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🗓️ 30 May 2025
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0:00.0 | Hey there, I'm Kelly Wilkins here with Anita Joyce, and this is decorating tips and tricks. |
0:14.1 | It's time for another DTT plus where you get more of us. |
0:19.4 | Today we are talking about house blindness. |
0:23.0 | And I love this topic because it really is a thing. |
0:28.6 | Yeah, it is a thing. |
0:31.2 | So this is when somebody doesn't notice something negative about their house until a light gets shown on that |
0:39.6 | thing. Like, people are coming over. Suddenly, you notice every drip on your kitchen cabinets. You |
0:46.5 | notice the trash can is overflowing. You realize there's a pile of laundry that's been sitting on |
0:51.9 | the sofa for two weeks, and you have just been walking by it and |
0:56.7 | your brain just shut off. It was so used to seeing it. You didn't even notice it anymore. |
1:02.6 | Scuff marks on the baseboard, stained carpet, all that stuff that you know is there. But then |
1:08.0 | somehow your brain just shuts it off. I think it's a form of self-preservation, |
1:14.6 | like so many other coping techniques that our brain has. And it just says, it's not there. |
1:19.8 | It's not there. Don't look. Right. We're going to help you diagnose yourself today. |
1:25.2 | You may have this phenomenon where individuals become desensitized to the |
1:29.6 | mess clutter and unfinished projects around their home. Yeah, it's just, it happens all the time. |
1:36.6 | And it is amazing how people can just go months, maybe even years without noticing. And then |
1:43.2 | suddenly they're having people over. |
1:45.4 | Their house is going on the market. |
1:48.2 | Or somebody just shows up unannounced. |
1:50.7 | And then you realize with terror that there are major problems with your home. |
1:55.4 | Is that someone knocking at the door? |
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