Organization made lovely! | Season 29

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0:38 [SPEAKER_00]: This is the podcast where we are less giving the art of Holmaker from the daily grind. [SPEAKER_00]: When we on a studio, I'm like three ships of caffeine, and that didn't come out very easy. [SPEAKER_00]: Did it sound like I forgot who our podcast? [SPEAKER_00]: No. [SPEAKER_00]: No. [SPEAKER_00]: What are we doing here?

0:53 [SPEAKER_02]: It wasn't too bad. [SPEAKER_02]: I heard that I'm having that morning where the caffeine isn't hitting good. [SPEAKER_01]: Like, let's start to feel a little shaky. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Have you eaten? [SPEAKER_02]: I have. [SPEAKER_02]: I think it's this particular bag, like show grabs this like cheap bag from the store sometimes when we run out.

1:11 [SPEAKER_02]: And it just does me dirty every time. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, beans are really different. [SPEAKER_02]: They are so, for ever like recalibrating the machine and like every time you just can't put the same, gotta change the machine every time you change the bean, so irritating. [SPEAKER_00]: Well, and beans have different caffeine levels.

1:29 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: big time. [SPEAKER_02]: So they do and they're like some are more acidic than other ones. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, this one's and I'm yeah, I'm going to keep sipping it while we talk because I need my pinky fling on two. [SPEAKER_00]: Cheers, everybody. [SPEAKER_00]: I've got a honey latte here.

1:48 [SPEAKER_00]: It's quite delicious. [SPEAKER_02]: I've got a [SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to go into town for a meal when we're done. [SPEAKER_02]: Don't go on it. [SPEAKER_00]: Um, a meow. [SPEAKER_00]: Nice meal. [SPEAKER_02]: That's my summertime. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Meow. [SPEAKER_00]: Meow.

2:07 [SPEAKER_02]: Meow. [SPEAKER_00]: What does that mean? [SPEAKER_00]: An iced meal. [SPEAKER_02]: I suppose it's like an iced honey latte with cinnamon. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, okay. [SPEAKER_02]: It is. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: So I was asking my Italian tutor yesterday. [SPEAKER_00]: I was like, okay.

2:20 [SPEAKER_00]: I know my winter drinks. [SPEAKER_00]: But like, what do you like to order in the summertime? [SPEAKER_00]: like introduce me to a new drink, coffee drink, right? [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. [SPEAKER_00]: And so she thought about it and she said, oh, what you have to order? [SPEAKER_00]: Could I make the cafe?

2:36 [SPEAKER_00]: Which is? [SPEAKER_00]: People make it differently, but her version is. [SPEAKER_00]: They basically take a couple tablespoons of whipping cream. [SPEAKER_00]: and espresso shot, ice, a little bit of sugar, excuse me. [SPEAKER_00]: And then they shake it, shake it like really shake it until it goes foamy and then strain it off the ice and dust some little cocoa powder over the top or something fantastic.

3:00 [SPEAKER_00]: I made a version to give it a try with honey and I added the ice cubes and actually blended it because ice, I like what you want that. [SPEAKER_00]: This is America. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm ice cube but right and it was so yummy it was like this frothy lightly honey sweet deliciousness okay so there was no such thing as caffeine or you know sugar I would drink that all day long I know I make tea calf we get a really good tea calf bean and [SPEAKER_00]: I give myself two, I get two coffees in the morning with caffeine and then no more stop yawning.

3:44 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry. [SPEAKER_02]: You cannot working. [SPEAKER_02]: Gosh, I'm not sleeping good again. [SPEAKER_02]: It's just, I was and I was like, yay, I've figured out the hormonal sleep situation and then all of a sudden three weeks ago is like, no you haven't. [SPEAKER_02]: Now you have it, you'll be up every hour on the hour, all night.

4:07 [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, that's the Kevin Goods Rorn. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, that's awful. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I didn't have it's never tired with newborns. [SPEAKER_02]: I didn't mind that at all. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_02]: But I'm tired now. [SPEAKER_00]: Hmm. [SPEAKER_02]: It's because newborns are so cute.

4:19 [SPEAKER_02]: I think they're so, so good. [SPEAKER_00]: They smell so good. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, one more, one more little Italian. [SPEAKER_00]: Funny thing for you. [SPEAKER_00]: I learned this word that I actually don't remember. [SPEAKER_00]: Because I haven't studied yet. [SPEAKER_00]: but it sounds off.

4:35 [UNKNOWN]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_00]: I know it, but I don't know it. [SPEAKER_00]: And when my tutor gave me this word, she's like, you need to use this word wisely. [SPEAKER_00]: Like, I give it to you with the understanding. [SPEAKER_00]: Very carefully. [SPEAKER_00]: You would use it respectfully.

4:50 [SPEAKER_00]: It's the endearing word for like a little chunky thing. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, so don't call me that, Shay, you can't say it, you can't say it to like a woman, but Little chunky thing you you little chunky thing and she's like you would use it for like all like my little my little chunky cat like my little chubby [SPEAKER_00]: You know, you wouldn't want to call a woman chubby, but it's a term of indeterminate for something that's little, it's christian.

5:21 [SPEAKER_00]: That's fine. [SPEAKER_00]: I'll find it. [SPEAKER_00]: It's somewhere in my childhood. [SPEAKER_00]: We'll chunky thing. [SPEAKER_00]: It's just sweet. [SPEAKER_00]: I love learning those little things. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure it's a what? [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I was just going to let them know.

5:39 [SPEAKER_00]: It's funny because Angela and I we do plan what we're going to talk about. [SPEAKER_00]: Um, and it's always so funny how, um, I don't know. [SPEAKER_00]: Just how it all falls together. [SPEAKER_00]: Um, next week we're going to talk about attitudes. [SPEAKER_02]: I know what to. [SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's what I was kind of thinking about.

5:58 [SPEAKER_00]: It's just funny how this happens. [SPEAKER_00]: But today, this, this season of the podcast, where we're making it lovely, we're trying to bring an element of lovelyness back to things that [SPEAKER_00]: What's the word? [SPEAKER_02]: Not lovely? [SPEAKER_02]: Unlovedly? [SPEAKER_02]: No, like, co-opted.

