WEBVTT - Victoria Devine's Christmas Traditions & Festive Budgeting Hacks 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:06.840 Welcome to a Very Outspoken Christmas. It's that time of 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:09.360 year to crank Mariah Carey in the car and begin 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:12.800 your Christmas shopping. Our names are Amy Kate and Sophie Torber. 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:16.079 We're identical triplets and during the festive season, we have 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:19.479 an identical opinion. Christmas is the most wonderful time of 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:22.799 the year. In this special series, we're discussing all things 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:25.880 Christmas with help from some influential Australians. 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:29.560 Far for you, Glen Colco, You go, Glen Cuco. And 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:32.199 when Santa squeezes his fat white ass down that Jimney Day, 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:34.959 He's gonna find the jolliest bunch of assholes this side 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:35.639 of the nuthouse. 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:41.120 Hello and welcome to episode two of A Very Outspoken Christmas. Today, 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:44.760 we're so excited to be joined by Victoria Devine from 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:47.760 the Sheese on the Money podcast. But before we get 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:50.800 into that chat, can you guys believe it's thirty six 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:53.880 sleeps till Christmas? Normally this would fill me with a 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:56.080 lot of excitement, but to be honest, I'm feeling pretty 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:58.360 down today. We have just found out we will be 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:01.640 going into a six day life in Adelaide. Now this 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:04.920 lockdown is the strictest I think anyone has experienced in 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:05.399 the world. 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:05.840 Yeah. 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:07.560 Well, the any reason we can leave the house is 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:09.800 really if we need to go to the supermarket. That 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:11.760 being said, I think that it's really good that we're 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:14.400 knuckling down and getting on top of this before Christmas. 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:16.760 The other thing that you forgot to mention, of course, 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:18.880 is that masks are going to be mandatory here in 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:21.640 South Australia. I must admit I did go on Amazon 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:24.160 and have a quick look for some Christmas themed masks 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:26.080 and whats it? A mask? Did you find? Because I 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:29.760 was imagining there would be like a Santa's beard mask. Well, 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:31.960 they did have some gingerbread man themed masks, and they 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:34.399 also had Santa on some masks, but the coolest one 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:37.319 I saw was a light up mask. Gosh, can you 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:40.000 imagine this time last year knowing that we would be 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:44.080 talking about Christmas masks. It is just bizarre, and I 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:46.280 think it is important to mention that we have actually 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:49.120 just found out about their new restrictions right now. We 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:51.200 were all at home working together, so we thought we'd 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:54.000 run up into the podcast room and record this intro 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:56.720 while we still have the chance. Yeah, the rules don't 0:01:56.720 --> 0:02:00.639 go into effect until midnight tonight, so Tuesday's weekly episode 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:02.480 is going to sound a little bit different. We're still 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:04.080 working out how we're going to do it, but we 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:06.720 will definitely be bringing it to you. And we all 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:09.520 have been taking these rules very seriously because it is 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:11.639 such a scary time here in South Australia. We all 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:14.919 got COVID tests and thankfully we've got the all clear. Look, 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:17.280 let's look at it positively. At least we've got about 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:19.640 a week to catch up on all the Christmas movies 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:23.000 on Netflix. And I actually started my Christmas marathon on 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:25.720 Sunday night when I watched a Christmas Made to Order. 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:29.440 What I could not believe is the main actor in 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:32.680 the movie is Aaron Samuels from Mean Girls. And I 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:34.960 was like, sort of about fifteen minutes in and I 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:37.560 was trying to think who is he. Yeah, I've watched 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:39.440 the first five minutes of the movie and I said 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:42.040 to Brennan, who is that guy? I can't figure it out? 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:45.640 And he said, whoever it is looks constantly surprised. Yeah, 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:48.120 I thought the same thing. I quickly realized why he 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:50.720 had such a small part in Mean Girls, because not 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:53.320 to be rude, but he's not the best actor. One 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:55.080 other thing I loved in the movie was the fact 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:59.200 that the female actor her business was decorating people's houses 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:02.040 for Christmas, and this could be a great side hustle 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:04.560 for us. I mean, if we weren't in COVID Lockdown. 