6 Simple Steps for an ORGANIZED HOME in 2026!

Hello my friends. Happy new year. I am so excited for this life because we are going to have the most organized year ever. 2026, not only are you going to be like the boss of your home, but your entire life is just going to be running like a well-oiled machine. Because when you can get your home under control, the rest of your life gets under control, too. I don't know how it works. Magic, science, confidence, mostly confidence, but it's uh it's it's for real.

So, hello and welcome. Let me know if you can hear me. Okay, we are going to be talking about the six steps for an organized home and then I'm going to be answering all of your questions. So, I love that you're here and you're live. You just got a notification. Hello. You guys can hear me, okay? And see me, okay? There's so many. you came in. Love you. Thank you. I see this one. Hi. It's going so fast. Okay, you guys ready for some awesomeness?

Here's the thing. If you are new to my channel, you may not know that I am in fact a recovering super slob. I say that because I'm still like not an organized person. Like a naturally organized person. People will come to my home and they'll say things like, "Oh, you must be so organized." And I'm like, "Well, everything has a home and everything's neat and tidy all the time, but I am not like putting anything into alphabetical order or being detailed because that's not me. That's not how my brain naturally works. That might be how your brain works."

So basically I'm going to show you the six-step system that is proven not only in my own home but I have helped thousands of clients transform their space either like in person or virtual and this is the most important thing because I like it's like okay yeah yeah I can come in after 15 years experience and help people transform the messiest homes in one day but I also want to tell you that there are people who are doing this by themselves when they have the right system.

So this is a picture one of my favorite transformations ever. This is part of the take your house back group. But in one day, look at this. You can't even see the front door. Couldn't even see the piano, let alone play it. Had not used the front door in years. In one day, it is now a family space where where they all sat down and like when I saw this picture, I I burst into tears because this is the type of life-changing amazingness that you can do literally in an insanely short amount of time. I don't care how messy your home is. You can move mountains of clutter. You can create systems that will last and stay tidy. Please know that it is possible and it's easier than you think.

Here's another example. One of my favorite ever virtual clients, um Michelle had said that she was a hoarder. She was like, "I'm so bad. I'm so bad at this. I'm so bad. I'm so bad." All I did was give her the system and the steps. Like I I I met with her three times on a Zoom call and was like, "Go. You got this. Just do this first." And this is her craw, which is like a craft room/office. Amazing. And again, these are people who are doing this for themselves by themselves. I am not there with them because they're using this like step-by-step system.

So, who's ready to hear it and embody it? You guys ready? But I I also want to tell you there there is a six-step system. But the step that is honestly I don't talk about that is the number one step is your freaking attitude. And I'm going to talk more about this in a video coming up on the 5th. But what if you stopped being mad at yourself and beating yourself up for the mess? Or or you're like, "Why is I'm just always cleaning and then it gets dirty again and I hate this and it's exhausting." What if you started feeling like a fierce warrior and got mad at the real enemy, which is the junk, the stuff, the things you're not using and you don't really like? What if you took all the blame off yourself and realized that your home just isn't working for you because one, you have too much? And two, you're not using systems that are made for your brain. This is not your failing. You there there's nothing wrong with you. You just haven't found the right system. And before we even start the system, I want you to like feel this like ferocity. Is that a word? I'm going to tell you why I'm exhausted and why I look like a zombie in a minute. But um I want you to feel like this warrior energy because it is a fight because you do deserve it. Because you are more important than everything in your home. And because when you have a home that feels relaxing and peaceful and tidy and effortless, you're proud of yourself. You wake up every day with confidence. Do you feel like you know and that that ripples to every other aspect of your life? Changing my home changed my finances, my relationships, my confidence, everything. All I had to do was get a handle on my space. And I am not saying this lightly because yeah, it's hard work, but you can do hard things. We're not digging ditches up in here. We're making decisions and we're following this step six-step process. You ready? Let's just jump in. Why are you talking, Cass? Come on. You guys ready?

Okay. One, know your bug style. We've talked about this so many times. Here's why it's important, though. Because organizing isn't one-size-fits-all. And if you're like me and you have felt messy your entire life cuz I don't organize in a traditional way, I felt like I lost even before I started playing the game because I didn't I wasn't confident that it would work because it had never worked and it felt like a big fat waste of time. And even when I busted my butt and did clean or organize something or tidy something, it just got messy again. And I was like, "What is the point?" And I and every time I would even get started, I was like, what's the point? You know what I'm saying? But when I understood my organizing style, it gave me this like, okay, the confidence to try again and the hope that this time it would work because I was using systems that that work for my brain.

So, I have a a video that came out a couple of days ago that really broke down the four organizing styles, but I'm just going to say this one thing before we move on to the second step because I know a lot of people are like, "I'm still not sure or I am sure and it's not super helpful to me." Your natural style is how you put your things away on your very worst day when you're sick, when you're not feeling well, when you're rushed, when you're tired. It is not your fantasy. It is not what you think you like. It is like I'm done with this and I'm rushing out the door. How can I put this away in a way that makes sense for me? And some people will stop and take the time to do it in a detailed way because they need to find it fast. And other people will just like drop it or toss it and they don't mind, you know, taking a few minutes to find it. They need to put it away fast. And some people are super visual and other people get really stressed out by seeing their things. And visual organizers does not mean you like clutter. It means you are energized and inspired by seeing your everyday beautiful things. You want them to be convenient. You want them to be right there. And a hidden organizer doesn't mean you're you want stark nothingness. It means you genuinely feel a lot of anxiety looking at your everyday things. And the things you do look at you just want to be like decorative kind of thing. You know what I'm saying? So, so knowing yourself, super important, okay? That that's really what this is. It's like knowing what works and what doesn't and why. And if you have no idea, you're totally new, you can go to my website and you can take the clutterbug quiz. And if you have questions specifically about your style, I promise I'm going to answer those at the end of this little like, let's get through the talkie-talkie part. And then I'll really help you diagnose your style. I will say one more thing. There are people who are like, well, I'm not totally sure because over here I like to do this and over here I like to do this and sometimes I like to do this and I'm not sure. You are a bee or a cricket. If you are overthinking and overanalyzing your organizing style, you are a detailed person. You are a perfectionist. Okay, friend. You are because you're overthinking and overanalyzing and and over the quiz, which is just like, are you a detailed person or not? Are you visual or not? It's a scale. Sure. You you can't put everybody into just four categories, but overall the majority, you know, and if you're like, I'm not 100% sure, you're a bee or cricket. Moving on. Moving on, friends.

