Episode 85 – How to Declutter Cards

Decluttering cards can be a daunting task because some of us just love a greeting card and struggle to walk past that section of a shop without buying one. In this podcast we explore why we love them so much and why we end up with way more than we need.
Buying greetings cards is the easy bit but remembering where we put them when we need to send one can be tricky, so we just go out and buy another one. Sending a card involves lots of levels of organisation. Decluttering cards is the first step so you have some control over what you have.
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Intro  0:07  
Welcome to today's episode of The declutter hub podcast, your channel for super easy, no nonsense advice on how to declutter and organise your home. Please welcome your host professional organisers, Ingrid Jansen, and Lesley Spellman.

Ingrid  0:32  
Hello, and welcome listeners to Episode 85 of the declutter have podcasts. I'm Ingrid. And I'm Lesley, if you have clutter and want to sort it out, this is the show for you. Now, in today's episode, Lesley and I are talking about decluttering and organising greetings cards. Now, lots of people don't realise how many greeting cards they have, because they're kind of scattered around their homes, until you start kind of putting them together and you go, wow, how many are there? And because there are so many different greeting cards, they kind of build up if without you realising it's unless the greetings cards it seems a bit like Why will we do a podcast about greetings cards? But we know don't we? We know. There are people with lots of greeting cards. And that's why we're doing this podcast.

Lesley  1:25  
Exactly right. I think it's very similar to what we were talking about a couple of weeks ago with notebooks, there are people out there. So there are people out there that just have them scattered as a little bit of a lack of control. So therefore they have too many, because they're not organised efficiently. Then there are people who love by in a card do not mean so in the same way that people love buying a book or love buying a notebook. There are people who love buying a car. And if they see a cool car while they're out and about shopping, they can't avoid taking it home with them. So we've got a couple of camps here where the emotional level in terms of greeting cards, but it's definitely worth doing a podcast on isn't it?

Ingrid  2:04  
I love receiving carts that is something that makes me incredibly happy. I really enjoy sending a card, although I feel the pressure sometimes that I don't do it enough because I feel I should be better at it. But I just you know, I just love receiving a carton of post it just really it may be I'm really reading old fashion, but I just absolutely love it because I for me, I think wow, somebody's taking the time out to send me a car to write something on it to find my address to put a stamp, bring it to the post office. I just think it's one of the most wonderful things. I know maybe I'm overreacting a bit. But I love I love receiving a card I honestly do. I think it's is really

Lesley  2:49  
nice, particularly, particularly for kind of more one off occasions. So I love receiving definitely love receiving a card when it's completely out of the blue. Those are the nicest cards, aren't they, you know, when you're not expecting it, and you get a card that says thank you or whatever, that's a lovely thing to receive. Birthdays next and then Christmas. Next I'll obviously then a Christmas card as well. But less so perhaps because I think sometimes there's a little bit less thought that goes into a Christmas card and into a birthday card. So yeah, it's a really nice thing, isn't it? And it's something that's kind of a dying breed sending cards do we think there's definitely less cards being sent than than they used to be? I think isn't there,

Ingrid  3:28  
for sure, for sure. I think we all thought when kind of email was invented, and we would that it would stop completely. It hasn't. But I do agree with you. I think people send a lot less cards than they would do in the past. At one point, it was like card Central and everybody was like back and forth, back and forth. And then I think you've got the option to send the card virtually. You've also got the option to go to a company that sends a real card on your behalf. You can just type it in online type the address in online. So there's there's many different ways to send cards. But I do think over the years it has gone down maybe because postage gotten so expensive. I'm not really sure. I have the feeling the cards have become cheaper, but maybe the postage has gone up a lot. Or maybe it's just quite a lot of effort to send the cards I think you know, you have to kind of buy it right it boasted sorted. Get lots of steps involved, so and with our busy lives, maybe people got other things to do. So I don't know, I think it's a multitude of reasons, I think.

