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Clutterbug - Real-Life Hacks and Tips to Declutter, Organize and Clean your Home Fast

Are you Overthinking Organization? | Clutterbug Podcast # 62

Clutterbug - Real-Life Hacks and Tips to Declutter, Organize and Clean your Home Fast

Clutterbug

Home & Garden, How To, Self-improvement, Leisure, Education

4.72.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2018

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast I discuss the problem with overthinking organization. Honestly, it's way easier than you think.  I'm going to share the inspiring story of my sister-in-laws newfound journey from overthinker to organizing guru!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey guys and welcome back to the clutter bed

0:05.2

and then,

0:06.8

Hey guys and welcome back to the Clutterbread Podcast.

0:08.9

Today we're talking about overthinking organization.

0:12.8

So thanks so much for joining me.

0:18.0

I'm actually this is like a story time podcast I guess.

0:21.6

It's just something that happened to me this weekend so I thought I would share it with you. I went to a birthday party for my nephew. He's turning three at my sister-in-law's house. My sister-in-law's house. They just bought this house. It's crazy beautiful. They moved in. I'm going to say like four or five months ago and my sister-in-law has sort of been stuck when it comes to organizing.

0:48.0

While they made dinner, I opened up what was a pantry and saw like it chucked full of just random everything.

0:57.7

There was crock pots and there was huge pots and pans and there was like food and dishes and just garbage bags

1:07.6

there was just random stuff in there and she's not a messy person at all so

1:11.9

honestly I was kind of shocked.

1:14.0

And I said to her like, what is this? It's supposed to be a pantry.

1:18.0

We totally have that relationship where I can call her out on her crap.

1:22.0

And she said like, I didn't know what to use it for,

1:25.0

so we just shoved all the stuff we never use inside.

1:28.8

And so I asked her, like, how often to use the crock pot

1:31.4

or this giant walk or this huge soup pot or the big

1:34.5

big blender and the answer was never. So here she is with a I'm not

1:41.6

kidding you like full-sized door gorgeous pantry that I would kill for and she's using it to store things that she never uses. And the thing is, when she moved into the home, people were helping

1:57.0

her unpack, and this is just where the big stuff like that was going. It didn't fit in any of the smaller cabinets so people were

2:04.5

putting stuff in this big huge pantry and then it was filled up so there was no

2:08.4

spot for food and this is where these things had lived. And honestly, they probably would have lived in there

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