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hey guys welcome back to my channel and
welcome to episode
number five of our basement makeover
series i am so excited for today i feel
like we're finishing up a lot of
different projects
i also want to say a big thank you to
kiwiko for sponsoring today's video but
i will be sharing a little bit more
about them later on the video
but we have a ton to get done down here
so the first thing that we have to do is
just of course
tidy everything up i need to go to the
boys rooms the main area down here and
just clean everything up so we have a
nice clean space to start with
and then we are going to be adding
something onto this wall
i am so excited to share what it is and
just how it will turn out
i also have our hall closet down here
which is
kind of like a monika's closet if you
guys watch friends you know exactly what
i'm talking about it is a complete mess
so we are going to tackle that and just
make that closet some really useful
storage space for us
i also have an item that just came in in
luke's room if you saw episode number
four where we tackled luke's room
and decorated that space one of the
items was missing and so that came in so
we'll be adding that in today and then
we will also be making up kind of like a
homeschool station for the boys
they are not actually homeschooling but
they are doing online school this year
and so i really want to make sure that
i'm setting them up for success this
year because it will be
a little bit of a challenge just doing
something different so like i said we do
have a ton
to share today we have a ton to get done
so let's go ahead and jump on into it
so before i got into decorating our
homeschool station i wanted to tidy
everything up downstairs
and of course it does get messy but
honestly since doing the past several
makeovers down here i have found that i
can typically tidy up the rooms in just
a few minutes each
now as time goes on and we accumulate
more things i know that this will be
something that i have to declutter and
keep up with of course
but it has just seriously made the
biggest difference having
organization systems in place down here
it's actually made me
really excited to head back upstairs
again in the coming months
and start decluttering the spaces up
there and just kind of reassess the
organization systems that i have as well
to see if there are some areas that i
can change up to work better for us
and i've also said this several times
but organizing and decluttering is just
one of those ongoing projects that
it just kind of needs to be done over
and over again as life happens
so definitely keep that in mind but it
is always so worth it just to put in
that extra time and effort to reassess
those areas that used to work for you
that may not anymore
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me feel so good i feel so good right now
you make me feel
so good
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so i had told luke yesterday to bring
his laundry down
and put it away and he must have gotten
sidetracked i'm sure
because his laundry is sitting here and
not put away so
i'm actually gonna call him down and
have me help have him
help me put this away and then move on
to noah's room but i'm gonna turn you
guys around and show you the sticker
that came up for luke's wall that we're
gonna put
like on this wall right here it did come
a little bit damaged
it just took way too long with shipping
and everything and so it got kind of
bent in the middle i'm not sure if i'm
going to be able to make it work
or if we'll have to order like a
replacement one we'll see but we are
going to try to put it up on the wall
because it is here and then we'll kind
of go from there but i'm going to show
you guys what it looks like it just
looks
super cool so you can kind of see on the
back side like how
wrinkled it is and bent it just had
gotten completely bent in the tube
but this is what it looks like and so it
kind of
looks like it's actually coming out of
the wall i don't know if you can kind of
tell right there you probably can but
anyway it's his favorite car the same
car that we did in his whole room which
is the
bugatti chiron and it's really really
like you can see how it is on a big bed
and that's gonna end up going
right there that's one thing that we're
gonna put up today a little bit later on
but i'm gonna grab luke really quick to
help me get this done because he totally
forgot
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so one thing that i get asked about all
the time is what ages we started our
boys with doing chores
and helping with laundry so we have
always kind of tried to include them in
the basic upkeep for our house
ever since they were toddlers so nothing
serious but just things like clearing
their plate helping it tidy up their
toys
and helping me as i would unload the
dishwasher or the laundry
and as they got older and able to start
helping more or taking on more
responsibilities
we have given them chores like they all
unload the dishwasher daily they feed
our pets
most days they're responsible for their
bedroom and then as far as laundry goes
both liam and luke will put away their
own laundry all the time and then with
noah he will either get help from one of
his brothers or myself
and that's typically how we do things in
our home but one thing that i think has
benefited us so much was there wasn't
really
one day that we just decided to start
including them since they have been
little they have always been a part of
it
even if they didn't really do much when
they were really young they were always
with me and just included
in the process so it was just kind of a
natural process for them to start
pitching in a little bit more and more
as
time has
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when we're gone off like helium
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set me up like lemonade so this is a lot
of the stuff for like their home school
station
so i am going to be keeping this down
here but i'm just going to kind of move
it out of the way so that i can vacuum
all over everywhere and there's felix
getting into stuff
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all right everything is all nice and
