Hello and welcome to the Slow Home podcast. This is episode 109 and it's the second episode of our October experiment where we are playing the MINS game and decluttering every day. We are. We are.

And boy, is it getting hard.

It is.

It's only what day 10 today.

Yeah.

I was full of optimism and enthusiasm at the beginning of this, and I have found it more difficult than I thought.

Unbelievable.

Yeah, way more difficult than I thought. Look, Yeah, way more difficult than I thought.

Look, to be fair, we have decluttered enthusiastically for quite a number of years,

and there isn't a lot of that obvious stuff that can go.

And I think that's what I'm finding difficult.

It's not so much that there isn't things that can go. It's just not obvious. We've got to think outside the square. That's what it's feeling like.

Yeah. And there's stuff that the reason that we've held onto it is not even necessarily because

it's super important, but because it's not easy to let go off.

But I think the thing that I'm finding the hardest is the like the stop-start nature of the decluttering.

I think, and it's not a bad thing, which I'll talk about in a minute, but I think it's,

I'm used to, you're kind of getting the wind up and going for it.

Like I'll get that feeling of I need to declutter.

Let's go.

And I will do two or 300 things in the one go, like over a day or so.

Whereas this is, and I'm trying really hard, not always doing it, but this is meant to be a daily practice of letting go.

There's been a couple of days where we've doubled up and, you know, a couple of days where we haven't done it.

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