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Welcome to This Organized Life. If you're a mom, wife,
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or coffee lover seeking advice on how to reduce clutter
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and reclaim time, look no further than your host, Lori Palau,
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Founder Simply Be Organized and author of Hot Mess, a
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practical guide to getting organized. For a lot of people,
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clutter is their dirty little secret, but it doesn't have
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to be. Each week, we will share practical tips, chat
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with experts, and provide strategies on how.
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To keep you organized. I hope that.
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By sharing our stories you feel a little less alone
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and more empowered to tackle the areas that are holding
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you back. So let's get started.
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Hi, everybody, welcome to today's episode of This Organized Life.
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I'm your host, Lori Palau, so happy that you're here.
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We're in spring. We're talking all about ways that we
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can refresh our home. We want to declutter, we want
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to simplify, and that's what we're talking about today. And
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so one of the things that I experience myself and
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I hear from so many people is I don't have
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a big budget. I want to make some changes, but
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I don't have the money for a complete renovation. I
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just find like the stuff in my house I don't
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like it. It feels stale, it feels old. And when
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we get in that rut of feeling that way, it
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makes it really hard to find the motivation to want
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to organize or keep things organized. I know. And it's
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turning because if you follow me on social media, you
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know that we have this vacation investment house that we
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recently bought and we're rehabbing and everything's new, right. We
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like gutted bathrooms and we refinished floors, and we painted
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cabinets and all the things. Right, So it's basically like
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we took this like old cottage and gave it a facelift,
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and that was a big deal, right, And I understand
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not everybody's in the position of that, but it's because
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everything feels new and fresh, I want to keep it
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more organized than ever before.
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Right.
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And I come back and I look at our regular house,
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like our everyday house, and I'm same old and I
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have to work mentally harder to want to keep it
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organized than I do for our vacation house. And so
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it got me thinking of, Okay, let's talk about that
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mindset shift, because when we want to show up, we
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do and it's not that different than I know. For myself,
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I tend to eat healthier in the warmer weather because
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I'm outside and I feel lighter, and so I'm more
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motivated to not have a greasy cheeseburger or shovel pizza
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down my throat, but maybe I'll have a salad or
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a smoothie. And so again, there's so much of this
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mindset stuff. So I want to talk about how we
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can act our way into getting ourselves to this point
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of giving these little, many refreshes to our space that
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will not only help us with enjoying the space, but
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also inspire us to want to keep those spaces clutter free.
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And I figured the We're going to go through five
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different areas or five different tips and give some practical solutions.
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So sound good, All right, guys, let's get right into it.
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Rearranging and shopping your house for decor is one of
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the biggest things that I recommend to people all the time,
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even before you go shopping. So even if you are
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going to spend money, oftentimes we have hidden treasures in
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our house that we don't even know or we just
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like forget are there, and sometimes pulling out or moving around,
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throw pillows, blankets, vases like those decor, candles, trays to
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corral things that we have and we cycle them out.
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All of this sume I think can give your space
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a new luck. And I know for me in our home,
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I've got a couple of different zones that I cycle
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out seasonally. So I know that there's this one. I
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have a sideboard table as you come into our entry
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once you enter the house and you come into the
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main living space, it's like an anchor of where our
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kitchen and living room is. And I will swap out
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the little I don't I'm not a big chuchky person,
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but I will swap out I have a tray, what
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tray I have there, I will swap out candles, I
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will swap out some of the decor that I have there.
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I will maybe sometimes make it a little seasonal. Sometimes
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I'll make it generic. But that is like my one zone.
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For some people they do that on a mantle and
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they say, I have a space here. Maybe it is
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an entryway table. Depending on your home, so I would
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pick a few key spots of your home, and even
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if your home isn't big, even if you live in
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an apartment or small, pick one or two spots that
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you can give a little refresh. We have this one
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area of our home. We call it the library sitting room,
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and I just swap out the throw pillows on. We
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have two chairs. It's very minimalist room, and I just
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swap out the pillows seasonally that sit on it. It's
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like a lumbar pillow and that just gives it a
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new fresh breath. And it doesn't cost a lot. And
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I have a lot of these things in my home already.
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I don't have to go out and buy them. And
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so just looking at what do you already have that
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you can repurpose that will give your house this like
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freshuge and have it not be as stale and born. Okay,
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second thing is you have your clutter build up buckets.
