Episode 8: Confessions of Clutter Queens and Our Spring Cleaning Adventures

Ditch the clutter, boost your mood, and transform your space with our wild spring cleaning adventure! We're spilling all our secrets to a sparkling home and a happy mind. Get ready for:

• Cleaning Showdowns! Room vs. Task? Which will reign supreme?
• Tool Obsessions! Drill brushes, vacuum dreams, and gadgets galore!
• Marie Kondo Magic! Does it spark joy? Toss it!
• Organization Hacks! Systems that actually work for YOU!
• Tiny Habits, Big Sparkle! Keeping the clean alive!
• Sneaky Spot Smackdown! HVAC, appliances, and those forgotten corners!
• Car Cleaning Glory! And victory dances for a job well done!

Drop your fave cleaning hacks or your biggest struggles in the comments or DM us! No before pics needed, just show us your dazzling afters for inspiration!

Transcript

Rachael 0:34

Hey everyone, welcome to Girl Gang Podcast. My name's Rachael.

Sarah 0:37

I'm Sarah

Brandi 0:37

and I'm Brandi, and we are your hosts for this week's podcast.

Rachael 0:40

So big shout out to some of our fan mail that came in. They suggested that we do an episode on spring cleaning, so that's what we're bringing you today. We're going to be talking about spring cleaning options that we have in our household, what we do personally and how we're approaching cleaning this spring season. So, Kozy, I feel like you started your spring cleaning today.

Sarah 1:00

I did. I started today. It was a beautiful day, it was above 50 degrees, it felt like at least. So we opened up the windows, we put on some good music and we started

Rachael 1:13

Broadway tunes?

Sarah 1:14

Today was just a mixture. I love the DJ feature on the Spotify app because it'll go through different vibes. These are things you listen to in 2022, or these are some of your top favorites, or these are some songs you might not know that kind of go with your vibe of what you've been listening to. So I love that today.

Brandi 1:33

I do because I'm an Apple Music person. I do wish they had something closer to that. On that,

Sarah 1:39

I'm so happy they do because it's my favorite.

Brandi 1:41

It is a nice feature, but I will say good playlist like priority number one when you need it, when you just need to focus in on cleaning music.

Sarah 1:52

Growing up. Our cleaning like spring cleaning days. My mom would have like the CMT music videos playing just all day long

Brandi 1:59

yeah

Sarah 2:00

and that was like great years, like the early 2000s, for country music videos. I think more music videos in general, but I was more into the country music at that point in time too, but it was great makes you forget about what you're doing. So we started the spring cleaning today. I will completely admit, all of my Christmas stuff was taken down prior um, but it was just temporarily stored in the guest room.

Sarah 2:23

So we tackled that first today.

Brandi 2:25

So you weren't the Hoosier neighbor.

Sarah 2:27

No, everything has been down.

Sarah 2:29

It's been down since January, but we just got a storage unit, so I'm kind of trying to put everything into their storage bins to then properly put them away and really start the season as

Brandi 2:41

yeah you guys definitely probably need that storage.

Sarah 2:44

With a small house it's hard. I mean we don't have too many storage locations.

Brandi 2:47

Well, you don't have like a garage either, which is what I use my garage for.

Sarah 2:52

Right, and even our basement is livable, but the storage space that we have is completely filled with tools at the moment. So my concept that I kind of try for the spring cleaning is to go room by room. There's a a couple, like ladies on tiktok too, that I've I've been watching, but one person I can't remember her name now, but she had told me to start each room from top to bottom,

Rachael 3:15

okay

Sarah 3:16

So I tried to do that with at least our three bedrooms that we have upstairs today and start with the top, with the dusting, the ceiling fans and the lights and the windows. I even mopped my walls,

Brandi 3:28

okay

Sarah 3:30

as I don't know, but I saw people doing it and it kind of made sense.

Sarah 3:34

Like you never, reduce your walls, they collect

Rachael 3:36

you usually like I would like get a wet rag and like, yeah, wash down the walls.

Sarah 3:39

Yeah, it was like a microfiber. It was actually one of those microfiber window cleaners,

Brandi 3:42

but I mean they're still technically by definition mopping.

Sarah 3:46

Yeah, right, like one of those microfiber things they use for the car windows.

Brandi 3:51

Yeah, I use. I use the pre-wet Swiffer ones for once because, like so, my yard is a swampy lake right now. It's terrible drainage and so everything that's dog level and down like if they brush up on the walls or they shake because they're wet so much of my house is covered in mud right now, so I had to take, like I said, my Swiffer towel thing, and because my Swiffer it's, it was the wet jet one that I could spray, but the sprayer doesn't work anymore.

Brandi 4:21

So I tossed it, but I still have like the pre-wet towels

Rachael 4:24

nice nice

Brandi 4:25

so I just took one of those and I just started scrubbing my walls

Tools for Deep Cleaning

Sarah 4:28

I'm like I don't do it every single time, but I feel like spring cleaning like the winter there's been like all the snow and the muck and the water and just start new.

Sarah 4:37

but but when my husband came in from work today he said the house smelled clean and I genuinely only did like those three bedrooms

Rachael 4:44

Hell yeah

Sarah 4:45

So it must have worked a little bit. It feels like I got a good start today.

Rachael 4:48

I feel like the fans make a difference and like deep cleaning your windows, I feel like makes a difference.

Brandi 4:54

Yes.

Rachael 4:54

Opening them up and getting all the dust and shit out of those.

Sarah 4:57

See, I didn't get that far, but I need to. I need to find a tool that's going to help me do that, though, because I'm on the sponge still, and it's just not good enough.

Brandi 5:07

Do you guys have the like drill brushes?

Sarah 5:10

We made shift one.

Brandi 5:11

Okay, I mean we have a drill and we just you just cut it and then shoved it in there.

Sarah 5:15

Yeah, pretty much.

Sarah 5:21

We have an attachment, we have a drill and we made it work.

Brandi 5:24

So I have a four or five piece one and they're like the hard bristle brushes but they've got like a drill bit piece on the end of it. So you put it in your power drill and if you turn that thing I have to use both hands on it because otherwise it should slide all over the place.

Sarah 5:38

Yes,

Brandi 5:39

but it cuts grime like no other.

Sarah 5:42

It makes shower cleaning so much easier.

Brandi 5:50

And my big because I have sliding doors because all the dog nose prints and everything.

Sarah 5:52

Oh my goodness

Brandi 5:53

and I just spray it with Windex and I hook that thing up and I just go to.

Brandi 5:57

I haven't in a while but I have them and I need to do it again on my windows.

Rachael 6:00

This is a drill that cleans?

Brandi 6:02

No, no, no, it's your normal drill. It's your normal drill. It's the brush fitting that goes on the end of it.

Sarah 6:07

We will have to add that to our Amazon

Brandi 6:08

Yeah

Rachael 6:08

Yeah, I've never heard of this. I'm intrigued.

Sarah 6:11

It's. We got that and or, as a wedding gift, getting a steamer Like the cleaner steamers. But I'm scared. I'm afraid I'm going to burn myself somehow. I don't know why, but we've gotten my husband to use it and it's going to be great too. I want to use that for my windows.

Brandi 6:28

I bought like a wet dry vac on Black Friday.

Sarah 6:31

Nice

Brandi 6:33

L ove it. Because it also works. It doesn't work on my bedroom carpet, but it works on area rugs, so like my yeah so I don't have to get like a shampooer anymore, like I usually rent one once a year like a rug doctor

Sarah 6:46

nice

Brandi 6:46

um and I don't have to do that in like my main living area I'll still need to do it for the bedrooms.

