
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easy to clean not overwhelming and
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chaotic peaceful clean looking open
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space if possible things like that and
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it takes some times to figure that out
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so the way that I would recommend anyone
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do it is that you declutter some um room
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by room drawer by drawer um closet by
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closet space by space and do what you
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can and then you live in it for a little
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while live in it for a few weeks fill it
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out see what is still like those pain
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points for you and then you do it all
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over again so it's not going to be done
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in one weekend um one day you can get a
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lot done in a weekend in a day but
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that's just a starting point and then as
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you continue in life and you buy more
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things you have more children you're
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going to continue to have to revisit
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this that's pretty much what I have been
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doing this living room has definitely
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come a long way you guys the television
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wasn't always up on the wall we had like
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this gigantic TV stand a couple more
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table services in here and it's been
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coming along so still a few more things
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that we need to work out here in this
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room i can just look around and see but
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it's definitely coming together so we're
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going to live in it for a few weeks and
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we're going to revisit it again the
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family room we are like this close to
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being done with both actually but
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especially that family room like there
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are maybe two things in there that's a
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pain point for me at the moment and it's
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not a huge issue so yeah there's that so
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far
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things are coming together i really want
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to focus on my hallway soon because our
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hallway is where we kind of put a lot of
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things like on a bench so if I can like
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figure out how to make us stop doing
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that maybe put a basket there too that's
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what I'm thinking if I put a basket on
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the bench we can start putting things in
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that basket if ever there is like an
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area in your home where typically you
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know a lot of clutter builds up those
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are those areas where I recommend you
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put a basket if we could just handle it
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right away we would right and I
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recommend that but sometimes there are
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busy days and those busy days are the
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ones that get you you come in and you
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toss things down because you're in a
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hurry and everything and that's also why
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we try to live more intentional and
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slower when slow down and living so that
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you know we don't always feel rushed in
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that way but last week was definitely a
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busy week for us my son had church camp
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swim practice we had um a dinner to
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attend lots of different things and so
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I'm looking at this bench in my hallway
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and it's cluttered i have a diaper bag i
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have a sharp shopping cart covered a few
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clothes a blanket and um my son's swim
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bag those are the things
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that I'm referring to so a basket on
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that in that area somewhere would be
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great where I can put those things that
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we need to put upstairs at the end of
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the week if need be so that's another
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really great tip when it comes to
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decluttering especially like visual
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clutter but as far as this here living
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room we're done we're going to leave in
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this we're going to live in this space
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for a little while look at my husband
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and my son's gaming area and we're we'll
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come back to this in a few more weeks so
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we're just going through this journey
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together um let me know if you're
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working on any decluttering projects as
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well if so comment below let me know and
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if you enjoyed this video I hope that
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you would give it a like it really does
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help my channel when you guys like my
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videos it not only helps me to know what
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type of content you guys enjoy what
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resonates with you because I want to be
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able to help you guys in the best way
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that I can i always want to share
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information that's like helpful
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relatable so if you guys like the video
21:44
then I know what you guys like versus
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what you don't like and it also helps me
21:48
to reach more people so it's helpful for
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me a lot in that way and I truly greatly
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appreciate that so that's going to be
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all for today's video i hope that you
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guys enjoyed it and I will see you guys
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in the next one happy home
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