Hello, hi and welcome to another episode of the Emma Gunn's show. I am your host, Emma Gunn Awardner, and in this episode I'm going to follow up on yesterday's episode now.

Yesterday meaning it was part of a pod a day in May.

So if you're listening to this at the time of publish,

you will know that yesterday I did a 26 habits update.

And I thought I'd linger on one of the 26 habits that's actually

been, dare I say life-changing, and more specifically,

quality of life-changing. And the reason why I'm giving this topic its own mini-show during

a pod a day in May, doing a podcast every day for the month of May,

is because a lot of you, my most excellent listeners, have asked whether I've kept up with the decluttering

and how I've kept the clutter at bay, whether I'd recommend it, how I've gone about it,

whether I regret sort of, you know, streamlining everything. and the answer is no but let's get to that later.

The decluttering habit for those who don't know, but I will put the link to the original

episodes back in the show notes was stripping my

wardrobe down to 33 items and then either donating or storing what was

left over out of sight. So I'd go I went through my wardrobe and went right what what haven't I

worn in years what is too small for me now what did I buy thinking that I'm

cooler than I actually am and I either vacuum packed it and put it in my underbed storage or I donated it.

And it was quite hard, but it was a very, very good thing.

And what I did was I understood very quickly I could

happily work with a wardrobe with only 33 items of clothing and shoes in in

fact it was much easier than working

with a wardrobe that had dresses from years ago, multiples are the same thing,

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