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[00:00:00] Diana Rene: You're listening to the Decluttered Mom Podcast. A podcast built specifically for busy moms by a busy mom. I'm your host, Diana Renee, and in 2017 I had my second daughter and it felt like I was literally drowning in my home. Okay? Not literally, but I felt like I couldn't breathe with all of the stuff surrounding me over the next 10 months, I got rid of approximately 70% of our household belongings and I have never looked back. I kind of feel like I hacked the mom system and I'm here to share all the tips, tricks, and encouragement. Let's listen to today's show.

[00:00:50] Welcome to this episode of the Decluttered Mom Podcast Today I have a very special guest with me, Ms. Six. [00:01:00] 

[00:01:00] Miss 6: Say hi. Hi. 

[00:01:02] Diana Rene: So many of you know that I did an episode, um, a couple months ago with my oldest daughter and I'll, I'll link that below in the show notes if you wanna go back and listen to it. We got a lot of really good feedback, um, with moms playing it, with listening to it with their kids of similar ages, and it really helped their kids.

[00:01:23] And so hopefully you can go listen to that. But today, MS. Six is going to, Give us her best tips for organizing and decluttering, so, okay. How old are you? Six. Six. . Did you just turn six? Yeah. Holy moly. Mm-hmm. , how that happened? Yeah. , 

[00:01:48] Miss 6: my birthday. Your 

[00:01:50] Diana Rene: birthday. Okay. So if you had to. Other kids. Your best advice when it came to decluttering and organizing?

[00:01:59] What would be your [00:02:00] best advice? 

[00:02:02] Miss 6: My best advice is would it be your organizing? Kind of like stuffies. Oh, 

[00:02:10] Diana Rene: organize your stuffies. Mm-hmm. , how many stuff fees do you. . Probably like a million. A million. Are Stuffy's your most favorite important toy? Probably . Yeah. What? Which one's your favorite? I kind of have three 

[00:02:27] Miss 6: favorites.

[00:02:27] Okay. Foxy? Mm-hmm. , mommy, hippo, Uhhuh. . And Starlight. 

[00:02:35] Diana Rene: And Starlight. Yeah. Those are all very cute ones. Yeah. Uh, have you ever donated a stuffy before? 

[00:02:44] Miss 6: Yeah, it was very hard. . Was it 

[00:02:47] Diana Rene: hard? Yes. Is that the hardest thing to donate for you? Mm-hmm. . What are some toys that are easy to donate for you? 

[00:02:55] Miss 6: Probably like off my old toys and I'd play with a [00:03:00] lot and I don't really like at all anymore.

[00:03:03] Diana Rene: Yeah. Have you ever given, have you ever donated a toy? , uh, you did like still? 

[00:03:13] Miss 6: Well, ye well, I kinda did. I did it. It was very hard, but I found somebody else like, get it. Her name is Minnie Mouse and I donated it to my cousin. 

[00:03:29] Diana Rene: Oh yeah, you're right. . That was very kind of you, wasn't it? Miss Free. Yeah. miss three.

[00:03:36] Good job. For those of you who maybe are listening to this episode and you've never. Heard of me or the podcast before. Um, I don't share my kids' identities and so that's why we go by their ages. Um, but it can be kind of confusing for them because they don't hear that very much. So she's trying really hard not to say names.

[00:03:58] Mm-hmm. . Okay. [00:04:00] So let's talk about organizing stuffies. How do you organize your stuffies? Well, 

[00:04:06] Miss 6: oh, I kind, my mom got me a new basket thing. A net thing. And you put it by he and what you like in your room or like someone else? Shoe one you can put like of your favorite toys. Stuffies and I got one, but I don't hang out, so I mostly just put some by my bed.

[00:04:33] Or like a little bath. Well, we 

[00:04:35] Diana Rene: still have to hang that up, right? It's like a stuffy hammock kind of, isn't it? 

[00:04:39] Miss 6: Oh, a hammock foam. Me, right? . I don't 

[00:04:42] Diana Rene: think it'll holds you . 

[00:04:44] Miss 6: You think it would? Oh, I could put my big puppy in there. 

[00:04:48] Diana Rene: Oh yeah. That's a big puppy. I don't think so. Okay, so then when you're organizing your toys and you put different toys, [00:05:00] Where, where do you put your different toys?

[00:05:03] Miss 6: My different toys are literally just putting like little Jewel and my sister, um, miss nine. Mm-hmm. Lilly likes organizing and one time ized my closet and put in like all of my stuff. He's in a little basket. 

