Hi, lazy geniuses. My name is Kendra and you're listening to the lazy genius podcast.

Here I'm going to help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't.

Today's episode, episode 32, the lazy genius cleans the kitchen. Aren't you so excited?

Really though, this is gonna be so fun. Here is the pitch.

We all clean the kitchen and more than likely we all hate it because it feels constant.

But there is a way to make it better. We've done it with laundry, with cleaning the house, with getting dressed.

We can take a task that's borderline annoying and make it work for us as lazy geniuses do.

So today in the playbook we're gonna talk about why the kitchen is the most important to keep clean and then the secret sauce.

The order of the tasks of cleaning. Okay, so let's just jump in.

Why is the kitchen the most important room to keep clean?

With the exception of the bathroom, it's probably the room we use the most, especially if you're always home.

Stay at home, moms. You know especially how if the kitchen is a disaster, you might as well just burn on the house and start over.

It makes everything feel cluttered and dirty. Thankfully the reverse is also true.

If the kitchen is clean, the rest of the house feels clean too, or at least clean nur.

My family and I live in one of those HDTV catchphrase like open concept homes where the kitchen in the dining room and the living room are more or less one space.

If you live in a home where the kitchen is in any way open to other lived in rooms, prioritizing the kitchen is the laziest way to keep the rest of the house feeling clean.

Okay, now heed this warning my friends. Don't fall into the trap of procrastinating cleaning the kitchen because you'll cook in it again.

Yes, this is true. You will cook in it again. But if you use that logic, you'll die under piles of Tupperware of Pop-Tar wrappers.

It's not pretty. Remember the lazy part of being genius. Yes, we love to be lazy.

But being lazy in this situation where you're just putting it off and putting it off because you're going to do it again. That is not being genius.

Okay, you've got to clean up after every meal if you can. It doesn't take as long as you think. And then it doesn't all pile up and make you crazy. Okay, it's worth it. I mean, I live for years where I would let dishes and like all the food scraps collect all day because you know, I'll just clean them at the end of the day.

And then you can even leave it like for the morning. No, all the sirens, all the red flags. Don't do it. Don't leave your dishes to the end of the day or even the morning is the worst. I'm just telling you, don't fall for that trick.

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