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All right.
You guys wanted a video
on my cupboards and drawers.
How do I know this?
Do you want a video
or Instagram stories of insides
of my closets and drawers?
Is-- Would you rather see
in a YouTube video
or Instagram stories?
I had a really hard
time filming this.
It was like just me,
and without my kids.
It was just...
Well, I felt like I was naked.
Yeah, that's not a fun feeling.
I've always been organized,
but I started doing
the KonMari method
when she came out with the book.
It was a long time ago.
It seems to be revamping now
that it's January,
but I swear,
I did it like two
or three years ago.
Because when I
started going through
my cupboards and drawers,
what I found was I actually had
to start making decisions
about my life because of
the things I was finding.
And what I found was,
as I was cleaning out
my cupboards and drawers,
my channel started
exploding on YouTube,
and I do not think
that's a coincidence.
I don't think it's an accident.
I really believe
that when you clear out
your cupboards and drawers
that you are actually putting
your life together?
And when you have
your life put together,
good things happen.
So that's my two cents about it.
You can believe it
if you want or not.
What's inside
cupboard number one?
All right.
So in front
of the first cupboard,
we have four bowls.
That's right.
When you are a minimalist,
you have to reuse, recycle.
This works as a cup.
You can put hot chocolate in it.
We do soup,
and we don't eat on plates.
Just kidding, you guys.
I'm actually not that extreme.
So what is actually
in the cupboard is
everything that we need.
We have eight people
in the house,
so we've got eight cups.
We've got several bowls,
plates, and then,
when visitors come,
this is my overstock.
This cupboard is
probably my messiest,
because I haven't figured
out the best way
for my prescriptions.
I just remember to take them
when they're right
in this cupboard.
I'm taking a--
This is for cold sores.
I will tell you why this is here
in a minute, but...
So a couple bowls.
I have one flower vase.
This holds fruit
and some medication.
The reason I put
the oil there is
because I didn't measure very
well when I did these drawers.
This is my baking drawer,
and it's just a little
too shallow for my oil.
I can keep my spray in here,
but the oil is just
a little too tall.
We go through it so fast
that I like to get the big one,
so I haven't figured out
what I like to do
there with that.
This is the baking drawer,
and I have everything labeled.
Raisins, sugar,
chocolate, brown sugar.
This should go over there.
Measuring cups, and I
have my measuring spoons.
Extracts, baking items
like salt and baking soda.
And then under here,
I have my mixing bowls.
This is probably messier than
what you would think
for a minimalist,
but I'm okay with it.
Like for knives,
I don't think I need
a hundred knives.
I have this one is
a vintage knife of my mother's,
and it's still the nicest
knife that I have.
But like a butcher knife,
and a knife
for cutting bread.
A smaller one for
cutting fruits and vegetables.
In this drawer,
I think a lot of people can
really get rid of a lot of stuff
that they have.
Hot pads.
This one, Shari
made me this,
and so I keep it in here.
And then, just
a couple hot pads.
That's it.
This is what I keep in here.
I don't keep food in here.
I just hurried and pulled
them out of the fridge,
so you can see where they live
when they're not in use.
Okay, so I don't normally
keep ham in my cupboard,
or refried beans.
And I have three sizes,
so the small size,
then there's a medium one.
It's being used outside
in the garage right now
in the garage fridge,
and I don't want to go get it.
And this is the large one.
I have--
So I have two that stack,
two that stack,
and then two that stack.
I just have six.
Personally, I don't think that's
a lot for any size family.
But especially for
a large family,
I don't think that's a lot.
And what that does is
it forces me to constantly
have fresh food on hand.
It's kind of a visual reminder.
Like hey, you got
stuff in the fridge.
Gotta clean out.
These--
No, I don't think
everyone needs this.
This is an egg container, where,
like if you do
deviled eggs a lot,
and we do deviled
eggs quite often,
so for us, it's very useful.
