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Welcome to the carpool podcast with Kelly.
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Trigger warning if you're with kids, but the sizes are marked as a six and a seven.
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Do you know, like, you know I had to say the trigger warning?
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Oh yeah, um, six, seven.
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People love, when I talk about my Pathfinder, people love to have, like, all Nissan's crap
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It's like, number six, top ten for new car reliability, okay.
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Your mom time off starts now.
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Welcome back to the carpool podcast with Kelly.
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A little tired there?
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I'm a little tired.
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This, like, past weekend rocked me.
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My husband was out of town for the, like, marine stuff and my kids, let me just,
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be a really original mom who just complains about how tired she is.
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The other night, my longest stretch of sleep was from 8 30 PM to 11 30.
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And then someone was up, someone was screaming, someone needed me.
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So I was like exhausted and Maddie was coming home that next day.
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And he was able to get on an earlier flight and I called him and I'm like,
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the way you are my knight in shining armor right now for coming home to save
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me from this situation.
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And he was like, all of that's all I ever want to be as a knight in shining
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And I'm like, this is to my husband who's been deployed five times.
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This is the most heroic thing you've ever done in your entire life right now.
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Well, yeah, I'm glad he's home.
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We had, well, first of all, I just wanted to say thank you guys all for
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the incredible feedback on our Christmas episode.
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Everyone seems to just love the tips that we shared.
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And I feel like we really got people in the spirit.
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I'm feeling so Holly Jolly.
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What's your Holly Jolly meter at?
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No, I would say my Holly Jolly is pretty good.
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Like I have been using an excuse to like throw a Santa hat on and
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like wear a Christmas sweater.
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I don't feel like I really thrived in the decor this year.
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And now I really I'm going to be like a early November Christmas girl
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moving forward because it is so much frickin work to put all these
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Christmas decorations up and to have them because like day after
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Christmas, like January one, I don't want to I don't want to see any
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Christmas decorations.
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Like I love I love to enjoy them.
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So I'm going to put them up early because I'm going to enjoy them.
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I want to be sick of them.
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So I don't really feel like I did a very good job.
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Like my Christmas lights like on my tree, right down in your notes.
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I think I did, but you're right.
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My Christmas lights have or my Christmas tree has a strand burnt out.
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We didn't put any lights up outside.
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Like it's gotten too cold.
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I can't believe how much money people are spending to put up
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to have someone professionally install Christmas lights on their house.
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Like we don't do that.
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So I'm just like decor wise, I'm not feeling very.
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You have notes for yourself.
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And I think that's fine.
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I've worn my Christmas sweater three times since the podcast.
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So you could say I'm getting my money's worth out of that thing.
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And I'm loving seeing the ugly simmer pots take over my mentions on Instagram.
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Yeah. So good job on your ugly simmer pots.
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I'm I'm feeling highly jolly and there's still so much hollowness
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and jollowness to have I need to.
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I think I'm done with I think I am done
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with presence and I think I know how I'm organizing them.
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More on that later.
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Sorry, I'm like looking over there at said things.
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But yeah, I'm just I don't know.
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I'm I'm I'm I'm feeling it.
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I'm feeling I'm feeling the Christmas spirit.
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I'm hoping for a little bit more snow.
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I'd love a white Christmas if I could really paint my perfect picture.
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And I'm genuinely looking forward to Christmas break.
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You know, one of our episodes that we did last year
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was how we plan to like get the most out of our Christmas break.
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Things we plan on doing because Christmas break.
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It rocks me because it's just
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it throws everyone off their routine.
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And it's like such a it's like such a temporary thing.
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Like even summer, I think is easier
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because you're settling into what like the new routine is going to be.
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Christmas break, I find so hard because, you know,
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the kids get off school around like what, the twenty first twenty second
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and then you have a couple of days of like not a lot.
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And then you have the craziness of like Christmas.
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And then you have the week between Christmas and New Year's of like not a lot.
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And then they go back to school.
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So it's like every day, every week is so different.
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Whereas like the summer, it's longer.
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You get into a rhythm.
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So I remember I had a horrible Christmas break last year.
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I know I've spoken about this at length.
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I mean, you literally would have thought like, I mean, it was traumatic.
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For genuinely some of the looking back, I was probably having some postpartum depression
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because I was only about like two and a half months postpartum.
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So maybe that was part of my problem if I'm because it's like, why was I so bad?
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So I'm thinking about like, you know, things we're going to do.
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I've been excited because I have found I've seen some like activities
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come across my desk, some day camps come across my desk.
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So like on the 23rd, there's this like arts, this kids art camp
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from like eight to 12, I signed George and Hattie up for it.
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I'm like, it's perfect.
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Like that's so fun.
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Get them out of the house, something for them to do.
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So I'm kind of going to I love busy toddlers tip of she prints off
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the month of December's calendar and then she hangs it on the fridge.
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And she like puts like, I mean, her kids can read.
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So she just like puts what's like what they have going on.
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My kids can't really read yet.
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So I'm thinking about just like doing emojis.
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But I want to make a physical calendar for the kids to look at.
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So like they can know like what what's happening.
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Like, you know, like this day, we're going to do gingerbreads.
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This day, we're doing breakfast with the Santa.
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This day, we're going to Christmas at Gigi's.
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This day, we're going to Christmas at Grandma Barbies.
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Like they need that.
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Yeah, because I feel like for them during their break,
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they have no idea what every day is going to bring.
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And I think that can be a little unsettling too.
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So and you also like you also don't want to like give them too much of like,
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oh, well, we're going to be going to do breakfast with Santa in five days.
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Because then they're like, oh, well, are we going to go do that now?
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And it's probably good for them to physically see and be able to count that down.
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But yeah, I just want to I just want to take.
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Like the 15, 20, 30 minutes and really plan out my days.
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And like, if it's a day that I know we don't have anything
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and it's going to be a day of rest, like I just want to have that day planned.
