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.

Thanks for joining me today.

This is podcast number 432.

And I think I'm going to call it spoiler alert.

The answer is the container concept.

So you don't need to listen to the episode because the container concept.

That's the answer.

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

examples of times you're like, oh, that's how the container concept makes this easier.

Just a brief overview of the container concept in case this is your first time to listen.

Containers are not for putting things in.

Okay.

I used to think that organized people loved containers because they like to put things in them.

So I would try to put things in containers. My house was

never organized. What I did not know was that containers are meant to contain. They are meant to

serve as limits. When I view a container as a limit, then I let the container decide how much of something

I can keep. Where before I used to fill up a

container and think, well, I've still got more stuff, so I'd go and buy another container.

And then I'd fill that up and buy another container.

And my house was out of control.

If I try to keep more stuff, then we'll fit in my space.

There is no hope of that stuff staying under control. Again, I have talked about this

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