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 ke 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 498. I'm not going to say,

I keep wanting to say things as I get closer to 500, but I've already said them. So anyway,

here we go. I am calling this one, I think I'm

going to call it the power of negative thinking. Okay, don't get confused and think,

oh, she said that so nicely that maybe she means negative thinking is a good thing. I don't.

I don't mean that negative thinking is a good thing. I just think it's kind of a funny play on,

you know, the thing that you hear all the time, which is the power of positive thinking,

which I have mixed feelings about. Like, I think just, you know me. I've mentioned so many times.

I am not, I don't love cheerleading.

I mean, I loved being a cheerleader when I was young and all that.

But I don't love people ra-rawing me on and thinking that that is going to be the thing

that changes everything for me.

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