it seems that i have spread some egg related misinformation in this video - eggs are refrigerated in america not due to freak chemicals but because they are washed and when washed the protective layer is dissolved, which is what protects against bacteria. thank you to folks in the audience who have pointed this out
And then I get called out for telling you to Google how to season a wok on the last video 😭😭😭😭 I promise it’s not hard you just have to get it hot with some oil on it.
Well it is due to freaky chemicals that are used in the washing process. If you have fresh eggs from chicken you can wash them with normal water and leave them at room temp but in factories they use a chemical washing process that destroys the protective membrane.
@@FatherDraven YO sorry ur totally right lol i was kinda mindlessly talking shit but i genuinely do appreciate the tip and will try it next cleaning vid
@@foolishlyfoolhardy6004 i think she said that she wears a mask when she isn’t filming but she doesn’t wear it when she’s filming so people can see her
Aurikatariina is the only reason I was able to do ANY cleaning while I was in the middle of my worst depressive episode to date. I will forever be grateful for her and her content and her empathy.
Regarding the Scrub Daddy critique, she was doing all the cleanings and traveling on her own dime for a very long time. She loved to use Scrub Daddy stuff, and the company eventually noticed her and decided to sponsor her efforts. Essentially they're just paying her to keep doing what she was already doing and planning to do 💕
I do love her for this same reason. She is so kind and thoughtful and it is such a comfort to hear. I have been watching her for forever while cleaning things. And, thanks to her, I found checked out Scrub Daddy and found they have halloween shaped sponges, and now even my cleaning things make me happy to look at. Maybe that seems stupid, but sometimes having a Frankenstein's monster shaped sponge makes cleaning the bathroom a bit easier. I legit buy a years worth every every season and it just....makes my dark little heart a bit more into tackling hard things.
big recommend 'how to keep house while drowning' for anyone who is feeling overwhelmed or struggling with mental/physical barriers to keeping things clean. It's extremely gentle and useful in its advice
I just finished this book on audio like 2 weeks ago - definitely recommend. It approaches housekeeping and self care from a very empathetic angle, and I learned some great tips for breaking down these tasks into manageable bits. Also I am incorporating the "5 things" strategy in teaching my kids upkeep tasks!
I really love Aurikatariina. I know she is making money but you're right, she is doing objectively good, kind things. And it seems like she does lots of the actual cleaning work, sometimes with another person. And she always makes a point to explain why someone might be in that situation and she just has compassion. And I've decided that "trashes" is better than "trash".
idk if this resonates with what you're saying at the start but i feel like if i let cleaning things build up, it's because of my adhd brain and i think "ugh i'm so lazy like why can't i do this basic task" so then i feel like if other people see the mess they'll have the same thoughts about me and think "omg she's so laze/sloppy/messy/etc. etc." and just assume everyone will judge me how i judge myself (which isn't true!!)
oh 100% i think i was doing just that in this video lol. the taller the stack the lazier i perceive myself to be, therefore the lazier other people (the ones im making up in my head) must see me as well. which sucks! im glad to hear someone else can relate
Same! Especially if I accidentally don't take my meds in the morning my adhd really steers me and by the time I realize it its too late in the day to take them lol
This is very true for me too except I have a small few friends and family members, who, despite knowing very well I have ADHD and Major Depressive Disorder, have made comments about how lazy and dirty I am because dishes pile up or laundry isn’t folded or groceries are not put away. So, that doesn’t help me to stop judging myself in my head. 😂
if i go to someones house and see that is messy or theres dishes or whatever, my first thought isnt "wow how lazy/sloppy/messy/whatever, its "this person is obviously having a hard time, what can i do to help?" i say this to try and ease your mind because i believe (at least i hope) that most people think this way
Midwest Magic is a good channel to watch. I think the owner of the channel does a good job explaining how the houses end up in the condition they’re in. And a backstory to the people as well that isn’t judgemental. I highly recommend his channel.
Also in a recent video he mentioned he'd pieced together the home owner's story, but since she didn't tell him or give him permission to share, he wouldn't. Aurikatariina has a video where a client explicitly asked and begged for her not to open the fridge and she made a huge deal of cracking it open and showing everything inside with that overly-gushy happy character voice she puts on. It deeply bothered me. Midwest Magic is at least respectful and grounded in reality.
