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About Me
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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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Split image with the cover of @pomegranateblvd's TikTok video, where a woman with dark hair in a navy collared uniform talks from a car with one hand raised, on the left and an Unsplash photo by Vitor Paladini on the right showing a brown wooden table with chairs
Split image with the cover of @reviskitchenn's TikTok video, where a woman stands behind a counter covered with canned goods, jars, boxes and pouches of meal-kit ingredients, on the left and an Unsplash photo by Jacob McGowin on the right showing a pile of canned food from a food bank
This Mom Of Four Boys Sorts Laundry Into One Basket Per Person While The Big Boys Fold Their Own And The Little Boys Skip Folding Altogether Plus Eight Loner Socks
Split image with the cover of @annaxmarii's TikTok video, where a woman with long hair and glasses sits on a plastic bin in a room full of cardboard boxes under the words decluttering series part 42, on the left and an Unsplash photo by Alicia Christin Gerald on the right showing a room with cardboard boxes and a window
Split image with the cover of @pennecircus's TikTok video, where a woman with glasses and an arm tattoo talks to the camera from the seat of a vehicle, on the left and an Unsplash photo by David B Townsend on the right showing a quiche baked in a black iron skillet
Split image with the cover of @kim_and_travis's TikTok video, where a woman in a gray sweatshirt looks down at paper under the words Family of 5 grocery budget 175-200 every 2 weeks and a pink box reading How we got our grocery budget under control, on the left and an Unsplash photo by Microsoft Copilot on the right showing a carton of brown eggs on a kitchen counter
Split image with the cover of @cozypinguino's TikTok video, where a woman with long wavy hair in a floral top talks to the camera under the words I was hired to work at, on the left and an Unsplash photo by Oxana Melis on the right showing a store aisle with shelves full of items
Split image with the cover of @keepingupwlaci's TikTok video, where a woman in a yellow dress stands in front of a Sabre fifth-wheel RV on a concrete pad under the words What it actually cost us to live full-time in an RV this month, on the left and an Unsplash photo by Lance Anderson on the right showing a white and blue retro RV trailer parked on a green grass field under a blue sky
Split image with the cover of @chloeoberlechner's TikTok video, where a woman in a car holds a fan of cash while a young girl writes beside her, under the words $100 budget grocery shopping for a fam of 5, menu + grocery list @ the end, on the left and an Unsplash photo by Bruno Kelzer on the right showing a grey shopping cart