It’s starting up again. They’re doing the most. Yeah. We’re back. With Scarlett and Mitchell.

Number three. Yeah. Have you ever listened to this song? No. I think I talked to this last time.

It doesn’t really matter. So hey. That’s that’s alright. We’ll do yeah. The song I think I put it sort of at the end if people really wanna listen to the song.

They are more than welcome to listen to the song. But, anyway and there I did I did a little tisking for y’all. So you you have a look. Is there a problem? I saw Kenny and Hammy running up the stairs, so I’m just a little anxious.

Okay. Those are two cats, by the way. Dear listener, we we we have five cats. So episode three. Sorry, I just coughed into that.

I have my show notes. You have nothing, which is fine. What is this show about? Car for the course. What is this show about?

That seems to be kinda what I call the number one question that I get from people. Who all those people that are talking to me. So the question is how do you respond? It’s about parenting, step parenting, shows we’re watching, food we’re eating, or like not, you know, restaurants we’re going to not just like what we’re eating. Okay.

On the daily. Life, work, it’s a lifestyle podcast. And I hear you. There’s just no lifestyle podcast, category on iTunes or Spotify. We’re on Spotify, by the way.

Not if you found this on Spotify, hey. Welcome. And if not, you can also go to the website scarletnmitchell.com. That’s scarlet with one t. So lifestyle’s not an option.

So, yeah, I am always because I say but I just wrote my notes, but I don’t like, I wrote couples, families, nurses. It’s more like we’re about it’s like we’re working full time working families, toddlers, teenagers, cats, lots of cats. But, like And vacuums. We Well because people all say, oh, hey. Well well, what’s it about?

And I always I kinda have that moment, like, I mean, it’s like I don’t know. It’s a slice of life. So I guess what I’m saying is, what is it about? It’s like, it’s just two people. We’re podcasting, and we’re sharing a little bit of our life and our struggles with you, and you can decide if it’s something that you relate to or not, or you have opinions, or maybe and maybe you get a chuckle out of things, you know?

Maybe you get a little laugh for the day. I listen to some old podcast that I did and I laugh sometimes at at stuff, you know. Well, see, look, you’re laughing now. No. I’m just like, I don’t know how you listen to yourself.

I mean, I don’t I don’t mean it like that. It’s quite easy for me, but yeah. So okay. That’s what it’s about. Now I said cats.

Right? We mentioned in fact, you were just kinda before I even came in here, I went to get my tea or whatever. And Kennedy and Hamilton. That’s, Hammy. Two rag dolls.

They were squared off around a corner. And I was like, I was I really was not wanting to see a a another little thing where Kenny pees because Hammy’s being a jerk. But it did I mean, we we have five cats, and I kinda was thinking about, like, the cost of cats. Mhmm. What is the cost of cats?

And because we also just got a new litter robot, an actual litter robot, the brand. Go to is it whisker.com now? I don’t know. I think so. You can Google that up, folks.

A litter we got the newest version of Robot four, but, like and that was I think I paid I got a discount. I think that was $800. Yeah. For, like, you know For people with cats, they’re great. A little rodent.

Our old one for seven years before it finally crapped out. Right. And then so we had a new one. So there’s $700, but we hope to get another seven years out of that one. Hundred dollars a year to never scoop litter.

Right? Yeah. That’s the trade off. So that’s that’s the cost. What is the other cost of cats?

You’re asking me? Mhmm. And I’m doing it so you can answer and I can sip my tea. Good Earth tea not brought to you by? Time.

Okay. Hair. So cleaning, furniture cleaning. Yeah. I mean, you have to buy food.

Okay. Mhmm. That was pretty much it. Health care stuff. Oh.

Occasionally. Yeah. Rabies, vet visits. One visit. The first time they go get spayed or neutered.

Right. Destroyed stuff too. I mean, they destroy stuff not entirely but like Beans, your newest cat, he’s starting to scratch the corner of the couch. Currently looks okay, but terrible habit. We have to buy stuff like those cardboard scratching things.

Right? Yes. That’s a cost. And then time and then the occasional recently what have you been dealing with. Recently?

Yeah. But I feel like you and I are not even in the same household anymore. Like, What? You wake up? Hammy was afraid of the new litter robot, so he peed and pooped in the kitchen floor.

And he’s done it more than once. Like And it kinda kept me up at night because I had to get up and go to work at, you know, 04:45 in the morning. But I got up at three, which is which I do not do. I think it might be 03:30. But Okay.

Well, whatever. Max got me up at three Okay. Because he Toddler. Barged into the room Another problem. To be put back to bed.

And I I was too I was like, oh, I don’t want Mitchell to have to wake up and clean this. I’m just gonna get up and go see. And, yeah, nothing had happened. But I was so paranoid that you were gonna get all upset because you were gonna wake up, and you were texting me at work about how your morning’s been terrible because all you’ve been doing is cleaning. And I was just like, I’ll just rather get it done so I don’t have to, like, hear that.

But is that a cost that you find is that a cost you’re like, yeah. That’s a good cost. I I get benefit from the cats. I’m not trying to make you take sides. I’m just saying, like, these are costs that sometimes seem overwhelming when it’s like, yeah.

I’m cleaning up. I would probably get more benefit, outweigh cost with two fewer cats. And then I think I’d be it would be a good balance. But right now, it just feels like we’re kinda running a farm. Yeah.

Well, I mean, in the cats, I, I feel like beans the introduction of the new cat seemed okay, but, I mean, Hammy and Kennedy fighting and and then Hammy will fight and scare Kennedy, and then Kennedy will pee all over, which is new, a new development. I mean, he also made him bleed last week. Yeah. I’m I’m pretty sure that was him. I didn’t see it happen, but So, I mean, there’s that component.

So the cost is like, oh, now it’s a little bit extra time and stress. So for me, some days, I am over them because they’re, like, they’re doing the most. The cats are doing everything, and it’s like, I just wanna, like, live my life. Like, I already have enough going on that I don’t want that that I mean, sorry. Some days I really am like, yeah.

