31 Things Most People FORGET to Declutter | minimalism + decluttering

Summary

In this video, Marissa from Aisen Life shares 31 often overlooked categories of clutter that people tend to forget about. From overflowing memory boxes and old voicemails to decluttering goals, schedules, and finances, she covers a wide range of areas that contribute to clutter, both physically and mentally. Marissa also offers practical advice on organizing household items, digital clutter, and even habits like diet and finances. She encourages viewers to set goals, manage their schedules, and declutter for a more organized, stress-free life.

Takeaways

• 🗂️ Memory boxes should be decluttered regularly to ensure they contain only the most meaningful items.
• 📱 Voicemails can accumulate over time. Set aside time to review and delete old, unnecessary messages.
• 🎯 Revisit your goals periodically to prevent overwhelm and ensure you're focusing on what's most important.
• 🗓️ Declutter your schedule by identifying priorities and limits to avoid burnout from chronic busyness.
• 💰 Financial clutter, like unused subscriptions and old credit cards, can cost money. Regularly review and streamline your finances.
• 🛍️ Set deadlines for items you're trying to sell online. If they don't sell by a certain date, consider donating or discarding them.
• 🧴 Household cleaners, especially worn-out tools or unused supplies, should be decluttered and disposed of safely.
• 🎒 Regularly check your purse, briefcase, or backpack for clutter like old receipts and papers.
• 🍽️ Declutter your diet by reviewing unhealthy or unnecessary food habits and making healthier choices.
• 🧹 Clear out reusable bags, gardening supplies, pet toys, and other overlooked items that may be taking up space without being used.

Q & A

What is the purpose of a memory box, and why does Marissa suggest decluttering it?

A memory box is used to store sentimental items or keepsakes that aren't displayed or used regularly but are kept for their emotional value. Marissa suggests decluttering it because it can become overfilled, and people may keep items that no longer hold as much meaning. Revisiting and sorting through these items helps ensure only the most special memories are kept.

Why does Marissa recommend decluttering voicemails?

Marissa recommends decluttering voicemails because they can accumulate over time, especially if left unchecked. She realized she had old voicemails from as far back as 2018, many of which were no longer relevant. With voicemail transcription technology, it’s easy to skim through and decide what to delete.

How does Marissa suggest managing multiple goals to avoid feeling overwhelmed?

Marissa suggests focusing on a small number of goals, ideally two or three at a time, to avoid burnout. Once progress has been made and habits established, new goals can be introduced. Trying to juggle too many goals at once can lead to feeling overwhelmed and unproductive.

What are Marissa’s two tips for decluttering your schedule?

Marissa’s two tips for decluttering your schedule are: (1) Know your priorities, and (2) Know your limits. These steps help prevent chronic busyness and the burnout that can come from overcommitting.

What is financial clutter, and how can it be decluttered?

Financial clutter refers to unnecessary subscriptions, apps, and accounts that people may be paying for without using. Marissa suggests regularly reviewing finances to cancel unused services, avoid late fees, and track spending to save money.

Why does Marissa suggest setting deadlines for items you’re trying to sell?

Marissa suggests setting deadlines for selling items online because if things don’t sell within a certain time frame, it might be a sign that they aren't worth as much as expected. At that point, it’s better to donate or give them away rather than letting them take up space.

What does Marissa advise for decluttering household cleaners?

Marissa advises going through cleaning supplies and disposing of items you no longer use or that are no longer functional. For chemical-based cleaners, she recommends safely disposing of them or donating them to a local organization in need.

What areas of the house does Marissa say people often forget to declutter?

Marissa mentions areas like the top of the refrigerator, hard-to-reach cabinets, inside purses, briefcases, wallets, and the car. These spaces often collect unnoticed clutter that can build up over time.

How does Marissa suggest decluttering your diet?

Marissa suggests decluttering your diet by eliminating things like sugar, artificial food dyes, or processed foods that don't align with your health goals. She also recommends being mindful of foods that could contribute to behavioral issues in children, such as those containing certain dyes.

