WEBVTT - My Top 5 ADHD-Friendly Home Organisation Hacks 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:01.760 We all know days that go like this. At the 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:03.600 end of the day, you get changed and you look 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:05.640 at the jeans on the floor. They're not dirty, but 0:00:05.760 --> 0:00:07.600 you also feel like you don't want to hang them 0:00:07.600 --> 0:00:09.200 back up with the rest of your stuff, but you 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:12.440 just can't justify washing them, so they lay on the floor. 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:17.079 You know, your floordrobe. Hello, my favorite humans. Yes, I'm 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:19.800 in a great mood because today's episode I want to 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:24.120 be running you through my actual top five home organization hacks, 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:26.960 like my favorite ones that I've discovered over the last 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:29.960 ten years of being online. Now this is saying a 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:33.159 lot because this could actually get me fired from my 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:36.239 own brand, But I am as you guys know, I'm 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:39.520 an absolute mess, and I hate housework and I hate 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:45.199 lots of things. I hate doing things. But for me, 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:47.280 like over the years, I've just learned that I have 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:49.360 to work with my brain and not against it, and 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:53.280 also get my home to really cater to that as well. 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:56.200 And look, it's pretty obvious that pretty much everyone in 0:00:56.240 --> 0:01:00.160 my family we are neurospicy, and that's fine, and it 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:01.920 does it. It really does help all of us. I 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:04.319 want to be running you guys through the top organization 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:07.720 hacks that are cheap that you can literally implement very fast. 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:09.880 Some of them you can do it within minutes most 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:13.600 of them, and they actually have survived to kids and 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:17.039 my ADHD brain. So this is a really good one. 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:18.600 I think it's a good time of year to do 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:20.720 this as well, especially coming off the back of the 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:23.800 media reset from last week. And of course I'll give 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:26.440 you guys links. I've got my Amazon's storefront link below 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:27.959 if you want to go through there. Otherwise you can 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:30.000 run off to kmart. Like you can pretty much get 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:34.399 these items anywhere, and they are multi use. There's so 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:37.040 many different ways, and you can also you know, alter 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:39.640 this to work for you and your family as well. Now, 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:42.320 I wanted to, like, I have a lot of hacks 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:45.120 that are you know, my top, but I kind of 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:49.440 mixed them into these key five ones because these ones 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:54.280 not only help you know, my house stay relatively decent, 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:57.640 they also help with you know, the kids and like 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:01.640 the everyday clutter and to the home that is just hard. 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:03.520 So I've tried to like spread it out over different 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:06.960 areas in terms of like, you know, your wardrobe, you've 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:09.160 got kitchen things like that. So I wanted to try 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:13.600 and have it evenly across the house. Now by the end, 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:16.760 I'll give you the three rules that sit underneath all 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:19.480 five of them, you know, my doable house rules that 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:23.120 can actually, you know, really help you lazy proof any 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:25.440 room in your house, not just the spots I mentioned today. 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:27.560 And make sure you stick around till the end for 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:30.239 the fridge hack. And it takes loosely a couple of minutes, 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:32.520 and it costs nothing if you want it to. And 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:35.639 it's worth about fifteen hundred dollars a year. And that's 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:38.519 not clickbait, that's an actual study. And I'll give you 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:41.440 the numbers as well, so you're welcome. I'm saving you 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:46.280 cash as well. Now, a little life update. I'll make 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:48.520 this really quick because I'm really excited to get into this. 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:51.520 But as you guys know, I'm obsessed with my color season. 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:53.520 I got the color analysis done. I talk about this 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:55.360 in my Doable blow up, which I can link the 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:57.919 episode for that below. Where I've been, you know, embarking 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:01.000 on this journey of just glowing up in different areas, 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:04.919 like not just like style and fashion, but also like mindset, 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:07.840 my surroundings, my environment, all that type of thing. But 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:10.799 the biggest hack in terms of like the physical glow. 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:14.480 Up for me has been learning about color seasons and 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:18.520 color analysis because once you learn you're coloring, and there's 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:20.240 so much to it, like it's not just if you're 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:23.440 warm or cool tone, Like there's chroma and then there's 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:25.840 like what was the other one. There's like all these 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:29.320 different levels that are faced and that has which I 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:32.400 didn't know about and why certain colors suit you. Anyway, 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:36.440 funny story, of course, I use chat GBT to analyze me, 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:39.120 which chatch GBT likes to tell everyone that they're a 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:41.480 soft autumn and I did know this, but I was like, 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:43.480 you know what, I knew I was warm tone because 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:46.880 silver jewelry just doesn't suit me. And in terms of makeup, 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:48.240 because I used to be make a BITI so I 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:50.000 do know I'm warm toned. So look, I was on 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:53.400 the right track. But I