Expert Habits For Decluttering & Organizing Every Part Of Your Home (And Life!)

The Liz Moody Podcast

Liz Moody

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

We all want to declutter our spaces, and potentially even get systems in place to contain everything we’ve accumulated, but sometimes struggle to reorganize our spaces in practice. Shira Gill has built a career on helping people get organized. She gives us decluttering solutions for everything from living with a disorganized family member or partner to reducing your consumption, and gives her tips and tricks to help you create a calmer space in your home. We break apart issues ranging from staying organized in a small space to trendy decluttering hacks to the reasons that reducing clutter can feel so difficult. As always, you’ll get a ton of actionable tips that you can use to start tackling the mess. 5:41 Managing Your Disorganized Family 14:45 What To Do For Small Spaces 19:26 Tactical Decluttering 22:14 An Exact Plan For Closets 30:11 Reducing Overconsumption 35:32 When Should We Buy New? 42:20 Why Your House Looks Messy 57:00 Making Practical Systems 1:03:56 Car Organization For more from Shira, you can find her on Instagram at @shiragill or online at www.shiragill.com. Check out her Substack, The Life Edit, or grab a copy of her newest book, LifeStyled. Ready to uplevel every part of your life? Order Liz’s book 100 Ways to Change Your Life: The Science of Leveling Up Health, Happiness, Relationships & Success now! To join The Liz Moody Podcast Club Facebook group, go to www.facebook.com/groups/thelizmoodypodcast. Connect with Liz on Instagram @lizmoody or online at www.lizmoody.com. Subscribe to the substack by visiting https://lizmoody.substack.com/welcome. This episode is sponsored by: LMNT: go to DrinkLMNT.com/LizMoody to get a free LMNT sample pack with any order. The Liz Moody Podcast cover art by Zack. The Liz Moody Podcast music by Alex Ruimy. Formerly the Healthier Together Podcast. This podcast and website represents the opinions of Liz Moody and her guests to the show. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for information purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professional for any medical questions. The Liz Moody Podcast Episode 307. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Shira, welcome to the podcast. Thank you. Organizing does not require buying anything. It's asking yourself to
0:06.9	do the things I want to do, what do I need? As opposed to looking at what do I own and what if I might need it.
0:15.1	How do we identify if our home or our life needs a system and then how do we know what system it needs?
0:21.5	You have to figure out what you want most before you can make decisions really about anything.
0:27.3	Otherwise, it's kind of arbitrary.
0:29.1	Nobody says my big dream in life is to be organized.
0:32.7	It's I want to be organized so that I can dot, dot, dot.
0:36.6	Are there any other myths about decluttering that you want to bust organized so that I can dot, dot, dot. Are there any other myths about decluttering
0:39.3	that you want to bust? Hello, friends, and welcome to the Liz Moody podcast, where every week
0:44.7	we're sharing real science, real stories, and realistic tools that actually level up every
0:48.9	part of your life. I am your host, Liz Moody, and I am a best-selling author and long-time
0:53.1	journalist.
0:57.2	Today we're welcoming Shira Gill onto the podcast.
1:02.7	Shira is an organizing expert, the best-selling author of books like Minimalista and Organized Living, and a frequent expert on Good Morning America.
1:06.7	Her new book is called Lifestyle.
1:08.7	It's such a beautiful book.
1:10.0	It's such a helpful book. It's such a helpful book.
1:11.3	And you can find it wherever books are sold.
1:13.9	Shira is going to give us all of the information that we need to start getting our lives
1:18.4	organized in the easiest way possible. And yes, I said our whole lives, not just our homes,
1:25.2	although we definitely get into our homes too. This episode has
1:28.8	routines and strategies and nitty-gritty questions and tons of solutions for your biggest
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