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

back your motherhood and achieve a simpler,

more joy-filled life.

Cheers to being a maximized minimalist.

Enjoy the show.

Hey, Simplifier, welcome back to the show.

We are mid-February, which is about the time most people have given up on their new year's resolution of decluttering,

but not you, right? That's why you showed up today. And today's show is all about giving you

some extra motivation if you're feeling a little tired and not really wanting to declutter.

Sometimes one of my favorite ways to get motivated is by reading stats and studies. Now, true story, I almost

failed my statistics course in college, but these statistics I'll be sharing won't put you to

sleep like my stats professor did. Cool. I pulled all of this data from multiple resources online.

Many of these stats have been published by research journalists,

colleges, accredited programs, places like Harvard, Cornell, just to name a few.

Feel free to Google the stat if you have a question on it or want to read about it more,

but some of these are pretty epic and shocking. So let's go. Number one, the average U.S. household has

300,000 things in it. Holy canoli. This is like baby gear, toys, forks, and furniture,

dishes and everything in between. 300,000 things. Just that number alone

feels overwhelming to me. So maybe it's a good thing I didn't know when I started my declutter

journey. Hopefully this doesn't squash your dreams. You guys can do this. Just do one item a day or five

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