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I love when planner people write about planning in their planners. The fact that Jen has to write down that she's re-upping her commitment to "planning" just goes to show that planning for her isn't about actually doing anything, it's about putting stickers and pictures into a notebook. -
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Pop Sugar box open on Snapchat.
She's basically giving away everything in the box, except a hair mask. Hat, gluten free stuff, red lip lacquer, lint roller. She might keep the travel manicure kit because she doesn't have one. Then at the end she says she might use it as a stocking stuffer.
This is why subscription boxes are nonsense. -
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Does CC have any teeth? How the heck is she chewing her fancy French green beans? I'd be terrified that she'd be choking on all of that!
There's no way she's still nursing as much as a 9 month old should AND putting away that much food. -
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It is kind of funny, after all the speculating many of us (myself included!) did while she was pregnant, thinking she'd try to "train" the baby the way she did with Winnie tied up. It seems like that's exactly what's going on.
The kid progressed more in a couple of weeks in Utah, when he-who-shall-not-be-named was right there to make it obvious that Charlotte is behind. That was very telling.
I had a late talker (2 years to get this kid to talk, now she doesn't shut up - haha!) and another that was a late walker (who of course is now a runner), so I'm sensitive to scrutiny over development, but by 9 months, Charlotte should be able to get herself into a sitting position, crawl, roll over, and lots of babies are pulling up on things by 9 months. She also isn't very verbal. It's no big deal if she can't do one of these things, but it is technically a delay if she can't do/isn't doing any of them. (Not saying that it's a fact that she can't; we only see a few seconds of her day. But since we haven't seen any evidence of it, I feel safe in the assumption that she isn't doing these things. Jen would be shouting from the rooftops if the kid was saying mama or pulling up.) -
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I'm an elite member of society/Prime member too. We live about 45 minutes from any store that isn't Walmart, and I have three kids that I homeschool, which means that when I do make the 45 minute trip, it's not as simple as popping in and out of the car to go into multiple stores and getting it over with quickly. (Unlike Jen, I actually don't enjoy shopping.) A couple of times a year, I'll tag out when my husband gets home and go shopping by myself, but it's a lot easier (and usually cheaper) to just hop on the Amazon app and buy whatever random thing I need rather than go to five different stores looking for it, because the closest city with actual shopping doesn't have places like The Container Store. It's totally worth it to me just for that.
And like Athletic Calves, I love Amazon Music more than Spotify, and the video option is on our Roku with Netflix and Hulu. -
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If she wants her hair to look like that during the day, why doesn't she use her brain and just put her hair up in a bun...at night? Or, you know, sleep on curlers? I personally hate it when my hair gets that weird "I've been in a ponytail" bend.
It always cracks me up, the juxtaposition between their 1% money and the stupid stuff like this that money would easily fix. Instead of buying another purse, drop some cash on a really good stylist who will happily sit with you for hours (for the right price) and explain and show you how to get hair like this, or just how to get hair with more body, if that's what she's going for. I'm guessing she owns around $50,000 worth of purses and wallets stuffed into her closet, she's had to have spent tens of thousands on lotions and makeup over the past 5-10 years (Those cashmere Clairisonic heads add up when you go through as many as she does) but she doesn't know how to make her hair look good. -
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Her favorites nonsense is the biggest reach for content every month. What people wear from month to month generally isn't all that exciting. So since we're just getting the same snaps over and over (look, they're in the same restaurant! Look, Jen finally got guilted into putting her kid on her stomach!) here's my mama/lifestyle favorites of the month. Everyone feel free to do your own report!
Clothes. I live in the South, we're sweating our asses off, so I'm living in shorts and t-shirts. I put on a bra if I leave the house.
Accessories - a ponytail holder. See above about sweating my ass off. If I'm leaving the house for a meeting or going out to dinner or something, I'll wear my wedding ring and a Fossil watch that's 5 years old. #nolongeravailable
Beauty - I don't change lotions and body washes and scrubs and moisturizers every month. ONCE I FIND A FAVORITE I STOP TRYING OTHER STUFF.
Home Goods - Internet service that works for streaming. I'm not even in the 1% and we spring for good internet!
Multimedia - Checking in with you ladies. More entertaining than NBC's craptastic Olympics coverage. (I was really annoyed this year because the Olympics coverage was so bad that I didn't watch most of it, and I LOVE the Olympics.)
Tasty Treats - Watermelon. It's summer. Eat a damn fruit that doesn't come in the form of Starbucks poundcake, Jen. -
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I've never seen that video before. OMG. It has all the classic lines from Hoarders. (We haven't had the Halloween party in years, but we might want to again one day and I already spent money on the SEVEN bins of Halloween crap. We used these three boxes of table runners in the condo, have never used them in this house, but I already bought them.) We once tried to help my hoarder of a mother in law declutter before she moved, and I'm never going to forget when we tried to get rid of a fondue pot that hadn't been used in years, and she said, "There might be a church potluck one day and I might want to bring fondue to it instead of a casserole for a change." That was when I checked out, because at some point, logic has to be important.
I am an event planner/producer, and as such, we have amassed a lot of stuff (because it's cheaper than renting every time) and we store most of it in our basement. We sell lots of t-shirts and other apparel at our events, so I just keep the extras in bins in between events. I had to pause the video at one point and call my husband over, and tell him that any time the basement gets out of control, he needs to remember that I have less stuff for events for hundreds of people (and we're talking I have multiple pop up canopies and party tents, signage, folding tables, drink dispensers, disposable plates/utensils/napkins/cups, stuff like that), minus the bins of shirts (there are about a dozen of those) than this woman has for two people to simply EXIST. And that's not counting the garage storage or what she has squirreled away in closets. The Christmas stuff alone is insane, but I guess that's why she gets stressed when she has to decorate for Christmas.
As far as the toaster goes, since it's only family she ever has over for parties, why not just do what the commoners do - ask one of the people coming over if they would mind bringing a toaster?
It's amusing to watch that video, knowing that it's years later, and they still haven't had that Halloween party.
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