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

House Cleaning Wisdom | Clutterbug Podcast # 18

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

Clutterbug

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

4.72.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2016

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Here is a little bit of my house cleaning wisdom.  Unfortunately, I had to learn how to properly keep a house clean the hard way! My best tip? If you wait until your home looks dirty to clean it, you have already waited too long.  For more cleaning and organizing tips, visit my website at www.clutterbug.me Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey guys, welcome back to the Kletterbug Podcast. Today I wanted to talk about house

0:06.6

cleaning or housework. And I've talked a lot about in the book that I'm writing or on my

0:12.1

blog posts or on my YouTube channel I talk about

0:15.4

the fact that once you've organized your space it's so much easier to keep it

0:20.7

clean and that is true I remember back in my slob days when you know the

0:26.8

only time I would really clean is if something physically looked dirty I guess

0:31.2

or there was someone coming over and look out, or there was someone coming over.

0:34.0

And look out, because if someone was coming over,

0:36.7

I would transform into like a screaming banchi

0:39.8

for basically two days straight.

0:41.5

I would be stressed out about it. I'd be like a nut bar,

0:45.2

cleaning everything, shoving clutter out of the way, scrubbing the floors.

0:49.3

The bathrooms would always be like, you know, beyond the point where you could just give it a good wipe it's like

0:54.6

you're scrubbing with like comet and a scrub brush to get the ring out of your tub and you

1:01.8

know that's just how I guess I assumed house cleaning was.

1:04.5

House cleaning was like this big ordeal where it's basically you're going to the

1:08.9

gym because you're sweating so much because you're scrubbing your house and I have learned that that is in fact not

1:16.0

the right way to clean your house because you know what it's hard work I'm pretty

1:19.7

sure I'm allergic to hard work and I don't want to scrub and I don't want to have that panicked feeling of when somebody does stop by that you know you're embarrassed because there's sticky jam all over your counters or your floor and you know it's just it's just grossly dirty like you've let it go too far and that's the other thing with housework is it doesn't take long to pile up you can literally let things go for a couple of days and it looks

1:46.6

like you could start in your own TLC Special Headquarters. So I have learned and I'm going to share my little tip of house

1:57.6

cleaning wisdom with you. If it already looks dirty, if you're waiting to clean your house until it looks dirty, you've waited too long.

2:07.0

And I cannot express that enough.

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