bought you know, a couple 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:55.280 of ten plates and put my face in them and 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:57.080 just like to me, I was like, yeah, I'm a 0:03:57.120 --> 0:04:00.560 soft orhm, that's correct. Anyway, I went and got a 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:04.520 proper professional color analysis done from color Life stylists who 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:06.400 I'm actually going to have her on the show soon 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:08.600 because I'm so excited to go through this with you guys, 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:12.800 and she's actually told me I'm a light spring. So 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:14.920 my whole life is a lie. Well, my life's the 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:18.479 last year has been a lie. So it's funny because 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:21.040 now when she explained to me about like the clarity 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:24.719 or like, what is it having muted features versus you know, 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:29.279 bright features, like it makes sense now because you know, 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:32.680 I don't look terrible in some bright colors that are 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:36.360 like a bit lighter. So anyway, that's been amazing because 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:38.560 I actually really love like now I'm back in my 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:41.520 whole little Pinterest spiral or now I'm really honing in 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:47.400 on my light spring. And yeah, so that's fun So 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:49.560 at least I was warm, Okay, I was like got 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:52.640 one thing right out of all of it. But in turn, 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:54.880 that has meant I've gone back through my wardrobe again 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:57.880 and I've brought out colors that I thought didn't suit me. 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:00.080 But it's funny because a lot of the colors I 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:01.840 got rid of out of my wardrobe that I thought 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:05.719 didn't suit me, I kept a lot of them that 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:08.760 actually were you know, I felt like they looked okay 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:10.920 on me, or I was kind of like hanging onto 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:14.360 them because they actually did suit me in They're a 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:16.880 light spring. But it's like I got so into the 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:19.840 soft autumn and like what like I literally kind of 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:22.120 you know, it's like when you tell yourself a narrative 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:23.560 and you say this is what you are, and then 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:25.160 you're like, I can't be anything else. It was kind 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:27.680 of like that, but then my subconsciously I was still 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:30.800 hanging on to some items that obviously were in my 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:34.000 actual color palette. So I've brought them back out, getting 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:36.440 rid of some other ones, and it's just doing like 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:39.680 a bit of a reset declutter, which brings me into 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:43.120 today's episodes topic, which is hacks and just you know, 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:47.800 I've always been a messy human and I have never 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:50.320 been able to keep things clean. I've really struggled with 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:54.279 that my entire life, and you know, I always told myself, 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:56.400 I just need more discipline and then I'll become the 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:59.279 woman who deals with every item of clothing immediately and 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:01.840 every night actually been able to put things away, Like 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:05.359 my bedroom used to be covered in clothes across the floor. 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:07.359 You we all know the floordrobe. We all had a 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:11.680 floor drobe at some point, and it was just something 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:14.200 that really really bothered me so that this is bringing 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:17.200 me to my very first hack, and this can it doesn't. 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:19.080 You don't actually even have to spend money for this, 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:21.000 like you might already have something at home, and for 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:22.680 all of these hacks. If you have some of these 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:27.120 things lying around, just use them. But this is where 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:30.239 my favorite hack was born, which was the war again hook. 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:32.360 We all know days that go like this. So the 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:34.200 end of the day, you get changed and you look 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:36.120 at the jeans on the floor. They're not dirty, you've 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:39.720 worn them maybe twice, but you also feel like you 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:41.120 don't want to hang them back up with the rest 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:44.000 of this stuff that's fully clean, but you just can't 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:46.880 justify washing them, so they lay on the floor or 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:50.880 on the chair, you know, your floordrobe. So I thought 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:53.960 to myself, it needs like this middle area, it needs 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:57.360 like the messy middle kind of zone. So that's where 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:00.320 I decided to create the wear again hook. Now, this 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:03.680 hook is for clothes that, yes, they're too clean to 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:06.120 go on the wash, they're too they're not dirty enough 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:08.040 to go back in the wardrobe, and you're gonna wear 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:12.080 them again. And this is perfect for like work clothes, uniforms, 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:14.920 you know, jackets, things like that. And again, like there's 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:17.440 a lot of clothes like jeans are probably not a 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:19.920 great example of this because technically, did you guys know 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:21.600 you're meant to wear your jeans like I think ten 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:24.280 to fifteen times before you wash them or maybe more. 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:28.240 Which look, I'm someone where I will get my use 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:31.360 out of my clothing, like I will wear it until 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:33.640 it smells or it's got like tan on it, you 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:36.240 know what I mean. Like I'm all for that, and 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:38.440 whereas my one of my best friends ash like she 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:40.520 will wash everything if she wears at once, where I'm like, 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:42.200 I can't do that. That's just too much for me. 