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It's like, it's a day of rest.
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Like, we're going to reset because it has a busy weekend.
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Or it's like, we're I don't know.
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I myself need to do it because I know it's in my head what we have.
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But I haven't yet really like looked at it logistically of like where we need to be.
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How many days in a row do we have things?
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How many naps are we basically going to be skipping?
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How many days in a row?
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So I need to do that because I need to have a redemption.
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I mean, this is my redemption era.
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Tangible takeaway alert, something that I have done from Thanksgiving
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because we were just going to be gone all day.
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And I couldn't fathom like how many diapers I needed for two kids.
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I have an extra diaper caddy.
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I have a diaper caddy packed with diapers and wipes in the trunk of my car.
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And I'm keeping it loaded all of December
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because between all of the random events that we're attending,
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I at the very least know I have plenty of diapers and wipes in the back of my car.
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No, that I'm going to be taking that that that tangible take away
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because I agree. Of course, I have like my center console stash.
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I need to work all day sometimes.
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We're gone all day and I should have an extra bottle like an empty extra bottle
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for Libby, maybe some snacks in case, you know, you get to somewhere
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and then like, I need my like heads, some snacks, change of clothes.
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Yeah, change of pajamas because you never know if you're staying out too late
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and you want to be able to put on pajamas.
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How late are you staying out?
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And like, I feel like if they're Christmas pajamas
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and like then it's a middle of the day thing and you have an accident.
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It's like, OK, they're still festive.
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Like it's yeah, I'm deaf and yeah, packing the diapers
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and wipes and just not having to think like taking one thing off your plate.
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I'm taking that. That's a great.
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Great, great tangible take away.
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Thank you. That's a great one.
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Something else I wanted to talk about was I touched on this on my Instagram story
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and it's just like a mindset shift that I had that really just totally changed
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how I think about my days in my housework, I guess you could say.
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And there it's kind of like two parts of this theory.
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Theory one is blooming where you're planted.
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Theory two is going deep, not wide.
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And what that means is, you know,
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when you have and I notice it the most with Libby's age,
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because I see this 100 times, I find Libby's age nine to 18 months.
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Hate. It's my least favorite age.
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I know they're so cute and thank goodness they are,
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because that's about all they have going for them, in my opinion.
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Like they are such terrors, at least not terrors.
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That's not the right word.
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They're so busy and they're so dangerous.
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Like Libby is always trying to like get into things
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and like climb on things. They're just dangerous.
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And Libby is especially dangerous because Libby moves.
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Libby is such she moves like a two year old.
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She's very advanced. Yeah.
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Very advanced, like climbing, walking, running.
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But she's like 15 months old, so she like doesn't have any sort of awareness.
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And she's also my fourth.
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So like, I mean, my attention's already getting split four different ways.
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Like it is just she's very hard right now.
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So like, if I'm with her in the kitchen there, I'm not getting.
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I can't rinse a dish.
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Literally, the only thing I can do is sit with her in her high chair,
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because if I get up, she will climb out of her high chair.
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And I've of course gone through this with all of my kids.
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And a mindset shift that I had was, OK, instead of like trying
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to clean the kitchen, because that's what the dirtiest.
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Like let me just where does Libby need to go?
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Where is a safer place to go with Libby?
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What is Libby doing right now?
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And what can I get done where Libby is?
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Now, I'm a busy body.
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I just like to get things done.
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That's what I mean.
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I I'm the kind of person who like, I don't relax till the house is clean.
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Like I don't need to relax first and then clean.
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I need to clean, then relax.
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And I just like to get things done.
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And also like, I just told you I'm chasing around my 15 month old.
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So I might as well be doing something
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because I'm not just saying they're relaxing.
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So I started like, so, for example, this weekend,
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I was in Libby's room because like that's where she was safe.
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Wanted to be she was playing with a baby dog,
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you know, climbing on whatever the bed that was in there.
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That's like not that high off the ground.
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And I was looking around and I'm like, you know,
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this room's pretty clean.
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Like there's really not much to do here.
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I'd love to be clean in my bathroom or the kitchen instead.
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But I said, no, this is where I am.
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This is where I'm going to bloom where I'm planted.
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I changed her sheets.
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Did her sheets need to be changed?
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Well, I mean, yes and no.
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Like they could always be changed.
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Changed her sheets.
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I went next to her windows because she had fingerprints all over them.
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I wiped down her baseboards.
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Like when was I ever going to get around to doing that?
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And then I went through some of the kids clothes.
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I picked out there.
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This was on Friday.
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And I picked out their church outfits for Sunday,
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which like I normally don't do in advance,
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but like that's I was around their clothes.
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So I was like, this is what I'm going to do right now.
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And just that little shift, you know,
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it makes me feel more productive in my day.
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And we also had we also talked about this a couple weeks ago
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when it comes to bath time, because I find bath time to be a joy.
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Because that's when I can get a lot.
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I can do a ton of things in my bathroom.
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Like I can maybe curl my hair.
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I can fold laundry.
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I can clean my bathroom.
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Like I can get so many things done there.
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I love when they take a bath.
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So I just think that's a really important mindset shift
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to try to have is don't worry about what's on the to do list.
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Like don't worry about what's the messiest focus on going deep
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because that's that's the opportunity that you have in front of you.
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So like if your kids are in the basement playing,
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well, it's not like going, why would be cleaning up the toys?
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Like that's silly because they're playing.
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Going deep would be dusting or like vacuuming
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or deep cleaning the bathroom somewhere or doing the baseboard.
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Like focus on doing things that aren't going to get trashed right away.
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I'll say because then at the end of the day,
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we'll clean up the toys and then you'll have clean baseboards
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and a clean floor and it's a win-win.
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I just think when you're just with your they just watching a kid play
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or like that's just the circumstance you're in.
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I find myself to be so so much happier with my circumstance
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when I am doing something productive
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because when I'm just scrolling on my phone and it's not good
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looking for near kids, I don't like doing that as much.
