The Art of Decluttering

This is our new mini series to help us all during the Covid-19 season. We hope it helps to serve and support you. Inspires you to be productive in your decluttering and encourages your mental health. Today is Soulful Sunday and we chat about a model we say titled 'Who do we want to be in Covid-19'. We loved it and thought you might enjoy it too! Join our community ● Become a Patron with Patreon –...

This is our new mini series to help us all during the Covid-19 season. We hope it helps to serve and support you. Inspires you to be productive in your decluttering and encourages your mental health. Today we are encouraging you clear off any and all flat surfaces today as they are clutter magnets. Have a giggle along with us today. Things mentioned in this episode and other helpful links: ● Shann...

This is our new mini series to help us all during the Covid-19 season. We hope it helps to serve and support you. Inspires you to be productive in your decluttering and encourages your mental health. Today we are encouraging you learn a new trick or new skill while you are in isolation. Today we have many giggles at each other, so come join us! Join our community ● Become a Patron with Patreon – y...

This is our new mini series to help us all during the Covid-19 season. We hope it helps to serve and support you. Inspires you to be productive in your decluttering and encourages your mental health. Today we are encouraging you read, get creative use from and then let go of your magazines! Have a giggle along with us today Things mentioned in this episode and other helpful links: ● Godspell Day b...

This is our new mini series to help us all during the Covid-19 season. We hope it helps to serve and support you. Inspires you to be productive in your decluttering and encourages your mental health. Today we are encouraging you to listen to Shannon's song and be inspired to not put things down but to put them away instead. There are lots of laughs today! Things mentioned in this episode and other...

This is our new mini series to help us all during the Covid-19 season. We hope it helps to serve and support you. Inspires you to be productive in your decluttering and encourages your mental health. Today we are talking about how you might feel like you took one step forward in getting your home decluttered and organised and now you are two steps backwards. We have some encouragement for you toda...

This week we chat to Mandy Hose from Too Peas in A Podcast about being a Mum of twins and the impact that has had on her decluttering. In this episode Mandy chats about; ● 'Real' Mandy and 'twin mum' Mandy; ● The implications of working in childcare and seeing the potential usefulness of everything for imaginative and creative play; ● How she was weighed down but the heaviness of clutter; ● Her cl...

This is our new mini series to help us all during the Covid-19 season. We hope it helps to serve and support you. Inspires you to be productive in your decluttering and encourages your mental health. Today is Soulful Sunday and we are talking about how we meditate and ask you to share in our Facebook Community what you've been up to. Join our community ● Become a Patron with Patreon – your monthly...

This is our new mini series to help us all during the Covid-19 season. We hope it helps to serve and support you. Inspires you to be productive in your decluttering and encourages your mental health. Today we are talking about how to get creative in this season in decluttering and repurposing your kitchen utensils. Join our community ● Become a Patron with Patreon – your monthly donation makes a h...

This is our new mini series to help us all during the Covid-19 season. We hope it helps to serve and support you. Inspires you to be productive in your decluttering and encourages your mental health. Today we are talking about how to get creative in this season in decluttering and sharing games and puzzles. Join our community ● Become a Patron with Patreon – your monthly donation makes a huge diff...

This is our new mini series to help us all during the Covid-19 season. We hope it helps to serve and support you. Inspires you to be productive in your decluttering and encourages your mental health. Today we are talking about the joy and challenges of working from home! Join our community ● Become a Patron with Patreon – your monthly donation makes a huge difference to us being able to produce th...

This is our new mini series to help us all during the Covid-19 season. We hope it helps to serve and support you. Inspires you to be productive in your decluttering and encourages your mental health. Today we are being real, honest and hopefully inspire hope! Join our community ● Become a Patron with Patreon – your monthly donation makes a huge difference to us being able to produce this podcast....

This is our new mini series to help us all during the Covid-19 season. We hope it helps to serve and support you. Inspires you to be productive in your decluttering and encourages your mental health. Join our community ● Become a Patron with Patreon – your monthly donation makes a huge difference to us being able to produce this podcast. Donations can be as little as $1 a month! ● Follow us on Ins...

