How To!: Do Housework (and Not Hate It)
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🗓️ 13 August 2024
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Summary
Cooper feels like they're constantly falling behind on their to-do list. Life is busy and household chores are the last thing they want to do. Cooper tracks everything in a detailed spreadsheet—but that spreadsheet isn't going to take care of the dirty dishes in the sink. On this episode of How To!, Carvell Wallace brings on Dale Aucoin of Clean & Queer, a professional organizing business based in New York City. Dale explains how to prioritize tasks, make chores easier, and find a routine that works for you.
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| 0:38.0 | Welcome to How To, the show where people bring us their messy problems and we bring in an expert to help them organize their |
| 0:44.7 | thoughts. |
| 0:45.7 | I'm Carvel Wallace. |
| 0:47.7 | Today's listener Cooper leads a very busy life. |
| 0:51.6 | They're a web developer, an artist, an activist, a spouse, a pet parent, all of which leaves |
| 0:58.2 | very little time for cleaning. And that's resulted in dishes piling up and laundry not being done. You know, I've been |
| 1:08.0 | told forever like successful adults have like all of this stuff clean and organized and all that and that's just not been easy for us. |
| 1:15.8 | So definitely looking for some help, some tips, some advice on keeping things together. |
| 1:21.8 | Cooper, can you just describe your home |
| 1:24.5 | both physically so listeners can get a picture of it, |
| 1:27.2 | but also what it feels like? |
| 1:29.0 | Like what's the vibe? |
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