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:07.680 Wasn't her name also Gretchen, which is of course like 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:10.160 Gretchen wien is in meng Yeah. I was halfway through 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:12.639 the movie when I realized this, and it cracked me up. Anyway, 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:15.680 I really recommend watching it. Don't go in with huge expectations, 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:18.239 but it's a really cute Christmas movie. Also on the 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:22.720 Christmas theme, did anybody see Roxy Jusenko's amazing Christmas lights? Yeah? 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:24.640 I saw this on an Instagram story and I was 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:26.639 in awe of the fact that she actually had enough 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:29.120 money to employ people to put her Christmas lights up 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:31.200 out the front. Did that really surprise you? She is 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:33.239 very well for you. It didn't surprise me, but I 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:36.560 suppose it's quite aspirational to have enough money to employ 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:38.880 someone to do it. Gosh, the lights looked incredible, though. 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:41.200 I was just thinking about her children and how they 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:43.600 think that that's the norm to have that many Christmas lights. Like, 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:46.240 I kind of really love that that they think it's normal. 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:48.880 The only thing is it's a little bit sad that 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:50.920 they think it's normal to have like servants hanging the 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:53.760 Christmas lights. I mean, I have fond memories of Dad 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:56.480 hanging the Christmas lights with his bum crack hanging out. 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:58.840 On the topic of Christmas lights, we have to have 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:01.560 a special mention to our uncle Paul. Now, he was 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:04.880 quite upset that we didn't mention him in our first episode, 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:07.760 and we you know, it was a faux pa because 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:11.120 his Christmas lights are amazing and we really hope that 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:13.600 he sets up a display this year. Well yeah, because 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:15.840 he always competed against our dad, so it was always 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:18.760 great to go see Uncle Paul's display and then check 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:21.000 out Dad's. And it was also great because it meant 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:23.760 Dad would buy more Christmas lights to compete against him. 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:26.000 So I think I'm voting that Uncle Paul needs to 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:28.080 put them up this year. Look, we can't have this 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:31.760 Christmas Weekly wrap up without mentioning Kylie Jenner. Now she 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:35.560 has released a collaboration with The Grinch. Did anyone see 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:37.039 this on Instagram? Yeah? 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:37.280 I did. 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:39.240 I can't say I love the look of the products, 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:41.159 but I love the fact that it is Christmas related, 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:43.599 and I loved seeing Kylie dressed up as her own 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:45.920 kind of version of the Grinch. I really love the 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:48.640 attention to detail and commitment to this theme. Yeah, she 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:50.960 looked amazing. She was a very bougie Grinch. I mean, 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:53.720 I'm not sure how I feel about three different shades 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:56.520 of green eyeshadow in a palette, but I'm sure it 0:04:56.560 --> 0:04:59.680 will sell out pretty quickly. I have a Christmas pullet. 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:02.680 Oh maybe a little bit of pud? Then, what a 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:05.719 bloody surprise. May you got a room for pud? You 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:08.520 love your pudding. There's always a little bit of room 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:12.880 for pud. Victoria, Welcome to a very outspoken Christmas. We're 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:15.160 so excited to have you as our first guest of 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:18.360 this series. So just how big of a Christmas tragic 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:18.800 are you? 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:21.800 Oh my gosh, thank you for having me. Friends. It 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:24.680 feels very strange to be on someone else's podcast instead 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:28.480 of running the show. But I'm probably the biggest Christmas 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:31.160 fan that there is. It's a bit tragic in a way. Actually, 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:31.919 I love. 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:35.200 That because we're also huge Christmas fans. Now, what's one 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:37.239 thing that you like to do at Christmas that people 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:38.800 might think is a little bit crazy. 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:41.960 Oh I am what. I'm twenty nine now and still 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:45.520 every Christmas Eve, my parents and I go driving around 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:49.680 our area looking at Christmas lights. Like that's what we do. 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:52.440 We get in the car after dinner on Christmas Eve. 