Speaker 1: We all know days that go like this. At the
Speaker 1: end of the day, you get changed and you look
Speaker 1: at the jeans on the floor. They're not dirty, but
Speaker 1: you also feel like you don't want to hang them
Speaker 1: back up with the rest of your stuff, but you
Speaker 1: just can't justify washing them, so they lay on the floor.
Speaker 1: You know, your floordrobe. Hello, my favorite humans. Yes, I'm
Speaker 1: in a great mood because today's episode I want to
Speaker 1: be running you through my actual top five home organization hacks,
Speaker 1: like my favorite ones that I've discovered over the last
Speaker 1: ten years of being online. Now this is saying a
Speaker 1: lot because this could actually get me fired from my
Speaker 1: own brand, But I am as you guys know, I'm
Speaker 1: an absolute mess, and I hate housework and I hate
Speaker 1: lots of things. I hate doing things. But for me,
Speaker 1: like over the years, I've just learned that I have
Speaker 1: to work with my brain and not against it, and
Speaker 1: also get my home to really cater to that as well.
Speaker 1: And look, it's pretty obvious that pretty much everyone in
Speaker 1: my family we are neurospicy, and that's fine, and it
Speaker 1: does it. It really does help all of us. I
Speaker 1: want to be running you guys through the top organization
Speaker 1: hacks that are cheap that you can literally implement very fast.
Speaker 1: Some of them you can do it within minutes most
Speaker 1: of them, and they actually have survived to kids and
Speaker 1: my ADHD brain. So this is a really good one.
Speaker 1: I think it's a good time of year to do
Speaker 1: this as well, especially coming off the back of the
Speaker 1: media reset from last week. And of course I'll give
Speaker 1: you guys links. I've got my Amazon's storefront link below
Speaker 1: if you want to go through there. Otherwise you can
Speaker 1: run off to kmart. Like you can pretty much get
Speaker 1: these items anywhere, and they are multi use. There's so
Speaker 1: many different ways, and you can also you know, alter
Speaker 1: this to work for you and your family as well. Now,
Speaker 1: I wanted to, like, I have a lot of hacks
Speaker 1: that are you know, my top, but I kind of
Speaker 1: mixed them into these key five ones because these ones
Speaker 1: not only help you know, my house stay relatively decent,
Speaker 1: they also help with you know, the kids and like
Speaker 1: the everyday clutter and to the home that is just hard.
Speaker 1: So I've tried to like spread it out over different
Speaker 1: areas in terms of like, you know, your wardrobe, you've
Speaker 1: got kitchen things like that. So I wanted to try
Speaker 1: and have it evenly across the house. Now by the end,
Speaker 1: I'll give you the three rules that sit underneath all
Speaker 1: five of them, you know, my doable house rules that
Speaker 1: can actually, you know, really help you lazy proof any
Speaker 1: room in your house, not just the spots I mentioned today.
Speaker 1: And make sure you stick around till the end for
Speaker 1: the fridge hack. And it takes loosely a couple of minutes,
Speaker 1: and it costs nothing if you want it to. And
Speaker 1: it's worth about fifteen hundred dollars a year. And that's
Speaker 1: not clickbait, that's an actual study. And I'll give you
Speaker 1: the numbers as well, so you're welcome. I'm saving you
Speaker 1: cash as well. Now, a little life update. I'll make
Speaker 1: this really quick because I'm really excited to get into this.
Speaker 1: But as you guys know, I'm obsessed with my color season.
Speaker 1: I got the color analysis done. I talk about this
Speaker 1: in my Doable blow up, which I can link the
Speaker 1: episode for that below. Where I've been, you know, embarking
Speaker 1: on this journey of just glowing up in different areas,
Speaker 1: like not just like style and fashion, but also like mindset,
Speaker 1: my surroundings, my environment, all that type of thing. But
Speaker 1: the biggest hack in terms of like the physical glow.
