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Binge the show, get your house 
clean because sometimes you just

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need a reset. 
I'm Ronnie and you're listening 

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to Clean With Me, the podcast 
where I walk you through 

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cleaning your house step by 
step. 

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

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to provide a little bit of 
cleaning motivation and talk you

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through some of the preliminary 
steps of a daily cleaning 

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routine. 
Let's get right into the 

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episode. 
It's time to gear up for our pre

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cleaning session. 
Yes, I said pre clean. 

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This episode's going to be a pre
clean. 

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You might need to listen to 
another app episode after this, 

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but oftentimes getting started 
is half the battle. 

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So the first thing I want you to
do is make sure that you freshen

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up and that you feel presentable
for your cleaning session. 

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OK? 
And that might not make sense to

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you if you're not listening to 
this in the morning or 

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afternoon. 
But if you haven't even gotten 

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ready for the day yet, I 
encourage you to take a couple 

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minutes to do whatever it takes 
to get you feeling presentable. 

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This could be changing into 
something you feel good in. 

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It could be running a brush 
through your hair, washing your 

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face. 
It might even be putting on a 

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little makeup. 
Whatever it is that you do that 

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makes you feel ready for the 
day, or ready for someone to 

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come to the door, or ready to 
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Even if you're not going 
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OK, it's important, even if you 
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it's your day off to spend a few
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Yesterday I was wearing a shirt 
that's kind of a favorite shirt.

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And I was going to be cooking 
with oil and I didn't want to 

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get like, you know, the dreaded 
grease stain on my favorite 

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shirt. 
So I changed into a different 

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T-shirt that I that I didn't 
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And then I thought, you know 
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I could have just put on an 
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left my favorite shirt on. 
And while I was cooking, I was 

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cleaning as as I was going, you 
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things and I was thinking to 
myself, I used to put on an 

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apron to clean sometimes and I 
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So I wanted to mention that to 
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Sometimes cleaning in an apron 
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When I don't want to wear 
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scrubbing a shower or bathtub 
with a product that contains 

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bleach. 
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bleach on the bathroom 
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And I don't just mean like a 
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something where bleach is the 
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For example, I'm often cleaning 
my bathtub with Comment or Ajax.

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I would not wear a favorite 
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that situation. 
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bathtub or shower as I'm getting
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clothing's not an issue. 
Hopefully you are presentable 

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for the day. 
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do before we start actually 
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open some curtains or blinds and
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The other day I was cleaning my 
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realized that the darkness of 
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for me. 
So I opened the blinds and of 

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course that led to me cleaning 
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But there's just something 
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light into the room, whether 
this is a day that you're going 

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to clean your blinds and 
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So maybe take a minute to open 
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throughout your house. 
This is going to be a whole 

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house pre clean. 
We're going to just do some 

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things to kind of get you set up
for cleaning and get you moving.

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If you've been listening to this
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I like to get my machines 
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cleaning session. 
That's just one of those things 

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that I call a springboard task. 
It builds momentum. 

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And and you're saying, Ronnie, 
what do you mean getting your 

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machines running? 
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dishwasher, if you have one. 
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machine, OK, possibly your 
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Get those are the machines I'm 
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getting those machines running. 
But the idea is to get your 

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house working for you while 
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That way you can make the most 
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And then after you've been 
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that laundry switch and, you 
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as your break. 
OK, so now that you've opened up

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some blinds and you're up and 
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any dishes from around the 
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I say this all the time, but 
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mistake myself. 
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got done with them and realized 
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the dining room table that 
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So it's always best to gather 
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And if you don't have a 
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Of course, you're still going to
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house and get them pre rinsed 
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OK, that's a stand in for 
getting that first machine 

