385: Clutter and My Hero Complex

A Slob Comes Clean

Dana K White

Declutter, To, Home, Messy, Routines, Housekeeping, Clean, Cleaning, How, Organizing, Kids & Family, Decluttering, A, House

4.7 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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I've realized that a lot of the things I held onto "just in case" were things I envisioned saving the day. Won't I be glad I had that? Won't everyone ooh and aah if I end up already having the very thing we needed in that dire situation that could possibly happen one day? I've found this to be common in a lot of us who struggle with clutter. We like dramatic stories and we love to be the hero in those dramatic stories. But when we keep so much stuff that we can't actually find the thing when we finally need it, heroism turns into a hero complex.

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0:00.0	Hi y'all, it's Dana. If you're listening to older episodes, I am coming to you from the future.
0:04.8	September of 2023 to be exact. I want to be sure you hear the news that the Take Your Houseback
0:10.3	course is on sale through September 20th for $94. I'm so proud of this course that I created with
0:16.2	Dawn from the minimal mom and cast from Clutterbug who are both fantastic YouTubers. Y'all, the
0:21.2	changes course members have made in their homes is truly amazing. If you want to learn more to see
0:26.9	if it's an investment that makes sense for you, go to aslabcomesclean.com slash take to learn more.
0:34.0	Now back to our regularly scheduled programming. Welcome to Aslab Comes Clean, the podcast. I am
0:40.0	Dana K. White. I share my personal deslabification process as I figure out my own weight. How do I normally
0:47.2	say that? As I figure out how to keep my own home under control, I share the truth about cleaning
0:53.4	and organizing strategies that actually work in real life for real people, people who don't love
0:58.4	cleaning and organizing. Thanks for joining me today. This is podcast number 385 and I'm calling it
1:05.4	Clutter and my Hero Complex. Yeah, there's a relationship there between my desire to be the hero
1:14.7	in a given situation, whether it's my own situation or someone else's situation,
1:18.8	and that being the reason why I want to keep some things. So we're going to talk about that today.
1:23.9	I did want to remind you real quick though that if you're listening to this in real time and you
1:29.8	are looking for a part-time job, you can go to aslabcomesclean.com slash hiring and I am
1:37.7	hiring a virtual office manager. You follow through officer kind of a thing. So if you think you
1:44.8	would be a great fit for that, go find out more about what's involved, what we're looking for
1:48.8	at aslabcomesclean.com slash hiring. I thought of this because I felt super duper-needed last week
1:58.9	and actually into this week as I'm recording, which was a lovely feeling. So I had mentioned
2:04.4	a couple of weeks ago or when I first came back from the summer break that two of my kids
2:11.7	are doing exciting things in their life and I am super excited for them and things are great,
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