Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Welcome back to the she Said podcast with Amy and Lisa. Episode number 37.
[00:00:05] Speaker B: Here we are. What's going on?
I had to snap out of my Amazon real quick because, you know, another gift popped in my head.
[00:00:14] Speaker A: I need to get.
My biggest issue in life right now is I follow way too many influencers that influence me.
[00:00:22] Speaker B: Isn't it true? I mean, and my stuff is organize. If I could organize my house like I organize my Instagram files and stuff like that for. For everything, I'd be. I'd be a very organized person.
I've had people be like, wow, you got to organize like that? I'm like, I do.
[00:00:43] Speaker A: Like, well, the sad thing about that is that then Amazon's fully aware of what you have saved. And so then they nudge you and say items in your saved list is on sale.
[00:00:53] Speaker B: Yes. My Amazon is just as organized, really.
I mean, like my husband or kids, I mean, they can easily go see like what my most recent wish list is. And it would be make shopping. So they don't even need to ask me what I want. They could really just go in there and be like, oh, that's what mom wants.
[00:01:11] Speaker A: It's a good idea. Do they do it?
[00:01:13] Speaker B: I'm not good about putting it out there vocally to them. Like, I don't really know.
I don't like telling them like what I want. Which probably isn't super helpful, but we've.
[00:01:21] Speaker A: Ever seen those memes. I'm sure you have, because they're everywhere about what? If you want to tell your husband what you want for Christmas, just shout it out around his phone when he's not around his phone. And then he's gonna have ads pop up.
[00:01:32] Speaker B: Oh, that's a good idea. Oh, that's a really good idea.
I like that because as soon as.
[00:01:38] Speaker A: You say it, then he's gonna start getting ads.
[00:01:40] Speaker B: Well, Steven's always like, there's packages coming every day. You're not very helpful when it comes to that. You just end up getting it. I'm like, oh, there's things I don't get.
[00:01:48] Speaker A: So. Yeah, because yeah, your pick out things are usually they're on sale or. Yeah, that's true.
[00:01:53] Speaker B: Yeah, he went to the grocery store last night, which he doesn't normally do because I do a lot of just online shopping and I do like price compares sometimes. Like, oh, it's a lot better priced over here. I'll just do a pickup over here. He was like, so he could not quit talking about it last night, how expensive everything is because, like, I think his coffee went up almost $3 a bag. The one that he likes, if he gets it in the store.
There's one we started buying from someone else that we like, like a personal distributor. But he was going to get some extra stuff to have on hand at home. And he was like that. It's ridiculous. He paid $13 for a little thing of. Just a little thing of. No, maybe 17 for a little thing of honey.
[00:02:31] Speaker A: Oh my gosh. Why has that gone up so much, Nigel?
[00:02:36] Speaker B: I'm like.
[00:02:36] Speaker A: It was.
[00:02:37] Speaker B: He was pretty upset about that. I mean, so I was like, wow, you got a lot of best value here.
So he was pre distract, like, well, so you can say thank you for me trying to save money when I can on places.
[00:02:51] Speaker A: It is kind of shocking now when you do check out at a grocery store. Compared to like I always had. I was always around, averaged about 65 every time, man. Now it's easily a hundred. Over a hundred dollars for the same stuff.
[00:03:04] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:03:04] Speaker A: So it's definitely gone up.
[00:03:06] Speaker B: Yeah, it has, without a doubt.
[00:03:08] Speaker A: Which is sad.
[00:03:09] Speaker B: Just little things here and there. Oh, and then the new penny rounding.
Have you noticed that that's going on? So that. He didn't know anything about that either. He was just like, what?
[00:03:17] Speaker A: What?
[00:03:17] Speaker B: Like, what is going on? Why, apparently there's no more pennies. That's funny.
[00:03:22] Speaker A: Stop making them.
[00:03:23] Speaker B: I'm sure there's still plenty out there in circulation.
[00:03:25] Speaker A: I got about a billion at my house.
[00:03:27] Speaker B: I know, right?
[00:03:28] Speaker A: Me too.
[00:03:29] Speaker B: So they're blaming it on our generation for saving our pennies.
[00:03:32] Speaker A: Is that what it is? But no one uses pennies anymore. No one uses cash anymore. I mean, sadly, I still do, but I do.