Speaker 1: Up for me has been learning about color seasons and
Speaker 1: color analysis because once you learn you're coloring, and there's
Speaker 1: so much to it, like it's not just if you're
Speaker 1: warm or cool tone, Like there's chroma and then there's
Speaker 1: like what was the other one. There's like all these
Speaker 1: different levels that are faced and that has which I
Speaker 1: didn't know about and why certain colors suit you. Anyway,
Speaker 1: funny story, of course, I use chat GBT to analyze me,
Speaker 1: which chatch GBT likes to tell everyone that they're a
Speaker 1: soft autumn and I did know this, but I was like,
Speaker 1: you know what, I knew I was warm tone because
Speaker 1: silver jewelry just doesn't suit me. And in terms of makeup,
Speaker 1: because I used to be make a BITI so I
Speaker 1: do know I'm warm toned. So look, I was on
Speaker 1: the right track. But I bought you know, a couple
Speaker 1: of ten plates and put my face in them and
Speaker 1: just like to me, I was like, yeah, I'm a
Speaker 1: soft orhm, that's correct. Anyway, I went and got a
Speaker 1: proper professional color analysis done from color Life stylists who
Speaker 1: I'm actually going to have her on the show soon
Speaker 1: because I'm so excited to go through this with you guys,
Speaker 1: and she's actually told me I'm a light spring. So
Speaker 1: my whole life is a lie. Well, my life's the
Speaker 1: last year has been a lie. So it's funny because
Speaker 1: now when she explained to me about like the clarity
Speaker 1: or like, what is it having muted features versus you know,
Speaker 1: bright features, like it makes sense now because you know,
Speaker 1: I don't look terrible in some bright colors that are
Speaker 1: like a bit lighter. So anyway, that's been amazing because
Speaker 1: I actually really love like now I'm back in my
Speaker 1: whole little Pinterest spiral or now I'm really honing in
Speaker 1: on my light spring. And yeah, so that's fun So
Speaker 1: at least I was warm, Okay, I was like got
Speaker 1: one thing right out of all of it. But in turn,
Speaker 1: that has meant I've gone back through my wardrobe again
Speaker 1: and I've brought out colors that I thought didn't suit me.
Speaker 1: But it's funny because a lot of the colors I
Speaker 1: got rid of out of my wardrobe that I thought
Speaker 1: didn't suit me, I kept a lot of them that
Speaker 1: actually were you know, I felt like they looked okay
Speaker 1: on me, or I was kind of like hanging onto
Speaker 1: them because they actually did suit me in They're a
Speaker 1: light spring. But it's like I got so into the
Speaker 1: soft autumn and like what like I literally kind of
Speaker 1: you know, it's like when you tell yourself a narrative
Speaker 1: and you say this is what you are, and then
Speaker 1: you're like, I can't be anything else. It was kind
Speaker 1: of like that, but then my subconsciously I was still
Speaker 1: hanging on to some items that obviously were in my
Speaker 1: actual color palette. So I've brought them back out, getting
Speaker 1: rid of some other ones, and it's just doing like
Speaker 1: a bit of a reset declutter, which brings me into
Speaker 1: today's episodes topic, which is hacks and just you know,
Speaker 1: I've always been a messy human and I have never
Speaker 1: been able to keep things clean. I've really struggled with
Speaker 1: that my entire life, and you know, I always told myself,
Speaker 1: I just need more discipline and then I'll become the
Speaker 1: woman who deals with every item of clothing immediately and
Speaker 1: every night actually been able to put things away, Like
Speaker 1: my bedroom used to be covered in clothes across the floor.
Speaker 1: You we all know the floordrobe. We all had a
Speaker 1: floor drobe at some point, and it was just something
Speaker 1: that really really bothered me so that this is bringing
Speaker 1: me to my very first hack, and this can it doesn't.
Speaker 1: You don't actually even have to spend money for this,
Speaker 1: like you might already have something at home, and for
Speaker 1: all of these hacks. If you have some of these
Speaker 1: things lying around, just use them. But this is where
Speaker 1: my favorite hack was born, which was the war again hook.
Speaker 1: We all know days that go like this. So the
Speaker 1: end of the day, you get changed and you look
Speaker 1: at the jeans on the floor. They're not dirty, you've
Speaker 1: worn them maybe twice, but you also feel like you
Speaker 1: don't want to hang them back up with the rest
Speaker 1: of this stuff that's fully clean, but you just can't
Speaker 1: justify washing them, so they lay on the floor or
Speaker 1: on the chair, you know, your floordrobe. So I thought
Speaker 1: to myself, it needs like this middle area, it needs
Speaker 1: like the messy middle kind of zone. So that's where
Speaker 1: I decided to create the wear again hook. Now, this
Speaker 1: hook is for clothes that, yes, they're too clean to
Speaker 1: go on the wash, they're too they're not dirty enough
Speaker 1: to go back in the wardrobe, and you're gonna wear
Speaker 1: them again. And this is perfect for like work clothes, uniforms,
Speaker 1: you know, jackets, things like that. And again, like there's
Speaker 1: a lot of clothes like jeans are probably not a
Speaker 1: great example of this because technically, did you guys know
Speaker 1: you're meant to wear your jeans like I think ten
Speaker 1: to fifteen times before you wash them or maybe more.
