Practical decluttering for real homes.
The Declutter Hub Podcast is a warm, practical guide to making homes easier to live in, led by Ingrid Janssen and Lesley Spellman. It treats clutter as both a household problem and a human one, with clear systems for drawers, wardrobes, email, storage, and the decisions people avoid.
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The Declutter Hub Podcast treats home organization as a lived, sometimes emotional skill rather than a weekend makeover. Ingrid Janssen and Lesley Spellman bring a steady, conversational rhythm to problems that can feel oddly loaded. Drawers are not just drawers. Empty shelves can feel strange when a person is used to clutter. An inbox can become another room of the house, full of unfinished decisions and repeated scans. The show keeps translating those feelings into action. It talks about systems that last, not storage bought in a rush. It argues for less stuff because less is easier to organize. It also leaves room for different brains and different homes, especially when a guest offers another way to process email or manage stress. The hosts are comfortable disagreeing over household habits, which gives the show a lived-in quality. Their half-worn clothes debate is exactly the sort of ordinary domestic detail the series takes seriously. Some episodes are practical checklists, like golden rules for organizing or ways to maximize storage without a loft, basement, attic, or garage. Others open into coaching conversations about resilience, nervous system reset, or identifying the real clutter problem. Guest stories add texture. Charlotte brings a soft toy rehoming angle through Love Before. Emma’s room of doom story shows the emotional lift of finishing a hard space. Amy Revell brings an organizing perspective. Tracy Hoth’s email episode extends the clutter lens beyond the home and into workflow. Across all of it, the show stays accessible. It repeats what matters, gives examples, and keeps pulling the listener back to the next practical decision. The result is not glossy minimalism. It is patient, realistic support for people trying to make their homes and routines easier to maintain.
Made for: For people whose homes, storage spaces, inboxes, or routines feel harder to manage than they should. It especially suits listeners who want calm, concrete guidance without perfectionism or glossy-home pressure.
What sets it apart: The show blends household tactics with the emotional reality of letting things go. Its strength is the repeated move from problem, to principle, to practical next step.
Achieving the clutter-free organised home of your dreams can be a tough, emotional journey. Decluttering is never about the stuff. It's all about the emotions that sit behind the stuff. In this podcast, we bring a bit of light-hearted fun to the serious business of decluttering with hints, tips, insights and guest experts to help you every step of the way.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Practical organizing advice gains credibility from two hosts willing to test systems against their own habits, disagreements and emotional resistance.
The Declutter Hub Podcast turns domestic organization into a conversation about decisions, habits and the feelings attached to changing a space.
Ingrid's banister holds an ironing pile; the wardrobe debate is coming for your clothes chair.
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A practical organizing episode about making space usable, calm, and livable.
The Declutter Hub Podcast's "10 Golden Rules of Organising your Home" frames an organized home as something built from practical systems, not copied from online images or solved by buying more storage.
A practical inbox discussion about fewer decisions, clearer loops, and the limits of tidy systems.
Email is framed as a source of daily clutter, not just a small admin task. Organizing coach Tracy Hoff offers a simple sorting habit meant to cut down the tiny decisions that make an inbox feel heavier than it should.
Four hundred episodes become a warm, practical check on which decluttering rules still work at home.
The Declutter Hub Podcast marks its 400th episode by circling back to the phrases, habits, principles, and running jokes Ingrid Janssen and Lesley Spellman have built into the show.
A steady conversation about meeting overwhelm with discernment, self-connection, and permission to have wobbly days.
The Declutter Hub Podcast frames resilience as something more active than simply getting through difficult moments. What happens around a person matters, but the episode keeps returning to the quieter question of response: how much stress is actually useful to carry, and where…
A practical reminder to choose organising tools around the real space, habit and person using them.
Organising tools get a grounded reality check in this conversation with Tasha from Get Organized HQ. Instead of treating baskets, labels or spreadsheets as automatic fixes, the episode keeps nudging listeners back to the less glamorous work: matching tools to the space, the…
A grounded conversation about turning an ADHD diagnosis into practical structure at home.
The Declutter Hub Podcast frames Ian Anderson Gray's ADHD diagnosis as the start of a more deliberate relationship with process, structure, and family life.
Midlife care, courage, and second chances.
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Ingrid and Lesley discuss how the passage of time affects decluttering, inspired by a listener's request about letting go of outgrown children's items.
This episode of the Declutter Hub podcast offers practical advice for retirees on how to start and enjoy decluttering their homes, especially when considering downsizing.
Ingrid Janssen and Lesley Spellman host Tasha from Get Organized HQ to discuss effective organizing tools and the upcoming Get Organized HQ Virtual Summit.
Ingrid Janssen and Leslie Spellman explain that a house looks cluttered again two weeks after a weekend declutter because of two problems: how people declutter and how they reset.
The Declutter Hub Podcast's Ingrid Janssen and Lesley Spellman lay out 10 golden rules for organizing a home, beginning with the idea that a place for everything and everything in its place still matters.
The Declutter Hub Podcast episode with Tracey Hopp focuses on email processing as a practical clutter problem, not just a habit of checking an inbox.
The Declutter Hub podcast marks 400 episodes with Ingrid Janssen and Lesley Spellman looking back at seven and a half years since their first living-room recording in September 2018.
Charlotte, founder of Loved Before, discusses how to rehome soft toys instead of throwing them away, reducing clutter and landfill waste.
This episode of the Declutter Hub podcast offers practical tips for maximizing storage in your home without relying on a loft or garage.
Leslie and Ingrid present 10 tips for teaching children to tidy, beginning with the claim that “tidying is a skill, not a personality trait.” They recommend gathering like with like, assigning every category a home, and using age-appropriate storage such as open containers, large boxes, drawers, and labels.
Lucy Wooldridge, an accredited Master Mindset Coach, tells Ingrid Janssen and Lesley Spellman that resilience is "not something we have or have not." She links resilience to resources, nervous system regulation, and the way social media and "bad news" can keep people on high alert.
Declutter Hub hosts interview member Emma about transforming her cluttered room into a dream space, sharing her journey and the positive impact on her family.
Decluttering expert Amy Revell discusses practical strategies for identifying and overcoming clutter problems to find freedom and purpose.
Professional organizer Tracy McCubbin discusses her journey and shares decluttering wisdom on the Declutter Hub podcast.