#501 Back to Basics – Asking Yourself the 3 Clarifying Questions as You Declutter

#501 Back to Basics – Asking Yourself the 3 Clarifying Questions as You Declutter

by | Feb 22, 2022 | Clutter Free, Clutter Free For Life, Clutter Free Home, Podcast | 2 comments

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501: Back to Basics

Asking Yourself the 3 Clarifying Questions as You Declutter

Kathi and her best friend, Roger Lipp, are taking the clutter free journey back to the basics. Do you need specific criteria to guide your decision making for what to keep and what to get rid of? Kathi and Roger are here to remind us of the three clarifying questions we should be asking ourselves as we declutter. Join in the conversation to learn the art of how to keep the best and get rid of the rest by knowing and practicing these three questions as you declutter:

  • Do I love it?
  • Do I use it? 
  • Would I buy it again?

Listen in as Kathi and Roger explain how asking yourself these three questions can get you past the mental block of clearing out your clutter.

The Clutter Free Home: Making Room for Your Life

 

When it comes to your home, peace is possible…

Longing for a place of peace from which you can love others well? The Clutter-Free Home is your room-by-room guide to decluttering, reclaiming, and celebrating every space of your home. 

Let author Kathi Lipp (who once lived a life buried in clutter) walk you through each room of your house to create organizational zones that are not only functional and practical but create places of peace that reflect your personality.  Kathi will help you tackle the four-step process of dedicate, decide, declutter and “do-your-thing” to reveal the home you’ve always dreamed of, and then transform it into a haven that reflects who you truly are meant to be.

ORDER THE CLUTTER-FREE HOME

Links Mentioned:

The Clutter-Free Home

Clutter Free Academy

Learn more about Clutter Free for Life

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To share your thoughts:

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Meet Our Guest 

 

Roger Lipp

Roger is a productivity and quality engineer for a Fortune 50 company.

Roger helps teams reach their full productivity potential by teaching them the practical and simple steps to reach their goals. Roger and his wife, author Kathi Lipp, teach communicators how to share their message through social media and email marketing.

He and Kathi coauthored Happy Habits for Every Couple with Harvest House Publishers.

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496: 1 Day Declutter: The Great 100 Item Cupboard Cleanout

496: 1 Day Declutter: The Great 100 Item Cupboard Cleanout

by | Jan 18, 2022 | Clutter Free, Clutter Free For Life, Podcast | 5 comments

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496: 1 Day Declutter Your Pop Up Clutter Free Focus:
The Great 100 Item Cupboard Clean Out

Kathi and Tonya are here today with details on the upcoming “Great 100 Item Cupboard Clean-Out!” On Wednesday January 26th, Kathi Lipp and Tonya Kubo are hosting a friendly challenge in Clutter Free Academy. You mission, should you choose to accept it: get rid of 100 items in your kitchen. It’s time to throw out those extra soy sauce packets, expired items, donate-able items, and takeout menus (you can find those menus on the Internet anyway). Listen in as the pair give all the details and guidelines for a successful kitchen clean-out.

 

Now, gather your supplies – some of Kathi’s go-to suggestions include:

 

  • Garbage can/recycling can
  • A box for food bank donations
  • A black marker and labeling tape
  • Plastic containers (Kathi’s favorite are the OXO Containers)
You got this!

 

 

Clutter Free: Quick and Easy Steps for Simplifying Your Space

If you’ve ever wished you could clear out your clutter, simplify your space, and take back your life, Kathi Lipp has just the solutions you need. Building off the success of her The Get Yourself Organized Project, this book will provide even more ideas for getting your life and your stuff under control.

Do any of these descriptions apply to you?

  • You bought a box of cereal at the store, and then discovered you have several boxes at home that are already past the “best by” date.
  • You bought a book and put it on your nightstand (right on top of ten others you’ve bought recently), but you have yet to open it.
  • You keep hundreds of DVDs around even though you watch everything online now and aren’t really sure where the remote for the DVD player is.
  • You spend valuable time moving your piles around the house, but you can never find that piece of paper when you need it.
  • Your house doesn’t make you happy when you step into it.

