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

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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 as I record this episode. I'm looking out the window. It's

sunny. It's beautifully warm out in this kind of summer weather inspired today's

episode, which is 12 things that you may find difficult to declutter, but I'm telling you right

now, you totally should anyway. I'm giving you permission. If you need permission, take it from me.

All right, we're going to dive right in. Number one, magazines that you never get

around to reading. I thought people stopped buying magazines a long time ago. I don't have any

magazines ever coming in and out of my home, but it's actually a real thing. A lot of people,

a lot of my students who go through my challenge or a lot of people I've worked with in the

past with my one-on-one consults when I used to do those, it would always come around to like their bedroom or their living

space and they'd have these stacks of magazines. And for whatever reason, it always caught me off

guard. But anyway, those magazines and I'll also include in here books that you just never get

around to reading. If you can replace these, there are so many online

versions of magazines at this point, or if you can replace them on Audible, which I absolutely

love, it's a paid subscription, yes, but it means that I don't have book clutter sitting around.

And if I pay a couple bucks to read a book, and at least it stays in the digital world instead of

sitting on top of my nightstand and creating clutter there. Or alternatively, hello,

the libraries, right? I used to grow up going to the library all the time. In fact, it's one of

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