On today's episode, I want to talk to you about something that I get asked about a lot.

I will not say all the time, but I get asked this question a lot.

And I have gotten asked this question a lot for the last four, almost five years that I've had this business.

And so the question is, you're listening to the decluttered mom podcast.

A podcast built specifically for busy moms by a busy mom. I'm your host, Diana Renee.

And in 2017, I had my second daughter and it felt like I was literally drowning in my home. Okay, not literally,

but I felt like I couldn't breathe with all of the stuff surrounding me. Over the next 10 months,

I got rid of approximately 70% of our household belongings and I have never looked back. I kind of

feel like I hacked the mom system and I'm here to share

all the tips, tricks and encouragement. Let's listen to today's show. How do I get people to

stop buying so many toys for my kids? And this, you guys, is like a, I mean, we could talk about

this for three hours. We can go down a rabbit hole. We can go down. There's all sorts of things

that we can uncover with this question about what's going on. But the main thing I really want

to talk about today is just that,

how to work with people who do give your kids gifts often. So like typically family members,

grandma, grandpa, aunts and uncles, anyone who will like give your kids gifts every Christmas

or birthday, etc.

This doesn't really apply to like birthday parties for like classmate friends and things like that because you're not going to typically have like a personal relationship with the gift giver.

And it's not someone who is probably going to give your kids gifts all the time.

So this is more so for people who are frequent

gift givers to your kids. The best thing you can do is number one, talk to them, and number two,

give them ideas. I cannot even tell you how many times I have worked through this with people. And the idea of even

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