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running. 
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it. 
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know, a pre rinse and soak. 
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you're going to do an empty 
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dishwasher. 
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to empty a drying rack or 
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at the same time, no judgment if
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I like to separate the act of 
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from washing dishes and loading 
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when I first get up in the 
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to remember to empty the drying 
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because that sets the stage for 
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after breakfast or after lunch. 
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I do the empty, reload and run. 
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have clean dishes to put away 
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So once you've gathered up dirty
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I'm talking your bedroom night 
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bathtub. 
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bathtub, there's probably space 
to put a drink and you leave the

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cup there. 
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Check your coffee table, your 
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your kitchen table, your dining 
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If you also have a second table,
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sink area and start putting away
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means emptying your dishwasher, 
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OK, because some of us use a 
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wash the larger pots and pans or
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we hand wash. 
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already running, it doesn't mean
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dishes pile up or sit them in 
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You can just hand wash those 
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So that's just a thought there. 
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over doing an empty reload and 
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I tend to empty and reload the 
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the remaining items that didn't 
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And I tend to keep the pots and 
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because I don't want to waste a 
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my dishwasher. 
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stuff in the dishwasher and then
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OK, however you do it, it's time
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and then pre rinse the new load.
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And by pre rinsing the new load,
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differently, but for me it means
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that stuff under running water. 
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in my left hand and I've got a a
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know, scraping the plate off 
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brush. 
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dishwasher, you might be able to
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of A pre clean. 
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But for a lot of us, we've got 
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we put the items into the 
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OK, but if you're hand washing, 
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clean because obviously if you 
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and submerge them, then the 
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So you want to scrub them first 
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OK, this is not a real long 
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If you're facing a dish shaster 
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up on dishes, no judgement here.
Just keep doing dishes for the 

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remainder of the episode or even
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that's more of a focus on 
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But I'm only going to give you a
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get your dishwasher loaded and 
maybe leave any remaining items 

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to soak or if you're strictly 
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first sink load and get it 
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And then a little cheat method 
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a lot of hand washing to do, 
I'll get everything into the 

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dishwasher. 
I won't start it yet because I 

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don't want to compromise my 
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If you know you know. 
Then I will get the rest of the 

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items pre rinsed and submerged 
and the hottest possible water 

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that comes out of my sink, you 
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dish detergent. 
But I'll also drop a dishwasher 

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pod into the dishwater. 
That way I can go clean 

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something else and when I come 
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scrub much at all because that 
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that's in the sink. 
So, you know, might be harder on

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your hands. 
That's the disclaimer there, but

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it's also a nice cheat on those 
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And you can always put lotion on
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they come in contact with some 
harsh detergent. 

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Hopefully you're getting those 
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I realize I'm not giving you 
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of dishes, but this episode is 
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It's about getting started. 
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getting your dishes, your clean 
dishes put away and starting the

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first sink load or starting the 
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That's what we are doing right 
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Another thing you might need if 
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dragging is a caffeinated drink.
It might be time to just take a 

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deep breath, stop what you're 
doing, and fix yourself the 

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caffeinated drink of your 
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When I first moved into this 
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wanted to turn it over a new 
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clean. 
Like better than I kept my 

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previous house. 
You know how that is when you 

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get something new, whether it's 
a car, a house, you have a 

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higher standard, you just do. 
And I was a little bit down, I 

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guess, because I had moved away 
from my family and I did not yet

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know anyone in this town. 
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depressed and nothing that 
extreme, but I felt a little 

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down. 
I felt a little bored. 

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And you know, nobody was going 
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But yet I still wanted my 
husband to see that I had turned

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over a new leaf with the new 
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And it it was before I even 
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So what I was doing is driving 
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Well, it's a drive in, but 
pulling into Sonic and ordering 

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a large iced coffee with 
chocolate. 

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OK, you're probably going. 
That's a mocha. 

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Yeah, but that's how you ordered
on the Sonic menu. 

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It's a nice coffee with 
chocolate. 

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So I later found out that that 
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OK, but I digress. 
It was helping me get motivated 

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in the mornings. 
Obviously, I could have made a 

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different choice. 
I could have gotten an unsweet 

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tea or something and it wasn't. 
And you're thinking, well, you 

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could have made a cup of coffee 
at home. 

