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Speaker 3: Hi, it's Annalise Todd, host of Mamma MIA's parenting podcast
Speaker 3: This Glorious Mess, and this time of year is a
Speaker 3: lot for all of us and the one thing that
Speaker 3: we're really lacking in is time. So I wanted to
Speaker 3: share this episode with you, and it's ten simple hacks
Speaker 3: to get your time back. And it was really born
Speaker 3: from a desire to cut corners and maybe just being
Speaker 3: a little bit lazy in nature.
Speaker 1: But we also crowdsourced some.
Speaker 3: From the Mamma Mea community with some really great life
Speaker 3: changing and time saving hacks. I hope you enjoy and
Speaker 3: I hope you get some time back. Hello, and welcome
Speaker 3: to this Glorious Mess. We are embracing the chaos together,
Speaker 3: ditching the judgment.
Speaker 1: I'm tigging it, Tolly.
Speaker 3: And if you haven't ordered your Cristy presence.
Speaker 1: Yes, Snap Snap, chop chop. Sorry, guys, I.
Speaker 3: Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it's
Speaker 3: the ninth of December and I'm Annalise Todd in denial
Speaker 3: about the impending festivities. Yes, you're the person I need
Speaker 3: to remind you. I'm a single mum, working full time
Speaker 3: and one thing I am lacking in this life is time.
Speaker 2: Hm.
Speaker 3: Well funny that, because today on the show, we're here
Speaker 3: to help. You are not going to help for once.
Speaker 3: We're going to try to. Yes, we'll do a bit
Speaker 3: of event first, because what's a TGM episode without a
Speaker 3: little event. But today's episode is all about getting you
Speaker 3: some time back. We had a lot of feedback on
Speaker 3: our episode a couple of weeks ago about the end
Speaker 3: of year overwhelmed, and it's clear that a lot of
Speaker 3: parents are feeling stretched thin. So we are not alone.
Speaker 3: You are not alone. The to do lists seem endless,
Speaker 3: the days or two short, The idea of having even
Speaker 3: a moment to yourself seems absolutely impossible. So we have
Speaker 3: put together some hacks on how to get your time back.
Speaker 3: We end our community. Yes, obviously it's not just us alone,
Speaker 3: because we needed You're needed to hear from the people
Speaker 3: and We're going to bring you all the golden juice,
Speaker 3: just game changing time, giving back, just life hacks. I
Speaker 3: love hack, same for anything that just makes time quicker,
Speaker 3: not quicker, but it gives you more time.
Speaker 1: Mine is a shit to do.
Speaker 3: Mine isn't so much born out of hack. I think
Speaker 3: I'm just inherently lazy. Yes, and I like to cut corners,
Speaker 3: so I've developed a few things just naturally like evolution. Yes,
Speaker 3: I agree I'm not lazy. But when it comes when
Speaker 3: it comes to domestic shit.
Speaker 1: I hate it. It's the core of my anger.
Speaker 3: Like washing, cleaning.
Speaker 1: Do you know what I feel like?
Speaker 3: Even putting clean clothes or wag?
Speaker 1: That's the worst, don't.
Speaker 3: I don't even mind washing it. I hate folding it
Speaker 3: and putting it away. I won't even fold it, won't
Speaker 3: even do that. But I've always said that I feel
Speaker 3: like I was born in the wrong life. I was
Speaker 3: meant to be royal. I would like someone to come
Speaker 3: in and dress me eighteenth century.
Speaker 1: See, I'd hate that. I just want to put my
Speaker 1: arms up and just be Do you want to be
Speaker 1: cause ated? Yes? Iren't something to brush my hair?