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:55.479 And there's been a number of times where friends have 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:57.920 wanted to do like Christmas Eve drinks and stuff, and 0:05:58.040 --> 0:05:59.560 I can't go because I've got to go look at 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:02.680 Christmas LI took my parents, So maybe that we don't 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:04.880 decorate the outside of the house, but we definitely go 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:06.960 pretty ham on the inside. I don't know if this 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:08.920 is embarrassing or not. Do we want to share this time? 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:12.560 That's not embarrassing at all. Our Christmas Eve tradition is 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:15.360 watching carols by candlelight with our parents. So we've also 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:17.120 turned Christmas Eve drinks down. 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:20.640 Yeah, it's after carols. It's after Carol's finished. So after 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:23.080 Carol's finished, you've got to have like dinner and watch 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:25.200 the carols as all of that happens. And when the 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:27.680 carols wrap up, it's quite late and we go for 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:30.080 a drive after all the little kids are in bed 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:32.400 to look at the lights. It's actually lame, and I 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:33.040 love it. 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:35.159 I feel like you revert back to a child at 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:37.359 Christmas time. You get to explore all those things you 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:39.760 did during childhood. So I don't think it's lame at all. 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:42.560 I love it. We'll talking about Christmas carols. Do you 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:45.080 have some favorite ones you'd love to share with us? 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:49.960 Or probably anything Boublet or Mariah Carey. I'm not gonna lie. 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:54.280 I'm not some kind of Christmas classics kind of person. 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:58.120 I'm tacky Christmas. My family don't like that about me, 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.200 but it's just you know what you deal with if 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:03.000 you're going to have me in your house at Christmas time. 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:05.719 We're all big fans of Maya here, so I'm totally 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:08.719 on board with that. Now, getting back into Christmas decorations, 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:10.880 when do you think it's an appropriate time to put 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:11.240 them up? 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:14.520 I think I put mine up at the start of December, 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:17.520 But this year I'm not going to have that opportunity 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:21.560 because I'm moving house, which is exciting and also terrifying, 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:23.520 but I'm not going to get to put it up 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:26.679 until like the twentieth of December, which, if I'm honest, 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:29.440 is probably the most heartbreaking thing about moving house, like, 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:32.120 not worried about leaving the house, just worried about the 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:33.960 fact that my house isn't going to be Christmas y 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:35.880 at Christmas time and I feel like I'm going to 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:38.400 waste a year of having the tree up. That's a 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:39.840 bit strange, but that's okay. 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:42.160 I'm in the same boat as you. I'm moving into 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:44.120 my new house on December fourteenth. 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:45.440 Oh my gosh, that's my day. 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:49.640 Oh my goal. Well and crazy. The first thing I 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:51.200 said is when am I going to put my Christmas 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:53.400 tree up? However, Reese's like, oh, yeah, we don't have 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:54.760 to put a Christmas tree up at all. 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:57.600 My partner actually talked to me and told me that 0:07:57.640 --> 0:08:00.480 we're not putting the tree up before we leave. And 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:02.880 he literally had to make a point of it because 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:05.200 we were talking about just things that we had to move, 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:07.720 right and our Christmas tree is kept outside in the 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:10.400 shed and the new house that we're moving to doesn't 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:12.440 have as big as shed. So I was kind of like, 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:15.000 you know, what will happen with the Christmas tree? Well, 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:16.840 like where will we store it? Kind of thing? And 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:18.960 He's like, don't you even think about putting that up 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:20.760 before we leave? And I was like, oh, you know 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:24.560 me too well, so he warned me, I can't guarantee 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:25.000 that I won't. 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:27.360 Though every year we seemed to move out to a 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:30.240 new rental in December, and a few years ago it 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:32.160 was December night that we had to move out, and 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:33.920 we were so annoyed because we felt like we were 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:36.400 missing that lead up to Christmas too, So we put 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:38.240 our fate Christmas tree up. When we actually had to 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:41.360 pack it in the removalless van with all the decorations 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:43.880 on our Dad was so angry because he got stuck 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:47.360 trying to pull this thing out, like the decorations went everywhere. 