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One of the best ways to become fluent in English is
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to be able to grow your vocabulary to speak about real world situations.
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And today you are going to learn a lot of vocabulary to be able to speak about two things
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that happen every single day in my house, and maybe they happen every day in your house too.
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If you're new here, hi, I'm Vanessa from SpeakEnglishWithVanessa .com, And I have been teaching real life English
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that real English speakers use in the real world here on
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my YouTube channel for over the past 10 years to now more than 7 million of you.
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Thank you so much for learning English with me.
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It is my pleasure to be your teacher.
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And every single week I create a new lesson here on YouTube.
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If you are subscribed to this channel, you hopefully get a little notification when there is a new lesson.
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And if you are not subscribed, make sure that you do that so that you will get a notification every Friday for your new free English lesson.
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And every week I create a free PDF worksheet
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that will help you to level up what you have learned in today's lesson.
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You're not just watching, but you're also using what you've learned with this worksheet
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because inside the worksheet is not just all the vocabulary, all the sample sentences, all the ideas you're going to learn,
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but also there is a bonus speaking and bonus listening practice that are included in the worksheet.
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You need to be able to use what you've learned, right?
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That's the best way to make it stick and be able to use it.
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It is my gift to you.
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So here's the big question.
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Do these two activities happen every day in your house too?
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Do you need to do the laundry and do the dishes every day?
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My house has five people who live here, two adults and three kids.
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And let me tell you, we go through a lot of clothes and a lot of dishes.
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So I want to bring you along while I fold the laundry
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and while I wash the dishes to talk about all of the pieces of clothing.
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Some of these you might never have heard.
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These are not just beginner some clothing expressions, and all of the dishes that I'm going to wash.
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I will explain each one and what they are so
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that you can grow your real life vocabulary and be able to use it in the real world.
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Are you ready?
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Let's go to the laundry.
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All right, let's get started and see what task lies before me.
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I have laundry here from my youngest daughter, my middle son, my oldest son,
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me and my husband, and I just try to fold them and place them all in kind of chronological order, youngest to oldest.
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First, if a shirt is inside out like this one was, I have to turn it right side out.
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Isn't that kind of a strange expression?
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Right side out.
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Why not left side out, inside out, right side out, strange expressions here.
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This is a collared shirt.
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It is my husband's collared shirt.
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And because those get hung up on hangers, I just lay them here and I take them to the bedroom later to hang up.
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This shirt is also inside out.
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So I put my hand inside it, pull it right side out, shake it out a bit and fold it up.
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It's nothing magical, but it works.
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This is my daughter's dress.
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Isn't it so tiny and cute?
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And because these also get hung up, I just kind of gently fold them and lay them here.
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These are my son's shorts.
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These are kind of like sweat shorts.
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They're really comfy.
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And I just fold those once, lay them down.
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Some more shorts for my daughter.
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Another dress for her.
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We have some PJs.
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So these are pajamas, but for me and my family, we call them PJs.
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You can say pajamas, no problem.
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Sometimes for children, we say jammies.
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For some reason, my family doesn't say that.
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These are also PJs for my daughter.
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Yeah, I don't know why.
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Why don't we call them jammies?
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It's kind of cute.
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This is a very specific item.
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I don't know if you would know what this is if you didn't have a baby.
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This is called a sleep sack.
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It is like a wearable blanket because babies can't.
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have a blanket.
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When they sleep, they could suffocate.
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They can wear a sleep sack and you zip them up and it's like a little blanket.
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All right, I have another dress.
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These adorable corduroy pants that my lovely neighbor, Michelle, gave to my daughter.
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If you have not yet met Michelle, she is on my YouTube channel here.
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We talk about gardening together and sometimes she likes to buy clothes for my kids.
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These are sweatpants.
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These are really comfortable pants and my oldest son refuses to wear anything else except for sweatpants.
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Whatever.
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I don't really care.
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It's comfy.
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We got t -shirts.
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Oh, another cute.
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This is a long sleeve shirt.
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Michelle got this for my daughter.
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So it is new.
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It has not been worn yet.
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Some more sweat shorts.
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Now this is a new item.
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This is a tea towel.
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This tea towel goes in the kitchen and usually you use it to dry your hands.
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I use it sometimes to dry dishes or clean up messes.
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I have a lot of messes around my house.
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Someone is always spilling something.