Speaker 3: Oh god, I want to do anythry She goes again
Speaker 3: for goodness sake. Yeah, and of course, amongst other things,
Speaker 3: we will also hear from our friends Sarah Maurice. But
Speaker 3: first here is what's happening in my group chat. Two
Speaker 3: mothers days ago, I promised my mum a little night away,
Speaker 3: like a holiday together, because I feel like with my mum,
Speaker 3: the only time we really see each other is like
Speaker 3: me dropping my kids to her or her swinging pass,
Speaker 3: like it's never really quality time. Or there's like the
Speaker 3: whole family there and seven grandchildren and my brother and
Speaker 3: my dad and my husband, and like, I can't remember
Speaker 3: the last time that my mum and I just had
Speaker 3: a nice time together, and there's always other people around, Yeah,
Speaker 3: like I can't. So finally, two and a half years later,
Speaker 3: because within the family, we've had a few deaths, she's
Speaker 3: gone on a few holidays, and I've gone on a
Speaker 3: few holidays, So it's taken us two and a half
Speaker 3: years to actually tee this thing up. One night, that's
Speaker 3: all I'm talking about. One night, So I took my
Speaker 3: mum for a little stay cake in a little hotel
Speaker 3: with just her and I. So I took her for
Speaker 3: lunch and then we had this little sleepover and it
Speaker 3: was so nice, you know, when you don't get a
Speaker 3: chance to talk to someone so much, like you go
Speaker 3: from conversation to conversations so quickly, and you're like, oh
Speaker 3: my gosh, we got to go back to that one.
Speaker 3: But remind me to tell you about this. You know,
Speaker 3: it was so nice just to have free rain, no
Speaker 3: children interrupting or asking for snacks or whatever.
Speaker 1: And did you do like girly things. We did lunch,
Speaker 1: and then we laid by the pool. We went for
Speaker 1: a walk.
Speaker 3: It was a little bit windy, but the people staying
Speaker 3: next door to us, Oh no, decided to have a
Speaker 3: four a m bender, didn't they. Oh okay, I was
Speaker 3: thinking maybe it wasn't just mother and daughter, it was
Speaker 3: more romantic. No, oh no, well God, like I did
Speaker 3: say to that would be all goodn't with you? I
Speaker 3: seemed to be paper paper thin. And I literally spent
Speaker 3: my whole night like here I am thinking, oh, glorious,
Speaker 3: like a night away from the kids.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be such a good sleep.
Speaker 3: This hotel has the best beds and pillows, and I'm
Speaker 3: going to be in heaven. And instead I spent the
Speaker 3: whole night listening through the paper walls like I might
Speaker 3: as well have just joined them.
Speaker 1: I should have not died. I would have said, you
Speaker 1: know what, here.
Speaker 3: If I'm gonna sit here listening to you until.
Speaker 1: Four am, you can't mean I'm a glass Okay, I.
Speaker 3: Totally Where did Jargia.
Speaker 1: The whole is?
Speaker 3: And I brought this up because I was telling my
Speaker 3: group chat. It's definitely one to do if you've got
Speaker 3: your parents around, and if we're still so lucky to
Speaker 3: do that, make the most of it. Take them on
Speaker 3: a little night or a lunch or a date.
Speaker 1: It's just so cute, and just maybe look into the
Speaker 1: wall down. Yeah, just make.
Speaker 3: Show make sure you've got a non adjoining room, all right.
Speaker 3: So recently we had Lauren Thornborough from the Village on
Speaker 3: an episode and we've talked all about end of you
Speaker 3: overwhelm and it is just such a common thing for
Speaker 3: parents at the moment, like crawling to the finish line. Yeah,
Speaker 3: crawling like like I don't even know, can you.
Speaker 1: Not even begged the feet?
Speaker 3: Yes, it's a very very long couple of weeks when
Speaker 3: you hit December. There's so much on and there's so
Speaker 3: much to do. There's so much mental load present school
Speaker 3: things like, not just for yourself, it generally becomes everyone
Speaker 3: else's family things.
Speaker 1: Everyone just tries to cram everything into December.
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm such a January girl. I'm like, can we
Speaker 3: have our Christmas party in January?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 3: Yes, we thought, let's instead of just talk about the crap,
Speaker 3: let's come up with some solutions. Yes, and some ideas
Speaker 3: that might help, and some little hacks to help you
Speaker 3: through this period.
Speaker 1: To give the gift of time.
Speaker 3: We need to get time back.
Speaker 1: Yes, so then we've got time.
Speaker 3: To do.
Speaker 1: We have to do.
Speaker 3: I want to hear yours teaks. What are your time
Speaker 3: giving hack? Look, everyone knows that I'm an outsourcer. Look,
Speaker 3: and I know it's not for everyone, and I even
Speaker 3: understand financially it's not for everyone. But if there's any
Speaker 3: time to do it, now's the time. It doesn't have
Speaker 3: to be for forever, but it might just be. You
Speaker 3: know what, for the three weeks before Christmas, instead of
Speaker 3: doing two loads of laundry a week, I'm going to
Speaker 3: drop those two loads off at the laundry mat and
Speaker 3: then they're going to come.