Speaker 1: Which look, I'm someone where I will get my use
Speaker 1: out of my clothing, like I will wear it until
Speaker 1: it smells or it's got like tan on it, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Like I'm all for that, and
Speaker 1: whereas my one of my best friends ash like she
Speaker 1: will wash everything if she wears at once, where I'm like,
Speaker 1: I can't do that. That's just too much for me.
Speaker 1: So this is really really great for that. So you
Speaker 1: can use like a command hook, you know, there's command
Speaker 1: hooks out you just like stick on the wall. If
Speaker 1: you've got like a little ladder, you know those like
Speaker 1: dec or ladders, you can use that and it just
Speaker 1: really helps with you know, getting rid of them off
Speaker 1: the floor. And then for those clothes that you just
Speaker 1: don't know where to put them. They're not dirty, you've
Speaker 1: worn them twice. You can't hang them back up with
Speaker 1: the clean staff, Like where does it go? So it
Speaker 1: goes on the where again? Hook. My girls have one.
Speaker 1: Ryan has one. It's amazing, Like the thing is too
Speaker 1: like when you think about this, like the problem wasn't me,
Speaker 1: it's the clothes had nowhere to go. It it needed
Speaker 1: a home. And that's the thing is when everything has
Speaker 1: a home, it makes it easier. You have to think
Speaker 1: about it so much, you know. And everyone thinks that
Speaker 1: organize people are disciplined, and I'm not organized because I'm disciplined.
Speaker 1: I'm organized because I know exactly how useless I am
Speaker 1: most parts of the day, and I plan for her,
Speaker 1: so I create homes for everything. You know, you don't
Speaker 1: organize for the woman that you want to be organized
Speaker 1: for the woman that you actually are right now now.
Speaker 1: Of course, with this hack, it doesn't have to be
Speaker 1: a hook. It could be a basket, which I will
Speaker 1: get into and I actually kind of do this as well.
Speaker 1: I kind of do both. Before I get into the
Speaker 1: next hack, I just want to stay on the topic
Speaker 1: of wardrobes for a second, because I think clothes is
Speaker 1: a big one for us, whether it's washing or putting
Speaker 1: things way, and you just really do need to reduce
Speaker 1: the friction. So that's why I do love the way
Speaker 1: again hook because it's like really like easy, low effort.
Speaker 1: You just chuck it on there. There's like no multiple
Speaker 1: steps involved where you have to get the coat hangar out,
Speaker 1: you have to hang it up on there. There's none
Speaker 1: of that. And there's actually signs behind this too to
Speaker 1: help it become a habit. Now there's a happiness researcher
Speaker 1: called Sean Ako I think his name is, who calls
Speaker 1: it the twenty second rule. Now, he wanted to practice
Speaker 1: guitar every day and look like in second this one
Speaker 1: because I love playing guitar. But the guitar lived in
Speaker 1: the cupboard, so the twenty extra seconds to get it
Speaker 1: out and that was enough for him to never practice.
Speaker 1: So there's that friction, and yes it's twenty seconds, but
Speaker 1: it's an extra step in the middle. So he moved
Speaker 1: it onto a stand in the middle of the room
Speaker 1: and he practiced for twenty days straight. Twenty seconds is
Speaker 1: the entire gap between doing the thing and not doing
Speaker 1: the things. So you know, hanging your jeans properly with
Speaker 1: the coat, hangar, folding, wardrobe politics, whatever, call it forty seconds,
Speaker 1: whereas the hook is two seconds, and that is going
Speaker 1: to guarantee you're going to have a cleaner flow. Now
Speaker 1: this kind of goes into another hack I have later,
Speaker 1: but I want to talk about it now, and that's baskets. Now.
Speaker 1: I also do this in my wardrobe where I'll have
Speaker 1: a basket, like where my tops are. I'll have a
Speaker 1: basket where my you know, my coats and that are.
