359 - 2020 Declutter Entertainment

Organize 365 Podcast

Lisa Woodruff

Lisawoodruff, Education, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Business

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🗓️ 30 October 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

These weeks between October 1st and Thanksgiving are typically the most productive weeks of the year. I want to help you make October super productive by helping you declutter. I want to give you tasks you can complete in 15 minutes a day so you can declutter some different areas of your life. I am focusing on decluttering only, not on organizing or productivity.

Have you been listening, or have you been taking action this month? We’ve talked about files, hot spots, and hot mess rooms. Today, we are going to talk about decluttering entertainment.

This pandemic has taught me that Americans are entertainment hoarders. We have long lists of things we pursue for the sake of entertainment like kids’ activities, restaurants, shopping, TV shows, sporting events, and even travel. We have become so used to consuming entertainment that the pause in novelty during the pandemic has led to boredom. There was even a meme that said: “I finished Netflix today, what’s next?”

Today, I want to share my thoughts about decluttering the entertainment we have inside of our homes. Those games, puzzles, and hobby materials that you were keeping just in case - have you used them? Can you plan to use them this winter? If you have entertainment you no longer wish to keep, clear out your house and make more space for the things your family does use.

Listen to the podcast as I talk with you about board games, video electronics, that mega box of cords, and even analog entertainment (waffle makers, for example).

I want you to use the entertainment you do have and enjoy to make memories with your family. And, for the things you no longer need, can you pass them on and bless some other family? I bought a bunch of puzzles when we first started staying safe at home. I have passed them along to people who passed them along to others - the puzzle train means that many families get to enjoy spending time together working on a puzzle, but do not have to keep storing a puzzle they have already used. I’d love to hear what things you have passed along to others on Facebook or Instagram!

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0:00.0	This week's mailbag comes to us from Katie.
0:04.0	Dear Lisa, I just want to say thank you.
0:07.0	I have been forming this email in my mind for weeks,
0:10.0	but whenever I listen to another of your podcast or read another chapter of your book,
0:14.4	I think of more ways to add that you are helping me.
0:17.6	Because of your teaching, I have gained hours each week to play with my children.
0:21.6	I've gained an entire double cabinet space in my kitchen and a homeschool
0:26.0	schedule that I have stuck with for the entire school year. A little background about me.
0:30.8	I am a stay-at-home homeschooling mom of seven. My oldest is almost
0:34.8	13 and my littlest was born in February. My husband is a college pastor and we
0:39.8	usually have students over to our home a few times a month. I started listening to your
0:44.8	podcast about a year and a half ago and set up my own makeshift Sunday basket. At Christmas
0:49.6	I asked for money towards the official Sunday basket and I was surprised to be gifted exactly
0:54.6	five hundred dollars split among all the relatives which was my cue to invest in the
0:58.9	100 day program. I banked on my nesting energy, finishing the physical tasks in January, taking a month off for having the baby and completing the more mental tasks in March.
1:10.0	I just received my homeschool basket in the mail yesterday.
1:13.4	While I was waiting for it to arrive, I started reading a book on ADHD,
1:17.6	which I can tell will benefit me.
1:19.7	I have struggled with OCD throughout my life, which has some overlap in thinking patterns,
1:26.2	especially perfectionist thinking and decision paralysis.
1:30.9	What I really appreciate is your grace and understanding, which motivates me to take the practical
1:36.0	focus steps you lay out.
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