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Now for some people, that is the entryway you come
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in your front door. Other people that could be a
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mudroom as you're coming through the garage, if that's how
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you come in and out. For some people, if it's
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at the back door. Maybe you come in the back
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door and you have this spot. But you have these
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I'm calling them entryway clutter build up spots wherever your
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entryway point is. And maybe we need to revisit the
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system that we have. Are people using the hooks that
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we have set up? Do we have a little tray
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for our stuff? If they're not, are maybe we need
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to come up with a new system. Is the male
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just sitting there? We don't want that. We want to
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keep things flowing. And that entryway spot is supposed to
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be a temporary pit stop on your way to where
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you need to go. It's okay, here's where I need
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to my grab and go things. But it's not always
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the final destination for your stuff. And so yes, maybe
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your keys are supposed to live there, but your back
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your kids backpack is. And if you're finding that the
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kids backpack gets dropped there and stays there, then we
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need to either create a zone for that thing in
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that spot, or we need to figure out why are
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we getting bottlenecked there? Why are we just not have
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we just fallen off the wagon of accountability and reminders
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and we've just thrown in the towel and said, okay,
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you know what, I've got other things to deal with,
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and then we fall into these kind of poor patterns
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of behavior of leaving our stuff around. Does the mail
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not get opened? We're we opening it, we're we're in
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a pattern of opening it and then all of a
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sudden something happens and we get busy and we start
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to on opening the mail and deciding where it's going
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to go. Maybe we need to do that reset of
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what are leaving and like our coming and going routine
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has gotten a little sloppy, and maybe you need to
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tighten it up a little bit and revisiting that. Hey, friends,
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if you're tired of stepping over piles of stuff in
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your garage just to get through the house, or digging
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through bins to find what you need, then you have
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to join me for our next clutter clinic. And this time, guys,
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we're talking all about garages. It's happening live on Friday,
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May second, at twelve o'clock Eastern time. And the best
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part is, if you can't make it live, no worries.
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We're going to be sending out a replay to anybody
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who registers. During this one hour workshop, I'm going to
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walk you through the practical strategies that I use in
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my home to turn your garage into a space that
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actually works for you. Whether that means that you want
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to park your car in there, you just want your
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kids to be able to access their toys and put
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them away. We're going to cover all of it now.
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to simply beorganized dot com slash workshop, or click on
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the link below wherever you're listening or watching to grab
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your spot. Let's clear that clutter together. Okay, I love
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this next one. This next one is when overstuffed bookshelves
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start to feel really messy. And this is something that
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happens in our house like often we are. This is
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an intentional thing because Josh is a voracious reader, way
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more than I am, Like I envy how much he reads.
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He's always reading all different types of books, and so
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we constantly and he listens to books on audible. But
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he also loves to support local bookstores and read and authors,
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and so we constantly have new books coming in. And
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what happens is I like to style our bookshelves so
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that they look esthetically pretty, and he's more about function,
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and so we have to find that sweet spot so
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that he can have room to store his stuff. And
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I cannot feel like I am just living in a
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li library. And if that's what you want, that's great,
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but for a lot of people, we want to be
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able to have room for our stuff and not have
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it feel so cluttered. So what do you need to do?
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We need to go through our books, look at the
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things that look at the ones that we can donate.
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There are books that I'm sure you're going to want
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to keep. I know books are very emotional. When we
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talk about emotional clutter, the different types of the clutter
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physical clutter, emotional clutter, calendar clutter. Although books can result
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in physical clutter if they aren't pained, the stem, the
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root of book clutter is oftentimes emotional. This is a
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book that makes us feel smart. This is a book
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that reminds us of a certain time of our life.
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This is one of our favorite authors. You can the
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list goes on and on, and so look at what
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is actually living on my bookshelf. Are there things there
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that can go? Are there books there that can go?
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Do I have excess chotchkes and things that end up
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on the bookshelf that maybe I can remove? Maybe at
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one point I could I had enough space to have
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pictures and decor on the shelf with the books. But
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our books have gotten to the point where they are
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overrunning it, and so something else has to go. And
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so I think it's about identifying how do we want
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this space to look, how do we want this space
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to look, and what can we get rid of it,
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What can we eliminate and get rid of that will
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not allow this bookshelf to just look like it's attracting
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clutter and dust. And I also like to move books around.
