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The space you come home to every day should feel inviting and comforting, maybe even inspiring.
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It shouldn't stress you out and it shouldn't make you feel like a slob.
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So if you're feeling more of the latter, then there's probably some clutter and dare I say it, filth that needs to be dealt with.
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But if you're a naturally messy person or you just hate cleaning and cannot be bothered to even have a cleaning routine,
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then the good news is that a 10-step cleaning routine is not the only answer.
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There are simple actions that you can take on a day-to-day basis to create a space
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that feels good when you walk into it and stays ready for unexpected visitors.
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Because if I'm being honest, you can light all the candles that you want and have the prettiest decor on your shelves,
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but if your habits don't reflect the type of space that you want to live in, you're just not going to get there.
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The tiny habits that I'm about to share are the things
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that we practice in our own home to maintain a fairly clutter-free and decently clean space almost all of the time.
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Make sure you stick around to the end of this video for a genius tip
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that I learned recently that helps me do the things that I don't always feel like doing in a split second.
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Let's get started.
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Use a bin or a basket for the things that just don't have a place in your space.
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So in our home at our entryway table we actually have two baskets.
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One of them is for my purse and just
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everyday essentials that I often use when I'm going out to run errands
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and that always typically need to be kept there because I'm using them so frequently.
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And then we have another basket that's designated for the items that just can't be put away in our home, if that makes sense.
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So these are things like items that need to be returned to someone,
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Tupperware for example, items that need to be returned to stores and that we haven't gotten around to, even things that I have decluttered around the home
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and don't have the time to necessarily take to a donation center right away, they all end up in this one basket
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and it just helps to contain that clutter instead of having it everywhere and all over our home.
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If you start doing this, I'm sure that your mom is going to thank you for returning the reusable containers
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that she's lent you time and time again.
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In our home, we've made it a habit to put things back in their designated spots once we're done using them.
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So I'm talking shoes when we walk in the door, outerwear kind of in that same area, pillows and blankets that we use on the couch when we're lounging,
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even you know toothbrushes and toothpaste that are left out on the bathroom sink.
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By putting things away as soon as you're done using them you just maintain
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that clutter-free appearance in your space
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and it just prevents having clutter accumulate on top of each other over time because we all know that if you
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wear a pair of shoes and you just throw them off
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and leave them out in the open there's probably going to be four pairs there by the end of the week.
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It's happened in our house and
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so we really try hard to put them back where they belong once we're done using them.
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When I use an item from my wardrobe I leave the hanger out in the open
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so that when I'm done wearing that item it's easier for me to actually put it away.
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If the hanger goes back in the closet or I leave it in there once I've taken the item off of it, I'm less likely to actually hang it up and put it back at the end of the day.
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So just leaving it on the open on my bed usually gives me
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that clue and hint to actually put it away once I'm done.
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This could work for you if you are also in the same situation where you hang a lot of your clothes.
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Every single morning without fail I open the curtains and I make the bed.
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This is so stupidly simple but it's so easy to just walk away from
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and not do and I think a lot of people still don't make their beds.
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If you're one of those people then this is your sign
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that you need to start doing it
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because honestly it sets the tone for the day and it sets the tone for the bedroom space in general.
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It just kind of creates a clean slate if that makes sense
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and it makes getting to bed at the end of the day much more enticing wipe down your surfaces.
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Make it a habit to just wipe things down once you're done using a space.
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In our house we've got Swedish dishcloths all over the place and we use them to wipe kitchen counters, the dining room table once we're done eating,
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the cooktop or stovetop in your case it might be, even the bathroom counter.
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We've got a little rag underneath the sink and so
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when we're done using that area we wipe up the water
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so that there's no watermarks left because honestly it's such a minute thing to see,
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but it does just create the feeling of grime and dirt in a space, and having a clean countertop, it does wonders.
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I don't know, I walk into a space, if I see a clean countertop, the space overall feels so much cleaner than if there was water everywhere, toothpaste on the counter, you know,
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all of that gross stuff.
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You can even use a squeegee in some cases.
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I've seen these like mini ones that you can just hang up on the inside of a cabinet door, and you just squeegee the water right back into the sink once you're done using the space.
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It takes only a few seconds.
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It's so easy to do.
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So try making it a habit to just clean up that space and maintain it.
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Along that same line, we rinse out the surfaces that we use once we're done.
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So for the kitchen sink, if we were washing dishes, we use the spray head and just kind of rinse down the sides.
