Dana K. White

A SLOB COMES CLEAN

Reality-Based Cleaning, Decluttering, & Organizing

Daily Checklist and Day One of the Thirty Day Shred Challenge

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I did the 30 Day Shred DVD today.

I did it for a little less than two weeks at the beginning of last summer.

If you feel like life is passing you by, and you just want time to slow down . . . do this workout. I promise you that it will be the longest 20 minutes of your life.

I did the whole thing, unlike a few weeks ago when I “tried to get started again” and gave up about a quarter of the way through.

Do the math. That’s 5 whole minutes. On level one.

But today I did it, and I only cheated a little.

As for my daily checklist, I:

Made bed.

Cleaned kitchen. (Not a huge task thanks to hubby’s help over the weekend.)

Swept kitchen.

Did a 5 minute pick-up.

Just now, at 1:00, started my final load of clothes for Laundry Day.

Beautiful Things

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Whew! That was a crazy weekend with my son’s birthday party, and then a fun-packed day today. It’s the kind of weekend that makes my slob-vision flare up. Focus on the fun . . . and the clutter in my peripheral vision blurs. Thankfully, my husband has cleaned the kitchen this weekend. More than once. […]

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Cooking Ahead = Meals From Scratch in Minutes (And My Chicken Fried Rice Recipe w/Pics)

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  It’s freezer cooking time again. Last month, we focused on breakfasts, and I had a blast in the kitchen with the kids. The blueberry pancakes were gobbled up quickly, so I’d like to make some more of those this month. Other than that, I’m not going to do anything time-intensive. I’m going to stick […]

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Ugh. Exercise.

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Why oh why did I get on Twitter just now?   I should have been cleaning the kitchen. I should have been making the icing for my son’s birthday cake. I should have been doing anything other than checking Twitter.   Why, you ask, am I being so dramatic?   I did my normal Twitter […]

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Daily Checklist and Party Prep

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Friday is my son’s birthday party.  He’ll be 7 next Monday. I throw parties every other year for my kids, and while I do enjoy the stress-free “off” years, I looovvveee the “on” years more. While I don’t really shine in the area of housekeeping, party-throwing is right up my alley. My mind gets going […]

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Seeing Things That Aren’t There

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For the past two weeks, I’ve dusted on Friday. You’re right. I should call the Guiness people. Anyway, this bizarre thing has been happening. It’s like my Super-Selective-Slob-Vision has been reversed. Every time I walk by the TV, I notice that it doesn’t have dust. How is that possible  . . . since I never […]

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Attacking Clothing Clutter

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It’s time. Time to reclaim the master bedroom. The biggest challenge? Clothing clutter. Last week, it looked like this: OK, let me explain part of my slob-problem here. You look at this picture and see chaos. I look at this picture and see a logical explanation. Where we live, summers are hot. When we packed […]

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Fakin’ It

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When I’m at my in-laws house, I’m a cleaning fool. Not that they don’t know I have “issues.” There have been enough less-than-two-weeks-warning visits over the years that my secret isn’t completely safe. But when I’m at their house, I’m Queen Dishwasher. See, for the first few years we were married, I was lost over […]

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