IT'S TIME FOR A SPRING CLEAN

This week, the girls are giving you allll the spring cleaning hacks! Emily gives us her very structured cleaning routine and Ellie... takes notes. The Mamas then ready listener submissions from other Moms giving us their expert cleaning hacks! The girls also yap about upcoming birthday traditions and projects. 

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Hello, Mamas. I'm Emily. And I'm Ellie. And this is Mama Needs a Minute. Mama needs a spring clean. We're spring cleaning this week. Yay. Look, I already did it. I already did it. You're not invested, literally. You know what? Oh, are we just getting right into it? No, I I got some shenanigans. Oh well, then I'll keep I'll keep what I just did. No, I won't. I'll tell you. Yeah, tell me. I completely stripped and flipped the bed. What does that mean? You like take flip your mattress over? I mean, we this is just gonna give too much away. But yes, we changed all of the sheets, washed like the comforter, every blanket. We took off even the decorative pillowcases and washed those. And then in the mattress protector, wash that really good. And then you flip your mattress. I don't think I can do that on this one because I think that it has like a mattress pad on the top. Yeah, look. You can turn it around. I need to do that. Yeah. But I can't flip it. Yeah. It's like got a fluffy top or whatever. Yeah. It's probably like well past its shelf life. I mean, how long does a mattress last year? They say like I think like two months, honestly. Like, aren't they all past their shelf life? What? Why? If I'm sleeping, we're good. Well, they get like worn down. Okay. If I'm sleeping, we're good. Yeah, if you're sleeping good. They say that it's because it's like full of skin and shit. Okay. Well, if I'm sleeping, we're good. I'm not worried about it. Mattress protector. Yeah, that's fine. As well. Do you sweep your mattress? People do that. I know. I've seen people vacuumed a you know what I should have done though is sprinkled baking soda on it. Yeah, just to freshen it up. I didn't get that crazy. I haven't started cleaning anything. And honestly, I'm not the one to ask about cleaning tips. So I was like, hacks, hacks. What kind of hacks should I give? Oh, I have things to say. I'm sure you do. Yeah. You know what I was thinking about? What? Um, I think if anybody's a loyal listener, then they've really caught on to truly how ADHD I am because I think every week I talk about something new I want to try, and I never give a follow-up. Yeah, that's true. I never give a follow-up to anything I've done because there is no follow-up because I've moved on to another project. Should we make a list? Actually, just you know, off the top of my head, there was the guitar. Yeah. Most recently, sewing, Spanish, drinking hot water. Oh, yeah. I kind of slacked on that too lately. Like the other day, while I was walking into work with my coworker and she listens to the podcast, and she goes, Oh, by the way, I have a sewing machine you can use. I'd completely forgotten about that whole I go, huh? She goes, a sewing machine? Like, I have a sewing machine you can use. And I was like, Oh, and she was like, For your stockings? I was like, Oh yeah, I forgot I wasn't doing that. Because I was just about to tell you guys something else I was doing, and I was thinking about how I half start projects and never finish them. And if you've caught on, like if you're listening to weekly episode, you'll be like, didn't Ellie one time say she was gonna do this? And I've not heard a thing since. What now? Well, I actually am doing this next. For now. Well, I guess when this comes out, I'll have already done it because I'm doing it. It will have been yesterday I did it. Um, my friend is coming over and we're gonna decorate birthday plates for the kids. Do you know what a birthday plate is? Like if they know a birthday plate. Yeah. Yeah. And I don't know her plan because I know a lot of people do a plate for every kid so that they all have their own special plate. I just want to do one family plate. I think it would be more special to just have a one um celebratory plate that like even like dad and mom use. Yeah. And then my theory is that when the kids are grown and out of the house and they have break the plate and they all pick up shattered pieces. Like that wedding for what? Who does that where they shatter the plates? Is it Jewish? Uh the Jewish tradition? No, Greek. Greek. They just shatter plates. Ask me when I know that. My big fat Greek wedding. Uncle Jesse. Oh. Whole