How To Do Housework (and Not Hate It)
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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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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| 0:41.2 | Welcome to how to, the show where people bring us their messy problems, and we bring |
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| 0:49.0 | I'm Carvall Wallace. |
| 0:50.8 | Today's listener, Cooper, leads a very busy life. |
| 0:54.6 | They're a web developer, an artist, an activist, a spouse, a pet parent, all of which leaves |
| 1:01.7 | very little time for cleaning. |
| 1:06.2 | And that's resulted in dishes piling up and laundry not being done. You know, I've been told forever, |
| 1:12.2 | like, successful adults have like all of this stuff clean and organized and all that. And that's |
| 1:17.1 | just not been easy for us. So definitely looking for some help, some tips, some advice on |
| 1:23.5 | keeping things together. Cooper, can you just describe your home both physically so listeners can get a picture of it, |
| 1:30.3 | but also what it feels like? What's the vibe? |
| 1:33.3 | My wife and I live in a one-bedroom apartment with a den, which is basically a two-bedroom, |
| 1:38.3 | but I don't think they're legally allowed to call up that. |
| 1:41.3 | We just moved in in April. We really love the new place. It feels very |
| 1:46.2 | homy. We have heard wood floors, so you do see a lot of the pet hair and stuff as it builds up, |
| 1:51.8 | but we've got carpet in the den and the bedroom, and this nice big living space with these huge |
| 2:00.0 | open windows that we just love and our cat also |
| 2:03.3 | loves she's been like trying to chase the pigeons outside so it sounds like it's got lots of light |
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