Dana K. White

A SLOB COMES CLEAN

Reality-Based Cleaning, Decluttering, & Organizing

Our Last Official Week of Eating from the Pantry

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This is it. A week from today is . . . PAYDAY!!! When I heard about the Pantry Challenge that Moneysavingmom and Lifeasmom were hosting, I decided to do it because it was something I had been thinking about anyway. January is always a difficult month for the grocery budget since hubby gets paid early in December, and this adds at least an … [Read more...]

I’ll Declutter . . . But Do I Have to Give Up ALL my Dreams?

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I worked some more in the kitchen today. As I've said before, finding a place for everything sounds nice, but it's a LOT of work. I began by looking for a place to put the Dollar Tree glasses that I washed yesterday. I ventured into an upper cabinet in a totally inconvenient place that I consistently forget exists. Good place for these … [Read more...]

Pantry Challenge is Making me a Little Nervous

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I'm getting nervous. My convenience foods are disappearing. The cupboard and the fridge are beginning to look especially bare. The freezer is getting there. This is what I wanted to do. But convenience food is so . . . . convenient. My mother grew up on a farm. She had a disdain for convenience food that she passed down to me . Things should … [Read more...]

Daily Checklist – Kids are home

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The kids are out of school today. Fun fun fun, but not so good on keeping me on track with daily tasks. Today I:Made bed.Emptied dishwasher.Cleaned up kitchen including the crock pot full of beans that I started yesterday at 4pm and forgot about completely until I woke up at 3am and smelled something. I went and unplugged them at that point. … [Read more...]

Bringing Beauty Out of Hiding

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I started doing some random decluttering this morning, and ended up very happy with big results. I began by moving some glass goblets that I had purchased at the Dollar Tree a while back because I "didn't have any nice glasses to use with my formal china." I learned this three Thanksgivings ago when we used our formal china for the first and … [Read more...]

Daily Checklist

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Today I:Made bed. Didn't empty dishwasher because I didn't run it last night.Swept kitchen.Made to-do list.Cleaned up kitchen.Did a focused 5 minute pickup. (What a HUGE difference this makes!)Washed and dried a load of laundry.Checked bathrooms for clutter.Put away clothes in bedroom.Last night I:Put out clothes.Checked laundry. … [Read more...]

I’m not Disabled

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My thumb hurts. Really bad. With the dry weather, my skin is cracking and this place on my thumb is split open, bleeding, and painful. But I'm not disabled. You just don't think about how much you use your thumb. I feel like I'm hitting it on everything. Trying to take notes at Bible study this morning, I had to hold my pen funny to be able to … [Read more...]

Finding Places . . . . for EVERYthing?

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  Did I really say I would find a place for EVERYthing? In my house, everything is a lot of stuff. I guess that's the point. Thanks to my daily to-do list, I've been going through different hiding spots. Spots which at one point I thought were good places for those totally-random-items that don't have any other place to … [Read more...]