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Summary: Welcome to The Simplified Organization Audio Blog! Releasing weekly on Mondays, this podcast gives you short and punchy action items and mindset resets. Check out the <a href="http://www.simplifiedorganization.com/audio">podcast page here</a> and <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/simplified-organization-audio/id1153214723">please leave a review</a>. Thanks!<br> <a href="http://www.simplifiedorganization.com/so-season2">Season 2: Motivation to Clean</a><br> How strict should our standards for cleanliness be?<br> Our homes are tools to be made use of, not display pieces to handle gingerly. Tools get dirty. Tools have to be taken care of. The point is to keep them useful and functioning, not pristine. A shovel left out in the grass all winter will rust and rot and not be much use in the spring; a home left untended will run to weeds. But a home cared for will not be immaculate.<br> The aim in cleaning house is not to have a clean house, but to prepare the house for further functioning.<br> <br> <br> <br> Follow the bibliographic trail<br> <br> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/How-Not-Be-Messie-Neatness-Challenged/dp/1578660432/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&qid=1476394209&sr=8-1&keywords=how+not+to+be+a+messie&linkCode=li3&tag=simorganize-20&linkId=f13ba5df34586bf87da1dfb4eb2e04be" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Keeping-House-Litany-Everyday-Life-ebook/dp/B004G5Z21M/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&qid=1476394439&sr=8-2&keywords=keeping+house&linkCode=li3&tag=simorganize-20&linkId=a2b53d42d7d6596573b417a07ce09ebd" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Home-Comforts-Science-Keeping-House/dp/0743272862/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&qid=1476394084&sr=8-4&keywords=keeping+house&linkCode=li3&tag=simorganize-20&linkId=d68bbe2de5d48381ed746abd53b36598" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Quotidian-Mysteries-Laundry-Madeleva-Spirituality-ebook/dp/B0051GEH02/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&qid=1476394149&sr=8-3&keywords=kathleen+norris&linkCode=li3&tag=simorganize-20&linkId=47738268483ca0526dbaea48f9cc969b" target="_blank"></a><br> Read the original post here:<br> <a href="https://www.simplyconvivial.com/2014/happy-household-help-be-a-homemaker">Happy Household Help: Be a Homemaker</a><br> <br> <a href="https://www.simplifiedorganization.com/get-organized"><br> </a><br> <br> Have questions about topic? Let’s talk in the comments!<br> <br> <br>
