 Hey, and we are alive welcome to the clutter corner number two this week We are streaming actually to YouTube as well because we started last week and in our private hoarding world group last week Which was an awesome place to show this we discovered that lots of people contacted us And then they asked us for a link and the the feed gets lost somewhere in the Facebook And it's not search engine optimized like it is on YouTube So we're also streaming today from YouTube in the event that we need a link later or you ever want to revisit this again So thank you YouTube. Thank you Facebook. This is a super exciting time for us And I wanted to jump in real quick with a couple of the people that joined us last week and hear their updates I know that in the private hoarding world Facebook group There were lots of people that jumped in and they added their photos and their stories from the things that we talked about last week And then the changes that they made in order to go back to the The the progress and stuff that they've made so I have Sally here with us And we will start with Sally and Sally got rid of a bunch of nail polishes And while she was going through her nail polishes she did some really amazing things and Sally I was hoping you could share with us just a little bit about your experience with last week Hi, I'm Sally Last week. Yeah, I get rid of some nail polish. They've been dried up or the oil been separated and things like that So during the weekend the last weekend so I do with my youngest daughter so in the backyard to kind of spread out the newspaper kind of empty out the bottle and then Dispose it let it dry it up and dispose it. There's a proper way to dispose the nail polish. So it kind of Environmental I'm in a safe for the environment and then that's it then my youngest kind of play around with the nail polish and create some fun art and You know, it was interesting when I saw this art. I was like, oh my goodness. That looks like an amazing painting I would love on them on the wall and I was wishing that you guys would have autographed it because I would have Bought it back from you. I think it's amazing So was it was it sad for you to let go of them or did you feel Not really kind of fun I mean when when you dispose it you look at the color and then you know I mean some of some of them you can really see it's bad some of they kind of smell a little bit I mean not just a normal nail polish smell I mean kind of have some funky smell But the good thing is you kind of Gary you get to play is he kind of fun in a way like yeah Then I get to spend time with my youngest doctor So I don't know it's a fun project But just by one thing that I had to remind you somebody still want to get rid of new polish in the future do in the Outdoor it is very strong. We have a strong smell even after I get rid of it kind of You on the older on our body you are walking the house this you can smell like wow It's really strong smell because it's a lot of bottles is here And so how long did it take before the smell wore off of your person? I I know for me I went a shower. I don't really smell my body But in the house even people like my oldest came back after few hours the moment she walked in the house She said whoa, it's a lot of new polish in the house. You can see yeah, even though I do in the bag yet I didn't even do anything in the house. It kind of very strong. Yeah I'm glad and I just want to give you a special. Thank you for sharing that with us and then also kind of Jumping into our Facebook group during the week I know there were a couple of other people that jumped in and showed their photos and their items as well And I was really excited about the opportunity that you guys took to do that. So thank you very much Let's jump over to Rita for a second and Rita share with us if you will I know you got rid of some t-shirts last week that were some you decided to keep and some you decided to get rid of Yeah, so I went through six t-shirts with you guys last week and After the show I decided I might as well go through my whole t-shirt collection And we had talked about keeping like 15 t-shirts and having like that set number of how many I wanted to keep and make sure I stick to that so I've spent the week going through my endless t-shirt drawer and Figuring out what I want to donate and keep and I'm gonna get through the last of that this weekend And then I can share with you all all the shirts I decided to donate outside of just the six that we went through together But it's been a process Well great job I know that because we had this conversation and this is what happens when you start decluttering and you start having Conversations even if you are a professional house cleaner and you're helping a family go through their belongings You start having conversations with yourself and saying wait a second. I have some t-shirts I could get rid of and I know I did that myself And so I was donating some t-shirts that I had been working with the client on and as I was putting them in the back of the car I said I have some myself So I ran inside and I grabbed some out of my own closet and I added them to the collection and I got rid of them as well Thanks to this conversation. We had last week so thank you guys great job and Today we're gonna move on and talk about Grocery bags, so this is a really fun topic because lots of us have Lots and lots and lots of grocery bags now there was a time when you would go to Walmart or the Harris teeter and others at the grocery stores where near where we live and This is how you would bag your groceries and then you would go out to your car and load up your car And as a professional house cleaner for almost 30 years One of the things that we've done is we've recycled these and we've taken a big stash of them on