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

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

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

cleaning and organizing. Thanks for joining me today.

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

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

podcast number 500, which will be coming soon.

Well, in 20 weeks.

So it's not like really soon.

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

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

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

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

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

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

struggle with clutter, we struggle with clutter

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

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

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

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

with clutter, this idea of collecting.

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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