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Yeah, lately I'm in frugal mode 
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at home. 
However, there was something 

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about getting fixed up for the 
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really got me going because I 
wasn't going to just leave my 

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house without doing my minimums 
as far as my grooming. 

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OK. 
And also there's that energy 

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burst when you go outside and 
you take in some sunshine. 

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One way to duplicate that, if 
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your house, like maybe you're 
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the day or maybe you don't want 
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car seat. 
You know, we're all in different

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situations and different seasons
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Sometimes just taking out your 
trash can get you walking 

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outside and give you that burst 
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feel energized. 
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or iced tea can help with that 
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And I know not everybody does 
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that out there as a possible way
to get motivated. 

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And another thing is just to 
smart just to start small and 

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focus on one room at a time to 
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That's what we're doing in this 
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We're doing a pre clean in each 
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doing it one room at a time, OK,
In the kitchen, it was getting 

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the dishes going. 
The other thing I want you to do

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before we leave the kitchen is 
just straighten up the 

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countertops. 
You know, put away those items 

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that are out of place, whether 
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boxes, for some reason those are
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Or something else, you know, 
fast food containers that need 

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to get tossed. 
I don't know what's on your 

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kitchen counters, but let's get 
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And if there are things that 
belong in another room, quickly 

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take them there. 
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you leave the room, come right 
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OK? 
The point is to declutter your 

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countertops as part of your pre 
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Because later you're going to be
cleaning the surfaces of your 

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home. 
When you come back to finish the

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dishes, you're going to be 
wiping down your countertops and

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it's going to be so much easier 
with the obstacles already 

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removed. 
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removing visual clutter is huge.
When you feel overwhelmed about 

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cleaning your house, it's not 
because of the dust or the 

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grime. 
It is likely because of the 

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visual clutter. 
It's because of the pre clean. 

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Once that pre clean is behind 
you, you can put on some music 

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and clean the surfaces quickly. 
I'm here to talk you through the

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tedious parts. 
And I do have episodes where, 

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you know, we're actually 
scrubbing surfaces. 

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I want to get you through 
clearing the clutter that's 

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overwhelming you, the visual 
clutter. 

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OK, by now you've cleared off 
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Let's move on to your outer 
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And by outer areas, I mean your 
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hallway, maybe a family room if 
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OK, those common areas of your 
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bathroom, a bedroom used as an 
office, I'm talking about those 

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front rooms and entryway. 
OK, let's straighten up those 

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areas in order of priority. 
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pick up anything that's out of 
place on the floor, OK? 

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Sometimes I walk out and I I 
walk out of my room in the 

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morning and there's fuzz in my 
living room because one of the 

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dogs has shredded another dog 
toy. 

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OK, I'm not into buying these 
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daughter doesn't mind buying 
little cheap stuffed animals 

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from like dollar stores and 
stuff that they end up tearing 

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up. 
I'm more into buying them like 

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shin bones to chew on so that 
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Anyway, I would pick that up 
first because it would drive me 

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crazy or just a piece of trash 
that ended up on the floor. 

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OK And then next, those are the 
most egregious things I'd pick 

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up next. 
I would put away any shoes that 

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got left out or maybe a sweater 
that's draped over the couch at 

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summertime. 
So there's not as much as that 

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of that. 
Another thing that I do is I 

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straighten the throw pillows. 
We've got like a sofa and love 

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seat and it came with, you know,
4 throw pillows, 2 for each 

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couch. 
I straighten those, put those 

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how they go. 
Sometimes you have to straighten

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the actual couch cushions 
themselves if they're knocked 

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out of place. 
Then I have a blanket that's 

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draped over one of the couches. 
I straighten that up. 

