Declutter journey update while grieving (apartment clutter tour)

Hi, my name is Alexa. I have been on a decluttering journey. I shared an apartment with my late mother who passed away last year at the age of 55 of cancer

I never thought I would be in this position. If you are in a similar journey, you can look at this and see that things do change

They remain difficult and they get better and without further ado. Let me share my apartment with you

not an aesthetic condo. I have done my best to remain on a lobeye during all this time. I haven't been like

upgrading furniture or anything like that. This is just very raw. This is what this is what things look like

essentially. This is my entrance and I have a closet. It ends here even though it looks like it goes all the way down there

There's a vent, which is that annoying noise and that is that is

the extent of that. In that container right there, I have purses

that I probably need to declutter, my vacuum, the box for my air conditioner

and a mix of jackets that were mine or moms. I did declutter a lot of hers

and give some of hers away to friends and donated. I have a box of non-clothing items that I wanna donate

minus the grocery bag. I kinda just throw that on top so that I'm not looking in

And I still have that printer that I need to get rid of there's some things in here, old electronics mostly in. I used to have a shoe rack here

I don't like that. I just keep the ones that I use the most right now. The mat could use a little

bit of cleaning because it's got some salt stains from the wintertime, I guess. Then we have

the laundry. This area is a bit the bane of my existence. I've got my recycling bin. I have

that out because I want to mop really soon because my floors are really bad. And then there's

There's just so much stuff here. This is one of the areas that I very much want to do clutter

There's just copious amounts of restock items like mop heads and there's a whole box for

shoe shine stuff, laundry things, detergents. Like there's just so much stuff here that I know I'm probably never going to use

So that is probably going to be a whole video in itself. Some things I need to wash with some bins I use for replanting

This discern is almost done Yeah, it's just an importico in here and when you come in it looks like this

Yes, I know it looks like I've got hospital floors or something which is why I've got area rugs

I hate this floor so much. It's linoleum. It's terrible and it stains easily and I'm constantly trying to wash them

But you know what the rent is cheap all my appliance are 20 years old. I've had them since we moved into this area. This tray constantly gets cleaned out

but I basically have things that I want to use on the go, like hand cream or lip chaps. And change

Of course, change or a nail file. You never know when you need those. Even though this kitchen is

small, there is so much storage, including this pantry, which is the first thing. I've got some

spare grocery bags, which I should probably declutter, onions and garlic, sugar. Lower down

I don't know. There's some recipes my mom kept that I never really removed. Baking things including nuts

Rice and things I've been trying to Pan this part of my pantry like do a pantry use up essentially spare containers which I could probably go through but whatever Next to that I know I 100 have to declutter this

This is cleaning supplies or extra soap bottle things, and I've just shoved things in there

It's been not great. I've got so many chopsticks, but I actually use them for planting

This is just all, like, plastic cutlery, things like that, disposable stuff, which I'm just using up slowly without replacing

On the side of my stove, I've got a slot for baking sheets and cutting boards

I've got this guy, which I just put zip locks and random things like crazy glue

Of course, I have the spices. I actually decluttered these in a different video

These are repacking supplies. Again, I probably have to declutter this because I think there's too much stuff that I won't ever end up losing

I love me a lazy Susan. See? Like, I don't need these dozens of

of David's tea containers. Another lazy Susan for salt pepper. I've got my couple of cooking oils here

in my favorite oil dispensers from Canadian Tire, some knives, some things, so many fruit

It's getting really crazy in here. I have a lot of spare bottles and things

Had a little wine last night, excuse me. The medicine cabinet, I went through with you guys

and I'm quite happy with how that is right now. It's good. Mixing bowls and salad stuff, that's fine

The salad spinner goes, there when it's dry. Glasses, shot glasses, cups, I need to declutter

Pretty sure that mugs and things are an area that a lot of people need to de clutter

I don't use the majority of these glasses. Yeah, and a frauder that I don't use often

These are my most used Tupperware. And then more random mugs that are more seasonal

This is basically the coffee station and the breakfast section. I keep oats, some

some muffins I made, peanut butter, random things like that here. At the very top, paper towels, popsicle makers, a sushi kit, and random decor

I'm never going to put up again, I think. It's from Honduras, but it's just not my jam right now

If we go down, appliance is a popcorn maker and a food processor, and then so much tougherware I never use

This here is the corner of shame. There's spare PR in here, just because it's like a deep area that I can't really reach

and then there's a couple of extra textiles in there that I need to go through again

It's spare curtains and things that I probably really don't need. Next, I've got more spare cookware

Ice cube trays, pots, pans, my kettle that I actually use every day

my Vitamix, which I love. This is where I keep my kitchen garbage and spare cleaning supplies

I keep egg cartons and flyers from my compost. Just down there's a box full of really old and kind of not great repair supplies

Man, I need to go through all of this. I've got utensils

This definitely needs to clear out, but having this little bin here has really helped things

Whatever I need is usually up here, and the stuff I don't really use often is all back there that I have to go through

Then, um, more cooking supplies. And then I've got. got kitchen cloths and spare I don't know why my mom my mom used to buy so much of

this stuff that I have overstock I know I use it but anyway and I got this is a free there more paper towel why are they not all together in the same place Whatever Oh gosh there a lot of stuff in here Like there are appliances that I don use as often There a little alcohol section I don drink too much at home despite the wine from last night