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as opposed to if it were up to Josh, he
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would just line his books upright with the spines facing
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out from left to right and just pack it in.
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and can be overwhelming. And so I like to break
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my bookshelf into the rule of thirds, like a third,
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and so I'll have a third of them upright, and
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then I'll put some stacked. But again we're not stacking
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twenty books. We're stacking like half of the shelf. And
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then we've got another row of thirds that are upright.
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And so I moved things around to give some visual interest,
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and that will break up some of the clutter and
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make your home feel more organized without a becoming a
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whole big overhaul. Okay, We've done a lot of episodes
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recently on closets, so I don't want to spend a
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ton of time on that. But and I encourage you
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to go back and listen to a couple of our
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closet episodes. Of course I don't have the number right
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in front of.
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Me of what of what was what episode, but I
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think it was the beginning of this month, we had
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an episode on closets, and of course we just did
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our Clutter Clinic closet workshop.
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On that we talked all about wardrobe refreshes, and I
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tell everybody listen, and I just did it myself. Before
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you buy anything for the season, I implore you please go
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through the stuff that you have. You can remove the
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stuff that you just you're not wearing it, the stuff
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that you're not wearing, get rid of it, and then
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really look at what are things that I can maybe
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pair together. Maybe for you, it means let me make
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some capsule wardrobes. Let me say what goes well with
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you know what goes well? I have these cream colored pants.
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Let me spend a little bit of time looking at
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what do I have in my closet that can pare well,
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let me come up with some ideas of things. And
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if you're not good at this, I guarantee you probably
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have a friend who is. I rely on my best
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machine to come and help me figure out what goes
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with what. Also, when you this is a shameless plug
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for my friend Jeanie Stith over at your color guru
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so now all of the things that are in my
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closet fall under this like spectrum of what colors look
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good on me, and so the majority of things will
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mix and match with each other. And so I find
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being able to have in the back of my head
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a few ideas of Okay, so I have these pants
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way for you to like rethink your closet in a
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feel we're looking at the same boring things the same
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go buy new clothes. I don't have the space all
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of these things. If you just look at your stuff
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how can I maximize them? How can I nix and
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notes and you can figure out which option is best
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been dreaming about. Okay, now we're into the kitchen. So
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for our last tip or area of how to give
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your homer refresh kitchen counters. That is notoriously. Because we
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spend the majority of our times in our kitchen, they
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are bound to become our clutter attractors, and we spend
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we look at them. We look at every time where
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you turn, you're seeing somebody else's kitchen counter, if you're
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watching TV and they're in the kitchen, if you're on
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social media and people's kitchens, whatever it is. We're always
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looking at kitchens and we have to have that delicate balance,
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that juggling act of I need to live here, so
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I don't want to put necessarily put my toaster away
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every day because I use it every day, but I
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also want to keep my kitchen counters clear. So what
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can we remove from your space? Because the reality of
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is the less visual clutter, the commer you will be. Oh,
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that is totally a rhyme. That was unintentional, so the
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I'm just like laughing at that. Okay. So if the
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more that you can keep them clear, then you will
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automatically feel more inclined to want to keep it that way.
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When we come in and we see a space, any
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space that is riddled with clutter or overrun with clutter,
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throwing one more thing on there seems no big deal.
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If you walk in your office and it is littered
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with paper and you're like, I have this one other
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piece of mail and I don't know what I'm gonna
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do with it. I'm just gonna drop it here, it
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just winds up falling as another needle in the haystack.
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habit of keeping your space tidy and organized and free
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from clutter, you will give yourself that extra pause before
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dropping the thing on the counter or before dropping the
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piece of paper on the desk, because you know that
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there's gonna be a bigger impact. And then it also
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becomes a snowball effect, and so you want to avoid
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starting that snowball effect or abbing to it. And so
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if you are feeling like I need to give my
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space a spring refresh, let's say let's just start with
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the countertops. So let's start with the surfaces. And so
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whether that's your kitchen, whether that's your office, whether that's
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your dresser, that's another big clutter attractor. Those are great
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ways for you to just refresh your space without having
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to spend any money, without having to go through a
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whole big rigmarole, and you can oftentimes do this by
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yourself and hopefully it's not gonna take a long time.
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You can just pop in a pop and listen to it,
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or if you're listening to an audiobook or music whatever,
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and just say, I want to get this space clutter free.
