school is in session. Well, it is for me anyway. I know you may not be on a higher education

journey, but you are planning for or are in the midst of a shift in how you plan and spend

your time. I know this because you are an organized 365 podcast listener. Collectively,

we are all lifelong learners, pursuing the best version of ourselves and putting into action

the complete organization cycle. Over the next four years, I will share week by week

what I am continually decluttering to free up my time and space. How I am organizing my

days, my responsibilities, and my work both seen and unseen as I take captive every minute

at my discretion to increase my capacity and productivity and pursuit of a PhD in psychology,

so that I can have a seat at the academic table in the discussion of how we use our homes

and complete our housework and home organization tasks. Oh, there's the school bell. Let's

see what I learned this week. This week on the PhD podcast, I want to talk to you about

school supplies. So maybe you remember back when you were a kid and you were getting ready

for the next school year or maybe you're a parent and you do this on a regular basis,

getting ready to go to school is not an inexpensive endeavor. And at the beginning of the school

year, you'll buy notebooks, backpack, first day of school outfit, all of those things. And then

school starts. And usually along the way, you find out you need something else. A teacher has

an additional request or you need something for a special project. And as a parent or your parent

when you were a student would go out and get those supplies for you sometimes last minute.

As an adult, when we do new things, start a new sport, take another class, join an organization,

I don't know what you do. I tend to see like, what is the minimum that I can invest in this

before I know it's going to be a sure thing? And then also like, what can I just scrape by

around the house or what can I use instead of going out and making more of an investment?

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