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welcome back guys today we’re gonna be
cleaning out this cabinet above the
fridge I’m just kidding don’t put that
in hey guys welcome back to Johanna
Thornton today we’re going to be
starting off by cleaning out this
cabinet above the fridge there’s some
stuff in it that probably can go stay
tuned my current one does what that does
it’s broken he’s broken I’m not going in
because it’s broken I wouldn’t wrap this
on my worst enemy
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anybody knows what this is drop a
comment down below and let us know
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since we do have a dumpster in our
driveway which I’ll touch more on in
just a second I decided it was time to
just clear out the cabinets in my
kitchen that I almost never look in or
get stuff out of because they’re just
piled up with stuff we do not need and I
figured now was the perfect time
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it is so much better up here now I do
have one extra shelf for our
refrigerator and I don’t want to get rid
of that just in case we might need it
down the road and then some more filters
and our waffle maker we don’t make
waffles a ton so I’ll just put it up
there and then all of our trays that we
use for like parties and whatnot and
then the ice cube trays for the
summertime and then just our throwaway
trays so it’s pretty empty up here now
it was just jam-packed of tons of junk
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and since I did the cabinets above our
refrigerator I felt like it made sense
to do the cabinet’s above our oven
because these are probably the two
cabinets that I just never reach in
mainly because they’re so high and I
can’t see everything up here but that
doesn’t mean they have to be full of
junk and it felt really good
not only to clear things out and get rid
of them but just to clear things out so
I could fully wipe these cabinets down
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okay this is as good as it’s gonna get
in here we did take out our fine china
just because we do not use it at all we
got it for our wedding and it just takes
up space and I feel like it would be
better suited in someone else’s home
probably I did just order here I’ll show
you on my phone these racks from Amazon
I got a 2-pack or two of them they were
pretty cheap and I’m going to sit all of
my cupcake and muffin pans upright
because they normally do not look this
organized they’re not only just thrown
all up here and I can’t ever get to the
right size so for now it looks good it’s
a work in progress and on to the next
okay it is time to start dumping some
stuff if you guys follow me on instagram
you know that we rented a dumpster for
our driveway because we kind of just
reached our point of being so tired of
driving to the dump and having stuff
that’s too big for our trash can and we
have a lot of stuff that is really old
Marc and I are coming up on twelve years
of marriage we have that glider from
when Ava was little and went through all
four of our children it’s broken now and
just a lot of stuff that’s broken
honestly most of those hangers are
broken the vacuum cleaner well I have a
million vacuum cleaners and that one
broke and then this laundry sorter it
served me well for a long time but it is
broken at the bottom and then just a
bunch of junk in there so we are gonna
get started moving all this out to the
dumpster
we have a ton more to put out there too
and we have some neighbor friends who
are dumping their stuff too but anyways
it just feels so good to get rid of
stuff
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push in the past again you know my
little trick is keep on treating we go
why can’t we
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it never was like this before we’ve been
wearing that I love it like
okay just came upstairs and don’t judge
us because we were in the process of
cleaning everything out and going
through everything it’s just been this
massive shift of not knowing where to
put things so mark and I just decided to
tackle it little areas at a time and so
I’m going to start with the desk right
here
we ordered a chair on target online and
I just picked it up today so I’m going
to put the chair there eventually when
we clear everything out and all of this
up here is clean laundry so I’m going to
get that put away
y’all can kind of see in my office is
rough I don’t know if I’m going to
tackle that today or not and then that
Brown table right there we’re giving
away and then I need to find a place for
this little nightstand right here so
we’re gonna get to work we have a ton of
work ahead of us but instead of feeling
overwhelmed and looking at the entire
upstairs we’re just going to take
smaller sections at a time
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why can’t we
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I don’t think I’ve shown y’all our
upstairs landing area or the playroom or
really my office in a very long time
with reason obviously everything is kind
of a disaster that everyday we’re
working on it and it’s getting better
and better which is such a good feeling
but I move this desk well with Marc’s
help it’s a very heavy desk from those
room or at least what used to be his
room out to this landing area because it
didn’t really go in the boys bedroom and
