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Speaker 1: You're listening to another Mia podcast.

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Speaker 2: Mamma Mia acknowledges the traditional owners of the land. We

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Speaker 2: have recorded this podcast on the Gatagoul people of the

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Speaker 2: Eur Nation. We pay our respects to their elders past

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Speaker 2: and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and

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Speaker 2: torrest Rate islander cultures.

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Speaker 3: Hi, it's Annalise Todd, host of Mamma MIA's parenting podcast

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Speaker 3: This Glorious Mess, and this time of year is a

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Speaker 3: lot for all of us and the one thing that

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Speaker 3: we're really lacking in is time. So I wanted to

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Speaker 3: share this episode with you, and it's ten simple hacks

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Speaker 3: to get your time back. And it was really born

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Speaker 3: from a desire to cut corners and maybe just being

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Speaker 3: a little bit lazy in nature.

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Speaker 1: But we also crowdsourced some.

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Speaker 3: From the Mamma Mea community with some really great life

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Speaker 3: changing and time saving hacks. I hope you enjoy and

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Speaker 3: I hope you get some time back. Hello, and welcome

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Speaker 3: to this Glorious Mess. We are embracing the chaos together,

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Speaker 3: ditching the judgment.

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Speaker 1: I'm tigging it, Tolly.

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Speaker 3: And if you haven't ordered your Cristy presence.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Snap Snap, chop chop. Sorry, guys, I.

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Speaker 3: Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it's

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Speaker 3: the ninth of December and I'm Annalise Todd in denial

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Speaker 3: about the impending festivities. Yes, you're the person I need

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Speaker 3: to remind you. I'm a single mum, working full time

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Speaker 3: and one thing I am lacking in this life is time.

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Speaker 2: Hm.

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Speaker 3: Well funny that, because today on the show, we're here

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Speaker 3: to help. You are not going to help for once.

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Speaker 3: We're going to try to. Yes, we'll do a bit

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Speaker 3: of event first, because what's a TGM episode without a

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Speaker 3: little event. But today's episode is all about getting you

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Speaker 3: some time back. We had a lot of feedback on

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Speaker 3: our episode a couple of weeks ago about the end

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Speaker 3: of year overwhelmed, and it's clear that a lot of

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Speaker 3: parents are feeling stretched thin. So we are not alone.

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Speaker 3: You are not alone. The to do lists seem endless,

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Speaker 3: the days or two short, The idea of having even

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Speaker 3: a moment to yourself seems absolutely impossible. So we have

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Speaker 3: put together some hacks on how to get your time back.

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Speaker 3: We end our community. Yes, obviously it's not just us alone,

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Speaker 3: because we needed You're needed to hear from the people

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Speaker 3: and We're going to bring you all the golden juice,

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Speaker 3: just game changing time, giving back, just life hacks. I

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Speaker 3: love hack, same for anything that just makes time quicker,

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Speaker 3: not quicker, but it gives you more time.

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Speaker 1: Mine is a shit to do.

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Speaker 3: Mine isn't so much born out of hack. I think

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Speaker 3: I'm just inherently lazy. Yes, and I like to cut corners,

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Speaker 3: so I've developed a few things just naturally like evolution. Yes,

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Speaker 3: I agree I'm not lazy. But when it comes when

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Speaker 3: it comes to domestic shit.

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Speaker 1: I hate it. It's the core of my anger.

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Speaker 3: Like washing, cleaning.

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Speaker 1: Do you know what I feel like?

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Speaker 3: Even putting clean clothes or wag?

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Speaker 3: I don't even mind washing it. I hate folding it

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Speaker 3: like I was born in the wrong life. I was

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Speaker 1: See, I'd hate that. I just want to put my

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Speaker 3: Oh god, I want to do anythry She goes again

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Speaker 3: for goodness sake. Yeah, and of course, amongst other things,

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Speaker 3: we will also hear from our friends Sarah Maurice. But

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Speaker 3: first here is what's happening in my group chat. Two

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Speaker 3: mothers days ago, I promised my mum a little night away,

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Speaker 3: like it's never really quality time. Or there's like the

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Speaker 3: But remind me to tell you about this. You know,

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Speaker 1: And did you do like girly things. We did lunch,

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Speaker 3: thinking maybe it wasn't just mother and daughter, it was

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Speaker 3: say to that would be all goodn't with you? I

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Speaker 3: This hotel has the best beds and pillows, and I'm

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Speaker 3: And I brought this up because I was telling my

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Speaker 3: Show make sure you've got a non adjoining room, all right.

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Speaker 3: So recently we had Lauren Thornborough from the Village on

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Speaker 3: Yes, it's a very very long couple of weeks when

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Speaker 1: Everyone just tries to cram everything into December.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I'm such a January girl. I'm like, can we

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Speaker 3: Yes, we thought, let's instead of just talk about the crap,

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Speaker 3: let's come up with some solutions. Yes, and some ideas

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Speaker 1: To give the gift of time.