What are some examples of digital clutter that Marissa recommends addressing?

Marissa recommends decluttering digital items like smartphone apps, email inboxes, and digital photos. Organizing these items helps reduce stress and makes it easier to find what you need when using your devices.

Outlines

00:00

🧳 Decluttering Sentimental Memory Boxes

Marissa introduces her channel and the topic of decluttering, starting with memory boxes. She explains how people tend to accumulate sentimental items in memory boxes without revisiting them. This leads to an overflow, requiring new boxes, and suggests reassessing whether these items are still meaningful. The focus is on keeping only the most special items to avoid unnecessary clutter.

05:01

📞 Clearing Out Forgotten Voicemails

Marissa talks about procrastinating on tasks like checking voicemails, revealing she had 43 unread messages dating back to 2018. She explains how advancements in technology, such as voicemail transcription, make it easier to clear old messages. She emphasizes setting a timer to tackle this digital clutter in a quick, focused manner.

10:02

🎯 Decluttering Overwhelming Goals

Marissa discusses the clutter of setting too many goals at once. She stresses the importance of focusing on a limited number of significant goals to avoid burnout. She advises prioritizing two or three major goals, mastering habits, and then moving on to new objectives once progress is made.

15:07

📅 Decluttering Your Schedule

Building on the previous point, Marissa talks about decluttering schedules to prevent chronic busyness. She gives two tips: knowing your priorities and understanding your limits. If overwhelmed, she suggests removing non-essential items from the calendar to prevent burnout.

💸 Decluttering Your Finances

Marissa transitions to financial clutter, pointing out how subscriptions, unused credit cards, and disorganized finances can accumulate. She stresses the importance of regularly reviewing finances, cutting unnecessary expenses, and highlights a sponsor, Mint Mobile, as a way to save money on phone plans.

🛒 Decluttering Items You're Trying to Sell

Marissa discusses the accumulation of items people try to sell online but end up keeping for too long. She advises setting deadlines for these items and being willing to donate or dispose of them if they don't sell within a reasonable timeframe.

🧼 Decluttering Household Cleaners

Marissa explains how household cleaners, brushes, and sponges can build up without being used. She recommends safely disposing of chemical-based cleaners, offering alternatives like donating them or using local disposal services.

🎒 Decluttering Purses and Backpacks

Marissa advises checking daily-carry items like purses, backpacks, and briefcases for clutter. She shares her own experiences with clutter in her purse, encouraging viewers to regularly clean out these items to avoid frustration when searching for things.

💳 Decluttering Wallets

Marissa moves on to wallets, recommending the removal of business cards, expired credit cards, and other unnecessary items. She stresses the importance of properly disposing of private information, like shredded credit cards or old IDs.

🚗 Decluttering Inside Your Car

Marissa highlights the car as a forgotten space for clutter, especially for busy people like parents or those who travel for work. She advises taking time to remove trash and unnecessary items from the car regularly.

📃 Decluttering Hard-to-Reach Areas

Marissa talks about how areas like the top of the refrigerator and hard-to-reach cabinets are easy to forget but can collect unnecessary items. She suggests periodically checking these spaces for clutter and disposing of unused items.

🍴 Decluttering Your Diet

Marissa introduces the idea of 'decluttering' one's diet. She gives examples such as reducing sugar, removing fast food from your routine, or eliminating food dyes. She shares her own experiences of adjusting her family's diet for health reasons, like reducing artificial dyes for her children.

☕ Decluttering Kitchen Supplies

Marissa expands on kitchen clutter, mentioning unused spices, teas, unmatched containers, and spare parts from assembling furniture. She suggests focusing on areas like junk drawers and toolboxes, which can become cluttered with small, forgotten items.

🛍️ Decluttering Reusable Bags

Marissa talks about the tendency to collect too many reusable bags. She encourages viewers to go through their bags and replace worn-out ones with higher quality, long-lasting alternatives, sharing her own experience with durable canvas bags.

