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🗓️ 14 May 2025
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☀️ Ready for a calmer, lighter summer? Let’s make that happen—starting with your stuff.
If summer’s approaching and you’re already feeling behind—hello, cluttered counters, mystery sunscreen stash, and overflowing school papers—this episode is your roadmap to reset.
In this episode, I’m walking you through 5 specific things to declutter now that will make your summer feel easier, more peaceful, and way more manageable. No massive overhaul. No organizing binge. Just small, powerful wins that help you create the margin you’re craving.
Because here’s the truth: You don’t need more bins or a color-coded summer calendar.
You need space—for joy, rest, fun, and being present.
1️⃣ How to Clear the End-of-School-Year Dump Zone (Without Guilt)
Tired of stacks of artwork and random folders piling up? I’ll show you how to quickly process school papers—and how to make one decision that eliminates the overwhelm for good.
2️⃣ The Easy Way to Declutter Last Year’s Summer Gear
No more moldy towels, broken goggles, or expired sunscreen hanging around. Learn how to create a quick “maybe” bin to make decluttering painless and kid-friendly.
3️⃣ A 10-Minute Pantry Reset for Summer Sanity
Toss the stale snacks, organize your overflow, and create a grab-and-go summer snack bin your kids can actually use—without asking you 47 times a day.
4️⃣ How to Let Go of Your “Maybe Someday” Summer Projects
This is the pep talk you didn’t know you needed. You don’t have to organize your whole house or start a garden to have a meaningful summer. I’ll help you pick one thing—and release the rest with zero guilt.
5️⃣ Breaking Free from the Pressure to “Do Summer Right”
This one goes deep. I’m sharing what shifted for me when I gave up being the Pinterest-perfect fun mom and chose presence over performance.
💡 One Powerful Reminder from This Episode:
“Summer doesn’t need to be productive to be valuable. It just needs space to be what you need it to be.”
Pick one clutter zone we talked about—school paper piles, summer gear, or your pantry—and give yourself just 10 minutes to tackle it. Then pause, breathe, and soak in the difference it makes.
Share it with a friend who’s feeling summer stress before school even ends. And if you haven’t yet, be sure to subscribe so you never miss the simple mindset shifts and micro-wins that make a big impact.
Ready, Set, Simplify – bye!
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0:00.0 | I'm Katie Wells, host of the Maximized Minimalist podcast. I escape the hamster wheel of modern day |
0:08.6 | motherhood, overwhelmed by clutter and buried under the mental load. Now I live in a home that |
0:14.1 | feels calm, manageable, and made for real life. I have margin in my days, energy for who matters most, |
0:22.3 | and time for slow mornings and silly dance parties in the kitchen with my family. With over 5 million listens, |
0:27.4 | the show has helped women around the world turn their homes into their happy place. Around here, |
0:33.0 | we simplify for more peace, more presence, and more joy. We choose grace over guilt and progress |
0:39.4 | over perfection. And we believe your home should give back more than it takes. I'm here to help |
0:45.5 | you do the same. Come along with me and my guests as we share the real stories, habits, and strategies |
0:50.9 | that help you lighten the load from the inside out. Pull up a seat, friend, and let's do this together. |
0:56.6 | Ready, set, simplify. |
1:02.7 | Do you ever feel like you're rolling into summer already feeling behind when it comes to your home? |
1:08.3 | Maybe it's the school papers that haven't been sorted. |
1:10.9 | Maybe it's the pool bags and summer stuff that is MIA. And somehow the pantry still has |
1:17.0 | Valentine's Day candy in it. Yeah, I've totally been there too. So today I want to help |
1:22.1 | shift you out of that cycle and into a lighter, calmer, simpler summer. And we're going to walk through five specific |
1:28.7 | things you can declutter right now over the next week or two. That is going to make a huge |
1:33.3 | difference. I want to say absolutely for your summer, but even like even into the new school year |
1:38.1 | and for the rest of the year, you're going to be more peaceful. Your home's going to feel more |
1:41.6 | peaceful and so are you and just way more manageable. |
1:49.7 | And here's a thing. In true Katie fashion, we are simplifiers. This isn't about doing some big, |
1:54.1 | quote unquote, perfect, massive overhaul. You don't have to quit your job. You don't have to put the kids in summer camp for a week in order to do these things. These are about micro shifts, |
1:59.3 | low effort, high impact. This is what we do. And this is a great way to |
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