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. Welcome to another episode of the decluttered mom podcast. Today I wanted to share a tip that is something that I used to do and I didn't for a long time because it wasn't really working in a different season for our family. But now it's starting to work again in this season of our family. And so I wanted to

share what this tip is and how it can really help you. It's going to sound very, very simple.

Maybe you've done it before, or maybe you're going to be like me when I first heard about this,

gosh, almost 10 years ago now at a mom's group that I went to when my oldest was a baby. And the first time I heard it,

I was like, wow, that, like, why didn't I think of that? And so maybe that's you.

Wherever you are in that spectrum,

I hope today is helpful for you as we just figure out this really simple system that you can

implement in your home like immediately. And that system is to have meal bins in your fridge and in your pantry. And what I mean by that is just to have

simple containers. What I used to use was just those, oh gosh, I'm going to blank on the name,

it's just like the plastic containers that look like shoeboxes. Like they're about the size of a shoebox.

They're plastic. At Target, they used to be $1. I'm sure they are not $1 anymore. But those are what I

used to use. Now I use containers that I have from the container store that are similar in size, a tiny bit bigger,

and they are a tiny bit taller, which is helpful for me. So what I use these bins for is when

I meal plan for the week, I put everything for each meal into one bin. So instead of just putting all of the groceries into the fridge,

all of the groceries into the pantry, I have meal bins in both the fridge and the pantry.

And each meal, I don't do days of the week because I don't pre-plan what days are going to have which meals.

Like, it's not like Monday, lasagna, Tuesday, tacos, Wednesday. You know what I mean?

Because I have ADHD and I will plan something for a specific day and then that day comes and I either,

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