EXTREME Clean with Me Marathon | DECLUTTERING + ORGANIZING | 60+ Minutes of Cleaning Motivation
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- If you're looking for cleaning or decluttering motivation, look no further! We just moved into a new home, and today, I want to take you along to clean with me, declutter with me, and organize with me -- there's a lot to do, so I hope you're ready to get down and dirty with me in this EXTREME cleaning and decluttering marathon! As a minimalist family, I love how much easier homemaking is in our highly simplified home, but even if you're not a minimalist, I still hope you enjoy this cleaning video with decluttering and organizing tips helpful -- let's get started!
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What are you cleaning, decluttering, or organizing today? Drop me a 💪emoji and let me know what you're working on this week-LET'S DO THIS!!!
Also, sorry for the late video--I'm sure you understand WHY I wasn't able to post until now, hahaha. 😅
Yay! Excited for your video!
This week's decluttering/organizing projects for me are the living room and my kids rooms.
I pulled some clothing to take to the consignment store and I have some odds and ends I already loaded in the car to drop off at the thrift store tomorrow. Busy week this week and next but then I really want to get down to doing some serious cleaning/clearing out.
After decluttering from a home to an apartment, I refuse to accumulate unnecessary stuff so I’m always making decisions to prevent clutter. Enjoy your beautiful home.
Marissa, my husband and I just moved, too. We bought our Empty Nest Home. We're unpacking, putting together new and old furniture and getting the house ready for all three of our adult children and 2 grandchildren to come visit! (One lives out of state with her kids and husband, another lives in the UK with her husband and one lives about 50 miles away with her partner.)
My husband and I are trying to stop being Messy Pile People. We're making sure we clean the kitchen and breakfast room after every meal, cleaning the floors every week kitchen almost every day in the kitchen, vacuuming twice a week if I can and even vacuuming our furniture so our house is so much cleaner than our old house where we raised our 3 kids and we fell behind on keeping the house as clean as it should have been.
When we moved we filled a dumpster with... stuff we didn't need and still spent another year getting rid of things we didn't need, donating, upcycling, recycling, etc.
I saw you with your green dry floor and wall Swiffer! I was jealous. Mine was lost in our move. 😔 I have a new Swiffer Power mop and I can use other things on long sticks for dry mopping. (In other words I'm not buying an other green dry floor Swiffer.)
The hardest part of trying to keep the new house clean is trying to persuade my husband to take off his shoes when he comes in the house. "I'm going right back out!" That doesn't prevent dirt and heaven knows what from taking a ride on his shoes to mess up the house, though. I keep putting his shoes in the mud room and replacing them with slippers I bought him. It's not working yet, but I'm hoping.
You're doing a great job! Keep up the good work.
I really want to hear about your past life as a tattoo artist! You are just the coolest 😆
Aw, thank you, hahaha. My dad loved motorcycles and tattoos, he got me a job with his artist! I worked there for like three years, watching and learning at first, then moved on to tattoos and piercings. ;)
I wanna hear about your career as a speech therapist. It was what I had originally gone to college for... a long time ago... I am 66 yr old now...
Where do you order extra steam mop extra pads? Also how do you get them clean? Mine are so stained!!
Same!! It’s not like that is just some basic job - that takes talent and real artistry. I want to hear about this and see her work!! That is fascinating!
Congratulations on your new home! It’s beautiful and has so many cabinets to keep everything in it’s place.
I love seeing you move in and set up your house in a thoughtful way.
Thank you ☺️🙏
I've been cleaning houses for 15 years with my grandma who has been cleaning houses her whole adult life. Her trick for wood floors/surfaces is to first clean them, mix warm water with 1 tsp vinegar and 1 tsp dishsoap to remove dirt- and dry with cloth right away, then follow after dry with Murphys Oil then dry again after Murphys. That way the oil doesn't trap the dirt under it resulting in a dull looking wood.
Love your new house and how you described your process to us!
Thank you …. This is so helpful!!! 💕🇨🇦
I think your squirrel is actually a chipmunk. :-) The kitchen is always the most work in a move. Welcome home!
Yes, that was a chipmunk. We had a ton of them at my last house and they were all named Chippy 😅
I love the architecture of your home! So cool!
Thank you 🙏😊
I LOVED this video! Your new home is beautiful and seems like it will be a wonderful place for your family to make memories and enjoy living in. All the best as you get settled.
