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Staging doesn't have to be just 
for a potential buyer or even 

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just for guests. 
It can help you enjoy a more 

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aesthetically pleasing home. 
When your house is a mess and 

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you're feeling the stress, what 
you need is a friend in your 

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ear. 
Start the job and you'll see Hey

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us, disappear Clean with Me 
podcast is here. 

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Thanks for joining me. 
In today's episode, I'm going to

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provide some pre holiday 
cleaning motivation to help you 

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deep clean and reset your home 
for guests and for you. 

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In this particular episode, I'm 
going to have you work in one of

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your priority areas, which is 
either going to be the immediate

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front entrance or front room or 
your kitchen. 

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So grab your supplies and let's 
clean together. 

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And remember, you don't have to 
do it all. 

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Just start somewhere and I'll 
keep you company while you work.

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And many of my episodes are very
step by step. 

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If you're new to the show, you 
might not realize that yet, but 

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in this episode I want to 
provide some general holiday 

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cleaning motivation to kind of 
prepare you for some of the 

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upcoming episodes as well as 
some of the episodes I've 

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already made that are part of my
Deep Cleaning for the Holidays 

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series. 
OK, as we're approaching the the

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holidays, many of my episodes 
are geared toward getting your 

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home ready for guests. 
However, even if you're not 

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having guests over the holidays,
of course, you'll benefit from 

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deep cleaning your home for you.
So it's time to gear up for your

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cleaning session. 
Remember, when you look good, 

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you feel good. 
So maybe you need to do a couple

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of things to feel presentable. 
Sometimes we put off getting 

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ready for the day on those low 
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And I'm talking about fixing 
your hair, maybe using a spray 

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bottle, washing your face, maybe
putting on those minimal 

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touches. 
Like for me it'd be a tinted lip

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balm and some mascara, maybe 
some under eye concealer these 

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days. 
So if you haven't already gotten

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ready for the day, now's the 
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Or maybe you are ready for the 
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laundry. 
Maybe start a load of laundry. 

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underwear just to kind of keep 
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Or do you need to wash your 
bedding because it's been a 

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while? 
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laundry. 
Obviously, I can talk faster 

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than you can do these things. 
I'm just providing a few 

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suggestions for getting started.
I'm trying to get you moving, so

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whether that's fixing yourself 
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or just diving into that problem
front entrance area where you've

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got some clutter, the important 
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While I talk and this is a more 
general episode than usual. 

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Sometimes we just need to adjust
our mindset and get excited 

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about our homes again. 
Doing housework feels mundane 

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and it feels like something that
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We're never going to get it done
and so therefore we don't feel 

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excited about it. 
And kind of my philosophy is to 

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mix in some tasks that make a 
lasting impact along with those 

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mundane household chores because
you don't really get that same 

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dopamine hit from doing the 
dishes yet again. 

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However, you might get excited 
at the thought of what you can 

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do after you do dishes. 
Maybe you're going to wipe down 

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your table and then go outside 
and pick some flowers and put 

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them in a vase on the table. 
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the store for a holiday 
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So far it's looking like we're 
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Christmas at my middle 
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anyway. 
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Thanksgiving and it's going to 
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I'm not sure how many are 
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We have a couple for sure's and 
several maybes and just be 

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working in your kitchen or front
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But an example of something that
I did to kind of get excited 

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about my kitchen is that I set 
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It's something I do off and on, 
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always a coffee station, but 
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counter. 
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I was using for the TV stand in 
my dining area and set up the 

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little turntable that has 
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A little basket with other 
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packets, my Keurig. 
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there, but I'm going to put that
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just to kind of simplify it. 
I'm going to have the one that's

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easy to use on display. 
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that says like hot cocoa station
$0.05 to put next to a sign that

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I already had about coffee. 
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a matching towel. 
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at the coffee station to kind of
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tablecloth. 
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coffee theme because the 
tablecloth has different 