6:17 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, co-opted. [SPEAKER_00]: By the world, by our attitudes, by the daily grind. [SPEAKER_00]: And yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: You know, we're hoping that for this season you can go to these little sections of your home of your life, it'd be like, okay, yes, I got to do this, fine. [SPEAKER_00]: How can I bring an element of lovely to this.

6:43 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, I wrote a sub stack last week about this quote from Anthony Bourdain. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm listening to his book kitchen confidential right now. [SPEAKER_00]: Zero out of ten for morality, by the way. [SPEAKER_00]: Do not recommend. [SPEAKER_00]: OK. [SPEAKER_00]: I cannot stress enough.

7:04 [SPEAKER_00]: That factor if you listen to it. [SPEAKER_00]: Airpods. [SPEAKER_00]: Airpods. [SPEAKER_00]: And even then, you're like, [SPEAKER_00]: Hulk his spirit fast forward, fast forward, right? [SPEAKER_00]: But I do appreciate his stories and I do appreciate his take on food and he had a really big influence on me through his very censored foresee and end show.

7:22 [SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, so I finally am able to listen to his voice narrate this book and it's been there's been parts of it that are really lovely. [SPEAKER_00]: But he talks about prepping his station. [SPEAKER_00]: and having all of his things organized in an order, and here's the way he likes it, and here's the towels, the way he likes them, and this knife here, and that knife here, and he talked about having garlic, and how powerful garlic is, and wonderful garlic is, and he's like, if you don't use this stuff in a tub, or, you know, swear words, if you don't want to peel fresh garlic, you don't deserve to eat it.

8:02 [SPEAKER_01]: that's what he says. [SPEAKER_00]: And it caught me off guard when I was listening to this and thought, do we believe that? [SPEAKER_00]: Like, is that true? [SPEAKER_00]: You can't be bothered to feel fresh garlic, so say you shouldn't get to enjoy it. [SPEAKER_00]: And so I was kind of just wrestling with this thought.

8:20 [SPEAKER_00]: And I started to think about it in the context of [SPEAKER_00]: Um, the word bob like, can I be bothered to peel fresh garlic? [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Right. [SPEAKER_00]: Can I, can I be bothered to? [SPEAKER_00]: Um, take out meat for the week. [SPEAKER_00]: Can I be bothered to feed this stinky little sourdough starter again?

8:41 [SPEAKER_00]: This kind of stuff. [SPEAKER_00]: I think that's really applicable actually in our home making umbrella as well because the reality is you have to be willing to be bothered if convenience is the only goal or if like perfect Tidyness is the only goal You're never gonna do the things That make the things, you know, yeah, yeah [SPEAKER_00]: So we're going to talk about organization today.

9:14 [SPEAKER_00]: Yay! [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to talk about, we'll do some comments first. [SPEAKER_00]: We want to talk about organization today. [SPEAKER_00]: And I think that is applicable. [SPEAKER_00]: Can we be bothered to organize the closet? [SPEAKER_00]: Can we be bothered to separate the silverware?

9:28 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's an interesting question. [SPEAKER_00]: Alrighty. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. [SPEAKER_00]: But let's do some comments. [SPEAKER_00]: You'll choose. [SPEAKER_00]: You know, wake you up. [SPEAKER_00]: Shay, it's really bad. [SPEAKER_00]: Well, last week you had your toe. [SPEAKER_02]: So I'm gonna need you just I did really last week, even with my toe, please your toe, the desk.

9:49 [SPEAKER_02]: It's, well, it's still jagged and horrible because I can't find a clippers. [SPEAKER_02]: No, it's fine. [SPEAKER_02]: Let's see here. [SPEAKER_02]: Jacqueline says, dang it Shay, you've had me crying with you have been listening since the beginning as a young mom with no homestead and now I do with five kids ages 11.

10:10 [SPEAKER_02]: Wow, 9, 7, 4, and 2. [SPEAKER_02]: Get it. [SPEAKER_02]: Whenever you start getting emotional, I'm sorry. [SPEAKER_02]: Whenever you start to get emotional thinking about your little people that makes me cry. [SPEAKER_02]: Why did I pick this one? [SPEAKER_02]: Because I can [SPEAKER_02]: Why did I pick this one every day?

10:31 [SPEAKER_02]: I wonder how I can ache all over when I'm not even out of that stage yet I enjoy this week on the homestead with my I'll enjoy this week on the homestead with my tailongs on your tail logs How do you feel about that Angela? [SPEAKER_00]: Does it bring up any [SPEAKER_02]: Emotions you like to dust out.

10:51 [SPEAKER_02]: No, it actually doesn't. [SPEAKER_02]: Thanks. [SPEAKER_02]: I know. [SPEAKER_02]: Thanks. [SPEAKER_00]: Angela is just a few weeks away from another sweet beautiful bird spreading her wings. [SPEAKER_00]: So we have to be gentle with her on the uh the sweet love. [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.

11:12 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh my gosh. [SPEAKER_02]: Shut it down. [SPEAKER_02]: Shut it down. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Hmm. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. [SPEAKER_00]: This is Michelle on the eat drink and be lovely episode from the season. [SPEAKER_00]: Love you both.

11:28 [SPEAKER_00]: Been listening for years now, but just started on Spotify. [SPEAKER_00]: I appreciate the permission to just get rid of some things that are just living in my house and not serving a purpose. [SPEAKER_00]: The one thing that I do to relieve a pain point almost daily is I am blessed to come home for lunch break.

11:44 [SPEAKER_00]: I prepped in our run laundry, do dishes, tidy, vacuum, so when we are home later, we can enjoy time instead of having to chase, and now we can enjoy day-to-day life, much love from Connecticut. [SPEAKER_02]: I love that. [SPEAKER_00]: It really, it really took me back to when I worked out of the home, which I did for a while when we were first married and same thing.

12:07 [SPEAKER_00]: Use that lunch break to just do all those like beautiful little home Mickey pieces that can so often get lost in the shuffle when you're working out of the home and I know we have a lot of listeners who do work out of the home. [SPEAKER_00]: So Michelle, I love this. [SPEAKER_00]: This takes this takes organization of like your mind and your priorities.

