WEBVTT - 10 Simple Hacks To Get Your Time Back 0:00:21.650 --> 0:00:24.370 You're listening to another Mia podcast. 0:00:25.170 --> 0:00:28.450 Mamma Mia acknowledges the traditional owners of the land. We 0:00:28.570 --> 0:00:31.930 have recorded this podcast on the Gatagoul people of the 0:00:31.970 --> 0:00:35.690 Eur Nation. We pay our respects to their elders past 0:00:35.730 --> 0:00:39.370 and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and 0:00:39.410 --> 0:00:41.170 torrest Rate islander cultures. 0:00:41.610 --> 0:00:46.530 Hi, it's Annalise Todd, host of Mamma MIA's parenting podcast 0:00:46.570 --> 0:00:50.690 This Glorious Mess, and this time of year is a 0:00:50.730 --> 0:00:53.210 lot for all of us and the one thing that 0:00:53.250 --> 0:00:56.810 we're really lacking in is time. So I wanted to 0:00:56.810 --> 0:01:00.370 share this episode with you, and it's ten simple hacks 0:01:00.450 --> 0:01:03.290 to get your time back. And it was really born 0:01:03.650 --> 0:01:07.370 from a desire to cut corners and maybe just being 0:01:07.450 --> 0:01:08.930 a little bit lazy in nature. 0:01:09.250 --> 0:01:11.090 But we also crowdsourced some. 0:01:11.250 --> 0:01:14.290 From the Mamma Mea community with some really great life 0:01:14.410 --> 0:01:18.210 changing and time saving hacks. I hope you enjoy and 0:01:18.450 --> 0:01:27.130 I hope you get some time back. Hello, and welcome 0:01:27.170 --> 0:01:30.170 to this Glorious Mess. We are embracing the chaos together, 0:01:30.450 --> 0:01:31.490 ditching the judgment. 0:01:31.530 --> 0:01:32.530 I'm tigging it, Tolly. 0:01:32.650 --> 0:01:35.050 And if you haven't ordered your Cristy presence. 0:01:34.770 --> 0:01:39.050 Yes, Snap Snap, chop chop. Sorry, guys, I. 0:01:39.010 --> 0:01:41.330 Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it's 0:01:41.370 --> 0:01:46.490 the ninth of December and I'm Annalise Todd in denial 0:01:46.770 --> 0:01:49.930 about the impending festivities. Yes, you're the person I need 0:01:49.970 --> 0:01:53.810 to remind you. I'm a single mum, working full time 0:01:53.930 --> 0:01:57.730 and one thing I am lacking in this life is time. 0:01:58.090 --> 0:01:58.250 Hm. 0:02:00.330 --> 0:02:03.130 Well funny that, because today on the show, we're here 0:02:03.170 --> 0:02:05.090 to help. You are not going to help for once. 0:02:05.250 --> 0:02:08.490 We're going to try to. Yes, we'll do a bit 0:02:08.490 --> 0:02:12.250 of event first, because what's a TGM episode without a 0:02:12.290 --> 0:02:15.650 little event. But today's episode is all about getting you 0:02:15.810 --> 0:02:18.650 some time back. We had a lot of feedback on 0:02:18.690 --> 0:02:21.010 our episode a couple of weeks ago about the end 0:02:21.010 --> 0:02:24.610 of year overwhelmed, and it's clear that a lot of 0:02:24.730 --> 0:02:28.650 parents are feeling stretched thin. So we are not alone. 0:02:28.770 --> 0:02:31.930 You are not alone. The to do lists seem endless, 0:02:32.210 --> 0:02:35.250 the days or two short, The idea of having even 0:02:35.290 --> 0:02:39.130 a moment to yourself seems absolutely impossible. So we have 0:02:39.250 --> 0:02:42.290 put together some hacks on how to get your time back. 0:02:42.330 --> 0:02:45.770 We end our community. Yes, obviously it's not just us alone, 0:02:45.850 --> 0:02:48.370 because we needed You're needed to hear from the people 0:02:48.410 --> 0:02:51.170 and We're going to bring you all the golden juice, 0:02:51.290 --> 0:02:56.090 just game changing time, giving back, just life hacks. I 0:02:56.650 --> 0:03:00.810 love hack, same for anything that just makes time quicker, 0:03:00.970 --> 0:03:03.210 not quicker, but it gives you more time. 0:03:03.690 --> 0:03:04.930 Mine is a shit to do. 0:03:05.290 --> 0:03:07.690 Mine isn't so much born out of hack. I think 0:03:07.690 --> 0:03:11.290 I'm just inherently lazy. Yes, and I like to cut corners, 0:03:12.130 --> 0:03:16.810 so I've developed a few things just naturally like evolution. Yes, 0:03:17.090 --> 0:03:20.450 I agree I'm not lazy. But when it comes when 0:03:20.450 --> 0:03:22.290 it comes to domestic shit. 0:03:22.610 --> 0:03:26.090 I hate it. It's the core of my anger. 