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I remember one morning I counted five things
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that I needed to clean up off the floor that had been spilled before 8 a .m.
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That's a crazy morning.
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There was always something that needed to be cleaned up.
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Oh, you have to see this shirt.
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This is one of Dan's t -shirts that I got him.
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It says, it's not a dad bod, it's a father figure
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so this phrase dad bod is often used to describe
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when men who are 30s and 40s have a little belly
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so they're not really super fit anymore they call it a dad bod
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but instead of being a dad body father figure his figure but this phrase father figure also means someone who is
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the man in your life who you look up to, who is like a father.
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Maybe he is a father.
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He might not be your actual father, but we could say he's like a father figure.
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It's very important, someone impressionable in your life.
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I'm not sure if you can get the joke of that t -shirt.
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It's not a dad bod.
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It's a father figure.
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It's very silly.
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Usually on Father's Day, I like to get Dan silly father -related t -shirts.
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He has several of them at this point.
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This is a cloth napkin.
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I don't know why I fold these because they just get messed up very quickly, but there you have it.
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Sometimes I do.
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We have some more PJs for my daughter.
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Shorts.
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These are shorts, regular shorts for my son.
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This is kind of a weird time of year when we have both shorts and long pants.
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So it kind of means more organization for me because I have to put different piles of clothes out for each kid.
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There's short sleeve stuff and shorts long pants long sleeve stuff
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so it's all um it's a little bit more to manage but
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when you have five people in your house three children two
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adults there is always something to manage right always have to
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fold some kind of laundry do some kind of dishes now dan my husband he is in charge of dishes.
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So he does dishes every night and I do laundry every couple days.
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Have you ever seen this before?
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This is not extremely common in the US, but I love it.
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It's these little reusable, zippable bags.
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It's like got a plastic lining on the inside we have probably 20 of these
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and we use them for school lunches
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because in the U .S you have to you can buy a lunch at school
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but at my kids school they don't offer lunch you have to bring your own lunch from home
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so we have these little bags
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that we put carrots apples sandwiches whatever in these little bags
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and we can reuse them how great is that I love it it makes my heart happy
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this is a washcloth I use this to remove some makeup so you can see there are still
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I don't know if you can see this, but there's still some stains on it.
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It doesn't bother me because I'm just going to use this to take off some makeup.
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So this is just for me.
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Socks.
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I usually leave socks in a big old pile.
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And then at the end, when I'm done doing all the laundry, I sort the socks.
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This is my shirt and it will get hung up.
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I will lay that there.
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All right, we're almost done with one whole basket.
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What a dream.
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Empty success.
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But I have some bad news.
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I have more.
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Sometimes it feels like I'm doing all of the clothes that exist in our entire house.
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Now for some shirts like this one, it's inside out, but I don't really care.
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I'm going to just fold it wrong way out, inside out.
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This is my dress.
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I am going to turn this one right side out.
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This we would call a sundress.
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It's light.
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It's only for the hottest days of summer.
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And even though it's probably more fall -like now, I still wear this because some afternoons are just so hot.
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And I am someone who gets hot very easily, sweats very easily.
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So I like to wear light clothes, things that keep my body cool longer.
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All right, we got some more sweat pants.
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These, a new item.
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This is a placemat.
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It goes on the table underneath your plate.
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And for these, I just fold them in half.
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There'll probably be a bunch of them because I usually grab all of our placemats at once and wash them all.
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Just a quick note when we're talking about laundry
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when we're talking about the whole process washing it drying it folding it putting it away we say do the laundry.
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I need to do the laundry.
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This verb do is essential.
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You can't say I'm making the laundry.
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I'm having the laundry.
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You have to say I'm doing the laundry.
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Now for some of those other tasks, these are my workout shorts for working out, getting strong.
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For the individual tasks, we can say, I'm washing the clothes.
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I'm putting the clothes in the washing machine, which is what I have.
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And then after I take them out of the washing machine, I put them in the dryer because in the US, some people do hang their clothes,
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but I would say it's pretty rare it's pretty rare yeah
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it's pretty rare especially for someone to hang all their clothes
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and I know in some countries it's unheard of to actually use a dryer
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but in the U .S it's really common I know it's not good for energy
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and for the environment but we use them all the time
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and I think when you get in the habit of using a dryer it's hard to break that habit right right?
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And when you have this much laundry, I just don't have time to hang it up, fold it, then it's all crinkly.