I use Murphy oil soap on my cabinets( especially all wood cabinets). It cleans and helps put some moisture back into the wood. I’ve seen WD40 used on wood cabinets. It also adds moisture back into the wood. A little smelly, but it dissipates. I dust down walls regularly. It really makes a difference. I also use a steamer. I really like how it cleans. Like you stated you need additional pads! You are doing great! It’s rewarding work! 😊
Just a tip: first clean what's high up that you need a ladder for, then clean below, otherwise dust and dirt will fall down on the already cleaned areas. Also, the best cleaner for real wood cabinets and floors is Murphy soap. And it smells great! I used to buy that pink method cleaner in England and I liked it, but Murphy's soap smells better imo
I so enjoyed watching this video this morning! Thank you for sharing your process and all your tips. I appreciate your warmth and care.
I love that you have the old sellers’ info and are on good enough terms that you can message her! They must’ve been so happy to know that their home would be cherished and well taken care of
Btw, it’s the best to vacuum the dust like that. I went through the same and vacuuming the walls worked the best 🤗
Today I clean the bed, bedside table and windows in our master bedroom. It’s zone 4 of flylady. Good luck with your new home looks really nice so far. For the kitchen cabinets, I recommend washing them out with apple cider vinegar, then placing baking paper on the surfaces (for protection), sprinkling with baking soda and leaving it in for up to 7 days. Then all unpleasant odors etc. should be gone. Greetings from cologne Andy💪🏻
I love the flooring choice!
Incredible! I'm so excited for you and your family. The house is coming together beautifully. Can't wait to see more of this journey.
Thanks so much, Paige, and happy to have you along on the journey. 🤗
I love these types of videos. I could watch them all day!
Your garage is completely finished AND has an epoxy floor??! Lucky!!! 😊
Yes! How fantastic is that, right?
My husband and I also moved around a lot in the past and you do the same trick that I have done for years: leaving the hangers on the clothing and folding them down into the boxes as such. I used dish packs, a wonderful way to move your clothes from one place to another. So, good for you for coming up with a brilliant way, If I should say so myself, to save time by leaving hangers on your clothes.🎽👕
Thank you for letting me know I can declutter bad memories, I had not thought of that before.
Helping my sister with her move to a new house but mixed with her having a newborn. This video gave me some extra motivation, thanks!!
💪🏻 we are shifting to a new house by this month end and so we are in the process of decluttering. I love watching your videos while I sort through our stuff. They are pretty helpful ☺️
💪 thank you. This was helpful. Trying to declutter 18 years of kids clutter and also my own 40 years of clutter. Six people family, we moved from Germany like you and had a bigger house there. We have a small house now and too much stuff. It’s been really hard but it’s getting done. Thanks for the inspiration.
I just can’t get over how beautiful the house is !! I am so happy for your family ❤❤🎉🎉🎉
In short, your house is wonderful! Here's to bringing new life to a classic. Hope your family enjoys every day...even the hard work of making it your own. Many happy moments.
We found a box of things in our attic and I was able to locate the original owner's cousin on Facebook. The original owner was thrilled to have the things back. I am glad you have contacted the previous owners.
Really enjoyed watching you make this home your own and set it up! Put a small dish with some bicarbonate of soda in it inside the funky smelling kitchen cupboard! 👍🏻Good job👍🏻
Thanks for the tip!
A Method tisztatószert imádom, az illata is szuper. A konyhádban milyen sok tárolóhely van, ez fantasztikus, nekem nagyon kevés, ezért nagyon jó látni, hogy milyen jól el tudsz pakolni. További jó munkát az új házban, várom a videókat!
I love your cabinets ❤
Marissa thank you, I love to watch you work
Always happy to have you here, Gloria!
Wow I really really love this mid-century home -- but it seems huge, will you keep all the closets? ..so much storage space!
The closets are built in, so definitely keeping them. We just don’t need to fill up the space! The most important thing for us was finding a good home in the boys school district. ☺️🙏
This video is helping me do my chores this morning! Monday is clean the bathroom day at my house. An excellent all-purpose cleaner and disinfectant is Force of Nature! I have been using it exclusively for more than five years, and as a fellow minimalist, I think you will like it too. One cleaner for my whole house, it's the best!
WELCOME HOME ❤. Enjoyed this video very very much😊
Loved this video! You have motivated me SO MUCH! I am a new wannabe minimalist just getting started 😂 it's been very fun and freeing! Kids rooms look great and I am pretty proud of what I have done so far!
Thank you so much for your videos!!! I’ve learned so much which as helped me become debt free and establish a 6-month expense account. It’s so liberating!
