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

That's where I share my personal deslapification 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 or even like cleaning and organizing.

Thanks for joining me today. This is podcast number 197. I'm calling it...

I think I'm calling it decluttering steps are there when you need them.

I'm going to be talking about who needs the steps and when to use them.

I'm going to be telling a story when I use them. Because if I hadn't used them, I would just have been completely paralyzed.

I still would be over the Christmas holidays.

Anyway, so I'm going to tell that story and just kind of talk about how we're all different.

We don't necessarily need the same things. But anyway, blah, blah, blah. That's what I'm going to talk about.

Before I get into that, I want to make sure you know that through the end of January, my video course where I demonstrate and explain so you can visually see exactly how my process works.

My decluttering process works. My video course, the five-day clutter shake down, is on sale with the code New Year 19, which I'm going to put in the show notes for you.

Anyway, for $15 off through the end of January. That makes it $25.

Okay. What are we talking about today?

I wrote a post. I mean, I had things set up to go over the Christmas holiday. But then one morning, I think it was maybe January 2, or something like that.

I just kind of wrote out a post and I do that every once in a while when it's just something I just have to say, you know, I try to work ahead and all that kind of stuff to keep things manageable and under control.

But every once in a while, this happens. And the post was about how I don't do decluttering challenges, meaning I don't host them.

So I am somehow some way known on the internet as a decluttering expert, which I will own that. I always feel strange when people say a cleaning expert, because then people start asking me questions like, how do you get this such a stay out of this?

And I'm like, don't ask me if no idea.

But I am a decluttering expert. I mean, that's where I feel like that is my powerhouse. That's where I know what exactly what to do because I've had to do it in my own home because I have had to clear out huge amounts of clutter.

More than any human being should have huge amounts of clutter in my own home, working through my own, you know, emotional hang ups and all that kind of stuff. So that's where I own my expertise. All right.

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