Dana K. White

A SLOB COMES CLEAN

Reality-Based Cleaning, Decluttering, & Organizing

The Gift of Clean? Yes, Please!

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This post is sponsored by Scotch-Brite! Mother's Day is coming. Over the years, I've done some Mother's Day training in our home. Since no one who matters will listen to my suggestion that Father's Day should come before Mother's Day (so moms could demonstrate proper celebration procedures), I've had to create a few rules: #1: Presents … [Read more...]

Parting With An Old Friend Who Just Doesn’t Support Me the Way She Used To

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Dear Friend, It's not you. It's me. Fine. It IS you. Here's the thing. We've been together for years. They were good years. Really. It's not that I'm ungrateful. But things have changed. I've changed. You've changed. Part of that is just how life goes. Our relationship, naturally, meant stretching and tugging . . . but over time all … [Read more...]

Filling Up the Donate Box

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With end-of-school-year-madness already beginning, I've been so very good about putting things into the calendar on my phone AND setting reminders to appear the day before and hour before. Really, that kind of brain-saving technology was made for me. But I hadn't remembered to put Monday's donation pick-up on my calendar, so I was excited … [Read more...]

Idea for Decluttering Old Cell Phones

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This post is one big affiliate link. I don't usually do those, but this one came to my attention and I wanted to share since it's something I personally needed! I'm in the market for a new iPhone. Honestly, I assumed once I hit my "eligible for upgrade" moment, I'd march right into the store and do the deal. I did march right in, but … [Read more...]

Reduce the Bedside Pile of Books! $49 Sale on Basic Kindle Today!

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Affiliate links are included in this post. In fact, they're the main reason I wrote it. Well, affiliate links and a desire to be helpful, of course. Really. I had to share that the most basic Kindle (the one I have and loooove) is on sale today, April 29, 2014 for only $49!!!! That's an AMAZING price, and would make a wonderful Mother's Day … [Read more...]

Subconsciously Decluttering

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When it was time to dye Easter eggs, I headed to the coffee cup cabinet. We had five colors, so I chose my five least favorite coffee cups to hold the colored water. As I pulled those coffee cups out of the dishwasher on Monday morning (we didn't have time to dye eggs until Sunday afternoon), I realized  each cup was chosen because there was … [Read more...]