0:03:26.770 --> 0:03:29.330 Like washing, cleaning. 0:03:29.530 --> 0:03:30.930 Do you know what I feel like? 0:03:31.050 --> 0:03:32.930 Even putting clean clothes or wag? 0:03:33.050 --> 0:03:34.250 That's the worst, don't. 0:03:34.290 --> 0:03:37.370 I don't even mind washing it. I hate folding it 0:03:37.450 --> 0:03:40.090 and putting it away. I won't even fold it, won't 0:03:40.090 --> 0:03:45.210 even do that. But I've always said that I feel 0:03:45.210 --> 0:03:47.330 like I was born in the wrong life. I was 0:03:47.370 --> 0:03:50.290 meant to be royal. I would like someone to come 0:03:50.330 --> 0:03:53.010 in and dress me eighteenth century. 0:03:53.570 --> 0:03:56.050 See, I'd hate that. I just want to put my 0:03:56.170 --> 0:03:58.130 arms up and just be Do you want to be 0:03:58.210 --> 0:04:00.170 cause ated? Yes? Iren't something to brush my hair? 0:04:00.330 --> 0:04:03.850 Oh god, I want to do anythry She goes again 0:04:05.050 --> 0:04:09.050 for goodness sake. Yeah, and of course, amongst other things, 0:04:09.090 --> 0:04:11.810 we will also hear from our friends Sarah Maurice. But 0:04:12.050 --> 0:04:15.730 first here is what's happening in my group chat. Two 0:04:15.810 --> 0:04:19.770 mothers days ago, I promised my mum a little night away, 0:04:19.890 --> 0:04:23.890 like a holiday together, because I feel like with my mum, 0:04:24.450 --> 0:04:26.330 the only time we really see each other is like 0:04:26.570 --> 0:04:29.170 me dropping my kids to her or her swinging pass, 0:04:29.410 --> 0:04:32.290 like it's never really quality time. Or there's like the 0:04:32.330 --> 0:04:36.210 whole family there and seven grandchildren and my brother and 0:04:36.250 --> 0:04:38.890 my dad and my husband, and like, I can't remember 0:04:39.050 --> 0:04:41.970 the last time that my mum and I just had 0:04:42.690 --> 0:04:47.610 a nice time together, and there's always other people around, Yeah, 0:04:47.650 --> 0:04:51.730 like I can't. So finally, two and a half years later, 0:04:51.890 --> 0:04:54.290 because within the family, we've had a few deaths, she's 0:04:54.370 --> 0:04:55.730 gone on a few holidays, and I've gone on a 0:04:55.730 --> 0:04:57.290 few holidays, So it's taken us two and a half 0:04:57.410 --> 0:05:00.370 years to actually tee this thing up. One night, that's 0:05:00.370 --> 0:05:02.770 all I'm talking about. One night, So I took my 0:05:02.930 --> 0:05:06.450 mum for a little stay cake in a little hotel 0:05:06.490 --> 0:05:07.810 with just her and I. So I took her for 0:05:07.930 --> 0:05:11.450 lunch and then we had this little sleepover and it 0:05:11.570 --> 0:05:13.490 was so nice, you know, when you don't get a 0:05:13.570 --> 0:05:15.650 chance to talk to someone so much, like you go 0:05:15.730 --> 0:05:18.370 from conversation to conversations so quickly, and you're like, oh 0:05:18.410 --> 0:05:19.850 my gosh, we got to go back to that one. 0:05:19.850 --> 0:05:21.450 But remind me to tell you about this. You know, 0:05:21.570 --> 0:05:23.810 it was so nice just to have free rain, no 0:05:23.890 --> 0:05:26.530 children interrupting or asking for snacks or whatever. 