116: How Swedish Death Cleaning Can Help You Let Go
Maximized Minimalist Podcast
Katy Wells
4.8 • 936 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Tune in as I discuss a popular declutter method, Swedish Death Cleaning, and how you can use many of these practical tips to increase your simplifying results. I also share how I'm raising my sons to be passionate readers, without having overflowing book shelves. Enjoy! To sign up for my next challenge: https://www.katyjoywells.com/email-clutter-crusher-challenge
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| 0:00.0 | What does it mean to live more with less? I'm Katie Wells and welcome to the Maximized Minimalist |
| 0:07.7 | podcast. If you found yourself caught up in the hamster wheel of modern day motherhood and want to |
| 0:14.1 | rewrite the script, congratulations you're in the right place. I'm here to be your guide and help you take |
| 0:20.6 | back your motherhood |
| 0:21.6 | and achieve a simpler, more joy-filled life. Cheers to being a maximized minimalist. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:29.4 | Hey there, friend. Welcome back. I'm so happy to be with you here today. It's your host, Katie, |
| 0:34.7 | your host every Wednesday. And today we're going to be diving into |
| 0:39.4 | how Swedish death cleaning can help you let go. But if this is a new term for you and it sounds a |
| 0:46.2 | little off-putting, confusing, maybe even a little depressing, I encourage you to hang tight and still |
| 0:50.9 | listen in because this episode will bring you so much value and I think a different |
| 0:56.6 | perspective. Before we dive into this, I want to share two amazing, do two amazing podcast shoutouts |
| 1:03.7 | to some listeners of mine. Nikki from Great Britain left me a five-star review on Apple podcast |
| 1:08.9 | saying, I've been listening for a couple months and really |
| 1:11.5 | enjoy your podcast. It is good to know that there are other moms out there and families |
| 1:16.6 | going through the chaos of life. Katie is empathetic and helps people with simple strategies. |
| 1:22.1 | Thank you, Nikki. And Dogs Cats 66 from the United States America, said it's like listening to an old friend |
| 1:29.7 | and that I look forward to Katie's podcast each week. Thank you so much, you too. I greatly appreciate it |
| 1:37.1 | and love that you're a listener of the show. So just a disclaimer that in this episode, |
| 1:43.1 | probably by no surprise, we will be touching briefly |
| 1:46.0 | on death. So if you have kiddos around, maybe throw in your earbuds. So let's dive into |
| 1:52.8 | one other quick segue I have before we dive into the topic. So one big question I get is, |
| 2:00.7 | Katie, what do I do with all these books? If you |
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