176: Your Guide to Surviving the Post-Christmas Toy Takeover

The Decluttered Mom Podcast

Diana Rene

Education, Mom Life, Leisure, Self-improvement, Home & Garden, Busy Mom, Parenting, Minimalist, Kids & Family, Routines, Decluttering

4.9 • 681 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Toys take over every holiday season, especially when birthdays follow closely after Christmas. If the toy clutter feels overwhelming, this episode offers simple strategies to keep your home calm and your kids happy. Diana Rene shares easy ways to declutter with your kids without stress and how to prep for new gifts arriving. Toy Time Tips: Manage Holiday Toy Clutter Like a Pro Why the day after Christmas isn’t always the best decluttering dayHow to involve kids happily in toy cleanupBenefits ...

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0:00.0	You're listening to the decluttered mom podcast.
0:10.1	A podcast built specifically for busy moms by a busy mom.
0:14.5	I'm your host, Diana Renee.
0:16.2	And in 2017, I had my second daughter and it felt like I was literally drowning in my home. Okay, not literally,
0:23.9	but I felt like I couldn't breathe with all of the stuff surrounding me. Over the next 10 months,
0:30.9	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
0:40.2	system and I'm here to share all the tips, tricks, and encouragement. Let's listen to today's show.
0:50.4	Hello and welcome to the decluttered mom podcast. My name is Diana Renee. I'm your host and I'm excited to talk to you today about toys. We are, you know, a little more than a week before Christmas. And if you celebrate Christmas or your kids receive any gifts for Christmas, then you know that in about 12 days or so
1:15.5	after Christmas, you know, the time, the week after Christmas, let's just say that,
1:21.1	it can feel really overwhelming when it comes to how much stuff comes into your home because you might already be feeling
1:30.3	like your home has too much to begin with and then Christmas happens or birthday happens
1:36.5	and it's like it's it's like toys or us threw up in your family room right my kids are 8 and 11 right now, but they turn 912 in the two
1:49.5	weeks after Christmas. Yes, you heard that right. And then we have all the craziness of the
1:57.7	holiday season followed immediately by two children's birthdays. And so
2:04.9	putting aside all of the craziness of like schedules and all of that with having two
2:11.0	birthdays so close to Christmas, we also have even more of an influx of things coming into our
2:17.0	home. So needless to say, I understand the
2:22.0	feeling of almost like dread and then the feeling of overwhelm. When you might be working on
2:29.8	decluttering your home right now, you may have already fully decluttered, or maybe you're just
2:35.1	wanting to and you're feeling frozen and you haven't even begun. No matter where you are in that
2:40.8	journey, the idea of that much stuff coming into your home at once can feel really overwhelming,
2:46.9	just the thought of it. And then when it actually happens, like that week between Christmas
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