12:28 [SPEAKER_00]: So look at you being super mature. [SPEAKER_02]: Is she, did you? [SPEAKER_02]: I know we talked about this on a phone call, but did we talk on the show about About getting rid of things about like you've already spent the money just that guilt of getting rid of stuff I feel like that was a private conversation.

12:47 [SPEAKER_02]: Do we flesh that out on on the show? [SPEAKER_02]: I want to see I can't remember [SPEAKER_02]: Um, okay. [SPEAKER_00]: I can't remember. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, I'm going to just make a note because I do think that has to do with organization. [SPEAKER_02]: So I'm going to bring that up again in a little while.

13:01 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes. [SPEAKER_00]: Yes. [SPEAKER_00]: Actually, Angela and I did have a private conversation about this. [SPEAKER_00]: So let's make sure we circle back. [SPEAKER_00]: Let we a couple of weeks ago. [SPEAKER_00]: We talked about making work, lovely. [SPEAKER_00]: Um, you know, Angela, how's the job outside the home now?

13:16 [SPEAKER_00]: She has her store, her shop in Ephraim. [SPEAKER_00]: And so she has to be gone away from the house, which is tricky when you're used, even if you work at home, it is tricky to when you're not home to throw something in the Instepot or run the dishwasher really fast. [SPEAKER_00]: You're just actually outside of that.

13:37 [SPEAKER_00]: So there's a whole another level of organization that we should tap into. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's crazy. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, here's the one from Car Hill, Shay. [SPEAKER_00]: I know you've got a lot of plates spinning right now, but hear me out. [SPEAKER_00]: You sound like steward. [SPEAKER_00]: He's like, hear me out, hear me out, hear me out, right?

13:57 [SPEAKER_00]: Yesterday it was like, let's take a bunch of high school seniors on like a Dante trail through Florence. [SPEAKER_00]: I'll say, not today. [UNKNOWN]: Okay. [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes I tell them, I don't need any more ideas. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, right? [SPEAKER_00]: This is Car Hills. [SPEAKER_00]: State side, pasta making workshop weekend.

14:17 [SPEAKER_00]: I would love to learn to make pasta. [SPEAKER_00]: I know I can watch a million YouTube videos and figure it out, but I would love to do so with others in person. [SPEAKER_00]: Just think about it, I'm begging you. [SPEAKER_00]: You know what car? [SPEAKER_00]: This sounds like the perfect opportunity for me to be able to teach a class like this.

14:36 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll probably have to go to the Italian Culinary Institute in Southern Italy to study said pasta making for sure. [SPEAKER_02]: Just to be weeks, just to be worthy, you know, you wouldn't want to like take people's money and not be good enough. [SPEAKER_02]: That's right. [SPEAKER_02]: That's right.

14:52 [SPEAKER_02]: I have yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm actually seeing doing something like, I would probably do it in California because there are some just really Mediterranean vibey places and get away. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, to be right. [SPEAKER_02]: All right, note it. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, note it. [SPEAKER_02]: My ajoys says I can relate to the ups and downs of entrepreneurship.

15:12 [SPEAKER_02]: My husband and I own an ag repair mobile mechanic business and it's wild. [SPEAKER_02]: How one day it feels like the only thing we will ever do, how it's one day it feels like it's the only thing we will ever do. [SPEAKER_02]: And then the next we are talking about selling everything because of how stressful it can be.

15:28 [SPEAKER_02]: Thanks for sharing. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, God has guided you throughout the years. [SPEAKER_02]: It's encouraging to hear each other's dang it. [SPEAKER_02]: It's encouraging to hear other entrepreneurs talk about their stories. [SPEAKER_02]: Love your podcast so much. [SPEAKER_02]: Heart emoji.

15:43 [SPEAKER_00]: My eye love this because every entrepreneur pretty much has the same experience. [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, what have I done? [SPEAKER_00]: And this is so awesome. [SPEAKER_02]: We would have, if I don't, really, this is so off the shop last week. [SPEAKER_02]: And I was like, oh my gosh, what have I done, what have I done?

16:08 [SPEAKER_02]: And then I started talking to other business owners like on the strip where we are and just even a customer came in and a lot of times there's just constant stream of traffic from the south coming up north to us. [SPEAKER_00]: Should go search nobody on the highway. [SPEAKER_02]: And I don't know if it was like the day after Appleton's tornado.

16:25 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know what it was. [SPEAKER_02]: It was just a law. [SPEAKER_02]: And so it made me feel a little bit better. [SPEAKER_02]: Other people like restaurants could feel it and tell everything. [SPEAKER_02]: But it felt so yucky. [SPEAKER_02]: And then yesterday, just randomly, we had like, Oh my gosh.

16:46 [SPEAKER_02]: Why? [SPEAKER_02]: I'm like super allergic to yellow jackets and there's one just flying around me. [SPEAKER_02]: Text Joel. [SPEAKER_02]: He's out. [SPEAKER_02]: I can hear the tractor. [SPEAKER_02]: He's not around. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh gosh. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm so allergic. [SPEAKER_02]: Go away.

17:01 [SPEAKER_02]: All right. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to sit very still and not project for you. [SPEAKER_00]: I'll tell you if I see it coming from behind. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. [SPEAKER_00]: Um. [SPEAKER_02]: I am brave. [SPEAKER_01]: And then I was good yesterday we had like our best day ever.

17:20 [SPEAKER_02]: So it was just like a little tender mercy day. [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_02]: I just needed to know I wasn't crazy for doing this. [SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, yep, I feel that it's up and down. [SPEAKER_00]: It's not clean, tidy, organized. [SPEAKER_02]: It's none of those things, yeah, none of those things, yeah.

17:46 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, here is one from Diana. [SPEAKER_00]: Hello, I don't see the artists in bread recipe that Shay mentioned in this episode. [SPEAKER_00]: You gals said you would put it in the show notes. [SPEAKER_00]: Diana, it is in that same episode. [SPEAKER_00]: It's in the drink, drink, and be lovely episode, but you got to scroll all the way to the bottom of the show notes.

