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Hi everyone. 
I'm Ronnie. 

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And I'm Jessica. 
And you're listening to Clean 

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with me. 
The podcast where we walk you 

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through cleaning your house. 
Hey guys, this is Jessica And 

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what we do is we walk you 
through cleaning your house step

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by step. 
So if you're new here, welcome. 

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If you listen already, welcome 
back. 

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And this is a really good 
podcast. 

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If you have problems staying on 
task, you get really distracted 

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really easily or maybe you just 
have trouble cleaning your house

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and you just don't know where to
start. 

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Maybe it overwhelms you. 
I have all of the above. 

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I struggle with all of those 
things, so that's why I am here 

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to help you and just kind of 
tell you how I work through 

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those things. 
So today we are going to just do

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time segments in every room of 
the house and I usually do this.

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I just don't usually tell you 
that the times up in a certain 

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area and you don't have to go by
this timeline at all. 

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We're just going to do a speed 
clean and I'm going to tell you 

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like it's been 10 minutes just 
to see how much you accomplish. 

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Because sometimes one of the 
tactics I use to stay on task is

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I like to time myself and just 
see how much I can accomplish in

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10 minutes. 
And I like to take before and 

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after pictures. 
So first of all, before we start

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with all of that, let's go ahead
and do a load of laundry. 

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I like to get the washer and 
dryer going before I do my 

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cleaning session. 
That way that's kind of cleaning

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while I'm cleaning, and it's 
like I'm doing two things at 

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once. 
And so move your clothes from 

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the washer to the dryer, from 
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And then if you're a person who 
like me, forgets about the 

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washer and dryer, I've been 
reminding people in every 

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episode lately because it's been
working for me so far. 

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I set a timer because especially
because I've been having issues 

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with my washer and dryer anyway,
I'll set a timer for like 35 

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minutes, however long the length
of the cycle is, and then I will

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go check on it because otherwise
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two to four business days. 
So set a timer if you forget 

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about it. 
If you don't, then awesome. 

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Just change your clothes from 
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And then at the end of the 
episode, I'll remind you to do a

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second load and also fold that 
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and putting in the dryer and put
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So I'm going to give you guys a 
couple seconds to go ahead and 

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finish up that laundry switch. 
And while you're doing that, 

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before I start the kitchen 
timer, I just wanted to talk a 

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little bit while you guys are 
going to do your 10 minute 

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kitchen clean, Take a before 
picture really quickly just so 

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you can see how much you 
accomplish, especially if it's 

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really, really backed up. 
And I recently had a birthday 

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party in my house, which was 
brave of me and I had a lot 

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going on when I did it. 
So I scrubbed my house and I was

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also angry about something. 
So I was like going through some

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stuff. 
So I kind of honed into that, 

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which I don't usually do. 
I don't usually like stress 

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clean, but I was this time and 
it really like I was like, wow, 

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I accomplished a lot. 
I need to get angry at things 

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more often. 
I was like throwing a tantrum 

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and scrubbing all my baseboards 
and my house has never been 

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cleaner and I don't usually like
that's not usually how I 

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destress. 
But it worked this time and I I 

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might make it a thing from now 
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Maybe I will start implementing 
stress cleaning because man has 

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my house been clean lately. 
So anyway, go ahead and start 

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that 10 minute clock on your 
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And the reason why I'm doing the
10 minutes, just start with your

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empty reload and run on the 
dishwasher. 

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If you don't use your dishwasher
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Just put all of the dishes away 
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Don't forget to let things soak.
Gather dishes from around the 

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house and, you know, put all 
those really bad pots and pans 

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filled with hot soapy water so 
you can get all the little 

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stuff. 
And by the time you get to that,

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it won't be that bad. 
Make sure you're getting stuff 

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out of your refrigerator and all
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And just kind of zip around as 
fast as you can and start on 

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those dishes and try to pound 
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And just consider me your timer.
I'm going to tell you when the 

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10 minutes is up. 
Let's see how much you guys 

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accomplish. 
So I'm going to talk a little 

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bit about the birthday party and
stuff because I get really 

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motivated by last minute 
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And I know that's not 
productive, but some of you that

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think the same way as me and I 
know a lot of you that listen do

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relate to things that I say and 
stuff in this regard. 

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But I tend to procrastinate till
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And then if there is a big 
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to be clean, like usually I'm 
able to trick my brain into 

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thinking there's a reason. 
But if there is an actual real 

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reason for people coming into my
house and like a birthday party 

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or something, I clean like no 
other and I get every nook and 

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cranny and I am so thorough. 
And I'm trying to tap into why I

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can't just do that regularly 
because I didn't even do it in 

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that much time. 
Like I got so much done in so 

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little time when I had the 
birthday party the next morning.

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And it's, it's frustrating. 
And I'm sure a lot of you feel 

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that frustration and just be 
cleaning the kitchen while I'm 

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talking. 
But I'm sure a lot of you feel 

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that frustration. 
Like why can't I just be like 

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this all the time? 
Why when someone says I'm on the

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way to the house or umm, I'm 
hosting something at my house, 

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does the house get perfectly 
clean and Immaculate, Right. 

