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August’s Decluttering Update – Come Join In!

August 30, 2011 By Dana White 5 Comments

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I got a little bumfuzzled when I typed August just now.  Aren’t we heading into August?  We couldn’t possibly be coming out of it!

And that, folks, describes my summer.

It’s also my excuse for why there’s only one post in my decluttering category for August.  Thankfully, it was a doozie, and included my first webisode.

I’m also including the ba-jillion all-the-bleach-in-the-world-couldn’t-get-them-white-again socks that I threw away, even though I threw them away . . . in July.  I didn’t blog about them until August, and really . . . if I don’t blog about it, it doesn’t exist.

Which means that I probably shouldn’t count these clothes that I put in the Donate Pile and photographed.  The title of the still-unwritten post for this picture is “If they’re not my style now, they won’t be my style 20 pounds from now.”

Which pretty much explains everything.  So I now I don’t need to write that post.

How did you do in August?  I’ve loved to hear about your decluttering efforts over on my Facebook Page.  Join in here in the comments or by linking up a blog post and share your totals (as best as you can remember) for the month.

If you link up a blog post, you must link back to A Slob Comes Clean within your post.  I’ll be happy to help if you don’t know how to do that.

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ONE Reason I Have a Hard Time Throwing Things Away

August 29, 2011 By Dana White 26 Comments

201shares 198 0 3 This is a sock. A why-do-they-take-their-shoes-off-but-not-their-socks-when-they’re-playing-outside sock. As I’m folding laundry, it DOES register that socks like these should be tossed straight into the trashcan.  Unlike towels on the bathroom floor, I do see the holes and acknowledge the sock’s worthlessness. But this summer, I had to make a VERY conscious […]

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How to Make Fried Okra (The BEST Fried Okra!) and My Menu Plan

August 28, 2011 By Dana White 13 Comments

1.7Kshares 385 0 1.3K Let me begin with a few disclaimers: This will be a humility-free post. I feel no need to downplay how awesome my fried okra is, or to be politically correct and say that there are different methods for frying okra.  No matter what kind of fried okra you think you like, […]

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How to Clean Up Your House When the Doorbell ISN’T Scheduled to Ring

August 26, 2011 By Dana White 7 Comments

76shares 72 0 4 So, I’ve been at this slob-blogging thing for two years. I’m pretty sure that I will never write a boy-it-feels-great-to-have-it-all-together post for a blogiversary . . . since my blogiversary will always fall during the first week of school. Which is also the first week after the routine-free summer (which I […]

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Decluttering the Kitchen Drawer

August 25, 2011 By Dana White 27 Comments

352shares 290 0 62  This drawer has been making me crazy. For a very . . . . long . . . . time. It’s the drawer that makes me appear to be a neurotically over-zealous host.  While in fact, I’m just neurotic. When a casual serve-yourself-from-the-stove guest asks where the forks are . . […]

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Two Years Down . . . A Half-Century (or So) to Go

August 24, 2011 By Dana White 42 Comments

73shares 70 0 3Today is my second blogiversary!!! Meaning . . . two years ago today I wrote the first post on A Slob Comes Clean. No one knew I was writing it.  Not even my husband. I had just come up with the blogging-for-accountability-and-focus idea and had to get going. Like when you’re standing […]

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What if I Can’t Handle the Truth?

August 23, 2011 By Dana White 10 Comments

48shares 46 0 2 A few months ago, I heard that BookSneeze was accepting applications from bloggers to blog for Women of Faith. I applied, thinking . . . . “Y’know, I really should explore the spiritual aspects of this slob-thing, and this might be a good way to start doing that.” I never heard […]

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I Wonder What It’s Like to Get a Running Start . . .

August 22, 2011 By Dana White 23 Comments

13shares 13 0 0 Today is the first day of school.  It’s back to routine. I’m sad.  (So sad that I won’t elaborate on just-how-sad out of fear that my computer will be ruined by the flood of tears.) But the routine does feel good. I got out of bed at 6 a.m. and immediately […]

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Delusions of My Future – I’ll Suddenly Be Crafty

August 19, 2011 By Dana White 4 Comments

249shares 248 0 1 Craftiness is one of my delusions. I’ve had a lot of excuses for not being crafty over the years. A few were: It’s hard to start a project when there is no guarantee of uninterrupted time to finish it. It’s difficult to browse a craft store with a child along who […]

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