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its proper home, or if you don't have a proper home,
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it's about deciding where that is. And if you can
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create a home for those items, then that will avoid
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that clutter from creeping back, and that's the beauty of it.
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So often we have these clutter traps on our surfaces
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because we don't have a designated home. So by default,
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those surfaces become the designated home, and that's what we
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want to avoid. So let's create a space for those things. Obviously,
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if they're living here, then they must have some level
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of importance, because if they weren't important, then we would
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just get rid of them. So if it's important enough
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to live there, then it's important enough for it to
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warrant its own home, and we need to figure out
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what that is. So that the surface, the kitchen counter,
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the top of the dresser, the office desk does not
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fall into the space of being the drop zone for
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all the things. I hope this has been helpful. I
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love these like quicker Tip Dictionable episodes because I think
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it allows you, or hopefully it allows you, to say,
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all right, this is where I'm struggling or this is
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something that I can bite off today. And I'm not
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saying that you need to bite off all of these.
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Pick one area and say this has been a little
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source of contention. I'm feeling a little dejected in my home,
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I'm feeling unmotivated. I think I need to give my
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little put a little pep in my step and make
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me fall in love with my house again, fall in
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love with my space again. And if we can spend
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a little time, given a little TLC to some of
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these areas that we oftentimes forget overlook ignore, or just
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walk past, it can make a huge difference. Trust me,
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I do it in my own home and I notice it,
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and I know that you can too. So I hope
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this has been helpful. And again, if you want more tips,
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I would love for you to join our clutter Clinic series.
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It's where we go live once a month. We do
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a deep dive, you get to ask your own questions.
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We are doing an entire series on a variety of
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different topics. You can get the bundle or just pop
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in for the clutter clinic that makes the most sense
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to you, but I would love to see there, so
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there's a link in the show notes that can give
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you more details. Or of course, always visit our website,
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which has tons of resources, both paid and free. That's
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if you go slash workshop, that'll take you right to
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our clutter clinic page. So until next week on lur Palau,
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peace out. Thanks for tuning in. If you like this episode,
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and all of our digital offerings. I'll see you next
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week for another episode of This Organized Life.
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Welcome to This Organized Life. If you're a mom, wife,
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or coffee lover seeking advice on how to reduce clutter
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and reclaim time, look no further than your host, Lori Palau,
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Founder Simply Be Organized and author of Hot Mess, a
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practical guide to getting organized. For a lot of people,
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clutter is their dirty little secret, but it doesn't have
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to be. Each week, we will share practical tips, chat
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with experts, and provide strategies on how.
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To keep you organized. I hope that.
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By sharing our stories you feel a little less alone
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and more empowered to tackle the areas that are holding
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you back. So let's get started.
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Hi, everybody, welcome to today's episode of This Organized Life.
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I'm your host, Lori Palau, so happy that you're here.
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We're in spring. We're talking all about ways that we
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can refresh our home. We want to declutter, we want
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to simplify, and that's what we're talking about today. And
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so one of the things that I experience myself and
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I hear from so many people is I don't have
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a big budget. I want to make some changes, but
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I don't have the money for a complete renovation. I
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just find like the stuff in my house I don't
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like it. It feels stale, it feels old. And when
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we get in that rut of feeling that way, it
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makes it really hard to find the motivation to want
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to organize or keep things organized. I know. And it's
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turning because if you follow me on social media, you
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know that we have this vacation investment house that we
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recently bought and we're rehabbing and everything's new, right. We
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like gutted bathrooms and we refinished floors, and we painted
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cabinets and all the things. Right, So it's basically like
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we took this like old cottage and gave it a facelift,
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and that was a big deal, right, And I understand
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not everybody's in the position of that, but it's because
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everything feels new and fresh, I want to keep it
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more organized than ever before.
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And I come back and I look at our regular house,
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like our everyday house, and I'm same old and I
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have to work mentally harder to want to keep it
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organized than I do for our vacation house. And so
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it got me thinking of, Okay, let's talk about that
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mindset shift, because when we want to show up, we
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do and it's not that different than I know. For myself,
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I tend to eat healthier in the warmer weather because
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I'm outside and I feel lighter, and so I'm more
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motivated to not have a greasy cheeseburger or shovel pizza
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down my throat, but maybe I'll have a salad or
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a smoothie. And so again, there's so much of this
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mindset stuff. So I want to talk about how we
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can act our way into getting ourselves to this point
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of giving these little, many refreshes to our space that
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will not only help us with enjoying the space, but
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also inspire us to want to keep those spaces clutter free.
