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.

On today's episode of the podcast, we are going to go over two really quick organizational tips when it comes to books and board games.

We're going to start with books.

A lot of times people say when they're decluttering like, well, we can never have too many books.

Like books is the one thing that I will never put a limit on.

I will always make sure that we have tons of books because I want my kids to be strong readers. I want them to have an interest in reading

and so forth and so on, right? And I get that. I understand that idea or like, I don't know the

word for it. It's late, you guys. I'm recording this probably

too late, but I really wanted to talk about this. So this idea of like we, our kids can only be

interested in books or good readers if they have like every book in the world available to them.

I understand where that's coming from, but I also don't think that

that's necessarily true. My eight-year-old is my five-year-old doesn't know how to read yet. She's in

kindergarten, but my eight-year-old is a really, really, really big reader. She's reading constantly.

She reads on her Kindle a lot, but then she also reads chapter

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