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And I know and I do it more than I would like to but then I'm also irritable.
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Yeah, even if I'm trying to like do things
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productive on my phone, like for work or scheduling appointments or whatever,
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like just something about the screen of like they come up or they need me.
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I'm like irritable because like I'm trying to get this done.
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But like if I'm cleaning baseboards and they come over,
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then I might be like, hey, why don't you help me with this?
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Like, why don't you like this is what I'm doing?
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Like you can just like it just offers opportunities.
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And I am just so much happier when I am moving
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and getting something done with my kids around.
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Another thing I wanted to tell you was I have hacked Hattie's clothes.
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But I was I was in I was in Libby's room.
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We were going through clothes.
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I was going through Hattie's clothes over there in Libby's room.
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I'm so proud of Hattie's wardrobe right now
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because it is I love to dress Hattie in colors.
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I love to do like mixed patterns.
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I just think like mixed patterns on little girls is like so sweet and precious.
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And like I'm kind of I feel like I'm really getting good at it.
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Like, you know, like star pants, striped shirt or like, I don't know.
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I just feel like I'm kind of mastering the mixed patterns.
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Well, let me back up now that I have two in two.
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I really do kind of think about like everything that Hattie wears,
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Libby's going to wear everything that George wears, Fred's going to wear.
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So I really am kind of looking at it from the lens of like this needs to last two kids.
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And now that Hattie is in a size six ish, they're kind of lasting two seasons
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because like she's like the sizes are and I'm just trigger warning if you're with kids.
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But the sizes are marked as a six and a seven.
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Do you know, like, you know, I had say the trigger warning.
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Anyway, so like it will probably fit her next year.
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So I'm going to get two seasons from her, two seasons from Libby.
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Like, I'm good to invest in the pieces.
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I love Bowden, T, Hannah Anderson.
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Yeah, like those are my ride or dies for Hattie.
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Obsessed, especially Bowden, like it is my favorite.
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Bowden is so expensive.
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Like I would never I would never.
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I think I've bought in one thing new from Bowden from Hattie.
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But she has a ton of Bowden because I buy Bowden on one Facebook marketplace.
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I love when they do a lot like Bowden lot.
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I got her eight pairs of leggings for $40.
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That's five dollars a legging Bowden leggings.
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Like basically robbed at gunpoint.
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I'm surprised that the police weren't called when I picked up
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that Facebook marketplace order and I found a Bowden resale group,
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like a mini Bowden resale group on Facebook.
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I'm loving these types of groups.
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I'm joining them left and right.
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T Collection, Hannah Anderson, Little Sleepies, like let me just join them all.
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And I have found some amazing pieces for Hattie on these groups.
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And I'm telling you it's less work than buying it online
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because all you do in these groups and they're all a little different.
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They're all their own group rules.
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So you kind of got to figure it out.
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But all you do is someone posts something and you say sold
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and you give them your PayPal email and they PayPal
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invoice you when you pay it and then the PayPal invoice sends them your address.
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So like literally I have to get my credit card out and I'm just like done.
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Yeah, that's really nice.
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I need I'm like trying to find I want to look into this
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because that's a really good idea to just like join Facebook groups.
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So I'm getting them for cheaper, especially when you know
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you love the brand that you feel so good about pulling the trigger on it.
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Totally. And I love the brand and the quality is good.
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Like it's yeah, it's good quality.
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So I feel fine buying it.
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And I'm telling you, like they're just such good pieces.
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So that has been like a really fun.
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Yeah, I don't even want to tell people
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because then everyone's just going to like steal it from me.
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So just know if you have like this is so cute.
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I need to stop like now now I'm looking and I'm like, oh my gosh, I need.
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I love it. I love it.
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And so what also I did this weekend was, you know, as I was
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like, sorry, I have a question.
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Are all these Facebook groups the same where you just say mine
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or I want it or whatever?
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Here's the first. Well, that's what I'm saying.
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You have to read. I was I don't know.
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You've got to read the groups.
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Like, oh my gosh, look at this coat coat with mittens.
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A very good use condition.
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This boat is happy size.
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Oh, see 11 comments. See it's done. It's toast.
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Well, how does it have 11 comments?
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So they just like if it falls through, I'm next.
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Yeah, what are people saying?
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Yeah. Oh my gosh, they're all so cute.
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Elizabeth, like I'm just gooped over it.
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And, you know, I tried to I used to be on this Poshmark grind Poshmark.
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I'm sorry. I think it's scam.
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I'm not paying seven dollars in shipping.
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And I think the prices are too high.
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This is like 22 ships.
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This is a mini Bowden cream applique cotton long sleeve shirt size 1011.
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Never worn only washed twenty two dollars.
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Yeah, Poshmark, you pay for shipping and also they take 20 percent
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from the person selling it.
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So the person who's selling is like trying to list it for even higher.
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So they don't feel like they're being they're they're not.
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Poshmark isn't taking so much from them.
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Yeah, like they're trying to sell it for 15 and Poshmark is going to take
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three dollars and they're like, OK, fine, I'll sell it for 18.
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So I can get the 15 that I want.
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And I feel like if you it would also be a great place
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for you to reseller to see your kids stuff.
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Yeah, well, you have active shoppers on whatever brand it is
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that you're trying to sell.
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Oh, so then I also this weekend was like feeling so productive.
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I took a page out of the marketplace, mom.
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If you're not following her on Instagram, she's inspiring follow.
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And I I put two lots together.
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I was cleaning out Fred's pajamas.
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I found four three T pajamas that don't fit him anymore.
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I said three T boy pajama lot sold sold quick.
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Obviously underpriced it.
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It's out of my life.
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Yeah, it's out of my life.
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And I had enough money to buy my hamburger a dart ball.
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Oh, I played dart ball this weekend.
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And remember, I told you, um, Tyler nailed it.
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Tyler goes, it's a Tyler goes.
