Curious Freedom with Kirsty Farrugia & friends

This week we chat about Weddings! What ours were like and how much has changed and how much has stayed the same. We chat about how to not buy into consumerism when it comes to weddings and how you can look to Instagram for inspiration but not to get sucked into keeping up with the Joneses. What was your wedding like? What did you do that was out of the ordinary? Make sure you come over to our...

This week we chat about Grace and Freedom! These are some of our favourite words and topics, so when Lauren Osborne, one of our awesome listeners asked us to unpack these ideas as a podcast, we jumped at the chance. We talk about what is Grace to us, that it is something we can extend to ourselves and others. How we are all a work in progress, that it is function over perfection and that it i...

This week we chat about Meal Planning! What it is and what it is not. How different it can be in each unique home. Amy chats about how they do meal planning in the Revell house and Kirsty chats about the different ways in which Meal planning works in the Farrugia household. Do you do the cooking in your home or does your partner do the bulk of the cooking? Do your kids whine at every meal like Kir...

This week we chat about Sentimental Items! In this episode, we acknowledge the different generations and their different philosophies underpinning their mindset towards things. We also give you some really helpful questions to ask yourself to reframe your thinking towards items you hold dearly and some different ways of honouring our things without holding onto absolutely everything. We...

This week we chat about Baby Supplies! We give you tips on what you need to get when you are having a baby and how to store items in between children. We reminisce those early years of parenthood, you'll hear about Kirsty's favourite purchase as a new mum and how Amy didn't buy anything :-) We rant a bit about the influence that social media has on our perceptions of parenthood...

This week we put a call out for a listener who wanted to come and interview us in our studio and the amazing Sophie Walker put her hand up and joined us for a fun conversation! Sophie is also the creator and host of her own podcast Australian Birth Stories  which is awesome, so you all need to go listen up to it! Sophie is a mum of 2 gorgeous young boys and lives in a rental property with her...

This week we are talking about Kids' parties- Minimalist Style! We give you tips on how to create parties on a budget, create beautiful family traditions and give gifts that won't clutter others' homes. We have some big laughs this week with some word stumbles and we share memories of our childhood parties. We hope you laugh along with us and learn a tip or two to help you create your next minimal...

This week we are talking about Dress Ups, kids and adults (yes we go there but it's still kid friendly listening!) We give you tips on how to store them, creative ways to display them, what else to include as part of your kids imaginative play. We rant about dress-ups being overly stereotyped gendered and encourage you to view imaginative play as building empathy in our children. We have a good ma...

What is the inside scoop? Cal Revell, Amy's husband, is our guest today and man does he have so many truth bombs to drop! Amy started off nervous that Cal and Kirsty would roast her, but we would never do that and the episode is more about Cal than it is about Amy. You will hear just how much love is in their marriage and how supportive Cal is of Amy and her gift to the world. Partners around...

Photos! In our generation alone, we have had slides, Polaroids, Film with negatives, Digital cameras, phone camera (and this isn't even touching Super 8's & videos!) so we know the task of decluttering and organising your photos can be overwhelming so this week we bring your some tips and tricks. Big shout out to Kate Haines for this topic idea and to Meggan Gasciogne for the Facebook review!...

Do you feel overwhelmed by your kids Dancing costumes? Are you new to the world of dancing or an old hand? Have your kids grown out of them but you/they just can't let go of their first tutu? Are you a wealth of knowledge in regards to Troupe/Eisteddfods, please come on over to our Facebook page and share it with us! This week we chat about what you need to pack for weekly dance classes, eisteddfo...

Do you have a craft or hobby that you love? Do you have a craft or hobby that has been sitting untouched for years (or decades?)? Do you need help decluttering your craft/hobby? Do you need some fresh ideas about how to store and display your art? We chat about crafts and hobbies today and you will learn just HOW entrepreneurial Amy really is, she has turned her hand at most crafts of the 80's/90'...