Lesley  4:36  
I think that there's a different way these days as well, of expressing sentiments to people. So if you see a really cool meme or something like that, or something that makes you laugh online, then you'll share and tag your friend and if you're on Facebook or Instagram or whatever that might be. And so I think we're more used to doing things as we see them rather than sending specific cards. You absolutely right the the more personalised cards I mean, in the UK, I don't know whether it's worldwide but we have Moonpig, don't we? And so you can put pictures of people on there. And it's easy to do it that way. So people tend to do that. But in any case, people are still buying cards for sure. I'm not sure I agree with the idea that cards are cheaper at all, I think costs can be, you know, you can be spending four pounds for a card, maybe even more, sometimes, there are options to get things cheaper, of course they are. But if you want a really nice card, you know, it's a lot of money, you know, so that that probably comes into it as well. So we're not really talking about Christmas cards as such, here are what we're talking about standard because your Christmas cards tend to be kept somewhere different. I mean, I actually do keep my Christmas cards and my birthday cards together to be fair in the box. But I think we're talking more about get well cards, new home cards, birthday cards, duration cards, driving test cards, all the exam cards,

Ingrid  5:54  
if you go to a card shop, the choice is like Unreal, isn't it? I mean, I just in the in the olden days, there was like your local shop had like a little rail with a couple of options. But these days, the choice I mean, you can even send cards to your niece or your nephew or your best friend or occasions are like unbelievable. You can guide Easter cards and Halloween cards and St. Patrick's Day cards. I mean, that was we didn't have that, you know, we just had a thank you. Or if somebody passed away card or a birthday card that was about it, isn't it. So now the choice is incredible.

Lesley  6:32  
But there's one thing for sure, if you look for a birthday card for your husband, you can't find one that you really like. I mean, there is that as well as as low as so much choice. But it's difficult sometimes to find one that you absolutely love, which is why people are definitely moving towards these personalised card options as well. So we're here to talk about decluttering. And when we talk about decluttering, we always talk about the emotions and habits that we have, first and foremost. So what kind of emotions do we have with greetings cards?

Ingrid  7:00  
Well, I think it's sometimes can be that somebody buys a card with the best intentions, but then doesn't get around to sending it. And for whatever reason, I mean, something might have happened, somebody might have forgotten they bought the cart, but they've bought the cart with the best intention, it didn't go out. And then you might feel guilty that you haven't send it out. And then you think, oh my gosh, now I'm gonna have to do something else or call them. And then you've got this card lingering about and it's another job if you haven't then done so you feel guilty about it. So I think that could be a reason why dealing with greetings cards and started to think about decluttering. And organising, can sometimes actually be a bit trickier than you might expect. Because you might come across a few bits, you think, Oh, I haven't done that. I haven't gotten around to that. And sometimes we find cards that have even been written there in the envelope, the address is on there. And it's just been left on a desk and it's just not been sent out. So that can be quite a tricky emotion to to deal with. I think

Lesley  8:04  
so actually, the cycle to send in a greetings card out involves an awful lot of organisation at lots of different levels, you know, you've got to remember that you need to send the card, you've got to have some kind of, you know, visual reminder that that's happening that you know, like, how are you going to do that you're going to look in advance. When someone's birthday, yes, you've got to go out, you've got to shop for the cards, you've got to remember to write the cards, you've got to remember to send the cards. So there's actually quite a lot of different steps to sending a card isn't that every level it involves you being organised. And that's the problem sometimes that our organisation slips at certain step in that cycle. And that's when it all goes wrong. And that's when we have too many because we've not executed on what we wanted to, then we get a buildup of cards. Now, the other thing I sort of mentioned before was, a lot of people love a card. And so they really love the sentiment that come with cars, or some people have their favourite card shops. They make sure if they go to that favourite card shop that they pick up pick out a lot of cars that might do them for different things. And so sometimes with greetings cards, we don't shop intentionally. So we're not shopping for a specific event. We're buying a car because we actually like it rather than that we need it. Does that make sense?

Ingrid  9:15  
Let's now move into decluttering then and how you're going to do this decluttering projects.

