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Thanks for joining me. 
This episode is going to be a 

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bedroom and laundry reset. 
In case you're new to the show, 

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I'm Ronnie and you're listening 
to Clean with Me, the podcast 

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where I talk you through 
cleaning your house step by 

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step. 
Let's get right into the 

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episode. 
It is time to start a load of 

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laundry. 
That way, later on, you can do a

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laundry switch and fold and put 
away some clothes. 

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There is going to be an 
opportunity to put away some 

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residual clean laundry during 
the episode in case you have 

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some. 
And by residual laundry, I'm 

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talking about a load of clean 
clothes that you're going to 

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pull out of the dryer or maybe a
laundry basket or some larger 

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bin where you keep your clean 
laundry that you don't fold 

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right away. 
Hopefully you're folding stuff 

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right out of the dryer, but some
of us don't always do that, 

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myself included. 
So I do have a place for clean 

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laundry in case I have to just 
put it somewhere. 

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Yes, that's one of my 
housekeeping weaknesses, and 

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that's OK. 
I do a lot of other good things 

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in my life. 
And you know, housework isn't 

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everything, but it's definitely 
something that we need to set 

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aside time for and it does boost
our mood and keep the people in 

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our house happy and all kinds of
benefits. 

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So I'm glad you tuned in today. 
Again, hopefully you're starting

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a load of laundry. 
Maybe you need to wash some 

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towels and underwear, just kind 
of a survival load. 

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Or maybe you want to strip a bed
and start washing sheets and 

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pillowcases. 
If you're washing a comforter, I

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recommend hanging it up to dry 
if at all possible because I 

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hate getting into that cycle 
where I have to kind of readjust

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the comforter and then start the
dryer over again. 

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So I like to just hang mine up. 
I hang comforters either over 

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chairs or over this room divider
that I have. 

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That way I can keep the laundry 
going. 

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I can put something else into 
the dryer instead of restarting 

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it to dry that comforter. 
Maybe you have a clothesline out

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in the backyard if you have an 
older home, but I just recommend

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hanging up comforters if 
possible unless you have a super

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effective dryer that just dries 
a comforter in record time. 

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But some of us don't purchase 
top of the line appliances. 

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So I'm going to give you like 
one more minute to start that 

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load of laundry and then we're 
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I mean, while you're in the 
laundry room, it's always a good

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time to straighten it up. 
You know, maybe you have a 

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hamper that's overflowing or 
maybe you need to throw away the

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lint in your lint container or 
just tidy up the shelf that's 

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above your washer and dryer. 
Now is the time to start that 

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load and straighten up that room
while you're in it. 

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And then we're going to be 
cleaning your bedroom. 

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And not just cleaning it, but 
thinking about how we're storing

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things if having a messy bedroom
is an ongoing problem for you, 

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OK. 
Because some of us kind of 

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struggle with keeping our 
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It tends to get put last. 
In a lot of my whole House 

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episodes, I have you straight in
your bedroom at the end. 

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And that's because I know it's 
not your top priority, but years

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ago I read a book that 
recommended you start with your 

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room because that's where you go
to bed, That's where you wake 

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up. 
And having clean surroundings in

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your bedroom is super 
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So there's definitely a case for
prioritizing your bedroom. 

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And that's what we're doing in 
this episode. 

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OK, One of the first things you 
might want to do in your bedroom

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is make the bed. 
It's a springboard task that 

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immediately makes your room look
better, and it also gives you a 

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place to put things. 
So maybe you need to put fresh 

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sheets and pillowcases onto your
bed if you just stripped it and 

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go ahead and make that bed. 
Even when my favorite sheets and

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my favorite comforter are in the
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same load. 
But you know, if my sheets or my

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comforter are in the wash, I 
sometimes make my bed just with 

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a complete alternate set of 
sheets, pillowcases and 

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comforter so that my room can 
look nice right away and I'll 

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have a place to put things while
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Because when you're cleaning 
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want to do after making your bed
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of the floor. 
Most items you're going to put 

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away where they go, but some 
items in your room are going to 

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cause you to pause. 
Maybe you aren't sure if it's if

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these items are clean or dirty 
or if you even want to keep them

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at all. 
Or maybe they go in another 

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room. 
Or maybe it's clean laundry and 

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you don't really have time to 
put it away just yet. 