This shelf down
here is just proof
that I love my husband,
and that everyone
has to like give
and take in order to make
a happy household.
My husband is really into
protein powders, supplements,
and vitamins supplements,
and he's just...
He's like, I don't know,
kind of overboard with it.
I'm sorry, Kevin.
That's not what I meant.
You're not overboard with it.
I totally support you.
I just don't understand it.
So maybe I need to like go
to see a nutritionist with you,
so that I understand,
and I can better support you.
That's kind of
his trade down there,
and I can also fit some,
like hot chocolate in there.
And my cereal fits
like on the edges.
Underneath my sink,
it kind of looks like a lot.
It kind of looks crowded,
but it not only has
what I need,
but also has my backup supply.
So I have Dawn dish soap.
This is what I like to use.
And back here, I have extras.
Because there's nothing
worse than running out.
So everything that I
clean the kitchen with,
I can just pull
this basket out,
everything is there,
and it stays super
clean and nice.
I just can take a little rag
every now and then,
and wipe it.
I love seeing the bottoms
of cupboards being really fresh.
Now, I'm on to the spice drawer
or the spice cupboard,
and I like to see
all of my spices
as I open the door.
Down here, I have
what I use every day.
Butter, salt and pepper,
and my sugar bowl.
And then, this has
everything labeled.
These are all the spices
that I use on a regular basis.
This is the grilling spices
with a few essential oils.
If you guys want to know what
the best grilling spice is,
you guys, this is
a wet marinade,
and it is so good.
They have so many
to choose from.
It's Reggae Spice,
and I will leave them
in the description box,
because they are amazing.
Packets that I use.
Taco packets,
and gravy packets,
and then my muffin.
I like to use these.
I actually don't know
what's above my fridge.
Oh.
Spark joy.
I got this cookie jar.
When I got married,
my mom gave it to me.
My mom gave me this too.
This is my grandma's.
These are a couple
of sentimental plates.
That was Kevin's
when he was a little boy.
And that was mine
when I was a little girl.
My mom colored that.
I remember watching
her with markers.
Every house has a junk drawer,
and this was the hardest
for me to get over and to fix.
But you know what,
I found if I organized
my garage with my...
Tools!
If I can organize my tools
in my garage,
and if I could properly
organize my purse,
I did not need
a junk drawer any longer.
So here's my junk drawer now.
I have it very simple.
I love this.
I got this
at TheContainerStore.com,
and you can just
make it so it fits.
And this is my washcloth drawer.
As you can see,
my towels that I used
to dry go right here,
and they are being washed.
These decorative things
that I got at Crate & Barrel,
which I love Crate & Barrel
for their towels
I keep right here.
And I use this to dry
whenever we use the sink.
And then the last drawer
has bread baking tins.
These are my mom's.
Cake, and we like to make
lemonade in the summer.
Can I just tell you
how I have to stay
off of Instagram
when I see these walk-in
bedroom pantries that I'm
like drooling out my mouth?
I'm like, oh, I need that.
I've got 8 people in my family,
and then I'm like no,
I am grateful for what I have.
I do not need a walk-in pantry.
I will make use of what I have.
So...
We have our baking
items up here,
and I like that they're
see-through, so I can see
that I am running out of rice.
Yeah, pretty
self-explanatory right here.
Cooking items.
I have found
that if you have really
cute kitchen stuff,
you tend to cook more.
Make sure you love what
you're cooking with.
Waffle iron.
And then, this is,
the kids like
to make sandwiches.
Can you believe I'm calling
myself a minimalist,
and I have four jars
of opened peanut butter?
Something not right about that.
I hope you're not bored.
I love this kind of stuff.
So I fully expect the other moms
are gonna love this.
If you're here for Chad,
you might be disappointed.
But don't leave forever,
come back because I won't do
videos like this all the time.
This is just a once
a January kind of thing.
I have four daughters,
and all four girls
share this bathroom.