house. No, my thought was my kids will have their own kids and they'll come over for birthday celebrations and all, you know, the kids can then the little kitten, then Julian will be like, I use that plate when I was your age, son. And no, Julian can still use his plate. That was the other thing. I was gonna make birthday banners, and I haven't I've yet to do that. Where's Julian gonna acquire a country accent? That was his old man accent. Oh, that was my plate when I was a young and yeah. This will be a good project because it's just a one day. Yeah, and it will get done. The other thing I wanted to say was I was looking back. There's a trend on TikTok right now where you know the song Young Dumb, Young Dumb and Broke, Young Dumb Broke High School Kids. Um, there's a trend right now where people are I saw the picture you posted. I had pictures because people have been posting videos. Like they'll post a video of them when they were in high school with their significant other. And then now I was trying to find a video. I don't have a single video of Noe and I in high school together. And then as a matter of fact, going down that rabbit hole, I only have videos from my dance competitions because I was a dancer and though I have those. I don't have a single video of any of me and my friends. We had iPhones, we had digital cameras, we've got 3,000 Facebook albums in high school? Yes. Why where were videos? Why did we not take any videos? I don't know if that was just an us thing, but I don't have a single, and I'm a really nostalgic person, which I have mentioned before. I'm really into that kind of stuff. I would much rather I have a bunch of home videos of me from our camcorder back when that was a thing. You would just take home videos on a camera or on like a video camera. I love looking back on those. I like looking back on those more than I like just flipping through a photo. I want to hear voices, funny things, and the way we were and how I acted when I was that age. I want to see that with my high school friends that I'm still friends with and my husband. I want to see what we were like in high school. And I don't have a single video. It doesn't start until maybe late college when I start having videos. What was I don't know what was going on, but I'm very sad about it. Well, well, we're not that different in age, but we're just different enough where I didn't have an iPhone until college. So my friends and I, we used to make like music videos in high school. It was hilarious. We'd be up until like three o'clock in the morning and just like being so stupid and just like innocent fun, but we would have to use a digital camera. Do you still have them? They were on Facebook, but I don't have that anymore. Oh, maybe your friends do, though, at least. It's okay. It's a memory. Well, we had, we I don't think I had you and I are so different. Like, because I'm like, some things aren't meant to be recorded. Like it's I just wish that I could go back and see those moments. Like, I just like it's just like a baby video. Also say it's my reminder to everyone take more videos than pictures sometimes because like we set up our camera every year on Christmas and record the whole Christmas scene just because that's what I feel like. I do love that. I love looking back on that and hearing the little voices and their excitement. And I wish I had more of that and less like, what am I gonna do with 40,000 pictures? I'm not printing them all off and I'm not looking through them. Yeah. But what I would do is look back on a video and like have a movie night where we're just like watching nostalgic videos, and I'm so like annoyed that I don't have any from high school of my husband and I. I want to see what little Noe and little Ellie, how stupid we were. Yeah, but like if you think about it though, our parents didn't have home videos. Yeah. And I exist now only in their memories. Truly, yeah. And I loved hearing about stuff because then I could just like picture it. Yeah. I'm big about like not everything needs to be recorded though. Yeah. I don't know. Like you're not one of those that's like, I have to, I I will say, Did you record your birth? You did. Well, if that means something to you. I'm not gonna record two hours of pushing and screaming. Holy fuck. Yeah. But I told them, let me know when like I'm crowning, and I'll hit play. And just I just captured that moment of them coming, like one push and them landing on me. And of course, Julian comes out with an afgar four, which if you don't know what that is, that's not good. He's