Speaker 1: Back to you, wash folded and ready to go.
Speaker 3: And also, in your defense, you are a busy business woman,
Speaker 3: like you own two other businesses and run them yourself,
Speaker 3: and this is like one of your busiest periods.
Speaker 1: You need that.
Speaker 3: It's not like you're around. It's not. No, it's not
Speaker 3: as though I'm just not doing laundry because I don't
Speaker 3: want to do it. Because also I still do several
Speaker 3: loads of washing, but I take my kids, like all
Speaker 3: the undies and knickers and socks and pajamas, sheets, towels,
Speaker 3: the stuff that are annoying. I'll do like one or
Speaker 3: two bags a week, like just dump it off, pick
Speaker 3: it up, or sometimes there's you know, pickups and drop
Speaker 3: offs whatever.
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean I'm still not doing washing a.
Speaker 3: Week, but those two little loads of washing just save
Speaker 3: my folding a rainy day.
Speaker 1: Then you got to leave it out.
Speaker 3: And the gift of time is the gift of time
Speaker 3: saying doing it all the time, but I absolutely promise
Speaker 3: you'll if another one is if you're going on a holiday,
Speaker 3: if you've just come back from a holiday, you know
Speaker 3: when there's.
Speaker 1: Like seven suitcases worth of washing, that's.
Speaker 3: Another one where you just take it to the laundry mat,
Speaker 3: get them to do it, and then it comes back.
Speaker 3: It will save you hours, and no one likes to
Speaker 3: do laundry. No, how about you? What have you got
Speaker 3: for me? My first one is really it's a silver
Speaker 3: lining of having children getting older, and that is I
Speaker 3: no longer do school drop off?
Speaker 1: Can we just have a preach?
Speaker 3: Well, we definitely get at the moment in my life
Speaker 3: because school drop offs are not the greatest at the moment,
Speaker 3: especially being end of year, they get harder and harder.
Speaker 1: There's lots of emotions I would love.
Speaker 3: Can I them?
Speaker 1: Can I outsource them? Is there a service? There is?
Speaker 3: Actually there are ubers for children. That's something to look into. Sheba.
Speaker 3: Is that a sheba? I don't know what it's called,
Speaker 3: but it does exist? Oh my gosh, so I'm inventing
Speaker 3: that and it already exists. It does exist. They use
Speaker 3: like nannies and stuff googling. I'll google it and send
Speaker 3: it to you late.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
Speaker 3: So mine just I just pop them out the door
Speaker 3: on the bus.
Speaker 1: Off you go.
Speaker 3: The first time you did that? Now here we are,
Speaker 3: it's it's just a thing. Now, I don't just school
Speaker 3: drop off?
Speaker 1: Oh how about the thick up?
Speaker 3: Well, so I've got to like after care, like out
Speaker 3: of care, days where I have to pick them up
Speaker 3: late and unfortunately an adult has to do and otherwise
Speaker 3: i'd literally every second Friday they catch the bus home
Speaker 3: as well.
Speaker 1: That is a game change.
Speaker 3: It's a lot of time back, it's a lot of
Speaker 3: time age kids. Yes, done, send them on their way.
Speaker 3: Do you have like a navigation device on them?
Speaker 1: Not yet, but I'm looking into it. Yes, I know.
Speaker 3: I think one of those space talk watches. I am
Speaker 3: a little bit free range for my own good. Yes,
Speaker 3: what's your next one? Okay, I am all about a
Speaker 3: family calendar, but I'm not talking about digital. I'm talking
Speaker 3: about the old, old school school paper family calendars. So
Speaker 3: if you're a big family like mine, you've got five
Speaker 3: people to coordinate, get it out of your head, get
Speaker 3: it off your phone or device, and put it on
Speaker 3: the paper. I get mine from kikik. Is that what
Speaker 3: it's called. And it's got the month, but with for
Speaker 3: each person in the family, so per day, so like
Speaker 3: you can say, like, oh Sammy's got dancing on Tuesday,
Speaker 3: Oh Tiggan's got a meeting that day. Oh Jason's got
Speaker 3: Jason's got dancing that day too. But you can see
Speaker 3: everyone and you can just like, look at your week.
