138: How To Prevent Holiday Clutter This Year

08/09/2025 17 min
138: How To Prevent Holiday Clutter This Year

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Episode Synopsis

The holiday season can bring joy, celebration, and memory-making—but it often brings clutter, stress, and an overwhelming amount of “stuff” too. In this episode, we share simple, compassionate strategies to help prepare your home and mindset before the holiday rush sets in.By picking nonprofits ahead of time, setting up sorting bins that actually work, and letting go of the dreaded “junk in the trunk” habit, we can approach this season with more ease, more intention, and more space for connection.This is not about perfection or overhauling everything before January—it’s about small, practical steps that help us organize with care and enjoy the season more fully.In This Episode We Talk About:Why the holiday season is also an “organizing season” and how to use it as a reset How to pick nonprofits in advance so donation decisions become effortless The power of labeled bins to keep clutter moving instead of piling up Why “junk in the trunk” delays progress—and how to stop it for goodMentioned in This Episode:The importance of choosing nonprofits ahead of time for holiday donations Creative naming ideas for sorting bins (freebie available in the show notes) Setting a 7-day rule for donation drop-offs to avoid clutter in the carReview full show notes and resources at https://theorganizedflamingo.com/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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