Clutterbug - Real-Life Hacks and Tips to Declutter, Organize and Clean your Home Fast - 🏅 Stop Waiting for Motivation—Let’s Clean Together | Clutterbug Episode #336

Episode Date: July 27, 2026

Hey Clutterbugs! This is the ultimate dopamine-boosting, motivation-pumping, task-crushing podcast for when you need to clean, declutter, organize, or tackle ANY boring task.If you have ADHD, are neurodivergent, or just struggle to do mundane things like dishes, laundry, or cleaning - this podcast is for you. We need energy, urgency, and hype to get through boring tasks. Doing mundane things can feel IMPOSSIBLE. I'm not even talking about a week's worth of dishes that's overwhelming - it could be three plates that just need to be put in the dishwasher. Why does this feel so hard? Our brain sees it and we have a big fat nope and we scroll TikTok instead. The reality is we are not built to do slow, boring, mundane things day in and day out. We're hunters, not farmers. So all of these tasks can feel like absolute torture.But here's the truth: We're not lazy. We're just under-stimulated. We gotta find the hacks. We need dopamine. We need to change our day from drudgery into tiny little punches of happiness and serotonin and reward so that we actually WANT to do these things. We feel excited and we keep going. This is how we become super productive people. So work with me as we make our way through six mini challenges in today’s podcast! Clutterbug Goal Planner Pack: https://clutterbug.me/products/ultimate-goal-planner-pack Tough Love Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVovcHlDDjI&list=PLCD0U77IVLmSSp0m7hdxzig9K0KfQz5RG Want to get organized? Learn 6-Step The Clutterbug Method: https://clutterbug.thinkific.com/courses/Clutterbug-Method You can find more Clutterbug content here: Main YouTube Channel: @Clutterbug Website: http://www.clutterbug.me TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@clutterbug_me Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/clutterbug_me/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Clutterbug.Me/ #clutterbug #podcast #toughlove #declutterwithme #declutter #adhdchallenge #adhd #procrastination Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you're neurodivergent, or you just have a pulse in 2026, doing boring, mundane things like dishes can feel impossible. I'm not talking about like a week's worth of dishes that's overwhelming. It could be three plates that just need to be put in the dishwasher. Why does this feel so hard? Our brain sees it and we have a big fat nope and we scroll TikTok instead. The reality is we are not built to do slow, boring, mundane things. day in and day out. I've talked about this before. We are hunters up in here. We're not all farmers. So all of these tasks can feel like absolute torture. We are not lazy. We're just understimulated. We got to find the hacks. We need dopamine hacks. We need to change our day from like drudgery

into tiny little like pooh-po-pooh punches of happiness and serotonin and reward so that we actually want to do these things. We feel excited and we keep going. This is how we become super productive people. Today we're going to do a number of little mini challenges. I love reading in the comments. I read your comments about all the things you're tackling and you're doing while listening. And for me, that's the reason I keep showing up to this podcast. It's the reason this podcast is fun because I know you're not just listening. You are taking back control of your life. And that energizes me. I feel like together we are unstoppable. I've shared a lot of tips and tricks and advice. And I see in the comments, you say things like, that's so good, Cass, I'm going to try that.

But let's be real. If you're anything like me, I listen to a podcast and I think that's so good. That's such a brilliant idea. Sometimes I even write it down or I save it for later. And now I have 20,000 tabs open and I never actually do the thing. You know, it's human nature. We're like, that, yes, I'm going to do that. Tomorrow. And tomorrow never comes. Well, guess what, friend, today is tomorrow. Not really. But today's the day, all the things in the past that maybe you thought was a good idea, but you didn't actually try it. Today, you're trying them. Some of the things might not feel like you actually want to do them. But I'm going to ask you to trust me. I'm going to say, like, what's the worst that can happen? We're going to talk today about, tiny little microchanges and I want you to actually give them a try because that's how you know what works for you and what doesn't. That's how you actually see what resonates with you. You try it. You dip your toe in the crappy water. So you might feel uncomfortable, but please have a little faith and trust and pixie dust and let's do this. The first thing you're going to do is set a timer.

