Today we're diving back into some of the exercises in my new book The

Declutter Challenge and we're talking specifically about the meaning behind your mess.

Hey Clutterbugs, welcome back to the Clutterbug Podcast. Today we're going to talk about the meaning behind your mess. This is

chapter five in my book, The Declutter Challenge. This is kind of a shameless plug, but also not

a shameless plug. I'm not suggesting you buy the book, I'm just this is one of the

chapters in the book and so this is about discovering why you struggle to let go.

So there's definitely a big difference between tidying, cleaning, organizing, and decluttering.

Tidying is when you're putting things back in its home.

Usually this comes before cleaning. Cleaning is actually removing dirt so the

scrubbing the mopping the vacuuming. Organizing is creating homes for things so

putting things into baskets labeling it finding things and being like okay

where is this gonna live in this cabinet right here and then putting those things in that

cabinet that's organizing and decluttering is letting things go. So today we're talking

specifically about decluttering because most of the mess that you're going to

see is because you have too much stuff.

Definitely organizing makes things tidier,

makes easier to put things away when you're done with it.

Habits are super important obviously too, you know,

cleaning up after yourself on a daily

basis. I'm not going to discount that as being important, but most of the time when I

see people with a lot of mess, it's because they don't have spaces for those things to go in an easy manner.

It's hard to even set up organizing systems because they don't have room.

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