He also works a ridiculous amount of hours a week, he works his regular cleaning job and invests the RU-vid money into cleaning horders homes and refitting houses in need, he said in his last livestream that the reason he wouldn't be doing any outside of Patreon (which also goes towards cleaning houses) he works almost 80 hours a week because he enjoys it but it's also very exhausting
Midwest Magic Cleaning is my favorite, not just because he breaks down how the place he's cleaning got out of hand for the owner & always clarifies that hoarding is a disorder of the brain and not something that can be cured by "stopping to be lazy", but because he is on the autism spectrum, just like me. He frames tidying up and cleaning as sorting jigsaw pieces in preparation for putting a whole, good-looking, and satisfying picture together and that just really appeals to the wonky wires in my brain. His humor is also 10/10 A++ would allow him to spin-kick me into tomorrow.
Seasoning the wok is just heating a coating of clean neutral oil on the wok after cleaning it. It prevents the surface from rusting and corroding away, and makes food come off more easily when cooked. It’s not really a wok thing; it’s for any carbon steel or cast iron pots and pans.
The wok looks stainless steel, you don't have to season stainless steel. I've never seen a stainless steel wok before, but that looks stainless steel to me.
@@fricraft1You don't HAVE to season stainless since it wont rust like cast iron but seasoning it will still create a non-stick surface. If you don't like making your oil smoke everytime you make an egg, it's pretty helpfull
the more hoarder type cleaning videos are my favourite because they make me feel like "if she can do that, I can definitely do this." I also appreciate that she doesn't show the owner's reaction to the cleaning. that feels exploitative. but she does it from a place of compassion. she tells their story and how their home came to be out of their control-sometimes it's depression, or a death in the family, or a loss of a job, but sometimes it's normal people you would never guess. and they're just trapped in this huge secret they can't tell anyone. it gives us a glimpse into their world without exploiting their struggles.
I think the difference between Mr Beast and the cleaning videos is that while both are doing good things for people, one is putting a bandaid on capitalism and the other is just being nice. Even in a communist utopia there would be depressed people who need more help cleaning their spaces, but people wouldn't not have access to medical procedures due to financial stuff
It also seems like Mr. Beast is like... making an amount of money where he could do way, way more good than he's actually doing? For someone who makes hundreds of millions of dollars a year to pay for one (1) surgery is like, the most underwhelming, and he's not doing the actual work. Saying that people who clean houses for the disabled should be able to make a living is a very different take from saying that someone who just pays for a surgery should earn a profit on doing so.
As an audhd person, I love love love this style. I’ve been watching extreme cleaning content to help me mirror. Love A Beautiful Mess and Midwest. But they aren’t relatable at all. Please do this more often because I already enjoy your main content and your perspectives, this is perfect content for someone like me to mirror. ✨
That Awkward Mom is pretty good for relatability and different approaches, she's the only cleaning content I subscribe to, just a woman cleaning her normal house
You can store the eggs outside the refridgerator because of a cuticle which is a protective coating on the outside. In the US we wash this off when we sanitize them. If you buy eggs from a farmers market make sure you asked if they were washed or not, if unwashed you can leave them out. So it doesn’t have anything to do with chemicals so much as our industrial processing.
It's so hard to be understanding with yourself about cleaning. My mom was super strict (maybe to the point of ocd?) with cleaning growing up so I'm super aware of it all the time and it makes me extra self conscious. Most people don't notice to that degree though.
I post cleaning tiktoks and it’s hard to show people when it gets really bad. There is a level of embarrassment, but it is all in my head. I would never judge one of my friends for having a room be as bad, why should I be cruel to myself?
I used to get super down when my apartment was messy because I watched aesthetic Korean cleaning videos - they set such a high standard!! Now I see messes as just "something that needs to be cleaned up", instead of a negative reflection on my moral character :) P.S. I'm a cook (but my work refuses to hire a dishwasher so I end up doing it) and your tangent about scrubbing rice of a bowl truly resonates with me.
you have a really great tone and cadence when you speak. there are so few creators who don't have the youtube accent. i can't explain exactly what that accent is but its like every inflection is trying to grabby grabby at your attention and it makes my brain tired. the meandering conversational tone is muy bueno. its like going through a lazy river on a floaty, passing through your mind palace, not ruminating on anything like the wattpad dish washing tunnel for too long.
