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 this episode of the Decluttered Mom podcast.

I am at the tail end, knock on wood, let's hope, of some type of upper respiratory thing.

And for most of the week, I have not been able to speak a full sentence without coughing.

We are going to give this a shot.

I'm hoping this is going to work, but

you'll probably hear a cough drop. You'll probably hear some coughs. I apologize ahead of time, but I really

wanted to make sure that I got this episode out to you before Thanksgiving because I know a lot

of people wait until after Thanksgiving to decorate for the holidays or for

Christmas or maybe you're already decorating. I don't know. Either way, I think that this will be

very helpful for you because this comes up around Christmas or Thanksgiving like fall season

a lot in my DMs. And so I think the large majority of people don't necessarily

like decorate for every single season, but the holidays tend to be a bigger one that more people

decorate for. And so I think that's why it comes up so much around now. But basically, the overall

question or the tone of the question that I get in my DMs is like, how do I decorate for Christmas without making it feel like even more cluttered?

Right.

Like I put up all the stuff.

I put up the tree.

I put up all the garlands.

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