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

aslobcamsclean.com. That's where I share my personal deslabification process.

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

cleaning and organizing strategies that actually work in real life for real

people, people who may not love cleaning and organizing. This is podcast number 219

and I think I'm going to call it downsizing the slow way part 1 or the

beginning or something like that. This is a big subject. Like downsizing is kind

of the culmination of any and all stuff issues from your entire life. So I know

there are people who listen to this who are personally in the midst of

downsizing themselves, well I mean not like themselves but their stuff. But they're

personally in the midst of downsizing and all of this I hope will be helpful for you.

I'm actually coming at it more from the perspective of when you're the person

knowing what's coming, maybe even more than the person who is in the situation

that you're trying to help. So I'm more coming from the perspective of helping a family member.

Because and there's we talked last week in the last podcast about wishing someone

else would declutter and the whole reason that I did that one was it's a weird

situation to be in. It just is. I mean let's all flip the script and think about when somebody

else thinks that they know better what to do with our lives and our homes and our stuff

and everything than we do. Yeah I don't like it and nobody does. So there you know we have to

get that mentality right of you know what right do we have what's the realistic expectations that

we can have of someone else which is basically nothing we can't have expectations of anybody.

But you know what where are we coming from and all that. So today we're going to talk about kind

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