Declutter Your Living Room and a Closet

Clean With Me

Raani Starnes

Leisure, Home & Garden, Kids & Family

4.6 • 738 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Getting ready for the holidays and need some decluttering motivation? Let's start in your main living area. If you're storing a bunch of junk inside your coffee table, entertainment center, or elsewhere, now's the time to deal with it. Next, you will clean out your linen closet or coat closet because an overnight guest might open one of those. This decluttering session is part of a series that will help you get your house under control in the weeks leading up to the holidays. Unlock subscriber-only deep cleaning episodes: Clean With Me | Cleaning Podcast

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0:00.0	When your house is a mess and you're feeling the stress, what you need is a friend in your ear.
0:06.1	Start the job and you'll see it through with Ronnie talking to you.
0:10.8	Make the chaos disappear.
0:14.0	Clean with me.
0:15.4	Podcast is here.
0:23.3	Thanks for joining me.
0:24.7	It's time to gear up for our decluttering session.
0:29.4	Maybe you need to straighten up the immediate front entrance of your home.
0:33.8	That could be an entryway, a foyer area, or just your living room, or maybe you need to quickly
0:44.3	do an empty reload and run of your dishwasher or if you're hand washing, get that first
0:50.5	sink load of dishes soaking. Sometimes there are some, there are pressing matters
0:55.8	that you need to take care of before you dive into a decluttering project, because life goes on
1:03.3	and you have those daily chores that you need to keep up on. But since this is an episode on
1:10.2	decluttering, I'm only going to give you a few minutes to do
1:14.0	whatever needs to be done first, whether it's a quick pickup of the floor somewhere or getting
1:22.3	your dishes soaking or starting a load of laundry. You know what needs to be done. Or maybe you're ready to declutter,
1:30.4	but you need to spend a couple minutes getting yourself feeling presentable. Sometimes washing
1:35.7	your face, using a spray bottle on your hair and brushing your teeth can work wonders.
1:42.4	I recently heard about something called the 215 rule. And this is,
1:47.3	this one's for a stay at home mom. So I realize not all of you have time for this. But the
1:51.8	215 rule is about spending one hour on your house, one hour on exercise, mainly walking,
2:00.6	and 15 minutes on getting yourself fixed up for the day.
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