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 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.

I'll say the author of two books, How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind. I recommend

that for anyone who feels completely overwhelmed in their home. I can't keep up with the day-to-day.

What is wrong with me? Oh, my word. I feel like I'm losing my mind. Yeah. That's the one

you need. Dails with routines and dishes and laundry and all the things that seemed like

this big, unsolvable puzzle to me once upon a time. I had to figure out the very hard way.

I've told you what I figured out. What are the absolute most essential things that I have

to do to keep my house from becoming a disaster again and again and again. Anyway, so that

is that one. Then decluttering at the speed of life is all about decluttering. Take it

through your house, my five-step process, applying it to the different spaces in your home,

and also different relationships in your life. Those are available wherever books are sold

in whatever format you like to read or listen to books. Go check those out at uslubcamsclean.com

slash books. I am talking today. This is podcast number 221. I am talking about why do

some organizing solutions work for some people and film miserably for others. I am taking

a little bit of a break from the last couple of podcasts. I think it's been three podcasts

now that I've been talking about specifically downsizing, helping older relatives who are

moving into assisted living or at some point are going to be moving into assisted living,

that kind of thing. I've been talking through that partly the mindset of what gives you

the right and how to even approach it when it's something that's so scary to approach

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