• Home
  • Get Started!
  • Speaking
  • Blog
    • Cleaning
    • decluttering
    • organization
    • All posts
  • Podcast
  • Books
    • Jesus Doesn't Care About Your Messy House
      • Get a Discussion Guide
    • Organizing for the Rest of Us
    • Decluttering at the Speed of Life
    • How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind
  • Video
  • Shortcut Solutions
    • 14 Days to Opening Your Front Door to Guests e-book
    • Make Dinner Happen
    • The 5 Day Clutter Shakedown Video Course
    • Printable Checklists E-Book from A Slob Comes Clean
    • Teaching Kids to Clean e-book
    • Giving God the Worst of Me - free e-book
    • My Book Publishing Journey
    • Take Your House Back
  • Decluttering Coaches

Dana K. White

A SLOB COMES CLEAN

Reality-Based Cleaning, Decluttering, & Organizing

 

  • About
  • Contact
  • TV & Media

  • Home
  • Get Started!
  • Speaking
  • Blog
    • Cleaning
    • decluttering
    • organization
    • All posts
  • Podcast
  • Books
    • Jesus Doesn't Care About Your Messy House
      • Get a Discussion Guide
    • Organizing for the Rest of Us
    • Decluttering at the Speed of Life
    • How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind
  • Video
  • Shortcut Solutions
    • 14 Days to Opening Your Front Door to Guests e-book
    • Make Dinner Happen
    • The 5 Day Clutter Shakedown Video Course
    • Printable Checklists E-Book from A Slob Comes Clean
    • Teaching Kids to Clean e-book
    • Giving God the Worst of Me - free e-book
    • My Book Publishing Journey
    • Take Your House Back
  • Decluttering Coaches
Videos
Blog
Podcast
Products & Courses
Books
About
Decluttering Coaches

Monthly Decluttering Update! It’s About to Be October!!!

September 30, 2011 By Dana White | 7 Comments

  • 12shares
  • 12
  • 0
  • 0

Tomorrow is October.  As in, Fall.

Wow.

So, it’s time to share my decluttering progress for September.  Thankfully, it’s better than August . . . which only had one decluttering project.

Normal Friend came over again today, because she honestly loves helping me clean.

So . . . completely . . . bizarre.

This week has been crazy, and my house didn’t look fabulous.  Or really even presentable. I wanted to clean before she came over, but it didn’t happen yesterday, and this morning got away from me.  Before I knew it she was here.  Trying to fit in a workout, counting money for the school fundraiser, and Bible study time all before ten when you’ve neglected your daily tasks all week . . . doesn’t leave much time for cleaning.

Yes, did you notice that I mentioned a workout?  I’m proud of that.

Anyway, letting her see my home in its natural state after a crazy un-focused-on-housekeeping week was hard.   When I explained that this was waaaaay better than it would have been after a similar week pre-blog, her eyes widened and she had a hard time keeping her oh-honey-everyone’s-house-gets-messy-sometimes smile on.

When I stop to think how much I’ve decluttered over the past two years, sometimes I am in awe that I was ever able to have people in my home.  The junk . . . is never-ending.

So, it does feel good every month to stop and pay attention to what I’ve purged.  Most of my decluttering efforts for the month were the subjects of webisodes.  Such fabulous motivation to do a project every week.

I guess in my case, it’s a good thing for a slob to also be an exhibitionist.

I re-decluttered my linen closet.  And for now, it’s working!  It has stayed in decent shape for an entire month, because there’s so much LESS in there.

I also cleared off my Dining Room table.  I declared that I couldn’t put ONE thing on there, because it would only attract more things.  I was right about that.  But I did.  And it did.

The spot in my master bedroom where piles form (see how it sounds like they form on their own?) was de-pile-i-fied in a matter of minutes.  Thankfully, that space is still pile-free.

I cleaned my master bedroom.  Cleaned and decluttered all at once, almost like those two things aren’t completely different.  Fine, it was really Normal Friend who did most of the work, but I did try to help.

And finally, I cleared out my Donation Spot.  Yesterday.  So the stuff still needs to be dropped off at our local charity.

Whew!

What have you done (or not done) this month?  Feel free to leave a comment, or link up a blog post sharing your own decluttering efforts for September.  If you do link up below, please link back to A Slob Comes Clean within your post.


 

Related Posts:

Read Newer Post 31 Days of Details
Read Older Post Donating the Stuff From My . . . Donation Spot

Filed Under: decluttering | 7 Comments

Comments

  1. Alana in Canada says

    September 30, 2011 at 3:06 pm

    Yay! This will be my first time participating! I’m so stoked. Thanks for getting this up, Nony!

    Reply
  2. Shannon L says

    October 1, 2011 at 12:28 am

    I cleaned my master bedroom floor and emptied the Pack n Play(of my 2 year old). That was a big project.

    Reply
  3. Liz @ Wonder Woman I'm Not says

    October 1, 2011 at 2:53 pm

    I did my linen closet this month too, we must all be getting ready for fall 🙂

    Thanks for the link up

    Reply
  4. Tammy Flores-Alarcon says

    September 23, 2014 at 10:25 am

    Where have you been all my life? Just found you and well honestly not positive I’m ready to take the next step just yet..but I want and need to. Praying I do it sooner than later. Thanks so much

    Reply
    • Dana White says

      September 23, 2014 at 10:37 am

      Welcome, Tammy!

      Reply
  5. Shawn Vargas says

    January 27, 2024 at 11:11 pm

    Today I guess we decluttered a broken blower motor from the furnace, and air filters. Haha!
    Also a cute head band my girls weren’t fond of.
    And a can of biscuits that were on the way of expiring. Food, either trashed, donated or eaten is my favorite thing to declutter!!

    Prayers for the papers & memory items!

    Reply
  6. Kit says

    September 8, 2024 at 7:32 am

    Turns out I forgot a whole filing cabinet drawer when I was decluttering office supplies the last few weeks. Did that yesterday, also moving it next to the others to clear a space next to the back door.

    Actually emptied the drawer, so was able to put all papers and labels from the file box into that drawer! Spouse was so pleased with the cleared space that he immediately left his video game to sweep the floor there. ^^

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Want solutions to your biggest decluttering problems?

Get my newsletter and we'll start by teaching you how to declutter without making a bigger mess.
* = required field

Popular Posts

Why-I-Have-To-Run-My-Dishwasher-Every-Single-Night-at-ASlobComesClean.com sidebar
Five Truths about a Clean Kitchen even without a dishwasher at ASlobComesClean.com sidebar
How to Clean a Messy House at ASlobComesClean.com sidebar

Topics:

blogcast Cleaning daily checklist decluttering failures figuring myself out kitchen laundry Menu Plan Monday organization parenting podcasts progress random stories reader stories recipes sponsored posts Uncategorized

  • PR/Advertising
  • Privacy Policy
  • Contact
  • Website Terms and Conditions
Search

  • About
  • Contact
  • TV & Media

© Dana K. White | Site by Little Leaf Design