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.

Hey, friend, welcome back to another episode. We are wrapping up, pun intended, our gift series

that we've been talking a lot about, holidays and gifts

and all these things. And we're going to wrap that up today by talking about how to graciously

ask for no gifts or give people alternative choices versus just more toys, right? Or more stuff or more things that you or your child may not

want or need. So what I've done is for the last few months, I've been polling my audience on

Instagram and Facebook and the podcast. And y'all have given me some really great suggestions.

So some of these I've used personally, some of them have come from you, my listeners or my

followers.

And I put them all here in one pretty podcast and we put a little bow on it, right?

So here's what's really cool.

I know the holidays, a lot of people have shopped early for the holidays because of toy shortages and people just being on top of, you know, getting gifts way in advance.

So if you can't or aren't able to use this for the holidays, that's no problem.

You will want to use these any time that traditionally might, you know, have a lot of gifts coming

into the house.

And if you want to give people alternative choices in like a kind way, this is what we're going to be talking about today.

So I have, I don't know, maybe a dozen different statements. These are something you could

literally just add to a birthday invitation or a holiday invitation, a graduation invitation,

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