🐶 Decluttering Gardening and Pet Supplies

Although Marissa doesn't have personal experience with gardening or pets, she mentions how these items can accumulate quickly for others. She advises reviewing and decluttering gardening tools, pet toys, and accessories to reduce excess.

💊 Decluttering Vitamins and Supplements

Marissa covers vitamins and supplements, suggesting that people often forget to discard expired or unused ones. She shares her experience with a protein powder that went unused and expired, emphasizing regular checks of these items to prevent waste.

🔌 Decluttering Cables, Glasses, and More

Marissa lists other items people commonly forget to declutter, such as old cables, cords, prescription glasses, and cleaning rags. She encourages recycling or donating old glasses and regularly assessing how many cleaning supplies are really needed.

🖼️ Decluttering Digital and Physical Photos

Marissa mentions decluttering digital photos and email inboxes. She humorously acknowledges that many people, including herself, have overwhelming amounts of digital clutter and suggests organizing these areas for better efficiency.

📱 Decluttering Smartphone Apps

Marissa wraps up the list by discussing smartphone app clutter, describing how organizing apps can make finding things easier. She shares the contrast between her organized phone and her husband's disorganized one, highlighting the benefits of decluttering apps.

Keywords

💡Decluttering

Decluttering refers to the process of organizing and removing unnecessary items from one's living space or life. In the video, the speaker emphasizes decluttering as a key theme, focusing on how people often overlook certain categories of clutter, such as memory boxes, voicemails, and goals. The goal is to simplify life and reduce overwhelm by eliminating excess.

💡Memory boxes

Memory boxes are containers used to store sentimental items that hold emotional value but are not used daily. The video suggests that memory boxes often become a clutter zone because people continuously add items without revisiting them. The speaker advises re-evaluating the contents of these boxes to ensure that only truly meaningful items are kept.

💡Voicemails

Voicemails, in the context of the video, represent digital clutter that people tend to forget about. The speaker discusses how old voicemails, especially those dating back to 2018, can accumulate and suggests using voicemail transcription services to quickly read and delete them, contributing to the decluttering process.

💡Goals

Goals refer to the personal ambitions or objectives one sets, such as losing weight, decluttering a house, or finding a new job. In the video, the speaker highlights how too many goals can lead to burnout and overwhelm. She advises focusing on a few goals at a time, emphasizing that it's important to declutter goals just like physical spaces.

💡Schedule

A schedule is a plan or timetable of activities and responsibilities. In the video, the speaker discusses the importance of decluttering one's schedule by knowing priorities and limits. Over-scheduling can cause stress and burnout, and the speaker suggests removing unnecessary tasks to focus on what truly matters.

💡Finances

Finances refer to one's management of money, including spending, savings, and budgeting. The video introduces the concept of financial clutter, such as unused subscriptions, unpaid bills, and unclosed accounts. The speaker encourages decluttering finances regularly to avoid late fees and save money, offering tips like switching phone plans to reduce costs.

💡Selling items

Selling items involves putting personal belongings up for sale, often online, to get rid of them and make some money. The speaker mentions that sometimes people hold on to items that are difficult to sell, causing more clutter. She advises setting deadlines for selling things, and if they don’t sell, it's okay to donate or dispose of them.

💡Household cleaners

Household cleaners are products used to clean homes, such as sprays, sponges, and brushes. The video explains how unused or broken cleaning supplies can contribute to clutter. The speaker suggests regularly checking for and safely disposing of household cleaners, especially chemical-based products.

💡Diet

Diet refers to the food and drink one regularly consumes. The video includes diet as a surprising area to declutter, especially when trying to live healthier. The speaker suggests eliminating certain elements, like artificial food dyes or excess sugar, from one's diet as part of an overall lifestyle decluttering process.