Speaker 1: And that's because for me, sometimes I'll be getting ready
Speaker 1: to film and stuff for work and if I haven't,
Speaker 1: you got all the different outfits out and I haven't
Speaker 1: prepped my outfits on the Sunday, which is key for me.
Speaker 1: And this is why this happens. Is when I don't
Speaker 1: do that, is I will try on multiple tops. Could
Speaker 1: be doing a shoot for SPP. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: things that come up that makes me need to try
Speaker 1: to change a lot. I don't want to hang them
Speaker 1: back up. I don't want to do that like that.
Speaker 1: That's twenty seconds top. That's a lot of time, as
Speaker 1: we've talked about. So I have a basket in those
Speaker 1: areas and that means they're already in their categories where
Speaker 1: they need to be hung back up, but they're just
Speaker 1: they're they're ready to go. They're in the basket, and
Speaker 1: all I have to do is on a Sunday is
Speaker 1: I grab it out and I hang it up. So
Speaker 1: that's one thing I do, and it just really really
Speaker 1: helps me. It stops me from having clothes again all
Speaker 1: over the floor because I've already solved that problem. But
Speaker 1: this became another problem. And that's why I got the
Speaker 1: basket and the same thing with the way again hook.
Speaker 1: It doesn't need to be a hook. It can be
Speaker 1: a basket as well. All right, moving on to hack
Speaker 1: number two, and this one was one I actually set up,
Speaker 1: I think when we had Harper. Now. This is because
Speaker 1: I was like, you know, I'm going to be a mom.
Speaker 1: I need to be organized. I need to have all
Speaker 1: our documents in the right areas. Now this is my
Speaker 1: family document's box. Now. This hack went viral multiple times.
Speaker 1: I remember I shared this suspension viral holder like the
Speaker 1: thing I use, which I'll go into it in a minute.
Speaker 1: I shared it online and the box originally was like
Speaker 1: fifteen dollars and what is wild is a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks later when everyone was buying it, it jumped up
Speaker 1: to like fifty dollars. I was like, Office Works, you
Speaker 1: should be giving me these things for free, mate, So
Speaker 1: we know there's like so many documents that we need
Speaker 1: to keep. There's you know, birth certificates, there's medical stuff,
Speaker 1: there's family certificates, insurance, all those things. And yes, I
Speaker 1: do recommend wherever you can go digital, just do that
Speaker 1: and have a hard drive for the family and a
Speaker 1: Google drive for the family. We have a Pace family
Speaker 1: Google Drive where we have you know, health and then
Speaker 1: we have the kids stuff and everything has a folder.
Speaker 1: But if you can't, you know, you need to keep
Speaker 1: the physical version as well, which you do need to
Speaker 1: do most of the time. You know, things are passports
Speaker 1: and that like we or you can use a safe
Speaker 1: of course, but we use this suspension file holder. So
Speaker 1: this is basically looks like a container. It's got the
Speaker 1: two little rods on the side and you get the
Speaker 1: suspension files. So they're the little files that you know,
Speaker 1: you can slide around in like filing cabinets. Anyways, all
Speaker 1: I did was grab some little tabs and I labeled
Speaker 1: them for passports, birth certificates, et cetera, et cetera, and
Speaker 1: then they go in there and this is all labeled
Speaker 1: and it kept away. You can put it in a safe,
Speaker 1: but it's just one spot and it's done and it's organized,
Speaker 1: and I love that. And I also decided to do
Speaker 1: this for the kid's artwork. So now that the girls
Speaker 1: are older, I don't have as much artwork coming home,
Speaker 1: but we know when they're little and they're doing their drawings,
Speaker 1: they're bringing things home from daycare, and then then up
Speaker 1: until maybe year two, they do a lot of art.
Speaker 1: So I got a big version of this, and then
Speaker 1: I would label them from like you know, you know,
Speaker 1: the year and how old they were and like in daycare.
