432: Spoiler Alert - The Answer is the Container Concept
A Slob Comes Clean
Dana K White
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
I'm answering some questions that were submitted at AskDanaKWhite.com. And, spoiler . . . the Container Concept is pretty much always the answer. Hearing how it applies to all of these different situations will help you apply it to your situation!
Mentioned: The Container Concept Explained video
The questions answered in this episode:
- Help! My magazine clippings have invaded my clutter threshold. The clippings are images of homes, interiors, gardens, decor items, recipes, lifestyle, places I want to visit, and articles.
- In response to your decluttering for your current self, instead of keeping stuff for who you used to be, my struggle is unpublished manuscripts. How do you decide when to throw it all away. The research, the notes, the manuscript itself and the many idea boards?
- I am recovered from an eating disorder and having a range of clothing sizes to account for life's natural weight fluctuations has been key to my recovery. I have now been recovered long enough that my weight fluctuates minimally, which is different than the initial dramatic fluctuations. so there is no reason for the range of clothes i have. How do I declutter when I'm compelled to keep all these sizes?
- I’ve been doing some great decluttering but as soon as my hubby says ‘ I think we should declutter…’ or ‘our house is a mess we should get rid of stuff’ I lose all motivation! How do I combat this?
- What do you do if your container for a type of item is perfectly filled but then you receive an unexpected gift that you could grow to love, but you don't want to donate a current favorite just to try it out?
- I want to declutter. I want to get rid of stuff. But since I was a kid I was kinda "shamed" for throwing stuff away.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to A Slob Comes Clean, the podcast. I am Dana K. White. I share my personal deslobification 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. |
| 0:22.6 | Thanks for joining me today. |
| 0:24.4 | This is podcast number 432. |
| 0:29.0 | And I think I'm going to call it spoiler alert. |
| 0:30.8 | The answer is the container concept. |
| 0:35.7 | So you don't need to listen to the episode because the container concept. |
| 0:36.6 | That's the answer. |
| 0:38.8 | It's going to be the answer to every single question that I will be answering today. And I think it'll give some understanding and just |
| 0:47.7 | examples of times you're like, oh, that's how the container concept makes this easier. |
| 0:54.7 | Just a brief overview of the container concept in case this is your first time to listen. |
| 1:00.4 | Containers are not for putting things in. |
| 1:02.5 | Okay. |
| 1:03.0 | I used to think that organized people loved containers because they like to put things in them. |
| 1:09.0 | So I would try to put things in containers. My house was |
| 1:12.1 | never organized. What I did not know was that containers are meant to contain. They are meant to |
| 1:16.8 | serve as limits. When I view a container as a limit, then I let the container decide how much of something |
| 1:27.4 | I can keep. Where before I used to fill up a |
| 1:30.5 | container and think, well, I've still got more stuff, so I'd go and buy another container. |
| 1:33.9 | And then I'd fill that up and buy another container. |
| 1:36.0 | And my house was out of control. |
| 1:37.3 | If I try to keep more stuff, then we'll fit in my space. |
| 1:41.0 | There is no hope of that stuff staying under control. Again, I have talked about this |
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