Daily Highlight: The Poop Rule

A new rule of thumb when considering what items to get rid of when decluttering. If there was poop on something valuable, would you throw it out or clean it?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning Show.
So we're trying to figure out the rule of thumb
that what's the rule you should always follow, and figuring
out if you want to keep something or get rid
of it.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Do you have one, Danielle?

Speaker 3 (00:15):
No, what about you?

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Gandhi?

Speaker 3 (00:21):
Okay, I try to stick by if I have to
wipe dust off of it, it's not something I need
anymore because I haven't touched in dust.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
I don't know. We live in a dusty world. I
don't know. What about you, Froggy. If you haven't used
it in one year, so one full calendar year, then
you should probably get rid of it, okay.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
And then we've also heard people say if it doesn't
bring you joy, okay. Well, so there's a new one.
It's called ready for this the poop rule. Okay, okay,
hear me out. Does not mean it's just a different
take on, you know, the rules. When you're trying to
figure out if you should keep something or get rid
of it, ask yourself this question. If the object had

(01:01):
poop on it, would I wash it off or throw
it away? That's good though, exactly the poop rule. I
sort of see some. I mean, you know, when you
first get into it, you're like, Okay, this is gross,
but wow, Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
There are definitely things I we just sow a way
of thinking about it. I feel like at this point
most things Okay, I have a question. Okay, then I
have an idea. I've an idea to put it to
the test. Is it my someone else's Okay? See, you
can't get too granular with this.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
I say, over the weekend, this coming weekend, when Scary
is away doing whatever he's Scary does, we should go
through his drawers in here and we should put the
little poop on a few things. Yeah, what maybe Scotty
B's studio.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Look, that's like the biggest like fire trap in the
whole building.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
You have so much stuff. You have so much stuff
in your studio. Look at all the junk in the air.
It's mountains of just junk.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Without knocking something over, I would be so upset if
anything disappears. If we on it, though, would you throw
it out? Something? Figure out with the poop rule, We're
gonna figure out what can stay and what can go something.
It depends on who poops on.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
It, I said, But he said he doesn't poop is poop.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
I know.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
I will tell you this, okay, Well I will hear
this when I have dogs, okay. And I was thinking
one of the things I don't want to deal with
when I get a dog. Before I got a dog,
it was.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Like the poop.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
But you know, if it's poopy from my little dogs,
I mean I don't play with it, you know, I
don't juggle it here or whatever, play hacky sack with
my friends with the poop, I get rid of it.
But if it's someone else's dog's poop, I don't want
to get near it. I do, see, yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Mean it's poop and carrot tops poop, two different poops.
One is acceptable, Danielle, see, I.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Don't know any and I'm talking about like a poop
from my my babies.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
That's it.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
So the poop again, if the object has poop on it,
would you wash it off or throw it away?

Speaker 2 (03:05):
And that's that's how you determine whether you keep it
or not. Right, I'm gonna lose half my closet this
way easy. It's actually a good thing to go through
and just see how much you can get rid of.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
I know, But do you have to ask yourself that
question out loud, like if you're standing in front of
your closet, Okay, if I was, there's poop on this?

Speaker 2 (03:23):
What I wash it off? Okay? Throw it away? Goodbye?

Speaker 1 (03:28):
All right, So that's a snow rule. Look, you know
what people listen to us. We like to solve problems.
This is a problem solving show. This is the think tank.
Now it's the stink tank.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
I guess.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
The poop rule? Where'd you get that? By the way,
do we know where that came from?

Speaker 3 (03:43):
I see it's been making the rounds. It's on huff
Posts there three days ago on. Did we float that out.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
There circling the drain a little bit?

Speaker 3 (03:54):
Do you think somebody just had a deadline at Huffington
Post and like, man, I got to come up with
the story.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
How about some poop on clothes? Would I throw it away?

Speaker 1 (04:03):
All right, there's a story. All right, let's we're gonna
move forward. Let's just let's just let this one simmer simmer.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
It is nasty.