404: Learning to Love Decluttering Isn't the Goal

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

🗓️ 1 February 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

There are people out there who love decluttering. I am not one of those people. But I do see the value in it and am so glad I've decluttered (and keep decluttering). I used to think that once I got good at decluttering, I'd learn to love it, and that would make it easy. That never happened. And that's okay.

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0:00.0	Welcome to a slob comes clean the podcast. I am Dana K White. I share my personal
0:05.5	deslavification process as I figure out ways to keep my own home under
0:10.3	control. I share the truth about cleaning and organizing strategies that
0:14.1	actually work in real life for real people. People who don't love cleaning and
0:18.5	organizing. Thanks for joining me today. This is podcast number 404 and I think I'm going to call it
0:24.9	learning to love decluttering isn't the goal. So my little spiel at the beginning
0:31.3	which many of you have told me you have memorized as well
0:34.8	is that I share cleaning and organizing strategies that work in real life for real people, real people
0:39.8	who don't love cleaning and organizing.
0:43.0	I don't, you know, I could say people who hate cleaning and organizing, but that's too strong, right?
0:49.0	It's just, we don't love it, right?
0:51.5	And the reason that I say this is that there are people out there who love it. And I've always, not always, since I started this
1:00.3	desolubification process for myself, since I started really diving in and trying to figure out
1:04.9	why is this hard for me? Why is it that I don't seem to be able to do what the organized people
1:11.9	tell me to do and have it worked that way in my home.
1:15.0	Since working on this and figuring out, one of the main things I realized was my brain works differently from the brain of organized people. That is fine. A big part of
1:25.7	actually making progress has been accepting the fact that my goal is not to be
1:31.8	like them. My goal is to find out what works for me.
1:35.0	So I have to figure that out for myself.
1:38.0	Well, a lot of the people who talk about cleaning and organizing
1:41.0	on an ongoing basis.
1:43.4	You know, I don't know, maybe like for 404 episodes
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