☘️ How To Declutter Your Craft Room When You're Dreading It - Hobby Declutter - Declutter Challenge
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- Опубліковано 18 сер 2020
- ☘️ You're probably dreading this decluttering category because it's full of your favourite things. Well, my advice may surprise you!
If you're struggling to get a handle on your hobby or craft supplies and you're wondering how you could even consider parting with them, I'm sharing an insight that freed me up to declutter more than I ever thought I could.
By the end of this video you'll know exactly what to do when it comes to decluttering your craft room.
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Laura
Im an avid crocheter and i had the equivalent of 4 huge storage tubs of yarn. Random colors. Remnants of projects. Tons i knew I'd never use. I got pretty boxes and got rid of 3 of the 4 tubs worth of yarn that sparks no joy. Donated it to the local school!
Sooo diffcult to donate at this time, been trying to do that for months.
Laura: lawyer + therapist + organization guru = all amazing
Thank you for this. 💜
Helpful! As I’ve aged, I realized that some hobbies I can leave behind. I gave away all of my earring making supplies. Shocked myself when I decided that I am done quilt making. There was a whole lot to go in that area! I am learning pastels . Your new series is terrific!
I have a problem parting with the quilts I have made. I love all of them. My houe is a small Victorian cottage. So I am thinking of stopping quilt making. But I am not sure if I am ready...
Over the past five or so years, I've grown out of some craft hobbies and into others or just changed styles. I've been through several passes of craft decluttering and am now into trying to organize and store what is left. The first pass was to decide if I wanted to keep doing what I had the supplies to do. Cut my crafting hobbies in half. I did keep a box of tools from those crafts I've stopped because most are family heirlooms. I love sewing but was unable to break a mental block for several years after my Mom passed away. I let go of some fabric but decided to keep everything else until my block was cleared and I was able to return. After 8 years of not touching a machine, I am back sewing and truly enjoy it. For the past few weeks I have been sorting and categorizing my sewing tools and supplies. I will be able to send off a few more things but I am glad I kept everything as I knew I would come back to it. Once I had decided what I was going to keep pursuing and what I had lost interest in it was easier to let things go.
Thanks for sharing. Similar situation over here and I am thinking about doing away with all the supplies. Reconsidering now.
I blended a few days -- my storage area was the closet in our guest room/my sewing room. I was going to do one corner, but ended up hauling out everything. It cleaned up easier than I expected, and faster. I also resolved not to store other things (like all the photos I need to sort through...that's coming up, right?!) in that closet, except for the vacuum. Found new homes for some things, threw out the useless scraps, even got rid of extra pillows that were next to the closet...huge win for days 17 and 19 - THANK YOU!!!
Good one! Thanks! I was sweating bullets trying to get rid of some craft supplies I have collected over the years. I will now put aside my absolute fave treasures that I will allow myself to keep only if I part with most of the unused items. I am 70 and have some spools of ribbon for 50 years! I no longer have a sewing machine or a place to use one so…..good-bye zippers, bobbins and machine feet and maintenance tools! If I donate enough I can keep my most beloved embroidery floss collection. Thank you!
What a good idea to turn the thinking around to giving ourselves permission to keep items! I always love seeing your Audrey 2 on the shelf and am glad it was in your keep pile. My late beloved father made one for a prop when our son performed “Grow For Me” in an Eisteddfod a few years ago. I’ve held on to it but it’s deteriorated over the years and is quite a sad display. So , after checking that I had a photo in all it’s former glory, I’ve bitten the bullet and let it go. Now I’m not guilty about how sad it used to look and can put something out that’s positive and uplifting 😍🎭
You should see my craft room. It's a bedroom filled! with shelves, boxes, and work tables. And FIVE unsorted boxes of unsorted stuff. Most of it is packaging scraps for collages.
I really need to get to it.
Kathy B.
I'm an artist and I work in a lot of mediums from wood carving to watercolor. Letting any of them go is probably the hardest thing for me. I did give up costuming and rug making. I am going to get rid of my sewing machine. I tell myself someone else could really use and enjoy it. I'm just not using it anymore. Of course I did just buy the cutest antique hand crank sewing machine so I can still sew something if I need to! It's beautiful, much smaller than my regular sewing machine and it doesn't use electricity. I feel good about downsizing to one tiny machine and a spool of thread. I'll still be able to sew when I want.