0:05:26.650 --> 0:05:29.530 And did you do like girly things. We did lunch, 0:05:29.570 --> 0:05:31.770 and then we laid by the pool. We went for 0:05:31.810 --> 0:05:32.130 a walk. 0:05:32.130 --> 0:05:35.370 It was a little bit windy, but the people staying 0:05:35.450 --> 0:05:38.530 next door to us, Oh no, decided to have a 0:05:38.570 --> 0:05:40.890 four a m bender, didn't they. Oh okay, I was 0:05:40.930 --> 0:05:43.090 thinking maybe it wasn't just mother and daughter, it was 0:05:43.130 --> 0:05:47.290 more romantic. No, oh no, well God, like I did 0:05:47.290 --> 0:05:48.850 say to that would be all goodn't with you? I 0:05:49.330 --> 0:05:53.370 seemed to be paper paper thin. And I literally spent 0:05:53.450 --> 0:05:56.090 my whole night like here I am thinking, oh, glorious, 0:05:56.090 --> 0:05:57.290 like a night away from the kids. 0:05:57.370 --> 0:05:59.130 I'm gonna be such a good sleep. 0:05:59.170 --> 0:06:02.290 This hotel has the best beds and pillows, and I'm 0:06:02.290 --> 0:06:04.690 going to be in heaven. And instead I spent the 0:06:04.730 --> 0:06:07.810 whole night listening through the paper walls like I might 0:06:07.850 --> 0:06:08.850 as well have just joined them. 0:06:08.890 --> 0:06:10.330 I should have not died. I would have said, you 0:06:10.450 --> 0:06:11.530 know what, here. 0:06:11.450 --> 0:06:14.370 If I'm gonna sit here listening to you until. 0:06:14.090 --> 0:06:17.650 Four am, you can't mean I'm a glass Okay, I. 0:06:17.570 --> 0:06:20.130 Totally Where did Jargia. 0:06:20.290 --> 0:06:20.730 The whole is? 0:06:20.730 --> 0:06:22.010 And I brought this up because I was telling my 0:06:22.010 --> 0:06:25.290 group chat. It's definitely one to do if you've got 0:06:25.330 --> 0:06:27.970 your parents around, and if we're still so lucky to 0:06:28.010 --> 0:06:30.010 do that, make the most of it. Take them on 0:06:30.050 --> 0:06:31.730 a little night or a lunch or a date. 0:06:32.010 --> 0:06:34.930 It's just so cute, and just maybe look into the 0:06:34.970 --> 0:06:36.450 wall down. Yeah, just make. 0:06:36.330 --> 0:06:41.730 Show make sure you've got a non adjoining room, all right. 0:06:41.930 --> 0:06:45.450 So recently we had Lauren Thornborough from the Village on 0:06:45.770 --> 0:06:48.570 an episode and we've talked all about end of you 0:06:48.770 --> 0:06:51.810 overwhelm and it is just such a common thing for 0:06:51.890 --> 0:06:54.970 parents at the moment, like crawling to the finish line. Yeah, 0:06:55.010 --> 0:06:57.850 crawling like like I don't even know, can you. 0:06:58.010 --> 0:07:00.810 Not even begged the feet? 0:07:00.970 --> 0:07:05.210 Yes, it's a very very long couple of weeks when 0:07:05.210 --> 0:07:07.730 you hit December. There's so much on and there's so 0:07:07.850 --> 0:07:10.970 much to do. There's so much mental load present school 0:07:11.050 --> 0:07:14.810 things like, not just for yourself, it generally becomes everyone 0:07:14.810 --> 0:07:15.970 else's family things. 0:07:17.250 --> 0:07:19.610 Everyone just tries to cram everything into December. 0:07:19.730 --> 0:07:22.090 Yes, I'm such a January girl. I'm like, can we 0:07:22.170 --> 0:07:23.610 have our Christmas party in January? 0:07:23.770 --> 0:07:23.930 Yes? 0:07:24.090 --> 0:07:28.490 Yes, we thought, let's instead of just talk about the crap, 0:07:29.050 --> 0:07:32.490 let's come up with some solutions. Yes, and some ideas 0:07:32.730 --> 0:07:35.730 that might help, and some little hacks to help you 0:07:35.850 --> 0:07:37.010 through this period. 