How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind: Dealing with Your House's Dirty Little Secrets

by Dana K. White

Methods don’t clean your house. You have to clean your house.

Most things that look easy are skills. Skills can be learned.

Once you have a well-practiced skill, it looks easy, but making something look easy takes a lot of hard work.

Weeks into my deslobification process, I was learning that habits were the way to go. Habits were making a much bigger impact than I ever thought possible.

My point is for you to start looking for small ways you can remove worry, stress, and decision-making from your daily life.

When something registers as a recurring annoyance, try making a decision that will prevent it from being an irritation in the future.

Routines remove the need to make the same decisions over and over again.

Decluttering that creates a bigger mess is decluttering that depends on later.