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I just don't really like it.
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So basically it's darts, but we throw we throw underhand.
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It's a big it's it's big darts.
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The big board, it's a big dart.
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But the problem is it's like, if you if you hit a certain part of the board, you're out.
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And but then like, if you hit other parts of the board, you're not out and you can keep going.
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And it's like, I want to I want to throw four darts and take my best one.
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Like that, that would be more than because I just kept getting out on the first try.
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Our team, we got we did not do very well, which was fine, because we wanted to be done with it.
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But anyway, all to say is thanks to my boy little sleepies.
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But jam a lot, I was able to cover my dart ball meal.
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And then did you pay did you pay for it with the cash that you got from market?
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Yeah, that feels good.
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I stopped at the mailbox on my way to dart ball, had my cash.
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Yeah, it feels good.
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And now that's out of my life.
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And I, you know, kept some money in the bank.
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And I'm just like loving marketplace, like it is just so.
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And like, what a great.
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So like, that's what I'm saying, like when you're next time,
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you're like stuck in a basement or like a room with your kids
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and like, what could I be doing?
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Look around and see everything you listen up for on marketplace
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because that's productive.
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Yeah, so productive.
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OK, Liz, I know we have an interview at the end of this episode.
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So do you want me just to go to industry news?
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Do you have anything else you want to talk about?
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Um, no, I am really excited to get into this interview.
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So let's get into industry news because I do know that that is pretty juicy.
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OK, now it's time for industry news where I saw the hot to tea
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going on the auto industry and consumer reports had a big old list come out.
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And they unveiled the top 10 best and worst car brands for 2026.
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Now, what is best and worst means?
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The ratings are based on the averages of new vehicles, overall score,
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which factors in results from road test safety assessments
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and reliability and owner satisfaction out of the 31 car manufacturers.
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These are the top 10 best and worst car brands.
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So it's not by model.
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Also, that it's just like it's like it's like an overall average.
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You know what I mean? Yeah.
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Number one for best really surprised me.
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Do you want to take a guess?
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No, I'm looking at it right now.
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OK, number one is Subaru.
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Not shocking that they're on the list, shocking that they're number one.
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Number two is BMW, also a little shocking, but proud of them.
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And actually, BMW and Subaru got the same score.
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Then why are they one and two?
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I don't know, but they both got an 82.
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Number three is Porsche.
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Number four is Honda.
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Number five, Toyota.
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Number seven is Lincoln.
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Number eight, Hyundai.
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So like big names that are not on here is outside of Lincoln.
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There's no American brands.
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There's no GM. There's no Ford.
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There's that's kind of crazy.
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Kia is nowhere to be found.
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Tesla. There is Tesla.
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Oh, Tesla is an American brand.
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You're right. Kia was nowhere to be found, which was kind of shocking.
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Kia was number 12, but.
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It's just sort of that Lincoln was seven and Ford wasn't on it.
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OK, now this is the juicy stuff.
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Let's get to the worst.
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Well, well, can I just say?
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Because I'm looking at like they go up to like 20.
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Lincoln was number seven, Ford was number 18.
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So that's kind of up there.
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Yeah, that is up there.
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Now, for the worst car brands,
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is is is the worst number one or is the worst 10?
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It says worst car brands in descending order.
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What does that mean?
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Tell me what the first one is, and I can.
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I'm looking at a different report card than you.
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Oh, yeah, you are Jeep is number one is the worst.
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Yeah. OK, so Jeep is the worst.
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And that tracks Jeep can't get anything together.
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Like leave it to Jeep to have a car that people love, the Wrangler
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and do anything else but focus on that Wrangler.
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This the the worst ones, this is not looking good.
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Number two is Land Rover.
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Yeah, number three, GMC shock.
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Yes, Jeep and Land Rover doesn't surprise me.
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GMC being three surprises me.
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Four is Dodge doesn't surprise me.
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Five Alpha Romeo, who cares?
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Six Rivian doesn't surprise me.
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Seven Chrysler doesn't surprise me.
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Eight Chevrolet kind of surprising.
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Nine Mercedes Benz shocks me.
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Yeah, that's was like the most shocking to me to have BMW
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be number one slash two and then Mercedes be nine as the worst.
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Yeah, 10 is Volkswagen doesn't show.
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I mean, I don't know, whatever.
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It's a lot of American.
25:27
It's really interesting to go onto the Consumer Reports
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Instagram because they like break it down into like a chart format.
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So you can see like we did the top 10 and the worst 10.
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But then there's like 10 in between those list.
25:38
I want to see what's on their Instagram.
25:41
It's a much easier way to digest this.
25:45
Yeah, I was on like Yahoo's version of that.
25:47
That was painful for me.
25:52
And then they also they also ranked the car brands.
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Car brands ranked by new car reliability.
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Oh, yeah, let's get into that point.
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Can I can I get there though?
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Because I'm just like, well, do you want me to do it?
26:03
Because I've I've got I've got it pulled up.
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You can get there, but I want to follow along.
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Number one, car brands ranked by new car reliability.
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Number one is Toyota.
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Number two is Subaru.
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So Subaru is like up there for everything.
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Number three is Lexus.
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Number four is Honda.
26:24
Number five is BMW.
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Number six is Nissan, which people love.
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When I talk about my Pathfinder, people loved it.
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Like all Nissan's crap out on them.
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Number six, stop 10 for new car reliability.
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Number seven is Acura.
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Number eight is Buick.
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Number nine is Tesla.
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I'm telling you, Buick needs Buick has momentum
26:51
and they need to keep moving.
26:54
I'm proud of Buick.
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And Kia is number 10.
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That's another one that people love to act like.
27:03
They always they always crap out.
27:04
It's like, because you've had one bad experience with it
27:07
or my dad said, I never never drive a Kia.