On most of my crafts when I need new tools or have to replace some I've been going for smaller, non-electric things. I sew too much now to not have an electric machine but if I have no deadline and it is a small item I will sew it by hand.
I want that vintage computer toy on your desk!! 😄❤❤🤗
Laura, thank you, I needed this today. I'm currently struggling with my hobby supplies!
I can't say enough good things about this series! You are a gem! (Probably I've said this before, too. But I mean every word.) Love to you. 💚
Thank you so much. I can't tell you how much I appreciate that. Sending love right back.
It's so satisfying to watch you organise that shelf!
Im an art teacher!!! Its near impossible to get rid of anything that could possibly be used for art!!!! Waaaaaahhhh.
how cute you have a table and a set of shelves....... Im looking around my craft room which is the size of a bedroom...
Costume making - geek cons and charity work - sewing and prop making
Dungeon and dragons - game, mini painting and terrain making
Carving/weaving and embroidery part of costume making and the Society of Creative Anachronism I am involved in.
Painting, scrapbooking, Card making.....
Board gaming..... ok I collect my hobbies but each leads into the other in some weird way..... they are all linked. lol
both hands up
So helpful, thank you!
My principal hobby is scrapbooking, card making and journaling... so I have so much stuff because on a scrap page you can use watercolors, pastels, washi tapes, you can put embellishments made of polymer clay or knitting them... and this is why I love to scrapbook. But I have other hobbies like cookies decoration and I think that I could declutter many things because I don't decor so much now. Thank you for your videos 💕
Thanks for this video. What a great idea to think of the goal of the hobby. My goal a couple of years ago was always to making paper projects as beautiful as possible, but if I think about it now, my goals for a hobby would be doing something relaxing, easy and with quick results. I'll give it some more thought this week and maybe I will finally declutter my 2 closets of craft supplies this weekend or so.
Glad it gave you some food for thought. Best of luck!
@@HowToGYST I succeeded in decluttering! About 25% of it is going away. I might do a second decluttering round next season. :D
Love your videos Laura - you’re an inspiring coach. Thank you! ♥️♥️
Thanks for giving me permission to keep all of my craft stuff! I have had a bad conscious for years because I could not get rid of things. Now I Can enjoy the things instead 😊❤️
I LOVE YOU!! EVERYTHING you said is absolutely true in my situation. Thank you for breaking down the psychology of my acquisition and clutter issue. You are BRILLIANT! God Bless 🙏🏽
I like to make junk journals. Right below this video, YT suggested “Making faux postage stamps.” Aaaargh. Now I wanna make those! The ebb and flow of different craft supplies in my house is tsunami-ish. Time to toss out the ones that are growing barnacles (dust). Thanks for the inspiration!
Oh Thank your for the insights and sharing about hobbies and crafts. This has been a very hard category to downside and declutter. Been working at it for about 5 years and my pile is getting down. I have been focusing on what are my "true" hobbies vs crafts. Hobbie to me is something that i keep going back to and doing more of than crafts. I realize that we try a craft and realize not for me,,,,that is what was speaking to me today " Are no mistakes only happy accidents" Thanks enjoying these videos.
Great video! I will agree that it takes time to get rid of somethings. There have been things that I came across every time I reorganize my craft stuff.After a while I realized, why am I keeping this.
This video is just what I needed. I watched many and this is the only one that has tackled craft stuff. Truly grateful thank you x
Thank you for this video. This is exactly what I needed. Glad to see you are covering thoughts & questions that others have not posed. Whenever I search for something in general, you always get a ton of videos ALL saying the SAME thing. This was refreshing, and helpful! I will be checking out your channel now for other content to possibly help me on my decluttering journal!
Great advice👌
Your toy computer is so cute😍
Thank you for sharing✌💛☺
Great video with extremely practical advice. Thank you.
Thanks so much. Glad you enjoyed it.