These are mostly like mixers that have just been left behind. For easy access, I keep pots and pans on this from IKEA

comes in a lot of different colors. This also helped a lot while my mom had cancer

because we used to keep the pots and pans lower down there

but she was having trouble bending over because of like, you know

treatments and all that and reduced mobility. I'm cool the way that I organized everything

to accommodate her illness to make things as reachable as possible or rather the things you use the most often

should be most accessible so that you're not like bending over all the time

But I definitely need to declutter. And yes, I need to do my dishes too. Thank you

Moving on from the kitchen, we have the living room. So that's kind of like my home office area

the living room, and I watch TV here, and then I have my little plant area. That's why it's

so bright here. Where else would I put the plants, right? I also have this little spot

and yeah, ideally I would put some of the essential oils here, and then I have to declutter

Quite a few of those bins, so we'll see what happens. There's photo albums in there and things. I'll keep the photo albums, obviously

This is my makeup table, right? Crazy. It just fits well under the TV and I can roll it around and I'm going through my nail polish collection to declutter

My workout stuff, more plants and some plants on the window, so it's too bright. Um, here are my plants

I've left that because I need to wrap and cut this guy down because he's growing up crooked

I've got a picture of my mom and then in here I have wrapping paper for Christmas and

holidays and things for gift wrapping because I don't go in here very often

Alright the view of the other side of the room this area looks a little bit more sane when

I'm not on my lunch break seriously it's a bit crazy right now sorry our empty

and or just full of camera stuff. I've got my lipstick collection for my lipstick video, PR

and items that I need to go through before I do clutter. Chaos, you guys, absolute chaos

I need to go through this. One of my last videos shows me going through the bottom half of this bookshelf

which houses all of my PR samples. I'm very happy with how that ended up

You can check out that video to be linked in the cards if you're watching this on YouTube

My bathroom is pretty darn uneventful, But I like my carpet. It's a Monstera carpet. Yay! I have a little candle and products that I've been trying to pan

My medicine cabinet is just products. There's a video where I decluttered under the sink in the bathroom, but I need to do it again, I think, because it's a little bit disorderly in here. And here are the products that I keep in my shower

Minimizing what I keep in the shower just really diminishes Decision fatigue and makes cleaning so much easier

Towels, bathrobe. Beside my bathroom, I have a linen closet, and you have seen me do to declutter of this in a video

It's actually one of my better performing decluttering videos. Moving on to my bedroom, I have changed a lot of things in here

Obviously, I changed the bedding. It's almost summer. We're mid-June right now, the time of me filming this

I switched dressers with, my mom old dresser because I like that there isn a mirror in here and it less distracting Don mind the chair of clothes that need to be put away There used to be an ottoman here

When you have a smaller surface for clutter, you tend to clutter a little bit less, or at least

that's how I feel. I use the back of my door for bag storage. I've got my closet

In part one of my closet to clutter, I ended up bringing the shoe rack that was at the entrance

to my closet. to keep my shoes in their respective boxes. That way they don't collect so much dust

I switched out to my summer clothes. I need to curate my wardrobe though

Up there are a couple of winter shoes. Winter blankets, winter duvet

and a sewing machine that you can't see because it's in the corner

For my nightstand, I'm using the Alex Six drawer and I need to clean it out

There are pretty standard things, like lip chap and moisturizer, a pen, some notebooks, my old phone, and a pen

But the space itself is definitely not optimized and there's a lot of random things in here

like perfume samples, like what's going on? I keep a couple of books and normally a hair clip and my water bottle for when I get thirsty at night

The ottoman that used to live in front of my headboard, sorry about all of the cat scratch

on the corner. This Ottoman houses, bags, some props for videos. It's a bit of a free-for-all in here

and I need to go through it and declutter. But for now, it's handy

because if I'm not using pillows on my bed, I just throw them here

or if my boyfriend comes over and he wants to put some stuff

he can use this. Rather than my dresser, which just keeps the room looking a little bit more tidy

One thing I do need to do again is actually go through my dresser drawers

There will definitely be two dresser declutteres in a future closet declutter video

That was a bit redundant, but yeah. I always like to keep spare perfumes and creams and things in my room

because sometimes I get too lazy to go back into the bathroom and I just have so much

So might as well use two at a time. Double fist. Next to my room is mom's mom

old room. Yeah, I've been using this room to declutter clothing

I also use this room to house the plants, obviously because I have a massive window here, which just makes it so much easier

Here are the clothes. I'm still working on decluttering. This desk is empty right now

There's more bins here. If you saw already, you will know that this is where I keep my makeup collection that I still need to declutter

This closet has been relegated to sort of a storage area. This is my previous dresser

I've got some winter clothes in this bag. And it's handy to have this mirror

The back of the door has a mix of things. Moms and mine

I guess technically everything is mine now. But again, this is another dresser that is just, it really needs

some TLC right now. There is a declutter video coming up, so definitely stay tuned because some things have changed

like my little propagation station. I think I'm going to do a plant tour as well

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And I'll see you in my next video. Bye