Sarah 6:51

We have a little like yeah spot one.

Brandi 6:54

Yeah, no, this is a full-size, like vacuum.

Sarah 6:57

Nice

Brandi 6:57

yeah, it's, you know you're old when you get excited about vacuums, but I was pumped for that.

Brandi 7:03

Let me tell you

Rachael 7:04

I don't know. I have a Rainbow and I really like it. I spent a lot of money on it, but it's like a vacuum and a shop vac and it's water based, so I don't have to change out filters or anything, which is really nice and I like a lot and you can dump I have like these droplets that are different flavors, like berry flavor, lemon flavor, and then, as I'm cleaning, my air smells really nice.

Rachael 7:24

And then it's also an air purifier, so when I'm not vacuuming I can just turn it on and it purifies my air.

Sarah 7:29

Okay, I need that too

Brandi 7:30

yeah,

Brandi 7:31

you know what I really want

Rachael 7:33

on it, but you know it is nice, it's worth it.

Brandi 7:35

One thing that I need to splurge on and I haven't, because I have three animals a good vacuum. I know all these ones like Shark and all this. It is, first of all, I shed a lot too. I have two dogs and a cat, so the amount of hair in my house ridiculous.

Sarah 7:55

They leave their love wherever.

Rachael 7:56

Honestly

Brandi 7:56

they go out of control. My parents have a Kirby.

Sarah 8:00

Oh yeah, a Kirby yeah.

Brandi 8:01

Yeah, these things are like

Rachael 8:03

Rainbows and Kirbys are like

Sarah 8:05

Same

Brandi 8:07

yeah, so are like Oryx.

Brandi 8:09

Those are like a commercial vacuum too. But, like my parents have had this thing for like over ten years,

Sarah 8:18

Yep,

Brandi 8:22

They spent a pretty penny on it though. Yeah, yeah, but

Sarah 8:25

looking them up

Brandi 8:25

the amount of money I've spent on vacuums in that 10 years

Rachael 8:28

yep

Brandi 8:29

I could have paid for that, Kirby, and so, like I'm just, I want to find a used one. Um, because they they bought it from a door-to-door salesman.

Have a Cleaning Cart & Approaches to Cleaning Each Room

Rachael 8:37

Well, that's, the thing is like, things like that even like my Rainbow guy, he like they don't sell Rainbows in store because they're just so well known that they last forever. Basically that you pay a lot of money up front, but it's worth it because you're gonna have this thing for like 20 plus years.

Rachael 8:52

I feel like so worth it

Sarah 8:53

One thing I don't mind spending the money on too

Brandi 8:57

That's when you need that. Buy once cry, once mentality.

Sarah 9:03

Anything to make it easier, because I also hate having to accumulate all these big like cleaning machines and products, then I mean I have a little. This is one trick too that's actually really helped me with clean spring cleaning or cleaning in general. I have a cleaning cart. It is my designated cleaning cart and it has all of the sprays, the windex, you know, the disinfectant wipes, the toilet cleaners, the, the everything that I could possibly need in my little cart and that just follows me around the house room to room.

Brandi 9:30

Where do you store it?

Sarah 9:31

I store it in the basement.

Brandi 9:33

Do you have to carry it up every time?

Sarah 9:35

yes, but I'd rather do that than go up and down the stairs for a billion things that I need and then,

Brandi 9:41

no, that's fair

Sarah 9:42

because if I'm, I need to be in that room, like I need to stay in the room and finish it, otherwise I walk out and I see something else and then I start on that task yeah, I start on that task and I'm like oh, I need to clean this countertop off because I need space.

Sarah 9:55

oh well, the dishes are here. I need to do the dishes, no One room at a time. Bring the cart with me and a big old trash can.

Rachael 10:02

How'd you come up with the cart method?

Sarah 10:04

TikTok.

Rachael 10:06

Thanks, tiktok, we appreciate you

Sarah 10:08

and organization because, again, utilizing our storage space, I don't really have like a shelf or a designated place that could hold everything that I have.

Brandi 10:17

Yeah,

Sarah 10:24

which isn't super a lot, but it's enough.

Rachael 10:25

That's an interesting concept. I feel like I approach it slightly differently and maybe this is why I struggle is because I focus on, like dusting first and then I dust everywhere in the house

Brandi 10:32

oh no

Sarah 10:32

then I switch to vacuuming then. And yeah it, I feel like it takes me quite a while which, but you're saying you're going room to room

Brandi 10:40

that's what I do

Brandi 10:41

also do room by room.

Rachael 10:42

Do you close the door like when you're done?

Rachael 10:44

So you're like haha, that room's done

Brandi 10:45

yes

Sarah 10:45

and I have to keep the other rooms doors closed while I'm working on one so I can't even see what's inside of that room.

Brandi 10:52

I can see that being beneficial for you, Kozy.

Brandi 10:54

but once it's clean, I like to keep the door open because then it fuels that therapeutic part of cleaning where I can look in there and it is clean and organized and it just motivates me to keep going Like, okay, this room brings me so much joy right now because it's clean and these other rooms don't.

Brandi 11:16

And so, like, once it's clean, that door is open so I can visually see what I've accomplished and it just

Sarah 11:23

that's why I like my my like main space to be the cleanest and, like I try, I'm not the best at it, but I want to keep that space clean because, yes, I want to come home to a clean countertop, to like a clean sink, but the bedrooms I have to keep closed for the pets because if I keep this guest bedroom door open the dog is going to go on the bed and the cat's going to try and find something under the bed. And,

Brandi 11:44

yeah

Sarah 11:45

in my office and my husband's office have all the cords, power cords, and everything so we just keep those closed. But that's why I really like my middle space and why my bedrooms kind of go last resort, because I can close them in a room and hide everything away.

Brandi 12:01

My mentality too.

Rachael 12:03

Yes, it's much easier.

Sarah 12:04

If I can't see it, it's clean

Rachael 12:05

yeah.

Rachael 12:06

It's much easier to throw it in a bedroom and forget about it.

Brandi 12:08

Yeah, like when you were a kid.

Rachael 12:10

My office, in my bedroom, is consistently just like oh, these are things that I need to put away

Sarah 12:13

Right

Rachael 12:13

and I'm just not doing it.

Brandi 12:14

Yeah, or like if company comes over you just shove them in like the spare bedroom, that no one's going to go in

Sarah 12:18

In your closet, under your bed.

Brandi 12:20

Yeah, it's what we did as kids when we cleaned our room. Right,

Sarah 12:22

exactly.

Brandi 12:22

Like you, just you know. So I agree, I also do room to room. Doing the whole house at once would overwhelm me significantly.

Rachael 12:31

Do you do so if you go room by room, though, like do you do it all in one day?

Brandi 12:35

Yes

Rachael 12:37

one weekend?

Sarah 12:41

I got one room my husband's office done. My room is clean but like it's not properly organized. And then the guest room is clean, but now it's housing the storage bins that I need to take to the storage unit. So it's not like completely done, but I did something.

Brandi 12:57

So I've read and I'm trying to implement it now, but I've read about it for years from different people is you do like a room a day.

Rachael 13:08

Yeah,

Brandi 13:08

so instead of trying to do it all on like a weekend day, you take it and you break it up in the second like five or six sections. You don't have to literally do it seven days a week, but say, on Monday nights, you clean the bathroom?