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I do want you to be able to put 
things on your bed that require 

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decisions and slow you down so 
that you get the floor picked up

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right away. 
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I'm a firm believer in cleaning 
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Getting your bed made and 
getting everything up off of the

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floor makes a huge visual 
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So, for example, if you have any
trash in your room, you might 

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want to bring in a trash bag to 
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Or if you're like me, you have 
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Or maybe you want to just grab 
those few items and take them to

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your kitchen wastebasket. 
Everybody's lifestyle is 

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different. 
I don't like to put any food 

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trash, garbage if you will, in 
my bedroom waste baskets, but I 

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have them for other things just 
to keep my my room from getting 

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cluttered. 
OK? 

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So just depending on what the 
trash is, you might put it in 

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your bedroom wastebasket, you 
might put it into a bag, you 

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might take it to the kitchen, 
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But once your bed is made, I 
want you to look around for any 

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trash. 
Often trash is lurking on a 

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night stand or a desk. 
OK, let's get that stuff picked 

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up and thrown away. 
OK, Whether you keep your 

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recycling stuff separate or it 
all goes into one bin, I want 

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you to deal with any trash. 
And you might have paper clutter

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in your room if you have a desk 
in there or that's where you pay

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your bills. 
And maybe some of that goes into

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a shred pile. 
Maybe you have a shredder and a 

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little box by it. 
Let's just deal with anything in

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the category of trash or 
recycling first. 

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Once the beds made OK, and some 
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your bed because you've got all 
these fancy pillows and whatnot.

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But others of us keep it pretty 
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I mean, I don't even have shams 
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I mean, when I'm expecting 
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sometimes I'm putting like the 
shams on, you know, you've got 

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your, your pillows that you 
sleep on with the regular 

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pillowcases and then you've got 
another set of pillows with the 

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decorative shams that match your
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I sometimes do that when I'm 
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the week, which typically 
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know, to where people are 
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into my room at some point. 
But for every day I I make my 

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bed with a comforter and you 
know, she's a comforter and then

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just pillowcases on the bed, 
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So however you make your bed, 
once you've made it deal with 

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any trash, once you've dealt 
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you're going to deal with is 
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OK, clothing either needs to go 
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get put away. 
Sometimes when I'm cleaning my 

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room, when I have things that 
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hung up, you know, maybe I've 
draped some sweaters over the 

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ironing board instead of hanging
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My husband tends to drape 
clothing over a recliner that we

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have in our room. 
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You can put it away or you can 
create a hang up pile on your 

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bed if you want to put that off 
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of the cleaning session. 
OK, but you're going to deal 

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with clothes. 
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clean or you haven't decided yet
and you want to just lay them on

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the bed. 
OK, your your future decision 

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pile. 
And of course with shoes they 

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should go in your closet. 
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One of my sons was just lining 
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his bedroom and I'm like can't 
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Like that would look better. 
I have a shoe rack in my closet 

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now. 
Not at all of my husband's. 

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And my shoes fit in the shoe 
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Ideally we should get a second 
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racks, but right now there's 
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But you might be thinking, well,
why do I need a shoe rack? 

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If you keep your closet floor 
super pristine, you could line 

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up all the shoes. 
But some of us need to use like 

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vertical space because we're 
storing other stuff in the 

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closet floor and it gets messy 
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Either it gets messy sometimes 
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vertical space. 
I have a walk in closet, but 

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it's definitely a small walk in 
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And I think it would be easier 
to keep the shoes organized if I

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purchased a second shoe rack. 
You might just need one or you 

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might have lots of shoes. 
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rack is I worry that if I put 
the shoes on the floor, one of 

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the dogs might chew them up. 
So my more important shoes I put

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in the rack. 
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closet. 
I'm not talking about the one up

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at the top, but there's a lower 
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But my husband's storing a lot 
of other stuff there. 

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So it's not really a good place 
for shoes either. 