[00:03:40] Speaker B: I mean, yeah, it so many don't. I mean, they're just pushing us out of it.
[00:03:44] Speaker A: Right. Eventually it'll be that way.
[00:03:47] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:03:47] Speaker A: Which I don't really like. I like the cash thing.
[00:03:49] Speaker B: Well, yeah, because there was a man who. An older man, I guess he had gone to Home Depot and they didn't give him his penny. And he had gone on, made a huge rant about not having. They were like, well, we don't have any pennies to give you. So we rounded down and he was like, I don't. You're gonna round up. I mean, he's like, that's not. That is not my problem.
I gave you my. Like, I want my money, I want my penny. And it seemed, you know, petty. But the message is. Was clear though, and it was right. He was entitled to have the change that he gave them.
[00:04:18] Speaker A: There's got to be a lot of pennies still in circulation. That's kind of weird that they're already.
[00:04:23] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:04:23] Speaker A: Rationing pennies.
[00:04:25] Speaker B: I was like during Taco Bell was the Taco Bell in Peoria. And I have ran it about this so many times. And they were doing this for years. And there's a chance you could go through there this week. And they will.
We can't make change in general. So either you got to pay with exact change or. And I'm thinking, well, I know people have gone through here and paid with cash today. There's no way people haven't given. So now you don't have cash to give change back.
[00:04:49] Speaker A: Like this is a crop during COVID.
[00:04:51] Speaker B: Remember years though, this was beyond Covid.
It was honestly, it just seemed like a scam. I mean at some point you're. It didn't. I could go to any other business on Brookside and nobody else was doing that.
[00:05:05] Speaker A: Well, not too long ago no one wanted. They all wanted cash. No one wanted to use credit cards because they get paid, they have to pay a fee. And so it's just funny that now it's flip flopped and now everybody wants cards and not.
[00:05:19] Speaker B: Well, they're giving the discount to the cash people.
I noticed that the other day at the eye doctor. I noticed that at a restaurant if you pay with cash, you get a 2 or 3% discount.
[00:05:29] Speaker A: Oh really?
[00:05:30] Speaker B: So some businesses are encouraging it.
[00:05:32] Speaker A: That's nice. I'm not ready for it to go away. I was freaked out during COVID when all the stores you went into said we don't have any cash. It's like what.
[00:05:41] Speaker B: Have you discovered anything new this week?
[00:05:44] Speaker A: I'm always looking for something new. My biggest thing now is the O3 water laundry system.
[00:05:49] Speaker B: Never heard of it.
[00:05:50] Speaker A: It's. You hook it up to your washer, but it's the. Got the two hot and cold.
[00:05:55] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:05:56] Speaker A: You run your water from the tap water in through this system. So it's about a. I don't know, maybe 8 inch by 5 inches. Just like this little contraption, electric contraption. You run the tap water through it into your washing machine and it creates like O3 water which is created in like with ultraviolet rays. It's actually at the top of the atmosphere created by waterfalls, ocean waves, lightning storms and it's. It's infused with ozone.
[00:06:24] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:06:24] Speaker A: So it cleans your laundry, cleans your clothes without using any detergent.
[00:06:28] Speaker B: So how much is this system?
[00:06:30] Speaker A: The system's like $399 lesson and it's Going to save you on laundry. You never use laundry detergent ever again. You don't need softener or detergent, which.
[00:06:38] Speaker B: I could get away from my smell like I like my laundry smells like fresh.
[00:06:43] Speaker A: Like a. Like fresh rainy weather because it's. It's in the ozone. So it's kind of what you smell when you Wait.
[00:06:49] Speaker B: So is it going to smell like my kids when they come in from outside that's not fresh?
[00:06:54] Speaker A: No, they say it's really fresh and it takes all the odors out. Even that sometimes laundry detergent because laundry deterg kind of masking in some cases.
And so this takes all of the smell out and your laundry smells really fresh but you're not using detergent. And also detergent is like the number one killer of washing machines. Detergent and softeners is what.
[00:07:14] Speaker B: Yeah, I quit using softener.
[00:07:16] Speaker A: Me too.
[00:07:16] Speaker B: I haven't used time ago. But I am highly dependent on that Magnolia soap laundry detergent.
