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

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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!

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Rachael:

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

Sarah:

I'm Sarah

Brandi:

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

Rachael:

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:

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:

Broadway tunes?

Sarah:

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:

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

Sarah:

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

Brandi:

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:

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

Brandi:

yeah

Sarah:

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:

So we tackled that first today.

Brandi:

So you weren't the Hoosier neighbor.

Sarah:

No, everything has been down.

Sarah:

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:

yeah you guys definitely probably need that storage.

Sarah:

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

Brandi:

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

Sarah:

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:

okay

Sarah:

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:

okay

Sarah:

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

Sarah:

Like you never, reduce your walls, they collect

Rachael:

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

Sarah:

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

Brandi:

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

Sarah:

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

Brandi:

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:

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

Rachael:

nice nice

Brandi:

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

Sarah:

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:

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:

Hell yeah

Sarah:

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

Rachael:

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

Brandi:

Yes.

Rachael:

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

Sarah:

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:

Do you guys have the like drill brushes?

Sarah:

We made shift one.

Brandi:

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

Sarah:

Yeah, pretty much.

Sarah:

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

Brandi:

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:

Yes,

Brandi:

but it cuts grime like no other.

Sarah:

It makes shower cleaning so much easier.

Brandi:

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

Sarah:

Oh my goodness

Brandi:

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

Brandi:

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

Rachael:

This is a drill that cleans?

Brandi:

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:

We will have to add that to our Amazon

Brandi:

Yeah

Rachael:

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

Sarah:

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:

I bought like a wet dry vac on Black Friday.

Sarah:

Nice

Brandi:

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:

nice

Brandi:

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:

We have a little like yeah spot one.

Brandi:

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

Sarah:

Nice

Brandi:

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

Brandi:

Let me tell you

Rachael:

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:

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:

Okay, I need that too

Brandi:

yeah,

Brandi:

you know what I really want

Rachael:

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

Brandi:

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:

They leave their love wherever.

Rachael:

Honestly

Brandi:

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

Sarah:

Oh yeah, a Kirby yeah.

Brandi:

Yeah, these things are like

Rachael:

Rainbows and Kirbys are like

Sarah:

Same

Brandi:

yeah, so are like Oryx.

Brandi:

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

Sarah:

Yep,

Brandi:

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

Sarah:

looking them up

Brandi:

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

Rachael:

yep

Brandi:

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.

Rachael:

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:

I feel like so worth it

Sarah:

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

Brandi:

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

Sarah:

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:

Where do you store it?

Sarah:

I store it in the basement.

Brandi:

Do you have to carry it up every time?

Sarah:

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

Brandi:

no, that's fair

Sarah:

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:

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:

How'd you come up with the cart method?

Sarah:

TikTok.

Rachael:

Thanks, tiktok, we appreciate you

Sarah:

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:

Yeah,

Sarah:

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

Rachael:

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:

oh no

Sarah:

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:

that's what I do

Brandi:

also do room by room.

Rachael:

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

Rachael:

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

Brandi:

yes

Sarah:

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:

I can see that being beneficial for you, Kozy.

Brandi:

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:

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

Sarah:

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:

yeah

Sarah:

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:

My mentality too.

Rachael:

Yes, it's much easier.

Sarah:

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

Rachael:

yeah.

Rachael:

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

Brandi:

Yeah, like when you were a kid.

Rachael:

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

Sarah:

Right

Rachael:

and I'm just not doing it.

Brandi:

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:

In your closet, under your bed.

Brandi:

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

Sarah:

exactly.

Brandi:

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:

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

Brandi:

Yes

Rachael:

one weekend?

Sarah:

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:

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:

Yeah,

Brandi:

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:

Yes,

Brandi:

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:

yeah

Brandi:

situation, oh, I pick up dirty clothes like

Sarah:

just random stuff that just doesn't have homes

Sarah:

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

Brandi:

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:

but where?

Brandi:

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:

I'm trying to purge everything.

