505: Hotelifying: Making It Easier for Others in Your Home to Keep It Neat
A Slob Comes Clean
Dana K White
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
I had a conversation with a friend who was going to be gone for a period of time and her goal is to make it as easy as possible for her home to stay under control while she’s not there. I loved what she said, and it makes me think about how it should always be our goal to make it easier for the other people living in our homes to keep it neat.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to A Slob Comes Clean, the podcast. I am Dana K. White. I share my personal deslobification process. |
| 0:07.2 | 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. |
| 0:18.5 | Thanks for joining me today. This is podcast number 505, and I think I'm |
| 0:23.5 | going to call it hotelifying, making it easier for others in your home to keep it neat. So I had a |
| 0:31.4 | conversation with a friend, and at some point, like if y'all go, wow, hotelifying is the new word that we're going to use all the time. |
| 0:39.9 | I will absolutely give her credit. |
| 0:42.4 | But I don't think she wants everybody to know all of her story right now that she's, anyway, whatever. |
| 0:49.1 | We were having a conversation. |
| 0:50.7 | She's got exciting things coming up, but she's going to be gone for a little while. |
| 0:55.6 | This is just a personal friend. She doesn't have like a brand out there, whatever. Anyway, |
| 0:59.3 | oh, I feel like I'm just blathering on, but whatever. Y'all know what I mean. |
| 1:04.0 | She is going to be gone for a while. And I know this happens, right? Sometimes mama has to be gone for a while, maybe for work, |
| 1:13.4 | maybe for taking care of a family member, maybe for just whatever. A lot of you have been through |
| 1:19.4 | this because you've told me your stories of having been through this where you had to leave |
| 1:23.5 | and go take care of something else for a while, and you had to leave your family at home. |
| 1:28.4 | And even in households where everybody contributes, when the person who is the most dedicated |
| 1:39.7 | to the idea of keeping the house running smoothly, the most determined, who thinks about it the most, |
| 1:49.3 | who has the most, feels the most responsibility in that area, which let's be honest, |
| 1:55.8 | is also the same person in the family who's listening to this podcast right now. |
| 2:00.0 | That's what I tell people all the time is I know you want people to care as much as you do, but you're the one listening |
| 2:05.0 | to a podcast about cleaning and organizing and decluttering. And a lot of people, including the people |
| 2:11.9 | in your house, don't care that much about this stuff as you do with your, you know, desire to actually listen |
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