all of our jobs Because when you get to a customer's house Oftentimes they will have these small garbage cans that are underneath their bathrooms and stuff But they don't have any liners in them And so we would kind of like gift them some liners because it removes the need to clean the inside of the garbage bin itself And so we've recycled them for years I'm curious and I see that we have Judy here and we also have Alicia. I want to stop and say hello to Joanne and We've got Lao back again from last week. We've got lots of fun folks here. Hello and welcome I'm Judy. I'm gonna add you to our stream and and just say hi. How are you doing today? Are you with us? Who Judy are you with us? Yes? Yes? I don't know how to use this. Oh Well, you're using it now. Would you like to share with us an experience about grocery bags? Yeah, that was really cool yesterday Yesterday, I knew we're going to do grocery bags. I'm kind of glad we didn't do nail polish I don't want to get rid of them last week This is my first time here and I thought you know what we really need to go through them And I was going to donate some but something happened I don't know so most of our groceries are now pick up with the store bagging it in their bags We've got our I've got Both of us have bags in the car and in the trunk and it's a little out of hand I've begged to go back to the 90s Okay, when I worked at Carnation I have a bag from that and so we I brought him in from my car and my husband is playing some game And I says you can help Help me figure out which ones to keep which ones to toss Well, I think we had so much fun with it He went out and he says wait a second and he ran out to his car and God he has we have like over 25 bags We want to give I hope they take them all but if they don't because some of them are kind of old looking But they use the the charity uses them for Bagging up stuff that people buy they don't want. Are you talking about the reusable ones? Are you talking about the ones like this? Yeah, they give those out for for packing up stuff They don't want the other bags and we take those other the store bags back to the store and they recycle them Uh, but but it's it's a nice thing. So we have those big Aldi bags. We'd have them up We only kept like eight or ten each. We don't need that much Well, and that's one of the things that's one of the things that I wanted for us to make a decision on today How many is enough and I know that when we go grocery shopping We do use the Aldi bags and the the freezer bags This is like a big freezer bag that you can put like frozen goods in There's a little bag not an Aldi bag But when we uh, when we keep those in the back of our cart, we have them with us But we have three freezer bags and then we have probably about Six or seven of the just the reusable they're like heavy-duty plastic We have six or seven of these and that is about our limit because we don't usually buy more groceries than that And we just have them in the one car and that's the one car that we usually take to the grocery store And so how many how many and I guess that's a real conversation. How many is enough? What would you say judy? I I would say limited at ten, uh, but I mean Okay, something happens to some of the bags Um half dozen is probably what I'm going to use to go. I probably only need two You know two or three, but I I couldn't give them up I mean if they fit in the in the bag And and the car is neat. See I I I need not my car every Friday Okay, and if if they're laying all over the place, I don't want that so I think I think got four in the car Uh and and maybe four in the trunk For me You know, I just feel bad. I'll probably you know what sometimes I declutter And then I go down farther later on So I might go down to four or five Well, one of the things that's interesting about the grocery bags And we're talking about the reusable bags in this exact moment But the reusable bags for the most part are Like 10 cents for the plastic ones that you get at Lidl or Aldi And I think the freezer bags are like a dollar And so if you ever got rid of them and then later you regret it like oh, I made a mistake or whatever I mean, you can always buy one for another dollar or 10 cents or whatever. That's true I always wanted one at the california bear on it anyways at ralph Well, you know in party progbert It's interesting because there are a lot of companies and they will use their reusable bags as an ad specialty And so if you go to a conference or something there's usually a bag that they give you And it's really cool to be at the conference like with the conference bag because now you've got all the loot from the conference But after the conference, what do you do with that bag? Right? And so we bring it home and oftentimes It gets put in the closet and then it gets Stored or shifted around the house or whatever and you end up with lots of those reusable bags So, um, would would you like oh, we've got um Alicia's here and I have uh I have a message here that says one for cold items and three for max regular groceries. Yes, I would agree to that because if you have if you have If you have a limited number of things that you buy, I know that I buy all my groceries at once So for me that number three goes up to six bags And I buy everything at once when I don't go shopping for a few weeks and I try to just eat out of my pantry But I would say I would say that's a fair number Without having an overabundance of them Talk about the the cloth bags for a second What are interesting uses that you guys have used for those and should we keep them or should we recycle them and give them away? Sally, do you have an opinion on that? I will keep some like now I have two in my car and then another maybe like three Few in my heart. I don't keep a lot because I know