Oh my gosh. I, I, I feel like this is something that just over the last 10 years, I've kind of really tried to, to like embody and do. I mean, I think the first thing is, and now I'm going to like, like channel my husband, I do think the first thing is to lower your expectations a little bit. I mean, I know they're like, we can do it all and just lean in and, you know, everybody says that kind of thing. But I do think that when you're in it and you've got little kids and everything's a mess, you think like, OK, this is my life forever and this is just the way my house is always going to look.

And you don't realize

that like, that's just a snapshot in time. Like in five years, those kids are going to be bigger and they're going to be able to be helping you clean and your house is not going to look like that. So sometimes you just have to sit back and say, OK, well, this is what it is today. And I'm just going to get through this. And in a few years, you know, we'll make it better how we can, but you're not going to make yourself feel bad because it's hard with, with little kids. I mean, luckily mine are getting older and I love the little kid stage, but it's, it's hard if you want to have

lots of kids in a nice clean house. It's just, you

know, how do you, how do you, where do you begin? So I think lowering your expectations is like the first thing I will say about that. Then of course, you want to have your house clean. So I, I really think like you should prioritize what's important to you to have clean in your home because if you're going to say, why need everything clean? I need all of my surfaces, dusted. I need every bathroom sparkling. I need the kitchen perfect. I need the baseboards clean, no cobwebs. It's just, I mean, you've got to prioritize. You've got to just pick the things that either are most important to you. Or sometimes I say, like pick the things that are like maybe the dirtiest rooms in your home, like the kitchen and the bathroom.

And, or you could pick things that are a big

surface area, you know, like,

like the floors or

the couches and the beds, you know, just kind of think like what are these big impact things. And that's what you prioritize and just let the rest go. You know, maybe like you can get to those things every six months or something when you've got some free time, but you're not going to get to them every day or weekend or whatever. So I think that's a really big thing is prioritizing.

Yeah, can we talk about prioritizing? My, my kitchen's a priority and the laundry's a priority. Yeah. I can't even tell you the last time I dusted a baseboard. I have never washed my curtains. This is something people do. I've never in my life done this. I've never washed the walls. I might spot wipe if I see something, but I've never like done that. My fridge is really needs to be cleaned out. The oven needs to be cleaned out. I think there's this expectation that people who have a clean house have every nook and cranny clean, but I promise you that's not true. They're focusing on, like you said, their priorities. And for me, it's kitchen and laundry. I should clean the bathrooms more. I do not. That is bad. What are your big priorities? Yeah. So definitely the

kitchen is a big priority of mine because we are constantly in our kitchen. And if we don't sand top of it, it just will look like a mess in five seconds. And especially when everybody's home, it seems like people are eating all day long and there's constant conditions. So yeah, so the kitchen is definitely a big priority for me in our house. I would also say I would say our bathrooms as well. And the way that I like handle the bathrooms, I mean, I'll just clean a little bit every day in each bathroom when it looks dirty. And then that way that helps us stand top of the bathrooms. So I definitely pick the kitchen and bathrooms. Although I am also, I weirdly enjoy vacuuming. So I do do a lot of vacuuming. I've got like a cordless handheld vac to make it easier. And so

that's another thing that I do.

But yeah, laundry, I hear a lot of people saying that. I like, I mean, who does really like laundry? But you know, I should prioritize that. But we're lucky. You know, we, I try to do it twice a week. And that's like my max.

Yeah, I feel like my kids, if I don't keep up on the laundry, they will take clean clothes and they'll just put them back in the dirty clothes because they don't want to put them away. Like I can't overwhelm them with a lot of clothes to put away because their brain is like, this is going to take forever. And therefore I'm going to put it back into the dirty laundry or, you know, on the floor, which gets mixed in with dirty. And then I'm never getting ahead. So if we keep a little bit every day, so it just takes two minutes, three minutes to put the laundry away, I feel like everyone gets less overwhelmed and we're less likely, we're actually saving us time because we're not rewashing a lot of clean clothes, which I was doing with teenagers, you know, constantly, they would just, it would get mixed back in with dirty clothes. And it was like this never ending rewau- I just watched this. Why am I washing it again? No one even wore it. Crazy burdens. So that's why laundry is a focus because it just saves me time. But I love that you talked about your stick vacuum because I think there are a lot of cleaning shortcuts and tools that take a lot of the pressure off of us and just make it easier. So when it's easier, we do it more often. And I, everyone was always like, get a dice and cordless, get a dice and cordless. I was like, I will never spend the money on that. That is ridiculous. No, sorry, Bob, until I went through a bunch of vacuums that kept breaking over the years. I finally said, what's all the fuss about? And I don't know if it's a dyson, but it definitely is the stick vacuum and cordless. I think any one of those would do. I'm vacuuming a lot more because it isn't a pain.

