Well, hello there and welcome back. My name is Stephanie Safarian and you are listening to

episode 146 of the Sustainable Minimalist Podcast. On today's show show we are discussing 10 secrets of decluttered homes that might

surprise you. Have you ever walked in to this perfectly tidy, wonderfully decluttered home and asked yourself, how do they do it?

What is their secret? And the truth is that perfectly tidy homes,

they aren't flawlessly maintained, right?

There are some tried and true minimalist secrets that go in to maintaining such tidiness.

And today I'm going to give you 10 of them. Now this episode was so fun for me to put together.

My hope is that the 10 secrets I am divulging today are going to give you the

inspiration to perhaps tackle that decluttering job this fall or perhaps take your existing tidiness to the next level.

Now we have so much information to cover today so we're going to get right into it.

A quick note that this week's show notes so everything we are discussing

today can be found in the show notes at mama minimalist.com forward slash

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secret number one of decluttered homes is that the owners of those decluttered homes

give the dumping ground special care.

Now what on earth is the dumping ground?

Chances are you already know what it is and chances are even better.

You have one. The dumping ground is that place in our homes that just is the catch space for all the junk, for the mail, for the school papers, for whatever it is, it's the dumping dumping ground it's where people dump the stuff

that they don't know what to do with. So in some homes right they got rid of the

dumping ground altogether.

They give everything in the dumping ground

a designated space.

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