Clutter Free Academy

Have you ever felt like you could only enjoy something after you’ve decluttered a certain space? This mentality is at the heart of Kathi’s discussion with Deanna Day Young and Grace Church. All of them have, at one point, felt unworthy of decluttering. Today, they are sharing some of their best advice for how to overcome these feelings of unworthiness, including:

• Why it’s so important to live with margin
• The benefits of being intentional
• How to find and invite beauty into your life

You are worthy of living a joyful, adventurous life right now. Don’t wait to start embracing your worthiness or the beauty all around you; choose to invite it in and see what wonderful moments await you today.

Do you long for partner power in your decluttering? Do visions of decluttering productively together bounce in your head, but you can’t seem to make it a reality? Kathi and Kelly are continuing the conversation on decluttering with a partner. Kathi’s response to this dilemma may surprise you as she discusses: “how doing the Clutter-Free program while trying to declutter with your spouse can be a problem.”  In the first episode, Kathi brilliantly covered some of the C’s of decluttering with our spouse. Listen in as the conversation continues to cover more great aspects of decluttering together including:

• How our differences can strengthen us
• Allowing each other to make low-value mistakes
• How to be aware of controlling and codependent behavior

Do you struggle to get your partner on the same decluttering page as you? It can be lonely and overwhelming to be only one in charge of getting stuff out of the house. In this episode, Kathi and friend Kelly Wilbanks have a candid discussion about some of the challenges often faced when decluttering with our partner. Kathi has some great tips to lend us from her own success in partner decluttering. Listen in to find out how to make decluttering more cooperative for you and your spouse with Kathi’s ‘C’s of decluttering together, including:

• Clearly Communicate
• Coach
• Cost Ceiling

Make sure you come back next week to get Kathi’s insight for inviting your spouse into your clutter free process.

Kathi and Roger are back to conclude their great remodel survivor story and give us the secrets to their survival. In part one they shared their first three major tips for decluttering, preparing, and navigating a remodel well. This week they are sharing their list of must-have supplies as well as their remaining tips including: 

• Take before pictures
• Use up your stuff 
• Have a five percent buffer

Remodels are stressful, but with a little bit of patience and a good plan, it’s possible to survive with both your sanity and your relationship intact.

Have you ever wondered if it’s possible to get through a remodel with your sanity AND your marriage still intact? Join Kathi and Roger as they take us through their remodel survivor adventure. For anyone going through a remodel, or even considering one, there are some things you need to know, including:

• Why you don’t want to store clutter 
• How to get rid of things well
• The importance of reducing and “life decisions”

Be sure to come back next week for part 2 when Kathi and Roger will equip us with a checklist and guidelines for how to prepare for a remodel.

Do you struggle with keeping up with your decluttering efforts, despite the best of intentions? A Master List may be just the thing you need! Kathi and her favorite “clutter-buster,” Roger Lipp are preparing and equipping us for the One day Master List Challenge that will take place on July 20th over in Clutter Free Academy. Get ready for the challenge and join in the conversation to find out why Kathi says: “my lists give life” and: 

• How a master list is like jazz
• Why our list should meet in the middle of an Actual List and an Aspirational List
• How to break down and divide your list into doable goals 

Then, make sure to join us live on Facebook for an even deeper dive into decluttering our storage on Wednesday, July 20th.

Kathi Lipp is talking with Clutter Free community leader, friend, and screenwriter, Grace Church, about how decluttering and creativity can actually help one another. Have you ever struggled to balance decluttering time and creative time? You are not alone. In this episode, Kathi and Grace share how they have found that balance by:

• Shifting their mentality
• Doing a little bit every day
• Establishing routines

If you’ve ever found your creativity blocked by the clutter around you, you won’t want to miss this episode.

Kathi is back with Clutter Free Academy and Clutter Free for Life leaders, Grace Church and Deanna Day Young for part 2 of her guide to “No-Buy July”. Together, the trio are sharing some personal examples and helpful strategies for our upcoming "No-Buy July" Challenge! Listen in as Kathi, Grace, and Deanna help us build a No Buy July strategy of our own through the four key principles:

• Use it up
• Wear it out
• Make do
• Do without

If you’re not already a member of Clutter Free Academy, be sure to join here so you can get in on the fun and community of “No-Buy July!”

Kathi is joined on the podcast today by two intrepid guides of Clutter Free Academy and Clutter Free for Life. Grace Church and Deanna Day Young are true long-time listeners and first-time guests here to offer inspiring and relatable insights from their own clutter free journey. Listen in as Kathi, Grace, and Deanna explain No Buy July through the four key principles: 

• Use it up 
• Wear it out
• Make do 
• Do without 

Be sure to come back next week as we continue this discussion on how to strategically participate in the No Buy July.

Do you have a storage area, or two, that needs decluttering? The key, Kathi says, is to pick one of them and set a day for this challenge. Today on the podcast, Kathi and Roger are giving us an inside peek at their best tips for sorting and decluttering our storage including: 

• Plan a dump day
• Sort your storage into different categories
• Make categories for freecycle & donations 
• Make a goal to get rid of as many storage bins as possible

Then, make sure to join us live on Facebook for an even deeper dive into decluttering our storage on Wednesday, June 22nd, 2022.