Sarah 13:21

Yes,

Brandi 13:22

on Tuesday you, you know, do, depending on how big your house is, maybe you have to do a couple of the bedrooms um, one night. I find, as long as you like my, I personally don't have a ton of stuff in my bedroom um, so it's just really like dusting, vacuuming, changing sheets,

Sarah 13:41

yeah

Brandi 13:41

situation, oh, I pick up dirty clothes like

Sarah 13:44

just random stuff that just doesn't have homes

Sarah 13:48

I feel like this is really the year of I'm fluttering. decluttering

Marie Kondo, Hanger Method, All the Totes

Brandi 13:51

That's my whole house right now and I am also decluttering. I have gotten rid of so much stuff. Um, like the other day, I I'm so sick. I have so many clothes like I converted a bedroom into a closet right because I have that many. But I still have so much laundry and stuff. I hate folding it and putting it away. I was so sick of like. I know I have this piece of clothing,

Sarah 14:15

but where?

Brandi 14:16

the hell is it every single time? And I'm just so sick and frustrated with myself that I was finally like you know what I'm gonna get on top of my laundry. I'm'm I'm to organize my closet. I'm going to throw away old makeup, old hair products, because I have a vanity in there too,

Sarah 14:32

I'm trying to purge everything.

Rachael 14:34

You got a Marie Kondo it, baby.

Brandi 14:37

I'm not that bad I'm not that bad. I've also done the hanger method. Do you guys know what the hanger method is?

Sarah 14:45

I have heard that, yes.

Brandi 14:46

So at the beginning of the year I haven't done this, but I've been slowly switching. So I used to just any kind of hanger I had, like a store hanger, a plastic hanger, a wire hanger. I would just throw my clothes on whatever I had. But I'm converting all of them to the Space Saver Velvet ones that are really nice.

Sarah 15:04

Oh, not where I thought you were going with that,

Brandi 15:05

no, no, but

Sarah 15:06

okay,

Brandi 15:06

it's the same

Brandi 15:07

doing it in the same method.

Sarah 15:08

Okay

Brandi 15:09

so anything that's on one of those non-velvet hangers I know I haven't worn in a year or two,

Sarah 15:14

so I've heard you

Brandi 15:15

turn them backwards.

Sarah 15:16

Yes, so turn your hanger backwards, which, whatever way that you normally put your clothes away, put them backwards and you can see throughout the year what you haven't touched

Brandi 15:25

yeah

Brandi 15:25

if you did it now, a year from now, you'd go in, look at what's still backwards and then you get rid of all of that my

Sarah 15:34

problem is I have certain pieces of clothing that I I'm not wearing at all, but I can't get rid of

Rachael 15:42

so this is where where the Marie Kondo comes into play.

Rachael 15:45

Okay, so I did Marie Kondo last year when I still had my other house, and I have even considered maybe I need to do like a 2.0 now that I live in a different house and my partner and I have kind of consolidated all of our stuff. So, Marie Kondo, so instead of going room by room, you actually go like subject by subject. So like you start with all of your clothes and you just focus on your clothes, then you move on to all of your toiletries, then you move on to all of your books, then you move on to all of your papers

Brandi 16:18

Don't touch my books

Rachael 16:19

I know, I know.

Rachael 16:22

So then you literally have to put every piece of clothing on your bed and pick it up and be like does this bring me joy? And if it doesn't, you toss it. And if it does bring you joy, then you keep it. And that was really effective for me, because I was able to get rid of like half of my wardrobe because of it and wasn't like attaching on to things Like maybe I would wear it, maybe I wouldn't wear it like I would see it and I'd be like no, I don't like this

Sarah 16:47

but see, a year later, I'm gonna think back and I wanted to keep that red shirt

Sarah 16:51

because there's

Brandi 16:52

your emotionally attached to the memory of when you were wearing

Sarah 16:55

not even the memory of it.

Sarah 16:57

It's like this okay, I red shirts, bad idea. But we'll say, like a St. Patrick's Day is coming up. I had this really fun St Patrick's Day shirt that I got from a bar.

Brandi 17:09

Yeah

Sarah 17:09

I forget that I have it when St Patrick's Day comes around.

Brandi 17:11

Oh, I do that too.

Sarah 17:11

But then I'm like, well, I can't get rid of that, because I think it's one of the only shirts I have that has a shamrock on it.

Sarah 17:23

So I have to keep it for some reason..

Brandi 17:24

So I like, because at some point I will be making a t-shirt blanket, but I take them out of my closet and they are stored and tucked away.

Sarah 17:32

That's a whole other pile, that's a pile in my, in my office that has all my old volleyball uniforms and volleyball t-shirts and college things.

Brandi 17:43

I have a tote

Brandi 17:46

I have a tote of mizzou like I have so many blankets I need to make.

Sarah 17:50

We will have to have a blanket day. That'll be another a girl's night. We'll do a blanket making.

Brandi 17:53

Oh you have to sew

Brandi 17:56

you have to sew those.

Brandi 17:56

I'm sending those off

Sarah 17:58

handsew, though,

Brandi 17:59

girl do you realize

Rachael 18:00

it's not fancy to make a blanket that will last forever. No, I'm gonna pay, going to pay somebody to do that.

Brandi 18:05

There's a company that I plan to use and you send it off. You cut off the sleeves and everything. You send it off. They sew it and they put a nice back on it and they send it back.

Rachael 18:15

That's nice

Brandi 18:15

and you can pick the size of it.

Sarah 18:17

That'd be fun.

Rachael 18:17

Question for you all.

Brandi 18:19

Yeah,

Rachael 18:26

do you change out your closet based on the seasons like, now that winter is coming to an end, you pack away your winter stuff.

Sarah 18:29

In college I did. I think that was mostly because of space college.

Brandi 18:31

I did absolutely

Sarah 18:32

now that I'm in the house, no, and I don't think I have enough clothes like per season. I kind of mix and match everything

Rachael 18:39

that makes sense

Brandi 18:39

That's why I made my smallest bedroom into a closet, because I didn't want to have to hassle of it. Living in the Midwest, like this week, you'd have to have your whole closet out.

Sarah 18:50

Yes,

Brandi 18:50

because it went

Brandi 18:51

from

Sarah 18:52

30 degrees one day to 50 to the next and now it's gonna be 70 one day this week like,

Rachael 18:57

do you have

Rachael 18:58

- you three bedrooms, right?

Brandi 19:00

Yeah

Rachael 19:00

so is it your first bedroom. Technically, that's your closet. Interesting, I don't think I've ever ventured into that space.

Brandi 19:06

You haven't, because it's been a disaster, because

Rachael 19:09

it's your closet and everything's everywhere

Brandi 19:12

one. I think maybe two or three people have seen that because it's always been such a mess. Because, one I don't have enough. Even with a bedroom, I still don't have enough room for all my clothes, so they're all kind of scattered. And two, I have enough room for all my clothes, so they're all kind of scattered. And two, I hate putting clothes away, so there were just clothes everywhere. So that is why I focused on cleaning that one out.

Brandi 19:31

But while I was doing it, you know, I got to thinking about this episode and like kind of thinking about like what I was doing and what I could suggest to people. What worked. It didn't work. Um, and one thing that I personally did and I plan to do as I declutter the rest of my house is, um, I had a box because I was going to put it in a tote, but I was like I don't want to have to take it out of the tote and put it in a box to donate. So I took one of my like Amazon boxes, like bigger one, and that was my donation box.

