Hi there! You're listening to the Lazy Genius podcast. I'm Kendra and I'm here to help

you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't.

Today is episode 78, The Lazy Genius House Purge. Are you feeling too? Are you feeling

the itch day at red of everything and start over? Do you want to make your home feel like

fall but have too much stuff in the way? Whenever we experience transition, a new season,

a new job, a new baby, a new house, a new perspective on life. We want our space to reflect

the freshness of that new thing. Or maybe we want our homes to feel organized and comfy and

settled to help negate the craziness of that new transition. We'll take order wherever

we can get it. In this episode, we're going to talk about how to purge the house like a

lazy genius, how to see our stuff with new eyes, and how to give ourselves a break when

we can't seem to create the space we want. First up, stuff creates background noise. I'm

not anti-stuff. I like stuff a lot, but no matter how much or how little you have, stuff

creates background noise. When you walk into a cluttered room, you feel the hum. There's

a buzz in your brain that you might not have named before, but it's there. The more stuff,

the louder the buzz, and the louder the buzz, the more desperate you might feel to like silence

it. It's that thing when you walk into your kids bedroom and it's covered in like every

Lego and how it was car-imaginable, and you feel like you might break into a million

pieces like you're a marvel villain or something. It's the buzz that causes that pressure.

As we're talking about transitions, about moving from one thing to another, your mind is already

fairly noisy. Forget the tangible stuff. You're already trying to sift through new schedules

or perspectives. You're already trying to figure something out that doesn't have an

answer. For this recent step into October, you might be seeing the holidays, looming like

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