Need a Clutter Coach?! Get Some Decluttering Tough Love from Cas!!

“ if you’re drowning, we’re not worrying about your swimming technique.” GOLD!

I LOVE the 'Squatter' analogy. Here is a quote that is so on point: "Clutter Is Nothing More Than Postponed Decisions" Barbara Hemphill.

You aren't coming across as angry to me. You are coming across as passionate, based on your own experiences.

"You got your money's worth," and, "It's going to end up in a landfill someday anyway" are such freeing statements for throwing stuff away guilt-free in those times when I just can't deal with getting rid of it "properly." Thank you for that!

I declutterred my entire living room during this podcast. It feels amazing 😭🙏🏽

One of my music teachers used to get in our faces when we were being timid in our playing and say, "Who's playing who? Are you playing that horn or is that horn playing you?" For Cass, it's, "Who owns who? Do you own your space, or does your space own you?" 😉🙃

I’m sure that you get a lot of feedback that you are angry or intense but that’s what I need. You have legit changed my life. Don’t stop being you. We need you

This is one of the best videos I have ever seen that explains why we need to declutter on a continuous basis. Thanks Cass!

Your "tough love" videos are always my favorite! I will listen to them especially on those days when I'm just not feeling it. A kick in the pants is needed from time to time, and I appreciate it. :)

I'm a retired empty nester who lives alone. I love listening to you while I do chores around the house, and I've learned from you. I'm working on decluttering, but just wanted to add some things that I've found helpful for others in my stage of life. In my 70's, I just plain don't want to clean anymore. Of course, I do the dishes and any small cleaning jobs that need to be done. However, I have a retirement job I love and I'd rather earn money to have cleaners do the main cleaning for me. A wonderful young couple comes for two hours every other week and do the major cleaning for me. And guess what? That has been the best thing I've done for myself and my happiness -- and it also helps with decluttering!!! I want them to see that I've made progress between their visits, so I accomplish some of my sorting and decluttering. I'm figuring out what I really want to keep in this stage of life, as well as what I want to check with my kids to see if something is of value to them -- and then get rid of the rest! Sometimes when my cleaners come, my sorting is in the worse before it gets better stage -- and they will even neaten up what I'm working on which also inspires me! I'm glad I saved all kinds of memorabilia for this stage of life. I'm FINALLY sorting through it -- and throwing a lot out! But I'm making scrapbooks for my kids and sending out notes to friends and family with photos inside reminding us of our younger days. Also, as a single person, I want to own enough towels and bedding for guests -- and for full loads of laundry! So many times I've heard the suggestion to have no more than two sets of sheets and towels per person from many declutter experts, but you might be better off when older having more in your linen closet -- and your underwear drawer -- and you will reduce the frequency of doing laundry as well as save time by doing bigger loads instead of tiny loads each week. Just wanted to add some thoughts from a different life stage! I appreciate how you let us know it's not about minimalism and that it's okay to have multiples of things you actually use (one thing I have a lot of is mixing bowls for my Christmas cookie baking binge -- and there are other times when I use an unusual number of mixing bowls!) Maybe some time you can do a podcast especially for us empty-nesters!

Cas!!!!!! Oh my goodness!!! I’m in the middle of the story and wow….. “the tiny condominiums we buy for them, storage totes”… that’s my downfall. It has officially hit me!!! (Also, so sorry for your parents and anyone who deals with squatters)

Squatter condominiums!!! I’m a landlord to squatter condos. I have to evict them!

This video is a home run Cas. One of your best!

This is absolutely mindest changing, thank you. When you started and said to declutter while listening, I got up while everyone is still sleeping and decided to tackle that misc just in case big storage bin that has been on my to do list for nearly 2 years now. Every time we need something that may be in there, I don't even want to open it. So we haven't used anything in there for over 2 years but moved with it twice. I keep thinking if I just organize it well enough, we may actually start using these things when we need something. And then you started the story. So far I went with our stuff is inventory I need to manage from Dawn but now I will always think our stuff as renters and it's time to get rid of the squatters! Amazing. 15 min into the video and I'm done - only kept the drill and the iron. Everything else bye bye squatters. The excess kitchen bin is next - I bet I can get it done befoe this video is over 😉 Thank you Cas for the tough love.

This is one of your best podcasts ever

I can safely say once I sent my adult kids’ stuff to them and my ex hoarder moved out that the new found space I had was life changing. I’ve started to organise my house and sheds to work for me and making functional furniture and items along and changing up my spaces. In the last few weeks, my mindset shifted and suddenly my old teenage habit of keeping my room tidy has kicked in. While I’m still doing a lot of projects around the house and still organising, it’s automatic to leave each room tidier than when I walked in to it. The cleaning side hasn’t kicked in again yet but I’m working on it.

You were fired up and motivating. I didn’t feel like you were screaming or yelling at us!

Squatter laws and eviction laws all desperately need to be changed.

"you piled it on yourself" omg this hits home

I say this a lot, “That pile isn’t hurting me”… YES IT IS! thank you Cass, I needed that!!