Hi everyone, you're listening to the Lazy Genius podcast. I'm Kendra Adachi and I'm here to help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't.

Today is episode 155. How to clean the house when everyone is inside it. A lot of us are still sheltering in place and that brings a new set of challenges when it comes to cleaning for sure.

Because there are so many challenges, we are going to make this a two-part knee series. Today I'm going to share 10 principles of lived in cleaning.

And the next week we'll get into some specifics like laundry, bathrooms, dust, and crumbs on the floor. You guys, the dust and the crumbs, there are so many people creating so much dust and so many crumbs.

So that is a game plan. Two weeks of figuring out how to clean the house when everyone is inside it. Before we get started, I just wanted to remind you that there is a Lazy Genius Facebook group to join if you are interested.

It is full of incredibly smart, encouraging, normal people who crowd source lazy genius solutions to all kinds of problems. There's a link in the show notes if you're interested in checking it out.

Now I just feel like now is a time when we need community and solid resources to help us get through this. I'm glad that you see this podcast as one of those resources.

And the Lazy Genius Facebook group is both a resource and a community. So I hope you check it out. All right, let's talk about cleaning the house when everyone is inside it.

These 10 principles are going to get you there. Principle number one, you will never be done, but you can be done today.

I put a call out on Instagram last week asking you guys for your cleaning challenges right now. And this this thought came up often because of all the people home all the time and the constant mess, it feels like cleaning is never done. And in a way that's true.

Nothing stays clean for long, even on the best days, entropy is kind of a it's kind of a bummer. So while it's true that you will never be done.

The gift of being a lazy genius is you can decide to be done today. You can even make that decision based on different things from day to day.

You might wake up one day with a lot of energy and motivation. The kids are like happily playing outside in the yard. And you're done might look like you're going to clean an entire bathroom or you're going to mop the kitchen floor and then be done.

But then other days done is just having the dishes in the sink instead of all over the counter or the toys picked up in one room and no or else ideally the room that you're currently setting in.

So principle number one, you will never be done, but you can be done today.

Principle number two, raise a new standard part of me wants to imagine like thousands and thousands of lazy geniuses raising an actual standard like a flag in our homes like declaring a new way of cleaning.

But I don't mean a flag. I do mean a standard or a new way to measure what clean means.

One of the lazy genius principles of cleaning a home and regular non pandemic times is that you decide what clean means and that is still true.

You still get to decide what matters and what doesn't to you, right?

It's just that this way of life has changed our standards and what matters without our permission.

We're still trying to like put the old standard of a clean house into this new way and that's likely not going to work very well.

So it's time to raise a new standard.

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