In fact, I'll set a timer for you. We're going to start a timer for 10 minutes, and I want you to race the clock. I'm going to also try to race the clock and only talk for exactly 10 minutes while you're doing a thing for 10 minutes, and we'll see how much you get done. This could be cleaning out the fridge, just looking for leftovers and expired food, or maybe doing the dishes, putting away one load of laundry, or finding 21 things to throw out. 10 minutes. I'm going to set my timer.

You set your timer. and let's race. I am certainly not a scientist, but I do find all of it really fascinating. Like, I spent a lot of time researching. Why? Because I had to understand what was going on with my brain. Why could I hyperfocus for hours, literal hours on things like coding a website, even though I didn't know how to do it, like trying to learn that, but I couldn't load the dishwasher. Like, what is wrong with me? I could hyperfocus on even things that were boring for some reason, but I couldn't fold or put away clothes? What's going on? So I dug deep into why my brain works like this. And it's all about dopamine. And I know I have talked about dopamine a lot. But the

reality is it's like motivation molecule. It's this thing in your brain that actually makes you want to do the thing. It's part of the reward center. I mean, I don't really know how it works. I just know that it does. And when we can hack our body's dopamine, that's how we can actually want and have energy and motivation to get stuff done. My brain gets dopamine when I'm figuring something out or when I'm playing a game, when I'm hunting in the forest. And so how can we get that same feeling while doing dishes? That's where the timer comes in. That is where gamification comes in. We are actually like, we're racing. We have that energy that we get from fun or play or chasing down a gazelle.

But we get it in, you know, a sink full of dirty dishes. The reason a timer works like that is because it's giving me like a deadline. Like it's putting pressure on me the same way when we procrastinate as an ADHD or till the last minute and we have an assignment due the next morning. And then suddenly we can crush it. It's because we have this external like, we got to rush this feeling of like, energy, even anxious energy is energy that can stimulate your brain to produce more dopamine. And if you have ADHD like I do, we already are starting with chronically low dopamine. That's why we are the

way we are. And so if we can add more, if we can make our brain secrete it, that sounds gross, but I'm pretty sure it secrets it by tricking it with things like timers, gamification, a little tiny micro rewards. We have more of it. And it feels, I mean, let's get real. It feels good to do stuff. The timer works because urgency creates dopamine. I use timers all the time. I am trying to remember like the first, you know what, I know when the first time I started introducing a timer was, I must have read it in some self-help book, how our brain overestimates how long things take. And so I wrote down all the tasks I was like, you know, procrastinating doing, and I guessed how long it would take. And then I actually timed myself doing it. This is when I realized it was three minutes to empty the dishwasher. And my mind was blown. And then I was like, can I beat that time? How much faster can I go? And without trying, I kind of stumbled into the fact that I was more motivated when a timer was ticking, right? Sometimes the timer even bores me and I'm like, can I get this done before the end of a song? Or it's still timing or can I get

this done by the time the movie's done or the TV show if it's a big project? All of these things are still using a timer, creating urgency and making it like a fun challenge. I think the most magical part of a timer though is that you don't have to finish to feel that completion, reward chemical happiness. Like if I'm, if I do half of a task and don't finish it, I'm not getting any dopamine reward. Like I'm just like, me, what was the point of that? But we don't have to finish when we have a timer because the end of the timer is the finish. We did it for five minutes. We did it for 10 minutes. We did it for 15 minutes. No longer does it have to be done for us to feel that like I did it achievement. Timers anchor us. We just need to stay focused, especially if you're neurodivergent. And it like

creates that. It's like, I have to stay here and do it as quickly as possible. So you're not getting distracted. You're not wandering away. You are anchored to the task that you started for that set amount of time. Because I got to talk for a whole 10 minutes and I need to feel more time. I'm going to tell you about this really fun thing that we do called the road rally, which is a timed event. So every year, a group of volunteers, a group of like random people from the community for 53 years dressing costumes, jump in our cars, and drive around solving puzzles all around the town. But it's like a timed thing. And we didn't need it to be timed, but adding that timer makes it even more fun. We're literally trying to beat the clock. We're trying to be the fastest. And our brains, all of us, we say this all my friends every year. We are so much smarter during this event than any other time in our life.