18:05 [SPEAKER_00]: And you'll see it there. [SPEAKER_00]: Um, this is the bread that we were talking about that I, like, when you just kind of can't, you can make this bread. [SPEAKER_00]: It's very, very easy. [SPEAKER_00]: I actually got my sourdough starter. [SPEAKER_00]: I shared with you guys two weeks ago that we rebranded and it's been a really interesting like emotional.

18:29 [SPEAKER_00]: release process. [SPEAKER_00]: When you're an entrepreneur, there is a lot of your identity and emotions tied up in your work. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, especially like, like a name, you know, like that, that's your family name and it's not like it's a three year old thing. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you know, it's been, it's an adult, you know, but it's been very cathartic in a lot of ways.

18:58 [SPEAKER_00]: And I got my sourdough starter out last week and I started like, [SPEAKER_00]: My dry one that I normally do and then I have another one going on the counter for just like I wanted a bunch of discard like I was just in the mood and stew's like oh she's back like she's feeling good you can tell that emotional wellness it's like a radar right how much sour dough is she baking right you know how much pasta she making because those are things you do when you have.

19:28 [SPEAKER_00]: A little bit of, like, joy, or a little bit of capacity. [SPEAKER_00]: And margin. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, capacity. [SPEAKER_02]: For sure. [SPEAKER_02]: For sure. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, so Kyla, Kyla found some joy in her kitchen. [SPEAKER_02]: This was a timely episode. [SPEAKER_02]: My fridge stopped cooling last week while hosting for the week.

19:44 [SPEAKER_02]: Oh. [SPEAKER_02]: We found a professional grade full fridge on Facebook the next day and y'all it's so lovely and inspiring to cook from. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh my gosh, go away! [SPEAKER_02]: It's huge. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, it's the nasty kind. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh my gosh. [UNKNOWN]: It's all. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, I don't know if we keep reading.

20:09 [SPEAKER_02]: We had to rearrange the kitchen. [SPEAKER_02]: to fit it, but it ended up making space for a full size oven that I've been wanting. [SPEAKER_02]: We have a mini oven now. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm seeing my kitchen in a whole new light now. [SPEAKER_02]: And evaluating all the pain points. [SPEAKER_02]: I loved how God turned the fridge disaster into a blessing.

20:26 [SPEAKER_00]: I love this Kyla, this is just how the Lord works when he says no to something, it's so often. [SPEAKER_00]: And you don't always get to see it right away. [SPEAKER_00]: So this is pretty wonderful that you were able to see the results of that. [SPEAKER_00]: Kitchens are kind of one of those funny things, I think, too, where we get it really, we get really stuck in this is how it has to be or it has to be set up or it has to be organized.

20:50 [SPEAKER_00]: And sometimes when you need that like, [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, just jolt of something. [SPEAKER_00]: This is when I genuinely like to take everything out of a room, just like try to re-imaginate a little bit. [SPEAKER_00]: So I love this, Kyla. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so then there's like four e-drink in me, Mary, questions.

21:12 [SPEAKER_00]: You just read another one while I eyeball this guy until Joel gets here. [SPEAKER_00]: See, it's in my business. [SPEAKER_02]: okay so you want me to skip the baby ones okay so no no dad needs to get up here there is a yellow jacket on my desk right there get it on Ali can you kill that with I cannot get started by that thing yeah we're on oh frick there's [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, well, while Angela kills this, this be, we're gonna take a quick break, say thank you to our sponsors.

21:55 [SPEAKER_00]: By the way, you guys, I heard from Sammy, Sammy Saltenlight. [SPEAKER_00]: Um, you guys love the red diffuser that Angela was talking about. [SPEAKER_00]: And you didn't listen to my suggestion of those beautiful wooden wick candles, so you need to check them out and we'll be back in just a minute.

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24:33 [SPEAKER_00]: The yellow jacket has been slayed. [SPEAKER_00]: I just patched. [SPEAKER_00]: It did not go well for him. [SPEAKER_02]: I can breathe it out. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, okay, so should we go into organization now. [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, because I just I just want to talk about it [SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

24:56 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Are you feeling particularly inspired in this? [SPEAKER_02]: No. [SPEAKER_02]: No, I just think it's, I think it's, you know, you said when we, at the beginning, you were talking about like the things we've been talking about are the things that get undone. [SPEAKER_02]: What did you say co-op did, you know?

25:14 [SPEAKER_02]: And so I think everybody has this moment where something gets organized and then [SPEAKER_02]: Like, yeah, it's going to stay in line, Pat, and it doesn't, and not just want to talk about it, because I, everybody, I think we probably have different ways of doing things, and there's so many little pockets in the house that if they are organized, a life is just like day to day, life routine is just more lovely, you know, the refrigerator.

25:43 [SPEAKER_02]: Nothing's worse than looking for your [SPEAKER_02]: You know, I mean, it's just like, it really does. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, the refrigerator, hello. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, this is a tough one too, because I think it requires us to sort of go into it, not admitting defeat, but admitting that life wears on things.

26:10 [SPEAKER_00]: Are you serious? [SPEAKER_02]: No, I'm not, it's all good. [SPEAKER_00]: She's holding her hands up. [SPEAKER_00]: She's looking up at the sky like there's another one. [SPEAKER_02]: To some movement, nope, it's not, it's going good. [SPEAKER_02]: She's just, she's just, I just don't know if there's a window open or something.

26:23 [SPEAKER_02]: So, yeah, no, it is, it is like, um, yeah, admitting. [SPEAKER_00]: It's admitting that this isn't ever going, okay, you have a house. [SPEAKER_00]: When are you going to stop cleaning your toilet? [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, never. [SPEAKER_00]: never. [SPEAKER_00]: So part of organization making it lovely is recognizing that it's not a losing battle, but it's a lifelong experience.