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A lot of grime, dirt, and just leftover food pieces can sit in there and then once they've sat there and kind of dried up a bit,
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they're harder to remove and you're less likely to actually go in and scrub them off, right?
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So when we rinse it down, it just maintains the sink area and keeps it looking clean most of the time.
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The same thing happens for the bathroom sink.
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Just use your hands.
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You like splash a little bit of water around the surface of the sink and it just cleans it off, whatever it might be.
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Toothpaste, facial hair after shaving and whatnot.
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We also do this in the shower.
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Every time I'm done showering, I will take the shower head and just rinse down the gloss doors as well as the tiles surrounding
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to get rid of any soap grime.
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And I like doing this because it makes the regular weekly clean of the shower and the sinks so much easier.
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You know, if there was built up soap grime on these surfaces, it would take me longer to actually clean them every week.
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And even if you're not someone who cleans the shower or the sinks in your space, I don't know, maybe some people don't clean those spaces, maybe you're one of those people.
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Just doing this on a daily basis can definitely help to keep those surfaces fairly clean.
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This is something that I am still working on building a consistent habit out of
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and that is emptying out the kitchen sink strainer each time there's any type of food particles in it.
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I hate doing this.
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I find it so disgusting.
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We don't have a garburetor in our house and so we use
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that strainer just to you know prevent buildup inside of the pipes.
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So if you have a garburetor this one might not apply to you.
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If you do use a strainer though try to empty it out
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when you actually see that there's stuff in it after washing dishes.
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If you're like me
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if stuff builds up in there I am way less likely to empty it out
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and it'll just sit there for hours sometimes for days
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or until JR does it because I just yeah I can't be bothered with it if there's too much.
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So doing it when there's only a little bit of food in there
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and it's just been freshly washed off of dishes is
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so much easier and more convenient and it just maintains the cleanliness in the sink too.
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We deal with the dishes when we are idle.
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You know, sometimes we'll say, okay, let's put away all of the dishes from the dishwasher
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or let's wash all of the dishes in the sink in one, you know, stint.
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but most of the time I'm kind of doing it in tandem with another task whether
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that is waiting for a piece of bread to pop out of the toaster, waiting for a pan to heat up, waiting for food in the microwave to heat up.
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I'm either putting dishes away from the dish rack or dishwasher
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or I'm washing the couple of dishes that I have sitting in the sink
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and that just helps me to stay on top of cleaning and maintaining that area.
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I find that we use a lot of dishes and so
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if we're not keeping on top of it like this it builds
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and builds and builds and just like the kitchen sink strainer thing
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if there is a lot in there I'm less likely to want to deal with it.
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So this one might help you
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if you are someone who always has a ton of dishes in your sink try to work on it little by little.
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You'll probably feel like it's much easier to maintain.
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With the three of us at home it usually takes one
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to three days for our dishwasher to fill up with dishes so that we run a cycle.
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We try to run it as full as possible not to waste water and whatever soap pods that we use
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and so when we have run it in the evening
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or in the afternoon we always empty it out first thing
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or in the evening before the next day starts
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and it just kind of starts the next day with a clean slate
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and it also helps to stay on top of those dishes like I was mentioning
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because if the dishwasher is full of clean dishes, number one, we have to empty it out and put everything away.
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And then number two, we can't put the new dirty dishes inside.
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So it just kind of piles on top of each other and makes the task so much more tedious.
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So try emptying out your dishwasher, if you have one, obviously, at the beginning of the day
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or even the end of the day once the cycle has finished and set yourself up for success in the other, you know, areas of your kitchen.
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Now if you were to take one thing from this video and run with it, I hope it would be this habit and that is to do an end-of-day tidy up.
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So at the end of your day, whether that's after dinner or before you go to bed, walk around your home or your bedroom.
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I don't know maybe you're living in like a bachelor's pad, who knows.
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Walk around the space, see if anything is out of place, and put it back where it belongs.
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It just keeps the space tidy, it prevents clutter from accumulating on top of each other,
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and it helps to easily maintain the cleanliness and tidiness of the space on an ongoing basis.
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If this is something difficult that you find you're kind of avoiding at the end of the day, try linking it with something that you already do on a regular basis.
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That could be brushing your teeth, you know, while you're walking around brushing your teeth, you're picking things up and putting them back where they belong.
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I don't think most things would need two hands to deal with, so that could work.
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You kind of get the point here, but linking it with another habit might help you to build that consistent habit as well.