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OK, I basically just get the 
floor vacuum ready by picking 

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everything up, and then I turn 
my attention to the upper 

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surfaces. 
Usually there are not any items 

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on our couches, but oftentimes 
there are a few things on the 

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coffee table. 
Empty plastic water bottles for 

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example. 
I clear off the coffee table 

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next. 
So once I've done all that, the 

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room still needs to be dusted 
and vacuumed, but this is just a

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pre clean. 
OK. 

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And the next thing I'll do and 
just obviously adapt this to 

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your own house and be picking 
up. 

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The next thing I'll do is I'll 
pick up the hallway. 

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And this step can be pretty 
quick. 

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Sometimes it feels like it's 
going to be a lot of work to 

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pick up a room, but you've got 
to just jump in and do it. 

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Just get started. 
It's not that hard, you know? 

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Yeah, you're going to be 
bending. 

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Or if you're feeling really 
lazy, you might be picking up 

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items with your foot. 
OK, if you don't want to bend 

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over, but the point is just to 
be moving and picking up and 

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just think how nice it's going 
to be to go through and wipe 

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down all of your surfaces and 
then vacuum or sweep and mop if 

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you have hard floors throughout 
or maybe you use a vacuum on the

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hard floors. 
For those of you who are 

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parents, have you ever noticed 
if you tell a kid to like pick 

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up a room, they're like, oh man.
But then if you tell him like, 

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hey, can you wipe down this 
table or whatever, It's like the

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table's already clear and you're
asking him to wipe down 

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surfaces. 
They're like, sure, OK. 

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I think as adults we're the same
way. 

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We don't like the pre cleaning. 
But once we get that over with, 

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I mean, the cleaning happens so 
quickly and in a lot of these 

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episodes be cleaning your outer 
areas, you know, while I talk 

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pre cleaning, tidying up, if you
will. 

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But in a lot of these episodes I
have you do all of the steps to 

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cleaning your room. 
I have you do the pre clean, 

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then I have you wipe surfaces. 
But sometimes it's nice to do 

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the whole house at once. 
All all of the pre cleaning and 

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then all of the deep surface 
cleaning. 

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And I like to mix it up for you.
OK, so in this episode, we're 

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not dusting your living area 
surfaces. 

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We're just getting them ready 
for that. 

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Hopefully you've had enough time
to pick up your living areas. 

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Let's move on to your bathrooms.
OK, this should be super fast. 

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I just want you to pick up the 
bathroom floor. 

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If there's a towel on the floor 
or somebody's clothing or a 

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mascara that got dropped on the 
floor, pick up the bathroom 

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floors in both bathrooms. 
If you have a couple bathrooms, 

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make sure there is toilet paper 
on the roll. 

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Make sure there's a clean hand 
towel and just straighten up the

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bathroom, you know, maybe put a 
curling iron away or confine 

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your makeup items into a drawer 
or a tray, you know, just to 

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kind of corral the clutter. 
You know, just think about how 

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what you would do in a bathroom 
if you had like a 2 minute 

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warning that your friend was 
going to stop by and use the 

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bathroom and just do that 
minimum. 

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This is not a deep clean and do 
it in both bathrooms. 

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I'm going to give you a couple 
minutes to do that, and then of 

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course, I'll have you head to a 
bedroom that you're responsible 

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for while you're finishing up in
the bathroom. 

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I just wanted to talk a little 
bit about containers, partly due

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to a request I received from a 
listener who's a financial 

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supporter. 
But in your bathroom, if you are

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struggling to keep things put 
away or it's taking you too much

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time to prep the bathroom for a 
deep cleaning, you may need some

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containers, OK? 
Whether it's a little dish for 

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jewelry and things like that, or
a plastic box or basket, maybe 

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for your curling irons and 
brushes. 

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And whether that container is 
going in the cupboard under the 

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sink or on the countertop itself
or on the back of the toilet 

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tank or, you know, wherever it's
going, you may need a container 

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and you might not even need to 
buy something. 

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You could have something 
somewhere in your house. 