You could take all the cats and I’d be, oh, oh, it’d be me. And leave. Wow. Okay. I’m just saying, I think that That’s it for today.

Yeah. And the last episode, the season finale. Thank you guys for tuning in for these. It was a limited series. I know you pack must stuff.

Do you even have enough cat carriers? If all the cats had to go to the vet at the same time, they would all have to go in two carriers. Oh my gosh. I’m just saying, like, the cost seems kinda high sometimes for me, and I get very irritated. And hold on.

I feel like you’re kinda like, you haven’t really stopped in the the cost of the carpet. All our carpet, we have we new carpet, well, new what, five years ago. All of it is destroyed in some part or another where Jeff tried to dig himself out of a room. The room we are sitting in has a giant hole where he was trying to tunnel under the door through the carpet to get out. So I’m saying there’s, like, these other costs that are, like, just bigger picture.

Like, you don’t go, oh, well, we’ll just get through a new $5,000 of rug in the house or carpet. So I’m just saying, what am I telling people To cry for help. If you’re gonna get a lot of cats, there’s a cost to it. I just I’m just I feel like for me some days it’s overwhelming and I just get so angry. I mean, we have we have a double bowl feeder and then a single bowl automatic feeders for food.

And then we have two automatic water filter feeders. It’s technically three litter robots right now. One’s sitting in the garage because I have to make a Frankenstein version of two of them because the two old ones, one of them has a sort of a problem, and the other one has sort of a problem. I need to combine both of them. So I either have one with a lot of problems or no problems is the hopeful goal.

And you know me. That project will only take two to three years. So and we were gonna hopefully go smooth sailing with the new robot be but until we put that one in and replace it and then the cats started peeing and pooping, like, it’s just overwhelming. Whatever. My next little boy I feel attacked right now.

Oh, it’s okay. Why? I love you. I really do. I am not mad at you.

I’m just what I’m telling you is this, that some days, it’s overwhelming to where I get Yeah. Angry. And I don’t like here’s what I’m saying, the cost for me sometimes is the emotional spiritual of like, man, I don’t like being angry at cats or you. Like, that’s stupid, but it’s sometimes that happens. So I’m not mad at you right now.

I’m just saying like, like, hopefully, generally, they provide good benefit. They’re cuddly. They’re they each have personality, generally. Right? But there’s moments, and recently we’re in one of those, where it’s like, man, there’s a lot of going on.

Yeah. We’ll get through it. I’m not mad at you. I’m sure everybody has versions of this in their life. Yeah.

So I don’t think I’m really mad at you. I don’t think you’re mad at me. Let’s move on. Oh, okay. Because you’ll get a chance to be mad at me.

Seeking minimalism is my next little bullet point. Kinda maybe what the show started out with the guy doing the most. Right? But, like, the idea of seeking minimalism and if you’re into that, like The Minimalist, we watched a thing a few years ago that Jared Jeffrey Milburn or something and and his Yeah. Marie Kondo.

And Marie so, like, this idea of, like, as we sit in a studio filled with tons and tons of stuff. Right? I’ve already mentioned it’s got a bass amp, guitar amp, a rack of effects. I’m sitting next to a full drum set, next to several computers to a wall of guitars. Five guitars behind me hanging on the wall.

And this is just one room. So, really, I guess what I’m trying to say is, you know, all I guess and then there’s the so that’s the stuff part of life. Right? Just the extra stuff, and I’ll do that. But, like, then I was telling you the other day, all the stuff I’m supposed to do, like well, not supposed to.

But if you follow Huberman, like I said, it’s like, I gotta wake up. And then if it’s before the sunrise, I gotta stare at the sun for twenty minutes or I gotta stare at a lamp. And then I need to meditate. Don’t forget to eat your 30 grams of protein within thirty minutes of waking up. Oh, but you gotta restrict your eating window to six hours of the day.

Don’t forget to exercise. You better journal. Sit down and write your feelings. You gotta sit on the ground and feel it, but don’t forget to walk in your bare feet outside. Oh, and by the way, you gotta work.

Like this is I know. This is like where you’re like, you’re trying to I’m trying to balance my life out. I don’t have enough time in my life to do life and to balance my life with all these things. And it’s like I don’t know where some days, again, overwhelm. It’s just overwhelming frustration.

How do you feel about oh, now you just look forlorn I’m describing for the listener. Well, yeah. Because I mean, today is the day we get to enjoy doing stuff we like to do. Why are you laughing? Because you were like, oh, this podcast, how long does this does it take you two hours to set up, is what you asked me?

Well, yeah. It is a process. So It’s fine. And then it’s like the days where we have, you know, where, like, Max is not in daycare, and things are kinda more centered around him because they have to be, because he requires total care in a way. Right.

I mean, he can he’s finally potty trained, so he’s got that what kind of he’s got that going for him. But, yeah, I feel the same way. I don’t I don’t feel the need to do some of the things that you’re saying, but where is the time? Where’s the balance? Right.

Like, we live in this con, I don’t know, this construct where time is linear, and we can’t like, that’s just how the world operates. We can’t really operate outside of that. So we can’t just go to work when we feel like it. We can’t we have to get sleep at ourselves. You know, we have to get sleep at nighttime because that’s what’s best for health.

I I don’t know. I yeah. Well, I’m just like so now I’m not trying to overwhelm you. I’m just trying to explain. Maybe someone out there goes, I get this.

I get this. So and, you know, I’ve been struggling with bigger existential life questions lately, and that’s not what this that we’re not going there today. But, like, I guess it is like we are unique Not unique, okay. We’re nurses, so for people, if you’re listening and you’re not in the healthcare, we work twelve hour shifts. We work three of those every week.

Each of us, well, we each work three, right? That’s a standard twelve hour shift kinda nurse. Thirty six hours a week and then I have four days off, which is wonderful. So like our sense of time is also slightly different than your standard nine to five person because they it’s a little different. Like, you we work an extra, like, say, four hours beyond eight hours every day, and you feel it.

I mean, it’s like you kinda get home. You’re just like, yep. I’m just gonna buckle and do a few things, say hello, family, but I gotta wind down and do this again tomorrow. Mhmm. And then again again.