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Okay now for this genius tip that I recently learned, it was actually something that Mel Robbins said.
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She said, if you don't start doing the things you don't feel like doing, you will wake up one year from today and be in exactly the same place.
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I'm talking about you, person with the billion pieces of clothing on their chair,
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laundry in a basket that hasn't been dealt with for a couple of weeks, dishes piled up in the sink from who knows when.
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These are the things that you can easily maintain
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if you do them on a consistent basis so
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that they don't pile up on each other
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and she has this thing called the five second rule where
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if you have an impulse to act on a goal and for
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that in this case obviously it would be any of the
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habits I've just mentioned you must physically move within five seconds or your brain will kill the idea.
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And personally for me, I've been using this to do
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so many things
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that I don't wanna do from getting out of bed in
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the morning to picking up the few strands of hair
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that are on my bathroom floor before guests come over and it actually works.
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So give it a try, see if it works in incorporating some of these habits into your day-to-day life.
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Even if you never implement an official cleaning routine for your space, although I would hope that you're still going to be cleaning your toilet because that's kind of icky,
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I'm pretty confident that
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if you kept up with these habits you would be able to maintain a fairly clutter-free and clean space.
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Even though they are so simple, just by being consistent with these practices in our own home we're able to maintain
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that clutter-free appearance and just a general state of cleanliness in our home
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so that it's always ready if someone shows up at our door
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and so that it feels good when we're walking into the rooms in our home.
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It also makes our weekly cleans so much faster because there is way less buildup of dirt and grime and clutter.
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Now, if you're sitting there thinking that this is just all too overwhelming
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and you're still feeling like these habits will not help you in your space, then it might just be that you have too much stuff
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because having too much stuff makes cleaning and tidying up so much more difficult and overwhelming.
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So in that case, I've got a decluttering series
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that might motivate you or even inspire you a little bit to get rid of the things that you don't need.
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And I will link that video to start watching that playlist right up here.
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If you've made it this far, thank you for watching and I'll see you in the next one.
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Deze video bevat 166 zinnen en 2641 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 13:15. De spreker praat snel, ongeveer 199 woorden per minuut, dus reken op verbonden en ingeslikte klanken. 85% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
15 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| dish zelfstandig naamwoord | /dɪʃ/ | bord, taloor |
| sink werkwoord | /ˈsɪŋk/ | zinken, onderdompelen |
| habit zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈhæb.ɪt/ | gewoonte |
| basket zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈbæskɪt/ | mand, korf |
| consistent bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /kənˈsɪs.tənt/ | veel voorkomend, consequent |
| wash werkwoord | /wɑʃ/ | wassen, spoelen |
| wipe werkwoord | /waɪp/ | vegen, smeren |
| belong werkwoord | /bɪˈlɒŋ/ | thuishoren, horen |
| dirt zelfstandig naamwoord | /dɝt/ | aarde |
| soap zelfstandig naamwoord | /soʊp/ | zeep |
| pile zelfstandig naamwoord | /paɪl/ | stapel |
| tidy bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈtaɪ.di/ | net, proper |
| tone zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈtəʊn/ | toon, noot |
| bedroom zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈbɛdˌɹum/ | slaapkamer |
| bother werkwoord | /ˈbɑðɚ/ | storen |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| build up werkwoord | opstapelen | |
| clean up werkwoord | schoonmaken | |
| come over werkwoord | langskomen | |
| dry up werkwoord | opdrogen | |
| pick up werkwoord | oppakken, optillen | |
| wake up werkwoord | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | wakker worden, ontwaken |
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | haven't gotten · we've made · I've taken |
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | be dealt · cannot be bothered · be kept |
| Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding | someone who cleans · someone who always |
| Mogelijkheid met “might / may” might/may + werkwoord — iets is mogelijk maar niet zeker | might be · might not apply · might help |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 82 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals you're, don't, I'm. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De “th”-klanken: bother /ˈbɑðɚ/, clothing /ˈkloʊðɪŋ/, underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/, toothpaste /ˈtuθpeɪst/, toothbrush /ˈtuːθ.bɹʌʃ/
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: dish /dɪʃ/, wash /wɑʃ/, shoe /ˈʃu/, brush /bɹʌʃ/, facial /ˈfeɪ.ʃəl/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/, unexpected /ʌnɪkˈspɛktɪd/, incorporate /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɚ.eɪt/, accumulate /əˈkjuːmjʊˌleɪt/
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- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als dish, sink, habit.
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