And I get triple scented. Like I like myself.
[00:07:27] Speaker A: I don't even do double.
[00:07:29] Speaker B: And my boys like it too. I mean they like, they're. But I'll cut it maybe with like some Tide Clear or you know a different non chemical ish laundry. So but so it goes a little further. I saw a post yesterday about her store and she was kind of making a plea and she was like it's hard for me to do this but I guess she's really seen some hits this year for Christmas sales at her store. I guess maybe at all the stores. And so kind of just a reminder that of course the Cherry street one is the one that I go to because it's midtown. But I have recently got their countertop cleaner and added 2 cents to that. I think it was like gingerbread and I don't remember the other. The girl recommended it because they're always super helpful in there. It smells so good. So when you clean your countertops it can smell just like magnolia in there. And I got their new mop soap that you can put in the tine co your tiny T I n e c however you say that that electric mop and it worked real well because it didn't get super and you just put like a little dropper full in your container.
It does make your house smell really good.
[00:08:37] Speaker A: So yeah, I used to be her number one customer. I actually got Christmas gifts from her because I spent so much money in there.
[00:08:42] Speaker B: Oh, no way.
[00:08:43] Speaker A: Yeah, and I've really stopped too because it just. First of all, I was giving them to everybody I ever met in My life. That was my gift to them. Well, now so many of them go in and buy it. Them. So I stopped giving it as gifts because everybody. I introduced them to it and they go in there. But I used. I mean, I would spend several hundred dollars multiple times a month in there. I was always in there.
[00:09:04] Speaker B: I know there's been. I've had neighbors before. They're like, wow, it smells so good coming out of your laundry room. Because the vent faces that house. And, oh, yeah, my neighbors brought over a little. Little Ziplocs of gifts and people like that. And that's something people could do for Christmas if they go buy a larger container, load it up into little cellophane bags and give it away as gifts or put it in a stocking. Like, people are going to love their laundry to smell good. So.
[00:09:27] Speaker A: Well, I was also going to go back on that. O3. They actually have a. Like a handheld sprayer to clean your countertops. And it completely disinfects everything. Now, that one, which is. To me, it was like 500 for this bottle.
[00:09:40] Speaker B: Pretty cool.
[00:09:40] Speaker A: But you put tap water, but it creates the O3 inside the tap, the water, the bottle, and it clean. Disinfects everything. And you're not reading chemicals online. It's. It's called O3 water system, I think is the name of the company. O3 water.
[00:09:54] Speaker B: Awesome.
I never heard of that. That's something new, that.
[00:09:59] Speaker A: It's a natural disinfectant. Kills bacteria, viruses, and fungi by oxidizing them.
It's used in food processing plants, disinfection, and even skin care. To purify your water when you wash your face, to remove your contaminants.
[00:10:13] Speaker B: Which is why they probably say you can use hydrogen peroxide.
[00:10:16] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:10:16] Speaker B: To clean your counters and things like that. Because teeth. Yeah.
[00:10:20] Speaker A: Rinse your mouth out.
Yeah. Anyway, I'm pretty fascinated by it. I don't have it yet, but.
[00:10:25] Speaker B: But it's coming.
[00:10:26] Speaker A: There's a very good chance.
[00:10:28] Speaker B: There's a very good chance. Lisa has her order today.
[00:10:31] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:10:32] Speaker B: Okay. All your Christmas gifts are done.
[00:10:34] Speaker A: I'm not doing.
[00:10:35] Speaker B: Are you doing much?
[00:10:36] Speaker A: No, I'm not really into it this year.
[00:10:38] Speaker B: Let me tell you my wish list, so you can check.
[00:10:41] Speaker A: Yeah, go ahead. And then I might get my wish list later. I did my neighbors and, you know, I did a few things like that because we've always exchanged gifts. But I.
I mean, my dad. And I'm gonna. My. My dad buy gifts, and I'm just not. I'll go over Christmas Day because I want to Be with him. I don't want him by himself. But I, I, I'll just make Mexican food or something.
[00:11:02] Speaker B: There you go. I am going to pull a prank on Stephen with a, a big, nice box that I have and make him think that he bought me a new bag, like a fancy bag. So I am going to put that under the tree and because I know the kids will probably be like, what you what?
