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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning.

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Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's

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Speaker 1: tip is to aim for fun without the fuss. You

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Speaker 1: don't have to do everything the hard way. If there's

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Speaker 1: a short cut to fun, take it. Long Time listeners

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Speaker 1: know that I have a lot of kids and have

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Speaker 1: therefore been in charge of a lot of birthday parties

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Speaker 1: over the years. I am a big fan of hosting

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Speaker 1: birthday parties somewhere other than my house. It's fun for

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Speaker 1: the kids and easier for me. The people at the

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Speaker 1: trampoline park, Chuck E Cheese, or the Paint your Own

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Speaker 1: Pottery studio are literally pros at throwing kid parties, so

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Speaker 1: I leave the fuss to them and just show up

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Speaker 1: with my family and my credit card for the fun.

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Speaker 1: There are many times in life when you can opt

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Speaker 1: for fun without the fuss. People sometimes see the need

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Speaker 1: to plan as a barrier to fun, and then they

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Speaker 1: miss out on fun as a result, But there are

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Speaker 1: plenty of ways to minimize the details. You can meet

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Speaker 1: up at a park or the children's museum for a

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Speaker 1: playdate instead of at your home. No need to tidy

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Speaker 1: up or provide snacks. You just show up. You don't

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Speaker 1: have to cook and host holiday meals at home. You

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Speaker 1: can go to a restaurant with extended family for a

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Speaker 1: holiday meal, or meet up at a resort, hotel or

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Speaker 1: vacation rental house at another location. Or if you find

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Speaker 1: your home more relaxing, you can order in food for

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Speaker 1: everyone and book a visit from the cleaning service right

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Speaker 1: before and the next day after your event. If it

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Speaker 1: is not fun for you to make Halloween costumes, just

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Speaker 1: buy them. If finding a real Christmas tree at the lot,

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Speaker 1: hauling at home and stringing lights on it isn't worth

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Speaker 1: it to you, buy a prelit artificial one. There are

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Speaker 1: some pretty amazingly beautiful ones available these days. You could

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Speaker 1: do a Rhodes scholar or national geographic trip instead of

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Speaker 1: planning everything yourself. Maybe for years everyone in your book

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Speaker 1: club has taken turns hosting the group and providing appetizers

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Speaker 1: and drinks, but you're in a season of life when

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Speaker 1: that has become cumbersome. Maybe you transition to meeting at

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Speaker 1: a bar and just chatting about life. No need to

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Speaker 1: involve books at all. If planning or preparation is part

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Speaker 1: of the fun for you, that is wonderful. But if

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Speaker 1: it is not, you can often enjoy the fun part

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Speaker 1: with fewer transaction costs. So if you want more fun

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Speaker 1: in your life but can't bear to add one more

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Speaker 1: thing to your to do list, then make fun without

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Speaker 1: the fuss your philosophy, Skip the hassle, go straight to

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Speaker 1: the happiness. If you have fun without fuss, I'd love

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Speaker 1: to hear how you do it. You can reach me

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Speaker 1: at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com. In the meantime,

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Speaker 1: this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making

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Speaker 1: the most of our time. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast.

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Speaker 1: If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach

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Speaker 1: me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com. Before Breakfast

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