I Tried Swedish Death Cleaning My Entire House *it took 6 months*

Pack Rats Unite !! 🤗

Mia: “Stuart is obsessed with empty boxes” Also Mia: hoards tampon boxes

I'm 72. I've been death cleaning for 5 years! If I'm unsure about whether to toss something, I will put it in the center of my living room. When I get tired of walking around it, out it goes! And I've learned that no one wants your stuff. They have their own stuff! You did a good job!

It’s an ongoing process. I divide my house into 12 parts. Then tackle one area per month. The following year, I start at room 1 again. You’d be surprised how much accumulates AND how much you’re willing to part with once you realize you really haven’t touched those items all year long… gets easier and easier every year.

As a child of hoarders, I am now going thru the death cleaning in real-time. Trying to decide what was important to them versus a piece of trash is mind-blowing and many coffee and doughnuts have been consumed.

I am swedish and learnt about death cleaning when I started going to a knitting café filled with older ladies. They talked about it often. They wanted to make sure that they didn't leave too much so that their children would be tempted to get rid of it all, they kept the good stuff so that their children could keep it.

Stuart getting heat for boardgames, meanwhile Mia clutching her toenails and tampon boxes 😂 On brand ✨

Told my Mom about this a few years ago when we started looking at retirement apartments…. She took it to heart. 80 yrs old at the time, with bad knees, and she declutter Ed a 900sqft house on her own in less than a year. Then started trying to declutter my 1200 sqft house….LOL. Finally got her to stop decluttering (throwing out hubby’s stuff) by asking her to teach my some traditional recipes from her region of Italy. But she kept her house decluttered for the last 6 years and the move to the apartment took a single weekend with just my Prius and hubby’s pick up truck. Three trips and done.

I'm 60 yrs old & a crafting hoarder. My friends & family have been telling me I need to do this & I really want to, but...... realistically I know I'm going to end up in a corner curled into the fetal position crying my eyes out. Watching how you handled this gives me hope. If you can be this brave, then maybe I can to. Plus, nobody told me I could take my time. Everyone made it sounds like I should be able to do my whole house in 2 weeks & start a new life! Not with my back problems, sister. Thank you for sharing your journey! 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

4:49 Mia coming for her husband's game hoarding like she doesn't have a whole storage unit just for home decor stuff had me laughing so hard 🤣

i love that you showed the realistic side of decluttering not everyone can do it in a day or a week or a month

“I don’t aspire to [minimalism] I just want to be organized in my own terms” so well put I feel like this may end up as a decal in my house or a tattoo or something 💞 thank you for sharing this experience

As a D&D player, I am appalled by Mia thinking two dice sets is too many. My partner and I are both dice goblins and SHINY CLICK CLACK MATH ROCKS MAKE US HAPPY and are a HUMAN RIGHT.😭

I really appreciate you putting yourself out there. On social media, you usually see people's curated and clean spaces and it makes you feel like such a cluttered slob. Thanks for letting us know we aren't alone in the struggle to keep things tidy. This is just what lived in homes look like. Here's to learning how to let things go even though they would be perfect for that specific scenario that'll never happen. 🥂

I started doing the Swedish death cleaning after my husband passed away six months ago. It really made me take a long hard look at all the stuff we have accumulated over our 30 years in this house. I didn't want my kids to have to deal with all of this mess if something were to happen to me too, so it is time to deal with it now.

"What if there is an apocalypse and I can't buy this anymore?" OMG, this is literally why I'm keeping so much stuff that most people would throw out in a heartbeat! 😀Those last three Covid years didn't help with that.

Your statement about , "but what if i need this in the zombie apocalypse?" is literally me. It's those what if's that get ya.

I love that Mia says Stuart has the empty box obsession then proceeds the show us all the boxes she’s been hoarding ❤❤

Sometimes seeing YouTubers homes makes it seem like they have it all together, but Mia thank you for keeping it real with us! It made me feel better about having my own little junk drawers

It's almost a year since my hoarding husband passed away and I'm still not 100% through the clutter. Totally agree that it's easier to get rid of things by donating them to places/people who can give them a new life - that resonated with me as just throwing things in the trash without first attempting to repurpose/recycle/rehome feels so wrong. Thank you for showing that stuff like this can't be all done in a day/week/month 👍🏽