178: 5 Ideas to Declutter Holiday Decor for a Simpler Season
Maximized Minimalist Podcast
Katy Wells
4.8 • 936 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
You won't want to miss today's episode about 5 ways to declutter holiday decor and about my "secret hack" to achieving a cozy, holiday-inspired home, without all the stuff (*gasp* yes - it's possible). If a goal of yours in the New Year is to declutter, don't miss the chance to join my Inner Circle! This program is your roadmap, from Step 1 alllllll the way to Step 20, I gotchu'. https://www.katyjoywells.com/innercircle
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| 0:00.0 | What does it mean to live more with less? I'm Katie Wells and welcome to the Maximized Minimalist |
| 0:07.7 | podcast. If you found yourself caught up in the hamster wheel of modern day motherhood and want to |
| 0:14.1 | rewrite the script, congratulations you're in the right place. I'm here to be your guide and help you take |
| 0:20.6 | back your motherhood |
| 0:21.6 | and achieve a simpler, more joy-filled life. Cheers to being a maximized minimalist. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:29.6 | Hey friend, welcome back. Nothing is quite as lovely as the holiday season. Am I right? Cold days, |
| 0:36.0 | mugs of hot chocolate, family gathering around a beautiful |
| 0:39.1 | holiday tree or fireplace, spending moments with each other. It just sounds magical. That is until |
| 0:45.6 | maybe you start to think about all the work you have to do in order to make that happen. |
| 0:50.5 | And all of a sudden, holiday clutter can definitely bring the joy in the season down. So today |
| 0:55.3 | we're going to be diving into specifically holiday decor de clutter, which is a big question a lot of |
| 1:01.2 | you have been asking about. A lot of you just want to enjoy simpler season and decorate without all |
| 1:06.4 | the fuss and without all the extras. So this is what we're going to be diving into today. |
| 1:17.0 | And I think firsthand, one of the biggest mistakes that I made when I thought in order to create a cozy and festive environment within my home for the holiday season, that the solution to that |
| 1:22.9 | was always to add more. And every year, I'd accumulate more things from Target, from wherever I |
| 1:30.2 | was shopping. And before I knew it, my collection of four and then six and then eight, right, |
| 1:35.6 | started to multiply all these bins every year. And I think probably at the height of my collection |
| 1:40.9 | was probably eight holiday bins worth of stuff. And one day, after |
| 1:46.2 | schlepping all those, first of all, I had to locate them in our basement, which is no easy feet. |
| 1:51.2 | If you know, you know, then I had to haul them up the stairs without trying to pull a hammy |
| 1:55.8 | and hurt myself tripping up the stairs. And every year it got more and more overwhelming. |
| 2:02.2 | And I remember I stood there ready to open all these bins and just shove all my decor in every nook and cranny of my |
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