Today, I want to talk about simplifying over the holidays, it's just simplifying your

life in general and I feel like a bit of a hypocrite because my life is pretty insane

right now.

Hey, Clutterbugs, welcome back to the Clutterbugs podcast, I don't want to complain to you guys,

but I shouldn't use you as a therapist, but the truth is this time of year stresses me

out so bad, it's a couple of weeks until Christmas and I'm never ready, I procrastinate, I

procrastinate so many things, it's also such a busy time of year for me because we have,

I think, 10 Christmas parties coming up in December, we have 42 people to buy for, most

of them are done thinking is but still it's like obnoxious amounts of people to buy for

and unfortunately all of these people purchase gifts for us, it's not like we can just not

get them anything, like I would feel like such a jerk, it's just a lot and because we

always take time off between Christmas and New Year's, I have to work twice as hard as

a kind of business owner, I guess, I have to have content prepared and edited and ready

ahead of time so that I have stuff to go out while I'm taking time off and after I've taken

the time off so things are ready to go and so I always feel really, really stressed out

this time of year and as a mom, as a woman, I don't know, maybe I'm being stereotypical

and I hate doing this but I do, I feel like a lot of making Christmas awesome for your

family falls on our shoulders, my shoulders, not that my husband isn't great, he is, he

tries but he wouldn't know what to get people, I'm the one who is puts the list together

and I'm like can you get your dad something and here's some ideas for him and I still end

up shopping for his sister and his brother and his nieces and nephews and his mom and his

grandparents and deciding what we get our kids every year and he has some input but most

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