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When your house is a mess and 
you're feeling the stress, what 

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you need is a friend in your 
ear. 

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In today's episode, I'm going to
guide you through the closing 

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shift of your home. 
In case you're new to the show, 

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Clean with Me as the podcast 
where I walk you through 

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cleaning your house step by 
step. 

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And today as I guide you through
washing your dishes and spot 

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cleaning your kitchen before 
bed, I'll also be revealing some

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of my favorite things to do the 
night before. 

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If you have work the next day or
kids to get ready for school, 

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let's get right into the 
episode. 

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One of the most important tasks 
to complete at the end of the 

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day, whether it's right after 
dinner or just before you go to 

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bed, is washing your dishes. 
Getting down to dish 0 right now

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is one of the keys to an easy 
morning and day tomorrow. 

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I know you're tired, but I'm 
here to talk you through this 

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task, OK? 
The first step is going to be 

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gathering dishes from around the
house. 

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Maybe there are cups or mugs on 
your night stands, or maybe 

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someone forgot to clear their 
bowl and spoon or plate and fork

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from the dining room or kitchen 
table. 

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If you have teenagers who are 
allowed to eat in their 

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bedrooms, be sure to check there
too while you're gathering the 

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dishes and bringing them to the 
sink. 

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I'd like to remind you that your
short morning and evening 

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routines are what keep your 
house under control. 

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And those routines make it 
easier to complete your deep 

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cleaning tasks. 
Whether you do those deep 

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cleaning sessions one room at a 
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OK, usually if you're a full 
time homemaker, you know there 

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might be an afternoon session, 
maybe during the kids nap or 

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something. 
Or you might do your cleaning 

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all at once if you work outside 
the home and do most of your 

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cleaning on your day off, or 
even if you work at home for 

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that matter. 
Either way, your daily routines 

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are crucial to keeping your home
tidy and sanitary between deeper

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cleaning sessions. 
Now that you've gathered 

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everything up, it's time to get 
any difficult items pre rinsed 

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and soaking. 
I'm talking about pots and pans 

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or anything else with dried on 
food. 

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It might be a mug with a ring in
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You might want to also check 
your refrigerator for any old 

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leftovers so you can clean out 
those containers and get them 

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soaking. 
But if you're in a hurry, you 

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can of course skip that step. 
After you're done pre rinsing 

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your quote UN quote difficult 
items, you could either fill 

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these items with hot water and 
dish detergent and submerge them

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in the sink, you know, under the
dishwasher, or just set them on 

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the countertop full of 
dishwater. 

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Or alternatively you could pre 
rinse them and then spray them 

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with a product like Don power 
wash or maybe a generic 

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equivalent. 
When I say soaking, I'm 

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including all of these possible 
methods. 

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OK. 
If you hate scrubbing, which is 

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probably true of most people, 
giving your dish soap time to 

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work on those difficult items 
while you wash the cleaner stuff

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first will minimize the 
scrubbing you have to do. 

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It's all about the order of 
operations when doing dishes 

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efficiently. 
OK, now if this were a morning 

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or afternoon episode or one of 
my whole house sessions, they're

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typically bonus episodes. 
I'd have you clear all clutter 

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from your countertops before 
continuing with washing your 

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easy dishes, just to kind of 
give you that quick win of 

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eliminating visual clutter. 
But the evening session is often

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the hardest because you've got 
the dinner mess to clean up and 

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you're probably tired after a 
long day. 

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So I'm keeping this session real
minimal. 

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If you struggle with 
consistently working these 

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closing shifts in your home, it 
means you need to simplify it. 

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OK, now that those difficult 
items are soaking, it's time to 

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unload the dishwasher or drying 
rack so you'll have a place to 

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put things. 
However, going forward, I do 

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recommend completing that step 
each morning to make your other 

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routines easier. 
I like to separate putting the 

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clean dishes away from washing 
the dishes, you know, which 

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makes for a shorter dishwashing 
session. 

