The Art of Decluttering

What are your values? What is your fundamental belief system. What is important to you? What drives you?Knowing your core values is a superpower to helping you life your life with purpose. They will be the filter for decision making about your stuff, your time, your energy, your money... everything!If you're struggling to live an intentional life, overwhelmed with decluttering, or the clutter keeps creeping back in, then identifying your values will be the rock to which you can hold all decisions against. Your values will reduce your calendar clutter, your emotional clutter, and your physical clutter.Learn to ask: "How does this item fit with my core values"Access the Clarify Your Core Values worksheet that Laurie recommends and uses herself.You may also like to listen to these episodes:Self SabotageCare by Brooke McAlaryQuitters DayJoin our community Become a Patron – your monthly donation makes a huge difference to me being able to produce this podcast. Donations can be as little as $1 a month!Follow me on InstagramFollow me on FacebookJoin my Facebook groupLeave a review on Apple PodcastThank you to my sound engineer, Jarred from Four4ty Studio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I have noticed that there are some areas of clutter that are more relevant to women. So I've asked myself why is this the case. Not all women, not no men... but generally speaking it's what I find when I see clients. So WHY is this the case? Often women carry the mental load. For ourselves, our households, and our communities. We account for unseen situations (many women keep Band-Aids in their handbags, not because they’re clumsy but for that moment when someone else needs one). Women are traditionally the storytellers, the carers, the nurturers, and the gatherers. And boy can we gather!!This episode is all about exploring the why behind our clutter, and asking ourselves if we really need to continue keeping all the things, or if it's time to shed the expectations we put on ourselves and society puts on us.You may also like to listen to these episodes:Mental LoadIt's all my Husband and Kids FaultOffloadingJoin our community Become a Patron – your monthly donation makes a huge difference to me being able to produce this podcast. Donations can be as little as $1 a month!Follow me on InstagramFollow me on FacebookJoin my Facebook groupLeave a review on Apple PodcastThank you to my sound engineer, Jarred from Four4ty Studio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Remembering to do ANYTHING 3 times a day is a huge effort, requiring mental load that frankly, most of us don't have. And when you do have to do something 3 times a day (like tidying up toys, clearing the kitchen bench, washing dishes) it kind of feels like you spend all day doing it because every time you look around, it is messy again or needs your attention.Explore the idea of reducing anything you're doing 3 times a day into incidental habits rather than a big task that you have to remember to do and might seem overwhelming. Instead of clearing the bench 3 times a day, can you get into the micro habit of putting things away instead of on the bench? Instead of tidying up a messy playroom 3 times a day, can you get into the micro habit of helping your child pack up one activity before moving onto another?Simplification is the key!You may also like to listen to these episodes:Micro DeclutterIs it cleaning, tidying or decluttering?FatigueJoin our community Become a Patron – your monthly donation makes a huge difference to me being able to produce this podcast. Donations can be as little as $1 a month!Follow me on InstagramFollow me on FacebookJoin my Facebook groupLeave a review on Apple PodcastThank you to my sound engineer, Jarred from Four4ty Studio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As a follow on from last weeks episode all about digital photos, today we explore how to best keep, store, enjoy, share and display our physical photos. Whether you're the keeper of family history or completely unsentimental, there are tips here for you. We chat about a listener dilemma on how to manage creating photo books and also chat about why it's harder to declutter physical photos than digital.Chantal shares her tips around scanning physical photos and we issue a challenge - to walk around your house noticing with fresh eyes what photos you have displayed and whether you do still want to display them. Do you have any current photos? Jump into our Facebook Community to share how you went and if you decluttered any displayed photos or went and got some printed to upgrade the frames around your house.Find Chantal on her website or listen to her podcast DIY Photo OrganisingYou may also like to listen to these episodes:Digital PhotosPhoto Organising with Chantal ImbachPhotosSentimental ItemsJoin our community Become a Patron – your monthly donation makes a huge difference to me being able to produce this podcast. Donations can be as little as $1 a month!Follow me on InstagramFollow me on FacebookJoin my Facebook groupLeave a review on Apple PodcastThank you to my sound engineer, Jarred from Four4ty Studio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What's your number? 9,000... 