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But I think maybe it's designed 
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So maybe you have a shoe shelf. 
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clothes and shoes, but you're 
also going to come across other 

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items in your room maybe that 
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You might want to make a pile 
for stuff that doesn't belong in

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your room. 
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outside the door or on your bed,
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I'm also hoping that you have a 
place in your closet for stuff 

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that you want to donate, you 
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If not, you might want to grab a
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If you're just in survival mode 
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disaster and you're just trying 
to get everything put away, this

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might not be a day where you 
want to think about donating 

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items, but you might be doing a 
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Recently, I've been hanging up a
lot more of my clothes, and I've

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been hanging up clothes in a 
hidden corner that are offseason

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or just things where I'm not 
sure whether I even want to keep

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them because I want the main 
part of my closet to be full of 

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things that I wear all the time.
I don't want to experience 

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decision fatigue when I go to 
get dressed to where I'm looking

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at items and going, oh I I'm not
sure if I want to wear this 

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dress because I don't really 
like how the waistline hits, but

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I can't put a chain belt on it 
because there's a seam at the 

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wrong place and then it looks 
like it's got 2 waists and that 

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doesn't make sense. 
You know, these problematic 

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items might need to go into your
donation box or bag in the back 

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of your closet. 
Or if you think that something 

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might look good with an 
accessory that you might buy 

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down the road, like this dress 
would work with a chain belt, 

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but instead of a gold chain 
belt, I want a silver chain 

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belt. 
You can kind of put those in the

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hidden corner of your closet or 
just off to one side to deal 

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with later. 
Sometimes you need to put off a 

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decision. 
And I feel like a lot of 

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decluttering experts are like, 
no, you need to make these 

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decisions right now. 
But I, I tend to disagree there.

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It is OK to have some things 
that maybe you're not sure if 

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you want to keep, as long as 
you're able to store them out of

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sight and as long as you don't 
have to rummage through those 

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items to get to your everyday 
favorites, OK. 

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Same with drawers. 
I think one of your drawers 

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should be stuff. 
I hardly ever wear drawer. 

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Like if you hardly ever put on a
swimsuit, that's where that 

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stuff could be. 
There was a phase where I was 

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using swimsuits more often 
because when my husband would 

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stay in a hotel on business, we 
would often go with him and 

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there was an indoor pool. 
So there was an era where we 

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were going swimming year round. 
But right now, I hardly ever put

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on a swimsuit. 
There's just not a lot of 

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occasions that call for it. 
I definitely bring it with me in

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my suitcase when I'm traveling 
in the summertime. 

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Now, obviously you can take it 
too far when it comes to keeping

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stuff, but I feel like some 
delayed decisions are OK because

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maybe six months from now you'll
do a wardrobe purge and be like,

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you know what? 
I don't like this dress with any

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belt. 
I'm going to get rid of it. 

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I bought a belt and still didn't
want to wear the dress and I can

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go in the donation pile. 
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in the donation pile or maybe 
you're putting things into more 

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of a long term storage location,
like a plastic tub that slides 

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under your bed or a corner or a 
side of your closet or that 

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drawer for the rarely used 
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OK, but what I want you to do is
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make sure that you're storing 
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Do you have any items on the 
floor sitting around the 

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perimeter of your room? 
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OK, For example, right now I 
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folded up and it's just next to 
a wall in my room that 

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technically belongs in the back 
of my closet. 

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sometimes I'm just sticking 
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get them out of sight. 
You know, I'm not perfect by any

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means, but the next time I 
reorganize my closet, I'm going 

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to put that pack and play in the
back of the closet because I 

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don't use it very often. 
I certainly don't need it 

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cluttering up the perimeter of 
my room. 

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If you know, you know, some of 
us have a tendency to place 

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items along the walls, but that 
doesn't make your room feel like

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a luxurious hotel when there's 
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OK, So I want you to be mindful 
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Yes, you probably need to dust 
your night stands or your TV 

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screen or your dressers. 
Maybe you need to clean a 

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sliding glass door if you have a
sliding glass door in your 

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bedroom, or clean a window, or 
clean a window sill, or dust 

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some blinds. 
But in this episode, I want you 

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to first make sure that your 
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you've stored as much out of 
sight as possible. 

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OK, by now you've probably 
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because you put away the 
clothes, you put away the shoes,

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you put away items that didn't 
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Now you can either put away 
those miscellaneous items that 

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maybe you placed on the bed, or 
if you don't have a lot of stuff

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like that, this would be a great
time to work on folding and 

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hanging up and putting away that
residual laundry. 