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But no judgment here, of course.
If you need to do it right now, 

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just start loading your 
dishwasher or hand washing your 

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dishes once you have a place to 
put them. 

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Hopefully you've started washing
your easy items while you're 

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loading the dishwasher or hand 
washing that first sink load if 

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you're hand washing everything. 
But typically you'll start with 

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cups, glasses, silverware, 
plates, and bowls. 

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I like to, you know, rinse them 
under running water with a scrub

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brush on a handle. 
Or sometimes I just grab a scrub

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daddy or scrub Mommy. 
If you're like me, you you also 

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position some large knives and 
cooking spoons in the top rack 

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of your dishwasher. 
Don't submerge those in the 

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dishwater though. 
Somebody could reach in and grab

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a sharp knife. 
Side note about loading the 

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dishwasher. 
Don't you hate it when someone 

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loads the dishwasher and they do
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With a lot of dishwashers, 
you've got to be strategic and 

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how you put things so that 
nothing stops the moving parts 

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from moving. 
So if you're a teenager and 

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you're listening, check the 
bottom 1st and make sure 

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nothing's going to fall down and
stop that spinner. 

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OK, my kids are already trained 
in this even though my husband 

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and I do most of the dishwashing
ourselves lately. 

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But whatever doesn't fit in the 
dishwasher, we typically hand 

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wash. 
But the system's different for 

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everyone. 
It can even vary from day-to-day

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or meal to meal. 
You know, sometimes you want to 

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hand wash because it's just a 
few things and you don't feel 

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like unloading the dishwasher. 
Or you might not have a working 

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dishwasher, or you just prefer 
not to use one. 

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Now, the closing shift is not 
supposed to take long, but if it

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does, it might need it might 
mean you need to work on 

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cleaning as you go while 
cooking. 

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This is so crucial. 
Don't beat yourself up if you 

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have kind of a disaster after 
dinner, but you can do so much 

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during those waiting periods in 
your kitchen. 

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Instead of leaving the kitchen 
while something's in the oven, 

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you can wash your cutting board,
your knives, your mixing bowls, 

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whatever you've dirtied that you
can wash at that step, you would

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wash. 
So maybe try to get in the habit

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of staying in your kitchen if 
you're creating a huge mess 

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while cooking. 
I mean, staying in your kitchen 

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during the cooking process, like
while you're waiting for water 

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to boil or while something's in 
the oven. 

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OK, for now, either keep 
plugging away on those dishes, 

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including the difficult items 
you have soaking, or if you're 

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ahead of the game, start 
spraying and wiping down your 

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kitchen surfaces that need it. 
I'm talking about your food prep

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area and your stove top and your
kitchen table and highchair if 

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you have messy little ones. 
OK, we don't eat at the table 

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every night, so we don't always 
have to wipe down the table. 

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The closing shift is one time 
where I don't mind cleaning 

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around a few things on the 
countertops. 

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I might I might put some 
seasonings in the spice cabinet,

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but if there's papers and other 
random items, tools, whatever 

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stacked on the kitchen island I 
might just kind of move them 

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aside and clean the food prep 
area. 

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Now I usually use a Myers or 
multi purpose spray on the 

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countertops, but you can also 
just clean them with liquid dish

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soap and a damp rag or maybe a 
scrub mommy sponge. 

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OK, By the way, you might also 
need to spot sweep your kitchen 

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floor, maybe in the food prep 
area or under and around the 

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table. 
For me, the food prep area is 

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the island. 
But for you, if you don't have 

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an island, it could be just a a 
section, a countertop. 

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Remember, this is not a deep 
cleaning session. 

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We're just getting your kitchen 
sanitary before bed. 

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But if you do too much tomorrow,
you might be tempted to skip the

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next closing shift because you 
see it as a time consuming task.

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Or maybe you'll wake up just 
kind of burnout on cleaning and 

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skip your morning or afternoon 
session. 

