How To Tame a Chaotic Household
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Sarah feels like she's drowning in the clutter of her tiny Brooklyn apartment where she lives with a messy husband and two-year-old daughter. Now that her family is under quarantine together, the chaos seems destined to only get worse. In this episode of How To!, Bruce Feiler, author of The Secrets of Happy Families, drops by to give Sarah a home makeover. But Bruce has more than a Marie Kondo-style cleanup in mind. Instead, he suggests that Sarah first declutter her mind and then call a family meeting to reorganize responsibilities.
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| 0:00.0 | And let me ask you this, before you had a child, were you tidy people? |
| 0:05.0 | No. |
| 0:06.0 | Okay. |
| 0:07.0 | No. |
| 0:08.0 | It's only escalated. |
| 0:09.0 | And tell me, like is your husband a pretty like tidy guy or no? |
| 0:14.0 | No. |
| 0:15.0 | He's like really bad. |
| 0:16.3 | So when we first started dating, he had just like a cardboard box |
| 0:20.0 | of his clean clothes and a cardboard box for dirty clothes. |
| 0:22.9 | And he would just, you know, he'd never actually put them away. |
| 0:26.0 | Welcome to how to how to. |
| 0:31.8 | I'm Charles Studick. I imagine you are spending a lot of time at home right now right now right like like all of us are and if you are anything like me you're just overwhelmed by the chaos inside your own house, with kids |
| 0:46.8 | being home from school and things being dirty and piles of things everywhere. |
| 0:52.3 | And so we thought this week we would spend some time trying to help you and a |
| 0:56.0 | listener tame her chaotic households and later in the show we'll have our first |
| 1:01.2 | quarantine Q&A where our own listeners offer solutions |
| 1:05.1 | about living through the coronavirus to you. But first I want to introduce you to |
| 1:11.7 | Sarah. |
| 1:12.5 | Hi. |
| 1:13.5 | Hi, Sarah? |
| 1:14.0 | Yes. |
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