Hey guys!
Some of you said you were interested in seeing my tidying journey,
so I thought I'd make this video showing the clips I've taken throughout my process
of decluttering and reorganizing my closet.
Before we get into it, I just want to preface it with this:
you know, decluttering is not a pretty process.
It's not that easy for me
to show my mess to the world.
But you know, I'm okay with that.
I just want to be honest
and share my journey, and hopefully that will inspire and empower some of you
to declutter your life and refresh, and be happier with a new lifestyle.
I spent an entire Sunday tackling tidying.
I think I did tops, bottoms, and hung clothes
on that Sunday.
I just started the process of asking myself: Does this spark joy?
And at first it was really difficult.
I didn't really know what I was feeling about certain pieces.
I mean, some pieces I knew definitely, "Yes, I love this piece because I've worn it recently
and I want to keep it."
But there were some pieces that I was kind of apathetic about
and I was like, "I don't feel anything.
Maybe that means I don't feel joy,
but at the same time I feel like it would be a waste to discard it."
That process of asking whether it sparks joy was kind of difficult for me in the beginning.
As I went on and I started decluttering tops, bottoms, hung clothes,
I found that there were some clothes that used to make me happy
but don't make me happy anymore because they're a little too worn in now
or I just got tired of them.
I may have liked them a couple years ago
and it used to be my favorite item.
It gave me a lot of joy then,
but I realize that it doesn't give me joy anymore.
And so with those items,
it felt really good to be able to put them in the discard pile, release them, and say,
"Thank you for giving me so much joy while you were with me.
Thank you for making me feel beautiful.
I'm ready to let you go.
Peace out."
That felt really good.
There were a lot of clothes that were maybes, so I had a Maybe pile
that I went back to at the end to decide whether it sparks joy.
Because in the beginning, your intuition is not that strong so if you really don't know
about a certain piece, you can put it in a Maybe pile and then come back to it
when your intuition is a little bit stronger.
After that epic day of tidying, the rest of my tidying journey was found in little pockets
of time
in the following two and a half weeks just because I had other work that I wanted to
do,
and you have to keep a balance.
Next time I tidied, I think I started folding and putting away my pants,
putting away my hung clothes.
And the tops were a huge pile that I actually didn't deal with
until after I finished a couple other categories just because it took a long time to fold the
tops.
I think I took about three or four hours folding tops and putting them away.
I remember thinking to myself as I was folding all the tops that I could still probably
discard some more, because I just feel like I have so many.
So if you get that feeling, feel free to continue to discard stuff.
The following categories were smaller so I could discard and organize in a day.
So I did my socks, underwear, and accessories in one day, I believe.
Also hats are kind of tricky.
I feel like hats take up so much space,
so I didn't know what to do with them.
Eventually I tried to put hats in hats,
kind of how Kondo tells you to put bags in bags just to save space.
Once I finished most of the categories, I only had one category left and that was shoes
and I kind of procrastinated to tackle that one on because the shoes were the last little
thing
that I was afraid to tackle, basically.
I think I had about a week break before I tackled my shoes.
Shoes are just difficult because they're heavy and when you're tidying shoes,
you gotta work physically.
You're bending down, you picking things up,
you're stepping over all these other shoes, and trying to get from here to there.
They're just-they take up a lot of space.
I definitely had some sentimental moments
with my shoes because I used to dance hip hop and I have some shoes
that I wore to the death of them in college, dancing.
Here are a pair
of my favorite creative recs in college.
I wore them so much, I thought they looked so cool.
And I danced so hard in them that there's a hole in the sole.
[Sigh]
I was so sad when I saw that hole.
I would've worn those shoes forever.
With pieces like that, they meant a lot to me and it's hard to get rid of them.
But I know that it's not giving me value in my life anymore.
It's just sitting there.
So with those kind of pieces I took as many photos and video clips as I could,
and when I put it in the discard pile, I genuinely said, "Thank you for all
that you've done with me in my life.
I'm going to let you go.
Have a nice life.
Bye."
It felt really fun to do that with some of my shoes.
I think in the end,
I threw out half of my shoe collection.
I kept around 40 shoes and I threw away 39 shoes.
Throughout this cleaning process, I had my discard pile left in my brother's room
because he's not living there right now; he's in college.
So I had just piles and piles of clothes
in there, and after I finally discarded my shoes, I decided to tackle on my discard pile,
start folding them up and deciding which ones to donate, which ones to throw away.
This is what I am donating.
There's one big pink bag, then the rest are smaller bags.
I guess there's six small bags and one big bag.
And that black bag over there is just trash.
These are just some shoes that I want to donate.
Basically, through this tidying journey, I've gotten rid of half of my wardrobe
and half of my shoe collection.
I think that's the ratio for me.
I'd like to know,
as you guys are tidying, what's the ratio for you?
How much of your stuff
are you discarding and giving away?
I've kind of taken a break for a couple weeks
on tidying just because other plans are getting in the way, but I'm definitely not going to
give up.
I'm going to finish tidying eventually.
Kondo says that to tidy in one dramatic swoop
usually takes people around six months, so it's not an immediate process.
But if you think about it, six months out of your entire life is a short amount of time.
So keep at it, keep doing it, keep going at your own pace.
You know, keep a balance in your life, do what you gotta do,
but tidy as much as you can on the side.
I think the most important thing is that
you just don't give up.
Eventually you're going to finish through the categories
and you're going to feel even more and more fresh after completing each category.
Alright that's it for this video.
Let me know how your tidying journey is going.
I'd love to know.
And in the meantime, I will see you in my next video.
Bye!