Tyler Moore

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We Can Do Hard Things · How to Survive This Absurd Life with Samantha Irby (Best Of) · 2 Feb 2025 podcast

So like for you, if you are starting with the clothing that's in your closet, if you're starting with your work stuff, if you're talking about your own individual work bag, like those are things that you're able to actually declutter and go through without negotiating with your wife, for example.

Because I feel like so often, when you have to declutter with negotiating, that's when all of these other relational sort of issues start to pop up. And it's not to say that you never want to declutter, you know... negotiating but I feel like if you are inspired, it's like start with your own stuff first and then you gradually begin to take on the more complex sort of categories.

And the decluttering process that I recommend, it's you first clear the space, then you start to sort the stuff because it needs to be in smaller categories, then you can begin to assess what do you want to keep versus what do you want to move out before you then make the organizational plan for all of those items that you've chosen to keep.

But I do feel like decluttering without negotiating first is a great place to start.

Yeah, absolutely not. And, you know, most recently I did our, like, tech drawer, which I feel like everybody is great at bringing new tech in, but there's something about us that, like, holds on to all of those cords and chargers, even when we've gotten multiple duplicates forevermore. And so... Over the weekend, I was like, let me just set a timer for like 15 minutes.

Let me pull all these chords out and actually see, can I sort these and get these reorganized into a way that's like actually usable for our family? And it was amazing to see, one, the like volume of chords that we had, but two, to be able to name like, which of the chords did I actually like? Like, what was the optimal length? Which ones were sort of like broken at the end? And

It really reminded me of the power of that like 15 to 20 minute declutter with a very narrow category that then has so many positive impacts on your life. Like when your device needs to be charged that you know exactly where to go for like the type A or the type C charger in a place that's like neat and tidy and organized.

Yeah, and I don't know what it is. I feel like sometimes there's this like doomsday scenario almost that we're all planning for. Like, we sort of have lived through doomsday scenarios, which is still coming out of the pandemic of 2020. But whether it's toilet paper or coffee mugs or like tech. You know, it's like, why do we need the volume that we do?

Is it so that if we happen to have 30 friends who come over and all of their cell phones are like dead and they're expecting like important, like life altering calls that they all need to be charging their phones at the same time. Like when you start to use a little bit of humor and ask yourself, like, Am I planning for a doomsday scenario right now?

That can sort of help you guide to what is that like just enough number or what is that just right number of the number of cords that you need that make you feel comfortable so that when you open up that drawer, you can actually find what you need as opposed to being frustrated that you can't find something.

And then you have to go out and buy a new cord because you lost the cord that came with your device. And then you're just continually bringing all of those like new things in.

Yeah, no, it's funny. And I feel like coffee cups, that's it's almost sort of like, I don't know what it is. It's a category for people. And I don't know if it relates to deeper values that we have around like hospitality, or it reminds us of seeing friends or sometimes people collect coffee mugs when they're traveling, but also they have those coffee mugs from like...

Aunt Sarah, but I do feel like if you can name for yourself also like what is getting in the way because of that volume of coffee cups that I have, like that can be an important place to start. And like we live in a 750 square foot apartment. Like I just went through coffee mugs also recently and my daughters were like, daddy, what are you doing? Those are all of our holiday mugs. And I was like,

It's fine. I'm not getting rid of the holiday mugs, but I'm like moving them with the holiday stuff because they can't be out on these shelves for the next year. So I do feel like, you know, again, it's going back to that like doomsday scenario. Like, do you have enough coffee mugs to not wash your coffee cup for an entire month? Like, if so, that may be too many.

Do you actually have a coffee pot that's large enough If all of your friends come over and everyone is holding a coffee mug, can you actually fill up everyone's coffee mug at the exact same time? The answer is probably no. So that could be a category that you start examining and that could be a great sort of like testing ground for some of your decluttering skills.

Yeah, and I think that that's okay. And I think that, you know, one of the philosophies that I like to share with people is this idea of being able to name what is just enough for you in any individual category. And I think that our spaces in our homes function best when we feel like we do have space for the things that we value or love or enjoy.

That it's like so often we can look at our square footage as being limiting, but it's often because we have an abundance of things in categories that are taking up space that might not be allowing those new things to come in or be able to organize those things that we have of value.

I think that this is when you look at a restaurant or, you know, those like MasterChef episodes, especially when you have like Gordon Ramsay sort of like yelling at you and you have the clock counting down, like restaurants have to be organized in such a way that the chefs, the sous chefs, the servers are able to get the food out to people in a timely manner.

And as you mentioned, like so often when people move into a space or when they're like unboxing items to go into their kitchen,

you sort of adopt this like put it wherever it fits sort of mindset that it's like okay there's a drawer over here or there's a cabinet there let me just put the stuff away and oftentimes you know how people put things away when they first move in moved in whether it's five years ago a decade ago 20 years ago it's sort of like that is what set the organizational blueprint.

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