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And I figured the We're going to go through five
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different areas or five different tips and give some practical solutions.
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So sound good, All right, guys, let's get right into it.
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Rearranging and shopping your house for decor is one of
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the biggest things that I recommend to people all the time,
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even before you go shopping. So even if you are
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going to spend money, oftentimes we have hidden treasures in
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our house that we don't even know or we just
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like forget are there, and sometimes pulling out or moving around,
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throw pillows, blankets, vases like those decor, candles, trays to
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corral things that we have and we cycle them out.
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All of this sume I think can give your space
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a new luck. And I know for me in our home,
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I've got a couple of different zones that I cycle
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out seasonally. So I know that there's this one. I
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have a sideboard table as you come into our entry
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main living space, it's like an anchor of where our
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kitchen and living room is. And I will swap out
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the little I don't I'm not a big chuchky person,
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tray I have there, I will swap out candles, I
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an entryway table. Depending on your home, so I would
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you can give a little refresh. We have this one
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area of our home. We call it the library sitting room,
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have two chairs. It's very minimalist room, and I just
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swap out the pillows seasonally that sit on it. It's
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like a lumbar pillow and that just gives it a
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new fresh breath. And it doesn't cost a lot. And
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freshuge and have it not be as stale and born. Okay,
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second thing is you have your clutter build up buckets.
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in your front door. Other people that could be a
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mudroom as you're coming through the garage, if that's how
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you come in and out. For some people, if it's
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at the back door. Maybe you come in the back
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door and you have this spot. But you have these
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I'm calling them entryway clutter build up spots wherever your
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entryway point is. And maybe we need to revisit the
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system that we have. Are people using the hooks that
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we have set up? Do we have a little tray
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for our stuff? If they're not, are maybe we need
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to come up with a new system. Is the male
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just sitting there? We don't want that. We want to
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keep things flowing. And that entryway spot is supposed to
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be a temporary pit stop on your way to where
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you need to go. It's okay, here's where I need
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to my grab and go things. But it's not always
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the final destination for your stuff. And so yes, maybe
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your keys are supposed to live there, but your back
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your kids backpack is. And if you're finding that the
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kids backpack gets dropped there and stays there, then we
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need to either create a zone for that thing in
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that spot, or we need to figure out why are
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we getting bottlenecked there? Why are we just not have
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we just fallen off the wagon of accountability and reminders
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and we've just thrown in the towel and said, okay,
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you know what, I've got other things to deal with,
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and then we fall into these kind of poor patterns
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of behavior of leaving our stuff around. Does the mail
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not get opened? We're we opening it, we're we're in
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a pattern of opening it and then all of a
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sudden something happens and we get busy and we start
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to on opening the mail and deciding where it's going
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to go. Maybe we need to do that reset of
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what are leaving and like our coming and going routine
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has gotten a little sloppy, and maybe you need to
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tighten it up a little bit and revisiting that. Hey, friends,
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if you're tired of stepping over piles of stuff in
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your garage just to get through the house, or digging
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through bins to find what you need, then you have
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to join me for our next clutter clinic. And this time, guys,
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we're talking all about garages. It's happening live on Friday,
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May second, at twelve o'clock Eastern time. And the best
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part is, if you can't make it live, no worries.
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We're going to be sending out a replay to anybody
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who registers. During this one hour workshop, I'm going to
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walk you through the practical strategies that I use in
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my home to turn your garage into a space that
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actually works for you. Whether that means that you want
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to park your car in there, you just want your
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kids to be able to access their toys and put
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them away. We're going to cover all of it now.
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Spots are limited, so please don't wait. Head on over
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to simply beorganized dot com slash workshop, or click on
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the link below wherever you're listening or watching to grab
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your spot. Let's clear that clutter together. Okay, I love
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this next one. This next one is when overstuffed bookshelves
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start to feel really messy. And this is something that
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happens in our house like often we are. This is
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an intentional thing because Josh is a voracious reader, way
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more than I am, Like I envy how much he reads.