Yeah. Whereas at nine to five, you might come home and have time to make dinner. We’re gonna go for a walk. Go shopping. Like, there’s things that you can fit in, but you’re doing that five days a week.

Whereas we’re like, the beauty is, well, we got that. So then we have these entire full days off. Sometimes I think I always wonder if the neighbors are like, do those people ever work? They’re just when they’re home, they’re home all day and, like, you know, just whenever, like and then when we’re not, we’re not. But But on the days off, it’s like you have to do the laundry that’s been piling up.

You have to do the shopping that hasn’t been done. You have to do the cleaning that’s been not done. And I like, oh my god. I look at our shower. I’m just like, I can’t.

I’m nope. Not doing it. Not today. Well, I mean, I don’t mind doing it. I just like doing that when when you’re here and Max is here.

A family day. It’s a good day for me to do things for myself. I guess you’ll be doing it tomorrow. So I guess, you know, there’s that. I guess it is you know, and I’m not saying I’m gonna try to do all those things, but you we say, well, I’m gonna be a better life if I do some journaling.

I do this and that, but suddenly it really is like and I’m older than you, so I always feel like my time dollars are very limited. It’s like and that’s how I sometimes I’m like, you know, I don’t really care. I mean, the shower is nice to have it clean, but do I care? I don’t know. I guess it’s just I’m saying I’m overwhelmed.

Do you feel overwhelmed some days? I do right now. Oh, and I’m telling the listener, look. But today is what we call date day. Every other Friday, we as a couple have a day to ourselves or to each other.

Like, that’s it. My It’s mostly to ourselves. But I mean, but sometimes we go to lunch. But we had a date last night, so we didn’t do lunch, or I don’t think we’re going to because we’re trying to also Yeah. So I guess, yeah, I’m just saying to people, hey, it’s okay to feel overwhelmed, but maybe someone could be like, hey, I got a tip.

Or if you’re into Tim Ferriss, he’s always kinda like his ideas like what’s the lowest minimal input for some given thing for the maximum benefit for the input? Meaning like, you know, his workout or whatever. So it’s like, what will get you the most bang for the buck? Is it, oh, it’s actually the sunlight. That’s the best thing for you.

Or it’s, no, it’s really sitting on the ground or doing yoga, like, maybe and that could be individual, each person. So I’m to me, I’m still trying to find, like, what gives me the most bang for the buck as far as, like, I know actually there’s a few things. One is going to bed at a regular hour and getting up at a regular hour. I haven’t been doing that for spell. I actually it was probably why my sleep has gone crap, among other things.

But, like, there’s that, which for me is better. I like the scheduled sleep. Even on the days off, I’m like, I’m gonna get up 05:30AM. It’s weird, but it’s actually I feel like I sleep more. My body gets used to that.

But I haven’t been doing that. See? And then keeping the habit, that’s a hard thing too. It’s maintaining and doing something consistently for me. Okay.

Yeah. There’s gonna be some more stuff coming. I have a question for you. And that’s why you have a pen in front of you. And a and a And those little piece of paper?

Yeah. Max tore apart all the Post its, and I tried to restick them together in a semi Okay. Fashion. So it really isn’t math. So I guess you’re right.

On the paper one, and I won’t look, on a scale of one to 10 or zero to 10, what do you think of me as a hoarder? If 10 is, you know, full blown discovery channel or whatever hoarder and zero is not a hoarder, what would you give, me? And I’m gonna write my own self down here. Okay. You got your number Yes.

Written up now. Now what would you give yourself? Oh. Yeah. You have to rate yourself on a scale of zero to, 10.

Okay. Okay. Sorry. So and then I know we didn’t really and we didn’t kinda left hoarder loose, but we all I feel like we all feel like we know what a hoarder is, but, you know, I don’t know. They often when you think of it, like, the hoarder is like, why are you still writing?

Like, you you have to do math on it there. I’m just like I kinda mindlessly scribble Oh. Sometimes. Okay. So what Especially when I’m talking on the phone.

What’d you write for me? A five. I wrote what did I write for me? A five. A five.

So I’m a mid level hoarder is what you feel like. Like, why did you write that? I mean, you know, what was your decision making process? Well, I was like, okay. So clearly, you’re not not a hoarder.

I don’t know what that means, but okay. I’m not a zero. And also, you haven’t accumulated so much stuff that I can’t move around on the floors. So Sir, that’s funny. But the garage.

Mhmm. Yeah. Fair enough. It kinda has, like, a hoarding path Yeah. Is what I call it.

It’s It’s borderline hoarding path. You know? It’s true. I could fit two bodies could walk side by side in this well, kind of. So I yeah.

Well, I mean, in fairness, I wouldn’t deny that. Like, they’re like, I get frustrated because when the garage door is shut and I need to get something behind my workbench, I have to do, like, this little maneuver where I, like, kinda it’s like a little thing and I have to go around a thing and I suck my gut in and then I have to, like, watch my legs where I kinda shimmy through a spot to get into another spot. It’s not as bad as that might make it sound, but there’s a there’s a technique you have to get there. And sometimes you’re like, oh, you’re like, why is this crap? Right?

And I like to complain about all the stuff that isn’t mine out there, but it’s probably 80% me, maybe 70. But but it’s kinda like, yeah. No. Okay. Fair enough.

Fair enough. Okay. Yeah. What so I wouldn’t deny it. And this is what I’m trying every I I’ve been complaining what saying for two years, I’m gonna really go out there and get some stuff done in the garage.

Right? Or longer than two years? Yeah. So 2020. Okay.

And it’s like, I can’t we’re not here to talk about my struggles to let go of stuff and just, like, get rid of it, but I struggle. But I mean, but some days, I’m like, yeah. I’m really gonna do it. And then, like, I sidetracked really quick. Okay.

So you think I’m fine? I have a follow-up to that. What? Okay. We can get to me then.

We’ll get back to that. What did you write down for you? A two. Oh, my god. Look at that.

I wrote a two two for you, which is What makes me a two? Well, I we’ll get to some of this later. No. I was kinda like part of me is like, well, you’re not not a hoarder. You’re you’re not a zero.

