Hi, all. Did you know that my first children's book is coming out this month? I am so ridiculously

excited to share Winnie's pile of pillows with you. So Winnie is a walrus who finds out she loves

pillows and keeps getting more until her room is so full of pillows. She can't do the thing she

wants to do because there are pillows everywhere. It's for ages four to eight and it's full of

bright and fun illustrations.

It will bridge the communication gap between you and your kids about clutter. If you pre-order,

you can get fun printables at a slobcomesclean.com.com slash winnie. That's a slobcomesclean.com

slash winnie. 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 and decluttering strategies that work for real people in real life,

even people who don't love cleaning, organizing, or decluttering.

Welcome.

This is podcast number 496, and I think I'm going to call it RICOchet Decluttering.

And the main reason that I want to call it RICOchet decluttering. And the main reason that I want to call it, ricochet decluttering, is just how fun it is to say the word ricochet.

It's just a really fun word. Anyway, it's something I've been thinking about lately. I've been,

and bear with me, as I kind of explain why I've been thinking about this lately.

It's a little bit weird, but you know me. I'm always thinking about decluttering and always

thinking about home maintenance in a way of how to explain what works and what doesn't, because

that's what I do here for y'all. So I have been playing a game on my phone. I generally don't play games on my phone,

but I have recently removed social media from my phone in an effort to just have a little more

control over how much time I'm on it and have it not quite be so accessible to me. So anyway, what do I do when

I pick up my phone and there's no social media? Well, one of the things I do is I go to the one

game that I have on my phone. And I have this game because I like when I am traveling on an airplane. my favorite thing to do is listen to an audio book and play this mindless game at the same time. Well, I've actually now taken this game off of my phone. But at the time when I was playing it and thinking about this, I had gotten to my highest score ever. Well, I was thinking about the strategy, like the strategy of how

you play this game and win at this game. And it was making me think about the same types of

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