The Art of Decluttering

This week we chat about Micro Decluttering! We know that many of you don't have hours and hours each week to dedicate to decluttering and organising your home so we created the idea of a Micro Declutter! The idea is you take a small pocket of time, 2 minutes, and choose an area to quickly declutter. You could be waiting for the microwave to bing or the kettle to boil, any small pocket of time, gra...

This week we chat about the Mental Load! We all carry it in one form or a thousand. We chat about how the division of labour & mental load is carried in our home and how that has changed over the years particularly for Amy. We give tips on how to reduce your mental load by asking for help from others in your home and how having a decluttered home can help everyone! We get interrupted by Kirsty...

This week we chat with about our jobs! What we do and what we don't do in our profession. This is particularly timely as Marie Kondo's Netflix sensation "Tidying Up" is taking the world by storm. We talk about our ideal clients and some of the preconceived ideas people have of our job. We have a conversation around some of the things that we aren't but we do. For instance, we aren't cleaners but w...

This week we chat about decluttering your sports equipment. What are you still using? Do you have sport equipment for a sport you haven’t played in 20 years? Should it be moved on to a memorabilia box or donated rather than taking up real estate in your cupboards/garage. Do you have a treadmill that makes you feel guilty every time you look or can you not even see it anymore because it has become...

This week we chat with about decluttering your teenagers ;-) No, we chat about helping teenagers and parents learn to declutter and stay organised through the fun years! So it is the perfect one to listen to on your smart speaker where the teenager can hear ;-) We give helpful questions to ask yourself and we encourage everyone to value maintaining relationships as a priority over fighting over me...

This week we chat about memorabilia (think: newspapers, magazine, ticket stubs, autograph books, order of services from weddings/funeral/christenings, play booklets, brochures from tourist sites, school awards, sports awards, restaurant brochures, anything that reminds you of an event or a person.) We give you tips on how to declutter, how to store it and where to donate some items. We also have a...

This week we chat about musical instruments and equipment with our Sound engineer Jarred Doueal! We chat about what instruments all of us can play or at least attempt to play. We hear lots about how Jarred declutters and organises his studio as well as when he is gigging. We give some tips on where you can donate your old instruments to and how you can now use technology to help you let go of phys...

This week we chat with our kids, Jesse & Elijah Revell and Oliver & Amelie Farrugia! We each quizzed our own kids and each others about what it is like to live in an organised and decluttered home and we asked them if they had any advice for other kids and parents. We also asked our listeners for some questions! Such a fun and funny episode. As always we hope you have a giggle with us and...

This Christmas season, we are practising what we preach and making this season a bit slower for us by revisiting last years episodes as we had such a great response to them last year. The great thing about re-listening to podcasts is that you'll take away different tips and you'll learn things you don't even remember hearing last time. So as you prepare for the Christmas season this year, we hope...

This Christmas season, we are practising what we preach and making this season a bit slower for us by revisiting last years episodes as we had such a great response to them last year. The great thing about re-listening to podcasts is that you'll take away different tips and you'll learn things you don't even remember hearing last time. So as you prepare for the Christmas season this year, we hope...

This Christmas season, we are practising what we preach and making this season a bit slower for us by revisiting last years episodes as we had such a great response to them last year. The great thing about re-listening to podcasts is that you'll take away different tips and you'll learn things you don't even remember hearing last time. So as you prepare for the Christmas season this year, we hope...

This Christmas season, we are practising what we preach and making this season a bit slower for us by revisiting last years episodes as we had such a great response to them last year. The great thing about re-listening to podcasts is that you'll take away different tips and you'll learn things you don't even remember hearing last time. So as you prepare for the Christmas season this year, we hope...

This week we chat to Narelle and absolute amazing woman who homeschools 5 out of her 6 kids (#6 is too young still) and gives us some amazing #parentingtips! Even if you have no interest in homeschooling, if you're a parent, you will find some incredible tips in this episode on how to do self care and also teaching your kids how to do chores around the home. If you are a homeschooling family Narel...

This week we chat about our Unfinished Projects! What have you started but left unfinished? Do you have feelings of guilt or shame over that project? Is it is a craft project or a home reno project or have you just not got round to hanging up pictures in your new home? Our heart for you is to either complete the project or lovingly let go of it. Kirsty and Amy get open, honest and vulnerable as th...

Today we celebrate hitting 500,000 listens to our humble podcast! We recorded a quick episode to say a HUGE thank you to each and everyone of you for tuning in each and every week! We share with you some exciting presents from us and we ask for your help to continue to bring value and fun to even more people as we head into 2019! Thank you again for such a magnificent ride thus far! Join our commu...

This week we chat about our Bedside Tables! Do you even have a bedside table? Does your bedside table have drawers or is it open shelves? What lives on the top of your bedside table and what lives in the drawers? What random things have found their way into your bedside table? We laugh a lot about having water on our bedside table and the need to go to the toilet in the middle of the night! We als...

This week we answer some listener questions! We had questions on under the kitchen sink, small apartments, garage laundries, kids and clutter, what is the most common item we declutter. We also chatted about the biggest declutter we have done, how to keep cables organised and our favourite icecream! This episode has lots of quick tips and suggestions from us and as always we hope you have a giggle...

This week we chat about makeup! We confess that neither of us are huge makeup wearers, consumers, keepers or storers. We have however decluttered many a bathroom and we can attest to how long some people keep their makeup for and how a bargain can suck you in! We chat about how Amelie was not allowed my 'used' makeup to play with (until I decluttered just recently!) and how Amy's father was also h...

This week we chat about Handbags! We compare how many we have and what we need to swap out of bags. We chatted about reducing the need for so much in your bag and purse by getting you to think about what is essential. We encourage you to go through old bags looking for money and lost jewellery and challenge you to support Share the Dignity with the bags you choose to donate. We also have a competi...

This week we chat about cleaning products! You'll find them in the kitchen, bathrooms, laundry and garage/sheds. We talk about what cleaning products we use and how we store them. We talk about moving towards a low/no tox life and how we both really want to learn more about this topic. Kirsty raves about DoTerra Essential Oils and we chat about chemical free cleaning. We encourage you to go shoppi...

This week we chat about Adult children! Adult children that still live at home, adult children that have moved out of home and still have their contents at their parents and also to the parents of adult children who are frustrated or enabling their kids tendencies to sponge off them. We chat about giving your adult children time frames to collect their stuff. We chat about charging your adult chil...

This week we chat to a long time listener and friend of both of ours, James Garth! He gives us his unique perspective on being a husband, father and busy professional while also trying to learn and grow in the area of home organisation. In this interview James shares what he has learnt over the years to help his family run smoother and some fun life hacks. This is a great one to encourage your mal...

This week we chat about Hidden Clutter! The fruit bowl, front of the fridge, on top of the fridge, the junk drawer and some more. We give you great tips on how to declutter them and also how to keep them declutter for life! We know that delayed decisions equal clutter so we suggest that you don't put things down instead you put them away in their home. We encourage you to just do it now, to find a...

This week we chat about Sentimental Papers, so important documents like Birth, Death, Marriage, Citizenship certificates and Passports along with sentimental cards and letters. We chat about how to help others who are not as sentimental as you are, how to have grace with them and how you might keep it instead of encouraging them to. We talk about keeping things from people who have passed away or...

This episode is dedicated to clothes, oh how we love clothes! We give you great tips on how and when to declutter. When you should let go of clothes and send them to the bin or donate them. We also chat about how to store different items of clothing. We have a few giggles and you learn our dressing habits as well as those of some of our clients! Join our community ● Become a Patron with Patreon –...