Welcome to A Slop Comes Clean, the podcast. I am Dana K. White. I share my personal deslapification process.

As I figure out ways to keep my own home under control, I share the truth about cleaning and organizing

strategies that work in real life for real people, people who don't love cleaning and organizing.

Thanks for joining me today.

This is podcast number 448, and I think I'm calling it comparisons or containers.

Okay, so we all know comparison is the thief of joy or whatever, right? Like, it's comparisons bad.

Comparing ourselves, our homes, to other people's homes is a negative.

And I mean, I hope that we, we know that.

I know it's a struggle, but I want to make sure we, everybody here knows that what I teach is not how to get your house

to look like somebody else's house. It's how to get your house to function for you.

Okay. I have shared some about, you know, i used to assume that my goal when i started working on my

house was for my house to end up looking like a magazine picture that was in the olden days y'all

when magazine pictures that was the defining thing that we would use as an example of what a

beautiful home was supposed to look like. Now we say Pinterest or Instagram, right? But that's what I

assumed my goal was. I went through a lot figuring out how to get my house under control,

what I call my desloppification process. As I worked on my house, as I got

stuff out, and I realized pretty quickly that the more stuff I got out, the more I could function in

my home easily, and how much I enjoyed and appreciated being able to function in my home easily.

My goal changed.

Like, I realized, you know what?

Actually, I don't.

My goal is not for it to look like a magazine.

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