Thank you for the permission to keep stuff occasionally. hahahaha. My home is tidy and fairly minimalist.....EXCEPT for my craft area. I have a craft work desk and all supplies in a closet. While the supplies are fairly organized, it looks messy and I decided that it is ok. I'm ok with one area that doesn't look great as long as I can close the door on it since it is where I can be creative while in the mood. That being said, when I get some new craft item (usually paper related) and there isn't a place to put it away, I know its time to purge some stuff.
This is the issue I have. Collections that pertain to my hobbies. Yarn 🧶 for crochet and basic knitting, plus all the tools. Then journaling (stickers, washy tape, pens, etc.). I have been getting rid of things, but I still have work to do😁. Thank you for you help💗🤗!
Oh, are you also a person that could stock a neighborhood craft store? LOL! Me too!
Isabella Bihy 😆 Yess! I probably could. I am currently realizing I have too many projects started because I’ve moved my crafts around 3 times just this year 🤪! First I had a room then I didn’t and now I do again 😳! It’s so confusing 😆😆😆!
@@kimberlyhoward7896 While I was collecting my craft supplies by category I found loads of UFOs (UnFinished Objects). I'm having a hard time to decide whether to keep, donate or toss. I just started last week in one category to sort out the UFOs. These things are all too nice, even though I haven't worked on them for a very long time. Would I have to buy more supplies to finish it and will I finish it soon (uh oh, that's a term a lawyer would use, which I'm not). Rather, does this abandoned project still resound with you? For myself, I have decided that if I need to buy more supplies to finish it, it's a candidate for tossing, if it still rings a bell, and you need only need say, a 5g tube of beads, or one spool /hank of yarn and you still have the tools to finish it, put it in the UFO box. How many UFOs should you keep? Another tough one. I think it depends if it is part of your favorite craft. You could keep more UFOs of your go-to craft, because the chance of finishing it is greater.
If you are encountering things that you have bought with the thought in mind that you'd want to make it, but never did, donate it if the condition of the supplies allows. Near my apartment is a senior nursing home and a kindergarten. The kindergarten has received over two pounds of plastic beads, plus stringing material. The senior nursing home has received 6 pounds of mostly unused wool and surplus knitting needles.
I admit, I'm lucky. I wouldn't donate if the recipient would have hunt for more to make something out of it. Toss.
I hope I don't sound haughty, I myself haven't finished the decluttering and I'm struggling. Just today I took steps to get help. The quantity is overwhelming.
Isabella Bihy Yes, I have many UFOs. But being crochet projects, I take them out and put the yarn with like colors to use possibly in a more current project. I’ve donated many of the items that I’ve made to others that will use them and charities. I’m currently donating yarns I know I will never use to a young special needs girl who uses crochet to keep herself calm. Also, to her house Mom that has grand babies😊! There are times that I feel guilty for having so many supplies for my hobbies. So I am still going through and really scaling back. I know my adult children wouldn’t want most of it so it’s time to keep only the things I know I’m really going to use😃! My husband understands and does help me create shelves that organize the smaller objects and helps me sort through the 30plus years of accumulated memories. Kids do that. I have 2 big bins in storage of kids papers to really go through and art with. It’ll eventually happen because we really need to scale down what we have😃. Thank you for sharing and chatting with me. You weren’t haughty at all, just knowledgeable and understanding. I’m in the middle of the same struggle. Just trying not to bury my family with the burdens of too much stuff! Have a great day💗🤗!
@@kimberlyhoward7896 a few more words: no need to feel guilty! The stuff has made you happy for some time, it does no longer make you happy, donate to make another person happy. Notice how the things are still making someone happy, so they are still serving their purpose, wherever they will have their home.
Kimberly, thank you for listening. Greetings from Germany.
Doubly difficult when the art/craft supplies relate to a creative business. Getting rid of “my” stuff isn’t hard. However the “business” stuff feels like more weighty decision. That said throwing out dried paint and glue, bent pins and full scissors is pretty easy, so I started with the broken stuff.
You have a Tommy Tutor play computer on your shelf!!! That thing was my favorite toy as a kid! :)
I've had it for about 35 years. =) Still works perfectly. They don't make 'em like they used to!