Speaker 1: So I think I had daycare twenty and sixteen, twenty
Speaker 1: seventeen and then into kindergarten. Now there's other ways you
Speaker 1: can do this, Like I really loved this because I'm
Speaker 1: keeping the physical. Some people will scan their kids' artwork
Speaker 1: and keep it digitally, and keep it digitally I can't
Speaker 1: say the word, you know what I'm saying. They keep
Speaker 1: it on the computer, all right. Some people like to
Speaker 1: make it into a big collage and put it on
Speaker 1: the wall. And then there's also really cool companies that
Speaker 1: you can make photo books out of it, and you
Speaker 1: can do that yourself using you know, things like chat
Speaker 1: books and things like that where you scan them and
Speaker 1: then you can create them into like a book, and
Speaker 1: it could be a coffee table book. So having it's
Speaker 1: containing things, that's like the thing. It's having a this
Speaker 1: has a place. Now. The thing is I understand that
Speaker 1: with this there is some issues because we get a
Speaker 1: lot of artwork, and look, I love my children more
Speaker 1: than life itself, but I do not love three hundred
Speaker 1: and forty near identical portraits of our dog or a scribble.
Speaker 1: Now that's where you kind of need to come down
Speaker 1: to culling and maybe keeping their best artwork pieces. And
Speaker 1: I know that's hard to be objective with, but you
Speaker 1: need to be making sure that you are like being
Speaker 1: like this. This is how much we can allocate per
Speaker 1: year per child. You can have multiple boxes, but it
Speaker 1: comes down to clutter and then if there's some that
Speaker 1: you're not sure to keep or not, you just scan
Speaker 1: it and keep it in your family Google drive. Is
Speaker 1: where I'm getting at with this. Now, kids, we love you,
Speaker 1: we think you're amazing. You've Picasso, but we can't keep
Speaker 1: all your artwork all the time. Now, moving on to
Speaker 1: this hack single handily saves my life every single day,
Speaker 1: and I'm not being dramatic about that. You know, when
Speaker 1: you walk into a room and then there's multiple items
Speaker 1: that just don't live there, Like you've got the kids toys,
Speaker 1: there's like bits and pieces, there's stuff from other rooms.
Speaker 1: Everything is just kind of gathered around into a space,
Speaker 1: usually the lounge room, all the kitchen, and it doesn't
Speaker 1: live there and you look at it and you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: my goodness. So for me, I knew, just like you
Speaker 1: know when you have to sort the washing. The hardest
Speaker 1: part of that is you having to be like, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is this person's and that has to go there.
Speaker 1: This is this person's that has to go there, and
Speaker 1: then you have to be like, okay, that's the top,
Speaker 1: that's pants. It's multiple micro decisions, and it's the same
Speaker 1: when it comes to clutter that comes in day in
Speaker 1: and day out. And you can have the most organized house,
Speaker 1: but if you have children and people living there, people
Speaker 1: like to bring items and move them around. It's just
Speaker 1: part of life. Now, I knew I had to figure
Speaker 1: this out and I needed to fix this aceap because
Speaker 1: it was actually driving me insane. And I actually found
Speaker 1: now don't shoot me for saying this, I found it
Speaker 1: easy to keep my house clean when the kids were babies,
Speaker 1: and toddlers, and I don't know if it was just
Speaker 1: my girls, but I felt like their mess was a
Speaker 1: bit more contained, like they still made mess, but it
Speaker 1: was like they couldn't actually go and get things out
Speaker 1: all the time themselves. Where now that they're eight and ten,
Speaker 1: this stuff everywhere. Like we've got like twenty barbies that
Speaker 1: look like that they've just been on a bender hanging
Speaker 1: out on the couch. And I have to figure out
Speaker 1: a system to sort this out because there's also my
Speaker 1: stuff too. I'm not going to sit there and pretend.
Speaker 1: I feel like the only person that doesn't have stuff
Speaker 1: everywhere is Ryan. But anyway, so what I did is
Speaker 1: I started the idea called the catch or basket. Now
Speaker 1: this is a basket, which originally I used to have
Speaker 1: it just one and I had this back in our
Speaker 1: old house when the kids were little. It was just
Speaker 1: one basket and I'll pick everything up that doesn't belong
Speaker 1: there and it goes in the basket and then I'd
Speaker 1: put it away. But now there's more people and there's
Speaker 1: more mess happening. Because the kids are older, we all
Speaker 1: get a basket each. So we have a basket and
Speaker 1: it's labeled who it belongs to, and during the day,
Speaker 1: as items arise, I will pick up their items and
Speaker 1: chuck it in whoever's basket it belongs to. So this
Speaker 1: is the catchu or basket or also known as this
Speaker 1: doesn't belong in this room basket. Now, at the end
Speaker 1: of every day, before dinner, the girl's task especially is
Speaker 1: they have to do BBB, which is bedrooms, bathrooms and basket.
