Welcome to A Slob Comes Clean, the podcast. I am Dana K. White. I share my personal deslapification 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 503,

and I think I'm going to call it minimizing, decluttering regret. This is something I've been

thinking a lot about lately. If you have not yet, you really should listen to the conversation I

have with my husband on

podcast number 500. And something we talked about on that podcast made me think about this

a lot because I think I asked him, you know, is there anything that we've decluttered,

that you regret decluttering?

And his answer was some of his old muscle and fitness magazines that we got rid of years ago.

And when he first said it, I was like, I don't remember what you're talking about.

Because I was nervous to ask him that question, right?

Isn't that, isn't that the hesitation that a lot of us have is,

how are the people in our family, in our household, going to react to getting rid of some of these things? It's the reason why one of the most common questions that we ever, ever,

ever get is, why do I get my family to get on board?

How do I convince everybody in my family that it's okay to declutter?

And it's also the reason why we say, hey, declutter your own stuff first so that you're

not worrying about someone else's regret when you're decluttering.

Worry about your own stuff, get rid of your own things.

That's going to make an impact on your house. Anyway, blah, blah, blah, that. But when he said that,

and I was like, okay, when was that? And then he went on to explain, I know a lot of you all have

listened to it, but he went on to explain that it was a decision that was made in a high

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