Step two is declutter. No one wants to hear this. It is in fact the most important step. And even if you've decluttered in the past, you haven't even nearly decluttered enough. How do I know? Because I would fill like a box in a bag and be like, I already decluttered. When I actually did a deep dive and then kept going, every time I would go back through a space I had already decluttered, I would find more. And it wasn't that I was buying more things. It's just like I was growing my decluttering muscle. And I was also like I don't know. Um it just was changing everything about my life. My life became easier. And then I made the correlation between more stuff means more work and less stuff means less work. I had a crazy night. I'm going to tell you about that at the end. If you stay to the end, stay to the end. Hear my crazy story. Which is why I'm feeling like a bag of poop. Anyways, you need to let go of more. We got a dumpster. I see a comment. We got a dumpster. Getting a dumpster is the most insanely amazing way to declutter massive amounts of stuff very, very quickly. I got tons of decluttering. Okay. Well, let's move on to the next step, which is not what most people think. Most people think the next step is organizing. It is in fact zoning. And zoning is so critical, but it's also a piece of the puzzle that I think a lot of people don't realize, first of all, is important and that a lot of professional organizers aren't talking about. I think this is something that if you've been organizing for a long time, you just innately do. And I did. I was like, I figured it out that this had to be done. And then I was doing this without realizing this is what I was doing in my own home but also in clients homes. So I was never really talking about it. It was all this mental stuff I was just doing for clients.

So zoning. Here's how it works. Okay. You pick a room, any room. Do not take measurements. Bees and crickets. This isn't about perfection. This isn't about a perfect plan. This isn't about mapping. This is about creating cities and neighborhoods in your home to create a limit and a flow to your space that makes the most sense so that it's practical before you organize anything. And even if your room's already full of crap, that's fine. Pretend it's empty. Pretend it's empty. So, we draw a room and then we're like, "Okay, do I have closets? Those are things that are permanent in here." Yeah. Yeah. I got a closet here and maybe got like got a window here and I got like Oh, I got a little closet here. Sure. It's a big room apparently. And then what about furniture? Sure. I got a dresser and I got a bed. And that doesn't mean it has to stay here. But what else has to go in here? Well, clothing. Well, I got a big dresser here. So, this can be the clothing zone. I also have to do work in here. Where can that be? Okay. Well, I can work in this zone. And maybe you're like, I like to read in bed, so I want a little place for books. Well, maybe like this is a good book zone. This is a terrible, terrible drawing. This is literally the kind of drawing I do for clients. I don't show them, but for me, when I'm doing a client's space, so that I have a plan so I know, okay, well, do I have a bookcase for the books? Perfect. I'm going to move it into the book zone because this makes sense. And I can only keep the amount of books that fit on this bookcase. I can only keep the amount of clothing that fit in this clothing zone. I can only keep the amount of like work from home stuff that fits in this zone.

What everyone always does is they look at the stuff they have today and they try to organize it and make their home fit the stuff they have today. Let's just look at your food for as an example. Today you have maybe three bags of chocolate chips because you were going to bake them for Christmas and didn't. That might just be me. You can't like buy a container and just have chocolate chips because the next time you bake cookies now you only have one bag. You know what I'm saying? We have a baking zone and we can keep what fits in the baking zone because your things in your home is always going to be fluctuating especially if it's things like food or craft supplies or um work supplies. What you have today is not what you have tomorrow. The medication you have today is not the medication you'll have tomorrow. Maybe you'll take an aspirin or you'll get a new package of allergy medication. So, we're not organizing for our stuff. We're organizing for our space and we're making our stuff fit our zones.

Here's one more quick example. Think of like a bathroom closet. Okay, so let's like a one door crap. You almost swore. Sorry. Who demonetized? Very tired. We're going to talk about why in a second. It usually has four shelves. Is this This is three shelves. Okay. So, we're looking at this. We're zoning it. It could be having a million things in it right now. Ignore everything. What ideally do you want to be in here? Well, towels. Towels you use every day. So, they're going to get the valuable real estate. This is going to be a shelf for towels. What else do you keep in here? Maybe first aid. Maybe medication that you don't take every day. Um, cool. We can have half of this for like first aid and meds. What's something else that's super important that you'd want to keep in here? A lot of people keep like extra bathroom products, toothpaste, and shampoo and the 50 million body washes we got for Christmas from Bath & Body Works. So, this can be for extra products. And then this top shelf can be for things that you don't use all the time. Maybe this is like where your sunscreen and bug spray and you rotate it down or other things. So you create the zones first. Then you look at what you have and you organize into your zones. So you put the things on the shelf here or in a bin or a basket, blah blah blah. Zoning is a critical step though. You make the plan before you start. Do you guys know what I'm saying? And I know this might not make a ton of sense, but it is so important to do this. I do this in every room in my home. And every professional organizer that I talk with, this is something they innately do. They look at the big old messy space that they have to organize. And they map out like, "This wall is going to be for crafts, and this wall behind me is going to be for office supplies, and over here's going to be my printing center, and over here's going to be for memories." And again, we're not making piles on the floor. and sorting to determine how much space we need. The room determines how much space and how many activities we're doing in the room determine the zones. And then we make the stuff fit the space. This is how you set up a home that's never like constantly in a state of chaos because everything has a home and you have a limit. Danny Kweight calls this the container concept because you can only keep what fits in the given container. Well, your home is a container, too. Your wall is a container in a limit. And so, by naming them, by giving them purpose, even in a multi-purpose space, you're able to create a system that then makes it easier to declutter and easier to organize because it's really obvious where things go. It's also really important to zone for people who are visual and it's out of sight, out of mind. So, one more example. I'm rambling. Stay with me, friends. I have a terrible memory. But if I need something like batteries, I know batteries are something like go in my household zone or those little felt pads that go on the bottom of the thing or extra zip ties or like when I got a lamp and then it had these extra pieces and I'm like, what do I do with this? Is like the extender light thing in case I want to lower my table. I need those extra bars, you know, cuz I had a pub table and what if I want a regular dining table one day? So, I kept these like bars for my lighting fixture. Where do you keep those? In my household section. So, I have like one cabinet in my laundry room and inside I have random household light bulbs, batteries, extra parts to who knows what. So, I don't have to remember where those rods are, you know, from 3 years ago when I bought that light fixture. I just have to know where the zone for household is and then I can go there and then from there I can deduce where it is instead of trying to think where would I put that where would I look for that first where if I need tea where's my tea well it's in the coffee and tea zone so like thinking of it this way also makes it a lot easier to find things and there are starting points for zones yes there are five zones that I absolutely recommend that you start with like landing zone is one. All the things you come home with in your arms that need a place and all the things you need when leaving the home need a zone in your landing. So I'm talking about reusable shopping bags, your purse. Your purse, a home is not on your dining room table or your kitchen counter. Even your purse needs a home. Your wallet, your keys, it is not a pile. It is not set down. We are zoning homes. The kids backpacks. The floor is not its home. Where do they go? Where did the shoes go? Where did the coats go? Create the zones and then make your stuff fit your zones. It's life-changing. Okay, it's freaking life-changing. I'm going to answer all your questions. I promise.