blue, he just flops on me like a dead fish. I'm oblivious. I'm like, my baby, oh my god. I want to see it. I'll show you. The nurses are like, okay, and we need to take him now. And I'm just like, no, he's got hair. And I'm just like so oblivious. Oh, he looks like a little bit different, but so it's funny because I just see them flop him on me and I'm like so in a trance of like I just had a baby while they're like performing CBR on him in the background. That's funny. Not funny now, but funny now. Um, anyways, that's all I had to say. Well, I have Nora's little birthday coming up. Yeah, what are you doing? Oh, well, Chat GPT planned an amazing party. I'm so excited. Yeah. I literally typed in because I told her she can invite five friends. We're not, I am so glad her school doesn't make you invite like the whole class. That's a huge ask. Yeah, we kids. We wouldn't be having a party because she wouldn't like that. She wouldn't like everybody, like she would be overwhelmed. Same. So um, I was like, why don't you invite five friends over and we're gonna do a that little sleep under? I think I've talked about this before on here. Also, how can they tell you you have to do something that's school hours? Schools say that if you have a birthday party, you have to invite the whole class. Our school doesn't do that. But so anyway, so we're doing uh a sleep under it she wanted mermaid theme. So they're coming over in the evening and we're gonna do all the fun stuff of a sleepover, and then they're gonna go home in their jammies. So they're bringing their jammies, and I typed into chat GPT plan a birthday party with six six-year-olds, mermaid theme. And boy, did she deliver. I love that. She um planned the whole thing. So when they get there, they're gonna decorate their mermaid crowns, then they're gonna decorate their little treasure chest that I got at Dollar Tree. So cute. So cute. Um, I have like jewels and markers. I'm not fucking with paint, they can just like color them. Yeah, and then um chat wrote me a whole treasure hunt that is indoors, so I don't have to worry about if it rains, and they can go all over the house to get like the next clue, next clue, next clue. They'll find can they read yet? Yes. Okay, so they'll be able to read. So it'll take them a while because they'll have to read it together and sound things out. Yeah, but they're easy clue. And then the treasure chest is gonna have like shells and little like rocks and jewels for their treasure chest, but also it's gonna have Pirate's Booty and Goldfish for the movie, and then they're gonna end the night in their jammies watching the mermaid Barbie movie. Fun. I was wondering what mermaid route you were gonna go. There's so many mermaid movies. Yes. Has she ever seen the aquamarine, like our generation's mermaid movies? No, she doesn't like like live action stuff. And Vito's Little Mermaid because Ursula is scary. Yeah. And I was like, if these girls haven't seen that already, like that's really scary. And the Barbie movie's only an hour, so like we'll start it at the end and parents will come pick up and bye-back. Yeah, yeah, we're so excited. But you know, the Dollar Tree is a really bomb place for birthday parties. Yeah, you can get a lot of decorations, a lot of everything there, really. Yeah, you know what's tricky though now is helium because there's no more party city. Where do you get helium? I guess you gotta go get a helium machine because I asked five below and they charge five dollars a balloon because I bought these balloons off of Amazon. That's like you could buy a whole pack for five dollars. Yes. And they're like, if you bring in balloons from outside, it's five dollars to fill it. What if you buy them from way cheaper? Okay, but they have like they don't have mermaid ones. And I called uh Dollar Tree's around us and they won't do it because they're like people were bringing in these massive balloons, and they're like, they're using all of our helium. So I guess I gotta buy a helium machine. My God, I don't understand why Party City went out of business. Maybe because they are so expensive too, but like they're kind of a monopoly. They were important, they were an important monopoly. May they rest in peace. Well, should we get into our hacks? Okay. Okay, I do have. If you know me, I'm a type B person. So you're gonna be like, Ellie ain't got shit to say. I do have two hacks, and I only stole one of them from my friend. Was I the friend? Huh? Was I the friend? No, Hannah. Thank you, Hannah. Producer. Yeah, she's gonna hear this and be