Making decisions on what to declutter can be exhausting and often bring up emotions like guilt. I am offering my life coaching and decluttering advice on these topics as well as organizing and cleaning kid's toys. 

 

Listen to the previous Q+A here

Questions I am answering on decluttering:

How to know what to get rid of? With each thing I'm asking why I am I keeping this? what should I consider getting rid of and will I regret getting rid of it (mementoes from kids school days, some of their special clothing items, my dressy clothes from over the years, kids trophies, certificates, extra furniture in the basement ...)

Recognizing decision fatigue

How to create a decluttering decision framework

How to handle the potential of regretting what you get rid of

Listen to Episode 90 on 'What If I Need it One Day?' 

What are good ways to handle kid stuff so that it's easy to get into when we need it but keeps things neat when we don't?

Organization is the second part of decluttering 

Episode 36 on the mistakes we can make when it comes to home organization

Get the cheatsheet on the Top 10 Organization Mistakes we Make

Bring your storage/organization questions to the Facebook group

How to handle the cleaning routine and storage of kid's toys? My kids don’t have *much* stuff in total but they love little toys that spread far and wide

Toy tidy up strategies we use in our home

The emotions around decluttering— my constant struggle! Feeling overwhelmed, feeling wasteful by trashing stuff that’s still “good”, feeling guilty about getting rid of a gift, an inherited item, and so on…

How to handle decluttering and not wanting to be wasteful

The guilt of getting rid of something 

Honouring the relationship vs keeping the items

The guilt of decluttering gifts

If you are interested in life coaching contact Shawna at [email protected]

 

Full Transcript (unedited)

Hey friends I'm Shawna, your nerdy girlfriend and life coach from simple on purpose.ca. Welcome to the simple on purpose podcast. This is part two of the decluttering q&a, but you don't have to listen to the other one. First. It's fine. If you are showing up here. I'm glad you're here. I hope that this q&a answers some questions that you might have in your own life around what to get rid of, and how to deal with the emotions that come up. In the previous q&a, we talked more about really just liking stuff like liking stuff and wanting to create a home that feels like us, while still clearing out our home on just getting started knowing where to get started, and we wrapped it up with the age old question of no one else is putting things away like they should. And that is such a relatable question. So I hope you also go check that out. Let's continue on with the questions. And the first one that I'll be sharing today is how to know what to get rid of. And she has some examples of I'm asking myself with each thing, why am I keeping this? What should I consider getting rid of will I regret getting rid of it mementos from the kids school days, my dressy clothes from the years kids trophies, all of these things? So what I'm hearing you ask for is a framework, a framework you want for decision making. And I think this is incredibly powerful. When we have a framework on what we're going to keep almost like a flowchart. Imagine that, like imagine a flowchart that you could just refer to, in the moment when you are looking at an item, and you start going through all these questions in your mind, should I let this go? Do I use it? How often do I use it? Do I like it? Should I keep it for the kids? What if I don't want to keep it? Can you feel how many decisions you've just had to make in your brain? And what happens is we get decision fatigue our brain expending all that energy making these decisions will get fatigued it takes a lot of mental energy. And then eventually,