27:10
They're so quick to buy like a Chevy that's linked at 42
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versus a Kia, which is at 49, which I mean,
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I'm not saying I like both of those cars,
27:19
but if people make me want to throw something at them
27:26
when they just are like, oh, I'd never buy a Kia.
27:28
And then it's like, why?
27:31
Have you seen their interior?
27:32
Well, it's just like, can you provide any data
27:36
to back up that claim?
27:37
And if you're like, oh, yeah, no, like it's number 10
27:39
and I only want to drive a car that's number one.
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I'm like, oh, that's fine.
27:42
You're a Toyota person.
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Like that's that's fine.
27:44
But to be like, oh, I never drive a Kia.
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And then buy a Chevy.
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That's crazy thing to say.
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If you want to buy a Chevy.
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But then it's interesting that Lincoln goes to 20,
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even though they were number seven on overall.
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So that so people just must like Lincoln's cars.
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They are good cars.
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And Rivian was the worst at 26
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and Jeep was the third worst at 28.
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Anyway, quite interesting.
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Okay, so we have an interview.
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We're continuing this series of
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homemaking, budgeting, making things from home,
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just like all things like how can we stretch the budget,
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get creative in our-
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This is a great interview.
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In our motherhood, in our homemaking,
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in our cooking, all the things.
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So we have Morgan Taylor Price.
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Morgan Taylor at home on Instagram.
28:42
She is a mom of almost four.
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She literally could be having her baby right now.
28:46
Like she's passed her due date
28:47
and she made time to come on our podcast out of breath.
28:52
Yes, but she did make the time nonetheless.
28:55
And it's a great interview.
28:56
A lot of tangible takeaways.
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They are a single income making it work.
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She is with her kids.
29:08
Talks about the changes that they made
29:10
to cut back their grocery bills and what they're doing.
29:15
She tells us a lot on the podcast,
29:17
but she also has a lot of great tips
29:19
on her Instagram as well.
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So I haven't recommend you check her out.
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Oh, she's like one of my new,
29:22
for sure one of my new favorite follows.
29:23
She inspired, I finally,
29:24
I know what I'm asking for for Christmas
29:26
after this episode because I decided
29:27
what she said is what I'm gonna ask for.
29:31
Literally after the episode, Kelly,
29:32
I think we both texted mom.
29:34
Like an idea for Christmas because mom texted me.
29:36
She was, what do you want for your birthday?
29:38
And I told her, and she was,
29:40
Kelly said the same thing.
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Okay, I swear though, mom,
29:44
if you're listening and you don't,
29:45
just get me and Elizabeth the same one.
29:47
Because if she tries to do this thing
29:49
where she gives us a slightly different one.
29:50
Get me the slightly better model.
29:52
But yeah, you get us the same.
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It is a great interview.
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Thank you guys for tuning into the Carpal Podcast.
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We will talk to you on Friday.
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It's a great interview with Morgan Price.
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Morgan, welcome to the Carpal Podcast.
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Hi, thanks so much for having me.
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We're so excited to have you
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and we're so excited to have you specifically
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for this series of homemaking,
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stretching our budget at the grocery store
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and all things like motherhood.
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You are a mom of almost four.
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By the time this podcast comes out,
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you could have a baby.
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Yes, it was just so crazy.
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And you're a stay-at-home mom.
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Yep, I stay home with my three kids,
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almost four kids, yep.
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And your content creator.
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Yeah, that just somehow like slipped in there
30:45
a while back and that's just been part of my life.
30:49
It always, to the good ones, it always does.
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I think your content's great.
30:57
There's so many things I wanna talk to you about.
30:58
I want you though to sell me on needing a smoker
31:02
because I saw when you smoked all that pork
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and this is what I'm telling my husband, I need a smoker.
31:10
I did grow up with a dad who is obsessed with barbecue
31:12
and now owns a barbecue restaurant
31:14
and so it was like a very much part of my life growing up
31:18
We don't use it like all the time, I would say
31:20
but we're very glad that we do.
31:22
Like at Thanksgiving, my mother-in-law just decided
31:24
last minute that she didn't have enough oven space
31:26
for turkey so we like smoked the turkey
31:28
just because we had.
31:33
I've never considered a smoker.
31:36
But I feel like it's one of those things
31:37
you don't need to use it all the time to make it worth it
31:39
because you're batching it.
31:41
So one of my favorite, I guess, new series
31:43
that you have on your page right now
31:45
and I feel like it's kind of your hottest take
31:47
is you don't like freezer meals.
31:49
You think freezer meals,
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I think your direct quote was disgusting.
31:53
I feel like it's always like mushy
31:54
and then like, so they lack texture
31:56
and then like flavor, I don't know.
31:57
I feel like with my first baby,
31:58
I like had like this whole menu of freezer meals
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and I'm like, okay, I'm going to make all these
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And then she came and we ate like one of each,
32:05
like kind and we were like, that wasn't very good.
32:07
That wasn't very good.
32:08
We'd rather just make her own dinner.
32:09
And so I think it's not worth the time
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or the energy to make them all ahead of time.
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But you think it's worth prepping the proteins
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or making the proteins in bowl.
32:16
So I like to prep like the meat ahead of time.
32:19
So like that really you saw,
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I prepped a whole bunch of sweet pork
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in the crock pot and pulled pork on the smoker.
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And then I took it all and I put it
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into like family size portions.
32:29
Like what our family would eat in the meal.
32:30
So I'm not like freezing like five pounds of pork at a time.
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Like it's like a pound of pork.
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And then I vacuum seal it and put it in my freezer.
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And so then we can pull that pork out.
32:38
We can make sandwiches, we can make nachos,
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we can make tacos, we can make enchiladas.
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Like you can make so many different things with that meat.
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And it's just, it's already cooked.
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And so then like the hard part is kind of done for you.
32:47
Kind of like how you've talked about prepping
32:48
like ground beef before and like taco meat.
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It's the same thing.