💡Smartphone apps

Smartphone apps are applications installed on mobile devices. In the video, the speaker discusses how apps can become digital clutter, making it hard to find what you need on your phone. Decluttering unnecessary apps can streamline smartphone usage, helping users stay organized and efficient.

Highlights

Memory boxes are great for storing sentimental items, but it’s important to revisit them periodically and decide if all the memories are worth keeping.

Voicemails can be a hidden form of clutter. The speaker discovered 43 unplayed messages, some dating back to 2018, and recommends decluttering them using modern voicemail transcription tools.

People often forget to declutter their goals. Focusing on too many at once can lead to burnout, so prioritizing a few can help avoid overwhelm.

Over-scheduling can lead to burnout. Declutter your schedule by knowing your priorities and limits to avoid chronic busyness.

Finances can collect clutter too. Regularly decluttering your subscriptions, unused credit cards, and accounts helps avoid unnecessary expenses.

Things you try to sell can become clutter. If items aren’t selling after a certain deadline, it’s better to donate or dispose of them.

Household cleaners, old cleaning supplies, worn-out brushes, and empty spray bottles should be regularly decluttered and disposed of properly.

Check your daily carry items like purses, briefcases, and backpacks for clutter, such as receipts, old papers, or unused items.

Wallets can also accumulate clutter, such as expired cards and old business cards, which should be shredded or disposed of.

The top of the refrigerator and hard-to-reach cabinets often collect forgotten items, which should be checked and decluttered periodically.

Declutter your diet by eliminating unnecessary items, such as artificial food dyes, sugars, or unhealthy processed foods, to promote better health.

Reusable bags can pile up, so it’s important to limit how many you own and ensure they’re high-quality and long-lasting.

Gardening supplies and pet accessories can take over space. Regularly declutter these items to avoid unnecessary accumulation.

Vitamins and supplements should be reviewed regularly to discard expired or unused items, especially after they’re no longer needed for specific health conditions.

Digital clutter, like old photos, emails, and smartphone apps, can be overwhelming. Organizing and deleting unneeded digital content can improve productivity and peace of mind.

