497: Working Through Family Treasures
A Slob Comes Clean
Dana K White
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss:
How you stay/get motivated to keep decluttering when you’re busy or tired.
How to save memories from ancestors/family when you don’t think your kids will value them like you do.
What to do with artwork done by family that you don’t have room to hang up in your smaller house.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, all. Did you know that my first children's book is coming out this month? I am so ridiculously |
| 0:04.9 | excited to share Winnie's pile of pillows with you. So Winnie is a walrus who finds out she loves |
| 0:10.9 | pillows and keeps getting more until her room is so full of pillows. She can't do the thing she |
| 0:15.9 | wants to do because there are pillows everywhere. It's for ages four to eight and it's full of |
| 0:20.6 | bright and fun illustrations. |
| 0:22.7 | It will bridge the communication gap between you and your kids about clutter. If you pre-order, |
| 0:27.9 | you can get fun printables at a slobcomesclean.com.com slash winnie. That's a slobcomesclean.com |
| 0:34.4 | slash winnie. Welcome to a slob kems 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, organizing, and decluttering strategies that work for real people in real life, even people who don't like cleaning |
| 0:56.5 | and organizing and decluttering. Thanks for joining me today. This is podcast number 497. |
| 1:03.6 | Note to myself, I need to let my husband know that he needs to be ready because we got to record |
| 1:09.2 | an episode since he comes on the |
| 1:11.6 | podcast every hundredth episode. So it will be his fifth time on soon. So if you want to send |
| 1:16.6 | me an email to a slob comes clean at gmail.com. And let me know what you would like us to talk |
| 1:24.1 | about in the episode when my husband comes on in three episodes from now. |
| 1:29.0 | So, um, all right. I think I'm going to call today's podcast, uh, working through family |
| 1:36.3 | treasures. So I am talking with one of my kindred spirits, um, had such a fun conversation. |
| 1:43.7 | And, uh, we talk about family treasures and how other family members |
| 1:50.3 | feel or want, how feel about them or if they want them. And specifically artwork and other |
| 1:59.2 | types of things. It's like, what do I do? And I am happy to report that in |
| 2:05.3 | our last Kindred Spirit group, Zoom call that we do every month, she reported that she had made |
| 2:13.4 | progress on the things that we talked about in this session. So I love, I love knowing that |
| 2:18.4 | to be able to tell you all that. But we had a great conversation and I think you're going to |
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