picked up now i just have to run our
vacuum over the floor really quick and
i'm actually going to use my dyson today
i usually don't use that one very much
but i just want to do a really quick
pick up
and i don't want to spend a ton of time
down here and i did just recently vacuum
so that's why i'm gonna use that one but
usually i do use my shark vacuum but we
have so much to do we are just gonna go
for the quick crowd today
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okay so everything is all nice and clean
but while everything is clean and before
i get into other stuff because i know a
lot of the rest of the day i'm going to
be
just focusing on doing some projects
down here i really wanted to spend some
time with the kids
and this gave us a good opportunity to
do our kiwico boxes i am super excited
this is the first time that we've
actually done them hands-on but i'm very
familiar with them all the kids are
coming down now because they heard we
were doing them now so
i'm super excited to try them out and
just share them with you guys are you
guys ready to do kiwico
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so like i said this is our first time
trying out the kiwico crates
and it was so much fun both for our boys
and it was also really neat for us
just watching them put everything
together and seeing their minds work
as they went through each step so kiwico
is really really neat because they have
eight different lines
to choose from depending on your age and
interest so for
our boys we ordered the koala crate for
noah and the kiwi crate for liam and
then the tinker crate for luke but it
was really neat because i felt like all
the different crates were at the perfect
level for our boys
and also everything you need for each
project was right inside the box so we
didn't have to be running around the
house looking for glue or tape or just
any extra materials
every single thing that we needed was
already in there so i felt like that was
just super nice
and another thing that i love about kiwi
co is that they create really neat
hands-on projects and toys
that include science technology
engineering art and math
but in a super fun way so while they're
creating whatever's inside their crate
they are having fun and learning at the
same time which i always feel the best
way to learn is when you don't even
realize that you're learning just
because you're having so much fun with
it and i feel like this is going to be
especially perfect for so many of us who
are either doing
online school this year or a hybrid
school schedule where our kids
are just getting less opportunities for
hands-on experiences it's something that
can really help us with cutting down on
screen time and just entertain them in a
better way
so kiwico has different options on their
website they offer monthly subscriptions
where you can have a box delivered
monthly or
you can also head to the kiwico store
and order single projects whenever you
want
and just like the crates the single
projects are for all different ages and
they also have different price points
which is super nice to be able to find
something that fits into everyone's
budget
also because you'll know i love finding
good deals i'm really happy to share
that if you use my link
you can save 20 off of everything on
their website
so that includes every single thing in
the kiwico store
and also all their subscriptions so to
get that amazing discount just go to
kiwico.com slash this crazy life and i
will also have that in the description
box for you guys just to make it a
little bit easier but let me know in the
comments if you guys have ever tried
kiwiko before
and also what your favorite thing about
the crates are
let's see him rainbow wow this one is
cool i know look at the other one
then eventually you push him just a
little bit then you move it and it eats
them all up
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so that was so much fun i feel like the
boys had a blast
we were definitely gonna be getting more
kiwi clothes in the future but
now that we are all done with that and
the kids have had like just some really
fun
time together as a family i'm going to
go ahead and get started on the rest of
my to-do list so
i think the first thing that i'm going
to do is actually go ahead and make the
little homeschool station just because
that is a really high priority
and then once that is done we're going
to finish like decorating
like this wall right here and then also
tackling
that monica's closet that i mentioned
earlier that one's gonna be a chore so
i'm not sure if i'll save that for last
or try to get out of the way early but
next we are going to do at the
homeschool station
you take my life for granted
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all right i have just laid everything
out on the table i feel like we do have
a lot of stuff
but i do kind of like to stock up a
little bit
when you can go to stores right now and
everything is on a good deal because of
back to school
on things that i know we'll be able to
use like markers colored pencils
notebooks things like that and so i do
tend to get what we need
and then a few extra just to last
throughout the year and if we do end up
having extra i am able to donate to
the schools we've done that in the past
too so that's kind of why we have a good
bit
but i'm also just going into uncharted
territory of doing this at home and so
i'm not really sure what we're going to
need and so i'd
rather be a little bit more prepared and
go from there but the thing that i'm
going to be using the most to make a
little homeschool station
is this little three-tiered rolling cart
i'll link it down below but
i found it on sale and it is just i
think it's going to be really really
useful and it's also pretty compact so
it's not going to have to take up a ton
of room
and turn you guys around and kind of
show you and then we'll get that put
together this is what it looks
like so it's just like really functional
it does have wheels on the bottom so you
can roll it to different places
but then it has these three different
sections and they do have like a tall
lip so that you can fit
things inside as you can see so anyway
let's go ahead and get to building this