Speaker 3: Just get it out of the head, because I think
Speaker 3: that mental load of like, oh, what days that thing? Oh,
Speaker 3: I've got to check when that, things do for that
Speaker 3: or whatever.
Speaker 1: Like I can just sing it in the kitchen, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I put in my kitchen. Yeah, put in my kitchen.
Speaker 3: So as I'm packing lunches every morning, I'm looking at it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good idea. I are real calendar.
Speaker 3: But I tell you what I've been seeing on Instagram,
Speaker 3: those digital photo frames, but like for calendars.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, that's guys.
Speaker 3: We have our phones, we've got our devices, and now
Speaker 3: they're creating like the digital frames, but just for calendars.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, no, guys, ever heard of a pen
Speaker 3: and a paper old school? But that's just one less
Speaker 3: thing to get it out of your brain, because I
Speaker 3: think when you're always like, oh, when'sday?
Speaker 1: What's that?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Let me just check my calendar on my phone. You
Speaker 3: know what, No, it's there. Yeah, it's good to see
Speaker 3: every day and just go, oh, yep, that's right, I've
Speaker 3: got that appointment tomorrow or whatever. So I live alone
Speaker 3: half the time, and when I don't have my children,
Speaker 3: I eat like a cat and I don't have food
Speaker 3: in the house, so when I get my children back,
Speaker 3: it's literally kind of at box level, like there is
Speaker 3: nothing to feed them. So instead of going to the
Speaker 3: grocery store before they arrive back, I just get all
Speaker 3: the school snacks and all the food you know that
Speaker 3: they actually need to eat.
Speaker 1: Just delivered to the door.
Speaker 3: Yeah, cutting out they're getting in the car, oh parking
Speaker 3: as going to the shops.
Speaker 1: I just get it delivered. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think it's like a five dollar delivery fee. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and that is worth all of that save time. I'm
Speaker 3: all for a delivery and I know, look, not everyone
Speaker 3: lives in wonderful deliverable accessed areas. My kids love up
Speaker 3: and goes so like I buy them in the dwelf
Speaker 3: back and I'm always like, I'm not carrying that shit. No,
Speaker 3: So it's so great it gets delivered to my door
Speaker 3: to the door, thank you, and like laundry detergent, yeah,
Speaker 3: all those big things. Yeah, I can't carry that same,
Speaker 3: same but different a meal delivery service for this time
Speaker 3: of year. Sometimes there's so much going on that you're
Speaker 3: not actually sure when you're going to be home cooking
Speaker 3: or what you need or when you need it, So
Speaker 3: maybe you do do like a Hello Fresh or a
Speaker 3: Muscle Chef, where they're already actually pre made and you
Speaker 3: just whack them in the microwave or oven or whatever,
Speaker 3: just so that you've got something there in the fridge
Speaker 3: if you need it. If you don't, you can pop
Speaker 3: it in the freezer whatever. I just think things like that.
Speaker 3: You've got to eat anyway, so it's not actually changing
Speaker 3: any scenario, just to make it a little bit easier
Speaker 3: and one less thing you have.
Speaker 1: To prepare a line approved.
Speaker 3: So circling back to washing, I don't have as much
Speaker 3: as you because no I can't because half the time
Speaker 3: it's just my washing silver lining. Half the time I
Speaker 3: have my children, So I still do need washing to
Speaker 3: get through. But I don't like doing washing on weekends.
Speaker 3: So what I do is that I'll do a load
Speaker 3: after work at nighttime only, and then I'll hang it
Speaker 3: up at night or put it in the dryer. I'm
Speaker 3: a nighttime ourl washer, and then first thing in the
Speaker 3: morning washer. No, because it's too happy annoying. Yeah, lifetimes
Speaker 3: it annoying because I'm like, oh my god, there's so
Speaker 3: many other things I've got to do. Yeah, that's why
Speaker 3: you do it at night when you just otherwise you're
Speaker 3: on Instagram's.
Speaker 1: Some of the half of the shit I need for
Speaker 1: the next morning, you know. See, I don't know.
Speaker 3: If I'm doing your school uniform, I'm like, oh, damn it.