Because we are solving hard puzzles like we're geniuses. Joe is driving like a some sort of professional NASCAR driver. And he's brilliant at it. We're all at our absolute best. Why? Because we're under pressure. And every single one of us is neurodivergent. It's just a van filled with ADHDers and autism.

And lemit tell you, We succeed when we feel that time taken away. How do I explain the greatest event that ever existed? In 1974, someone decided, hey, let's grab a group of friends and hide puzzles all over the city. And the first puzzle you open all together at one spot at a church. And it leads you, you have to solve that puzzle, which leads you to where to go to look for the clue. And there's all these clues on the outside of the envelope and you've got to like run around outside. again in costume looking. It could be a sewer grate. It could be a sticker on a wall. It could be

something really small like the pattern of a brick. And when you find it, you tear that side of the envelope. If you tear wrong, you get added bonus time. The point is, and then there's another puzzle. And there's usually like nine puzzles in total. It takes about two and a half hours. And at the end, we eat chicken and pasta and we take home our trophy because guess what? We won this year. I think the coolest part of this event, though, is the teams who win the first, second, and third place team, they have to run it the next year, one of them. So because we win often, we sometimes don't run it the next year so we can actually play. But this year, we are running it. So we won, it's going to be time travel theme.

You guys, I'm so excited. We're going to have all these timers and time things going on to make it even more exhilarating. And I just think this is such a beautiful example of how having a timed event, even if it's your dishes, guys, can create that urgency, that fun, that excitement, even if things aren't that fun. It like fires up your brain. You're going to be a dishwashing genius when you set a timer. I have to take a second to thank today's sponsor, Cozy Earth. You know, I switched to Cozy Earth betting years ago and now I'm a sheet snob because Cozy Earth sheets are so soft and their temperature regulating and I wash them over and over again and they feel even better that any time I go to a hotel, I'm actually going to a hotel this weekend, I know I'm going to be disappointed and I'm going to crave my sheets at home. It feels like luxury and it doesn't have to have luxury prices. I'm getting older. Treat yourself to a good night's sleep. I deserve it and you do too. Cozy Earth doesn't just have sheets. They have lots of towels and even

Even clothing, their pajamas are amazing. Absolutely worth it. Go to cozyearth.com and use my code clutterbug to save up to 20% off right now. Again, that's cozyearth.com and use the code clutterbug. So we are approaching the 10 minutes. How are you doing? Even if you didn't get whatever you started done, that's not the point. The point is you worked on something for 10 minutes. And if you have any type of feeling inside where you're not excited about what progress you made, I want you to high five yourself right now. Like, yes, I want you to actually like celebrate a mini celebration of the fact that you worked for 10 minutes and it is better than when you started because that's what this is all about.

It's these tiny micro steps. So celebrate, my friend, because you are amazing. You did 10 minutes. Now let's move to the next challenge. This next challenge is going to be so fun. Also, it might be a little weird. Just bear with me here. All we're going to do is create a playlist of songs. Now, you're like Cass, I'm listening to you. And maybe you're listening on the device or you're driving in your car and you can't actually do the playlist right now. That's okay. You can listen and still open up another app and maybe just like creating a new playlist in Spotify or Amazon music or Apple Music. whatever it is you listen to. But if you are like me and you're challenged when it comes to technology, we can just grab a piece of paper and start writing down songs that kind of motivate you. Again, we're not listening to them. We're just creating a fun thing. I've got some go-to songs.

Brittany Spears, work bitch. I hope you bleep that. Britney Spears, work bitch. That any time I don't want to get out of bed and go to work in the morning, I play that song. Also, I have, all I do is win, win, win, you know, that hype, that's a, that's a hype song for me. But the crazy thing is, I look for playlists. Other people have created playlists for me that have the same energy. Some of my favorite on Spotify are Fem Fetel, Girl Boss Energy, Girl Boss Anthems. You are a badass. I swore again, please bleep that.

