When it's the last time you played pretend you used your imagination to turn a situation that's kind of boring into something way more fun

I'm not talking about naughty time. I'm talking about our everyday life and how we can I call it imagination station to add some oops into it

Hey clutter bugs welcome back to the clutter bug podcast. I've been procrastinating cleaning my house because I think having my house on the market to sell I was hyper cleaning for a little while so I was very much like every moment making sure I was picking up after myself and cleaning and shining things and I got real sick of it real fast and so now that we sold the house it was like the brakes went on and I just went cold turkey and I know

I shouldn't be doing this all or nothing thing when it comes to cleaning but I definitely took a few days off and you know what it was Canada day I know my US listeners it's going to be July 4th tomorrow

Very cool take some time off but what do we do when we kind of have fallen off the wagon and we have to get back on but we're just not feeling motivated

I want to talk about a technique that helps with cleaning your house which is turning it into play using your imagination kind of making a game out of it a little bit and I'm going to talk about lots of different ways that we can do that today but

This every time I've talked to friends about this because this is something I do all the time to clean my house and my friends are like that's weird

It's it's weird you pretend you're a cleaning lady to clean your own house or it's weird that I pretend you know I'm filming it and making a video out of it or whatever it is that I do and I do lots of different things to kind of create that motivation to make cleaning fun

But I think why

This might seem odd is because as grown-ups we've totally lost the ability to play

To really play not to like have a couple beers or some wine and get together with friends play but

But like childlike play

Create a world that isn't real in our imagination

To spice up the mundane stuff in our life and a lot of people do this

You know in that bedroom, but that's not what we're talking about we can do that in everything in our life that's boring

Right and and I want to talk about some of the really fun things that I do when it comes to cleaning the house

I've talked about it before but I'm hoping listening to this podcast that you have an open mind

To try some of this pretend thing and I think if you're rusty you haven't played imagination in a really long time

You haven't played pretend you'll have to like dust it off a bit

You'll have to warm up and get yourself back into it

It's going to feel a little bit awkward I think but I promise you

It's going to be fun. You're going to feel

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