Speaker 3: Or sometimes I wash it in the morning but forget
Speaker 3: to hang it out until the night, and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 3: I hate my past self. No, hang it out okay, well,
Speaker 3: or just take it down the road. Let's be realized
Speaker 3: a gill and don't do it at all. My other
Speaker 3: hack is, if you happen to be going on a
Speaker 3: family holiday over the next month or two, start slowly packing.
Speaker 3: Oh like, I know that sounds so neurotic and silly.
Speaker 3: Start a little area where you're putting the things that
Speaker 3: you won't need between now and then, like your sun
Speaker 3: screens and your Toiletry.
Speaker 1: No, I'm a night before packer.
Speaker 3: No, I bet you forget everything and you're very stressed
Speaker 3: the night before.
Speaker 1: Not at all. Yeah, but is that for yourself or
Speaker 1: that's including that's including children.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Well, I'm trying to light in your mental
Speaker 3: load so that if you just do little bits and pieces.
Speaker 1: No, I don't want to think about it. That long.
Speaker 3: No, you don't have to think about it, like do
Speaker 3: your medical box, do your sunscreen, toilet try box. Maybe
Speaker 3: put some undies aside.
Speaker 1: Oh I don't have that many undies. No, well maybe
Speaker 1: you should.
Speaker 3: This is just I like this. But if this is
Speaker 3: not what I'm aligned on, I'm packing for five people.
Speaker 3: I think I need to start now for July next year. Okay,
Speaker 3: I've got another one, teagus. I didn't know that I
Speaker 3: needed to vaccinate my soon to be thirteen year old
Speaker 3: who's heading off to high school for hooping cough again.
Speaker 3: Just didn't know because you know, like I'm past that
Speaker 3: stage of life and everyone gets so busy, there's so
Speaker 3: many things to remember. But there's actually a free National
Speaker 3: Immunization Program schedule and you can get it from the
Speaker 3: Health dot gov dot AU website, and it's actually does
Speaker 3: the mental load for you, so you can keep track
Speaker 3: of your kids vaccinations without having to think about it,
Speaker 3: and of course importantly, so you don't miss them. Well,
Speaker 3: we asked the people, because we're not the only ones
Speaker 3: with the great hacks, tips tricks we outsourced. We asked
Speaker 3: the mum and mea family Facebook and Instagram, and here's
Speaker 3: a few of what they recommended, don't buy clothes that
Speaker 3: need to be dry.
Speaker 1: Cleaned or ironed.
Speaker 3: That's fabulous. Yeah, that's a really good I hate ironing.
Speaker 3: Oh I don't even have an iron. I don't have one.
Speaker 3: And do you know what? Do you know what my
Speaker 3: mum told me when she had my kids one weekend
Speaker 3: that my kids looked at her eye in and said, Nana,
Speaker 3: what's that?
Speaker 1: Hah?
Speaker 3: They've never even seen one far out?
Speaker 1: Yeah, like an old school phone. Like, okay, what else
Speaker 1: have we got?
Speaker 3: So this one I like, and I do a version
Speaker 3: of this. They said, if you like to read, get
Speaker 3: an audio book. You can flip it on while driving,
Speaker 3: folding laundry, and showering. That's very smart because sitting down
Speaker 3: to read is usually reserved for holidays. Yeah, or aeroplanes
Speaker 3: in my life. And so one thing I do I
Speaker 3: like to listen to a lot of podcasts. And so
Speaker 3: when I met the Little Athletics, which is two to
Speaker 3: three hours standing around a field making small talk with
Speaker 3: other parents, I very very unapologetically wear headphones and listen
Speaker 3: to podcasts while standing on a field avoiding small talk.
Speaker 1: You're welcome. That is a great idea, isn't it? An
Speaker 1: extremely recluse.
Speaker 3: Yes, love it, I love it. Say look there's another
Speaker 3: outsourcer here hurrying a cleaner.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, yes, oh my god. If you can, yeah,
Speaker 1: of course, I mean that's true, isn't it.
Speaker 3: Even if I can't, I'll start an only fans to
Speaker 3: be able to Because.
Speaker 1: I had just seen your feet, I don't think.
Speaker 3: Look, it would have to be for the ugly feet page.
Speaker 3: But let me tell you, like I would sell my
Speaker 3: soul foret my cleaner. Like, there's nothing I wouldn't do
Speaker 3: to be to have a cleaner, like I just it's
Speaker 3: just not my thing. I can't do it. Well, it's
Speaker 3: not one of my qualities. Or train the children. There
Speaker 3: you go another look, maybe the older they should clean.