Speaker 1: And that just means checking that their bedrooms are clean,
Speaker 1: checking that their bathroom is tidy after they've had showers,
Speaker 1: and look. I still have to remind them, like this
Speaker 1: is not foolproof, but it helps, especially having something like
Speaker 1: alliteration like BBB, It just really helps remember. And then basket,
Speaker 1: which means they go get their basket from the loundroom
Speaker 1: and they put all their stuff back. Now your baskets.
Speaker 1: I do like to try to have one per person
Speaker 1: because if you have a basket, like everyone has multiple baskets,
Speaker 1: that's just more things to think about. So if you
Speaker 1: can just keep one basket in the main area of
Speaker 1: the house where ours is the loundroom, I pop it
Speaker 1: on the little shelf and that's where that lives. Also
Speaker 1: have something called a bench basket in the kitchen because
Speaker 1: again there's just more stuff happening, more stuff that needs
Speaker 1: to go away. So that's another thing that you know,
Speaker 1: Ryan or I will have to put that away at
Speaker 1: the end of the day. But you know everyone has
Speaker 1: they're in charge of your own basket, and that basket
Speaker 1: needs to be back in the lound room empty before dinner.
Speaker 1: Basically that's the rule. Does it always happen, No, But
Speaker 1: it's an intentional thing, and it happens at least if
Speaker 1: it's not daily, it will happen every couple of days.
Speaker 1: And that's fine because sometimes their baskets don't get as
Speaker 1: filled up. Now, the basket isn't necessarily like you need
Speaker 1: to look at the basket not just as storage, but
Speaker 1: it's also like a decision you've already made. It's a
Speaker 1: system because you've already pre sorted it. There's a routine
Speaker 1: in place. The thing about this system too, is and
Speaker 1: all these systems, is that you need to have a
Speaker 1: routine that allows it to continue on. So the catch
Speaker 1: or basket is attached to the PM routine, which is
Speaker 1: to then put it away. But if you have the
Speaker 1: catch or basket and no routine, that just means there's
Speaker 1: a basket sitting there getting filled up every day and
Speaker 1: no one's putting it away, so therefore it's just another
Speaker 1: thing of mess and it will overflow. So you need
Speaker 1: to have routines attached to all of these hacks. And
Speaker 1: just like your organization in general, it's like laundry. You
Speaker 1: can't just like chuck the laundry on and then just
Speaker 1: leave it like. You need to have a routine so
Speaker 1: it actually gets finished, like you got to close the loop.
Speaker 1: And the thing is, at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: we all feel so overwhelmed because we have so many
Speaker 1: open loops going on all the time, and you need
Speaker 1: to ensure that your routine's allowing you to close the loop.
Speaker 1: Because you know, hacks like this are all well and good,
Speaker 1: but unless you're going to have a routine to upkeep it,
Speaker 1: it's not going to get you very far. So that's
Speaker 1: the catch or basket, you know, stop doing forty micro
Speaker 1: trips a day to bedrooms and just batch all of
Speaker 1: the pudding away at once. Moving on to the next hack,
Speaker 1: I'm going to be up to your up to the
Speaker 1: hack number three or something. I don't know anyway, So
Speaker 1: the next hack is caddies for everything. Now, I love caddies,
Speaker 1: probably probably even more than I love baskets. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be honest with you. You know that you know you
Speaker 1: can carry them around. They're compact, they have little dividers
Speaker 1: in them, like they're just a dream really. So for me,
Speaker 1: I first started using caddies to organize my items in
Speaker 1: the house, our first family home, and it was because
Speaker 1: of my skin care. And for me, again, it was
Speaker 1: like that twenty second rule that we talked about before.
Speaker 1: It was the resistance. So I had a skincare routine
Speaker 1: I needed to do at the time, I was breaking out,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I really need to stick to
Speaker 1: this and remember what I'm doing. So I was getting
Speaker 1: sick of like literally opening and closing my drawer where
Speaker 1: my skin care was and trying to see what everything was. Anyway,
Speaker 1: So I was at think Target one day and I
Speaker 1: saw this really cute woven cutlery caddy. So it wasn't
Speaker 1: like a plastic one. It was actually really pretty. I
Speaker 1: still have it now, but I've got a bigger one
Speaker 1: now because I've got more skincare venue using. And I
Speaker 1: grabbed it for my skin care and I literally popped
Speaker 1: it on the I kept it on the bench, kept
Speaker 1: it on the bathroom vanity, and all my skin care
Speaker 1: was in there. And then I never I literally would
Speaker 1: just leave it on the bench so you could like
Speaker 1: what I do now is I actually have multiple caddies
Speaker 1: for my different routines. So I've actually in my bathroom
Speaker 1: drawer right now, i have a caddy for my morning routine,
Speaker 1: and in that caddy, I've got my skin care, but
Speaker 1: I've also got my body moisturizer, I've got my deodorant,
Speaker 1: I've got my contacts, my hair brush and things like that.