The point is, you can find playlist that invoke a. this sense of like, this energy, you can borrow the energy from music to get up and get things done. Whatever your music genre is that kind of gives you that feeling, sometimes for me it's stripper music. I don't know why, but just go with me here. Or like 90s hip hop. Oh my, there is nothing that gets me up than like some 50 cent or DMX. You know, I'm not. I'm I'm like crushing it. The point is here, have some things ready. This is a tool for your toolbox when you're not feeling it. And I want you to have this playlist ready to go for those times that you're sitting on the couch or you're laying in bed or you're just like wandering around

your house and you feel like blah. You need a hype. You need a hype playlist. And making this will change your life. So have it ready. Have it locked and loaded. Again, you could just write down songs that make you feel that way? I know we all have them. If you can't think of one, you can borrow some of my playlist, a little Britney, a little Britney work. If that doesn't get you moving, you want a mazzerati, you want a hot body, you better work. The point of this exercise is to have something to listen to when you're doing things. You know, cleaning in silence is crazy. Decluttering in silence, what are you doing? You're never going to feel the urge to purge. We need that hype in the background. We have to borrow energy. And for me, I love music to get started,

but honestly, I get bored of songs. I start skipping them after about 30 seconds. I need a really good audiobook or podcast. And maybe you do too. In fact, you should come up with some of those, too. You can open your browser right now. You can use the Clutterbug podcast, which you're listening to right now. But maybe there are others too. Listening to the same message from a lot of different people is a brilliant way to rewire your brain and stay motivated. And audiobooks, not boring self-help book ones, okay? I'm talking about things that you're like, what's going to happen next? Murder mysteries, crime junkie things. For me, it's romance, sci-fi. There's werewolves and vampires and love triangles. It's gross, but I'm invested.

And I don't want to turn it off. And I think this is what the power of this is going to zombie land, is what I say. We're stimulating our brain, just like ADHD medication stimulates our brain, so that we can stay focused so that our bodies can do what they know they need to do without our brain revolting and reminding us how horrible and boring the task is. Because our brain is busy. Our brain is busy finding out which long. Last love, she'll choose. So what I want you to do is pick at least five things on your hype

playlist. This could be like 20 minutes worth of songs, maybe a different podcast, maybe go back and find some of your favorite clutterbug podcasts. An audiobook, have some things ready, locked and loaded for when you need to quickly pull it out so you can get stuff done. This is so important. I talk about it all the time, but have you actually done it? You're doing it right now. You're doing a little bit of prep work so that tomorrow is easier. This is actually what organization is all about. You're organizing your energy right now. Good for you. And if you are one of the people who love the tough love podcast, I'm going to put a link to the tough love, one of my favorites, down in the description below. So there, there's a cheat. That's one of your five. You can just save

that now. You can bookmark it or, I mean, technology's hard. I'm not sure. sure how you save it, save it somewhere. And then go to that when you need the energy. So here's a rule that I have, especially with audiobooks, the ones I really love. I'm only allowed to listen to them while I'm doing the task, while I'm pairing it with something else. The same goes for the podcast. Sometimes it's even a movie. Like if I'm doing something like putting away a laundry, I'll watch a movie or watch a TV show, but I'm only allowed to do those certain things while also carrying it with a boring mundane task. This means when I'm done the thing I'm doing and I still want to find out what happens next in my book, I keep going without even realizing it. There's

been times where I've spent two hours or more just getting stuff done and I haven't even realized it. It has felt like two seconds. And I look forward to listening to my book again or I look forward to watching that show or listening to music or catching up on that podcast. But I know I can only do it if I also pair it with something else. So I'm kind of excited about the task, too. Hack number three, are you ready? We're calling it the level up challenge. I play a lot of video games. I play a lot of games. I'm a big game nerd. And you want to have the most life. Like you want to see, you want to keep going up. Like right now in Fortnite, I am level 320, I think. And then Joe's like, 380. And I'm like, I got to get to his level. Or you just want more life. You want more. You want to like see the progress.