It'll be a good prank.
[00:11:21] Speaker A: So do you guys do New Year's Eve or Christmas Eve or Christmas Day?
[00:11:25] Speaker B: Oh, day.
[00:11:25] Speaker A: Yeah, we did, too.
[00:11:26] Speaker B: Yeah, we're very traditional. Everything is Christmas morning. We take our time. I got to the point where I just put numbers in my head.
I know who is what number, because I'll do, like, evens or odds. But the boys never know because in my family, even growing up with six kids, we didn't all just get handed our presents. Everyone open. Like everyone opens one present at a time. Everyone stops to see what they do. So Christmas gets really drawn out, which makes it more fun. I mean, yeah, what's the fun in Christmas being over in 10 minutes? But it gave everyone time to appreciate whatever gift somebody got. And, but so, but if I put Rocky and Ty, then they're, you know, somebody is going looking through it really quick to get another gift. So I do numbers, and they just have to sit and be patient.
[00:12:13] Speaker A: That's nice, though, because I remember when the all my nieces and nephews were younger, my mom would always. Because everybody was there for Christmas morning, and the boys would just rip through their gifts.
[00:12:21] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:12:22] Speaker A: They knew. They didn't know who they got it from. My mom would go, who, who got that for you? I don't know.
[00:12:26] Speaker B: She goes, well, you better look. Yeah, no, we wouldn't do any of that. And I still do, like, Santa footsteps. And I think they really appreciate the tradition in that.
Like, I think they would be, because my parents did it for me. And I'll say one year, my dad's. He took some red velvet, by the way, if there's little ears listening, you don't want them to know these little details. Anyways, he would take red velvet and he would snag it on the fireplace. And so I would have. There would be, like, Santa Snyder, snoot, his suit. And then we take work boots into our ashes and kind of stomp them on the brick floors. Still, I mean, I'll do it forever, you know, because they'll carry on the tradition. I hope a few of the traditions we have.
[00:13:08] Speaker A: That's very cool. Though that's what makes it fun.
[00:13:10] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:13:11] Speaker A: But no, I'm not really doing anything. I mean, I decorated my house, but that's about the extent of it. I didn't. I'm not really well this year too.
[00:13:19] Speaker B: So it'll be kind of different a little bit. So he'll work Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
[00:13:24] Speaker A: Oh, really?
[00:13:25] Speaker B: It'll be different. You get through it.
[00:13:27] Speaker A: Do you go to a church service on Christmas Eve?
[00:13:30] Speaker B: We probably want this Christmas Eve. We'll do it a day or two early when he can make it for off. We'll make it. Yes, we will. But we gotta work. There's lots of times offered, so.
[00:13:39] Speaker A: Oh, there's. Okay.
[00:13:40] Speaker B: I grew up going to Midnight Math. We haven't done that. So we'll just pick a time that works for his work schedule and go.
[00:13:47] Speaker A: I do like going to those.
Well, you were talking about Amazon and stuff. Have you been to the website dupe.com?
[00:13:54] Speaker B: Never heard of it.
[00:13:55] Speaker A: You can literally put in pictures of what you want. Like, that's expensive. And it'll find a dupe of that.
[00:14:02] Speaker B: Oh, no way.
[00:14:03] Speaker A: There's a. There's an influencer. I follow that. That's all she does is post dupes of like Restoration Hardware, Crate and Barrel, really. And I was like, how does she find all these dupes? Because they look very similar. Well, I think it's probably the dupe.com website. So it's a. If you find something you really like.
[00:14:20] Speaker B: Find a lot with Google Lens too. But you're saying this will find dupes.
[00:14:23] Speaker A: Dupes. So it looks just like it at a discount.
[00:14:27] Speaker B: I'll check that out today.
[00:14:28] Speaker A: Yeah, I've tried it a couple of times.
I found one thing. What was it that I bought? It was a cabinet just a couple weeks ago. I haven't gotten it yet. But that. I mean, furniture too.
Yeah, everything. Mainly furniture is kind of. The benefit of it is you can find Crate and Barrel stuff or Pottery Barn. That's, you know, $10,000 at Pottery Barn and you can find pretty much the same thing at even Walmart. It'll show you. That looks so similar.
Especially like end tables or chairs or.
