Hi I'm Rachel the Messy Minimalist,
welcome to my channel. Today I'm gonna
introduce you to the clutter free
Christmas challenge.
Now, the clutter free Christmas challenge is something new that I'm doing this year and I am really
excited about it because it is a super
simple way to get rid of a ton of things
before Christmas. The way the clutter
free Christmas challenge works is you
get rid of ten items a day. Ten items
might sound like a lot to get rid of or
it might sound like a little -- I guess it
just depends on how much stuff you have
but I break it down in a very simple way
to make it easy and fun to get rid of
these items. Sounds pretty simple, right?
Easy peasy - ten items. I got this!
Our challenge is gonna be two weeks long but
you guys can do it a little bit less or
a little bit more, it really just depends
on how much stuff you want to get rid of.
This is how the challenge works:
every single day you're gonna get rid of ten
different items, ONE item from each of
these categories:
jewelry or accessories
clothes
personal hygiene or makeup
knickknacks
actual trash
...like you probably have an actual wad of tissue
somewhere sitting on the floor at your
house -- yeah, that's actual trash that's
one of the items
a kitchen item
a useless item
something annoying
(why do we have things in our house that are annoying? This is kind of a silly thing, but this is real
I am willing to bet that
you have something in your house
that you look at, where just like,
"that's just annoying."
You know what? Let's get rid of it!
9. Something homeless
As in, it just kind of floats around your house you don't
actually know where it belongs...
That's a homeless item.
10. Something that's a "fantasy you" item.
And again for
anybody who's unfamiliar with a "fantasy you"
or a "fantasy self" this is the kind
of thing that is, sort of what you wish
you were, but you aren't really. You know,
it's like clothes that you imagine
yourself wearing but never wear. It is a
craft that you always think you're gonna
get into, but you don't. I will link in my
description to my "fantasy self video"
It helps explain it a little bit better.
The Clutter Free Christmas challenge:
this is something that I decided to put together, just because I'm kind of always
looking for interesting ways to help me
re-energize my decluttering and purging
of useless stuff, but at the same time I
found that I'm not really disciplined
enough to do the 30-day minimalism
challenge that the minimalists put out,
and I know a lot of you guys and gals
are great at doing that challenge and
you've made really good progress with
that. (clapping) Yay everybody who is disciplined
enough to do it.
I'm just not. My problem is is that I'll
go through and on like day one I'm
getting rid of 20 things and then on day
2, I'm like, "oh... :( " ...By the time that I get to
day 7 I have two items and then day 9
I've got 30 items! It kind of makes you
wonder if that's just how life is...?
Like I just can't play by the rules?! I'm not
really sure! So this video is really just
to introduce the challenge I am gonna
show you my first round of items that I
got rid of and then after that I'll do a
couple days lumped together so that way
you can kind of see the progress as we
go but one thing that I would love to
hear from you about, is what your items
are after you do the challenge. So throw
your 10 items in the comments below
you'll see I've got a pinned comment
where you can copy and paste to show
each category.
Super simple to do,
and I just want to know about what kind of
stuff you guys are getting rid of,
so stay tuned for my 10 items for
today and I hope that you will all join
me this Christmas for the clutter free
Christmas challenge and get rid of a
bunch of stuff that you don't need!
Thanks and I will see you guys along the way.
 
Hey, good evening. So it is about 10:30 at
night and I am working on day one of my
clutter free Christmas challenge. It
really didn't take too long I think
that's kind of the exciting thing about
this is that this is not a hard thing to
do this is a way for us to - depending on
how many days we do this - 10 items a day
do it for seven days that's 70 items! You
do this for 10 days, that's 100 items!
Do it for 30 days that's 300 items!
I know, we're mathematicians here, this is
like amazing! So let me walk you guys
through the items that I found for day
one
this postcard has been floating around
for two years, it's just something that
doesn't have a home so I'm gonna finally
get rid of this I'm getting rid of this.
I'm getting rid of these silky orange pajama pants
I don't really
like how they feel they're actually
always very staticky and not comfortable
to sleep in.
a Vera Wang dangly necklace
it's been tangled for gosh knows how
long and I don't wear it.
For the category "something annoying" I'm getting
rid of these broken kids toys.
For the "fantasy self" item I'm getting rid of
some sweet dreams bedtime wishes cards
there are little cards that have quotes
and inspirational sayings and I thought
that I would read them before bed but I
never have done that
so these things are going.
For the knick-knack, I'm getting rid of this
metal doorstop. All we really do these
days is stub our toe on it.
For "personal hygiene" - I am getting rid of
this Coppertone baby sunscreen, it is
watery and it's not something that we
use anymore.
For the category "actual trash", I'm getting rid of this used band-aid. >_<
For the kitchen category I'm getting rid of this old oven mitt.
All right, thank you guys for watching!
This was your introduction to the clutter
free Christmas challenge
and I'm gonna be doing this 
every night for two more weeks
hopefully this is enough of an
introduction so you guys can follow
along and do it with me. I'm also going
to be doing a couple Instagram giveaways
during the clutter free Christmas
challenge -- and don't worry it's not going
to be a bunch of junk -- it is gonna be:
GIFT CARDS! So you guys can purchase
meaningful gifts for your family,
if that's your thing.
One of my giveaways, in fact, the first
giveaway that I'm gonna have will
actually include a little handwritten
postcard in addition to the gift card, so
definitely head on over to my Instagram
page and follow
there (@messy.minimalist) and I'll see you guys later!
