Or The Candle That Smells... Not Great.

Or The Box of Business Cards from Two Jobs Ago.

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I’m going LIVE on Substack in 5 minutes with a FREE workshop.

Because, “It’s a no from me” is a complete sentence.

And The Simon Cowell Sweep is your Easy Pass.

So I’m going to show you how it works.

If you wanna learn how to stop spending your decluttering time on things you already know you’re not keeping…

…so that you can focus on the things that actually deserve your attention…

Come join me LIVE.

Your friend who does not think Simon is a villain,
Vivian

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And you are all invited to tell me if this is a great idea or ridiculous.

If you think this sounds awesome, then all I can say is bless you, thank you, can’t wait to see you in the chat. (I can feel my heart growing 3 sizes from all the love.)

If you are leaning towards…Say what now? Well then you will want to understand how it is that someone whose #1 goal since the invention of AOL instant messenger has been to lay so low that she will never be added to a group chat… has perhaps lost the plot.

The story begins last week when someone I follow on Substack mentioned how much fun they were having in their Subscriber Chat.

Well.

Let me tell you that Summer Vivian is interested in fun.

Which is how things in my life generally start going … sideways.

Luckily, my decades of group chat resistance training paid off and I filed this idea away as “not my kind of fun.”

And then it was Tuesday morning. And then it was Tuesday afternoon and suddenly I was announcing LIVE that on Friday I was going to open up the Subscriber Chat function on Substack for How to Stuff Your Home.

You can literally see the half a second when my brain goes…WHAT ARE YOU DOING!!!!?

Nevertheless, she persisted.

Did I think that Friday was never going to come?

Possibly.

It’s more likely that I thought Friday was a long way’s off.

It wasn’t.

I like to think that I am the kind of woman who does what she says she is going to do and so as of an hour or so ago…

The How to Stuff Your Home Subscriber Chat is open.

Every Friday (and perhaps throughout the week as well…no promises) I’ll post a question or something I’ve been noticing or thinking about as a conversation starter. You can post questions or conversation starters (I think?). And you can jump into whatever discussion is happening.

“It’ll be fun,” they said. And here we are.

Today’s starter comes out of Tuesday’s LIVE where we talked about creating a Wi$h Li$t for the room in your house that has been bothering you for … well, too long:

Join the chat to see my answer. And then leave your own.

Don’t be shy. If nobody joins then I’m literally just talking to myself.

Which is not my answer to what an ordinary Tuesday night might look like.

But it could be.

Your friend who hates a group chat and yet seems to have started one,
Vivian

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PS: A word about those pesky “notifications.”

If you want to be notified when I start a chat (or you absolutely do not), please take a minute and go into your settings and turn the notifications on or off. Here’s a quick tutorial from Substack on how to do that.

PPS: What is this Tuesday LIVE thing?

Last Tuesday’s LIVE was the first of 3 workshops I’m hosting over the next 3 Tuesdays, walking you through 3 of my favorite frameworks and the filters I use to help people stop fighting with their stuff and set up a home that makes the life they want to be living feel like it’s possible.

On Tuesday we talked about the one question I start every home organizing project with: What do you want?

Because at the end of the day, what everyone I’ve ever worked with actually wants is not an organized home.

They want to host their Book Club or have their friends over for Martini Thursdays and not be embarrassed by all the random things they’ve got stacked up in the corners or piled up on the surfaces.

They want to sit at the kitchen table and write 500 words of the novel they’re secretly working on without having to move everything onto the floor while the coffee is brewing.

They want to take a bath without digging through the lotions and cotton balls and random bandaids to get to the bath bombs they bought at Lush.

They want their life back.

In order to set up your home so it can support the life you want to be living, you need to know what kind of life you want your home to support.

So last Tuesday we created a Wi$h Li$t for one room in our home.

If you missed the workshop, you can catch the replay here.

Coming up next:

Tuesday, June 16: The Decluttering Easy Pass: Save Your Energy for the Things That Are Actually Hard

Tuesday, June 23: Does This Belong? Choosing What Fits This Chapter of Your Life.

If you know what room I’m talking about, come join me LIVE.

Because before you start pulling things out and sorting through them and making decisions about what to keep and what to let go of…

Before you start organizing anything…

Before you start dealing with the stuff…

You need to start dreaming about the space.

This workshop shows you how to get clear on:

• what you want this room to be.

• what you want to do in this room. And

• how you want to feel when you’re in there.

Which means you’ll also know belongs in the room you want. And what doesn’t.

You’ll walk away with a filter (inspired by the Taylor Swift song Wi$h Li$t) that will make the decluttering and organizing parts easier. And make it harder for you to get stuck deciding what to do with your stuff.

See you in 5!

Your friend who has never hosted a Substack LIVE in her life (🤞🏼),
Vivian

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