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The Decluttered Mom Podcast

068: Laundry 101 with Melissa Dilkes Pateras

The Decluttered Mom Podcast

Diana Rene

Education, Mom Life, Leisure, Self-improvement, Home & Garden, Busy Mom, Parenting, Minimalist, Kids & Family, Routines, Decluttering

4.9681 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode, Diana chats with laundry expert and author Melissa Dilkes Pateras all about laundry myths, best practices, and so much more. You can find her on TikTok here: Laundrytok | Melissa Pateras (@melissadilkespateras) Official | TikTok You can find her new book here: A Dirty Guide to a Clean Home: Housekeeping Hacks You Can't Live Without In this episode, we cover: Homemade laundry detergent is not effective and can damage your washing machine. The guest explained tha...

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Decluttered Mom podcast. A podcast built specifically for busy moms by a busy mom. I'm your host, Diana Renee. And in 2017, I had my second daughter and it felt like I was literally drowning in my home. Okay, not literally,

0:23.8

but I felt like I couldn't breathe with all of the stuff surrounding me. Over the next 10 months,

0:30.3

I got rid of approximately 70% of our household belongings and I have never looked back.

0:42.6

I kind of feel like I hacked the mom system, and I'm here to share all the tips,

0:44.4

tricks, and encouragement.

0:46.6

Let's listen to today's show.

0:52.8

Welcome to this episode of the Decluttered Mom podcast.

0:56.0

Today I have a guest for you. I have another guest expert. As you know, a few weeks ago, I talked about how we're starting to implement more

1:01.7

guest experts on the podcast. We're not doing away with my solo episodes or with my member story

1:08.1

episodes. We're still doing those. We're just kind of adding a little bit more variety to the podcast each week.

1:14.2

So today I have someone named Melissa Pateras, and she is someone that I actually found

1:20.1

on TikTok a while ago because she came up on my 4U page on TikTok.

1:27.0

And like I stopped because her question was,

1:30.6

do you know what happens when you take your clothes to get dry cleans?

1:35.2

Like do you know what dry cleaning actually is?

1:37.6

And I like literally paused her video and I was like, no, I don't.

1:42.4

I don't know what it is.

1:43.9

And it really caught my attention. I started

1:45.9

looking through her videos. And I love that she is just straight to the point. And she explains, like,

1:53.1

the science behind laundry. She explains how machines work. You guys, I had, like, I had so many

2:00.4

questions for her that we ended, we had to cut the interview a little bit short because of some scheduling things.

2:05.8

But let me know after you listen today, can you send me a DM?

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