Thank you, so helpful. I have subscribed and I will be coming back to this often to remind myself :-)
Welcome!
Welcome!
At this very moment my sewing room stuff is waiting in the kitchen for decluttering. It is a huge pile and I dread going through it, but also keeping it makes me feel stuck. Hoping that letting go of some of it and reorganizing will bring a new creative direction.
I love that bag you have rolled up on the floor (I think it's a bag?): A bunch of sh*t I can't live without. I'm so tempted to put that on every label on every bin in my craft room, or at least frame it, and hang it on the wall.
Hi, you have one of my favorite set of books on your shelves, The Famous Five, my ultimate favorite by Enid Blyton though was Mallory Towers, I loved reading about that school.
I loved Mallory Towers too! In fact, I'm searching for them for my daughter.
@@HowToGYST they are hard to find in the US too.
I have a lot of my crafting supplies in plastic totes or piled high in open boxes but it's taking over my closets to the point that I can't find anything!
Great videos. I am glad you didn't part with your Labyrinth funko pop! X
This one is perfect. My husband says I need to get rid of my yarn. I crochet and almost all the yarn I own is for a project. I did get rid of some that is not easy to use or someone else was looking for and I had. But that’s it. On the other hand my husband has 20 work shirts and says he needs more. So I am trying to compromise. Any ideas.
Laura, I’m having a hard time getting rid of crochet and cake decorating items, but I am not supposed to do them. I have arthritis, a degenerative disease. Doing them will make my fingers get gnarled faster. There would be a lot of grieving involved.
Yesterday, I was ready to givany comment?e up my yarns and big batch of downloaded patterns to someone on Freecycle. It helped that another beginning crochet person would use them. But I kept all My many crochet needles, a bit of yarn, and the pattern for yarn roses. Just in case I got into the mood. Because I have them, I seem to be telling myself I shouldn’t do it.
Same thing with my big collection of cake decorating bags and tips. Squeezing the bags hurts my hands, yet I just can’t give them up.
I don’t understand totally. 😢
So sorry to hear this! Are there any adaptive tools you can get so you can continue? I know crochet can be hard on your hands and wrists-i can no longer do it. But maybe there is something available that can help you squeeze out the frosting so you can continue to do the decorating?
Donna B I’ve considered it. Building up the crochet needle doesn’t help that much, if I’m afraid. Some thing with squeezing a pastry bag. I start hurting even before I finish icing 12 cupcakes.
I also have a huge suply of crochet hooks and wool . I can no longer use them as my fingers seize up and hurt . It makes me sad to look at my hoard and not use , so I'm going to donate to my local school kntiring club ..hopefully new little hands can get joy from my things and learn new crafts .
sandra Hedley that’s so wonderful!! I wanted to donate to a group that knits beanies for cancer patients, but they aren’t meeting now. I have bags of stuff ready to be picked up by a charity in a few weeks, so I had to get it out of the house ASAP. I’m sure both our donations will be enjoyed
It's hard come to terms with physical limitations that keep us from our favorite activities. For me, I love embroidery and crossword puzzles, but I feel my eyesight failing and straining, even with magnifying glasses. Letting go marks the end of an era, like our children's childhoods.
My biggest issue is I look at the my supplies I've bought to make sooo many different crafts and still want to make the stuff so I keep it all. I'm gonna mention some categories I have; beads-med tote, leather, dream catcher things-like everything! Sewing-favorite-lots, things to make Xmas ornaments etc, paints+ supplies, wooden notions, paper crafts, wind chimes, steampunk crafts, native things for crafts. That's enough, I have good intentions..I have things in every room and a small home. No craft room. How do you purge if you like to make so many things? Only thing I've purged is yarns(but kept some cuz of quilting) I'm hoping I'm not hoarding🤦😭 Ideas?
It helps me to remember that wanting to do something and actually doing it are two different things. Time and energy are limited so I know I won’t actually get around to all that stuff. And, in most cases, the amount of it HINDERS me from creating because I feel overwhelmed by choice.
I need some help. i have 2 rooms and 2 big closets FULL of hobby stuff. i make costumes, so i dont know what i need for the build. therefor i have so many expensive materials that i use, and a lot that i need just in case.
