Hey there 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.

Was that a weird hey there? It feels like it was. Today's episode 374, what is saving my life? Summer edition.

Last week I did an episode on all of your best summer ideas. Good golly was that awesome and today I am

sharing the 10 things that we are doing this summer that are saving my life.

I'd like to say it'll be a shorter episode but those are always famous last words so we shall see.

As always this list is not something for you to copy. In fact half of these literally

half are pool related and not everyone spends their summers at the pool.

The point is to notice where you have problems, adjust, and see what works to make something

a little easier.

Some of these have been adjustments from summers past, some are brand new.

I hope you get a little help and encouragement from at least one of them.

And seriously though, the first five things are pool related.

My apologies to the non-pool folks. All right, first thing, our pull bag.

Everything we need for the pool stays in the bag.

Towels, goggles, sunscreen, bug spray, which is a new addition this year, all of it.

The bag is kept by our laundry rack where we hang the wet towels,

so when it's time to go to the pool all we need to do is put towels in the bag if there aren't any already.

Now a pool bag is a fairly simple idea because everyone takes a bag to the pool.

Or wherever you're going, if you need a lot of stuff like you take a bag but the key is to make sure that everything

stays in the pool bag when you get home that's house rule. That is the place for the pull things. If

Annie keeps her goggles on her head and then she drops them on the bathroom floor

once we get home, those goggles will not be at the pool the next day, because they're not in the bag.

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