Welcome to A Slob Cams Clean, the podcast. I'm Dana Kay White. I blog over at A Slob CamsClean.com.

That's where I share my personal deslabification 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 188.

I'm calling it, I think, but what about cleaning and decluttering in the midst of life? This is a follow-up podcast to last week.

Last week, I talked about how I do or don't do it all in podcast number 187.

In that podcast, I went through what my typical week looks like, what my typical day looks like,

how I view what I have to do according to by the week as opposed to by the day,

now I block off different days for different things, and just how I prioritize and stuff like that.

That had been the question. But then I realized, because I think somebody, one of y'all said,

oh, yeah, this is the question I just sent. I'm like, what? Oh, yes, there was a question that somebody had sent me.

I think it was actually after I had recorded it about, I hadn't put it out yet, about how do I fit decluttering in when I am so incredibly busy and exhausted all the time.

I realized, yeah, I think I casually mentioned about, you know, and doing the dishes, blah, blah, blah, laundry, whatever.

But the reality was that was not the focus of that one. That was more the focus of just getting life in all the responsibilities and all the different things that I do,

not talking about cleaning and decluttering. So this week, I'm going to talk about fitting the cleaning and decluttering in around those things.

And what's funny to me, or not funny, or just reality, and let me just think about it for a minute, is, you know, that's how we operate, right?

That's how I operate. That is me. When I talk about, what do you do with your life? I mean, I'm not like, well, every day I do the dishes.

I mean, y'all think I do that because that's how you know me as this crazy job, where that is what I talk about.

But like in normal life, it never occurs to me when we're talking about, oh, so, you know, how do you spend your days? Well, I spend my days doing the dish,

running the dishwasher every night, whatever. No, I mean, it's like, I think about all this stuff, like, this is going to, I don't mean this the wrong way,

but, you know, quote unquote, real stuff that I do, like stuff that I care about, stuff that matters.

And I feel like that's part of my issue is when I think about, what do I do? What do I have to do?

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