1 00:00:07,133 --> 00:00:10,453 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast 2 00:00:10,573 --> 00:00:13,293 Speaker 1: from News Talks at Me, and I know it. 3 00:00:13,333 --> 00:00:15,533 Speaker 2: Sounds super ex rated, but I promise it's not. We're 4 00:00:15,613 --> 00:00:19,573 Speaker 2: joined by our sustainability commentator Kate Hall, who's looking at 5 00:00:19,613 --> 00:00:22,573 Speaker 2: sustainability in the bedroom this morning. Killed her Good morning. 6 00:00:23,613 --> 00:00:25,173 Speaker 2: You know, my wife and I were doing a bit 7 00:00:25,173 --> 00:00:27,693 Speaker 2: of a spring clean over summer, which I know is 8 00:00:27,693 --> 00:00:29,453 Speaker 2: slightly delayed, but we were doing that thing where you 9 00:00:29,493 --> 00:00:31,573 Speaker 2: move the bed and you get under with the vacuum 10 00:00:31,573 --> 00:00:33,653 Speaker 2: cleaner and make sure that every little bit of dust 11 00:00:33,653 --> 00:00:36,293 Speaker 2: has been picked up in the bedroom. And she was like, oh, well, 12 00:00:36,333 --> 00:00:38,693 Speaker 2: we're going to we're gonna have to replace the mattress 13 00:00:38,733 --> 00:00:40,693 Speaker 2: sometime soon because it's like six or seven years old. 14 00:00:40,733 --> 00:00:43,173 Speaker 2: And I was like, oh, is that a thing and 15 00:00:43,373 --> 00:00:45,093 Speaker 2: it's a good quality mattress and she was like, yeah, 16 00:00:45,093 --> 00:00:46,413 Speaker 2: it's definitely a thing. You got to you got to 17 00:00:46,413 --> 00:00:50,573 Speaker 2: replace your mattress. But this morning you are taking my 18 00:00:50,653 --> 00:00:53,173 Speaker 2: wife to task. You have tips on being more sustainable 19 00:00:53,213 --> 00:00:53,813 Speaker 2: in the bedroom. 20 00:00:54,333 --> 00:00:56,613 Speaker 3: Yes, I do, I do. I know exactly where you 21 00:00:56,613 --> 00:00:59,973 Speaker 3: should get your mattress. Next week, Oh okay, we'll start 22 00:01:00,013 --> 00:01:02,013 Speaker 3: there with mattresses because there's a lot of different things 23 00:01:02,093 --> 00:01:04,293 Speaker 3: we can do in the bedroom to be more sustainable. 24 00:01:06,733 --> 00:01:09,573 Speaker 3: Is a really great New Zealand brand and they actually 25 00:01:09,773 --> 00:01:11,253 Speaker 3: you know, like you said, when you look at your 26 00:01:11,253 --> 00:01:13,493 Speaker 3: mattress and you're low, it's only seven or eight years old, 27 00:01:14,053 --> 00:01:15,853 Speaker 3: you know, is that mattress going to go? We're not 28 00:01:15,893 --> 00:01:17,413 Speaker 3: just going to throw it in the in the tip? 29 00:01:17,453 --> 00:01:21,453 Speaker 3: Are we company actually take the mattress. They partner with 30 00:01:21,493 --> 00:01:24,253 Speaker 3: all the heart end z and they take it from 31 00:01:24,293 --> 00:01:26,773 Speaker 3: you when they're dropping new one off. You can organize 32 00:01:26,773 --> 00:01:31,333 Speaker 3: to that and it means that they can reuse the mattress, 33 00:01:31,733 --> 00:01:33,853 Speaker 3: take it apart if they need to, or give it 34 00:01:33,893 --> 00:01:34,493 Speaker 3: to a better home. 35 00:01:34,693 --> 00:01:37,693 Speaker 2: Oh cool, Okay, so they even if your previous mattress 36 00:01:37,693 --> 00:01:39,013 Speaker 2: isn't a company mattress, they do that. 37 00:01:39,213 --> 00:01:40,533 Speaker 4: Yes, yep, Oh that's good. 38 00:01:40,773 --> 00:01:43,893 Speaker 3: So we just got a new company mattress. It's awesome. 