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Hey, everybody, it's Marielle.
I have a series of hooks by my front door for coats and stuff, and there are five hooks.
You know, you'd think that would be enough, but somehow all five of them are dragging under the weight of my stuff.
Tote bags, backpacks, my leather jacket, my wool coat, my puffer jacket, a hoodie, my denim jacket, that red leather purse that I never actually use.
The clutter, it just piles up at the front door, on the table, on the desk, on that chair in my bedroom that's never available for sitting.
Star Hansen is a certified professional organizer, and she says all of this stuff is trying to tell me something.
Clutter does speak to us.
Clutter is talking to us because we are talking to ourselves through our clutter.
And so what becomes clutter?
And where your clutter accumulates says a lot about what's going on with you.
Maybe you're a busy parent or you're up against too many deadlines at work or you're going through a health challenge.
Clutter looks like anything you can imagine.
Clutter looks like the way we talk to ourselves.
It looks like our calendar.
It looks like our Netflix queue.
You know, it's not just physical stuff.
It's anything that is causing chaos in our lives.
But we can get this under control.
On this episode of Life Kit, how to declutter Life Kit reporter Andy Tagle talks with Star about organizing.