Dana K. White

A SLOB COMES CLEAN

Reality-Based Cleaning, Decluttering, & Organizing

How Habit #1 Really Does Change My Life

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My friend Mary of Giving Up on Perfect offered to write this post after a comment I made in my first Google+ Hangout where she was a guest. (She was there when I messed up and it didn't record.) As I introduced her, I shared that I remember the first time I met her because she said she had been running her dishwasher every night(ish) since she read … [Read more...]

Is Intentional Living in the Big Stuff or the Little Stuff?

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I mentioned on Facebook this week that I was giddy over the fact that for a few short hours, I was beating the Cookie Monster in the top ten list for my podcast category in iTunes. I said if I had a bucket list, I'd write that down just so I could cross it off. But I don't have a bucket list. So I started thinking about whether I should have … [Read more...]

Three Things I Pitched This Week

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  I could write an angst-filled post about each one of these, but I'll spare you. They're all things that OBviously needed to go, but still caused me to hes . . . i . . . tate before I decided to throw them in the trash. Broken kitchen scissors. I love my kitchen scissors, but as I trimmed my 40 lbs of chicken, they snapped. … [Read more...]

Do it Now or Do it Later

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I'm pretty sure "Do it Now or Do it Later" was a phrase my mother said to me as a child. So I guess I should give up on the dream that my children will take all of my motherly advice to heart and avoid life's struggles. The phrase came to my head on Sunday afternoon as I vacuumed. I had procrastinated as LONG as I possibly could. I was … [Read more...]

Creating a New Comfort Zone

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  I haven't written much about the fact that . . . . I have worked out (like, at a gym and EVERYthing) at least three days a week for eight weeks now. It's the ninth week, and I've already done two days. I'm proud of myself, but I'm petrified that the minute I write a post stating that "this is my workout routine" I'll break my … [Read more...]

Wasting Time Because I Tried to Save It

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I vaguely remember thinking I did not have time to put the red lid back on the soap-dispensing scrubber that had somehow come apart. I'm sure it made more sense to me to wait until later. To do it when I was dealing with sink-stuff anyway. That would be more efficient, right? As usual with these sorts of things, I was wrong. Putting the … [Read more...]

Nony Starts Using Grown-Up Glasses (And Declutters Her Kitchen Cabinet in a Webisode)

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Oh, the layers of procrastination that exist in this project. First, I received a lovely set of glasses for Christmas. In 2012. They were beautiful, appreciated, and perfect. And they sat in the bottom of my kitchen pantry for the next eight months . . . In the box. Even though I was glad to have them, there was the whole matter … [Read more...]