This whole video just reminded me of another video I saw regarding back pain, so I will pass the message along: if your back hurts while standing for long periods, especially your lower to mid-back, use a wide stance! A very wide stance. Shoulder-width or even wider. This makes you shorter and takes a lot of pressure off your back. If you are already short, like me, just do a wider stance than normal as long as it is still comfortable.
@llawliet72 That is my biggest issue too. Unfortunately, I think the biggest help there will be strengthening exercises. BUT, if you have the means, there are some protective garments that might help. For example, you can look up a neck brace for cervical instability. They usually look kinda foam-like, but they help limit the range of motion in your neck (so you're not looking down so much and putting excess pressure on your neck). You could also get shoulder straps/an upper back brace. These will help pull your shoulders back. Both would help make you more aware of your movements and help keep you from injuring yourself. If you did go the support route, it would still be important to strengthen those muscles as well because lack of strength and stability is often what leads to pain in the first place. One other thing I would recommend is to just support and accommodate yourself however you can while you're working. I often end up leaning over with my elbows/forearms resting on the edge of the sink as I clean. I also tend to dance in place (with music) and also take short stretch breaks to attend to cramping/sore muscles. Good luck! The upper back and neck pain is no joke, I hope something in here was helpful 🤞🏻 Edit: typo
I like Remy Clog. She's often helping to clean rooms in relatives' houses and she's very sweet and empathetic about it without pushing minimalism or any kind of agenda.
Thanks for openly talking/joking about binge eating. It's always felt embarrassing for me to talk about so it's cool to hear someone lightheartedly bring up struggling with it. Very cool stuff.
Honestly the ultra dirty cleaning are the most relatable because that could've been me, with a house like that. And although I'm not in my rock bottom depression days anymore, there's still so much to heal. Why is it so hard to take the trash out? Is it because I have a nagging feeling that something was wrongly put in the trash bag and I feel an urge to go through it piece by piece? It's okay, I'll take the trash out. Later. Right now it can just stay... Here. Out of the way, but here, so that I have piece of mind. So that when something goes missing, I can go through it. (I did find the car keys there once) I remember on my worst days to feel ashamed of taking the trash out. It was something that I had to have no witnesses for. For context, I moved cities and the rules for the trash collection were different and I couldn't shake the feeling that I was doing something wrong. And everyone would see just how much trash I was accumulating, hiding. So I may be much better now. But it's so comforting to see a house that could have been mine being swept clean with kind words and compassion. It's like receiving a warm hug. It's also a push of motivation. I wish I had those videos back then. I'm glad I have them now. And I'm also glad for being able to afford quality therapy. And a dishwasher. My dishwasher changed my relationship with my kitchen mess. It's a magic wand.
I think a big part of what makes this content work well is it feels almost "personal". There are a lot of "productions" on the internet. And as someone who would say youtube is my "cable tv". It almost feels like someone is always trying to produce this super streamlined product (Which can be great). But sometimes when you are doing your chores you just want to turn something on thats chill and not too serious but still engaging. And I think the talks you have in these videos are largely relatable and listening while doing chores can be nice, because you know you dont HAVE to look at it. And the conversations being had, or still of value and not just mindless slop.
i personally really enjoy this format!! body doubling really helps me with tasks, and this mirrors that a lot. i’ll often ask for my sister to be on facetime when she’s at work while i do chores (bc we have different schedules) and we have each other muted but we’re both there together, and maybe unmute and say something every once in a while. it’s nice to just tangibly have evidence that another person out there is also working while you work, it makes it feel less futile.
Pro tip for those dishes - clean the sink on the right first, then plug it tight. Add as many dishes as you can fit, including silverware. Swirl on some dish detergent and fill that sink with really hot water. Next wash the other empty sink. Now walk away for a half hour/45 minutes and just let the water do the work. When you come back most of the dishes can be just rinsed and then drained, and the few that need some scrubbing won’t need much. I use the soaking time to get some other chores done. It makes doing the dishes so much easier!