Rachael:

You got a Marie Kondo it, baby.

Brandi:

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:

I have heard that, yes.

Brandi:

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:

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

Brandi:

no, no, but

Sarah:

okay,

Brandi:

it's the same

Brandi:

doing it in the same method.

Sarah:

Okay

Brandi:

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

Sarah:

so I've heard you

Brandi:

turn them backwards.

Sarah:

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:

yeah

Brandi:

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:

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

Rachael:

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

Rachael:

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:

Don't touch my books

Rachael:

I know, I know.

Rachael:

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:

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

Sarah:

because there's

Brandi:

your emotionally attached to the memory of when you were wearing

Sarah:

not even the memory of it.

Sarah:

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:

Yeah

Sarah:

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

Brandi:

Oh, I do that too.

Sarah:

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:

So I have to keep it for some reason..

Brandi:

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:

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:

I have a tote

Brandi:

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

Sarah:

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

Brandi:

Oh you have to sew

Brandi:

you have to sew those.

Brandi:

I'm sending those off

Sarah:

handsew, though,

Brandi:

girl do you realize

Rachael:

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:

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:

That's nice

Brandi:

and you can pick the size of it.

Sarah:

That'd be fun.

Rachael:

Question for you all.

Brandi:

Yeah,

Rachael:

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:

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

Brandi:

I did absolutely

Sarah:

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:

that makes sense

Brandi:

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:

Yes,

Brandi:

because it went

Brandi:

from

Sarah:

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

Rachael:

do you have

Rachael:

- you three bedrooms, right?

Brandi:

Yeah

Rachael:

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

Brandi:

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

Rachael:

it's your closet and everything's everywhere

Brandi:

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:

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:

Yes, donation

Brandi:

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:

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

Brandi:

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

Sarah:

Everything else that you're keeping

Brandi:

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

Sarah:

oooohhh

Brandi:

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:

don't put it down, put it away

Brandi:

exactly

Rachael:

everything needs a place

Sarah:

Put it away.

Sarah:

I have to repeat that

Rachael:

everything should have a place

Brandi:

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:

I don't have space for everything.

Brandi:

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:

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

Rachael:

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

Sarah:

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

Sarah:

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:

Yeah

Sarah:

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

Brandi:

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

Brandi:

I'm just in a single-story

Sarah:

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:

I don't necessarily know, where to put.

Sarah:

Not like junk,

Rachael:

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

Brandi:

Bins are the worst thing

Sarah:

you never have too many bins.

Rachael:

That is the hoarding mentality.

Sarah:

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

Rachael:

Do we need an intervention?

Sarah:

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:

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

Sarah:

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:

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:

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

Brandi:

Here's the thing

Rachael:

just combine them.

Brandi:

No.

Brandi:

Get rid of some.

Sarah:

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:

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

Sarah:

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:

but here's the

Sarah:

down and I

Sarah:

didn't put away if

Brandi:

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

Sarah:

No, because you forget about

Brandi:

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

Sarah:

and I agree and so when I go to clean.

Sarah:

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

Rachael:

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

Brandi:

everything will bring her joy

Sarah:

I can convince that anything will bring me joy.

Rachael:

Like you gotta hold it and look at it.

Rachael:

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

Rachael:

, she gone

Brandi:

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:

Oh yeah,

Brandi:

and that was like

Sarah:

as girlfriends do,

Brandi:

that was like my pay for helping her

Brandi:

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:

See, it brings her joy.

Brandi:

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:

Nothing,

Sarah:

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:

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:

I don't need the actual item anymore

Sarah:

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:

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

Sarah:

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:

So they match.

Sarah:

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

Brandi:

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:

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

Rachael:

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

Sarah:

Oh god, no, they're so cute.

Sarah:

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:

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

Sarah:

You see my dilemma. I have to keep them.

Brandi:

Let's see If I got a bigger house.

