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

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where I walk you through 
cleaning your house step by 

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step. 
When you clean along with this 

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show, you'll get more done in 
less time so you can spend the 

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rest of your day doing what 
matters most to you. 

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

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talk you through picking up, 
dusting and vacuuming your outer

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areas, your living room, family 
room if you have it, hallway, 

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entryway, etcetera. 
Just those common areas other 

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than your kitchen and bathrooms.
Let's get right into the 

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episode. 
And maybe you don't feel like 

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cleaning right now. 
You might still be lying on the 

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bed or the couch, but I 
encourage you to get up and 

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freshen up a little bit if 
you're not already looking 

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presentable. 
Remember, when you look good, 

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you feel good. 
So maybe you need to just get 

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ready for the day. 
Put on one of your favorite 

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outfits. 
We're not going to be working 

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with bleach or anything so it's 
OK to dress nice for this. 

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Today I was tired and I had a 
lot to do. 

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Felt a little overwhelmed but 
putting on my favorite jeans and

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one of my favorite black 
T-shirts made me feel ready for 

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everything and I put on a brand 
new pair of Nikes and felt like 

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1,000,000 bucks. 
So sometimes getting dressed for

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the day can work wonders and I 
curled my hair and put on a 

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little makeup and I was good to 
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So maybe you need to freshen up.
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do before we start this cleaning
session is do a laundry switch. 

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Maybe you have some clothes you 
need to switch from the washer 

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into the dryer, or maybe you 
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And since this is kind of an 
outer area focus, I'll mention 

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that you might want to throw 
some throw pillows in the 

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washing machine, whether they're
the kind where you remove the 

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covers and wash those or just 
throw the pillows in. 

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Now might be the time to do that
if you don't have other more 

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pressing laundry to do. 
Or maybe you need to get your 

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house smelling fresh. 
Put some fresh wax in the wax 

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warmer or start your essential 
oil diffuser or light a candle 

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or burn some potpourri on the 
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I talked about that in my recent
episode where you can just put 

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some orange peels and cinnamon 
sticks in a little pot and boil 

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that on the stove. 
But sometimes there's a source. 

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But sometimes there's a source 
of odor you need to deal with. 

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Maybe you need to take out your 
kitchen trash, or you need to 

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check for or check for mildewed 
towels in the laundry room or 

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something, or run your garbage 
disposal. 

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But usually taking out the trash
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And if you have carpeting, you 
might want to sprinkle something

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on the carpet, whether it's 
baking soda or carpet fresh 

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sprinkles, to kind of let that 
sit while you're picking up and 

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dusting before you vacuum. 
And of course, there's that time

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honored tradition of opening up 
your curtains or blinds and then

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opening your windows and letting
some fresh air circulate in your

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home. 
The sunlight will do you good, 

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and also feeling like people 
might walk by and look in the 

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windows can kind of light a fire
under you, especially with that 

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front window. 
If you've got a window on the 

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front of your house and you open
your blinds or curtains and then

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your windows, you'll start 
picking up and decluttering that

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room in no time. 
By now, you've done whatever you

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needed to do to gear up for your
cleaning session, whether it was

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getting presentable, getting 
your house smelling good, or 

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something else. 
Let's start picking up those 

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outer areas, and I want you to 
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straighten up the front entrance
area, and then just continue 

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onward to picking up your living
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And if you're like me, you've 
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My living room is also the same 
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then there's just a hallway back
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So when I tell my kids to do an 
outer areas pick up, they are 

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picking up clutter off of the 
living room floor and picking up

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anything that ended up in the 
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When you have kids or grandkids 
who are toddlers and or you've 

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got pets, there's no telling 
what might be lurking on your 

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floor. 
Some of you have more picking up

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to do than others. 
I realize we're in different 

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seasons of life. 
Not everybody has small children

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or pets. 
Sometimes straightening up a 

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living area could just mean 
relocating your shoes that you 

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kicked off while you were on the
couch, or hanging up a sweater, 

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clearing a coffee mug and taking
it to the kitchen, getting it 

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soaking in the sink. 
But I realized some of you are 

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picking up lots of toys and 
random items that are out of 

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place. 
I know the struggle. 