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Like the other day I went to Costco
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and bought four rotisserie chickens
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and then I came home and chopped them all up,
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froze them and then that I can just pull out
32:58
and use for so many different things
32:59
because chicken goes in a million things.
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And it just like takes a big step out of cooking things.
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So then it's just easy to throw things together later.
33:06
Well, then it's like you're like combining versus cooking.
33:09
Like then you're just combining things.
33:10
And I mean, you're saving on the dishes
33:13
and it's got to be more cost effective
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because then you can hit things on the sales
33:17
or buy bigger portions of them
33:19
and then make them into smaller portions.
33:21
I think that's really smart.
33:23
That is something that kind of is making me question
33:27
a lot about my life.
33:28
You said you vacuum seal.
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Am I supposed to be vacuum sealing before I freeze meat?
33:34
It lasts so much longer.
33:35
Like I went through and like
33:37
deep clean my freezer before I started this
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and I found me that's like two or three years old
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that's like has no freezer burn.
33:42
Like it's totally fine.
33:43
Like I could totally use it.
33:43
It's still in my freezer.
33:45
Whereas the meat that I'm like,
33:46
oh, we'll get to it really soon.
33:47
I'll just put it in like a freezer zip top bag.
33:50
Like that stuff all had freezer burn
33:51
and I had to toss it.
33:53
Well, that was on my list to talk to you
33:56
because I prepped with that protein.
33:59
I put in a gallon bag that technically said freezer on it
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and I can tell you it's a little freezer burn.
34:03
Now we're gonna tough it out at the Stumpy household.
34:06
But yeah, I'm not thrilled with it.
34:09
And I think that that's a really good,
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like I actually might ask mom Liz
34:14
for a vacuum sealer for Christmas.
34:16
I feel like it's one of those like.
34:20
And I love thinking about gifts.
34:21
One time we had debt-free mom on
34:23
and she did a whole series on like things you can ask for
34:27
for Christmas that will save you money.
34:28
And I was like, oh, it's such like a good concept.
34:30
And I think a vacuum sealer is like a perfect,
34:32
it's like the epitome of that, right?
34:33
It's like, it's a little bit of an investment, but wow.
34:37
Is it easy to use and operate?
34:38
Like it's like a laminator, right?
34:42
You just like put the end in and like push the button
34:43
and like suck all the air out and then seals it
34:44
and then toss in your freezer.
34:48
And I imagine it also probably saves a little bit of room too.
34:51
So when I vacuum seal things like I vacuum seal them flat
34:54
so then they can like stack.
34:55
So it sounds like a chunk of me, like it's flat.
34:58
And since it's like totally sealed instead of a bag,
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I can throw it in the sink of like water
35:01
and it's not going to like leak into the bag.
35:03
Whereas like a zip top bag, like I'm not going to do that
35:05
because I'm scared that water's going to get in.
35:08
So it thaws out so much faster because it's flatter
35:10
and it's just like totally watertight.
35:13
So if we get no other tangible takeaways
35:16
from this podcast, that is,
35:19
I'm sorry if I sound like an idiot.
35:20
I didn't know about this.
35:22
So that's very good.
35:24
And I'm not afraid to admit that's why Morgan's here.
35:29
Morgan is here to spread awareness.
35:33
Morgan, take us back a little bit.
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So you're a stay at home mom to three.
35:36
You started creating content.
35:38
Kind of tell us about the driving factor to creating
35:40
the content and also I guess just like wanting
35:42
to save more money, especially when it comes
35:44
to like the grocery bill.
35:46
So way back like before we had kids,
35:48
I have a degree in photography
35:49
and I was like a wedding photographer
35:51
and like a portrait family photographer and love that.
35:53
And that was like mostly in like the summers I felt like.
35:55
So in the winter and during the off season,
35:57
I would substitute teach school
35:59
because it was like super flexible.
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I could do it however much or as little as I wanted.
36:02
And it was great when we were first married.
36:04
And then I had my first daughter
36:06
five and a half, almost six years ago.
36:08
And I like, I really wanted to stay home
36:10
like that was my goal.
36:11
And so I stopped substitute teaching.
36:12
I still did a little bit of photography
36:14
just cause I kind of could.
36:16
But we like without that income,
36:18
we realized that like, okay,
36:19
things are getting a little bit tighter.
36:21
My husband works in agriculture
36:22
and like there's just not a whole lot of money in that.
36:25
And so things were tight.
36:26
Like he could support us fully,
36:28
but things are just tight.
36:29
And if we ever wanted to like buy a new car
36:30
or buy a house or anything like that,
36:32
like we just need to be able to save more.
36:34
And so we went through all of our bills
36:35
and I'm like a pretty like frugal,
36:38
simple person as it is.
36:39
So like there wasn't a lot of just like frivolous
36:41
spending that we were doing to cut.
36:44
And I felt like all of our bills
36:45
were pretty like set in stone.
36:46
Like you really couldn't change
36:47
like your power bowl whole lot and stuff like that.
36:50
But I felt like groceries is where we could cut.
36:53
At that point we were spending like $600 a month
36:55
for just the two of us.
36:56
And I thought that was like pretty decent.
36:58
But then I like started to like actually like focus in
37:01
on things and like, oh, we can cut this a lot more.
37:04
So I started like meal planning for a week or two
37:06
at a time and grocery shopping for all that at once.
37:09
So it felt like the less often
37:10
that I was in the grocery store late.
37:11
We just saved so much just by not going very often.
37:14
And so I would do that.
37:15
And then I slowly started building up our freezer supply
37:18
of just like backup food.
37:19
So I would stock up on meat when it was on sale.
37:22
So like that pork that I showed in that row was all
37:25
like pork cushion that was just on sale at the store.
37:27
So I bought like three big packs of it
37:29
and just smoked it off.
37:30
So I just like started stocking up on meat.
37:31
And then that turned into I would only meal plan
37:35
with the meat that we had in our freezer.