Brandi:

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

Rachael:

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

Sarah:

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

Brandi:

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

Sarah:

we did quite a bit actually.

Sarah:

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

Rachael:

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

Brandi:

She's actually got some on display.

Rachael:

Okay, the wedding decorations have been in the shed.

Rachael:

Are they still in the shed Kozy?

Sarah:

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

Rachael:

Okay, that's not too bad

Sarah:

Over the last year.

Rachael:

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

Sarah:

We converted it into a grotto.

Rachael:

Yeah,

Sarah:

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:

But I will say you do have.

Rachael:

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

Sarah:

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

Rachael:

Aw,

Sarah:

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

Rachael:

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:

Well, we repurposed, we donated and repurposed.

Rachael:

Donated and repurposed.

Sarah:

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:

Did you keep like one cigar box though?

Sarah:

Oh? I have all the cigar boxes,

Rachael:

okay, great,

Sarah:

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:

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:

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:

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:

Love it,

Rachael:

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

Sarah:

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:

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:

yes,

Rachael:

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

Sarah:

Yes,

Rachael:

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:

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

Rachael:

But my junk drawer just like, picks this baby.

Brandi:

Are you saying drunk or junk?

Rachael:

junk, junk!

Rachael:

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

Sarah:

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

Sarah:

That's why we have that too.

Rachael:

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:

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

Sarah:

So isn't this funny though.

Sarah:

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:

shooketh

Sarah:

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:

accountable,

Sarah:

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:

because that'd be super, super cool

Rachael:

Girl Gang spring cleaning, house hopping

Sarah:

right I love it

Brandi:

if I come over to help you.

Rachael:

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

Rachael:

Let's go seriously.

Sarah:

I think we should. Next next week.

Brandi:

March is so booked for me, honestly.

Rachael:

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

Sarah:

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:

you know what I think?

Brandi:

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

Sarah:

I mean

Brandi:

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

Sarah:

correct,

Brandi:

because I buy different stuff every week.

Rachael:

Yes,

Brandi:

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

Sarah:

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

Sarah:

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

Brandi:

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

Sarah:

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

Sarah:

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:

yes, exactly

Sarah:

To put them into another bin

Brandi:

that's why I think it's overrated.

Brandi:

It's not.

Sarah:

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:

Yes,

Sarah:

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:

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:

They have some bigger houses.

Sarah:

So they can hide it all away.

Rachael:

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:

but you know,

Rachael:

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:

right,

Rachael:

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:

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:

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

Brandi:

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

Sarah:

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

Brandi:

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

Brandi:

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

Sarah:

The label

Brandi:

god forbid you have kids.

Sarah:

Oh my gosh,

Brandi:

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

Sarah:

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:

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:

that's helped us a little bit,

Brandi:

but yeah, so not overrated.

Sarah:

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

Rachael:

No, I don't do that.

Sarah:

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:

interesting

Rachael:

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

Brandi:

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

Sarah:

I mean I notice the difference to my whites.

Sarah:

My whites are not white white.

Sarah:

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

Rachael:

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:

Yes, I put jeans with towels.

Brandi:

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

Brandi:

Jeans included.

Sarah:

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:

but what's the reality that you actually do that

Sarah:

exactly and I know

Brandi:

I've been trying for years

Sarah:

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:

yep

Sarah:

but,

Brandi:

and then your whole schedule is thrown off,

Sarah:

exactly.

Sarah:

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:

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:

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:

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

Brandi:

That is my goal for 2026 is to get it.

Rachael:

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

Brandi:

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:

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

Rachael:

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:

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:

yes,

Brandi:

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.

Sarah:

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:

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

Rachael:

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

Brandi:

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:

I do like that.

Brandi:

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:

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

Sarah:

I kind of got it.

Brandi:

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:

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

Rachael:

A cluttered space is a cluttered mind, yeah.

Brandi:

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

Sarah:

Oh absolutely,

Brandi:

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:

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:

or it's still the distractions too.

