Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to the host of Home
Speaker 1: on KFI, the house whisperer, Dean Sharp. Dean, I so
Speaker 1: need to hear what you have to say about this sorting, inventory,
Speaker 1: purging and storing. I need a good purach.
Speaker 2: And most of us do. Most of us need to purge.
Speaker 2: And that's really the problem is that we get so
Speaker 2: attached to our stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's just stuff, but we're just like, oh,
Speaker 1: I could save that, Oh I might need that one day,
Speaker 1: and then five years later you're like, I still don't
Speaker 1: need it, but I better keep it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know that, of course, there's a there's
Speaker 2: a factor to holding on to stuff that actually gets
Speaker 2: into you know, mental illness. And that's not what we're dressing. Well,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm just saying Friday the thirteenth and all. Yeah, uh,
Speaker 2: but that's not what we're trying to tackle on Sunday Show.
Speaker 2: But what we are trying to tackle is the fact
Speaker 2: that we all get very, very attached to things. And
Speaker 2: it's just it's a human tendency to want to hold
Speaker 2: on to nostalgia, to hold on to memorabilia and just
Speaker 2: the stuff, the things that remind us of days that
Speaker 2: were great, and as a result of that, we all
Speaker 2: have too much stuff, we really do. And this is
Speaker 2: a way that I've developed over the years of helping
Speaker 2: clients kind of let go of things. It kind of
Speaker 2: under cuts our emotional attachment to things. That makes it
Speaker 2: a little easier. It's not fool proof, but it makes
Speaker 2: it a little easier. And that's the order that you
Speaker 2: go about doing things as you clean out and clear
Speaker 2: out and organize things. And it starts with sorting, which
Speaker 2: is non judgmental. We're not making any judgments. We're not
Speaker 2: deciding to get rid of anything yet, but we're just
Speaker 2: separating things into their own piles. And I use the
Speaker 2: example I think in the note that I gave you
Speaker 2: of socks. You know, if you're just going through clothes,
Speaker 2: you run into socks every once in a while, and
Speaker 2: the tendency is like, oh, yeah, I remember the Yeah,
Speaker 2: these are nice socks, and you just set them aside.
Speaker 2: I'm going to keep those. But until socks become their
Speaker 2: own pile, you don't actually realize whether you've got just
Speaker 2: a few or whether you have you know, I don't know,
Speaker 2: forty seven pairs and night unmatched singles, right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: at point a pile like that, it's easier for us
Speaker 2: to look at and say, all right, well, hey, nobody
Speaker 2: needs forty seven pairs of socks. I need to kind
Speaker 2: of take a look at what I've got and purge
Speaker 2: some of them along the way. And if we do
Speaker 2: that with most of the things that we're attached to,
Speaker 2: we really can be successful getting rid of a lot
Speaker 2: of stuff and then storing what is left. And that's
Speaker 2: a whole another side to this whole thing. I always
Speaker 2: say this, there's storing comes into two forms, staging and
Speaker 2: long term. And as a designer of homes, I will
Speaker 2: tell you this, the best advice, the most stage advice
Speaker 2: I can give to you about your closets inside the
Speaker 2: house is that closets are for staging, not storing. And
Speaker 2: staging simply means that what's ever in your closet is
Speaker 2: there because it is something that is quite often used.
Speaker 2: It's just a staging area for often used things. If
Speaker 2: it's not something that gets used often, then that's storage.
Speaker 2: That's long term. And we got to figure out crates
Speaker 2: and shelving and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't know about you, but I but Dean,
Speaker 1: I so need this, and so when are you talking
Speaker 1: about this?
Speaker 2: Sunday morning, Sunday, it's going to be Sunday Show, the
Speaker 2: Big Show from nine to noon.
Speaker 1: Okay, so it's if you call it the SIPs program, Sort, inventory,
Speaker 1: purge and store and just listening to you, I'm like, yep,
Speaker 1: need to do that. Oh yep, I'm storing stuff in
Speaker 1: my closet. Oh yep, I need to go. And I
Speaker 1: bet that I'm not alone in that. So Dean Sharp,
Speaker 1: the host of Home on KFI, you can listen to
Speaker 1: him tomorrow morning from six to eight and then of
Speaker 1: course Sunday morning from nine to noon, where he's going
Speaker 1: to go over the whole SIPs program and you can
Speaker 1: get your life cleaned up a little bit and organized
Speaker 1: and maybe have a little more space so you can
Speaker 1: get more.
Speaker 2: Stuff, exactly more stuff.
Speaker 1: Dean Sharp, thanks so much.
Speaker 2: Thanks Amy,