April 17, 2024 • 55 mins
Hey there! It's Jessica from She's Got It Together. In this episode, I had a blast chatting with Denise Albright about 10 ridiculously simple systems you can implement today to declutter your mind and streamline your life. We covered everything from the genius "Wash It Next" bin for laundry to the "Eat It Next" drawer in your fridge. Denise shared so many practical tips that just make sense, like using time-lapse videos to stay on task with chores and keeping a jar of diluted Dawn dish soap handy for quick cleanups.
But the real game-changer was when Denise introduced us to the Class Keeper® app - a lifesaver for organizing all those precious kid mementos that tend to pile up over the years. Trust me, as a mom of older kids, I wish I had this app sooner! Denise is even hooking you up with an amazing deal - just $7 for an annual membership when you use the link here. (https://shesgotittogether.com/classkeeperapp)
So grab a latte, pop in those earbuds, and join us for a fun, casual convo packed with mom hacks you'll actually use. Don't forget to check out the show notes for that special Class Keeper® offer and let us know what you think! Talk to you next week!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What I found over time is I started stacking all
these things that I would do tooperate to run my household more
efficiently.
And I was talking to agirlfriend of mine and she's
like, oh my God, I never thoughtof that.
I'm like what do you mean?
And she's like no, she's likethat she goes wait, did you just
tell me?
I mean, it started by saying Itold her.
I said I find laundry relaxingand she goes wait, what?
(00:21):
And I started telling her someof my things I do.
She's like oh, I never heard ofthat.
She's like you need to tellpeople about that.
I'm like, really you think shegoes oh my God, yes, so you know
, we started thinking like youreally can find you know the
minutes and the mundane things,the unsexy things about our
household.
And really, when you stack themall together, you know you
(00:46):
think of it like a game ofTetris.
I don't know who listeningmight know the game of Tetris,
right?
You're trying to efficientlyblock all those things together.
So you have all that emptyspace above you, right?
Same thing with your household,if you can take all these
little micro tasks and stackthem all together and just find
a little more time in each andevery one of them.
They all add up, right?
Yes.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Hi everyone, and welcome to a brand new episode
of she's Got it Together.
I'm your host, Jessica.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
And I'm Samantha.
Each week we peel back thecurtain on what it really looks
like to have it together.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
From the messy moments to the milestones, we're
here to share it all.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
So grab your favorite drink, get comfy and let's dive
into today's topic.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
get comfy and let's dive into today's topic, jessica
, here we're back for anotherepisode of she's Got it Together
, and I am joined with mysidekick, samantha Hello, and
she is not feeling 100% today,so you probably won't hear as
much from her as we typically do.
Allergy season yes, not verynice to her right now, and we
(01:47):
have our guest, denise Albrightfrom denisealbrightcom, and she
is going to be chatting with ustoday about 10 ridiculously
simple systems that you canimplement today.
So, denise, how are you?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I'm great.
I love the intro saying this isDenise Albright.
From Denise Albright, I neverfeel so narcissistic.
I love it, I love it.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
That's so funny, it's hard, I mean, how else do we do
it?
Yes, of course you do it as youdo it.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
That's so funny.
Back in the day, when I wastrying to name my company, I was
really kind of like I don'tknow what I'm going to do
exactly.
So I'm like, yeah, name works.
My maiden name fun fact mymaiden name is Shrek.
So that would be amazing.
I mean that would be good.
That's a marketable, so yeah.
So Denise Albright, which is alittle more phonetically sound,
a little bit more you know so so, but I'm doing well and
(02:42):
thrilled that we could pull thistogether.
Thank you guys so much forhaving me.
Yeah, it's going to be fun.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
So, Denise, I'm going to kind of let you tell
everyone about yourself and youknow where they can find you and
all that fun stuff, but then wecan dive in.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Awesome.
Okay, so I am a married mom ofthree.
I started my first businessback in 1999.
I think I was like 12.
I've always been kind of alittle bit of an entrepreneurial
spirit, and so I've worked formyself back in the day and
creating invitations,announcements for you know, all
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kinds of social engagements.