Speaker 1: And then i have a PM one so that has
Speaker 1: my skin care again, but it has like you know,
Speaker 1: Mike's folly into my retinols, all those types of things
Speaker 1: that I use certain nights, and I've got you know,
Speaker 1: those little risk things you put on to when you
Speaker 1: wash your face that you don't drip everywhere. I have
Speaker 1: that in there. And then I've even got in my
Speaker 1: bottom drawer in my bathroom, I've got a caddy full.
Speaker 1: And I faked hand once a week, so I literally
Speaker 1: pick up the caddy and it's got the moisturizer, it's
Speaker 1: got my glove, it's got my different tanners. I've got
Speaker 1: like my faced hand in there, and it's all like
Speaker 1: just together. And I also have a caddy for when
Speaker 1: I blow dry my hair, Like I literally have caddies
Speaker 1: for everything, and it's kept my bathroom so much cleaner
Speaker 1: and it's so so good. So you know, you just
Speaker 1: need to like think of a category or a routine
Speaker 1: because originally for me, it can be a bit of
Speaker 1: like you need to kind of play around with this
Speaker 1: a little bit. So I originally had my caddy for
Speaker 1: all my skin care, but then I found I still
Speaker 1: was like reaching in my drawer for my moistroize or
Speaker 1: my deodorant. So then I was like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I want to like separate this into morning and night.
Speaker 1: And that's when like the magic really started to happen
Speaker 1: and the girls, as you guys know, I've had the
Speaker 1: kid's hair caddy for for eight years now and it's
Speaker 1: great because again, you do your kids hair in different
Speaker 1: areas of the house. It could be the kitchen, it
Speaker 1: could be the lound room, and the girls grab it
Speaker 1: and bring it chees and say Mom, can I do it?
Speaker 1: Can you do my hair? Like it's amazing. I use
Speaker 1: these white plastic ones from Amazon, and I love it.
Speaker 1: They're bigger some of the ones you can get that
Speaker 1: you can move them around. I've got a caddy for
Speaker 1: my makeup. Again. The lighting is different at different times
Speaker 1: a day when I to do my makeup, so I'll
Speaker 1: grab my caddy and I'll like go do my makeup
Speaker 1: and it's just so so good. Now the final hack,
Speaker 1: and this is a hack that is going to save
Speaker 1: you a lot of money, and that is to use
Speaker 1: me first shelf in the fridge. Now, in our fridge,
Speaker 1: I was finding for years that you know, someone might open,
Speaker 1: you know, a packet of ham or like a source
Speaker 1: packet that's half opened, and things like that, or like
Speaker 1: you know, your yogurt or your cottage cheese and things
Speaker 1: like that that needed to be used first, but you
Speaker 1: might not see it. And look, you can have the
Speaker 1: most organized fridge ever, but it still happens. So what
Speaker 1: I decided to do was turn one of the shelves
Speaker 1: in the door of the fridge. This is how it
Speaker 1: first started, and I labeled it use me first, so
Speaker 1: everyone in the house knows when they go into the fridge,
Speaker 1: that's where you look first for anything. If you're gonna
Speaker 1: grab any type of food. Still look there, because then
Speaker 1: you know you're not gonna go out and buy it.
Speaker 1: Like especially when we do grocery shopping, we go keep
Speaker 1: buying packets of cheese and we've already got cheese. So
Speaker 1: the rules with this is there's two rules. News stuff
Speaker 1: never goes on this shelf. And before you cook and
Speaker 1: before you open anything new, you look at this shelf.
