This week we chat all about living in share houses! We chat about the challenge of only having that one room to store all of your things in and different ideas around this concept. We encourage you to make the most of the space you do have, think creatively and vertically about where and how to store your things. We chat about the role that storage units can play for short term storage and the concept of renting out your belongings to others if you end up having multiples of common use items in ...
Apr 14, 2019•26 min•Season 1Ep. 98
This week we have our first international guest, Laurie Palau! She is our great friend and fellow Professional Organizer from the USA (yes we are using Z where we normally use S's today in homage to our guest today ;-)) Laurie is the author of the book HOT MESS: A Practical Guide to Getting Organized , host of the weekly podcast, This ORGANIZED Life , and the founder of simply B organized where she speaks, teaches and works one-on-one with clients to help them reduce clutter and increase product...
Apr 07, 2019•36 min•Season 1Ep. 97
This week we chat all about decluttering and organising your picnic gear, thanks to the request made by Geraldine Van Oord! We laugh about getting older and needing cushions and chairs to go on a picnic! We discuss our opinion that as a culture we have moved from a picnicking culture to a cafe culture and how we are so incredibly middle class! We chat about big heavy old style picnic baskets and menopause! We give tips on where to store your picnic things, plastic versus metal utensils and quest...
Mar 31, 2019•28 min•Season 1Ep. 96
This week we chat about home offices! We have two each in our homes so we share what they look like and how they have changed over time. We encourage you to set a vision for your home office and challenge you to consider the amount of furniture you actually need in your office space. What storage do you need for your office? We ask you to think about the function of your office, what is frustrating you in the processes and in the layout of your home office? We chat about how a decluttered and or...
Mar 24, 2019•31 min•Season 1Ep. 95
This week we answer a question we were asked by Jarred, can you declutter too much? Our answer is no, but perhaps yes! We do talk briefly about obsessive behaviours and that people can get the bug for decluttering and can possibly remove things that they regret. However in our professional experience we find the opposite is more the case. We often find that people can't remember what they have in boxes and we discover long lost loved items. The power of decluttering is that you will find things ...
Mar 17, 2019•28 min•Season 1Ep. 94
What is your favourite room in your home? Is it your Master Bedroom? Why? Why not? Do you know the difference between a pillow or cushion? (Listen out for Kirsty's mistake when she chats about them.) We challenge you to make it a priority this week to reclaim the serenity and peace of your bedroom by decluttering it. Our antidotal evidence is that you will sleep better if your room is decluttered, no matter what your age. Our master bedrooms can become the dumping room because we close the doors...
Mar 10, 2019•25 min•Season 1Ep. 93
This week we are open, honest and vulnerable as we share with you the mistakes we have made as Professional Organisers. We ask each other the following questions; Have you ever walked into a space and realised that this job was not for you? Have you worked with anyone we regretted? Do we have any disgruntled clients? Have we ever thrown out something by mistake? Have we had clients unhappy with the process or with us? Have you ever organised a space and the client hated it? We also give a huge a...
Mar 03, 2019•39 min•Season 1Ep. 92
This week Amy and Kirsty come with love to question some of your beliefs challenge you thinking about YOU! We recommend going for a walk, or run or walk the dog to processes some of your frustration at us as we deliver some truth bombs in love and grace because we want the best for you! Is there clutter in your home that it is always someone else fault? If only your kids or partner or housemate dealt with their clutter, your house would be a instagrammable home, right? We want to challenge you t...
Feb 24, 2019•23 min•Season 1Ep. 91
This week we chat about the Social Media, perfect thing to declutter after last week's episode on the Mental Load! Does the thought of decluttering your social media life terrify you or is it your dream? We really want you to encourage you this week to be thoughtful and intentional about what you engage with and what you let influence your life. Do you procrastiscroll? Yes it is a thing! Do you suffer from comparintintis (yes again it is a real thing ;-)) We want you to ask yourself some questio...
Feb 17, 2019•29 min•Season 1Ep. 90
This week we chat about Micro Decluttering! We know that many of you don't have hours and hours each week to dedicate to decluttering and organising your home so we created the idea of a Micro Declutter! The idea is you take a small pocket of time, 2 minutes, and choose an area to quickly declutter. You could be waiting for the microwave to bing or the kettle to boil, any small pocket of time, grab the Bingo sheet and get decluttering! We created a Bingo Game to go along with today's episode and...
