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.

Today we're going to talk about a couple of things.

We're going to talk about a study, but we're also going to talk about an action step that you can take today in your home that will make you feel better. So there was a study

done in the early 2000s in L.A. And it was trying to identify kind of what clutter was in different types of homes,

different types of families, what types of consumer possessions did they have and at what level.

And something interesting that they discovered as they were conducting this study is that

the level of items or stuff or things

on the front of their refrigerator was really, really telling on the rest of their home.

And what I mean by that is if they had a ton of stuff on their fridge, they tended to have a ton of

stuff in their home, a lot of clutter. And if they had like a totally clean fridge or not very many

things on the fridge, then they tended to have less items in their home. It was just more tidy

overall or less clutter. So they averaged it out. Okay. And the homes that

had the highest amount on their fridge, the average was 80 items on display. And we're talking about

things like magnets and photos and invitations and save the dates and baby announcements and calendars and all of the

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