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thing
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getting closer to just being nothing
else
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from a different place
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this was like the easiest thing to build
ever
ever it was so easy and then i had just
gotten these
organizers from the container store as
well which is where i got this from
and this little pen holder just to like
keep things really nice and organized
i'm not sure exactly how to set it up
but
there it is time to organize this baby
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so that took no time at all to put
everything together i did kind of
organize
things like this is liam stack and then
this is luke stack
those things are actually going to be
going in their bedrooms which is where
they have their desk which is where
they're going to be
doing most of their school and then i do
have kind of like a centralized
station right here so i'm going to turn
you guys around kind of show you what i
got
so right here we just have some
different pencils and then right in here
where i have these little organizers i
have some glue
glue sticks tape some of these white
erasers they actually work so much
better than the pink erasers and then
some pencil topper erasers as well i
also just have some
watercolors markers a few paints these
are mostly for noaa
and then a stapler some different
markers and colored pencils and i just
realized i must have forgotten crayons
so i'll have to go back and grab those
and then on the second tier i actually
have noah's little workbooks just
because he won't be doing
actual school he'll be kind of doing
like a more homeschool type stuff with
me and so
i just have some workbooks since he
doesn't have an actual desk in his
bedroom
and then here we have some construction
paper and then down in here this is what
i was talking about like
getting a bit of extra so i got five
extra notebooks in case if anyone needs
extra notebooks
i also got a pencil sharpener and then i
did get a hole punch a three hole punch
so i think that this should honestly
cover us for
like most of the year if not all of
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my time it i waste my time
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i don't want to tell you i know if you
care
repeating my mind rolling around stuck
in your bed
burning temptation
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try not to think about it
try not to think about it but baby
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all right next on our list we are going
to
tackle this big wall right here so on
etsy i went on and ordered it's called a
wooden travel map
i will link down below the one we got
you can get like different sizes
different colors
but i just thought this was something so
unique to have in this space and
something that is like
still very neutral but
just something i'll just show you guys
you guys will see it it's super super
cool
so this is the box that it came in
and then inside it's all really nicely
wrapped
and then this is just like an example of
what it's going to look like everything
is kind of like different colors you can
get it all the same color all different
colors
and then this one also i hope you can
see that it kind of has like some
raised texture sometimes so it's super
cool and then they also gave
like there's a little hole in the middle
where you can put
i think it's a paper airplane to the
places that you've been to so
let's go ahead and get this
put up on that wall
this was such a big project but it
turned out so well i am so excited to
show you guys
but i'm also going to be including some
outtakes of kyle and i at the very very
end of this video
so if you are in need of a good laugh
stay tuned for that
but no judgment this was all totally
worth it
but it made for such a long day so
definitely stay tuned for that it was
just making me crack up as i was editing
this video so i definitely wanted to
include that for you
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my guys
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we don't have to move so fast baby i
will show you
how you can catch my vibe we got so much
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my favorite things
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i almost put australia on upside down
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so that took so much longer than i was
anticipating it if i would have thought
about it i would have realized it's
probably going to take a couple hours to
do this
but it looks so cool
i love like the different heights and
different textures and like all the
different colors
i just feel like this is exactly what we
had in mind when we kind of like
were trying to design the space down
here and
it just could not have turned out better
so i'm going to show you guys like a
view first i'm gonna have to clean up
this mess down here but
this is just like the cool thing and it
also comes in different sizes
i think we got the extra large they have
an even bigger one and then they have
lots of
they had an even bigger one and then
they also had some like several
different smaller ones as well so
i love love how it turned out they also
come with these cute little push pins
they are like little paper airplanes
and you can put them up on the map just
wherever you visited so you can kind of
see like the little holes
that they can go into so kyle and i have
both never been outside the us so
i think we're gonna wait until we go
outside of the us to poke
to put these little guys in but that
will just be cool to like hopefully one
day fill up
obviously not everywhere but a lot of
places that will be really neat
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remedy
next we started putting up the big wall
sticker that had finally arrived in
luke's bedroom
and i just gotten this off of etsy so
i'll link it down below but i think it
just ended up adding
so much to his face
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so it's not perfect but
it does look pretty cool so we're going
to bring luke down and show him see what
he's saying
