- Why do you need to declutter your office right now
and why it is so good for you?
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Hey, I'm Robyn!
I help overwhelmed people,
declutter all of the excess so
that they can start living their lives.
Now I know what you're wondering.
Where is Robyn going to hide her candy now?
Well, don't worry.
I will be getting to that in just a minute.
Yesterday, I realized I really needed
to tidy and declutter my office again.
I kind of let things slip a little bit.
Hello and welcome back!
Now, today, I'm actually doing something different.
I'm actually going to be decluttering my office.
And I just want to show you just how messy it is right now.
This is where the magic happens.
This is where I shoot most of my videos.
This is where I write a lot of my videos.
I do some editing here
and just a whole lot happens in here,
but it's pretty messy.
I now have stuff all over the place
and I've got my lighting back here.
I keep it kind of tucked away in the corner
and inside my armoire is actually what really needs
to be cleaned because that is where I keep paper
and all sorts of things.
Now I spied a couple of things in there
that I actually don't use anymore.
So I will be decluttering those.
But the other thing is,
it's important to put things away
when you're done with them.
And that is sort of where I fall into problems
from time to time, and I bet you do too.
Although I am a minimalist,
meaning I don't keep things that I don't need use or love,
I do sometimes get bad at putting things away,
like my desk, for example.
This is my desk and this is where I do tons of work.
It's super messy though.
Whoop, I've got, you know,
I've got my pad here with notes
for this video and for other videos
and then just some paperwork that has stacked up.
So I'm quickly going to declutter this.
This goes back in the armoire
and I'm going to actually make different piles.
So I've got stuff that needs to be shredded or recycled,
things that can be donated, garbage,
and then there's just plain old stuff
that needs to be put away.
So let's put this away first.
Now I keep my little highlighters right here.
I've got my Vaseline for my lips
and these are my post-it notes.
As you can see, I use them all over the place.
I'm going to just tidy up this paperwork here.
This is stuff for some kittens that I foster.
So I'm going to put that with their stuff in the other room.
And then I just have some shredding to take care of.
So, first of all, why do we want to have a clean space?
Well, it's important to have a clean space
because then it makes it easier to work.
If I don't have all of this paperwork here,
it's much easier for me to concentrate
on what I need to get done.
The other thing is sometimes when we go
into things like our messy armoire,
it kind of makes us not feel like doing that,
so we might put off the work way longer than we need to,
instead of knowing that we're going to a nice tidy place,
we'll be like, hey, I want to go in there.
I want to get stuff done.
One thing I should mention
is that I like to set a 30-minute timer.
I really think that it's important
people only spend 30 minutes decluttering
because it really becomes a chore
if you spend any longer than that.
So I've got my timer set and I'm going to started.
Now I know when my desk is clean,
that it's so much easier
to focus and that overall
it will make me feel way more peaceful, less stressed.
So once you get it all cleaned off, give it a nice dusting.
And that took me five minutes.
Get some shredding done quickly.
Okay, I'll have to do
that after 'cause it's full (chuckles).
I can now work at my desk.
It's nice, it's clean.
I can think, I don't need to be looking for anything.
I know exactly where it is now because it's so tidy.
That is why it's good to have less stuff around.
But at the same time, keep on top of your cleaning.
Now my armoire is where I store everything.
I don't have a closet.
I don't like to have a lot of things.
I just have my armoire,
so I keep pretty much everything in there.
So this drawer has my audio and video equipment.
This one, I've got a really old phone
and a few other things.
So it's a little disorganized.
(drawer scraping shut)
Ornaments that need to go, cables.
(drawer scraping shut)
And then down here is where I keep the candy,
I hide from everybody
and these are instruction manuals.
So I will get to that in a second.
Up here, I have my camera bag.
This is a gray card and paperwork.
So as you can see,
everything is a little bit mishmashed
and all over the place.
This is what I use to hide more candy from my family.
This is a disk or card for when I'm filming.
This is me as a baby.
So when you open up a cluttered drawer or a cluttered desk,
those little bits of stress will add up
and you might consciously think,
oh gosh, like I hate how messy this is.
You might not realize it though.
And it might actually make you not do the work
you want to do.
And you might be putting it off
because you subconsciously are trying
to avoid the clutter and the mess.
Now the benefit to tidying up the office is
that you have a place that is peaceful
and where you can work.
This next section is actually the worst part.
And I really kind of like
to get the worst things over with first.
So first of all, I have my candy.
