439: So How Long Did It Take to Declutter My House?
A Slob Comes Clean
Dana K White
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
People often ask me how long it took me to “finish” decluttering. Spoiler: I’m not finished and I’ll never be finished and realizing that I’ll never be finished was incredibly helpful for me. But I am sharing my timeline of going from completely overwhelmed to feeling confident that I could handle my home.
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| 0:00.0 | If you've been thinking about joining the Take Your House Back course, this is the time to do it. |
| 0:04.7 | It's on sale for $94. |
| 0:07.3 | Thousands of people all over the world have taken their houses back going through this course with me, |
| 0:13.7 | Dawn from the Minimal Mom, and Cass from Clutterbug. |
| 0:16.2 | Go to a slobcomesclean.com.com slash take. |
| 0:20.1 | That's a slobcomesclean.com slash take to be ready to take |
| 0:24.0 | your house back in 2025. Welcome to a slob comes clean, the podcast. I am Dana K. White. I share my |
| 0:31.0 | personal desloppification process. As I figure out ways to keep my own home under control, I share the truth about cleaning and |
| 0:39.5 | organizing strategies that actually work in real life for real people, people who don't love |
| 0:45.2 | cleaning and organizing. Thanks for joining me today. This is podcast number 439, and I think I'm going to |
| 0:52.2 | call it, so how long did it take to declutter my house? |
| 0:57.2 | Here's the thing. |
| 0:58.0 | I get asked this question a lot. |
| 1:00.1 | I usually get asked this question by people who are somewhat new to my process. |
| 1:08.5 | I think that there's some relief and excitement. I get it, right, over finding someone |
| 1:15.6 | who they're like, wait, were you in a situation like mine? You know, finding someone who actually |
| 1:22.0 | dug their way out as opposed to, you know, a lot of times when people talk about the stuff, |
| 1:26.1 | it's because they enjoy it and maybe it never got to the point that my house was at, right? So I do get asked this question by |
| 1:33.7 | people who are new because they, I get it, right? Like, how long is this going to take? I want to be done. |
| 1:41.6 | I would like to know that if I start doing this, I could have a different house |
| 1:50.1 | in a week or a month or by Christmas next year or whatever. Like I completely understand |
| 2:00.6 | this desire to know, to know how it's going to work, right? |
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