But that works in real life too. And this is why a lot of people like Joe track their habits. They put a little star every time they do something. Or they, he has like a whole graph because he's definitely on the spectrum. And he like maps everything out. and he puts little like he highlights it and he charts how much better he's doing every day, how much more weight he lifts, how much more sleep he's getting, how much better he's eating. That's a lot for my brain. I don't do that. But what I do do is beside my vision board, I have a little ta-da board.

So anytime I finish and complete something that I'm really proud of, like I finished the rough copy of my book, I wrote finished book and I stuck it up on the board. Because it's like I get to track my progress, how I'm leveling up in life. I get to look at it and see how much I'm growing as a human. And yours could be a literal star chart, my friend, because that's the same thing, whether it's just a piece of paper with check marks. There are a million habit trackers that are free out there. You can do it on a paper. You can do it on an app. But you need to be able to see it because it acts as a visual cue and reminder to stay and keep on that new habit. But it also is a cue of how far you've come and how much you've accomplished.

So you get to continually remind yourself to be proud so that you can be like, oh, yeah, look it. I'm doing so good. And if you missed a few days or you like screwed up, that's not the point. We're looking at the overall bar here, okay? fortunately, life is not a Nintendo game. And when we mess up, we don't have to start back from zero. We're always starting at the last level. So this level up challenge is so good. It's about making your progress visual. How can you do that right now? Grab a piece of paper and write down the

things you did today and then put a checkmark and a smiley face beside it. And I'm going to put a link in the description for some free habit trackers that you can download that I do. definitely think are a great place to start. So how can you do that right now? Literally grab a piece of paper and write three goals. It could be just a habit you want to start. It could also be a big giant goal. There is no pressure. This is not about perfection. I want you just to pick three goals. And now I want you to think about how you can sort of check something off or put a star or reward yourself any time you make any tiny micro progress towards these goals or new habits. You can have something fancy. We can have like fancy trackers, but that's not what this is about right now. Right now,

it's about embracing good enough, actually putting your three goals somewhere visual where you can see them and then remembering to even if it's just a little scribble dot that like, oh, I did five minutes of that today or towards that today. That's enough to see how you're leveling up to track your progress. And that is powerful. Hack number four, bribery. Good old fashioned bribery. I'm such a fan of this because I like immediate gratification. I like rewards. I like gifts and presents, even if I'm giving it to myself. So what this looks like is thinking of a few things that you can gift yourself and then pick your favorite for listening to this podcast. How are you going to celebrate and reward yourself just for getting through this podcast? Because this podcast, you're learning, you're doing stuff.

You should be so proud of yourself. You deserve a gold star, my friend. That could be a piece of chocolate, though I will say rewarding myself with food in the past really was not a great long-term strategy. So perhaps the food is not also rewarding yourself by buying things. I used to do that too. That did not work out. Okay. So how do I reward myself now? I reward myself with relaxation. So when I do something like listen to a podcast, even though it doesn't feel particularly hard, then I get, you know, 30 minutes of potato time. Potato time means I get to lay there and do absolutely nothing, but be a potato. I can scroll the internet. I can do all sorts of things. And what has happened, it's crazy, is I've trained my brain. Now, maybe this is toxic, but I don't care,

to reward productivity with relaxation. Now, this can get bad sometimes if now you're just always working in order to earn your relaxation. It's a fine line. But do you want to be productive or not? You know, we're just, nobody's perfect. This is what I do. And there are lots of days where I don't earn it. and I just take it. But I've kind of paired those together. I've tied it together. And it makes me want to, again, do the crappy things. I notice my daughter doing this all the time. I think it's called the Pomandero method. Listen, don't quote me on that. She will set a timer for 20 minutes and study. And then when it goes off, she gets to do something fun for 20 minutes, like watch a TV show or just veg on the couch and eat chips. Again, rewarding yourself with food is not a really

great option. But I digress. This works. Science proves that this works. The greatest productivity experts of all time have proven that this works. So on a piece of paper, it's a lot of writing in this podcast, write down a few rewards that you can have. Again, food and buying things, not great. other things, other ways you can reward yourself for getting stuff done. Here's the most important thing. The reward has to be right now reward, not like later, you know? We are training you like we're training puppies here. It's like sit, you do it, you get a treat or you like do the clicker.