26:54 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's say, let's spin it. [SPEAKER_00]: So this is going to be a lifelong experience for me. [SPEAKER_00]: So how can I make it lovely? [SPEAKER_00]: A few years ago, I made myself this little, [SPEAKER_00]: and it was a wire basket and I put all my branch basics bottles in it. [SPEAKER_00]: I had scissors, gorilla glue, duct tape, magic eraser, swiffer sticks, extra swiffer, you know, fluffy bits, a new vacuum bag.

27:30 [SPEAKER_00]: It was just like all the weird little things. [SPEAKER_00]: couple zip ties like these weird things that you wouldn't know think of. [SPEAKER_02]: I have a toolbox shade. [SPEAKER_02]: So I have a cleaning box and a toolbox and you cannot underestimate the power of a woman who has Gorilla glue, Gorilla tape, E6000, her own hammer and nails, her own drill, her own little [SPEAKER_02]: And what was the last thing you just said and zipped I am a queen of the zip tie.

28:03 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you need something Jerry rigged. [SPEAKER_02]: I got you. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Don't underestimate that man. [SPEAKER_00]: Because when you're living through your house too, that's the kind of cleaning I love to do. [SPEAKER_00]: When I have time to like, I call it fartener.

28:17 [SPEAKER_00]: Like when I've got time to fart around in my house, [SPEAKER_00]: I don't mean actually through that. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean like I'm not just vacuuming. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm like tying I'm using zip ties to like tie the plant up on it's baby. [SPEAKER_02]: You're like you're like repairing as you go kind of repairing as I go.

28:33 [SPEAKER_02]: I love it. [SPEAKER_02]: I mean the love or not. [SPEAKER_00]: That's the best kind of cleaning. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm gluing on this thing that I can't figure out how to drill and don't want. [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm just super stupid. [SPEAKER_00]: So, like, genuinely part of making it lovely for me, it's not lovely to just be sharpen around a nasty old sponge and like a half-hearted bottle of cleaner.

28:59 [SPEAKER_00]: That's just not fun to me. [SPEAKER_00]: So, if we're talking about, I know we're thinking a little bit more like cleaning right now, but like, so what are the tools you need to make it lovely? [SPEAKER_00]: So, when I think about organization, like, I do think, actually, [SPEAKER_00]: destors, and zip ties, because like we're a book family, I'm constantly organizing books because people read, can you imagine the audacity, and then they leave their books all over the place.

29:30 [SPEAKER_00]: So like we have to have a place for library books. [SPEAKER_00]: We have to have a place for school books, for stewards books, for my books, for the kids' books. [SPEAKER_00]: Right? [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: tell you what's bloody hard to organize also the kitchen the kitchen drawers yeah that's just a constant undoing that's that's people it is people [SPEAKER_02]: My mom's kitchen drawers don't get undone.

30:04 [SPEAKER_02]: That's just a people thing. [SPEAKER_02]: That's a chapter of life thing. [SPEAKER_02]: A first shirt. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: And like it's just a rocket science thing, like, you know, the, my girls they'd like make iced coffees all the time. [SPEAKER_02]: Or shakes, right?

30:18 [SPEAKER_02]: And so like the ball jar with the lid, the ring with the lid. [SPEAKER_02]: They're always just everywhere, everywhere. [SPEAKER_02]: Like, here's the drawer. [SPEAKER_02]: Right here is the drawer. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: They're not part of the Baker's rack design. [SPEAKER_02]: They don't go in the Collender in the cupboard.

30:36 [SPEAKER_02]: You know, yeah, here's the Ringding drawer right here. [SPEAKER_00]: I told to, you know, my kitchen is my office. [SPEAKER_00]: It's my office. [SPEAKER_00]: It's where I film. [SPEAKER_00]: It's where I photograph. [SPEAKER_00]: It's where I make recipes. [SPEAKER_00]: It's where I do the videos for the, it is my office.

30:52 [SPEAKER_00]: And I told him it's like a bunch of drunk, frac guy's come in here. [SPEAKER_00]: have a party and then I got to come in here and clean it up before I can use it and my kids are good helps like they're but they're just their kids they don't see the squished blueberries on the floor and they don't think oh this goes in the second drawer not the fourth drawer you know and the foil falls out of the bit the box and then just they shut you in the drawer [SPEAKER_02]: I just, when I get home with the foil, I just take it out of the box and throw the box away.

31:27 [SPEAKER_00]: We're done here. [SPEAKER_02]: I can't. [SPEAKER_02]: I just can't with the lopsided. [SPEAKER_02]: It never gets put back in. [SPEAKER_02]: I just take it out. [SPEAKER_02]: And I just tear it, crooked foil. [SPEAKER_00]: Well listen, my mind has obviously been on the kitchen lately and I bought myself.

31:42 [SPEAKER_00]: So sometimes we always say it doesn't mean we're trying to get you to sell by you one just stuff. [SPEAKER_00]: But sometimes, I'll tell you what, I had a strainer and I posted about this. [SPEAKER_00]: I had a strainer and it was coming out of the room and it was all these jagged wires just like, [SPEAKER_00]: Come and ask like my bacon grease splatter guard.

32:00 [SPEAKER_02]: It's just torn off in the top. [SPEAKER_02]: You try to wash it Like a cat's scratching Okay, we're talking about it's like a six dollar replacement. [SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm, okay? [SPEAKER_00]: And I got on Amazon and I thought, oh, like man, I feel like I just bought this strainer I can't believe it didn't last for that [SPEAKER_00]: No, Angela, I bought it six years ago.

32:26 [SPEAKER_00]: That's one dollar a year for you, Sandwich. [SPEAKER_02]: Then she, it's just so funny because I am going out today to buy the college girl stuff. [SPEAKER_02]: And I'm like, you're gonna get rid of those moldy shower currents and you're gonna get a new bacon splatter guard. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, because that stuff is not intended to last forever.

32:48 [SPEAKER_02]: No. [SPEAKER_02]: You're not a better person by not replacing it and using the same mangy, ripped up, scratched, busted from the rim. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, splatter guard. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: You know, yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, I don't think they're called icon splatter guard.