Sarah 20:03

Yes, donation

Brandi 20:04

so anything that I thought was decent enough quality to donate went in that box, and then I took a trash bag and I put that on my door handle of my the bedroom. That way it was in one spot and anything that I needed to throw away whether it was ratty, torn clothes, old toiletries that expired, just tags from new clothes, because those tend to multiply when I shop a lot, so like all this stuff. So I did that and that stuff was in the hallway, so, as I was cleaning and organizing, that stuff was no longer in the room, so that allowed me to see

Sarah 20:43

where do you put it when it's not in the room, because that's what gets me too

Brandi 20:46

so my everything that I'm donating is currently in my garage.

Sarah 20:49

Everything else that you're keeping

Brandi 20:51

oh, it goes directly to the spot it's supposed to be in.

Sarah 20:56

oooohhh

Brandi 20:57

you just because that's something else I've learned because that's something else I've learned is like I'm one of those people that just sets it down. I'm like, oh, I'll put it away later,

Sarah 21:05

don't put it down, put it away

Brandi 21:08

exactly

Rachael 21:08

everything needs a place

Sarah 21:09

Put it away.

Sarah 21:10

I have to repeat that

Rachael 21:11

everything should have a place

Brandi 21:12

yes, and that's what I'm finding is, I have so much stuff that I and that's what caused me to start to declutter is because I don't have enough room.

Sarah 21:19

I don't have space for everything.

Brandi 21:21

So if it doesn't have a spot and it's not worth like, if I don't make it a spot, like it's not important enough for me to do that, it goes, I get rid of it

Rachael 21:31

and all of your stuff should live in the same place as well.

Rachael 21:34

Like you, shouldn't have things scattered throughout, like all your shoes should be in a space all of your most

Sarah 21:40

of everything is there and they're kind of like scattered because we talked earlier the categories.

Sarah 21:44

Like I'm a bin person, so like this bin is everything that needs to go downstairs. Every while I'm cleaning the upstairs, I have one bin of everything that needs to be taken down.

Brandi 21:52

Yeah

Sarah 21:53

but everything will stay in that downstairs bin for like another week or so until I get to that point

Brandi 21:58

so it's because you have two levels, I feel like it's harder.

Brandi 22:01

I'm just in a single-story

Sarah 22:03

like you said not the space for everything, because I want to put it away, but I don't have the house or home for every single thing yet. So I have a lot of like not junk drawers, but junk bins, that are just things.

Sarah 22:15

I don't necessarily know, where to put.

Sarah 22:17

Not like junk,

Rachael 22:17

but why do you have so many bins? That's my question.

Brandi 22:21

Bins are the worst thing

Sarah 22:23

you never have too many bins.

Rachael 22:28

That is the hoarding mentality.

Sarah 22:29

No, no, no, I'm trying not to. A lot of these things are like all of my

Rachael 22:31

Do we need an intervention?

Sarah 22:32

I mean maybe, but we're going to see how this spring cleaning goes first and then, if I really can get my shit together by this year, we'll see. But we so all of the holiday stuff are going into their bins. They're labeled. I actually have those QR code labels.

Brandi 22:46

Yes, I was going to suggest those. I love those

Sarah 22:49

Yes, I have those. So those are all going to the storage unit. So then I can make more space in the house for the things I need to keep, because right now my messy bins this is embarrassing. They're actually things from last summer that I needed to put away and just haven't, like my bug spray, some sunscreen stuff, some like my bags, my see-through bag that I'll take to a concert, like a bunch of koozies, a bunch of I don't even know just random ass stuff that I want to keep. But if I put it one place I'm going to lose it or forget that I have it and I don't know where I go. So I need to find the home for it, but I just don't have the home for it yet. So I have like two smaller bins.

Brandi 23:24

Okay. So, that's where I come in, so you mentioned koozies and I feel like everyone that listens has probably got like this ridiculous amount of koozies.

Sarah 23:31

Oh yeah, I have the inside koozies and then the outside koozies.

Brandi 23:34

Here's the thing

Rachael 23:34

just combine them.

Brandi 23:36

No.

Brandi 23:36

Get rid of some.

Sarah 23:49

The outside ones are ones I don't care about those and the inside ones that are like my cool special koozies that I do want to keep.

Brandi 23:53

But if you're throwing some of those in your junk bin and you haven't, touched them.

Sarah 23:55

They need to come outside koozies. Yeah, honestly, they're probably also ones that I've used inside my house. That I just didn't,

Brandi 24:00

but here's the

Sarah 24:01

down and I

Sarah 24:01

didn't put away if

Brandi 24:03

they're just sitting in a junk drawer. You're not using them.

Sarah 24:05

No, because you forget about

Brandi 24:06

and nor, yeah, and nor are they important enough for you to make a space for them and

Sarah 24:12

and I agree and so when I go to clean.

Sarah 24:16

So much of that does get overwhelming to me too, because then I just I don't, I can't throw everything away

Rachael 24:22

does that bring you joy? if not, get rid of it.

Brandi 24:26

everything will bring her joy

Sarah 24:28

I can convince that anything will bring me joy.

Rachael 24:30

Like you gotta hold it and look at it.

Rachael 24:32

Does it bring you joy no, so I have it's gone

Rachael 24:35

, she gone

Brandi 24:36

so when it comes to clothes and why I mentioned if you had like a memory attached to it and like so I had. Um, she's a friend from high school and I know she'll listen to this episode at one point and she's going to laugh when I tell this story because she knows exactly which one I'm talking about. She would invite me over to help clean out her closet because I would go through what she was getting rid of and take stuff.

Sarah 24:55

Oh yeah,

Brandi 24:55

and that was like

Sarah 24:56

as girlfriends do,

Brandi 24:57

that was like my pay for helping her

Brandi 24:59

was this god awful mustard yellow shirt hanging in her closet. I'm like, girl, why do you have mustard yellow shirt? First of all, probably not your color two, I've never seen you wear this and I was like get rid of it. I'm like it's just a plain old t-shirt. Get rid of it. And she's like, no, I can't. And I'm like, why not? And she almost starts crying, telling me it's. They weren't even dating yet. She had met her future husband in this shirt because they're high school sweethearts and it was the first time she'd ever met him. They weren't even dating or anything. She had just been introduced to him.

Rachael 25:35

See, it brings her joy.

Brandi 25:38

She eventually got rid of it. But that day, that day, she kept it and my mind was just blown that someone could be that emotionally attached to a t-shirt just a plain t-shirt, not an event t-shirt.

Brandi 25:52

Nothing,

Sarah 25:53

that's me too, though. I mean it is because that's kind of why I keep things like I'm like oh, this is a cool thing. I want to either display this somewhere or I'm gonna want to use it, or I'm gonna want to wear it.

Brandi 26:02

I'm a very sentimental person too, and that's why I've built up the collection of shit in my house that I have. But I've really tried to switch my mentality lately because it's giving me anxiety and I'm overwhelmed To where I am, like I have pictures with this thing or blah, blah, blah.

Brandi 26:24

I don't need the actual item anymore

Sarah 26:28

part of me too is kind of like, because we're in the space where we have this smaller home and we're in the works of upgrading and getting a bigger place. I'm like I don't want to get rid of everything, because it's also things that we need. Like we have a whole other set of dining plates and silverware and stuff.

Brandi 26:46

If you get a bigger house, are you actually going to use that other set?

Sarah 26:49

I mean when we have dinner parties. Yeah, because we only have four of them out. So if we want to have dinner with any more than four people, I'm going to have to use them. I just don't have the space, nor do we need to put all eight of them out here at the moment.

