194: Game Organization (Replay)

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

🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Board games are meant to be fun, but the clutter, bulky boxes, and missing pieces can quickly turn them into a source of stress. This episode shares a simple, practical system to store games in a way that saves space and keeps everything together. It’s an easy shift that makes organizing feel lighter and more manageable. Sometimes small changes like this can bring the joy back into everyday moments. What we’re diving into: Why board games become such a frustrating category to orga...

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0:00.0	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,
0:23.7	but I felt like I couldn't breathe with all of the stuff surrounding me. Over the next 10 months,
0:30.4	I got rid of approximately 70% of our household belongings and I have never looked back.
0:39.6	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.
0:49.4	Today we're going to talk about a simple organizational system in your home that a lot of people
0:55.5	struggle with and a lot of people get really frustrated about. And I have a simple solution for you.
1:01.7	And that is board games. If you have kids that are at the age that they are playing a lot of board
1:08.6	games, which, FYI, side note, is such a fun age.
1:12.7	Like, I still remember the exact, like, moment when my kids were old enough to be able to,
1:19.4	like, actually, number one, understand, but number two, enjoy playing a board game.
1:25.8	And we just played as a whole family and it was so much fun.
1:30.9	And honestly, it's probably one of my favorite things to do with my kids who are now seven
1:35.6	and ten because it's just fun. They get it. It's, you know, entertaining. It is like a bonding
1:42.8	thing. And we just have a lot of fun together. And we have our
1:47.3	favorites. We have other games that like my seven year old loves that I don't really particularly
1:53.7	love. But usually I can get them to agree to play certain games that we all will enjoy. So I just remember when they were really
2:03.4	little and I really wanted them to be able to play board games and they just didn't get it,
2:07.4	obviously, because they were too little to get it. But it's just been really funs ever since they
2:12.2	did, you know, quote unquote get it. So board games tend to be something that frustrate a lot of people for a
2:19.5	couple of reasons. Number one, the boxes that board games come in are typically pretty big. And
2:25.1	sometimes they need to be that big. And sometimes or a lot of times they really don't need to be
2:29.9	that big. And so they take up a lot of space, especially if you enjoy playing board games. And so you
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