Podcast #10!!! I’ve been trying to not have a podcast at the top of the site (since this is a BLOG), but since I’ve taken some time off this week I’m making it my main post for Friday.
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Posts mentioned on this podcast:
Why I Really Have to Sweep Everyday
28 Days to Hope for Your Home (my e-book)
Three Things I Pitched This Week
Intentional living – Is it in the Big Stuff or Small Stuff?
How Habit 1 Really Does Change My Life (guest post by Mary of Giving Up on Perfect)
2 Second Task – Moving Unused Stuff
General:
I really need to remember to put on one of your podcasts and listen to it every day for decluttering motivation. If I hadn’t gotten to this one so late at night, I’d have gotten more done…but a little is better than nothing. 🙂
Just a quick thought on stray socks… I kind of like putting them (if they’re already clean) in a rag bag – for icky jobs that I don’t want to use paper towels or a washcloth for. Just a one-time-use kind of thing where I can clean up something awful and then pitch them in the trash. That way I’m getting rid of them, but I’m putting them to good use first.
LOL about the kitchen scissors. I think I might have mentioned this a week or two ago when I had to replace my can opener, but the old one just basically stopped working. Not 100% because if I used all of my muscle, I could get a can open, but by the time I finished, my hand hurt, and my thumb felt totally abused. I showed my son how to use the new one…and threw the old one in the trash. In shock he said something about we should hold onto that…just in case. Yeah, not!
Dana, your podcasts simply aren’t long enough :). I wait patiently for them each week and then in a blink of an eye, I’ve listened to them. Love them so much!
Grocery bags on the floor for the whole week that you walk around and ‘shop’ out of as you cook – I really thought that was only me who did that!
I have now been running my dishwasher every day and doing a load of laundry every day for three weeks. Right before listening to this podcast I had decided to start adding sweeping the kitchen to my list and I had to unpack those bags to get it done:)
Great podcast that I’ve asked my hubby to listen to so he can see I’m not the only one and there is hope!
Great podcast !!!!!!
I thought I was the only one who would literally pull things out of shopping bags on the floor when I need them! Found your blog and podcast a few weeks ago and I feel like we have the same struggles!! My house never stays clean for long, and I don’t even have kids! Aaaaa! Thanks for your blog, your tips are helping.
I know this is old, but I just found your blog/podcasts and I’ve been listening since yesterday and I have been so motivated. I decluttered my kitchen counters and table. My husband came home and he’s been working on putting the floor in the kitchen since we moved in in February and he said it looks good. Before bed he says, the house is looking good. He can’t stand clutter and having to do 100 things before he can do something. For example, If it’s time for bed he needs to make his breakfast shake but the blender bottle is dirty so he has to clean it but he can’t clean it because the sink is full of dishes and he can’t load the dishwasher because the clean dishes are still in there. I’ve already been working on doing the dishes every night before I found your blog and it helped a lot.
So, we were howling listening to this podcast. You say you always leave the kitchen cabinets open and my husband walks by and gives me this look. I DO THAT ALL THE TIME!! I have been trying to make a conscious effort to close them. The grocery bag thing? Guilty! A few podcasts ago he asked me if this is secretly my blog… Thank you so much for this blog. It’s definitely helped already and I am so excited to find someone that gets it. I also have 3 kids, right now they are 3, 2, and 7 months and am planning to homeschool, but I wondered how I can ever homeschool reading all these other homeschool mom blogs and their great posts and they have it together and I don’t. I’m feeling better since finding your blog. 🙂
So glad you found me!
I just learned about you podcasts from a friend last Friday and have been listening almost nonstop since. My kitchen and living room already look better! I’m in my 80s and have struggled all my life with cleaning and keeping order. Most of my 6 kids are the same ( not all!). The youngest stopped by today and I told her about your podcasts. I think you will have another enthusiastic follower besides me. Your thinking is much like mine it seems. All those books on how to organize never worked for me! Thank you for putting you thoughts and solutions out there!
I am a lot late to listening to these but I feel like you are my spirit animal lol. I had bags of groceries on my floor for probably a week. Glad I am not alone.
Love your podcast and your honesty. It’s a great inspiration. I am about 5 years behind, but l will catch up. I have also started reading your blog, but only on week three there so a lot to look forward to.
