![]() When I got the urge to clean, all I had to do was. ![]() Once I got going on my deslobification process, focusing on daily stuff (dishes, laundry, etc.) and decluttering huge amounts of stuff I’d never actually needed, a strange thing happened. But because there was so much clutter, I rarely made it to the deep cleaning I wanted to do. When I got fed up with the mess and decided to “clean” my house, the first step was getting clutter out of the way. Before I started my deslobification process, I thought decluttering was part of cleaning. That was my spur of the moment answer, but I’ve thought a lot more about this distinction over the past seven years. But I’ve realized I can’t actually clean when there’s clutter everywhere.” And I know how to clean and I like things clean. My answer: “Before I started this process, I would have said I was a cluttered slob, because clutter is my biggest problem. I was asked, “Are you a dirty slob or a cluttered slob? There’s a difference, y’know.”Īt that point, I’d been self-analyzing my slob problem for almost a year, tracking and reporting what did and didn’t work to actually improve my home, and I had figured a lot out about myself, my slob tendencies and my lovely, oh-so-logical excuses. I clearly remember a conversation I had one evening. Most reacted as if they identified with this label I had put on myself through my blog. Strangely, no one was horrified or even rude about it. ![]() But even more difficult was the fact that, initially, these real people ONLY knew this one shameful thing about me. The first time I went to a blogging conference was also the first time I identified myself as a “slob” to real people in real life.
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