Keep the Memories, Lose the Stuff with Matt Paxton

The Minimal Mom

Dawn Madsen

Self-improvement, Education:how To, Education, How To

4.8 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Are you struggling to downsize a home filled with memories? Does the fear and guilt of purging family keepsakes keep you from decluttering? In this episode, Matt Paxton shares helpful insight on how to discern what heirlooms are worth keeping, and what to do with the rest. IN THIS EPISODE: -helping loved ones dealing with hoarding -the most misunderstood thing about hoarders -dealing with the guilt of stuff -how does this actually work? About Matt Matt Paxton is a downsizing and cleaning expert, speaker, author, radio personality, and host of the 2-time Emmy nominated television show Legacy List with Matt Paxton. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODEKeep the Memories, Lose the Stuff by Matt Paxton: https://amzn.to/3I3zOQJ More info about Legacy List: https://www.mylegacylist.com/ Save the stories with Artifacts: https://artifcts.com/ Minimalism for Families by Zoë Kim https://amzn.to/4867IyC Zoë Kim’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/raisingsimple/?hl=enWelcome to The Official Minimal Mom Podcast. Thank you so much for listening and could I ask a favor? Would you mind following? It helps podcast apps recommend this podcast to more friends. Thank you! Dawn

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0:00.0	We want to hear the stories.
0:01.3	We want, but we don't want the stuff.
0:03.1	Like, don't overwhelm us with all of your old, smelly, broken things.
0:07.3	After the adult children have taken everything they want, and you've taken what you want
0:11.1	to move to senior living, guess the amount.
0:15.2	What?
0:15.9	A whole life of stuff.
0:17.9	What do you think is going to happen with all this stuff?
0:20.5	Like, my generation doesn't want it.
0:22.3	Where is this stuff going to go? Like, what's going to happen with it?
0:24.7	Welcome to the Minimal Mom podcast. Don reaches a million women each month with practical tips to
0:30.7	simplify your home. Today, Don is joined by Matt Paxton, one of the top downsizing and decluttering
0:36.8	experts in the country.
0:38.3	He is the host of the two-time Emmy-nominated TV series Legacy List and was a featured cleaner
0:43.9	on the hit television show Horders for 15 seasons. Matt is also the author of the best-selling
0:49.2	book, Keep the Memories, Lose the Stuff. He appears regularly as a public speaker, television host,
0:55.5	and radio personality, helping families and companies find the upside of downsizing.
1:00.6	Well, Matt, I think, I mean, you're obviously well known from the show Horders. Maybe you're
1:03.9	tired of that affiliation by now, maybe not. Your new show legacy list, though, is super cool.
1:12.1	So we're going to talk about, you're going to help us through sentimental stuff today but first how does a 30-something-year-old man get on the hoarders show like
1:19.8	how did that all come about so you're going to laugh right i cleaned houses for gosh five i cleaned
1:26.3	hoarded houses like that's it.
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