37:36
So every meal that we were eating
37:38
like we were instantly saving money
37:40
because that meat I had bought on sale at some point.
37:42
And then I'd also start stocking up on like
37:44
just like shelf-saving stuff.
37:45
Like I always have pasta, I always have pasta sauce
37:47
and like that sort of stuff.
37:49
And I just try to only buy it on sale
37:50
and just buy a lot of it.
37:52
And we now are a family of five, almost six
37:54
and now we're spending about $600 a month.
37:57
And that's seven years later.
37:59
And so like I feel like just the little things
38:02
they just kind of add up and you're able to save a lot.
38:06
So first of all, like I can't like you being
38:09
out of breath is just I feel for you so much.
38:13
This belly, I feel like I'm like,
38:14
I'm like, how are you doing?
38:15
I'm like, I feel fine.
38:16
I just feel big and uncomfortable.
38:20
I think that's a good process though
38:22
to kind of start with the meat,
38:25
be strategic about what you're buying,
38:28
how you're storing it.
38:29
And to your point, like the better you get at
38:32
cooking it and freezing it,
38:33
the more variety you'll end up having in your life
38:35
which I think will make it
38:36
an easier plan to stick to.
38:38
Like I think it can be tough like, you know
38:40
if you only are finding one type of thing on sale
38:42
or if you're only, if you're buying it,
38:44
if you're buying the meat that's on sale that week
38:46
and then also trying to cook with it,
38:47
it's so much of the same.
38:48
Yeah, it's so hard.
38:49
I love that like buying it on sale,
38:51
stick it in the freezer
38:52
and then that's what you're pulling from.
38:54
Because then that gets way more cost effective
38:56
because then that's such a,
38:57
then you're buying the lower cost items
38:59
like the canned goods, like some of the grains
39:01
and turning it into.
39:02
Yeah, I feel like the meat is like
39:04
the most expensive part of your meal, right?
39:06
And so like, if you can save money on the meat
39:08
every time, like that's gonna add up so fast.
39:12
It also just like allows you to be so creative.
39:14
Like I have really been trying to use more of what's in my
39:18
like fridge or pantry before going out to buy something.
39:21
And of course, through Chutchi BT with the help.
39:25
I've been so much more creative
39:26
and like coming up with new things
39:28
and just like new ways to make things
39:30
and new recipes and it's,
39:31
it's actually a lot more fun
39:33
and it's more of a challenge
39:34
and it kind of uses your brain a little bit more
39:36
than just making the same thing over and over.
39:41
Well, and kind of like a theme
39:43
we've been talking about lately is,
39:45
and I would love to hear your take on
39:46
and your experience with this
39:47
is I do kind of feel like our generation
39:49
doesn't really know how to cook very well.
39:51
I think we can follow a recipe.
39:53
I think so much of the food we're buying
39:55
are these like quick, easy, like already cooked things
39:59
that when you go back to the basics,
40:01
I think we're feeling like this task
40:04
of cooking from scratch is so overwhelming
40:05
because we weren't really taught how to cook from scratch.
40:08
You know what I mean?
40:09
Yeah, it's definitely like a skill set
40:10
that like you have to build that like our grandma
40:12
is just like, that's just what they did.
40:13
And like they, if they saw like what we were cooking
40:16
and what we were buying today
40:17
for food, they'd be shocked.
40:20
So what are some of your like favorites
40:23
or best things that you stopped buying at the store
40:26
and you started making them from scratch?
40:29
Well, my husband eats yogurt and granola
40:31
every single morning.
40:32
Like he's a man of habit and he loves it.
40:34
And one time I'd like ran out of granola
40:37
and I was like, oh, well, granola's pretty simple, right?
40:39
It's just like oats and like whatever.
40:40
So I like made it and then he ate it.
40:43
And then I went and bought the store
40:44
about granola next time and he was like, wait,
40:46
I really liked that other granola.
40:47
And I'm like, oh, well, it's probably half
40:48
about half the price to make it.
40:50
So I've been making granola for years
40:53
And a couple of years ago on 4th of July
40:56
I volunteered to make potato salad.
40:57
Cause I'm like, I feel like my potato salad
40:58
is the best potato salad like everybody does.
41:01
I was like, I'm gonna make potato salad for 4th of July
41:03
and then it got to be that morning
41:04
and we had no mayonnaise.
41:05
And I was like, mm, okay.
41:07
Well, we left 30 minutes from the store.
41:08
So that's not really an option.
41:11
And so I was like, I'm pretty sure mayonnaise is easy to make.
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So I started making mayonnaise like from scratch
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which is so easy and I've made it ever since.
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So it's been like over two years.
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I was just like whipping up mayonnaise just because
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and it saves pantry space.
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Cause I feel like I was always stocking up a Costco
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with like the big jugs of mayonnaise.
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And it was like, they're huge
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and they take up so much space.
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And I'm like, now I don't have to do that
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cause I can just whip up a jar whenever we need it.
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How long does it take to make?
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Oh, like two minutes.
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I have made homemade.
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I've made homemade mayo before.
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It's just like an egg and olive oil
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and an immersion blender and you're basically there.
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And like think about all the ingredients
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that are in the mayonnaise at the store.
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Like I haven't looked, but I'm assuming it's a lot.
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I'm assuming it's like garlic in
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or like other things if you want to make like
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And now we're making aioli.
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I'm getting hungry.
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So I want to talk about your Instagram.
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So you have 93,000 Instagram followers.
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Like you are a full-blown content creator.
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Single income family making it work
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and you have affordable meal plans for moms
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because I think some people might be listening to this.
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I mean like, okay, congratulations.
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You were able to figure out meal plans
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and cut your grocery bill.
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That sounds really intimidating to me.
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So if someone wanted to fill out
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your weekly meal plan on your Instagram,
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what can they expect to get from that?
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So that meal plan is actually a meal plan like subscription.
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So I have a lot of moms that are like,
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I would love to like make more meals during the week,
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but like I just don't want the mental load
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of having to figure out what to make.
