486: Function. Important Everywhere. Essential in the Kitchen.
A Slob Comes Clean
Dana K White
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Function is so important in the kitchen because it is a space that needs to be used every day! Decluttering with function in mind will take you far. I’m answering these questions about decluttering in the kitchen:
- I love to bake! I must have every size, shape, and type of cake pan and sheet pan ever made! But I "know" that the minute I donate them, I'll kick myself because someone will request something, and I'll either have to buy another pan or turn down the request. Thoughts?
- What kinds of things do you or people you have worked with keep in the upper corner kitchen cabinets? They are awkwardly sized, and the back area is hard to reach.
- Our most visible space is our kitchen. This is the main door we use and the door visitors use. It seems like such a big project. Any advice to help me focus on seeing progress on anything?
- What do you think about storing new kitchen items until I build my "forever" home?
- We currently have a temporary pantry sitting in the living room to house extra food, which is super ugly and weird. Do I keep my ugly pantry until I have eaten all this weird stuff?
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| 0:00.0 | It's Black Friday, and the Take Your House Back course is on sale at its very lowest price of $84 through Cyber Monday, December 1st. |
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| 0:22.2 | truly made amazing progress in their homes. Go to a slob comesclean.com slash take to learn more and |
| 0:30.2 | grab it while it's on sale. That's a slob comes clean.com slash take. Welcome to A Slob Comes Clean, |
| 0:37.1 | the podcast. I am Dana K. White. I share my |
| 0:39.8 | personal deslobification process. As I figure out ways to keep my own home under control, I share |
| 0:46.5 | the truth about cleaning and organizing strategies that actually work in real life for real |
| 0:51.3 | people. People who don't love cleaning and organizing. Thanks for |
| 0:54.6 | joining me today. This is podcast number 486. And I think I'm going to call it function. Always |
| 1:01.0 | needed in every space. Great practice in the kitchen. That's a long title. But hey, whatever. |
| 1:08.0 | Yeah. Function. Function. function function is always important. |
| 1:15.3 | It is especially important in spaces where activities have to be done, like spaces that are designed |
| 1:22.4 | for activity. You know, the living room is designed for living. Living can mean different things. |
| 1:27.1 | It can mean sitting down and resting. It. Living can mean different things. It can mean |
| 1:27.8 | sitting down and resting. It can mean playing a board game. It can mean, you know, walking through |
| 1:34.5 | and I don't know, whatever. But a kitchen is a place to cook. That is its purpose. Its purpose is to |
| 1:43.1 | prepare food, whether or not you're preparing food from |
| 1:46.5 | scratch or getting things out of the refrigerator and sticking it straight in the oven and eating |
| 1:52.3 | it. All of these things are function. So the kitchen is all about function. So I'm answering |
| 1:57.9 | specifically kitchen related questions today all around |
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