The Art of Decluttering

Do you work in an office at a desk? Is your desk full of clutter? Do you look with envy at others who have a clean desk or do you wonder if they get any work done? This week we chat about what you need on your desk, what you don't need on your desk, phone detox, productivity hacks, daily habits and so much more! You will laugh along with (at) us as well as be inspired to look at your desk with fresh eyes to see how you could change your productivity. We also set a challenge to spend 5 minutes each morning of just dreaming undistracted. Big shout out to Danielle Jones for the episode idea and Elizabeth Cronk for your support over at Patreon.com/theartofdecluttering. We hope you enjoy it!Things we mentioned in the podcast this week; Slow Your Home Podcast - Slow Experiment about getting outdoorsShillinglaw Cafe that Amy went to this weekPhone detox apps;ForestDinnermode OfftimeFlipdApp Detox (Android)Productivity & Habit HacksPomodoro TechniqueResearch done on seeing nature everyday thanks to Slow Your Home Podcast!Join our community ● Become a Patron with Patreon – your monthly donation makes a huge difference to us being able to producethis podcast. Donations can be as little as $1 a month!● Follow us on Instagram● Follow us on Facebook● Join our Facebook group● Leave a review on Apple PodcastThank you to our sound engineer, Jarred from Four4ty Studio Productions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we chat about camping and how to make going on holidays easier, simple, straightforward and more organised! You will laugh when Amy double jinx Kirsty and she can't talk. We chat about our favourite holiday destinations and Amy shares heaps of tips, tricks and hacks to make life easier when you go on holidays including pegs, containers and washing detergent. We chat about worst camping holidays and laugh at how we are NOT your people to seek advice about camping in the Australian Outback! Would you come on an Art of Decluttering Camp out? We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we enjoyed making it!Join our community ● Become a Patron with Patreon – your monthly donation makes a huge difference to us being able to producethis podcast. Donations can be as little as $1 a month!● Follow us on Instagram● Follow us on Facebook● Join our Facebook group● Leave a review on Apple PodcastThank you to our sound engineer, Jarred from Four4ty Studio Productions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our most Rubbish Episode ever, because we are chatting about RUBBISH!! This episode will have you laughing along with (at) us as well as thinking about all the ways you can get rubbish out of your home and how to reduce the waste you make. We chat about Hard Rubbish collections, tip runs, Skip bins, Aussie Skip bags at Bunnings, recycling, composting and so much more! We have a competition going this week where if you are the first to tell us exactly how many times we say the word "Rubbish" then Amy will send you a copy of her book Simply Organised. So make careful note! Big shout out to our friends Kylie Johnston and Anna Barnes for their contribution to our chat this week ;-) We hope you enjoy it!If you do love the show and would like to show your support by becoming a patron, head over here to make a small monthly donation (as little as $1 a month) and know that any amount makes a huge difference to us being able to cover costs of producing this podcast.Things we mentioned in the podcast this week; www.facebook.com/Diamond-creek-Skip-bins-Rubbish-removal-133596663501363www.aussieskipbags.com.auwww.abc.net.au/tv/programs/war-on-wastewww.1800gotjunk.com.auwww.returnandearn.org.au for where you can recycle your bottles in NSWJoin our community ● Become a Patron with Patreon – your monthly donation makes a huge difference to us being able to producethis podcast. Donations can be as little as $1 a month!● Follow us on Instagram● Follow us on Facebook● Join our Facebook group● Leave a review on Apple PodcastThank you to our sound engineer, Jarred from Four4ty Studio Productions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we chat about all the various places you can donate your decluttered items to around Australia. We often get asked where to donate things and we both use many of these places on behalf of our clients and for our own pre-loved stuff. We would love to know where your favourite place to donate things to where you live. Come over to our Facebook page this week and share your brilliant knowledge with us all. We hope this episode has inspired you to look at your house with fresh eyes and find even more clutter to donate ;-)Here is our list of charities and organisations we mentioned in the episode and some extra ones to boot. We will add your recommendations here as we get them this week and into the future!Websites that will help you find the right place to donatewww.givenow.com.auwww.recyclingnearyou.com.auOps Shopswww.opshop.org This is a great website listing heaps of your local ops shops.www.salvostores.salvos.org.auwww.vinnies.org.auwww.savers.com.auwww.diabetesaustralia.com.auwww.waysidechapel.org.au/op-shop for those that live/work close to Kings Cross NSW.www.therestore.com.au for those that live near Seven Hills NSW.Donations for Animalswww.lortsmith.com/get-involved/how-to-support-us/in-kind-donation This is for Melbourne folkswww.rescueresourcensw.com.au/rescue-resource-nsw-dogs-work/drop-off-pointsYou can see if your local vet, animal shelter or animal hospital needs towels, blankets, pet food, pet beds etc.Underwearwww.uplifebras.org and you can contact your local Intimo consultant to see if they can take bra's on behalf of UpliftSports Equipment and Clothingwww.shoesforplanetearth.com/shoe-collectors This organisation has collection points in QLD, NSW, ACT, VIC, WA & SA.www.bootsforall.org.au This awesome charity has a store in Montmorency (VIC) if you need good quality sportswear for your family too!www.bootsforafrica.com.au/about_uswww.fairgame.org.au/get-involved/donate-equipment This is for our WA listeners!School UniformsCheck with your school if the uniform shop will buy back your old uniforms or will take donations. Your school might also have a Facebook page that you can sell them on. