Clutter Free Academy

Have you ever made a New Year's Resolution to start decluttering but then thought, “Where do I start?” You are not alone! Kathi and friend, author, and social media guru Tonya Kubo are with us today discussing tips and tools to decreasing stress and increasing peace though living a clutter free life, as well as a very unexpected and surprising career Tonya had in the past! Listen and discover: The three types of clutter Products to help you organize your time How using totes can help you in your clutter free journey Join Clutter Free for Life Today!   What if you were able to create a life where you not only got rid of the clutter in each room of your house but were able to stay on top of it? What if you learned to organize in a way that made sense to you so that once you decluttered, you could find the things that were important enough to keep? What if you could live in a house that was at peace? You’ve been thinking about how this will be the year to finally declutter your house and create the home you

As this year comes to a close, don't get stuck reflecting on what you didn't do. A brand new year is right around the corner. Being clutter free in 2023 can be your reality! First, we heard how Deanna determined to make 2022 her year. Last week Kathi and the clutter-free Queen, Tonya Kubo, started coaching us through the 10 ways to be clutter-free in 2023 so we can make this our year! Now they are continuing the conversation, so join in to learn how you can prepare to be Clutter Free in 2023 with ten mind shifts we can make now including:    Using the 3 Totes, 2 Bags System  Taking care of your future self   Set yourself up for success with the support you need. Join us over at Clutter Free For Life Links Mentioned: Featured Guest: Tonya Kubo Clutter Free For Life  Let's stay connected To share your thoughts: Leave a note in the comment section below. Share this show on Twitter, Facebook, or Pinterest. Leave an honest review on iTunes. Your ratings and reviews really help and I read each one. Subscribe o

Are you hoping to be Clutter Free in 2023? Not only is it a catchy rhyming phrase and a great goal, but it can also be our reality - especially if we prepare our hearts and minds now! Last week we heard how Deanna determined to make 2022 her year. This week Kathi and the clutter-free Queen, Tonya Kubo, are coaching us through the 10 ways to be clutter-free in 2023 so we can make this our year! Join in the conversation to learn how you can prepare to be Clutter Free in 2023 with ten mind shifts we can make now including:    Taking before pictures  Think about your life after clutter - what will it look like?   Have a plan for getting things out of the house  Scheduling donation days  Join Clutter Free For Life Today! So here is the real question – Is peace in your home worth it to check out this program?  Even if it does only half of what I’ve claimed today, it will pay for itself as soon as you start to see real results not only in your home, but in your mind.  So if you’re ready, just go ahead and click

  Are you dreaming of a decluttered home this Christmas? Maybe you are wondering how to sustain your clutter-free journey in the midst of a busy life and hard circumstances. Give yourself the gift of deciding to be clutter free in 2023! That’s exactly what Deanna did last year. Then she set out to intentionally make 2022 her year to be clutter-free. Join Kathi and Deanna today as they share with us exactly how she did it and how we can too, including:    Asking ourselves honest questions Having a vision board  Setting our why  Special Guest: Deanna Day Young: deannadayyoung.com Resources: ORDER THE CLUTTER-FREE HOME It’s time to kick clutter to the curb once and for all. 2023 is YOUR YEAR to start your journey to Clutter Free for Life. Join today! Let's stay connected! To share your thoughts: Leave a note in the comment section below. Share this show on Twitter, Facebook, or Pinterest. Leave an honest review on iTunes. Your ratings and reviews really help and I read each one.

Are you using a lot of mental space to remember all the things? Sometimes even the things we easily remember most of the time can slip our present memory. Life is full of things to remember and routines and timers help us to manage them well. Kathi, and her decluttering and organizing partner Roger, have worked on building routines that work all throughout their clutter-free journey. Routines can be challenging because they don’t always come naturally, and life sometimes breaks them. This is why breaking down projects into smaller, doable sessions and using a timer is so effective. Listen in to learn how:   Timers can be used in many different ways Valuable the 15-minute sprint can be To really do the things you love

Do you struggle with staying focused long enough to declutter? Is a lot of your clutter the result of struggling to stay focused on one thing at a time? You are definitely not alone.  Join Kathi and special guest Suzanne Woods Fisher as they talk about an Amish girl with ADHD who is Anything But Plain and offers hope to all of us. Her story helps us to see a different way of thinking is actually a gift and something to celebrate. Listen in to learn how you: Learn to reframe Recognize the gift of thinking differently Celebrate your gifts