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:50.480 So I probably would have not doing that. 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:54.440 That's genius, Like that's actually so smart. Here I am 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:56.760 thinking I'd have to decorate the tree and then undecorate 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:58.679 it and pack it up when I could just get 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:01.920 a really big roll of blad, wrap that stuff up 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:04.000 and then it's good to go at the next house. Like, 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:06.240 I think you guys might have just saved Christmas. 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:09.200 I've heard people actually do that each year, and I'm like, 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:12.040 part of the fun. I feel like it's decorating. How 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:12.640 weird is that? 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:15.760 It's kind of strange. I'm not gonna lie, but you 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:17.600 know what, each their own. If you want to gladier 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:19.200 at your tree, you glad you're at your tree. 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:21.480 Friends, Yeah, as long as you're putting one up, then 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:23.640 that's all right. Now, can we get into the specific 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:26.080 details of what sort of decorations you have on your tree? 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:28.280 Because I feel like you're a very stylish person. I 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:30.200 feel like you'd have a bit of a color theme going. 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:33.320 Okay, that's I feel a little bit attached by that 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:36.200 because I think that you guys know what's coming here. 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:40.679 But yeah, I have a very I'm an over the 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:44.320 top Christmas person and you best believe everything on that 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:49.000 tree matches. So this year it'll be a silver and 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:52.559 white theme again. But we have those really big flowers. 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:54.320 I don't know if you know what I'm talking about 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:56.400 when I say that we've got quite a tall tree. 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:59.000 So it's like a seven foot fake tree with like 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:02.839 a basket that I ordered online a couple of years 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:06.000 ago during Boxing Day sales. Obviously that's a great budget 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:08.839 tip and probably makes this episode really relevant that all 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:11.360 of the Christmas stuff goes on sale on Boxing Day 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:13.960 and you can get half priced, good quality Christmas trees. 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:17.680 But that's beside the point. We've got these big, beautiful 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:21.520 silver flowers and white flowers and a lot of glass decorations. 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:24.600 Actually it's very fancy, but everything that is on the tree, 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:26.520 I think I got it, like bed bath and table 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:29.880 for like sixty or seventy percent off, so it looks fancy, 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:31.600 but it wasn't too expensive. 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:35.600 I love bed bath and table. They have the best decorations. 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:39.160 They really do. Like it's actually really upsetting when you 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:42.120 go in the year after you've decorated your tree fully 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:44.880 and I'm like, oh, is it naughty to get more decorations? 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:47.160 I don't know, Like that's probably the biggest thing that 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:50.120 I spend money on at Christmas, to be honest. Growing up, 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:53.400 I had heaps of sentimental decorations and they're still on 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:56.760 my parents' tree. So my parents tree, they don't have 0:10:56.880 --> 0:11:00.120 like a styled Christmas tree because they still have like 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:02.920 the toilet roll and paper plate kind of angel that 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:05.080 I made in pre school. I kid you not, they 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:09.000 still have that, and then mine because I don't have 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:11.280 kids and don't really have tradition, and I'd get in 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:12.880 a lot of trouble if I tried to take their 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.840 Christmas decorations. I've been able to style it, so I 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:18.280 reckon as time goes on and I do have kids, 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:21.000 and all of that starts to happen, my tree will 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:23.839 go from being very beautiful to maybe being a little 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:26.280 bit more eclectic, a bit crap. 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:27.240 Let's just be honest. 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:30.200 Yeah, let's call it eclectic, to get a little bit 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:31.120 classy about it. 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:34.559 I feel like we'll need to share a photo of 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:37.120 your Christmas tree in our group so people know what 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:38.880 everything looks like like the flowers. 