As you try out the many easy, doable solutions that helped Kathi win her battle with clutter, you’ll begin to understand why you hold on to the things you do, eliminate what’s crowding out real life, and make room for the life of true abundance God wants for you.

Enter in the giveaway for a chance to win or order your copy here!

 

 

 

Links Mentioned:

The Clutter-Free Home

Tonya Kubo

Kathi Lipp’s Clutter Free Academy FaceBook Page

OXO Food Containers

Learn more about Clutter Free for Life.

Giveaway: For a chance to win a copy of the book that started it all: Clutter Free by Kathi Lipp, take a picture of all the items you’re getting rid of or your newly decluttered kitchen space from the Jan 26th challenge.

Two photos will be randomly selected and each person will receive a copy of Clutter Free!

Let’s stay connected

To share your thoughts:

Leave an honest review on iTunes. Your ratings and reviews really help and I read each one.

Subscribe on iTunes or subscribe to our newsletter now.

Meet Our Guest 

 

Tonya Kubo

Tonya Kubo is the illustrious and fearless leader of Kathi Lipp’s Clutter Free Academy Facebook group and the Clutter Free for Life membership program. A speaker and writer, Tonya makes her home in the heart of California with her husband, Brian, their two spirited daughters, and one very tolerant cat. Visit her at www.tonyakubo.com.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/clutterfreeacademy/
https://www.kathilipp.com/clutter-free-for-life/
https://www.tonyakubo.com/

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491 Your Holiday Game Plan – How to Have the Least Stressful Holiday Season of Your Life

491 Your Holiday Game Plan – How to Have the Least Stressful Holiday Season of Your Life

by | Dec 14, 2021 | Christmas, Christmas Project Planner, Clutter Free, Clutter Free For Life, Clutter Free Home, Podcast | 0 comments

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491: Your Holiday Game Plan

How to Have the Least Stressful Holiday Season of Your Life 

Kathi and her favorite holiday celebrant, Roger Lipp, are bringing all the best tips for our least stressful holiday season ever and equipping us with a game plan to carry it out. So much of preparing our house is about being comfortable in our own space. There are some key things we can do to declutter and make the holidays less stressful including

  • Determine the priority places & spaces to be decluttered
  • Make a help list 
  • Don’t leave room for unmet expectations 
  • Get a membership to Clutter Free for Life

    The Christmas Project Planner: Super Simple Steps to Organize the Holidays

     

    Christmas—whether you really love it, secretly dread it, or fall somewhere in between—shows up the same time every year, as unavoidable as your aunt’s fruitcake.

    But this season, don’t stress your “elf” out. Be ready with this amazing planner designed to help you get a handle on the holidays. Stay organized (and sane) when you put expectations aside and choose to focus on the things you truly want to do during Christmas.

    You’ll be amazed at what you can accomplish with just a little more organization and less obligation. The simple projects in this book will help you stay on schedule so you can spend more time enjoying your friends and family instead of frantically trying to cobble Christmas together at the last minute (again).

    You can do this! Let clutter-free queen Kathi Lipp show you how. Order your copy of The Christmas Project Planner here.

     

     

     

    Links Mentioned:

    The Clutter-Free Home

    Learn more about Clutter Free for Life

    Let’s stay connected

    To share your thoughts:

    Leave an honest review on iTunes. Your ratings and reviews really help and I read each one.

    Subscribe on iTunes or subscribe to our newsletter now.

    Meet Our Guest 

     

    Roger Lipp

    Roger is a productivity and quality engineer for a Fortune 50 company.

    Roger helps teams reach their full productivity potential by teaching them the practical and simple steps to reach their goals. Roger and his wife, author Kathi Lipp, teach communicators how to share their message through social media and email marketing.

    He and Kathi coauthored Happy Habits for Every Couple with Harvest House Publishers.

