357 - 2020 Declutter Hot Spots

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In today’s podcast, I want to inspire you to take quick action to address the clutter hotspots in your home. A hotspot is anywhere that paper or physical stuff accumulates. As our lives change, we often use our homes in ways that are different from the organizational systems we have already set up. This leads to stuff sitting out and making hotspots. There are three major reasons a clutter hotspot develops:</span></p> <ol> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You have not made a decision about an item.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You have a project you are deferring (not taking action on right now).</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You have brought new items into your living space that need to be given a home.</span></li> </ol> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the podcast, I will walk you through several different hotspots that have popped up in my own home during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how I was able to</span> <a href= "https://organize365.com/podcast/organization-stage-1-declutter"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> declutter</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">them. I bought some food items but did not have a plan to actually prepare them for a specific meal, so they were left out. Some hotspots were from aspirational purchases where I purchased things I thought I wanted to do (breaking my own</span> <a href= "https://organize365.com/podcast/24-hour-rule"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">24-hour rule</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">), and left the items out in our living space. Another hotspot was from purchasing new kinds of supplies for the pandemic (gloves, masks, hand sanitizer) without a place to store them or a sense of how many we needed to store in our home.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I want you to take some time and look around your home for your hotspots. Which of the reasons above are these items sitting out ran