Lisa Jacobs: Decluttering and Creating Space for the Life You're Living Now

Well, speaking of Instagram, I feel like today's episode really started with this Instagram post that we recently did where I sort of went into a little, it wasn't a rant, but I did a whole thing about how I'm feeling like I just want to get rid of things and I want to declutter and I don't want to leave.

stuff in my house that I know my kids aren't gonna want and just it's not about downsizing it's just like it's a little bit more about clearing the deck anyway turns out I'm not the only one thinking about this because it had like something like over 50,000 views well almost 200 people commented on it because I was like how do I do this you know people clearly had a point of view where they're like I

feel in the same way

like I thought it was just me I've been feeling exactly the same way I don't want any, I don't want this anymore.

I want less, you know, I feel like it's like, I say this all the time.

I spend so much time collecting.

Now I just want to get to the point where I'm living with the things that I really need and want, you know, and not that I've collected.

And I guess the point is, I guess I'm not the only one out there feeling this.

No, I, you know, I was reading comments and it wasn't that people were sort of living in, you know, in sadness about what they had collected or whatever.

They're just saying that they've changed.

And so they want their space to reflect the change.

And I think that makes sense.

I mean, I don't know how to go about doing it myself successfully.

So...

I mean, you know, I think what's kind of surprised me is that I literally, I feel like for most of my life, I've been collecting beautiful things, curating, collecting.

I, you know, really take time when I go on vacation to find that one little special thing that I feel will make me happy to put someplace because when I look at it, it will remind me of... you know, a great trip to wherever.

And I've spent my whole career doing that also because I love design.

So I do love the hunt, you know, and I've loved bringing them home.

But lately, I just keep saying to myself, what should I buy? And I find myself, what can I let go of? Like, I don't want to be buying things anymore.

Like, even when I go on a trip, because I'm I want to enjoy the things that mean something that are here and get rid of all the other stuff that feels sort of like muffle

what they mean.

This does not sound like the Susie I know, only because you do have an incredible eye for design and for, if you will, collecting things.

I mean, for objects, you really do have a kind of love for it.

But I understand that we talk about change, that to some degree you're changing everything.

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