488: Gifts Plus Decluttering
A Slob Comes Clean
Dana K White
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
I’m answering questions around the theme of dealing with gifts while you’re actively decluttering your home!
- Do you have any tips for dealing with gifts? After every holiday, I end up with a pile of items in the garage that were given with love, but I have no use for or room for.
- What do you do with very personalized gifts you don't want to keep? They're too nice to throw away but it feels weird to donate.
- How do I declutter items my son made as gifts for me that I no longer like. My son still lives with me, they are displayed in the living area and I don't want to hurt his feelings but would love to re-decorate this space.
- What do I do when “gifts” (receiving & giving) is the love language of everyone in my household?
- I *tried* to do an alternative to gifts this year. Joke's on me, hubby still bought everyone gifts, kids still bought everyone gifts, apparently Mom is a Grinch trying to steal Christmas.
- My mother in law knows how far we've come decluttering and simplifying and she knows I usually say no to most items she offers. What do I do with these highly sentimental gifts we never wanted?
- I’m having a hard time getting rid of gifted Christmas ornaments — even when I know they haven’t made it on the tree in the past few years.
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| 0:00.0 | Y'all, the Take Your House Back course is on sale right now. If you want to make major changes in your |
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| 0:35.7 | Welcome to A Slob Comes Clean, the podcast. |
| 0:38.4 | I am Dana K. White. |
| 0:40.2 | I share my personal deslobification process. |
| 0:43.2 | As I figure out ways to keep my own home under control, |
| 0:46.6 | I share the truth about cleaning and organizing strategies that actually work in real life for real people. |
| 0:52.5 | People who don't love cleaning and organizing. |
| 0:54.9 | Thanks for joining me today. |
| 0:56.5 | This is podcast number 488. |
| 0:58.7 | And I am going to call it gifts plus decluttering or something like that. |
| 1:08.9 | I am answering some questions that around the theme of gifts that were asked over at |
| 1:14.1 | AskanyKy.com because it's gift time of year. |
| 1:18.9 | It's the time when you're thinking about buying gifts for others. |
| 1:23.1 | And if you've spent the year decluttering, you have also, maybe that affects your thoughts around |
| 1:29.9 | gifts. Like, oh, my goodness, how do I give gifts that won't turn into clutter? How do we get |
| 1:36.1 | ready for the gifts that are going to be coming in? How do I deal with gifts that immediately |
| 1:40.2 | feel like clutter and all of that kind of stuff. I do want to let you know, |
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