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098: Decluttering and organisation styles
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In this episode, Dinah and Mia delve into decluttering, providing insights and strategies to help you streamline your household. From understanding your personality type to navigating differing styles within your household, this episode offers practical tips to enhance your organisational skills and create a harmonious living environment.
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Introduction to Time-Saving Life Admin Techniques
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This is life admin life hacks, a podcast that gives you techniques, tips and tools to tackle your life admin more efficiently, to save your time, your money and improve your household harmony.
Personal Decluttering Journeys
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I'm Diana Roberts, an operations manager who loves a tidy house, but I still find it hard to chuck items which might be useful one day.
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I'm Mia Northrop, a researcher and writer. We got up from watching each episode of the Gentle Artist Swedish Deathcleaving and was compelled to declutter something immediately.
Impact of Personality on Decluttering
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This episode will make you realize that your personality type and self-talk are more important than cute containers or mari-condo folding when it comes to organizing and decluttering. hey Hello and welcome to Life Admin Life Hacks. Before we get into it, we want to say thank you to our latest reviewers, especially G-Town Woman on Apple Podcasts, who said, language for my overwhelm. These two have so beautifully seen a structure to guide people through the ridiculousness of being a person in this modern world of decision making.
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Listener Engagement and Reviews
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Organizational Strategies and Digital Tips
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So in this episode, we talk about why we have different preferences on organization and decluttering, some strategies to approach decluttering in your household when different members of your household have different styles, and some of our favorite resources to help you think about decluttering in a different way. And look,
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While we're talking about decluttering, it's worth thinking about digital decluttering. We have an instant life admin filing system. If you head to life admin, life hacks.com, you can download it. You drag and drop it into your cloud storage system.
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customize it and clean up your files very
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quickly. It's a little, one of my favorite little products we put out there, Diane, because this brings people instant joy. Yeah. Get them started in a really easy way. Exactly. It's been a while since we talked about decluttering. We had a burst of enthusiasm for 2018. Can you believe it was that long ago? That was season one and nine seasons later, we're finally cycling back.
Evolution of Decluttering Trends
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So you know since then we've had Marie Kondo, we've had the home edit, we've had the gentle artist Swedish death cleaning, and we are now in a post pandemic, post Temu world, and we still have a lot of stuff to get rid of and a lot of stuff to organize.
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I know it feels like there's almost these kind of two complete extremes, isn't there? There's like the complete declutter is and then there's just this proliferation of cheap stuff. And oh gee it's really easy to buy stuff and have it come into your house, isn't it?
Influence of Neurodivergence and Culture
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Yeah. So I think there's also, you know, we've got we've got it's more fast fashion, more fast work, more it's more fast furniture. But there's also more recognition of how we're all wired differently and that neurodivergence has a big impact on your preferences when it comes to being organized.
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So neurodivergent or not, your home will feel calm and streamlined when you can organize your stuff in a way that actually works for your brain.
Family Habits and Emotional Attachment
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Yeah. And I think for me personally, like that's been a bit of an aha moment that understanding your about that, but also an understanding of how your background and you know how you grew up can significantly ah you know influence how your approach to to clutter and you know things like your cultural background. So some cultures have like this really high value on having lots of items and viewing like that as a sign of wealth or success, whereas some other cultures are much more around prioritizing, minimalizing and simplicity. And that can make a huge difference on how you approach kind of how much stuff you have. Absolutely. If you think about
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air-scandy design and that's maybe an aesthetic at one extreme. And then you can think of like the searchy on know the other end of the extreme and just like more is more kind of interiors. So some people will have that cultural influence. It's not just an aesthetic preference, but it's how you've grown up and what's, what you've been surrounded in is what's, you know, normal and what's something to
Impact of Financial Stability on Hoarding
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strive for. Absolutely.
