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Clutterbug - Real-Life Hacks and Tips to Declutter, Organize and Clean your Home Fast

A Breakdown of How To Keep House While Drowning | Clutterbug Podcast # 156

Clutterbug - Real-Life Hacks and Tips to Declutter, Organize and Clean your Home Fast

Clutterbug

Leisure, Home & Garden, How To, Self-improvement, Education

4.72.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

If you are tired of the constant cycle of cleaning and tidying your home, just for it to get messy again overnight...you are not alone. Housework can seem like a never-ending, horrible burden. Maybe you are struggling to stay on top and have lost the motivation to keep trying. It's time for a new approach.  KC Davis' book "How to Keep House while Drowning" can help. Her gentle approach to cleaning and organizing is a breath of fresh air. In today's podcast, I break down my favourite parts of the book. Want your own copy? Get yours here: https://amzn.to/3ZH4DC7 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I love sharing books with you, especially ones that I can give you like the best of the

0:07.1

best parts so that you don't have to read the whole thing, but I got to admit this one

0:12.7

I kind of recommend you read for yourself.

0:16.7

Hey clutter bugs, welcome back to the clutter bug podcast, today we're going to talk about

0:29.4

a new book.

0:30.4

I guess it's not new, it's actually a few years old, I'm just late to the party.

0:33.8

It's called How to Keep House While Drowning by Casey Davis.

0:39.2

It's a gentle approach to cleaning and organizing and I have seen so many people recommending

0:44.8

this book.

0:45.8

I just never got around to read it like I think because I've read so many organizing books

0:51.8

and it's been the same thing over and over again, I'm kind of like I've been reluctant

0:58.2

to read anything new, but I have to be honest, I'm super impressed with this book so I'm

1:03.4

going to give you the best information that I personally found like my biggest takeaways

1:09.2

from this book, but I do recommend that you give it a read or a listen if it has an audiobook

1:15.0

honestly, I don't even know if it does, but it's great, it's short, it's clear, it's concise,

1:20.6

it really puts into words a lot of the things that I've felt through my own journey from

1:26.2

super slob to having a tidy home, but I wasn't able to really articulate, I'm not

1:32.1

graded articulating my thoughts.

1:34.8

And this is written by a trained therapist, she's simplifying it, she's, she's making

1:39.8

it something that is absorbed into your mind, which is something I am not great at and like

1:45.4

literally the first page of this book talks about being and feeling lazy and this struck

1:54.9

me because I've always referred to myself as a lazy person and I know it's negative self-talk

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