NEW! 3 DAY SATISFYING DEEP CLEAN WITH ME | SPEED CLEANING MOTIVATION | DEEP CLEANING + DECLUTTER

Hey guys, I hope you're ready for three days of super

satisfying

clean

ing. I'm going to tidy up a bit, take apart my cordless vacuum, completely

deep

clean

it, clean my couch, dust, clean windows, do a lot and you guys are coming with me. give me a thumbs up if you're ready to get moving thank you I have this volume in mind I can't live without forever eyes I'll kill myself I think it speaks to everything I like Hi guys, welcome to Jamie's journey I'm so happy you're here thank you for hanging out with me thank you for making time in your busy schedule to hang out with me we have a lot of things we are going to do today this will be spread over three days this was the first day this was after a weekend long week and when I say long weekend, it's not necessarily a long weekend where we had an extra day, it was just a long weekend, we were home a lot, which usually means a lot more hassle. inside and actually now that it's starting to get cooler there's probably going to be more mess inside just because we're going to be cooped up for most of the winter last weekend we had a group of friends we had kids we had adults we had. people were hanging out in the basement to watch the Ohio State and Notre Dame college football game, make money if you guys watch that game, oh it was a nail biter.

I was so nervous, so scared, um, but we had a group of kids. You will see many disasters during the next three days. I'm just going to focus on some

deep

cleaning

tasks and also

cleaning

up those messes from all the friends we had oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so the girls were pretty tired, so like I said, we invited friends over for the game, the game ended honestly, I don't even remember the time it ended, probably between 11:30 and midnight, I think it was what last. All of our kids had stayed up at some point, especially the twins, but they were doing really well running around and having fun, so they liked it, they had a fashion show during the game and all the girls came down, they liked a little fashion show in the one where everyone had to vote so it was fun, they were upstairs playing, they came down and did little dance routines and fashion shows for us and then they came back upstairs so it was fun, we have a group of friends and it's crazy. because they all have girls and they're about Avery's age, in a year or two, maybe the twins are by far the youngest, but they just tag along, so it's nice to feel like we're at that point where everyone can play together but everyone was so tired, it was actually Sunday night, so since everyone was up late, I mean, I was tired tonight, Mike was tired, the girls were tired, so I said: "Okay, let's set a timer." The timer was more for me because I thought I was cutting it to an hour.

I'm just going to clean for an hour. Sometimes I have the idea in my head that I'm just going to clean for an hour and then move on. So I thought no, I'm just going to clean for an hour. I'm going to see what I can do in an hour and it was also fun because the girls weren't motivated to clean, but once I did it like, oh. let's see how fast we can do it and you could see it visually there on the iPad. It worked for everyone, so we pretty much did it all, but it was a fun little game, you should definitely give it a try, thanks foreigner. microwave It's almost hard for me to say that I'm a little distracted.

I don't know if you can hear it. I'm actually doing these voiceovers and in my closet, which shares a wall with Avery and Mike's closet and bathroom. He's there right now giving them a bath so they can have fun. Normally I wouldn't do it here because I wouldn't want you guys to listen. I didn't want that to distract me, but I have dinner plans tomorrow night, so I'm fine. I'm going to delete it tonight, so I apologize if you can hear that in the background, but what I was doing here was I was cleaning these windows and with my hand Bissell Steam. then I was also cleaning the microwave with the best method I found as I take white distilled vinegar, put it in a microwave safe container, put it in there, I think I put it in for about seven minutes and then when it was done.

I take it out and I just spray some Dawn pressure wash and the combination of the vinegar and the Dawn pressure wash just breaks down any dirt or oils or anything that's in there, it just cleans up really easily so this is a combination really good. vinegar and Dawn and then with all that heat the vinegar covers the inside of the microwave and then you spray Dawn and it's a great duo oh foreigner so now that it's fall typically in the fall and then spring is when I tend to buy new clothes for the year. I'm not a big shopper in general.

