Organizing for Beautiful Living: Home Organizing Tips, Sustainable Organizing Tips, Decluttering Tips, and Time Management Tips for Working Moms and Busy Moms

076. Nobody Wants Your Stuff: Why You Can’t Declutter Your House


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Why is decluttering so hard even when you know you’re ready to do it?

In this tough-love episode, I walk you through the top 10 excuses that keep us stuck in clutter. From “I don’t have time” to “but it was expensive” to “it’s organized chaos,” I break each one down with research and stories, then shares the mindset shifts you can use to finally move forward.

You’ll hear:

  • The most common excuses we use to avoid decluttering
  • Why those excuses don’t hold up (backed by research)
  • The new beliefs you can adopt to make decluttering possible
  • How to create a calmer, more intentional home without guilt or overwhelm

Remember: Beautiful Living isn’t about being perfect. It’s about being choosy, intentional, and free.

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📚 Research & resources mentioned in this episode → 

  • We make time for what matters. The American Time Use Survey shows that people prioritize what they value most — so “no time” often means “not a priority yet.”
    👉 Read the survey
  • Why we hold onto “someday” clothes. Psychologists call it projection bias: we overestimate how similar our future self will be to our current self. That’s why we keep jeans that don’t fit.
    👉 Read the study (PDF)
  • Your future self feels like a stranger. Research shows we treat “future us” like a different person — which makes it easy to stash things “for later.”
    👉 Read more
  • Clutter hurts your well-being. Studies link clutter with lower life satisfaction and less joy at home.
    👉 Study summary
  • Why “but it was expensive!” keeps us stuck. The sunk cost fallacy makes us cling to bad investments — even when they don’t serve us anymore.
    👉 Original research
  • Why we keep Aunt Maggie’s quilt. Studies show it’s not gratitude, but a sense of indebtedness, that makes us keep gifts we don’t actually want.
    👉 Gift-giving study
    👉 Gratitude & guilt study
  • Clutter really does stress you out. Women who described their homes as cluttered had higher stress hormone patterns and worse moods across the day.
    👉 Read the study
  • Selling clutter usually isn’t worth it. Most stuff nets pennies per hour after effort.
    👉 NYT article
  • Your brain hates visual clutter. A Yale study found that messy visual environments literally change how your brain processes information. 👉 Yale News article

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