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:47.080 So this is really really great for that. So you 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:49.400 can use like a command hook, you know, there's command 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:52.040 hooks out you just like stick on the wall. If 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:53.720 you've got like a little ladder, you know those like 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:57.000 dec or ladders, you can use that and it just 0:07:57.240 --> 0:08:00.360 really helps with you know, getting rid of them off 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:02.320 the floor. And then for those clothes that you just 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:04.920 don't know where to put them. They're not dirty, you've 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:06.480 worn them twice. You can't hang them back up with 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:08.280 the clean staff, Like where does it go? So it 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:10.680 goes on the where again? Hook. My girls have one. 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:14.440 Ryan has one. It's amazing, Like the thing is too 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:16.400 like when you think about this, like the problem wasn't me, 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:19.200 it's the clothes had nowhere to go. It it needed 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:21.920 a home. And that's the thing is when everything has 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:24.760 a home, it makes it easier. You have to think 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:28.160 about it so much, you know. And everyone thinks that 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:31.560 organize people are disciplined, and I'm not organized because I'm disciplined. 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:34.120 I'm organized because I know exactly how useless I am 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:36.960 most parts of the day, and I plan for her, 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:39.840 so I create homes for everything. You know, you don't 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:42.080 organize for the woman that you want to be organized 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:44.600 for the woman that you actually are right now now. 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:46.600 Of course, with this hack, it doesn't have to be 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:48.480 a hook. It could be a basket, which I will 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:50.800 get into and I actually kind of do this as well. 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:53.439 I kind of do both. Before I get into the 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:55.480 next hack, I just want to stay on the topic 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:57.559 of wardrobes for a second, because I think clothes is 0:08:57.600 --> 0:08:59.679 a big one for us, whether it's washing or putting 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:02.720 things way, and you just really do need to reduce 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:04.400 the friction. So that's why I do love the way 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:07.800 again hook because it's like really like easy, low effort. 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:11.160 You just chuck it on there. There's like no multiple 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:13.160 steps involved where you have to get the coat hangar out, 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:14.480 you have to hang it up on there. There's none 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:17.520 of that. And there's actually signs behind this too to 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:20.880 help it become a habit. Now there's a happiness researcher 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:23.600 called Sean Ako I think his name is, who calls 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:26.040 it the twenty second rule. Now, he wanted to practice 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:28.200 guitar every day and look like in second this one 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:30.920 because I love playing guitar. But the guitar lived in 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:33.640 the cupboard, so the twenty extra seconds to get it 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:36.439 out and that was enough for him to never practice. 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:38.920 So there's that friction, and yes it's twenty seconds, but 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:42.600 it's an extra step in the middle. So he moved 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:44.840 it onto a stand in the middle of the room 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:48.640 and he practiced for twenty days straight. Twenty seconds is 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:51.480 the entire gap between doing the thing and not doing 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:54.160 the things. So you know, hanging your jeans properly with 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:58.960 the coat, hangar, folding, wardrobe politics, whatever, call it forty seconds, 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:02.960 whereas the hook is two seconds, and that is going 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:05.560 to guarantee you're going to have a cleaner flow. Now 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:08.400 this kind of goes into another hack I have later, 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:11.640 but I want to talk about it now, and that's baskets. Now. 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:15.000 I also do this in my wardrobe where I'll have 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:18.400 a basket, like where my tops are. I'll have a 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:20.600 basket where my you know, my coats and that are. 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:23.640 And that's because for me, sometimes I'll be getting ready 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:26.240 to film and stuff for work and if I haven't, 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:28.560 you got all the different outfits out and I haven't 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:31.200 prepped my outfits on the Sunday, which is key for me. 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:33.120 And this is why this happens. Is when I don't 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:36.760 do that, is I will try on multiple tops. Could 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:38.400 be doing a shoot for SPP. There's a lot of 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:40.400 things that come up that makes me need to try 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:42.280 to change a lot. I don't want to hang them 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:44.240 back up. I don't want to do that like that. 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:47.400 That's twenty seconds top. That's a lot of time, as 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:49.959 we've talked about. So I have a basket in those 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:52.719 areas and that means they're already in their categories where 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:54.280 they need to be hung back up, but they're just 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:56.640 they're they're ready to go. They're in the basket, and 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:58.679 all I have to do is on a Sunday is 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:00.560 I grab it out and I hang it up. So 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:02.720 that's one thing I do, and it just really really 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:04.679 helps me. It stops me from having clothes again all 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:06.880 over the floor because I've already solved that problem. But 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:09.720 this became another problem. And that's why I got the 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:12.120 basket and the same thing with the way again hook. 