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:41.640 All right, I'll post it, I promise, like I've got 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:43.840 a lot of I've got a lot of photos, and 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:46.240 I will post it. I also have a picture of 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:49.679 my cat as Santa Claus, which I'll you know, post 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:52.240 as well, because obviously that's the best part of Christmas, 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:53.520 when you get to dress your pets up. 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:55.760 Oh my god, I literally have that question down to 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:59.080 ask you about the beautiful cats Bailey and Henry. I 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:00.960 was gonna say, I I thought that you might be 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:02.720 someone who would dress them up. I know with my 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:04.880 cats they hate it, but how do yours go? 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:08.200 Mine just put up with it. Honestly, I think that 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:11.440 they are just so over living with me and so 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:13.640 used to it that they're just like here she goes again, 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:17.160 which I don't know makes me sound a little crazy, 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:19.400 and I am and I'm all right with that. I 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:23.120 am against innocent trees being cut down in their prime 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:28.080 and their corpses grotesquely dressed in like tensil and twinkly lates. 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:30.319 Now, just back to your tree, are we allowed to 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:32.160 ask how much you spent on it? Because the three 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:34.439 of us have been having a debate about how much 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:37.320 is socially acceptable to spend on a Christmas tree. So 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:39.920 if you wanted to spend one thousand dollars, okay. 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:43.000 I wouldn't spend one thousand dollars. That feels like a lot. 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:47.760 But I do remember buying mine from David Jones on sale, 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:50.959 and I think I paid Like this might not be correct, 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:54.319 and obviously, like we can't prove this anyway, so who knows, 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:57.480 But I think I paid about three hundred dollars, which 0:12:57.559 --> 0:12:59.200 at the time I felt like with a lot of 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:02.080 money for a tree, but it was like sixty percent 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:04.880 off because I got it after Christmas, and so then 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:06.920 I had to wait an entire twLF months before I 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:08.680 could even use it. But I do think that that 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:11.360 was kind of a good money win, and I've had 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:13.000 it for at least five years now and it still 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:16.440 looks epic. We just bought like a really basic version 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:19.600 of one that had the most realistic looking like what 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:24.880 are they called like branches, and every year we kind 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:27.240 of just add a few more decorations or update the 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:29.720 color or something. I would love to do a gold tree, 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:31.880 but given how many silver decorations I have, I just 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:34.480 don't think that I can justify that at this point. 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:36.280 And I want to look them straight in the eye. 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:38.280 I don't want to tell them what a cheap, lying, 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:41.760 no good rotten for a blushing, low life snake locking, 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:49.479 dirt eating and bread over stuff, ignorant, blood sucking, dog kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:53.319 fat ass, bug eyed stuffle like it's body lip. We're headed, 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:58.319 sack of monkey shit. He is hell, he loya, Holy. 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:01.120 Shit, they're going back to you. Childhood. We touched on 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:03.520 a little bit earlier as a kid growing up. Did 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:05.640 you have an advent calendar at all? Because I feel 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:08.439 like that's the first thing that really signifies that Christmas 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:09.160 is on its way. 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:11.960 Absolutely, we did, and I was really upset when I 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:15.360 stopped getting them, and if anyone in my team is 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:18.960 actually listening, my entire office gets an event calendar every 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:22.160 single year now too, So like we haven't lost the 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:23.840 advent calendar. It's going nowhere. 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:28.000 We need to start working at your workplace because. 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:30.040 Wow, you're all welcome now. 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:33.120 Just touching on Christmas traditions, what was it like for 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:35.600 you growing up with the concept of Father Christmas? Did 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:37.680 you believe in him for a long time? Did you 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:40.120 go and visit him at the shops? What sort of 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:42.120 things did you do in the lead up to Christmas? 