Okay, step three. Please don't skip to this step. A lot of people skip to this step. This is why you're failing. Step four, that sorry, step four is the one that people just skip to, which is contain, organize. If you are going to the store and just buying a bunch of beautiful bins and baskets before you've decluttered and before you've zoned, you're wasting your money and you're wasting your time because you buy the bins and baskets that fit the space and then you make your stuff fit that. But you also have like a rough idea because you've decluttered of what's going in there and also you know your organizing style. So, if you're a micro organizer, a detailed person, you're going to want lots of little bins that stack. If you're a macro person, you're going to want the biggest bins you can find with no lids. You can toss things away quickly. Don't just go and buy bins because they look pretty or they're on sale. I would say 80% or even more of the homes that I declutter, a large majority of the clutter is ironically organizing products that they bought. They're like, I have too much stuff and too much clutter. So, I'm going to buy stuff to buy more things to solve the problem of too much. And it never works ever. I'd rather see you zone with no containers at all and just set things on a shelf or even set it on the floor cuz like this is the zone for books. And then you know, okay, well this is the wall. This is how much zone I've dedicated. Now I know the size of the bookcase I need for there before you go and just buy a bunch of three-tiered plastic carts and some totes from Walmart. Like that's the that's the at the end, you know? Like that is step four. And if you skip to this step, you will just end up with more clutter. And I know it feels like it's going to be helpful to go on Amazon and fill your cart with a bunch of organizing products. This will end up in failure. You must zone first. And we we'll talk more about more zoning and and what that looks like. I I promise I'll I'll share more. And I have a whole video on zoning, too. and I do this like silly thing where I pretend I'm a travel agent taking you on a tour of my house. So, you can watch that video. I do have a video on zoning. Um, and it's like I'm wearing like a black and white scarf, polkadotted scarf. It's like a couple of If anyone knows where that video is, share it in the comments. I'm not going to go look for it, but it wasn't that long ago. Um, yeah, it was all about zoning your home and I take you on a tour of my home and I show you all the zones. So important.

Okay, step five is labeling. A lot of people don't want to label. A lot of people hate the idea of labeling. It is critical. And here's why. When you're setting up your home and you're zoning and you're rearranging things, which you will. You will. You'll be moving things around, it's really hard to remember all the time, but also you're in the habit of just putting things down. You're done with something, you're in the habit of like shoving in a drawer or leaving it out and making a pile till later. And the magical thing about a label is whether you are any organizing style, it is a visual cue to your brain of that's where something goes. So subconsciously which means without thinking or realizing it you are more likely to put the thing away where it belongs. The second thing is it helps overcome like that perfection paralysis of like where's the best place for this because the this goes in with like electronics or tech. it just that's where it goes or it goes on the bedside table in the little tray that's like things that go on my bedside table and labeling it doesn't mean you have to label it forever but labeling it in the beginning will help transition from your natural habits and tendencies now into an organized person. It is literally magical. Please, please, please give it a try. You can do this so cheap and you can just like go on Amazon and get those peely sticky ones. There's a couple labels I love which are like the peel and stick chalk labels. But I also love these from Amazon. They come in lots of colors, white, black, and you can write on it with a chalk marker. And you can clip this onto a shelf. You can clip this onto any bin or basket. And you just wipe it with water and rewrite it. So it it helps you. They're very cheap and like it'll change your life. Okay. Um, we're moving on. I can run through the steps again if you want.

Step six, the final one is create routine. And this is like not what you think. This isn't like you have to Have you ever seen the Martha Stewart cleaning checklist? Holy bananas, that's too much. What I mean by creating routines are things like a 15-minute tidy-up or a 10-minute reset of one area like your pantry or your fridge once a week. But it is critical that we have these routines and we tackle our hot spots and we work them in and like really easy things in order to have success. So let's back them up. Okay, final step is routine. Labeling is step five. Containing is step four. Do not skip to this step where you try to sort things a big pile into many, many, many piles. That's stupid and you will fail. You'll just spread out your mess and be exhausted. Don't do that. And don't you dare buy a bunch of beautiful organizers before you know what zone they're going in, what shelf they're going in, and how you're going to use them. Don't do it. Resist it. You It will just end up as more clutter. Step three is zoning. This is the most important thing. You do this with a scrap piece of paper. It's easy. You just pretend there's nothing in your space. And you just And it's not it doesn't have to be permanent. It doesn't have to be perfect, but you're creating that like ideal spot for particular zones. And we can talk more about the different zones, but there's a million. And also, don't forget I have that video. Step two is declutter. And step one is know your organizing style.