0:07:37.530 --> 0:07:39.210 To give the gift of time. 0:07:40.330 --> 0:07:41.970 We need to get time back. 0:07:42.370 --> 0:07:44.170 Yes, so then we've got time. 0:07:43.930 --> 0:07:44.490 To do. 0:07:46.530 --> 0:07:47.250 We have to do. 0:07:48.730 --> 0:07:51.570 I want to hear yours teaks. What are your time 0:07:52.330 --> 0:07:58.970 giving hack? Look, everyone knows that I'm an outsourcer. Look, 0:07:59.010 --> 0:08:01.410 and I know it's not for everyone, and I even 0:08:01.490 --> 0:08:05.090 understand financially it's not for everyone. But if there's any 0:08:05.210 --> 0:08:07.810 time to do it, now's the time. It doesn't have 0:08:07.930 --> 0:08:09.930 to be for forever, but it might just be. You 0:08:09.970 --> 0:08:13.490 know what, for the three weeks before Christmas, instead of 0:08:13.570 --> 0:08:16.210 doing two loads of laundry a week, I'm going to 0:08:16.290 --> 0:08:18.370 drop those two loads off at the laundry mat and 0:08:18.410 --> 0:08:19.170 then they're going to come. 0:08:19.050 --> 0:08:20.650 Back to you, wash folded and ready to go. 0:08:20.890 --> 0:08:23.610 And also, in your defense, you are a busy business woman, 0:08:23.770 --> 0:08:26.770 like you own two other businesses and run them yourself, 0:08:26.890 --> 0:08:28.970 and this is like one of your busiest periods. 0:08:29.050 --> 0:08:30.010 You need that. 0:08:30.450 --> 0:08:36.250 It's not like you're around. It's not. No, it's not 0:08:36.330 --> 0:08:38.410 as though I'm just not doing laundry because I don't 0:08:38.410 --> 0:08:41.210 want to do it. Because also I still do several 0:08:41.250 --> 0:08:43.970 loads of washing, but I take my kids, like all 0:08:44.050 --> 0:08:48.130 the undies and knickers and socks and pajamas, sheets, towels, 0:08:48.170 --> 0:08:50.970 the stuff that are annoying. I'll do like one or 0:08:51.010 --> 0:08:53.490 two bags a week, like just dump it off, pick 0:08:53.530 --> 0:08:55.570 it up, or sometimes there's you know, pickups and drop 0:08:55.570 --> 0:08:56.170 offs whatever. 0:08:56.610 --> 0:08:58.330 It doesn't mean I'm still not doing washing a. 0:08:58.290 --> 0:09:02.130 Week, but those two little loads of washing just save 0:09:02.290 --> 0:09:06.210 my folding a rainy day. 0:09:06.330 --> 0:09:07.410 Then you got to leave it out. 0:09:07.410 --> 0:09:10.610 And the gift of time is the gift of time 0:09:11.570 --> 0:09:14.810 saying doing it all the time, but I absolutely promise 0:09:14.890 --> 0:09:17.050 you'll if another one is if you're going on a holiday, 0:09:17.290 --> 0:09:18.810 if you've just come back from a holiday, you know 0:09:18.810 --> 0:09:19.450 when there's. 0:09:19.250 --> 0:09:22.130 Like seven suitcases worth of washing, that's. 0:09:21.970 --> 0:09:24.610 Another one where you just take it to the laundry mat, 0:09:24.730 --> 0:09:26.690 get them to do it, and then it comes back. 0:09:26.770 --> 0:09:29.930 It will save you hours, and no one likes to 0:09:29.970 --> 0:09:32.650 do laundry. No, how about you? What have you got 0:09:32.650 --> 0:09:35.410 for me? My first one is really it's a silver 0:09:35.490 --> 0:09:39.090 lining of having children getting older, and that is I 0:09:39.170 --> 0:09:40.690 no longer do school drop off? 0:09:41.570 --> 0:09:42.930 Can we just have a preach? 0:09:43.290 --> 0:09:45.130 Well, we definitely get at the moment in my life 0:09:45.130 --> 0:09:49.210 because school drop offs are not the greatest at the moment, 0:09:49.410 --> 0:09:52.810 especially being end of year, they get harder and harder. 0:09:52.890 --> 0:09:56.370 There's lots of emotions I would love. 0:09:56.410 --> 0:09:57.410 Can I them? 0:09:57.890 --> 0:10:00.010 Can I outsource them? Is there a service? There is? 0:10:00.050 --> 0:10:04.170 Actually there are ubers for children. That's something to look into. Sheba. 