Totally. Oh my gosh. I like for years would get out my huge vacuum cleaner and unplug it every day. And I don't know what I was thinking. I just was like, well, I got to do this. And then I went to my mom's house and she had the dyson stick vacuum. And I stayed with her during the pandemic. And I was like, vacuuming her house all the time, like three times a day. And I was like, this is amazing. Like you don't have to plug it in. You're just so tiny. You can just keep going. And I agree. The price is outrageous. So I didn't even buy it for myself. My mom bought it for me because she was like, I know how you love this. So you're very Christmas. You know, and she got me the vacuum. And now I just recommend it in all of my videos as like a tool or a shortcut because even if it's saving you like five minutes of like taking out the big vacuum cleaner and putting that away, it's over

time saving you hours and hours

of time. And I think like vacuuming with kids, there's always something on the floor just all day. So and

I love robot vacuums too. I know you have a robot vacuum that you love. I'll tell you, I'll tell you something that's really magical about vacuuming. I moved into this brand new house. There was some carpet in here, a little bit of carpet. But what we noticed was like, wow, it's dusty. Why is this house so dusty? Every surface was like covered in dust. And I was vacuuming and I was vacuuming way more than I vacuumed at my old house. And it still was so dusty. And I was like, what is going on here? And I was running the Roombas every single day multiple times a day. And what I noticed was after a month, about a month and a half, there was way less dust. Because, and I knew this like, I felt like I knew this, but I didn't really know this. Most of the dust on surfaces comes from the floor. And so if you're not vacuuming on a regular basis, that accumulates and accumulates, especially in carpets, but even on hard floors. And as you walk, it stirs up. And just vacuuming once is not enough. So after I spent literally like six weeks vacuuming like a maniac, I don't have to vacuum like a maniac anymore. And the dust is not accumulating. I can just keep up on it. And it's been insane. Like my surfaces are no longer dusty. So not all, I love that you're talking about vacuuming because yeah, not only are your floors going to be cleaner, your entire house will be cleaner. You will have considerably less dust. And I think that's another reason why I'm such a huge fan of a robot vacuum. Because it's, you don't got to do it. You got to made that's doing it for you. But not only are your floors cleaner, your entire house will be less dusty and more clean as well if you're just running those in the background. Do you have like a super expensive one or do you think it matters?

No, I actually mine is less than $200. And I know I got mine a while ago. Maybe, I don't even know. I want to say almost like a decade ago. And it was a lot. The prices have like come down a lot. So I think they're much more affordable. And I'm just, I totally agree with you. Like I love it. I love it so much. Like I remember when I first bought it, I would just relax on the couch and watch it vacuum and just be like, ah, this is, this is wonderful. It's just such a, and the other thing I love about it is it goes like under your furniture, which to me is like so key because who, I mean, I'm never moving my furniture to vacuum. Maybe once in a blue moon, but certainly not regularly. And that's a great point about the dust because it's funny you say that. And I kind of just made the connection now when we moved into the home that we're in right now, it was incredibly dusty. And I was like, what is this? What houses are like? Like, why is this so dusty? And I realized I was thinking like, you know, this house is over 100 years old. Maybe that's maybe it's just old and dust is, you know, accumulating everywhere and coming everywhere. So it's interesting that you say that it's just accumulated dust because I think that I don't notice as much dust today. And now that, you know, part of me was like saying, well, maybe I'm just cleaning more, but I think it's got to be there was accumulated dust. And it's just really makes your house so dusty and dirty.

Yeah. Years worth of dust. Other people's dust. Yeah. But also if you've lived in your house in a long time and you haven't vacuumed at least once a week, honestly, if you've skipped a couple of weeks, you have accumulated dust. And that is every time you're walking, your pets are running, your kids, it's being stirred up into the air. And so you're like, oh, I just dusted. I have to dust again. Listen, friends, there's light at the end of the tunnel. If you can vacuum enough, you don't have to continually vacuum like a maniac, you'll get to a point where the dust is really manageable. I would say I dust once every two weeks, if that, and I use like a swift or duster, and it's not a big deal. And I don't ever see dust even ever, and I'm not dusting all the time. But I am doing something that I know that you also do, which is I am a huge fan of the one product wonder, which is what I call it, which is a multi-purpose cleaner. For every surface, I grab one bottle and one rag, and I just flutter around like a little butterfly. This has changed the game for me. Absolutely.