Okay, I'm going to answer your questions now. So, if you have a question, what's really really helpful is um to put a question mark in the beginning like this. Holy crow, holy crow, thank you so much. This is excellent. How do you zone within a zone? Okay, so your lower floor of your tiny home is living, sleeping, laundry, dining, workspace. your brain feels like you're breaking zoning into multi-use spaces within multi-use spaces. Yeah, you are. So, what we're going to do is we're going to start in the laundry zone. So, go to where your current laundry stuff is and think about what you need in here. Where are you going to put the clothes that I don't know if you ever hang dry, but like that you lay flat to dry or that you hang dry. Do you have something for that? Or a spot like a rod where you want to hang um hangers, you know? Do you have that? Because or maybe you're a person who doesn't do that. You just put it right in the washer and dryer and you don't need that. Like think about your zones and what you would need. What about your like the Tide Pods or the I don't know bounce sheets, all that kind of stuff. Where's the ideal zone for that? What other things ideally would go in your laundry room? And then look and try to map it out like do you have space? If this is the washer and the dryer, you know what I'm saying? This is I'm not an artist. Then it's like, okay, well, I also need a thing, but if I'm hanging clothes, I don't really have room. Well, could I get a little bunch of jars and put my things on here? Does that make sense? Probably. What about if I want to keep like other random household things? What if I have a shelf above and I put some bins up here? I could zone this. Oh, that'd be nice for like the random household things. And then it's like, what else do I store in here? Ooh, cleaning supplies. Then you're like, "Actually, I don't really have room for that. I'll find another zone for cleaning supplies." And then you have a plan. And then you can go, it doesn't have to be a perfect plan, but now you have a plan for your laundry zone. Do the same thing for dining. What would you ideally like to keep in your dining room? For us, we actually play board games in the dining room. I used to store all of our china and serving dishes and crap like that in there, but we didn't use that stuff. And what we used was board games. So it made more sense to to create a zone for board games, which means I had to remove all that china and the serving dishes. And 90% of it just got decluttered. And now I have all our board games in this like little hutchie thing in our dining room. You know what I mean? And and it was I didn't move anything. I decided first and then I looked at what I had. Okay. Well, I have this old hutch. I have to keep my board games in this. So, the things inside of that have to go. And I can only keep the number of board games that now fit inside this hutch. And I had to declutter. But now I have this really functional space that actually works for the family. And we play board games all the time. They used to be a mess everywhere. Used to be stacked here and stacked there or I'd have to take them to the Anyways, now it's always tidy. That is the power of zoning. And that's it. It doesn't. It's really not as complicated as you think. It really is just something that I think gets forgotten about. Oh, did I say I was going to give you a list of zones to start with? Yes. So, I have a macro organizing guide. I wonder if I have it already here. H, you could find this um online like oh my gosh, you guys. I share this so many times, but and I've changed it over the years, but it's kind of like it's kind of like your if your room is the city and then then we're thinking these things are like neighborhoods. So, or like condominiums in there. So, first aid, first aid to me is like a neighbor with vitamins and a neighbor with medication. So, I would keep all of those things in the same area. But maybe when my kids were little, I had a lot of children's medication. So maybe that would be a separate little zone from grown-up medication. Maybe I had extra like feminine hygiene products. All of these things, they all kind of seem like neighbors. And so we're creating zones for these without moving anything at all, right? We're not we're just we're creating a plan. I have no idea how to remove this from my my thing. I'm just gonna go like this and Oh gosh. Yep. Mistakes were made. Mistakes were made. You just click on it again. It's all good. It's fine. We're good. Um the other thing, okay, so the five zones that I think you could really start in is like a landing zone, a command center zone. This could look different depending on your family, but if you're a family that has a lot of random papers, things that you need to mail, bills that need to be paid, your children have artwork that they bring home from school, or you have things you need to sign, or you have schedules, uh, one central zone for all of that paperwork, the think the garbage schedule, right? Or, you know, your workout schedule. All of those things are are super um important to go in one area. And that can be your command center. It can be a binder. It can be a bulletin board. It can be paper organizers on the wall. We're not overthinking this. We're just creating a it could be a basket. We're creating a spot for all these types of things. Um and that's a very very important zone. Okay, this Oh my gosh. You didn't have to do that. That's so kind. You're standing out because you're a color.

How do you organize for a rental? Your lease prohibits the use of command strips. Oh, they're harsh. And you can't put holes larger than a nail in the wall. So, you can't go vertical. And you only have a two small bed, two small closets. That is tough. So, I will say for inside the closet, Neatreak, which is um a great company, and they might actually make something similar on Amazon. I'm not sure, but they have like bars that hook on to create a secondary bar that is completely made for renters or you know those hanging like folder things for sweaters. Because the worst thing about rental like a rental closet is it has what I call one bar itis. So it has one bar and then the bottom's just wasted where you throw junk and then the top is like maybe has suitcases or some other random memory type stuff up there. So creating these like hangy bars that double it double the storage in the closet. It's really inexpensive and you don't have to drill at all. The other thing I would absolutely recommend that you do is look if you because you can't hang shelving or you can't put 3M hooks is look at um mainstays bookcases from Walmart. The five-shelf in the US. I think they're are $45. You can't load them up with really heavy books, but they're very sturdy for lots of other things. So, all of the things that are kind of on your surfaces, you can put them up on these bookshelves. I've lined entire walls. And I actually have a makeover coming up, not next week, but the week after, where I use all Walmart organizing products. My entire budget, I did two rooms for everything. All the decorations, pillows, everything, all the bins, everything was under $400. And I know you're like, "$400 is a lot." Listen, I basically furnished that included a desk and it all came from Walmart. And this wasn't sponsored or nothing. It was just because I had like a very tiny budget. And not only does it look incredible, but it's super functional. So, I think you can still go vertical without installing anything if you're looking at really inexpensive bookcases that you can take with you when you move. And I I definitely recommend um those. Okay, I'm going to get to them.

Caitlyn, some spaces you've been able to contain and organize, but others, like your kitchen, you find that you almost have too much space. You keep going back and reorganizing everything. How do you stop this? Ah, you little bee or cricket. Or you might be a ladybug who's just, you know, yeah, stressing out. I think like part of this I understand what you're saying is like it almost becomes a little bit addicting when you first start organizing because it's that every time you you get a system and it lasts your life is like a little bit better and you're like I just want to make a small improvement a small improvement a small improvement a small improvement and then before you know it you're doing it you're doing it too much. So just like anything even good stuff too much can be too much. I want to tell you, Caitlyn, to take a break from organizing and maybe start helping friends and family, like offering because not it's awkward because you're like, I see you're messy. I can help you. But there is something really powerful about taking all of that knowledge that you've learned and that excitement that you're feeling and instead of constantly trying to make your home like level it up and make it perfect, but taking that and helping someone else is is really powerful. So you just might be there, Caitlyn. And that's honestly how I started. So, I was a slob and then I kept organizing and organizing and then tweaking and I'm like all I talk about was organizing and my husband said, "Please stop talking about organizing. Maybe go do it for someone else." So, I helped my friend Jessica, my mom, my sister, my neighbor. Um, then she recommended a friend and then Joe gave me a camera. He's like, "Talk about organizing on the internet." And here I am 15 years later with clutterbugs. So, not saying that you have to be clutterbug, Caitlyn, but please know that like that obsessiveness is part of the process and you just kind of have to pump the brakes and deflect yourself to something else. Good enough is good enough.

Um, how do you keep yourself from decision fatigue? Finding new homes for things in your new house. Yeah, that's so stressful. And this is honestly why I think zoning is so important on a piece of paper before you even touch your stuff because it is really stressful to like where does I don't know the dog leashes go where's the best place for that and where's the best place for this and blah blah blah when you're looking at each individual object. But when you think about all the activities and things that you do in this space and things that really should kind of belong in this space in a big picture format like pet supplies, where's the best place for all my pet supplies? Then you can create a pet zone and then you can make the stuff fit there. So then when you come across like I don't know a random bag of dog treats that you're unpacking in your new home, you're like where should this go? Well, you know it goes in the zone. You already know. You don't have to think about it constantly. The zones already are the answer for you. So, it really does help eliminate decision fatigue for sure.