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When you put things in the dryer, they get soft.
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So it feels like, yeah, I don't need to iron them.
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It's just nicer.
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Sorry if that's really bad for the environment, but that's the way it is these are some green placemats
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and these this is my son's short sleeve shirt we call this a t -shirt a t -shirt
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or just a short sleeve shirt these are they have ripped off the lining on the outside
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but these are some tie -dye washcloths
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that my children use they were not originally tie -dye we had some kind of tie -dye project
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and they tie -dyed them
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so whenever I do laundry there's three of them I tie
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-dye them you might be wondering Vanessa why do you not cut off this long string it's
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because my kids love it I don't know why they play
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games with the their bath toys with these strings I don't
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even know sometimes kids find the strangest things to have fun with, so I leave it.
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And I'm sure someday when my kids are grown, I'll look back fondly on those silly things.
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All right, what have we got left?
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Still a nice little pile here.
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This is my husband's colored shirt, so I would call that a short sleeve.
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colored shirt and it gets hung up in the closet ideally
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so I will put it on the couch these are some sweatpants these are my husband's sweatpants
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and I will loosely fold those we've got some more
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pjs for my kids usually for my kids because they're small they're young they can turn their clothes right side out.
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But I think if I do it while I'm doing the laundry, it kind of saves some hassle.
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I can imagine later when they're about to go to bed and they get their PJs and they're so tired.
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It's the end of the day.
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And then their PJs are inside out like, oh, they're inside out.
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I can't put them on.
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If you are a parent, you know that situation
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so I try my best for my kids clothes especially to
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turn them right side out that's a fixed phrase you have to use all together I turn it
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or turn them right side out right side out I think I've said
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that a lot during this video like these I will turn
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them right side out wow we have quite an impressive stack of folded clothes already
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and we're almost done all right this is my workout shirt.
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So we could say tank top.
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It's just a tank top.
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A tank top has no sleeves.
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Kind of like this shirt.
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It's a tank top.
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It has no sleeves.
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And it's because when I work out, I sweat a lot.
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These are also PJs, adult PJs for me.
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And now we are left with almost just socks.
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All right.
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So I have a skirt.
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This is my skirt and it said on the tag, so you can read the tag and it says how to wash it.
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It said wash with cold water, but I don't have time for that.
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I wash everything all together.
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I don't separate things by color.
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I don't separate delicate things from not delicate things.
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The only things I separate are generally towels, like big bath towels, or if I'm washing a little rug or something,
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I'll put that in separately.
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But if it's clothes, it's all going in together at the same time.
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I don't know.
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Do you separate clothes if you have to do laundry for your whole family?
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Are you dedicated and do you actually separate clothes?
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I know when I was growing up, I was taught, I don't know who taught me this because I don't even know if my parents did this,
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but I was taught you should have lights and darks.
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Maybe it's that nowadays we don't care for our clothes in the same way.
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Excuse me.
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It's another little bag and you can just throw them in the wash and they're clean.
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It's amazing.
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You can even throw them in the dishwasher and wash them.
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yeah I don't separate things lights and darks
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and maybe my clothes won't last as long maybe it damages my clothes
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but some socks
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but in the end I would rather save the time I don't have fancy clothes maybe that's it
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if I had fancy clothes then I would take more care to separate them, but I don't.
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All right.
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Now we are left with this lovely pile of socks.
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Let's talk about how we, the, the expressions we use to talk about socks.
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And if you have made it this far into watching someone else fold laundry, congratulations.
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All right.
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So I have two socks that are a matching pair.
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Pair is the word that I would use for these socks, a pair of socks, and they are a matching pair.
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Hooray!
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Now sometimes if my kids are around, right now two of my kids are at school and one is taking a nap,
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but if my kids are around I do have them help me do the laundry and sometimes it works out, sometimes it does not.
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Sometimes someone walks through all of the beautifully folded clothes and ah it's a disaster,
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but I'm generally trying to also teach them how to fold things, how to separate.
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These are your clothes.
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These are his clothes.
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And I think in general, just helping kids learn chores is good.
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But if you are a parent and you have ever tried to teach children how to do chores,
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you will know that it is 10 times the amount of effort.
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Oh, I have so many.
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unmatched socks.
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It is 10 times the amount of effort to teach your kids to do chores than to just do them.
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But in the long run, it's helpful to do it.
