What does it mean to live more with less? I'm Katie Wells and welcome to the Maximized Minimalist

podcast. If you found yourself caught up in the hamster wheel of modern day motherhood and want to

rewrite the script, congratulations you're in the right place. I'm here to be your guide and help you take

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and achieve a simpler, more joy-filled life. Cheers to being a maximized minimalist. Enjoy the show.

What's up, everyone? Welcome back. I am so excited about today's topic because as much as I love

being your cheerleader for decluttering and simplifying, I also need to be

that really tough coach sometimes, you know, just giving you the hard truth. If you've played sports

in your life, you know the coaches I'm talking about. Not like the crazy mean coaches, but the ones that

just called you out because they knew you could do better. And so a lot of these

hard truths, I hope some of them are motivating for you. Some of them might just give you that

light bulb moment and some of them will just, you know, give you better understanding of this journey

and maybe get you to the next level in your decluttering journey. So let's go right into this. So hard truth number one, new purchases

never seem like clutter, but many of them become clutter. So you have got to check your

spending habits. And I'll say it a million times. It's never enough to just declutter. We've got to learn from our clutter. So start

paying attention to what you were cluttering. How long did you have that item? Again, new purchases

never seem like they're going to become clutter, but oftentimes they do. So if you're in your

closet right now, when you're listening to this episode or wherever you are decluttering.

Look at the styles, the fits, the fabrics, and the colors of what you are decluttering.

And alternatively, what you are keeping, I promise you, you're going to see a pattern really,

really quick. And besides looking at what you are letting go of, again, cue in on how long you had those items.

How long have you had them? Was it worth it to buy that or hang on to it for as long as you have?

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