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.

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Decluttered Mom podcast. We are in full summer mode, full summer swing over here. And it's interesting because I have friends that live in other parts of the U.S. where they are still in school and some of them are still in school for for another week and we've been out for over a

month already and so we're like a third done with our summer and I know many of you listening to

this haven't even started your summer so if you are in like the chaos of end of school season

I send you my love and support from afar. I know how insane that time of

year is. But like I said, over here, we are just trying to survive the heat wave that we have going

on. Raise your hand if it's been so hot out. I know there's all different parts of the U.S. that have had so, so, like,

really strange hot weather, like more than normal. And so the last two or three days,

we kind of hid inside our house as much as possible because it was just, it was too hot to be

outside. But today I wanted to bring you kind of like a weird,

quirky episode. And it's basically like what I'm calling odd, but it works house rules. And these

are just little things that kind of are, I don't know if I want to say standards, because that

sounds like so stuffy and official.

But basically like, I guess just rules that I have developed over the years based on what works best for us. And the reason I thought of this is because there was a like a cooking dish I

really wanted to buy. It was really cute. We needed some some type of like casserole type dish because I might

have dropped and broke one. And so I was looking at it and then I saw that it was not dishwasher safe.

And I was like, nope, put it right back on the shelf. I am not bringing that into my house. And that

brings me right into rule number one. If it cannot survive

either the dishwasher or the washing machine for the clothes, it stays at the store. I am not.

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