Welcome to A Slub Cams Clean, the podcast. I'm Dana K. White. I blog over it.

A Slub Cams Clean.com, that's where I share my personal deslubification process.

As I figure out ways to keep my own home under control, I share the truth about cleaning

and organizing strategies that actually work in real life for real people, people who don't

love cleaning and organizing. Thanks for joining me today. This is podcast number 178,

because I'm calling it decluttering for home remodeling. I'm just going to say it though.

I'm calling it that, but it's mostly because I don't... Here's the thing. I don't consider

what I'm doing to be remodeling, but then I'll mention it and somebody is like, that's

totally remodeling and I'm like, you know what? I think of remodeling as knocking down

walls and ripping out cabinets, but anyway, it's what I got. It's the word I could think

of. Anyway, what we are doing is getting the ceilings scraped in all of our rooms,

which is a huge pain in the high knee. Kids don't say high knee. Okay, unless your mom

says, okay, but just check with her. Anyway, it's a real pain to do that. We did not do it ourselves,

and I'll talk later about kind of how I decided that we were ready to do that and that we cared

enough to do it, because I hadn't cared enough to do it in the past, and why we had somebody do it,

instead of doing it ourselves, which is mostly because I didn't want to do it myself and it

ever would have happened. But anyway, I'll get into that. Then we also are having painting done,

did I say that? And new flooring. And everywhere except the bathrooms in the kitchen, which had

tile, because I'm okay with those tiles, but we got new carpet in the bedrooms and we're getting

new wood floors in not real wood, but anyway, new wood floors in the main areas, like the living

areas of the house. So that's what we're doing. And so, you know, we're not like ripping out the

kitchen and living out of a temporary kitchen for months. Did y'all know I have seen some different

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