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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 @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

Split image with the cover of @morethanfarmers's TikTok video, where a woman in a plaid shirt stands in front of floor-to-ceiling wooden shelves of home-canned jars, with the words THINGS I DON'T, on the left and an Unsplash photo by Steven Ungermann on the right showing a row of glass jars filled with different foods on shelves

Split image with the cover of @itsreallycarly's TikTok video, where a woman sits on an unmade bed with a laundry basket and clothes beside her, under the words DAY 1 cleaning every square inch of my house until I become a type A person, on the left and an Unsplash photo by MChe Lee on the right showing a rumpled white bed with pillows beside a wooden nightstand in a sunlit room

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Toddler playing with soft foam blocks

Family talking in a kitchen