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And it can even just be like your own family, not might not even be cultural, but certainly like the habits and behaviors of your parents can really sort of shape how you approach your belongings. Like my parents have definitely got a just in case kind of mentality. And I can definitely see that I've, you know, really brought that with me into my own house, particularly around things that are useful, that you shouldn't get rid of things that might be useful one day. and And I also know that people whose like parents might be collectors often become collectors themselves. So that's kind of an interesting thing about your parents and what that brings with you as you sort of move on into your own adult life. Yeah. And in some families, there really is that high emotional value on possession. So they might have lots of heirlooms, lots of memorabilia.
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You know, if've we've all been to friends' houses or relatives' houses where it feels a bit like a museum. There might be a special case in the corner and there's granddad's pipe. There's so-and-so's you know mug. There's all these reminders of people, which which is nice. And there's definitely ah a place for all of that. But everyone's got different thresholds of what's too much, what counts as special and worth hanging on to.
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Yeah. And I think some of that can be linked to how financially stable your environment was where you grew up. Like if your parents, you know, you grew up where there wasn't much financial stability, you might have this tendency to hold onto things because of fear that you might not be able to afford to buy them again, should circumstances change. And I think that that can be something that's really hard to let go of, even if you have really, you know, changed your financial position from how you grew
Cultural Norms and Clutter Perception
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up.
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Yeah. And I remember my grandparents, like they, one of their favorite sayings was, you know, waste not want not. It was his whole mentality coming out of the depression of you just hang on to everything because as you said, you might not have the money. You might not be able to find this thing in the future. So keep everything just in case.
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And I think the other one that's kind of interesting is like how big your house was when you were growing up and how much storage you had. And I certainly grew up in an outer suburban home that had lots of cupboards and lots of shelves. And there was you this kind of idea that having lots of storage is such a great thing because you can store all of this stuff. yeah And I definitely think that's shaped how I thought about things and thinking about you know filling all the cupboards with everything and keeping everything. Yeah.
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I know I mentioned in the book, in the book Life had been Hacked on this chapter. The fact that my ex-husband grew up in this big house in the suburbs and they had like an attic space and they had this massive garage. Literally they kept everything. He still has all his like workbooks from primary school, high school, university, every textbook, everything he ever filled in, every school report, like all of it, the toys, like it's all there. It's all just shoved in the attic because there was endless space. So I, you know, I moved house a lot when I was a kid, I moved states.
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We lived all over the place who are constantly decluttering to get ready to move somewhere. So I i feel like i we had very different styles of ah different relationships with our belongings. Obviously in Melbourne, you know, when we bought our first house, it was a tiny inner city, old thing that had zero storage. And they're like, babe, like there's no b room, like physically if we want, like I don't want to live with stuff hanging over the edge of of cupboards and drawers.
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So yeah, it's interesting about the amount of space you're used to working with.
Parental Influence on Decluttering
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And even now when you look at real estate listings, it's like they trumpet how much storage there is. We all need storage. We all need somewhere to put our towels and linen and hide Christmas presents, but how much is too much? How much is this encouraging you to keep stuff you don't really need? Yeah, definitely. And I think the final one that is a really interesting one is around like this kind of unspoken norm that people have about how sort of clean and tidy a house should be and in some families kind of clutter is sort of seen as a normal like piles of paper and boxes by the door and while in others it might be really frowned upon and I grew up in a very neat and tidy home and although there was a lot of stuff hidden in the cupboard so the clutter was hidden there was an expectation that everything was put away and surfaces were clean and I guess that's you know how I grew up and
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And then when I go to other people's houses, I realize that's not the norm that they they have. And people can get judgmental about that. people On both ends, like I know some people, like if you get to someone's house and it's too tight and clean, they're like, you have too much time on your hands. You need to stop cleaning. like What are you doing? There's no sign of fun happening here. you know And other people go to someone's house and it feels chaotic and messy. And it's like, ah you guys, pigs, what's happening? Sort yourselves out.
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but it's Everyone has, every house has a different sense of widow know what's normal, what feels comfortable for the people living there. I'm curious to hear from listeners as they're hearing this, like what was normal in your household? What is some of that?
