440: When Decluttering Snags Happen
A Slob Comes Clean
Dana K White
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Today, I’m answering questions you’ve asked over at AskDanaKWhite.com. The general theme of these questions is, “Oh no! I was decluttering, and then something happened that made it harder!”
- So what if an item has a home, but you can’t “get” to its home because you are borderline approaching hoarder status?
- What do you do when you have an item that needs something done, e.g., an old laptop that needs stuff taken off before disposal or a photo album you want to chuck away, but you need to take all the photos out first?
- I do most of my decluttering during baby’s nap time (she sleeps in our room) or after all the kids are in bed. How do I avoid keep piles when there are so many things I can’t “take it there now”?
- How do I now downsize/remove containers from this point, even though everything has a home?
- I remember I have (something), and I need it but can’t find it. Help?!?!?
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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. That's a slob comes clean.com slash take to be ready to take your |
| 0:24.3 | house back in 2025. Welcome to a slob comes clean, the podcast. I am Dana K. White. I share my personal |
| 0:31.3 | deslobification process. As I figure out ways to keep my own home under control, I share the truth about cleaning and |
| 0:38.0 | organizing strategies that actually work in real life for real people, people who don't love |
| 0:43.3 | cleaning and organizing. Thanks for joining me today. This is podcast number 440. And I'm thinking I'm |
| 0:51.1 | going to call it when decluttering snags happen. So I am answering some questions that |
| 0:59.4 | were submitted at AskDanyK.white.com. You can always go there and ask questions that will be |
| 1:05.5 | potentially answered on future podcasts. I always want to remind you, too, though, that I have coaches. |
| 1:10.9 | So if you need someone to walk you through your own space to coach you through the process, |
| 1:18.0 | go to declutteringcoaches.com. Those are coaches who are trained and certified by me. |
| 1:25.1 | So, all right, I'm going to answer some of these questions. And I think several of them |
| 1:30.8 | talk about decluttering snacks, right? You know, there's a couple that don't. But that's kind of a |
| 1:37.7 | common theme among these questions coming from different people in different situations. Okay, |
| 1:42.0 | so first question is, I hate to admit that I have bought your books, but they are buried in my situations. Okay, so first question is, I hate to admit that I have |
| 1:45.0 | bought your books, but they are buried in my clutter. You're not the first person who's told me that, |
| 1:50.5 | okay? I'm not laughing at you. I'm laughing with you, right? So what if an item has a home, |
| 1:55.8 | but because you are borderline approaching hoarder status, you can't get to its home. For example, a pair of |
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