Welcome to Aselab-Kemps clean, the podcast. I'm Dana K. White. I blog over at Aselab-Kemps-Clean.com.

That's where I share my personal deselabification 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 for real people in real life who don't actually like cleaning and organizing.

Thanks for joining me today. This is podcast number 195.

I'm calling it, how to stop shopping? Actually, no, I changed my mind. How to stop cluttering?

Yes. Which also goes with how to stop shopping when you're overwhelmed with your stuff.

Before we get to that, though, I want to make sure you guys know. We are in, like this is coming out during the biggest decluttering week of the entire year.

If you're new around here, you've already heard me make a mistake. You already know what you're getting into. Let me just tell you, for all of you, that my video course, the 5-day clutter shake down,

which I wish I would have named the 5-step clutter shake down because sometimes people think they need 5 actual days to set aside to do it. You don't. You can implement these strategies in 5 minutes if you want to.

Anyway, the 5-day clutter shake down is on sale for this week right now when this podcast is coming out December 26th through December 31st of 2018.

It's half price, which makes it $20. The normal price is 40. Anyway, it makes it $20 with the code decleter mania.

I'll have it in the show notes in case you're like, how do you spell that? Anyway, all one word.

And then if you're listening to this in January, but that one has gone, you can take off $15 making it $25 with the code New Year 19, all one word.

Okay, so, but we're talking about how to stop cluttering because cluttering is the bringing in of stuff.

Now, the reality is that as long as you're living, you're probably going to be bringing in some stuff. I mean, you know, especially when you have kids, right?

Because kids are, I mean, it's shocking how quickly they move from one phase to the next. You know, as you get a little bit older, as the kids get older, it goes, you know, they don't quite go from stage to stage, but you all know when, especially when they're toddlers.

I mean, the perfect toy now in six months, well, they've outgrown it, you know, or the perfect clothes, obviously.

But as long as you're living, there is going to be stuff coming into your home. And so it's going to be a constant process of decluttering.

However, to achieve the actual equilibrium, is that the right word? I don't know. Anyway, to achieve this actual like maintainable, this, my house is under my clutter threshold, which I have another podcast on that.

But if that is my goal, then there has to be a slowing down. If clutter is your problem, if you've been living over your clutter threshold, then there has to be a slowing down and ultimate, hopefully stopping of the actual cluttering.

And so let me talk about the difference between bringing stuff in because life happens and the natural process of having to declutter that eventually.

Versus bringing stuff in that is putting me over my clutter threshold. Again, my clutter threshold, I'll just say real quick, is the point at which I have more stuff than I can keep under control.

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