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Emma if you are going to hold off on the sale, at least contain everything. That way you keep your spare room available for use & keep yourself from going batty from knowing there is COMPLETE chaos behind that closed door. Just get a few inexpensive tubs that stack, label them on 2 sides & the top as "Sale Items 10/2024" or something. Make sure you have enough room to "grow" if that's your plan for the spring. Otherwise - especially once Holiday Decor is out & Gifts appear you will wonder why you bother at all to keep moving these things around your house. - - have it be a gift you give you & your family if nothing else. ❤❤

This channel is such a great find you're a treasure. I have to say your understairs cupboard looks pretty organised and non-horrific!! You have to have somewhere to put things like that, though I know how you feel, especially under scrutiny. The bits and bobs and housework and mental load of life is neverending, i really like the way you're including the way we should share the load, or rather, it should be shared. I also did the one slipper thing today (strangely, often not finding the other slipper, never just wearing one...) that was so funny to see!! x

You are so right, housework feels never ending. I've got 5 cats so I'm always cleaning up lol. My husband has had this week off work which is a rarity and he commented on Monday that my goodness if you didn't clean up all the time wouldn't the house quickly get in a state. 😅 Don't get me wrong I love my cats to bits but it's hard to keep up, you should see what I vac up daily, they're definitely worth it though. X

Could you get a carpenter to change the under stairs storage to pull out drawers?

I think a sale in the spring would be good because you'll have even more by then and hopefully get a bigger profit from it all. That's what we are doing. We have dedicated a space in the loft and piled loads up there to do a car boot in the spring xx

I missed watching live as I was too sick so catching up this morning. I love your home ♥️

I'm new here and I really enjoyed your videos❤😊. Wish you all the best ❤️😊

Hi Emma, Bea from Australia here 🇦🇺 thank you for your recommendation to try using a timer when starting on the decluttering journey, having a time limit has helped ❤ I suffer from multiple chronic conditions, so i tire very quickly. Thank you for being my "decluttering body double". You are doing a great job, keep it up 👍 P.s. Am also a fan of Travis the band, keep the band tshirts and get rid of any other clothing that doesn't fit or you don't love ✨️🎵🎶🎸❤

You’re making progress. Decluttering and getting to the point that you can clean without having to worry about clutter,will happen. Just take it one day ata time. ❤ when our youngest was about six years old,we cleaned out the closet under the stairs. It was her private space. She loved it. She’s 22 years old now. She talks about that closet a lot,lol. Especially on a bad day. She’s Autistic,very high functioning. Has ADHD,Depression and Anxiety disorders. So working is tough for her. But she keeps going😊You can get good shoe storage from IKEA. They’re very slim and have pull down drawer type storage.

Hi Emma, I have been watching your videos since you started and have watched your great progress. I love the way you stay true to your beliefs and you are so respectful and honest. Keep being you. It’s taken you a lifetime to accrue your items, you won’t get as tidy as you would like overnight, little and often and you will get there one day. Just keep going. Pam from not so sunny Suffolk. X

I understand we all have different ideas on parenting and child raising. As a child therapist, I share how much good chores do for our children. 10 or 15 minutes of chores each day for a preteen is reasonable and teach lifeskills. Movement is so important for our bodies. Researchers suggest that we don't sit longer than 20 minutes at a time. If I still had children at home who had lots of homework, I would make statements like... Please set the timer for 20 minutes. When it goes off, take one arm full of your birthday presents upstairs and put them away. Or take up the stack of laundry and put them away in your drawers before coming back downstairs to work some more. Also with her doing these things she saves you time so you can go out and do more fun things and not feel like you're not keeping up with your home. When we were children, our shows had commercials, and that was when I would get up and get things done. I even did that during your video just now. I would watch for a while, then took a break to switch over a load of laundry or gather the trash to go out.

Listening to your other viewers from the UK and watching you hanging your clothes on drying racks & radiators makes me so very grateful that I have a separate laundry room with a washer & a dryer! I am blessed❣️

Please don't get discouraged you're doing well.