Sold that company in 07.
Thought I wanted to take timeoff to have a family.
Did that.
Realized I really like myselfworking and so does everybody
else.
Got a little bored yes, Peopleforget to tell you that about
motherhood, right that it's kindof a little bit lonely, right,
Right?
So I know I'm preaching to thechoir here, and so I did take
(03:41):
some time off, had a few kidsand then got back into it in
2016 with the company I havetoday, which is really designed
about helping busy womendeclutter their mind, and all
the products we bring to thetable are planners and journals
and weekly planner pads and mealplanning pads, things like that
that can really sort of helpyou organize all of your
thoughts.
(04:02):
You know we spend so much timeorganizing our homes physically,
but really there's so muchcluttered in my brain.
You want to clear that mentaldance floor so you can do one of
two things.
You can actually I don't knowthink, and then, secondly, enjoy
the moment once you're there.
I mean, how many of you haveactually gotten to an event
right, Maybe it's been.
You know the sidelines, thebleachers across the dinner
(04:23):
table from a loved one.
You're there physically, butmentally you're three days ahead
.
Right, right, yeah, Right.
And so you know, I'll tell mykids look, even the word moment
has the word mom in it.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Shouldn't.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I get to enjoy it too .
Yeah, absolutely, I love that.
Yeah, so, anyway.
So my mission is really to helpwomen declutter their mind and
get things out of their head sothey can actually think on
things and just operate a littlebit more efficiently and,
honestly, stress-free.
When there's so much in yourmind, no one gives credit to all
of that energy you expend onthe invisible work.
(04:58):
Lennon Doyle coined that phrase.
Invisible work Nice, all themental logistics that we have to
think through right to getthings done, that no one
appreciates.
They just get to show up to themenu and the venue and think
this is great, right?
No, just relax, mom.
I'm like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
As you're serving everyone in here, you know, oh
my gosh Right, right, exactly so, but anyway.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
So it was kind of with that sort of undercurrent
that I've kind of pulledtogether my topic here today,
because when I did become a momI was an older mom.
I didn't have my first babyuntil I was 39.
And you know, my husband and Icoined a phrase called minutes
matter.
And I know, samantha, that'sprobably you're in it to win it
(05:43):
right now Minutes really domatter.
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Yes, you know, um, my husband, I'm like, if you tell
me you're going to be here in 15minutes, do not make it 22.
Right, oh, yes, love it.
Sometimes those minutes likeeverything can unravel in those
extra seven minutes.
Yeah, and so, you know, Ireally started thinking about
how to do things a little bitmore efficiently, because
(06:10):
minutes really do matter.
Like, sometimes you have theselittle bite-sized pieces where
you can sort of really try toget things done.
And so what I found over timeis I started stacking all these
things that I would do tooperate to run my household more
efficiently.
And I was talking to agirlfriend of mine and she's
like oh my God, I never thoughtof that.
I'm like what do you mean?
And she's like no, she's likethat she goes wait, did you just
(06:33):
tell me?
I mean, it started by saying Itold her, I said I find laundry
relaxing.
And she goes wait, what?
And I started telling her someof my things I do.
She's like, oh, I never heardof that.
She's like you need to tellpeople about that.
I'm like, really, you think shegoes oh my God, yes, so you know
, we started thinking about youreally can find you know the
minutes in the mundane things,the unsexy things about our
(06:58):
household, um, and really, whenyou stack them all together, you
know you think of it like agame of Tetris.
I don't know who listeningmight know the game of Tetris.
Right, you're trying toefficiently block all those
things together so you have allthat empty space above you right
?
Same thing with your household.
If you can take all theselittle micro tasks and stack
them all together and just finda little more time in each and
every one of them, they all addup, right?
Yes, I love that.
(07:20):
But anyway, that's kind of wherethis all came to be, and so
what we're going to talk abouthere today Awesome awesome.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Well, tetris was one of my favorite games.
