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🗓️ 14 May 2024
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Does it ever feel like you are running out of space, because you have so much stuff sometimes? Courtney Ellis tells Jim Daly how she's struggled with this very thing as a mom of young kids. Plus, John and Danny will encourage you why taking little steps can go a long way in living a more organized life.
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| 0:00.0 | It happens something like this. The kids are small and you buy a little toy for them and another |
| 0:08.0 | toy and grandparents buy toys and pretty soon you've got a closet fold. No, a mountain of stuff. How did that happen? I'm John |
| 0:16.4 | Fuller joined by the head of our parenting department Dr Danny Werta and |
| 0:19.8 | Danny. This is a pretty common scenario. We've got stuff on top of our stuff and it's all our kids stuff. |
| 0:26.3 | It accumulates like a blizzard, right? I mean it really comes. We've had our moments in our family. I remember going to our basement, unfinished basement, |
| 0:36.7 | we were getting ready to finish it. And just seeing how many things we had accumulated. |
| 0:42.8 | It's just, it's incredible how things accumulate. |
| 0:45.9 | Once you have children and gifts come in and if you don't clear them out, |
| 0:49.6 | they will continue to be there, right? |
| 0:52.2 | They don't just walk away yeah they collect |
| 0:54.7 | and it takes time to sort through things and really for us when we were cleaning |
| 0:59.7 | things out there are emotional emotional, mixed emotions where you're, it felt so good to clear things |
| 1:06.8 | out, give them away, just clear clutter out. It just felt so good. At the same time, many things brought back memories. |
| 1:14.3 | We're going, well, do we really want to get rid of that? |
| 1:16.4 | Should we save it? |
| 1:17.8 | And you have to come in with a mindset |
| 1:19.5 | that you're freeing yourself of some things |
| 1:22.3 | that are taking up room and taking up even emotional |
| 1:26.1 | room you don't realize how much clutter clutters up your emotions as well it creates a |
| 1:32.3 | stressful feel you don't feel relaxed in your own home, and once |
| 1:36.3 | you clear that out it gives space for you to feel peacefulness and be relaxed. And we felt that. |
| 1:42.7 | We cleared out, I think it must have been two truckloads, |
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