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OK, that residual clean laundry 
pile mount fold more, as I like 

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to call it. 
That's how I want you to spend 

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the rest of this episode. 
And I mentioned that this is a 

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laundry reset. 
Maybe you need to set a timer on

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your phone to remind you of when
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be over. 
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cycles are anywhere from like 20
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So if you're not sure how long 
your washing machine takes, you 

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could set the timer for an hour 
and then that way you'll go back

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and put the put that laundry 
into the dryer and you could 

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continue doing that for the 
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The thing about getting caught 
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to stay home. 
You can go get your groceries. 

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You can pick somebody up from 
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You can do all the things and 
just kind of have your laundry 

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going in the background. 
You can either set a timer for 

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when to do the laundry switch or
just keep checking on the 

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laundry in between errands or 
whatever else you're working on.

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Maybe you work from home or 
you're doing some college 

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classes online. 
You turn in another assignment 

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or you know you've been sitting 
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You know working from home and 
you want to get up at least once

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every hour, you know, to get get
your blood circulating and you 

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know, not get too sedentary. 
Because my watch tells me how 

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many times I got up in a 12 hour
period with the goal of getting 

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me to not stay seated too long. 
So that could be a great time to

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do a laundry switch. 
When I was working a full time 

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job from home, I typically did a
laundry switch on my lunch 

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break. 
You know these things that 

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punctuate our day, whether it's 
a lunch break from a work at 

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home job or picking somebody up 
from school. 

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Some of you, your kids might 
already be out of school, mine 

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are, but you could be listening 
to this in the future. 

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During the school year, whatever
it is that you do during the day

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routinely can punctuate your day
and remind you to do a laundry 

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switch. 
Or you might literally need to 

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set an alarm on your phone and 
put laundry switch. 

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OK, but part of what's making 
this episode of Laundry Reset is

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I'm encouraging you to get 
caught up on your laundry today.

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Long after this episode is over,
I'm hoping you're still going to

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be doing laundry switches or 
maybe just folding and putting 

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away residual clean laundry. 
Sometimes I kind of tell myself,

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like, don't wash any more 
laundry until you fold and put 

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away all those clean clothes 
that are in the bin. 

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OK? 
Sometimes I want to get down to 

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article of clothing 0. 
For those of you who have been 

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listening to my show for a 
while, you know, I talked about 

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getting down to dish 0 instead 
of, you know, washing your 

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dishes and leaving a couple 
things in the sink or whatever. 

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Some of you need to force 
yourself to get down to article 

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of clothing 0 in that laundry 
basket or bin before you wash 

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more stuff. 
OK, but you can just keep 

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resetting a laundry switch alarm
on the hour throughout the day 

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and then just go about your day.
Obviously if you're going to go 

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work an 8 hour shift outside the
home for the whole day, you're 

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not going to do the laundry 
switch till you get home. 

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But a lot of you are going to be
home all day today, and maybe 

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you're home all day every day 
other than errands. 

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And you can be doing laundry in 
the background. 

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OK, so this is your little pep 
talk about laundry. 

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Some of you are procrastinating 
on doing laundry because you 

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have too much. 
There was definitely a period of

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time before I started the show 
where my husband would sometimes

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go out and buy himself more 
socks, underwear and T-shirts 

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because he was running out of 
things and didn't want to dig 

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through the clean laundry pile. 
You don't want to get in a 

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situation like that where you're
buying more and more stuff. 

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So getting caught up on laundry 
and tossing items that are 

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ripped, stained, worn out can 
help keep the amount of laundry 

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under control. 
Maybe you have some old raggedy 

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towels that could be stored out 
in the garage for an emergency. 

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I definitely like to have ugly 
towels on hand, You know, to 

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clean up the human vomit, dog 
vomit, or whatever else. 

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Or even just to drive the cars 
with. 

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When I was a kid, we always put 
our old towels out in the 

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garage. 
We'd fold them and put them on a

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shelf in the garage, and those 
were the towels we used to dry 

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the cars and whatnot. 
But I don't want you to have 

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just this huge inventory of 
towels in your towel cupboard of

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your bathroom or in your clean 
laundry pile, because then 

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you're just going to go longer 
and longer without washing 

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towels, and then it's going to 
take you more than a day to get 

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caught up on laundry. 
You see what I'm saying? 