Lesley  9:20  
So first things first, I think we need to work out what kind of card person you are. Are you the kind of person that has some control over the cards in your house? Or are you a person where you buy them and they are still at the bottom of your bag and might be on the bedside table one might be in your desk or might be in a kitchen junk drawer is that you do not want others scattered around. So the first thing that we're going to do is we're going to have to get a handle on how many cards we've got. So that age old thing of gathering like with like that we absolutely loving we'd love to gather like we'd like Delaware. And that's the first thing that we're going to need to do, isn't it?

Ingrid  9:53  
Absolutely. You know if if they're not together in a box just yet or in a pile somewhere in a drawer of a desk Start putting them all together, clear a space somewhere. So you can kind of spread them all out and have a look and kind of then start to put the same cards together. And you might want to, like we said before, keep your Christmas card separately, that's almost like a whole different separate category of cards. And with the other kinds of your, like, we call them normal cards, then you're going to put them into categories of what we've said before, which are birthday cards, which are special cards, which are wedding which are baby, which are new home, and sort of add like that. And then you can kind of start to see how many have I got for each category? And do I actually have only a few? Or do I have far more than I expected. And it's interesting, because when they come from drawers, especially from desk drawers, because there's normally an overflow, they start to live in separate places, even in a home office, they can end up in different places, if the drawer is kind of overfilled. And then things to start to get dented and the sides corners of the carts get a bit crooked, you know, so but put it all together first, and then take the next step.

Lesley  11:09  
Yeah, so first things first, and we're gonna go them for are, no brainers aren't where. And the interesting thing with it, what we've seen over the years is that people, even though the envelope is gone, and there's no match for that envelope will still keep the card now, I might be being controversial here. But you're not going to send a card unless it's got a suitable envelope. I don't know, I know, you could put it into a bigger envelope and send it into it, and then a five envelope or something like that. But are you going to do that? Because the recipient may think that's a little bit strange. Do you? Are you with me? I mean, I wouldn't do it because it looks like oh, they lost the envelope to the car, like, and so I don't think I would do that. Would you do it? I wouldn't send a card if it didn't have the right matching envelope with it. But yet we see over and over. Of course envelopes go missing over time. This is just think this is just what happens but like odd socks aren't in Tupperware lids. Envelopes from cars is another example of that. And so but if you've not got the right envelope, the chances are I would I would go so far as to say there's a 90% chance that you're not going to send that card or 90%. If not, what not a 9% chance 90% of people would not send that card if it didn't have a much an envelope. Are you with me and grid?

Ingrid  12:21  
Yeah, I would I like I like it when a card matches an envelope perfectly. So yes, I agree with you. I have decluttered myself some cards that had lost envelopes over the years, we use the envelope for something else, or that just happens. And it's I find it almost a bit strange when you see in a card in a completely wrong and prologue. I'm like, Oh, well, that's a bit weird, isn't it? So I would I would probably declutter those cards, unless it's absolutely beautiful, then I would maybe say okay, if you've got the time and energy to find the perfect end flow for that, but is that really going to happen? I don't think so. I think

Lesley  12:59  
it's hard because they miss it in this kind of world of sense, sustainability and trying to use things up and reuse and recycle, we should be able to send a card in an envelope that doesn't match because that would be the sensible thing to do. But I think that there's a barrier there psychologically for us, which means that we are going to be judged for sending it in the wrong envelope rightly or wrongly. I think that will stop us from using that card. So I would say if that is you, you know whether that's you or not declutter the card and just put it straight into recycling. There's no point in even sending it to the charity shop at this point. Because the charity shop, we're not gonna be able to sell it without an envelope either. And it's an interesting thing, actually, people you know, when I'm decluttering with clients, they're always like, what you put in a card in the charity shop in the charity bag. I'm like, Yeah, because they'll totally sell cards to you. But do you put cards in your charity bags as well?