that it just sit there They will be touched. So the most are you even there one in the house? I don't use another cloth one I only use the one in my car So two is max for me for now Judy go ahead. I'm all excited because you've inspired me. I could repurpose it Okay, I was going to buy some your turn. I can't the canvas the I have these cotton bags and I've been I made myself a pillow out of a pillowcase For my my back for the car and I said I really need to buy some material To make a pillowcase. I made the pillow. I need the pillowcase I could repurpose that and just cut it off and make a pillowcase Does it have the bear on it the california bear? No It has the nestly logo on it. Oh, because that one would would make a great fellow, right? Yeah I'll get a plastic bag. I'll treat myself. That's a nice thing. I'll get that bear. Yeah So in the house cleaning industry one of the things that we do Whether we like it or not as we take lots of cloths into customers homes And then we clean their house and when we're done with the cloths those cloths have to go somewhere And so it's been very easy over the years to have the cloth reusable bags And keep them in the back of your car because then you can sort them you sort them as you go And we've always used these plastic bags inside the customer house that they're small and we can wad them up Put them all nicely inside a cup inside our cleaning caddy Then when we fill them up we have, you know, a yellow one for the bathroom and a green one for the kitchen An orange one for the furniture We've got a bag that then has specifically designed colored cloths in them So that we're not cross-contaminating and then when you get out to the car You empty them out inside the cloth bag and then they can air out a little bit While you're at the next customer's house And that's always been really great because then when you go to do your laundry You literally have this bag of cloths that's already separated And it just goes really nicely right inside your mesh bag that you then put inside the washing machine And so it's kind of a nice transfer program But then it's it's always always separate and so that's been a good way for us to reuse those Add specialty bags or those cloth totes that otherwise would just kind of pile up in the house I do have I do have a lot more than I need though And so what do you guys think is the perfect number for how many cloth totes you might use? Or keep if you're not using all of them Rita, do you have an opinion? Um, I personally don't use cloth bags at all I actually don't really have any grocery bags is probably the biggest thing that I save from every single trip And I probably have Close to 100 I have a roommates that I share a house with and we all like Compile our grocery bags in the pantry in like a larger paper bag We've never set a number on it, but it is constantly overflowing. We definitely have way more than we need as far as the grocery bags go So I think maybe I should invest in like one or two cloth bags So I can be more sustainable and reuse those at the grocery store rather than collecting all these plastic bags that we're never going to get through so Let's go back to the plastic bags for a minute and thank you for sharing that because that's It's it's nice to hear people that say I don't use them Therefore I don't have them and I I love that we are having these conversations Because when we decide I don't use them at all it makes it really easy to not have them or to say Oh, I could replace the plastic ones with a cloth one and that would make more sense um I've talked to the people at walmart Numerous times over the years and they've got a great big monster cardboard box That they recycle these in as you walk into the door And a lot of people bring just big bags of them and they dump them inside And my question wasn't can I dump mine inside but can I have some of yours? And so because we've used them and reuse them for cleaning customers that have all the little bins underneath their bathroom sinks and stuff We've used a lot of those and if I don't go to the grocery as much as I should And I don't buy I don't have a lot in store You can pick them up and recycle them directly from the store They said hey, they are designed for recycling take as many of them as you want We don't want many of them, but maybe I'll get a bag of bags And then how do you store them? And so I know for my house We've stored them and a lot of our customers do this as well This is a pretzel container from cosco And so we just reuse these plastic jugs because we don't want these in the landfill either But then we just use it because it's got a wide lid So they stuff in pretty easily and then they also come out pretty easy And that way we have one in every bathroom. And so if there is a small trash bin underneath the sink Instead of buying garbage bags or liners for those We just reuse these grocery bags And so that's another way that we've been able to to justify having the smaller garbage bins But we consciously went through and we've done this with several of our customers We've gone through the little bins that they've had in their house and getting rid of the 13 gallon ones And getting them to be smaller so that we can recycle the grocery bags that they're using And so there are ways of doing that as well If you collect a lot of plastic bags, not the tote bag, but the disposable type save them up and donate them to your local thrift stores First find out if they buy brand new ones or recycle That's a great idea because this is a great opportunity then for them to have those bags as well without having to To give away new bags and buy new bags because right now they don't go in the landfills very well So that's great. Another thing about the the grocery bags and these are just the plastic