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:13.400 It doesn't need to be a hook. It can be 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:16.120 a basket as well. All right, moving on to hack 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:18.880 number two, and this one was one I actually set up, 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:21.800 I think when we had Harper. Now. This is because 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:23.079 I was like, you know, I'm going to be a mom. 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:24.440 I need to be organized. I need to have all 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:27.600 our documents in the right areas. Now this is my 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:31.680 family document's box. Now. This hack went viral multiple times. 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:34.720 I remember I shared this suspension viral holder like the 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:36.560 thing I use, which I'll go into it in a minute. 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:40.760 I shared it online and the box originally was like 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:43.319 fifteen dollars and what is wild is a couple of 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:46.440 weeks later when everyone was buying it, it jumped up 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:50.520 to like fifty dollars. I was like, Office Works, you 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:53.720 should be giving me these things for free, mate, So 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:56.800 we know there's like so many documents that we need 0:11:56.840 --> 0:11:59.560 to keep. There's you know, birth certificates, there's medical stuff, 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:02.520 there's family certificates, insurance, all those things. And yes, I 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:05.199 do recommend wherever you can go digital, just do that 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:06.880 and have a hard drive for the family and a 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:09.520 Google drive for the family. We have a Pace family 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:11.760 Google Drive where we have you know, health and then 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:13.840 we have the kids stuff and everything has a folder. 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:15.840 But if you can't, you know, you need to keep 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:17.840 the physical version as well, which you do need to 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:20.720 do most of the time. You know, things are passports 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:23.320 and that like we or you can use a safe 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:26.600 of course, but we use this suspension file holder. So 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:28.920 this is basically looks like a container. It's got the 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:31.319 two little rods on the side and you get the 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:33.880 suspension files. So they're the little files that you know, 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:37.600 you can slide around in like filing cabinets. Anyways, all 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:40.199 I did was grab some little tabs and I labeled 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:44.080 them for passports, birth certificates, et cetera, et cetera, and 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:46.840 then they go in there and this is all labeled 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:48.680 and it kept away. You can put it in a safe, 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:52.319 but it's just one spot and it's done and it's organized, 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:54.760 and I love that. And I also decided to do 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:57.960 this for the kid's artwork. So now that the girls 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:00.560 are older, I don't have as much artwork coming home, 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:03.200 but we know when they're little and they're doing their drawings, 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:05.400 they're bringing things home from daycare, and then then up 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:07.640 until maybe year two, they do a lot of art. 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:10.040 So I got a big version of this, and then 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:13.960 I would label them from like you know, you know, 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:16.959 the year and how old they were and like in daycare. 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:19.720 So I think I had daycare twenty and sixteen, twenty 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:23.520 seventeen and then into kindergarten. Now there's other ways you 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:25.920 can do this, Like I really loved this because I'm 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:28.760 keeping the physical. Some people will scan their kids' artwork 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:32.080 and keep it digitally, and keep it digitally I can't 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:34.280 say the word, you know what I'm saying. They keep 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:37.320 it on the computer, all right. Some people like to 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:39.000 make it into a big collage and put it on 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:41.840 the wall. And then there's also really cool companies that 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:44.680 you can make photo books out of it, and you 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:47.840 can do that yourself using you know, things like chat 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:50.960 books and things like that where you scan them and 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:52.640 then you can create them into like a book, and 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:57.160 it could be a coffee table book. So having it's 0:13:57.200 --> 0:14:00.560 containing things, that's like the thing. It's having a this 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:03.880 has a place. Now. The thing is I understand that 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:06.319 with this there is some issues because we get a 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:08.360 lot of artwork, and look, I love my children more 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:10.760 than life itself, but I do not love three hundred 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:14.840 and forty near identical portraits of our dog or a scribble. 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:18.680 Now that's where you kind of need to come down 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:23.080 to culling and maybe keeping their best artwork pieces. And 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:28.240 I know that's hard to be objective with, but you 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:31.360 need to be making sure that you are like being 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:33.760 like this. This is how much we can allocate per 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:37.440 year per child. You can have multiple boxes, but it 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:39.600 comes down to clutter and then if there's some that 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:42.240 you're not sure to keep or not, you just scan 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:45.280 it and keep it in your family Google drive. Is 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:47.640 where I'm getting at with this. Now, kids, we love you, 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:50.080 we think you're amazing. You've Picasso, but we can't keep 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:52.800 all your artwork all the time. Now, moving on to 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:58.560 this hack single handily saves my life every single day, 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:01.560 and I'm not being dramatic about that. You know, when 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:04.680 you walk into a room and then there's multiple items 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:08.600 that just don't live there, Like you've got the kids toys, 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:12.080 there's like bits and pieces, there's stuff from other rooms. 