I do most of my shopping online and I usually buy a few new pieces, maybe for winter or summer during those seasons, so I've been shopping like I normally do at Walmart Amazon Target, but my two, well, actually there are two boutiques that I shop at, like if I want a nice shirt for a date night or going out or if there's a Christmas show on, you know, and stuff like that. I'll talk about the ones I don't understand much about because I spend most of my day wearing leggings, sweatpants, sweatshirts and essentially athleisure, but I think a lot of people forget about Abercrombie and American Eagle, which have so much. lots of cute basic tees, long sleeve tops that go well with leggings.

Abercrombie can be a little pricey, but both places have good sales, so I always keep an eye out for sales. I just ordered some Abercrombie jeans and a bunch of really cute sweatshirts, so don't forget those places. I always get asked what stores I photographed in for my sweatshirts and you know, like Henley shirts. I love a good Henley. I love a good quarter-zip sweatshirt. Big oversized sweatshirts I've been buying. the ones from American Eagle and Abercrombie but be careful with the sales but I just want to say that thank you foreigner thank you okay you might be confused this was actually filmed a couple of weeks ago so if you notice that I don't have my fall. decoration when I clean I just clean so I go around and usually you know when every week when I go to film you know I have in my head the things that I want to do you know I have my cleaning routine for that week and I know you know the basics that I have to do, like you know every day or every week, you know, learn how to vacuum, mop that kind of thing, but then I also choose a couple of deep cleaning tests to tackle that week and that's just That's how I do it.

I do now, occasionally there will be times maybe on a weekend or an evening if I just have free time and I decide I need to do something or maybe I think this time something had spilled so I knew I wanted to do it. Clean the couch I don't think I've cleaned this since we moved into this new house. I don't think so, but every once in a while that happens and I'm not filming or anything, but then I'll just film it because I'm like, oh, I can put that in a video another time because you know I don't clean the couch very often, so This was from a couple of weeks ago and I'm showing up here and then after this day.

You'll see me doing more cleaning and that was starting this week, but I just wanted to put this out there because I think this is a little bit different than daily cleaning and it's just different so I thought maybe if some of you get bored or You don't have time to watch the full video, which I appreciate you watching the full video, but I understand that you guys are busy and maybe I would just put on something that's a little bit different, so if you guys need to do other things, you can do that, but I'm going to take apart my Tinco cordless vacuum and completely deep clean it later in the video, so I'll respond. some questions that you guys asked me, so q a while I fold the laundry abroad, thank you even if you tried, you wouldn't understand, maybe something is missing inside of you, you know what we are going to get into the high and low point of the week, so yes I'm new to Jamie's journey.

I like to share a high point and a low point of my week just to create a conversation and you know, sometimes the low points are very low like last week, other weeks like this, it's just nice, as a nice would say. basic high and low like nothing too crazy but let's start with the low we'll end on a high note so this week's low is that so I've talked about this before but I've been having trouble sleeping. I think since I was in graduate school, I was in graduate school in 2009. I had an assistantship where I worked at an inner-city high school and then I also got my master's degree in curriculum and teaching.

I think just being in grad school and working. and all of that was probably a little bit stressed and I think that's where some of my sleep issues happened and it's been kind of a rollercoaster since I've been going through cycles and knock on wood for probably the last six months. I've been sleeping much better and haven't had many insomnia attacks, which has been really nice this week. I had one night where I didn't sleep well and normally one night doesn't affect me at all. It's starting to get like two or three nights, but something I've really noticed as I've gotten older, I know, if you're older than me, you're going to laugh and say, oh, just wait, so I know it can only get worse. but I find that when I don't sleep I really get depressed.

Fortunately I don't suffer from depression, anxiety or anything like that. I've had family members have to help friends and family who have really dealt with it. I'm very grateful that I haven't had to deal with that, but I would say that when I don't sleep I really feel depressed and not in a way that affects my life, but I would say that at some point um, what I feel depressed is when I don't sleep. well and it's crazy because I also think about when I had babies and especially with twins, newborn twins. I think your body almost goes into this, um, this mode, you know, and sleep just.

