I feel like a battered old water bottle

This episode starts off with Katie clamping down on being 'Mum's bank' but in true Rach & Katie style, it goes sideways with a fascinating discussion about water bottles haha!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Apogee Production. Welcome back to another episode of Am I
A Bad Mom? Podcast? We're in December. I feel like

(00:28):
I'm shaking as I say it.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
We're in de Zera, December, and the old fella he's
not far off coming to visit.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
And my kids are on school holidays already. They're working
a lot.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
That's great.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
It's interesting anyone with kids that are getting close to
like teenage years, so you are starting to think about working.
What's really interesting because I was like, you have to
get a job. It was like hammering them to get
a job. And they did both get jobs and machas
you know. Honestly, I can say to you, I think
Amelia's work there for a year, and maybe even now

(01:06):
colleagues work there for a year. They still get both
of them a little bit. Holly massively really anxious about
every shift. What I've realized because I thought for ages
she just doesn't want to work, just lazy. I'm like, mate,
three hours doing fries, it's gonna be a stressful job
you are ever going to have in your whole life.

(01:27):
And she would tell me how chaotic it was and
how stressful. I'm like, it's not stressful. They can't possibly
be stressful.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
Well, people like fries, so you mess that up.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yeah. Actually, what I've learned is now there's these jobs
at City Beach and Woolworths, and they are so much happier.
They're enjoying the work. I would say fast food someone
like macas. Yeah, not for all the kids, because there
is definitely a pressure on being hectic and super fast.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
I wouldn't be able to do it, no way.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Jose Holly complained so much about going to a maca Is.
I said, okay, Holly, I've only got one other option
for you. You have to earn money to survive. We
all have to. So my option and advice to you,
mother to daughter, giving you some worldly advice is find
a rich husband. Oh there you go to find an

(02:26):
old rich husband. Oh god, at that age?

Speaker 3 (02:31):
Would I be giving them that advice?

Speaker 2 (02:34):
At our age? Would I be giving it to our friends' advice? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:37):
I do on the daily.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Am I bad Mum for clamping down? I've had enough
of being Mom's bank But you can't be now? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Well that so rich after thirty hours of work, nothing
to spend their money? I mean when I say nothing
to spend the money, on no end, no car.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
No like the car.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
They just probably paid for their fuel, but they're probably
on the same tank that you filled up.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
They should be rich. Well, Holly said to me the
other day. She went, I should have this much money
in my account, but I had to get a full
tanker pedual blah blah. I was like, yeah, welcome to
the world.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
I don't care to the world.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
And so I'm still getting regularly rache paidback.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
Can you pay me that?

Speaker 1 (03:28):
And you pay me back now? They check with me
like is it okay if I get But usually Rach,
I'm in a situation where I'm at work, or I'm
rushing around, or I'm needing a phone call, jump on
a court or something, and I end up just going yeah, yeah, sure,
because I'm not thinking about it properly. And then I
think about it afterwards. I'm like, really, I bought enough
food for you to be taking stuff with you. What

(03:49):
you get bottles of water out because you didn't fill
up your water bottle.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
Your problem, not my problem.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
And so Holly was at work. She was doing some
quite late shifts after school and till like nine, so
she wasn't getting dinner. So if she wanted to grab
sou or something in their break. I was like, yeah, yeah,
no worries. She said to me one day, okay, mom,
I spent this on this. And then they go through
like oh, you owe me this. I hate the way

(04:14):
they say you owe me because I'm like, oh, just hits.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
The other the ner.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
But the other part is they could be taking their
own if the time came where you, which in my opinion,
should pull up.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
Stumps on that, they would be.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
And I can tell you they would be making whatever
they could and taking it.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
Yeah, because they don't want to spend their money.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
I think I've got it in my head right that
whilst they're in school full time, there's still an element
of what I should do in regards to like food,
they have to buy their own clothes, that kind of thing.
This particular day, Holly goes, oh, you owe me this
amount of money. It wasn't very much. It was a
few dollars and I was like what for and she

(04:58):
went on, because I got a pickle on my break
and what so, yeah, I got a pickle. I don't
know what they must have been on TikTok or something,
but you can buy these like big pickles.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
Yeah, they're disgusting.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
I thought about it and I went, I'm not paying
for the pickle. And what do you mean? I said,
that's not food. That like, you've chosen to get a pickle.
Why should I be paying for the pickle? Like, yeah,
this is a no pickle zone. Yeah, you're not paying
I'm not paying for the pickle. You can pay for
the pickle, I said. And actually, I'm going to clamp