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Speaker 3: We need to get time back.

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Speaker 1: Yes, so then we've got time.

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Speaker 3: I want to hear yours teaks. What are your time

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Speaker 3: giving hack? Look, everyone knows that I'm an outsourcer. Look,

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Speaker 3: and I know it's not for everyone, and I even

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Speaker 3: know what, for the three weeks before Christmas, instead of

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Speaker 3: doing two loads of laundry a week, I'm going to

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Speaker 1: Back to you, wash folded and ready to go.

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Speaker 3: And also, in your defense, you are a busy business woman,

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Speaker 1: You need that.

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Speaker 3: It's not like you're around. It's not. No, it's not

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Speaker 1: Then you got to leave it out.

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Speaker 3: And the gift of time is the gift of time

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Speaker 3: Another one where you just take it to the laundry mat,

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Speaker 3: do laundry. No, how about you? What have you got

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Speaker 1: Can we just have a preach?

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Speaker 3: Well, we definitely get at the moment in my life

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Speaker 3: because school drop offs are not the greatest at the moment,

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Speaker 3: especially being end of year, they get harder and harder.

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Speaker 1: There's lots of emotions I would love.

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Speaker 3: Can I them?

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Speaker 1: Can I outsource them? Is there a service? There is?

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Speaker 3: Actually there are ubers for children. That's something to look into. Sheba.

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Speaker 3: Is that a sheba? I don't know what it's called,

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Speaker 3: but it does exist? Oh my gosh, so I'm inventing

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Speaker 3: that and it already exists. It does exist. They use

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Speaker 3: like nannies and stuff googling. I'll google it and send

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Speaker 3: it to you late.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 3: So mine just I just pop them out the door

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Speaker 3: The first time you did that? Now here we are,

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Speaker 3: it's it's just a thing. Now, I don't just school

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Speaker 3: Well, so I've got to like after care, like out

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Speaker 3: i'd literally every second Friday they catch the bus home

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Speaker 1: That is a game change.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, like an old school phone. Like, okay, what else

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Speaker 3: This person said save my marriage, and I will strongly agree.

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Speaker 3: clean up after a man. I love that, and it's

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Speaker 3: just you using it.

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Speaker 1: I like that.

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Speaker 3: Separate bathrooms, if there's two, you have one, Can we

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Speaker 3: just do separate bathrooms, bedrooms, closets, See I have I've

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Speaker 3: got two bathrooms in my house and one is mine

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Speaker 3: and then the children have one. And I also feel

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Speaker 3: this is a similar vein yucky boys bathroom and then

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Speaker 3: glorious mum's bathroom. It's lovely and don't touch my product,

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Speaker 3: don't use the toilet, put the seat down.

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Speaker 1: If you do.

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Speaker 3: This is a wonderful one and maybe great for the

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Speaker 3: silly season to help connect, be present and just enjoy life.

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Speaker 3: Is delete Instagram off your phone? Oh is that going

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Speaker 3: to go down?

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Speaker 1: Just like you drive your live? Yeah? Maybe last day?

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Speaker 3: Look, I can't even say I would do it myself

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Speaker 3: because it's my job part of the time, but.

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Speaker 1: It would save so much time.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, the time saved, The time saved. Look,

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Speaker 3: I think I've got a girlfriend who's definitely like, oh,

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Speaker 3: I'm just having some downtime, Like she's so easily on

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Speaker 3: and off with it, and I think it's great and it's.

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Speaker 1: Free, and yeah, I mean all you know, deleting Instagram

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Speaker 1: off your phone, but.

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Speaker 3: Even if it's for just a portion of from Christmas

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Speaker 3: day to oh yes, couple of days, like a festive break.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, from the gram. I tell you what.

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Speaker 3: I always love though on Instagram, where people are like, guys,

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Speaker 3: I'm just taking some time.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I probably wouldn't have noticed. Or they're like, hey, guys,

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Speaker 3: welcome to me, welcome back to myself, and I'm like, oh,

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Speaker 3: I didn't even realize you left. Never do that, guys,

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Speaker 3: still do it. You don't have to announce.

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Speaker 1: Don't announce it. You can just drift in, drift out.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we don't need to get it an update and

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Speaker 3: use update. No, we're happy for you. Go be present, enjoy,

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Speaker 3: and give us a little update once you're back. No,

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Speaker 3: don't don't do like I would like like lately carousels

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Speaker 3: lately and they're just like ten photos of lately. So, guys,

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Speaker 3: I did a thing. I had a break from Instagram.

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Speaker 3: No no, no vomit. That's grit.