It doesn't affect you as much maybe then because I don't remember feeling like that, but I'll have a night like a night of very little sleep and the next day I feel bored, like I'm tired, obviously, but I just feel bored, there's no other way. describe it and then I sleep through the night and instantly feel better, but I just noticed that when I don't sleep it dramatically affects my mood. I feel very depressed and blah, but then I'll get a good night's sleep, seven hours, um and I feel instantly better, so I'm realizing that sleep is very important, more so as I get older, relaxing, seeming strange, it's well, before reaching the highest point.

This was another cleaning day, the girls were at school so I was just trying to get some things done upstairs now real quick, something I'm going to start doing so I don't know how many of you are familiar with this kind of stuff . so you know um but I'm going to start linking all the products that I use in each video in a link in the video description and the reason I want to start doing this is because if you go into the ltk app from your phone or on the website it gives you pictures of the cleaning tools because what I've been finding is that in my videos I use multiple vacuum cleaners or multiple handheld vacuum cleaners and people will say which handheld vacuum cleaner is most people. they want the link they don't want, I don't know, I just get a lot of comments like what is the gap, what is the gap, they don't click on the links, so I thought it would be easier, there would be a link.

If you go to the description of the video, it will be at the top and if you click on that link you will see all the elements that I am using in the video and there will be images, so it should be easier. Find the links you want now. I'll keep them as general links in the description. Those will always be there, but just for the specific items, products, tools that I'm using in this video, everything will be in one link, so I just wanted to throw it out because I think it'll be a lot easier, so you won't be like, you know , if I link, if I use like in this video, I'm using three different vacuums, so you know, I just think it's going to be easier for people to find the exact tool that they need.

Thanks, okay, let's get to the highlight of the week. When I was thinking about it at dinner, I thought, "Okay, let's talk about that highlight of the week we were talking about." girls' day at school and all that at dinner and I was trying to think of what I was going to say and I thought, you know what an uneventful week and I think if maybe you're on the stage of life I'm with little kids um kids on school homework running from activity to activity um all that or maybe you're not in that stage of life but you're just busy for a lot of reasons sometimes an uneventful week is a good thing like Some days I wake up and every day I have my list of things I want to accomplish that day, but most of the time I don't finish that whole list because things always turn out well, especially with kids, as suchmaybe I had planned it. doing something at one point, but then Avery had extra homework or we were going to read together or someone stopped by the house, you know, things always come up that shake up your day or your week and this has been one of those weeks where everyone Just one day everything has been going great, we haven't had any surprises, we've had less activities this week, so Avery is in softball, she usually practices two days a week and then the twins have a soccer game on Saturday, but Avery He didn't have practice this week.

I didn't have any homework, it's just like a low-key week where everything has gone well and sometimes it's nice to have those weeks and you feel like you can catch your breath and relax a little more, so I've been catching up on some of my homework. TV shows, you know, Mike and I have our TV shows that we like to watch together and then I have my own shows. I started watching Virgin River again and I think it's the third or fourth season, but I really like it. that show I love my real housewives. I've been watching Orange County and New York trying to think of what else I've been watching, but I think those are the only ones, oh southern charm on Bravo.

I'm a big Bravo girl. So I've been catching up. I've been relaxing and catching up on some of my favorite TV shows and it's been a really good and uneventful week yeah thank you thank you so I always feel weird saying this and explaining things that. Many of you probably already know this, but if you're new here you're probably wondering why we don't have a shower curtain in the shower and it's because we didn't choose the design of this house well, we chose this. specific floor plan um, but we didn't design it or anything, it was our builders floor plan.

My oldest daughter, Avery, has her own bathroom outside of her room and then this is a Jack and Jill, so this bathroom is connected to the twins' room and then another room, which right now is just the living room. games, eventually it will be one of Addison or Emery's rooms and then they will share Jack and Jill's bathroom, but right now, since the girls are so young, not all of them need their own. bathrooms, so the twins use that bathroom like we have to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night or you know, brush our teeth and all that, but right now we're not going to dirty another shower, that's why there's no shower curtain.