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    490 How to Make the Hard Decisions in Life with Author Nicki Koziarz – Flooded

    490 How to Make the Hard Decisions in Life with Author Nicki Koziarz – Flooded

    by | Dec 7, 2021 | Clutter Free, Clutter Free For Life, Hard Stuff, Podcast | 11 comments

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    490: How to Make the Hard Decisions in Life

    with Author Nicki Koziarz 

    Flooded

    Kathi is here with long awaited guest: three time best selling author, Nicki Koziarz to talk about how to make challenging decisions. So much of the clutter in our lives is caused by avoiding decision. As the clutter continues to build, we are flooded with choices, and that can leave us feeling overwhelmed. Even though many of the decisions we are faced with on a daily basis are small decisions, they can seem very daunting causing us to continue to avoid them. Listen in as Kathi and Nicki give us some hard truths that can help us develop our decision muscle, including:

     

    • None of us are exempt from hard things
    • How to deal with the emotion attached to the clutter 
    • How to make hard decisions when it seems contrary to what’s expected

    Flooded: The 5 Best Decisions to Make When Life is Hard and Doubt is Rising

     

    Through the painful loss of her mom to a brain tumor and her brother to suicide, Nicki Koziarz has learned that if doubt is left undealt with, it can cause the presence of unbelief to flood our lives, to the point that faith becomes unrecognizable. Hard circumstances often stir something so destructive in a soul: doubt.  In the midst of her pain, Nicki looked through the lens of the biblical account of Noah and discovered five decisions a person can make to help deflect the destruction of doubt.

    When you are wrestling with doubt and fighting back hopelessness, Flooded will help you:

    • Quiet the fear that God won’t come through by discovering the difference between wishful thinking and biblical hope.
    • Resist the urge to control the uncontrollable by finding peace in between the problem and the promise.
    • Find the familiar faithfulness of God in His Word when it feels like nothing is normal and everything is falling apart.

    The reality of hard times holds a decision for each of us to find hope. And the decision to find it is yours. But you don’t have to do it alone. It’s time to rise above doubt, together.

     

     

    Links Mentioned:

    The Clutter-Free Home

    Learn more about Clutter Free for Life

    Flooded

    Ready for Anything

    Connect with Nicki

    Giveaway: For a chance to win a copy of Flooded, answer this question in the comments below:

    Tell me a time that God met you in a decision and gave you the strength to make it OR tell me something that you are working through right now? 

    Let’s stay connected

    To share your thoughts:

    Leave an honest review on iTunes. Your ratings and reviews really help and I read each one.

    Subscribe on iTunes or subscribe to our newsletter now.

    Meet Our Guest 

     

    Nicki Koziarz

    Nicki Koziarz is a three-time best selling author with Proverbs 31 Ministries. She and her husband own a small farm just outside of Charlotte, NC where they are raising their twenty children, but only three are human.

    Connect with Nicki on her website, on Facebook, and on Instagram. 

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    489: 10 Ways to Prep for a Clutter Free Holiday Part 2

    489: 10 Ways to Prep for a Clutter Free Holiday Part 2

    by | Nov 30, 2021 | Christmas, Christmas Project Planner, Clutter Free, Clutter Free For Life, Clutter Free Home, Podcast | 0 comments

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    489: 10 Ways to Prep for a Clutter Free Holiday

    Part 2

    Kathi Lipp and her partner in decluttering and everything else, Roger Lipp, are back to continue their great discussion on to how to celebrate the holiday season without sabotaging your Clutter Free journey.  Are you unsure of how to approach the holidays without adding to your or your loved ones’ clutter? Kathi has 10 incredibly helpful tips just for that. She and Roger shared the first five suggestions in part 1. Listen in now as they share the last half of their insightful list of suggestions for celebrating the season clutter-free. Kathi explains the value in:

     

    The Christmas Project Planner: Super Simple Steps to Organize the Holidays

     

    Christmas—whether you really love it, secretly dread it, or fall somewhere in between—shows up the same time every year, as unavoidable as your aunt’s fruitcake.