That is amazing, Carmen, big virtual high-five 🖐️ to you!
Thanks so much!
I absolutely love your new house! Looking forward to many future videos in it!
It has been so nice to clean together! I chose a few areas to deep clean in my own home and worked together with you! I will carry on later, soooo nive! Cleaning shared!😊❤
I finally took the top pieces to two kitchen hutches (that we haven't used in a long time) to the dump this morning! 🎉 It's nice to get some space back in the basement.
Congratulations on reclaiming more space!!! 💪😄
I see so much space for plants on these tall areas . You live in my dream house for home jungle 😅
Right? I just need to learn to take care of plants 🌱because I’ve never been good with them. 🥲 It’s a work-in-progress.
@@AtoZenLife Same here! I've been learning about plants for a couple of years now, but every now and then I accidentally kill one of them and nobody knows how it happened. Wish you a lot of patience and I hope we will see it if you decide to start your journey with plants ❤
You’ve made amazing progress in your home. I’m so happy for you! When you were on the ladder cleaning those high flat surfaces I felt your pain. I do that about once a year. It’s not too fun. 🙂
Old English Scratch Cover is a great oil for old wood cabinets. It moisturizes and makes any flaws or damage pretty much disappear. It comes in light and dark colors. I use that once a year or so to make the wood look like new again. For in-between cleans I use Therapy Clean Wood Cleaner and Polish, it really makes the wood look revived.
I would also recommend never using Murphy Oil Soap on any wood, it leaves a waxy filmy buildup over time that cannot be removed, and creates problems if you ever want to refinish wood that it was used on. I live in a 1950s house with a lot of old wood and have lived and learned!
Wow, what a great way to start my Monday! 💪 I’m deep cleaning my bathroom today. 🚽
Good luck! I had to do plenty of that myself. 😂🚽
I use the same all purpose cleaner. It smells sooo good!😊
Yes that cleaner smells so amazing and Method has really good quality spray bottles. After I’m done with the cleaner I just fill the bottle with vinegar and I use it as my all purpose cleaner. Vinegar is fantastic because it leaves no streaks and gets rid of odours. You can use it on all surfaces except marble.
Oh wow Marissa, you must be exhausted! So happy that you are finally into your beautiful home 😍 The new floors are stunning and love the way your organized everything 👏 don’t forget to seat down for a cup of tea once in a while 🤗 and thank you for the toaster recommandation 😀
Oof, I remember the big pre move in clean from our move in 20 years ago! You're a power house. I hope the steam mop came with a warning not to use it on your hardwood flooring. Today is a desk day for me. My big weekend task was harvesting all our tomatoes before blight overtook them, then making and freezing green tomato salsa and sauteeing green tomatoes to use in casseroles (wherever I use celery). And every flat surface is covered with semi ripe tomatoes, so cleaning will happen as they ripen and I have time to process the red tomatoes.
If the cabinets don't smell good after airing out, vinegar and baking soda can absorb the smell. Slugs crawl to the beer in a low pan or dish and to drink it and drown. Disgusting to clean up but it works. I love Swedish clothes! Fun day of cleaning and organizing!
Thanks for the hot 🔥 tips and for watching!
What a beautiful home and so well constructed. The wood and stone is awesome 😊
I was so happy to clean with you today. I got some laundry done and put away and sorted some too small clothes out of my son’s drawers.
I’m so glad the steam mop worked in the end. I love mine and it does such a good job of cleaning without anything harsh. The natural stone surfaces in the house are so unique.
I too am a sucker for little pumpkins. 🎃 Happy Moving day!
Loved this!!!!!! 🤩🤩🤩
Design thought-
I love your kitchen as is-
I think updating the hardware would be a big visual impact for a minimal time/monetary investment….
Love your channel❤
Thanks for sharing with us!
Interesting! What would you change it to? 🤔
@@AtoZenLifei think she means that some nice more modern handles would really make impact? The old ones are not doing justice to that beautiful wood in my opinion.
I am loving this video! I needed a long one to get my kitchen super clean!! Also, my husband hoards socks, too! And he didn't grow up poor. For the life of me, I can't figure out why.
Now I can go and organize my house!🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️ Thanks for the motivation and inspiration!✨✨✨🌷
Hi, Marissa. I cleaned along with you today! I really enjoy your channel. Although, I am not a minimalist, your discussions on other videos about breaking away from the constant bombardment of consumerist culture have resonated with me. Thank you for reminding us all to value our family and friends over stuff. I can offer advice on the garden slugs. Beer does work, but it has to be in a container the slugs are able to crawl into. I found Haxnicks Slug-Buster containers at a local garden center. They really work with the beer in the lower portion of the container and the accompanying lid sits on top. Good luck with your garden and enjoy your new home with your family!