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And I realized that this kind of
phenomenon might not apply to 

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you. 
OK, but for those of us, you 

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might be a night owl. 
But for those of us who do kind 

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of dislike doing housework at 
night, we want to keep the 

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closing shift simple and short, 
something sustainable that we 

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can do on a nightly basis. 
OK, like I mentioned before, 

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some of you might have a high 
chair to clean, or maybe you 

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have a formal dining room that's
in another room and you need to 

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wipe down that table. 
But definitely prioritize 

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getting down to dish 0 and 
sanitizing your kitchen and 

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dining room surfaces. 
Even if you don't make it out of

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the kitchen during this episode.
I've done my job. 

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OK, but if you've already 
completed those steps, you might

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have time to straighten 
somewhere in your home. 

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This could be your front 
entrance and main living area. 

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Or, if those areas are already 
tidy, you could straighten up a 

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messy bedroom or pick up the 
towels and clothing on your 

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master bathroom floor. 
Just reset whichever area of 

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your home needs it. 
And if you don't have any 

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crucial tidying to do, you could
always start getting things 

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ready for tomorrow morning. 
Remember I promised I'd talk 

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about that for those of you who 
work outside the home tomorrow 

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or have to take kids to school 
in the morning or maybe go to 

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church in the morning. 
A stress free morning begins the

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night before. 
Consider laying out your clothes

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and the kids clothes if you have
little ones. 

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For my teenagers, I just say 
make sure you do your laundry 

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and plan your outfits anyway. 
Laying out clothes is 

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particularly helpful if you're 
behind on laundry and you're not

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necessarily going to find 
everything you need in your 

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dresser drawers and closet. 
You don't want to be scrambling 

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to wash something at the last 
minute and, you know, going to 

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to work and damp clothing or 
digging through the clean 

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laundry to find socks for your 
little ones. 

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But if you keep listening to 
this show, you'll soon have 

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organized drawers and closets 
full of clean clothes. 

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Because I plan to do an episode 
about that soon. 

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I want to talk about organizing 
and decluttering your wardrobe, 

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organizing your closet, 
organizing your drawers, and 

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just generally getting caught up
on laundry. 

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I want you to be cleaning 

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any lunches you'll need to pack 
for me, I, I need to make sure I

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have sandwich stuff for one of 
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plus, you know, a few snacks to 
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And I like to have at least one 
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OK. 
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we just did the dishes. 
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But sometimes you might leave a,
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somewhere else in the house. 
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system, so you want to make sure
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And if you're like me, you don't
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night, but taking inventory as 
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stuff will allow you to make 
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something up in the morning if 
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You could also get a head start 
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whether you're going anywhere 
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meat from the freezer to the 
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do is check to make sure the 
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lanyard if you have one, are in 
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or whatever your launchpad 
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Maybe you have a key rack? 
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your tote bag. 
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laptop somewhere. 
I just got a large laptop that 

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has a 17 inch screen and then 
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tote that has a padded laptop 
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So instead of getting some 
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does all the things, since I 
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just ordered a cheap sleeve, you
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you will, for my laptop so that 
I can put it in one of my 

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existing large tote bags that's 
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OK, so that I would typically 
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bag, if you will, on the piano 
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the night before so that I can 
start placing things in there as

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I'm getting ready. 
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to wash any Tumblr or other 
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in there. 
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toddler's shoes by the front 
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off and leave them in random 
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morning. 
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kids lately, it's my grandkids, 
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I would line up their shoes by 
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their jackets that's near the 
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them ready in a hurry when the 
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Well, it's probably time for you
to relax with your family or get

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ready for bed. 
So I'll go ahead and end this 

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episode here. 
By the way, the next bonus 

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episode, I think I already 
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to be about laundry, dressers 
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releasing it soon, so please 
stay tuned for that. 

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Thank you so much for listening.
I appreciate each and everyone 

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of you. 
Have a great night if you're 

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listening to this at night, but 
I know some of you listen to 

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these episodes at all times of 
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There's no right or wrong way to
listen to this show and use this

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show. 
As always, happy cleaning. 

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I'll talk to you in the next 
episode.