Alethea reflects on the past year and the first season of The Clean Your Room Podcast.
Alethea explores some ideas for doing the bare minimum cleaning necessary to continue life, for those times when exhaustion and burnout make cleaning even more of a chore than it already is.
Alethea provides organizing tips for your arts and crafts clutter, shares TV recommendations, and generally catches up with the highlights of the past few months' impromptu hiatus.
Alethea and her brother Bruce discuss vaccination/still masking and distancing, childhood cleaning habits, living with roommates, and random topics having nothing to do with cleaning, and everything to do with siblings. Apologies for the complete lack of editing.
Alethea talks about black thumbs, green thumbs, and what she's learned about plants during the pandemic.
Alethea shares recent Netflix and reading recommendations and talks about taming paper clutter.
Alethea provides a random update about the apartment, decluttering, and tries a different way of pronouncing her name (for real, she went there).
Alethea talks about stopping waste before it starts by trying to reduce consumption.
An episode about boxes, but also some personal thoughts about the world.
Alethea talks about cleaning and organizing the bathroom, and dealing with her nemesis--the toilet.
Alethea talks about cleaning and organizing the TV room, entertainment media, and things to consider when arranging living room furniture.
Alethea wishes all a Happy Lunar New Year, and talks about using planning and lists to create cleaning routines and conquer your most-procrastinated tasks.
Alethea talks about categorizing, preserving, and storing your books and other media collections.
Alethea talks about managing your stuff on surfaces: counters, desks, tables, dressers, nightstands, and shelves. She also recommends her friends' podcasts to listen to when you're out of Clean Your Room episodes.
Alethea talks about how having to move her stuff from one part of Los Angeles to another made her confront her borderline hoarding tendencies.
Lara Starr talks about major clean-ups and clear-outs from her life, from the death of her husband, John, to their son leaving home for college. Full show notes at www.cleanyourroompodcast.com.
Alethea explains the thought process behind choosing which cleaning task to do first, as well as a 4-step process for performing any cleaning task, big or small. Find the show notes at https://www.cleanyourroompodcast.com/2021/01/clean-your-room-podcast-s1-ep-2.html
Alethea explains why she decided to start a podcast about cleaning, organizing, and the struggle/satisfaction of managing stuff. Podcast logo by Ashlyn Anstee. Find show notes and more at cleanyourroompodcast.com.
A podcast about cleaning, organizing, and stuff. For more info, visit cleanyourroompodcast.com