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Maybe you have a plastic box 
that was originally intended for

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use in your kitchen pantry, but 
there's nothing in it. 

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And you know, that could go in 
the bathroom or whatever, but 

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being able to quickly clear a 
surface by putting things into a

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tray, basket or other container 
can make it much easier to keep 

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your house clean. 
It just makes it faster. 

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And the question I got was about
work from home equipment like 

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your laptop, your cords, 
printers, things like that. 

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Sometimes with the laptop and 
it's charger and maybe your 

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notepad and a pen, maybe a 
headset, you want to have some 

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type of portable container. 
When I was working a full time 

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job from home I have this canvas
box with handles. 

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They're kind of like holes in 
the side of it where you can 

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pick it. 
U almost like a purse, but it's 

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a canvas box and then it has 
like little pockets on the 

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outside where you could put pens
and things. 

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I would often put my laptop 
charger and other other items in

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there when I was heading out to 
the RV to kind of work where 

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it's quiet because I wasn't 
always working in the same 

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place. 
And a lot of people, I mean not 

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everybody works in the same 
place every day. 

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You know, sometimes your 
schedule looks a little 

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different. 
You're, you're not alone in the 

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house and you know, you need to 
move somewhere quiet. 

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Having something to put all of 
your work stuff in, you know, 

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can be helpful. 
And I mean, it could be a 

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briefcase or a tote bag with a 
compartment for a laptop, but it

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could also be a box. 
I used that box more when I was 

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at home because you can easily 
with a box, you can easily reach

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in and get things out. 
Whereas with a laptop case, 

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you're kind of stuffing things 
in and there's not as much room.

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I was more likely to use the 
case for traveling, but this box

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with handles for moving my stuff
around the house. 

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So if you do have, so if someone
in your family works from home 

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and they're, let's say working 
at the dining room table or 

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whatever, you might want a 
convenient place to put that 

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stuff so that you can maybe move
it to another location when 

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you're serving dinner at the 
table. 

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I mean, that's one solution. 
The other solution is to keep 

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the workstation confined to just
one place setting of the table. 

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My daughter often does artwork 
at the dining room table. 

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And I tell her, just keep your 
little setup confined to one 

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place setting because if she 
just has her stuff in one little

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spot at one end of the table, we
can still sit around the table 

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for a meal. 
So kind of the same thing 

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applies to workstations. 
The more containers you have, 

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the better. 
It just kind of goes back to 

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that whole thing where when you 
have fewer obstacles, it's 

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easier to spray and wipe down a 
surface. 

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So having a box or a tray for 
things and then moving it out of

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the way to clean can streamline 
your cleaning routine. 

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By now you've probably 
straightened up your bathrooms. 

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It's time to go to a bedroom 
that you're responsible for. 

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Unless there's somebody sleeping
in the bed. 

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Quickly make the bed and pick up
the floor and get it vacuum 

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ready. 
You probably already went into 

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the room when you were gathering
up dishes. 

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So the main thing you need to do
is just clear the floor, pick up

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those shoes, clothes, whatever 
other random items are lurking 

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in your room. 
Quickly get it picked up. 

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And maybe there are some items 
that you don't really want to 

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make a decision about you. 
You know, they're they're kind 

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of slowing you down. 
Like, wait, what do I do with 

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this? 
If that's the case, place the 

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item on your freshly made bed 
because the important thing here

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is getting your floor picked up,
getting the room vacuum or sweep

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ready. 
Then afterward you can decide 

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what to do with those items on 
your bed. 

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Put them away before you you go 
to bed, that type of thing. 

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But I want you to quickly pick 
up the floor if you did not get 

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your machine running. 
I, I think I at least alluded to

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that at the beginning of the 
episode about getting your 

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washing machine running or dryer
running. 

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I don't think I specifically 
asked you to do it. 

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I know I alluded to it, but 
maybe you need to start a load 

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of laundry. 
Maybe instead of making your 

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bed, you need to strip the 
bedding and get that washing. 

