Episode four seventy seven, twenty twenty five Simple cleaning schedule and Products.
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Welcome to the Frugal Friends Podcast. My name is Jen, my name is Jill. And the interest sounded like it was episode four hundred and seventy seven thousand, two hundred and twenty five, but it's really just a cleaning schedule for twenty twenty five. You could really use it any year, but we're going to lay it out for the next year. You are going to be so thankful because Jill has really customized this episode. It is unique to anything you will find on the internet.
I shouldn't get so excited about this episode, but I am this. This thrills me because this has been something that has been really difficult for me over the years. Having a clean home and keeping on top of the tasks has always felt really stressful to me. But literally this past year, I found the solution that works for me. It might not work for everybody, but I'm going to talk about what works for me and maybe you'll get your own tips along the way, as well as we'll
look at an article. Don't worry, it's not just me, it'll be the internet too.
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So if you have other books though, that may have us. We've done a few cleaning episodes in the past. Also, we love decluttering as a way to clean because I mean, seriously, if you don't want to clean it, just get rid of it. So Episode two forty six Frugal Home Cleaning Tips, Episode three forty eight Declutter your Home in thirty Days. These are some of our most recent episodes on it. But I really like that this is going to give
us a succinct plan for cleaning this year. So take us on a journey, Jill.
Let's do it. Okay. So the article that we're going to go through it comes from Better Homes and Gardens and it is called a house Cleaning Schedule you'll actually stick to. And I liked this one the most because that's what I want. I want a schedule that i'm actually it's actually going to work for me, that I'm actually going to stick to. So they give us nine We're going to kind of combine them, move through them, and I'm going to give you my own tips along
the way. But of course, to start out, they say, get ready, that's step one, which, well, that is the biggest barrier to because I'm never ready to clean. Yeah, so they recommend getting it just pen and paper. I love that. I do love to write things down, but you could also put things in your phone as well. But with the way that I'm going to describe what I did and how it worked for me, I'm going to say, write it down, write down what all of
your tasks are. I guess your initial list could be in your phone, and then I'll walk you through another way that you can do this.
She wrote hers down on paper she has on her phone.
Yeah, actually, so that I could get both me and Eric on board with this, because just because I'm coming up with the plan and the strategy doesn't mean that I'm the only one to implement, am I right? Friends, if you've got more than just you in the house, it's not just you that is doing the work. So you're going to walk through then room by room, getting an inventory of the areas and the tasks that are
going to make up your home cleaning schedule. And I'm going to encourage you, and this article does too, to think about all of the tasks room by room. So that's the second step is kind of choosing your rooms.
I'm going to imagine that you're going to want to clean every room that's in the house at some point in time, So going room by room with pen and paper and thinking through what are the different tasks, both large and small, that you want to be doing, or that even your fantasized version of yourself would do at
some point. So that could include in the kitchen, and we're going to get here, but for now, an example like both wiping down the counters in the kitchen as well as cleaning the hood, the vent over the stovetop or deep cleaning the oven itself. So going room by room with pen and paper, writing out all of the various cleaning tasks that catch your eye.
Step three is identifying those tasks like Jill just mentioned, and you can google these on the internet like lists of tasks and then just black out the ones that don't apply to you. They always put too many tasks on those lists, and so step four is build on the list. But I'm going to take a subtractive approach because that's what I like to do with cleaning. So they actually have a pretty minimalist list on here. So can I go through it?
Jill?
Yeah, the time. Okay, So all rooms would need to dust the light fixture and ceiling fans. We're cleaning door handles, We're dusting door frames, we're dusting blinds, windowsills, picture frames, furniture, dusting nicknack and books, shaking out rugs or taking your ruggables to the laundromat, sweep vacuum up. In the kitchen, we add to that cleaning, sanitizing counters and sink. Sanitizing is something you don't have to do every time, but
you do have to do it sometimes. Cleaning stove, oven, range hood, cleaning inside and outside of the microwave, wiping down cabinet fronts and appliances. And then in the bathrooms we add to that cleaning the mirrors, sanitizing counters, and sinks again, wiping down cabinet fronts inside of cabinets, cleaning and sanitizing the toilet, the shower, the shower door, and the tub. So this is like the bare minimum, but you can build on that list if you want.
Okay, here's the thing. This all sounds so overwhelming. I'm taking like a I'm doing a little bit of an intermission here now to describe that. I think one of the things that can get so overwhelming with clean our homes is seeing all of the tasks that need to get done and not knowing when are we going to end up doing these things. At least for me, that was the thing that caused kind of the most stress.
