I'm Stephanie Safarian and this is episode 76.

You are listening to the Sustainable Minimalist Podcast, a show about living simply and sustainably with your family.

Here's your host, Stephanie Safarian.

Hello there, welcome back.

There's a big problem with the way the decluttering gurus advised us to declutter. That's because doing a whole house purge where you turn everything

upside down creates intense anxiety and an even bigger mess.

That's why I wanted to have Dion Meyer on the show today.

Dion is a fellow blogger and a lover of all things organized. She came up with the shoebox method of decluttering, which essentially

is a slow and steady approach to tackling your home's clutter problem.

Her method is easy, it's for everyone, and all you need is 15 minutes a day.

On today's show, Dion is giving us the nitty gritty behind the shoebox method so that you can

start decluttering in your home with just a shoebox and a little bit of grit

tonight. Let's just get right into it today.

Enjoy the interview.

Dion, thank you so much for coming on the show

and divulging your shoebox method of decluttering.

We will totally get there.

But first I just want to know, who are you

and what do you do?

I'm the blogger at homemade Our Way.com and it's where I kind of walk women through the steps of

organizing. Either it's the house, time management with planners. My focus is for them to have some peace. Everything

is in its place and everything is organized. And then I also am the author of 52 weeks

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