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that silent judgment you might be walking around in. My house was pretty tidy. I don't know how. I don't think we had that much stuff. We just, my mom is a great purger to the extent that one year ah the Christmas tree came out and it had all new decorations on it and all of the decorations my brother and I had made during primary school and all the happy things coming in foil and Uh, gone. She's like, Oh no, I just, I had a dick. I don't know. I got rid of all of that. It was just like, okay. So zero sentimentality, constantly purging. I, so I think I learned a healthy level of just curating, curating, but I become a bit more nostalgic than, than her.
Understanding Personal Organizing Preferences
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And I come from the exact opposite where my mum really, she finds it hard to throw anything out that's good. it And I can remember sorting through tablecloths with her and she had a tablecloth that someone had given to her to kitchen tea. So that's like, you know, before she got married and she's been married for, I don't know, 50 years now. And she said, I've never actually used it because I've never had a table the right size for it. But this person,
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who I really liked gave it to me and so she I can't get rid of it. I was like, ah it's got to go. It's got to go. This is kind of like, you know, the opposite end of the, you know, extreme in terms of then having so much stuff. She didn't really know it was there until she cleaned out the cupboard, if you know what I mean. So, yeah. So understanding yourself and what your preferences are are the key to organizing your home in a way that works for you so that it's not just, you know, functional and look, it looks how you want it to look, but you can actually find stuff and you know where stuff is.
Kaz Arson's Organizing Personality Types
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And there is a great author slash YouTuber called Kaz Arson. She has real life organizing and the clutter connection. There are books. She has a YouTube channel and then she has a declutter challenge. 30 days, drum thing a day. In her book, she talks about the four personality types of organization and decluttering.
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and it depends on how you like things cared for and displayed. So she talks about in terms of display, she talks about people either wanting visually abundant organizing systems, we can see all your stuff. So these are the people who like to have the acryal acrylic containers and jars with all the pencils and the highlighters in them and the pantries with All the plastic containers and you can see everything and it's all uniform. Abundant. like you want to You need to see all your things. And there's people who like visually simple systems. It's out of sight. It's minimalist.
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You just want clear surfaces and spaces. You just shove everything away. Which one are you when it comes to the display? So I used to really think I was the visually abundant and I guess I spent quite a lot of energy on trying to do certain things in my house. But I guess as I've got older, I've realised that actually I want visually simple and I'm getting more to the kind of like I only want one of things so that I don't have to organise them at all, if that makes sense. I know about you.
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I am on the visual simplest hour. I sometimes worry that people come to my house and it looks like a display hope because there's just no stuff around. I don't want to see it. I just put it away. The other spectrum that she talks about is how your liking is categorized. So you are either like a micro-organizing person, we have detailed subdividing categories, and it's all about being accurate. So on your computer, you might have lots of folders, subfolders, you might have in your cupboard, you might have, you know, all your things are hung, and all the pants are hung together, and then they're in color order, and then all the jackets all together, and they're in color order. That's like microorganizing.
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Or you might be a macro organizer where you're like broader, simpler categories with ease of use being the goal. So in that respect, it's like jumpers go on that. If we looked in my wardrobe, it's like, well, there's the jumper pile that's just piled in ah in a you know shelf, but there's no system going on. And in my email inbox, I have like maybe two or three subfolders that I'll chuck things in.
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for projects or if I'm going on a holiday, but I'm not micromanaging, you know, making lots of folders and labels for things. So I'm very much a macro organizer, where I want to say, Diana, you're a bit micro. I've seen your email inbox system. Are you still?
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Where are you on that? No, so I feel like that's kind of the journey I've been on. You know what I mean? That I used to be this perfectionist and want everything kind of micro. And that as I've sort of learned more about organization and, you know, through this whole podcast that I think I have, you know, I'm moving much more towards simplicity and simple systems that are easier to maintain rather than the complicated systems I perhaps had in my younger years.
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Well, I think this is again, it's kind of like, you know, you' you'll read a book or you'll say something on the Instagram. and You think, well, this is the way it must be done. yeah But Kaz has, has her four categories. So depending on whether you're visually abundant or visually simple or a microorganiser or a macroorganiser.
