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A Slob Comes Clean

481: Collection? Or Investment?

A Slob Comes Clean

Dana K White

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

4.72.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

We (those of us who struggle with clutter) tend to love collections! But we also know they can get out of control. I’m talking about collecting in a way that doesn’t send the house spiraling into clutter.


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0:00.0

Welcome to A Slob Comes Clean, the podcast. I am Dana K. White. I share my personal deslobification

0:06.6

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

0:12.9

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

0:19.5

cleaning and organizing. Thanks for joining me today.

0:23.1

This is podcast number 481. I'm a little, I wouldn't say disconcerted, but that's the word

0:30.6

that comes to mind. I'm a little like, because I feel like we've gone so fast up toward

0:36.9

podcast number 500, which will be coming soon.

0:40.2

Well, in 20 weeks.

0:41.4

So it's not like really soon.

0:42.3

But because I did the podcasts over the summer where I shared, you know, the recordings from previous Q&A's.

0:52.1

So it's just kind of made my podcast number go up a lot faster.

0:55.9

Usually I take the summers off. Anyway, blah, blah, blah. Let's keep going. So the title of this podcast,

1:01.0

I think, is going to be, is it a collection or an investment? I am giving no investing advice

1:08.1

whatsoever here. I am just talking about the mindset around collecting

1:16.7

that can be used both for good and for bad in the stuff in your home. A lot of us who

1:27.3

struggle with clutter, we struggle with clutter

1:30.2

because we really like cool things. I see huge. I love looking at a collection. Like I thoroughly

1:36.8

enjoy, even if it's not something I'm super interested in myself personally, I love seeing what

1:41.8

other people are interested in. I love seeing all the cool versions of things that people have collected.

1:47.0

I just find that really fascinating and it's a common thread for a lot of us who struggle

1:53.0

with clutter, this idea of collecting.

1:55.0

And so it's just something that I've thought about recently and thought, huh, let's talk about that. So we are discussing

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