- [ Curly ] Throw it away.
- Why?
- [ Curly ] Mom you've had this since like 1992.
( upbeat music )
- What's up guys.
I am currently staying at my parents house
more than I usually am because of this pandemic.
Its been kind of weird,
because I actually don't have anywhere to stay
when I'm here.
I sleep on this couch.
I actually share the couch with frank.
We tend to not have room.
But the thing is we do have rooms.
We do have rooms in this house, there is space.
The spaces are currently occupied by a lot of things
that don't need their own room.
This is my old bedroom, well this is my sisters old bedroom.
What is, for why, for who?
Woof.
I asked Claudia and Janelle to see if they could possibly
help us create a brand new room
the way that Janelle kind of created
this beautiful closet for me in my own apartment,
so that not only could I have a place to sleep in
when I'm here.
There would actually be a nice solid room
here in this house.
- Hi Curly
It's so nice to meet you.
I'm a professional organizer, I helped Curly
with his closet.
I'm excited to hear what you have in store for this
cool room at your moms house.
Do you guys want to give me a little bit of background on
the room and kind of like what goal you have in mind.
- It was my sisters room before she moved out.
When she moved out it became my bedroom and then when
I started to work in fashion in my early 20s,
it became kind of like my work room.
So I would sow there and once you know both of us
were moved out of the house, it became the storage room
for my sisters babies.
It was the storage room for my stuff, my sisters,
everyone's stuff, yeah.
It has a lot of things that are very sentimental,
like there are pieces that I made from my first, my second,
my third fashion show right.
Movies that we use to buy together.
like DVD's that we would watch.
- This is a very common thing for people who have
children who have moved on out of the house.
I actually can really relate to this,
because my room at my parents house has kind of become
a very similar thing.
- Oh yeah.
- And also as adults, you know, me and you, we moved out
but you know, we only live in a certain size apartment
at this age.
You can't bring everything with you right.
And so I'm like, I don't want to get rid of it,
but mom can you just keep it here for a little bit.
And so I get it.
And mom is going to be like, of course, whatever you want.
I think this is a lesson that we've all learnt in quarantine
and having to be home all the time is that your space
really affects your wellbeing right.
Its like so important to feel comfortable in your home
and for every part of your home to have purpose and value.
- We hoping that this bedroom could be a space where,
if I come here I can sleep in it, if they come here
they can sleep.
Like everybody could have a space.
- That's great, that's super important.
Besides it being a place for you to sleep, we want it to
be a place for what for the kids and what do you want
to still have stored in that room for practical purposes.
- I would say a place for them to like do their homework
like a playroom almost.
- Have like a little boxes where we could put all the toys.
- Okay and then what about, because you mentioned
the sentimental aspect of it.
Are you wanting to go through that and bring it
home to your place, are you wanting a place to
continue to store it.
I think I want to keep the stuff, when I have a house
I can take them to my house.
We do have a garage so I'm going to put them in the garage.
- In regards to sentimental items that you should definitely
keep what brings you joy without sounding too Marie Kondo.
Have photos of these things and you can turn that into
some sort of scrapbook of some kind.
Maybe you only keep like your favorite.
You don't have to keep like everything.
Does that make sense?
- Yes, one moment please, we're putting it in the garage.
( laughing )
- I believe you should never force yourself
to get rid of stuff right.
In the end it has to be what your gut tells you.
- Because she has twins, so you know everything is double,
double, double.
- Okay.
- We have like 6 boxes of clothes.
And I'm the one that said no, don't give it because,
you know when they get married, her kids can use it.
( laughs )
- Their kids?
Oh my god.
- You know what, it's so funny you say that because I really
think it's a generational thing.
Was there anything else in the room of like items that we
need to get rid of.
- [ Curly ] A giant desk
- [ Mom ] No, I think your dad wants it.
So he's gonna keep it in the garage.
( laughs )
- If I had a dollar for every time someone said,
oh I'll just put it in the garage,
I would be a trillionaire.
I think that it's really easy rather than to like deal with
actual item at hand that we just move it somewhere
else that's not quite in sight.
It's just really important to really not clutter
another area to declutter your current space.
If you having trouble getting rid of something,
like lets say the drafting table.
Give yourself a time limit of how long until someone
uses it are you going to get rid of it.
So if no one uses it in 6 months, see you later.
- That's a good idea, because my guy likes his pool,
but I'm the kind of person that, I throw away everything.
- Right
- Everything
- That's good.
- Whatever I find I throw it away.
But they, hmm uhm, my husband is worst.
- I think it's from my dad yeah
- My husband he collects, collect, collect.
- I do think it's important, especially with this project,
that's going to be my advice, is to not burden another area
and give yourself a limit of how much you'll
move into the garage.
Important to go in with realistic expectations, if it's not
going to be easy the whole time, and that's okay and
maybe if it's overwhelming give yourself specific amounts
of time or incorporate ordering pizza or putting on some
music or listening to a podcast.
I mean for you guys it will be really nice
because you'll get to spend time together.
You ready, are you nervous?
- I'm a little like tired already.
( laughing )
- Just to think about it.
- Alright so we are about to get started.
Are you excited mom?
- Yes, we're gonna start cleaning.
- Where should we start?
- I think we gonna start from here, from the front.
- And then work our way in.
Wait but why do you want this?
( Mom speaking in foreign language )
- Well Noah is not one year old anymore.
That can go mom.
Mom you've had this since like 1992.
Well so far it's nice because we can see the floor,
which is great.
This is all my Spice Girl stuff that I need to donate.
( Mom speaking in foreign language )
- Yeah we can get rid of those, you don't have to test out
every marker.
This looks like dads stuff.
What is this giant car light?
What is that car light?
I don't need that, nobody needs that.
Throw it away.
- Why?