Right? Yeah. But I felt like maybe I was looking at family history. I was kinda going like I was doing, like, the genetic potential. I was like Where is my mom on this scale?

Well, oof. I wouldn’t I wouldn’t put her she’s not a full blown 10. You know? I probably get her. But every wall in her house has something on it.

So I’d probably be pushing a seven eight. Does that feel too high? Okay. I was gonna say an eight, but, like, you know. Yeah.

You should see her closet close from the floor to the ceiling. That’s not normal. So and then that one room, I feel like I’ve only opened the door and you can only open the door, at least what I saw years ago. That was it. You just open the door and that’s it.

You’re like, yeah. That’s it. That’s all you got. So it is in the family. Okay.

So My dad is so opposite. So Right. I I guess that’s flea market room in the basement, but I think that’s your Meemaw’s. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Okay. My Meemaw’s. I mean, there’s a five gallon bucket. Nine out of 10 hoarder. There’s a five gallon bucket filled with literal just change, like, almost to the top.

Like, that’s a lot of change. Yeah. Well, I don’t know. But, so I gave you a two only because I’m like, there’s a you do have, like, there’s these things that I was saving for later, but, like, you’ll, like, where you put a box, you’ll you’ll have stuff and then you just leave it there, and it just kinda lives there. And, like, you I don’t know.

I thought you came so, like, some of it’s kinda this weird, like, I don’t wanna call it clutter, but it’s just like, oh, you know, like or your your nightstand just kinda is accumulating stuff slowly. Just the book stack gets higher. I even took off the You just wait to see how high it can get. I take the humidifier off your nightstand for my own, like, use over on my side, and it Yeah. Didn’t really improve it.

I’d noticed the other day And what is that humidifier sitting on? A file box. A very small file box. Next to? Two boxes of books that That are in?

I brought them up. I was cleaning the garage. I brought them up from the garage to get rid of the books out of the garage. So wait wait wait. What else is over there?

I mean, let’s not talk about my side of the bed. Okay. Yeah. Talk about holding pads. Your side of the bed.

Yeah. There’s a walking treadmill with like dumbbells. It’s a walking pad? A walking pad, dumbbells. A dumbbell.

Then you have a folding mattress thing, stuff between the window. I gotta throw that out. I know. It’s like, it’s never The trip the the day that you take that trip to the dump, that’s never going to happen. Yeah.

I mean, then you have there’s a fan on the floor. There’s cords to electric blankets. I mean, you you have a drawer that is permanently pulled out. The middle drawer of your nightstand’s permanently pulled halfway out. I keep my phone charger there so I can watch Frasier at night.

So so, I mean yeah. So your path over there is kinda So the light doesn’t bother you. I know. Well So I have it below the bed so I can just stay turned on my side to watch, you know, read the subtitles really. Because if there’s any little bit of noise, you’re like, I can’t sleep.

I gotta put my earphones in. Well okay. But so you have a little space going on over there on your side. Yes. Some pillows.

Like, just throw pillows that I’ve from, like, I don’t know where or what time zone or what Okay. You know. Anyways, so that’s why I gave you two because I’m out there and, like, the bathroom area, like, there’s a it’s organized mostly. And you have, like, the hanging travel kit that’s been hanging since our last trip somewhere like a year ago. It’s just hanging there.

It’s just a part of my system now. I know. It just hangs. But I mean, so it has a little bit like there’s a little like, a little bit of just a few things. Like, that’s why you scored a two.

I thought that was pretty generous too. So Thank you. So It’s mostly my side of the bed and my side of the bathroom. So it’s like trying to get rid of stuff and this hoarding, and you wanted to come back to something or not. You had another thought after me.

Did you forget it? Yeah. Oh. I wanna talk about why is it so hard for you to get rid of things? Or what is what is the struggle?

If you had to, like, pinpoint one issue, Can I tell you what I think it is? You always think you’re gonna need that thing in the future no matter how small it is. Like, yesterday, I was, like, found that little the cats had chewed up that dart, this little Dollar Tree Nerf gun that my mom had gotten Max. And the cats had chewed up the foam dart piece and just left the plastic tip. So I take the tip to Mitchell and I go and I knew, I’m like, if I throw this away, and he looks in the garbage can.

So I’m gonna have to hide it under something in the garbage can if I throw this away. But I was like, let’s just go ahead and nip this in the bud. And I take it over to him. I’m like, hey, do you know what this goes to? And he’s like, oh, let’s just like put it in a drawer or something, and then see if in a day or two.

And Max just goes, oh, that’s to my gun. And I’m like, oh, that’s right. I picked up all those yellow foam pieces. But I would have put that thing in a drawer and it would have sat there until I threw it Sorry for that noise. Until I Okay.

Nice. Until I threw it away one day when you were at work, probably on a Monday when I take the garbage out. Well, okay. I was gonna put it I have a little I have a little, like, it’s not an ashtray. It’s a child’s made ceramic thing that’s kind of an ashtray, but I don’t smoke.

It doesn’t have a spot for cigarettes. But I was gonna put it in there where I store oddball nuts in both, just oddball things that I don’t know where they go to. And I got I’ve been doing this for years. God forbid. So Any weird clay creature that his kids have made him over the years will be in our home for eternity.

Well, no. I have a plan I have a plan for getting rid of those. Okay. Oh, man. I do have a plan for getting rid of stuff.

I just haven’t taken the time to do the plan. Why are you looking at me? Right? So I so why what’s my make my I I would say boils down to one, yeah, you never know when you need something. Like, there’s just like yeah.

Like, this oddball stuff. People be, hey. Do you have a x y z? And I’m like, I have two of them. Right?

You know? Like, just We don’t even talk to people. I know. I know. But what if I met someone once outside and they’re like, hey.

Do you have one of those, like, like, a basin wrench, you know, the kind that you use under a toilet to And you could just say, I, I used to, but I got rid of it. I literally have two of them. Oh my god. Right. But see, then I feel worse, Scott.