Thank you for watching and sharing your tips! Yes, I agree. I think our container was the problem - we were trying to use an old plastic spinach container, but it is a bit high and has a lip on it that I think they would have trouble climbing…will have to experiment with the container for sure 👍
You have a lovely new home!
If your yellowed curtains can go in the washer, Oxyclean and hanging outside did a miracle job on my mom's tablecloths that were stained and smelled. That would definitely save some money ... if they go in the washer. Just an idea
Congrats on the big move!!!
Love Mid-century modern 😊
The backpack vacuum cleaner!! ❤ you are my people!!
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Just beautiful!😊❤
Thank you 😊
I had flashbacks to last summer after our kitchen remodel when I watched you, I did a similar thing because not only did I want to run everything through the dishwasher once, but also figure out where it best worked. There really is no other good way to do it. The IKEA utensil holder, wth?! That's a fail, I don't know what they were thinking with that. RE: the quartz countertops, you also want to use something under a slow cooker, etc for the same reason. Anything that might be concentrated heat for an extended period of time.
What a great house! Looks so green outside, too.
Thank you for sharing the moving process with us!
In the top bathroom drawer- is that an outlet in the very back? Super cool!
It is! There are a lot of cool and unique features in this house…some we are still discovering 😂
Wow, Marissa! I really enjoyed the marathon-it was just what I needed to get inspired. Now, I feel it's time to tackle the laundry area and make it more functional. I truly wish I could have the same kind of privacy the trees in your space provide. Keep the great content coming!
Most flooring guys cut the wood outside. I was so sad to see you leave your home in Germany, but this house is beautiful too. Looking forward to see the results. ❤️
It was over 100 degrees most of the days they were working here, it was CRAZY hot!!! Maybe that's why they did it inside? They did all of the cutting inside, for sure.
For the refrigerator shelves, some are not removable, so the ones you cannot remove may be permanent ones..
Might be!
I have a one in, one out rule for clothing. I just upgraded some pants, so had to eliminate! Also, went through pantries and got rid of some stuff. You’re always inspiring! Thanks!
Try Howard's feed and wax for the wood. It's a natural wood polisher.
The Contac-paper liners in your kitchen drawers are from the 1980s.
Yep, believe it or not we had these EXACT ones in my house growing up 🥹
You can use a microfiber cloth on the swiffer head and save money and waste!
I find Murphy’s Oil Soap works amazing at bringing out the lustre in the wood.
Hello always watching from the Philippines 🇵🇭
Thanks so much and happy to have you here 🤗
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I love, love, love your home! Thank you so much for sharing.
Very nice video, I love your house and I am so glad that you did not change the tiles on the kitchen walls.
I would also recommend to start top down with the cleaning, as someone else suggested. Even dust tends to "fall down" and then spread again on surfaces. And I would use a vacuum cleaner as the first step. Not sure, how many of these swiffer wipes filled your litter in the end... 😉
One thing that hit me by surprise was throwing away food like noodles and cereals, but I am sure you had your reasons.
Now I am looking forward to see the final house tour 😊
Thank you for sharing your final move.
Wow! Your wood floors are amazing. You won't regret that upgrade.
Your house is stunning.
Blessings to you and your family.🙌😄✌
Thanks so much, Patricia, and take care
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Such an amazing video, I watched it and then had to watch it again because I was so amazed how you kept going and were so thorough. I wish you every happiness living in your new house.
You are the sweetest, thanks so much Judy and big hugs 🤗 to you!
Enjoy your new house!!!!
Iron sulphate for slugs! It’s totalle safe for everything else. We can buy that stuff in the form of little turquoise pellets at a garden store.
Thank you for the tip!
Love the pink grapefruit smell and I'm a chicken burrito fan! Great video!
Beer traps can work for slugs, but there is an eco safe slug bait you can get at any garden centre or big box store that is much easier to use and extremely effective. You sprinkle the little pellets around the target plants. Safers brand. It kills slugs but won't harm the birds etc that eat the dead slugs. And in the long run, you can research varieties that are more slug resistant.
We’re having the kitchen remodeled in 2 weeks for 2 1/2 months, & I am packing plus making freezer to the microwave meals to eat during that time.
Omg I remember those toasters from Germany! Funny, those were pretty cool. Great cleaning motivation
Aren’t they amazing! I was so excited to find one here!!!