I think our mom was obsessedwith Tetris too, so I mean, we
had that on Nintendo, theoriginal Nintendo.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Yeah, Nintendo.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I don't know if you even remember that I feel like
Nintendo was going out when Ikind of got to that age, and it
was the PlayStation, yes, andNintendo the second one was
probably the one that you sawand I think we had the original,
like the cartridges and thegray box and all of that.
Oh, totally the duck game, youknow, with the gun.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
I'm an Atari girl.
I'm an Atari girl, I'm AtariLike.
You know what I mean.
So, yeah, I was pretty much,yeah, pac-man, all that stuff.
But it's funny to go back andpeople who had like Nintendo or
Intellivision all that were likewhoa, you guys are the best.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Yes no no, so I, I started with Atari.
Actually I mean that one, thatone was on my way out, I think,
but my grandparents had it andthen my dad and that was like I
love that one, loved it LikeSpace Invader and you know like,
oh my gosh, all of them.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Was that the social media of the seventies and the
eighties?
I think so.
I think it must have been.
That's what we all did as teensand tweens, right?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
And there was no chatting like, unless you were
in the room with the person,there was no chatting across
lines, yes, room with the person.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
There was no chatting across the line.
Yeah, that was.
We always find something right.
We'll always find somethingthat pays.
So so, yeah, well, um well, ifyou, if you want, I can just
kind of dig into a couple ofthings.
I was going to say that one ofthe things that I realized, too,
and and kind of piecing allthis together, is, you know,
I've always, um, tried to dofull-time work in part-time
hours, you know, and I think weoperate just as women.
(09:06):
We are always trying to, youknow, put 10 pounds of you know
what in a five pound bag, yep,and so I'm hoping that some of
the things I share with youtoday are kind of, you know,
people that resonate with people.
And the real takeaway here forme is I know, jessica, you and I
listened to some of the samethought leaders you know on, and
we get some of these greatplans and these great long games
, you know.
(09:27):
But sometimes you kind of wantto know what can I do right now?
Yes, what can I do today, youknow, and so, and two, I know we
both listen to Stu McLaren.
He talks about like, whenyou're teaching something,
something, something to someone,all you need to do is be one
step better than the personyou're talking to One step
further not better, but justahead of some yeah, just ahead.
(09:50):
And so really a lot about whatI'm going to talk about today
there is, there is it'severybody can do anything I'm
about to talk about and it'sjust I, just I just got there
first and I can articulate itfor you, and implementation is
easy.
And that's really what I'mgoing for here.
Is that being able to implementthese things without some big
long strategy or implementationplan, right?
(10:12):
So I thought I started out bigwith one that, jessica, you and
I talked about and you were like, oh my gosh, you were one of
those people when I talked aboutlaundry being relaxing.
And unfortunately, you know,laundry is part of everybody's
household, right, and it's notexactly the most fun.
(10:34):
It can be overwhelming and yousee, these piles of to-dos, you
know that can be very, you know,daunting, and I get that.
And so one of the tips that oneof my friends gave me she had
she has, uh, boys that were justa few years old, you know,
older than mine, and so she saidone of the tips she shared with
me and I uh love was she saidthe uniforms never leave the
(10:58):
laundry room.
And I was like I know, and I waslike, oh my gosh, I said that's
really, she goes.
Yes, she said so, she'sliterally.
You know she's like the boyswill come in.
Of course, everything's usuallypretty dirty, dusty.
You know grass stain.
You don't really want ittraipsing through your house, so
everything stays in the laundryroom and she's like, even when
(11:19):
it's clean, it stays in thelaundry room and that's the
magic.
Um, so I thought that was abrilliant tip, and what I did on
top of that was I start.
I created what I call.
This is my first tip I'm goingto share with you.
So I'll number them so peoplecan kind of really follow along
and what these 10 ridiculouslysimple systems are.
(11:41):
So I created what the wind binand what the win bin is.
It's the wash it next bin in mylaundry room, and what that
enables me to do is create aspace for me and my family.