I kind of loved it because we had been
homeschooling for the last part of last
school year which is now summer time I
guess and we probably will be
homeschooling again in the fall not by
choice but just I’m thinking there’s a
chance that school will not be back in
session so I love having this little
area for my kids to work if I need to
separate them and you’ll see here in a
second I get it all cleared off wiped
down and even put a chair there which I
told y’all about just because I love to
have little areas for my kids to go
where they can concentrate and not be
distracted
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give me a sign
No
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I know all you moms out there can relate
to me right now but socks are just such
an issue in our family so I feel like
I’m constantly dealing with socks that
don’t have matches they get lost all the
time and so I did start doing these
little compartments in this drawer just
because there’s four they fit perfectly
and I divide up each kid’s socks and
then so my kids know exactly where to
get their socks but I do not like
matching up socks I think it’s one of my
least favorite things to do
also as I was going through these
dresses I started to get emotional
because my girls have really outgrown
most of these princess dresses and I
just am not really quite ready to move
on to the next phase of life but I know
they are and I’m gonna be passing them
on to my nieces so at least I’ll still
be able to see them but it kind of makes
me sad for every little milestone and
every year that my girls get older
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to be here and to get you under the skin
they’re right back through it we’ve been
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let me know
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me
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No
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man
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this desk as well as the hutch with it
and the lockers in the boys room if you
all remember what those look like
those were all pieces of furniture from
Marx childhood and I took them outside
and I spray-painted all of them I know
you’re probably not supposed to
spray-paint furniture but I did and I
love it it’s held up wonderfully I just
got like a matte black spray-paint and
honestly I wipe it down and do
everything and it has never chipped or
looked bad or anything so I don’t regret
doing that for one second
and it was so fast and easy
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okay guys we are actually upstairs in
the playroom right now I’m not going to
show you the whole thing because we’re
working on it but we have cleared out
this corner right here I still need to
clean the baseboards and vacuum but mark
is taking apart
Ava’s gymnastics mat right now and her
bar and we’re going to move it in here
because I bought her a chair for the
corner of her room and it just works
better in there so I’m going to clean
out this area get the bar set up in here
and then set up the chair in her room
too
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okay
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the girls just came upstairs and we’re
like they’re so excited I think just
like a change of scenery for this bar
but we did screw it back together
no worries and they’ve already flipped
on it so it’s gonna be good for now okay
I’m in Ava’s room now we have her far
gone so there’s so much more space I’m
going to be doing some cleaning out like
I said and we’re gonna put a chair right
there in that corner but I have a ton of
clean clothes that we have washed and
right there so I’m gonna put them away
in her dresser and vacuum really quickly
and then put that chair in here I did
order a pillow for it and it hasn’t come
in yet but I’m still gonna put the chair
there it’s actually an outdoor chair but
I don’t even care I think it looks so
cute
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I know y’all have only seen like bits
and pieces of Ava’s room and maybe not
the whole picture but we do have a
colorful rug on the floor and her
bedding is white and gold and then this
nightstand behind me I painted that a
long time ago that was a nightstand that
Marx mom gave me and Ava just kind of
wanted it in her room we moved it in
there I’m not sure if it’s gonna stay
but all that to say I really want to put
some curtains in Ava’s room I love the
way curtains look in her room she has
the rods up already but I cannot figure
out what color curtains to put I don’t
want to make her room just like this
wild colorful crazy room I want it to
make sense so I was almost leaning
towards white curtains but I would love
to know y’all’s opinion I thought at
first maybe pink but I don’t think I
want to do pink just because the blue
and white walls but I wonder if there’s
a color I’m not thinking about
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in the middle of it
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so know what you need
you
so as we are going through stuff I’m
trying to give most everything to
friends and family locally but I just
wanted to say if you’re not following me
on Instagram I’d love to have you over
there because a lot of times I’ll just
post stuff that I’m giving away over