[00:15:00] Speaker B: Okay, I'm gonna look for that today.
[00:15:02] Speaker A: Dot com.
[00:15:02] Speaker B: That should take up about a good two hours of my day today.
[00:15:06] Speaker A: It's kind of fun just seeing what's out there.
[00:15:08] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:15:09] Speaker A: Sometimes you. There's just nothing. You're not going to find it.
[00:15:11] Speaker B: Right.
[00:15:12] Speaker A: But typically it's find something. You can find something that's very, very similar.
[00:15:16] Speaker B: I'll do that today. Have you taken any new supplements?
[00:15:19] Speaker A: No, but I've been doing, you know, mineral salt, which we've talked about so many times, or Celtic salt. It's called M salt. You know, it helps with just the hydration that we don't get. And I do electrolytes in my water sometimes. Not every day, because sometimes it's like, whoa, too much. But anytime I keep this little bag, it comes in a small bag, or you can get a big bag, but I just did the small, and I keep it on my kitchen counter. Every time I walk by, I just take a pinch and put it on my tongue. And, yeah, I. Lady made a big difference.
[00:15:45] Speaker B: She does it throughout the whole day. And I like. I just do it once a day, but I'm gonna step it up. And because I keep it in a little jar, too, we can just pinch it. I need my kids doing it. I need everyone in my house doing it. Just obviously for the lack of minerals we get in general.
[00:16:01] Speaker A: Right. And just the hydration part of it. And what I've always read about that when you do it is it feeds the water that you drink into your organs as opposed to just going straight to your, you know, your bladder and you pee it out. I mean, this actually forces it into your organs. I never get up during the night to go. I haven't for probably, I don't know, six months. Because I've always been doing some sort of, you know, salt. And they recommend you do that in your drink of water at night. If you take anything before you go to bed, be sure and put a pinch in there.
[00:16:31] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:16:31] Speaker A: And that'll help feed all the fluid because your body detoxes.
[00:16:34] Speaker B: And I put it on my tongue.
[00:16:35] Speaker A: Which, yeah, that's what I do, too.
[00:16:37] Speaker B: So some people are like, I don't want to taste it. Like, you know, a drink or make it last. I like everything to be done fast.
[00:16:43] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:16:43] Speaker B: And quick.
[00:16:44] Speaker A: I do it on my tongue. But then I do the last swallow of water at night before I take my magnesium and stuff at night, use it in that. But during the day, I just put it right on my tongue. Here are.
[00:16:54] Speaker B: Here's the salt flakes that I got that was recommended by a lady who could have been one of the same people. But it's called Maldon. Maldon. M A L D O N.
Sea salt flake.
I got it on Amazon, and, man, it's lasted a long time. And they're, you know, real big flake, puzzly. It's one of the good ones to get.
[00:17:13] Speaker A: I always Worry about Amazon now with getting. Making sure you're actually getting the actual product and not a fake.
[00:17:19] Speaker B: I worry about that too. On that. This is.
I mean it came super sealed with the sealed snatch thing and it came from the. The store of Melbourne. So I don't know.
I worry about too because there's certain things I'm like, I bought something on there the other day and I'm like, you know what? I'm sending that back. I don't know if I trust it.
[00:17:36] Speaker A: I ordered some little snowman that said it was terracotta snowman and it obviously came from China because it took forever to get here. And then you see that it's gone through customs. You're like, oh great. They were not terracotta. It was like a resin. They're cute. But it's not what the description. So I returned. I hit the return immediately and that, you know, they ask you why? And I said because it said was the description not whatever ask you that question about. Did this description not describe it to.
However, I'm like, no, your description said terracotta. These are not terracotta. No, these are resin. They weigh like two ounces. Terracotta is heavy.
[00:18:17] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:18:17] Speaker A: And they went ahead and refunded me and told me not even to send them back.
[00:18:21] Speaker B: That has happened to me multiple times.
[00:18:23] Speaker A: That's so crazy.
[00:18:24] Speaker B: Over the weirdest things. I'm like, this wasn't a used product. It wasn't. Yeah. Really strange.
[00:18:29] Speaker A: It's cheaper for them just to probably than to pay for the going back to China.