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we tackle an area that one of our listeners, Tanya Castellino, requested, Medicines! We chat about how to store them, how to declutter them and how to save yourself money by going shopping in your cupboards first! We chat about keeping your prescriptions together and updated, we give tips on how to dispose of ( & how not dispose of!) out of date medicines and how to use technology to help you keep on track of your daily medicine-taking routine. We also lament at kids inability to dispose of band-aid wrappers and their need to have a bandaid on for the most inane reasons. Laugh along with us as we chat oils, naturopathy, traumatic splinter removal stories, snakes bites and so much more. We hope you enjoy it!People and things mentioned in this week's episode; www.jeroki.com.auwww.citadelfirstaid.comhttps://www.nps.org.au/medical-info/consumer-info/medicinewise-appJoin our community ● Become a Patron with Patreon – your monthly donation makes a huge difference to us being able to producethis podcast. Donations can be as little as $1 a month!● Follow us on Instagram● Follow us on Facebook● Join our Facebook group● Leave a review on Apple PodcastThank you to our sound engineer, Jarred from Four4ty Studio Productions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Can you park your car in your garage? Do you put stuff in the garage and forget that it is even there? Do you have a mountain of stuff in the garage that you don't even know what it is? Do you have a shed? Is this too full of stuff? This week we chat about housing your most expensive depreciable asset (your car) in the garage rather than the street, we chat about storage in your garage and shed, a sharing economy, those some day projects and how many multiples you actually need! Laugh along with us as we chat about pool noodles, pick axes and more. We hope you enjoy it!Friends we mentioned: www.facebook.com/Steven-Wells-The-Gardener-1012853915408913/Join our community ● Become a Patron with Patreon – your monthly donation makes a huge difference to us being able to producethis podcast. Donations can be as little as $1 a month!● Follow us on Instagram● Follow us on Facebook● Join our Facebook group● Leave a review on Apple PodcastThank you to our sound engineer, Jarred from Four4ty Studio Productions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is the clutter in your living room driving you nuts? How is the functionality of your living space? How many living spaces do you have in your home? One like Amy or four like Kirsty? This week we chat about creating a vision and a purpose for your room, we chat about functionality, having a home for everything and looking at your space with fresh eyes. Laugh along with us as we chat beanbags, coffee tables and more. We hope you enjoy it!Interior Designers/Decorators mentioned: www.nudgeinteriors.com.auwww.mydecorator.com.auwww.whitepebbleinteriors.com.auJoin our community ● Become a Patron with Patreon – your monthly donation makes a huge difference to us being able to producethis podcast. Donations can be as little as $1 a month!● Follow us on Instagram● Follow us on Facebook● Join our Facebook group● Leave a review on Apple PodcastThank you to our sound engineer, Jarred from Four4ty Studio Productions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Are your kids bedrooms neat and tidy most of the time or do they regularly look like a bomb has gone off in there? This week we chat about setting realistic age-appropriate expectations for our kids and their rooms. We chat about toys, desks, lego, storage, sharing rooms and having a home for everything! Laugh along with us as you learn our tips and tricks for kids bedrooms and how to eat Nutella! We hope you enjoy it!Join our community ● Become a Patron with Patreon – your monthly donation makes a huge difference to us being able to producethis podcast. Donations can be as little as $1 a month!● Follow us on Instagram● Follow us on Facebook● Join our Facebook group● Leave a review on Apple PodcastThank you to our sound engineer, Jarred from Four4ty Studio Productions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Are you counting down the sleeps until the kids go back to school or has it been the best holiday break ever for you all? Is your child starting at Preschool or Primary school this year? Do you work full time or have more flexibility in your schedule? We talk about all this and more in this weeks episode. We chat about lunchboxes, drink bottles, kids making their own lunch versus parents doing it, morning routines and how many uniforms you should have. Laugh along with us as you learn our tips and tricks for the fun that is back to school! We hope you enjoy it!Join our community ● Become a Patron with Patreon – your monthly donation makes a huge difference to us being able to producethis podcast. Donations can be as little as $1 a month!● Follow us on Instagram● Follow us on Facebook● Join our Facebook group● Leave a review on Apple Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Do you still have a VHS player? Do you have loads of DVD's that you no longer watch? Have you got Netflix or Stan and binge on television shows and movies via these mediums? This week we took up listener, Michelle's suggestion and chatted about how to declutter your DVD's and online watchlists. We also laugh ourselves silly at 24 second Abs, Amy's Dory-like memory for movies she has watched and Nicholas Sparks movies. Needless to say, we will not be starting a movie review podcast anytime soon! We hope you enjoy it!Join our community ● Become a Patron with Patreon – your monthly donation makes a huge difference to us being able to producethis podcast. Donations can be as little as $1 a month!● Follow us on Instagram● Follow us on Facebook● Join our Facebook group● Leave a review on Apple Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.