Amy Revell
speaker
4,086 appearances
22 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 2d ago
Amy Revell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 22 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 5.
Appearances
And Doom Boxes are those places where you gather all the random stuff and you put it all together in a box or a bag and you have all the best intentions that you're going to get back to it, that you're going to sort it through, that you're not just putting it in there forever.
It's not going there to die.
You have the intention that you're going to go through that doom bag or that doom box.
But ultimately, it's for the paperwork and random stationery and Nerf gun bullets and lip balm and hair clips.
And it's full of such random stuff that every time you look at it, you're just completely overwhelmed.
And one of the requests that came out of that episode was from Andrea in New Zealand.
And she said, OK, we've talked about Zoom boxes, Amy, but I need you to talk about what to do when you've got a Zoom room.
And I think traditionally we've called these doom rooms junk rooms, spare rooms.
They are places where there's a whole room and it has no specific purpose or it is not being used for a specific purpose.
And ultimately delayed decisions and things we don't know what to do would get thrown into that space.
And what you end up with is a room of doom.
It's so many items that you don't know what to do with, you don't know where to put, you can't make a decision on, you don't know where to store them.
You've got like all these decisions caught up in one space.
And I know Andrea is not alone in wanting to know, like, how do I tackle this whole room where the whole room seems overwhelming?
We talked about Zoom boxes sometimes being helpful, that usually they're unhelpful because it means that you put things in there and you never, ever go back to it.
But sometimes it's helpful if the clutter is spread out rather than looking at, say, a whole kitchen bench and thinking, I really have to go and deal with that whole kitchen bench.
If you can slide all of that into an open container,
and then sit down and make the decisions about what is in that container, it can be really helpful.
When you're dealing with a doom room though, you kind of walk in and you're like, now I absolutely don't know where to start because the doom room, more often than not, is full of doom boxes.
And so it's just completely overwhelming.
Showing 2741–2760 of 4,086 · page 138 of 205
← Previous
Next →