Decluttering & Living Light Series| The Basics: Makeup, Clothes, Books

Okay, so since I made, like, a sort of introduction
to my changing my life/decluttering, I want

to make a video talking about specifically
the little things that I want to do at this

second to, uh, get started on that.

The first video, all I really did was mostly
talk about how I have an issue with hoarding

a lot of stuff, and if I don’t feel like
I’m hoarding enough, I go out and get something

to add to my hoarding collection.

It’s not healthy and it needs to be stopped.

So, not only do I have to learn how to control
that, I need to declutter and…

In order to live light, I need to get light
and that means I need to get rid of stuff

that I don’t want, that I don’t use. Stuff
I haven’t looked at in literally years.

The one thing that I definitely need to do
is get rid of everything that I know for a

fact I have not seen or looked at for literally
one second in like five or something years.

In my closet, I have, like, bags of little
knickknacks, pieces of paper that I know I

have not looked at for five years.

Not since we got evicted from our house and
had to move to an apartment, not since I’ve

been in this apartment.

It was just stuff that I took out of my closet,
put it in a bag, and then shoved it in my

closet because there was nowhere else to put
it and I haven’t looked at it in two years

that I’ve been here.

I know for a fact that even if I want to keep
it for “sentimental reasons”, I don’t

need it.

It probably would’ve been a lot easier to
just leave it at the house and let the bank

clean it up, but oh well.

So that is one of the major things that I
have to work on. I can imagine there is - I

know there’s one thing or one or two things
that I know I would like to just have, but

there’s a lot more junk that I know for
a fact that I don’t need to keep.

There is a dumpster right over there so all
I have to do is take the bag that I have that

it’s already in and just dump it.

I know part of me was thinking, “Well, just
go through it and if there’s nothing that

you know you don’t need or whatever -

“Just toss it!” But I - Coco from Light
By Coco said -

You just want to stuff everything into a box
and if you don’t look at that box, you just

pick it up and give it away or throw it out.
Don’t look at it because then all the little

feelings that you had will come back.

Not only do I have little knickknacks and
stuff, I have boxes and envelopes.

Now, I had a good reason for this.

When I do swapping or when I sell stuff, I
often like to repackage envelopes.

In the swapping community, it is a very common
thing to repackage envelopes because it helps

us save on shipping and whatever.

But I have a lot of, like, actual boxes and
I don’t use boxes all that often because

it gets more expensive to ship.

I normally sell smaller stuff now and I just
use regular envelopes so there’s a lot of

boxes that I just wanted to keep in case I
was selling something or multiple things that

would fit in there.

Some of these boxes I’ve had for over a
year and I haven’t sold anything that would

ship in those boxes so… yeah.

I should probably get rid of majority of the
boxes that I own.

Makeup. Uhm, I’m still doing my blog sale.
I’m still doing Poshmark so the makeup that

I don’t want that I can sell, I put on Poshmark
or my blog sale so if anybody wants to go

look at my blog sale, please look at that
so I can get a little money out of that.

Clothes. I have what seems to be the hardest
time with parting with clothes. Makeup and

clothes, I have issues parting with.

But I know that there’s a lot of clothes
that I just don’t wear, that I don’t particularly

like anymore.

There’s a lot of stuff on Poshmark that
are clothes that I’ve been trying to sell

but nobody’s been buying it and I think
instead of just trying to keep on selling

that for days and weeks and sharing in parties
and having nobody buy it, I’m either gonna

- well -

I’m gonna go through my closet and my drawers
again, take what’s on Poshmark, take

what I haven't thought about selling yet, and then put
it in a laundry basket to take it to Plato’s

Closet and then see if they’ll want anything
and whatever they don’t take, I will probably

just donate the rest to Goodwill or something.

There’s a lot of clothes I don’t wear
anymore whether it’s just that I don’t

like them or I just wear other things more
often.

And when I decluttered a couple times in the
past, I thought, “Oh, I’ll wear that again

sometime in the future” and I don’t.

I mean, most of this has to do with the fact
that I rarely leave my apartment.

So the clothes don’t get a chance to be
worn. The only time I change clothes is for

videos so I just don’t need a lot of clothes.
I don’t need as much as I seem to think

that I do.

I have a lot of books and I love reading,
I love having different books.

But I have a lot of books from childhood that
I - again, I have not looked at in years.

The books that I have, they’ve been in the
same moving boxes from almost two years ago.

I have not looked through them.

I have tried to sell a few on the Internet
but they don’t seem to go.

So there’s a bookstore here but, uh, they’re
very, very picky about what they buy so I

might just take my books and donate them.

When I move out and get my own space, I don’t
want to take a lot with me. I can’t afford

or I will not have the room to take everything
with me so it’s just best to not have a

lot of books.

I have so, so many.

And I have an electronic reading device. I
have the Kindle app and that means that I

can just get my books as eBooks and it’s
all in a very small electronic reading device

and it’s just - it’s all there and it’s
so much easier to carry it around than big,

big stacks of books.

So what I need to do is get rid of all the
knickknacks that I don’t use.

And now that I think about it, there’s also
a lot of jewelry that I just don’t wear

at all.

So I don’t need all my jewelry.

So I gotta get rid of my little knickknacks
and stuff that’s literally junk.

I need to sort through my makeup again. I
still have a lot of lipsticks and I know I’m

not gonna get through all of them so I’m
gonna try my best to declutter that some more.

But I’ve already decluttered a lot.

Clothes, I could afford to go through those
again and my books, I think I’m going to

try to sell the more popular ones. I have
two manga series and a couple more manga volumes

that I’m gonna try to sell and the rest
like the childhood ones that just aren’t

really popular, I’m going to probably donate.

And then when all of that is out of the way,
I am going to try to concentrate as much as

I can on making sure I don’t continue to
get a lot of stuff.

So we’ll see how everything goes in a future
update and I will see you later. Bye.