511: How Do You Make Decluttering Progress When Your Routine is Unpredictable
A Slob Comes Clean
Dana K White
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
How in the world can you declutter when your routine has flown out the window?! Here’s how! I’m going over the No Mess Decluttering Method so you can have a refresher (or an intro if you’re new) into how it all works, how the steps work together, and how this method is THE way to make real, sustainable decluttering progress even when your schedule is unpredictable.
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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 |
| 0:05.7 | process. As I figure out ways to keep my own home under control, I share the truth about cleaning |
| 0:11.6 | and organizing strategies that actually work in real life for real people, even people who don't love |
| 0:17.8 | cleaning and organizing. Thanks for joining me today. |
| 0:21.0 | This is episode number 511, and I think I'm going to call it how to make decluttering progress |
| 0:27.3 | when your routine is unpredictable. |
| 0:29.9 | Okay, so I mentioned last week when we talked about the basics of the maintenance tasks |
| 0:37.4 | that will do a whole lot more than just |
| 0:39.7 | maintenance in your home. But I talked last week about how summer is starting. I know there's the |
| 0:46.7 | when does actual summer starts. I don't want to talk about. That's not what I'm talking about. |
| 0:49.3 | I'm talking about when routine changes because the world start, not the world, the U.S., I know. |
| 0:58.1 | Southern Hemisphere, yours is the opposite, right? |
| 1:02.0 | I get it. |
| 1:02.4 | But our summer holidays generally are somewhere between May. |
| 1:08.8 | Some people don't get out until June, but through August or some people don't |
| 1:12.9 | go back to September. |
| 1:14.3 | But this general time frame is the time where a lot of things wind down for the summer |
| 1:21.9 | and we're out of the routine. |
| 1:24.0 | And with that, can come the panic of, oh, my goodness, I've been making progress, but I've been |
| 1:30.1 | making progress because my life has been somewhat predictable of what was going to happen when. |
| 1:35.5 | And now it's not going to be as predictable because some of the things that we're happening |
| 1:40.0 | are not going to happen anymore. |
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