Matt Paxton: ...that we can keep the memories & lose the stuff

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Ever since we saw the television show, Hoarders, we’ve wanted to talk with our guest on this episode, extreme cleaning specialist Matt Paxton. Matt has spent decades helping people sort through messes in attics, basements, garages and elsewhere. For the past couple of years, he’s been the host of the PBS television show, "Legacy List with Matt Paxton", which highlights families that are downsizing or settling an estate of a loved one. Matt is also the author of the book, "Keep the Memories, Lose the Stuff: Declutter, Downsize, and Move Forward with Your Life". His website is https://iammattpaxton.com/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Jan Black.
0:14.4	And I'm Laura Owens.
0:15.9	Ever since we saw the TV show Horders, we wanted to talk with our guest on this episode, Extreme Cleaning
0:21.8	Specialist Matt Paxton. Matt has spent decades helping people sort through messes in attics,
0:27.4	basements, garages, and elsewhere. And for the past couple of years, he's been the host of the PBS
0:32.1	television show Legacy List with Matt Paxton, which highlights families that are downsizing or settling in a state of a
0:39.0	loved one. Matt is also the author of the soon-to-be-published book, Keep the Memories, Lose the
0:45.3	stuff. Declutter, downsize, and move forward with your life. Matt, we thank you so much for joining
0:51.3	us. Thanks for having me. Tell us how you got into the business of decluttering.
0:57.4	It's a really interesting story.
0:59.9	People always like, why would you go on hoarders?
1:01.8	Well, I always joke.
1:02.6	I failed at everything else.
1:04.8	But the truth is, I actually, when I was 24, my dad and my stepdad and both my grandpas all passed away.
1:12.5	And so I had to clean out all her houses. I was a very immature young, 24, and all the men that
1:18.2	raised me passed away that year. And just by happenstance, it just happened to work out that. It was
1:22.8	really about 18 months. But I had to go through their houses. I did and I started cleaning my dad's house and it really sucked like it was really it was awful
1:30.1	It was it was depressing. It was sad. I was grieving and there were all these things I didn't know what to do with like you know old paint cans and you know
1:38.3	You know all the crazy stuff guns like everything you can imagine and I just remember thinking this sucks and my had always said, if something sucks as a job, if something sucks to do, do it as a job, and people will pay you to do it.
1:50.2	And so I was like, I guess I'll just keep doing this.
1:52.8	And here we are, almost 21 years later, I'm still cleaning out people's houses.
1:56.9	And it's awesome.
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