Dana K. White

A SLOB COMES CLEAN

Reality-Based Cleaning, Decluttering, & Organizing

Five Minute Friday – The Top of My Dresser #5MinuteFriday

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It's Friday, so I decided to take 5 whole minutes to tackle something. I tackled my own dresser. I set the timer on my phone. I started grabbing things and taking them to their homes (where I would look for them first, as in my first decluttering question) immediately. Five minutes was ALL the time I gave myself, so I wasn't about to create … [Read more...]

The Reality of Handwashing Dishes for a Family of Five

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I am one dedicated slob blogger, y'all. Unless you're brand spankin' new around here, you know how I feel about doing the dishes. I don't love it and never will, but I know for a fact (from experience) that doing the dishes is THE thing that will get any house going on its deslobification process. And NOT doing the dishes is (logically) the … [Read more...]

10 Easy Ways to Have a Neater Home in the New Year

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Don't worry. I'm not over-simplifying or assuming your home is a few tweaks away from perfection. But these ten simple things that I've learned the (very) hard way over the past seven years of my own deslobification process have had a big impact. A much bigger impact that I would have ever believed possible. 1. Do your dishes. I could go on and … [Read more...]

Strange Organizing Strategies that Work – Storing Food Containers

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Does organizing your Tupperware cabinet make you crazy? Do you automatically cover your head every time you open the door to protect yourself from falling food storage containers? I get it. I've totally been there. I arranged and re-arranged and organized and re-organized that space so many times. It seemed that no matter what I did, the mess … [Read more...]