I grew up in a house that was in constant disarray. I wouldn’t call it hoarding because it wasn’t how much stuff we had that was the issue (though we did have more than what was comfortable), it was a lack of consistency in any kind of cleaning routine. I don’t want to get deep into the why or how bad it was, but essentially it wasn’t common for us to have clean dishes in the cabinets and trying to do anything was extremely stressful and time consuming. I moved out in 2020 and even though I keep my space MUCH cleaner and neater, I still feel a lot of shame and stress if there are dishes in the sink or a mess on my desk. For the longest time I’d avoid cleaning because I felt so much shame about how bad the problem had gotten until I really couldn’t take it anymore and I’d do it all in on a random afternoon. I’m still in the process of relearning how to maintain an orderly space at 28 and I try not to kick myself for that. I say all that just to say I appreciate people like aurikateriina because she normalizes very messy and dirty spaces as just another aspect of the human condition rather than making it out to be a moral failing. She humanizes the people she’s helping by respecting their reasons for how they got where they are and not making the task a negative experience. I spent many a day watching her videos to hype myself up to do my own routine cleaning, especially when I’m feeling depressed and my mess has gotten overwhelming. Her methods thought me to be kind with myself no matter how clean or messy my space has gotten and she’s one of the few who’ve helped me feel less shame around cleaning.
Thanks for this Noah!!!! I have problems cleaning after getting super sick a few years back. I LOVE setting up a phone date with my mom or a friend to keep me company when I clean. It’s one of the only things that works for me. Another thing is to time chunk, set a 12 minute timer and see how much I can do on that time. A third thing that helps is to start a stopwatch and aim for 45 mins of picking up as exercise to get in steps but not as a goal to clean one room. Somehow when I free myself from having to make a room perfect I can clean better. LASTLY novelty always helps. Classic executive function hack. I can organize my basement or weed a garden bed easier than doing the dishes because it’s different and I don’t have history of feeling bad about it. And it’s finite. Dishes and laundry happen all the time and feels futile
when i learned that aaron bushnell was a comrade anarkitty, i got up and cleaned my space. maybe a weird reaction, but it felt right. when heeding a call to action, i always start cleaning my house while thinking about to respond. i am isolated in a rural area, so i don't always figure out how i can engage beyond keeping my own head above the water level as to greasy pans, i like to start w cold water so the grease doesnt come off all at once and clog the drain. ill switch to hot water once the grease has thinned out, and finish by letting the hot water run for a sec to clear the drain (it's a tip from americas test kitchen)
With love Kristina has some of my favorite cleaning content. Her channel is actually a vintage fashion/lifestyle channel, but her cleaning videos are some of my favorites cause they’re just so honest and relatable. Her video “A Love Letter to Messes” literally made me tear up a bit. I just love how unapologetic and transparent she is about trying to keep house with 5 kids in an old home.
I think a better way to think about the 'hoarder' clean out is not so much 'they are benefiting off of people in need' but more of they are 'crowd sourcing the cost of cleaning' because as you mentioned that service would cost a small fortune to the person in need. There's a yardwork guy who does a similar service, 1 day of his work week he checks the clerks office for people getting warnings etc... for overrun yards and goes and cleans them up and uses the money from the video to pay the fee.
booo I haven’t been keeping up with this channel so I binge watched the last 8 videos while I cooked dinner, ate dinner, and dyed my hair and now I am caught up :( this style of content is nice for me cause it feels like yapping on ft with a friend so my brain stops wandering for a while and I can do my tasks without thinking about them. it makes those tasks actually kind of fun so yay
i love how i can see you taking care of all these little details, improving these little things, all from the feedback you receive, it shows that you care. my piece of feedback is that i don’t know if it’s a brazilian thing but i miss more foam when you wash your dishes 😭😭 the videos are great, keep it up!!!
I like to listen to these videos while I'm working (data entry) because it helps me focus. You've got such a soothing thing voice and such vivid descriptions. The stuck-on rice bit really hit me.
Your recent content has been so engaging for me. It's not just a background noise, I love listening in to your train of thought. The casual nature of these videos makes me feel so mindful and grounded. Thanks for sharing man
I just finished cleaning my home office/game room. It took about 2 weeks of chipping away and organizing it. The finished product is amazing, I freed up so much floor space and also organized my closet so I can access things without having to take everything out of the closet. Was it necessary? Not really. But as I'm getting the energy to put in the effort to get my room exactly the way I want AND maintain that organization, it's worth it. Of course if someone looks at my room they see the final product, I didn't really document the true mess and clutter. It just looks like something out of a magazine which can be intimidating for people. How do you know where to start if you only see the end goal?