Um, how do you start decluttering as a butterfly? The same way you start with any other organizing style, and that is with trash. And nobody wants to hear this because it's boring. And you probably are thinking, "I don't even have any trash in my house." Right now, I want you to open a drawer or a cabinet that's close to you, unless you're watching this on something, but like old Post-its, trash. Oh my gosh, this thing is coming in a baggie. I don't need the bag. I can just take the cord out of it. So, this is trash. Oh my gosh, I'm going with my muscles. Trash. Trash. It's an old coupon that has expired. That is trash. Five things looking. You know what I mean? Okay, I don't need this extra sleeve. That can be absolute trash. Oh, and an old script from a video that I no longer need. Trash. Oh, and these coupons or old ones. Trash. So, I just found seven pieces of trash in 10 seconds. And why this is so important is a you have some, but b it is priming your pump. It's getting you the urge to purge. It's actually exposure therapy and it's showing you that decluttering isn't scary. It isn't bad. It actually feels really good. And if you keep doing these small little wins, you will build momentum and it will be easier to tackle the big stuff. It will be easy to tackle the hard stuff. In fact, you're going to want to because you've trained your brain that this is fun and you like it and you're going to feel the urge to purge and it becomes addicting. But you don't just get to a spot where decluttering feels fun and easy. You have to build that muscle through these little tiny wins. Like literally starting with trash, okay? Starting with like real be crappy. be so bad at it. Okay. Be so so bad. Oh my gosh, there's so many. There's so many comments. Okay, I'm going to try to get to them all. How to organize. If I've missed yours, please repost it because there's so many I can't keep up.

Um, how to organize those current projects you need to come back to, but you don't want to lose progress on. Yeah. So, this is something I always do with my bee clients for sure, and that is project boxes. So maybe you've started crocheting or you've started painting something or you've started fixing something and you're not quite done. You don't want to put everything away because you want to get those tools again. So I really like banker boxes. I feel like they're a good size for a lot of projects. And you put the supplies you're using with that project in your project box. You label it. But the secret is you can never have more than three to five project boxes total ever or the otherwise your whole home is like a to-do. Your whole home becomes a someday I'm going to someday. You have to have a a hard rule for yourself here. You have to you have to say I can never have more than five open projects at a time ever. Period. I will not allow myself to have more than five. And if you have more than five right now, what are your least favorites that are just leaving? Because you do not have the time or mental capacity. And quite frankly, it is awfully mean to yourself to put that much pressure on yourself. Stop it. You are not allowed to have more than five open projects. Either finish a project right now to close it right now or it's leaving. And there's no shame in it leaving. In fact, it's self-love. It's self-empowerment. It's saying I'm more important and my peace of mind is more important and my time is worth more and I'm just going to like boop let it go. I'm going to put it in the trash and I'm never going to think about it again because I deserve better.

I'm going to ask you something honestly. Those of you that are still here and still watching, do you really want this? Do you really want a home that is clutter-free and tidy and organized? Do you really want it? Are you sick and tired of the mess? Have you gotten to a point where enough is enough? Enough is enough. I'm not living like this anymore. Right? Like I can't live like this anymore. And when you are there, when you're like, I deserve better. I'm not doing this to myself or my family anymore. Then I'm going to when you're there then you can answer this question which is if I came to your house today and said to you I want you to trade me all the stuff you don't use and like only the stuff you're not using and that you don't really like for a home that's tidy and organized and clutter-free. Would you trade that for me? If I showed up on your door and I said, "Just trade me." And I could wave a magic wand and trade it for you. Would you say yes? If the answer is like, "Yes, I would trade. I would trade the stuff I don't use and I don't like for a home that's clutter-free, then do that. Then trade it. That's what decluttering is. And how do you trade it? You make it disappear from your home. however possible with no shame. If you want to rent a dumpster and put things that you could donate in the dumpster because that's all you have the capacity because you are tired because you need a fresh start. I don't Yes, do that. Stop caring so much about people leasing inanimate objects and people you don't even know or like. No one's going to judge you. And if they do, let them. You deserve a fresh start. And the only thing between you and a peaceful home is the stuff in your home that you're not even using. Put it in a trash bag or put it in a donation box and stop overthinking it and move on with your amazing life. Okay, I'm getting a little fired up, my loves. I'm going to answer some more questions.

How do you pace decluttering? You start and then stop continuously. Yeah. So, one thing here, decluttering is not tidying. Decluttering is not sorting into piles. Decluttering is is not putting things away in little little compartments. Decluttering is removing things from your home forever. That's what decluttering is. Tidying is putting things into homes. Organizing is creating new homes or systems. And cleaning is removing dirt. These are very different things. And when we say, "Okay, I'm decluttering, but you're really tidying." You're never going to get further ahead because it's just going to get messy again. When you remove things from your home forever, those things are not coming back. You can't go back to to where you started. You are ahead forever. Okay? So, how do you pace yourself? You do like pick a number. Your favorite number right now. Think of a number. Not too high. Okay. Think of a number right now. A number. 6, 4, 6, 7. Pick a number and find that many things to leave forever today. And find that many things tomorrow. And find that many things the next day. And it takes you less than five minutes to find five things. I just found seven things in 10 seconds. You can do this. It's you're overthinking it. You're overcomplicating it. Pick a number and find that many things right now. Do not make piles. Do not sort. You don't have to. You just have to pretend it's an Easter egg hunt. But instead of hunting for candy, you're hunting for things you don't use. You're hunting for things that aren't serving you. You're hunting for things that it doesn't matter how much it cost. It doesn't matter who gave it to you. Is this worthy of your time and your space and your

Mental load? Is that item worthy of what it's taking from you? Because everything you own is work. It's something you have to remember. It's something you have to clean. It's something you have to move to get to other things. It is something you have to care for. It is mental load and physical load. Is that item worth it? And if the answer is yes, keep it. But if the answer is no, it's leaving with no shame or guilt or remorse, with only self-love and self-empowerment.

How do you do it? You put it in a bag and you say, "Hell yes, I'm worth it." Oh my god. Don't get emotional. I'm very. We're going to talk about why I'm a basket case in just a second. Um, yes. Okay. So, I do have a new course and I'll talk about that in one second. I should be talking about that. I knew I have a new course.