Transcripts

hey there friends and welcome to my

channnel my name is Marissa and this is

aisen life and today I wanted to share a

list of 31 surprising things that people

sometimes forget to declutter there are

certain categories of clutter that tend

to be more in your face for example if

you have too many clothes and you find

that they're spilling out of your

dresser and your wardrobe onto the floor

or you've got piles of paper that are

stacking up on flat surfaces but there

are other kinds of clutter that are less

obvious and easy to forget about until

something jogs your memory a bit and

speaking of jogging your memory I think

memory boxes are the perfect place to

start this list memory boxes are a

special box or container that you use to

store sentimental items or keep sakes

that you don't necessarily want to have

out on display or to use on a daily

basis but you still want to keep For The

Memories however a lot of times people

will just put stuff into the memory box

and and then that memory box overflows

then you need to get a new memory box

and then at some point you have to ask

yourself are all of these memories

really special enough that I want to

keep them in a memory box or might it be

time to revisit some of these things and

see if I still want to keep them

remember a memory box should be a space

for your most special items so if you

have just gotten into the habit of

putting things into your memory box

without returning to them and

questioning again it might be nice to go

back through those things and see if you

still want to hold on to them next up

number two on this list is voicemails

and I don't know about you but there are

just certain things that I hate doing

and therefore will procrastinate on

doing for a really long time for example

putting gas in my car can't stand it

making more than one trip to the car to

carry in the groceries I would rather

turn into the incredible holek and carry

it all in one go

and listening to voicemails also falls

on this list when I was making this

video it suddenly occurred to me that I

haven't checked my voicemails for a

really really long time and I went

through my voicemails and found that I

have 43 right now some of them dating

back as far as

2018 what's interesting is that I found

that technology has now Advanced so far

that you can now you see a text note

that transcribes the content of the

voicemail into a little paragraph for me

to read so I can just quickly read

through that scan through the

information and see if it's something I

need to follow up on or delete it and

let it go and let's face it if it was

something from 2018 or 2019 what are the

chances that I'm going to need to follow

up on that I'm not sure if your phone

has this feature or not but if it does

that really makes it a breeze to go

through and delete old and unimportant

voicemails this is the perfect type of

clutter where you can just set a timer

for 10 or 15 15 minutes and do a really

focused decluttering session and if you

are anything like me you're literally

going to be clearing out years worth of

clutter number three on this list of

things that people forget to declutter

is their goals I'm a huge fan of goal

setting but I also know that I only have

so much time energy and attention that I

can give to each goal let's say that you

have goals to declutter your entire

house and you want to start an exercise

routine to lose 20 lbs and you want to

find a new job because you hate the one

that you're at and you're thinking of

starting a side hustle so you can make

an extra $1,000 a month or maybe you

want to get better at meal planning and

feeding your family healthy lunches and

dinners I think all of us can agree that

these are fantastic and potentially

life-changing goals but I know that for

myself as a busy mom anytime I try to

focus on maybe more than two or three

major goals at a time I quickly can get

burned out and overwhelmed

and it's like the quote goes that says

you can do anything but not everything

and so if you have a lot of big goals

for you yourself you might find it

helpful to try to tackle a small set

amount of goals and then once you've

made progress towards and mastered the

habits that will lead you to those goals

then you can start thinking of adding

new goals into your list number four

kind of goes hand inand with number

three and that's your schedule and I

have two tips to help you declutter your

schedule and that is to number one know

your priorities and number two know your

limits chronic busyness and over

scheduling can also lead to overwhelm

and burnout and if you're at that point

you might need to start removing items

from your calendar and to-do list

another clutter category that's easy to

forget is money clutter AKA your

finances and just like people can

collect duplicate spoons or spatulas in

their kitchen we can also collect

duplicate apps or subscriptions that we

don't use much but that still cost us

money like having multiple streaming

services where you're paying for Disney

Plus Hulu and Netflix or what about

credit cards or old accounts that you no

longer use but never bothered to close

and not only that disorganized finances

can also cost you in other ways for

example forgetting to pay your bills on

time resulting in expensive late fees or

overpaying for things that you could

find cheaper elsewhere because you don't

track your spending and have no no idea

how much stuff costs that's why I've

made it a habit to declutter my finances

just as regularly as I do the physical

clutter in my home and look for ways to

eliminate or trim back on expenses

whenever

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video number six on this list is things

