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. Today we are going to talk about a viral

trend that has been going around on Instagram and TikTok. And I don't know if you've seen it.

I don't often get to talk about viral trends here on this podcast because most of them have

nothing to do with what I talk about on this podcast. But this time,

this time there is something that is relative to what we talk about on here. And that is the

would you keep it if it were covered in poop question. And so I don't know if you've seen this. There have been some very

creative videos that have been made for it that I have seen and that it's funny because like so

many people forwarded me so many different reels and TikToks over the last week or so when

things were, when this was like really trending. So I want to talk about it. I want to talk about it.

And I want to introduce this as the poop rule. Does the poop rule work when you're trying to

declutter? Does it not work? So let's talk about it. Okay. When the whole concept of would you keep

this item if it were covered in poop is trying to get you

to grasp or understand is like we've all had incidents especially with kids right where something

gross happened to an item and we're like you I don't want to keep that like it's not worth

cleaning I just want to get

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