430: Decluttering When Bad Things Really Could Happen

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

🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Those of us who struggle (big time) with clutter love to feel prepared for anything (and everything). The idea of decluttering can feel like giving up on that, and when worst-case scenarios actually happen, all those panicky feelings flare up and make it hard to let go of clutter.

The solution is not to pretend bad things can’t happen. It’s to accept reality. It’s reality that bad things happen. It’s also reality that keeping more stuff than my house can hold or that I can handle makes dealing with bad things (or even good things) more difficult.

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0:00.0	Welcome to a Slob Comes Clean, the podcast.
0:02.8	I am Dana K White.
0:04.2	I share my personal deslobification process
0:08.0	as I figure out ways to keep my own home under control.
0:11.0	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. Thanks for joining me today. This is podcast number 430 and I think I'm going to call it
0:25.8	decluttering when bad things really could happen. So this is a favorite, not favorite, not like we're not excited to be this way, right?
0:39.0	But this is a very real challenge for people like me. Okay?
0:48.5	Thinking ahead to all the scenarios
0:51.2	when something would either be useful or I might be
0:57.0	desperate enough to be glad I had it. I might save the day with it when I was the only person in the entire neighborhood who would have actually kept this.
1:06.4	Everybody else got rid of there is years ago. Won't they be so thankful that I have expired Advil when nobody has any?
1:14.8	These are real thoughts that have gone through my mind. If you've never gone back and read through the blog like a lot of
1:18.8	people do, that's where you find these thoughts recorded in real time as I was actually working in my home.
1:25.4	So those are just ones off the top of my head, but there were lots of them.
1:29.2	I can remember a time when I cleaned out my medicine cabinet and I found Advil that had been expired for years and my reaction was I don't know if it's okay to take it or whatever, but what if? What if all the factories shut down and we
1:49.9	legitimately were grateful that I had kept Advil that had been expired for six years.
1:56.6	You know, and I'm not saying this flippantly.
1:59.6	I just want to be clear about that.
2:01.6	Okay, I'm saying these are real thoughts that have gone through my head that I have had to work
2:06.1	through in my own decluttering process. So we're going to be talking about that today. Other examples are, I know I've shared this one here before. I may have shared it in a book too and I
2:14.7	shared it on the blog at one point but like there was a bed frame and it was an old fashioned
2:20.4	bed frame and it reminded me of a bed frame that you would see in the
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