Hello, I'm Sophie McCartney, Tied and Tested, Mom of Three, who's escaping the kids and heading

out on tour to venues across the UK from May 2023 to April 2024. So book in the babysitter,

grab your mates and join me, for a night out comedy, cackels and child tree chaos.

Tickets run sound now at livenation.co.uk

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

aslobkemsclean.com. That's 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, people who don't love cleaning and organizing.

Thanks for joining me today. This is podcast number 216. By the way, I think I called the last

2214. So whatever, this is 216. I'm pretty sure. I hope. And I'm calling it the free time

delusion. Oh, this is one of my favorite, favorite and yet most damaging delusions. I mean,

I fall back into this delusion all the time. And what I mean when I say the free time delusion

is I'm going to have free time starting at x point in the future or ambiguous point in the future.

ambiguous phase of life. You know, once I'm, you know, once my kids are out of the house or once

I've retired, you know, once summer gets here, whatever. And that's kind of what brought this

about is this idea of summer and the delusion that comes along with, oh, my routine is going to

go out the window. I'm not going to have to do these three things. And so I am going to replace

those with these 5,000 different things, even though I actually also have other responsibilities.

But whatever. Okay. But before we get into that, I want to make sure to remind you that this is

my final podcast until August. I will come back in August. I take the summers off. Mostly to save

my sanity to be able to focus on my family and all that. And so my main advice is to make sure

that you're subscribed to the podcast, either an Apple podcast or whatever app that you use to

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