like, um, I know where she got that. So should I tell mine first? Yeah. Okay. Well, this is what I'm letting go. What am I letting go of this spring? Because we need to clean, we need to cleanse our souls too. Okay. I'm letting go of giving a fuck. I'm just getting no, I'm really, I've really been working hard to let go of um the anxiety that something bad's gonna happen all the time. Because I will spiral. I think of one thing and I spiral on it for like the whole day, and it can be the craziest shit ever. Like, I just finished reading Project Hail Mary. Have you heard of that movie that's out? Yeah, Ryan Gosling looks so hot. Yeah, dreamy. Yeah. Um, I haven't really watched the trailer because I read the book. Shout out to one of my listeners, our listeners actually. She recommended the book on Instagram and said it was one of the best books she'd ever read. And so I just finished it last night and I can truly say it is one of the best books I've ever read. Really? It's so good. Are you a sci-fi person? You are. I will say this is my first sci-fi book I've ever read. I'm not really a sci-fi book girly, but I'm like a I like a good apocalyptic sci-fi space story um movie. So maybe I would like more books if I would give them a chance. I just, it's usually not the genre I go for. But I finished this book and it is really, really good. But it's giving me a lot of anxiety about space. Because if I think about space for too long, I will start spiraling, you know, little rock, big universe, multiple galaxies, can't even comprehend it with our little pea-sized brains. And so, like the other day, I was like, what if the Earth's axis tilts just ever so slightly? What would happen? And I spiral. I'm really trying to let go of that. Like, look, I'm gonna tilt the mic. Like that? Yeah, and then we all just fall off. Yes. Gravitational pool, switch it. We don't rotate around the sun. What do we do? Just do we just float away? Curtain closes. That's it. I don't know. We wouldn't we wouldn't write a book about it because I'll tell you that much. It was a big book, too. That's it. I'm excited to see the movie now, though. It happened. I might have to go see the movie as well. Yeah, for Ryan. Yeah. Uh they're playing certain times. They're playing it at the um State Museum on the big IMAX. But no he really wants to find a time to see it because I guess it's the visuals. They used no CGI. Everything was like Camera Lens tricks and animation. And so I guess it's a really visually like cool movie, even if you haven't like read the book. So I really want to see it. And he really wants to see it on the IMAX. But I digress. That's what I'm letting go of. What? My anxiety. Oh, the anxiety. Okay, okay. I was like, you're letting go of the book? The movie. No, I did like the book now. Um, you should read the book if you guys, even if you don't like sci-fi, I really would truly give this book a chance. Okay. But you know what I told Noe? You know how when you're watching a sci-fi movie like an apocalyptic the day after tomorrow type of movie, or any kind of space movie, and they start going, and you're like, this movie's so good, like space, yeah. And then they start going, like, well, if we narrowed our axis around the longitudinal plane and we followed like lightsaber mode and we hit Saturn ring around it at a 360 angle, and then E equals M C squared, then we'll make it to Jupiter and 3.5 sentence. And you're like, I don't know what the fuck they just said, but this is a good ass movie, and I'm into it. It depends on who's saying it. If Ryan Gosling is saying it, you're interested. That's kind of how the book was at times, but then they would be good about being like, what does that mean? Like he's talking in his head. He's like, that means that this is this. And I was like, okay, cool. Because it did get a little science yet. I mean, because he's like a physicist. So he's saving herbs. Oh, he's smart too. Oh, yeah. He's a smart anyways. These are my hacks. This is this one is um, which it's so funny. I'm giving you these hacks. I'm out of both these things right now, and I really can tell a difference in my house, in my house smell. Because I have two dogs and a cat and two kids and a husband and a me. And a me speaks for itself. I need like a fresh scented home. And when I do these two things, I can tell a major difference in my house. One is hypochlorous acid. Have you ever heard of this? No. That sounds like something Ryan Gosling would say. Yeah, yeah. I can only find it in a spray bottle at the Dollar Tree. So if you know anywhere I