There I want to decorate a little bit, but it's not high on my list of things I don't know, but I'm keeping it pretty basic right now, but yeah. I would like to add some sun. in that bathroom like some rugs and make it a little fun for the girls. I think I'm going to wait until something really like that, until I'm browsing the aisles at Target or Walmart and something like really sticks out weird trying to get your attention you make me nervous I still wasn't brave enough just to talk to you sweaty palms no they make it so much better something about you feels so special I'm telling you I love this wet duster so it's a Scrub Daddy that's the Scrub Daddy brand wet duster and the sponge is really hard and then you run it through hot water and it goes on gentle so you're basically dusting without chemicals without a cleaner and it does such a good job I couldn't believe it but I don't know why I was surprised.

I haven't cleaned these blinds in a long time. The blinds are quite dusty, but I love seeing all the dust coming off them. It just works much better than a simple cloth. or anything, I love the stamp duster, even the windowsill, like, how did the windowsill get so dirty? I have no idea, but what I do is you use it and then if it builds up a lot of dust, you just rinse it off. I use it under water and you can use it again, so it's a really good cleaning tool. I use it on baseboard blinds.

I mean, you can basically use it anywhere you need to dust, but I don't know if they'll notice. but they are building a house next to us so I think at one point I heard it might be a model house, I'm not sure but then I think Mike said they were going to drop that and someone bought that house so we'll have neighbors . I think right now they're saying it'll be almost 18 months from start to finish, so it'll certainly be a while before we have neighbors. But they started construction, so it's been a little noisy. But I do not know.

It's going to be fun, hopefully they have some little girls or the girls can have friends to play with, so it was time to deep clean this vacuum and this vacuum was due for so long that it got really dirty because I think it was in August, so Sometimes I use baking soda to deodorize the mattresses and stuff, and some of them had fallen on the floor. I think there was too much that had fallen on the floor at some point and I accidentally vacuumed it up and when I did, you have to be careful because if you use baking, if you vacuum up baking soda, you can clog the vacuum.

So what happened was something like that. I had cleaned it, I didn't take it apart, but I did clean part of it. a little bit, but something like you can see right there. I think some of the baking soda had gotten a little wet in some areas and then collected in the vacuum and I've been so lazy since then that I haven't cleaned this up. and I've been using it so it was time to do it and I had time today so I took it apart, making sure to take the filter out. I took out the filter and put it under hot water and then all the other parts, if I can run them under water I will; if not, I take rubbing alcohol and a microfiber cloth and just clean everything properly, but if you have this vacuum, you're just taking it apart.

Basically, you know rinse the parts that you can clean under water with a cloth, you know, this cloth is a dry cloth with a little bit of alcohol and then you'll see me get into that base part here in a minute. What I did was I took a penny and you'll see this little circular part right there, you put the penny in there and then it all comes out, so essentially if you're cleaning any vacuum, you're going to want to remove as many pieces as you can. and then you know, remove the hair, wipe things with a damp cloth, run anything under water, you can go to YouTube and search for how to clean my Shark vacuum how to clean my Tinko vacuum.

It may not be your exact model, but maybe I can give you some tips or tricks on how to clean your specific brand of vacuum and that's what I do, but it's not that bad. Another tip is to take, you'll see me do it here in a minute, but I take a butter knife and I wrap a Clorox. I cleaned around to get into some of the crevices because you'll see I'm going to get in here and I was able to clean up all that gunk which I know is really gross, but then there were some areas that I couldn't get rid of.

So I took the Clorox wipe, wrapped it around a butter knife and then was able to get into those cracks and crevices to get all the excess dirt out. That's a really gross word, but it's really weird, so I want to address this area. It's nice to have this area as a designated trash area, you know, things like we get a newspaper, Avery or the twins bring you a newspaper on Monday, we need it by Thursday, it's nice to leave everything nice here, but what ends up going? It becomes a drop-off location for everyone, so we have some Halloween decorations, we have some socks, those are clean.