You know what I mean? You need to get it immediately to train your brain to have that association. And then before you know it, you're just doing all the things that you're training yourself to doing without needing the reward. But in the beginning, the reward, the treat is so important, but it has to be immediate. So when you're writing down possible things, it has to be something you can do like write this second. And if somebody puts go for a walk, I swear, that's something you get rewarded for. That's not a reward. So here's what we're going to do. Think about it. I want you to think about a reward right now. And I want you to say it out loud in three, two, one,

say the reward. That's what you're going to do at the end of this podcast. For me, I just got a new bird feeder. I'm going to grab a tea. I'm going to sit outside and I'm going to watch birds because apparently I'm now 80. And that's fine. I love it and I'm looking forward to it. What are you looking forward to? Not only did you say it out loud, but let me know in the comments below because the way you can reward yourself immediately, I know is going to be inspiring for other people who can't think of anything. And this last hack I want you to actually do for the rest of this podcast. You are doing it without even realizing it. And that is having social accountability. Like having someone with you. We are social creatures. And we feel so isolated, especially in today's

world and we're in our home and we're supposed to be cleaning and decluttering. And it can feel lonely. And that's the power of body doubling. We are body doubling right now. Not only are you and I doing this together. I am with you, but every single person listening or watching this podcast is with you too. We're together. We're a community. We're in the comments. We're supporting each other. And that has power. It's why when I want to write, I can go to Starbucks and suddenly get more done, because there are people around me. They don't even have to be doing the same thing. You just need that social connection. The social connection not only gives us dopamine, but it fills our soul. It allows us to like feel safe and seen. And, and yeah,

energized to get stuff done. We are borrowing it from other people, even if they're on the internet, even if it's listening to them talking a podcast and they're not even in the same room. That is the power of body doubling. So for the rest of this podcast, you're going to hear me yammer on, but know that there are literally thousands of other people right beside you at the exact same time listening, they're struggling to, we're doing it together. We are climbing a mountain. We are harnessed together. And that feels empowering. All right. So as you keep doing what you're doing, you do, you, boo. I want you to take like a quick mini break right now, which I know you're going to be annoyed, especially if you're like me and your ADHD and you're hyper-focusing and you're in the

zone. I'm going to interrupt your zone for five seconds. I love you. to grab a trash bag, find 20 things to go. They can be wrappers. They can be expired food. I know you have shampoo bottles in the shower. It can be like open a drawer. If you're driving a car, you probably have food around. Wait till you get home.

Okay. And then find 20 things to get rid of, to throw out. If you cannot find 20 pieces of trash, what old thing isn't worth donating? This is so tough for you guys. just like a timer gives you that end, it gamifies it, giving a number of things to declutter does the same thing. It makes it feel like a challenge. It makes you push yourself, which creates dopamine. It creates urgency. It gives you that goalpost that you can then celebrate. And these 20 things can be the most basic mundane. We're not making a huge impact in our home today

with 20 things. It's the small, little things that we then allow ourselves to celebrate and reward ourselves. We are training our brain that decluttering is easy. We are training our brain that decluttering is fun. We're training our brain that it's something we can do in just a few minutes and it doesn't have to be a project. It's a process and just part of life. And that's what finding just 20 things can do for you. So like, come on right now. I'm, I'm serious. Find 20 things to leave. The whole point of all of these exercises is momentum. Momentum is the opposite of that shame spiral or that perfectionism paralysis where we just kind of do nothing and beat ourselves up for it. Momentum is where we actually want to keep