grocery bags They work really really well as packing peanuts. And so instead of buying the really expensive styrofoam peanuts or the They're like little bags that blow up and then they're all hooked together Those are expensive What you can mesh a whole bunch of little grocery bags together and wrap things in them and store them or ship them And that creates extra packing that is then protected. So there's a way to do that as well A comment here from mother's helper. She says there are also many people who will take the plastic bags and use them To make tote bags and they sell them on etsy or mats for the homeless to sleep on and donate to shelters That is a great idea There are lots and lots of uses the albertson's box is open and folds into a flat square And it holds a fair amount of weight too I don't know what that's in reference to but maybe we could recycle those boxes as well But the the the grocery bags You can also take a grocery bag that just looks like this and take it inside the store with you and recycle it and use it again for your own grocery I know that that's that's an easy way to do that if you have extra and you have them in your car So let's talk for a second about Gift bags because gift bags are one of those items that you can access easily I know they sell them at the dollar tree and there are all different kinds that are gift bags for birthdays for Christmas for graduate Graduates graduations holidays And so do you guys have an opinion on gift bags? Judy As soon as you said gift bags, I just remembered all the Sephora little bags that have been piled up over the years And they're just sitting there And they're too small to hold anything I need to get rid of them or do something. You know what? I'll offer them up on a free cycle Oh, that's a great idea Yeah There there are lots of different uses and if your family has a rule about gift bags Like how you use gift bags that it makes it easier for everybody in the family to participate if you know what those rules are Now I've got a couple gift bags here This is a happy birthday bag and this was probably bought at the dollar tree Several years ago But the rule at our house is when it comes with the little tag on it We leave it blank Because if it said hey Angela happy birthday It's going to make it hard for me to re-gift this unless I tear this tag off, which you could always just tear it off We just leave it blank and then we re-gift the bag with a gift in it And then when it's someone's next birthday, then this bag is coming back This bag has come back to me a few times And then I fill it up and I send it out again And then it comes back to me and then there's there's a bigger bag. We have a bigger bag in our family And it's a little bit more worn. It's kind of wrinkled but oh well again. It's been recycled and it has the empty The empty tag in it Which is kind of cool because every time this bag comes back when no not the snail bag again You know, but it's and it's a joke now because it keeps getting recycled from person to person But it's part of our our family culture because instead of waste on things that we're not going to use This is an opportunity for us to To reuse it again. It still looks nice. It looks pretty but it avoids us having to By wrapping paper and so we end up saving on the wrapping paper and then just putting stuff inside the the gift bags So we've got a couple questions here We save the gift bags because they lay flat until they look bad. That's a great idea And when it comes down to how many do you need? We have a great big storage bin And the storage bin has a lock lid on it So it keeps dust out and we have all of the birthday ones on the bottom and all of the christmas ones on top And then anytime at someone's birthday, we we dive into the bottom of the bin We know exactly where they are and we try to keep just an even amount so that we can You know give away gifts for one year to the members of the family and friends and what have you And then we know that we're going to be getting gifts back Not not that we are expecting them But we usually do and so then when those bags recycle back then we just restock the ones that we have Now the cool thing is this we always know that we can buy them We can buy more of them for a dollar or two if we need them But just by having them and having them in a bin Everybody knows where we store that gift bag then and so that's a great way to do that Bernie says We save the gift bags because they oh, I read that one because they lay flat until they look bad And rebecca says literally the gift bag that keeps on giving. I know right? This is really great Someone says ha ha we did the same in my family. Oh, that's awesome. Hilda. You and me we're twins. That's great And denise says I use canvas totes in my bathroom as hampers and string bags for kitchen laundry So wet stuff doesn't mildew that is really important because as long as we're recycling the stuff that we have and these are the canvas totes It does allow it to air out a little bit without it being trapped and the moisture being trapped inside a bag Now the trapped moisture bags. We're moving off the topic for a second of gift bags But there are totes we're going to talk about totes today as well But here is a tote and I've had this tote for about 20 years And I don't really know where I got it from it says geordash style on it probably back in the 80s That was like the thing But I like it because it's waterproof and so whenever I go to the fitness center. I throw my gym clothes in here and If it gets wet if it gets moist if it gets mildewy Whatever, I mean like you know how the the bathing suits get all wet and I throw them inside the bag until I can get back home and then run it through the washing machine and so that keeps the moisture out of my car and Also