Episodes

Send us Fan Mail This is a fun one ... the actual purge episode! 🧥 Last week we did the head work (the seven reasons your closet is basically a wearable therapy session). This week? We're doing the hands work. Julie and Janis are walking you through the actual Great Closet Purge! None of the "does this spark joy," no three-day pile on the bed, and absolutely no giving up halfway through to go make a sandwich. We see you. 🛠️ Setup Is Half the Battle Before you touch a single hanger: block off ...

Send us Fan Mail S3E12: Clothes Decluttering Pitfalls (Closet Chaos to Closet Confidence, Part 1) 👕 Warning: This Episode May Cause You to Side-Eye Your Own Closet This week, Julie and Janis are kicking off a brand-new 5-part series, Closet Chaos to Closet Confidence — and they're starting with the hardest part first: your feelings. (Don't worry, no trash bags required. Yet.) Turns out clothes aren't just fabric they're wearable memory, wearable guilt, and occasionally wearable delusion...

Send us Fan Mail Confession time: your car is basically a mobile junk drawer with a steering wheel. Coffee cups multiplying in the cup holders, receipts fossilizing in the door pocket, and somewhere back there are 14 reusable shopping bags breeding like rabbits. Julie and Janis are calling it out (lovingly) and giving you the system to fix it before road trip season hits full swing. 🕵️ Why Cars Get So Cluttered Your car is a "mobile transition zone". Every errand leaves evidence ...

Send us Fan Mail ✈️ S3E10: Magazine Moments: 10 Packing Tips for Your Next Vacation 🧳 Grab your compression cubes and your questionable amount of cords, because Julie and Janis are diving into another Magazine Moments episode! This time they're tackling a list from Travelers (yes, the insurance folks with the umbrella) on how to pack a suitcase for vacation ... and naturally, they have opinions. 🗒️ Lists Are Life Julie and Janis are both certified list people, and they're not sorry about it. ...

Magazine Moments: Preparing for the 4th of July This week we're bringing back one of our favorite episodes — because good advice (and good laughs) never go out of style. Consider it your patriotic prep gift from the JJs! 🎆 Stars, Stripes, and… a Picnic Table You Have to Build Yourself? Independence Day is coming in hot — literally — and the JJs are here to make sure you're ready for it without losing your mind (or your fingers). In this fan-favorite Magazine Moments episode, Julie and J...

🚗 Your Car Called. It Wants to Come Home. You did it. You sorted, you purged, you wrestled with the hazardous materials, and you made the tough calls. Now you're standing in your garage wondering, "Okay… now what?" That's exactly where Part 2 picks up! Julie and Janis are back to walk you through turning that sorted-but-still-chaotic space into a genuinely functional garage - one where you can find what you need, work on actual projects, and yes, park your car. Revolutionary, we know. 🎯 Start ...

The garage. Where good intentions go to die, bicycles go to gather dust, and projects go to silently judge you every time you walk past. 👀 This is Part 1 of The JJs' two-part garage series — and today is ALL about sorting and letting go BEFORE any organizing begins. Because organizing stuff you don't need is just neatly arranged clutter. Sound familiar? Why Garages Are Different Sheer size, overwhelming variety, multiple people's stuff, AND hazardous materials — garages need a different pace a...

You know that narrow strip between your house and the fence? The one where broken pots go to retire, garden hoses go to tangle, and old lawn chairs go when you feel too guilty to throw them away? 👀 That's your side yard ~ and it's basically the junk drawer of your outdoor spaces. Today, Julie and Janis are helping you reclaim it AND your whole yard, so it becomes a place you actually WANT to spend time in. Picnics, backyard campouts, fairy gardens (yes, really) ~ it's all possible when the c...

Your backyard is calling — and it's asking you to please remove the empty pots, tangled hoses, and dead planters that have been haunting the porch since last October. 🌿 Julie & Janis are back with a fresh Magazine Moment, diving into Bonnie Ferrero's article from Backyard Garden Lover: *12 Easy Fixes to Declutter the Yard and Make It Pop!* Same small-doable-doses energy you love — just taken outside! 12 Easy Fixes **1. Gather & Remove Yard Clutter** Walk your property with a trash ...

Winter left behind pollen, dirt, dead plants, broken planters, and outdoor clutter that quietly multiplied while nobody was paying attention. Sound familiar? 🌸 Julie and Janis are stepping outside today to tackle one of the most overlooked spaces in your home — the porch, patio, deck, or entry zone. Whether you've got a grand wraparound porch worthy of sweet tea commercials, or one tiny concrete square with a lonely chair and a determined spider, this episode is for you. But first — a fracture...

Fur tumbleweeds. Mystery smells. Slobbery toys. Pet beds that have somehow collected half the outdoors. Sound familiar? 🐾 If you share your home with a pet, you already know they bring us boundless joy, companionship, and entertainment. They also bring chaos, sticky leashes, and enough scattered toys to twist an ankle on at 2am. (Don't ask. Just turn on a light.) Julie & Janis are diving nose-first into the world of cleaning pet stuff today and they brought a fractured fairy tale to kick thin...

You've decluttered the counters, organized the closets, and tackled the pantry. But when did you last actually CLEAN your windows? 👀 Here's the thing about dirty windows ~ you don't notice them until they're clean. And then suddenly it's like, *whoa, is this the same room?* Julie & Janis are keeping it simple (as always) with a no-fuss, no-overwhelm approach to window cleaning that fits perfectly into your decluttering routine. No spending your entire Sunday scrubbin...

You cleaned the kitchen, wiped the counters, and even tackled the stovetop. So why does it STILL smell like last Tuesday's fish dinner in there? 🐟 Julie & Janis dive into BobVila.com's "10 Instant Cures for Any Kitchen Odor" — and things got spicy. There was a vodka recipe (not a cocktail, we promise), a sponge debate, and the revelation that apple pie might be the most alluring scent known to mankind. You're welcome. Feed Lemons to Your Garbage Disposal Save citrus peels in the fridge or free...