Ingrid  13:50  
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Definitely. For sure when they're yellow, and dented and a bit dirty, no recycling all the way. But yes, if it has a matching envelope, if it's maybe even still in plastic, if it is something that the client doesn't see themselves sending out anymore, absolutely. Charity show bag and ghost and I tried to always put it with some other stuff. So I don't I wouldn't put it in between like shoes and clothes, because then it gets bended on the way there. But I would put a separate little bag where I put the cards in there for sure. Yeah. Because I know they can send sell them. So we've

Lesley  14:27  
done our no brainers well, which is the old ones, that dented ones, the dog eared ones. And we've also gone that little step further. We've said, Okay, let's be realistic about this, we are not going to send a card if it's not going to match an envelope. So the next step is a little bit harder. It's actually about realism and honesty with yourself. So if a card is in perfectly good condition, if it has a matching envelope, you need to look at the front of that card and see whether that card still reflects the current year and whether or not you would send it so I think we can thinks forever and ever and ever, even though we look at it and think that's just not me, if I was going to a card shop today, I would never choose that card. But it might have been hanging around for 1020 25 years. And we've kept it and kept it and kept it. Now this is not going to make or break the organisation in our home. This is a tiny category of things that are quite small. So it's not going to be a big problem. But what we're trying to do is we're trying to be thorough, so one of the things that we want to do at the declutter is don't leave any stone unturned, make sure that everything that you've got in your house, however small is useful to and is something that reflects the current you and your current life. And the other thing is give that to somebody who will use it, there will be somebody out there who would send that card to one of their friends, but it might not be you. So now's the time to be realistic and honest with yourself and say, is that a card that I would send?

Ingrid  15:51  
Yeah, because I think a lot of people really look at the text on the card, the front of the cards, if it makes sense for the occasion. And if it's like an odd card from you to receive, you're gonna go Hmm, well, what happened here, you know, so you want to send something that makes sense for you now, and not something that you've bought. And you know what it's so funny that we're talking about this, Lesley, because I was decluttering my greetings cards a while back. And I did come across some postcards that I had kept, since I think I was about in my teens. And I did that when the bottom of that box. And I'm like, why are these cards still here? Yes, they're nice. They were black and white cards or postcards? And why have I kept hold of these cards for over 30 years. And I've never ever seen them? It made no sense to me, whatsoever. And I just in the end decided to declutter them, because why were they still in my house, it's just, I know, they don't take up a lot of space, but it just, I would never have sent them and I think I would have ever send them. And they were still there. So I actually got tough with myself and I wouldn't ride enough since I've already these needs to go, I only want to have cars in my house that I see myself sending them. And it's the same with other cars that I found, you know, I, I found a card from a girl who is going to be five, well, there's nobody in my immediate family who has a girl, that's going to be five because the kids are all just a little bit older now. And I know in 10 years where there's maybe a child is going to be five, I'm going to buy a new car, I'm not going to use the one so I thought, let me just recycle it, put it in a charity shop, somebody else can use it. And then I can buy a nice fresh card. When the time comes. I don't need the five year old cards.

Lesley  17:49  
Yeah, because you're not automatically gonna think, Oh, I've got a five year old card in my, in my box of cards. Yes, kind of like 10 or 15 years since someone was five in your house? Yes, I think it is definitely. And then the other thing is that fashions change. You know, some of these cards look old fashioned and the same. And in the same way that if you were sending a card without a match an envelope, if you send a really old fashioned card that says something about you as well, we don't want to be judged. Do we harshly for what we send to it has to reflect to you.

Ingrid  18:19  
Now, before we move on to something else can we talk about we I mean, we talked about the cards without envelopes? But can we talk about envelopes without cards? Lesley? Oh, yes, yes, I mean, we find tonnes of envelopes, don't we, in every size possible from tiny ones to huge ones. And I mean, I'm not talking about the normal white envelopes that we send a letter through to somebody or with or without a window in them. I'm talking about cards that have been lost or been written wrong, you know, you make a mistake on a card. And if it's a Chris, especially if it's a Christmas card, you write the name wrong or something happens and you don't want to scribble it through the card gets chucked out. But then the envelope gets capped. So we find tonnes of envelopes.