How do I determine how much space you need for your zones? You determine cuz you kind of like know, okay, I'm a big crafter. I got a lot of craft supplies. Well, what room are your craft supplies going in? And do you have other things that also need space in that room? Because you're they're zoned together. And if the answer is yes, well, what else do you need space for in that room? What's the most important? Then you grab a piece of paper and you're like, "Okay, I have one room and it has to be a guest bedroom and it has to be a craft room and it has to be in my office." Well, reality says that's bonkers. Where does the bed go? Okay, the bed's here. So, this wall can be craft supplies if you have a door here. Cool. Do you have any current storage that can go along this wall that isn't bins and baskets? Maybe you get four bookshelves to put here for your craft supplies. Or maybe you already have something that you're going to move into this space, but you can only keep this wall because you need a bed sleeping zone and you need whatever else. Like your space determines your the home is a container. A home determines how much space you need for the zone. And then once you get in the weeds, yeah, you're going to adjust things and you're like, actually, I have more clay than I have scrapbooking paper or I have more glue than I have this. And so those zones are adjustable, but the big zone is determined on how much space you currently have, how much storage you currently have, how many shelving you currently have. And we can worry about the containers later because organizing doesn't create more space. That is the biggest myth. Organizing, in fact, usually takes up more space. Think about it. How much can you cram on a shelf if it's like Tetris and shove it all in? A lot. But what if you needed a spot for medication and a spot for extra products and a spot for vitamins? These things are going to need some separation. They're probably going to need containers. And not all of them are going to be stuffed full because maybe today you don't have as much medication, but in the summertime you have a lot more allergy meds, so you're going to need more. So, you organize for the space in the shelf, not the stuff, which means it is going to take up a little more space. You're going to have less storage, but it's going to be functional and it's going to be organized.

Okay. Um, yeah, you could totally designate a project zone. I love that. And I think you should dedicate an ongoing project zone. So good. So good. Yeah, only five, babes. We talked about that earlier.

Okay. So, my uh I have a I have a new course and here's why. I had an old course and if you really need to declutter, honestly, don't take this course. It's called the Clutterbug Method. I do talk about decluttering here, but take your house back is better. Take your house back is way freaking better for um is it on here? Uh take your house back is better for decluttering. It just is. We use Dana K. White's No Mess Method and that course is like insane and that community is insane and it's just decluttering and it's step-by-step decluttering. I love that community so freaking much. Take your house back is incredible. It's on sale now. Take your house back. If you have to declutter, go there. If you're like, I've decluttered, but my home isn't functional and I need to get organized. I need it to be practical. I need to be able to put my away my things fast and find them. I need to zone my home. The Clutterbug Method is for you. The Clutterbug Method is the next step where I walk you through exactly how to zone exactly how to do those things. We talk about decluttering, but it isn't like in-depth. It's it's it's organizing in depth. And I had an old course called the Organizing Experts. But I've learned so much specifically about zoning. It was things I was innately doing, but I wasn't teaching that I was like, I got to redo like I have to start over and just break it down into six steps and make it like paint by numbers. So that's why I have this new course. It's it's called the Clutterbug Method. I put the link. I think it's in the description. It's $94. It will always be $94 or three payments of $33. Um, it's $10 a year to renew to stay in the community group that comes with it. I guess I should uh talk about that and I'm going to answer questions. Clutterbug Method. So, we got live coaching every single month. We have a bunch of printables. We have the the membership community group that comes with it, plus virtual cleans, 2-hour organizing session with me, exclusive podcasts, and other exclusive lives that we'll be doing for sure.

So, um, that's the Clutterbug Method. So, what is it? Um, so the new one is Take Your House Back. No, the old one I have Take Your House Back. I did I think we did five years ago with Dawn from The Minimal Mom and Dana from Slow Comes Clean. We're still running that. We're doing all-day live declutters, but it is just decluttering. It is 99% decluttering, removing things from your home. The Clutterbug Method, which is the new course that I'm launching like right now. I just launched it on my birthday a couple days ago, is all organizing and really heavy on zoning and routines and how to how to read your home and set up a structure. It's not if you need to declutter, wait. It is the next step. If you're like, I'm I've already decluttered and I'm ready to organize and I just need a plan, then the Clutterbug Method is for you. So, and I see a bunch of my Take Your House Back love bugs in here. Yes. So, if you were just starting out, do Take Your House Back and then move to the Clutterbug Method. Yes. The Clutterbug Method is organizing. Take Your House Back is decluttering.

So, I'm going to answer a couple more questions that I'm going to share. Wait, think thank you stayed to the end cuz crazy stuff happened, okay? And I'm not trying to be dramatic, but I'm dramatic about it and I'm going to share it with you. But if you have another question, oh yeah, my ADHD butterfly kiddo wants to know what to do when she gets overwhelmed with her room. Here's the thing that nobody teaches us that I wish we would have known. You have to declutter all the time, like all the time. You know how it's kind of like vacuuming? You can vacuum once, but you can't just vacuum once and never again. It's kind of like doing your dishes. Decluttering is something we have to do all the time, especially little kids, because they're outgrowing clothes, they're outgrowing toys, they're constantly drawing and doodling and doing crafts, and then they're growing so fast. They're going through these phases a lot faster than adults, so they accumulate a lot more. So, I would say like finding I don't know how old your kiddo is, but finding that number of things every week to let go of. Seriously change your life. The other thing that a butterfly really needs to do is have visual storage. So, lots of shelving and bins and baskets, either clear or big picture labels, so they can toss things away quickly. Dressers suck for kids. They suck for grown-ups. If you're a butterfly or lady, they kind of suck for grown-ups, too. But you have to like take time to put things away and fold and blah blah blah. Kallax shelving, cube shelving, big old bins. Lay them all out on the floor. Get your laundry basket, toss things in like a basketball, kick them back onto the shelf, and you're done. Do the same with toys. Do the same with books. It doesn't have to be perfect, and it shouldn't be perfect. If that's not your organizing style, it just needs to be away in a clearly defined zone and a clearly defined home where things aren't mixed together. So that if your kid needs something like a block, they know it's in the block bin. If they need like craft supplies, it's in the craft zone. And if they need paint, it's in the paint bin. It's in the craft zone. Super super super important. Um and shelving, yeah, is important, too. Okay. Oh, butterfly. Thank you. Thank you, butterfly.