Do you struggle with the idea of throwing things away? You’re not alone. In this episode, Kathi is joined by Tonya Kubo to unpack the complexities of this topic. Throwing things away is difficult for a number of reasons, but especially because it triggers a sense of wastefulness. In addition to explaining when it’s time to throw something away, Kathi shares with us four tips for how to get comfortable with getting stuff out of our houses, such as: Stop feeling guilty about throwing things away. Put it on your calendar to go to the dump. Give everything away that you can, but you don’t get to give away junk. Know how to dispose of things.  

Do you struggle to make small daily decisions and it leaves you feeling stuck? You know the ones. The decisions that feel like they shouldn’t be this hard to make and they seem to come easy or naturally to “everyone else.” Join Kathi and guest Michael Gembola for this hopeful and healing conversation that cuts right to the heart of the why behind the "what" of our clutter. Small decisions don’t always seem small to the person making them. If we want to grow in our clutter free journey, learning to make these decisions is essential. Listen in to discover how to make decisions about getting rid of things including:    Learning to risk regret Why we need “the accelerator and the brakes to drive safely” - Michael Gembola Knowing “even if this is the wrong decision, most things are recoverable” - Kathi Lipp

Do you ever look around your home wondering why it feels more cluttered, despite your decluttering efforts? Kathi, and her decluttering partner Roger, are uncovering this mystery by cluing us into five reasons our homes may be more cluttered. Clutter is a battle that has to be fought on every side. Together let’s learn how to break these habits that leave us with more clutter and less peace. Sometimes we just need the next right step in front of us. Is your home more cluttered because:    You don’t know what you have?  You have Back-ups of Back-ups?  You are holding onto things for someday?

Do you dread having hard conversations? Or try to avoid them altogether? Hard conversations are a part of every relationship if we are in it for the long haul. It’s easy to fill in the gaps with our assumptions. What if we learned how to navigate these conversations in a way that makes every relationship stronger and better? Come and sit with Kathi and Becky Keife to learn how to have hard, but healthy conversations, and how to prepare your heart and mind for them by:   Coming to the table with curiosity  Asking for a heart of tenderness  Coming to an understanding 

Are you up for the challenge of decluttering 250 things in one day? Kathi and Tonya Kubo, the original decluttering queen and the fearless leader of Clutter Free, are laying the foundation for decluttering those 250 items in one day by answering some of the hows and whys of this project. So, whether you’re thinking: 250 things in one day is not doable, you're plotting a way you could do this challenge every day for a month until your house is just the way you want it, or somewhere in between, this conversation is for you. Kathi and Tonya will give you guidelines and creative ideas for accomplishing it by:   Knowing when a great time for a 250-item declutter day is Knowing how and why to plan for where the clutter will go Getting a jump start on the November challenge   If you're interested in tackling the 30 Day 1k Challenge, be sure to join us in the Clutter Free Academy Facebook Group.

Can you imagine how much lighter your home, and your heart, would be if you got rid of 1000 things next month? If you can envision that accomplishment and its accompanying peace, we will take care of teaching you how to get it! And guess who is back on Clutter Free helping lay out this challenge? Kathi is here with her partner in crime, Tonya Kubo, discussing one of their favorite challenges of the whole year. This challenge encourages and supports us in decluttering 1000 items in the month of November! Listen in to find out details and how this can work for you, no matter how many times you’ve tried to get clutter free before, or even if you feel like you’re always asking:  Where do I begin?  How do I get a loved one on board? Am I too far gone?

Do you struggle to keep your car clean? Have you tried certain techniques only to have them not work? Between errands, kids’ activities, and appointments, sometimes it seems like keeping clutter out of the car is impossible. Join Kathi as she talks with Mary Carver, author and podcaster, about how to keep your car clean. Today, they are sharing the top 10 tips that they use and love, including: Keeping a trash can in the car Tidying the car when they get gas Using a little box to contain important items Listen in and learn how you, too, can keep a clean and tidy car.

