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.

But I felt like I couldn't breathe with all of the stuff surrounding me.

Over the next 10 months, 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

system, and I'm here to share all the tips, tricks, and encouragement. Let's listen to today's show.

Welcome to another episode of the Decluttered Mom podcast. I'm Diana Renee. And today I want to talk about something really kind of quick. We're going to keep this episode pretty quick because I get this question a lot about what to do with the sentimental items that you do decide to keep when you're decluttering. So I'm not talking about like, how do I decide whether or not this sentimental item is

worth keeping?

I'm talking about, okay, here are the things that I have already decided are worth keeping.

What do I do with those things?

Okay.

So that's kind of where the distinction is.

And in our home, we use two different types of what I call

memory boxes. And this is something that we've used for quite a few years now. I'm trying to think when

we started this. We started, okay, we started one type, the first type I'm going to talk about

when before my oldest daughter was even born. So this was like pre-decluttering life. This was before

we simplified and minimized and got rid of almost 70% of our household belongings.

So this was something that I already did and I found worked really well even with the new lifestyle that we had.

But when my kids got a little bit older and they got into school and started bringing more things home from school,

I decided I needed two different types of memory boxes. So the first memory box is just,

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