Here you have a really narrow entry. Oh, you got a shoe cabinet and pegboard on the side, but things still pile elsewhere. What are you doing wrong? Okay, so it's possible that butterfly is tough because a shoe cabinet you have to stop and open and toss and that requires practice. So, what I would suggest doing is muscle memory. So, set a timer at the end of each night to go to your landing zone, pick up the shoes off the floor or wherever you've kicked them, and put them in the thing. If you do this seven days in a row, you'll notice when you get home, cuz you're in the habit of picking up your shoes and putting them in the bin, you'll start subconsciously putting them in the bin. If that seems like hella work, where do you naturally take your shoes off? Get a big old basket for shoes. Put it there and kick your shoes into a basket. This is what works for me and it works for a lot of butterflies. And there is nothing wrong with that. Get a beautiful deep basket. Kick your shoes into it. Move on with your life. It's fine. That's organized. And look at where you're naturally putting things. So, where are you naturally piling things? Look at that stuff and say, "Why am I putting it here?" It's not because you're lazy. It's either because where it belongs is too far away or too many steps for your butterfly brain to do it immediately. So, how can you create a home for it where you're naturally piling it either on the wall or in a basket or getting a little cabinet or getting a shelving unit right there and literally create a home for the things where you're naturally putting it down or where you are putting it. Make those steps easier. Take the doors off. Get rid of bins with lids. Add lots of labels. So, it's that visual cue. Your clutter and your mess in your piles is not a bad thing. It's actually telling you what you need. It's telling you what's not working and it's telling you where you need to create an easy home and system. And of course, you got to declutter, girl. Okay? You got to declutter because I know you have too much because everyone has too much.

Okay, you ready for my story? Um, yeah, you can change bugs. You can, honestly, if you're like, I'm not sure the bug style, who freaking cares? And I know that's ridiculous cuz this is like what I do for a living. But the most important thing is that you know what works for you and what doesn't and why. You don't have to give yourself a bug name. You don't have to put yourself into a category when it comes to how you manage your things. What works for you even on your worst day and what doesn't and why? And how can you have more of what works and less of what doesn't? And that's that's really it. That's all there is. Okay, what bug are you? You're probably a bee or a cricket if you're asking. But um you leave stuff out and display your favorite stuff, but quickly toss clutter in a closet when somebody's coming over. Everybody hides. Everybody hides when people are coming over. That is not make you a ladybug. Ladybugs hide even if no one's coming over because they don't want to see it. So imagine no one would ever come over ever again, right? You're leaving stuff out and you're displaying your favorite things. You're visual. You're asking what your organizing style is. You're a bee. You're a bee, babe. You're a big, beautiful bumblebee. That's your organ. Or you might be a a a butterfly, but probably probably a bee. Probably a bee.

Um, this is more of a mental shift. How do you think about decluttering sentimental photos, kids artwork, etc.? So, I don't really stress about decluttering these things. I give them a home, which is my my memory bin. And I have big memory bins. I'm talking big bins for each family member, one. And I toss photos in there. I toss um everything like every family member gets one. And I also have a catcher upstairs, like a big basket where because I'm really lazy and I'm not going to walk every memory downstairs. It's like a temporary memory catching bin. And then once a year I go through it and I move the really special things into everybody's memory bin. So I only have to deal with sentimental clutter one day a year. And it's easier because some time has passed. So I'm like, actually, this isn't that special anymore. And the bin is the limit. I can only keep what fits in the bin. So the most special and most curated beautiful collection gets priority. And if other things don't fit, I don't get another bin. I trade for the things that I love the most. And it's a real blessing to myself to do this. So, I don't even want you to stress about decluttering these things. I want you to first decide where is my memory zone in my home. It has you have to have one. If you're like, I don't have a lot of space. Under your bed is your memory zone. Get pull-out containers that go under the bed and you can fit four of them. A standard bed usually fits four pull-out roll-out bins. Now you have four memory bins and then gather your memories and put them in the bins. And then and then don't worry about the rest. Don't don't stress about it. Where's your memory zone? What type of containers will fit in your dedicated zone? And then you organize your stuff into that. And this is what you do for every area of your home. And I know it feels very backwards because what we all will do is we'll take piles of stuff and we'll sort it on the floor into lots of little piles. And then we're like, "Okay, well, where do the piles go? And do I need containers for all these little piles?" And then we're just overwhelmed and it ends up becoming one big pile again. It's backwards. That isn't how you organize at all. You organize first by mapping out and zoning your home, getting containers that work for your style, that fit that zone, and then organizing your stuff into those containers and into that zone. Seriously, that's the secret, my loves. And you don't even have to buy a bin. Go to your bathroom closet. You probably have four shelves. You have four zones. What's each shelf zoned for? Then take everything off and put the stuff into those zones. And then it might not be perfect and you're like, "Well, I also want to turn this one zone into two." Cool. Do that. And then you're like, "Oh, well, it's all on there." And now I know the type of containers I would like to make it work for my organizing style. But you've already zoned it first, so you know exactly what you need. You don't have to worry about measuring and all that other crap. Okay, you guys got this. You got this. You got this, my loves. Again, if you're like, I I I want more in-depth. Um, just launched the Clutterbug. I'm going to talk about this a lot on YouTube, but if you want it all in one place and it's like seriously step-by-step and it's really broken down and it's super simple, the Clutterbug Method, you need you need to get that.

Um, how do you um how do you how do you feel incorporate decluttering consistently? Donation bins to keep around to feed during the week. Oh, designated donation days. Ah, my girl, look at you. I love this. Why not both? Why not all of the above? What feels right for you? There's no wrong way here. And I love this. I love this. For me personally, I have trained myself that when I feel stressed and overwhelmed, I used to eat. Now I declutter. I know when my home starts to feel messy and out of control. I think of it as therapy and I call it therapy, trash bag therapy. My brain now just defaults to that's when I declutter. But when I first started, every Friday I did a 21-item toss. Every Friday, I had an alarm in my phone and I would find 21 things that day, but I also had a donation bin in everybody's closet because what was happening is I would like try on a shirt and I'd be like, I don't actually like this and I'd put it in the dirty laundry or I'd hang it back up like a dummy. So, do both. Have those donation bins where it's really easy and convenient. We still have them in our closets to this day. But also maybe you do want a designated donation day. And then eventually you'll get to a point where you've trained your brain to recognize the cues of your home starting to contribute to stress and you'll declutter as therapy and and that's amazing. That's amazing, my love. Stop. I love this, but stop it. Thank you. This is very kind. You thought you were a butterfly, but you actually think a cricket under stress without zoning. Can you talk about the dark side of a cricket? Ah, and the macro before micro when getting started. Yeah. So, crickets are perfectionists just like bees. And you tend to overthink and overanalyze and oversort and just overput a million pounds of pressure on yourself to do everything right. And it's paralyzing. And the most incredible way to help overcome perfectionism is to purposely be shitty. To purposely do things badly because you'll see, oh, actually that wasn't so bad. And also done is better than perfect. But people can say this till they're blue in the face. You have to prove it to yourself. You do. You You have to see the results. Live with the anxiety and the uncomfortableness. Just sit with it. Oh god, I just threw all my cords and cables in a bin labeled cords and cables and I didn't wrap them and it's all tangled and oh my gosh, but I'm going to just leave it and it's going to feel awful. But then tomorrow you're like, "Okay, that wasn't actually so bad. Oh my gosh, I need a cable. Oh gosh, I wish these were sorted, but here's the cable. Okay, that wasn't so bad. That wasn't so bad." And then eventually you can go back and organize and micro-sort all the cables and label them and put them in little zip ties like you little Cricut nerd self. But it's done. It's one less thing on your to-do list in the meantime. Because if you are going to spend all of this time constantly micro-sorting, there is never enough time in the day. You will never get it all done, my love. There isn't enough time in the day.