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And so I like have gone through and like,
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I think there's like 60 something recipes
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I'm always adding more of just like easy,
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family friendly recipes.
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They're all 10 ingredients are less
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and every week it's a subscription.
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It's like less than $10 a month.
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They get 10 recipes a week to choose from.
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So like if you don't like soups
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don't make the soup.
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Like I'm not just gonna give you five recipes
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because that like every family has preferences.
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And so, and then you just pick what you want.
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And then it has like a pre-shopped Walmart list.
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You just click and it has all the Walmart ingredients
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that you need and you just like add them to cart
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And so then it takes away like the planning
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and the shopping and you just like don't think about it
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Cause I feel like that's where a lot of people
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get hung up on meal planning
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is that they just don't know what to make
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and they don't want to have to think about it.
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And it's just the mental load that as moms
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like we carry so much mentally.
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That's just one more thing
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that we don't want to think about.
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So it just takes that away.
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I just filled out your email.
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I could certainly agree.
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I hate meal planning.
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Yeah. It's not the best.
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It's just like that.
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It's like that trope when it's like you get to the store
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to buy something and you're like,
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I can not remember anything that I've made for dinner
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Well, I feel like that could be a good segue
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to our segment, which is ditch the drive-thru
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where we give the audience an easy dinner recipe
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to mix it up to get them out of their dinner rut.
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Can you give us a little sneak peek
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of what we could expect on the email list
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or just like your go to ditch the drive-thru?
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I feel like it's going to be good.
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Yeah. So one of our families favorite things.
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So like we love like burgers, right?
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But sometimes like you just get sick
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of like a traditional hamburger.
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We love to do burger bowls,
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but not like the ground,
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not like the sweet potato one that you see everywhere.
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Like we do like you put french fries in the bottom
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or tater tots or whatever your family likes.
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And then seasoned ground beef
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and then cheese and then lettuce and pickles
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and like all your toppings,
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you could go all out and do like sauteed onions
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And then like a really good burger sauce on top.
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And like my kids love it
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because you just serve it like buffet style.
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So they can put whatever they want.
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They can eat on a plate all separate if they want.
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They throw it all together.
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Yeah. It's like, it's whatever.
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Let's go back for a second.
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You said the base is french fries or tater tots.
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See, that's where I'm already interested
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because sometimes it's too much of like a lettuce base
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and I'm not, that's not really.
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That's not really cutting it for me most days.
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So I like the idea of a starchy potato base.
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And so it's basically like loaded fries.
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Yeah. Essentially. Yeah.
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And then your kids can just eat whatever they want.
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Like all my kids love it.
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Like I have my oldest daughter,
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like she loves just like plain hamburger,
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which is like so bizarre to me sometimes
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because she doesn't want sauce on it or anything.
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She just wants plain for season ground beef.
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And I'm like, perfect.
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You can eat whatever you want.
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You can eat the ground beef
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and then she'll eat like the tomatoes
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and the cheese and like the other stuff on the side.
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But like it's so nice and like my husband loves it.
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It's like bulky and it's like hearty
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because you have all those like potatoes
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and whatever you want at the base
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and as much meat as you want.
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And yeah, you serve it buffet style
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and everybody gets what they want and it's great.
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And you can like that's another thing
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that you can batch cook is that ground beef.
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Like you can have a ton of that in your freezer,
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warm it up real quick,
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throw some tater tots in the air fryer
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and like dinner's done.
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Yeah. I make this a lot when I,
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cause I always have ground beef,
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but I don't always have tater tots or french fries.
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But I, so if I like need to get rid of potatoes,
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I just cut up potatoes into little square into little cubes.
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And that's my base.
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But the potato over the sweet potato base
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is such a game changer.
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I'm not a huge sweet potato person.
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I'd like, love me some good crunchy french fries
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In the right context, I like a sweet potato,
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but I'll take a fry over a sweet potato fry personally.
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And then you need like a good sauce for sure.
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Not just a ketchup mustard.
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You need like a good sauce.
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So are you making your fry sauce or are you buying it?
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I'm usually making it.
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Just like mayo ketchup, a little bit of mustard,
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dill pickle juice, some like paprika.
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And then if you're not Kelly,
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we're Chester Shire sauce.
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I know I'm so sorry.
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Or like the like barbecue one
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with like just mayo and barbecue sauce mixed together
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is super yummy too.
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That's like our favorite dipping sauce for fries.
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I also feel like you could swap that.
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You could do that with pork.
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You could do that with chicken.
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I mean, it's, yeah, it's kind of all penciling for me.
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You just put whatever you want in it.
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Yeah, that's what I'm talking about
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when I'm saying like, if you have the meat prepped,
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like that's dinner on the table
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as long as it takes the tots to air fry.
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And then you chop everything
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while there's a cooking and then you're good to go.
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And you're like, it's still homemade
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because you made the mayo.
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You made the ground beef.
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Like you make like, OK,
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so you air fried the tater tots.
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Like everything else is homemade.
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Makes you feel better than or like more
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B.A. than like having a home cooked meal.
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They're like, totally.
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This was all freshly made.
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This is where you can find Morgan.
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You can find her at Morgan Taylor at home.
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And that's Taylor T.A.
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Y.L.E.R. will leave her her handle in the show notes.
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Anything else like anywhere else people can find you?
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Are you mostly just on Instagram?
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Mostly just on Instagram.
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I started to take talk this year,
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but that's a journey.
47:36
We're working over there.
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But to talk to her Instagram.
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Yeah, Instagram is where you can find me.
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Well, go and find her.
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Content might be a little light
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because she'll be having a baby soon.
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But she's got a lot of very good content already on.
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And Morgan, thank you so much for joining us
47:55
I mean, you're an old hat at this point, number four.
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Yeah, yeah, we've got this.
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Thank you so much for joining us.
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Yes, thank you for having me.
48:03
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