[00:18:34] Speaker B: Well, because something I had to send the other day and this is a good tip because, you know, normally, you know, you go through your orders, you're like, okay, return this. You know, whatever. Something wanted to charge me.
Maybe it was 13.50 to return it, but it was a prime thing that I bought. So I was like, well, that. No, no, no. Because I literally was returning it the same day it came in. It wasn't what I'd wanted. I went back door on it because I was going to file a complaint. Complaint. Not a complaint, but try to get customer service. But when I went through the. You got to go through. If this happens to you, hit the customer service and it'll say, what can we help you with? And you're like, well, return.
When I did it that way, it didn't charge me. It was really weird. Like was by going an alternate way to return it. It wasn't going to charge me for the return.
It was. I wanted. It was easy.
[00:19:22] Speaker A: I'VE also gotten lately where you order something and it charges you for shipping to ship it to you even though you're prime. Yeah, that's a little annoying, too.
[00:19:31] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't like that.
So I stay away from that, actually.
[00:19:34] Speaker A: Yeah, well, I'll back out of it too, when it. When you show, when it's at the checkout. Or it'll charge you like $2 and 19 cents for shipping. It's like, no. Yeah, I pay for not having to do that. I spend way too much on Amazon anyway. It's nuts.
[00:19:47] Speaker B: I know, right? So if. In case anyone's trying to think of any little last minute Christmas gifts, that lady Mellie that I follow with all her oils and stuff, you know, you can get those little amber colored oil rollers. I like the ones with the metal balls in them off Amazon. And you can give, like with your castor oil. You would fill them up with castor oil. You can do one with 10 peppermint drops for headaches, for, you know, needing a little bit of pep in your step. Anything like that, you can do one with, fill it up with castor oil, do lavender. Same thing, Roll it on your feet at night, help you go in. Because that castor oil helps drive all that in. But those are little homemade gifts that you can do.
And they have one where you do a four ounce jar of castor oil and then you do two teaspoons of cayenne pepper. And they call it like, it's for arthritis, achy joints. I mean, it's like a muscle rub. But that castor oil drives that cayenne pepper in and. Yeah, and if you really want to have it, like with no cut, where you don't have to really shake it up, she said make it three weeks in advance. And then you kind of would let it drip through a cheesecloth and then it gets rid of any residue from the cayenne pepper and then you just have an oil.
[00:21:00] Speaker A: So that seems dangerous. I'd stick it right in my eye, swear by it.
[00:21:03] Speaker B: They're all on there. And I guess just wash your hands really well.
[00:21:05] Speaker A: But.
[00:21:05] Speaker B: Yeah, I would think the same thing.
[00:21:07] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:21:07] Speaker B: Oh, and this weekend at the lake, I. We did something a lot of people like puzzles and, you know, they get in the way or kind of a cumbersome if you have a bunch of room. And Rocky's friend brought this thing called diamond art. I'd never seen it. Never heard of it.
[00:21:21] Speaker A: I feel like I've heard of it.
[00:21:22] Speaker B: So, like, literally all of us, as we would walk by would mess with it. So you can. They have bookmarks. They have coasters, little portraits. They have like little Santas that are like on a stand that you can do. So they have every season, whatever. But they're half off right now. But anyways, it's like a paint by number, but with little bitty.
[00:21:43] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:21:43] Speaker B: Little diamond plastic diamonds.
[00:21:45] Speaker A: Yeah. Different colors, right? Yeah.
[00:21:47] Speaker B: But it is honestly the best way to just kind of decompress.
[00:21:53] Speaker A: Mm.
[00:21:53] Speaker B: Slow down. Get your phone out of your hand. I love it. It was so fun. I mean, do whatever you want with your diamond art after that. But I liked it.
[00:22:02] Speaker A: I see a lot of people that do that on Instagram and stuff. Yeah, it's. And you don't. You have like. They're little tiny. And you have to use, like, tweezers or something.
[00:22:10] Speaker B: They have that. You stick it on this little glue pad.
[00:22:13] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:22:13] Speaker B: Puts glue on it and it'll. You know, you can put 50 diamonds on with that one little punch of glue that's on the pin. So you're not constantly. And it's a dry rubber glue that just gives in the top of that little pin and then you go. And you put your colors wherever they go. There's a paint by number, you know, chart.