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you will be a butterfly, a ladybug, a cricket, or a bee. The clutter bugs, I love what you did there. I love the clutter bugs, I've got it before I've rung with it. So I'm a ladybug, what are you? I'm a cricket. What does that mean? It means I like all of my everyday um items out of sight, but I can be a bit of a perfectionist and I can get a bit too detail-focused. So I guess I feel like I'm a reforming cricket. Does that make sense?
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ah Yeah, okay. So I'm a ladybug. So I like visual and organizational simplicity. So yeah, I don't need to see my stuff. I just like out of order in a calm. If it's a bit of chaos in the in the shelf or in a draw, that's fine. Because I actually I remember where all my stuff is. And that's one of the things she talks about in her book is about how people's brains are wired.
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If you're someone who can't remember where things are, then you need that visually abundant system. So you can actually just see it and go, oh, that's where, you know, if you have all your jams and condiments displayed, you can see where the peanut butter is. I know roughly where the peanut butter is stashed in the back of the pantry. She has a quiz. So jump online. You can head to her website or go to real life organizing or look her up on YouTube. We'll just search clutter bug.
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and she has a quiz and one of the things she asks you to think about the spaces in your home that do stay tidy and easy for you to use and think about you know why is that are they visually abundant or are they spare is the staff organized in lots of categories but lots of compartments or are there a few large buckets and that'll give you a clue as to what personality type you might be. But I would suggest you go and do the quiz. Who doesn't love a little personality quiz on
Family Dynamics in Organizational Styles
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you? You love a personality quiz. when you Yeah. And I guess the challenge is for people who live with others, that not everyone organizes in the same way. So a system that works for one person might not work for somebody else. And I actually got my kids to do this quiz because, you know, they're easy questions.
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My daughter apparently is the same as me. I was very skeptical about that. apparentlyly cheese And my son, I can't remember what he was, but he liked things. He was more a visually abundant person. He wants to see stuff. It made me think about how we set up their bookshelves and their wardrobes so that it works for them. if i And I know that for him, if he's covered at the moment, everything is hidden in a drawer. He never remembers where anything is. And so he never puts anything back.
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yeah I think if he had like shelving and hanging hanging stuff in his in his wardrobe, he he would know where the shirts are or where whatever is so he could put things back, which sounds, which would be really helpful. So yeah, if your kids are old enough, get them to do it. If you live with a spouse, a partner, get them to do it. And then you can all tune into what is tidy and organized feel like for them and how can you set things up.
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And it' ah I think it's a really good way to kind of start this conversation because now I had a bit of a look for statistics about this before this episode. And I saw this study from Relationships Australia, which says about a quarter of all households have big conflict around clutter and then it's a significant source of stress. So that's one in four relationships is a significant source of stress.
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I shouldn't be surprised that it's hit the relationships Australia and it's such a thing. Yeah. Doing ah a quiz like this is a really good way of starting this kind of open conversation about each other's values and expectations about possessions and clutter and understanding where your partner's coming from can really help kind of that beginning of a process of trying to find a common ground and set like some minimum standards that you both can agree to
Creating Common Household Zones
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for your household. Yeah.
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This reminds me of the stuff we've done around money personalities. And when you realize people think differently, everyone's wired differently for whatever reason, it's totally legit. That's not like one way that is the way. So I love that idea of families and couples doing this so they can understand where their partner's coming from. Good point, Diana. I think one of the things to think about too, like when it comes to if you do have kind of different styles and I definitely have a different style to my husband.
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when it comes to clutter is to think about some things like maybe agreeing some common zones where you collaboratively agree on some sort of compromise about what's the minimum level of clutter and organization. So things like maybe in your kitchen and your bathroom and your living room, but then maybe decide on some other personal zones where each partner can just do what they want and however they want to keep it. So in our house,
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The garage and my husband has his own study. I kind of have just given up. He can do as he will. Whereas in other areas like the kitchen and the living room, we've kind of agreed on and what needs to go away and what's okay to be out and how we're going to like keep it organized to make it yeah clear. That makes sense. Just having some common goals of like, all right, this area needs to be, especially with those frequently used areas, those work areas of the house where there just needs to be something needs to happen in a systematic way. So you can get a meal on the table or if you can put laundry away without losing your mind and having those personal, like decide, yeah, what are those personal zones and you do you and these are the common zones and we need to collaborate on the way forward. And I think in those common zones, you kind of need to get to a compromise if you're quite different in your styles around levels of organization and, you know,
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And I guess maybe that's a little bit why I've kind of loosened up on some of my kind of preferences over time, because I've realised that that doesn't work in my household because not everyone has that same style.