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Some people can't relate to 
this. 

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People who are super organized 
with their clothing do not feel 

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like they need to have less 
stuff. 

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Especially if you fold and put 
things away right out of the 

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dryer. 
Your husband's not having to go 

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out and buy more socks, 
underwear and T-shirts. 

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OK, but if you're in that 
situation, be mindful of of it 

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and, and try, try to fix it, try
to get caught up, try to take 

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some older items out of 
circulation. 

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Because if he just replaced all 
that stuff, then he doesn't need

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the stained T-shirts or the holy
socks anymore or ripped 

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underwear or whatever, OK? 
So I definitely encourage you, 

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if at all possible, to make this
a laundry day, whether you're 

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going to be home all day or 
you're going to be in and out of

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the house. 
OK. 

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And there are a lot of bonus 
tasks you can do in your room. 

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This might not be a deep 
cleaning day for you, but some 

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of you need to dust your TV 
screen or clean a mirror. 

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You know, grab some glass 
cleaner and a microfiber cloth 

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and clean your mirrors. 
Clean your TV screens. 

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I've got a full length mirror 
inside of my closet hanging on 

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the closet door and it could use
some cleaning. 

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I've got little grandkids who 
put their fingerprints on 

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everything. 
The other day my teenage 

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daughter cleaned the sliding 
glass door in the kitchen and as

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soon as the grandkids got home 
from their dads, it was all 

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printed up. 
So some of you might need to 

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bust out some glass cleaner and 
a microfiber cloth. 

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Others of you might want to dust
wooden furniture. 

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You know, grab that pledge or 
whatever dusting spray you use 

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and clean those night stands and
clean the dresser. 

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And when you clean surfaces, it 
forces you to 1st clear those 

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surfaces. 
OK, You can't vacuum or sweep 

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your room until you've picked up
the floor and you can't dust off

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your desk until you've tidied it
up and organized it. 

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If you do have a problem with 
paper clutter in your room, you 

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might need a basket for papers 
that you're going to deal with 

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later, kind of an in basket. 
You might even want to have like

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that three tiered system where 
you've got your in basket, 

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you're out basket, and maybe a 
third category for something 

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else stationary or something. 
Mailing supplies. 

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I don't know what, but for me, I
just have a basket. 

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That's my end basket. 
And typically when I get mail, I

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toss the junk mail and I put the
bills and other important 

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documents in that end basket. 
And then from time to time I sit

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down and have kind of a clerical
day where I'm paying bills and 

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shredding, which for me, by 
shredding I'm just tearing it up

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by hand, but tearing up and 
tossing the bills that I don't 

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need. 
I like to keep the most recent 

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utility bills, but I don't need 
5-6 months worth of them. 

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And arguably most things like 
that you could print online if 

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you need to, but I like to keep 
the recent ones in case I want 

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to create a new budget and know 
exactly how much everything is, 

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you know, how much is my 
electric bill lately? 

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Or somebody's going to the DMV 
and they need proof of 

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residence. 
You know, that's another 

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situation where you're going to 
want to grab their, you know, 

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those recent utility bills and 
mortgage statements and things 

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like that. 
OK, but if paper clutter is 

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taking over your room, you you 
need at least a build basket. 

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Or alternatively you might put 
things like that in your top 

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drawer. 
There was a time where we kept 

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things like that in our our top 
drawer. 

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Now we use that for other 
things. 

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Anyway, I'm I'm out of time. 
I hope you got your room tidied 

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up, your bed made, and you have 
a plan for getting caught up on 

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laundry and maybe you folded and
put away some items. 

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I encourage you to sweep your 
bedroom floor or vacuum it after

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this episode. 
If it's a hard floor, you might 

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need to both sweep and mop. 
I feel like mopping happens a 

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lot more in the kitchen than it 
does in other rooms. 

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A lot of times sweeping a room 
will suffice. 

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OK, at least sweep or vacuum 
your bedroom after this episode.

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

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of you. 
And as always, happy cleaning. 

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I'll talk to you in the next 
episode.