I feel like my life was literally meant for that moment when I can do something nice for someone by having it. Like like, that moment when the neighbor needs something and I’m like, I have it. Like, I have that. And then he goes, oh, and I say, you can have it. Then I would feel like I got rid of it and he got it and, like, I then that’s why I had it.

That’s a lot of stuff is because I feel like I could one day use it. Okay. The other part, there’s other component which I struggle with. You know what it is? It’s the value thing.

I’m which is I think that’s an old person thing where, like, I spent $200 for this. And and then but the math says, yeah. Nobody will pay you even a dollar for it right now. So that $200, it’s sunk cost. You will never get it back even if you hold on to it for time and all eternity.

In fact, you’re losing money by storing this item that cost you money to store because it’s time and space. Yet you’re not gonna be able to sell it. We had a yard sale? Oh, yeah. Don’t ever, ever waste your time on a yard sale.

Man, that was we put so much time and work into that to make, like, what? A hundred and $50? Yeah. If that I think Sue had brought a hundred down and It would which we could have just worked one hour of overtime Yeah. And have had, like and then the amount of cleaning, that was like Yeah.

Don’t ever. Yeah. I never know. Like, and then you and it Yeah. That was that was a whole That’s another tale for another day perhaps.

But the lesson learned is just give it all to Goodwill or to the dump because see, that’s it. But she this introduced to the new problem I have, which is like, I don’t wanna fill up the garbage that you know, I don’t wanna fill up the, the earth with garbage. But it’s technically garbage if nobody I I had collector’s cars. These if you go on eBay, those collector’s cars, people pay $20.30, $40.60 dollars. I had them, like, for a dollar a piece.

I couldn’t get anyone to buy on all those collector cars. Like, nobody. Except for I mean, my mother did say, oh, somebody contacted me. He wants to buy the whole collection. Like but it was like the Facebook thing where you just go like, I’m over Facebook Marketplace.

Oh, yeah. That’s a waste of my Yeah. I don’t need you know, sorry. I have a group of people emailing me, oh, you know, well, I’m coming to get it. Where do you live?

And I’m like, oh. It’s so aggressive. I hate that. Yeah. Like, some of the Like, like, I’m gonna drop what I’m doing in my life.

And give somebody an address, and they won’t give you a time. It’ll just be. And, like, it’s only only one out of every 10 people is, like, a normal person. But it’s hard to, like, fish them out because you’re like, oh, like that when we got rid of the beanbag. Right?

Yeah. We were like, wait. I was Is she okay. She’s from, like, Oswego. Okay.

You’re But why does she need it? She’s like, I’m I’m coming to get it today, and we just happened to be off work. And I was, you know, like, hey, Mitchell. Just Thank you for having me. I know.

I’m sorry. But It worked out. But half the time, like And she was a normal person. But, like, It’s usually, hey, I’m coming right now. Where do you live?

And you’re like, well, okay. And you’re like, well, what time? Like, I’ll be there soon. You’re like, well, okay. I need a time.

I’m not giving you an address till you give me a time. And that usually shuts them up. I swear. Every time I go, well, let’s set up a time. I’ll tell you where I’m at.

Never and then there’s crickets. It’s like they found somebody else selling a, you know, 40 year old cart collection from toys. Like, I don’t know. So that’s where I’m on I’m like so my problem is I usually I’m like, I should go to the hobby store and just give them because I don’t wanna throw them in the garbage. So I don’t know.

That is my struggle. I say I get over that because none of that money is coming to me and it’s not worth we’re having a house to house these items, which is its own stress. And we’ve talked about that. So kind of moving along Mhmm. Because I have a whole bunch more here.

Oh, okay. We may never get to the end of this. So usually and then what okay. So, sorry. Here’s what happens.

What I’m saying I don’t have a segue, but it’s this. Sometimes I’m like sometimes in my life, like, a gadget or tool or item is gonna solve a problem. Right? You’re like, hey, this solves a problem. Right?

Whatever that might be. Examples are I mean, it doesn’t really. The other day, I was like, oh, I need a wine aerating pour spout on this wine bottle because that would be we don’t have one of those. And that’s probably, you know, $10.15 dollars and then I can pour the wine out exactly and it won’t dribble. I’m like, oh, I should get one of those.

And normally, I’d reach to Amazon and just order one up. Another thing would be like a shoehorn. I don’t have a shoehorn, surprisingly. I don’t have even I had one a long time ago and I threw it away. I actually I’m kind of upset.

I should have kept on We have that red one in the garage. It’s all split. Oh. And I need it for I need it at my place of work because my work shoes are there. I have new work shoes.

I need a shoehorn. Like, I should just get one. I’m like, man, why you know, because it solves I got, you know, I got that big butt calendar on the wall because that was gonna do so much miracles for me and planning my year out. It really just shows me how little we do. I know.

It’s this big giant calendar. It’s like, yeah. You have one thing planned this year. Good for you. So, like, these ideas, though, where you’re like, oh, you you feel like, oh, this is gonna be so good, and then you get it.

Even even up to I told you the other day, the new car. We’re like, oh, this new car is gonna be so great. Yeah. And you get it and then within a year, it’s just another car that you have. It’s like Yeah.

All the things that seemed exciting kind of fade. Mhmm. And there is kinda like, ow. So I wanna talk now this transitions into letting go of Amazon Prime. We recently, like well, was it the ninth?

February eighth or ninth? Somewhere in there, we did not renew our Prime membership. Mhmm. We just said, hey, we’re gonna we’re gonna do the old fashioned way where you pay a lot of money for shipping or you don’t get it. Since then, I mean, it’s only it’s what?

We’re like maybe two weeks. But how many items have you bought off of Prime? Zero. How many items have I bought off Prime? I think zero.

Zero. Like, suddenly, that, like, that urge, that symbol Suddenly, $7 in shipping really doesn’t seem worth it. Yeah. So I mean Or you can just go to a store and make a list and just accumulate stuff on that list and go to a store. And you know what?

It’s not as hard as I thought it would be. Yeah. I mean, I really was like, the subscription items we were getting, we can get through other places. I mean, it was mainly the cat stuff, which is true, but, like so you’ve got that through other places. And I like it.