you're trying to sell whether that's

your clothes on Poshmark or things like

Collectibles or knickknacks on eBay and

I know it can feel good to get a little

bit of money back and send those things

on to a new home by selling them online

but if you find that you have things

that are sitting for months and months

and are just not getting sold at some

point you have to be willing to accept

that maybe these things weren't as worth

as much as you thought they were and

it's time to let them go and you can

either donate them or get rid of them in

some other way maybe someone would be

willing to take it for free in a buy

nothing group so if you're someone who

tries to sell their things online

I would strongly recommend that you put

deadlines on your clutter and if it

doesn't sell by the end of that deadline

then it's okay to get rid of it another

clutter category that's easy to forget

is household cleaners and that can be

everything from cleaning supplies that

you don't use and know you never will or

brushes that are worn out sponges that

are no longer usable or spray bottles

that don't work I will say that when it

comes to household cleaners you want

want to make sure that you're safely

disposing of them if you don't want them

and they are chemical based so you could

try giving them away say in a buy

nothing group or to a local organization

that might be in need of cleaning

supplies or I will also make sure to

link to a website down below where you

can look by ZIP code in your area and

see what places accept things like

hazardous chemicals and other kinds of

items that might be dangerous to just

throw away number eight eight on this

list is purses briefcases and backpacks

depending on if you're a mom or maybe

you're a student or you're a dad that

has to take a briefcase to work get into

a habit of checking inside your daily

carries and see if there's any clutter

that's collected in there because it is

so frustrating when you need to find

something in your purse or your backpack

or whatever you're using and you have to

dig through a ton of stuff like a dog

digging in dirt because it's so full of

clutter as a side note don't feel too

bad if this point is making you feel

called out because my purse literally

used to look like Allison's from The

Breakfast Club so I want you to know

there is hope what is all that stuff do

you always carry this much in your

bag yeah so for example I know that just

going through my purse right now from

yesterday I've got some schedule paper

that I can recycle there's a receipt

that I forgot to take out out and put

into the budget that needs to be done

and things like old Post-it notes that I

need to trash so take a look through

those kinds of items and see if you have

anything inside that you can quickly and

easily clear out and then kind of going

along with purses you can also check

inside your wallet and see if there's

anything that you need to declutter in

there yesterday I got a business card

but I know the person's contact

information I can find it easily on

Google if I needed to so I don't need to

to keep this card and then another thing

you can look for while you're inside

your wallet is things like old expired

cards that's something else that people

forget about like say credit cards which

should be shredded please dispose of

your private information properly or

things like for example expired driver's

license so I had to get an updated

Illinois driver's license because mine

expired I still have my old New Jersey

one so now I need to dispose of this

properly the inside of your car is

another clutter Zone that easy to forget

especially if you're a mom that's

driving a lot of kids around or you have

to travel for work and maybe you have

stuff in your car for that the inside of

your car can get very out of control

very quickly so don't forget to

sometimes take the time to just drag up

a trash can maybe into the garage and

get some of that trash out of there

another area that's easy to forget about

is the top of the refrigerator now this

is something that I don't struggle with

as much anymore but it used to be that

when I would bring home papers from

school or maybe kids artwork A lot of

times I would just slap it here on top

of the refrigerator and then forget

about it because most of us aren't tall

enough that we're going to be above and

of course the refrigerator very loudly

turns on right while I'm talking great

most of us aren't tall enough that we're

going to be above the refrigerator and

able to look down and see what's on top

of the refrigerator so if you haven't

checked on top of your refrigerator in a

while maybe get up there and take a look

around and see if there's any any

paperwork or artwork or maybe tools that

I've kind of collected up on top of

there and clear them out and then if you

have any hard-to-reach cabinets like the

ones that we have up here above the

refrigerator this is something that I

can't get to without a chair and so when

you have cabinets like this those can be

spaces that very easily collect clutter

because maybe you take something that

you don't really use and you just shove

it up in there and forget about it

forget about it forget about what so

make sure to go through those kinds of

cabinets every once in a while just to

see what's inside of there and if you're

finding things that haven't been used

for six months a year or more maybe you

can clear those things out of those

cabinets and get back some of that space

another place that you might not have

considered decluttering is your diet for

example let's say that you want to make

some lifestyle changes and be healthier

and you want to reduce or eliminate

sugar from your diet or try to increase

your salt intake especially if you've

been diagnosed with particular chronic

illnesses or maybe you've gotten into

the habit of eating fast food rather

than home-cooked meals more often than

not and something else that you can even

consider that I'm relatively new to

figuring out is artificial food dyes in

your food so I didn't even realize this

