Dana K. White

A SLOB COMES CLEAN

Reality-Based Cleaning, Decluttering, & Organizing

Three Ways Your Laundry Routine Can Keep You From Ironing

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Doing laundry is required. Ironing is (usually) optional. I actually don't hate ironing as long as I have plenty of time available to do it properly. And as long as there's no clutter piled on the ironing board. Hahahahaha!!! As if! Plenty of time . . . do it properly . . . no clutter?!?! (Let me catch my breath!) Here are ways I've … [Read more...]

My Laundry Room Before and After and New Samsung Washer/Dryer Set from Nebraska Furniture Mart! (a sponsored post)

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My Laundry Room could have been worse, y'all. But it was bad enough. Bad enough for its own regularly scheduled decluttering/rearranging/general-clean-up post. The need became urgent when I received an exceedingly lovely email from Nebraska Furniture Mart (a HUGEmongous furniture-and-more store here in the Dallas area and in other areas of … [Read more...]

But, but, but . . . My MAMA Had a Coupon Drawer!

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Have you heard that story about the woman whose daughter asked why she chopped off the end of the roast before cooking it? The woman responded that she didn't actually know why, but did it because that was what her mother had always done. The daughter then asked her grandmother the reason for this "technique." Her grandmother's response? "Oh. I had … [Read more...]

Laundry Ideas for a Good Cause

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I've been closely following the unique journey of Alina and her family over the past six-or-so months. Alina did some work here on A Slob Comes Clean for a while.  (The cute-as-can-be envelope graphic for our reader stories was designed by her.) She's a mama who is passionate about family and has recently started working toward adding to their … [Read more...]

Onions in My Flipflops (And Other Problems Caused by Messy Kitchen Counters)

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I was sitting in a meeting. It's wasn't an intense meeting, but it wasn't a take-your-shoes-off-and-figure-out-what's-between-them-and-your-feet meeting, either. As I sat, attempting to concentrate so I wouldn't be incoherent if called upon to give an opinion, I moved my feet in my flipflops. Something was wrong. I'd run out of the … [Read more...]

092 My Right Now Reality Podcast

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  Warning, this is a blathery one. It's a look inside my head and heart that may not even make sense. Mentioned in this podcast: How to read the blog from the beginning. Giving God the Worst of Me (Free e-book) The Happy Hour Podcast Not sure if I mentioned this in the podcast or in one of the two times I started the … [Read more...]

The Thing About Paper Piles

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I'm a Paper Pile Hater. I'll admit it. Paper piles contain so many decisions to be made, and those decisions overwhelm me on their own, so a pile full of overwhelming decisions makes me hold my eyes just so until the blurring lets me not see the mess. But I've learned a thing or two (or seventy-eleven) about piles in general over the past six … [Read more...]

4 Kinds of Clothes to Purge (Obvious, but Strangely Not)

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I'm on a quest to purge my clothing. I keep telling myself I need to make a project of it, but that hasn't happened yet. Thankfully, though, I've learned the value of Purging as I Go, or a lifestyle of decluttering, so I pitch a few things here and there when I realize their time has come and gone. Here are a few of my latest clothing purges, … [Read more...]