Dana K. White

A SLOB COMES CLEAN

Reality-Based Cleaning, Decluttering, & Organizing

A Gadget That I Actually Use . . . No Really

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I’m going to give full credit to my 8yo here. He’s the one who pulled the cord on this lightbulb moment.

My shower has been pretty clean since I started doing my weekly tasks.

Before that . . . not so much.

One night, pre-regular-shower-cleaning, I noticed that he was taking extra long in the shower. I didn’t think much of it until I took my shower the next morning. The floor looked better.

Every time he showered, it got even better.

He had figured out, completely on his own, that scrubbing the shower floor gets the grime off. Even without spraying anything on it. To make myself feel better, I choose to believe that he was having fun, not that he was feeling completely scarred, and desperate to clean the shower his mother had long neglected.

Once I actually started cleaning the shower on a regular basis (not depending on cleaning intuition) I started noticing small amounts of floor ick, before it got to the point that it was overwhelming. That little brush was sitting there in the floor of the shower, and it turns out that it’s just flexible and textured enough that I can put my foot on it and scrub, without even bending over! I started quickly scrubbing off any grimy spots the minute they started to be visible.

Walah! The ick was gone!

Now, with that little revelation and weekly cleaning, my shower is rarely full-fledged-icky.

 

Conversations with Normal People – Scene 2

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Conversations with Normal People – Scene 2 The cast: Slob – Outgoing, funny, most people don’t know that she is a slob. Normal Person – Low key, easygoing. Slob’s Daughter – 4 years old, loves to make conversation with new people, absurdly verbal. The Cleaning Woman – Hardworking and friendly. The setting – A School […]

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June Decluttering Update

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When I saw on Twitter that Amy over at The Finer Things in Life had posted the June decluttering update linky, I thought that she must be doing it early since she’s going to the Savvy Blogging Summit. Except that June IS over. Wow. So here goes, my decluttering progress for June: (I fully expected […]

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Conversations with Normal People

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Conversations with Normal People Scene 1 The setting – A typical suburban home.  Comfortable, relaxed decor.  No clutter in the scene. ———— The characters – The Slob The Slob’s Friend Various and assorted children of all heights. ——————- (The scene opens as the Slob’s child runs out of the Friend’s master bedroom.) Slob:  (gasps) CHILD, […]

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Hereditary Blindness

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It’s official.  I’ve passed down my selective-vision to my children. VBS is officially over, and I’m in cousins’ camp/vacation/Savvy Blogging Summit prep mode. One of the biggest things on my list?  Clean out the Suburban.  The brand-new-to-us-but-really-13-year-old-and-yes-we-do-listen-to-Dave-Ramsey-why-do-you-ask Suburban. Why is it important to point out that it is brand-new-to-us? Because although we’ve only had it […]

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