Speaker 1: Now here are the numbers that I promised on how
Speaker 1: much this hack will save you. Now, oz Harvest did
Speaker 1: a research last year and the average Austrillane household throws
Speaker 1: away over fifteen hundred dollars of food a year. You know,
Speaker 1: as a country, we've bin two and a half million
Speaker 1: tons from our homes and about seventy percent of that
Speaker 1: was food that we could have ate and it got
Speaker 1: thrown away. So this is where I'm saying this hack
Speaker 1: is going to save you money and also fighting with
Speaker 1: people in the house. Now with the use me first
Speaker 1: shelf even you know, either you can make it a
Speaker 1: shelf depending on how big your fridge is, or make
Speaker 1: it a basket like a little clear tub for the fridge.
Speaker 1: I love Little Label Coach. She's got heaps of good
Speaker 1: stuff too, and she her labels are fantastic. I'll give
Speaker 1: you guys a link blow and I'm like, I'll try
Speaker 1: and get you guys a discount code for her as well,
Speaker 1: but I'll find that out and it'll be below if
Speaker 1: I can get one. But the make sure that this
Speaker 1: basket is eye level for everyone in your family. So
Speaker 1: if you've got little kids like you are going to
Speaker 1: grab you know, yoget and put it into a bowl
Speaker 1: or whatever, just make sure everyone can see it, because
Speaker 1: if you put it up high even you will forget
Speaker 1: about it. Have it clearly labeled. Again, you don't need
Speaker 1: to get fancy labels. You can literally use like a
Speaker 1: you know, the whiteboard marker, or get masking tape, use
Speaker 1: a sharpie, whatever you need to do. But you need
Speaker 1: to do a use me first shelf. Now, this is
Speaker 1: the part that you need to really remember, and I
Speaker 1: already kind of touched on it earlier, having the routines
Speaker 1: and the rules that actually upkeep these systems. So here
Speaker 1: are your doable home rules that will help you with that.
Speaker 1: So rule number one is decide once, So make sure
Speaker 1: you set one system, don't try it a few different
Speaker 1: things and don't like, you need to make it really
Speaker 1: really clear. So for again they use me first shelf.
Speaker 1: That is a very clear system. It's not like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know this, guys haven't got a mixture of new things.
Speaker 1: That hasn't got a mixture of old things. Like you
Speaker 1: need to be very very clear and also make sure
Speaker 1: you're communicating that with your family or whoever you're living with.
Speaker 1: Rule number two is one motion. So again talking about
Speaker 1: their twenty second rule thing, if putting something away takes
Speaker 1: more than one movement, it won't happen. Make it super
Speaker 1: super easy. So all these things I've talked about are
Speaker 1: very simple. You know, they're a basket, there're a caddy,
Speaker 1: they're a hook. So there's nothing that's really intricate and
Speaker 1: takes too much time. Rule number three is in sight
Speaker 1: or it doesn't exist. We all know out of sight,
Speaker 1: out of mind, And that is so so true, especially
Speaker 1: for new habits you're trying to start, Like I know,
Speaker 1: for me, for example, talking about the skincare thing, again,
Speaker 1: i'd have skincare in that draw and because I didn't
Speaker 1: have it in a caddy that I could pull out
Speaker 1: and see properly, I would buy things that I would
Speaker 1: forget to use, and that's just such a waste of
Speaker 1: money and time as well. So make sure, like especially
Speaker 1: using clear tubs. I have started using washing baskets that
Speaker 1: are open so I can the more now and it
Speaker 1: really does make a difference on me actually folding stuff. Now.
Speaker 1: I know I've just given you a lot of tips
Speaker 1: and hacks, but your homework for today is to pick
Speaker 1: one thing. It could be one zone or one pressure
Speaker 1: point that just annoys you every single day. Go home
Speaker 1: and see if there's a random basket you can use,
Speaker 1: Like go home and label a shelf to use me
Speaker 1: first shelf. So just pick one thing that you think
Speaker 1: that would really benefit you and try that system out
Speaker 1: for the whole family. And please make sure you shop
Speaker 1: your home first, Like, don't go out and buy all
Speaker 1: these things when you have it at home, because most
Speaker 1: of the time you will already have a lot of
Speaker 1: these things. Anyways, I will be doing more installments of
Speaker 1: this series like home hacks or whatever I'm going to
Speaker 1: call it, I don't even know yet, and I will
Speaker 1: start focusing on more areas of the house and actually
Speaker 1: teach you guys how to like organize it as well.
Speaker 1: Or Steff it if you guys remember stepping anyways, I
Speaker 1: love you guys. I'll be back in your ears next
Speaker 1: Monday and i'll see then. Bye.