Lesley  19:07  
Now the one thing that I don't have a problem with is sending a random envelope to like a company. So if I did have to send something through the post, and I was going to send it in a weird shape envelope, I wouldn't have a problem with that, because I'm not bothered that the person at the HSBC is going to judge me for having the wrong side of things. So I'm happy to reuse and repurpose envelopes like that. And I probably would do that would fall into the category of kind of using up what you've got, you know, to me, and I was like, you know, I'll put I'll put that to one side. I'll put them to the top. Next time I need to send a letter it will go in that as long as it's someone who doesn't know who I am. You're absolutely right to raise it in bed because an envelope without a card is useful, but a card without an envelope is not useful in my in my head. Are you in agreement?

Ingrid  19:53  
Yeah, I would I would say so. I would say so. But if you've got little tiny little envelopes, especially on Christmas Time, you've got these tiny boxes with kind of tiny cards that kids give each other, and those cards get lost. So those really tiny envelopes, you know, they hardly ever gets used again, unless you can maybe use them if you need to put money into school or something. But now more and more all goes online. So you will see, I think it goes down, the volumes will go down, but be realistic. And that's exactly what we said before, be realistic about what you're going to use, be honest with yourself. And if you're not going to use it, recycle the cloth, declutter it and charity, shop it and donate it to somebody else. Because otherwise, it's just gonna be lingering in your house taking up space. And that's not what we want. We want to have space for the stuff we really want to keep. And the things that we're going to use,

Lesley  20:48  
you know, all of these components of the decluttering that we've discussed, they're all it just, it just reminded me of the quick win that you did in our members area, didn't you last year. So we have within the membership, we have what we call our quick wins, we've got big things, we've got big courses that take you through four rooms or four areas. And then we realised that not everybody wants to do a full room all the time. And so we also have little quick wins of whiskey, which six forms apart. And Ingrid takes you through her greetings card, declutter don't get exactly what you do from start to finish in terms of decluttering. So those are the kinds of things that we have in our members area just to keep people ticking over with decluttering all the time on them. They're really quite useful people love when they don't have much time to do a full room. Just love to tackle those tiny projects just to keep yourself motivated and moving forward and your decluttering journey. What are the kinds of things that we got in the quick wins in grid,

Ingrid  21:39  
we've got loads of quick wins in our membership. I mean, we have done quick wins, about utensils, about stationery, about medication about cleaning products, light bulbs, instruction manuals, all those little jobs that keep laying about not being sorted and organised. So that's what we've made quick wins about because although the volumes are not gigantic, it's so nice to be able to lay your hands on all these bits when you actually need them. So it's great to do all of those quick wins beside our big courses that we have come and join us check out members dot declutter hub.com for all the information our membership starts from $15 per month, and we'd love to see you there. Now of course in our membership, we talk a lot about organising as well. So Lesley, let's move on how are we going to organise all these greeting cards? Well, we need

Lesley  22:37  
to have them all together first and foremost, as we said, but we've already done that when the decluttering process we brought everything together now for me, it's about not going too deep on the organisation. So you can buy all these fancy things like greeting cards organising, and in my opinion, they cause more problems than they solve because you've got to be super organised to manage them, because they've got their concertina folders, which I hate with a passion anyway in any kind of paperwork or storage. So concertina files just don't work for me because they fall over, everything falls out, you can't see them. They're just just very, very awkward. So avoid concertina folders, like the plague in any kind of paperwork. decluttering, I would say. So for me, it's just all about keeping it simple. So a shoebox, or a simple if you want something nicer, go out there and buy something that's a similar sort of size to a shoe box. But a shoe box means that you can get all different sizes of cards in there. And this sort of stand up and then you can just rummage through and find what you want, just leave through them. So for me, I don't think it's essential to subdivide things into the different occasions because in fact if you need to subdivide them in my mind that means that you've got too many cards, who needs that many kind of backup get well cards or backup new home cards or backup graduation cards, you just don't need them because you can buy them as you need them you know the maximum that you would need if you did want a backup or if you were someone who struggles to get out or something like that is maybe one

