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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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An open kitchen drawer filled with utensils and small tools (Unsplash photo by Orgalux).
Left: the Instagram reel cover from wildthoughts_podcast showing a woman with curly hair in a black headband in a parked car. Right: a white bed with a tufted headboard seen through an open bedroom door (Unsplash photo by Lisa Anna).
A football player in a blue number 5 jersey and helmet, seen from behind at sunset.
A yellow vinyl record with an orange label lying on a purple, pink and black background with another translucent record behind it.
Left: TikTok still of a hand holding a worn, stained scrubbing pad over a sink. Right: a pile of colorful plastic toys (Unsplash photo by Nareeta Martin).
Pink and clear glassware displayed on a wooden shelf (Unsplash photo by Loo Dalla Costa).
Two moments from an Instagram reel under the text 'What is it like to be a mother???': a mom standing in a kitchen with a teenage boy and a young boy, then the mom holding the young boy.
A room with wooden furniture and a painting on the wall (Unsplash photo by Theo Lonic).
Left: TikTok still of a pink, toy-filled playroom with a child playing on the floor. Right: a small white toddler bed with a mesh canopy against a pink wall (Unsplash photo by Sven Brandsma).