90,000? How many digital photos to you have on your phone? Do you have them backed up? Are they categorised? Could you find a specific photo within a few minutes? Today I have a conversation with Chantal Imbach from Photos in Order and discuss everything to do with digital photos. We cover the best way to store and back up photos and some options on how to enjoy your photos instead of hoarding them on a hard drive. We also answer a listener dilemma about how to minimise the risk of losing photos when you sync devices and how to have everything together rather than on multiple drives around the house.Find Chantal on her website or listen to her podcast DIY Photo OrganisingYou may also like to listen to these episodes:Photo Organising with Chantal ImbachPhotosSentimental ItemsJoin our community Become a Patron – your monthly donation makes a huge difference to me being able to produce this podcast. Donations can be as little as $1 a month!Follow me on InstagramFollow me on FacebookJoin my Facebook groupLeave a review on Apple PodcastThank you to my sound engineer, Jarred from Four4ty Studio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Why do we say yes to things we really should say no to? Where does that sense of obligation come from and how can we manage our response when we're offered free stuff?Do you see potential in everything? Do you want to say yes just to avoid potentially hurting someone's feelings? Do you have a scarcity mindset or is there even a sense of greed in your decision making?Today learn from my son Jesse in how he honestly and graciously says no when offered something he doesn't need or want. Have your mind blown, your mindset challenged and become a more intentional giver and receiver.You may also like to listen to these episodes:Need ItUse ItLove ItInherited ClutterJoin our community Become a Patron – your monthly donation makes a huge difference to me being able to produce this podcast. Donations can be as little as $1 a month!Follow me on InstagramFollow me on FacebookJoin my Facebook groupLeave a review on Apple PodcastThank you to my sound engineer, Jarred from Four4ty Studio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you've ever looked around your house and thought, "if only our house was a bit bigger or the storage was better, that would solve our clutter problem", then this episode is for you. And it's also for those of you who love smart design, and are interested in making the most of the space you have.Judy is an author, an award winning custom builder and remodeller who also helps overwhelmed clutter bugs create beautiful and peaceful homes. This last week Judy published her book, Bigger Living, Smaller Space and we chat today about generational clutter, design and building tricks to think about when building as well as how clutter reduces your housework (by a staggering 40%!) and what rightsizing your home might look like.Find Judy on her website or on Facebook and purchase her new book on amazonYou may also like to listen to these episodes:DownsizingTop Tips for DownsizingJoin our community Become a Patron – your monthly donation makes a huge difference to me being able to produce this podcast. Donations can be as little as $1 a month!Follow me on InstagramFollow me on FacebookJoin my Facebook groupLeave a review on Apple PodcastThank you to my sound engineer, Jarred from Four4ty Studio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With the school year starting in Australia and extra curricular activities returning you may be starting to feel overwhelmed with all the running around, equipment to keep track of, sports uniforms to wash etc. Do you have multiple activities, multiple children or pre-schoolers to entertain? There are tips today for everyone!Today be encouraged to help your kids take responsibility for their own equipment for extra curricular activities and see what organising tips would work well for your family from where you keep the bags to making sure some simple habits help the family run more smoothly.You may also like to listen to these episodes:Bulky Sports EquipmentSports EquipmentDance CostumesBack to SchoolReturn to SchoolJoin our community Become a Patron – your monthly donation makes a huge difference to me being able to produce this podcast. Donations can be as little as $1 a month!Follow me on InstagramFollow me on FacebookJoin my Facebook groupLeave a review on Apple PodcastThank you to my sound engineer, Jarred from Four4ty Studio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hand up if you've discovered long lost library books or school readers under a child's bed years after they bought them home and been too embarrassed to return them to the school... Hands up if you've paid a lost book fee at the library because you're sure someone broke into your house during the night, purely to steal 2 of your kids library books...Hands up if your teenager has managed in the course of 12 months to take a mint condition $100 text book and turn it into a barely recognisable collection of ripped and barely strung together pages...Today is about some hacks to help develop the love of reading along with removing the stress of losing books, ruining books or turning up to school without the books you need for the day. Whether the kids are in their first or last year of schooling there are ideas for everyone today.You may also like to listen to these episodes:Big BooksKids BooksReadingBack to SchoolReturn to SchoolJoin our community Become a Patron – your monthly donation makes a huge difference to me being able to produce this podcast. Donations can be as little as $1 a month!Follow me on InstagramFollow me on FacebookJoin my Facebook groupLeave a review on Apple PodcastThank you to my sound engineer, Jarred from Four4ty Studio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Did you like me, put yourself under enormous pressure to find the 'perfect' lunch box for your kids when they first started school? Do you have parts of random lunch boxes in drawers and at the back of cupboards? Join in and question what type of lunchboxes will work best for you and your family depending on the season of life you are in.Be encouraged to think about the routine of washing/ packing lunch boxes as well as habits of unpacking bags after school and work. Maybe you can even encourage your kids that it's their responsibility to pack their own lunches (yep, I've never ever made a school lunch!)You may also like to listen to these episodes:TupperwareBack to SchoolReturn to SchoolJoin our community Become a Patron – your monthly donation makes a huge difference to me being able to produce this podcast. Donations can be as little as $1 a month!Follow me on InstagramFollow me on FacebookJoin my Facebook groupLeave a review on Apple PodcastThank you to my sound engineer, Jarred from Four4ty Studio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.