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

back your motherhood

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

Hey there, simplifiers. Welcome back to another episode on why you need to start doing tour

rotation like yesterday. So welcome back. If we haven't met yet,

my name's Katie. I host the Maximize Minimalist podcast. And again, we are diving into quite

possibly the biggest clutter pain point of parents across the entire world, probably even universe.

If aliens also have toys, then I promise you they also

struggle with this one thing. And that is toy clutter. Oh, right. Toy clutter. Such a big pain point.

I know firsthand all too well, the frustration, just having too many toys can cause. And years ago, for me,

it was creating such a negative impact

on my motherhood and my parenting and just my day to day. And it's interesting because I was

thinking back at when I first noticed when toy clutter was becoming such a pain point for me.

And it keeps coming back to this memory of sitting on my living

room floor at my one-year-old's birthday party. River was opening all these gifts. We had our

friends over and he probably got, I don't know, 14, 15, 16 things. And I remember sitting on the

floor watching him open these boxes of brand new, like huge plastic, very oftentimes, like

loud, annoying toys and thinking, oh my gosh, where am I even going to put this? Where am I going

to store this? I freaking hate electronic. These noises and beeping, beeping noises are going to

drive me nuts. And just

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