#408 - Three Surprising Steps to a Clean House

The Lazy Genius Podcast

Kendra Adachi

Arts, Education

4.8 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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If you think like a Lazy Genius, there are three surprising steps to a clean house. They’re a short little row of dominoes that impact how you see your home and what you do to keep it clean. And maybe your definition of clean will shift a little, too. Helpful Companion Links Order my new book The PLAN or ask your library to consider carrying a copy. Sign up for the Latest Lazy Listens email. Grab a copy of my book The Lazy Genius Kitchen or The Lazy Genius Way! (Affiliate links) Download a transcript of this episode. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	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.
0:11.0	Today is episode 408, three surprising steps to a clean house. So the phrase clean house probably brings up a lot of different things for different people.
0:21.9	You might experience like sudden feelings of comparison or judgment, maybe even shame
0:29.8	because you're like, well, this episode in for me.
0:33.3	Maybe you work full time.
0:34.7	You have multiple children.
0:35.9	You have a super busy schedule.
0:37.1	So cleaning the house is like the last thing you want to do on a Saturday. You have multiple children. You have a super busy schedule. So cleaning the
0:37.6	house is like the last thing you want to do on a Saturday. Maybe cleaning falls on your shoulders alone.
0:43.5	Or maybe you live in a fixer upper and so everything's always covered in dust, you know, so you kind of always feel
0:48.2	behind. Maybe you live with a habitually messy person who has a different take on a clean house than you do.
0:54.5	Maybe you're home with tiny children who make a mess like it's their actual job.
1:00.3	Basically anyone talking about a clean house is not always welcome. And if that is true of you right
1:06.8	now, maybe this episode will actually be a breath of fresh air. Because guess what?
1:11.5	I'm not really going to talk about the cleanliness of your house. If you think like a lazy
1:16.9	genius, there are three surprising steps to a clean house. They are this short little row of
1:22.6	dominoes that impact how you see your home and what you might personally do to keep it clean.
1:31.3	And I think your definition of clean will shift a little as well. Okay. But before we get into
1:38.4	these these steps, these three steps, I want to debunk something real quick. Messiness is not a sign of being
1:48.5	more real. Messiness is not the only sign of a well-lived life. It's a real slippery slope that we
1:57.7	have gone down in recent years. And I think we need to slow our role. I was chatting
2:02.4	with a couple of folks recently. And the guy I was talking to, he mentioned this song that he loves
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