there and it really helps for people to
be local I know I don’t have a ton of
local subscribers but I have a few and I
know I’m going to be posting the quilts
that I’m washing right now and those
sheets just on Instagram and putting up
a box if anyone’s interested I would
love to give them away and obviously it
would be kind of fun to give them away
to somebody who would need to like a
matching set together just like the
girls head
got a fella devotion
stay true
so I can be
this for you
I gotta figure it
don’t forget to to hop over to our
family vlogging channel if you’re
interested in stuff like that we have a
lot of fun over there I try to post
vlogs I do post vlogs every single week
and then mark and I have started this
thing where we go live every other
Thursday for now it’s every other
Thursday it might turn into every
Thursday and we are going live this
Thursday night so I hope to see you guys
there it’s gonna be so much fun we have
a couple things planned it’s just a
really casual night or we can come y’all
can ask questions and we just get to
chat with you guys I know mark and I
just had the best time last time we did
it so I just want to let you guys know
so nobody misses it and I’m sorry to
those of you who it’s not really in the
right timezone eventually we’re gonna
start doing our lives at different times
but for now it works out best to get our
kids in bed and then do it
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but it’s okay
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okay it’s a little bit later almost 2
a.m. this just seems like the right
place to finish out because mark and I
have been dividing up household chores
lately it’s actually been going really
really well and this is the week that he
is buying all the groceries and doing
the meal prepping and cooking dinner and
I am doing all the dishes and you can
clearly tell that by the fact that it is
so backed up right now but it doesn’t
normally look like this in here we took
all of our fine china out because we do
not use fine china and I’m going to
either try to sell that on Facebook
marketplace or possibly give it away and
then that is all the stuff that goes
underneath our kitchen sink because we
are waiting on another part for our sink
if y’all haven’t watched last week’s
video it’s leaking and I’m thinking that
we will get that all fixed up tomorrow
but for now that’s there and this is
what it looks like down here with that
poor little guy we have to empty them
out occasionally so I want to get all
these dishes done and I know some of
y’all say that it seems like I always
have a good attitude but I can guarantee
you right now I’m not really feeling
cleaning up all these dishes but I’m
going to do it because I know it’s what
needs to happen and then I am going to
run my robot rock and not think about
the floor so all I want to do is finish
this up and then head to bed
because first wave I call was still
standing by your side
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it was storming so bad outside which you
can see right here the lightning and the
Thunder was so loud and all I could
think was how soaking wet all the stuff
in the dumpster was getting I know it
doesn’t matter at all and that stuff was
junk anyway but it just made me feel
really weird but I really loved a good
evening thunderstorm at this point mark
had gone to bed and the kids were
obviously asleep it was super super
light and it was just kind of relaxing
to clean the kitchen and the more I
cleaned it the more I wanted to do and I
kind of had to force myself to stop
cleaning and you know go to bed also all
of that stuff over on the Pew is our
giveaway pile so stuff that we didn’t
want to throw in the dumpster because we
knew somebody could get used out of it
and it’s just staying there until we can
take it and donate it
Oh
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no we go way way back as far as way
bikers standing by your side
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I’m so glad that you guys are here
watching this video and that you’ve
chosen to just be here with me even for
a little bit I appreciate you guys so
much I know I tell you all that all the
time but I just never want you to think
I take y’all for granted and I love that
I feel like more and more of y’all are
reaching out to me on Instagram because
they show up in my requests folder
meaning I’ve never gotten a message from
you before and that just means so so
much to me you guys have sent such
encouraging sweet kind messages to me
especially over this past week and it’s
just put a huge smile on my face so I
love that I can encourage y’all and I
love that in turn y’all encouraged me
even more so this community is just such
a beautiful thing that I am so so
thankful for and stay tuned because I’m
pretty sure next week in my next Sunday
video I’m doing a giveaway so it’s gonna
be fun you guys are gonna love it and
I’m looking forward to sharing more
about that with you next week
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Hey
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you can come
how’s that
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surfing only where the good feelings
whether it’s just another
so bring your a-game
cuz you know this garden won’t stop
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we should
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