[00:22:31] Speaker A: That's cool.
[00:22:32] Speaker B: And for that big portrait, I think she had gotten it for half off because it was Christmas. It only cost 4 bucks. Matter of fact, I'm going there today.
[00:22:39] Speaker A: To get a couple because what do you get them?
[00:22:42] Speaker B: You get them at Hobby Lobby or Michaels. They have them on Amazon. But, like, the Christmas ones at both those stores are half off right now. So, I mean, it's just a good pastime. Any age could do it. Yeah. Literally.
[00:22:54] Speaker A: So, you know, I did for a friend, she has grandkids that come and stay with her. So I went to Barbie's Cookies. I was hoping Cookie Monster did this, but she doesn't because her cookies are, you know, amazing and did like a cookie making kit. So you get six sugar cookies and they give you all the icing already in bags to pipe it.
[00:23:15] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:23:16] Speaker A: And then they give you everything to make the. To ice them. But you make your own design on your cookies.
[00:23:21] Speaker B: And that was at Barbies.
[00:23:22] Speaker A: Barbies Cookies.
[00:23:24] Speaker B: Liquidy icing. That just looks really cool.
[00:23:27] Speaker A: No, it's your regular, like, buttercream.
[00:23:28] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:23:29] Speaker A: That you just. But she's already got it in the piping bags ready. All the different colors. Like a big white bag for white. Obviously, she. It comes with a snowman, a Santa Claus or two snowmen. Two Santa Claus. And two candy canes. And I just thought that was your kit.
Like 35 for six.
[00:23:46] Speaker B: Cute.
[00:23:47] Speaker A: Yeah. Which I was excited I sent it. I dropped it off at her house last night, and I thought she'd have fun with her grandkids doing that over the holiday, so that's always a fun gift.
[00:23:56] Speaker B: That's a very good idea.
[00:23:57] Speaker A: I love doing stuff like that.
[00:23:59] Speaker B: I can't think of anything. I ate like a pig this weekend. I'm trying to think of any food stuff. I mean, we made fried donuts again.
[00:24:10] Speaker A: You did? I've seen so many videos on.
[00:24:13] Speaker B: They're good. You haven't had one either, have you?
[00:24:15] Speaker A: No.
Where they mix them and they make cake balls out of them. I've been seeing that a lot.
[00:24:21] Speaker B: I've heard. We've seen where you can make a dip out of it. Like, I think you might add extra cool whip to it, maybe. But there is a Little Debbie Christmas tree dip that you can use to dip cookies in and stuff like that. But this is a cake ball.
[00:24:34] Speaker A: Yeah. They put it all in a bowl, and I feel like they mixed it with a yellow cake already made. They made a yellow butter cake. Okay. And then stirred it, put it in a bowl, and chopped it up, you know, with a butter. One of those KitchenAid mixers.
[00:24:46] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:24:47] Speaker A: And then they made cake balls and dipped them in icing.
[00:24:50] Speaker B: I'm writing that down right now. Little Debbie Cake Balls.
[00:24:53] Speaker A: Thought about you.
[00:24:53] Speaker B: I leave here having to research new things, so we'll see if I get to that.
[00:24:58] Speaker A: Every time I go to the store, there's always a huge display of those. And I just laugh.
[00:25:02] Speaker B: They're so good.
[00:25:03] Speaker A: That's so funny.
Little Debbie Christmas. What are they? Christmas.
[00:25:08] Speaker B: Just Little Debbie Christmas trees.
[00:25:10] Speaker A: Christmas trees. Yeah. There's a lot of recipes out there using them on Instagram. I've seen a million of them probably every day.
[00:25:18] Speaker B: I did see a lady that made a steak the other day, and I was like, well, that looks like a good idea. So it's that Montreal steak seasoning that you can get it at Sam's or Costco. And it is so good. We started using that a long time ago, and, man, that is so good on me. Well, she coats all sides of her steak in that. She puts it in a cast iron skillet for two minutes on each side, and it was a thick piece of steak. But then she put it on her pan that she coated it with brown sugar and put it in her toaster oven, which now we're talking, because, you know, I'm a Toaster oven.
[00:25:52] Speaker A: Yeah, cooker.
