I tried 'Swedish Death Cleaning' and it CHANGED EVERYTHING!

I Swedish Death Cleaned my entire home and was shocked by the results. I've never seen so much stuff leave my house so quickly! I hope you try Swedish Death Cleaning too because it might just change your life.
It totally works!

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CHAPTERS:
0:00 Who is Swedish Death Cleaning for?
2:00 What is Swedish Death Cleaning?
3:14 Where do you start?
4:26 Creating 4 Different Piles
5:33 Struggling with an item? Ask this question
6:10 Death Cleaning Process
8:26 Sentimental items
10:17 What are my thoughts?

[tammyc]

I'm in the middle of bearing this burden. My mom is in the nursing home and I get the job of clearing out her house, filled with absolutely everything. She never threw anything away, including junk mail and receipts. Tons of pictures, cards, letters. Everything we ever made at school. Everything from all 5 of her husbands and even stuff from their kids and exes. More stuff than you can possibly imagine. People!! Please do this for your loved ones!!!

[goofygirl]

I remember reading a comment on a video having to do with clearing out a deceased parent's house. The person said that their parent had an overwhelming amount of possessions to the point where they had to rent a dumpster just to clear out the broken, useless worn out things in the house. As bad as the main level was, she was so dreading the attic which, the last time she had seen it, was filled from floor to ceiling with dusty boxes, old furniture and wide assortment of unused things that had just been tossed up there over the decades. She steeled herself one day and opened the attic door....and there was nothing up there. Not a thing. She remembered how she cried realizing that her mom had loved her enough to get rid of that stuff. That really made an impression on me. We have to love our kids enough to do this for ourselves so that our kids won't have to.

[vsee]

We had a sale of my dad's workshop where he had all kinds of electrical gauges and gizmos. During the sale a young man with the exact body type, ginger hair and engineer glint in his eyes, just like my dad! He was holding several cases of gauges and was thrilled! Obviously from the same planet as dad!. It made me really happy to know my dad would have been happy to see the prized gizmos go to someone who would also cherish them.

[isabellahodge]

My husband passed away a few months ago, leaving just me (66F) and the cat rattling round in a four bedroom house with huge attic and basement. We bought this house to raise our family in so there's been lots of time to clutter the place up, and lots of clutter. Plus my husband didn't much like the effort of keeping on top of it and I've been mildly disabled for some years...anyway, it's cluttered, put it that way, and I've decided that I'll be downsizing in a year or two. Plus my kids have moved out, have their own houses, jobs and family, they don't have time to deal with all of this. So on the principle of slow and steady, I have made a start now. And I have discovered something, not only is clearing out the house a great way of revisiting old memories it's also cathartic, a way of illuminating a path to another stage of life that is opening up. I'm not doing this under any great time pressure after all and one real bonus of taking your time is that you can find new homes for some of the better items. I'm not wedded to rehoming every old plastic tub but it's nice to get some items moved on and some into the appropriate recycling stream. So far I have done the kitchen, dining room, walk in pantry, the linen closet and half of my husband's study. I've evicted around 75% of the items in each, what is left falls into the "keep to use till I move, then discard" category or "take when moving" category. The worst bit is going to be the attic, I can get myself up and down there but I can't carry much down. I'll wait till summer though and sort it in situ, then the kids can drag the Toss heap out and take it straight to the dump. Plans. As I said, cathartic, give me a sense of purpose and looking forwards. Highly recommended.

[thelmakatherine]

I want my kids to gather together after my funeral and talk about how awkward a mama I was, not curse me because of all the work ahead of them bc of all my crap. I am only 51, but I have decluttered sooo much unnecessary stuff. Thanks for your great encouragement!!!

[Julie-sihi]

As an only child...yes please declutter but also dont forget to live! Its ok to have a home with things you love.

[kjk]

When my grandma died, I cleared out her house together with my mom, sister, aunt and cousin. We found heaps of clothes hangers. In every room, in every cupboard. At some point, we started laughing hysterically at every other hanger we found, until we were in tears. And during my mother's eulogy, she mentioned the word 'hangers' - and all my grandma's friends and distant relatives must have thought 'They're crazy. Why are they laughing?' It was like my grandma's last joke for us. As if she had deliberately owned so many clothes hangers just to make us laugh. I still smile a lot today when I open the closet 😊

[chelephant]

I think a big part of it too is that someone is already completely overwhelmed dealing with the loss of a loved one. To then deal with the burden and the guilt of having to get rid of a house full of things seems unbearable

[DVB]

I have a four bedroom house. My late husband was a hoarder, he filled three rooms with computers and related paraphernalia and so many other things, there was no space to walk around in these rooms. He never wanted to throw away anything.

