499: Adjusting to Smaller Space & Larger Struggles
A Slob Comes Clean
Dana K White
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Today’s guest is a full-time caregiver living in a much smaller space than she once had. But holding on to things that represent a previous identity are making it hard to embrace the things that would/could give her joy in her current reality. We discussed how to focus on small successes to instead of big and daunting goals.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to a slob chem's clean the podcast. I am Danny K. White. I share my personal deslobification process. |
| 0:07.7 | As I figure out ways to keep my own home under control, I share the truth about cleaning and |
| 0:12.4 | organizing strategies that actually work in real life for real people, people who don't love |
| 0:17.7 | cleaning and organizing. Thank you for joining me today. This is podcast number |
| 0:23.2 | 499. So send in your questions if you have questions for my husband because he will be |
| 0:28.9 | joining me on next week's podcast, I think, if I can remember to get that recorded. |
| 0:37.1 | Anyway, you know, when I can't just do it on my time and I'm like, oh, that's right. |
| 0:41.8 | I got to do this when he's available. |
| 0:44.0 | Sometimes adds a layer of complications. |
| 0:46.2 | So send those questions in. |
| 0:47.9 | Don't forget to that Winnie the Walrus, Winnie's pile of pillows is out there in the world. It's been really fun to, you know, the thing |
| 0:58.4 | about a children's book is that you can read it in like 15 or 20 minutes. And so it's been fun to |
| 1:03.6 | see the reviews come in so quickly. So we've got, I think when I'm recording this, we have like 17 |
| 1:08.7 | five star reviews. And I'm so thankful for that. I've even heard one of the reviews. And I don't know if it's the same person, but somebody had also emailed me and said, I read this with my kids. And then they immediately were like, hey, let's do this in my room too. Let's get rid of some toys. |
| 1:30.0 | And so that's like a huge win. |
| 1:31.0 | That's basically the goal. |
| 1:33.5 | So anyway, look up Winnie's pile of pillows. |
| 1:35.0 | You can always just look up Dana K. White, |
| 1:36.7 | wherever you like to buy books and find that. But in this podcast, I'm going to call it adjusting to smaller space and bigger struggles. |
| 1:46.0 | So I'm talking with one of my Patreon members here and she's been through a lot. |
| 1:52.1 | And she's a loving caregiver, but that's a lot of stress. |
| 1:57.1 | And they've moved into a much smaller space than what they had before. So we're talking |
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