Welcome to A Slob Comes Clean, the podcast. I am Danny 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 501. Did you listen to the

one with Bob? Isn't he adorable? That was 500, by the way. I think I'm going to call this

answering questions about selling because it is garage sales season. I mean, in Texas,

it's kind of garage sale season all year long,

but as other places have the snow melting and things, which I know it has not melted everywhere,

but it is the time where we're at least heading into, or you're maybe thinking about having a garage sale. And I know that it can feel like

getting ready for a garage sale is the best way to declutter. It is if you're going to have a

garage sale. If you've told yourself that before many, many times and you haven't actually

had the garage sale and instead you

have a garage that you haven't parked in all winter because it is full of stuff that you've

collected over the years thinking someday I'm going to have a garage sale, then I would say it's not a great idea. So

basically it's functionalism. Does it work or does it not? Does it result in the stuff

leaving your home? Or is it really just an excuse to not get the stuff out of the house? Like

is it just kind of a temporary stop gap?

I mean, is it an example of you not really taking it there now? Is it a procrastination pile

of stuff that you're like, no, one of these days, I'm going to need the money. I'm going to need

whatever. I'm telling you, decluttering saves money. You know what you have.

You know where it is. You change your view on the stuff coming into your house because you've decluttered so much that you see things as the future clutter that they are, if they are future

clutter. And it just truly saves money. You end up not having to buy things because you find out that

you already had them in your house as you're decluttering. So, and real decluttering requires stuff

leaving the house. It is not actually decluttering if you're just moving things into a different place in your house and the garage or a storage shed or

even a storage unit outside of your house are not act that's not actually decluttering it's just

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