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So I try to teach my kids how to do chores
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whenever they're around all right we have purple yellow gray
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blue green brown blue oh it's a different blue uh three of dan's socks
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and three of my daughter's socks bad news where did the
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rest did the socks go oh I see oh no that's
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a dirty sock oh I mismatched these okay we have a brown sock
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so I'm going to match these and when I put them incorrectly together I said mismatched I
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mismatched the socks but now they are correctly matched all right these ones
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because they're my kids and my kids don't care
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if their socks are the same color I am just going to fold them together
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and they will not care I don't know if your kids care about this kind of stuff but for me
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my kids reach into the sock drawer grab whatever they want
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and put them on all right I have a bonus sock
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so it's just going to go in the drawer these three socks are surprise oh I found one
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well those two socks need a matching pair their matching pair has been
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uh stolen by little elves somewhere these three socks my daughter doesn't care either
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so I'll just put a yellow sock and a blue sock together who cares
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and this sock is going to just have a little solo
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party all right well there we have it all of the clothes are folded the laundry baskets are empty.
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My job is still not done
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because I need to put all of these clothes back in my kid's room and my room.
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It's a big job to do the laundry.
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Well, great work while I folded that laundry.
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Watching along, maybe you were also doing the laundry.
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I have to tell you something funny.
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When I told my friends that I created a lesson about clothes while I was folding the laundry.
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They thought that I was crazy, that this would be the most boring thing ever.
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Who wants to learn while someone's folding the laundry?
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But I'm proud to say they were wrong when I originally shared this lesson with you.
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You loved it.
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This is a great way to learn in the real world with real life objects and real life situations.
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So I was very proud to tell them they were wrong.
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You were right.
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This was a lesson that you loved and I hope you still love.
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All right, let's go on to the second everyday situation, which is washing the dishes.
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You're going to learn a lot.
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Let's go.
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So to wash the dishes, I have this little reusable washcloth thing, and I have some dish soap
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and I have some strong power actually let me get this
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water a little bit hot actually this job washing the dishes has been my husband's job for many years
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so he was very excited that I was going to film this video
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because I would do his job for him
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so here in the sink I have dishes from this morning
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and dishes from all day yesterday for all five of my family members me my husband
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and my three children so you will see dishes
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that we used for cooking dishes that we used for eating some children's dishes
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and who knows what else is in here it looks like
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a mess um all right let's just get started I'm going to put some water.
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I am a lucky duck who has a dishwasher.
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So usually we just rinse the dishes
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and I'm going to put some soap on here
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and usually I just give them a very quick rinse so that there's nothing sticking to them.
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These are just some spoons
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and what I'm going to do usually I would put these directly into the dishwasher
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but I'm going to put them just in a little bowl over here
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and then I'll show you my dishwasher in a second
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so these are all of our spoons
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that we used for oatmeal this morning these are our kids oatmeal bowls just little plastic bowls
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that kids can use so that they don't break them whenever we have our kids use what we call fragile balls.
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They get so excited.
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It's just a regular bowl, but it is fragile and it can break.
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These are our kids' plates.
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More kids' plates.
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Sometimes they stain.
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So this has blueberry juice on it, but I don't really care.
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The dishwasher will probably take care of it.
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And if it doesn't, that's okay, right?
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Gotta just let it slide.
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This is a mug.
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I love this mug it's glass
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so you can see the color of the tea inside it
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which is very exciting to me all right we'll put those
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in the dishwasher in a moment here I have we call this a mason jar it's just a little jar
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that has a lid and please don't judge my sink continuing to flow while I'm doing this
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uh we have these reusable straws my kids love to use a straw but I hate to buy disposable ones so
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we just have some reusable ones these are some kid cups
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more plastic cups more straws I think this morning my husband
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made some yogurt with cacao powder in it it was so good
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and the kids wanted to slurp it up with a straw so we have more straws than usual
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for me I would call this a cup you could call it a glass
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because it is made of glass
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but I just call it a cup oh we have lots
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of kid bowls all right we're just going to get some of the oatmeal debris out of this note that
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that word debris has a silent s at the end in
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fact I have a memory as a uh as a fourth grader my teacher teaching us
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that debris had a silent s and she called each kid into the hallway
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and said how do you pronounce this to see
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if we had been listening
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that debris should have a silent s I got it right
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I was listening all right we have a couple extra more cups.
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Kid cups.
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Those ones are not too messy.