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Like the day before? 
Of course I had to wait till the

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day before. 
So anyway, I was thinking about 

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this and I was thinking about 
the reasons why. 

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And you know, I think that's 
just how I'm wired. 

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It's just I, I think I do have 
ADHD. 

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I've never been diagnosed and 
I'm just kind of wired that way.

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So I've mentioned this before. 
I love playing like friend 

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roulette. 
Like I'll text a couple friends 

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and I'll be like come over and 
then I'll hide my phone and then

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I'll clean my house, stress 
clean my house. 

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Like they're coming over and 
then they don't really come over

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or I, they are and I don't know 
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And then I check my phone like 
10 minutes later and the house 

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has been miraculously clean top 
to bottom in 10 minutes like 

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never before. 
Because I think someone's coming

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over. 
I don't know why I'm wired that 

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way. 
But during this 10 minute 

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kitchen clean, I want you guys 
to try as hard as you possibly 

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can to hone into that and 
pretend like you have somebody 

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that's going to be up in your 
drawers, up in your cabinets, 

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your refrigerator. 
And you need to pound out these 

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dishes as fast as possible and 
start wiping down things that 

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you haven't dealt with in a 
while, like your spice cabinet, 

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your refrigerator. 
I was getting all the nooks and 

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crannies scrubbing my cabinet, 
stuff like that. 

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I think the key and why I was 
finishing so quickly is because 

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I was sticking to like if I had 
a wet soapy rag in my hand, I 

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was sticking to wiping down. 
And I was really honed into 

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wiping down. 
And I was like, I'm not just 

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going to wipe down the usual 
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I'm just going to literally wipe
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And I do tell you guys to go 
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I always say that, but in the 
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and you guys end up wiping down 
after we do the dishes and 

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everything. 
Which if you're done with the 

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dishes and you want to move on 
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awesome. 
If all you get done is even part

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of your dishes in the 10 
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accomplishing a lot. 
So whatever you guys can get 

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done, just get done. 
If you want to move on to wipe, 

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picking up, throwing away trash 
and wiping down, you can do 

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that. 
If not, then just keep working 

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on those dishes. 
But yeah, I like when I was in 

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the wiping down mode or when I 
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I would do every single dish in 
the house and then I was like, 

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OK, I've got the wet soapy rag 
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I'm going to get every single 
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I'm going to use my pink paste. 
I would carry that around with 

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me. 
And I was just cleaning every 

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single cabinet, every single 
drawer, wiping down everything, 

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vacuuming out drawers that 
haven't been like my drunk 

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drawer or something that had 
crumbs in it completely like, 

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oh, I have a rag in my hand. 
I can clean out my refrigerator.

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Taking everything out of my 
refrigerator, doing a thorough 

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wipe down because you know when 
people are coming to your house 

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and they're, umm, going to be 
inside of your refrigerator and 

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stuff getting ice and whatever. 
So I was cleaning my freezer, my

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refrigerator, but I was going 
from one end to the house to the

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other, just wiping down, just 
doing a thorough wipe down and 

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then just wiping every single 
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But there was like a method to 
my madness, like I was starting 

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and went into the house and 
working my way to the next and 

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just angrily wiping every single
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And my friend that all that seen
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and it's best. 
She even was at the at the 

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party. 
She was like, wow, your house is

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really clean. 
And I was like, do you actually 

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mean that? 
And she's like, no, seriously. 

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Like it's probably the cleanest 
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So whatever I did worked. 
And this is like the person that

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I look up to cleaning wise 
because her house is always 

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Immaculate. 
So I was like, and she's got a 

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bunch of kids. 
So I was like, thank you so 

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much. 
That means more than you'll ever

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know because I really put a lot 
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We're coming up on a 3 minute 
warning for the kitchen, so 

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don't let that stress you out if
that's something that stresses 

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you out. 
I'm not expecting you to finish 

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the kitchen. 
I just want you guys to see how 

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much you accomplish in the 10 
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So just to show you how big of a
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even if it's just a dent in your
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And I was cleaning things when I
was cleaning for the birthday 

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party. 
I was thinking in a different 

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kind of way. 
So I wanted, I kind of just 

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wanted to think about the way I 
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I was thinking in a way that 
they're going to look in every 

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single cabinet of my house. 
You know how you see those like 

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funny videos and memes where a 
parent like a mom is like, I 

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need to, I need every inch of 
this place top to bottom clean 

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or whatever. 
Those little memes and stuff 

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when people are coming over for 
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And that's kind of the mode I 
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But I wasn't expecting for real 
them to look in every tiny area 

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of my house. 
But I was using it as a good 

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reason to just get my house 
really, really clean and 

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organized. 
So I was pretending that they 

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were going to look in every coat
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I was pretending that they were 
going to write, have to ride in 

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the car with me to go down the 
street to get some ice or 

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something. 
So I was trying to think of 

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every little thing. 
And so I've been really trying 

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to keep up with the house in 
that same way in the last few 

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days after the party, when I'm 
doing my cleaning, I still try 

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to clean as thoroughly as I did 
that day. 

