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. We are struggling a little bit over here with audio today. So I'm just giving you a heads up. Hopefully it's not too terrible. But my microphone decided to break right before I started recording and I have a cold. Those two things are not a great combination. But I still wanted to make sure that I got a great episode out to you this week. And it's not going to be a super long one. It's going to be just about something that you can do in your kitchen today or this weekend. Whenever you just have a little bit of a chunk of a time, it doesn't have to be like

hours and hours. Bonus points if you can get other people involved in your household. This is a great

one of those examples where kids really want to be helpful. They enjoy doing things with mom.

So I think that you could get your kids involved. Absolutely. Basically,

anyone that's home can help you with this. It can go much faster that way. But as always,

like I always mention, you can put on a podcast that you really like to listen to. You can listen

to music that you really enjoy. Try to make it somewhat enjoyable. So it's not just something

that you are dreading but again this is

not meant to be some really big project it's just a quick thing that will help you to just feel

a little bit better in your kitchen where you probably spend a lot of your time or in back to

school season you're probably in there even more,

making school lunches, making sure that everything is ready for the day ahead. And so all you're

going to do, this is very simple. This is very much a no-brainer thing, but sometimes we just need to

be reminded to do it, is to go through your pantry or anywhere that you have food in your home

and just get rid of expired stuff. So often we like get new groceries and we just kind of

stuff it into the fridge. We stuff it into the pantry and the stuff behind it gets lost and it just sits there and it expires

and it's gross and it takes up space and we can instantly free up room in our kitchen in all of

the areas that we have food when we simply just get rid of the stuff that you can't even eat anyway. I remember when I

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