- Ah, fall. What better season is there?
And if there was ever a season devoted to muffins and tea,
it would be fall.
Now let's talk about how to create maximum Hygge
while maintaining minimalism in the autumn.
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Hey, I'm Robyn.
I help overwhelmed people to clutter all of the excess
from their lives so that they can start living them.
All right, grab your tea and let's go.
So fall is undoubtedly the best season of all.
It's got crisp air, it's got beautiful scenery,
it's got cozy clothes.
There's just so much that it offers.
Some people prefer summer,
but I'd rather not fear steaming to death on a daily basis.
I really like fall, the back to school. All of it.
It's great. I also really, really love fall
because I can get my Hygge on.
Now Hygge, if you do not know,
it's basically the practice of just making things
really nice and cozy and just kind of
enjoying whatever you are in.
And Diane in Denmark is one of my favourite YouTubers
and she has really inspired me over the last few years
to really up my Hygge game, into all of the seasons.
But fall would definitely be one of the easiest seasons
to do Hygge in.
Now Diane has some great videos
all about FlyLady Hygge
and just how to create a happy and healthy life.
She's very enjoyable.
She's upbeat and I will link her below,
but I definitely think you should check her out
if you have not already.
She has been a favorite of mine for years.
Now, with Hygge and seasonal decor,
you have to be careful though,
because you can really easily end up creating
a lot of clutter by decorating for different seasons.
And honestly, it just makes it way more work
and way less enjoyable
if you have a lot of clutter around.
So I'd rather have a very lovely fall environment
that is peaceful and tidy.
And now here are my tips for how to enjoy the fall season
with no extra clutter.
So first of all,
don't just go and get a bunch of new things
and just start popping them around your house.
That is not good.
Ensure that you have a couple of few nice treasures out
that remind you of the season,
but you just don't want filler.
Right? So when you put out your ornaments
on top of other ornaments, you already have like,
you're kind of creating a cluttered look
and you're really,
you're not going to enjoy it when it's like that.
So instead of enjoying your like
amazing cozy fall Hygge house,
the clutter will just make you feel stressed and cranky,
and really, that's like,
wasting any of fall is unacceptable.
So don't waste any of fall.
Now, this also makes it really hard for you
to enjoy your pumpkin chai tea.
Instead, put away a lot of your ornaments
that are out on a regular basis, now, not all of them,
but some of them.
And honestly, I don't think you should have
that many ornaments out anyway,
but that's neither here nor there.
And then you just put a couple
of your fall ornaments around.
So this is just a little spot in my living room
where we have a very minimal decor,
but for now I didn't really want to go with the blank wall.
But anyway,
so I just have like these three candles here
and then over here,
I have a lamp and this little decoration
that my grandma gave my husband.
So that's kind of a sentimental thing for him.
In order to prepare for the one piece of decor
I'm going to be putting here,
I'm going to remove these candles
and I'm going to tuck them away in a drawer.
The other thing I'm going to do is I'm going to remove this
because you're going to see that the piece of decor
that I'm putting in here, the fall thing,
this is just too much like you're going to see,
you're going to be like, whoa, that's big.
So watch this. That's right.
It's the haunted house for Lego.
And I keep this bag on it because I keep it tucked up
in my closet with the bag on it,
to keep it the dust off of it, works like a charm.
Because the house is so big and Lego-y,
I don't want to overwhelm the space with too many things.
So that's why I took the other thing away.
So it's just the lamp and this really cool
haunted house that I love so much.
There is a tumbleweed that I had in my pocket
and it has a nice little fence that goes in the front.
I think that's actually where this tumbleweed goes.
I'm always like, where does that tumbleweed go?
I love my little haunted house.
It's really cool inside. I'll show you,
but it's got a lot of really nice little features
and it just gives that fall feel without overwhelming
because I've put the other stuff away.
Another thing to remember is that
you don't just need to decorate to get your fall Hygge on.
I really like to focus on the non-thing things
when it comes to Hygge and definitely
one of the things that brings like
the very most joy in life is tea.
I love tea. It is so good.
Now this is not sponsored, but gosh,
I love tea.
Now, one of my very favorite teas is pumpkin chai tea
from David's Tea.
I also really love maple chai and s'mores chai.
And this one has been discontinued. Sad.
I have a couple of drawers in my house
that are filled with tea.
Now, before you're like this person,
I should not be watching her.
She doesn't know what she's talking about. Okay.