from leaking and stuff like that So I would say one waterproof tote for the beach or for the pool or for if you carry rain gear back and forth to Your your appointment or what have you? That's probably a good a good thing Jennifer says my sister and I would pass post-it notes on the gift bags For tags for holidays. I love that idea instead of the note instead of the the Note the cards a post-it note. That's so awesome. That's really great um The holidays can get tricky. Yes, that's true and I love I love the post-it note concept Um, I'm afraid I may have missed I may have missed a couple of these notes here I swiped the bags from walmart been all the time and nobody has ever gotten after me for it I take them and I just give them to the thrift shops. Um, yeah, you know what I've asked several times There are people that work the the walmart like hi. Welcome to walmart and we're going back to the reusable bags now um, and they say Uh, I've asked them several times. Do you mind if I take some of these? They've all said no, please please take them because we pay to recycle them And so if you want to use them and you want to recycle them, that's great So there's a a larger conversation here and the conversation is how many is too many? And should we reuse them or recycle them or re gift them or repurpose them? And I think with grocery bags and tote bags, you can probably do all of the above I think there comes a time when You might decide you have maybe too many of one or the other and then that's where you have to have a Conversation about how many is too many? Um, Sally, what would you say is too many? um When the overflow, I guess But I have few tips that are how I use my grocery bag my plastic bag. I love to cook So when I cook I'll put one or two plastic as a prep I cut whatever and I throw it right away in the bag and I tie it up They're pulling the bigger trash And then another thing is after we eat the leftover like bones It can be chicken bone fish bone one not same thing I put in the grocery bag I tie it up I throw it the bigger trash and then the house don't smell, you know, because the the bigger trash will sit for a few days So that's how I recycle so I kind of my amount of plastic bag It's a good amount because I shop about once a week So I use up about I mean the same amount I use and I use for all the trash in my house a smaller bin like I said So my trash bin stay clean in a way And once you dirty you tie it up. So yeah, I make use of it really well So I don't have overflow of a grocery bag in my house. Yeah But I'm glad you brought that up I know that I do the same thing when I'm cutting up watermelon and we have a rule in our house We have to get the watermelons on sundae and then cut them up because The garbage comes on tuesday and we want to send the rinds out with the garbage on on monday So that they don't smell up in the garbage can all week But we will double bag those as well just in a grocery sack and then tie them up and then put them inside the garbage And then ship them off so that they're not, you know We don't have a compost area where we are that that won't attract deer And so if we put them out we've tried in the back of the property And then we have deer that come and they eat all of the watermelon rinds And then they eat all of our plants and trees as well So we had to stop doing that. We had to start packing them up Denise says I use all the cooler bags to hold the food while cleaning fridge and freezer items from the deep freeze And that is a wonderful idea I would I would love to learn more about that process But I I think that's a fantastic idea because we do we do do a lot of defrosting and special projects even in the cleaning business And so we have to take the food that's in the freezer and put that somewhere and using those freezer bags from all the ore Letal are great for that because it will keep the food cold without Fully defrosting until we can get a chance to put those back where they go Don says I know I'm the bag lady at work. I use them for work church and I also have one for my medications Oh, that's fantastic As the bag lady what what does that mean? Tell me more. Are you are you able to join us on camera don? I would love to to have you come on and I don't have the link here in front of me But I would love to to have you come back um And a facebook user says I do the same thing with my food scraps to keep my garbage from getting smelly Yeah, I I think that's a fantastic way to do that so that Like sally said with chicken bones So that it doesn't smell because I know if you have Chicken bones and things like that in your regular garbage a lot of times it can attract wild animals that are outside At your curb and so we don't want them knocking over the trash and getting into the rubbish and what have you Um I'm looking at these notes here. I don't want to miss anything you guys. This is so fun. I love meeting with you guys This is so great Jennifer says one of my clients my cleaning clients neatly fold their thin plastic bags and reuse them for trash And they only keep a baggy sized cardboard box under the sink instead of having a bag full of bags So that's that's funny that you mentioned that I know that some people do fold their bags My mother is one of these people and I love my mother dearly But when she comes to visit she'll take all the bags out of our buckets And she folds them all in these really tight nice little packs And she has them all sandwiched together and then she puts like a little Rubber band or bows around them and then there's like a little stack of folded up grocery bags And then we'll use those for a while and then I'm like, oh no, I'm out of the folded bags It's time for my mother to come back and visit again That's great All right, so Are there any questions so far