How To Declutter Your Home: 5 Tips That Actually Work

If you find that the clutter keeps piling up, this episode will blow your mind.

You’re going to learn a foolproof decluttering method that has transformed Mel’s home.

The incredible Dana K. White, founder of the hit blog, A Slob Comes Clean, and author of How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind, is here to help you  tackle your clutter and the overwhelm that comes with it. 

Today she shares a five-step process that’s revolutionized the way countless people manage their lives—and it’s not about buying more containers or wasting time making everything look perfect. 

This is decluttering like you’ve never heard it before, designed to make your life easier, your mind clearer, and your home more peaceful. 

This episode will give you the first step to finally feeling less underwater (no matter what your shelves, desk, or bathroom counter looks like right now!). 

This is an encore episode with new and exciting insights from Mel at the top.

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‍In this episode:

• 4:33: Have you been wanting to declutter your home?  
• 8:51: The foolproof decluttering method that transformed Mel’s home. 
• 14:18: You’ve spent your whole life organizing wrong, here’s why.
• 16:57: Stop rearranging your mess, start ditching the stuff you don’t need. 
• 19:47: Why you need to start decluttering your space, for better mental health.
• 22:17: You should start seeing containers as boundaries, not just storage. 
• 28:42: The most  effective 5-step decluttering method you’ll ever learn. 
• 34:39: Start with the easy stuff: manage your home without losing your mind. 
• 35:44: Why you should make donations part of your decluttering game plan. 
• 39:28: The must-ask questions that will transform your decluttering process.
• 47:30: Your first step to finally feeling less underwater.  
• 52:02: Decluttering is more than cleaning: it’s a powerful tool to see reality. 
• 1:00:01: Dana’s game-changing advice for dealing with your spouse’s clutter habits. 
• 1:03:06: Why staying unemotional is the key to successful decluttering. 

‍Featured Expert: Dana K. White

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Additional Resources

• The New York Times: Why We Clutter, and What To Do About It
• Forbes: The Top 9 Expert Strategies to Declutter Your Home
• Psychology Today: The Many Mental Benefits of Decluttering
• Journal of Environmental Psychology: The dark side of home: Assessing possession ‘clutter’ on subjective well-being
• Dana K. White: What is the difference between cleaning, decluttering and organizing? 
• The New York Times: The Unbearable Heaviness of Clutter
• CPTSD Foundation: How Our Emotional and Relational Trauma Creates Clutter
• VeryWell Mind: How Clutter and Mental Health are Connected
• The Washington Post: Clutter Wars
• Forbes: Why Decluttering Your Home Gives Your Brain an Instant Therapeutic Boost
• North American Journal of Psychology: Toward an understanding of psychological home and clutter with emerging adults: Relationships over relics
• The Journal of Design, Creative Process & the Fashion Industry: The “Joy of Letting Go”: Decluttering and Apparel
• ADDitude: How to Declutter with an ADHD Brain: Organization Solutions for Real Life
• Medium: Decluttering Tips for Neurodivergent People: Simplify Your Space for Better Mental Health
• Minnesota State University: Online Resources on Cluttering: The Other Fluency Disorder
• ‍The Journal of Consumer Affairs: Having less: A personal project taxonomy of consumers’ decluttering orientations, motives and emotions