39 00:01:44,333 --> 00:01:48,373 Speaker 3: They have a showroom in Auckland and yeah, it's it's 40 00:01:48,373 --> 00:01:50,893 Speaker 3: a great system because I mean, a mattress you kind 41 00:01:50,933 --> 00:01:52,493 Speaker 3: of you don't know what to do with it. It's 42 00:01:52,533 --> 00:01:57,293 Speaker 3: a big, huge, huge thing. And yeah, it gets gets 43 00:01:57,293 --> 00:01:57,613 Speaker 3: a new. 44 00:01:57,533 --> 00:02:01,293 Speaker 2: Hunt And as the name would imply, are they indeed comfy? 45 00:02:01,773 --> 00:02:04,813 Speaker 3: They are comfy, very comfy. I mean there's different obviously. 46 00:02:05,093 --> 00:02:06,533 Speaker 3: I don't know if you're a soft. 47 00:02:06,933 --> 00:02:08,933 Speaker 4: Or I don't like a firm mattress. 48 00:02:09,013 --> 00:02:11,533 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, but I've got that. 49 00:02:11,613 --> 00:02:12,293 Speaker 3: They've got that for you. 50 00:02:12,853 --> 00:02:15,293 Speaker 4: Very good. Should you be rotating your mattress? Is there 51 00:02:15,293 --> 00:02:15,573 Speaker 4: a thing? 52 00:02:15,693 --> 00:02:19,013 Speaker 3: Yes? Absolutely, you know when we talk about looking after 53 00:02:19,213 --> 00:02:22,733 Speaker 3: things well with your mattress one hundred percent. We've only 54 00:02:22,773 --> 00:02:25,813 Speaker 3: had our new mattress for a couple of months now, 55 00:02:25,853 --> 00:02:27,173 Speaker 3: but we've already rotated it. 56 00:02:27,373 --> 00:02:29,253 Speaker 4: So oh okay, very good. 57 00:02:29,413 --> 00:02:31,653 Speaker 3: We're trying to get onto that with this new mattress. 58 00:02:32,053 --> 00:02:33,533 Speaker 4: How often are you going to do it? 59 00:02:34,893 --> 00:02:36,493 Speaker 3: I think we're going to do it every couple of months. 60 00:02:36,573 --> 00:02:36,853 Speaker 4: Wow. 61 00:02:36,973 --> 00:02:39,093 Speaker 2: And so like you flip it, you totally flip it, 62 00:02:39,093 --> 00:02:40,413 Speaker 2: You're not just like spinning it. 63 00:02:40,373 --> 00:02:43,173 Speaker 3: Right, oh, we spin it because obviously it's got like 64 00:02:43,413 --> 00:02:45,213 Speaker 3: a top and a bottom. Yeah, yeah, a top and 65 00:02:45,213 --> 00:02:45,533 Speaker 3: a bottom. 66 00:02:45,573 --> 00:02:48,053 Speaker 2: And so just when you when you, does that mean 67 00:02:48,053 --> 00:02:50,053 Speaker 2: that you and your husband like you just end up 68 00:02:50,373 --> 00:02:54,413 Speaker 2: sleeping in their groove? Yes, right, but but it's better 69 00:02:54,493 --> 00:02:56,293 Speaker 2: to be sleeping in their groove than to be sleeping 70 00:02:56,333 --> 00:02:58,333 Speaker 2: solely in your groove because presumably yeah. 71 00:02:58,333 --> 00:03:00,533 Speaker 3: Yeah, well, and I mean term is like much heavier. 72 00:03:00,573 --> 00:03:01,853 Speaker 3: He always has a bigger groove. 73 00:03:02,253 --> 00:03:05,493 Speaker 2: Yeah, true, true, yeah, yeah yeah, So it's for him 74 00:03:05,493 --> 00:03:09,893 Speaker 2: as much as the thing. Okay, so that's the mattress. 