can find it, somebody please let me know. I can only find it at the Dollar Tree in a spray bottle. People use hypochlorous acid. Like if you type it into Google, you'll get a lot of face skincare stuff because people use it for like fungal and um bacteria on your skin. Is this witch hazel? No. Oh, it's hypochlorous acid. But they have it, how dare I? Has it in a spray bottle. And what it does is it binds with whatever and it neutralizes the odors in your home. So you, it doesn't have a smell or anything, but you spray it on literally anything and it will neutralize the odors in your home. And it'll like, you know, kill the bacteria, causing those odors. So you people put it in like their shoes that so bad to keep them fresh. You can spray it on your face, spray it on your couches. And can you spray it on hard surfaces like like a dresser? Yeah, I think you can. Take my word for it. I mostly just do it on like linens, spray the beds. Yeah. Because you know, sometimes things for a while, it's like those old Fabrize commercials where they're like, my hut my son didn't notice his room was coming alive. Yeah. It was. Yes. I sprayed Fabrize and now blah blah. It's like that, but it's not masking the spell. Yeah. The smell. It's kind of just like dissipating it. Yeah. That's my one hack. My other hack is also a smell thing. This is the one I got from Hannah Banana. That there's like really fancy laundry. Like laundry detergent is a spectrum. You got your great value to your fancy. You know what I'm talking about? They make like $40 laundry detergent and it smells really good. There's this laundry detergent called Diva Glamorous Wash. Wow. Yeah, I know. There's other, I think there's like D.Va Floral, Diva Glamorous. I used a glamorous. I think that's the original. Okay. There's um laundry detergent called D.Va Glamorous Wash. It is expensive for a not that much. So, like, you know, about this, which you're not gonna see on this recording, but it's like half the size of a normal laundry detergent jug for probably the same price as a laundry detergent jug. So you're not just gonna like wash your clothes in it unless you're like daddy warbucks. Okay. But I get that wash and I'll use it just to wash like my blankets, like my guest blankets, like throw blankets downstairs. Sometimes if I'm feeling fancy, I'll wash like my bedroom sheets. Like I'm not watching my kids' Spider-Man sheets, but I'll wash mine. And it it's, I mean, obviously smells delicious. It's bougie laundry detergent. But the hack is not only do I do that, if you mix, I believe it's a fourth of this diva wash, a fourth a cup of water, and like a really tiny amount. I want to say you look up the recipe, okay? I'm not a mathematician, but if you here's my hack. Here's my hack. Google this. Because I don't remember. If you put water, this diva wash, and a little bit of something else. Rubbing alcohol. Oh, okay. I think the rubbing alcohol is so it doesn't stain or something, or just to help mix it. Mix it. Yeah. Um, if you mix those three things together in like a spray bottle, I spray that on my like couches and my and like my curtains and my bed sheets. Homemade Febreze. Homemade Febreze. And it smells really good and it lasts a long time. And I got this hack because I went over to her house and I was like, what candle is like burning? Or how does your house smell so good? Because I've been sitting in it for a minute now and I can still smell it and it smells really good. And she was like, It's actually laundry detergent and it's in a spray bottle, and I spray everything. Smells so good. My gosh. So when I replenish that, then where do you get the laundry detergent? Amazon. Okay. They have a website too. I got mine off Amazon from Jeff. You're gonna notice a difference when I replenish this stock and you come over next to record, you're gonna be like, it smells so good in here. I'm gonna be like, hypercorous acid and diva glamorous lot. I can't wait. Those are mine. What's yours? Okay, mine is really gonna make my type A self shine. We actually started this when after Caleb was born because it would be like if I had an hour or something where he was asleep and Nora was at preschool or something, I would frantically run around getting stuff done. And Marco was like, chill. Like, and I was like, well, I have the time to do this. Yeah, I gotta get it done now. So it was one of those things where he was like, we don't have to do everything all at once just because you have time, and which was very good because I was not relaxing at all because I was frantically trying