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079 T.P.A.D. Time Passage Awareness Disorder Podcast

December 17, 2015 By Dana White | 8 Comments

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Podcast #79 from ASlobComesClean.com - T.P.A.D. Time Passage Awareness Disorder

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I answer a few questions at the beginning of the podcast, including whether I’ve read the hit decluttering book by Marie Kondo. The short answer is no. I haven’t read it. I go into the long answer of why I haven’t and my thoughts on whether you should read it in the podcast. Here’s my affiliate link to the book on Amazon: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.

Also mentioned in this podcast:

28 Days to Hope for Your Home (now a retired e-book. For detailed guides, check out my books: How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind and Decluttering at the Speed of Life.)

How Long Does it Actually Take to Empty the Dishwasher

Weekly Cleaning Tasks

My Changing View of Space and Value

 

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--Nony

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  1. Stella says

    December 21, 2015 at 6:59 pm

    “It’s been a long week and with my day over and the dishes needing washing I snuck a moment to visit ASCC. Happy day! There’s a new podcast to listen to while I do my dishes (which I wasn’t going to do, but now I’ve got entertainment to wash to).

    Now I have to jump in with a tip for car cleaning from this really smart, funny, talented woman I know from her blog – now she doesn’t talk about car cleaning tips specifically but she does have this really great tip that I think will work really well – she calls it a ‘5 minute pickup’. 5 Minute pickups work like magic and I don’t think she’ll mind at all if everyone just goes right ahead and uses that tip any time they need to get their car decluttered. ‘wink wink’

    And onto the next part of the podcast. I am familiar both methods, the Nony Comes Clean method by Dana White aka ‘Nony the slob’ and the Konmari method by Marie Kondo.
    Right off I just want to say that they couldn’t be more different. Marie Kondo is what I would term a ‘Clean Freak’ and Nony isn’t. I would describe the Konmari method as being more useful for the ‘mildly disorganised’ and while her methods may be of some use to the severely disorganised they very well could leave them feeling totally overwhelmed and in dire need of some super organised clean fanatic to come and sort things out for them. The Nony Comes Clean method however is written from the perspective of how to get there by someone who has experienced slobdom and the sensation of drowning in stuff.
    The main area of overlap in these two methods is to get rid of the excess stuff but the journey there is rather different.
    If you’re just looking to empty a few cupboards Konmari is a good choice but if your hallways are stacked high and your flat surfaces threaten to avalanche Nony can help, more then that she can give you hope. “

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  2. Deborah says

    December 26, 2015 at 11:05 am

    T-Pad – HA – you nailed me! Great podcast. And you are correct – Marie Kondo is a cleaning consultant from Japan whose bestseller eventually crossed the ocean. After reading her book I found some of her concepts a little “out there” (no – I will not be thanking my purse everyday) and one or two were process changing for me. All in all, definitely worth the read. I’ve probably consumed about 30 such books – and I’ve gotten something from everyone and everything from no one.

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  3. Kelly says

    February 17, 2016 at 11:52 am

    I haven’t read the Marie Kondo book, but I’ve seen a few videos of her and of some people using her method. I think her book falls into the category of ‘books written by people who like cleaning and organizing’ :0)

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  4. Petra says

    January 19, 2017 at 11:41 am

    I could not find any posts explaining TPAD other than this podcast, then had to listen to 17 minutes of rambling before TPAD even came up (it’s between about 17:30 and 25:00 for those who also came for that). I love the blog, but maybe you could provide a transcript of the podcasts or a note about where in the podcast the actual subject is.

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  5. Sarah says

    January 23, 2017 at 10:38 am

    I agree with Petra — also I read your blog while I’m on my break at the office, so having things that don’t require having the sound on are the best! 🙂 (I’m not saying “don’t have podcasts” — I listen to them in the car and they’re great — but I’d love to have transcripts or companion posts or something….)

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  6. Skriddles says

    January 24, 2017 at 9:33 pm

    I think there’s an official name for T.P.A.D. Being prone to it myself, I’m pretty sure I heard it mentioned on a podcast from ADDitude Magazine. I looked it up and I think it’s Dyschronometria.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyschronometria#Dyslexia
    Then I saw that it was related, at least in the Wikipedia article, to Dyslexia, which I also have. Interesting!

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  7. Emily says

    August 8, 2018 at 11:23 am

    Regarding Marie Kondo, this was a great response from the perspective of someone who hasn’t read the book (referring to Dana; I have read it).

    In response to some of the other comments here:
    * Marie Kondo was very disorganized and very cluttered. She always WANTED to be organized, and struggled throughout her childhood & teen years to be organized. If I recall correctly, she read a book (also Japanese, I think) about decluttering, and that is what made the difference for her. Once she decluttered, she found it so much easier to organize. This is one of the areas where she and Dana are in agreement. Marie has some specific methods for decluttering, which do work well.

    *I think people (Not Dana, for reasons Dana mentioned in this podcast) need to read all of Marie’s books and also watch some videos featuring Marie and let it sink in. It might not all make sense at first. I thought talking to my stuff was really weird, but once you try it, it does help a lot, particularly with the sentimental items, whether that is a photo, card, or even a shirt.

    *If you think a room/hallway piled high is not compatible with Marie Kondo, you should re-read the books (such situations with some of her clients are mentioned), or watch some of the videos featuring her.

    Dana, I don’t think anyone but you sees if there have been new replies to a person’s post. If you reply to this, I won’t be notified (I don’t think)–I have left comments on previous posts and have no idea if there were any replies. A lot of other blogs have the feature where I can choose to be notified. Do you think this is a feature that you could add? The only way I’d know is to dig back through every post on your blog, look for a comment/reply I might have made, and see if there were any new comments/replies.

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  8. Marlene says

    April 16, 2019 at 9:26 am

    Emily, I had the same thought. The only social media In on us Goodreads, and they do it pretty well. They have their own platform – or whatever the right word is – that would be nice.

    To the people who are looking for transcripts – Nony has blogs you can read, FYI.

    I like the idea of timing myself doing tasks SO THAT I can know which awkward pauses to squeeze them into.

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