083: The Burden of Clutter

The Decluttered Mom Podcast

Diana Rene

Education, Mom Life, Leisure, Self-improvement, Home & Garden, Busy Mom, Parenting, Minimalist, Kids & Family, Routines, Decluttering

4.9 • 681 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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When your family needs to pack up and briefly move out of your home, it can be overwhelming, especially when it’s a forced reason and not a choice. An unexpected water issue recently forced our family to leave our home for a few weeks, and having fewer things eased the burden so much! It’s still a high-stress situation, but not having to deal with the added stress of all the excess stuff in our home. In this episode, Diana shares a recent life update that was significantly less stressful beca...

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0:00.0	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,
0:23.8	but I felt like I couldn't breathe with all of the stuff surrounding me. Over the next 10 months,
0:30.3	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
0:39.6	system, and I'm here to share all the tips, tricks, and encouragement. Let's listen to today's show.
0:49.4	Welcome to this episode of the Decluttered Mom podcast. Today, I just want to talk about something,
0:55.7	just a realization, or not even a realization, but I guess something that reconfirmed my feelings
1:03.7	about decluttering. And for those of you that maybe don't follow me on Instagram, don't know that
1:09.8	we had to move out of our home for
1:12.2	at least several weeks, potentially longer due to some water damage that we have to have
1:16.9	figured out and restored and rebuilt and all of that. We have to rebuild a bathroom. We have to
1:22.5	rebuild part or potentially all of our kitchen. We have to rebuild a part in our basement. And number one lesson is
1:31.1	that water is damaging. And we already knew that if you've been around for any period of time since
1:37.7	2022, we actually had to gut our kitchen at our our old house because of water damage because a pipe broke
1:45.6	in our wall. And it's just crazy how much damage water can do and quickly. So we don't know when
1:55.8	we're going to be back into the house, but we had to remove a bunch of our stuff because of all of this happening. And we also,
2:04.4	we had to, you know, pack all of our stuff that we were going to have for at least three weeks.
2:09.8	Like that's kind of going into the situation, we're like, we're going to be, we're going to be
2:14.4	out for at least three weeks. So we need enough of our things for our routine to be
2:20.5	as, what's the word? My brain doesn't want to work right now. For our routines to be like the least
2:28.1	amount of issues or disruptions. And so, you know, the girls still have to go to school. I still have to work.
2:35.1	My husband still has to work. So getting enough of our things over here in three weeks is like a
2:42.2	sizable amount of time, right? And so we had to, it kind of felt like we were moving,
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