Do you feel overwhelmed by your clutter, not knowing where to start? Kathi and Roger have both been there. Through experience and lots of decluttering, they have learned what works to launch them back into decluttering. In part one of this conversation, we learned the framework of the system they use to help tame the chaos and get their space back in order. Now, in part two, we take a deeper dive into the details of that system. Often, we can get hung up on making decisions about what to do next. Kathi and Roger are here to explain how this routine can help us make decisions and move on. Listen in to find out what it means to: Find the trash  Fill the containers  Feed the machines

Do you find yourself feeling overwhelmed by the clutter, not knowing where to start? Kathi and Roger have both been there. Through experience and lots of decluttering, they have learned what works to launch us back into a productive space when we are feeling this way. Join in the conversation to learn a system that can help when you are feeling chaotic and like you need to get your space back into order. Many times we get hung up on making decisions about what to do next, and this system gives us a routine that can help us make decisions and move on including:  Find the trash  Fill the containers  Feed the machines

Do you ever look around your house only to discover that it doesn’t look as appealing as you envisioned it would? You might have unintentionally put cute on top of your clutter. Kathi is here today with her friend and decorating diva Deanna Day Young. Together they are transparently sharing how they have struggled with contributing to clutter through well intended decorating gone wrong. Don't worry though, Kathi and Deanna won’t leave us in our “cute, but not cute” clutter. Listen in to this candid conversation as they help us learn how to remedy five decorating mistakes they know from experience lead to more clutter: Too many Cute containers Buying something before you know where you will put it Form over function Adding cute before decluttering Not sticking to your style

Last week, Kathi and Roger Lipp started this discussion managing your technology and how to get rid of old computers. This week, the pair is back to help us continue decluttering our old tech. Are you intimidated by the prospect of getting rid of old technology? Do you have old VHS videos and cassette tapes of memories that you want to keep? Listen in as the duo give great advice on what to do with old tech including DVD players Cameras Remotes And as an added bonus in keeping your tech organized, Kathi and Roger also have some great suggestions for keeping your cords tidy.

Are you unsure how to declutter and deal with different aspects of your tech? Does it get more complicated because you aren’t sure about the proper answer to questions like: what if there is personal information on there and what if I need it as a backup? Now you can safely lay those questions to rest because Kathi is here with Roger, her “chief tech get – a – ridder,” today. With such a fancy title, there is obviously much to learn from him! As an engineer with decades of tech experience, Roger has navigated many different tech scenarios, both in the corporate world and the work-from-home world. There is a lot of anxiety and fear of unknown things surrounding tech. How to declutter, repurpose, organize, and dispose of tech responsibly is challenging to most of us cluttery people. Listen in to find out how you can be proactive about tech starting with:  Knowing who the tech person of the house is Being able to find tech components when we need them Agreeing on space  Why everyone needs a “Tech Gu Box”  Let’

Do you spend way too much time looking for things? The more organized things are, the less time we have to spend looking for them. These days, there are so many options for keeping things contained and organized. Most of them are only a click away on Amazon. For those of us dealing with clutter, it’s super beneficial to have someone to help us sort through the enormous number of choices out there. Thankfully, in their wealth of experience, Kathi and Roger know what to look for and have done just that. Last week, they gave us a great list of Amazon items to help us declutter. This week the conversation and great list continue with some really helpful items to help us organize and reduce our daily friction and the time we spend looking for things, including:    Can Organizer  Label Maker  Pull-out Pantry Shelf  Let’s stay connected To share your thoughts: Leave a note in the comment section below. Share this show on Twitter, Facebook, or Pinterest. Leave an honest review on iTunes. Your ratings and reviews

Are you on top of your container game? These days we have all sorts of new verbs: if we want to know something we "google” it, if we want to go somewhere we "uber” there, and if we need something in a few days we "amazon” it. Naturally the accidental homesteaders Kathi and Roger have things "amazon-ed" to their mountain home to make their clutter-free life easier and more functional. Join Kathi and Roger as they take us through their process of choosing containers for a clutter-free success story. The best part is these items are only a click away, including: Grocery Bag Holder Extending Drawer Spice Rack Matching Hangers Be sure to come back next week for part 2 when Kathi and Roger will equip us with even more Amazon favorites for decluttering.