Okay, I'm going to quickly end because I have a million. Oh gosh, please stop. I love you. I love you. Thank you so much. Oh, I really appreciate it. Thank you so so so much. Um I want to share this story with you because I I'm hoping you feel kind of empowered. And I did see a link to the Clutterbug quiz. Uh, no to um the Take Your House Back crap. If you go to my Instagram, it's on my Instagram in my bio cuz I don't have the link in this particular moment, but if you go there, it's there. Um, so if you need to declutter, go there. So, I want to tell you something. Yes, you can watch this as many times as you as you want. If you want to hear me rambling last night. Last night. First of all, thank you guys so much for those of you who have stayed to the end. I'm on vacation. Last night, I stayed up till 1:30 playing Fortnite. I am obsessed with Fortnite. It's my new ADHD thing with my brothers. Um, I was playing with them. I stayed up way too late and I went to bed at 1:30. At 2:00 a.m., my pager went off and there was a structure fire and I went to the fire and it was horrible. I have never fought a fire in -15 degrees before. Um I was there for 10 hours straight. I literally just got home before this live. Like you guys, I cuz you're spraying the water on the fire and it would not go out. This house would not go out. Oh my god, it was so awful. And all the water was going on me and it's freezing on me. It's freezing like I'm I can't move. I'm breaking ice, you know? And and the and the hose was so heavy. I literally was like crying. My my mask, which is like, you know, my air, froze and I couldn't suck in it and I was starting to panic because I had to take it off because it was frozen full of ice and I couldn't breathe. I was holding back tears. I was at one point I opened the hose and the pump operator um shut down other lines so I got maximum. I flew backwards on my butt. Um, my arms gave out, my legs gave out. At one point, I had to sit down with the hose because I couldn't stand like I I my my body was shaking. I don't know if you can see cuz I have a filter right now, but I popped the blood vessels in my eyes. Okay, I popped the blood vessels in my eyes. Everything's so heavy. But you guys, I came home. I got out of my car, I wobbled. My legs were so jelloy and I was like, I did that, you know, and and I wanted to end with this story because that's the whole time I was there, I was like, this you cannot do this. You are weak. You are old. You are allergic to the cold. I have hives. I covered them with makeup. You can see I have hives right now all over my face. I was like, "You can't do this. What are you doing?" Your husband carries in the case of pop for you because you are like, "I hate girl arms." Listen to me. Listen to me. You are capable of hard things. When you decide, I have no other choice. You can move mountains. You can be a little frozen turd covered in ice and you could break free and you can do insane things. But you have to tell yourself, I have no other choice because I'm not living like this anymore. And I'm I'm bringing in the firefighting thing because because listen to me, you are capable of having an organized and tidy home. You're capable of decluttering even though it's hard. And it is hard and it is going to be emotional and you're going to want to burst into tears and you are going to be exhausted because it is a lot of work. And I'm not going to lie and say it isn't. It's a lot of work. But what are you doing? The alternative is living your life small in a home that makes you feel suffocated and smothered. You are capable. In fact, you're amazing and you don't even know. Okay, we're not going to say sorry. There's no like sorry, Cass. Yeah, I popped the blood vessels in my eyes and I'm really going to be sore and not be able to move tomorrow. Holy crap. I did insane things that I never thought I could do. After 10 hours of battling this fire, this house would not go out. We tore it down. Everyone was safe. There was no one in the home. And I felt like, oh, what a kick in the pants. All that work, that freezing. My fingers are numb. My toes are black and blue. My blood vessels in my eyes. I'm covered in hives. I'm freezing. I didn't sleep a wink. I was up all night for nothing. But it wasn't for nothing because I learned so much. I I proved to myself that I am capable. I proved to myself I'm I sat down for a lot of it with the hose, but I still was doing it even though it wasn't perfect. And and that's feels good. You're not always going to have a win with your home. You are going to organize something and maybe it'll get messy again. That is not failure. You learned what doesn't work and you will be better next time. Life is a journey. It isn't about a one-and-done project. You're going to have to do hard things, but it will be worth it. And you will win the war in the end. So, put on your cape and grab a trash bag and say, "Enough is enough. Enough is enough. I'm the boss of my home and I deserve better and I'm gonna bust my butt in January to have the home I deserve. I'm going to work like a freaking dog in January so the rest of my year and the rest of my life is better. What are you waiting for, man? What are you waiting for? It isn't rocket science. You're putting stuff in bags. Don't overthink it. Just set a timer. Grab a bag or a box and just fight for the home you deserve. Love you so much. Yes, we can do hard things. I get emotional. Gh. I had a very emotional day. I have not slept. So, I'm going to go have a big fat nap. But I hope you don't go have a big fat nap. Okay. What you're going to do is find, pick a number right now, whatever number comes into your head, that many things to leave your home forever, right now. And if you're donating them, they're going in your car. If you're throwing them in the garbage, just put them in a black trash bag and never think about them again. And if you're like, "Well, I want to take this to the homeless shelter, my sister." Stop it. You're not allowed to do that. You're not allowed to people-please or perfectionist your stuff if you're not using it and loving it. It is a it is a squatter. It is the enemy. It is a nasty toxic bully in your home that's making you feel awful about yourself. It is stealing your time and your space and you are kicking it out. Period. End stop. Get it out. Okay. I love you guys so much. I've rambled enough. Take this fierceness, okay? You can do some insane things. Hopefully, you don't pop the blood vessels in your eyes under the pressure, but maybe you will. And even if you do, it's fine because it's fine because you will see how capable you truly are. Okay, love you. I'm really going to go. Catch you on the flip side. See you in a couple days. Bye.