+ 2 big closets of finished costumes.
What do i do?
I am about to start decluttering my craft room. I spent my first session putting things away and getting rid of trash.
I think selling the stuff that I want to let go of is just too much work. I would be happy to donate it but have things that are unusable to somebody else unless they they have the supply to go with it.
Do you think I should throw away those things?
Why does everything have to have been "a mistake"? ?....I don't find this to be the case! . Most of what I am decluttering was 95 percent no mistake at the time.. It added value to my or my families life at the time.. So the things had their usefulness in the past but now they don't anymore serve a purpose due to life changes eg, children growing up and changing... So now I want to declutter the stuff, which I just didn't get around to over the past years, for personal reasons, so now I am!.. I really can't imagine that the most peoples clutter were "mistake buys".. It is more likely that life just got in the way and we just don't find time and energy for exit strategies for all our stuff!.. And so over time it accumulates!..
Right now I would kill to have ALL of my crafts around me . Most is stuck in a paying for storage unit . Have downsize alot and will keep what have to use someday .
Laura, I love you and appreciate your videos, but that wasn't a craft room. I'm looking forward to the next video...or you finding a truly crafty friend whose REAL craft room you can help her/him go through and declutter and organize. Maybe the person down a few comments who does costuming! I LOVE all my hobbies. I have maybe one or two that I could get rid of, but my happy basics are Scrapbooking, Kindness Rock Painting, Art journalling, and Quilting. Not to mention, my "office area' is in my craft area and I'm horrible with paper organization. These are my current challenges, and I agree - I think about the things I'll keep all the time - Most of it! :-D Maybe when the fires are over, I can refocus on these challenges.
I've never had a craft room so didn't have any footage to show of that, sadly. And Coronavirus kinda prevents me from visiting anyone else's. ;) So I had to make do with the footage I had. =) The category wasn't strictly crafts though, it was any sort of hobby stuff. Planning and reading are my hobbies, so my bookcase seemed fitting.
Sounds like you have a wonderful array of hobbies. =)
@@HowToGYST These are such weird times, and you are doing a great job persevering on to make these videos! I'm so looking forward to each new one! It's just MY fantasy to see someone go through a real craftoholics abode someday, and help them reason and refresh a genuine working craft space. Maybe part of a future series? - Hands-on helping friends sort through the decluttering maze? Thanks for all your inspiration. =-) Have a truly wonderful day.
Thank you. =) Cas over on the Clutterbug channel recently uploaded a video where she helped a lady with her craft room (pre-pandemic). Hope that helps. Would highly recommend her channel.
@@HowToGYST Great video. New Subscriber. Did you donate to someone, sale, etc?
I'm ready to do this but I always feel better when I donate to a person. I have Alot stickers, papers, etc that a teacher would love however I'm not sure is it worth it to put a ad out or just donate it to Goodwill. Selling would take for ever and would just keep me keeping it longer. What do you think? Thanks! 😊
@@memekendall3197 Schools are always very grateful for stationery and craft supplies so try calling local elementary schools or preschools. I bet they'd be more than willing to take them off your hands. That's where some of mine goes. 🙂
This the hardest category for me. I see the potential for future projects in every scrap of paper, fabric or doo dad. 🤦♀️
Everything has potential. That doesn't mean you have to be the one to fulfil it. ;)
@@HowToGYST 🤯 thank you! This is one of my problem with craft stuff too. I never thought about this (well for things like stamping tools or washi tapes yes, but not for the scrap of things that I can simply recycling... maybe that scrap of plastic will not became a beautiful earring or piece of art but it will be a new bottle 🙂)
@@liviamusolino2573 Yup, that's where I'm at. NOvember helps - I decided I would say no to being the one to recycle all those empty containers...well, maybe not all, but no new ones. And then I saw that I have 3 containers of containers, so more will be going out with the trash tomorrow (don't have recycling here, sadly).
My nightstand is a mess again. 😥
My problem is that I want to get rid of my stuff but I don't want others to get mad at me for getting rid of it. I've bought everything with my own money but my family gets mad at me for wasting money
Too much talking