[00:05:25] Diana Rene: Yeah. Yeah. So you have a bunch. like drawers in your room, right? Mm-hmm. , I guess you could call them.

[00:05:33] They're those cube drawers. Yeah. What are some of the different drawers that you have? Do you have a Play-Doh drawer? 

[00:05:42] Miss 6: Well, yeah, I don't, it's not just apl. So Joel, I also can put like little things, play-doh slime. Okay. Or Connect 

[00:05:54] Diana Rene: Exam. You mean when you say Play-doh things, do you mean like the little tools for Play-Doh?

[00:05:59] [00:06:00] Yeah. Okay. Uh, and like, don't you have those Play-Doh stampers too? Yes. Okay. What other drawers do you. 

[00:06:08] Miss 6: Well, I also, another choice I have, I just have, I have a paper drawer to keep all my paper and I organize it for any week so I can see which ones I won't keep. You're right. And then, and I also got just a toy drawer so I can put like all my kind of toys in 

[00:06:31] Diana Rene: there.

[00:06:31] Yeah. You have a fidget drawer. Mm. Let me think. I'm trying to think about other drawers you have. Do you have a doll closed drawer? 

[00:06:42] Miss 6: Yeah. For my doll na name. 

[00:06:48] Diana Rene: You can, you can say no. You can say the doll name. Oh, Willa. Yeah. Willa . Um, and then you have a really big ginormous toy in your [00:07:00] room, right by your door.

[00:07:01] What is that? 

[00:07:04] Miss 6: A Barbie house. A Barbie house, and I got a lot of 

[00:07:08] Diana Rene: Barbies. Yep. And Barbie clothes and shoes 

[00:07:12] Miss 6: and, and the Barbie candy bags in my Barbie house. 

[00:07:15] Diana Rene: So where do you store all those tiny little Barbie pieces? 

[00:07:20] Miss 6: I store all the time. Little Barbie piece is in a big basket and it's pink. My favorite out.

[00:07:27] Diana Rene: Yeah. . And you just keep the basket right by your Barbie house. So it's right there to 

[00:07:32] Miss 6: play it. Yeah. So I don't have to just go 

[00:07:34] Diana Rene: and grab it. Does that work well? Yeah. Yeah. Um, when you, when you're in your room and it's just so messy and there's toys everywhere, how does that make you feel? Not good. Not good 

[00:07:48] Miss 6: because I also have clean today.

[00:07:50] I am getting clean my room. How are you? 

[00:07:53] Diana Rene: Yeah. When you walk into your room and it's super clean and all your toys are put away and organized, how [00:08:00] does that feel? Really good. Yeah. That's how mommy feels too. If I walk into a room that's messy, I feel a little overwhelmed. But if I walk into a room that's really clean and organized, it feels like.

[00:08:15] Miss 6: Huh? 

[00:08:17] Diana Rene: Like a nice deep breath. Mm-hmm. , do you think so? 

[00:08:20] Miss 6: Mm-hmm. . That's 

[00:08:21] Diana Rene: pretty cool, huh? Mm-hmm. , do you like donating your toys that you don't play with anymore to kids that don't have any toys? Yeah, I feel good. Yeah. and it's nice to get your room more organized then, right? 

[00:08:35] Miss 6: Mm-hmm. so and so, I'm say, and I'm kind of, so it's kinda organiz.

[00:08:43] It didn't kinda, no. So when I have, I'm gonna make a lemonade stand and it's, and I feel like I'm, when I'm do. And then I think when I'm going to do it, I think I'm going feel like organized cuz I'm gonna put it like everywhere I would [00:09:00] kinda wandering it 

[00:09:01] Diana Rene: feels like that. Well that's pretty cool. Mm-hmm.

[00:09:04] Okay. Is there any last things you wanna say about cleaning, decluttering, or organizing? 

[00:09:11] Miss 6: Probably.

[00:09:19] When you have a and your beds or nothing, make make sure, mainly like every mom's and you can organize your bed, organize your room, 

[00:09:32] Diana Rene: like make your bed. Yeah. Oh, that's a good. Okay. Well thank you so much for all of the ideas and the advice. Do you feel good about your, the advice that you gave? Yes. Is there any last thing you wanna say to any other kids listening?

[00:09:49] I 

[00:09:49] Diana Rene: love you

[00:09:54] I hope that was helpful. She was so excited to come on and she had some great ideas. [00:10:00] Please say hi to me on Instagram. I'd love to hear if this episode, um, if you enjoyed it or if you share it on your socials. Tag me please so I can see and say hi. Have a great rest of your week and we'll see you on next week's episode.

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