Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is that not everything needs to be folded.

There is no point in making extra work for yourself

with things that don't really matter to you.

Today's tip, like another this week, comes from Casey Davis' book,

How to Keep House While Drowning.

This book is about how to maintain a functional home,

even during very busy times, or if you are dealing with mental challenges

that make executive functioning difficult.

Davis recounts living with huge piles of laundry in her laundry room,

after she became a stay-at-home mom of a toddler and a baby.

She could never get the laundry folded before something else called her away.

And of course, after both babies were in bed, she was so tired

that folding laundry was really the last thing she wanted to do.

Then, one day, as she was folding a baby onesie,

she asked herself a question,

why was she folding that onesie?

It wasn't really going to get wrinkled,

and if it did, who cared?

So she just started putting away onesies and t-shirts and athletic clothes

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