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.

Welcome to another episode of the Decluttered Mom podcast.

If you celebrate Christmas, then I hope you had a wonderful Christmas holiday with your family.

And maybe things didn't go perfect like we talked about last week.

But I hope it was magical in some way or another this year.

So what I wanted to talk about today is something that I get

questions quite often about. And that is basically like what to do with gifts or toys that are

given to your kids or even to yourself that maybe you just don't want. Or maybe it's

something that doesn't fit and you can't return it. Or maybe someone doesn't really know you very

well. And so they got you something that like just feels like junk to you. Or maybe someone does know you well and they still got you

something that just does it is not of interest to you. It's not something that you want to bring

into your home, especially as you're, you know, going on this decluttering journey and trying

to simplify things in your home. You're not, you definitely don't want to bring in things that,

um, that, that you don't even want're not, you definitely don't want to bring in things that, um, that, that you

don't even want, but you also feel bad. Like you feel this guilt over letting go of something that

someone spent money on and took the time to wrap it and give it to you. And I get that. I totally 100% get that, especially as a people

pleaser. I am, I am a people pleaser to my core. It's something I have had to work on a lot

over my entire life, but especially in my adult life, I have had to figure out how to,

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