I'm answering a question about project-related clutter. What do you do when there are various projects laying around?? Especially when they're things you actually do? Sponsors: For $20 off your first box and 2 pounds of FREE Ground Beef in every box for the life of your subscription, go to ButcherBox.com/slob or enter SLOB at …
205: Why Your Family Doesn’t Maintain Your Organizing Systems Podcast
I've had a lightbulb moment that will hopefully help explain how to make organizing systems work better for the whole family, not just for the one member who set them up! Sponsors: For $50 off your first box of Green Chef, go to GreenChef.us/CLEAN Sponsor: Native Deodorant! - Use promo code “clean” during checkout for 20% off your first …
The Becoming Conference – July 26-28, 2019
Last year, as I launched Decluttering at the Speed of Life into the world, I went on a book tour. I looked for places in different regions of the country where I could connect with existing kindred spirits and meet new ones. That's how I ended up speaking at The Becoming Conference just outside of Asheville, North Carolina. I had no idea how …
204: Project Brain – The Good and the Bad Podcast
Sometimes using a different word to think of a task in your home can move you forward on making progress in your home. When that happens, use the different word. I have a Project Brain. Accepting that (which doesn't mean accepting a messy house) has taken me far in this deslobification journey. I'm talking about the ways I have to …
Room to Move – Room to Live
Want to know why this photo makes me happy? These things do not belong in there. And yet . . . they fit. Life happened and we needed new floors. Getting new floors meant moving my china cabinet. Moving my china cabinet meant getting my china out of it. Last summer, I was leaving the country at the time when the first …
203: Cleaning, Decluttering, Tidying, Straightening or Whatever You Want to Call It
Sometimes using a different word to think of a task in your home can move you forward on making progress in your home. When that happens, use the different word. Sometimes using a different word to think of a task can paralyze you, though. The goal in this episode is to help you break through paralysis by either using a different …
A Decluttering Story – When I Have to Do This Before I Can Do That
The “I have to do this before I can do that” decluttering frustration is real. This frustration used to make me question the point of even trying to declutter. Trying to clean up my house felt so complicated. My five step decluttering process helps me break through decluttering paralysis. Today, I’m sharing what the decluttering process …
202: Letting People Into Your Home and In On Your Slob Secret
I'm answering questions about when it's okay to let people into the house, how to know when you're ready and your house is ready. I'm also talking about friendships and the getting-to-know-you awkward conversations and assumptions about housekeeping being easy for women and not for men, and how to get past this into deeper …
Cleaning up the Craft Room – A Reader’s Story
I loved this recent story shared by Andrea over on my Facebook page: I have a craft room where clean up has been neglected for a couple years, and where throwing "it" in became necessary. Surely I needed an elaborate plan and back up helpers to ever see carpet in there again. What Normal Friend could I call so I could figure out how to …