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Or maybe while you're picking up
your bedroom you are gathering 

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up some dirty laundry and it 
might be a good idea to get that

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into the washing machine. 
OK, so it might be time to start

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a load of laundry. 
If not, just keep picking up 

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your bedroom floor. 
I your bedroom might be a, a 

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huge mess. 
Sometimes there's a tendency to 

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just kind of stash things in 
your bedroom and keep the front 

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areas of your house presentable.
And maybe you've been doing that

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so you feel a little bit 
overwhelmed, like your bedroom 

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needs a lot more time than just 
a couple minutes. 

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But you would be surprised how 
much you can pick up when you're

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just kind of dividing things 
into categories. 

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You're throwing away trash. 
You know those empty plastic 

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water bottles. 
You're putting dirty clothes 

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into a hamper. 
Whether it's a hamper in your 

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room or a laundry basket in your
room or a hamper in the laundry 

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room, you're dealing with that 
dirty laundry. 

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You're hanging up a couple items
that somehow ended up on your 

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floor when you were in a hurry 
and couldn't figure out what to 

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wear, and they're still clean. 
You're hanging those up. 

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You know, picking up your 
bedroom floor can be done either

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systematically by starting in 
one corner and then just kind 

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of, you know, working your way 
around the room. 

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Let's face it, a lot of 
bedrooms, the floor space is 

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kind of a horseshoe shape around
the bed. 

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Start at one corner, work your 
way around. 

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That's one way to do it. 
The other way is to kind of pick

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it up in layers, Like let's deal
with all the trash, let's deal 

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with all the laundry, let's deal
with the shoes. 

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Maybe there's a category for pet
toys or just kids toys. 

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Other things that end up in your
room, miscellaneous things, 

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things that you're storing on 
the floor that don't need to be 

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there, but you're not sure what 
to do with them. 

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And you're putting them on the 
bed for now. 

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But I want you to get that 
bedroom vacuum or sweep ready 

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because after this episode, 
you're going to head back to 

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your kitchen, finish any dishes 
that you left to soak. 

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You're going to go through your 
house wiping down surfaces, you 

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know, wiping down your 
countertops, cleaning out your 

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sink, dusting your furniture, 
giving your toilet seat a swipe 

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with maybe a disinfectant wipe 
and with another wipe, cleaning 

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the countertop and sink, you 
know, or paper towels and a 

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cleaning spray, whatever. 
Maybe touching up your bathroom 

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mirror with a glass cleaner and 
a microfiber cloth, You know, 

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basically going through your 
house, wiping down the upper 

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surfaces, table, vanity, 
countertop, and then you're 

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going to vacuum and or sweep and
mop. 

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So finish picking up your room 
so that you can move on to 

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cleaning the surfaces. 
And maybe if you're like me, 

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like to blare some music on a 
Bluetooth speaker while you're 

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just kind of doing a sweep of 
your entire house as far as you 

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know, surfaces are concerned. 
By the way, special special 

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thanks to my financial reporters
who support the show either on 

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Patreon, Spotify, Apple, or some
other way. 

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Not only are you unlocking bonus
episodes that get you on the 

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full program of keeping your 
house clean, but you're also 

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helping me out, and I appreciate
that more than you know. 

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I hope your bedroom's looking 
good. 

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I hope your whole house is 
picked up. 

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I hope you're going to continue 
and do the finishing touches 

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after this. 
And I encourage you if if you 

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still have the time and energy, 
listen to another episode, binge

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the show, get your house clean 
because sometimes you just need 

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00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:07,760
a reset and then it's going to 
be easier to keep your house 

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clean. 
But even if this is all you got 

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done today, your house is 
looking tidy. 

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But just remember when you dust 
and vacuum, it makes your house 

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look clean and then you kind of 
get credit for all that tidying 

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you did. 
So if possible, put on those 

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finishing touches by cleaning 
your upper and lower surfaces. 

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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.