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Speaker 1: And now it's time to hear from our friends. Sarah

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Speaker 1: Marie Solving your deliver.

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Speaker 4: Hi at Sarah Marie Quick question, Sarah Marie, does your

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Speaker 4: partner take time off work to help with the kids

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Speaker 4: when you're on well. I'm feeling really rough after a

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Speaker 4: medical treatment and I could really use some rest, but

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Speaker 4: my partner's at work and he won't take any time off.

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Speaker 4: I'm exhausted, I've got the eggs, I've got a fever,

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Speaker 4: and I just want a bath and some sleep. How

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Speaker 4: do you handle this?

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Speaker 5: This is a hard one because I don't know what

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Speaker 5: your husband does for work. With my husband, it's very

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Speaker 5: hard for him to take that time off. There's always

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Speaker 5: exceptions to the rule. There's been times where he has

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Speaker 5: had to take a day because I was extremely unwell

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Speaker 5: and it was one of those days where in laws

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Speaker 5: when available day care is not a like literally, there

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Speaker 5: was nothing I could do. Nanny's weren't free to even

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Speaker 5: come to give an assisting hand and he's had to

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Speaker 5: like take that day off, So it is it's a

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Speaker 5: really personal thing here. Is it a case of he

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Speaker 5: won't because he just doesn't think you need it, or

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Speaker 5: is the case of you won't because he feels like

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Speaker 5: he can't at work and he's feeling that pressure to

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Speaker 5: go into work.

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Speaker 1: It's very personal.

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Speaker 5: This is one area where you can't ask your friends

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Speaker 5: for advice on this because they don't know your relationship

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Speaker 5: like you do, and you might get the wrong advice

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Speaker 5: and be like, oh, you need to do this and

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Speaker 5: you needed to that, whereas he's probably feeling a lot

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Speaker 5: of pressure he can't. Is there any way you can

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Speaker 5: get someone or a friend to come and help you

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Speaker 5: out if you really can't. You really just need to

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Speaker 5: sit him down and say, listen, I really need you

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Speaker 5: to speak with your boss.

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Speaker 3: I physically can't do anything.

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Speaker 5: It's not a matter of me just being dramatic. These

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Speaker 5: are the reasons I really need your help here, and

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Speaker 5: I'm sure their boss would be understanding to that particular situation.

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Speaker 5: Just communicate that and see what he says.

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Speaker 1: So I hope that helps.

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Speaker 5: I don't know, actually, if that's very helpful like advice.

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Speaker 5: I think that's the most honest opinion I can give,

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Speaker 5: because it's very easy to be like, yeah, your partner

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Speaker 5: should take the day off, and then suddenly you have

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Speaker 5: issues in your marriage.

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Speaker 1: So I hope that helps.

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Speaker 3: Well, look, we hope those have helped you. We hope

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Speaker 3: if there's a few little helpful hints. All it's about

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Speaker 3: cutting corners. Yeah, and look one team wondering. We all

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Speaker 3: kind of have our own little bits and bops that

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Speaker 3: we do. Yeah, it's not earnest. It's actually just laz

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Speaker 3: and some will work for you, some won't. You know,

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Speaker 3: take take what you will. I feel like the standout

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Speaker 3: for me from the suggestions was the paper plates and cups.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going to get some. That's genius. That's a

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Speaker 1: good I just to even have.

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Speaker 3: Yeah when the friends come home, because otherwise there's like

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Speaker 3: eighteen glasses. Yeah, you know what I love like micro

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Speaker 3: kids love two minute noodles, and usually I cook them

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Speaker 3: all up and stuff. But then I've just realized, like

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Speaker 3: those cup one yes, I'm like, oh.

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Speaker 1: My god, And it's just a fall I literally game changer.

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Speaker 1: I don't have to use a.

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Speaker 3: Bolt and then put them in the microwave and then

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Speaker 3: do this and then clean that and that. I'm like,

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Speaker 3: from now on, cup cup, paper cups.

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Speaker 1: Yep, we're right.

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Speaker 3: And we're environmentally friendly.

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Speaker 1: Well yeah, I think if you looked at the dishwasher

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Speaker 1: use I reckon. Probably yeah, yeah, there you go. You're welcome.

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Speaker 1: You're welcome. Guys.

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Speaker 3: Well, that brings us to the end of our amazing hacks.

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Speaker 3: We hope you get some time back and we hope

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Speaker 3: you enjoyed listening to this glorious smith. If you did

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Speaker 3: love listening, please leave us a review for the show,

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Speaker 3: And if you have a dilivera you'd like Sarah Marie

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Speaker 3: touch with us at TGM at mamamea dot com dot au.

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Speaker 3: This episode was produced by Grace Ruffrey, with audio production

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Speaker 3: by Lujah Cho Cho