taking steps. And the only way to build momentum is to stop making everything a big project to stop making it this whole huge elaborate thing that we need to plan for and instead take one tiny step in front of the other tiptoe tiptoe towards the goal and celebrate each inch of progress that you make because before you know it you don't have to force yourself to do it you don't have to put on a podcast you don't have to wait till you feel motivated you are motivated all the time it's a habit you have to have become what you want because you become your habits. If every day you find 20 small things to let go of, you are a clutter-free person without realizing, without having to force yourself, that's just

your identity. That's momentum. That's what we're going for here. Tiny little tiptoes. And for you perfectionists, I know this is hard because your brain is like, what's the point of that? It's not even going to make a difference and you're like, look at all the stuff I still have to do. That is why you're stuck in this shame spiral. That is why you aren't making the progress you want. It is all about lowering your expectations and doing these tiny little micro wins. So we are going to let go of the shame because the shame is not helping you. The shame is actually your roadblock. Instead, we are going to create momentum. And you do that through, little immediate gratification. You do that through these dopamine hacks. You do this through

timers and rewarding yourself and little tiptoes of progress that don't even really seem like progress, but then you totally celebrate it. That is how you break through. That is how you finally, you finally start feeling really freaking proud of yourself. Okay. That's what I want for you. I want you to feel so freaking proud of yourself. When I started my decluttering journey, everything was hard to let go of in the beginning. But even as I built my muscles, identity clutter was especially hard for me. And specifically, it was like craft supplies because I saw myself as a crafter and I was really proud of the fact that I was crafty, but also home decor. And the reason is I think I was homeless for so long.

I didn't have anything nice. When I started getting little throw pillows or painting furniture, again, I started feeling like, proud of myself. Oh, this sounds so sad to say, but it's true. And so every pillow, every curtain, even the ugly ones, even the ones I didn't like, felt like an extension of myself. And I hoarded it. I had entire closets filled with old curtains and pieces of freaking vases and stuff that I had collected. And I couldn't let it go because I was like, well, how am I going to make my space beautiful without this? But I just picked one thing at a time. I was like, okay, I just need to let, I have 20 vases.

I just need to find one to go. I have so many throw pillows. What is the ugliest? Like, what is your least favorite cast? You only need to let go of one throw pillow today. And then I celebrated that progress. Now, do I still have a closet dedicated to throw pillows? Yes, but I declutter my home decor stuff all the time and it no longer feels hard. I've trained my brain that I can do this. And decluttering became kind of an addiction for me because every time I let something go, I celebrated. I felt proud about that. I stopped feeling proud about my stuff and I started feeling proud about my ability to control my stuff. And that. was a game changer. Now it's time for a fun new segment that I lovingly call, oh hell no, where I rant for

60 seconds about something that drives me crazy just because I'm too cheap for therapy right now, so I'm treating you like a therapist and I get it off my chest and it feels surprisingly better. So here we go. One, two, three, 60 seconds. Can we talk about the Sunday reset BS that we see? I see it on TikTok, I see it on YouTube. There are people, usually women, spending six, to eight hours every Sunday completely doing everything. They do all their laundry on Sunday. They scrub the house from top to bottom like maniacs. They do all the meal prep and the planning and they do everything.

I mean, I do a Sunday reset, but it's like 45 minutes. They are making it a part-time job. And somehow normalizing this, this is like toxic productivity. Nobody should be cleaning their house for eight hours a week. And certainly not on one day. Sunday is for family. It is for fun. It is for rest days.

We only get two days a week where we don't have to work. We should not be spending it working. What the heck is happening? No, I say no. No more to the freaking Sunday reset. Do a load of day, people. Do a load a day. A loaded day keeps the laundry monster away.

A little bit. It's about momentum. Why are people turning things into projects? I hate this so much. Now it's time for my favorite part of the podcast where it involves you. And we're going to start with Jenny. Hi, Cass. This is Jenny.