33:01 [SPEAKER_00]: Look, there's so many things that you can organize in the home. [SPEAKER_00]: I just think few have asked great of impact. [SPEAKER_00]: Is the kitchen. [SPEAKER_00]: And I don't know if that's just the way I'm wired or if other people will feel that way, too. [SPEAKER_00]: But like, [SPEAKER_00]: My laundry room is organized, you know, does isn't perfect.

33:16 [SPEAKER_02]: No, you know, about getting undone, but I think the closet too. [SPEAKER_02]: I mean my closet's got to be honest. [SPEAKER_02]: Mine's on the, you know, I told you about every six weeks. [SPEAKER_02]: I have to go in there and really screw it up. [SPEAKER_02]: And it's on the, it's on six weeks and one day right here.

33:31 [SPEAKER_00]: But same kind of thing, like, this is embarrassing, really embarrassing. [SPEAKER_00]: Stu came up to me. [SPEAKER_00]: The other day, and he kind of was like adjusting my shirt strap. [SPEAKER_00]: And he had my bra was underneath there and he was like, your bra strap is all fried. [SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, it's brown on the edges.

33:49 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, okay, if you want to be humbled, when I was in Italy for my birthday, we went to these amazing hot springs, and I was changing in the middle of the forest into my swimsuit, and my swimsuit top, just the class just completely crumbled, like it fell apart. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, well, in the middle of a forest in Italy, going in these insane hot springs, I'm going in, okay?

34:14 [SPEAKER_00]: And so I just wear my bra instead, [SPEAKER_00]: which is so sweat-bub, stained, slash, broughty-arm-petted, slash, okay. [SPEAKER_02]: So you can't wear that kind of underwear in Europe? [UNKNOWN]: I know. [SPEAKER_02]: You can't end up in a Italian hospital with brown underwear. [SPEAKER_00]: Don't treat her.

34:38 [SPEAKER_00]: She doesn't, she doesn't deserve treatment. [SPEAKER_02]: You show up as a Jane Doe, while she's American, we know that. [SPEAKER_00]: And here's the worst part that was so same for all that was where it's starting. [SPEAKER_00]: You didn't even get rid of it. [SPEAKER_00]: Shame on you.

35:02 [SPEAKER_00]: I know, I know. [SPEAKER_00]: So yes, to the closet, but like you were saying about the bacon guard, it's like, I'm sorry. [SPEAKER_00]: Do you think somebody's going to come and give you a certificate? [SPEAKER_00]: Me like, you were so responsible with your money. [SPEAKER_00]: Well done.

35:15 [SPEAKER_02]: Here's your joke about 49 dollars and invested it. [SPEAKER_02]: And now, it's about two years later. [SPEAKER_02]: And the compound interest is not like, that's just it. [SPEAKER_02]: It's not like you are doing something better with your money. [SPEAKER_02]: Like when you put off stuff like that, [SPEAKER_02]: You've done some financial wizardry thing.

35:36 [SPEAKER_02]: You're just procrastinating. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'm taking care of yourself. [SPEAKER_02]: Like, you don't get a cookie for that. [SPEAKER_00]: Right. [SPEAKER_00]: Which actually makes it kind of worse because then everything builds up to fever pitch. [SPEAKER_00]: If we were to actually organize our purchases, I'm thinking out loud.

35:55 [SPEAKER_00]: It's fine. [SPEAKER_00]: I could see that really being helpful. [SPEAKER_00]: Like, yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Like, whatever. [SPEAKER_02]: I'll tell you something, I'm gonna be a little tidbit here. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, so I do these trips to France with the ladies twice a year. [SPEAKER_02]: And before I go, like there's always, I've been doing it for four and a half years now.

36:17 [SPEAKER_02]: I need the same thing every time I go. [SPEAKER_02]: I need like, um, Tide sticks and I always bring a couple of Mr. Cleany racers and I take a lot of vitamin C when I travel. [SPEAKER_02]: And I have all that stuff on a six month auto ship [SPEAKER_02]: Boom, because I go every six months, then it just shows up and I'm like, what could you thinkin' about yourself in advance?

36:41 [SPEAKER_02]: Some always surprised when it shows up. [SPEAKER_01]: You're amazing! [SPEAKER_01]: What if we, you know, put your underwear on, you have some socks. [SPEAKER_00]: You're crying out loud. [SPEAKER_00]: You're some sock, isn't it? [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, there are there is I think there could be some really great organizational pieces there that would sort of take some of the guilt or some of the guesswork out of those kinds of things.

37:05 [SPEAKER_00]: So like you know if you're a homeschooling mom that somewhere in July, August September, you're going to need the markers, the pencils, the sharpeners, the rulers that you lost again staples for the thing blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. [SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, maybe you organize it like, okay, well, this isn't the month to buy brawls to because I got to do all the school stuff and so you could set it up in a way that felt lovely.

37:31 [SPEAKER_02]: So you never felt like, oh, but I really need new brawls and I got to buy all these pencils and color crayons out. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: You know, I think there's a way to go about that. [SPEAKER_00]: They're all things you got to do anyway. [SPEAKER_00]: How could you [SPEAKER_00]: How could you schedule it so that it did feel lovely?

37:50 [SPEAKER_02]: And not so overwhelming. [SPEAKER_00]: I'll tell you what else I bought myself. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, so I'm sorry, did you order a new bra? [SPEAKER_02]: No, okay. [SPEAKER_00]: Because I have to order a special bra. [SPEAKER_00]: Because they don't carry my size in the store. [SPEAKER_00]: They're like, but you're like, big this way.

38:09 [SPEAKER_00]: And teeny tiny this way. [SPEAKER_02]: You free? [SPEAKER_00]: You don't have brawls that size. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I have to special order them. [SPEAKER_00]: Third love is where I order them from. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, they specialize for us. [SPEAKER_00]: I beat T-C years. [SPEAKER_00]: But I do have a different brawnt today.

38:33 [SPEAKER_00]: I have another one from them that's very lovely, but it's like a crossback. [SPEAKER_00]: So you can't wear it with everything. [SPEAKER_00]: I bought myself, [SPEAKER_00]: a $20 new digital scale for the kitchen and I'm telling you if you're like me, you can ride that high. [SPEAKER_00]: for a long time.