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By the way, if your kids are 
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definitely can help with picking
up after pets, younger siblings 

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themselves. 
That's a good task to delegate, 

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but I realize you might be home 
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This might be your own personal 
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But just Full disclosure, 
earlier I took my teenage 

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daughter to the motor vehicles 
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She had to retake the eye test 
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We got her new glasses and then 
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the test today and got her 
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Well, while I was gone, my 13 
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daughter picked up the living 
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So that's definitely a task that
I often delegate because I'm 

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usually working in the kitchen 
myself and of course I'm 

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responsible for cleaning my own 
bedroom and the master bathroom.

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I do sometimes clean the kids 
bathroom, but that usually falls

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to them because it's on their 
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Just be picking up your outer 
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you, whether you're working 
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helping them or encouraging them
to put their toys in the toy box

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or you're working alone right 
now, just get everything picked 

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up. 
And of course, if you don't have

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a lot to pick up, that means 
you're going to have time to do 

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more deep cleaning. 
As far as dusting, now when I 

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talk about dusting my living 
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wiping down the coffee table, 
the one end table that I have, 

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dusting the TV screen, and then 
wiping down the TV stand that's 

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under it. 
And then clearing clutter off of

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the top of my piano, which tends
to gather there, and wiping down

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the piano itself. 
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pieces of furniture other than a
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You could have instead of a 
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bookcase, or you could have a 
piano plus a bookcase or some 

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other little decorative shelf. 
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dusting those pieces of 
furniture, but a deeper cleaning

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task, you know, a bonus task, 
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could be dusting the pictures on
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OK, whether they are wooden 
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paintings, family portraits. 
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to do fairly often is dusting my
window sills and dusting my 

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blinds. 
Now I actually have 4 windows in

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the living room, so when I wipe 
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them. 
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But when I dust blinds, I've got
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And then the skinny window by my
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The curtain I take down and wash
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But the blinds I have to dust 
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But I don't usually dust them 
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like a deep clean when I'm 
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But for just a regular cleaning 
session, I might dust either the

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blinds on the two smaller 
windows or the blinds on the big

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front window. 
That picture window on the front

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of the house that allows passers
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a day that you have a lot to 
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Another bonus task if you're 
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I know some of you are 
overwhelmed with clutter and 

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some of you are not. 
It just kind of depends on the 

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season of life or even just the 
particular day, what you've got 

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going on at your house at this 
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But if you have time, you could 
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and clear out whatever debris 
and random items you find in the

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cushions and then vacuum them 
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And this next part is especially
true if you have hard floors and

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your couches are not flush with 
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A lot of times you've got to 
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whether that means moving the 
couch or reaching under the 

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couch with a broom. 
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things were always just getting 
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Things aren't sliding under 
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But of course, we do still need 
to move our couches and find 

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whatever ended up under them and
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And then yet another deep 
cleaning task you might want to 

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tackle is just to look up at the
corners and knockout any cobwebs

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or dust the ceiling fan. 
OK, I have a dusting tool that I

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use for that. 
And usually I check for cobwebs 

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at the same time when I'm 
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So I've given you a lot of ideas
about what to do in your living 

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room because sometimes we, we 
don't really see our house 

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through a guest eye, a guest's 
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company and we forget to do 
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Like I need to dust the floor 
under the piano with a dusting 

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tool. 
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about it unless I'm having 
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But it's, it's a random chore 
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when I'm sitting on the couch, I
can see dust under the piano and

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it bugs me. 
And of course, once you get all 

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the clutter cleared and all the 
dusting that you're going to do 

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today done, and maybe even 
cleaning out your couch 

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cushions, you're going to put 
everything back together, 

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straighten your couch cushions 
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they're not in the washing 
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And then you're going to vacuum 
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what kind of floor you have and 
what kind of tools you like to 

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use to clean your floors. 
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those living areas, I just 
wanted to give you a few 

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thoughts on how to keep your 
living areas tidier in general. 

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In your home, you only want to 
own as much stuff as you have 

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storage space for. 
So some of you need to downsize,

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but there are lots of shows 
about decluttering and 

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minimalism. 
So I only have episodes like 

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that once in a while because I 
think everybody kind of already 

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knows that they might need to 
downsize a little bit. 

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But getting rid of stuff isn't 
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You also need to, of course, you
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bringing things into the house 
and having nothing ever go out. 

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That's kind of the definition of
hoarding. 

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But even with the things that 
you love and use, you need to 

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make sure that everything has a 
place. 

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You need to decide where things 
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And this is a this is huge. 
You need to put things away 

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after using them. 
I had an incident a while back 

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where my daughter's dog chewed 
up one of my shoes that I had 

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left out in the living room. 
And that has definitely forced 

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me to do something that I should
already be doing. 

