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Madison Cates

Mom, Wife, Minimalist.

Join me in my journey to declutter my life and live a simply beautiful life.

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Homeschool Mom of Six Skips Desk Work Every Friday and Marches All Six Kids to the Library Where One Ends It With a Full Meltdown
Newlywed Mom Keeps Her New Husband Living at His Own House on Workdays So Her Teen Daughters Can Adjust and Grandma Is Thrilled
Mom Shares the Five Things She Wishes She Had Known Before Becoming a Mother Including Why Toddlers Are Harder
Woman's One Hundred Year Old Mother Clears Out Her Things Almost Every Week and Hands Them Over and This Week
Dresser Flipper Who Has Restored Over Three Hundred of Them Takes Fifty Dollars to a Thrift Store and Shows Wh
Woman Decluttering Her House Before a Move Draws a Number From One Bucket and a Room From Another to Decide Ex
Reseller Who Says Thrift Flipping Helped Pay Off Thirty Thousand Dollars of Credit Card Debt Shows One Week Th
Day Seven of Getting an Entire House Hibernation Clean Takes a Mom Into the Closet Where Cheerios and Importan
Reseller Buys Six Salty Crew Shirts for Six Dollars Total at a Yard Sale and Plans to List Them Online for Abo