016. Simple Decluttering Hacks for Your Classroom

Teaching to the TOP

Teaching on the Double

Parenting, Education, Self-improvement, Kids & Family

4.8 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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We all love hacks that have a way to make your life a little bit easier. We have enough going on in our lives that finding simple ways to minimize friction is key. Gadgets are one way to create simple hacks to make life easier but no matter how fancy your gadget is, having hacks to help you with organization is essential. Today, we want to share some simple decluttering hacks that have worked wonders in getting us organized and more importantly, staying organized! SIMPLE DECLUTTERING HACKS [3:51] Decluttering Hack #1: Set a timer for 5-10 minutes and work through decluttering one area. [6:08] Decluttering Hack #2: Create a list of things you want to declutter during the month and make it a challenge [7:22] Decluttering Hack #3: Focus on one area at a time [8:07] Decluttering Hack #4: Use a bucket to gather things that need to be decluttered. [9:34] Decluttering Hack #5: Use your students to help [13:06] Decluttering Hack #6: Create a space for everything CONCLUSION [15:00] All of these hacks will give you the results you need, but we have to give a little tough love and say that if you do not have an organizational system, things will get messy! You have to have a system in play in order to maintain the chaos that can be our lives. Check out episode #015: 5 Easy Steps to Clean and Organize Your Classroom to help you with the decluttering process. SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW Are you subscribed to our podcast? If you’re not, I want to encourage you to do that today. I don’t want you to miss an episode. Click here to subscribe to iTunes! Now if you’re feeling extra loving, We would be really grateful if you left us a review over on iTunes, too. Those reviews help other people find our podcast and they’re also fun for us to go in and read. Just click here to review, select “Ratings and Reviews” and “Write a Review” and let us know what your favorite part of the podcast is. Thank you!

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0:00.0	Well, hello there, top teachers. We are your host, Michelle Farray and Bridget Spackman,
0:04.7	and we are here to make your life easier by helping you master your time, organization,
0:10.1	and productivity as a teacher. Listen, if you need to declutter your classroom like I do,
0:15.6	but you don't have hours upon hours to devote to it, we've got you covered. In today's episode, we are going to teach
0:23.2	you how to declutter your classroom in only minutes a day. But first, let's hear from Vanessa.
0:29.9	And she tells us that her TSA is Korean dramas. That's right, guys, you heard me right. I said
0:36.5	Korean dramas. She says, I love them so much.
0:40.1	And before I know it, I'm binge watching them for hours. And guys, we have to tell you,
0:45.3	Michelle and I actually looked up Korean dramas. I can totally understand you, Vanessa. I can totally
0:53.0	see where you get sucked in and you just end up
0:56.1	binge watching them. Yes, absolutely. Now, today's episode is focused on helping you declutter
1:02.6	your classroom in only minutes a day, which should still leave you with plenty of time to watch
1:06.9	those Korean dramas or better yet. You can actually watch them while you declutter your
1:11.8	classroom. Now, Vanessa, I totally understand the whole binge watching. However, I haven't been
1:17.5	binge watching Korean dramas, but I have been watching some hack videos. My husband and I,
1:23.4	we think that they're so much fun. In fact, there is like this running joke in my family where we come up
1:28.9	with all of these different life hacks as we're just kind of randomly going throughout the day.
1:35.5	It's an inside joke. You guys wouldn't understand, but it's super funny and interesting to me.
1:40.5	I personally get sucked into them through Facebook. I'll just be mind of my own business,
1:45.2	scrolling through my news feed, and before you know it, BuzzFeed or one of those other, like,
1:50.6	I don't know what to call them, but those companies that put out these videos, I will run into
1:55.0	one of them and I fall down this rabbit hole. I'm watching life hacks and organization hacks and
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