I would see all of these things around me, not just the dishes, but then that would cause this heightened awareness of all of the dust on the base boards, and the windows are dirty, and the toilets need to be scrubbed. And that's what leads to overwhelmed is not knowing when am I going to do this? And I think that's one of the reasons for having this schedule and knowing that this will eventually get done even if
it can't get done today. Now I know, I look at the baseboards, and I know that's on the list that's going to come up. Even if it's next week, I know it will end up getting cleaned. So my level of tolerance for the dirtiness it can increase because I know that there's a plan to tackle it. So it's at this stage then that I'm going to describe
a little bit how I approached this. So you've got your entire list right, and we don't have it prioritized yet, we don't have a schedule yet, but we've got everything listed out that we would ever want to clean in the home on these pieces of paper. What I then did from there, So this is a departure from what Better Homes and Gardens says, But this was actually a very fun activity for me and help me make use
of my post it notes. I wrote out each of these tasks individually onto a post it note, and then I arranged kind of across my entire table frequency, So I had a category for weekly, bi weekly, monthly, quarterly, bi annually, and annually, and then I took all of my post its and started to arrange them around frequency. So laundry I want to do weekly, so that went under that weekly category, cleaning the range hold for me that only needs to happen quarterly. Put that under the
quarterly category. Mopping the floors bi weekly. That's where that one went. So I just kind of went through every single post it note and arranged it towards the frequency that I want to see these things happening. And I will say even just that process made the whole thing feel less daunting to start to realize, oh wow, there's not actually that many tasks that I want to get
done weekly. And it kind of did get spread out, really really well over what's happening, you know again weekly, by weekly, monthly, and kind of in that rhythm and order, which was so so helpful. So that's where they describe and here is step five select frequency. That's just my tip of identifying how you end up going about it, and then you can make changes there too. If as you look at the list you realize you know what, no,
actually I want to do. I want to wash all the mats in the house bi weekly instead of weekly, that's going to be fine for me. Or I want to move this category over to here, or I want to actually combine some of these tasks. So maybe instead of going room by room and doing everything possible in one room. You kind of combine like tasks. So for me, that's the choice that I made was I have a whole category for just wiping horizontal surfaces is like a
category for me. So that's in the entire house. But that's the only task I'm doing. So that'll be wiping the countertops, wiping the windowsills, wiping bedside tables. That's it horizontal surfaces. Another one is wiping base boards, so that just that one task will happen in the entire house. So I'm not necessary I don't go like room by room, but that could be an option if you more so wanted to do, like you know, guest bedroom is this day, and kids' bedrooms are this day, and the bathrooms are
this day. That works for people too, So that could be something that you consider, is what's your preference on how you kind of want to arrange the tasks. For me, I found it easier to kind of break it down in that way, no thing is so daunting, but then kind of the whole house regularly strategically is getting cleaned.
So that kind of coincides with number six on here, which is identify your cleaning style again kind of whether you want to do it once and done, like once a month, I'm going to do an entire deep clean, or if you'd rather have these smaller tasks broken up on kind of a daily basis. You're doing something, but it's only going to take you ten to thirty minutes to do it, So identify whether you want to do
it that way. You want to do the time session, you decide on the days that you're going to clean, what you're going to clean, You set a timer for thirty minutes, and that's it. Whatever you can get done in that amount of time, room by room, day by day. So however you want to break it up, you decide. But that was a really helpful way for me to kind of arrange frequency and then how am I going to get it all done?
The time to sessions really work for me. I have ADHD, so like I cannot stick to one task. I will get distracted by another task and I'll still be cleaning. But like if I make a list of things I need to do, and my one thing is like I have to cross this thing off the list, it never gets crossed off because it only gets half done. But then I've also half done a couple other things on the list too, because they've distracted me so like it
makes me feel sad. But if I just do a timer for like ten minutes and I'm like, okay, I get as much as I can get done in ten minutes, then that's a win. And I have I've still got guidance by a list, but I'm and it doesn't feel as like daunting.
Will you choose like a room and then you set the timer? Yeah?
