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The Mom Hour

Decluttering Your Home For The Weirdest Fall Season Ever: Voices 52 With Mandy Yang

The Mom Hour

Mom Hour Media

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Back-to-school season usually means a refreshing change of schedule and, for many parents, fewer hours with kids in the house. This year, the way we use our homes for school, work, and leisure look very different–but that doesn’t mean we can’t harness some of that familiar fall energy and tackle clutter in a new way for a new reality. Join Sarah and longtime listener/community member Mandy Yang for a look at how the Konmari method of decluttering can serve us as we set up our homes for one of the stranger seasons in memory. We talk about repurposing items you already own, how to help kids part with their “treasures,” and why the Konmari method is so often misunderstood. Check it out!

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Sarah. And I'm Megan. We're two moms with eight kids between us from little to

0:05.7

grown. We're in different areas of the country and in different stages of life. But we both know that

0:10.5

motherhood's a lot easier when real moms share tips and encouragement.

0:14.0

And remind you that it's really all going to be okay.

0:16.4

We're not experts. We're parents who've been there.

0:18.6

We're not perfect. We're real.

0:20.4

Welcome to the mom hour.

0:22.0

Hey everyone and welcome to the Mom Hour. Hey everyone and welcome to the Mom Hour.

0:25.0

I'm Sarah Powers and you are listening to the September 20 episode in our Voices

0:30.0

Interview Series.

0:31.0

So if you're new around here here Megan and I take turns each month

0:34.0

bringing you a conversation with someone whose expertise is in an area that you know we

0:38.4

don't personally know a lot about or in today's case the topic is something I think most moms think a lot about but maybe

0:45.3

don't have as many tricks up their sleeves to tackle as my guest and that is

0:49.2

clutter and decluttering. I am talking with Mandy Yang today. Mandy is a mom of three girls

0:54.6

ages six to 14 and in addition to her work as a social worker she helps people

0:59.3

declutter their homes using the Kanmari method. Mandy and I will talk more about what Kudmari is and what it isn't, so if you already feel lost,

1:07.2

don't worry.

1:08.2

But I was so excited to bring her on today because first of all, she is a listener of the

1:11.8

podcast from way back, and that is how she came on my radar.

1:16.2

You know as much as we can Megan and I try to follow our regular listeners and their motherhood

1:20.3

journeys and their career journeys.

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