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:15.400 Everything is just kind of gathered around into a space, 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:17.880 usually the lounge room, all the kitchen, and it doesn't 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:20.520 live there and you look at it and you're like, oh, 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:24.000 my goodness. So for me, I knew, just like you 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:26.400 know when you have to sort the washing. The hardest 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:27.920 part of that is you having to be like, Okay, 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:30.240 this is this person's and that has to go there. 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:32.520 This is this person's that has to go there, and 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:34.120 then you have to be like, okay, that's the top, 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:37.480 that's pants. It's multiple micro decisions, and it's the same 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:40.520 when it comes to clutter that comes in day in 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:42.840 and day out. And you can have the most organized house, 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:46.080 but if you have children and people living there, people 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:48.000 like to bring items and move them around. It's just 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:51.520 part of life. Now, I knew I had to figure 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:53.920 this out and I needed to fix this aceap because 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:56.400 it was actually driving me insane. And I actually found 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:58.720 now don't shoot me for saying this, I found it 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:01.120 easy to keep my house clean when the kids were babies, 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:02.920 and toddlers, and I don't know if it was just 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:05.840 my girls, but I felt like their mess was a 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:08.080 bit more contained, like they still made mess, but it 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:10.960 was like they couldn't actually go and get things out 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:13.360 all the time themselves. Where now that they're eight and ten, 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:17.520 this stuff everywhere. Like we've got like twenty barbies that 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:19.520 look like that they've just been on a bender hanging 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:23.120 out on the couch. And I have to figure out 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:26.120 a system to sort this out because there's also my 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:27.840 stuff too. I'm not going to sit there and pretend. 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:30.360 I feel like the only person that doesn't have stuff 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:34.120 everywhere is Ryan. But anyway, so what I did is 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:36.720 I started the idea called the catch or basket. Now 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:39.200 this is a basket, which originally I used to have 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:41.200 it just one and I had this back in our 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:43.120 old house when the kids were little. It was just 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:45.920 one basket and I'll pick everything up that doesn't belong 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:47.360 there and it goes in the basket and then I'd 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:49.600 put it away. But now there's more people and there's 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:52.880 more mess happening. Because the kids are older, we all 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:55.000 get a basket each. So we have a basket and 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:58.400 it's labeled who it belongs to, and during the day, 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:02.480 as items arise, I will pick up their items and 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:05.560 chuck it in whoever's basket it belongs to. So this 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:07.960 is the catchu or basket or also known as this 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:11.959 doesn't belong in this room basket. Now, at the end 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:15.639 of every day, before dinner, the girl's task especially is 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:20.840 they have to do BBB, which is bedrooms, bathrooms and basket. 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:23.639 And that just means checking that their bedrooms are clean, 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:27.240 checking that their bathroom is tidy after they've had showers, 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:28.720 and look. I still have to remind them, like this 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:32.600 is not foolproof, but it helps, especially having something like 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:36.760 alliteration like BBB, It just really helps remember. And then basket, 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:40.040 which means they go get their basket from the loundroom 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:43.520 and they put all their stuff back. Now your baskets. 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:45.679 I do like to try to have one per person 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:49.080 because if you have a basket, like everyone has multiple baskets, 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:51.439 that's just more things to think about. So if you 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:53.480 can just keep one basket in the main area of 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:56.280 the house where ours is the loundroom, I pop it 0:17:56.320 --> 0:18:00.200 on the little shelf and that's where that lives. Also 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:02.480 have something called a bench basket in the kitchen because 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:05.560 again there's just more stuff happening, more stuff that needs 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:07.679 to go away. So that's another thing that you know, 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:09.359 Ryan or I will have to put that away at 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:12.359 the end of the day. But you know everyone has 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:14.280 they're in charge of your own basket, and that basket 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:17.119 needs to be back in the lound room empty before dinner. 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:20.480 Basically that's the rule. Does it always happen, No, But 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:23.560 it's an intentional thing, and it happens at least if 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:25.720 it's not daily, it will happen every couple of days. 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:28.080 And that's fine because sometimes their baskets don't get as 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:32.840 filled up. Now, the basket isn't necessarily like you need 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:34.679 to look at the basket not just as storage, but 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:37.399 it's also like a decision you've already made. It's a 0:18:37.440 --> 0:18:41.240 system because you've already pre sorted it. There's a routine 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:44.760 in place. The thing about this system too, is and 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:47.199