Sarah:

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:

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:

What unit

Rachael:

Like my HVAC unit.

Brandi:

You should do that every three months

Rachael:

yeah.

Rachael:

So I don't.

Brandi:

I mean Put that in your calendar that is.

Sarah:

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

Brandi:

is that a boy job in your house?

Sarah:

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:

wait, you never did that in your apartment?

Sarah:

No, because we had landlords who did that.

Sarah:

They were all rental units like

Brandi:

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

Sarah:

I think so.

Brandi:

I doubt it. They usually come.

Sarah:

Well, then they probably never got changed.

Sarah:

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

Sarah:

So it would have at least been for

Brandi:

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

Sarah:

yeah,

Brandi:

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

Sarah:

well, that didn't happen

Brandi:

okay well, it's fine.

Brandi:

It's not your property,

Sarah:

it happens now

Rachael:

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

Sarah:

you forget about it

Rachael:

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

Brandi:

Yep.

Rachael:

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:

Yep,

Rachael:

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

Brandi:

Same with the bottom of your refrigerator.

Sarah:

And the back.

Brandi:

And the back of it

Sarah:

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

Rachael:

These are good things to know.

Rachael:

Take notes, people

Sarah:

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

Brandi:

Yeah.

Sarah:

I do that for sure, or dust them.

Brandi:

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:

Yes,

Brandi:

to keep it cool so yeah

Sarah:

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:

Wipe down your phone.

Sarah:

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

Brandi:

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:

it's nasty

Brandi:

I've seen those petri dishes.

Sarah:

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:

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

Sarah:

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

Brandi:

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

Sarah:

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

Rachael:

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

Sarah:

Yeah, you have a clean car,

Rachael:

I don't really keep things in my car

Rachael:

yeah, I don't keep actually this car

Brandi:

If you need something.

Brandi:

It's in my car

Rachael:

nothing is in my car.

Rachael:

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

Sarah:

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

Rachael:

My rollerblades are the most important thing in my car.

Rachael:

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:

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:

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

Sarah:

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

Brandi:

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:

Let me move all this stuff first

Rachael:

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:

So I wonder how many koozies I have in my car

Brandi:

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

Brandi:

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:

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:

No, no, no, you clean your car.

Sarah:

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

Rachael:

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

Sarah:

Oh yeah, I just have one.

Brandi:

I use the door pocket.

Rachael:

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

Brandi:

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

Sarah:

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

Brandi:

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:

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

Brandi:

Yes,

Sarah:

more women will have cleaner rooms but

Brandi:

he's a clean freak in general.

Brandi:

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

Rachael:

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

Brandi:

Absolutely not,

Rachael:

it'll be a bonding experience come on.

Sarah:

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:

a bow.

Sarah:

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

Sarah:

your cleaning.

Brandi:

Oh, yes, candle. I always light candles.

Sarah:

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:

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

Brandi:

yeah, she gets rid of those spirits

Rachael:

Interesting,

Sarah:

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

Rachael:

I want to see Sarah in this prime.

Sarah:

Oh my gosh.

Sarah:

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

Brandi:

That's where Kozy and I veer distantly apart.

Sarah:

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

Brandi:

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

Brandi:

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

Sarah:

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:

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

Rachael:

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:

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:

So you have a clean space, clean mind.

Rachael:

Yes,

Sarah:

you get to do the imagination

Rachael:

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:

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

Brandi:

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

Sarah:

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

Brandi:

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

Sarah:

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:

yeah, or send us your after pictures.

Brandi:

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:

give us the motivation

Rachael:

I love that.

Rachael:

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:

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:

Exactly

Sarah:

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

Rachael:

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

Brandi:

that's what I'm thinking about doing,

Rachael:

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

Brandi:

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

Sarah:

That would be such a great gift.

Sarah:

honestly,

Rachael:

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:

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:

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

Rachael:

well, thank you everybody for listening.

Rachael:

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

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