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A Slob Comes Clean

429: Fighting the Temptation to Overcomplicate

A Slob Comes Clean

Dana K White

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

4.72.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we discuss:


  • Tackling a large project of sentimental items which will go into a new storage area.
  • Balancing what I keep for myself with what I need to declutter for my family.
  • Gaining strategies for efficiently working with a helper who can only come once.

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0:00.0

Welcome to a slob comes clean the podcast. I am Dana K White. I share my personal

0:05.6

deslavification process as I figure out ways to keep my own home under

0:09.8

control. I share the truth about cleaning and organizing strategies that actually work in real life

0:14.8

for real people. People who don't love cleaning and organizing. Thanks for joining me today.

0:19.8

This is podcast number 429 and I think I'm going to call it fighting the temptation to

0:26.1

overcomplicate. I don't feel like I have to explain that. I feel like most of

0:30.0

y'all who are listening because you relate to the things that I talk about

0:35.0

know exactly what I mean by fighting the temptation to overcomplicate.

0:39.7

We love to overcomplicate.

0:42.4

I always say that my most common word in life which is

0:49.2

probably not. Y'all probably know what my most common word is, but is, well, actually, like, it's just never a simple thing.

0:59.1

But anyway, that can get us into a lot of trouble with decluttering.

1:01.8

So I hope you learn something from this today.

1:06.2

So I think you're going to enjoy this conversation that I have today where we're talking about

1:09.0

this. The conversation is with one of my kindred spirits.

1:13.4

My kindred spirits, we talk about that at the end,

1:15.7

but that is my group of people over on Patreon.

1:19.8

So we have a Facebook group.

1:21.8

And anyway, if you want to know more about being a patron of the

1:26.0

show and therefore getting to join the kindred spirits go to patreon.com slash a slob comes clean. Okay here is my conversation. Patreon. about yourself and what's your unique life situation?

1:44.0

Well, I'm an American who has lived in the, in England for most of my adult life.

1:52.0

And so, although I know that like American houses and I would

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