to get stuff done. So I think you know this, Ellie. We have a a schedule, a cleaning schedule. You do, yeah. Told me this. And honestly, it works very well for us because I bless Marco's straight male heart. He wouldn't notice if something needed done. It just doesn't have the same eyeballs as me. Yeah. There could probably be a ring on around the water in the toilet and he wouldn't notice, you know, just not because he's lazy or like dumb. It's just not his priority. Wouldn't notice. So each day of the week is a different thing that we're like, oh, okay, we got to get that done. Can you please walk us through an example? I would love to. And Marco has it memorized too, because we've been doing this for a long time. And then I don't have to say, like, I'll be like, oh, did you already run the vacuum? Because it's vacuum day. And he'll be like, Yeah, I did. I did the upstairs if you could do the downstairs. We don't have to say, I think we need a vacuum today. It's just set. Okay. Um so on Mondays we vacuum and then we the whole entire house. Yes, the whole house. And then we You have hardwood floor. Yes, but then In that's why every other Monday we mop. Okay. So we vacuum to like get the dust and everything off the rugs, but every other Monday we mop and we rotate. If we're not mopping, we're stripping the bed and washing the sheets. So Mondays are vacuuming and washing the sheets and then the next Monday. Vacuum mop. Okay. Tuesdays clean the bathroom. I don't participate in that. That's Marco's job. That's a blue job? Yeah. Tuesday, bathroom. Wednesday, kitchen. And I'm talking like, I mean, obviously we wipe the counters off when they need wiped off before that, but I'm talking like I bleach the sink, I like wipe off the stovetop, like that kind of stuff that otherwise adds up. Clean the microwave. The microwave, the like wipe off crap from the fridge, that sort of stuff. Do you ever go like the microwave's clean? Yeah. And you just don't need to do it. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Like if it's clean, it's clean. But if it's like, oh, like we reheated spaghetti, I need to wipe this out. I at least assess the situation. Yes. Today we don't really have anything. It's like catch up day. And then Friday, we usually have to vacuum the downstairs again because of traffic. Okay. And this also eliminates everything that needs to be done on the weekend because we got it all done, but we did it in like a When was laundry? Girl, laundry is literally every day. Okay. It was like, that's like my main calm. No, like we just do that when the laundry basket's full. Like we just throw it in. And you're putting it away constantly and stuff. Yeah. I feel like laundry just never ends. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It sounds psycho, but it's not. It like actually No, I think that's a great system I need to implement. Yeah. It makes things Wednesday. Wiped down Wednesday. Yes. Yeah. Oh, wiped down Wednesday. Wiped down Wednesday. I am so lame. No, I love it. Uh, that's where if it's like, but that's not every Wednesday. My God, you don't need to dust every week. Right. But it's like, oh, like the shelves need dusted, you know. Now, how does that work with because we have a very odd schedule. So, like, if it's wiped down Wednesday, you work that night. He does it. Oh, okay. That's what I'm saying. Or like if he's busy on Monday, then I'm like, oh, that's okay. I had the day off. I I have plenty of time to vacuum and strip the bed. Okay. Yeah. So it's just, yeah. I'd want to pick my, I'd want to be like, you know, I work a lot of Tuesdays and Thursdays. So Tuesdays can be bathroom days. Yeah. Thursdays can be, you know, lasting day. But that doesn't include the big things though. Like the showers, that's not every Tuesday. You're just deep cleaning the tub and the shower. That's like when it needs to happen. Yeah. But we're at least like maintaining it so that it's it doesn't get overwhelming. So then Saturdays and Sundays, you get to rest. You guys don't clean. No, because we're busy. You know, it's like the kids got crap. We got crap. We want to like have fun as a family. But we got all that crap done during the week and it felt attainable instead of me being like, okay, I have an hour. I'm gonna frantically like vacuum and clean the kitchen and clean the bathrooms. No, that's ridiculous. Yeah. Um, and so yeah. That I really needed to do that. That's an amazing. It sounds so lame and it sounds like psycho, but it's not. Neither one of us is stressed about it. But then I would be like, okay, dang