38:57 [SPEAKER_00]: That's exciting. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. [SPEAKER_00]: The cover had fallen off my other one, so it was like exposed mechanics of the scale and no matter how many fresh batteries you put in, the screen was barely readable and it was a very small scale and so when you put your mixing bowl on it or any bowl you had to like lean down to lean over to see the numbers.

39:20 [SPEAKER_00]: I thought this 50 pounder man. [SPEAKER_00]: and it's like neon green, screen, Angela, it's so beautiful and it's it was $20 and it's just like this kind of stuff. [SPEAKER_00]: It's weird how sometimes these small little changes like moving your refrigerator [SPEAKER_02]: like organize everything like it's like a snowball and then when things are organized it gives you the energy to like do the task right because your brain isn't fritzing out the time.

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42:10 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Shay, do you guys, does the whole country have the container store? [SPEAKER_00]: We don't have ever been to one. [SPEAKER_02]: I've heard of that. [SPEAKER_02]: Wait, there's one, when I was 20, I stumbled upon the container store. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, oh my gosh.

42:32 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know, are you kidding me? [SPEAKER_02]: It's their big, like a staples, like they're big. [SPEAKER_02]: The office's deep out, like that size. [SPEAKER_02]: I, yeah, like at the time, completely unaffordable. [SPEAKER_02]: But I bought myself a cardboard Christmas ornament organizer because we had just got married and I was like starting my ornament collection and I would really like to do that.

42:58 [SPEAKER_02]: I had told you last year to get Christmas organizers. [SPEAKER_00]: I forgot you said that. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but it lasted me quite a while and I'd duct tape the snout out of it when it was ready had already given up the ghost and I think I still use it. [SPEAKER_02]: I think it's nice and duct taped, but that store oh my gosh, if that doesn't inspire you now it does tell you oh you need to buy things to be organized and sometimes that's true everyone's in a while that's true.

43:27 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, you gotta have hangers. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: I have, like, we have moths here. [SPEAKER_02]: So I keep all my sweaters and boxes. [SPEAKER_02]: And I have like little cedar hangers that go in our closet. [SPEAKER_02]: And I have beautiful drawers for all my spices in the kitchen.

43:42 [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, you know, not everybody wants to use a shoe box. [SPEAKER_02]: That doesn't feel sexy all the time. [SPEAKER_00]: Tell me, tell me how. [SPEAKER_02]: you organize your jewelry. [SPEAKER_02]: This is one where I'm like, are we five? [SPEAKER_02]: I have a five year old [SPEAKER_02]: I do have a drawer that does look like I'm five and it's all the broken stuff that I have lied to my daughter and told her every winter we're going to restring it all and just have like a jewelry party and I've said that for like two years and she is not happy with me.

44:16 [SPEAKER_02]: So I have like the five-year-old drawer but then I do have all my necklaces like on an antique like T-bar thing. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay. [SPEAKER_02]: And I think that's a would be a great place to get stuff for jewelry, and I have a little ring dish, and I have a hand for your rings. [SPEAKER_02]: Yep.

44:35 [SPEAKER_02]: What about earrings? [SPEAKER_02]: Um, I don't, I mean, I have a lot of like costume like big jewelry. [SPEAKER_02]: They're kind of in the five-year-old tour. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay. [SPEAKER_02]: Mostly, I just wear my hopes. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: You know, and then you precious like things that I want to [SPEAKER_00]: keep track of, because then also every time when you go to like get ready, I think about organization sometimes is like eliminating those friction points.

45:01 [SPEAKER_00]: So like where do you feel the friction point? [SPEAKER_00]: I'm trying to get ready to look for my earrings. [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm like I wear earrings every day. [SPEAKER_00]: It's my get up. [SPEAKER_00]: Normally they're just my giant big hoops. [SPEAKER_00]: But it's a friction point when you're like, man, I need to wear studs today.

45:20 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, what do I need to uh, and you like you're just like shoveling around like a mole amongst like broken Q-tip. [SPEAKER_00]: It's awful. [SPEAKER_00]: I hate it. [SPEAKER_02]: Broken Q-tips. [SPEAKER_02]: I used to have like a proper jewelry box like one of those old like vintage ones with like pink velvet inside or um it broke.

45:40 [SPEAKER_02]: It was definitely old when I got it. [SPEAKER_02]: Uh [SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, I think just a basic jewelry box. [SPEAKER_00]: I have my jewelry on the top of this thing in my bathroom. [SPEAKER_00]: And we actually got stewed some colon from Salt and Light by Sammy. [SPEAKER_02]: And oh my gosh, that one with the like warrior on the front.

45:58 [SPEAKER_02]: I think yes, it smells so good. [SPEAKER_02]: I gave it to Adam. [SPEAKER_02]: It smells so good. [SPEAKER_02]: It does. [SPEAKER_00]: But I have their beautiful little bottles and stewed colon bottles. [SPEAKER_02]: It's his first bottle of colon. [SPEAKER_00]: And it's real, and it's sitting there and I have my perfume sitting there and like I want it to be lovely, you know, and I think part of organization is functionality part of it is so that it's aesthetically pleasing to you.

46:28 [SPEAKER_02]: That's why I got those closet organizers. [SPEAKER_02]: So I took out. [SPEAKER_02]: I had like the big system in my when we bought the house had like that rubber coated shelving, you know I went to that all out and I did I went on Amazon and I just typed in like brass blah blah blah blah And it's just like fat gold, but I have these two huge carts in my closet That I when it's time to organize my closet.

46:51 [SPEAKER_02]: I can wheel them out [SPEAKER_02]: Spruce it all up, but when I opened my closet or I wanted to see my marbleized boxes, you know, like you get at home goods or whatever, that's what I keep stuff in, underwear, gloves, [SPEAKER_02]: Small purse is like for special like little clutches for special occasions, whatever my sweater is going the big one I wanted to seal that one to see my purse is lined up and so like one has shelves and the bar and one is just bar and it's so great because I can wheel him out Spruce it up Because my closet's very very very long like probably 15 feet long and only like three and a half feet deep.

