Spring Reset, Kids' Stuff: The Workshop

Your actual spaces and stuff sorted with the Finnish master organizer Kiira Keto, to increase your bandwidth and good vibes for the summer.

Last week, I hosted a live Zoom workshop for the Scandi Class Inner Circle with my favorite Finnish master organizer, Kiira Keto. Her Instagram feed of stunningly organized spaces with “just enough” items feels soul-soothing. Her work is the perfect blend of Nordic simplicity, design, and sensibility, and I was so excited that she could take the time to answer your most pressing questions about how to reset the kids’s stuff in your homes!

In Finland, spring cleaning and decluttering are not dreaded chores. They can feel like a turning point. You open the windows, get rid of what winter piled up, and make the house easier to live in before summer vacation begins.

Less stuff means less mess and less to organize. And when everything has its own place, the people you live with — kids and even the husband — can finally find and put things back without you too.

The idea is that you clear your head along with the shelves. And the part I love most is the reward: the time you get back. No one wants to be organizing the play space when you could be sitting down to read a book at sunset.

I knew the idea resonated with you when my reel series on the Finnish way to tackle laundry piles went viral — and when my recent Substack post on decluttering kids’ stuff the Nordic way brought in more new subscribers than anything I’ve ever published. So I wanted to give this to you next: your real questions answered; your real spaces actually sorted.

The workshop recording is for the Scandi Circle (paid subscribers), but I want every one of you to walk away with this tip.

Don’t start by buying new storage. Start by choosing your child’s ten favorite toys and activities, with your child. Display only a few in labeled containers, ideally visible, to maximize creativity, independence and make cleaning up easy. And donate or sell what’s no longer a favorite, to declutter.

Inside, you'll get the full workshop replay, including Kiira’s exact rule for goodie-bags!

Scandi Circle also gets my monthly 10 Things Tuesday, the paid section at the end of most letters — where the most personal stories and the practical how-tos live — and seasonal workshops like this one. It's the closest corner of Scandi Class, and you'll find all of it in the Scandi Class Inner Circle Library.

For questions beyond this workshop, you can contact Kiira directly via email kiira.aurora@gmail.com or via Insta DM’s.