(05:32):
down on some of this stuff because when I look
at what I'm paying you back for water, when you
catch me off guard and say can I get a
bottle of water, I'm like, of course you can get
a bottle of water. I'm a parent. I want my
kids to be drinking water. And then I'm like, no,
you've got so many water water me.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
I was like, Katie, every time I see you, that
beat up old water bottle is always with you. So
what's the difference between you and your children? You are
not so many any money on water? You've always got
that filled to the brim.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
They've got a Stanley. I bought them a Stanley stead.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
And then they will actually become self sufficient around taking water.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
When they have to buy water, they'll take water.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
Yeah, Rachel. As we know, I got my water bottle
that I use overnight from Kmar and it was nine dollars.
It was on special.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
It might be not working now, but it does work.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
It worked you leave the.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
House because I only see that one, that one has
been belted around, that is actually going on. It's had
some age about it and it is belted around. And
I don't ever see you with a plastic bottle of water.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
So I reckon put the hole on that one as well.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
Now I feel self conscious about this water bottle because
I wouldn't love it. This water bottle really saves a purpose.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
That is a mum water bottle if I've ever seen one, like,
that's how you feel like as a mum some days.
See how beat up that bottle is. That is how
I feel today. That is how I feel today.

Speaker 3 (07:02):
As a parent.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
Okay, it's nine hundred mills so it's almost a leader.
It's insulated. It's got like fits in the side of
my car. Yeah, they're like, oh yeah in the arm
Yeah perfectly.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
Like I've spent a fortune on water bottles. Take your
water bottle, Look at the one I'm carding around.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Yeah, I've seen you pull it out of your handbag
like Mary Poppins, that thing.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
Just keeps on giving. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
Imagine if you add up all the water that you're
buying for your children, you could have bought like another
three bottles of those and then given that to.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
Maybe that's what they need for Christmas. Oh my god,
I've just thought because now you've got me thinking about
this water bottle because you said, oh, you know and
taking around that beatn number water bottle. I like it.
It definitely is like vibes. So I've just realized because
I was like, where did I get this water bottle?

Speaker 3 (07:52):
I think for as long as this podcast has been going,
that bottle has been going.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
I've had this water water for ten years.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
Yeah, I know that's why I know it.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
I got it in two thousand.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
I'd probably i'd probably be able to identify you with
that water bottle before you pop through the or if
I saw a water bottle Katie's here.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
I'm not even joking.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
I am. You know, like some things you see of people,
and that's like one of the things that I always
will know that you're here or you're around because I
know that water bottle.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
Okay, well, don't change it now.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
No, I have to now, No, you can't.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
This is iconic to the podcast. People need to know
that Katie's here.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
Water bottle.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
They love it.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
I hope you buddy clean it.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
If you ask me what water bottle you use, I
would say I don't know, but mine. Seeing you with
about twenty different water bottles, I use whatever's clean.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
I'm really like weird with water bottles.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
I won't like tend to share them unless somebody's choking,
and then I'll allow them to have a mouthful, but
don't have a mouthful.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
Through the straw.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
Please don't get the top and drink from there.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
And so yeah, I don't share if my kids have
had the you know, like the night bottles with the
squeezy ones, I don't need any of that, no, because
there's a lot of back forward.

Speaker 3 (09:04):
But yeah, so yes, I.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
Do tend to rotate them a lot. But when I
say rotate them a lot, it's just in the big drawer.
Everyone that's got kids has got a large drawer of
water bottles.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
Surely. Yeah, yeah, how often do you wash that?

Speaker 1 (09:21):
I rinsed it and put it on the draining board
at the end of every day. Oh yeah, that's right,
is it?

Speaker 3 (09:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (09:26):
I mean as long as you're washing the mouthpart.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
Have you ever like got this is disgusting? I just
said it.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
Oh, now I'm gonna have to commit to it. Have
you ever used a water bottle for like a week
and then you go to put it in the light
to wash it properly? Wash it by Do you ever
smell the bottle?

Speaker 3 (09:51):
Oh, it's disgusting. But see minor all got like the
straws on it.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
Yeah. Well I've been using them have ten.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
Years and she's still going strong's going strong.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
Well, we could sit and talk about water bottles all
day long, smelly water bottles. We won't. I've got at
least another ten years left in this water.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
Yeah, we keep going. I reckon there's been a few
occasions where you've had wine in.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
That maybe, And what I might do is i might
get a new water bottle just so that I'm not
so predictable to you. I was like, there comes a
water bottle, and oh my god, I'm so predictable, same
water bottle, same hairstyle, same shop wear by my clothes.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
No, your shopping is like it changes, but it like
the style is like comics always.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
Big bold prints or color.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
We did this remember it was like a personality test
of like the podcast, and I was like I was
putting yours together and I was like, I'm pretty on
the money with this