How To Declutter Your Home: 5 Tips That Actually Work
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Hey, it's your friend Mel, and welcome to the Mel Robbins Podcast. I have to tell you something you may not know about me. I am a slob. I mean, it's almost embarrassing and something I would rather not talk about, but the time has come for me and you to face this issue head on. If you have people coming over anytime soon and you would rather they not get past the welcome mat, or if you just have parts of your house... For me, it's like the bathroom doors or the laundry room that are hidden disasters. Shut the door, Chris. You know, when the company's going to sit right next to me right now because you're not alone and you are in the right place. You and I have got to talk about clutter because clutter weighs you down mentally and physically. I mean, just think about it. When you walk into a room that's packed with stuff or you open up a drawer and you can't find what you're looking for, your brain feels it. You may be in your car looking at old soda cups or tissues that are left from the day before. This was me this morning.
I had to find some in my car. I'm like, how long have those coffee cups been in the backseat? Or you may be in the house or office looking at a cluttered counter or kitchen. Just take a second to notice. Isn't that clutter weighing you down? I'm here to tell you it's not only weighing you down, it's holding you back. No, you do not need to buy more storage bins to hide the mess. You don't need to take a trip to the big store to get organized or color code anything to start cleaning up your act. You can take back your home and your life with a few simple decluttering steps that actually work in real life for real people like you and me. Hey, it's your friend Mel, and welcome to the Mel Robbins Podcast. I am so excited that you're here. I just love this topic.
I especially love this topic for right now, based on the fact that the holidays are coming up like a driver that is riding your rear end right now on the back of the car, whatever the heck that's called. Well, first of all, I should probably start and say it's an honor to spend some time with you and to be together. And if you're brand new, welcome to the Mel Robbins Podcast family. The fact that you hit play on this episode, it tells me something. It tells me you value your time and you hate the clutter, right? It tells me that you want simple ways to clean up your act. You'd like to be proud of your house. You'd like to be proud of your counters. I mean, wouldn't you like counters that are squeaky clean? I know I would.
And I also know that you're interested in learning about ways that you can improve your life. And one of the simplest ways to improve your life, and this is actually really important, is to improve the space around you. your environment matters. It like sends these cues to your eyes, to your nervous system. And the space around me in my home, in my studio and in my car, I mean, it could be described as I'm looking around, there are balloons in the corner in the office. There are stacks of let them books and manuscripts that are Almost a year old, lying around. There is a box sitting next to the printer that has some beige sweatshirt on top of it. I don't even know who the heck the sweatshirt is.
There is a hairspray. I'm embarrassed. Thank God I'm not on video right now. But here's the thing. You didn't tune in to hear about my clutter. You tuned in to hear how you can change your life by getting control of your clutter. Because mess isn't just physical. The mess around you creates a mess in your mind. Clutter in your physical space, whether it's clothes laying on the floor of your closet or piled on top of the laundry room or it's, do you have one of those drawers? They're always in your bathroom where you go to pull it open and there's some tube of something in the back that you probably haven't seen in seven years that is poking up and jamming the door open. This stuff clutters your mind.
And it makes it harder to focus and harder to feel more in control. Well, what if I told you there is a simple way to not only clean up your house before all your relatives come for the holidays, but to break free from this unnecessary overwhelm? Well, in today's conversation, you and I are going to flip the script on what decluttering really means.
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