Spring Cleaning & Morning Habits

How much stuff in your house do you not even use? Dangerous Dave talks about 34% of stuff we have we don't even use. Plus, you bad day maybe caused by your bad habits, like looking at your phone right away and not eating breakfast.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Please keep deeper in the din with dangerous day pull
Spring cleaning season is coming up, and here's a question.
Could you get rid of about a third of the
stuff that you own and not even know the difference.
The average American says thirty four percent of the junk
they own is stuff they don't really use or rarely
use or even need. But it depends upon how you
define the word use. Twenty one percent of the stuff

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we don't want and haven't gotten rid of, ten percent
is other people's stuff that we somehow ended up with,
and thirteen percent is just pure junk. Twenty seven percent
of the stuff we're hanging on to is for sentimental reasons.
Twenty nine percent collect some things that spark joy, so
they're not really considered junk to us. A poll asked
the people what is the weird stuff you collect? Answers

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include oil burning lamps, coasters from breweries, vintage handkerchiefs, porcelain pigs, clowns,
and one person even said fingernail clippings you. Twenty percent
of us currently have a storage unit to hold our junk,
guilty as charged. Ten percent are still key in some
of the stuff at their parents' place. My kid's guilty
as charged, and the average person says they'd pay thirteen

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hundred dollars to have their unwanted junk magically disappear. Guess what,
there's companies that do that. Deeper in the two, did
you wake up on the wrong side of the bed
this morning? Something on this list might be wide. The
experts tell us here are eight morning habits that can
make you measurable. First of all, immediately reaching for your phone,
give yourself a chance to wake up, Maybe go start

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a pot of coffee. Your phone is full of stressful stuff.
Not a great way to start your day. Dwelling on
yesterday's problems or mistakes. Trying to think each day as
a new chapter or new chance. Dwelling on stuff can
make your days blend together and be one big stressful experience.
Starting your day with the complaints. Trying to roll out
of bed and start complaining about the weather or how

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much you don't want to go to work starts a
negative tone that can stick with you all day. Not
taking time to be grateful. Take five minutes to think
of stuff that you're thankful for. Maybe it's something in
general or something specific that happened day before. Studies show
that we're happier when we take time to be grateful
rushing through your morning without fuel. They say breakfast is
the most important meal of the day, and it's true,

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but one in four Americans skip it If you're cranky
by noon, Eating something small and healthy in the morning
might help engage in negative self talk that goes hand
in hand with starting the day with complaints. Don't let
your inner monologue drag yourself down. Avoid all physical activity.
If you don't have something physical to do, try to
jump out of bed and do something. You don't have

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to run five miles, but just some light stretching or
short walk and release endorphins and boost your mood. And
not having a goal, we tend to be happier when
we do if we have a personal goal, a work goal,
or something more long term. If you have some sort
of goal in mind, you can't feel like you're stuck
on autopilot. No goal, autopilot, you're stuck. So there are
some ways to make yourself feel better every morning, and

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