any questions that you guys have about what we've talked about today? I don't want to take up your whole afternoon But I did want to I did want to have this conversation because as we declutter our homes and as we go through some of our stuff It's easy to just hang on to stuff But never really know why and if there's a purpose for it It gives us a chance to then make a decision like i'm going to have three totes Or i'm not going to pick up any more totes. I know for my personal house my we have plenty of totes and these are like the uh The free the the waterproof kind And so if I go to a conference now and somebody tries to give me a tote I'll say no, thank you. I have enough right I've now cut myself off at the limit like I I know what i'm using my existing totes for and I won't be buying or having anymore Bernie bernie bernsify says but what about homebound people who get groceries picked up or grocery delivery? That's a really great question I know that like uh, judy said lots of people are having their groceries delivered and they deliver them in the canvas bags Because they don't want the plastic bags And so maybe it's an opportunity to recycle them at the same stores Like if you have a harris teeter bag and it's a cloth bag you recycle that back at harris teeter again And so if those bags come from a store in your area They would probably gladly take those back so that they can recycle those to people I also know that like my sisters and I have a clothing swap We're all I've got five or six sisters and we're all about the same size And so whenever we go to a family reunion, we will load up those cloth totes with clothes And it's a great way to recycle clothes and the cloth totes And then we get to a family reunion and then it's kind of like a swap meet where we're all like Oh, hey, I like that shirt. Oh, I like this whatever and then everybody goes home with a tote of new not new clothes But recycled clothes. So it's another way to kind of like share things with people is just by putting them in a tote as a gift Tg says I use double bag paper bags with handles to move from my first apartment since it was easier than lugging boxes They were too heavy Yes, that's fantastic. We did not talk about paper bags today But I know a lot of people are really into the paper bags instead of the plastic Do we have any more comments or ideas about that? Conversation needed and appreciated. I missed the first part suggestions on where and how to store the grocery bags again The grocery bags and we're talking about we'll talk about these these first the grocery bags that are small here can be Stored any number of ways Again, we store them in a plastic bucket That has a wide mouth to it. This is just a big gallon Maybe a gallon and a half tote And it's a three pound tube But then it allows just for easy access when you want to use and reuse these And what we reuse them for again is we use them for like small trash bins And we use them for sorting different things like again if you're at the pool I know that Inside even my big my big waterproof bag inside I keep a couple of those grocery bags in here So that if I have a wet bathing suit, I can put it inside there And then it doesn't you know get my bigger bag and it is waterproof But it that way it's easy to to take out and put inside the wash there are Different ways that you can use the packing and like somebody said you can That you know, they'll store those and put those inside matting And I didn't know if he knew this but lots of companies will recycle foam And these grocery bags as like furniture packing for when they are just looking for stuffing So that's another way to to help recycle them without them going into a landfill Denise says tote bags can hold umbrellas mittens stockings Stocking hats and scarves and other weather stuff of the command Hook thingy. Yes, Denise. You speak my language the hook thingy. That's what I'm talking about Yeah, what's really cool about the the grocery bags because they do have the handle You can also hang them on the back of any door and so I know that Even in our house sometimes We'll throw like dirty socks or you know Things that need to go inside there that go to the wash and we'll just throw them over the banister And then when we go back downstairs without them lying on the floor We'll just take the bag and take it downstairs with us. And so that's that's another way of doing that um So guys, this was a really great conversation Use them for your pets to pick up dog poop Ah, I was hoping that that wouldn't be brought up. But yeah, that's a good way to do that um, if you had a pack like this as you went outside to walk the dog you could then Pick up the poop along the way and I've always had a little issue with um Carrying the poop with you. I think it was Jerry Seinfeld who carried a coffee cup with a lid on it And then he said he just scooped up the poop and put the lid back on it So that it didn't look like he was carrying a bag of poop And then somebody said oh, yeah, Jerry, I saw you out walking your dog having your morning coffee and Jerry was like That's not my morning coffee. It's a dog poop So I think I think that there are there are fun ways to To make sure that you pick that up But the bags having the bags and having them at your disposal is a great idea And then also like Judy said keeping them in your car So that you have them if you're out and about and you find that you need them Bernie says I've been De-stashing my paper crafting stash and getting rid of things and it's been so liberating You guys I gotta tell you Getting rid of some stuff Is fantastic because it does make you feel great about making progress and cleaning up the stuff that's in your house But as you have these conversations with yourself It also changes the way that we behave in