458: Tackling Your Decluttering Challenges

A Slob Comes Clean

Dana K White

Declutter, To, Home, Messy, Routines, Housekeeping, Clean, Cleaning, How, Organizing, Kids & Family, Decluttering, A, House

4.7 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

I’m answering your decluttering questions that were submitted at AskDanaKWhite.com

My whole house is pretty much under control now, except one thing: clothes. No matter what, they still get out of control all the time!
What do I do when I find things that don’t belong in our home?
To follow the container method and the progress -only method, how do we fill a tub or shelf with favorites till it’s full- without dumping everything on the floor first?
How do you know when you’ve gone too far? How do you know when it is time to re-clutter?
There are things I love to do in this space like take notes, make list, collect my thoughts, and imagine. Lately I have stopped writing almost completely because it is too much of an effort to go get what I need.
Many times, things get left on the counter for weeks on end. Is this likely a clutter threshold issue because the place where the items belong is too cluttered to put things away? Or is it a "not taking it there now" issue?
Decluttering advice for couples who are moving in together but have both previously lived in their own homes?

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, I wanted to be sure you know that my fourth book is now available wherever books are
0:05.0	sold. This is the book where I tackle the spiritual side of my deslobification process. My first three
0:10.1	books don't have any spiritual content. They're full of the strategies that will take you from
0:14.2	overwhelmed in your home to knowing exactly what to do to get your house under control. But this
0:18.6	new book, Jesus doesn't care about your messy house,
0:21.1	deals with the shame that so many of us feel over our messiness. My goal is to help you find
0:26.7	freedom from that shame so you can move forward. Go to a slobcomesclean.com slash book to find links
0:32.8	to all my books in all of their formats. Welcome to A Slab Comes Clean, the podcast. I am Dana K. White.
0:39.4	I share my personal deslobification process. As I figure out ways to keep my own home under control,
0:45.2	I share the truth about cleaning and organizing strategies that actually work in real life for real people,
0:51.2	people who don't love cleaning and organizing.
0:55.7	Thanks for joining me today.
0:57.9	This is podcast number 458.
1:04.7	And I think I'm going to call it tackling your decluttering challenges, which I know is so generic, but I'm answering some of the questions that were asked over at AskDanaK.
1:09.0	K.white.com.
1:10.7	And it talks about several decluttering challenges.
1:14.7	All right. Let's get into it. Dear Dana, thank you so much for your method and everything you do to teach it.
1:20.5	It has changed my house and my relationship to shopping too. My whole house is pretty much under control now,
1:26.1	except one thing.
1:28.6	Clothes.
1:34.0	They fit within my container, which at the moment is one clothes rack and two boxes.
1:41.8	I have decluttered quite a lot to get it to this, but still, no matter what, they still get out of control all the time.
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