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Declutter Your Home and Simplify Your Life

Written by: Sophie Largen, The Great Courses
Narrated by: Sophie Largen
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Are you feeling overwhelmed by the clutter in your life? A pile of laundry on the floor, a stack of papers on the table, or just too much stuff? You are not alone. The tough part is, you know that shoving it all out of sight isn’t enough—you need to start throwing things away. But you don’t have to become a minimalist. You just need to learn how to remove the excess, so you have more time for what is important in your life. And that’s just what this course teaches you.

Sophie Largen has made it her passion project to help motivate and encourage others by providing tips for efficient cleaning, organizing, and productivity. This practical guide will walk you through decluttering your spaces step by step. It will help you work through common pitfalls, and it will provide you with a plan for success for achieving a simplified—and more joyous—life.

Sophie starts by helping you build a road map and a schedule that are attainable for you and your family. She then shares her favorite decluttering strategies, providing exercises and asking questions to get you through challenges, such as parting with sentimental items. She then offers tools and techniques to help you maintain the organization and simplified life you’ve established.

By the end of this course, you may find yourself with new problems, like what to do with all your extra free time and that newly emptied drawer!

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Short and sweet with some good tips for breaking the task into bite size pieces.

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Not bad but nothing I haven't heard before

Still good as a refresher and motivator to get back into decluttering. Narrator is easy to listen to.

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More realistic method but too short

Bery good tips and method. Better and more reakistic to me especially for decluttering the schedule and paper. However i would have expected a bit more in depth information about how to make decisions to keep or not.

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Was expecting more tips but it still inspired me to declutter as my mother used to say a clean home is a happy home not true in my family,s case but it helps

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Good quick listen

Inspirational basic ideas that I enjoyed listening to while cleaning my kitchen on a Sunday afternoon

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Good inspiration

- inspired me to get started with some decluttering
- looked forward to the next lesson and the activities

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Quick listen to semi-motivate while cleaning up around the house. Wouldn’t pay for it.

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Short, but a good way to get started.

If you’ve wanted to declutter for a long time, just put this on and it’ll help get you get off the couch and get started. But it’s quite short and not really in depth. At one point she shows a bit of shade to Marie Kondo, and yet Kondo’s method was way more helpful, methodical, empathetic, and incremental in my opinion. This is a short listen and I think it’ll help just give you the motivation to start. Put it on your headphones, get a trash bag and just walk around the house throwing away trash (only actual trash! Don’t start decluttering until you listen to the audiobook at least halfway through). It’s like less than 2 hours long so this is really more like a podcast style introduction to decluttering. It’s not bad but it’s not amazing.

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Overview of decluttering

Short but helpful overview with some pearls to declutter. Likely requires going to her website for best results

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Great tips

I don’t keep a lot of clutter but I found this to be very useful and helpful.

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