the future. Are you going to be using grocery bags? And if yes, let's make sure that we have a way that they are easily accessible Let's make sure that they are in places where when we need them we're going to use them Instead of going and grabbing, you know New new garbage bag liners if there's some that we can already recycle If we have a cloth tote that we can use instead That's you know, let's have those on hand and like sally said keep them in her car I know judy says she and her husband keep them in their cars And so that way It regardless of what car you're in you have this stuff that you need So do you have what you need on hand? Are you using it? And then how much is too much? All right, I'm going to let you guys get back to your afternoon But I think this was a really great conversation. I'm super glad that we did this We will be meeting again this time next week doing the same exact thing But during the week we're going to go back to hoarding world Which is the private facebook group and I don't have the link to give you Is that is that something one of you guys could add into our notes? And if it is come on over to the group if you're not already a member because then you can post pictures of your stash of Gift bags or your stash of grocery bags count during the week how many totes you actually have I think many people find they've got a whole lot more than they realize I know when I started counting mine I ended up with a great big plastic bin Of totes and of course they lay flat But I had probably 20 or 30 of them and I got rid of all of them except probably four or five And like Bernie said to stuff them and have things ready to go I know that for years I was giving away books And so I would carry boxes or those tote bags full of books And I would drop them off at a destination And so in getting rid of those whoever ended up with the tote got to keep the tote Right, but then making a conscious decision to not bring anymore into the home because I have plenty And so that's that's the place we want to get is discovering how much is is plenty for each of us Right, I don't want you to go without your totes I just want you to know when is when is enough enough and also the same with the gift bags I've got plenty of gift bags and although everyone in the family is not going to be super happy to get this one back again I got it right now. Yay but How many is enough and in the worst possible case scenario we can always go buy more, right But many people have too many so then give them away and don't buy any more until you've used them all, right All right, that's it. Do we have any more questions or anything else that we want to cover before before I let you guys get back to your day Judy anything from you? Oh, I see the note up here from hoarding world. Thank you while we are Talking I've gone through look at this. I folded all the packing paper You know for like gift bags I'm not sure what to do with these But I'm tossing something I love this. You're working. You're making this a working lunch. This is so awesome. This is fantastic Yeah, well the eye of adb. I can't wait to do something So I'm limiting how much tissue paper and different colors for the gift bags I think I've got four or five gift bags that aren't Sephora And yeah, and I found something that I bought like some key chains with the with the Travelers career on it that I could give to someone because I have one online Make sure my husband has one on it. So, yeah Yeah, this has been very helpful and I can limit this way I can limit how much I have You know, I got to put a limit on it. It's too much takes up too much room I live in Southern California and and houses are really expensive. So if you go by square foot That's a very expensive place to live in. So you got to figure My stuff has to be, you know, taking up space. It's going to take up what needs and no more Yeah Well, I appreciate you sharing that with us because I know that There and we've got so many great suggestions you guys there was just a suggestion that joanne Gave to us and she said she heard of a group that crochets the bags They crochet them into mats And that would be a really creative way to do that and I don't know who those people are but yeah If we have extra or surplus we would love to to see those be put into use Instead of just going into a landfill There was a documentary done on the bags and what happens when they go to the landfills And it made me really conscientious of how many is too many and then really being aware And that's when we started switching to the reusable Thicker bags like the ones for Aldi and and Lidl Where they just stay in the back of the car and then when we grow grocery shopping we take them in with us And so that way we're not, you know getting an extra amount and we're not Contributing to the landfill the landfill issue We have a note here that someone says in new york plastic bags are banned So we have to buy them and I just had to replace two totes But I got rid of the bulk over the winter when looking for plastic ones So I know that lots of areas are starting to put a limit on the bags and they're or they're starting to charge for them And that's because they're they are so wasteful, you know But I do hope that this conversation has been As interesting for you as it has been for me. I really appreciate you guys joining me here today And like I said, we will do this again same time same place next week And until then join us over in the hoarding world and post your pictures Of what you did during the week and the changes that you made because like judy I'm already inspired by just watching her tidy up and clean up some of the stuff that she has there So that's awesome. All right, you guys that's it for today. Thank you so much and we'll see you guys again next time