Hey, I have something for your do it shitty. First of all, I'm a 12-steper, and I am in codependence Anonymous, and I was reading somewhere in an affirmation list, and I saw the affirmation, better done than good. Now, how's that for a take on do it shitty? Better done than good, my friends. But here, let me share my secret for how to mop your floor shitty. Yeah. So this sounds kind of crazy to me, but this is what I do. If I need to mop my floor very, very badly and I don't have time or I just don't want to do the effort, what I'll do is I'll either take a paper towel and some cleaner or disinfectant wipes and I'll just hand wipe just the worst areas where you see the most muck, like maybe in front of the fridge or just right under a, right under the um like a high chair or right in front of the trash can't wherever you get like visible gross stuff just do that one little part and and yeah yeah yeah you're not mopping the

floor but if it looks like 75% or 80% better hey hey come on it's progress thanks for what you do cass love you bye i love this jenny and i am right there with you uh a chapter in my book is literally called wipe that spill with your sock and move on. Why? Because I've often cleaned the floor with a sock. You know what else I do? I will dump, like if I have like a kitchen towel or even in the bathroom, I'll just like dump a little water on the floor like splashy, throw the towel, use my foot, wipey, wipey. Guess what? We mopped the floor like bosses. Yeah, I loved it. Thank you for sharing. I think it's brilliant. And last, let's hear from Priscilla. Hi, Kass. My name is Priscilla and I have been in love with your YouTube videos for not that long actually, probably December is when I found you.

And I was so inspired by you and everything you had to say about her being a perfectionist. and your small phrase of just to do it shitty truly changed my life. I've been wanting to work out for a really long time, and I didn't because I couldn't find the right gym, or I couldn't find the right outfit or the shoes, or I just wanted it to be perfect before I started my routine and got my membership. and truly it was just because I just hate working out just like you and I even did try pickleball and I did enjoy it but that lasted maybe a few months and now what I found the most basically

easiest way to get in 30 minutes of working out a day and that is through a walk pet that my boyfriend bought me on Amazon and he set it up next to my office. So now every time, because I am over 40 and after 40, you're supposed to, according to my doctor, are supposed to take a 10 to 15 minute walk after each meal. It helps your digestion. And he says to start small since I'm not a big, you know, fitness person. So now, instead of having to worry about the perfect shoes or having to go out or having to go for the walk or after every meal literally after every meal that I have I set my timer on my walking pad for 15 minutes and I put on one of your podcast, one of your YouTube videos and and I and I watch and a lot of them I rewatched because but I and I get and I have

two big meals a day. I have breakfast and I have dinner usually I just have snacks throughout the day but um i do a solid 15 minute walk after every big meal so that's 30 minutes of walking a day easily while watching your wonderful videos so that is my version of doing it shitty and i hope that that helps anyone you interviewers because honestly i it's changed my life the way that my stomach feels after I've eaten. Just it has really, really impacted and it was inspired by you. So thank you. Priscilla, that's what we call a fart walk. Everybody says that I got to do fart walks. My doctor also. Maybe that's TMI. But yeah, you're supposed to walk after eating. I do not. But now I'm thinking, do I need to buy a walking pad? Every time I hear a new shortcut, the first thing I

want to do is how could I shortcut fitness by buying my way there? Do not buy a walking pad cast, but I love it. Thank you so much. Maybe I should get a standing desk and put a walking pad under my desk. I'm going to keep you guys posted. Thank you guys so much. If you want to call in with a question or a comment, I would love to help and connect with you. Go to clutterbug.com slash talk to Cass and be part of the podcast today. Okay, my friend, did you get through? the timer. Did you do the timer? Did you do the little mini tasks? Did you write down things for a playlist or five things that you're going to listen to, those tools for your toolbox so you have that hype? All these things. Did you accomplish them? Let me know. Did you give them a try at least?

Let me know in the comments below. I love spending time with you. I hope you are so proud of yourself because you got so much done today. Even if it isn't done, that's not the point. You started. You made progress. And that's all that matters. Thanks so much for listening, and I'll see you guys next time.