So excited to see you guys move in! The floors turned out amazing! Seeing all that wood dust brought me back to our remodeling days. We had to gut our kitchen and hired someone to finishing the drywall work. We put up plastic and a sheet but the drywall dust went everywhere. We had to live in our home while all that work was being done. So I was cleaning constantly, even when they were on a lunch break. I couldn’t take the build up of it accumulating. So I swept and mopped every chance I got. 😂
This was such great motivation! I am working on my kitchen, kids' closet, and laundry today. We have family visiting soon, so i am getting ready for that, but we may possibly have a tropical storm here on Thursday. So we also did a lot around the yard today.
I have a steam cleaner I like. But occasionally I literally get on my hands and knees with a brush and scrub all of the little nooks and crannies. We have lived in places that it changed the color of the floor. Also I vacuum everything. Swiffer’s are good but I like to suck up as much dust as possible first.
Do you wear knee-pads when you do that? I haven’t had tile since college and I used to wear knee pads to make the scrubbing more bearable 😂
@@AtoZenLife Yes
Today I clean the bed, bedside table and windows in our master bedroom. It’s zone 4 of flylady. Good luck with your new home looks really nice so far. Greetings from cologne Andy
Great video. A lot of great tips ❤ love your new floors.
The living room curtains: you might try setting them outside in the fresh air. Also, can they be put in the washing machine with oxyclean or something similar?
Totally try washing your curtains in the washer. Dry cleaning them every time gets expensive and if they don’t make it through the washer then you can get some affordable ones that can be washed in the machine from Ikea.
You need a robot sweeper. Trust me, best investment ever. My advice for cleaning - tourism - always start high and go low and always start from the corner that is the farest from the room's door. Cleaning never ends. ❤
I have definitely been considering it, but hubby still needs convincing. 😜 Thanks for watching and sharing your tips!
@@AtoZenLife I have had one for 2 months now and love it.
Been waiting for this video since you left Germany!! Thank you and love ya Marissa!
You and me both, friend! XOXO right back at you! 😘
Keep us posted on whether the former owner wanted her stuff back that you found.
I love snowman decor so if it were me.. and she didn't want it... I'd keep the snowman plate lol lol
Love your new place but don't envy you the high ceilings, I'm too old for that. A great tip to work in a clockwise direction, but think about starting from the top and working down because otherwise dust and dirt can fall on your newly cleaned areas. You must have been exhausted after all the cleaning, packing and moving but it all looks so nice now. Enjoy.
There are so many cabinets and pantry areas in your kitchen. As minimalist, I would think you would have plenty of room in the kitchen. 🤣
Way too much room, actually, but we love the house! 😂
I love it 💕
Great video. Thanks for sharing! I’m inspired! ❤
I have a tip for wooden surfaces. Put 4-5 used tea bags in 2 litres of warm water and wipe the wooden surfaces with a cloth. It nourishes the wood and makes it shiny!😉
When I watched the house tour, my first thought about having so ledges high up to dust.
Congrats on the home. It is stunning. That is so cool that you were able to tattoo artist. You have lived a very interesting life.
Probably not doing a lot decluttering and cleaning today, but I’ve been slowly going through the house trying to get rid of more. I’m also trying to get caught on life admin, which I think counts!
It DEFINITELY counts! I have so much of that to catch up on, too.
NEVER give slugs beer, they’ll just keep coming back. They’ll bring peanuts and pretzels. They’ll tell all their friends where the party’s at. Before you know it, they’ll be singing karaoke at all hours of the night.
Good one - I read this out loud to the entire family and we’re all rolling w/laughter 🤣
@@AtoZenLife That makes me so happy! 🤣💜
My kitchen is small, but I organized it by zone so I am confused by your choices. By the sink, I put all of my dishes, glasses, cups and silverware near the sink/ dishwasher for easy unloading and putting stuff away. Right now, you have your dishes on one end of the kitchen but the glasses and silverware are on the other. I guess you do not mind taking all of those extra steps but it would drive me crazy when setting the table.
Usually I would agree with you, but these dishes are a bit heavy so I decided to go with the long cabinet where I could spread them out over several shelves instead of stacking them on 2 and risk bending/breaking the wood. I love them otherwise, so that's my way of making it work without having to declutter and buy new dishes. ✌️
So I just stopped mid video and went and boxed up all the fall decorations that I didn’t put out last year or this year. I have my favorite ones out to enjoy already so the rest can go. 🎃