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357: Helpful vs. Unhelpful Comments/Advice About Decluttering

December 15, 2022 By Dana White | 2 Comments

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Is it possible to really change how I clean my house?

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I had a question from someone who feels like she halts her own decluttering progress when she thinks about what her mother would say (or has said) that was meant to be encouraging, but wasn’t.

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  1. Janet says

    December 15, 2022 at 1:59 pm

    I just wish my mom were still alive to read your book and hear your voice. She always would say, “next week, we’re going to get organized.” She always had clean and cleared flat surfaces, but drawers and cabinets were crammed full. It never dawned on her that there is more value to letting go of perfectly good items that are no longer needed in life.

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  2. Renee says

    May 5, 2025 at 3:53 pm

    This (Podcast 357) is one of the best I’ve heard yet. As a mom of mid-life adults who have no more clue than I did about handling “stuff”, and one who has probably already said too many of the wrong things in an effort to encourage, I very much appreciate hearing some specific examples of more helpful wording. Thank you for that and for your beginning statements about how mothers love their “kids,” no matter how old and need some grace for all our blunders. I need the grace (!) but also need to have it for my own mom, who was such a loving and good mother (almost saintly) but still managed to miss being the mom I needed, being so very much different from her in nature, in personality and in environmental situation. I’m going to flag this episode and listen again before long.

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