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This is what I would, I would personally call this a Tupperware dish.
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There's a lid somewhere in here, but this Tupperware dish, Tupperware is the brand.
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You could call this, what would you even call this if you don't call it a Tupperware dish.
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I have never heard it called anything else.
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Plasticware?
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I don't know.
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This is a Tupperware dish.
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I don't know what we had in there, but leftovers.
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We had some kind of leftovers in there.
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Some more spoons.
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This is a pot that we cooked oatmeal in this morning.
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So there's some kind of like crusty pieces stuck to the outside of this
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and I have somewhere a little I don't know where it
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is I'm going to use this this is like a little this is just a piece of plastic really
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but you could use this is called steel wool I find it really abrasive
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so I have a plastic version that if it's not really difficult, I'd rather just use the plastic version.
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This doesn't really have a name.
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I would just call it a scrubber.
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Um, I've never really seen that kind of thing before until my mother -in -law gave this to me and I thought, huh, pretty cool.
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I want to know, do you use gloves when you wash the dishes?
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Um, I never do, as you can see.
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my husband does not either
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and I just wash my hands afterwards it's fine right it's not a restaurant it's just our house um
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so this uh this I would call just a plate you might see
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a small plate in a textbook being called a saucer
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because you put it under a teacup but this is too big to be a saucer.
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And I use it as a actual plate, not just to put underneath a cup.
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So this is just a little plate.
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That's what I would call it.
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All right.
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We got some fun stuff down here.
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Oh boy.
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This is yesterday's oatmeal pot.
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Kind of gross.
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But when I said I was going to make a video doing the dishes, we tried to pile up as many dishes as possible.
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Uh, so this has, this still has some residue of oatmeal in the bottom, but I can put it in the dishwasher and it's going to be okay.
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Pretty cool.
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So we'll see that in just a minute.
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Um, I have my spatula.
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I don't remember what I cooked with this, but something there are forks.
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These forks are not too dirty.
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I'm just going to put them in the dishwasher.
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Pretty dirty.
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Uh, this I would call a steak knife you might call
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this something different you can also call it you can see here it has this really
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bumpy edge this is a serrated knife my kids call them serrated knives
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and I think it's super cute because serrated is such a an advanced word um
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but they uh they like to say that these are tongs
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and there's quite a bit of debris on it so that's why I'm wiping them off
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these are tongs you can grab things grab things with them
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I made a roast pork the other day it was so good
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and I used those tongs to grab the pork out this
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is technically I think there's even a name on it um
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I don't think it's considered a chef's knife um just a chopping knife I would call this simply a sharp knife.
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Isn't that such a boring thing to say?
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But it's so true.
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I feel like sometimes there's these very specialized vocabulary words
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that you might learn and then they're just not used in real life.
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I would just call this a sharp knife, a knife, a chopping knife.
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And I use this to chop carrots or apples or whatever.
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This on the other hand is a butter knife.
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I do not use it exclusively for butter.
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It's not sharp really at all but I would call that a butter knife.
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All right we got more forks.
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I'm going to turn up the water, get a little bit more soap on my sponge here
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and I don't know if you can see this glorious work I'm doing.
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All right I'm going to try to just get a little bit of this debris off of these plates, set them here.
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Here we have some cute kids silverware.
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So you might hear this called cutlery in real life.
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I have never heard someone say cutlery.
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It's silverware.
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It is not made of silver.
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It is just metal.
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But we still call it silverware so anything
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that you use to eat at the the table is silverware these are cat dishes
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so we could say just like a pet dish this is
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a cat dish we put our cat's food in it this one as well
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we have another little plate the lid all right this is a lid to the tupperware
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and there's some butter on here
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but I'm not worried about it I can just put
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that straight in the dishwasher
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and it will be fine all right we got more straws more spoons a fork just a fork nothing fancy
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we do have different sizes of spoons
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so these are the three sizes of spoons in my house kind of bigger medium
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and kids I don't know why we have different sizes of spoons
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but they exist and we use them for I don't give the kids the big ones
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because their mouths aren't big enough for that
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but the kids use these two sizes it's just the way
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it is I don't know do you have different size silverware in your house
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that you don't know why you have for example this this fork
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and this fork this is a these are both adult forks this one is shorter and this one is longer
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why I don't know we just have them maybe I just
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am not fancy enough to know why there are different sizes of silverware
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because we don't have salad forks
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and soup spoons well actually we do have soup spoons you will see
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that in just a minute
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but we don't use them exclusively for those purposes all right here as I was saying behold a soup spoon
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so we bought these cute little spoons at the Asian market
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because every Monday my family uh we call it miso Monday
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and we eat miso soup and have uh kimchi and rice
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and seaweed and we use these spoons for our miso I don't think it's a very American thing.
