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. Do you have one, Danielle? No, what about you? Gandhi?

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Okay, I tried to stick by if I have to
wipe dust off of it, that it's.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Not something I need anymore because I haven't touched in dust.
I don't know. We live in a dusty world. I
don't know. What about you, Froggy.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
If you haven't used it in one year, so one
full calendar year, then you should probably get rid of.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
It, okay. 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.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
But wow, Okay, there are definitely things we just throw
away of thinking about it.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
I feel like at this point most things Okay, I
have a question. Okay, didn I have an idea. I've
an idea to put it to the test. Is it
my or someone else's? Okay, See, you can't get too
granular with this thing. I say, over the weekend, this

(01:40):
coming weekend, when Scary is away doing whatever he's Scary does,
we should go through his drawers in here and we
should put little poop on a few things. Yeah, maybe
Scotty B's studio. Look, that's like the biggest like fire
trap in the whole building. 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.

(02:04):
Without knocking something over, I would be so upset if
anything disappears. If we pop 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 it, I said,
But he said he doesn't poop is poop.

Speaker 2 (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 like the poop. 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 dogs poop,

(02:44):
I don't want to get near it. I do, see, yeah,
I mean it's poop and carrot tops poop, two different poops.
One is acceptable, Danielle. See, I don't know anyone. And
I'm talking about like a poop from my my babies.
That's it. So the poop again, if the object has
poop on it, would you wash it off or throw
it away? And that's that's how you determine whether you

(03:07):
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. 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? What I wash it off? Okay, throw it away? Goodbye?

(03:28):
All right, So that's a scenari 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. I guess the poop roll?
Where'd you get that? By the way, do we know
where where that came from?

Speaker 2 (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 2 (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 1 (03:58):
How about some poop on clothes? When I throw it away?
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.
It is nasty.