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He's always reading all different types of books, and so
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we constantly and he listens to books on audible. But
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he also loves to support local bookstores and read and authors,
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and so we constantly have new books coming in. And
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what happens is I like to style our bookshelves so
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that they look esthetically pretty, and he's more about function,
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and so we have to find that sweet spot so
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that he can have room to store his stuff. And
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I cannot feel like I am just living in a
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li library. And if that's what you want, that's great,
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but for a lot of people, we want to be
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able to have room for our stuff and not have
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it feel so cluttered. So what do you need to do?
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things that look at the ones that we can donate.
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to keep. I know books are very emotional. When we
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talk about emotional clutter, the different types of the clutter
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physical clutter, emotional clutter, calendar clutter. Although books can result
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in physical clutter if they aren't pained, the stem, the
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root of book clutter is oftentimes emotional. This is a
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book that makes us feel smart. This is a book
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that reminds us of a certain time of our life.
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This is one of our favorite authors. You can the
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list goes on and on, and so look at what
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is actually living on my bookshelf. Are there things there
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that can go? Are there books there that can go?
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on the bookshelf that maybe I can remove? Maybe at
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one point I could I had enough space to have
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pictures and decor on the shelf with the books. But
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our books have gotten to the point where they are
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overrunning it, and so something else has to go. And
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so I think it's about identifying how do we want
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this space to look, how do we want this space
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to look, and what can we get rid of it,
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What can we eliminate and get rid of that will
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not allow this bookshelf to just look like it's attracting
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clutter and dust. And I also like to move books around.
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as opposed to if it were up to Josh, he
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would just line his books upright with the spines facing
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out from left to right and just pack it in.
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and can be overwhelming. And so I like to break
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my bookshelf into the rule of thirds, like a third,
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and so I'll have a third of them upright, and
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then I'll put some stacked. But again we're not stacking
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twenty books. We're stacking like half of the shelf. And
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and that will break up some of the clutter and
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make your home feel more organized without a becoming a
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whole big overhaul. Okay, We've done a lot of episodes
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recently on closets, so I don't want to spend a
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ton of time on that. But and I encourage you
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to go back and listen to a couple of our
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closet episodes. Of course I don't have the number right
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think it was the beginning of this month, we had
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an episode on closets, and of course we just did
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our Clutter Clinic closet workshop.
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tell everybody listen, and I just did it myself. Before
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you buy anything for the season, I implore you please go
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through the stuff that you have. You can remove the
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stuff that you just you're not wearing it, the stuff
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that you're not wearing, get rid of it, and then
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really look at what are things that I can maybe
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pair together. Maybe for you, it means let me make
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some capsule wardrobes. Let me say what goes well with
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you know what goes well? I have these cream colored pants.
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what do I have in my closet that can pare well,
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let me come up with some ideas of things. And
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if you're not good at this, I guarantee you probably
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have a friend who is. I rely on my best
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machine to come and help me figure out what goes
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with what. Also, when you this is a shameless plug
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for my friend Jeanie Stith over at your color guru
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when you shot, when you get your color analysis. And
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so now all of the things that are in my
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closet fall under this like spectrum of what colors look
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good on me, and so the majority of things will
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mix and match with each other. And so I find
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being able to have in the back of my head
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a few ideas of Okay, so I have these pants
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and they can go with these three different tops, so
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I know I have three outfits for one bottom. And
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coming up with a few different scenarios is a great
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way for you to like rethink your closet in a
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new way. Because we oftentimes look at our stuff, we
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feel we're looking at the same boring things the same
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way is I just wore that outfit the other day.
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I'm so tired of it. I don't have money to
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go buy new clothes. I don't have the space all
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of these things. If you just look at your stuff
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how can I maximize them? How can I nix and
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match these and pull them together so that I feel
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like I've got a new wardrobe without having to go
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out and invest in a new wardrobe. And then maybe
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all you have to do is fill in a piece
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here and there, and I'm I think it's great, go
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in and buy a new buy a new anchor piece.
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buy something new is think about am I going to
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to maximize my purchases and say, all right, if I'm
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going to buy this sweater, I really want it to
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be able to be worn with more than just one thing. Now,
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maybe if you're going to an event or something and
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you want a special anchor piece, that's fine, But like
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buy and large, all the stuff that's in my closet
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is stuff that I can wear multiple ways, in multiple configurations,
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so that I can mix and match like ger animals,
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and that allows me to have fewer items but more outfits.