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all right luke you ready oh
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my i love that you love it isn't that
cool
that looks so cool it totally looks like
it's coming out of the wall
yeah look at like it's like coming out
yeah that's so
cool wall is cool that is cool huh
it looks literally a wall it's literally
a wall
that's pretty cool what kind of car is
that
um a blue god a bugatti
all right so we got the homeschool
station done
we got the big world map put on our main
wall or one of the main walls and living
room down here we got
luke's poster put on his wall and last
we are going to tackle
my monika's closet so get ready
yikes so in here we have some decor
we have like you can see how dusty this
is and so i need to go through i need to
declutter a bunch
toss out some things maybe if they're
broken or we don't need them anymore
and then decide if we're going to put
some things in our shed
or what we'll be doing with them but we
really want to clear the space out so we
can really utilize it well
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i ain't gonna lose
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so i pulled everything out of this not
shed
but the hall closet down here is kind of
like a shed and i just have it sprawled
across the floor right here
and i'm about to go through and start
decluttering everything and i'm just
realizing
the last time that i decluttered in our
basement like a really big declutter
was when it was literally studs like i
think kyle had put up
a few boards here and there it was back
when liam and luke's room was completely
packed
full of everything that we had just
moved into this house we'd ended up
using a lot of it
and so we donated a ton of it but that
was the very last time
that i like really did a big declutter
down here so it's kind of surreal and
kind of funny and crazy to be
decluttering now that everything like
this walls and everything's done it's
just
i don't know it's just like so crazy to
me but enough talking it is time
to tackle all this and decide what we
are keeping and moving out to the shed
or putting in our house or what we are
going to
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donate
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so i wanted to take just a second to let
you guys know about my fall decorating
since i have been starting to get a lot
of questions about if
and when i will be sharing a fall
decorating video and i
absolutely will be sharing a fall
decorating video this year just like
every other year
and it's actually going to be coming out
next week i cannot wait to share that
with y'all i have just been
so busy with our basement makeover
series that i feel like fall has come up
way too quickly for us this year
and so i definitely feel like i'm a
little bit behind but it's better late
than never so that will be coming very
very soon so definitely stay tuned for
that
also i would love to hear how you guys
are planning to decorate
this year if you do decorate for fall as
well are you going to be going more
traditional or a little bit more neutral
or some different colors just let me
know in the comments i always love
hearing how you guys do things as well
and i cannot wait to share how i will be
decorating this year
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all right all of these are things that
we are going to be getting rid of
i have to wash this before we donate
that
these are things that just some decor
items that we're still keeping
and we're just going to put out in the
shed because they are seasonal
these are things that we will be keeping
to like i might use this for a makeover
um this one might be for makeover this
is like an air mattress we have some
picture frames
right here these are going to obviously
just go out to the shed because
i will be having some seasonal decor to
put in there
and then this is a lot of 31 stuff
because i used to sell
31 years ago and i'm just going to be
donating this to
people that live around us like in our
neighborhood and just seeing if they can
use this it just needs to be wiped down
and then i'll be able to share that with
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them
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this time i know it for sure
i should let you know
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know
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down
this time i know it for sure
so i hope that you enjoyed this video
and all the little projects that we did
in our basement today
i love how everything turned out
especially the map wall i feel like that
is just so cool
but i hope it gave you tons of cleaning
motivation and also lots of inspiration
for your own home
and don't forget to go check out kiwico
i will leave that link down below so you
can take advantage of the 20
off everything sale and remember to stay
tuned for the bloopers here in just a
minute
but i hope you guys have the best day
don't forget to subscribe to below if
you are not already
and join the family and i will see you
in the next one bye guys
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you know i could do this you
built furniture wrong three times in a
row
i actually built the screws upside down
on that cart
but i found it no hey
no no no no this is sweden and finland
you think it's down here
oh i don't know where any of it is
norway sweden and finland what comes to
your mind
europe snow really
wow they're very cold countries because
they're very
north over here oh all right
the alps have you ever heard of the
swiss alps that go through saudi arabia
no you haven't well this is why we need
a map so that i can learn these things
here look it's easy
what are you doing to chiaro stop it do
you know what that city's really called
charo it's cairo egypt
do you know what i did
do you know what i did what are the
pyramids are wow really
yes i would not have guessed that
i thought that would be like a rome city
all right just come back i just want to
ask something
real quick okay what country is roman
italy no it's in rome it's just its own
country
right
do you know what i did during geometry
because i wrote notes to you