Cool, Yeah, I'll just pick my one space that I feel like needs the most and then it is usually the kitchen. Let's be honest, it's always the kitchen, and
then I will be working on that. So next we have got practice, and that's really our favorite part of any topic because it's the new info and the plan those are always the sexiest part, but it's the practice and the staying on track and the small changes you have to make to your current lifestyle to evolve into this new lifestyle of cleaning regularly that is really what brings it home. And so that's seven through nine. So we've got practice your cleaning schedule, stay on tra and
reevaluate your cleaning schedule. Because the first time. Even we know this with budgeting, the first budget you make isn't going to be right, and so you shouldn't feel guilty for not sticking to it because we know in the third, fourth, fifth budget they're never going to be right. We're always
reevaluating for our season. So in some seasons we are able to do a bigger chunk of cleaning, like I'm able to do like a thirty minute clean, but that in some seasons, like when my kids are sick or I'm sick, or everyone is sick, it's like we're all sick clean, right, but it's it's even more important, right, So like the seasons that limit us more, these small tasks become more important, but we do them less because
there's so much more daunting. But really it's just decreasing the like the perceived size of the task to make it manageable. So that's a big secret in staying consistent with your practice and staying on track. And then of course if you are consistently like falling behind or not coming through with your plan, then at that point you may need to reevaluate it and make it more realistic.
So I also want to kind of fill in the gaps then from what what you do once you have all the tasks listed out and the frequency in which you want to do them, which kind of coincides with what you're describing of practicing the schedule or fining the schedule. But for me, the next step was then to kind
of put it all into a calendar. So I just wrote it out like across the top row Monday through Sunday, and then first column down like week one, week two, week three, week four, so that it could kind of work for any given month, and then thinking through my typical weeks, where do I generally have more time in the weekdays or on the weekends, and how do I
want to arrange the things that are happening weekly. Even though things might only come up weekly or bi weekly or monthly or quarterly, they're still going to end up landing on a day that you have other tasks. So the way that I ended up arranging it was my typical kind of weekly tasks ended up falling falling on a Monday. I do typically do laundry on Monday, so that was easy to kind of keep with that rhythm.
So I identified that I'm washing clothes and towels every Monday, and then alternate weeks washing mats and rugs or washing bedding, and then on Tuesdays figuring out, okay, what could I reasonably fit into the schedule on a Tuesday. And so every week is cleaning the toilets and the bathroom sinks. So that's not an entire deep clean of the bathroom, it's just cleaning the things that are most often utilized
to just to have a degree of maintained cleanliness. And those tasks literally do only take about five to seven minutes. Once I've realized kind of how long these tasks actually take, the barrier to entry is so much lower. And when I know this is all I have to do, I don't have to come in here and do an entire deep clean. I know what my schedule is. This is all I've got to do for the day. I've added
like watering my plants to Tuesday as well. Wednesdays, I decided are typically the days of the week that for us, we don't have much going on in the evenings. Usually the other days of the week we do, so Wednesdays were the day that I decided to put my bigger cleaning tasks on. So the things that fell bi weekly or quarterly would end up happening on a Wednesday. So these are things like cleaning the couch, cleaning the dishwasher, cleaning the stove hood, wiping down base boards, cleaning the
stainless steel. So one of these kind of larger tasks are always going to fall on a Wednesday, but not all at once. So one Wednesday might be, you know, the deep cleaning of the stovehood, and then the next Wednesday is the deep cleaning of the oven. Thursdays are super light for me. It's just watering our outside plants. Friday. I've got nothing that was a goal to have at least one day of the week where there is no task to be done completely free for whatever spontaneous activity,
fun thing that we would want to do. Saturdays, I realized, at least in the morning, there's usually a couple of hours that I can snag for mowing the lawn, weeding, leaf blowing, cleaning off the patio, washing outdoor stuff. Again, we live in Florida, so those things need to happen pretty much year round. Or this might be also where a deep cleaning item might come into play. Deep cleaning my air even I've added like changing out our filters
for our heating and cooling system. So even tasks that helped to maintain the home could be put on here. Cleaning the car goes on here as well, So that's kind of then how I arranged it. I like having it all on paper, and so this is just something that I can put up as a visual for both my husband and I and it's just a cheat sheet. What week are we in? Week two? It's a Wednesday, all right, what does the schedule tell us we're doing today?
Eric prefers digital reminders, so he ended up putting all of our tasks into a shared Google task list and made it so that it could refresh week over weekly. You could check it off for that week, but then based on the frequency that you desire to be doing that task, it will renew itself. There are also plenty of even free cleaning schedule apps that you could download for you and the rest of the family. We just found that it didn't align with the frequencies that we wanted.
It would be like the third Monday of every month, but it's like that's not always how we want to do this frequency, So it just didn't quite fit for us. But I'm sure that if that's your preference, you could find something that works for you.