Ingrid  24:04  
yes Lesley I agree with you as well. I mean for a fancy card organiser you have to be superduper organised and look at all the dividing the names on it if you just want to keep it simple. Indeed I agree with you a box or a shoebox you could just take some white card if you want to create your own dividers if you don't want to go for something fancy, but I agree with you I would not have that many that you would need constantly dividers to keep them all separated. What I do do within my shoebox I have my most used cards which is normally birthdays, I have those on the top and I have my kind of more special occasions cards at the back or at the bottom of my books. So I can kind of very easily rummaged through it and find it but neither of us are very meticulous organisers and to have everything perfect because we know how much time it costs to stay to have it Keep everything that way. A client of mine has a lot of cards. And in the end, we just said, Okay, why don't you just use three booksmiles To have the cards all in, we're not going to set up some fancy system, just three booksmiles. One is only for Christmas cards. One is for birthday cards, and one is for other occasions. And they're all in there. And she can just rummage through those books for miles when she wants to sort out for a cart. But it's, I think, very important that if you realise how many cards you have, that you can go instead of okay, I'm going to buy a new card. You know what, let's not do that. Let's just look at what I have first. And that's why the gathering it all together is so important and putting your cards in one specific space. So you can find them, you've got a place for everything and everything in its place.

Lesley  25:50  
I completely agree. If there's one thing that you learned from this podcast, it's look at the cards that you've got, before you go out shopping, we talked about this all the time, which is to try and use up what you already have in your house before you go out and shop. And so it's really important to put yourself on a mission. And if you've got a lot of greetings cards, it might be a full year before or more than a full year before you need to buy another card. And again, there's something very satisfying about saving money about using what you've got, and about really going through the stuff and about not buying things that you don't need.

Ingrid  26:23  
Yes, I remember working with a client, and she had a lovely little desk drawer. And we just realised that she had so many cards that were all floating around around the desk area. And in the end, we put them all together in her drawer, she had three drawers full of cards, she was an absolute card lover. And we had at point everything you know, you can you have a card shop in your own house, you don't have to go anywhere anytime soon. And I think just by putting it all together, she realised oh my gosh, I had no idea I had this many. And I think there was a very much a penny dropped for her at that moment. And she said, and I kind of said, you know, you can shop in your own house, you don't have to go out, just use them. They're beautiful cards, you're gonna have so much enjoyment out of sending them. And I think that I think it's very satisfying, that when you put stuff like we'd like you can do that.

Lesley  27:20  
Definitely. I mean, sometimes when we get when I work with a client who's got those kind of excessive volumes of things, I will definitely try and suggest if that's overwhelming the space, of course, that we play a numbers game. So let's try and think about how likely is it for however many friends to move house this year. So what's the likelihood of you needing a new home card? You know, if you've got 20 New Home cards, you know, no one's you're probably going to use two or three in 10 years, there's not that quick movement of homes that you need new home cards. So maybe it's time to be realistic and say let me look at what a suitable number is. And send the rest of them either to charity, or send them to or ask your family to come round and pick from the cards that you've got so that they can reuse them or friends. You know, that kind of thing. So be realistic about the numbers as well. Don't just keep everything, even if it's good, if that is overwhelming your space, and you've got way too many. Yes.

Ingrid  28:15  
And when you're going to decide, okay, I'm going to put my cards in a box, I'm going to put them all together. Think about the place you're going to put this box. Where do you normally write cards? What makes sense to you? Does it make sense to have them in your drawer of your desk? Do you maybe want to put your cards with your in your present cupboard if you have one or together with your wrapping paper and your bowls and your sticky tape? Or do you have a cupboard in your living room where you've got your stationery and where it makes sense for the cards to live. Every home is different my cards live in my living room in a cupboard, which is quite close to my desk, but they don't live in a drawer in my desk because I've got other things that I use far more often that need to live there. But I haven't close at hand. While my wrapping paper what I use a lot less of is upstairs and I don't mind making the trip up. But I want to have my cards close at hand but not so close that it's in a prime location in my desk where I want to have some stationery that I use every day. So think about a space, which makes sense to you. So you start to put things in one place so you can actually find it again. And when you start to tidy up other areas in your house and you find cash you're like I know I have a box. It's in that cupboard or in that drawer and that's where my cards are going to go. And you might if you're doing a home office sort out and you might not find all your cards in the beginning you might have to first put them all together and then when you're gonna go okay, I've done most of my home office shorted now or my stationery cupboard. Now I'm going to dive deeper and now we'll look at these cards. That's, that's something that's probably can be done at another time. So, see how you get on and what makes sense to you in your home to put these items. So yeah,

