00:00I just feel bad because I could like put some water in it and no one would ever know.
00:04I'm Bea, a video producer at Refinery29 with a side hustle as a personal organizer.
00:10I help people transform their spaces by changing the way they think about their stuff.
00:17Meet Amanda and her collection of beauty products.
00:21Makeup, brushes, shampoos, nail polishes.
00:24Amanda is the recipient of generous donations by her older sister who works in the beauty industry.
00:29And this is a classic case of what happens when you have too much of a good thing.
00:34So what is going on here?
00:35I really don't have any storage space.
00:38I've just figured out ways to hide it all.
00:41Do you use it all?
00:42No.
00:44So out of all of this 20 lipsticks, 20 makeup...
00:48Oh, there's more than 20 in there.
00:49You don't even really wear makeup.
00:51No, not really.
00:52So why do you keep it all?
00:54I like to keep it just in case I need it someday.
00:58I like to keep it to give away to people for gifts.
01:00I don't even know what I have.
01:02Especially in like some of these things, it's just like I don't even know what it is.
01:05It's too much work to even look.
01:06I just feel guilty getting rid of things because it's a really nice product.
01:10It would be great to figure out a system that would make gifting easier for me.
01:15What we need to do is go through your collection, see what has been living under your bed,
01:20and hopefully through the process of paring it down, we can remove some of this guilt that you feel.
01:26Are you ready to do this?
01:27Yes, I am.
01:29All right.
01:29All right.
01:59I just never know what I'm going to need, and it's like if I have it now, might as well
02:03keep it because I'll need it at one point.
02:06It's like maybe one day in the future.
02:08So knowing that, just go forth with that info.
02:11Use it as you will.
02:13Let's start this next step.
02:16Let's start this next step.
02:42Oh, it's very dusty.
02:44It's really bad.
02:44How long have you had this stuff?
02:46Well, I've lived in this apartment for about a year and a half.
02:50So it's at least a year and a half old.
02:51Some of it's older, some of it's newer.
02:54How old is the oldest stuff?
02:55I would say three years.
02:56Did you know that some of this stuff has expiration dates?
02:59Each product has its own kind of shelf life.
03:01Okay, so that could help inform what we should get rid of.
03:06Yeah.
03:19It's been a long day of going through products and makeup and things that honestly aren't a really big part
03:24of my life,
03:25and going through them is kind of tedious.
03:27I'm exhausted, and I'm excited to see the final product.
03:31We just finished all of the organizing, all of the purging of her room.
03:35It's right after we've put everything back that I think she's going to realize what a difference this is going
03:39to make in her life.
03:41Because before it was kind of scattered all over, and I think it's about to change a lot once we
03:45put everything back in the room.
03:47Step three, make a storage plan that works for you.
04:05Step three, make a storage plan that works for you.
04:09Well, I'm done.
04:11It's officially time for Amanda to see the transformation.
04:15In.
04:17Wow!
04:19Look at that!
04:20So this is like a one-stop shop now.
04:23You no longer have to go looking in every corner of your room.
04:26All these different bags.
04:27It's all right there in front of me.
04:29It looks so good.
04:30There's even some extra room.
04:31There is, so if I ever get more.
04:34This one slides right under your bed.
04:37Oh, so nice.
04:38Boom.
04:39Look at that.
04:40That's perfect.
04:41So the rest of it is all the stuff that you gift away.
04:46Oh, very nice.
04:47And that lives.
04:50Oh, that's so nice.
04:51So that like tucks right away.
04:54So good.
04:55Oh, so easy.
04:56You were able to throw out a bunch of stuff.
04:58I did.
04:59I threw out a lot of stuff.
05:00I feel good.
05:01I feel like I did rid myself of any guilt that I did have.
05:05I already feel like my room is like not as cluttered.
05:08I think because I know that it is where it should be and it's not all over.
05:13I'm just ready to be organized.
05:17Oh my God.
05:21It's going to be a really nice shot of us.
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