Rules for Household Item Management
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And so when I sort of make it simpler and, you know, um have bigger buckets and im less stringent, it's more likely to actually be complied with or I guess followed by everyone in the house, which just reduces the amount of stress and arguments about where things go and putting things away.
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That sounds healthy, Diane. The things that we need to declutter often, often clothes, clothes that you're either grown out of or that's so out of style or you just hate. There's stuff around you know the towels, the linen,
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how What's your rules? Do you have rules or systems for having more top of stuff? So I guess that's a couple of things there. So ah my husband's actually a huge one for the one in one out rule. And he certainly has like, he has the tiniest wardrobe because he's definitely like, I need five t-shirts too. you know And he, when he goes to the store and buys like, you know, three new items, he will literally come home and take three items out of his wardrobe but and be ready to donate them or to, you know, recycle them. So I think thinking about like, I'm probably not as strict as that about the one in one out rule, but it's definitely kind of
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you You know, it's rubbed off for me, I guess, in terms of particularly things around like, you know, we just went out and bought a set of towels for our bathroom. And so therefore we donated one set to the RSPCA because he's like, well, we don't need more than two sets of towels. And there's no point buying another set unless we're going to get rid of one set. So I think that's a really, it's a good rule if you can, can establish it. What about you? Do you have any of those kind of rules? Yeah. Things like, things like that, like tea towels and towels.
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Those kinds of things, definitely one in, one out. It's like if like the trigger has gone that you need a new set because the old one is shabby or whatever. It's like let go of the old one. Maybe keep one towel for that time that something spills in the fridge and you've got to mop crap up. But yes, recycle the others, give them to your local vet or wherever that they could they can use those things.
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For clothes for me, it's very much a seasonal thing. So I'll do like a end of summer sweep of the wardrobe and think of all the things I like, grab all the things I didn't wear, but I'll put them in the bag.
Family Involvement in Decluttering
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And then when I bring them out the next summer, I'm like, some of them are like, Oh, I just, what was I thinking? So that's sort of a trigger for me to get rid of things. There'll be things that I don't like anymore or that ah I don't know flattering anymore, or I don't fit any more or whatever. I'm over it. They go off to the up shop.
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or recycling, depending on their condition. And then, yeah, I think there's ah there's some triggers around birthdays and Christmas when it comes to the kids' stuff. So I'll often go through their gear, their books, whatever, see what they need more of, what they haven't used, what's broken, what's obsolete, and do a bit of a purge with them. I feel like there's other things in the house where I just don't let stuff in anymore. I just don't.
00:23:52
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Yeah. I've stopped buying stuff because I'm still setting up this house in a way. So I don't have too much of too much abundance. So it definitely used to be a source of tension in our relationship. Who was going to do the kid decluttering around, you know, you know, and it's sort of a combination of decluttering, assessing what new things they need to buy and making it happen. And so I guess in one of the conversations we had around mental load and sharing household tasks and stuff, we divided it up. So my husband looks after my son's clothing and bedroom kind of and working with him to declutter and organize. And I do that for my daughter and dividing that up really kind of.
