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Do you have a clutter problem? Has the lockdown made you buy stuff online that only ends up as additional clutter?
In this episode, I interview my friend Monica Lin of Make Room by Monica. Monica is a professional home organizer and clutter coach. She helps people enrich their lives by transforming their relationship with their things and simplifying their spaces.
Monica discusses the different types of clutter and what is the correlation between scarcity mindset and clutter. Find out the different spending habits that contribute to clutter and how to counteract those.
We also talk about how clutter can affect your mental health and wealth especially now that we’re in a pandemic and people are at home all the time.
Listen and learn how to declutter and improve your wellbeing through your environment.
What You Will Learn From This Episode
- The different types of clutter
- Spending habits that lead to clutter
- How clutter influences your mental health and wealth
- Tips to declutter and improve your mental health through your environment
- How to stop spending money on unnecessary things
“Clutter is a manifestation of delayed decision and delayed action.” – Monica Lin
“A lot of clutter comes from unintentional consumption.” – Monica Lin
“We’ve been staying safer at home, but for those of us who are overwhelmed by our clutter, we’re not staying saner at home.” – Monica Lin
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Timestamps
3:12 – Different types of clutter that people have
8:37 – The correlation between scarcity mindset and clutter
11:07 – A personal anecdote about Monica’s parents on scarcity mindset
14:58 – Spending habits that lead to clutter and how to counteract those habits
19:00 – More on emotional spending that relates to ‘self-care’
22:41 – How clutter affects our mental health
25:52 – Why letting go of stuff is hard and what to do about it
28:20 – How to turn your clutter into cash and donate your stuff without regret
31:03 – Steps to improve mental health through your environment
37:00 – How to not waste money; consider cost per use
39:02 – What #NotAMessyBitch means and how Monica helps her client through her program
Resources and People Mentioned
- Marie Kondo
- Dress For Success
- Habitat for Humanity
- Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
Connect with Monica
Connect with Melanie
- mentalhealthandwealth.com
- melanielockert.com
- Contact: mentalhealthandwealthshow@gmail.com
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