A Slob Comes Clean

purpleivy

Has anyone else seen this blog/book/podcast/FB group?  I have been listening to Dana over the last few days and she's really starting to brain wash me. I like her thinking. I didn't have the book, but it's on Kindle at Amazon for £1.99 at the moment. I treated myself to the audio supplement and listened to most of it while doing stuff over the last couple of days. She seems to talk sense to me! 

Any comments?  

elsien

Not heard of it. Is it another American sock folding type thing?

purpleivy

elsien said:

Not heard of it. Is it another American sock folding type thing?

Only if you want to. It's more about getting the general stuff under control, but the decluttering things make sense.  
You are encouraged to start with the visible. She only really has 2 questions for whether to keep something and all a lot more than 'sparking joy'. It meant a lot more to me than that. 

PasturesNew

I'd rather eat my own toenails than read the whitterings of somebody with a vast income and huge house ...... who is telling people how to organise and declutter vast amounts of stuff, the majority of which I've never owned.  
And.... she's American, so that's an entirely different ballgame, lifestyle, products availability and annual calendar to us here.

P.S. nobody needs to fold socks, so long as you can grab two that are very similar, that'll do most of the time  

Caramac

I read her decluttering book a couple of years ago and found it far more approachable than Marie Kondo. What I found helpful was she isn’t a naturally tidy person and her method works by not making everything worse before it gets better. She also has a YouTube channel.

3secondmemory

I get a prickly Itch whenever anybody mentions Marie condo. 

It kills me not being organised. I lurch from giving a good impression to complete chaos in days. Most of my possessions are in constant flux as I try and find them homes for them. 

When I had the children, I went manic the moment I had the house to myself because I knew if I raced from top to bottom I could get every single room tidy at the same time - it was what I lived for 😂😂 Now I have an empty house, I just don’t have the motivation

cheerfulcat

purpleivy said:

Has anyone else seen this blog/book/podcast/FB group?  I have been listening to Dana over the last few days and she's really starting to brain wash me. I like her thinking. I didn't have the book, but it's on Kindle at Amazon for £1.99 at the moment. I treated myself to the audio supplement and listened to most of it while doing stuff over the last couple of days. She seems to talk sense to me! 

Any comments?  

I like her. She’s quite funny, and very relatable if you struggle with keeping your house tidy. The book was a fun read. Having said that, I find Diane in Denmark ( ex-Flylady coach ) more useful for someone who has already decluttered https://dianedenmark.com/.

purpleivy

cheerfulcat said:

purpleivy said:

Has anyone else seen this blog/book/podcast/FB group?  I have been listening to Dana over the last few days and she's really starting to brain wash me. I like her thinking. I didn't have the book, but it's on Kindle at Amazon for £1.99 at the moment. I treated myself to the audio supplement and listened to most of it while doing stuff over the last couple of days. She seems to talk sense to me! 

Any comments?  

I like her. She’s quite funny, and very relatable if you struggle with keeping your house tidy. The book was a fun read. Having said that, I find Diane in Denmark ( ex-Flylady coach ) more useful for someone who has already decluttered https://dianedenmark.com/.

Thank you, I"ll have a look at Diane in Denmark too, though to be honest, Flylady did my head in.  
I think it's helping me get a grip.  When I lived with my parents at home, dishes were cleared from the table, washing up would be done and the same at my grandparents. It was only once I got in my own home with husband that it started to slip. he fundamentally doesn't care if the dishes are done immediately or not, but then he doesn't do them most of the time. He always does Sunday night if my MIL has been and is supposed to do Thursday as that's my choir night. But the kitchen is looking better and I'm regarding my surroundings now with a 'what shouldn't be there' mentality. 

cheerfulcat

I found the Flylady website horribly confusing but Diane explains the system very well! It really works, once you understand it. Note for those who dislike Americans - Diane is a lovely Scottish lady.

Rosa_Damascena

Caramac said:

I read her decluttering book a couple of years ago and found it far more approachable than Marie Kondo. What I found helpful was she isn’t a naturally tidy person and her method works by not making everything worse before it gets better. She also has a YouTube channel.

Well I was interested enough to Google her and see if her book is available in my local library, unfortunately it isn't but I shall look out for it when I visit chazzers, Not seen it this far to my knowledge.

Will amuse myself with her YouTube offerings at the weekend.

purpleivy

Rosa_Damascena said:

Caramac said:

I read her decluttering book a couple of years ago and found it far more approachable than Marie Kondo. What I found helpful was she isn’t a naturally tidy person and her method works by not making everything worse before it gets better. She also has a YouTube channel.

Well I was interested enough to Google her and see if her book is available in my local library, unfortunately it isn't but I shall look out for it when I visit chazzers, Not seen it this far to my knowledge.

Will amuse myself with her YouTube offerings at the weekend.

I find this comment somewhat xenophobic.