Feb 10, 2019•25 min•Season 1Ep. 89
This week we chat about the Mental Load! We all carry it in one form or a thousand. We chat about how the division of labour & mental load is carried in our home and how that has changed over the years particularly for Amy. We give tips on how to reduce your mental load by asking for help from others in your home and how having a decluttered home can help everyone! We get interrupted by Kirsty's watch and as always we hope you have a giggle with us and enjoy the conversation! This topic was ...
Feb 03, 2019•32 min•Season 1Ep. 88
This week we chat with about our jobs! What we do and what we don't do in our profession. This is particularly timely as Marie Kondo's Netflix sensation "Tidying Up" is taking the world by storm. We talk about our ideal clients and some of the preconceived ideas people have of our job. We have a conversation around some of the things that we aren't but we do. For instance, we aren't cleaners but we do clean, we are furniture removalist, but we do move furniture. We aren't rubbish removalist but ...
Jan 20, 2019•21 min•Season 1Ep. 86
This week we chat about decluttering your sports equipment. What are you still using? Do you have sport equipment for a sport you haven’t played in 20 years? Should it be moved on to a memorabilia box or donated rather than taking up real estate in your cupboards/garage. Do you have a treadmill that makes you feel guilty every time you look or can you not even see it anymore because it has become a clothes horse? In this episode we encourage you to clear all the clutter off the treadmill and use...
Jan 13, 2019•33 min•Season 1Ep. 85
This week we chat with about decluttering your teenagers ;-) No, we chat about helping teenagers and parents learn to declutter and stay organised through the fun years! So it is the perfect one to listen to on your smart speaker where the teenager can hear ;-) We give helpful questions to ask yourself and we encourage everyone to value maintaining relationships as a priority over fighting over messy rooms. We know that teenagers intrinsically want to belong and add value beyond themselves so we...
Jan 06, 2019•41 min•Season 1Ep. 84
This week we chat about memorabilia (think: newspapers, magazine, ticket stubs, autograph books, order of services from weddings/funeral/christenings, play booklets, brochures from tourist sites, school awards, sports awards, restaurant brochures, anything that reminds you of an event or a person.) We give you tips on how to declutter, how to store it and where to donate some items. We also have a great definition of clutter that will help you discern if an item is clutter or should be honoured ...
Dec 30, 2018•33 min•Season 1Ep. 83
This week we chat about musical instruments and equipment with our Sound engineer Jarred Doueal! We chat about what instruments all of us can play or at least attempt to play. We hear lots about how Jarred declutters and organises his studio as well as when he is gigging. We give some tips on where you can donate your old instruments to and how you can now use technology to help you let go of physical sheet music. We really loved having Jarred on the other side of the studio glass with us this w...
Dec 23, 2018•30 min•Season 1Ep. 82
This week we chat with our kids, Jesse & Elijah Revell and Oliver & Amelie Farrugia! We each quizzed our own kids and each others about what it is like to live in an organised and decluttered home and we asked them if they had any advice for other kids and parents. We also asked our listeners for some questions! Such a fun and funny episode. As always we hope you have a giggle with us and enjoy the conversation! Our episode this week is bought to you by Planted Parenting, an educational ...
Dec 16, 2018•25 min•Season 1Ep. 81
This Christmas season, we are practising what we preach and making this season a bit slower for us by revisiting last years episodes as we had such a great response to them last year. The great thing about re-listening to podcasts is that you'll take away different tips and you'll learn things you don't even remember hearing last time. So as you prepare for the Christmas season this year, we hope it is one of peace, love, feeling organised and being inspired to declutter. Do you love hosting Chr...
Dec 09, 2018•32 min•Season 1Ep. 80
This Christmas season, we are practising what we preach and making this season a bit slower for us by revisiting last years episodes as we had such a great response to them last year. The great thing about re-listening to podcasts is that you'll take away different tips and you'll learn things you don't even remember hearing last time. So as you prepare for the Christmas season this year, we hope it is one of peace, love, feeling organised and being inspired to declutter. Are you a gift giver? D...
Dec 02, 2018•30 min•Season 1Ep. 79
This Christmas season, we are practising what we preach and making this season a bit slower for us by revisiting last years episodes as we had such a great response to them last year. The great thing about re-listening to podcasts is that you'll take away different tips and you'll learn things you don't even remember hearing last time. So as you prepare for the Christmas season this year, we hope it is one of peace, love, feeling organised and being inspired to declutter. Do you love putting up ...