I love this bathroom.
Everyone asks where I got
the shower curtain from,
I got it from Anthropologie.
Okay.
So here's how we make
it work with four girls.
So first, my sister
sell this acrylic case.
It's from Bollie brand.
They are a lifesaver.
I absolutely love them.
This one is Julie's.
This is the hair elastics.
This is what they use to fix
their hair with in the mornings.
I know this isn't minimal.
What we ran into were
the girls were feeling
like they didn't have
a sense of ownership.
And so, when one
of the girls was like,
I really want my own brush.
I don't want
to use Abby's brush.
That's Julie's brush.
A brush is small,
it's a little thing.
If having your very own brush
brings you a sense of ownership,
each of you can have
your own brush,
even though it's not neat.
And then each of the girls
has their own drawer,
where they keep
their toothbrush,
deodorant, and flossers.
So they've got
their cleaning supplies.
She uses the--
Shari uses this
to clean her hedgehog
with when she gives
the hedgehog a bath.
This closet serves
many purposes.
This is all of our medication.
It's up high
so Eve can't get to it.
In this, we have
feminine hygiene products
that the girls use, and then,
we've got our cotton balls,
Q-tips, hair scrunchies.
Can we say
Cute Girls Hairstyles?
Thank you for supplying us
with the cutest hair scrunchies.
This here's another
Bollie Brand case.
They keep like their brushes,
and curling irons,
and flat irons, and another.
And then this is
just extra stuff.
If they run out of soap,
or run out of lotion,
they've got a little basket
of backups right there.
And then this is
our art supplies.
So we've got paper.
Supplies, math, math
stuff, and brushes.
So...
Okay, now we are in my bathroom.
My bathroom, I like
to keep fresh and clean.
This has every bottle
of beauty serum,
or whatever I need.
So I've got my dry shampoo,
my fingernail polish remover.
I like to watch my lips
with Witch Hazel.
If I find a hair product I like,
I have to get rid
of something in here.
Because if it doesn't fit
in the box, I do not use it.
I found these command hooks
have been a great solution
to my cord problem.
And then the chords are
up and out of the way.
In this cupboard is my,
where I like to have cleaning
supplies readily handy.
These are my
backups for deodorant.
We have hard water here,
and so I like
to have Lime A-way.
It's great for calcium buildup.
This drawer is mine.
I have my morning routine here,
and then my
evening routine here.
Kevin's drawer, and he
has his shaving kit,
and his cologne.
This is the probably the junkiest
drawer in the entire house.
Because I like to wax
my kids eyebrows.
If you haven't seen
my waxing videos,
maybe you should.
But um, this is all
my waxing kit stuff.
This is not a Bollie case.
It's about twice the size
of the Bollie case.
If I had known Bonnie
and Ellie were going
to do a makeup case,
I would have bought from them.
But I bought this like two years
before they actually started
their Bollie company.
I kind of feel like a traitor
showing you this,
but it does hold my makeup,
and I am a minimalist
when it comes to all makeup,
but lips.
I own one eyeshadow palette,
one cheek, just very
minimal, except lipstick.
I own a lot of lipsticks.
I'm always experimenting.
And then, you know...
If you guys have never seen
our house before,
we did remodeling project
like a year and a half ago,
and I kind of go through what
it looked like before and after.
And so,
if you want to kind of
see the house better,
you can see that.
Chad's bathroom.
He kind of left it
a bit of a mess.
This is drawer with all
of his essentials.
Russell's drawer is over here.
For...
For his age,
I think he's doing just
fine keeping it up.
I like to keep extras on hand.
I hate running out of stuff.
Like I hate running
out of stuff,
but then I run into,
but I also don't like to have
a lot of stuff in my house.
So, but I did find room
in the boys bathroom to hold
some of the extra stuff.
So we've got our year
supply of toothpaste.
We've got our year
supply of deodorant.
And then, in here,
I have a year supply
of dental floss.
