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

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

What's up, friend? Welcome back. Today, we are diving into three reasons you need to find

designated homes for the stuff inside your home as soon as possible. This is inspired

by a question from one of my listeners that I got recently in my DMs, and she said this. She said,

Katie, I'm worried that I don't have, quote, unquote, homes for everything that I want to keep,

and I'm noticing it's leading to these

little piles of stuff all over my house. So following up with that, reason number one, why you need

to find home for all of these little things that you want to keep is because processing these

things that don't have homes is so stinking, time consumingconsuming. We end up shuffling things around all the

time if we don't find and or create a home. And so if this is resonating, if you're like two

hands up, this is me. I'm looking around my house right now, and I have 1,500 piles on my,

you know, kitchen counter alone. Have no fear, my friend, you are not alone

in this. But I would ask you, what items are those? Like, what items do you constantly find

yourself moving around your house? And do you have a home for them and you're just simply not

putting them back where they belong? Or is it kind of true items where you know you want to keep

them? You just haven't taken is it kind of true items where you know you want to keep them?

You just haven't taken a few minutes of time to really be intentional about creating a designated

space for these. Because if we don't, again, have a home for our stuff, this is going to lead to

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