From their website:
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It’s pretty sweet. I opened it, it ran through my ridiculously cluttered iTunes library, then I told it I wanted an exercising playlist that gradually peaked. Bam. Done. There’s a trial available.

I have no affiliation whatsoever with Potion Factory, I just like saving time and brain cycles.

This post motivated me to get up and clean the upstairs bathroom, and I kept right on going. I find this usually happens. I tell myself I’ll just do 15 minutes (or get up during commercials) and then I keep on going. Thanks for the motivation!

If you only have time to wash a load of towels at least you’ve done one thing. Sometimes it’s the small things that bring happiness.

In finance terms, that is you need to have your mandatory expenses below half your income.

In housecleaning terms, that means if you are spending more than an hour a week cleaning, you need to either up your cleaning skills or rethink the basic organization and systems of your household. (Note: the hour a week excludes a quarterly “spring” cleaning, nightly kitchen duty and pick up, and doesn’t count laundry.)

I’ve gotten pretty brutal about no storage on horizontal spaces, unless there is a container for that purpose. Getting “stuff” to the level of only having as much as your space will hold opens up a lot of time.

Our daily cleanup is about 10 min of dinner cleanup. We leave everything on the table until after the kids go to bed. We would rather spend time with them than clean the kitchen right away.

The kids put their toys away before going to bed.

It sounds like you all have *way* too much laundry. How many loads must you have if you are doing one per day? I do three loads per week (for our family of 4).

That leaves tidying up, doing dishes, etc., which we are fairly religious about doing. My husband is a major neatnik. I wasn’t always, but years of living with him truly changed me. I think of in terms of creating my sacred space, my home, my nest– and then tidying up doesn’t seem like such a chore.

So yes, outsourcing definitely isn’t the cheapest option– but for our two-working-parents-and-a-toddler household it’s a price we’re willing to pay in order to not spend every weekend cleaning.