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You know, so I'd let go of a lot of resentment that I'd kind of been harbouring about one more job that I had to do. That has been a huge win for me. And in terms of other common areas of the household, it used to be one of those things I would tackle on my own. But now I always get want at least one other family member to help because it does help with then reinforcing the kind of system, if that makes sense. So around, you know, a very sort of year or so, you need to do a big clean out of the kitchen, really, and just clean out all the cupboards and sorted out anything, lurking old tins in the back of the pantry and things like that, and embracing getting another family member to help really makes a big difference, I think, in terms of maintaining the
Motivating Teenagers in Decluttering
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system. Yeah. And the the ages that your kids are at now, do they ever initiate it on their own? Do they
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My daughter's now definitely the age where she's probably, you know, pretty much taking the charge when it comes to that sort of thing. But she sometimes still probably needs a little bit of a reminder. Like I've noticed there's a lot of clothes in your cupboard that you don't wear anymore. Do you think maybe you might want to? And how old is she now? So she's 17, but my son definitely not motivated, pat but, but we'll do it with parental assistance, 15 year old son. So definitely still need some hand holding there.
00:25:52
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Yeah, that's not high on the priorities of a lot of people, I think. So one of the other aspects, I guess, to think about when it comes to your strengths with decluttering is the self-talk, because there's a lot of people out there who possibly just think, you know what, I'm just a messy person and kind of beat themselves up about, well, this is just part of my personality. It'll always be like this.
Overcoming Negative Self-Talk
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So I think it's worthwhile challenging that self talk and letting go of some of those traditional perceptions of what an organized house is supposed to look like. You know, if you don't want to be your Marie Kondo and fold your underwear in color order, um kind because it did I think I did once when I read the book and I'm like, that's not sustainable.
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Like, it looks nice, but I don't work in a shop and I'm not going to fold my clothes like that. Just chuck them in the drawer. Close the drawer. That's fine. It reminds me a bit. I don't know if you you saw it. I'm sure you didn't because you're not on social media, but Sally Hepworth had this kind of recent laundry gate. Amazing Australian author of fiction, and she's got a great Instagram She kind of came up with this super simple way of like sorting her kid's laundry, leaving it in these baskets kind of in the hallway. and Everyone was like chiming in on whether it was an appropriate and tidy way to manage her laundry. and Something I've been doing for years is like just chucking into you know the people and just laughing. because
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you know different people's expectations about what's the you know appropriate level of folding and you know this kind of thing. But it's funny how people can get so enraged about to you know but something that really doesn't affect them at all. you know Yep. Lottery is one of those things that people get stuck on. It's not really decluttering, but there are systems. Go and check out our ADHD episode because we talk about that a lot in that episode. It's it's a thing.
00:27:42
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Yeah. All right. Well, you know, some members in the Art of Adulting membership program are oohing and firing over a filing system. that used, I guess we're talking about filing documents on your computers, on your cloud storage. And it was a system that used numbers and categories, kind of like the Dewey Decimal system for people who were born in the 1970s. You'll remember what the Dewey Decimal system was. And my brain wanted to melt just looking at it, but they were like super into it. So this is one of those know yourself, accept what you find situation, accept
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You know, work to your strengths. If that's, if you are a micro organizer and that's how you work, embrace it. If you're a macro, visually abundant person, embrace it. I think the key there is you do you, but have a system. Have a system of getting the stuff moving through your house. Yeah. I think it's really important to know what suits you and your family, what's going to make you feel calm and in control and kind of accept and embrace that rather than worrying about what anybody else's house looks like and what works for them.
Celebrating Organizing Wins and Conclusion
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Yeah. And make sure you celebrate your wins. Like when you have progress, just stop and just give yourself a little pat on the back. Celebrate because what gets rewarded gets repeated. It's my favorite new saying.
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So that but that momentum is going to build that positive reinforcement and you'll keep going. And if you're like me, you just watch more episodes of Swedish death cleaning and after every episode, I felt like sorting something out. It's great. Well, it's been great to revisit one of our favorite topics about organizing and decluttering. We hope that this episode, Hacks, will make your life a little bit easier. So our top hacks are to understand your personality type when it comes to organizing. So do a survey like the one on the Cutterbug website. If you live with other people, have open communications about your differing styles and agree some rules to make life easier. And let go of the negative self-talk that tells you you're messy and acknowledge there's no one right way. Let go of the traditional perceptions of what an organized house is supposed to look like and do what works for you and your household.
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