Welcome to A Slob Kim's Clean, the podcast. I'm Dana K. White. I blog over at

aslobkimzclean.com. That's where I share my personal

deslobification 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. I do apologize for the sound. You guys, I still haven't

found my microphone. I've been using my sons, like your phones that have a little

mic attached the last couple of weeks. And now for some reason those aren't working.

Anyway, I do not know what amazingly smart thing I did with my microphone when I

needed to move it out of the first place where I would look for it all the time

over and over. I've always had it in the same place. Anyway, but in the whole

moving of things from one room to another while getting painting and floors and

ceiling scraped and all that kind of stuff, then that is something that just has

disappeared. Which is embarrassing, but whatever. I'm sorry, I will order another one

today. So hopefully I'll have a better one next week. Anyway, okay, so I am talking

today about there's no right or wrong way to declutter. Let me just explain

kind of where this is coming from. So I shared a story on the blog and this week about

using my strategy of using something. Okay, like that's a strategy that I know. It's

like really that's a strategy. But it's one of those things that I have had to mentally

talk myself through and go, I if this sits in a cabinet or if it sits in a pile or it sits

somewhere and it's just sitting there and either because I just for some weird reason I've

never gotten around to using it or because oh, it's sentimental and so it sits there but it

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