Brandi 27:02

So they match.

Sarah 27:02

Oh yeah, oh yeah it, but so they match, they're not.

Brandi 27:03

oh yeah, okay, I thought you meant they were two different sets, I was like, no, get rid of that one set oh no,

Sarah 27:07

we do have two different sets, but those ones are also in storage so you gotta,

Rachael 27:11

you can get rid of the set that's in storage.

Sarah 27:13

Oh god, no, they're so cute.

Sarah 27:15

They look like golf balls, they're like white. Yeah, see, that's what I'm like. But those ones in my mind are, when I get the bigger house and we have the cute little hutch like. Those are going to be the ones that are like nicely displayed. But then when I move, into a place.

Sarah 27:31

I won't have to buy them, because I already have them.

Sarah 27:32

You see my dilemma. I have to keep them.

Brandi 27:34

Let's see If I got a bigger house.

Brandi 27:36

I would want to go shopping for new stuff, yeah.

Rachael 27:38

Get rid of all the old shit Get nice new pretty stuff.

Sarah 27:40

But we got married too, so we got all of this like house stuff too,

Brandi 27:46

and how much of the old stuff because you were living together. Yeah,

Sarah 27:49

we did quite a bit actually.

Sarah 27:50

Okay, quite a bit of the old stuff. We really really did.

Rachael 27:52

What about wedding decorations? Do you still have that stuff?

Brandi 27:54

She's actually got some on display.

Rachael 27:56

Okay, the wedding decorations have been in the shed.

Rachael 27:58

Are they still in the shed Kozy?

Sarah 28:00

I will say I probably got rid of over half of it.

Rachael 28:03

Okay, that's not too bad

Sarah 28:08

Over the last year.

Rachael 28:09

There was a 10x20 shed of all their wedding decorations.

Sarah 28:12

We converted it into a grotto.

Rachael 28:14

Yeah,

Sarah 28:15

and it's now a storage unit for the rest of our wedding decorations. And I will say, because it's the wintertime, we do use it for, like our lawnmower and like all the yard stuff that we're not going to keep outside during the wintertime.

Brandi 28:26

But I will say you do have.

Rachael 28:27

So what's going to happen? Are you going to get rid of that stuff, or is that stuff also going to storage?

Sarah 28:30

I actually have. I got rid of a bunch of flowers and I donated it to work to help decorate the store.

Rachael 28:35

Aw,

Sarah 28:38

so those are all gone. So that's been nice. I got rid of one box this weekend.

Rachael 28:41

That was my hard-earned hours of nicely placing those flowers, though, so I feel a little hurt that you just got rid of my decor.

Sarah 28:47

Well, we repurposed, we donated and repurposed.

Rachael 28:50

Donated and repurposed.

Sarah 28:50

No, and see that's the thing too. They brought me joy. I'm not going to use them again, but I kind of wanted to like.

Rachael 28:56

Did you keep like one cigar box though?

Sarah 28:57

Oh? I have all the cigar boxes,

Rachael 28:59

okay, great,

Sarah 29:01

but again, those just either need a home or, like the purpose to like, fix them up too, Because those are all the never-ending like craft projects that I want to do, favorite and get rid of the rest.

Brandi 29:18

You pick your favorite and get rid of the rest. You don't need that one cigar. Everything else goes. I know it's, it's and you already have a lot of your issues.

Rachael 29:20

Wedding, I know, okay, not saying you should get divorced, but one good thing about getting divorced is like all of that stuff, like if there is a pro, if there's a pro in getting divorced like all that shit it's just like it doesn't matter anymore when your ex just dumps like 11 boxes of random stuff at your door.

Rachael 29:38

Well, makes you come pick it up on Thanksgiving weekend and is like half this shit's yours. You just donate it all because you're like nope, don't need it, don't even want to open it, don't want to look at it, it's not part of my life anymore, so you just donate it all and then you have a pretty clutter-free life after that.

Brandi 29:54

Love it,

Rachael 29:55

but I love Brian, so please don't get divorced,

Sarah 29:57

no and I'm and I know too that I mean what I'm trying to do is we're not going to be moving for the next like year or so, but trying to get things together. So when we do move, it is like what you said Rach where here's all of the toiletries, here is all the clothes and here's the things, instead of having to go around my house and finding all of these random things and just having it disorganized. So I just need help with the organization part, the feng shui of my house, setup and cleaning skills too, because feng shui is something I'm into as well.

Rachael 30:28

So I feel like, since I do, you know, I have my sister's company that comes in and cleans my house. I feel like I don't necessarily need to do like a deep, deep clean, because it gets cleaned pretty frequently, but I feel like everything is out of place and unorganized. So when I was thinking about my spring cleaning, I'm like I need to go through my hutch, because my hutch stores like all of my extra appliances that I can't fit in my kitchen, or like my kitchen island section because just a bunch of random stuff that we're storing. So it's like things are kind of in their place but it's messy and,

Sarah 31:04

yes,

Rachael 31:04

like things are like stacked on top of one another or not in the correct place.

Sarah 31:08

Yes,

Rachael 31:08

um, or I'm like super notorious for just like having like my one office drawer that's just like a mess and like I just throw a bunch of random shit in there.

Sarah 31:15

We're 90s kids. We all have a junk drawer. Yeah, that's just how it is Everybody has a junk drawer.

Rachael 31:19

But my junk drawer just like, picks this baby.

Brandi 31:21

Are you saying drunk or junk?

Rachael 31:23

junk, junk!

Rachael 31:27

My junk drawer. My, okay, that's what.

Sarah 31:40

We also have the beer fridge, the separate fridge just for our beer.

Sarah 31:41

That's why we have that too.

Rachael 31:41

My junk drawer just like slowly keeps expanding. So I feel like my cleaning it out, yeah, like my focus will be like cleaning out my hutch storage, cleaning out my kitchen island, cleaning out my junk drawer and like let's go for Marie Kondo 2.0 and just let's do it. Let's pull everything out of the dressers. Let's just get rid of it. If it doesn't bring you joy, it's gone.

Brandi 31:59

That would take me a whole week to do my clothes, Not going to lie.

Sarah 32:02

So isn't this funny though.

Sarah 32:03

Because I went to my friend's house as she was moving things out of one place and going to the next, and we were shooketh,

Rachael 32:16

shooketh

Sarah 32:17

completely shooketh at how much shit we got cleared out and cleaned up within four hours. We're also convinced that having a buddy and I don't know if it's an ADD thing or or whatever, but having someone else with me,

Rachael 32:25

accountable,

Tips & Tricks that Don't Work

Sarah 32:26

almost like holds me accountable but also makes it fun and keeps me focused, versus doing it by myself. So I'm not gonna like recruit you to hey, come clean my house, but like do you want to sit on my couch and like talk to me while I organize and go through all my clothes?

Sarah 32:38

because that'd be super, super cool

Rachael 32:40

Girl Gang spring cleaning, house hopping

Sarah 32:43

right I love it

Brandi 32:45

if I come over to help you.

Rachael 32:47

Yeah, like, we just like, let's just the next three weekends.

Rachael 32:50

Let's go seriously.

Sarah 32:51

I think we should. Next next week.

Brandi 32:53

March is so booked for me, honestly.

Rachael 32:56

Sorry that you're not good enough for us. You're too good for us.