So now we're going to move on to cleaning products. So these are going to be tried and true cleaning products that you can keep with you all year, that you can use regularly. You don't have to buy chemical laden at the grocery store. If lowering your grocery costs is something that you're looking to do this year, then making your own cleaning products is something you can do.
Because cleaning products are getting increasingly expensive and we don't buy them that often, so we don't think about them, but especially the name brands, which is what we usually go to when we are thinking about cleaning products. They are getting increasingly expensive. But there are some household items that you can use that are more natural, they're eco friendly and safe. Dot com has a list of six of them, and we're going to go over our favorites.
So an easy all purpose cleaner is just equal parts white vinegar and water. You can also add in a little bit of lemon peel and or essential oils if you desire. That'll just make it smell a little bit more appealing. Personally, I don't mind the smell of vinegar. I'm accustomed to cleaning with it, but I totally get it. But most of us have these items on hand, or buying a big old jug of vinegar isn't a problem.
And there's so many different ways that we can utilize that white vinegar, So putting that into a spray bottle and using it, however, you would typically use an all purpose cleaner. This could be used to wipe down your countertops. That's mostly how I use MYND countertops, cabinets, tables, desks, kind of everywhere all purpose.
So instead of using this for an all purpose cleaner, I will do just a sumidgon like less natural, and I'll do a tea spoon of Don dish detergent into I think two cups of water, just making it slightly blue. That is what I use for my all purpose cleaner because I actually hate the smell of vinegar. I'm one of those, and so this is a very neutral scent if anything, just maybe slightly a little down scented, which is something I enjoy, but I find it pretty odorless. So yeah.
The next one is a window or glass cleaner. You can make again with one part white vinegar to four parts water. You can also add a little bit of rubbing alcohol to that mixture and that'll just help with dry time. But that's great on anything glass or window with just like a microfiber cloth.
Yeah, I will use the vinegar in this one because I do it less frequently, so it's with my all purpose cleaner, I'm using it every day. But with the glass cleaner, yeah, the vinegar, and then definitely if I have some lemon, adding lemon just to for me. The lemon is for me, and the rubbing alcohol is actually very helpful. Next would be a wood cleaner, and so this would be olive oil and lemon juice. I've actually never tried this.
I did not know this.
I still just use my all purpose cleaner.
I know, I don't have a lot of wood that I'm wiping down. It would just be our kitch table. But I'm curious to try it. I think I would view this more as a polish than necessarily a cleaner, so i'd probably use the all purpose and then polish it with this.
So they're saying most for hardwood floors either that too. Yeah, so I don't have that. I guess you would have to use this on your own. But it's saying like keeps the wooden surfaces shiny and nourished, and they say combining with lemon juice gives it a you know, it's again just for sent but yeah, I don't know. I guess that would be. It is a thing that you can do.
And then apple cider vinegar is a great thing to also have on hand. This is going to kill bacteria and mold. So any places that you have those items existing, you can spray some apple cider vinegar on it. You can also mix it with baking soda, which can then become a polish for your stainless steel, sings, faucets, silverware. So really you can see that there's not a lot of ingredients. We're talking a lot of vinegar and water. It's mostly what's going to solve.
An honorable mention I'll add is Barkeeper's Friend. It is a brand name, but it is pretty natural. It's like one of those I'm in the middle, like I'm not going ultra process, but I'm not going like straight from the ground, like I'm somewhere in the slightly processed family. So I love Barkeeper's Friend on our stainless steel, our cast iron in our sing like, I just I use it all the time, tub yeah, all the time everywhere.
What products would you say you buy over handmaking diy ing them?
Oh, you know it is dish washer detergent. That's the answer you wanted me to give. It is And they don't pay me to save them this. But it is the my gosh, I forget the name. It's that Platinum plus version. It's not the platinum, it's the Platinum Plus. For some reason, they have three tiers.
Is it liquid or capsules, pods, pods, pots.
And it is according to all of the review sites that I have, we substructe. We subscribe. The business does to consumer reports for their their research. Also Wirecutter, you don't need to subscribe to that. Those are the two most like reputable research and testing sources. Both say that this Platinum Plus in the purple. Gosh, I'll look it up. The people are listening and they're like, it's this, it's this, Uh, it's just unbeatable. It is. Oh, here it is. It's
the purple. It's the Cascade Platinum Plus. And they have three love and I don't know why they have the first two levels because they're trash. It is the platinum plus that does it? Uh huh, and it's I buy it in bulk, wow, buy it in bulk wow.