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pictures of specialty coffees, 
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pumpkin on them. 
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fall theme and it's in fall 
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It's not my thing. 
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decorated in fall stuff. 
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out in decorations or anything, 
but I refrain from decorating 

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for Christmas until at least the
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the meal has been served. 
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even want to do that. 
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kids to start decorating later 
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I think last year we went out of
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watching over the house and she 
put up the Christmas tree for us

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while we were gone. 
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me to pull out the other 
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have and put those out. 
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No judgement here if you do 
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Like I said, I got a tablecloth 
and a little towel in a very 

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frugal mode. 
You've heard of No Spin 

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November. 
That's kind of what I'm going 

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for, but I'm just excited that I
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It freed up more counter space 
and it's kind of a domino effect

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as far as decluttering my 
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I have a particular cupboard 
that I use for appliances that I

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almost never used and I'm kind 
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era. 
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again lately. 
I want people to be able to go 

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into the pantry looking for a 
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And so yeah, I don't want all 
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So I'm going to be moving in 
them into more long term 

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locations, except for the items 
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Thanksgiving like the stand 
mixer and this I guess you'd 

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call it a hot plate, but it's a 
couple of extra burners that I'm

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going to plug in. 
I just want you to be thinking 

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about how your house is going to
look for guests while you're 

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doing your routine chores over 
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And and the goal is to to help 
you avoid that overwhelming 

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chaotic feeling that you would 
have if you were doing 

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everything at the last minute. 
Obviously you want your house 

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freshly cleaned before the 
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But if you've done all the deep 
cleaning tasks and the 

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decluttering and whatnot, you'll
be down to mainly just giving 

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your surfaces A swipe, giving 
your countertops A swipe, giving

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your bathroom a little touch up 
and you know, vacuuming, 

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sweeping and mopping. 
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you're going to be preparing 
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So you want to have the mindset 
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holidays weeks in advance 
because you, let's face it, you 

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have a cleaning routine, whether
it's daily, weekly, multiple 

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times a week, you spend a little
time anyway cleaning and you're 

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going to be more excited about 
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If you think about some lasting 
changes, For example, setting up

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the coffee station and 
relocating some of my appliances

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makes a lasting difference in 
the kitchen, whereas doing the 

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dishes is just something that I 
have to do and then kind of 

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reorganizing is the reward. 
So that's kind of your kitchen 

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pep talk. 
And I'm going to go into some 

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other stuff in the bonus episode
for financial supporters. 

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I'm going to talk about my mom's
trick for whitening a bathtub 

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because our bathtub shower combo
in the guest bathroom has some 

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discoloration due to a leaky 
faucet that we had for a while 

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for your next cleaning session. 
So basically, you want to reward

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yourself with tasks that make a 
more lasting impact. 

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For example, if you move your 
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maybe you could reward yourself 
by rearranging some of the 

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furniture. 
And I talked a lot about the 

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kitchen. 
But as you move through your 

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house, just straightening up and
picking up, I want you to look 

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at your house from someone 
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We have sold three houses, and 
when you have a house on the 

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market, not only do you want to 
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you also kind of stage it, 
meaning you position your throw 

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pillows a certain way or the 
pillows on your bed a certain 

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way. 
You have an attractive 

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centerpiece on the table, you 
have a fruit bowl somewhere, you

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know, things like that. 
I just find it helpful to walk 

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through my house and try to look
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that I'm a real estate agent 
kind of checking to see if the 

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house is staged properly or if 
there are any problem areas that

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need to be cleaned. 
Your agent walks through and 

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might even make some 
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But staging doesn't have to be 
just for a potential buyer or 

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even just for guests. 
It can help you enjoy a more 

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aesthetically pleasing home. 
For example, in my bathroom, I 

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have the garden tub and separate
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The way the bathtub is 
positioned, there is an area 

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behind the faucets that's not 
visible from the rest of the 

