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Sustainable Minimalists

Keeping Clutter Out

Sustainable Minimalists

Bleav + Stephanie Seferian

Kids & Family, Leisure, Parenting, Home & Garden

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Yes, clutter is always going to accumulate. But there are ways to prevent at least some of it from entering our homes, and we're chatting about 3 of those ways today.   Here's a preview: [2:00] Our decluttering challenge wrap-up  [10:00] Browse, don't buy! [16:30] Rocks, pebbles, and your personal Chuck It List [25:30] Contentment is being satisfied with what you have. Enter the Don't Want List   Resources mentioned: Episode #376: When Everything's A Favorite Episode #397: What Organizers Do Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management For Mortals by Oliver Burkeman Expand Your Don’t Want List (via Becoming Minimalist)   This show is listener-supported. Thank you for supporting! Join our (free!) Facebook community here. Find your tribe. Sustainable Minimalists are on Facebook, Instagram + Youtube @sustainableminimalists Say hello! MamaMinimalistBoston@gmail.com.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello there

0:01.0

listeners, welcome back.

0:02.0

My name is Stephanie Safarian and you're listening to episode 398 of sustainable

0:08.2

minimalists, a show about intentional and

0:13.7

today's show we're discussing three strategies to not fill your home with clutter.

0:21.4

Now before we do that we need to party and that is because today is the last

0:25.6

day of August if you are listening at or near release date and you participated in our August decluttering challenge, give

0:36.0

yourself a round of applause, a pat on the back, oh my goodness you made it you did

0:41.2

it and so on today's show I have a two-part show for you. Part one is a

0:46.6

challenge wrap-up. I'm offering up some of my thoughts. I'm offering up some

0:52.0

participants thoughts as to how the month went, as well as some

0:56.6

lasting wisdom.

0:58.2

And then in part two of today's show, we're discussing three strategies that we've never discussed before on the show

1:05.6

as to how we can move forward and not refill our homes with clutter.

1:12.8

Now if you don't want to talk about the challenge anymore,

1:15.4

maybe you're sick of hearing about it,

1:16.9

maybe you didn't do it, maybe you just want to move on

1:20.7

and you don't care about challenge talk, then go ahead and use your podcast

1:26.0

browser's forward button and meet us at around the 12 minute mark of today's

1:31.1

episode and you'll get right into part two of today's show.

1:34.5

So if you don't care about the challenge talk, skip ahead to minute 12.

1:38.4

And if you're here with me for challenge talk, then let's just get right into it right now.

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