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Growing up, my family had one of these spoons and it had a really cool design on it.
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We have fragile ones as my kids call them, fragile ones with a little cat on them.
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And then these plastic ones that the kids use.
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We had one of these in my house and I thought it was the fanciest thing.
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And I always wanted to use it for my breakfast cereal.
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But now we just use them very normally.
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All right, let's see what we've got left.
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All right, I have, so this, um, this spoon, this is like a silicone serving.
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stirring spoon.
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It has some grease on it from the pork that I made yesterday.
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So I'm going to wipe that off because I don't want that fat to go down the drain and clog it.
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So I'll just wipe it off.
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This is a paper towel, wipe it off with a paper towel, and then I'll throw this away later.
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But this can go directly in the dishwasher.
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The only thing that you have seen
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that does not go in the dishwasher is this my nice knives I don't put in the dishwasher okay
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and usually to be honest
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when I'm not filming a video whenever we do the dishes
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I hardly ever wipe off the dishes it's literally just five
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maybe five minutes of quick rinse throw in the dishwasher quick rinse throw it in the dishwasher
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because i'm not talking to somebody showing them every single thing
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all right we have a couple more things couple more kid plates
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one chopstick you might ask why does somebody have only one chopstick
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why would you not have two we use these wooden chopsticks for stirring tea and drinks i don't know why,
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but I love the, the wooden ones for that.
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We have some metal Korean ones that we use for actually using chopsticks when we eat, but I don't have any of those that are dirty right now.
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So you'll have to wait for another video to find out.
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All right.
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We have some, this is a, um, a regular bowl.
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I would just call this a regular bowl.
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My kids call it a fragile bowl it is fragile.
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Uh, in fact, it has several cracks in it.
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So there is a, um, a crack here.
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There's a crack inside the bowl.
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You probably can't see this very well.
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Um, but so far it hasn't cracked in two.
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So I'm just going to keep using it.
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All right.
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I have a lid.
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Remember that, um, the jar that I showed you earlier, I have a lid that goes with it and another jar.
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I'm gonna rinse that out.
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Another jar here.
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Another jar.
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I use jars a lot to store food.
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All right, another jar.
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A few final items down here.
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Two forks and a spoon.
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A kid's bowl again.
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Man, my kids go through
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so many bowls it's unbelievable whenever they have a snack bowl
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uh want to eat a couple nuts put it in a
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bowl want to eat a cut up apple put it in a bowl
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so many bowls all right one more fragile bowl
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so usually at dinner my kids have the kid bowls they used to
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and then my oldest son felt like he grew out of the kid bowls
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and he wanted to start using a bigger bowl
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so usually whenever we have soup my oldest son
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and then my middle son
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because he wants to do what the older guy does right they use fragile bowls with us
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and it's just my baby who uses these kid bowls
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but everybody uses kid bowls for snacks all right i want
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to show you this cool thing right this is this is
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called a crinkle cutter knife do you see how it's like wavy here it's not very sharp either
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but you can use this to cut potatoes or carrots
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and it leaves that cool design
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and the cool thing is my kids use these all the time they're not very sharp
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if you slam down on your finger maybe it would it would hurt you could cut yourself
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but it's not as sharp as a knife
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um and they like to cut potatoes cut potatoes
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and carrots with this crinkle cutter knife I don't think that's a common thing to have in an American household
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but here we are the final thing I want to show you is this.
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Can you see this?
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It is used for items like this.
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So this is our cast iron glazed pan.
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It is not exactly cast iron.
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It's cast iron underneath here, but there is a glaze on it, which makes it easier for cleaning in my opinion.