was much of a thing until I came across

a few articles recently after moving

back to the United States how food D in

our food can contribute to behavior

avoral problems in children who have

hypers sensitivity to these things and I

know that my kids have food allergies

they seem to have some sensitivities to

certain kinds of foods so I've been

working to eliminate some of these food

dieses in our foods for example yellow

number five I switched our brand of

pickles to one that specifically says

that it does not contain yellow five

food dye so that's just some examples of

how you can declutter your diet and I'm

sure that there's plenty of other ways

other things that you might forget about

decluttering in your kitchen include

things like spices and condiments tea

and coffee supplies especially if you

didn't enjoy the taste of teas which I'm

so guilty of or things like unmatched

containers maybe you're missing the lid

or the bottom another thing that I know

that can collect in the kitchen

especially in junk drawer areas are

things like spare parts like for example

when we were putting together some

furniture for our home we ended up with

multiple pairs of Allen wrenches do we

need so many gon wrenches that are in

exactly the same size probably not so

keep an eye out for things like spare

parts and accessories and places like

junk drawers or in cabinets or maybe in

toolboxes shoved out of sight out of

mind and see if there's anything in

those areas that you can declutter as

well number 19 is one that I'm totally

guilty of as well and that's reusable

bags because they're just so useful and

they can be so cute and come in so many

different patterns like this one is one

of the first ones that we got when we

moved back to Chicago but you don't need

so many reusable bags and if you choose

bags that you know are higher quality

and will last a long time that means

that you'll be less likely to have to

replace them so often I know in the past

in Germany I would buy bags that are

kind of like this plasticky kind of I

don't know what to call it material and

it would get worn out and start peeling

off so moving back to the USA I got

these canvas bags that hold up to I

think 85 lbs and they are really really

sturdy and they're really thick high

quality Fabric and I know that these

will last a long time they're also

washable with which helps as well so I

would say it you know go through your

reusable bags and if you've got some

that are worn out and need to be tossed

the next time consider replacing them

with something like this and I will make

sure to put the link down in the

description box below if you're

interested in these particular bags

because these are something that are

really really practical and I know will

be able to last a long long time two

more areas that can be easy to forget

about decluttering our gardening

supplies and pet toys and accessories

and this is something that I don't have

a lot of personal experience with

considering that I don't Garden nor do

we have pets but I have friends who are

really into these things and I know that

they say that they can really take over

their lives with how much stuff that

they need for gardening or for their

pets I know when I was growing up we

have lots of pets and we would buy

things like dog beds and cat towers that

were like really fancy and multi-level

and lots of tunnels and things for our

cats and then all they wanted to do was

just go lay on the vent to soak up the

hot or cool air depending on what was

coming out of it at that time so

definitely go through things like your

gardening supplies your pet toys and

accessories and see if there's anything

that's worn out enough to toss or maybe

something that doesn't get used and you

can get rid of it number 22 we have

vitamins and supplements and I know that

there's been times in the past where

maybe we were taking a vitamin to help

with a certain problem like when we

lived in China I was B vitamin B

deficient and I had to take vitamin B

supplements but then no longer needed it

after that or there's been times where

my husband has started protein powder

but then found that he didn't like the

taste and so he just set it in the back

of the cabinet and just left it alone

until the point where then it expired

and we had half a huge container of

protein powder that was no longer usable

and we had to toss so make sure to

regularly go through your vitamins and

supplements and see if there's anything

that you're not using or that maybe

didn't work as you wanted it to and you

could get rid of I'm going to have to

head out soon to pick my kids up from

German school so we're going to move

through the rest of this list a little

bit more quickly number 23 cables cords

and adapters number 24 old prescription

glasses or contacts and things like old

prescription glasses there are places

that you can go and give those away so

that someone else can use them number 25

cleaning rags I mean how many cleaning

rags does one person actually need

number 26 jewelry especially if you have

jewelry that's broken or missing pieces

or a pair maybe you could get rid of

that 27 crafts or hobby supplies that

you no longer like to use or that you

never got around to using it all number

28 old batteries number 29 digital

photos number 30 your email inbox how

many do you have I don't even want to

mention how many I have in my inbox and

number 31 on this list is smartphone

apps and I always say that this is one

of those clutter categories where I am

so so glad that I decluttered and

organized nicely because it has been

such a GameChanger in helping me be able

to find what I need on my phone because

I know exactly where everything is and

it's so nice whenever I have to go and

look on my husband's phone to try to

pull up Google Maps or read him a

message if we're driving or something I

can never find the app that I'm looking

for because his phone is a mess so if

you also want help organizing your phone

and cluttering your smartphone apps make

sure to go check out this video or I'll

see you next week until then take care

bye-bye