It's really easy to kinda keep your car
tidy and organized.
Number one, the trash in your car.
Every single time you refuel your car,
spend the five minutes going through the car,
grabbing trash--
Cleaning it out.
And throwing it into the trash can at the gas station.
Simple, get into that routine, it will help
to keep the car in order.
Number two, things get all over the place in your car.
Consider using-- Grab your tea for a sec, doll.
Sure, babe.
Consider using simple crates.
Milk crates, or crates like this, get two of them,
throw them in the trunk of the car.
One for your groceries, so they don't roll around,
you're not gonna have those soda cans all over the car.
And, help me here.
For all the sports stuff--
One for all the stuff for the kids, or for you.
Exactly.
(audience applauding) Right.
So, when people get out of the car, they don't leave
the car empty-handed, grab a crate,
and take it into the house.
Take it in, put the stuff away.
Super simple.
(audience applauding) Yeah.
Okay, here's a...
(audience applauding)
Look, I don't know if you realize this, but gift cards have,
for the last ten years, gift cards have been
the single most requested gift during the holiday season.
And every year, there is a billion dollars--
Unspent, right?
Unspent of gift cards, yeah. Unclaimed, right.
So here is your own little money box
you're gonna find at home.
Go around your home, and find gift cards, coupons,
anything else, and make sure they live in one place.
Make sure they stay in one place.
Clever.
Now, before you go out shopping, check in here.
Take a looksie.
Shoes can really get out of control, and here's
a simple way just to decide what shoes stay, what shoes go.
Grab all the shoes out of your closet,
and line them up like this.
Just throw those down here, the second row down here.
It's often best to arrange the like ones together,
heels, flats, sports stuff.
Uh-huh.
And then go down the row, and just say,
"Well, you know, I never wear those, I never wear those,
"I never wear those, and I never wear those."
(shoes clattering)
Once you've got rid of the ones you never wear,
then try the five-to-one rule.
For every five you keep, decide which one will go.
Get rid of some shoes without it feeling overwhelmed.
Get the stuff cleaned out, right.
So, first the ones you never wear, get rid of.
And then look at where you have multiples,
and decide what should go.
It's a pretty simple way to deal with your shoes.
Give it a shot.
And donate them if they're still wearable, please.
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This is for kitchen gizmos and tools.
This is called the one month cardboard box test.
Here's what you should do, grab every single utensil
from your utensil drawer, give me a hand,
and drop in this box.
I love this one.
He's done this before, it's awesome.
So, here's what you do, for the next month...
Let's swap sides here.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
For the next month, every time you use an item,
barbecue, use it, wash it, back in the drawer.
Making mojitos?
Yeah!
Oh, this we need!
Okay, back in the drawer. (audience laughing)
So, any item that you use over the next month,
put it back in the drawer.
At the end of four weeks, if you haven't used an item,
with the exception of something like a turkey baster,
or something like that that you use--
Right, that's a holiday-oriented tool.
Really consider whether you should hold onto it...
Or go, "Buh-bye!"
And send them all off to charity.
Exactly, send it to soup kitchen.
Okay, cool.
(audience applauds) - What's this one?
Well...
Food storage containers a nightmare
for many people, the plastic food storage containers.
Right.
My advice is to hold onto some of them
for when people come to visit
and you want to give them food to take home.
Right. Just a few for them.
For the rest, bite the bullet, and buy a really good set
of glass containers, get rid of the plastic.
They stack easily.
Standardized lids.
They clean easily.
And it just avoids that whole thing
of hundreds of containers of different sizes.
(audience applauds)
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