it. Did I is it wiped down Wednesday or is it wash the cat Wednesday? I forget what we did last week. At the beginning, we've been doing this for years. Yeah. So it's like we need like a calendar at first. Yeah, we probably did too. And then you can move on. Yeah. But now we don't even, I don't even ask him, hey, can you clean the bathrooms? It's just like they were done. Yeah. Because it's Tuesday. Tuesday. And he works from Toilet Tuesday. Toilet Tuesday. No, I didn't, but I realized Tuesday white done was a mop Monday. Ooh. Yeah, I don't know how you did it. That was satisfying. What's Thursday Thursday? Thursday Thursday, because you don't have you don't have anything on Thursday. Because Thursdays are kind of a glass of wine and chill. Or if I know that Friday's gonna be super busy, then maybe I'll vacuum Thursday so that I don't have to do it Friday. But it keeps things like our house is gen generally clean. Tidy. Yeah. It's tidy. Let's read other buddies. Yeah. Other buddies, everybody else's. Are you getting rid of anything? Are you cleansing anything out? At all points in my life. I'm getting rid of shit. Okay, I meant mentally. Always. You're like at all points in my life, you've gotta go. Gotta go. Yeah. You're a thrower away. Taking up space and not paying rent between my ears. You gotta go. Yeah. No. No. I'm not getting rid of anything like that. No. You keep your circle. Yeah. And we don't have like a lot of shit because I've said this before, our house isn't that big. So we would we would we would be run out of this house for no good reason. Yeah. And I follow a lot of people on Instagram because I'm fascinated by like New York City living. And I'm like, look at that apartment. They have like three kids and they're fine. And they make it work. I am also fascinated by the organizational system of people that live in tiny spaces. Yes, me too. And how I don't and yet can't have everything's a mess. Yeah. At all times. People who move from a city apartment to like Indiana, and they're like, oh my God, I have a 2,000 square foot home. This is insane. They all just like keep gravitating towards one bedroom because they're so used. Yeah. They're like, I feel overwhelmed. Yeah. Like, I I haven't seen you in forever, Mom. Where have you been? She's the kitchen. In the next room. Surprise. Yeah. You know, I I honestly miss a closed-off house, though. We've talked about this. Yeah. Well, I wish they'd start bringing those back. Yeah. So much more cozy. Sometimes I want to go in the other room. Yeah. Yeah. Anyways, what else do people put what else did people say? Say baby wipes, clean everything in my house. Baby butts. A hundred percent. Yeah. Any clean mess. Get a wipe. Yeah. They get stuff out of your clothes. Like if you spill in the car, you're out and about, baby wipe. Yeah. Um, I used it before in a pinch. If I'm like, oh, this top of this um like dresser is dusty. Yeah. Okay, no problem, baby wipe. Yeah. You know, I think when my kids outgrow, because they kind of have they have already, and I still have a pack of baby wipes in my bag in my car. I think I will always keep a pack of baby wipes. Yeah. They'll be like 18. I'm dropping off college. I'm like, oh, you got a little something right there on your face. Hold on. That's true. Baby wipes do clean everything. Organize the garage so our children's 50, 11 bikes, scooters, and other large toys would fit with our cars. Oh. I have that issue too. I I have I can't fit my cars in the garage. If you have 50, 11 toys. Just start putting nails in the in the studs or whatever of your garage, just start hanging shit up. I do need to. Those people, I'm so envious of those people that have those organizational systems on their wall, and they just can like it's called hooks. Yeah. And they're just hooking shit on their walls. I need everything off the floor before I have a panic attack. Yeah, but uh, we don't have anything fancy like that. We literally just have giant nails. I mean, our house is old, and so these nails have been put in by other people, and they've they've clearly been hanging up like probably yard tools, but we're just hooking bikes. So you just okay, I was gonna say, are you putting like strollers and everything just on nails? Yes, not strollers, no. But like all that kind of stuff. The stroller in the garage, but we fold them up and put them in the corner. Oh, okay. Yeah. But like anything that can get hung up, I try to hang up. I don't know why I so you know why I do? Because it social media makes you overcomplicate things. Like, if I