This week we chat about storage units, which is a $1.1 Billlion p.a industry, and when is a good time to use them and how to declutter them! In this episode we; ● Give you lots of reasons why you might have a storage unit; ● Encourage you to be intentional about the purpose for a storage unit; ● Challenge you to know your heart and check your heart when you are decluttering deceased estates; ● Giv...

This is just a quick bonus episode to say that we see you and we are here with you in this challenging season of unchartered waters! We also wanted to let you know how we can serve you in this time. We are doing a Lightening round of our Head, Heart and Home Course, starting Wednesday 26th March 2020 to help those of us who are stuck in isolation over the coming weeks. We would love to journey wit...

This week we chat about the major types of clutter we see in the homes of our clients! In his episode we; ● Encourage you to use this episode and the linked episodes to help you diagnose what type of clutter is bothering you at the moment in your home; ● Challenge you dig into why these types of clutter hang around; ● Inspire you to listen to the episode where we deep dive into specific areas or t...

This week we chat about bargain clutter and whether it really is a bargain. It is following on from last week's episode on Freebie Clutter! In this episode we; ● Encourage you think about where you are going to store 'bargain' clutter when you bring it home; ● Challenge you to question the marketing and why businesses are offering things at a bargain; ● Question our own buying habits; ● Chat about...

This week we chat about the freebie clutter and what it actually costs you! In this episode we; ● Encourage you to look around and see what 'freebie' clutter you can see around your home; ● Get fired up about the waste that happens with free stuff you get from businesses; ● Understand why you want to say yes to free stuff; ● Challenge you to say no as much as you can; Thank you Dgeve for your podc...

This week we chat about the sharing and borrowing economy, it's a good one! In this episode we; ● Encourage you to reduce your consumerism and think of alternatives to buying new; ● Share some statistics on this booming industry; ● Challenge you to continue to be a conscious consumer Things mentioned in this episode and other helpful links: ● Camplify - hire your neighbours camper! ● Street Librar...

This week we chat to Carly and glean her wisdom of someone who has gone from being a client of Amy's to being one our staff members: In this episode we; ● Learn Carly's story, how she came to become a client of The Art of Decluttering; ● How she felt investing in herself and her home; ● What she loves now about working as a Professional Organiser for us; ● And so so so so much more... We hope from...

This week we chat about fatigue, more than just really tired, chronic illnesses and reasons why fatigue might slow you down or affect your decluttering. In this episode we; ● Discuss how we help people with chronic diseases and illnesses; ● What are some things we’d do differently for people that suffer from fatigue; ● Give tips for people who can only manage short bursts of energy; ● And so so so...

Bonus episode: Today we chat about our Head, Heart and Home course! Are you sick of nagging people to put things away? Tired of feeling like you spend the day picking up after others? Is your home constantly messy and your mind always muddled? Do you want more clarity in your thoughts and simplicity in your life? If you answered yes to these questions, then we think it’s time you know the secret t...

This week we chat to Lex who is Amy's client and a participant of our Head, Heart and Home course: In this episode we; ● Learn Lexs' story, how she came to become a client of The Art of Decluttering; ● How she felt opening the door to Amy; ● What she found the hardest part of working with a Professional Organiser; ● Lex challenges you to build a team to help you; Things mentioned in this episode a...

This week we chat about having all your family admin paperwork and tasks in one place, the Command Centre: In this episode we; ● Question who needs a command centre and why; ● Give you lots of possibilities of what could be included in your command centre and where it should live; ● Encourage you to think about the functioning of your current command centre and whether it is the system that needs...

This week we chat to Chantal Imbach from Photos In Order about how to declutter and organise your photos. In this episode Chantal; ● Encourages us to back up our photos regularly in a few different ways; ● Challenges us to be thoughtful and intentional about taking photos in the first place with the end in mind as well as to be ruthless in the deleting and archiving process as well; ● Gives us tip...