I wash dishes almost the same as you with a similar water saving thought process. One thing I do a bit different is making hot soapy water in a larger drinking glass or bowl to peroidically dunk the sponge it rather than turning the sink back on or adding more soap to the sponge.
this is great content, I’m glad it exists. I started watching, not knowing what I was getting into, but after a few minutes, I started doing my dishes along with the vid. it’s a relatable situation that isn’t “heightened” for TikTok. that’s good for my brain.
I love these so much! I've been watching them as they come out and remembering to do chores more often. I don't have a whole lot to clean so I'm also cleaning my friends house when I'm over and it's really rewarding. On the cleaning grindset💪
In regards to whether anyone finds this interesting - I am loving these updates from you. It's been really nice to put these on as I go and try to leave the depression pit myself. Literally got inspired to do my dishes finally watching you, and had a little spark of joy as I realized I wanna try the brush system so I don't feel overwhelmed. I'm trying to navigate loss of my own, and getting these reminders that I can do little things to make my mental health better and that I deserve to be living in a tidy space is helping me a lot. Thanks for being so open about these things!
What about showing around the place? I know u dont wanna do the usual vlogging ytber thing But u could show the non touristy areas with the pov u have gained knowledge in recent years
i genuinely love this channel so much, you’ve actually helped me start focusing so much more on getting stuff done around my house and even with my own hygiene. your videos have really made a positive impact on my life, so thank you noah! ❤️
Since you asked for feedback I thought to point out that the breaks you take during your talk to go over the sensation/feeling of detail cleaning (both doing and noticing how things get left behind) are so satisfying to listen to, but also just resonate with me a lot because when I wash the dishes I do it thoroughly and scrub and swipe (and repeat) over the surface until it feels smooth and ungreased. I also try to emphasize the importance of doing that to the people in my life but they still try to do the dishes as fast as possible and wonder why there’s still dried food on everything. It doesn’t drive me crazy because I’ll just do it myself while they’re out or asleep since it gives them all anxiety that they do anything poorly (and I like cleaning) but it was nice to hear someone actually gets that. Your talks feel like hanging out with someone and it’s nice even if you feel a bit self conscious about it. 👍☺️
Man, thank you for your vids, they bring me peace. Life's pretty stressful at moment so its really amazing to get home and put one of your videos watch you do stuff, speak openly and honestly and you're funny af. I've never met you but I consider you a friend. Thanks x
boost this comment, a lot of oils are not liquid state all the time (and regardless) it can be easy to forget that these materials are semihazardous dependent on their environment (which leaves our control)
My water heater is at its highest setting so it comes out the tap at about a million degrees and I run straight hot water when I pour oil. I also rent tho so yolo
Hi Noah! These videos remind me others are doing the same boring tasks I hate doing. It’s made doing my tasks easier. We all hate it but gotta do it. Good vid!
Thank you so much for verbalizing your thoughts on why/ the 'pleasure' we get out of binge eating. It's a difficult thing to stop and equally difficult to process, but the words you provided perfectly describe it. It's just a drug, but with flavor. A horrible coping mechanism, like so many others, and the post-binge clarity and depression are certainly real.
I hate using aggressive cleaning products. I'd rather put the elbow grease in. Also, don't feel embarrassed, your kind of cleaning is the reality for most people.
i clicked on this randomly from my home feed as i was getting ready to clean my bathroom. i drank a few glasses of wine and cleaned some other small sections of my house first. i was thinking about tossing everything under the cabinet and calling it a night. without even realizing it, this video playing as i approached the chore caused me to deep clean my bathroom. wow! that's truly a first. thank you. best clean with me video i've ever seen!
i love putting these on when i’m doing schoolwork. i used to take more tiktok breaks and this seems a lot healthier than being random content fed every 15 minutes. it helps my stream of consciousness flow without overstimulating me. thanks!
