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If you've lived anywhere for any period of time, you know that there's a tendency for people to just accumulate stuff.

It piles up and eventually we've got to deal with it.

I'm John Fuller along with Danny Werther and Danny. and eventually we've got to deal with it.

I'm John Fuller along with Danny Werta and Danny when it comes time to clean the house.

My initial thought is kids rooms or actually just outside of the kids rooms because one of my kids

cleaned their room and threw everything outside of their kids' rooms. One of my kids cleaned their room and threw everything outside of their doorway.

In the hallway.

But I can't point a finger because I got my messy areas.

I think everybody's got a junk drawer that is like you know good luck trying to find anything in there

we should probably begin if we're going to try to clean up the house with our own stuff is that good advice?

Oh I agree yeah I mean I'm just as guilty where I remember asking my son, hey, it's time to clean your

room and he said, and I said, hey, make sure you make your bed.

And he said, well, what about your guys's bed?

And your room looks a little bit disorganized, too.

And I said, you know what, you're right. This is something we need to do as

we're modeling this. It was, we needed to clean and declutter our room as well and what a great exercise of family to do that.

Sometimes we have kids reminding us of things, right?

And this was a moment of reminder and reset for us to clear things out.

It's things accumulate so fast when you have a family and you have birthdays and

Christmases and extended family.

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