0:10:04.370 --> 0:10:05.970 Is that a sheba? I don't know what it's called, 0:10:06.010 --> 0:10:08.930 but it does exist? Oh my gosh, so I'm inventing 0:10:08.970 --> 0:10:11.490 that and it already exists. It does exist. They use 0:10:11.570 --> 0:10:14.330 like nannies and stuff googling. I'll google it and send 0:10:14.370 --> 0:10:14.730 it to you late. 0:10:14.810 --> 0:10:15.450 Thank you so much. 0:10:15.450 --> 0:10:18.050 So mine just I just pop them out the door 0:10:18.450 --> 0:10:19.530 on the bus. 0:10:19.570 --> 0:10:20.130 Off you go. 0:10:20.850 --> 0:10:22.850 The first time you did that? Now here we are, 0:10:22.930 --> 0:10:24.490 it's it's just a thing. Now, I don't just school 0:10:24.530 --> 0:10:24.970 drop off? 0:10:25.250 --> 0:10:26.810 Oh how about the thick up? 0:10:26.850 --> 0:10:29.330 Well, so I've got to like after care, like out 0:10:29.330 --> 0:10:31.330 of care, days where I have to pick them up 0:10:31.410 --> 0:10:34.690 late and unfortunately an adult has to do and otherwise 0:10:34.730 --> 0:10:37.370 i'd literally every second Friday they catch the bus home 0:10:37.410 --> 0:10:37.810 as well. 0:10:37.930 --> 0:10:38.970 That is a game change. 0:10:39.010 --> 0:10:41.290 It's a lot of time back, it's a lot of 0:10:41.330 --> 0:10:44.610 time age kids. Yes, done, send them on their way. 0:10:44.730 --> 0:10:46.770 Do you have like a navigation device on them? 0:10:46.930 --> 0:10:50.090 Not yet, but I'm looking into it. Yes, I know. 0:10:50.290 --> 0:10:52.810 I think one of those space talk watches. I am 0:10:52.850 --> 0:10:54.970 a little bit free range for my own good. Yes, 0:10:55.530 --> 0:10:58.290 what's your next one? Okay, I am all about a 0:10:58.290 --> 0:11:01.330 family calendar, but I'm not talking about digital. I'm talking 0:11:01.370 --> 0:11:05.570 about the old, old school school paper family calendars. So 0:11:05.650 --> 0:11:08.210 if you're a big family like mine, you've got five 0:11:08.370 --> 0:11:12.530 people to coordinate, get it out of your head, get 0:11:12.570 --> 0:11:15.810 it off your phone or device, and put it on 0:11:15.930 --> 0:11:19.050 the paper. I get mine from kikik. Is that what 0:11:19.090 --> 0:11:22.210 it's called. And it's got the month, but with for 0:11:22.290 --> 0:11:26.370 each person in the family, so per day, so like 0:11:26.450 --> 0:11:28.970 you can say, like, oh Sammy's got dancing on Tuesday, 0:11:29.010 --> 0:11:33.490 Oh Tiggan's got a meeting that day. Oh Jason's got 0:11:34.450 --> 0:11:38.210 Jason's got dancing that day too. But you can see 0:11:38.290 --> 0:11:41.370 everyone and you can just like, look at your week. 0:11:41.770 --> 0:11:43.330 Just get it out of the head, because I think 0:11:43.370 --> 0:11:45.850 that mental load of like, oh, what days that thing? Oh, 0:11:45.850 --> 0:11:47.850 I've got to check when that, things do for that 0:11:48.010 --> 0:11:48.370 or whatever. 0:11:48.530 --> 0:11:50.610 Like I can just sing it in the kitchen, Yeah, 0:11:50.650 --> 0:11:52.250 I put in my kitchen. Yeah, put in my kitchen. 0:11:52.290 --> 0:11:55.250 So as I'm packing lunches every morning, I'm looking at it. 0:11:55.410 --> 0:11:57.730 Yeah, that's a good idea. I are real calendar. 0:11:57.890 --> 0:11:59.410 But I tell you what I've been seeing on Instagram, 0:11:59.450 --> 0:12:02.330 those digital photo frames, but like for calendars. 0:12:02.410 --> 0:12:04.130 And I'm like, that's guys. 0:12:04.970 --> 0:12:07.490 We have our phones, we've got our devices, and now 0:12:07.610 --> 0:12:11.770 they're creating like the digital frames, but just for calendars. 