[00:25:55] Speaker B: And she broiled it in her toaster oven. I don't remember how long I need to look and see, but they. It was the most beautiful steak and it looked delicious. And I'm gonna have to try it.
[00:26:08] Speaker A: I used to cook with the toaster oven all the time. Bake cookies in it. So easy to just throw in some cookies when you have people over.
[00:26:14] Speaker B: Mine even has a dehydrator thing on it. And I never really realized that until recently. And I guess you can dehydrate most anything you want in your oven if you leave it on that super low temperature for a long time.
But I didn't know that, you know.
[00:26:28] Speaker A: I have a double oven. Yeah. Which is funny because I've never used a double oven. I mean, right. When do I ever cook enough to have a double oven? One time at Thanksgiving actually did pies and the turkey. But the top oven is like a toaster oven size. It's so perfect because it's just really narrow. What was I going to say about the double oven? Oven at the top, which I use all. I never use the bottom oven. Ever. Yeah. I cook a turkey in the bottom oven when I've done that before in the past because it's. Obviously. You can move the shelves. The top oven. It's the. Probably about the size of a toaster oven. On my last seat at the table. No, my party, my Christmas party. I did the grilled cheese sandwiches.
[00:27:06] Speaker B: Yes. I went home and did that, by the way.
[00:27:08] Speaker A: You did? I made them ahead of time and turned my oven on warm and I kept them in the oven and they were. They stayed warm. I've never used that warm feature.
[00:27:16] Speaker B: How did you make your grilled cheeses? Was that in the oven?
[00:27:19] Speaker A: No, I did them on in a skillet.
[00:27:20] Speaker B: Skillet.
[00:27:21] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:27:22] Speaker B: Yeah. So I had never had tomato soup before.
Until your house. I'd always. People like dip your sandwiches in tomato soup. Steven's even mentioned it. I've never done it. Yeah, she did it like a fondue setup. And it was so good. So I went home and got it that same one. Panera tomato soup. I highly suggest it. And it is a great little hors d'. Oeuvre.
[00:27:45] Speaker A: There used to be a restaurant on Brookside and I can't think of the name of it. It was a little sandwich place, kind of a standalone building. I think there's a hair salon in there kind of by. I don't remember where it is, but they.
They had a grilled cheese sandwich and tomato soup. Lunch Special. And when I was. When I officed at 41st Emporia, we would go down there and get that for lunch. And it was so good. I've thought about that. Because I'm not a grilled cheese person and I'm certainly not a tomato soup person, but we would go get that all the time, like in wintertime. And it was so comforting. That's what made me think of it.
[00:28:17] Speaker B: I'm like, so just cut your sandwiches into little bite sized pieces and then have your tomato soup in the center. I'm kind of describing what she had.
And people were just able to put that soup on their plate and then.
[00:28:29] Speaker A: Dip your sandwich in it. I did the little Hawaiian rolls. That sweet Hawaiian roll was what I used for the bread, which made it even better. So I sliced those in little slices, you know, because it was like a. That's what that was. Slider roll.
[00:28:44] Speaker B: That was good.
[00:28:45] Speaker A: Yeah, because that sweetness in that bread. And then I used two different kinds of cheeses. I was trying to mimic what that guy did at that restaurant. His.
It was so good. But I did Havarti cheese and sharp cheddar together.
And I think that combination of that kind of sharpies.
[00:29:01] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:29:01] Speaker A: Made a big difference. And that soup from Panera, I mean, Panera soup is always good. And I'm not a big tomato soup person at all, but I thought it was good.
[00:29:10] Speaker B: No. And I didn't eat so much of it that I had heartburn or anything. So I was good.
[00:29:14] Speaker A: Because just dipping, I think, makes a difference. All right, well, we're out of time.
[00:29:18] Speaker B: Yeah. If anybody wants to know, aren't these rehearsed?
[00:29:20] Speaker A: No, no.
Like wing it. Wing it like nobody's ever wing.
[00:29:25] Speaker B: No, we'll figure it out. All right. Have a good Christmas. I think we're skipping Christmas.
[00:29:29] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Next week we won't be here, but we'll be back the next. The new year.
[00:29:33] Speaker B: Close to it.
[00:29:34] Speaker A: Merry Christmas.
[00:29:36] Speaker B: Bye.
