Real quick. I recommend listen to the show on Spotify. We can listen to all of your favorite artist and podcast in one place for free without a premium account. Spotify has a huge catalog of podcast on every imaginable topic, plus he can follow your favorite podcast. So you never miss an episode premium. Users can download episodes to listen to offline wherever and whenever and easily share what you're listening to with your friends on Instagram. So if you haven't done so already be sure to download the Spotify app search for optimal living daily on Spotify or browse podcast in the your library, Tab also make sure to follow me. So you never miss an episode of optimal living daily. This is optimal living daily episode. Three hundred and seventy seven, the clutter free haughty guide by LEO Barbados and habitats, and I'm just a moloch. Welcome back of your regular, o l de listener, also known as an already or a few new here, welcome to the show, the audio blog? If you will, this is one of four podcast. Read you from amazing blogs and the show covers development in minimalism may with a whole.

Is upon us, I thought I'd try to find some relevant pose this week in pretty much all of the authors I re from have something about the holiday season has been pretty easy to find good content for you on the topic of gift, giving an all and stuff says here LEO about as take on it as we optimize your life. The quota free, Your hoary guide by the about jobs and habits done at you often see haughty, if guides the like, but not often enough. Do we see guys on dealing with clutter during this most cluttered of seasons, from gifts to wrapping, two declarations do cardboard boxes from Amazon and more the holidays can see more accumulation of clutter than any other time of the year. How we deal with it, it takes a multi pronged. Lest I ve been clearing existing clutter if your houses and free of cholera, this point you can start to make

dance even with a bitter holiday schedule. Some ideas number one spend just two to five minutes at a time, get a cardboard box for donations when you're in your bedroom spend too five minutes, picking off a few things, you definitely don't need and put them in the box. Later when you're in the kitchen spend two to five minutes, doing the same on countertop and on your dining table on shelves. When you walk pass them on your closet floor all various times, you're walking through an area, not all one day, but in bits each day number to carve out thirty minutes. A few times a week put in our calendar spend their time. Clearing out, is it just take out as many things are? You don't need, as he can in thirty minutes, put them in the donor box or the trash It won't have time, declare your entire house during the holidays, but that's ok, just get the ball rolling tackle the rest in January, gift expectations, programme, I just called her during the holidays, for many people is getting give You don't need, though, just clutter up your house.

A key here is a manage expectations. Number one talk to you friends and family or send an email or Facebook post tell them. You prefer how to get any yes, because you're trying to reduce clutter number to consider asking join the by nothing until twenty sixteen challenge, then you cannot biased for each other. Together they can be a fund new family tradition. Number three people who really still want to do gives to consider making cookies or other consumables, give gift certificates for services babysitting our work, washing a car or experiences. Wine tasting hotels day, rock climbing jam, etc. Number four ass people consider only in a charity, instead of giving things number five warn them that you are probably donate other kinds of gifts. Are you receive other than the non clutter kinds to charity? Dealing with gives you get some people will get you. Yes, no matter what you ask, don't be mad, her petty about it, be grateful for the thought, but you ve worn

I'm so don't feel bad about passing the gift onto someone whom I need it ask your other. And if they need a new toaster or whatever you got or given away on your door, Craigs List or other similar listings online. If you really want to keep a gift, that's ok, just get rid of two the more size items you already own for everyone. You keep wrapping. If you give you consider wrapping in newspapers or magazines that you already have around the house. So you don't waste more paper or wrap things in cloth using cloth items that you were getting rid of be sure to recycle wrapping paper from gifts that others give you decorations, Filter out the holiday decorations, you have you never use and donate or trash them. Consider using festive plants like right. Red and yellow leaves evergreen branches I ain't cones colored regards and pumpkins instead of store by decorations. These can be on posted after holidays are over instead of stored or trashed boxes, people, I guess oftener them online, which means lots of boxes. You and binding

the store using means boxes and shopping dies. Consider buying gifts and not ordering them online. To reduce this waste again. Giving symbols, gift certificates for services or experiences or charity donation. Our great ways, reduce packaging waste, consider all making. Your own gives a member jar with lots of was favorite. Memories of a person printed on cod stock and put into a Mason jar is a great gift so as a cookie recipe with it raw ingredients, layered and Mason jar or homemade, chocolate mix with the personalized mode make your own bore games, puzzle books can, laptop covers memory, albums family cookbooks any more. If you do end up with some cardboard boxes, fill them with. From your house that you're going to donate a charity or give two other people. You know, then the boxes go towards de cutting your house instead of contributing clutter. He just listen to the post title. Clutter, free holiday guide by Liam about us and harvest on net agree that

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