0:12:11.810 --> 0:12:13.610 And I'm like, no, guys, ever heard of a pen 0:12:13.650 --> 0:12:16.810 and a paper old school? But that's just one less 0:12:16.850 --> 0:12:19.050 thing to get it out of your brain, because I 0:12:19.050 --> 0:12:20.570 think when you're always like, oh, when'sday? 0:12:20.850 --> 0:12:21.210 What's that? 0:12:21.370 --> 0:12:21.530 Oh? 0:12:21.610 --> 0:12:23.690 Let me just check my calendar on my phone. You 0:12:23.690 --> 0:12:26.930 know what, No, it's there. Yeah, it's good to see 0:12:26.970 --> 0:12:28.970 every day and just go, oh, yep, that's right, I've 0:12:28.970 --> 0:12:32.810 got that appointment tomorrow or whatever. So I live alone 0:12:32.930 --> 0:12:35.250 half the time, and when I don't have my children, 0:12:35.370 --> 0:12:37.610 I eat like a cat and I don't have food 0:12:37.610 --> 0:12:40.410 in the house, so when I get my children back, 0:12:40.690 --> 0:12:43.730 it's literally kind of at box level, like there is 0:12:43.810 --> 0:12:46.330 nothing to feed them. So instead of going to the 0:12:46.370 --> 0:12:49.610 grocery store before they arrive back, I just get all 0:12:49.650 --> 0:12:51.970 the school snacks and all the food you know that 0:12:52.010 --> 0:12:53.330 they actually need to eat. 0:12:53.490 --> 0:12:54.690 Just delivered to the door. 0:12:56.050 --> 0:12:59.450 Yeah, cutting out they're getting in the car, oh parking 0:12:59.490 --> 0:13:00.890 as going to the shops. 0:13:00.930 --> 0:13:02.410 I just get it delivered. Yeah. 0:13:02.570 --> 0:13:05.250 I think it's like a five dollar delivery fee. Yeah, 0:13:05.250 --> 0:13:08.570 and that is worth all of that save time. I'm 0:13:08.570 --> 0:13:10.690 all for a delivery and I know, look, not everyone 0:13:10.770 --> 0:13:15.210 lives in wonderful deliverable accessed areas. My kids love up 0:13:15.250 --> 0:13:17.810 and goes so like I buy them in the dwelf 0:13:17.850 --> 0:13:20.810 back and I'm always like, I'm not carrying that shit. No, 0:13:21.130 --> 0:13:23.010 So it's so great it gets delivered to my door 0:13:23.050 --> 0:13:26.330 to the door, thank you, and like laundry detergent, yeah, 0:13:26.530 --> 0:13:29.650 all those big things. Yeah, I can't carry that same, 0:13:29.730 --> 0:13:33.650 same but different a meal delivery service for this time 0:13:33.690 --> 0:13:36.250 of year. Sometimes there's so much going on that you're 0:13:36.290 --> 0:13:38.410 not actually sure when you're going to be home cooking 0:13:38.530 --> 0:13:40.330 or what you need or when you need it, So 0:13:40.450 --> 0:13:43.330 maybe you do do like a Hello Fresh or a 0:13:43.410 --> 0:13:45.570 Muscle Chef, where they're already actually pre made and you 0:13:45.650 --> 0:13:48.130 just whack them in the microwave or oven or whatever, 0:13:48.850 --> 0:13:50.890 just so that you've got something there in the fridge 0:13:50.890 --> 0:13:52.770 if you need it. If you don't, you can pop 0:13:52.810 --> 0:13:55.530 it in the freezer whatever. I just think things like that. 0:13:55.850 --> 0:13:58.410 You've got to eat anyway, so it's not actually changing 0:13:58.770 --> 0:14:01.490 any scenario, just to make it a little bit easier 0:14:01.650 --> 0:14:02.690 and one less thing you have. 0:14:02.650 --> 0:14:04.050 To prepare a line approved. 0:14:04.170 --> 0:14:07.210 So circling back to washing, I don't have as much 0:14:07.250 --> 0:14:11.210 as you because no I can't because half the time 0:14:11.210 --> 0:14:14.130 it's just my washing silver lining. Half the time I 0:14:14.130 --> 0:14:16.650 have my children, So I still do need washing to 0:14:16.650 --> 0:14:19.770 get through. But I don't like doing washing on weekends. 