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If that makes sense. Hey, they're organizing friends. If you
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for our last tip or area of how to give
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your homer refresh kitchen counters. That is notoriously. Because we
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spend the majority of our times in our kitchen, they
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are bound to become our clutter attractors, and we spend
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we look at them. We look at every time where
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you turn, you're seeing somebody else's kitchen counter, if you're
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watching TV and they're in the kitchen, if you're on
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social media and people's kitchens, whatever it is. We're always
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looking at kitchens and we have to have that delicate balance,
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that juggling act of I need to live here, so
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I don't want to put necessarily put my toaster away
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also want to keep my kitchen counters clear. So what
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can we remove from your space? Because the reality of
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is the less visual clutter, the commer you will be. Oh,
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that is totally a rhyme. That was unintentional, so the
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I'm just like laughing at that. Okay. So if the
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more that you can keep them clear, then you will
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automatically feel more inclined to want to keep it that way.
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When we come in and we see a space, any
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space that is riddled with clutter or overrun with clutter,
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throwing one more thing on there seems no big deal.
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If you walk in your office and it is littered
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with paper and you're like, I have this one other
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piece of mail and I don't know what I'm gonna
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do with it. I'm just gonna drop it here, it
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just winds up falling as another needle in the haystack.
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But if you're in the practice, and you're in the
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habit of keeping your space tidy and organized and free
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from clutter, you will give yourself that extra pause before
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dropping the thing on the counter or before dropping the
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piece of paper on the desk, because you know that
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there's gonna be a bigger impact. And then it also
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becomes a snowball effect, and so you want to avoid
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starting that snowball effect or abbing to it. And so
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if you are feeling like I need to give my
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space a spring refresh, let's say let's just start with
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the countertops. So let's start with the surfaces. And so
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whether that's your kitchen, whether that's your office, whether that's
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your dresser, that's another big clutter attractor. Those are great
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ways for you to just refresh your space without having
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to spend any money, without having to go through a
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whole big rigmarole, and you can oftentimes do this by
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yourself and hopefully it's not gonna take a long time.
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You can just pop in a pop and listen to it,
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or if you're listening to an audiobook or music whatever,
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and just say, I want to get this space clutter free.
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And that means putting the stuff that's on there in
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its proper home, or if you don't have a proper home,
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it's about deciding where that is. And if you can
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create a home for those items, then that will avoid
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that clutter from creeping back, and that's the beauty of it.
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So often we have these clutter traps on our surfaces
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because we don't have a designated home. So by default,
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those surfaces become the designated home, and that's what we
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want to avoid. So let's create a space for those things. Obviously,
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if they're living here, then they must have some level
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of importance, because if they weren't important, then we would
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just get rid of them. So if it's important enough
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to live there, then it's important enough for it to
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warrant its own home, and we need to figure out
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what that is. So that the surface, the kitchen counter,
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the top of the dresser, the office desk does not
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fall into the space of being the drop zone for
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all the things. I hope this has been helpful. I
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love these like quicker Tip Dictionable episodes because I think
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it allows you, or hopefully it allows you, to say,
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all right, this is where I'm struggling or this is
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something that I can bite off today. And I'm not
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saying that you need to bite off all of these.
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Pick one area and say this has been a little
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source of contention. I'm feeling a little dejected in my home,
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I'm feeling unmotivated. I think I need to give my
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little put a little pep in my step and make
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me fall in love with my house again, fall in
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love with my space again. And if we can spend
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a little time, given a little TLC to some of
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these areas that we oftentimes forget overlook ignore, or just
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walk past, it can make a huge difference. Trust me,
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I do it in my own home and I notice it,
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and I know that you can too. So I hope
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this has been helpful. And again, if you want more tips,
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I would love for you to join our clutter Clinic series.
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It's where we go live once a month. We do
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a deep dive, you get to ask your own questions.
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We are doing an entire series on a variety of
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different topics. You can get the bundle or just pop
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in for the clutter clinic that makes the most sense
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to you, but I would love to see there, so
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there's a link in the show notes that can give
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you more details. Or of course, always visit our website,
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which has tons of resources, both paid and free. That's
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simply the Letter be like Boy organized dot com and
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if you go slash workshop, that'll take you right to
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our clutter clinic page. So until next week on lur Palau,
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peace out. Thanks for tuning in. If you like this episode,
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