And Chad keeps this really--
He does keep a clean room.
We cut back on using chemicals,
because you have to store
the chemical somewhere,
and I have found
that if we just have
a really good supply
of microfiber cloths,
that the kids will
actually use them.
So when they get done brushing
their teeth, they usually will
dry up their sink with this,
and then it leaves
us a little damp,
and then they wipe the floor
and the toilet with it,
and then they throw
it in the hamper.
And they do that every day,
and it's actually really helped
keep the bathrooms clean,
just using water
and these microfiber cloths.
I had a hard time
switching over to
the disposable toilet cleaners,
just because it
feels so wasteful.
But it just,
it just works for our family.
They use it.
They use it,
and they dispose of it,
and it's great.
Our toilets have
stayed really clean.
Do you guys want one more room?
So here I have ironing,
laundry bags, and then
this is our supply of soap.
I love this cabinet.
The first drawer,
this is like
if someone spills something,
or if there's a huge mess,
and we need extra towels.
This is for the pets.
We don't really use
them much anymore.
And these are our beach towels.
I love these beach towels.
I got them on Amazon.
They fold up super small.
3, 6, 9 beach towels
in this small of a space.
Lay them out,
and within 10 minutes
in the sun,
they're totally dry and hot,
which is really fun
for the kids to curl
up in a hot towel.
Okay, in this cupboard,
we have supplies
a paper towels.
Supplies.
I like to keep this here
because my Aunt Julie
gave it to me,
and it has no practical purpose
other than it brings me joy
when I see it.
And I remember when she
spent a weekend with me,
and it makes me happy,
and it makes me smile.
So I like to keep
it right there.
And then in this cupboard,
I haven't decided
if I want to do the OxiClean
inside these glass jars.
That's what I used to do.
I was trying to make it look
Instagram-ish, Pinterest-ish,
and it's just more work
than it's worth.
So I think I'll just stick
with the good old packaging
that OxiClean comes in.
And then I've got everything
I need for stain fighting.
Color catchers.
Mindy McKnight introduced
me to this.
They're a lifesaver,
because my kids do
their own laundry,
and they tend to put
reds with whites.
So color catchers are awesome.
This cupboard has more supplies.
So I've got Gillette up there.
So the men can shave.
I use it too.
Shari uses it too.
We just use the Gillette
because it's cheaper,
because it's not pink.
And then, we've got
laundry detergent.
I've about a year's supply
of laundry detergent.
That will last me a full year
from what I've got.
So if you want to see
my laundry room routine,
I did a highlight
on my Instagram stories.
That say laundry,
so you can go there,
and I kind of walk through
my philosophy of laundry,
and how it works.
Okay.
So thanks so much you guys
for hanging in there with me
with the cupboards
and the drawers.
I was going to show
you the closets,
but my kids were
a little nervous I was going
to show there underwear.
And I didn't want
to make them nervous,
and they're not that clean.
So even though we're
a family of eight,
and we're a minimalist family,
there are eight of us,
and we do make messes,
and they are kind of
in charge of their own things.
And some of my kids are
minimalists at heart,
and some of them are
collectors by heart.
So their rooms
and their closets are kind
of their space to navigate
how they want to
organize their life.
But the rest
of the house is my domain,
and I'm trying to keep it as
organized and clean as possible,
with as little
stuff as possible.
Is there a space in your house
that you are just
dying to declutter?
That you just want to clean up,
and you just know if you
can clean up that one place,
that your life will like
being order ever after.
I-- I still have a place
like that, my food room,
and I am working on it.
I'll do an update
on this channel as soon as
those updates are on their way.
My food room is a huge mess.
If you've been watching
this channel, you've seen it,
and you know.
But I do encourage you to take
one space in your house
or one subject item
in your house,
and get it under control.
I have found if you can get
clothing under control,
that's half the
battle right there.
Thanks you guys for watching.
Bye.