The urge where you can just be like, I’m gonna get it. I’ll have it tonight by ten or tomorrow by 4AM. Suddenly, I don’t know. It’s faded enough that it’s funny. I kinda look at the doorstep sometimes and I’m like, where there’s no boxes today.

But we and you did the math the other day and I shredded what you had because I just shredded it up. But, like Oh, it was, like, $1,500 in a month. Yeah. And I was I couldn’t help but look around the house and be like, what what? Yeah.

Why? Like, where where is this stuff? Well, exactly. It’s the, our average, we it’s a separate thing, but we we use two credit cards primarily, an Apple and a Prime. And we were, I mean and we run all our stuff through there.

We pay our bill. We pay the cards off every month just because then we get points. It’s just whatever. More money to buy more Amazon crap. So the Amazon bills generally, like, we do have we put our gas on there in some restaurants, but it’s generally around $3 give or take every month.

So and like you said, 1,500 in the last month was just Amazon purchases, you know, like, whatever it is. Yeah. It’s strangely Yeah. So it might have been slightly unusual, but nonetheless, it’s kind of nice. So this kinda remind me.

So, like, the idea of, like, are we saving? I think so. I don’t think we’re diverting to some other card because I really yeah. Without that instant gratification or near instant, it’s kind of like, suddenly, I actually rethink the things. Like, I was like a shoehorn.

I’ll see if they have one at Target or or somewhere. When I’m out shopping, am I gonna go drive to get a shoehorn? It also makes you decide how important is this shoehorn. Because, like, my finger still kinda works like Larry David, you know, talked about how it’s slowly reshaping our fingers, the the shoehorn. Not having a shoehorn, but I was like, okay.

I bet my parents probably have one that, you know, might they might get me. Someone listening could give me a shoehorn. I actually tried to get the occupational therapist at work to get a shoehorn for me. I’m usually they’re usually like, what patient? And I’m like, it’s for me.

And they’re like, and they’re not saying no. They’re usually like, oh, let me try and you know, I haven’t got one. It’s a work expense, but nonetheless so there’s that. Which reminds me, we At one point, we were doing the Rami Sethi Your Rich Life. I will teach you to be rich.

Right? You remember this? Mhmm. The book. And he his little tagline on his website, if you go, it says stop pinching pennies and design the life you’ve always imagined.

Spend confidently on the things you love and cut back mercilessly on the things you don’t. So he’s he often is like not a if you read his book, I have he’s not like it’s not the $4 Starbucks that you gotta cut out of your life or $6 Starbucks 7 20 5. It’s not these little things that you need to cut out of your life necessarily because he’s like, you’re not trying to track every single penny. You’re trying to decide, like, what’s really important to you, and then mercy, he says, and then get rid of the other stuff that you don’t, that aren’t important. So if you really like coffee, no, go for it.

But you’re gonna have to find something else. But it’s not the penny pinching approach. So this brings me to the part of the program called guess the cost and if we actually have this. And then what for? So we already know the answer to this.

What’s the cost of Prime? Is it a hundred and $50 a year? 1 30 9 a year. Okay. Or you can do it for $14.99 a month.

We no longer have it. What did we use it for? Free shipping, a few shows. Yeah. Every now and then you find something.

Okay. Apple one. The cost? Yeah. Is it $60 a year?

No. More. It’s a monthly cost. Okay. It’s $37.95 a month.

Do you know what it is? I mean, it gives us access to Apple plus. Right? Right. TV.

TV. Movies. Yeah. Fitness. Fitness.

ITunes. Yeah. I think that’s for iTunes. I’d also give Maybe some cloud stuff? Cloud storage.

Two terabytes of family cloud storage. I that’s one I still find value in because it’s value. You know, I like it. And they got solid shows. Yeah.

I know. They’ve been they’ve been yeah. Severance. So that one. Okay.

Netflix. Is that a part of our T Mobile? It is. So I think it’s, like, $7 or $8 a month through through T Mobile? It’s $11 a month for the Netflix standard, and it’s, like, not the cheapo version.

Okay. 11. It’s normally $17.99 for that same version. So do we still have it? Yes.

Mhmm. What do we use it for? Max. Okay. So Max’s shows pretty much.

Yeah. I mean, we do find stuff on these things, but I’m just saying, like, yeah, what if we really boil it down? What is it for? Fry Max’s stuff. Right?

Yeah. Okay. Sorry. We gotta get Kindle Unlimited. We still have that?

I don’t know. Do we? What what does it cost? $10 a month? 11 90 9 a month.

Okay. And, no, we don’t have it. Okay. Good. That was the one I discovered that you had not known we had for a year.

Yeah. Okay. That’s okay. Moving along. Peacock.

I did not read any of those books. I know. It’s okay. Peacock. That’s, like, $6 a month.

13 90 9. What? Yeah. What do you use it for? It is $13.99.

I checked these things. Saint Denis. Okay. Below Deck. Okay.

Mostly reality stuff for me. Okay. It’s still Which I don’t even, like, watch a lot of. Okay. No.

It’s $13.99 a month. I pulled it in from Apple real quick through our our what we’re paying. So if someone’s paying differently, you might have a different product. Like really snug. And we just and we still have commercials.

Yeah. Oh. We don’t Peloton. That’s $12 a month. 12 90 9.

And what do we use it for? Apparently, I use it for walking meditation once a month. K. I mean, you have to decide if these are worth I’m not saying in this moment. I’m just this is And, sadly, I don’t think that’s one that I can, like, pause temporarily.

I think I just have it, which is fine. I just have to cancel and Right. You know? I’m not this isn’t immediate, like But it’s true. Pointing out I just Scarlet, are you getting $12 a month of value from it?

Absolutely not. Not currently. It’s more of a summertime thing, like, out, you know, garage gym Right. Kind of season. Instead of being outside.

When you know, at some at some point when we can actually move around in our garage. And now I’m starting to wonder if I threw if I put all the fitness stuff in the garage subconsciously knowing that nobody’s gonna work out out here because you can barely move around out here. I don’t know. But it’s a great place to dry, like, Max’s winter clothes, I noticed, on the treadmill and to store the, bike trailer. Okay.