75 00:03:09,893 --> 00:03:11,933 Speaker 2: What about the sheets? What should be doing for sheets? 76 00:03:12,133 --> 00:03:15,893 Speaker 3: So sheets aiming for cotton, linen or hemp, I mean, 77 00:03:15,933 --> 00:03:17,933 Speaker 3: all of those are quite a different feel, so it 78 00:03:17,973 --> 00:03:23,933 Speaker 3: really depends on what your preferences. There's even some bamboo 79 00:03:23,933 --> 00:03:26,693 Speaker 3: sheets which are really nice, but just the natural fiber 80 00:03:26,813 --> 00:03:29,653 Speaker 3: over synthetics is what you're aiming for. When possible. 81 00:03:29,693 --> 00:03:30,973 Speaker 4: How do you clean them? 82 00:03:31,293 --> 00:03:35,573 Speaker 3: So we wash ours in cold water, I mean anything 83 00:03:36,013 --> 00:03:38,453 Speaker 3: thirty degrees A lot of it is good just for 84 00:03:38,493 --> 00:03:40,693 Speaker 3: the longevity, and they only need to be washed in 85 00:03:40,733 --> 00:03:43,493 Speaker 3: cold water and air drying them on the line. It 86 00:03:43,613 --> 00:03:45,093 Speaker 3: is great. I think we're pretty good at that in 87 00:03:45,093 --> 00:03:48,133 Speaker 3: New Zealand. Ear drying rather than dryers. I think in 88 00:03:48,173 --> 00:03:50,813 Speaker 3: some parts of the world having a dryer is just 89 00:03:50,973 --> 00:03:51,853 Speaker 3: like a given. 90 00:03:52,133 --> 00:03:53,533 Speaker 4: Yes, I think. 91 00:03:53,333 --> 00:03:55,413 Speaker 3: We're pretty pretty good over here. I'd like to think. 92 00:03:55,653 --> 00:03:57,733 Speaker 2: I know, I know some people who think that because 93 00:03:57,733 --> 00:03:59,453 Speaker 2: it makes them really crispy and they don't like that 94 00:03:59,573 --> 00:04:01,773 Speaker 2: feeling and they don't like it with their towels, especially 95 00:04:02,053 --> 00:04:03,853 Speaker 2: but they ear dry them and then they just put 96 00:04:03,853 --> 00:04:06,333 Speaker 2: them in the dry for like a couple of minutes, okay, 97 00:04:06,493 --> 00:04:07,813 Speaker 2: just to give because then it gives them. 98 00:04:08,213 --> 00:04:10,173 Speaker 4: A yeah, yeah, yeah, which is which is a good 99 00:04:10,213 --> 00:04:10,973 Speaker 4: way to kind of do. 100 00:04:11,013 --> 00:04:11,653 Speaker 3: That makes sense. 101 00:04:11,733 --> 00:04:14,173 Speaker 2: I always think too, like when you're if you're drying 102 00:04:14,253 --> 00:04:18,013 Speaker 2: it outside and it's proper, properly sunny, you just you 103 00:04:18,133 --> 00:04:20,413 Speaker 2: know that it's you know that it's good. You know, 104 00:04:20,453 --> 00:04:22,933 Speaker 2: you know that it's try. You know that everything's kind 105 00:04:22,933 --> 00:04:25,413 Speaker 2: of right. There's no bacteria left, like, there's. 106 00:04:25,213 --> 00:04:30,813 Speaker 3: Nothing UV raised, just so much wonders for Yeah. 107 00:04:31,053 --> 00:04:34,613 Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Okay, so so there's are you wash your sheets? 108 00:04:34,653 --> 00:04:36,813 Speaker 2: What about the other furniture in your bedroom? 