179: Get Overwhelmed with Holiday Gifts? Try These 7 Tips!
Maximized Minimalist Podcast
Katy Wells
4.8 • 936 Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
While the initial excitement from opening all the gifts can be fun, sometimes the aftermath is something nobody really talks about..that is, until today. I hope you love this episode where I share some of my tried and true tips to simplify holiday gifts!
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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. |
| 0:29.4 | Hey friend, welcome back. Between wrapping paper, bows, and gift boxes, you might already be feeling |
| 0:35.3 | a little cluttered with gifting. And we haven't even talked about |
| 0:38.8 | the actual gifts yet. But holiday gifts don't have to be something that turns into this big |
| 0:44.5 | clutter trap. Instead, you can approach gifting and gift receiving with simplicity in mind this year. |
| 0:51.9 | And boy, oh boy, I hope you do. This topic has been popularly |
| 0:56.3 | requested this year. And I'm really excited to be sharing some different ways to end holiday |
| 1:01.7 | gift overwhelm. And here's the thing. While the initial excitement from opening all the |
| 1:06.5 | gifts can be just awesome, sometimes the aftermath is rarely discussed. I usually talk about it around the |
| 1:13.2 | holidays, but I think it's important to note you are not alone if you've ever thought these thoughts |
| 1:17.9 | before, during, or after holiday gift opening. Like this, where the heck am I going to put all this |
| 1:24.5 | new stuff? Or, oh my gosh, I don't even have space for this. Like, I don't even |
| 1:29.4 | know. What am I going to do with it? Or maybe you're thinking, we already had too many toys before the |
| 1:35.8 | holidays and now we have like 50 more. I'm so overwhelmed. I don't know what to do. You also could be |
| 1:42.8 | thinking, oh my gosh, toy pickup is going to be a thousand |
| 1:45.5 | times harder. My kids aren't going to pick this up. Or maybe you're thinking, oh my gosh, not another toy |
| 1:50.9 | with a million little pieces. And like, no. Or maybe you're just saying like, generally speaking, |
| 1:57.9 | like, oh, the house is going to be so much messier now. I don't know where to put this stuff, right? |
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