Sarah 33:00

So with our cleaning hacks and tricks that have worked for us. What cleaning tips and tricks do we think are completely overrated? Because let's talk about this cleantok, tiktok, cleantok, right. There are so many people who have so many organization and cleaning like tips and tricks and hacks, but some of them I think are a little overboard

Brandi 33:22

you know what I think?

Brandi 33:23

as much as I love watching them, the fridge restocks where

Sarah 33:28

I mean

Brandi 33:29

they're beautiful, but they're not functional,

Sarah 33:32

correct,

Brandi 33:33

because I buy different stuff every week.

Rachael 33:36

Yes,

Brandi 33:37

in order for that to work, you have to buy the same damn thing every time, and I think

Sarah 33:41

there are some things in our I'd say our fridge.

Sarah 33:44

we probably might buy more consistent groceries for our refrigerator than we do our pantry,

Brandi 33:50

but those people are the same ones that organize their pantry that way too.

Sarah 33:54

See, the pantry's been hard because that's where it's more of a different kind of stuff.

Sarah 33:59

Because I have like the big I try to do the big clear bins. We try this, everyone. Okay, we saw the clear bins. They look aesthetic, we like them, but I'm not taking all of my pasta noodles out of the box

Brandi 34:09

yes, exactly

Sarah 34:10

To put them into another bin

Brandi 34:11

that's why I think it's overrated.

Brandi 34:12

It's not.

Sarah 34:13

Yeah, it looks nice, but I have it. I will say I have it for my flower, but what drives me nuts is if my bin is not big enough for the entire flower bag.

Brandi 34:22

Yes,

Sarah 34:22

so then I just have a bin of flower and a bag of flower down below, and that's the part that drives me absolutely bonkers about it, but I love?

Brandi 34:30

yes, but I guarantee you those influencers that are doing it have that same issue. They just don't show it because of how it does.

Sarah 34:37

They have some bigger houses.

Sarah 34:38

So they can hide it all away.

Rachael 34:41

I think there are certain things Like in my pantry if we buy five boxes of protein bars or granola bars, then we have one bin for all those protein bars and granola bars so then we like organize them in that and that's fine, but outside of that, I think, just keep it in its package,

Brandi 35:01

but you know,

Rachael 35:01

being able to see it. I think it's important that you're not like double stacking things and like losing things if I can't see everything that I own

Sarah 35:09

right,

Rachael 35:09

I forget about it, and then it's gonna become expired and then I have to throw it away and then I feel like a terrible person.

Brandi 35:15

I agree with that, but I think where they have a clear container for every little thing that they buy, the amount of containers, different container sizes I'd have to have for the different configurations they're not cheap because

Sarah 35:30

they're also trending now. They're really not cheap

Brandi 35:32

so in my mind it's beautiful. I love watching them because it gives me a sense of like.

Sarah 35:37

I love how it looks like I still want that, but it's just,

Brandi 35:40

but it's not functional, which is why I hate that.

Brandi 35:43

It's trending and that's why I think it's overrated, because it's not day-to-day functional.

Sarah 35:46

The label

Brandi 35:47

god forbid you have kids.

Sarah 35:49

Oh my gosh,

Brandi 35:50

like that's a whole like trying to organize all that when you have kids around you.

Sarah 35:54

Now we'll say I've the one time, too, was like laundry, having different bins for your laundry. So we now have a two-for laundry bin in our bathroom where it's a bag for me, a bag for my husband. I have one bin that's in the laundry room that is strictly for towels, just for bath towels, and then I have one smaller bin that's just for cleaning towels, because I have to wash my, wash, my cleaning towels separately from everything else.

Rachael 36:22

I think that's a good idea. I personally separate my stuff. Like all of my towels go down the laundry chute, so that's like my that's my towel pile, and then you have like my clothes and my partner's clothes, and then there's kind of like a mixed bag, like if they're more delicates and they need to be washed separately, so we kind of have like four different piles going at any given time, which makes things so much easier, because then you don't have to think about it, right, you just throw it in there, you know how to set your settings on your washer and it's good to go

Sarah 36:52

that's helped us a little bit,

Brandi 36:54

but yeah, so not overrated.

Sarah 36:55

But I can't separate my whites, my darks.

Rachael 36:59

No, I don't do that.

Sarah 36:59

No, I mean there are certainly. There are certain really like nice pieces of white, like dresses or white clothing that I do have. That I will do a separate, delicate cycle. But yeah, majority of the time, no, they're everything's going together

Brandi 37:10

interesting

Rachael 37:11

But I feel like delicates are like nice dresses, socks and underwear, like things that can get ruined, kind of easily,

Brandi 37:17

so I do whites, color, and then bedding, towels

Sarah 37:22

I mean I notice the difference to my whites.

Sarah 37:24

My whites are not white white.

Sarah 37:25

But yeah, there's sometimes I'll do like a little

Rachael 37:28

I do feel like I will like pull jeans out of the mix, like I will. I'll wash'll, wash, like my shirts, my socks, things together, but I try to avoid putting jeans with them and I would rather put jeans with my towels.

Sarah 37:39

Yes, I put jeans with towels.

Brandi 37:41

Yeah, see, I just have all my colored stuff together.

Brandi 37:44

Jeans included.

Sarah 37:45

The other thing is like cleaning schedules, and then we talked about that too. We've tried for so long now I mean, Brian and I have been together five, six years we've tried to have get on some sort of cleaning schedule and I think we we do like, how you know, Tuesday is going to be the bathroom day,

Rachael 38:01

but what's the reality that you actually do that

Sarah 38:03

exactly and I know

Brandi 38:04

I've been trying for years

Sarah 38:05

because sometimes you know, Brian might have a really long day of work on a Tuesday, or I might get called in and an event happens, so like the day can kind of get messy, and then we don't follow through with it on those on those occasions,

Brandi 38:18

yep

Sarah 38:19

but,

Brandi 38:19

and then your whole schedule is thrown off,

Sarah 38:21

exactly.

Sarah 38:21

So that's why I kind of go end up going to like a day where I try and just get as much cleaning stuff done as possible, but it's never really enough time to actually finish the whole whole thing

Brandi 38:31

yeah, that's why I'm trying to declutter it so much, so that way when I do go in and clean, it's so much easier and I don't have a bunch of shit I have to move around to get it clean.

Rachael 38:41

I feel like I used to stress so much about cleaning, like I always felt behind and I always felt like there was more to do, more to do, and then that just increased my anxiety.

Rachael 38:55

And now that I just have somebody come in and clean my house. It's totally worth the money, totally worth it.

Brandi 38:58

That is my goal for 2026 is to get it.

Rachael 39:01

I will gift you a clean because it is life-changing, and I'm just like nope never going back.

Brandi 39:07

But see, my problem right now is, even if I did have it in my budget to do it, which I probably could move some stuff around is I just have so much shit right now that they wouldn't actually be able to do a deep clean.

Sarah 39:18

Yeah, I do. I'm still stressing about cleaning for the cleaning I do.

Rachael 39:22

I get everything pulled up off the floors. All the dog toys, Everything kind of needs to be in its place. That way they can actually do the deep clean that they need to do.

Brandi 39:35

And they need to do and they currently in my current house status they can't do that. So I need to get to a point where,

Rachael 39:38

yes,

Brandi 39:38

I could hire someone and I know that's not like feasible for everyone, so like that's where I feel like a schedule. Or you know, I even seen people schedule where they do just on Tuesdays they just dust and vacuum the whole house. It really depends on how your cleaning style is, your mentality behind cleaning, your lifestyle.