If that person needs thatuniform, that those favorite
(12:02):
shorts, whatever it is theymight need goes into that bin.
If it's there, I will wash itnext.
Yes, right, I will wash it next, because I'm not going to be
traipsing around trying to findall these favorite things and
don't go unraveling the entirehamper to find those favorite
(12:22):
jeans, right, yes, and so thatkind of falls along with like
uniforms and things.
So all of my boys know I've gotthree boys.
I've um.
I don't know if I mentionedthat I have three kids, but
three boys.
I only know how to make boys Um, or maybe my husband only knows
how to make boys.
Um, but anyway.
So the um, anyway, all theuniforms go into the wash it
(12:44):
next bin, and what that does forme is then I literally only
have to do laundry, um on aregular basis when that bin is
full.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Because in the, in the background, I'll do laundry.
Believe it or not, I've gotthree active boys.
We're a family of five.
I do laundry about once everytwo weeks.
This blows my mind about onceevery two weeks.
This blows my mind.
Yes, Cause?
Well, and I'll tell you.
I'll tell you that the wind binhas been the magic of it all,
(13:13):
because literally all thecritical things that need to be
washed quickly are washed.
Yeah, Aside from that, what Itried to do in the background is
stack all of my um.
You know, each of my sons have15 days worth of underwear, just
that extra day in case I'mrunning late.
Right, but everybody'sunderwear is rounded up to 15.
All my dish towels and handtowels are rounded up to 15.
(13:35):
So that, literally, what I'lldo is an entire load of just
kitchen towels and um washcloths, or I'll do an entire load of
just the kids socks andunderwear.
You know, and the magic aboutthat is when you think about
this laundry.
The magic about that is thatwhat, what is the most pain in
(13:56):
the butt thing to do aboutlaundry?
It's not putting in the washerand turning it on.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Oh, putting it away and folding it up.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Right, exactly, it's putting it away.
So I set myself up for successat the front end in only putting
like things together, so that,literally, how long would it
take you to fold an entire loadif it was nothing but hand
towels and washcloths?
Speaker 2 (14:22):
for your kitchen Seconds.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I mean right, and so you know what I do in the
meantime.
What I'll do is like so when Italk about being relaxing, not
only is it mindless, becauseit's um, you're doing the same
thing over and over again and itall goes back in the drawer.
And then, because you've washedit in this sort of cyclical two
week cycle or whatever,whatever your cycle ends up
being, um, the drawer is darnnear empty.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
It fits Like that's my thing, it fits, because I
hate it when things don't fit.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Exactly Cause you're like, oh, and they have to
rotate and all this stuff.
You're like, oh, my gosh, itdoesn't fit and it's so easy to
put away.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
So well, that's nice too because you're not going to
all these different places, likeyou're not like in the kitchen
over here.
Yeah, like it's one area.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
You know, it's so simple but brilliant and I don't
know why we didn't think ofthese things.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
I mean, you know, you nailed it, because my husband's
great about, like, he does allkinds of things around the house
and every now and then I'm like, oh, I threw a load in.
I'm like, oh, I'll tell you why.
Because then by the time itgets out of the dryer, I'll
throw it on the ping pong table,which is what sits in the
middle of our living room.
You know, aforementioned threeboys, I'll throw it there.
(15:31):
I'll say, now you fold it andput it away, run the 18 places,
because you put one pair ofsocks in his underwear.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Well, at least it was a pair of socks.
How about one sack in this loadand one sack in that?
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Exactly so.
I was like that's, that's thethe.
The hurdle that we don'trealize is, like you know,
throwing stuff in the washer andturning it on.
Throwing stuff, that's easy,like oh, I'm doing laundry, I
don't know, it's the putting ofputting away of the laundry.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
So brilliant it is.
The wind bin is really the kindof kickstart and it was
(16:24):
recently.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
I was at a my, my son's, soccer game.
It is no more running aroundtrying to find you know the, the
shock soccer socks and all thisstuff.
I'm like, yep, I love it.
I mean in the the fact that youkeep it in the laundry room
after it's washed, becausethat's the other thing it's like
once it's put away.
