Hi guys, welcome back to my channel. In today's video I'm going to be decluttering my kids
rooms. It's going to be like a power hour declutter, because my mother-in-law is having
the kids for an hour or two. So I'm basically just going to see how much I can get done
I that time.
This is one of those jobs that I've been meaning to do for so very long, and I've just left
it and left it, and left it and now I really need to sort it out. Basically I have three
boys, and they're all just under three years apart so it's a constant shift of clothing
because they can all sort of have each others clothes once one is done with it. So I'm always
from my eldest to my middle, from my middle to my youngest and then anything the youngest
grows out of gets donated.
So the other day I realized that my middle son has grown so much. He isn't fitting in
to much at the moment so I need to really get rid of all the stuff he's grown out of,
pass it down to the youngest and then give him some new clothes from the eldest. If all
of that makes sense. I just feel like there's so many boys clothes in this house and I'm
forever looking at tags. Like when I do the laundry I'm like, who's is that? They're all
kind of starting to catch up to each other. They're not that different in size sometimes.
I've got an eight year old, a five year old, and a two year old. Anyway I digress, so today
I'm going to be decluttering and I'm going to do the Marie Kondo way of decluttering.
Which is basically pull everything out, sort through it, if it doesn't bring you joy, if
it's not something I actually think yes, he would wear that, it's really nice, then it
is getting donated, or anything he has grown out of is getting given to the youngest and
it just really needs a good sort out in here. It's got out of control.
So I'll show you what I'm dealing with. This is Caleb's wardrobe here, and obviously that
looks fine and I think that because I can hide it all away is why I've just left it
and it hasn't been a priority, but now it really is. Poor Caleb, it's so bad. So everything
has just got a bit out of control there. We've got hanging bits even up there and then loads
of stuff has just managed to get on top. Then some of the drawers are not even Marie Kondo
folded anymore, and the one at the bottom for his pajamas he managed to pull the thing
off. This isn't the best made piece of furniture, but we got it because it fit perfectly in
there and it was really hard to find something that would fit.
So I think I'm actually going to take all the pajamas and I might put it in this chest
because there's loads of toys in there that he doesn't really play with, so I'm thinking
that could be a pajama place, or I don't know, something and then there's more hanging over
on this side and look at his books. There's more hanging there, and then his bookshelf
really needs to be looked at as well. So I need to sort that out because it's just gone
everywhere.
So to start out I'm going to go through each drawer individually sort out what he doesn't
need anymore and then put it all back really nicely. While I'm doing it I'm going to be
watching my favorite YouTuber on my phone. I'm watching Shane Dawson's latest video.
It's an hour and forty five minutes and I've watched half of it so I'm hopefully going
to watch the second half of it and yeah, let's go.
Sorting everything out, do you think I can pass down things that have initials on them?
Probably not but it's a perfectly good hoodie. I think I'm going to, does that make me a
bad mum?
I thought I would just update on how it's going so far. It's definitely in that phase
where it has to get really, really bad before it gets good. I'm in that phase at the moment.
I'm currently ... I've done all the drawers, so that's good. I'm just going through all
of the hanging stuff, and I've got a pile just here. We have so many clothes and I don't
think I'll put these clothes even on Jackson, they're sometimes a bit too worn where they've
been through Fraser and Caleb now, I'm not going to make Jackson wear them. So that's
that pile there and then there's a pile over there which is all stuff that Jackson can
grow into. So I'm just in the middle of it, I've actually been to collect the kids again.
Jackson is having a nap, and Caleb is just chilling out. So I'm going to try and get
this done. I thought I'd be able to get two rooms done, but actually it's taking me so
long that I think I might only get Caleb's done today, but major improvement. So I will
show you what it's like at the end.
Pretty much done all of the clothes. Now I'm just going to move onto the bookshelf which
is so very bad, but I'm doing it the same way. I'm just going to pull everything off
and then try and put it back in some sort of order.
I'm just clearing out Caleb's books and I thought I would show you this one. It's a
Throne for Sesame it was actually my book when I was little, and I know that because
it was taken out at the Toronto Public Library by me in 1989. So I'm sorry library, we're
going to have some kind of huge fine if we ever return this, but it's one of my favorites.
Right guys, so this is the after, this is what his hanging space looks like now and
it's so much better, I have donated and put so much aside for Jackson. His drawers as
well now are so clean and back to being like Marie Kondo these are football kits. These
are trousers, these are his little T-shirts. Look at that, I love this drawer. See I folded
in the Marie Kondo way of folding, I know some of you do that as well and then he had
so many pajamas that didn't actually fit him anymore. I've managed to just put about eight
or nine that are actually good, in pairs that he can wear. So I don't know if I'm going
to need to use the whole toy box.
Then on the other side I found so many lovely jackets that used to Fraser's that Caleb can
now fit into. So we've got this one, just some really, really nice ones that I remember
Fraser wearing. This really smart one as well. Anyway so that's all clean and then the bookshelf
is so much better, oh it's just all fallen over. It did look a bit straighter, but there's
that and then this is that one, and all of this here, this huge pile of books. They're
basically all books that Caleb has pretty much grown out of, and that Jackson can now
read, because they're really like basic ones. I just hadn't got round to sorting through
them.
So all of this can now go into Jackson's room. Right guys I think I'm going to end the blog
here. Thank you so much for watching, I hope it's inspired you to get decluttering as well.
I honestly feel so much more organized now, and I know that when it comes to finding his
clothes for the day or his school uniform, it's going to be so much easier and nicer
to do. So, yeah thanks so much for watching and I'll see you soon. Bye guys.