109 00:04:37,653 --> 00:04:41,133 Speaker 3: Yep? So again second hand, I'm really grateful that our 110 00:04:41,173 --> 00:04:43,573 Speaker 3: bed base is made by my father in law, which 111 00:04:43,653 --> 00:04:47,133 Speaker 3: is awful cool. You can get some great sickenhand bed bases, 112 00:04:48,333 --> 00:04:50,373 Speaker 3: saying with you know, if I look around my bedroom, 113 00:04:51,213 --> 00:04:55,933 Speaker 3: my dresser was inherited from Term's grandmother, a second hand 114 00:04:56,253 --> 00:04:59,213 Speaker 3: draw from a neighbor who is moving house. So yeah, 115 00:04:59,293 --> 00:05:02,533 Speaker 3: all of those types of things you can just get 116 00:05:02,733 --> 00:05:05,013 Speaker 3: such good quality. There's some things that I like, I 117 00:05:05,013 --> 00:05:07,773 Speaker 3: won't recommend people get. I'm a second hand shop, you know, 118 00:05:07,893 --> 00:05:10,493 Speaker 3: like even a bed mattress, right, I'm like, buy that new, 119 00:05:10,573 --> 00:05:15,013 Speaker 3: you know, villa, But furniture and things like that, just 120 00:05:15,733 --> 00:05:18,013 Speaker 3: it's such a bit of quality and so much more 121 00:05:18,013 --> 00:05:20,573 Speaker 3: beautiful in my opinion, from second hand storks. 122 00:05:20,733 --> 00:05:24,053 Speaker 2: Yeah, so funny you say that, I especially because there's 123 00:05:24,053 --> 00:05:26,853 Speaker 2: so much flat pack stuff that didn't exist fifteen or 124 00:05:26,893 --> 00:05:30,213 Speaker 2: twenty years ago, right, yeah, at least twenty years ago. 125 00:05:30,573 --> 00:05:33,693 Speaker 2: I recently, when we had our baby and I sort 126 00:05:33,693 --> 00:05:35,773 Speaker 2: of could see that my space in the closet was 127 00:05:35,813 --> 00:05:38,933 Speaker 2: being taken by someone else. I thought, oh, I need 128 00:05:38,933 --> 00:05:41,813 Speaker 2: a new chest of drawers. But I went and bought 129 00:05:41,893 --> 00:05:45,413 Speaker 2: a secondhand chest of drawers, like. 130 00:05:45,373 --> 00:05:48,253 Speaker 4: A beautiful, beautiful. 131 00:05:47,773 --> 00:05:51,573 Speaker 2: Remu secondhand chest of draws. Its probably thirty years old, 132 00:05:52,093 --> 00:05:54,653 Speaker 2: but had been sanded down and oiled and kind of 133 00:05:54,693 --> 00:05:59,853 Speaker 2: beautifully restored, and honestly, it is the most beautiful, the 134 00:05:59,933 --> 00:06:03,413 Speaker 2: single most beautiful piece of furniture in our house. Like 135 00:06:03,533 --> 00:06:06,133 Speaker 2: I sit there, and I sit there and look at 136 00:06:06,133 --> 00:06:08,053 Speaker 2: my is the drawers, and I'm like, oh my god, 137 00:06:08,173 --> 00:06:08,693 Speaker 2: look at the. 138 00:06:08,813 --> 00:06:09,613 Speaker 4: Grain on that. 139 00:06:09,853 --> 00:06:13,533 Speaker 2: Yea, It's gorgeous, you know, and so good, Yeah, just 140 00:06:13,573 --> 00:06:15,933 Speaker 2: so good, And like this is so much. We said 141 00:06:15,933 --> 00:06:19,133 Speaker 2: for like if you can having having having like solid 142 00:06:19,133 --> 00:06:23,613 Speaker 2: wood furniture, but also just like there's honestly the secondhand 143 00:06:23,693 --> 00:06:27,373 Speaker 2: they're just as good as new, and they are just such. 144 00:06:27,173 --> 00:06:32,453 Speaker 4: A more kind of notable piece of furniture than you wouldn't. 145 00:06:32,653 --> 00:06:34,533 Speaker 3: You wouldn't sit there and allounge and go oh look 146 00:06:34,533 --> 00:06:40,493 Speaker 3: at that grain exactly. No one's going to comment on it. 147 00:06:40,773 --> 00:06:45,213 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, anyway, Okay, so you've got your natural fibers 148 00:06:45,213 --> 00:06:46,973 Speaker 2: for your sheets and pillows and stuff. 