I find this content extremely motivational and helpful. Depression has been hitting hard, this has really helped keep me at least a little productive/motivated at a time when even getting out of bed can be a struggle. Thank you ❤️
good video good format. enjoyed listening to removing the half grain of rice. also learned something new - that the oil does indeed get stuck in the spnge
I comment this every time, but these videos have been the most effective body doubling stuff I've ever tried. I've heard of body doubling streams and stuff, but they seemed like a long investment and I am always too talkative in streams to focus on work while watching them. Feel free to shift focus if you lose interest in this, but it's been very helpful so far. thank you! I was doing squats with you yesterday while I cooked breakfast and thought it didn't do much until I woke up this morning (I had to stop early because I'm sick and I'm struggling to get enough air rip) I enjoy the pleasant soreness of a good workout and I find it rewarding. I know a running thing in this series has been people criticizing your dishwashing techniques. I want to clarify that I'm not criticizing you, just taking the time to talk about how I do dishes since it's a regular topic of discussion lol. I don't usually run the water until the rinse step, since I hate the dunking method. For the washing, I fill a bowl with water and soap to make basically concentrated dishwater without the gross parts. I use it to dip my sponge or splash some into the pans i'm washing. By the end, I usually end up using most of it. I wouldn't say it's the least wasteful method, but I feel it's a good middle ground that avoids the gross parts of dishwater and the dangerous parts of a full sink (submerged knives).
been sick for like the last week, your videos have been providing a sense of productivity while i'm rotting away in bed, appreciate the video as always noah!
You're so conscientious of your water usage ❤😂 Edit: you're talk at the end of struggling with executive dysfunction and the self awareness while binge eating made me feel so seen omg ive been trying to describe those feelings to the people around me for like ever
ADHD person who's been medicated for 4 months now here. Everything you ramble about is so incredibly relatable, i love just listening to you while i do stuff. Re cleaning channels: I love midwest magic cleaning because he's neurodivergent himself (so is his wife, probably his kids too?) and he's very transparent about why he does things, and puts context on the families he's helping. Auriikatarina is cool too, but sometimes I feel like she's not transparent enough and doesn't communicate well, where mental health comes into play. She seems more happy go lucky and doesn't judge, which is okay too, but I feel that her wide audience could benefit from some education and learned compassion. Maybe it's a language barrier also, who knows!
Americans have to refrigerate eggs because we scrub the poop off, which also gets rid of a protective layer. Also the difference in milk flavor and freshness is also how much the FDA requires Americans to pasteurize milk.
Honestly love this sort of content, I find it really helpful to pull me back down to Earth a bit. Sometimes seeing all of the Aesthetic videos and Instagram posts make me feel shameful and disappointed in myself when I'm not constantly doing exciting things. These videos help remind me that we all have dishes to do, we all have toilets to clean and, honestly, boring day to day lives. Keep it up my guy.
As someone who had a really rough fall and winter due to a bad flare up of chronic pancreatitis, I get it. Husband kept house going. But what got trashed was my side of the bedroom. I, um, just couldn’t keep up basic self care, much less basic cleaning. And being a contrary ass person, wanted to do it myself. And it got bad. Now that I am much better, I am stripping that room to the walls thanks to cleaning videos keeping me inspired. Just found you and wanted to say thanks for talking about this topic! 🥰
I have ADHD also and here are my tips for ADHD and productivity- 1) What works for one person with ADHD may not work for another, and there's so much shame involved in not being able to get started or remember to do basic tasks, it's very unhelpful to add additional shame because someone else's ADHD tips or life hacks don't work for you. Throw out and ignore any advice if you can't get it to work for you personally. 2) Productivity Stuff that works may stop working at any time. This is very frustrating but for ADHDers, pretty normal. Let that trick be fallow for awhile and it may work again later. This is also why it is good to have layered strategies in case something stops working for awhile. 3) If I am not able to get myself going, I see if I can change something in my immediate environment to see if that helps. Am I physically uncomfortable in any way? Do I need water? Do I need to go to the bathroom? Or tie my hair back because it's annoying me etc. I also use a playlist I made on Spotify that I named Move It because it's filled with songs that help me keep moving. If you have songs like that- make a playlist when you aren't stuck so there are less steps to get to the music when you are. 4) Something is better than nothing. Doing some of a task is better than neglecting or hiding from it. Can't open all the bills? Open one bill. And then give yourself a lil treat like a sticker or a lil candy or whatever gives you a little smile because even if you didn't do all of it- doing some of it is still REALLY GOOD. 5) Simplify any task you find you get stuck on to the absolute least amount of steps and pre-plan to make sure you have everything you need to do it right next to where it needs to be done. If I have to walk to another room to get an envelope to pay bills, I am more likely to wander off and forget the bills than if the envelopes live next to the mail. 6) There are no Adult Rules about how to do most things as long as they are done to a reasonable amount of competence. It doesn't matter if they way you do things or when you do them seems weird or not like how other people do them. YOU have to do the thing so as long as you do- that's all that matters. 7) You know those little annoying admin tasks that stack up because even tho they're small, they're really boring and hard to make yourself do? If I'm having a lil grumpy day and nothing is helping the grump, I try to do a couple of those little things. Because I'm already annoyed, so I might as well knock out something that annoys me. ❤
Conserving soap trick I use is to squirt a bit with water into a bowl by the side of the sink, then use the soapy water as I clean with my sponge and only the really greasy stuff gets direct soap. It uses less erry time! By the time I'm done I'll clean the soap bowl and sink with whatever left. Have a good one!
