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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to stuff mom never told you?

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Speaker 1: From House Towards dot com. Hey there, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. This is Kristen and this is Molly. All right, Molly.

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Speaker 1: Even though we are well into spring and uh down

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Speaker 1: here in Atlanta, we are even farther on our way

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Speaker 1: into summer, I still need to do some spring cleaning,

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Speaker 1: do you know. Yeah, my room is just I don't

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Speaker 1: have any closets. That's the problem. There closets, some storage

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Speaker 1: closets in my house, but I have no closets to

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Speaker 1: myself in my bedroom, and so beneath my bed is

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Speaker 1: just a treasure trove of junk. And I don't want

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Speaker 1: to throw away because it's just things like old handbags

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Speaker 1: and shoes and random clothes that I just don't really

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Speaker 1: want to see ever. But I don't want to throw

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Speaker 1: them away, you know, fair enough. But the same time,

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Speaker 1: I don't want them under my bed anymore. I've got

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Speaker 1: so much stuff like this. So on that note, I

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Speaker 1: thought that we could use our podcast as a double

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Speaker 1: duty for me to find out some surprising things that

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Speaker 1: I can recycle to get rid of some of these

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Speaker 1: wastes in my room. Fair enough? Uh, first off, do

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Speaker 1: you have any prom dresses under your bed? Actually, Molly,

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Speaker 1: I I do have prom dresses. I have prom dresses,

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Speaker 1: and I even have homecoming dresses, which is kind of

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Speaker 1: weird because I wasn't really a fan of either of

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Speaker 1: those events in my adolescence, but I somehow still have

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Speaker 1: the mementos from it. Well. One of the first things

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Speaker 1: I think this is kind of interesting the commuter cycled

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Speaker 1: and the shoes that matched. If you look for an organization,

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Speaker 1: the national one is called Donate My Dress dot org um.

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Speaker 1: What they do is they take all those formal dresses

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Speaker 1: and turn them around and give them out for free

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Speaker 1: to girls who can afford to buy their own for

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Speaker 1: the prom. So that way, no one, you know, it's

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Speaker 1: And they're you know, local chapters of this everywhere. UM

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Speaker 1: Chicago for example, has the Glass Slipper projects, so I

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Speaker 1: would advise looking into that for Numero Uno. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think how staff Works actually had had a prom and

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Speaker 1: homecoming dress drive last year for I think it was

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Speaker 1: something to do with maybe Hurricane Katrina, although that doesn't

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Speaker 1: make sense because that wasn't last year. This is a

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Speaker 1: terrible story that I'm feel like, So that's why I'm

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Speaker 1: going to move on to the next surprising thing that

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Speaker 1: your early experiment experiments with makeup and terrifying um. But

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Speaker 1: I can actually send empty cosmetic containers back to some

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Speaker 1: cosmetic companies and they will recycle them for me, which

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Speaker 1: is pretty exciting because you know, you don't really think

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Speaker 1: lip gloss, it's empty, you toss it. But we're actually

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Speaker 1: any Origins counter and you can just take you take

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Speaker 1: and if you're if you're pretty brand loyal, I know

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Speaker 1: recycle them for you. Yeah. The Christmas miracles, Christmas racle

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Speaker 1: old light bulbs for compact fluorescent light bulbs, right because

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Speaker 1: it lasts longer, better for the environment. That's great. But

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Speaker 1: when they burn out, if they ever do exactly they

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Speaker 1: do you do? Know? You can actually take them to

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Speaker 1: home Depot and they will recycle them for you as well.

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Speaker 1: your life even greener. That's pretty green. Okay, So here's

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Speaker 1: you know that if you keep all those corks, not

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Speaker 1: just as mementos of a good time, you can send

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Speaker 1: them back to a company and they'll recycle them for you. Fascinating, Molle,

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Speaker 1: If you send your corks to recork America, they take

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Speaker 1: if you if you're wanting to do so I don't

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Speaker 1: my corks, Like, yeah, you can make your own up

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Speaker 1: like bulletin board out of corks. Yeah, donging it up

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Speaker 1: in the office, if you have a tolerant sort of office. Now, Molly, uh,

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Speaker 1: get at Molly, okay, is that there is a relatively

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Speaker 1: new programs that are popping up in let's see thirty

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Speaker 1: people recycle medication. Really. Yeah, this sounds kind of strange

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Speaker 1: editor Alison louder Milk, the US now has thirty seven

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Speaker 1: states that have passed drug reclamation or recycling laws, according

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Speaker 1: the guidelines for how you can UH recycle your medication.

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Speaker 1: But in general, UM, your donated drugs must not be

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Speaker 1: it could be worth looking into. So kristin yesterday to

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Speaker 1: my my shoes that I run in are are disgusting

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Speaker 1: did they grind them up? Because I wouldn't want someone

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Speaker 1: That sounds like a much better way for my shoes

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Speaker 1: to go because they really smell, they're they're their way

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Speaker 1: well for Nike and thank you basketball court. Yes, yeah,

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Speaker 1: so all sorts of fitness flooring. Uh you could. It's

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it. You have empowered me to do so. Molly.

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