478: Q&A - Function Over Minimalism and the Power of the First Steps
A Slob Comes Clean
Dana K White
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
I’m answering your decluttering questions that were submitted at AskDanaKWhite.com.
- How can I plunk my homeschool routine in the middle of my dailies, progress with decluttering, and other housekeeping tasks without it all falling apart?
- How do you prevent yourself from “going there” with your emotions? You said you have a lot of emotions about things. I get that!
- When I’m going through my closet, I find items that I love. How do you part with items you love that you had put away for another time?
- Can you please talk about getting rid of pieces of a set (like a set of dishes)?
- How do I get to the next step when nothing really has a home?
- What do I do with pages of notes and handouts that I have from various sources, such as meetings with health coaches, food webinars, gardening webinars, and decorating tips?
- What are some ideas if your kids always wear through specific categories of clothes before the next laundry day?
- Do I consider the five steps before I purchase an item that I don't necessarily need, such as clothing or home decor?
- I helped a friend declutter, and it has returned. I love your concepts, but I am afraid I will not present your solutions to her successfully. Please help?
- We just moved from a 2-bedroom apartment to a 4-bedroom house with a basement, garage, and attic. How do I "declutter" when I'm not hitting the walls of the container?
- Is it possible to have a clutter threshold so low you can’t get below it? Any amount of clutter makes me feel like everything is out of control. This makes me feel overwhelmed, so the clutter continues to increase.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone. Just letting you know that Take Your House Back is on sale through October 3rd. |
| 0:06.2 | Take Your House Back is the online course that I teach with Dawn from the minimal mom and cast from Clutterbug. |
| 0:12.3 | We teach you everything you need to know to truly get your home under control. |
| 0:17.0 | Learn more and grab the course while it's on sale at a slobcomesclean.com slash take. |
| 0:23.4 | That's a slobcomesclean.com slash take. |
| 0:27.5 | Welcome to a slob comes clean, the podcast. I am Dana K. White. |
| 0:31.1 | I share my personal deslobification process. |
| 0:34.5 | As I figure out ways to keep my own home under control, I share the truth about cleaning |
| 0:39.1 | and 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 478, and I am answering |
| 0:53.2 | some questions. So I am answering questions that were asked over at dany k.white.com. Yeah. So I'm answering those. I answer those on, I say I answer those on Tuesdays at noon live on YouTube. However, I have not been doing that lately. I haven't done it since I started back because |
| 1:11.7 | life has been bananas. I'm on a book deadline plus a bunch of speaking engagements. So I will get |
| 1:17.9 | back to that in October. It's coming. Sorry that it's been a little late. But I am answering |
| 1:23.6 | them here on the podcast. So you can always ask questions over at ask dandykoy.com, |
| 1:28.2 | although they are not answered in real time, you'll know that if you really want your personal |
| 1:32.8 | situation addressed, if you want someone to coach you through your personal situation, |
| 1:37.7 | you need a coach. I train and certify decluttering coaches in my method. You can go to |
| 1:42.7 | declutteringcoaches.com to find somebody there. |
| 1:47.2 | Everybody there who is listed is trained and certified by me. That is my website. I think sometimes |
| 1:51.1 | people think it's like, oh, it's like you've listed your things on this website called decluttering |
| 1:55.4 | coaches.com and I'm like, no, I own that site. It's my site. Okay. All right, here we go. |
| 2:03.9 | Dear Dana, I am truly a recovering slobs, slob. You have helped me so much in making my house more manageable. I had taken a break |
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