He passed away in 2014, it took me six months to clear the rooms. I learned a valuable lesson to throw/give/sale stuff, so my busy adult children won’t need to spend months clearing up my house when I die.

[danicegewiss]

I cleaned under my sink and discovered a leaky pipe and black mold. Decluttering can save us from dying....literally. My mom saved some of my school projects. After she died, I found them and missed her. Watching this video reminded me of that. Thank you.♥️

[rosemarygrabowski]

This IS a great idea. One word of caution, though, about ditching dvd's: if it's a show/movie that you love and know you will watch again (and again, and again . . . ) I say keep the dvd, and here's why: while it's true that you can find a whole lot of shows and movies on the various streaming platforms, note that not only can they possibly have every show/movie you might want to see, but they also cycle things out, so even if you can find it on Netflix today, 2 years from now when you really want to watch it, there's a good chance they won't still have it available. So if you have favorites, or hard-to-find shows, keep the dvd. You probably won't have that many, and you could always keep them all in one place so they'll be easy to find and declutter before you move to the old folks home.

[KC-eddj]

Take photos of items you loved and put them in a "memories" album. Many times, there is no need to keep the actual item, and just looking at the photos brings just as much joy. Works for me!

[PatriciaCarrier]

I'm 63 and did my "Swedish Death Cleaning" five years ago, and it feels awesome.
If, for whatever reason, my time were to come tomorrow (which I highly doubt, as I'm very healthy), my daughter could hire a stranger to remove the current stuff I'm using. There's nothing of value to her.
If anything I owned was meaningful to her, she already has it in her possession.
It makes me feel peaceful.
Thank you for the content. 🙌💟

[RockStarX]

A friend did it and she did die. Her house was sparkling spotless.

[ladyfingerhandmade]

I need to do this with my home. After my FIL passed away, we had to clean out his house with 50 years worth of stuff. It took forever! But I can give anyone doing this a quick tip. If using trash bags for both trash and items you're donating, buy different color bags. I used white bags I could write on for donations and black bags for trash. Made it easier to sort them as they came out of the house. White bags were stored in the garage until I had them picked up and black bags went straight to the curb. Oh, if you can, use a service like Pick Up Please, which will come to your home and haul away donations for FREE. You can make your appointment online, then just put all your stuff outside on the scheduled date. Also i find if i make an appointment before I'm done decluttering, it helps me stay focused and get things done.

[TheThiaminBlog]

I’ve lost both my parents over the last couple of years, and I have yet to cry. It was so overwhelming dealing with end-stage life decisions, rehab facilities, assisted-living, and trying to keep them in their home (which was their wish)— and then when they did pass away, the house of 60 years was literally packed with junk. I live 12 hours away.

My mother especially slipped into dementia, but now I know my dad did too. It has been over a year since mom passed away, and I still have probably 20 boxes of papers and photos and letters to go through in my own attic. There was so much! My mother treasured every single item.

[Mogerbelles]

Thanks so much for this video! I'm a 60 year old, struggling with a messy house, and you have inspired me so much, and you are so sweet and

[LiberalGranny]

As someone who has had to clean out a parent's stuff after they died, I am DETERMINED that my kids won't have to suffer through the same thing as me. I think cleaning out the years of crap (and let's face it, most of it IS crap our kids don't want), is the best inheritance we can leave our loved ones -- along with some money, if you have any left, lol.

[ChrisJeske-sv]

I saved my 3 daughters' American Girl dolls and Bitty Babies. I brought them out over Christmas and presented them to my 2 year old granddaughter. She 'fed' them lovingly and put them down for a nap. It felt like no time had passed. It definitely brought us joy! ♥️

[alycelappin]

I am an old Grandma and love your videos. But now at this stage in my life, some of my "things" bring me comfort. I don't want to clean out/off/dispose of things that someone else will have to when I get a boost from looking at them, using them, etc. I told my loved ones just to call 1800 GOT JUNK because it only means something to me. There really isn't that much because I am good at decluttering in general. For example, I have a box of my grown children's baby clothes, one box, and my mother knitted some things for them that the daughter in law didn't want. No one else will want those things and they will go to a dump so they can go after me!