254: Real Talk on Family, Clutter, and Compromise with My Husband Andrew
Maximized Minimalist Podcast
Katy Wells
4.8 • 879 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Join my husband Andrew and I as we dive deep into decluttering together! From his early days of hesitance to now being all-in, we explore how clearing out the clutter has reshaped our home and our relationship.
In this episode:
- Hear how Andrew went from skeptical to a decluttering devotee and what sparked that change.
- We get real about the ups and downs of deciding what stays and what goes—yes, it gets emotional, but it’s all about growing together!
- Andrew shares his journey with those sentimental items that are tough to tackle.
- Discover the unexpected joys and benefits decluttering has brought to our family life.
- Grab some tips from our own experiences on how you and your partner can start your decluttering adventure on the right foot.
Join us for a fun, honest, and super relatable chat that’s packed with stories and tips to help you and your partner tackle decluttering head-on. Tune in now to see how a little less clutter could mean a lot more joy for you both!
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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. |
| 0:29.6 | It is Andrew, my husband, back on the show. Hello, Andrew. Hi, thanks for having me back. |
| 0:36.5 | How are you this morning? Doing well. I'm excited to be back on the |
| 0:39.9 | podcast. I'm a little nervous because I haven't been on a long time. My thinking was maybe I didn't do a |
| 0:45.1 | great job, but I'm glad I got a second chance. I'll give you a second chance. Okay, well, I pulled |
| 0:52.0 | my Instagram audience and got some really fun questions. I'm excited to ask you |
| 0:56.2 | today. I'm really curious how you're going to answer some of these because I almost think we're |
| 1:01.7 | going to answer an opposite way, but that's the beauty of husband and wives and partnerships. |
| 1:07.4 | And we'll see if we align in some of these. I'm sure we will. I just got this list of |
| 1:12.2 | questions about five minutes ago too. Some of them were really good questions and thought-provoking. |
| 1:17.8 | So hopefully I can, I'm excited to answer these. And they're really good questions from your group. |
| 1:22.5 | Yeah, put you on the spot a little bit. But I think that makes it more interesting. |
| 1:25.9 | Okay, so we're going to dive in. |
| 1:34.6 | Dana asked, were you always on board with decluttering? And if not, when and why did you get on board? |
| 1:42.0 | This was a good one. I had to give this one three minutes of thought. Three out of the five, |
| 1:46.6 | went to one question. 60% was on this one. And I had to think about it. |
| 1:53.7 | And I think, yes, I think I was always on board, but I think there is kind of a gradient of how much I've been on board. So in the beginning, I remember being very open to it and ready to do |
| 1:59.7 | it, but not like full throttle, not where |
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