I have gotten so into diy ing my things. Yeah, it's almost been a challenge for me not to say that, oh,
I'm going to continue this forever. I just want to see do I already have the ingredients to be able to clean the thing that I'm cleaning, because I think, honestly, I think my gateway drug here it was meal planning and meal prepping and demystifying food like condiments and salad dressings and realizing I can make my own I already have the spices, the oils, the vinegars to make my own things here, which then kind of prompted me to be like, well, what other things is? They're just mystery
around that. I think some company puts special magic dustin too, and that's why it's a good cleaner, when really I already have the ingredients to be able to do this. So there's been some trial and error happening over here, but I have been making my own laundry detergent and my own dishwasher detergent. I will say I am at the stage where the laundry detergent is great. I'm gonna keep going with that. The dishwashing detergent hasn't been ideal.
It does clean, everything does come out clean, but it has this kind of like milky film on it a bit, which I think might have to do with like the the water being hard. But I also didn't have that issue when I was using store bought detergent. I'm not gonna lie though, I am still very curious to see if I can find a recipe that will get me what I want and.
A lot of it.
You know that between the dishwashing detergent and the laundry detergent, it's a lot of baking, soda, washing soda, borax, citric acid. So these things that you know, I mean the citric acid I don't always have on hand. I get that specifically to be able to make my own stuff, but it's like, once I have it, these things are the ingredients of our cleaning products. It's been a fun challenge and I think has helped me learn more about different
ingredients and what works with what where. I can then be more informed in my future buying decisions as well.
I will say that some newer research from Wirecutter has tested the drops what is it, drops ultrash plus, which is a bio based dishwasher detergent pod that is more sustainable than the Cascade plus powder whatever the ones that I use, and I am interested in trying them. They said they just they tested just under the cascade their top pick, but was comparable and if they are more sustainable, it is something that I could try. But yeah, we'll see.
But if anybody else is interested in a more sustainable dishwasher pod that drops Ultra wash plus.
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All right, So today's lightning round question is let me scroll down a cleaning product everyone should DIY. Did you make this one? Jill?
No, I didn't. Golby asked this question, why are you being so peeved about it?
Well? Go, well you go first. I did.
I did say all of it, which is a little it's not real, I know, I am smiling next to that. I do think it's a fun challenge to see what can I how can I clean with the things that I already have. I think that this is a big area where we can procress to spend. We can buy a lot of cleaning products for the fantasized version of ourselves that is clean, when really what we needed was a good structure and strategy and plan, and it wasn't
about the cleaning products to begin with. It was about the implementation and the skill set to be able to do that. So I I think all of it can be diide. However, I think one of the best ones to begin with is that all purpose cleaner. I think white vinegar and water. To just know that it doesn't have to be super complicated can also help us.
Yes, I love it as a challenge absolutely, as a way to stretch your creative muscles. And I would just say I don't necessarily recommend doing the dishwasher with the natural you know, that's not me. It's not me.
You know you're drinking out of a cup right now that came out of the dishwasher cleaned by my all natural DIY dish detergent.
Yeah, I know, I noticed.
I'm just gonna say that would did you notice.
On the inside there was a film inside? And I'm not a germ freak, so I drank out of an anyway like it doesn't. And so that's coming from a drink out of a mug that looked like was coated in coffee residue. Okay, so that is the level we're working on, Jill. Okay, Okay, Cascades should pay me.
A lot of companies.
Yeah, okay, so I'm gonna we already know that I love my uh my DIY all purpose cleaner. It's don it's I think that is nobody should pay for an all purpose cleaner done. I'm actually going to talk about a thing I think everyone should buy. Oh okay, so I'm sorry in advance. I'm going to influence people. And it's because I was influenced by social media. And it is the best product.
Please don't say a steamer.
It's not. No, it's not, it's not.
Okay.
It is the dremal scrub ub sponge like drill. It's it's the dreml It's called Versa Power Scrubber. And I'll show you Jill. Oh, I bought it like a year ago. It's what Amazon is telling me. Look, you attached these different types of sponges to it, and you press the button and you don't have to work as hard to scrub. It does the scrubbing for you and you just move it around.
And what are you scrubbing?
I am scrubbing my glass. The thing I use it for most is my glass oven top, so I will put some glass oven cleaner. And this is stuff I've had. I just use a smidgeon. So I've had it for five years. I got it for free at the chemical the repository or the.