    But this season, don’t stress your “elf” out. Be ready with this amazing planner designed to help you get a handle on the holidays. Stay organized (and sane) when you put expectations aside and choose to focus on the things you truly want to do during Christmas.

    You’ll be amazed at what you can accomplish with just a little more organization and less obligation. The simple projects in this book will help you stay on schedule so you can spend more time enjoying your friends and family instead of frantically trying to cobble Christmas together at the last minute (again).

    You can do this! Let clutter-free queen Kathi Lipp show you how. Order your copy of The Christmas Project Planner here.

     

     

     

    Links Mentioned:

    The Clutter-Free Home

    Learn more about Clutter Free for Life

    Let’s stay connected

    To share your thoughts:

    Leave an honest review on iTunes. Your ratings and reviews really help and I read each one.

    Subscribe on iTunes or subscribe to our newsletter now.

    Meet Our Guest 

     

    Roger Lipp

    Roger is a productivity and quality engineer for a Fortune 50 company.

    Roger helps teams reach their full productivity potential by teaching them the practical and simple steps to reach their goals. Roger and his wife, author Kathi Lipp, teach communicators how to share their message through social media and email marketing.

    He and Kathi coauthored Happy Habits for Every Couple with Harvest House Publishers.

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    488: 10 Ways to Prep for a Clutter Free Holiday Part 1

    488: 10 Ways to Prep for a Clutter Free Holiday Part 1

    by | Nov 23, 2021 | Christmas, Christmas Project Planner, Clutter Free, Clutter Free For Life, Clutter Free Home, Podcast | 0 comments

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    488: 10 Ways to Prep for a Clutter Free Holiday

    Part 1

     

    Kathi Lipp is here with her partner in decluttering and everything else, Roger Lipp, to talk about how to celebrate the holiday season without sabotaging your Clutter Free journey. Are you unsure of how to approach the holidays without adding to your or your loved ones’ clutter? Kathi and Roger give five insightful suggestions to celebrating the season clutter-free, including:

     

     

    Be sure to catch next week’s episode when Kathi and Roger will share the last half of their advice for a Clutter-Free holiday.

    The Christmas Project Planner: Super Simple Steps to Organize the Holidays

     

    Christmas—whether you really love it, secretly dread it, or fall somewhere in between—shows up the same time every year, as unavoidable as your aunt’s fruitcake.

    But this season, don’t stress your “elf” out. Be ready with this amazing planner designed to help you get a handle on the holidays. Stay organized (and sane) when you put expectations aside and choose to focus on the things you truly want to do during Christmas.

    You’ll be amazed at what you can accomplish with just a little more organization and less obligation. The simple projects in this book will help you stay on schedule so you can spend more time enjoying your friends and family instead of frantically trying to cobble Christmas together at the last minute (again).

    You can do this! Let clutter-free queen Kathi Lipp show you how. Order your copy of The Christmas Project Planner here.

     

     

     

    Links Mentioned:

    The Clutter-Free Home

    Learn more about Clutter Free for Life

    Compassion International

    World Vision International

    Let’s stay connected

    To share your thoughts:

    Leave an honest review on iTunes. Your ratings and reviews really help and I read each one.

    Subscribe on iTunes or subscribe to our newsletter now.

    Meet Our Guest 

     

    Roger Lipp

    Roger is a productivity and quality engineer for a Fortune 50 company.

    Roger helps teams reach their full productivity potential by teaching them the practical and simple steps to reach their goals. Roger and his wife, author Kathi Lipp, teach communicators how to share their message through social media and email marketing.

    He and Kathi coauthored Happy Habits for Every Couple with Harvest House Publishers.

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    #629 How to Incorporate Vintage Finds Without the Clutter

    #629 How to Incorporate Vintage Finds Without the Clutter

    629 How to Incorporate Vintage Finds Without the ClutterHey there, friends! Have you ever wondered how to balance your love for vintage items with a desire for a clutter-free home? In this episode of Clutter Free Academy, host Kathi Lipp welcomes designer Hillary...