0:14:20.250 --> 0:14:22.450 So what I do is that I'll do a load 0:14:22.570 --> 0:14:26.610 after work at nighttime only, and then I'll hang it 0:14:26.690 --> 0:14:29.090 up at night or put it in the dryer. I'm 0:14:29.130 --> 0:14:32.690 a nighttime ourl washer, and then first thing in the 0:14:32.730 --> 0:14:36.610 morning washer. No, because it's too happy annoying. Yeah, lifetimes 0:14:36.650 --> 0:14:38.090 it annoying because I'm like, oh my god, there's so 0:14:38.090 --> 0:14:39.570 many other things I've got to do. Yeah, that's why 0:14:39.610 --> 0:14:41.410 you do it at night when you just otherwise you're 0:14:41.410 --> 0:14:43.530 on Instagram's. 0:14:42.570 --> 0:14:43.850 Some of the half of the shit I need for 0:14:43.890 --> 0:14:45.850 the next morning, you know. See, I don't know. 0:14:45.850 --> 0:14:48.290 If I'm doing your school uniform, I'm like, oh, damn it. 0:14:48.450 --> 0:14:50.210 Or sometimes I wash it in the morning but forget 0:14:50.210 --> 0:14:51.850 to hang it out until the night, and I'm like, oh, 0:14:51.970 --> 0:14:55.810 I hate my past self. No, hang it out okay, well, 0:14:56.010 --> 0:15:00.170 or just take it down the road. Let's be realized 0:15:00.210 --> 0:15:04.050 a gill and don't do it at all. My other 0:15:04.210 --> 0:15:06.530 hack is, if you happen to be going on a 0:15:06.570 --> 0:15:11.970 family holiday over the next month or two, start slowly packing. 0:15:12.370 --> 0:15:15.810 Oh like, I know that sounds so neurotic and silly. 0:15:16.330 --> 0:15:19.210 Start a little area where you're putting the things that 0:15:19.290 --> 0:15:22.210 you won't need between now and then, like your sun 0:15:22.330 --> 0:15:24.010 screens and your Toiletry. 0:15:24.290 --> 0:15:25.970 No, I'm a night before packer. 0:15:26.330 --> 0:15:29.410 No, I bet you forget everything and you're very stressed 0:15:29.490 --> 0:15:30.170 the night before. 0:15:30.290 --> 0:15:32.170 Not at all. Yeah, but is that for yourself or 0:15:32.210 --> 0:15:33.970 that's including that's including children. 0:15:34.050 --> 0:15:36.570 Oh yeah, Well, I'm trying to light in your mental 0:15:36.610 --> 0:15:39.610 load so that if you just do little bits and pieces. 0:15:39.690 --> 0:15:41.370 No, I don't want to think about it. That long. 0:15:41.610 --> 0:15:43.570 No, you don't have to think about it, like do 0:15:43.690 --> 0:15:47.410 your medical box, do your sunscreen, toilet try box. Maybe 0:15:47.490 --> 0:15:48.810 put some undies aside. 0:15:49.290 --> 0:15:51.810 Oh I don't have that many undies. No, well maybe 0:15:51.810 --> 0:15:52.130 you should. 0:15:52.530 --> 0:15:54.530 This is just I like this. But if this is 0:15:54.570 --> 0:15:57.370 not what I'm aligned on, I'm packing for five people. 0:15:57.530 --> 0:16:04.850 I think I need to start now for July next year. Okay, 0:16:04.890 --> 0:16:10.610 I've got another one, teagus. I didn't know that I 0:16:10.650 --> 0:16:14.130 needed to vaccinate my soon to be thirteen year old 0:16:14.330 --> 0:16:16.850 who's heading off to high school for hooping cough again. 