Her 'layers' comment struck home with me. When I was working 60 to 80 hours a week, I would walk in, dump everything on the sofa, grab something to eat, fall into bed, get up, shower and rinse, repeat until my one day off a week. Then I would try to clean and get overwhelmed. When the hours cut back, I compared the sofa to an archeological dig. I'd burrow down, and find things from 3 months prior, which no longer had any meaning, and could be shredded. What got me organizing things was when I had a near-death experience at work, and it sank in, if I had died, someone else would have to try and figure out all my financial stuff and I didn't even have a file cabinet at that time. It was a ton of work, but I did it.

Dear Patreon person, thank you for sharing your house and your progress! And thank you Dana for all you do!

I absolutely love the one hour better videos because I can body double. I've found I can't really watch other creators declutter because they don't use your method so it seems wrong to me. It stresses me out when they start by pulling everything out 😵‍💫

I laughed when Dana said “keep folding” because that was what I was thinking! I love the one hour better sessions.

"Whatever we do now we don't have to deal with tomorrow." - Dana K. White. ❤

Dana, I just had to come on to say thank you for all of your wonderful-ness!  I have been a fan for years, and yesterday I used your 5 step decluttering method to help out my good friend whose house is so full that there are pathways to each room.  We started in her family room, with a black trash bag, donate box and our shoes to “take it there now”.  We intended to do a “one hour better”, but she got so into it that we worked for 3 hours!  The progress we made is remarkable!  The path is now widened to a full on empty space in the middle of the room, and  my friend has asked me to come back again to help more!  I’m so grateful to you for your guidance, for giving me the confidence to help a buddy, and providing the tools to help her be successful!

What I love about the one hour better sessions is that everyone has their own pace, their own priorities, their own challenges - and yet EVERY person sees incredible progress in just one hour. Really inspiring stuff, and probably the best way to convince me that I can do this in my space too.

Yay! I love the one hour better sessions. Very inspiring! Thanks to those who share their spaces and progress with the rest of us. It's much appreciated!

One way to reduce sock matching/search: I bought my son a bunch of all the same socks in a style he likes. No need to match, they are all the same. Bonus is if one gets a hole or stain, you can toss it without looking for its buddy and the leftover one can be used as other singular socks get tossed.

Your patience with going thru the process never ceases to amaze my old self.

I’m in such a good habit with my dishes at the moment. Like, if I use scissors to cut the meat package I’ll place the scissors in the sink put the meat in a pan and throw away the packaging. Then I return to the sink to wash my hands and the kitchen scissors. As I’m cooking I’m cleaning putting food in glass containers because leftovers are inevitable. By the time I’m done cooking I barely have any pots or pans to clean. It’s mostly rinsing and wiping.

I love love the 1 hour betters! It's so motivational and love seeing real people's houses and spaces, gives me hope for mine! 🎉😊

Yes to what she said ...."it helps to have you in my ears"... I listen to you often when I'm overwhelmed. It feels like you're there talking me through how to get out of the mess...love this SO much!! Thanks for sharing this!

I love one hour better videos and feel anyone tackling their homes wears a superhero’s cape. I’m so thankful Dana, Cas and Dawn have helped us regain our sanity and given us the the practical tools to take charge of our homes, to look at stuff as just stuff that we don’t need to attach emotion whether it be guilt, good or bad to, and then make us think about what’s worth coming into our homes. I feel empowered by their analytical processes and observations about how we relate to our clutter. ❤

Once I learnt decluttering is different to organising and cleaning it blew my mind and so much stress left my body. Just that one idea instantly made my house easier to tackle.

I  have four grown boys and I remember the dreaded sock basket all too well. We used to dump them in the middle of the LR floor and call it a sock party and everyone would help match. We would start by making a pile of dark short , dark tall , white short,white tall and then anything that didn't fall into that category got it's own pile. It made the job easier. Everyone would tackle a pile.  After 15m anything not matched went into the trash!

Reid, you are awesome to be there for your Mum and it makes me smile every end notes. I couldn’t bribe my kids to help me with even the smallest things.

Buying my kids the same color socks really  helped me a lot.  I have a 5 year old and 6 year old and I just buy a big pack of black socks. I know  this doesn't  help everyone,  but it has definitely helped me out  a LOT!

I LOVE THIS SERIES SO MUCH I started my own One Hour Better series. Your declutter process is the only way. Everyone else out there is decluttering in the most overwhelming way. Grateful for you, Dana!

This is my favorite series!
Great work!!

One day my husband took all the kids socks and tossed them. (Let’s be honest they were pretty beat up because I have boys). He then bought new ones that were all black. It was such a gift!

We got rid of our coffee table bc it was a clutter catcher.

It's so helpful how you talk through everything. Its so frustrating when I see videos where they frantically declutter with no explanation of their thought process of what they're doing with the items.