We call that "country directions" in Australia. As sometimes you travel long distances and do not see much but bush land and then its you go past XXX and then keep going until you see XXX

Watching you clean and declutter in one slipper because you can't find the other one in the clutter has got to be one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time. It really tickled me and made me belly laugh! Thanks for that, I needed a good cheer me up!!

Definitely needed one of your vlogs tonight i have been at the hospital today with my husband for his MRI. I'm so tired funny how sitting in waiting rooms can be so tiring. 🫖☕️🍫

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Can you move/ get rid of the small bookcase in your hallway? You could use that wall space for hooks for the seasonal items you are using right now? Or hooks on the inside of the door to the closet? Keep going slowly but surely you are making progress.

SO excited for the pantry makeover!

Hi Buddy. You're so busy, instead of waiting to get to Ikea, measure and order a runner from Amazon?

Another great video Emma. You made me laugh out loud when you said you were walking around wearing one slipper because you couldn’t find the other one 🤣 That just struck me as really funny but then again I have a weird sense of humour ❤🇨🇦

Hi Emma my word would I love to come and give you a hand sorting your clothes your under stairs cupboard you could get clear box and have one each for shoes that’s what I’ve done it makes finding shoes ( slippers) lol easy ❤

Guy Fawlkes Day for your sale--smile

Your cabbage and broccoli chopping reminded me I have a cauliflower in the refrigerator. I am going to go wash that up and cut it up for preparation for curry tomorrow. I like to have somethings done in advance, so the process doesn't take as long. I had so many boxes of stuff sitting in our 3 season porch, waiting for a good time to take it to the thrift store. It nearly drove me mad and when we finally loaded it up and hauled it away, I really kicked myself for waiting so long because it opened up so much space, once it was removed. I can't imagine how much stuff you are going to have after you sort the hall closet etc., just how many bags of stuff you will have cluttering the landing. It may end up a lesson in disappointment, when you are only able to sell a few things. It seems an awful time and space thief just to teach your daughter about money. I know someone mentioned putting it out for free. That would be teaching her a giving heart and that's important too.

You just have too much stuff and little pieces of furniture. I use to spend endless hours cleaning every week until I decluttered 70% of my families things. Most of us don’t want to admit we have a problem with decluttering. My mom was like you and kept putting things in the attic for later I guess. Stuff shifting only prolongs the issues.

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When it comes to whether or not to keep your daughter’s school books, in my experience with my 3 children, it’s not worth keeping anything from Key Stage 3 (Years 7-9) & only worth keeping books from Key Stage 4 when she’s doing her GCSE years. All my kids used their exercise books from Year 10 & 11 as revision material, but not from years before that. I did keep some from Yr 9 but that was only because at my kids’ school they picked their GCSE options at the end of Year 8 & sat a couple of exams at the end of Year 10, but we only kept the Yr9 books that were for the exams. When your daughter goes into her GCSE years, her school should tell you what revision guides to buy & for what exam boards in particular. Different schools use different exam boards. You’ll be able to go to somewhere like WHSmiths & get her work books & revision guides that will cover everything she’ll need to know, plus there’s a lot of free revision material online. Plus she won’t be doing all the subjects that she is now, she’ll drop some & possibly gain some new ones when she picks her GCSE options. If she’s not referring back to any of her books from the previous years, it means she doesn’t actually need them & will not gain anything new from them. Personally, I kept text books & revision guides on hand, but I got rid of exercise books. The only exception would be an English book with an amazing story they’d written or something for example. Hope this helps x

I've been following the Fly Lady system for years now. I've also done the Minimalism Game which is fun, especially if you do it with some friends. We did it on Whatsapp. My latest thing is the Art of Swedish Death Cleaning. Loads of videos online. Im 60 & both kids have left home so I'm looking at thing in a different light again. I love to watch folk making progress. 🎉😊

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Emma could you repot your cheese plants to make one plant in a larger pot

You sometimes ask how we keep our homes tidy when having a project going+ life. Short answer, we don't. 😉 When I decluttered and organized a room that overwhelmed me, the rest of the house suffered. I spendt 10-15 minutes in each room every day to make it ok. Now I have reached the maintain stage of decluttering, and can easy keep my house tidy. But before it was impossible with projects going. Can you ask the parents at your daughters school if you can make a sale? Instead of tables you can use sheets on the floor to gather the sell stuff. Maybe borrow the sports hall or the schools parking lot?