Avery wore double layer socks this morning, I don't know why, and then they ended up bothering her, so she took them off, but this. it just becomes a drop zone for everything um so I frequently come in here and force myself to do a five minute order, look at the clock, it's just what I do when I'm out, this is an area that I really need. To review, I'm already starting a list in my head of the areas I need to

declutter

. You know, we moved into this house last December and when you move in, you do your best to organize it in some way, but there are areas where you just throw things away, so this is one of those areas and now that we've been here almost a year, it's time to review and

declutter

, so I definitely want to review these cabinets here soon.

We'll see, but stay tuned because I'm going to answer some questions that you guys asked me by asking a little question when I fold some laundry here in a moment, don't mind stopping me now, it's just what I do when I use a mouse. Well, I'm going to address some questions I have and then continue when I'm folding laundry, so one question was: I'd love to see more of your workouts and what you eat. I know you mainly do cleaning content. but I am very interested in your health journey, this is my only advice. I get asked a lot about the workouts I do.

I will tell you that I mainly run four to six miles, so two or three times a week. I have a spin bike that I spin on if I need a quick 20 minute workout that will kick my butt and I do Caroline Girvin on YouTube it's free she has strength training workouts so I mix it up for about five to six days a week and the key here is not the workouts I do. I think people think that the workouts that I do maybe are superior to maybe other workouts or they see my consistent routine and they think that the workouts that I do could work for them and this is the biggest advice that I'm going to give if you want to do exercise, find a workout or fitness program that works for you.

Okay, I love running, but I know a lot of people don't. The husband hates running, he hates it, so if running was what he was forced to do, he wouldn't work out six days a week, but you know what he does, he works out six days a week because he does strength training. Each one is different, each one has their own. preferences and I know life I know life is busy for you I know you don't want to work out because you know what I don't want to work out five or six days a week I mean there are some days I want to work out and other days, You don't have to find an exercise program that works for you because it's not specific training that will create results, but consistency and discipline.

I've worked five to six days a week consistently for years. For as long as I can remember, even during pregnancy, I never do five workouts a week unless I'm sick or something crazy comes up, but I always make time for those workouts, so my workouts aren't special. I would say it's just consistency. and discipline, so running because I love running, but you're Caroline Girvin's spin workouts and strength training, but you try different things, try, there's so many different applications. I have tried many different apps and sometimes they work in specific seasons. In my life, sometimes I feel like I just want something fun and light-hearted and I've used the Obey Fitness app, which is fun.

Open Fit is a fun app. Try different apps and find something that works for you because at the end of the day you will only see results if you are consistent even if you walk, walk five days a week and you will see results if you do nothing so just find an exercise routine that works for you and stay constant again. Really good question. Someone wanted to know what one of the most difficult seasons of life I've ever faced was and how you got through it so easily. This one is easy and she is going through infertility.

If you didn't know, I have polycystic ovary syndrome, which was the main cause of infertility on my part, so I couldn't get pregnant, we couldn't get pregnant. With our first child, I ended up taking Clomid, which is a fertility drug that helps me ovulate, and I was able to. getting pregnant with Avery after three cycles of Clomid between Avery and the twins, Mike developed some male infertility, so since I already had infertility, he had it at the time, we had to do IVF, we did two rounds and finally got our twins and just us. We started trying to get pregnant with our second, Avery, she was a year and a half and the twins weren't born until she was four, so those years, I mean, every month was recorded, tracked, scheduled, left. going down every month like I can't even begin to tell you how hard it was and I remember when we made the decision to do IVF and I remember it was a very difficult decision because we felt like it was so expensive, should we do it?