Audible doesn’t really count, but, I mean, we don’t have that one. But, you know, that’s a $14.95 a month thing. Uh-huh. Paramount plus. We have that through something else.

Right? I’m not sure. I think it’s charged directly. It’s pretty reasonable, I’ll tell you. Is it?

Yeah. $7? 6 40 9. Oh, okay. That’s that seems reasonable.

I don’t know if it’s coupled up, but that’s what we’re getting charged. How about discovery and discovery plus? We do not have that anymore. Oh, not anymore. It was, like, $5.99.

Yeah. So it’s $5.99 or ad free $9.99 now. Okay. Did let’s go we’ll go Hulu. Which we do not have anymore.

Or it’s on pause. Right? I’m still, like, confused. Hulu’s, like, $17 or something. Here’s what we have, and I don’t know if it’s still active.

We have the Disney bundle duo premium, which is Hulu and Disney plus for $19.99. And I’m not sure. I got into Disney okay today. So I’m not I’m kinda confused. I don’t know where we’re at with that one.

So you’re saying if Hulu cost us Disney plus, you’re okay with getting rid of both those. I don’t know. I’m just I think we have Disney plus on its own thing right now. Find where it was getting charged then. That’s fine.

That’s okay. It is what it is. Ground News. Sixty dollars a year. And who what is it for?

It’s my news source. Okay. Is it fairly balanced? It’s Yes. $29.99 a year according to the charge I saw.

Oh, even better. Okay. Did you get half off? Do you have it on set to renew or you’re gonna make sure you you can cancel it Okay. And it won’t actually I will.

It’ll stay good until the renewal date. Oh, look. I’ve gotten some news updates as we’ve been seeing here. Now HBO Max. Is like $16.

16 90 9. Do we use it? Yeah. For the pit? Yeah.

That’s right. There’s some good stuff, but is it worth $16.99? I don’t know. So that’s that’s kind of like and I’m not now Ramit Sethi would probably be like, you’re not supposed to be worried about onesie twos ing. But what I’m looking at going like, hey, how much I didn’t add all that up because that’s I don’t know, it’s over a hundred dollars a month or probably in stuff.

I’m gonna guess. Right? But the question is, is it part of your rich life? Is that what you want? Could we do like we did on Amazon?

Could we say, look, let’s get rid of these. Let’s pick, like, two streaming services that we just are the favorites. Yeah. And then cut out the rest and see if we can get always get them back. The Amazon effect of, like, suddenly I got along okay.

Suddenly life wasn’t too terrible. Something to think about, because our I think part of our rich life is we like travel, which we don’t really do, except for maybe once a year. We have a travel coming up. And restaurants, which I just wanna say, you picked a restaurant last night, Gaviano’s. Mhmm.

And we went it’s Italian Italian American Fair, I think, is their actual tagline. And that place was phenomenal. Yeah. Phenomenal. Phenomenal.

And I think, what with the great not that if you’re in Portland, you can go there. It’s up on off of Killingsworth. Killingsworth in yeah. I don’t remember. 20 Sixth, Thirtieth.

I’m not sure. Amazing food, amazing service. The tip is built in, which is like, I love that. Yeah. It was and then It was like team serving because it was like, I don’t know who our server is because it was one guy and it was another guy.

No. Like, it’s kind of just a team They’re checking in on you. Yeah. And Yeah. That arugula salad, I mean, man, I still was thinking about that today.

I was like, I gotta pick up some arugula and figure out how to make that salad because it didn’t seem too complicated, but dang was it good. Oh. And then and then us, there was a couple sitting next to us, and then they left. And then there was a couple on the other side of them. And after the couple in the middle left, we all were looking at the girl had pretty much the entire arugula salad still sitting there.

I know. And I was like, man, we were contemplating if I could get a box for that salad because it was sad. But it was so it was that good. It’s this place really solid. Everything we had, fantastic.

Great. Yeah. So I love that. Okay. So I wrote I don’t know.

I wrote shoes in restaurants, but I think it’s supposed to say shows in restaurants. Kind of a check-in because guess what? We have not got into severance. Right? Yep.

But, We we haven’t gotten back into. Oh, yeah. Because still want to. Supposed to be today, maybe. Yes.

Uh-oh. Nobody have some thoughts. Some thoughts? Yeah. No.

I’m just saying I wanna go back and watch the last episode, and I know that you’re like, you’ve been saying that. It’s okay. So We we have, like, other shows in the mix, and then we have Dark Matter Yeah. Which is so intriguing to me for, you know, different reasons. Right.

Like, I’m all into this, like, different timelines thing right now. Yeah. No. It’s I it’s we we have limited time, so I feel like we have been distilling down our, like, shows that we’re watching. Right?

Yes. And and So the shows we’re watching, we’ve been focusing on. So The Pit, Saint Denis on a night that we’re tired, and we just want to laugh at something. For twenty one minutes. Yeah.

Yeah. And then we were watching dark matter. Yeah. I mean, sometimes we get too many shows going and we but so we’ll get to severance. Maybe today.

I don’t know. Maybe you wanna just binge a little dark matter because then we get to the end of the show. So but, yeah, I know that it’s so dark matter we’re enjoying. We just wrapped up the morning show, which I know that’s been out that way. I can’t wait to see everything that’s been going on in the world.

I cannot wait to see what they’re gonna bring. Yeah. So that’s good. And then yeah. So severance we’ll get to.

Don’t worry. I really love it. Now, the last little bit here, I’m you’re I’m gonna send you this is a honey, what am I looking at? Oh, I have one for you too. Okay.

This is the pick version. So I’m gonna I’m sending you a pick, and then Okay. I’m gonna send you mine. K. But then you’re gonna look at the pick, and then you’re gonna first, you’re gonna tell me what I you think I think is the problem Okay.

Or not the problem. I’m sorry. You’re gonna and I’ll wait. You know? So Okay.

What do you think I’m Is it the gray towel? Yeah. The microfiber cloth? And? And oh, the the the cleaning solution?