wow I loved this a lot actually... this was great. It gave me a great social media detox and gave me like a really nice unwinding session, I just kind of did my jigsaw puzzle and felt like I was listening to a friend ramble. It was great, thank you!!
I always talk to my therapist about the need to "speed run" things. If there is something in the way of what I want to do, I'll do it in the quickest way possible, which includes simple things like not even putting on coats or gloves, letting things fall where I put them, not taking things out of the car. Like looking up the wok thing, it's so easy, simple, quick, but it's not on the "speed run" path. I try to force my brain to slow down sometimes.
I never consciously had the words to explain this but because of what you’ve written here, I have realized that I do this too… it also has me put off other tasks that I know can’t be done in one go or that by nature have to be done over time… it can definitely be a task to slow down.
This is literally exactly the content I was craving. I could watch you all day, cleaning dishes, and just talking about random stuff 😅 don’t judge me, we all have our own kinks 👀
I love watching/listening to cleaning videos. The extreme hoarder cases shown in Midwest Magic Cleaning are more common than people think/want to admit in the US. Personally, my place is no where near as bad as a Midwest Magic client, but it’s a bit cluttered and I sometimes need motivation to get started or need a nudge to get over the overwhelmed feeling that makes me freeze before I get started. Seeing or listening to a non-judgmental person start and tackle a larger challenge while listening to tips and jokes at the same time makes a less-than-pleasant but necessary task a little more pleasant.
(since you mentioned appreciating feedback) I really enjoyed this video! Watching someone else do work is helping me get into the right mindset to complete my own tasks for the day. I was kind of unsure though because the thumbnail looked like it might have been one of those kinds of videos where the host plays tiktoks and then makes fun of them/reacts from their computer desk set up - really happy that wasn't the case! :D
I really like this video, it's similar to how I figure shit out myself and I really enjoy listening to this kind of content when I am doing other stuff.
i liked this format! easy to use this as body doubling and do some chores around the house (today we did dishes together lol) while still enjoyable to watch for those who are only watching
these videos are so great to work out to :) Noah, even with hot water don't try to drain oil into the sink, you need to get yoself a dish brush purely for putting a bit of dish soap in and emulsify the oil with so it's less likely to clog the sink xoxo, but still use hot water to drain it down for a few mins
I love channels like Midwest Magic and Auri because they don't judge the people they are helping, share their stories, and explain how a person can end up in a situation like the one they are in but explain it with compassion. I have big love for Auri especially because I've been following her a lot longer and she's shared some of her own personal struggles with mental health in the past and why she likes to help people.
This is my first time watching you. I subscribed and am looking forward to seeing what else you have to say. I will add to your commentary on cleaning content. I have trouble with mental health affecting my ability to clean and watching videos of hoards getting cleaned is more than satisfying to me- it gives me hope and motivation to not let my house get like that. I grew up in a hoarding home and as a child I had no ability or power to fix it. As an adult I have to constantly remind myself that I can do it and it isn't hopeless. Maybe that helps you see where different people are coming from.