Do this, we already have a son. You know, luckily we had Avery and we thought maybe this is just for us and it was very expensive. We thought we should do this and once we made the decision, I remember telling a friend. I almost feel like I can finally get out of the water and breathe for a minute because when you get to IVF, everything is up to someone else, the doctor controls everything, you have a schedule and everything was taken away from me, um infertility. it can be very emotional, it's a very emotionally draining and emotionally draining process and it's up to you to track what cycle it is, if you're ovulating, should I do this, should I take this, should I take this medication and it just gets to be a lot and when to go through IVF They only tell you to take this today do this we are going tocontrol this and I felt like I could let it go and have someone take over and after years of that it was absolutely exhausting so Definitely one of the hardest times of my life another good question and I'm not going to answer most of it them, so maybe I'll pick it up and do it next week or the week after, but someone really wanted to know In the same comment, someone said what's the best thing about Mike and something you guys struggle with, so the best thing about Mike is that he is the Ying to my Yang.

I have a type A personality. I am an entrepreneur. I am very disciplined. I can put a lot of things in my head. I think about things too much. Mike is not relaxed at all. He is ambitious in his career, but he is much more relaxed in all other aspects of life and simply does what he has to do. and then he's okay, he's relaxed and I go, go, go, if I finish my to-do list, I move on to the next list, so relaxed, honestly, he's always like Jamie, it's okay, I got it, I'll take care of it That's if there's anything I can do. do to make my life easier he will do it because sometimes I get really nervous and he says it's no big deal, I'll do it, I'll deal with it, so I think for me I just like it. my safe space if I feel overwhelmed I feel frustrated I feel out of control I can go to him and he calms me down and he just says everything is going to be okay he's one of those people it's like when you're a kid, you look at your parents and if you go to them and they're scared or worried about something then you know it's bad and that's how I look at it, he's just my calm, you know, and he's my rock.

He's been by my side since we were 15 and I hate to say we've never had any serious problems. I mean, of course, we've had some ups and downs, but overall. In the scheme of life, there has never been anything like Rocky seriously or anything that has seriously tested our relationship, so I just trust him with all my heart and he is just my rock now after singing Mike's Praises for almost two minutes, um. The next question was what is something that you guys struggle with and I think it's important to talk about that because just like any other couple, we have our arguments, we have our disagreements and I would say the biggest thing we struggle with is in a On a day-to-day basis, we approach things differently, we operate differently.

I am a I never procrastinate, ever. I don't work well under pressure. I like to work in advance. I like to get ahead and Mike is. I'll wait until the absolute last minute and that's when he works best and that drives me crazy like I'm like, can you do X Y and Z? I promise you I will, so it's like a little example, but we operate completely differently, as you know, some spouses work together, maybe in a specific industry. Mike and I could never work together. We have talked about this. a million times because he just doesn't operate like me, we'd argue too much if we ever worked together um, I don't know if you guys would be surprised by this either, but I'm kind of a pessimist. person I am definitely a glass half empty person and he is a glass half full, he is always looking at the positive and I think that if I am worried about something, it is just not going to turn out well, it is going to turn out badly and he is exactly the opposite, so now we approach many things differently.

I think that's why we work so well together, but I would say we just fight, especially when you work together like we're a true partnership, we work together to raise three children. When you put two people who are complete opposites, you know you're obviously going to have little disagreements or things you struggle with. I would say luckily, honestly, it's not as bad as it probably should be, since we're so, we're so. different but maybe we're so different that we just balance each other out um and I guess it works for us but I'll answer more questions at an upcoming event we're here we're at the end thank you very much yes I'm here thank you thank you for staying until the end I'm tired I probably look tired No I slept well last night.

I've been sleeping very, very well lately. I've had trouble sleeping in the past, but I don't think. I've had trouble sleeping for probably six months, so I've been doing much better, but I think I slept very, very well. I went to bed earlier than normal for some reason, like in the past, for three nights. back to back and I slept a lot and I think last night I don't think I was that tired so now I'm tired. I'm sure I'll sleep well tonight, but that's all, thank you very much. So much for being here, I appreciate you, I hope you have a wonderful week and I know you can handle anything that comes your way this week.

I promise you can do it, okay, I'll see you next time.