(bag rattling)
Now this is a bag of candy for myself.
I don't know why my kids don't look in here.
If they do, maybe they just don't like the candy I have,
like I've got hard cinnamon candies, ginger candies,
protein smart sweets.
I don't eat a lot of candy,
but after dinner I come in here and have a little snack.
The other thing I have in here is printer supplies.
And this is where I keep all
of our instructions and major receipts.
So the thing is I'm going to be just showing you
how I organize my receipts and maybe discussing
what I think I'll be doing in the future.
But what's really nice is when I get something new,
I can put it in the folders right away.
Ah, maybe that's what I haven't been doing lately.
'Cause I see I've kind of just thrown things on top.
I'm starting to see a trend here.
The thing about instructions is almost all
of them are available online.
So I don't think I will be keeping these.
This is instructions for our outdoor fryer
in both French and English, don't need both of those.
And this is for our Roomba, which you know, I love,
but again, like everything is available online,
so not a lot of it needs to be kept.
The receipts are what I want to end up keeping.
That's the main part.
A folder for appliances, furniture,
electronics, sporting equipment, to like treadmill.
We're not really sporting people, and yard equipment.
So all of these have not only the receipts,
but also the instruction manuals.
I definitely do not need to keep all
of the instruction manuals.
So what I'm going to do is just quickly look through here,
pull out anything that I don't want to keep,
and then I will just put them back
and there are often warranties as well,
you don't want to lose track of.
So just make sure you keep all of those in a good spot.
And I would love
to hear how you guys (bouncy music)
organize your receipts
and any instruction books
that you don't feel like you should get rid of.
So I just have my printer stuff there.
That's the car manual
and this is electronics, appliances.
And underneath that we got yard equipment.
So that's just my way of organizing those things.
It may not be great.
Moving on up,
I am going to make a candy drawer for myself.
I'm trying to decide which one I want it to be.
(drawer scraping open)
So here are some ornaments
that I have considered decluttering.
These are Willow Tree and they're really cute.
This is pretty sentimental for me.
And although I don't have them
on display now I probably will soon.
So I'm actually going to decide not
to declutter these at this moment.
But what I will do
is see if there's a better place to keep them.
This is stuff that needs to be shredded too, yay!
So I'm going to put my candy
in this drawer. (bag rattling)
Yep, that's right, I've got ginger candies.
Try to put things into categories.
So I thought ahead of time,
what kind of categories would I want to have?
And of course, candy came to mind.
I've got my YouTube like audio video drawer.
So I think I'll keep it that the same.
This is a stack of blank CDs.
I don't think anybody needs that anymore.
So I'm going to de-clutter that.
This is for when I do bullet journaling,
I'm going to take all these pens out
because they don't go in here.
(pens rattling)
And this is now just going
to be my YouTube audio visual drawer.
And I am definitely keeping this in here
because this is what I use to open boxes.
And this is one spot
where the kids won't know where to look.
This is the lens cap for the camera I'm using right now.
So moving right along,
I have just finished reorganizing this drawer.
This is where I now keep my audio visual stuff.
Actually, that's where I kept it before.
I don't know what I said now.
And I've just got it nice and tidy.
I do have my bullet journal pens.
I'm trying to decide if I want to keep them in there.
I like to declutter cables
and the good news is you can recycle them.
What I'm going to do,
just put that there until I'm certain I don't need it.
This is a lavalier mic that does not work anymore,
so this is going to be recycled.
So this is the thing.
Now things can be placed in here
that I don't want up above anymore.
This is where I sometimes keep my candy.
I know it probably seems like I eat more candy than I do,
but I'm just going to tuck it in this drawer
because my family, they think it's just got tea in it.
The good news is they don't watch my videos,
my kids that is,
and then this is that little extra card.
I'm going to pop that in there.
So that's good.
And I've got a lot of nail polish in here
because I paint my nails in the winter to cheer myself up.
I'm just going to it aside,
and then I'll find a place to put it.
Well, there's a candy.
It's very old, it's so hard.
I could probably break it. (candy snapping)
Yeah, I'm not going to to eat that.
I make these really delicious brownies
from What's Gaby Cooking, and it uses Oreos.
So I bought these,
they're actually called slutty brownies,
but we call them happy brownies.
And it has Oreos in it.
So I had to hide these so that I had them
on hand for when I make them.
So I'm just going to set them aside.
Actually I'll put them in the mom's snack drawer
'cause the kids literally will not look in there.