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So this has some eggs left on it
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and what I need to do I cannot put this in the dishwasher bad news bears
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if you put this in the dishwasher I'll put this um I will just fill this with some water
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and let it soak
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and then when it is done soaking I don't know like this evening
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or something Dan will come in with this little scraper and we'll gently scrape the residue
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off of the pan i love this thing i feel like it's this is like kind of gross right
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stuff can get stuck in there we wash this all the time
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and we replace it as well i'm gonna put this on my counter over here
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um so we use this to scrape it off
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and it's really easy to clean okay I have one other
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thing I want to show you oh I'm going to wash my beloved cutting board
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so in order to wash something like this I need to do it by hand
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so we have I really what I've been showing you
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so far I have some soap in my hand has not been really washing something by hand
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because I didn't get anything actually clean.
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I just took off the, I just rinsed them off.
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So I was basically rinsing all the dishes.
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I also use this with my cutting board to scrape off any pieces that might be stuck.
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And then I simply rinse it off.
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There we go.
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all right um this I did wash by hand it is clean now
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so I would say I washed my cutting board by hand
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but these dishes I just rinsed them off um we will put them in the dishwasher in a second
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and then I like to put it I have this I bought this thing to set a picture on
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and the picture didn't fit.
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And then I set my cutting board on it and thought, wow, this is genius.
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So I usually set my cutting board on that in the sink to let it dry. And that's done.
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We, I will put everything in the dishwasher now.
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So let's go over to the dishwasher and you are going to be privy to the magic called loading the dishwasher.
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That's what we call it
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when we put dishes in the dishwasher um you are not
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going to see my face very much you're just going to see the dishes but let's go
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all right here we have the dishwasher I have two racks
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that I can put things on and I'm just going to start loading it up
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so we could just say I'm going to load the dishwasher
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but if you use a phrasal verb like to load up it sounds more natural you might be picky
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and try to put every piece of silverware in a special little slot, but I am not picky when it comes to the dishes.
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I just throw them in.
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You can put plates on the bottom.
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I like to put all of the little stuff on the top and the bigger stuff on the bottom.
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Some people are very picky about doing the dishes, but when you have to do it every day and there are a lot of dishes.
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I have no energy to be picky about it.
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Usually I do try to leave a little space though between them so that the water can
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go all around it and get them clean.
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Okay, I'll put that here.
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By the end you just throw in dishes in any old spot, anywhere that they'll fit.
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And I have the cat bowls, we will put in here as well.
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There's water that comes from the bottom of the dishwasher and water that comes from the top.
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So even if they're kind of piled on top of each other, it's okay.
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All right, I like to put these in here.
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And all of the silverware will just get basically tossed into the silverware spot.
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I don't think so there's this little tray.
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I don't think this has any special name except the silverware tray.
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If you have heard this called something, let me know.
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I have not really heard it called something in particular.
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I just say put the silverware in the dishwasher
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and whenever I open the dishwasher when it is finished
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and unload it I have to grab the sharp knives quickly
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because my daughter the moment the dishwasher opens it's like a carnival has opened.
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She runs so excited.
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She wants to see what's in here.
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but of course she grabs the sharp knives first so um this steak knife I put in the dishwasher
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um so I have to be careful that she doesn't grab stuff like that all right we've got some cups here
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let's get those cups in
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and i believe that's everything so the final step is we need to put soap
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in the dishwasher i they have those little pods that you can put in here but
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it's a lot cheaper just to use powder so i just use powder we'll put some in and close it up
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and I will start it and turn it on. And that's it.
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Yay.
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Well, thanks so much for washing the dishes with me.
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I hope that you were able to expand your vocabulary in a fun and interesting way.
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The next step is to download the free PDF worksheet so
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that you can really review all of the vocabulary that you learned plus use it.
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This is an essential piece.
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In that worksheet, there is a free speaking and listening practice
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so that you can use this and really exercise your speaking muscles as much as possible.
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All you need to do to get the worksheet, speaking practice and listening practice is click on the link in the description, enter your name and email address and voila,
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it will land in your email inbox.
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It is my gift to you.
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Well, thank you so much for learning English with me.
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I want to know in the comments, how often do you do laundry and how often do you do the dishes?
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Is it every day like in my house?
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Or is it once a week?
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Is it every other day or whenever you remember to do it?
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Let me know in the comments and thank you so much for learning English with me.
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I'll see you again next Friday for a new lesson here on my YouTube channel.
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Bye.
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But wait, do you want more?
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I recommend watching this video next where you will also join me in something
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that happens every day in my house, cooking breakfast.
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You will join me as I fry eggs, as I toast toast, as I put the jam and butter on the toast.
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You're going to learn a lot of real life vocabulary that you need to know.
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I'll see you there.
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