Hey guys and welcome back to the Clutterbug Podcast.

Today we're talking about the automated home.

So thanks so much for tuning in. Today we're talking about how to automate your home and I guess I'm not talking about you know having everything be a smart home run by technology like some awesome George Jetson style house with robots running around doing our stuff as awesome as that would be and I would love that so much.

What I'm talking about is running your home on

autopilot. It means having your home just really take care of itself for the most

part. Obviously you're still going to have to do things, but we're going to stop the idea that you have to spend hours every week scrubbing your home or that housework has to be a big part of your life because it doesn't.

It really should be something that's running in the background on autopilot.

You're not giving a second thought to and it's not supposed to be something that's going to take a lot of time or effort.

So how do you get there? How do you achieve an automated home?

I'm going to tell you how I got there, and I'm going to tell you how I got there and I'm going to tell you first why to me it's so important.

I think for a big part of my life, especially I guess when I was a teenager and in my early 20s I thought of the

housework part I saw it as a really like negative thing I thought it was I don't know mundane obviously which it is and

it just it felt like it was beneath me maybe maybe it was the feminist in me

thinking like there's more to life and I was constantly feeling every time I was doing things like laundry or cleaning that I was taking my time away from the bigger thing the thing that would bring me more happiness and and I yeah so I put it off I didn't do it I totally

totally rebelled against the the idea of that part of adulting.

And maybe it's because my mom was a total clean freak and honestly she spent years and

hours and years of her life doing ridiculous housework that in looking back was was way overkill

And I didn't want to do that I didn't want to dedicate my life to cleaning so I rebelled and I had a messy disgusting house and I resisted doing dishes and my dishes

piled up and stunk and were gross and you know I had to use paper plates and and I remember having to throw out pots and pans because they were so disgusting and I felt like crap about myself. I mean I thought I was I thought I'd feel crap about myself doing the housework, but I felt even

crappier about myself having such a messy cluttered home. And so I went the other way.

I started really working hard on it because let's be honest it feels good to have a clean house it feels it feels great to have

House that that's you wake up in the morning to a really clean space it feels so much better than it does waking up to a messy space, but I was, I was doing what my mom did and I was doing overkill. I was spending way too much time on it. And I didn realize I guess that there was a there was a

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