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And that's if I kick off my 
shoes while I'm on the couch and

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just leave them beside the couch
while I'm on the couch, that's 

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fine. 
But when I go to bed for the 

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night or leave the room, I need 
to take the shoes with me and 

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put them in the closet. 
But that's just one example of 

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putting things away after using 
them. 

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Basically, when you get up, 
don't leave a room empty handed 

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if there are things that need to
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If you're sitting in the living 
room and you've finished your 

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coffee and your mug is empty, 
that's fine that you're relaxing

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on the couch. 
But once you get up, take that 

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mug to the kitchen. 
You see what I'm saying? 

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Because sometimes when we think 
about putting things away after 

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using them, it seems 
overwhelming because you might 

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think, well, yeah, but I'm tired
and I work all day and I like to

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just relax. 
Yeah, I'm not saying not to have

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this down time where you're in a
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or you're on your bed. 
But what I'm saying is when you 

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do get up, don't forget to 
relocate the items that are out 

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of place. 
If you have an ice cream bowl by

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your bed in the evening and 
you're going to the kitchen to 

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get water, take that bowl to the
kitchen and quickly wash it or 

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rinse it and put it in the 
dishwasher, whatever your system

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is. 
And I know you're working in the

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living room right now, but I'm 
just talking about habits for 

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keeping your house clean. 
And the living room is sometimes

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easier to clean than your 
bedrooms. 

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So sometimes keeping a clean 
house starts with your front 

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entrance and your living areas. 
You know, you want to put your 

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best foot forward in those 
showcase areas, and then you 

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want to eventually raise the 
standard in the rest of your 

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home to where you're not 
cluttering up your bedroom 

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regularly. 
Other than just doing dishes. 

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Step one is keeping your living 
areas tidy because when you do 

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the dishes, you kind of 
automatically start wiping the 

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surfaces in your kitchen. 
I mean, it kind of comes 

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naturally. 
I feel like there's a tendency 

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sometimes to procrastinate on 
doing dishes, but it builds 

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momentum. 
And then you start clearing off 

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your countertops and wiping all 
your surfaces and then, you 

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know, you sweep and mop the 
floor and it's, it's kind of 

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automatic. 
But with living areas, sometimes

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we leave things lying around and
it seems like no big deal at the

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time to leave 1 cup or one pair 
of shoes out. 

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But before you know it, the rest
of the family is kind of 

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following suit. 
You've definitely got to show 

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them by example that you don't 
leave anything out. 

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By the way, if you don't have a 
real chaotic lifestyle with kids

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and dogs, you should still aim 
to vacuum and dust at least 

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weekly. 
Some of us need to vacuum daily.

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We need to pick up and vacuum 
daily. 

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But if you want your house to 
look good, you want to vacuum 

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and dust at least weekly. 
Even if you know you and your 

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spouse don't have kids or you're
retired or you're single with no

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kids, aim for vacuuming and 
dusting weekly. 

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But in between those sessions, 
make sure that you're putting 

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things away as you use them and 
that you have a system that to 

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make sure that your kitchen is, 
you know, clean and tidy before 

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you go to bed and that you're 
keeping up on dishes and laundry

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and so on. 
But definitely vacuum and dust 

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weekly. 
Or if you're in kind of a 

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chaotic situation where dogs are
dragging trash out, or they're 

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tracking dirt in, or kids are 
leaving things out, you want to 

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pick up and vacuum every single 
day. 

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Possibly picking up multiple 
times per day is just the 

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reality of your situation. 
You might need to pick up 

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multiple times per day to have 
clean living areas. 

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Anyway, I hope you got your 
living rooms picked up, dusted, 

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and vacuumed, and hopefully you 
even tackled some bonus chores 

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at the same time. 
And hopefully I gave you some 

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ideas for keeping your house 
clean in the future. 

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But putting things away after 
using them is a game changer, 

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and it's OK to wait till you get
back up to do it. 

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But don't leave the room without
taking something with you. 

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If you've got dishes to do or 
you need to clean your whole 

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house, consider subscribing to 
bonus content. 

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You know you can unlock longer 
episodes by subscribing. 

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By the way. 
Special thanks to everyone who's

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already supporting the show 
financially, but even just 

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listening to this show helps me.
So I appreciate each and 

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everyone of you. 
And as always, happy cleaning. 

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I'll talk to you soon.