Lesley  30:11  
I think we've now covered everything, the most important thing to take away from this is don't have an excessive amount of cards in your house be realistic about what you're going to send, you know, these decisions are hard, you know, cards cost a lot of money, as we said. And so it's hard to send those to the charity shop without them being used. But it's also important that you've got control over your card situation at home. So I think that's the most important message from us. So if you've got anything else to add, Ingrid?

Ingrid  30:38  
No, I think I think that's it, Lesley. I mean, I think for me, it's like, if you realise by listening to this podcast, and you think to yourself, oh, my gosh, I actually do have a lot more than I thought, what can I do to make my volumes go down, and joy sending the cards and just save a bit of money while we're at it, and also reclaim some of that space. And I think we hope we've inspired you to do that. So we really appreciate you listening to our podcasts. And if you've enjoyed listening, please leave us a review. We we did a shout out a couple of weeks ago for some more reviews. And we've had some lovely reviews come in. So if you've enjoyed us chatting about in this case, a greeting card. Or if you want to leave us a review about any other topic that we've done before, we would love to read your reviews. So make sure you go to your podcast player and press on review and we can't wait to hear what you said about us.

Lesley  31:38  
Can I just say talking about refusing good vessel great news this week, didn't we? Yes, we did. There's a podcast chat out there. So we're number 41. For the lighter podcasts in the whole world number 41. That's like, amazing, isn't it? Number 41. And so to keep us up there, we need these reviews, and we need more people listening. So please help us out pretty pretty clear. You said it a couple of weeks ago and it works. I'm gonna say it again. I think it must be all your reviews that goes to number 41. We need to be higher than 41 that we need to get into the top 40 Don't worry, that will be my goal Top 40 Top 40 ranked podcasts or top 20 I don't know top

Ingrid  32:19  
25 literally are the top 20 shall we? Anyway, we hope that you've enjoyed listening to this podcast. Thanks so much for taking the time to listen today. And if you'd like to get more tips and advice, don't forget we have a fantastic Facebook group called the declutter hub community where we all hang out and chat about all things decluttering and organising. And we are also on Twitter and on Instagram as at declutter hub. Don't forget to take a look at members dot declutter app.com If you'd like to more information about our membership. And if you don't want to miss the next weekly episode, subscribe to the declutter hub podcast on Apple podcast, Spotify, Stitcher and iHeartRadio. And it will pop into your notifications each Friday. See you next time.

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Debbie says:

15 January 2022 at 11:21 PM

Great to hear about Greetings Cards Podcast! One of my weaknesses, I love a pretty picture and realised I need to focus on ‘in house shopping’ and declutter those cards. I could really do with a podcost on cards I have kept from family and friends and how to approach decluttering those, especially when a loved one is no longer with us or the cards are from a close family member. Thank you ladies.

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1. Lesley Spellman says:
  
  17 January 2022 at 7:47 PM
  
  Hi Debbie, try this one https://declutterhub.com/podcast/decluttering-sentimental-cards/
  
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Tanya says:

16 May 2020 at 10:40 PM

I look forward to listening every week . I always learn something or feel validated in some way. You speak in a friendly, practical and kind way. Keeping it real. ✔️💙💚🇦🇺

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1. Lesley Spellman says:
  
  18 May 2020 at 9:19 AM
  
  Thank you so much, Tanya. Keeping it real is definitely our mantra!
  
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