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6 cleaning tips for when you're too overwhelmed to begin

Cleaning does not always have to be quite so daunting.

When KC Davis started posting cleaning videos on TikTok, she felt that she would be judged. "I almost didn't post it," she says. "I was like, 'Oh, people are going to judge me for my messy house.'" Instead, she found a community of people who related to her casual approach to cleaning and quickly built an audience of more than a million followers on TikTok.

"People felt as though the tips that I was giving were the first thing that ever helped them," says Davis. "In particular, it was people with ADHD, with autism

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