Episode 56: One Giant Beholder Dinosaur
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🗓️ 28 February 2012
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Merlin and Dan talk about your attachment to old coffee cups, Captain America glasses, and Grandma's underwear cabinet—all the physical (and emotional) clutter that keeps you from making the things you love and having the life you want. The Kipple.
See: it's not a red snapper problem, it's an emotional problem. So, quit being scared of your fridge, or your inbox, or your todo list. Just suck it up, buy some contractor bags, and never organize another thing that's not worth keeping.
Links for this episode:
- Right versus pragmatic – Marco.org
- Amazon.com: It's All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff (9780743292658): Peter Walsh: Books
- Sodastream Fountain Jet Soda Maker Starter Kit: Amazon.com: Kitchen & Dining
- ikea lamp - YouTube
- Amazon.com: Husky PA3242HD 42-Gallon Contractor Clean-Up Bags, 32-Count: Patio, Lawn & Garden
- Amazon.com: Tuff Sak CCB750 42-Gallon Heavy Duty Contractor Clean Up Bags: Home Improvement
- Cool Tools: It's All Too Much
- Medical uses of silver - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Leon Trotsky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- My War on Clutter: Never "organize" what you can discard | 43 Folders
- My War on Clutter: Inspiration for Independence Day | 43 Folders
- My War on Clutter: The Tools to Purge BIG | 43 Folders
- Clutter War II: Attack of the Giant Baby | 43 Folders
- kung fu grippe
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Merlin. |
| 0:02.0 | Dan. |
| 0:04.0 | Hi. |
| 0:05.0 | Hi, how are you? |
| 0:06.0 | You sound sick again or something. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm almost, almost Nazi. |
| 0:11.0 | What happened? |
| 0:13.0 | What do you think? |
| 0:15.0 | Too much party and too much rock and roll. |
| 0:18.0 | Yeah, too much party and too much party and around a four-year-old. |
| 0:21.0 | That's weird. |
| 0:23.0 | No, wait a minute. |
| 0:25.0 | You got a sick house there, right? |
| 0:27.0 | Not everyone well. |
| 0:28.0 | My little girl, the six-month-old, is just kind of, I think, almost fully drained now of this novel. |
| 0:37.0 | It's hard because she's still a little horse. |
| 0:41.0 | No, she's too little to blow, right? |
| 0:43.0 | Mine refuses to even try. |
| 0:45.0 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:46.0 | No, I sent you that photo. |
| 0:48.0 | She's a wreck. |
| 0:49.0 | She keeps rubbing. |
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