47:32 [SPEAKER_02]: It's bizarre [SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, there's something about closet organization stuff and making it pretty So all that to say is I like to see my belts when I open and I'm like, what am I gonna wear today? [SPEAKER_02]: It's just like my spice. [SPEAKER_02]: It's how how is this gonna inspire me to do the thing?

47:48 [SPEAKER_02]: Well looking nice is part of my job as part of me doing the thing. [SPEAKER_02]: What outfit am I gonna put together? [SPEAKER_02]: You know, yeah [SPEAKER_00]: Do you ever put your outfits out the night before? [SPEAKER_00]: Because I think that would be actually, especially during the school year.

48:02 [SPEAKER_00]: I could see actually looking forward to it. [SPEAKER_00]: If you have clothes that you like, yeah, that you feel good. [SPEAKER_02]: I didn't. [SPEAKER_02]: Like a sofa right in front of it. [SPEAKER_02]: And I'll just like drape them over the front. [SPEAKER_02]: Just kind of helps me know that's one less thing you have to think about tomorrow.

48:14 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: It's like, here are your earrings and they're all organized. [SPEAKER_00]: That's one less thing you have to think about. [SPEAKER_01]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_00]: You have maybe some of your toiletries. [SPEAKER_00]: The ones that you use over and over, maybe those are set to auto-ships, so you're not like, oh, I'm out of that.

48:31 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm out of that. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm out of that. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: No, you know you're not, because you know it's going to come to you when you need it. [SPEAKER_00]: Something like that. [SPEAKER_00]: So um, okay, if you could organize, if you had the time, Angela and I do not have time right now.

48:46 [SPEAKER_00]: We are, I told my mom last night, I was like, you know when you watch rock climbers, like really good ones, and they go on those faces that are upside down and they're just hanging on by like their pinky and like a toe. [SPEAKER_00]: That's funny though. [SPEAKER_00]: We feel like we're now, right?

49:04 [SPEAKER_00]: And I try really, really hard to not operate in that zone, really, really hard. [SPEAKER_00]: Everyone's in a while, things culminating together, and that's just what happens. [SPEAKER_00]: And I think actually one of the hard parts about getting through something a particularly unbalanced time like that is you don't have time to do some of these like general even the general organization stuff that keeps your home moving smoothly.

49:30 [SPEAKER_00]: So like making sure your refrigerator is organized and stocked. [SPEAKER_00]: That's going to get undone in five days. [SPEAKER_00]: It's still something that you have to do in [SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, there's, there are these times of temporary imbalance and then there are times, you know, maybe during the winter time too, where you're like, no, I can't be outside.

49:53 [SPEAKER_00]: So, I'll just go tackle that, that closet or tackle that drawer or tackle, [SPEAKER_02]: whatever. [SPEAKER_02]: I kind of went crazy before summer. [SPEAKER_02]: Like in between my spring trip to France and when I knew the weather was, I just, I'm outside all the time. [SPEAKER_02]: You know, I did, I like organized my toolbox, I organized, cleaned up the spices, like took each one out because the kids like grind me fingers all over them.

50:18 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Um, spruced up like the closet where the vacuum cleaner goes, did my closet, you know, just all those things like, okay, they won't last, but a nice reset before this season. [SPEAKER_02]: So winter is a great time to do that for sure. [SPEAKER_02]: You were, you started, you interrupted yourself though you said if you could do something.

50:38 [SPEAKER_00]: If you could have, if you could kind of dive into it and organizational project right now in your home. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so I have this desk that I set out when my big computer is and then I have a standing desk in the corner and on that wall is like I have like navy blue felt like pushpin, you know, and then on the left wall is six on the left wall are six clipboards.

51:11 [SPEAKER_02]: And it's all a little bit messy right now. [SPEAKER_02]: One's supposed to be my budget, one's supposed to be my menu, one's supposed to be for whom's going, one's supposed to be for the spring trip, one's supposed to be for the fall trip, blah, blah, blah, blah, and then language. [SPEAKER_02]: And they're all like, I started the other day, and I had this massive pile of French in Spanish homework.

51:30 [SPEAKER_02]: And I just kept telling myself, you're gonna go through that. [SPEAKER_02]: You're gonna go through that, you're gonna go through that. [SPEAKER_02]: And I just looked at it the other day and I thought, I said, you know what? [SPEAKER_02]: Actually, you're not. [SPEAKER_02]: You're just going to throw it away and reprint the assignments to put in your clipboard to review for when you have review time.

51:50 [SPEAKER_02]: Because I, yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: I just so much better. [SPEAKER_00]: I just made this. [SPEAKER_00]: I had to recycle an old notebook and, you know, I was like, you don't need to buy anything. [SPEAKER_00]: Just organize your stupid Italian notes. [SPEAKER_00]: But I've got two tubs next to me.

52:06 [SPEAKER_00]: It is a constant, it's a constant effort on our part. [SPEAKER_00]: But it's good. [SPEAKER_00]: It is good. [SPEAKER_00]: And you know, we always say the homemaker has the ability to bring magic to the home to me. [SPEAKER_00]: This is kind of one of those magic things where you know in like the kids are like, oh, we're out of mustard and you know exactly what you're in the pantry and you're like, no, we're not.

52:33 [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: And they're like hubs with toothpaste. [SPEAKER_02]: We're how to toothpaste. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, actually, there's four in the closet. [SPEAKER_02]: He's like, wow. [SPEAKER_00]: And I think that's kind of the point of organization. [SPEAKER_00]: It's meant to help you serve your family.

52:46 [SPEAKER_00]: It's made to help you serve your home better. [SPEAKER_00]: It's made to make the things that you already have last longer because they're cared for and they're accounted for. [SPEAKER_00]: And those are good. [SPEAKER_00]: Those are really good habits. [SPEAKER_00]: What's some of your organizational superpowers are?

53:07 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe tips that you have or things that you particularly love systems so that we can come back and share it. [SPEAKER_00]: That will be lovely. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, yeah, I love that. [SPEAKER_00]: All right, okay. [SPEAKER_00]: Have a wonderful day, our friends, and we will be back here with you next Monday.

53:25 [SPEAKER_00]: Cheers.