Yeah. So I’m gonna describe the list, and I’ll throw it up on the site. It is a picture of our half bath downstairs. There’s a sink, and on the edge of the sink is a gray microfiber cloth cleaning towel hanging on the edge of that sink. And then on the towel rack is a bottle of some sort of cleaning solution, and it has been there.

Okay. Okay. I got it. It’s been there for two weeks? This is the one of those things where it’s like, it will just live there.

And so my real question is, like, what am I looking at? What is the plan? Okay. So you were looking at the other day, I cleaned this bathroom. I cleaned the sink inside and out, and then I used the microfiber towel to dry it.

And then Max comes in and he’s like, I’m gonna help you clean. And he’s bringing in that bottle of solution. And I was like, woah. Don’t touch that. We’re not gonna clean with that.

And I just hung it up out of the way and has been there ever since. Okay. And now and for the record, by the way, there have been other things hanging other solutions hanging on the towel rack in the past. And they just live there in perpetuity. And I’m always like I really am always like, what is is there a message here?

Is it really like just part of your, like, is it something you’re gonna do? And and Why are you laughing? Because the photo you sent me is literally I was gonna take a picture and and tell you, if you don’t have something for me, I have something for me. So fun. I will get there, but hold on.

I’m sending you one more. And this is just another example though of of another item. This is so this is for me part of my, like, are you a hoarder? I don’t know. But, like, this stuff and I know I do similar things.

So what do we describe what we’re looking at? Okay. So it’s the landing upstairs at the top of the stairs, the landing, you know, which is just that common area that’s not big enough to be a common area. It’s just the area. Right.

And there’s medicine from when Max was sick. You know, two years ago? And Yeah. There’s a pill cutter with some children’s Motrin Yeah. Next to it.

So it’s a Which I have not this stuff just needs to find its way to the medicine cabinet. That’s literally across. Four feet away. Now Not not even four. So yeah.

So in so there’s two things. One, this stuff will just live forever around our house. And I’m guilty of this. I don’t really think you’re guilty. It’s just I noticed it because you did it.

You probably noticed things I do, but it’s like I’m like, this this stuff’s just gonna live here forever until I move it, which I can do and I should do. Like, why am I not doing it? So that is, like, I but I laugh because I’m like, yeah. That’s just gonna live there until Max is a teenager or until we move. Or so anyways, so your yeah.

Now your picture. What yeah. I I I literally knew this. That’s how we know each other. So what I am looking at right now is And these will be put up on the website.

Yeah. Is a picture of a pot of a nice ceramic creamy colored pot, and and it it houses what used to be a basil plant. It’s a dried basil plant now, sort of. And, We’re gonna ground it up and make But it’s not like a full bushy basil plant. It’s one that’s slowly like, the leaves are all kinda it’s not even dried.

They’re just in between states of It is the saddest looking. And here’s the thing, I’ve thought about throwing it away, but anytime I throw a plant away, Mitchell is always like, I could have brought it back. If you just give me some time, I could have brought it back. What? And I’m like, okay.

Or I can just throw this into the composting bin and then go to Walmart and pay $2 for a fresh new basil plant. Well, I’m glad you brought I mean, this is true. But if you just put a little water in this one Stop. Stop. It does perk back up.

Oh my. I used to Mitchell. I watered it. Three leaves on it. I watered it every day.

And then when I go to work for three days, nobody goes, I wonder if I should water this paper. Do you ask anybody to water it? No. Because I feel like you should just see it and be like, if you see it, water it. That’s that old saying.

If it cries, feed it. If you see it, water it or something like that. There’s a old do you know what I’m talking about? Like, if it meows, pet it. That you know what I’m talking about?

No. Okay. How many times do I have to say no? I don’t know. Okay.

Well, I’m saying, like, if I a little water, she’ll bring she’ll pop right back up. But the other the bigger question I was thinking the other day is like, so we can have four leaves of basil? But the beauty is, yes, this is this is a project. I did pay $2.99, I think. It was one of those, like, they didn’t have regular basil at Walmart, so I bought the basil plant that they give you in the section, like, here, use this plant and chop it up.

I don’t know. But I planted it, and it really took off. I mean, this is It did. It’s right. On the summer.

And I was like And then I’m I made pizza one time or twice, and it’s like, well, it didn’t die. It’s dying. Okay? It’s, hospice right now. This is basil hospice.

We practically have only a plant hospice in this house. Yeah. They don’t. You might as well just throw it up next to the bathtub with all the other hospice plants. Oh, they’re comfort care.

Okay? They’re just I spritz a little for you. I spritz a little mist in the air in there. Every now and then, I’m like, you guys will be back. It’ll be okay.

And then I go in and spritz a little morphine. And then they’re like, what happened to the what happened to the one cactus? Where’d he go? Like, oh, oh, he’s, he grew up and he went to a new place. I don’t know.

Fine. Yes. I know. I saw that one. I was like, oh, you got me.

Fair enough. I’ll, I’ll probably trim it and just dry the leaves, though. I mean, I don’t wanna see it go to waste. Okay. I’ll throw it away.

I’ll I’ll compost. Gosh. But think of how many plants I have, Robert. Remember the lemon tree? Man You’ll never let me forget the lemon tree.

That thing was beautiful and then you, like, I don’t know what you were thinking and then you chopped it into you were like, I don’t know what happened with that. But and then I worked it back and then again, anyways. But I don’t have a green thumb. Let’s let’s let’s But we don’t. See in our yard is green moss.

Like, the backyard is atrocious. Yeah. Well. That’s painful. Okay.

That’s really it on the the, the end of my stuff. Any last thoughts? We can move on with our day. No. Alright.

Well, this we still don’t have a little catchy, hey. Catch you later. No? No. But if you would like to rate, review, and subscribe to our podcast Yes.

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Stop doing the most. You literally are doing Just like stop. Just end it. Yeah. No.

I always edit. This is the after music stuff. If you’ve ever listened to one of these episodes, there’s there’s the end music and I put bloopers at the end. Okay. You’ve I love how you’ve you’re so engaged.

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