#473 - How to Deal with a Messy House All Summer Long
The Lazy Genius Podcast
Kendra, The Lazy Genius
4.8 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
If your summer looks different than the rest of the year because you have kids at home and everything is more chaotic or your rhythms are a little different because of summer activities and travel and just reading more than tidying, this episode is for you.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, you're listening to the Lazy Genius podcast. I'm Kendra Adachi. This show is not about |
| 0:06.0 | hacking the system to find more time or hacking your energy to get more done. Hustling to be the best |
| 0:11.8 | or to make the most out of every opportunity is exhausting and unsustainable. So here we do things |
| 0:18.6 | differently. On this show, we value contentment, compassion, |
| 0:22.9 | and living in our season. We favor small steps over big systems. Here we're lazy genius is. |
| 0:29.9 | Being a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't, and I am so |
| 0:34.1 | glad that you are here. Today's episode 473, how to deal with a messy house all summer long. |
| 0:40.7 | If your summer looks different than the rest of the year because you have kids at home |
| 0:44.2 | and everything is more chaotic or your rhythms are a little different because of summer activities and travel and, I don't know, just reading more than tidying. This episode is for you. I want you to |
| 0:56.3 | leave this episode with two things. First, I want you to feel better about the mess that you do have. |
| 1:03.4 | And second, I want you to have some strategies to help you deal with the mess if you want to. |
| 1:07.8 | I think it's good to have perspectives that reframe our mess because mess isn't necessarily |
| 1:13.3 | going away. But that doesn't mean that you have to live in squalor, especially not if you don't want to. |
| 1:18.8 | So we'll take care of both of those things today. After that, we will have a little extra something |
| 1:23.9 | where I share an update on my album project. I share an update back in April, |
| 1:29.0 | so it feels like a good time to, you know, give it another peak. Plus, I've listened to a couple |
| 1:33.0 | of albums recently that I cannot stop listening to, just so sticky good and great listens for |
| 1:40.0 | the summer too. So I want to share this with you. As always, we'll celebrate the lazy |
| 1:44.5 | genius of the week with a wild idea for cleaning up art messes. And we'll finish up with a |
| 1:49.7 | mini pep talk for when you're already tired of a long season. Before we get into that, I want to |
| 1:55.6 | remind you of the difference between two of my books that people love to read during the summer |
| 2:00.7 | and before |
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