Welcome to the Organized 365 Podcast. My name is Lisa Woodruff and I'm a professional

organizer and blogger in Cincinnati, Ohio. I want to help you get your home

organized and help you organize life stages and unexpected events.

So sit back, relax, and let's get organized.

Well, I don't think it will surprise you to find out that I am pretty much a productivity nut.

Like, if there is any way for me to get an extra two minutes of productivity in a day,

I'm going to try to figure out how to do that.

Because if you can get two minutes a day, that's 14 minutes a week, which is an hour a

month, which is 12 hours a year. Like two minutes a day makes a big difference in the

grand scheme of things. So I'm constantly looking at how can I be more productive, more efficient,

and get done the routine things in life quicker so that I have

more time to do the things I love to do like blogging and projects and going on

walks with Hunter and Greg.

So today I want to kind of do a follow-up sequence

to podcast number 65, which was 10 household tasks

that you can automate or outsource. This is 10 working mom hacks

for a more productive week. Now there's just no way around it. Owning a home,

being a homeowner is a part-time job. Like to do the amount of work that a home requires to keep it clean, organized, maintained, takes time and it usually takes about 20 hours a week. Like, it the fact like I keep trying to think of well how can I magically make it so everybody can get everything done in two hours with the Sunday basket and the bottom line is you just can't like you're either going to

spend two hours every single day seven days a week two to three hours I guess or

you're going to spend six to eight hours on a Sunday and maybe an hour each day of the week just to keep

your house maintained and I'm talking about doing the laundry doing the

cooking the grocery shopping make sure you heard the calendars up to date the

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