Be Your Own Closer

Sarah 39:59

And keeping up with it. I mean, I've noticed too because I'll get overly stressed by trying to do everything all at once we got a nice little easy-to-use vacuum that does the vacuum in the mop thing kind of like the Swiffer thing, but it's a little vacuum attached to it. Every day it takes five minutes I just need to do one floor and just try and and sweep, just try and wipe down the counters, just try to do like one little task each and every day to help keep it clean.

Sarah 40:25

So I'm gonna have to go for the deep clean it's not as stressful.

Rachael 40:28

You're gonna spend that amount of time on Tiktok anyway, so you might as well just do something with it.

Brandi 40:32

Speaking of TikTok, the lady that I follow, her name's Kylie Perkins. She has helped me tremendously on kind of getting my shit together on my house and she's all about a routine. So every morning you make your bed, every morning you open your curtains and let the sunlight in.

Sarah 40:51

I do like that.

Brandi 40:52

She does a little like she goes downstairs or wherever her laundry is and she puts a load in and moves the other load to the dryer and like then that night she like, does another, Like she does laundry every day, all the time and she's almost drill sergeant in how, like you know,

Sarah 41:14

I wouldn't keep up with it, otherwise if I wasn't,

Sarah 41:17

I kind of got it.

Brandi 41:18

And then the other thing, kind of to your point of like doing the little thing. She basically said like when you work in the food industry, the closers clean everything up, so it's nice and clean for the opener. So she's like why aren't you doing that in your home? You should have your dishes done. You should have your counters done. You should reset your living space.

Sarah 41:41

It is so nice to wake up to a clean space and walk into work, to a clean space. That is so true.

Rachael 41:48

A cluttered space is a cluttered mind, yeah.

Brandi 41:50

And she's like cleaning is therapeutic, it is tied to your mental health, which I can 100 attest to.

Sarah 42:01

Oh absolutely,

Things to Clean that are Often Overlooked

Brandi 42:01

um. And she's like every night you should just walk through the house and basically, how you've you've worded it before Rachael is reset, everything like constantly pick, you know, do the little things every day manageable tasks so they don't become overwhelming to do.

Brandi 42:13

And that is something that I struggle with, because I put it off, put it off, and then it gets so monumental that I just shut down and can't do it,

Sarah 42:20

or it's still the distractions too.

Sarah 42:22

I mean even today, while I'll be going through, I think, just vacuuming, I was looking for disinfectant wipes and I go underneath the bathroom dresser and I'm like, oh, I could pull all this stuff out and clean this really quick. But let's not do that because I'm in the middle of a task. But it distracted me.

Rachael 42:40

I think there are two things that I feel like need to be more regular tasks and not just spring cleaning tasks, and that's changing my filter on my unit. So I feel like I don't do that enough.

Brandi 42:59

What unit

Rachael 42:59

Like my HVAC unit.

Brandi 43:01

You should do that every three months

Rachael 43:03

yeah.

Rachael 43:03

So I don't.

Brandi 43:04

I mean Put that in your calendar that is.

Sarah 43:06

I will say that that is something my husband totally yeah,

Brandi 43:11

is that a boy job in your house?

Sarah 43:13

Honestly, I think he just he's lived there for a lot longer and I've lived in apartments, so this is still like my first house, house that I've really lived in. When I moved in with him, so he just already had it in his mind, already had it in his plan, so he just kind of continued it

Brandi 43:26

wait, you never did that in your apartment?

Sarah 43:29

No, because we had landlords who did that.

Sarah 43:31

They were all rental units like

Brandi 43:32

so they came in every three months to change out your furnace filter?

Sarah 43:37

I think so.

Brandi 43:38

I doubt it. They usually come.

Sarah 43:39

Well, then they probably never got changed.

Sarah 43:41

I don't know but I'll say I moved every. I moved every year of college.

Sarah 43:44

So it would have at least been for

Brandi 43:47

because I know when I rented they come in once a year and do like a check through and everything,

Sarah 43:52

yeah,

Brandi 43:52

but your filter. I always had a couple filters to change out, because you're supposed to do it every three months

Sarah 43:57

well, that didn't happen

Brandi 43:59

okay well, it's fine.

Brandi 44:00

It's not your property,

Sarah 44:01

it happens now

Rachael 44:01

I feel like that one is a big one because it also

Sarah 44:04

you forget about it

Rachael 44:05

keeps yourself, running it like your stuff, actually will shut down if you don't do it.

Brandi 44:09

Yep.

Rachael 44:09

Also, our hot water heater went out like back when it was really cold, and the guy fixed it but he was like there's so much dog hair like around the water heater.

Brandi 44:23

Yep,

Rachael 44:24

that like it probably just got too dusty, and he's like so you should make it a habit

Brandi 44:28

Same with the bottom of your refrigerator.

Sarah 44:30

And the back.

Brandi 44:31

And the back of it

Sarah 44:32

Yes, and the back, yes, there's always been dust in it, absolutely.

Rachael 44:35

These are good things to know.

Rachael 44:39

Take notes, people

Sarah 44:40

yeah because that can impact how Even your vents, your air vents.

Brandi 44:43

Yeah.

Sarah 44:43

I do that for sure, or dust them.

Brandi 44:45

Yep, yeah. So the coil in the back of your refrigerator, if you have too much dust and hair and stuff around it, it'll actually cause it either to A run harder or it won't cool as well. So like if you're noticing your freezer isn't as cold or your fridge, or you just feel like it is running constantly. One, first of all, that's your power bill, right there, right, like you're adding to it. And two, it's more likely to overheat and quit altogether. So keep the back of that fridge clean. It'll make your fridge last longer and it'll cut down on the amount of energy it uses.

Sarah 45:19

Yes,

Brandi 45:20

to keep it cool so yeah

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Sarah 45:22

I think one of the things I'll try and do with my space too is wiping down the things that you don't always think of. Like you say you'll, you'll walk around and dust everything at once. So I think when I'm at a point where everything is kind of clean, I'll do like one last wipe down and I'm wiping down the light switches, the door handles, the things that when you walk into my house, or like the bathroom door where, like you, pull it to close, I wipe down all of those things. Cabinet poles, because they're things that get touched all the time. Remotes wash your tv. Remotes wash any remote in your house.

Rachael 45:54

Wipe down your phone.

Sarah 45:56

Yes, they're things that we touch every single day, that we don't think about

Brandi 46:02

so I did I did some science experiments in like grade school and high school where you had to swab certain things, so that's already a part of my cleaning routine. When I do, clean is handles. All of that get wiped down because

Rachael 46:14

it's nasty

Brandi 46:16

I've seen those petri dishes.

Sarah 46:18

Has anybody cleaned their car yet now that we've had warm weather? Because I feel like that's also the first thing I do is go out to clean my car which has been hoarding things for months.

Rachael 46:30

Obviously, the Girl Gang doesn't like to clean their cars.

Sarah 46:33

We're so new. We've had like our first two days of warm weather, so we still have time.

Brandi 46:37

No, no, no, mine is a disaster year round.

Sarah 46:40

Mine only gets cleaned once, and that's probably the springtime Like deep, deep clean inside and out.

Rachael 46:46

I would say I have never really been the type of person that like keeps things in my car. I don't really.

Sarah 46:53

Yeah, you have a clean car,

Rachael 46:54

I don't really keep things in my car

Rachael 46:56

yeah, I don't keep actually this car

Brandi 46:58

If you need something.