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And obviously it doesn't happen 
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Things come up like today I have
to make Christmas sweaters for 

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the kids for tomorrow, for 
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So I'm not going to be doing as 
deep of a clean. 

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I'm just going to be doing 
regular maintenance cleaning. 

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But I have been trying to 
anytime I have a good cleaning 

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day, whether it's leading up to 
a party or just a day where I 

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just got a lot accomplished, I 
always try to sit and evaluate 

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and think, why did I do so well,
The obvious reason, obviously 

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people were coming over, but 
also I was pretending like they 

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were going to be in every area. 
And I just really just honed 

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into just focusing on cleaning 
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And I really got so much done 
and I did have the kids during 

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all this time too. 
So and just be working on your 

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kitchen still while I'm talking.
Umm, we're coming up on the last

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couple minutes of the kitchen 
clean and that's something I 

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usually 'cause my kids know how 
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I'll be cleaning one room and 
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destroyed. 
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there was a birthday party. 
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And I've had a problem with this
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pointed it out to me in a polite
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let the kids destroy the house. 
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trouble keeping up with my 
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room, room, room, room to room 
to room to room, destroying 

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everything, right? 
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about them staying in their room
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I would go check in the room and
I'd be like, you guys pick up 

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everything that you just took 
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be clean as well. 
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of them. 
I'm usually kind of lazy about 

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telling them to clean up after 
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kind of go from my room to their
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tear things up. 
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So I've been thinking about that
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huge difference, if I'm being 
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one pick up after one each 
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So they finished an activity. 
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common sense and it kinda is, 
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So I'm like, hey, you just 
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You pick it up, you just 
finished, uh, painting these 

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rocks. 
You clean up every bit of paint.

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letting them destroy the house. 
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seems like a lot of work, 
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like that, it saved me so much 
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realizing it for it's sometimes 
you just have to kind of learn 

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for yourself, like, yeah, this 
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It's actually a lot less work 
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the these kids and make sure 
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Then to clean up after them 
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tornado effect in every room. 
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I don't want this to stress you 
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I just want you guys to take a 
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picture, look at the after 
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you got done in just 10 minutes.
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your dishes. 
If not, I'm sure you made a big 

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dent in it. 
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the wiping down picking up phase
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cleaned your kitchen because 
maybe it was just, you know, the

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morning mess of the day. 
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minute clean, I want you guys to
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kitchen. 
I'm just gonna talk for a few 

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more minutes. 
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how big a difference of 10 
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situation, no matter how dirty 
your kitchen is, if you are just

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focused and honed in on cleaning
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make a big difference and it, 
it's uh, a lot more than we 

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think it is. 
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kind of serves as a reminder to 
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Like I work up, I work the clean
active cleaning up to be this 

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big terrible task. 
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it really doesn't take me as 
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Even if it is a disaster as I 
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how hard it's going to be then 
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So whatever stage you are in the
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don't forget to take out your 
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Don't forget to put things away.
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refrigerator, light switches, 
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Something that I hadn't done in 
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bookshelf. 
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coming over and I've been trying
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So since I kind of brought my 
house back to Ground Zero, if 

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you will, with the birthday 
party and clean, really did a 

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thorough deep clean with that. 
I've been working really hard on

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keeping up with it and my house 
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A lot cleaner. 
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day and then just regular 
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after that is all you really 
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Just one good deep cleaning 
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So listen to one of our deep 
cleaning episodes, our longer 

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ones, my mom does the two hour 
ones and do a really good 

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cleaning overhaul of your house,
getting every little nook and 

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cranny. 
Just one day when you have some 

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extra time, some extra, umm, 
maybe time without your kids or 

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something, and just really focus
on getting your house as clean 

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as possible for the coming week.
And then just work really hard 

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on keeping up with the 
maintenance cleaning after that 

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And it's good to do a really 
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once a week, every two weeks. 
That'll really keep the deep 

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cleaning part easier. 
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less intense it's going to be. 
I had a lot to do when it came 

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to the birthday party because I 
hadn't done a really, really 

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thorough deep clean in a minute.
So I was, you know, on my hands 

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and knees in the bathroom and 
stuff like that because it had 

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been a minute before I clean 
since I cleaned all that and all

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the, you know, closets and stuff
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So as we're coming to an end to 
the podcast, don't forget to 

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switch your washer and dryer 
whenever your timer goes off and

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just sit back, relax, fold those
clothes, put them away, start a 

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new load. 
Listen to another episode if you

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still have momentum. 
And don't forget to do a 

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thorough floor clean, a thorough
sweep and mop of your kitchen 

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and dining room, and then you 
can move on to your living area 

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and get that clean. 
We have episodes on everything. 

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Don't forget to check out 
cleaning with Jessica, which is 

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my true crime podcast. 
Uh, that also is about cleaning,

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but I more talk about true crime
while you guys are cleaning. 

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So if you're interested in true 
crime and you want to check that

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out, it is cleaning with Jessica
and it's black and red and has 

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my mug on the picture of the of 
the little logo. 

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So thanks again and as always, 
happy cleaning guys.