I commented yesterday on a different podcast how I discovered you after doing a “Clearing Clutter” Google search. My goal was to spend the day working on taxes, but I couldn’t find the desk under piles and piles of paper clutter. So, instead of working on taxes I have been listening to your podcasts while de-cluttering the office. I’m happy to report, I have filled a large bin of recyclable paper, another for shedding and another for trash. Now to get to the taxes…. HeeHee
BUT, what I really wanted to say is after listening, I so connect with your concept of “Slob Vision”! I don’t see messes or stuff because it becomes a part of my homes landscape. Today I stopped and took a good look at my dining room buffet and realized that in the midst of the clutter is a field camera I got last winter with the intention to hang by my compost to see what critters were getting into it. So, that has literally been on there taking up 1/4 of my buffet space for over a year! VERY EYE OPENING for sure. I could go on and on and on, but hopefully that one example proves my point. YIKES!
Thanks again for your open honesty. My life already is better because of you!
Amazing things are happening to me since starting to listen to this podcast! I’ve done cleaning and organizing three days in a row now, where usually it only happens once in a blue moon when I get a sudden rush of Neat Freak. Real progress has happened. Thank you so much for sharing and being honest. I too am a slob and have always just expected that someday I would magically become a good housekeeper – I thought when I got married or when I had my baby, but I still suck at it! And I keep getting overwhelmed by how terrible I am that nothing gets done. You are a fabulous cleaning companion. Thank you so much.
I love that you have a podcast. I thoroughly enjoy reading cleaning books, they are full of information and helpful tips and ideas for checklists and all of the good things.
However, when I am reading, I am often avoiding cleaning. Nothing like procrastination to make me pick up a new hobby, habit, or book! The downside is that I become so interested in the book, blog, etc., that I never actually do it.
Having a podcast means I can take the inspired energy that your words give me and put them to use while still absorbing. I’ll be honest, I have listened to 6 episodes while I decluttered a small shelf that I have avoided for months. Hearing you say that it is okay to do the small things and that every progress is still progress is fulfilling to my slob soul. I connect with this podcast so much and listening to your slob story rings so true for me that I feel myself crying while listening because it’s the first time someone has addressed that clutter sometimes is way bigger than just a few papers, and that you can’t have people over for fear of judgement.
I discovered your blog about a year ago, (as well as others) and have found my inspiration. I had my first friend over in 2 years this month and felt so much pride for my home. It’s still cluttered, there’s still piles and boxes around that I am working on, but there’s hope. Ita not shameful, it’s part of my story and I really am looking forward to what is next for me.
Thanks for your blog, but even more, thanks for your podcast.
Just stopped in to say that as I was listening to this podcast and found you were describing me 100%. I am so glad to have found someone who can relate to me and my situation and can give me practical tips that I know will help me. Thank you so much.
Dana – thank you – I am a slob but I am doing what I can on my part to fix my habits I’ve recently found your podcast from watching you on YouTube. My two grown up children are both cabinet doors openers but not closers and this has just explained this to me, my daughter is autistic so she loves rules etc and very rarely breaks rules but I can’t get her to close the kitchen cabinet doors, it’s been causing me so many melt downs from her whenever I point this out to her when I should just accept it and work on closing them instead of reminder her she hasn’t closed the door again, I can seriously tell what she has eaten for supper when I walk into the kitchen by which doors are left open and which jars have their lid not closed properly. This cracks me up x
I’m so glad my friend recommended your podcast to me! Soo helpful – I feel so seen, and you are spot on with the creative mindsets tending to have the “slob vision”.
Quick story on the open cabinets…
I was living on my own in an apartment complex whose doors faced outwardly. I arrived home late from work one night (around 11:30pm) and found that I had left my door unlocked (a big deal as I wasn’t necessarily living in the safest part of town).
Anyhow, I asked a neighbor to watch me as I entered my apartment to make sure everything was okay. As I entered I left the door open as I searched my apartment, allowing my neighbor to peer in and notice that all my cabinets were open and it looked like someone had gone through my apartment. However, I had to assure him that that is how my apartment normally looked and that I tended to leave cabinets open.. UGH!
Suffice to say I am benefitting greatly from this newly discovered podcast. Thanks a million ♥️