wouldn't have talked to you about that, I would have assumed I'd need this huge, long thousand dollar organizational system with all these fancy hooks to like be able to hang my stroller up when you literally can take two nails next to each other in a stud and hang up a stroller on the nail. And it will be fine. Yeah. But in my head, I'm like, no, I can't get any of this done until I have this fancy system. And it's because social media, you Google like how to, you know, get stuff off your garage, and they're like, here's my $3,000 link. Click my link. Yeah, click the link in my bio. And you're like, I can't possibly organize my garage until I've clicked the link in her bio to see. The big old nail. Yeah, I'm about to buy a big old pack of nails. Yeah, because your studs are already out. You don't even have to get a stud finder. Well, yeah, I can see my nails. I have, what is it? Oh, she's had a drywall garage. I mean, wow. I don't brag much. I don't have much to brag about, but I do have a drywall in my garage. And I can see the nail holes. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. Okay. Good job organizing your garage. Mine's got probably a lot of stuff in there that I don't even want to go through. They said getting a house cleaner to fit in my budget was the best thing we did for our family. And I want one. Bad. I thought you had one. No, I have somebody, I had somebody that was coming to clean my bathrooms and she was traveling from really far. And so she wanted to up her prices and it wasn't in my budget anymore. We parted our separate ways, which I get, because she was coming from a really she was coming from the other side of town. And so I totally understand that she couldn't come over here anymore, but I just haven't found anybody yet that can match my budget. And I don't blame them. You know, they've got to make their bag too, but their bag ain't fitting with my bag. Well, and also like you have to find someone who you could trust. And I like liked that for that reason. I knew this girl and knew her family. And so I could like be like, okay, I'm leaving for the gym. And I knew, like, what are you gonna do? Steal my TV. I know your sister. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. But yeah, when you don't know. And that's a big millennial thing. I've heard this discussed before that we will pay for our time. Yeah. More than like our parents would have. Yeah. Cause they're very, I can just get it all done myself. But also in our defense, we're busier. They have more time. Exactly. They a lot of moms were stay-at-home moms. They could live off of one income. Yeah. And they weren't like, you know, we have the pressure to like go, go, go with our kids at all times. Yeah. When they would just be like, go play, I'll see you at dinner time. You know? There wasn't that pressure to be as invasive with your children's lives. So no, we don't. And we're both working adults. I have no time to clean this house. I really, if that fit in my budget, if I could, you know, get rid of something, I just unfortunately Netflix, I'm already at Netflix with ads, and I'm still in the hole. So I can't do anything more besides I'm starring in the movie myself. So yeah, no, that's a good one. Yeah. You just need to do the system. I need to do the system. Yeah. And then it feels attainable. Yeah. Cause right now it it just just piles up. And then you're like, okay, I have one day to get the bathrooms clean, the floor swept. But you're like, I can find 30 minutes after the kids go to bed too. To sweep the floor. Exactly. For yeah. Sweep. Yeah. That's good. That's all we got. That's it. Those are some good hacks. Yeah. Some good spring cleaning advice. I'm going to take it and I'll maybe I'll tell you in a couple weeks how it's going. Maybe I'll forget. A new project. A new project for project to start. I also am bad about that. I'll be like, okay, in order to start this project, I'm going to need a skylight calendar. And then I'm going to need to color code everything. And then I can have a system. Yeah. I can't just do something. No, you can. I know I need to. Yeah. Next week we're doing new season new friendships because it's really hard to make friends as mommies. To make mom friends. So we're going to talk about ways that you can make new mom friends. Um, and you guys are gonna share your ways of how you've made mom friends. I love making friends. Yeah. We'll talk all about making new friends as mommies, and it'll be fun. Okay, that'll be fun. Okay. Yeah. I hope you guys have a great weekend. See you in a minute.