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270: Beat the Summer Slump: Quick Declutter Inspiration to Spark Action · JOY LOVING HOME - SAHM, Productivity, Home Organization, Declutter, ADHD Mom, ADHD SAHM, ADHD Brain

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  We are well into summer and I know while summer is awesome having kids at home
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  and these long days of sunshine and the freedom of a less structured schedule is just awesome,
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  but sometimes we hit that summer slump.
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  It might just be too hot outside. The kids are starting to get bored.
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  In the back of your mind, all the things that have to be done before school
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  starts again are like creeping in and disturbing your summer peace.
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  So if you are having sort of difficulty trying to do anything that seems remotely
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  productive, I thought it would be a fun time to share some things that have
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  been inspiring me lately.
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  Because it's funny, summer used to always be that time when just the reruns
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  would run, and maybe you'd have that one drop around Fourth of July of,
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  like, fun new movies, but.
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  It kind of feels like a slump in any kind of entertainment, but let me tell
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  you, if you are over in YouTube world,
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  particularly in the decluttering and organizing space, there have been some
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  gems that have been dropped by some folks.
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  So I would like to share with you some of my recent inspiration,
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  and I'm going to add in the show notes full links to all these videos if you're
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  just looking for something to give you a boost as well.
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  And I have one other tip I want to share on the other side of this.
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  A wise person once said, everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its
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  ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it's stupid.
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  Well, fish, quit trying to climb trees while getting advice from well-intentioned monkeys.
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  It's time to jump in the water and learn how to swim with the current of your life.
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  I'm Joy, a professional organizer, mom of four, and fellow fish brain.
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  If you're looking for a place to get understanding, encouragement,
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  and ideas for your home that actually fit how your brain thinks,
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  then I'm glad you're here.
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  Let's ditch the type A advice and embrace what makes our brains and our homes unique.
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  Together, we could have a joy-loving home.
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  Okay, I am giving you sort of a playlist of inspirational YouTube videos from
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  folks I enjoy watching. And I'm going to tell you a little snippet about what
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  I loved about each of these videos.
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  So you can target whatever it is you might be needing or looking for.
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  But before you start watching any of them, I want you to do me a favor.
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  Open your notes app right now if you're not driving and try to list those things
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  that are creeping into the back of your mind so they're down somewhere
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  so that they will get out of your head in that sort of spiral of concern of
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  impending stuff that's all going to come crashing.
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  And let's have this list at the ready so that if you watch one of these videos
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  and you get this spark of interest in doing something, you don't want to be
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  stuck with, but I don't know what to do.
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  So let's create the list right now.
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  And that way, when you get this little spark of inspiration,
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  you glance down that list, pick any one and dive in.
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  So I'm going to get you started, but you can keep adding at your will because
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  this list will be on your phone.
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  And anytime a moment of a thought hits you, open that list and add to it.
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  So we have, you can title the list school preparations or whatever.
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  But number one on the list needs to be to print out that school calendar and
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  put all those days onto your, what will probably be a fresh new planner.
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  Then, number two, you need to check on your shoe sizes of your kids and have
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  ready each kid's name and what size school shoe they're going to need in the upcoming year.
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  If your kids are growing like absolute weeds, you might have to check this one
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  more time, but hopefully they're about the shoe size they're going to be at
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  least for the first half of the school year.
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  Same thing with clothing. put another bullet point that you need to be checking
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  on the status of clothing.
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  I would always recommend to start with your oldest kid so you can clear out
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  the hand-me-downs and hopefully utilize them for the next kid down and the next
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  kid down and the next kid down.
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  And when you get to your youngest kid, immediately bag those clothes off and
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  send them somewhere where they're going to get used by somebody who actually needs them.
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  All right. So you've done the calendar, you've done the shoe inventory,
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  you've done the clothing inventory.
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  How about the check on the lunch boxes and backpacks?
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  This might not be something you reuse. I don't know.
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  But what may have happened is they all got dropped on the last day of school
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  somewhere and they haven't been gone through.
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  And it's possible there is just like food and junk rotting in the bottoms of
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  these things, go ahead and use that as one time when you're feeling inspired to tackle that.
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  Take care of it. Clean slate while you're doing that. If there's a drop zone
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  where all of these things go, see if you can get inspired to clean that out a little bit.
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  When you're cleaning those book bags out, you may find barely used,
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  fresh, wonderful school supplies that are still useful.
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  Create a little stockpile of those and shop that first before you go school
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  shopping. Save yourself some money.
