Welcome to a Slabkems Clean, the podcast I am Dana K. White.

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'm also the author

of several books, including decluttering at the speed of life. If you want the whole laid out,

clearly and logically and with the use of extensive editing,

process of decluttering and changing your mindset and all that, that's where you should go.

Decluttering at the speed of life. So you can find that wherever books are sold. Okay,

this is podcast number 377 and I think I'm going to call it knowing the path when you can't

predict the future. Y'all, those of us who struggle with clutter, those of us who tend more to

ward the messy and out of control home when left to our own devices or when going naturally,

our tendency. So I'm saying hours, speaking as one of those who tends to struggle with clutter,

right? Like that is my natural tendency. My tendency is to want to predict the future.

I want to keep stuff for future projects, things that I might want to do someday or things that I

do want to do someday. And then something comes along my path that would be helpful in this situation

of something I want to do in the future either I want to fix something I want to create something.

I think I might want to fix or create something. So for whatever future project, I want to keep

stuff for that. I want to keep stuff for future scarcity. Like what if I don't have this in the

future? What if I can't find this exact thing in the future? What if I can't find this exact thing

for this amazing price, which the most amazing price of all is free, right? That's part of my

issue is that I was always wanting to bring stuff into my house simply because it was free, because

what if I wanted this in the future and it wasn't available to me for free anymore? Or what if it just

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