Speaker 1: This one I love because it.
Speaker 3: It's between clean and clean, you know.
Speaker 1: But when they're older they should be cleaning toilets. Anyway.
Speaker 1: This one I like because it's avoiding dishes. Yes, oh
Speaker 1: tell me.
Speaker 3: Paper plates and cups on nights where you've had a
Speaker 3: huge day and our exits. Ah, that's genius, and recycle
Speaker 3: them and bob your uncle. That is genius. I should
Speaker 3: do that. Like, just have a stash in the cupboard
Speaker 3: ready to go. I know that, like around this time
Speaker 3: if you you know you, when your friends come over
Speaker 3: or their kids come over, I'm like paper plates, only.
Speaker 1: So many cups and glass won't do it.
Speaker 3: No paper plates. I apologize every and I'm like sorry,
Speaker 3: I'm watching up.
Speaker 1: No, I love it. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: This one I cannot relate to more in my life.
Speaker 3: A robot vacuum. Yes, so my robot vacuum mops and vacuums. Wow,
Speaker 3: that's high tech. It's very old and I think she's
Speaker 3: on her last legs.
Speaker 1: Good old avert.
Speaker 3: This person said save my marriage, and I will strongly agree.
Speaker 3: You put it on and you leave and your house
Speaker 3: is clean. I've never used one, oh babe, Like I would.
Speaker 3: You know how many would get me on for Christmas? See,
Speaker 3: this is the type of thing I would froth over
Speaker 3: for Christmas.
Speaker 1: I like if your husband got you.
Speaker 3: Like you know how there's people that so offended.
Speaker 1: Yes, I would be like.
Speaker 3: I want this diceon, I want this air fryer, I
Speaker 3: want this anything that will make my life easier. I
Speaker 3: want a pah I do want a pa an organizer.
Speaker 1: So this one is.
Speaker 3: More it is space dependent, but I really like the
Speaker 3: thinking here and it's, you know, a segue. In terms
Speaker 3: of saving marriages, Claire wrote, two bathrooms. Husband has the
Speaker 3: en suite and it's up to him if he ever
Speaker 3: wants to clean it. The door remains closed and I
Speaker 3: never go in there. My bathroom is a glorious clean retreat,
Speaker 3: and I've never been happier. Separate bathrooms saving her time
Speaker 3: by it not being her. Well, she doesn't have to
Speaker 3: clean up after a man. I love that, and it's
Speaker 3: just you using it.
Speaker 1: I like that.
Speaker 3: Separate bathrooms, if there's two, you have one, Can we
Speaker 3: just do separate bathrooms, bedrooms, closets, See I have I've
Speaker 3: got two bathrooms in my house and one is mine
Speaker 3: and then the children have one. And I also feel
Speaker 3: this is a similar vein yucky boys bathroom and then
Speaker 3: glorious mum's bathroom. It's lovely and don't touch my product,
Speaker 3: don't use the toilet, put the seat down.
Speaker 1: If you do.
Speaker 3: This is a wonderful one and maybe great for the
Speaker 3: silly season to help connect, be present and just enjoy life.
Speaker 3: Is delete Instagram off your phone? Oh is that going
Speaker 3: to go down?
Speaker 1: Just like you drive your live? Yeah? Maybe last day?
Speaker 3: Look, I can't even say I would do it myself
Speaker 3: because it's my job part of the time, but.
Speaker 1: It would save so much time.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, the time saved, The time saved. Look,
Speaker 3: I think I've got a girlfriend who's definitely like, oh,
Speaker 3: I'm just having some downtime, Like she's so easily on
Speaker 3: and off with it, and I think it's great and it's.
Speaker 1: Free, and yeah, I mean all you know, deleting Instagram
Speaker 1: off your phone, but.
Speaker 3: Even if it's for just a portion of from Christmas
Speaker 3: day to oh yes, couple of days, like a festive break.
Speaker 1: Yeah, from the gram. I tell you what.
Speaker 3: I always love though on Instagram, where people are like, guys,
Speaker 3: I'm just taking some time.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I probably wouldn't have noticed. Or they're like, hey, guys,
Speaker 3: welcome to me, welcome back to myself, and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 3: I didn't even realize you left. Never do that, guys,
Speaker 3: still do it. You don't have to announce.
