WEBVTT - You need a launchpad

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning.

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<v Speaker 2>This is Laura, Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's

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<v Speaker 2>tip is that to get out the door painlessly and quickly,

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<v Speaker 2>you need a launch pad. Whether you are in a

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<v Speaker 2>household of seven people like me, or you live alone,

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<v Speaker 2>or anywhere in between, you need some place where you

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<v Speaker 2>corral everything you need for leaving the house. This is

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<v Speaker 2>true even if you don't have a mudroom or obvious

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<v Speaker 2>place to put this stuff. You can solve that problem

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<v Speaker 2>and life will be easier if you do. I hear

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<v Speaker 2>from so many people that getting out the door is

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<v Speaker 2>a chronic challenge. You're close to exiting when you realize

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<v Speaker 2>that something necessary is still far away, or you can't

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<v Speaker 2>find your keys or someone's backpack or shoes. This is

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<v Speaker 2>incredibly frustrating. The solution is to have a.

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<v Speaker 1>Launch pad, a place in your house where there is

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<v Speaker 1>an architectural queue to leave and store all the things

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<v Speaker 1>you need to leave the house. This could be your sunglasses,

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<v Speaker 1>a purse, a work bag, coat and gloves, umbrellas, and shoes.

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<v Speaker 1>If you've got kids, it might be the place where

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<v Speaker 1>you put the diaper bag, backpads, sports equipment, sunscreen, et cetera.

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<v Speaker 1>When the launch pad has everything you need to get

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<v Speaker 1>out the door, there is no ending up late because

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<v Speaker 1>you are searching for mittens or soccer cleats or keys.

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<v Speaker 1>You know exactly where they all are. Because everything is

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<v Speaker 1>in the launch pad area. You can also give yourself

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<v Speaker 1>an easy visual queue to remember one off items. If

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<v Speaker 1>you need to mail a letter, you can put it

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<v Speaker 1>by your shoes in the launch pad area and you

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<v Speaker 1>will see it. Since most people exit and enter through

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<v Speaker 1>the same door most days, the existence of a launch

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<v Speaker 1>pad means that when you return home, it is obvious

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<v Speaker 1>where stuff goes. Ideally, there is no trail of items

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<v Speaker 1>leading to people's rooms. Everything gets dumped in the launch pad,

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<v Speaker 1>so it is there when you need it now. If

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<v Speaker 1>you have a reasonably sized family, this could be a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of stuff, but that is okay. A mudroom or

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<v Speaker 1>a laundry room by a frequently used interest is the

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<v Speaker 1>obvious place for all this. You can put bins and

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<v Speaker 1>hooks and shelves to get some of the stuff off

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<v Speaker 1>the floor. But if you don't have an obvious room

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<v Speaker 1>that provides a queue, you need to make one. Identify

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<v Speaker 1>where you usually come in and out of your house.

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<v Speaker 1>Maybe this is a foyer. Maybe it's a door directly

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<v Speaker 1>into the living room. Maybe it's the kitchen. But either way,

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<v Speaker 1>put something there to store the obvious things that go

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<v Speaker 1>in and out with you. Maybe it's a bin for shoes,

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<v Speaker 1>a coat wreck for coats, and a table where you

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<v Speaker 1>can put a basket for keys, a basket for umbrellas,

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<v Speaker 1>a basket for sunscreen and bug spray, and so forth.

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<v Speaker 1>And you can certainly try to make this all look nice.

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<v Speaker 1>Some people like to construct a cabinet where they store

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<v Speaker 1>bins with pretty colored fabric to hold everything. The baskets

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<v Speaker 1>on top of the cabinet are all coordinated to match.

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<v Speaker 1>It doesn't have to look chaotic just because it is

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<v Speaker 1>not an official mudroom. I will note that if you

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<v Speaker 1>have a garage, you can probably put a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>the launch Pad stuff in your garage. Coats could likely

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<v Speaker 1>stay out there, and shoes and sunscreen. You probably don't

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<v Speaker 1>want to leave your purse in the garage, so maybe

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<v Speaker 1>that goes somewhere else near the door. But for a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of stuff, the garage is fine, and that means

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<v Speaker 1>you don't have it cluttered all over the interior of

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<v Speaker 1>your house. But honestly, even if it does look a

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<v Speaker 1>little cluttered, we are interested in efficiency here. If your

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<v Speaker 1>keys are not by the door a reasonable number of

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<v Speaker 1>times when you are trying to leave, you will have

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<v Speaker 1>to go back to get your keys. Same with shoes

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<v Speaker 1>and coats. Getting out the door takes longer when stuff

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<v Speaker 1>isn't by the door, so store stuff by the door

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<v Speaker 1>in life will be more efficient. It might look a

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<v Speaker 1>little messy, particularly if people just drop their shoes and

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<v Speaker 1>coats by the door haphazardly, but you know what, it

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<v Speaker 1>doesn't matter. They are in the right place, which means

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<v Speaker 1>you are actually more organized than someone who has stored

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<v Speaker 1>stuff neatly but out of the way, and for whom

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<v Speaker 1>getting out the door is a longer and more stressful

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<v Speaker 1>process than it needs to be. In the meantime, this

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<v Speaker 1>is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making the

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<v Speaker 1>most of our time. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast.

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