Okay, yeah, yeah, that's cool, and so I've been using it for like five years.
But I just used like a little a little doll up yea. And will you use the dremal to clean the residue that gets stuck on there to make it good as new. I can also use it in the bathroom because the tiles get like grubby and it's just so much work just grub by hand. When I use the drummal, I'm just smooth. I'm just work like I'm going back and forth like it's doing the work. Yeah I am. And it comes with five different cleaning sponges.
Is it electric or battery powered?
Electric? So you charge it? Okay, you can. It says you can use them pots and pans. I actually haven't used in pots and pans, but like, what a fantastic You get your barkeeper friend in there, barkeeper's friend, and you just give her a little run through with the drumml, Like.
So we're going from stove to bas different sponges, okay, okay, yeah, we.
Got different sponges. I haven't used it for the pots, but obviously use a different sponge good between each.
Place, right right obviously?
Yeah, so that sounds awesome.
My one critique of it is it looks like I wouldn't be able to get into corners. There's so many corners I need to get into.
This would be a fact because it is circular.
It's circular.
Yeah, so it's not gonna it's not one hundred percent, but for the ninety nine percent of the rest of the space.
Do you think it'd be good for cleaning grout? That's something that's on my list that I need to do soon.
The the original scrub Daddy pad might be give you enough, Like, okay, So.
What I do is I'll just like turn it sideway little yeah, but like but in a true corner corner yet. Yeah, it's not gonna get y yeah yeah, yeah, because it's spinning around, it's got to be circular. Yeah, that's cool.
So the Dremall scrub Daddy scrubber, Yeah, she's not cheap, but she is worth it.
Yeah. I will say there are things I will purchase, and like you said, this sparked my memory. I will get cleaning products at like yard sales and stuff too. A lot of times homes are getting rid of you know, half used or hardly used bottles of various types of cleaner, which is so convenient. I will buy stainless steel cleaner. I have a lot of stainless steel appliances or like the polish. My fridge, oven, microwave, dishwasher, air fryer is all stainless steel, so having that on hand, I actually
haven't looked up what a good DIY would be. I just have so much stainless steel cleaner from thrift stored or from yard sales that that works for me. And I agree with Barkeeper's friend, and I do buy down dish soap.
So that's another thing. If you have the stuff, don't stop using it to go. Like with these di wys, just before you repurchase or purchase more, look and try a little bit of the DIY do. You don't need to make like a big thing to test out if it works for you. Just try it one time, see how you feel, and then from there, you know, decide if you're going to continue.
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I always need to clean my kitchen. It's there's so much stuff, so many cups and backpacks and plates, so many things, Like why it makes me want to live off of coffee because it only creates one dish like I wish and I do drink a lot of beverages, like just as a way to not prepare food. Even if something's already like prepared, when I eat it, then
it's done and the dish is dirty. I'm just I'm a weirdo about that stuff, and I wish, Yeah, I just wish I could drink I could sustain myself like on life, like on coffee and not make and just keep the mess ebby.
Yeah, the food between the food planning, prep, clean up, all that that means for the entire kitchen, not just the dishes. Yeah, it's it's a lot.
It's made me consider getting those. I see the ads for Factor meals and I'm like, oh, if I didn't think those were going to be disgusting, I would.
Do you think? Have you read the reviews?
No? Gross? They remind me of TV dinners and those kind of like gross. Yeah, so I assume. But maybe Factor wants to reach out and sponsor me because they're right now, yeah.
Like you're still here.
Maybe they want to pay me to find out if it's gross or not. And I would take that money gladly.
Yeah. Yeah, I would take anyone's money gladly.
I wouldn't take anyone's money gladly.
Why not. They're giving you money, you know you're going to make good decisions with it.
I know, but then I obviously have to do work in or not obviously no, not necessarily, the question was would you take anyone's money, not what would you Would you be willing to do anything that the person giving you money would make you do. I'm gonna stick with my answer, but.
Okay, wow, I gotta clean my floors. Yep.
I see a little piece of dirt on the floor.
I know, friends, high gloss tile choice. It looks so cool, it was a choice, but it shows so much. There's no there's no hiding. There's no hiding here there.
I look at our like LVP and I look and I think it's dirty, but it's really just the grain and the wood. And I'm like, oh, blessings, because the two over there really are like dried milk covered in dirt, but this one is actually the dark grain of the wood.
I do think these floors might drive me nutty, but we're gonna We're gonna try and stay sane. We'll see, stay tuned.