And these are my Happy Hygge lights
that I use in the winter time.
So I'm just going to set these aside.
So the painting that is behind me
in most of the videos I actually painted myself.
I love this lady named April Lacheur.
She has done other paintings
that I'll show you as well, for me,
but I couldn't afford that at the time.
So I was like, I'm just going to make one.
So I bought some paint and I bought some paint brushes,
and I really had a lot of fun making that painting.
But I'm not sure if I will do it,
I actually have considered touching up the painting.
To me, the colors are a little bit too bright in a way.
So I may decide to either paint another painting
or to change this one.
But what I'm going to do is I'm going to give myself a year
from when I painted that painting.
And I'm just going to throw these in this drawer.
And then after a year, if I haven't done it,
I will donate them to someone.
So this drawer here has an old cell phone
that my kids came across when I was decluttering.
So this I'm going to recycle.
And then the rest of everything in here is actually,
this is just going to be my stationary drawer.
So I'm just going to tidy it up a bit.
I'm going to take this ethernet cable out,
and this is what I use when I am uploading things
or livestreaming or talking to people.
So this doesn't need to be in there.
I'm going to actually just stick it right there for now.
And I'll just tidy this up and put the toiletries away.
And then this will be the, not toiletries,
put the stationary in here,
and this would be the stationary drawer.
Okay, I'm going to have to pick up the pace,
so I don't run out of time.
Here are more of those lights that I love
for the nice Hooga effect in the winter.
And this is a lens box.
I'm actually going to keep this
because the thing about camera equipment
is you probably are going to sell it at one point.
So I'm going to keep this,
but I definitely do not normally like keeping boxes.
There's a strap for a yoga mat, don't need that.
Garbage.
(paper crinkling)
I'm going to put my candle here.
I have another candle.
It's all about the Hooga in the winter.
Can't wait to do a video
with Diane and Denmark one day, I hope.
I just found $5.00, so that's always good luck.
And this is actually more YouTube camera stuff.
I've got lipstick, which is funny,
so I will put that over here with the nail polish.
Pretty much only time I wear makeup
is if I'm going out with friends
or if I'm making a video for you guys,
and I really don't even put that much on.
Oh, I found another $5.00.
So the kids are going to get lucky,
'cause I'm probably going to give that to them.
I have some chalk, because I have a little chalkboard
in the front of my house
and the lighting is really changing in here.
I'm going to change the camera.
Is that better?
That's better, it's not so bright!
Hey, okay, here's a funny picture
of my best friend in high school and I.
She put on her mom's wedding dress.
Look at my hair.
That hair is half black.
Is that not crazy?
Ah, and yes, I was just helping her with her veil.
That's what friends do, right?
I'm going to make a paper shelf.
(paper crinkling)
I'm going to put that right there.
I've got business receipts there, envelopes.
So this is good.
This is like the paper stuff.
Got an old Kindle I'm selling and dusting here.
Okay, there's my camera bag, which I never use,
but I probably shouldn't get rid of it?
One more section I'm going to make
and it's going to be my bullet journal section.
So I have bullet journals
for a few different areas in my life.
This one is just sort of a garden one.
A lot of them are garden-focused.
And I am going to just stack them up neatly up here,
and this will be the bullet journal section.
As for the rest of my books,
I did a video a couple of months ago,
actually I did a video last month
about books and organization.
And so I will link that in the card above,
but this is how I have my books organized.
I have them sort of by theme.
So this is my garden section.
There's only a couple of things
that aren't garden-related in here.
I've got my old planner because I'm a huge planner person.
And I did a video on that
and I really think you're going to like that.
Now that it's clean, it is going
to be so much easier to find things in here.
I have my drawer for all
of my YouTube audio and visual equipment.
I've got my candy drawer
for after dinner when mom sneaks her candy,
stationary drawer
and my art supplies drawer.
And then, of course, there's the paper
and the bullet journal.
So it's much cleaner.
At the very bottom is where I have my receipts, et cetera.
So this is why you declutter,
so that it makes it easier to use things,
so that it's more peaceful.
Did declutter a few things?
I did declutter a few things.
Look at that!
Now I know where everything is.
I don't need to feel icky about opening my armoire
and it just adds that sense
that everything is right in my office,
because it is tidy and organized.
Now keeping your books tidy and organized
is a great way to help the office stay simplified.
So check out that video here
and it is where I discuss how
to declutter and organize your books.
All right, I will see you in the next video, bye!
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