Speaker 1: Don't announce it. You can just drift in, drift out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we don't need to get it an update and
Speaker 3: use update. No, we're happy for you. Go be present, enjoy,
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Speaker 1: And now it's time to hear from our friends. Sarah
Speaker 1: Marie Solving your deliver.
Speaker 4: Hi at Sarah Marie Quick question, Sarah Marie, does your
Speaker 4: partner take time off work to help with the kids
Speaker 4: when you're on well. I'm feeling really rough after a
Speaker 4: medical treatment and I could really use some rest, but
Speaker 4: my partner's at work and he won't take any time off.
Speaker 4: I'm exhausted, I've got the eggs, I've got a fever,
Speaker 4: and I just want a bath and some sleep. How
Speaker 4: do you handle this?
Speaker 5: This is a hard one because I don't know what
Speaker 5: your husband does for work. With my husband, it's very
Speaker 5: hard for him to take that time off. There's always
Speaker 5: exceptions to the rule. There's been times where he has
Speaker 5: had to take a day because I was extremely unwell
Speaker 5: and it was one of those days where in laws
Speaker 5: when available day care is not a like literally, there
Speaker 5: was nothing I could do. Nanny's weren't free to even
Speaker 5: come to give an assisting hand and he's had to
Speaker 5: like take that day off, So it is it's a
Speaker 5: really personal thing here. Is it a case of he
Speaker 5: won't because he just doesn't think you need it, or
Speaker 5: is the case of you won't because he feels like
Speaker 5: he can't at work and he's feeling that pressure to
Speaker 5: go into work.
Speaker 1: It's very personal.
Speaker 5: This is one area where you can't ask your friends
Speaker 5: for advice on this because they don't know your relationship
Speaker 5: like you do, and you might get the wrong advice
Speaker 5: and be like, oh, you need to do this and
Speaker 5: you needed to that, whereas he's probably feeling a lot
Speaker 5: of pressure he can't. Is there any way you can
Speaker 5: get someone or a friend to come and help you
Speaker 5: out if you really can't. You really just need to
Speaker 5: sit him down and say, listen, I really need you
Speaker 5: to speak with your boss.
Speaker 3: I physically can't do anything.
Speaker 5: It's not a matter of me just being dramatic. These
Speaker 5: are the reasons I really need your help here, and
Speaker 5: I'm sure their boss would be understanding to that particular situation.
Speaker 5: Just communicate that and see what he says.
Speaker 1: So I hope that helps.
Speaker 5: I don't know, actually, if that's very helpful like advice.
Speaker 5: I think that's the most honest opinion I can give,
Speaker 5: because it's very easy to be like, yeah, your partner
Speaker 5: should take the day off, and then suddenly you have
Speaker 5: issues in your marriage.
Speaker 1: So I hope that helps.
Speaker 3: Well, look, we hope those have helped you. We hope
Speaker 3: if there's a few little helpful hints. All it's about
Speaker 3: cutting corners. Yeah, and look one team wondering. We all
Speaker 3: kind of have our own little bits and bops that
Speaker 3: we do. Yeah, it's not earnest. It's actually just laz
Speaker 3: and some will work for you, some won't. You know,
Speaker 3: take take what you will. I feel like the standout
Speaker 3: for me from the suggestions was the paper plates and cups.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going to get some. That's genius. That's a
Speaker 1: good I just to even have.
Speaker 3: Yeah when the friends come home, because otherwise there's like
Speaker 3: eighteen glasses. Yeah, you know what I love like micro
Speaker 3: kids love two minute noodles, and usually I cook them
Speaker 3: all up and stuff. But then I've just realized, like
Speaker 3: those cup one yes, I'm like, oh.
Speaker 1: My god, And it's just a fall I literally game changer.
Speaker 1: I don't have to use a.
Speaker 3: Bolt and then put them in the microwave and then
Speaker 3: do this and then clean that and that. I'm like,
Speaker 3: from now on, cup cup, paper cups.
Speaker 1: Yep, we're right.
Speaker 3: And we're environmentally friendly.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, I think if you looked at the dishwasher
Speaker 1: use I reckon. Probably yeah, yeah, there you go. You're welcome.
Speaker 1: You're welcome. Guys.
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