Instead of doing a sale with your daughter can you just give her some money? I once paid my son when he was younger, 4 or 5 years old maybe, $2 for a pile of clutter. He was thrilled and so was I. Another thought is to maybe set your donations out in front of your house with a sign that says FREE. Then it’s not a burden on the thrift stores and you don’t have to take it anywhere. You could advertise it on marketplace and I’m sure you would enjoy watching how quickly it gets picked up. We used to live on a busy street and it worked great for us. People are struggling so it might be a blessing to others.

Have a look around for a new table, ours has a large leaf that folds in the middle of the table, it's a bit like a tranformer. It seats 6 when the table is normal size lift the middle out and you can easily seat 10-12 people. It's solid oak and bought it locally to where I live.

Love the new angles of your filming Emma.

Loved the before and after shots 😉❤️

When you are picking up toys in the lounge, your daughter is on the couch and the TV is on. Just curious why she's not cleaning up the toys. When you were working in the dining room I noticed that you set notebooks and such flat in the basket. If you stand them up on their ends/bottom, you won't have to take everything out to find what you need. You definitely have given your daughter and continue to give her a secure attachment! The way that people parent definitely has changed over the years, especially as new research has came out. I agree, hoping you have a sale in a week or two, early October.

Thanks for the body double company! I was able to get the kitchen and 2 loads of washing folded

Btw, I'm going to donate directly to Natasha's Allergy Charity.

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Texas is huge!

My mom always said,”A sons a son,til he takes a wife. A daughter’s a daughter the rest of her life” I guess she knew. She had 7 sons and 4 daughters.

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My own mother never praised me to my face but people have told me how she does so with them! I found this out after she had passed away 😪

I would love a nice Mother- in- Law mine is so bad we stopped all contact 5 years a go, it was the best decision for us.

Ohhh I saw the broken bowl. Im sorry friend for that. 😔 I get really upset when things get broken like dishes bc My Mom would always break all our dishes bc she is "always in a hurry!" I still remember at 6 yrs old, I got 4 drinking juice glasses of strawberry shortcake and she broke all of them. I was so devastated 💔 I still remember.. my heart broken is affected still.

Cynthia from Brenham Tx here. I am blessed to have a cleaning person come every two weeks to help out ( we are in our late 70’s) In between times my husband and I share the chores & cooking. He’s very good about helping around the house and he LOVES to run errands! My mother-in-law passed on many years ago. She was the greatest-so loving & kind and she NEVER criticized me not even once. We both had very similar ideas about cleaning, cooking, and child rearing. My husband inherited many of his wonderful qualities from her. RIP Dorothy Miller❤️

Ah ha haaa...lol. Sorry, that sounded a bit harsh, but I feel bad for you literally repeatedly saying I dont have the space. I dont mean to be mean.😮❤ I again have to say lil Emma did amazing on her puppet show.😂🎉❤ What is the war games your hubby play? What is the point? Like video games? Or hobby with painting? Curious?

I will always remember what my grandma said to me…A girl is for life a boy takes a wife….i help keep my clutter down by if I haven’t used it in 3 months then the likely hood is your not going to use it so get rid of it same goes for clothing if you haven’t worn it your likes not to so also get rid of it xx

I loved that her puppet show 🎉❤🎉 Emma, you are doing such a great job! I loved hearing you say... my 2nd passing through in the dresser of clothes...way to go. You ARE A PHENOMENAL MOTHER!!! 🎉🎉