0:16:17.090 --> 0:16:19.530 Just didn't know because you know, like I'm past that 0:16:19.610 --> 0:16:22.810 stage of life and everyone gets so busy, there's so 0:16:22.810 --> 0:16:27.290 many things to remember. But there's actually a free National 0:16:27.370 --> 0:16:31.130 Immunization Program schedule and you can get it from the 0:16:31.210 --> 0:16:34.610 Health dot gov dot AU website, and it's actually does 0:16:34.730 --> 0:16:36.730 the mental load for you, so you can keep track 0:16:36.770 --> 0:16:39.850 of your kids vaccinations without having to think about it, 0:16:39.890 --> 0:16:50.770 and of course importantly, so you don't miss them. Well, 0:16:50.850 --> 0:16:53.570 we asked the people, because we're not the only ones 0:16:53.610 --> 0:16:57.250 with the great hacks, tips tricks we outsourced. We asked 0:16:57.290 --> 0:17:00.210 the mum and mea family Facebook and Instagram, and here's 0:17:00.250 --> 0:17:05.170 a few of what they recommended, don't buy clothes that 0:17:05.290 --> 0:17:06.410 need to be dry. 0:17:06.210 --> 0:17:07.250 Cleaned or ironed. 0:17:07.330 --> 0:17:12.090 That's fabulous. Yeah, that's a really good I hate ironing. 0:17:12.730 --> 0:17:16.490 Oh I don't even have an iron. I don't have one. 0:17:16.530 --> 0:17:17.850 And do you know what? Do you know what my 0:17:17.970 --> 0:17:20.050 mum told me when she had my kids one weekend 0:17:20.330 --> 0:17:23.570 that my kids looked at her eye in and said, Nana, 0:17:24.090 --> 0:17:24.650 what's that? 0:17:25.570 --> 0:17:26.490 Hah? 0:17:26.570 --> 0:17:29.050 They've never even seen one far out? 0:17:29.250 --> 0:17:34.570 Yeah, like an old school phone. Like, okay, what else 0:17:34.610 --> 0:17:35.090 have we got? 0:17:35.130 --> 0:17:37.570 So this one I like, and I do a version 0:17:37.570 --> 0:17:39.970 of this. They said, if you like to read, get 0:17:40.010 --> 0:17:42.570 an audio book. You can flip it on while driving, 0:17:42.650 --> 0:17:46.250 folding laundry, and showering. That's very smart because sitting down 0:17:46.290 --> 0:17:49.730 to read is usually reserved for holidays. Yeah, or aeroplanes 0:17:49.930 --> 0:17:51.810 in my life. And so one thing I do I 0:17:51.890 --> 0:17:54.050 like to listen to a lot of podcasts. And so 0:17:54.130 --> 0:17:56.690 when I met the Little Athletics, which is two to 0:17:56.730 --> 0:17:59.650 three hours standing around a field making small talk with 0:17:59.690 --> 0:18:04.970 other parents, I very very unapologetically wear headphones and listen 0:18:05.010 --> 0:18:08.050 to podcasts while standing on a field avoiding small talk. 0:18:08.570 --> 0:18:11.690 You're welcome. That is a great idea, isn't it? An 0:18:11.730 --> 0:18:12.850 extremely recluse. 0:18:13.010 --> 0:18:16.010 Yes, love it, I love it. Say look there's another 0:18:16.050 --> 0:18:17.650 outsourcer here hurrying a cleaner. 0:18:18.010 --> 0:18:21.250 Oh yes, yes, oh my god. If you can, yeah, 0:18:21.290 --> 0:18:23.370 of course, I mean that's true, isn't it. 0:18:23.530 --> 0:18:26.410 Even if I can't, I'll start an only fans to 0:18:26.530 --> 0:18:28.010 be able to Because. 0:18:28.410 --> 0:18:30.130 I had just seen your feet, I don't think. 0:18:30.970 --> 0:18:33.650 Look, it would have to be for the ugly feet page. 0:18:34.050 --> 0:18:36.050 But let me tell you, like I would sell my 0:18:36.130 --> 0:18:39.610 soul foret my cleaner. Like, there's nothing I wouldn't do 0:18:40.050 --> 0:18:43.450 to be to have a cleaner, like I just it's 0:18:43.570 --> 0:18:45.850 just not my thing. I can't do it. Well, it's 0:18:45.850 --> 0:18:49.570 not one of my qualities. Or train the children. There 0:18:49.610 --> 0:18:52.770 you go another look, maybe the older they should clean. 0:18:53.050 --> 0:18:54.370 This one I love because it. 0:18:54.170 --> 0:18:56.330 It's between clean and clean, you know. 0:18:56.690 --> 0:18:59.650 But when they're older they should be cleaning toilets. Anyway. 0:19:00.130 --> 0:19:03.930 This one I like because it's avoiding dishes. Yes, oh 0:19:04.050 --> 0:19:04.490 tell me. 0:19:04.650 --> 0:19:07.450