479: Q&A - When Decluttering Feels Endless, Plus Stairs, Cards, and Kids’ Toys
A Slob Comes Clean
Dana K White
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
I’m answering your decluttering questions that were submitted at AskDanaKWhite.com
- Due to some kitchen updates, I had to empty out my kitchen cabinets. Since I got everything out of the cabinets, I feel like it's a perfect time to declutter and reorganize!! How should I tackle this whole kitchen?
- I've decluttered a ton. I'm pretty happy with how far I've gone, but I can't help feeling that I could go further, even though I have plenty of space for the things that I have. Any thoughts on this?
- My family of 7 lives in a 2-story home. All of our bedrooms are located upstairs, and it’s a constant struggle to get the kids to take their laundry, toys, and personal items upstairs. Do you have any suggestions for making this process easier?
- I don't know what to do with the greeting cards I get from my husband and children. I feel guilty about throwing them out, but realistically, they have no home! Please help!
- My biggest struggle is with dishes. I wash them as I need them, like you said, you do clothes when they are all dirty. I am physically unable to stand or sit for the required hours it would take to complete them. Help!
- I need more walking space in my apartment. I started decluttering the dining room and behind my living room chair. But, the items I am keeping are on the dining table, because I can't get into the spare room where I'd look for them first. Should I have started with the room I knew I would look in first for those things?
- I have two questions. First, what do I do with "donations" when in my area, there is no place to donate to? I've searched countless times and asked many people. Second, how do you deal with people in your home shaming you for decluttering?
- Your "take it there now" method allows me to do something without making the situation worse. It only gets better if that's the only task that gets done. Thank you.
- How do you deal with toy clutter? My daughter is 3 years old, and the toys that deserve shelf space change every day. How do I (or we) choose what to keep?
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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. |
| 0:29.9 | I am Dana K. White. |
| 0:31.2 | I share my personal deslapification process. |
| 0:34.3 | As I figure out ways to keep my own home under control, I share the truth about cleaning |
| 0:38.8 | and organizing strategies that actually work in real life for real people, people who don't love |
| 0:44.4 | cleaning and organizing. Thanks for joining me today. This is podcast number 479, and I am doing |
| 0:52.9 | another Q&A because that's just what I can do right now, as I have, on some deadlines and things, but trying to get these done. |
| 0:59.9 | So I'll be able to completely focus on getting this next book done. |
| 1:02.9 | But anyway, here we go. |
| 1:06.0 | Background story. |
| 1:07.2 | We had our dishwasher stop working recently and ordered to new one. When the installers came to |
| 1:12.5 | deliver it, we found some fresh mouse droppings behind the old dishwasher asking with a big |
| 1:18.8 | old hole on the wall. Sometimes we will write things and I don't think it's what they meant. But anyway, |
| 1:24.1 | I discovered I was devastated as I am a clean freak. Never saw any signs. I didn't even |
| 1:29.1 | want to walk into the kitchen after knowing we still didn't see any come out after the traps were laid out. |
| 1:33.5 | The exterminator came, wanted to spray for all bugs. Okay, so actually this is the point. But anyway, |
| 1:38.6 | we all relate, right? Like, the only people who have never seen mouse poop in their house are the ones who are lying because it |
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