- Oh my god.
Take it out of your pocket.
We're making good on the progress.
It doesn't look like it right now but we cleared out
a bunch of stuff.
We going to continue that, these are my old paintings.
I'm going to figure out what to do.
And then this is like my old manifestation board.
( jazz music )
This is officially day 2 of cleaning up.
My parents have left.
I'm going to go through all this stuff here.
We've actually made a lot of progress, this is just kind of
scattered stuff right now, but we cleared all of this out
and we going to go through these toys today to see who
we can donate to and if my nephews still want them.
So it's really interesting to see, like garments that I use
to make from scratch.
I didn't expect to be getting so emotional while I was doing
this video, like I'm just packing stuff,
but I'm packing items that I really use to work
really hard at when I was in my early 20s.
And it's kind of like, oh yeah, I use to be a young designer
and I'm happy to have landed where I'm at but I'm like damn,
I was fun.
You're late Manda.
I've been working for four hours already.
But now I've got to figure this out.
So slowly, but surely, day 2.
I'm going to finally change my shirt,
because I haven't changed my shirt in two days.
Why is it here?
She's such a hoarder.
This room has like such beautiful sunlight in here.
It's going to look so good.
Why do you have anxiety.
- Because you clean here and then you see over there.
- Yeah I know, that's normal though.
I had somebody who did this already.
This is like the middle part and the middle parts the worst.
So once you start to see this is clear
and everything is clear, you'll be fine.
So my mom and I are going through a lot of the stuff that is
in here and what we discovered is that we think that my dad
is the hoarder.
His stuff.
We're going to talk to him later about how he's going to
clear those things out, but so far we doing good in here,
like we cleared out a lot of different things.
( speaking in foreign language )
- How is it my fault that you almost crushed my toe.
Typical Latina mom, they hurt you and then it's your fault.
You are looking through your stuff now.
This is amazing.
How do you feel?
Are you frustrated?
- No, I feel good.
- Nice
- I'm gonna clean up.
- Wow
It's interesting because you don't really see your house
like this until you move out right.
( jazz music )
- [ Curly ] So now that the room is almost cleared out,
we can start putting together some of the new pieces that
Janelle recommended.
We made sure we got a bed with storage underneath
and we have an amazing queen size mattress donated to us
by Lisa and bed linens by Brooklinen.
I'm so excited to have a place to sleep in.
And since the room is also for the kids, I guess.
We wanted to turn the open closet into a little art homework
note.
This cube shelve offers storage for the kids books and toys
and best of all, it's at ground level,
so my nephews will be able to reach everything.
Lastly we have a low side table and now that
our walls are clear, we can feature
our favorite family photos.
First we have to finish up cleaning.
So far it is day 4.
This room is looking cleaner.
Closet is looking cleaner.
Everyone's a little on edge I think.
We wanna enjoy the weekend and we haven't really sat down
much, but we'll have a nice place to sit down in when
it's all over.
( upbeat music )
Okay right now we building chairs.
We just built those things, we built two of them.
One's back there.
So we still have quite a way to go.
But we getting there.
Day 5, building this guy here.
It's our, almost last round.
Last thing we going to do is move this thing.
My parents really want to put it in the closet, so.
I'm tired.
But we'll get there.
So this is the last thing, we going to take that guy
down again and then place both of those.
And then we are all done.
Okay mom, so we have done a lot of work.
- Yup
- We've done a lot ,a lot, a lot of work.
How do you feel?
Do you think we did okay?
- Oh yeah, it looks so nice.
Before, oh my goodness
( speaking foreign language )
Not even.
( speaking foreign language )
- Oh ya
( speaking foreign language )
- [ Mom ] Are you ready ?
- I'm so excited.
- Here we go.
Okay
- [ Janelle ] Wow, is that the same room.
- [ Curly ] Yeah.
( laughing )
- [ Janelle ] Are you sure?
- [ Curly } Yeah.
- [ Janelle ] It looks incredible.
- [ Curly ] And then we cleaned up this whole thing,
the closet.
- [ Janelle ] Look at that little mitch, oh my god,
it looks so cute.
It's like a totally different place.
- [ Curly ] Yeah it's totally different.
- [ Janelle ] It doesn't look like the same closet.
- [ Curly ] No it doesn't.
There's my stuff
- [ Janelle ] Oh my gosh you got your little spot.
- [ Curly ] Yes, and then just like you know,
the little blankets that they just still have
and this was like out here.
- Oh and you put it in there.
- [ Curly ] We put it in there, exactly.
- So you were able to utilize what you already had.
- [ Curly ] Exactly.
- [ Janelle ] And look at the toys, they look so good
in the little bins, it's so good.
I love the alternating with the books.
- [ Curly ] Yes.
- [ Mom ] He has a room now.
- I have like an actual place to sleep.
It's so good, it's so comfortable, it's so nice.
I like had to take a break from work today and I was like,
I'm just gonna take a quick 20 minute nap and it was nice
to have the place to do that.
- [ Janelle ] It looks like it's so peaceful and zen,
there's no clutter, I mean,
so how long did it take you guys?
Did you learn anything?
- [ Curly ] It took us 6 days, literally took us so long
and there was just like a lot of stuff.
It was like the building and the moving of stuff
and then you have to go drop things off
and then you come back and it's just like.
- There's so many little steps and I think that's why
a lot of people don't finish things because,
you start and it's just, it's like a snowball.
It looks amazing, I mean it's even better
than I ever thought it would be, it looks so good.
You guys are hired.
- [ Mom ] Thank you.
- [ Curly ] Alrighty my love, well thank you so much
for all of your help.
- Of course, thanks for showing me,
I'm so proud of you guys.
- [ Curly ] Yes.
- [ Mom ] Thank you.
[ Curly ] Bye bye love.