Do you work in an office at a desk? Is your desk full of clutter? Do you look with envy at others who have a clean desk or do you wonder if they get any work done? This week we chat about what you need on your desk, what you don't need on your desk, phone detox, productivity hacks, daily habits and so much more! You will laugh along with (at) us as well as be inspired to look at your desk with fre...

This week we chat about camping and how to make going on holidays easier, simple, straightforward and more organised! You will laugh when Amy double jinx Kirsty and she can't talk. We chat about our favourite holiday destinations and Amy shares heaps of tips, tricks and hacks to make life easier when you go on holidays including pegs, containers and washing detergent. We chat about worst camping h...

Our most Rubbish Episode ever, because we are chatting about RUBBISH!! This episode will have you laughing along with (at) us as well as thinking about all the ways you can get rubbish out of your home and how to reduce the waste you make. We chat about Hard Rubbish collections, tip runs, Skip bins, Aussie Skip bags at Bunnings, recycling, composting and so much more! Big shout out to our fri...

This week we chat about all the various places you can donate your decluttered items to around Australia. We often get asked where to donate things and we use many of these places on behalf of our clients and ourselves. We would love to know where your favourite place to donate things to where you live. Here is our list of charities and organisations we mentioned in the episode, plus some! www.giv...

This week we tackle an area that one of our listeners, Tanya Castellino, requested, Medicines! We chat about how to store them, how to declutter them and how to save yourself money by going shopping in your cupboards first! We chat about keeping your prescriptions together and updated, we give tips on how to dispose of ( & how not dispose of!) out of date medicines and how to use tec...

Can you park your car in your garage? Do you put stuff in the garage and forget that it is even there? Do you have a mountain of stuff in the garage that you don't even know what it is? Do you have a shed? Is this too full of stuff? This week we chat about housing your most expensive depreciable asset (your car) in the garage rather than the street, we chat about storage in your garage and shed, a...

Is the clutter in your living room driving you nuts? How is the functionality of your living space? How many living spaces do you have in your home? One like Amy or four like Kirsty? This week we chat about creating a vision and a purpose for your room, we chat about functionality, having a home for everything and looking at your space with fresh eyes. Laugh along with us as we chat beanbags, coff...

Are your kids bedrooms neat and tidy most of the time or do they regularly look like a bomb has gone off in there? This week we chat about setting realistic age-appropriate expectations for our kids and their rooms. We chat about toys, desks, lego, storage, sharing rooms and having a home for everything! Laugh along with us as you learn our tips and tricks for kids bedrooms and how to eat Nut...

Are you counting down the sleeps until the kids go back to school or has it been the best holiday break ever for you all? Is your child starting at Preschool or Primary school this year? Do you work full time or have more flexibility in your schedule? We talk about all this and more in this weeks episode. We chat about lunchboxes, drink bottles, kids making their own lunch versus parents doing it,...

Do you still have a VHS player? Do you have loads of DVD's that you no longer watch? Have you got Netflix or Stan and binge on television shows and movies via these mediums? This week we took up listener, Michelle's suggestion and chatted about how to declutter your DVD's and online watchlists. We also laugh ourselves silly at 24 second Abs, Amy's Dory-like memory for movies she has...

Why do we think decluttering is so important? This week we had a wonderful listener David asked some really good questions and ask for some research into clutter, so we that's what we chat about today. We talked about the research from Choosi www.choosi.com.au/blog/lifestyle/clutter-report and UCLA magazine.ucla.edu/features/the-clutter-culture . We hope this episode helps you think about why decl...

Happy 2018!! Did you have a fantastic 2017 or are you happy to see the back of it? This week we asked ourselves some of the questions from this article https://onbeing.org/blog/courtney-martin-seven-questions-to-en-2017-with-clarity-and-start-2018-with-intention  so we could head into 2018 with some purpose. We also asked you if you had a vision for your home and your home life for 2018. We l...

2017 has been a big year for both Kirsty & Amy and in our Christmas episode we share a few of the highlights, lessons and expectations for 2018.  Join our community ● Follow us on Instagram & Facebook ● Join our Facebook group ● Leave a review on Apple Podcast ● Our website Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.