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The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary

Decluttering #4

The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary

Brooke McAlary

Education, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

4.6525 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2016

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

This month's Slow Home Experiment has been an emotional roller-coaster - today Brooke and Ben talk tantrums, clutter obsession and reaching peak declutter.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Slow Home Podcast. You stop pulling faces at me. me. This is episode 113.

0:30.7

It is.

0:31.5

Week four of this current decluttering challenge, experiment, rather. And, yeah, week four of the min's game.

0:42.0

How are you finding it, Ben? Okay, to quote myself, the best people do. Around the 21st of October.

0:51.5

And I wish I had an audio, like a a mobile recording of this but I was walking around

0:58.3

the house aimlessly between jobs at my desk so I was just having one of those breaks and I was like

1:04.8

oh I'll take the opportunity to declutter for today and it was probably 2021 items to do

1:10.5

and I was walking around21 items to do.

1:17.3

And I was walking around and I picked up a couple of cuff links that I don't use anymore and other small things from our bedroom and put them on the table and then walked into

1:24.9

another room and then another and another and then 15

1:28.0

minutes later I came to you and I said I don't own that many things anymore.

1:36.1

I don't have that many things to get rid of anymore and I don't want to do this anymore.

1:42.2

You did.

1:43.4

You had a little bit of a tantrum. I had a tantrum. I had a breakdown. I don't want to do this anymore. You did. You had a little bit of a tantrum.

1:45.6

I had a tantrum.

1:46.2

I had a breakdown.

1:48.7

Breakdown?

1:50.6

Oh, you did.

1:51.7

I felt like it.

1:52.4

Yeah.

1:52.8

I got really stressed at it.

1:55.1

You did.

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