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  A lot of that stuff can be reused.
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  Yeah, I think that's a lot of those things that I just wanted to get you rolling on.
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  So now when I tell you about these videos and you get that spark of inspiration,
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  you know immediately where to start.
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  Okay, so the summer playlist that I want to share with you.
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  I am loving this content that is being put out from creators,
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  which is wild because summer viewing and summer listening, for those of us that
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  are podcasters, tends to drop during the summer.
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  And so sometimes you don't see that content.
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  Certainly, sometimes they'll repurpose content, but you don't see this fresh.
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  There are some fresh gems out there.
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  First one I want to share with you. It's by Dawn at the Minimal Mom,
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  and her video is titled, I Studied Every Mess in My House, and Here's What I Learned.
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  This one was a fun one. She evaluated all of the clutter in her home on the
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  basis of, was it homeless, was it habitless, or was it hopeless?
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  And then she talks about how to handle each of those phases of mess in her home.
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  That can be a really great one. All right, moving on. There is a YouTube channel
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  called The Practical Mom.
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  And Callie over there has a lot of organizational content. And actually,
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  she kind of jumps all over the place.
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  She had one recently that was about giving up her smartphone for a year and what she learned.
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  Really cool. But if you're looking for organization type inspiration,
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  a recent video called Organizational Content is Getting Delusional is really great.
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  And in that one, she discusses the difference between performative organization,
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  which is so much of what we see on social media, and practical organizing. So that's a fun one.
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  Over with Cass at the Clutterbug, she has one where she says,
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  I decluttered my home and fixed my life in three days.
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  And what this is really about, I don't think it's so much decluttering,
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  although clutter goes away in the process of watching this video.
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  But it's a really great one on the power of closing loops, not only to the visual
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  change in your home, but to the peace in your mind. And so that's a really great one.
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  Bonus one. And I will confess, I have not watched this one yet,
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  but I stumbled upon it when I was grabbing the link to put in the show notes for you guys.
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  And she has one that is called, there are four types of messy people, which one are you?
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  And I'm intrigued by this because she has the four types of clutter bugs.
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  And then this is sort of a deeper dive into how your mess looks to evaluate some things.
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  And I just think that looks like it's going to be a fun one.
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  So I will be watching that one later today when I'm trying to work on stuff.
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  Then Dana K. White over to Slob Comes Clean takes the summer off of her podcast, which is great.
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  I applaud her for doing that. But she drops videos during this whole time.
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  And she has one that is how to value space over stuff.
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  Another one that I also will confess I have not watched, but I love having that
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  mindset shift in us. And I think that's going to be one worth watching.
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  And then one that you might not know, maybe you do.
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  I have loved her for a little while, but someone in my group,
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  shout out Felicia, wanted to share with us one that she watched recently.
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  And so I went and watched it because I hadn't seen any of her videos in a little
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  while and it's a gem, but it's called Christy Doing things and she spelled k-r-i-s-t-i
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  in case you're just listening and you go don't go to my lip links.
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  But over at Christy Doing Things, she has a video called Seven,
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  quote, Normal Habits That Are Actually Survival Mode, Decluttering Helped Me See Them All.
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  What I love about her is she actually got her PhD in psychology and sort of
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  evaluated her own self and her own experience while getting her PhD.
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  And she talks so much about the mindset behind what we're sort of doing in our
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  homes and why things happen. and I really love her perspective on things.
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  And she has a new video that I have not watched called, I Wish Someone Told
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  Me This Before or When I Started Decluttering.
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  And I'm definitely also going to be watching that one today.
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  So I just, in case you're feeling that summer slump and you're needing some
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  new inspiration, I thought, hey, why not compile some of the favorites I have
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  been seeing and share those with you.
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  So if you have any and you would like to go, oh my goodness,
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  Joy, you need to watch this lady.
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  I don't know why you didn't mention her. She's fantastic. Or if you have specific
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  great videos, I will happily do a follow-up of this to share the wealth of this
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  audience with each other.
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  I have on my website now, if you go to joylovinghome.com slash podcast,
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  you will get into the podcast tab of my website.
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  And if you scroll down, there is a place where you can comment to me about anything
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  you're hearing. You can even just say, hey, just listen to episode 270.
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  And this is a video I think you have to share with the listeners.
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  I would love to get your information about that.
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  And then if you don't want to go over there, you can always email me anytime,
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  joy at joylovinghope.com.
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  All right. Until next time, continue to choose joy.