How To!: The Lazy Genius Way

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🗓️ 10 May 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

When Samantha and her husband moved from a condo to a fairly large house, they knew they’d have a lot of updating and upkeep to do. But they had no idea how much time their new chores would gobble up. Or even what chores to do. (If only there was a guide to adulting!) Even when they weren’t holding themselves to picture-perfect standards, it still felt like they were barely keeping their heads above water. On this episode of How To!, we bring on Kendra Adachi, she’s a best-selling author, podcaster, and professional permission giver. She has tangible, easy steps that you can do right now to help you prioritize and organize your mess—and ultimately, your life. If you liked this episode, check out “How To Stop “Having It All” (Before You End Up With Nothing)” Do you have a problem that needs solving? Send us a note at howto@slate.com or leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001 and we might have you on the show. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now at slate.com/howtoplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I think everybody sort of feels like 15 years old all the time when it comes to responsibilities.
0:05.1	Like I really do. I really think we're like, wait, I'm supposed to know how to grocery shop.
0:09.6	I'm supposed to know how to change my furnace filter. I'm supposed to know what a furnace filter does.
0:13.5	I don't know.
0:15.5	Welcome to how to. I'm Amanda Ripley.
0:18.3	Do you ever feel like you just cannot get a handle on your life?
0:22.6	Your laundry?
0:23.6	Your to-do list?
0:24.6	Our listener Samantha wrote to us after she and her husband had moved from a condo to a bigger
0:29.6	house in Pennsylvania to suit their growing family.
0:32.6	And they had it all in some ways.
0:34.6	Two little kids, a house, a job for her husband that allowed Samantha to stay home with the children, even a lawn.
0:42.0	So why did it feel like they were constantly failing to do the things adults are supposed to do?
0:48.6	Oh, you want to put stuff in your basement? Oh, well, it needs to be waterproof.
0:52.6	With the list of everything that sort of needed to get
0:55.4	done and with like limited time and funds, it was very difficult to know where to start.
1:04.6	We're both very like, do our research to like read some books kind of people. There's stuff
1:10.8	that was like, take care of your home for dummies.
1:12.6	And it was like, no, but like, I don't like, I don't want to build the house.
1:18.3	Right, I don't want to build the house.
1:19.8	But I do want to know, like, how do we organize stuff.
1:24.0	This feeling of being lost and overwhelmed started with the move, which is probably inevitable.
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