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bathroom. 
So my idea of staging that tub 

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is putting the shampoo, the 
conditioner, the soap items that

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I use in the bathtub kind of 
behind the faucet in that corner

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because it can't be seen from 
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And then on the little visible 
ledges around the tub, I put 

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decorative candles. 
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you'd take that a step further 
because the person would be 

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walking all the way over to the 
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And you'd probably just have 
your shampoos and conditioners 

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shoved in a cupboard out of 
sight or put into some 

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attractive containers, you know,
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They don't need to see what 
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And it would look more elegant 
to have them in fancy 

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containers. 
But my everyday version of that,

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just to make it look attractive 
to me and my family and my 

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guests who aren't going to walk 
right up to the tub, is to just 

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have that that stuff behind the 
faucets kind of in a corner 

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where the cabinet is obstructing
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You know, as you're doing your 
routine cleaning in the upcoming

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weeks, you might want to jot 
down a list or add it to the 

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notepad of your phone of items 
that you need to buy. 

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Again, I'm being really frugal 
right now, but I need a little 

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rug for my hallway to cover a 
cord that goes across that 

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hallway and keep people from 
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I already had one there, but I 
moved it to another location and

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I'm probably going to get a 
couple of candles and fall 

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scents and colors. 
Normally I just use a wax 

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warmer, but candles are more 
festive and often have stronger 

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scents, and I like to use 
candles when I'm entertaining 

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guests for special occasions. 
And then I'm also planning on 

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getting some large, sturdy Oval 
paper plates and some actual 

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napkins from day-to-day. 
We're using, you know, paper 

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towels where it allows you to 
just kind of tear off that half 

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piece of a paper towel. 
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now, she'd be cringing because 
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always a separate thing from 
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And she always has both. 
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household where they use paper 
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just tore off the smaller piece.
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let you just take half a sheet? 
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Thanksgiving, you would use real
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whichever holiday I'm having, 
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will purchase a new set of 
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For some reason, glasses don't 
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and then overtime they get 
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My point is, as you're cleaning 
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to want to maybe make a small 
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needed. 
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everything you need. 
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mentioned that I should have 
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recommendation at the end of 
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So I'll just mention as you're 
cleaning your baseboards in each

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room, especially the rooms where
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I'm not talking about right now,
but I'm talking about as we're 

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approaching the holidays. 
You might want to try the Don 

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Power wash spray and a sponge 
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soft side. 
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scrub mommy which is my favorite
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the dawn equivalent it it's a 
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happy face. 
Doesn't really matter just a 

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sponge that has an abrasive side
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I saw another video where they 
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surface spray, which in general 
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can go through your house 
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surface. 
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of Pledge that's just for wood, 
I'm talking about one that's for

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glass and surfaces. 
Love that four times when I 

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don't want to switch products 
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It's great for speed cleaning. 
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recommendations for baseboards, 
but really you can use anything 

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you have. 
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dust your baseboards before you 
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to vacuum your baseboards before
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So that's kind of my tip for the
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I've hope I've gotten your 
creative juices flowing about 

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maybe some staging that you can 
do, and hopefully I've motivated

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you to start your deep cleaning 
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that's going to incorporate some
guest preparation like whitening

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your bathtub, I'm going to talk 
about that in the next bonus 

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episode. 
That's going to be a whole house

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cleaning hour. 
If you enjoyed this episode, it 

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would mean so much to me if you 
left a five star rating and 

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review on Apple Podcasts or 
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It helps more people find Clean 
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making episodes like this one. 
And again, if you'd like bonus 

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clean along episodes which are 
typically longer, check out the 

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link in the show notes. 
I know you have a lot to do 

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leading up to the holidays or 
just leading up to having a 

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clean and organized home for 
yourself, but the key is just 

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doing something each day or each
week that's getting you closer 

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to your goal of a clean and 
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Happy cleaning and I'll talk to 
you in the next episode.