Welcome to A Slob Kems Clean, the podcast. I'm Dana White. I blog over at A Slob Kems Clean.com.

That is where I share my personal deslabification process. As I figure out ways to keep my own home under control,

I share the truth about cleaning and organizing strategies that actually work in real life

for real people who don't love cleaning and organizing.

Thanks for joining me today. This is podcast number 138. And this is my one-year report on having hired someone to clean my house.

Yeah, so I had a podcast right around a year ago where I talked about kind of my very first experience with that.

It's been a year and I think it's worth talking about.

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And I'm going to talk to you about something at the very end that is just something I totally need your help on.

So if you are like, and it doesn't cost any money or anything, but if you are somebody who's like, oh, I just wish I could help Dana do something.

You're going to have your chance and I'll talk to you about it at the end. Anyway, okay. So it's been a year.

I know for sure that it has been a year because the reason I started hiring someone to help me clean the house, it had always been a dream.

And it always been a goal. I told my husband probably kind of when I first started turning what I was doing into an actual job, like I could justify doing this instead of, you know, substitute teaching.

I told my husband, I said, hey, when I get to X amount of money, per month that I feel like I can depend on one of the things I want to do is hire somebody to help me clean my house.

And he looked at me like I was crazy and said, can you do that when you write about what you write about.

And I was like, oh, yeah, because I'll just write about it. Anyway, so I have written about it. I've been very honest and I want to always be honest with y'all and tell you how this goes.

But I remember that it was a year ago because I had always wanted to do it, but had put it off and put it off and put it off.

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