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Hello, this is Six Minute English, I'm Rob and I'm Neil.
Now Neil, are you a tidy person?
Me?
Oh dear, no, you should see my floor drope.
Your floor drope?
Yes, tidy people keep their clothes in a wardrobe.
I just dump a lot of my clothes on the floor, so a floor drope.
Ah yes, well it sounds as if you could use a bit of decluttering.
Clutter is the word for general mess and untidiness when you have too many things,
too much stuff.
These days the idea of decluttering is very popular.
Oh I love a good declutter.
Trouble is, I hate throwing things away.
Well we might have some advice for you in today's programme, but first a question.
It's about cleaning up.
The vacuum cleaner is a machine we use to clean our houses.
When were the first mechanical floor cleaners, which later became vacuum cleaners, invented?
Was it A, the 1860s, B, the 1890s or C, the 1920s?