268. Do You Have Too Much Stuff? Simplify Your Life Through Decluttering and Minimalism | Robyn Buchanan of Minimalist Home

Simple Farmhouse Life

Lisa Bass

Home & Garden, Leisure

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

As a homeschooling mother of eight who runs a business from home, decluttering is the only way I keep our home manageable. I have shared many times on this podcast about how minimalism has transformed our lives. Robyn of Minimalist Home has experienced the same freedom that comes from decluttering and organizing your home, and she makes it her mission to help other women get to the same place of peace. As we prepare to enter the new year, many of us have goals of simplifying, decluttering, and organizing our lives and homes. This episode addresses both the practical strategies and the mindset shifts necessary to transform your home in the new year. Join us! In this episode, we cover: The warning signs to look for to know whether you are living in chaos A simple framework to help you start crawling out of the chaos How to avoid the number one mistake people make when trying to get organized Strategies for overcoming the decision fatigue that comes with decluttering Overcoming the psychological pull that keeps us from getting rid of items we don’t need Breaking down what is happening in our brains when we struggle to declutter A manageable approach to kids’ artwork and other sentimental items Do we ever regret items we have decluttered? Tips for getting started on simplifying your life when you are in a stressful season How the ages of your children and size of your family impacts your organization Where specifically to start decluttering your home if every area feels chaotic View full show notes on the blog + watch this episode on YouTube. Thank you for supporting the sponsors that make this show possible! ABOUT ROBYN Robyn Buchanan is a mom, wife, nurse and youtube creator. She started her minimalism journey because she was overwhelmed coming home to a cluttered house after working in a chaotic emergency department. Since decluttering, she not only uncovered her floors and surfaces, but also the deeper meanings behind our clutter, how clutter impacts our focus, why it’s so hard to declutter, and how life is freer without our stuff weighing us down. Robyn lives on Vancouver Island in BC with her 3 teen boys and husband, 4 out of 5 of them have ADHD, including Robyn & her husband. She loves hiking, gardening and cooking along with Jane Austen, Monty Python and Harry Potter movies. RESOURCES Check out Robyn’s YouTube channels: Minimalist Home and Minimalist Home Living Join Robyn’s free challenge in January: Simplify Your Home and Life January Challenge Looking to earn an income from your YouTube channel? Join my YouTube Success Masterclass today! Explore all of my course offerings including sourdough, sewing, blogging, and YouTube CONNECT Robyn Buchanan of Minimalist Home | Website | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | YouTube Lisa Bass of Farmhouse on Boone | Blog | YouTube | Instagram | TikTok | Facebook | Pinterest Do you have a question you’d like me to answer on the podcast? A guest you’d like me to interview? Submit your questions and ideas here: bit.ly/SFLquestions.

Transcript

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0:00.0	We think what is my goal? My goal is to have the simplest life I can where I can spend as much
0:06.8	time doing what I want, which is like spending time with my family, spending time on my crafts,
0:12.5	outside of nature, without having that extra stuff bogging me down. I want to be able to sit down
0:18.2	with a cup of tea and not be like, oh, like all this stuff is bothering me. So we need to organize. I need to put that away again. I want to be able to sit down with a cup of tea and not be like, oh, like all this stuff is
0:21.0	bothering me. So we need to organize. I need to put that away again. I need to sweep that or dust that.
0:26.9	My name is Lisa, mother of eight and creator of the blog and YouTube channel Farmhouse on Boob.
0:31.4	On this podcast, I like to talk about simplifying your life so you can live out your priorities.
0:36.0	I help you learn how to cook from scratch and decorate on a budget through this podcast and my courses simple sourdough in the
0:42.2	simple sewing series. I also help people reach their goals from home through my business courses,
0:47.3	create your blog dream, and YouTube Success Academy. I will leave links to these resources in the show
0:51.8	notes and description box below. Now let's get into the show.
0:58.0	Welcome back to the Simple Farmhouse Life podcast. It is beginning to be the time of year where we all
1:04.1	think about clearing our spaces, making them more manageable, decluttered, organized.
1:14.2	And today's guest is very encouraging in all of those things.
1:18.4	I think you're going to love this interview with Robin from the minimalist home.
1:20.4	We're going to talk about all that kind of stuff.
1:22.3	We just recently moved into a new house.
1:29.9	And so I'm feeling it freshly on my mind, just the organization and wanting to clean. The second we moved into this house, we put up the Christmas stuff, I'm ready to even clear that out and just live and
1:35.1	breathe with a very nice, clean space. Right, let's jump into the interview. Welcome back, Robin.
1:40.5	I'm so happy to have you on. And as we were just talking about before, we just moved.
1:44.7	This is the first podcast recording I'm doing in this house. And I have encountered every single
1:50.6	item I own in the last week, which is an interesting experience. So if you think you're a minimalist,
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