196: THIS Is What Can Happen When You Declutter
Maximized Minimalist Podcast
Katy Wells
4.8 • 936 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Most people think the way they "pay" for stuff is ONLY with their hard-earned cash...
The mistake is when they think the story ends there. That they STOP "paying" after they swipe their credit card.
The unpopular truth?
We pay for our stuff in LOTS of ways other than monetarily...
Listen in to learn about the five ways that you're paying for your stuff - it will empower you to let go. Stay the course. Continue to simplify. And add fuel to your simplicity's fire. 🔥👏
xx Katy
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Transcript
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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. |
| 0:29.8 | Decluttering is tough work. There's no question about it. And when you're already feeling |
| 0:33.9 | overwhelmed and exhausted, the last thing you want to do is add more work to your |
| 0:38.2 | already full plate. I get it. But the truth is that decluttering can change your life in such |
| 0:43.9 | profound ways. In today's conversation, I want to talk about what you can expect to see happen |
| 0:49.5 | when you start decluttering. But first, I want to share, and I want you to take this away and try |
| 0:56.2 | your darndest to remember it, is that stuff is not passive. Clutter is not passive and it is much |
| 1:04.5 | larger than just piles of stuff taking up space in your home. We continue to pay for things in numerous ways |
| 1:12.6 | long after we swipe our credit card and way outside of just monetary means. Obviously, we pay for |
| 1:19.5 | things monetarily. You know, we bring things into our house. We impulse shop. Some of it's |
| 1:23.6 | intentional. But regardless, all of us can understand that, yep, that's one way we pay for our things and for our clutter. But one thing most people don't think about is it's intentional, but regardless, all of us can understand that, yep, that's one way we pay for |
| 1:27.9 | our things and for our clutter. But one thing most people don't think about is it's actually |
| 1:31.7 | costing you to hang on to that stuff too, because on average, it costs $10 a square foot |
| 1:36.9 | to store something in your home. So not being able to find the time or deciding that decluttering |
| 1:43.9 | is just going to be too much work. |
| 1:45.3 | Well, it's costing you to hang on to that stuff and costing you to walk past those piles of |
| 1:50.4 | clutter every day and procrastinate about it. So don't underestimate what it's really costing |
| 1:55.4 | you to hang on to these things. And dare I say, for those of you out there who have a storage |
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