Brandi 46:59

It's in my car

Rachael 47:02

nothing is in my car.

Rachael 47:02

The only thing that I keep in my car are, like my grocery reusable bags, my rollerblades and my

Sarah 47:09

grocery bags are the one things I forget because I don't keep them in my car.

Rachael 47:12

My rollerblades are the most important thing in my car.

Rachael 47:13

So like, yeah, that's all I keep. Like I keep my grocery bags and I keep my rollerblades and that's it. I don't want anything else in my car, but I

Sarah 47:21

Well, if you have to poop on the side of the, and I have an extra pair of pants for you to change into.

Rachael 47:25

Wow. Okay, yeah, Well thankfully that's never happened.

Sarah 47:31

My car is prepared for anything and everything that I could possibly find myself getting into.

Brandi 47:36

No, my backseat covered in dog hair because that's their spot that too Even with the cover. That too, I always have. Like I'm that person. Oh, I'm giving you a ride one second. I gotta clean out that passenger seat.

Sarah 47:47

Let me move all this stuff first

Rachael 47:48

yeah, the worst thing for me is like oh, I gotta pop up my seats because I always have them down for the dogs.

Sarah 47:52

So I wonder how many koozies I have in my car

Brandi 47:54

see that kind of stuff I don't have like.

Brandi 47:56

A lot of mine is just like cups, snacks, coats or sweatshirts that I take off because I don't like diving in them.

Rachael 48:03

I could invest in like a car trash can, because that's the one thing that I feel like I have a lot in my car.

Brandi 48:09

No, no, no, you clean your car.

Sarah 48:11

That's the random gas station bag in the backseat of my car.

Rachael 48:14

It's the pocket next to oh, so you don't have pockets.

Sarah 48:16

Oh yeah, I just have one.

Brandi 48:17

I use the door pocket.

Rachael 48:18

Yeah, the door pocket, the door pocket, and then it's that deep

Brandi 48:30

Every time I go gas it out and get rid of it.

Sarah 48:32

that's just why I have the, the um trash bag, little qt bag.

Put a Bow on Your Spring Cleaning

Brandi 48:34

So the guy I'm seeing details and he hates getting in my car because it is so gross, like he drove my car the other day and he's like no wonder you can't see. Your window is disgusting

Sarah 48:43

I heard someone say that's kind of the more stereotypical, like guys have really messy rooms but really clean cars.

Brandi 48:49

Yes,

Sarah 48:49

more women will have cleaner rooms but

Brandi 48:51

he's a clean freak in general.

Brandi 48:53

Like his room. His like living space is spotless too.

Rachael 48:57

He can join the Girl Gang as we go house hopping and spring cleaning? He'd be like.

Brandi 49:01

Absolutely not,

Rachael 49:03

it'll be a bonding experience come on.

Sarah 49:06

So, lastly, so, once we are all finished with our spring cleaning, what's the last thing that y'all will do to wrap?

Rachael 49:13

a bow.

Sarah 49:14

Yeah, what do you do to put a bow on?

Sarah 49:15

your cleaning.

Brandi 49:15

Oh, yes, candle. I always light candles.

Sarah 49:18

Yes, Love the candles. Always do some saging around the house. Open up a window, sage, cleanse everything out it makes everything feel better.

Rachael 49:29

Sage on fire, fire and you're like woohoo,

Brandi 49:31

yeah, she gets rid of those spirits

Rachael 49:32

Interesting,

Sarah 49:33

get rid of all the negative energy, all the bad energy.

Rachael 49:35

I want to see Sarah in this prime.

Sarah 49:37

Oh my gosh.

Sarah 49:37

yes, Say a little prayer, set your intention and just cleanse everything out.

Brandi 49:42

That's where Kozy and I veer distantly apart.

Sarah 49:45

Hey, you know what? If it makes you feel better,

Brandi 49:47

no, that's fine, that's all you.

Brandi 49:49

To me I'd be like God damn the smoke's getting everywhere.

Sarah 49:53

I just love the smell of sage too. I absolutely love it. So for me it's kind of like I can sit down, have a drink, do whatever I need to do after a day of cleaning and it's home.

Brandi 50:05

It's the candle for me, the candle that works.

Rachael 50:07

I mean aroma, yes, but I turn on my scentsy every day because I work from home, so that's not necessarily different for me. I feel like I do not have a routine, but I feel like once I get my spring cleaning done, I'm going to be more in the mood to be creative. I will start drawing again.

Rachael 50:24

I you know I bought like a new notepepad and drawing utensils when I was in Barcelona so I might start drawing again and doing my scrapbook and some of those more creative things.

Sarah 50:34

So you have a clean space, clean mind.

Rachael 50:37

Yes,

Sarah 50:38

you get to do the imagination

Rachael 50:39

and writing again. You know I'm kicking around this idea of maybe doing a book again, so just like having my space open and ready to go so I can just start typing away.

Sarah 50:49

Heck yeah, because then you have more motivation to do the things that you want to do when your space is clean.

Brandi 50:54

Yeah, when you're not thinking, oh, I need to be doing, I need to be cleaning this

Sarah 50:57

Right or you can't relax because you're constantly looking at clutter.

Brandi 51:01

Yep, that's why I've been so motivated.

Sarah 51:03

I think 2025 will be, yeah, the year of decluttering cleaning. Let us know in the comments and DM us what your favorite cleaning hack is, whether it's or whatever you struggle with, whether it's your hack, something you're really good at, or whatever your struggle is when it comes to spring cleaning, because I know that, as we've talked about, we both, we all have both

Brandi 51:23

yeah, or send us your after pictures.

Brandi 51:26

You don't have to send us the before pictures, because I know some people are a little but send us, your like, guys? I clean this area. Look how good it looks send those to us give us some inspiration,

Sarah 51:36

give us the motivation

Rachael 51:37

I love that.

Rachael 51:38

So today we talked about spring cleaning. All of our tips and tricks. If you haven't heard of Marie Kondo, check her out. Brandi, who's your Tiktok girl? Kylie Perkins, Kylie, yeah, uh, Kozy, is there's anybody particular that you follow?

Sarah 51:52

just not that I remember. I mean just any of the things look on tiktok and find the clean organization hacks that that work for you. But don't feel discouraged when everything kind of seems like it's a whole lot and we might not be on the level that we want to be in. Take it day by day and do one step at a time and don't put it down, put it away.

Rachael 52:14

Exactly

Sarah 52:15

that's my, that's my tip. That's my tip

Rachael 52:19

But and if you can't afford it, maybe even pay for like one deep clean of your house

Brandi 52:23

that's what I'm thinking about doing,

Rachael 52:24

and then and then you can just upkeep it moving forward.

Brandi 52:29

always a great gift idea too, like if you think I have so much crap already.

Sarah 52:34

That would be such a great gift.

Sarah 52:35

honestly,

Rachael 52:36

my sister's company, you can gift gift cards of a clean, so you can just say, like they're gifting you one clean. So, like our friends who have recently had babies, things like that, like you can gift them things for wedding presents, baby presents all that kind of stuff.

Brandi 52:50

So, oh, that's. So. If you don't want stuff, that's something that's like quote-unquote, tangible, that someone could give you. That will help you later on too.

Sarah 52:58

Yeah, I like that, yeah, that's awesome okay,

Rachael 53:02

well, thank you everybody for listening.

Rachael 53:03

We really appreciate our fans out there who are giving us idea suggestions. So until next time, stay bold stay empowered, Girl Gang out.