Nov 25, 2018•34 min•Season 1Ep. 78
This Christmas season, we are practising what we preach and making this season a bit slower for us by revisiting last years episodes as we had such a great response to them last year. The great thing about re-listening to podcasts is that you'll take away different tips and you'll learn things you don't even remember hearing last time. So as you prepare for the Christmas season this year, we hope it is one of peace, love, feeling organised and being inspired to declutter. Do you love Christmas s...
Nov 18, 2018•28 min•Season 1Ep. 77
This week we chat to Narelle and absolute amazing woman who homeschools 5 out of her 6 kids (#6 is too young still) and gives us some amazing #parentingtips! Even if you have no interest in homeschooling, if you're a parent, you will find some incredible tips in this episode on how to do self care and also teaching your kids how to do chores around the home. If you are a homeschooling family Narelle shares her unique experience and we are sure you'll enjoy this conversation as much as we did. We...
Nov 11, 2018•44 min•Season 1Ep. 76
This week we chat about our Unfinished Projects! What have you started but left unfinished? Do you have feelings of guilt or shame over that project? Is it is a craft project or a home reno project or have you just not got round to hanging up pictures in your new home? Our heart for you is to either complete the project or lovingly let go of it. Kirsty and Amy get open, honest and vulnerable as they share some of their projects that they have left unfinished and they coach each other in ways to ...
Nov 04, 2018•30 min•Season 1Ep. 75
Today we celebrate hitting 500,000 listens to our humble podcast! We recorded a quick episode to say a HUGE thank you to each and everyone of you for tuning in each and every week! We share with you some exciting presents from us and we ask for your help to continue to bring value and fun to even more people as we head into 2019! Thank you again for such a magnificent ride thus far! Join our community ● Become a Patron with Patreon – your monthly donation makes a huge difference to us being able...
Nov 02, 2018•27 min•Season 1Ep. 74
This week we chat about our Bedside Tables! Do you even have a bedside table? Does your bedside table have drawers or is it open shelves? What lives on the top of your bedside table and what lives in the drawers? What random things have found their way into your bedside table? We laugh a lot about having water on our bedside table and the need to go to the toilet in the middle of the night! We also have a few 80's references for you to reminisce with us over. We chat about kids bedside drawers a...
Oct 28, 2018•35 min•Season 1Ep. 73
This week we answer some listener questions! We had questions on under the kitchen sink, small apartments, garage laundries, kids and clutter, what is the most common item we declutter. We also chatted about the biggest declutter we have done, how to keep cables organised and our favourite icecream! This episode has lots of quick tips and suggestions from us and as always we hope you have a giggle with us and enjoy the conversation! Thanks to Katie, Owen, Rebecca, Sa & Courtney for the quest...
Oct 21, 2018•36 min•Season 1Ep. 72
This week we chat about makeup! We confess that neither of us are huge makeup wearers, consumers, keepers or storers. We have however decluttered many a bathroom and we can attest to how long some people keep their makeup for and how a bargain can suck you in! We chat about how Amelie was not allowed my 'used' makeup to play with (until I decluttered just recently!) and how Amy's father was also had the same rule in their house growing up. We realise that neither of our Mums are big makeup weare...
Oct 14, 2018•24 min•Season 1Ep. 71
This week we chat about Handbags! We compare how many we have and what we need to swap out of bags. We chatted about reducing the need for so much in your bag and purse by getting you to think about what is essential. We encourage you to go through old bags looking for money and lost jewellery and challenge you to support Share the Dignity with the bags you choose to donate. We also have a competition this week. Listen up and then be in it to win! As always we hope you have a giggle with us and ...
Oct 07, 2018•21 min•Season 1Ep. 70
This week we chat about cleaning products! You'll find them in the kitchen, bathrooms, laundry and garage/sheds. We talk about what cleaning products we use and how we store them. We talk about moving towards a low/no tox life and how we both really want to learn more about this topic. Kirsty raves about DoTerra Essential Oils and we chat about chemical free cleaning. We encourage you to go shopping in your own home before you head to the shops or before you buy that cleaning product that is on ...
Sep 30, 2018•27 min•Season 1Ep. 69
This week we chat about Adult children! Adult children that still live at home, adult children that have moved out of home and still have their contents at their parents and also to the parents of adult children who are frustrated or enabling their kids tendencies to sponge off them. We chat about giving your adult children time frames to collect their stuff. We chat about charging your adult children board and other alternatives to "adulting". This is a fairly no-holds bar, tough-love conversat...
Sep 23, 2018•31 min•Season 1Ep. 68
