Decluttering Room by Room Is Backwards (My Mexican Mother Did This Instead)
Bertha's Garden Hacks
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If you have been decluttering one room at a time and still feel like you are getting nowhere, the problem is not you. It is the method. My mother never did a single room in her life, not once in fifty years in the same house. She did it backwards from what the television tells you, and it was the first way that ever worked for me.
WHAT MY MOTHER DID INSTEAD
🗓️ Hoy tocan las toallas. Every Saturday, ONE kind of thing had its turn: the towels, the shoes, the pots, the papers.
🧺 Every single one came to the kitchen table, from every room in the house (my father ran his workshop the same way: one jar, one kind of thing).
👀 Now you see the truth: six cups is really twenty-three, and you have enough towels for a small hotel.
✅ ¿Cuáles se quedan? She never asked what to get rid of. She asked which ones STAY, and the extras pointed themselves out.
☕ Test it: shut the cabinet, open it again like a stranger, and keep enough for the people who live here now.
🛁 One towel per person, on their own hook. The worn ones became trapos that same afternoon (no se tira nada).
🚪 What leaves, leaves TODAY, to a person. Never a box by the door until Christmas. (Animal shelters often take old towels; call first.)
🧦 Start small: socks, spices, potholders, food containers. Not the photographs, not the attic, and not the garage on a tired Saturday.
You do not need twelve bins, seventeen labels, and a weekend you do not have. You need one kind of thing, twenty minutes, and your favorites chosen first.
Who profits: the matching bins, the label maker, the $100-an-hour organizer, and the storage unit with a bill every month. Nobody makes a dollar from a woman who puts every towel on the kitchen table and keeps the good ones.
Tonight, do one: bring every cup in your house to the kitchen table and count them. You do not even have to decide yet.
What did you count, and what was the number? Tell me, and your county. I read every one.
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I found stuff I had not seen in years. Found stuff I did not know I had. It all left.
If you have not seen it in years you don’t need it.⭐️
Decluttering Room by Room Is Backwards (My Mexican Mother Did This Instead)
Bertha's Garden Hacks
25,271 views
📖 Get The Old Mexican Way, every old way written down: https://oldmexicanway.com
If you have been decluttering one room at a time and still feel like you are getting nowhere, the problem is not you. It is the method. My mother never did a single room in her life, not once in fifty years in the same house. She did it backwards from what the television tells you, and it was the first way that ever worked for me.
WHAT MY MOTHER DID INSTEAD
🗓️ Hoy tocan las toallas. Every Saturday, ONE kind of thing had its turn: the towels, the shoes, the pots, the papers.
🧺 Every single one came to the kitchen table, from every room in the house (my father ran his workshop the same way: one jar, one kind of thing).
👀 Now you see the truth: six cups is really twenty-three, and you have enough towels for a small hotel.
✅ ¿Cuáles se quedan? She never asked what to get rid of. She asked which ones STAY, and the extras pointed themselves out.
☕ Test it: shut the cabinet, open it again like a stranger, and keep enough for the people who live here now.
🛁 One towel per person, on their own hook. The worn ones became trapos that same afternoon (no se tira nada).
🚪 What leaves, leaves TODAY, to a person. Never a box by the door until Christmas. (Animal shelters often take old towels; call first.)
🧦 Start small: socks, spices, potholders, food containers. Not the photographs, not the attic, and not the garage on a tired Saturday.
You do not need twelve bins, seventeen labels, and a weekend you do not have. You need one kind of thing, twenty minutes, and your favorites chosen first.
Who profits: the matching bins, the label maker, the $100-an-hour organizer, and the storage unit with a bill every month. Nobody makes a dollar from a woman who puts every towel on the kitchen table and keeps the good ones.
Tonight, do one: bring every cup in your house to the kitchen table and count them. You do not even have to decide yet.
What did you count, and what was the number? Tell me, and your county. I read every one.
Which one did you learn too late, mija, and what did it cost you?