The only reason that I have so much tea
is because I really like mostly the fall teas.
You might be picking up I'm a bit of a fall person.
I really love the pumpkin chai, as I mentioned.
And I buy about two kilograms a year,
at least two kilograms a year.
And I actually keep track of
how much I'm going through
as the year goes on because I don't want to run out.
And there it's only usually only available in the fall.
And so I need to keep my supply up.
So I have to buy a lot of it at the beginning.
And then I fill up my drawers,
because also with COVID our David's Tea closed down,
which was a real bummer.
So I have to stockpile my tea and I do it shamelessly.
And also, if you really want to get fancy with your tea,
you can even make a latte.
Now, aside from glorious tea,
you can also have hot chocolate, coffee.
I'm not going to judge you,
but there's also really nothing better
than going out and enjoying some of those things
that you can do in the fall to get that Hygge on.
So go outside,
go to a corn maze or like a pumpkin patch.
Don't forget to bring your tea,
and you can enjoy the crisp fall air
and laughing at your children
as they try to find their way around a maze.
It's like super, super fun.
I also really, really like to go for nice walks and hikes
in the fall.
I spend way more time outside when it's cooler
than I do when it's warmer.
It's a great opportunity to wear some fall sweaters
and can even like get some photos done if you like,
which I actually don't like getting my photos done outside,
but I did have some done. So there you go.
Now when you get home, you can turn on a great movie.
That's the other good thing about the fall
is some of the best fall movies.
Before back to school,
we watch like "Animal House" and "Revenge of the Nerds."
Of course, like "Monster's University."
We watch that one with the kids,
but also some other good fall ones are "Meet the Parents."
That's a good one.
Like what the heck was with Greg and his father-in-law?
He should have just been honest with his father-in-law,
but of course his father-in-law was like being like
completely unreasonable, but I digress.
There's also Harry Potter, Harry Potter.
So good. It's a very cozy thing.
Like there's a back to school element in it.
It does kind of go through the whole year.
And "Fantastic, Mr. Fox."
Such a good fall movie because
it's got like the fall colors in it.
It's just so cute.
So while you're watching "Fantastic Mr. Fox,"
you can enjoy some nutmeg ginger apple snap cookies.
I made those once.
They're very, very fallish flavors,
got that recipe off of Pinterest.
Also bake some muffins.
It is muffin season if it is fall.
I often just have these hanging around from Costco.
So I'll just make those for the kids after school.
But also Pinterest has a ton of great things.
There's like pumpkin.
I know some people like they'll hope
they get tired of pumpkin,
but I like to make a batch or two of pumpkin muffins.
You can also make other yummy things
like apple pancakes and apple pie.
Funny story.
I don't really eat apple pie unless I've made it at home.
It's not because my apple pie is better,
but I think like fresh is best,
but also it's so fun to make apple pie
and it just feels so autumny,
and it's very Hygge having like the lovely smells
of the apple around.
Let me know what kind of pies you love and make,
what your favorite fall things are.
Like, please comment below because I need,
like I'm always looking to add to my fall Hygge game
and not really things. Right?
Funny enough. My favorite pie is actually blueberry pie.
It's not even apple pie. I love blueberry pie.
While you are enjoying your muffins,
you should be wearing some very cute fall clothes.
Now, I love a nice scarf.
And of course we love our cozy sweaters.
Here in Canada, Thanksgiving is actually early mid October
and it has a super fall feel obviously.
It's like just the picture of the gorgeous fall,
crisp air and the leaves.
And then walking into the house
and being hit with the smell of Turkey.
Nothing better than that smell.
That is Hygge.
Like, reminds me of my grandma's house
and she doesn't have her house anymore,
which makes me really sad.
But she does.
She made a good Turkey.
Now I'm just listing fall,
like things I love about fall at this point,
but, like we start our fireplace in October.
Like you can't get more cozy than that. I love it.
Curl up with a book, light a candle,
enjoy your muffins and your sweater and a blanket,
like come on.
By not focusing too much on the clutter
and the ornaments and like, removing the clutter.
You can really simplify your fall,
but you can enjoy the amazing season.
It's such an amazingly short season here.
It's like four to six weeks. I'm not even joking.
It goes like summer,
very short fall and then very long winter.
And then like two months of spring
and then like long summer.
It's weird. I love fall.
It's so short here, but enjoy it.
Tell me what you do to enjoy your fall.
This playlist is all,
all of my decluttering stuff
and I will see you in the next video. Bye!
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