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:45.600 We did, So this is actually an interesting story. I mean, 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:49.520 I think it's interesting because it's my story. But growing up, 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:52.920 we always had Santa, and I loved Santa. And I 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:55.080 have a little sister who's about three and a half 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:59.560 years younger than me, so she obviously believed in Santa 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:02.440 for a little longer than I did. And my mom 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:05.160 is a very big believer in not quote lying to 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:08.680 your children right, So whenever I would say to my mom, 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:11.880 Mom like is Santa real? Or come home from school 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:14.240 and just say, oh, someone's so said x ll and said, 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:17.800 and Mom would say, oh, well, do you believe this? 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:20.200 Santa is real, and I'd be like, well yeah, and 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:23.240 she'd just say, well, you know, if that's what you believe, 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:26.920 that's what you believe. So she never ever directly said 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:30.720 Santa is real to us. And one day I came home, 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:32.640 and I don't know the context of this, but I 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:35.520 came home and I was apparently a very furious eight 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:37.720 year old. So I said, you lied to me. Santa 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:39.680 isn't real. You told me he was real. And my 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:42.360 mom was just like, no, Victoria, Like, I've never told 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:44.960 you that Santa is real. Remember I always ask you 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:47.200 what do you believe? And I always tell you, well, 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:50.560 that must be enough. And so I was obviously upsets 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:52.280 and kind of went on about the Tooth Fairy and 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:54.400 the East Bunny and it all just came crashing down 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:58.960 for me that day. But my mom told me that day, Victoria, 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:03.160 if you tell your sister that Santa isn't real, that's 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:07.320 the day that Santa stops bringing Santa sax. And a 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:10.880 very big tradition in my family, is Santa Sax true 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:13.920 this day? Because I've upheld that promise, I still have 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:16.680 not told my parents that Santa isn't real, and we 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:18.680 don't believe in it, And I remember a couple of 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:21.120 years later when my little sister came to me and said, oh, 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:23.000 Vi Trua, did you know that Santa isn't really I 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:24.800 don't think it's real. I was like, Oh, you're going 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:27.880 to have to stop there, mate, like we need to 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:32.160 pretend it is. And up until very recently recently, as 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:34.680 in I've had a couple of Christmases overseas and not 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:37.440 been with my family to have it, we've always done 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:40.000 Santa sax And even as a twenty eight year old, 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:43.280 have had, you know, Christmases where I get into my parents' 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:45.880 room with my Santa Sack and open presence on their 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:48.520 bed in the morning, Like it's something that, oh, I 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:51.680 hope I do with my kids. But we still really 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:54.120 like we kind of get tea and toast and open 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:56.680 our Santa Sax and they're always just like small presents. 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:58.960 It's not like a massive thing for us, but it's 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:01.800 just like such a tradition that I adore it. 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:04.480 So do your parents go to the extent of writing 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:06.480 on the tag that it's from Santa? Still? 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:09.639 Yeah, And we have Santa Sacks that are actually hidden 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:12.880 and we only see them on Christmas. Day and like, yeah, 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:16.439 Santa leaves a specific type of lolly, and Santa actually 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:19.760 uses different wrapping paper than the wrapping paper that my 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:22.120 parents used to try and like really throw us off 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:22.520 the sand. 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:24.359 I love that that is so magical. 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:27.480 It is, it's so special, and like I think it's 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:29.440 actually it's so nice to talk to you guys about 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:31.639 this as well, because I think that we forget these 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:34.679 things that our parents did for us, and you know, 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:38.360 it takes time and energy and effort to create magic 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:40.679 like that, and the fact that it kind of stuck 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:42.879 is also really special. So it's nice to kind of 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:45.919 like reflect on that. Did you guys do Santa Sax? 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:47.439 Do you still do Santa Sex? 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:49.720 We've got our san We don't call them Santa Sax. 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:52.560 We've just got our big stockings that mum and our 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:54.240 mum and dad got us. That was for all of 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:57.159 our Santa presents and they still do. Right from Santra 0:17:57.240 --> 0:17:59.200