149 00:06:47,013 --> 00:06:48,733 Speaker 4: I presume the same thing applies for sleep. 150 00:06:48,733 --> 00:06:52,013 Speaker 3: We yes, yep, if you wear it. I mean a 151 00:06:52,053 --> 00:06:55,293 Speaker 3: lot of people don't need sleep bear. That's apparently I 152 00:06:55,293 --> 00:06:58,613 Speaker 3: heard a study about how that's actually better to sleep naked. Anyway, 153 00:06:58,693 --> 00:07:03,173 Speaker 3: that's yeah, I'll find that one and may report back. 154 00:07:03,533 --> 00:07:07,333 Speaker 3: But yeah, natural fibers when you're when you're sleep, as 155 00:07:07,533 --> 00:07:10,013 Speaker 3: you know, you're lying there for a long time. Unless 156 00:07:10,013 --> 00:07:11,653 Speaker 3: you have a child, you're getting out quite a lot. 157 00:07:12,653 --> 00:07:17,853 Speaker 3: But yeah, something that's breathable, like even a like Marino 158 00:07:18,013 --> 00:07:22,733 Speaker 3: likes cotton. Yeah, there's so much better and more sustainable option. 159 00:07:22,893 --> 00:07:24,373 Speaker 4: Yeah, very good. Hey, thank you. 160 00:07:24,493 --> 00:07:26,173 Speaker 2: All of those tips will be up on the news 161 00:07:26,173 --> 00:07:29,213 Speaker 2: Talks'd website. You can find Kate, of course on social 162 00:07:29,253 --> 00:07:33,613 Speaker 2: media by searching ethically Kate see your own is Kate 163 00:07:33,653 --> 00:07:36,053 Speaker 2: Hall Now sustainability expert Jack. 164 00:07:36,293 --> 00:07:37,813 Speaker 4: Every week we. 165 00:07:37,853 --> 00:07:40,533 Speaker 2: Turn our mattress around every time we wash the sheet. 166 00:07:40,773 --> 00:07:42,653 Speaker 2: It's a really good way to keep the mattress even, 167 00:07:42,813 --> 00:07:43,333 Speaker 2: says Craig. 168 00:07:43,333 --> 00:07:46,253 Speaker 4: Good on your Craig, that's that's good. Yeah, I suppose, 169 00:07:46,373 --> 00:07:47,253 Speaker 4: especially if you've got. 170 00:07:47,173 --> 00:07:49,853 Speaker 2: To pull the mattress out, you know how, like if 171 00:07:49,893 --> 00:07:51,493 Speaker 2: you've got a metro and to get the fitted sheet 172 00:07:51,533 --> 00:07:53,133 Speaker 2: over the mattress, the best way to do it is 173 00:07:53,133 --> 00:07:55,213 Speaker 2: actually often to pull it out from the head board area. 174 00:07:55,373 --> 00:07:58,173 Speaker 2: That's what I find anyway, Yeah, that could be a 175 00:07:58,173 --> 00:08:00,653 Speaker 2: good little option, but that is very discappoint of you, Craig. 176 00:08:01,533 --> 00:08:04,653 Speaker 1: For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen live 177 00:08:04,733 --> 00:08:07,893 Speaker 1: to news talks that'd be from nine Saturday, or follow 178 00:08:07,973 --> 00:08:09,533 Speaker 1: the podcast on iHeartRadio.