Oh, mom, I don't remember whereI put it.
Can you help me find it?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
like it's, it's almost, it's yes who knows where
it is, and and neither thesethings are fancy.
I literally my wind bin is justa plastic tub, you know, from
Walmart, it's not.
It's not nothing fancy.
My kids' uniforms we have acouple baskets that literally I
will roll up their.
You know, I roll up all theirclothes like a burrito and I
stick it in there with their,you know, socks and jerseys and
things like that.
(16:56):
So you don't have to be, youdon't need to like redo your
laundry room, you just need tohave a designated area where
these things are stacked andthey're always here.
Now I have been known to havesome kids streaking through my
house up to the shower, butthat's all right, Right now it
still works.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Yeah, as they get older, they'll have to be new
rules.
Right, right, exactly.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
My 14-year-old could be a little bit like no, no
problem, but anyway that it'slike I said, doesn't have to be
fancy, just has to be functional.
So good, um, yeah, so kind of onthat, um, on that vein, yeah, I
talked about the.
The second thing is is really,um, we talked about rounding
(17:38):
everything up in your, in yourlaundry, your critical parts to
15, 15 pieces and so on.
Building on that, because Ihave so many of those cloths I
want to have on hand, I alwayskeep a microfiber cloth right
where I need one, and I knowthere was Norwex advised that,
like putting putting one on theevery bathroom counter and
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things like that.
So the level up from that isthat on my kitchen counter I
always keep to a glass jar ofDawn dish detergent water, just
simple water with just a fewdrops of Dawn, and what that
enables me to do is that whenyou are trying to be efficiently
wipe down a counter, wipesomething off, get some sponge
(18:21):
something off of someone's shirt, you know Dawn does everything
right.
It does.
Yes, it's incredible.
Every time I watch all theselittle reels I'm like, oh my God
, just Dawn does that really?
I mean, we're saving everything,um, but anyway, having that
there it is makes things so muchmore efficient for cleanup.
(18:42):
Uh, whether it's your kitchentable, your counters, you're not
using um, uh, uh chemicals, butyet it's still a um, viable
cleaning solution and literallyjust water with a few drops of
Dawn having it there and thenthis way you can quickly clean
up your kitchen, which you don'thave to get the whole basin of
(19:03):
dishwater and all that stuffgoing on.
So you'd be amazed how handythat can come in place.
Very cool, all right.
So my next little tip here thisis one that I started when my
kids were really little, whenthey would go into childcare and
I had to get a message to thechildcare provider, and so I
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started what I call he-mail, andI'm showing a visual here.
I love it.
This is my he-mail I wouldliterally write a message to the
teacher and tape it to his back.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
I love it.
I love that.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
And I'm a former teacher.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
So I would just love that.
It's like I mean, it's likethey have all the apps and stuff
now and whatever, but it's likeyou know what that's like?
Foolproof.
The message will send, like youcan see it.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
It will send and it will get where it needs to go.
So I'm holding up this visualwhich my husband was telling me.
He's like.
He's like, wow, he's like, soyou're doing this video.
It's a podcast.
I'm like, yes, but they have avideo.
And he's like I see you go.
So those are your visual props.
And I'm like those of you whoare just listening.
(20:15):
I have a Sharpie in one hand anda roll of masking tape in the
other.
Um, but I want so I tell you.
Um, so, literally like my, myson's, my youngest is in first
grade.
When he was in kindergarten,you know they they asked for
wipes and paper towels andthings.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
There's a list, right .
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Well, those wipes went to and from school three
days in a row, and so got out myemail, taped it across his
chest and said please check mybackpack.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
They're in there, I promise.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Please check whatever Right and so um.
So a couple of things that I'vekind of adopted this whole
little process.
So now that my kids havefriends coming over all the time
and we have like at least sixkids sleeping over every weekend
and invariably there are alwaysthings to end up in said wind
bin that aren't my kids.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
So what I'll do?
Speaker 1 (21:13):
is.
I will take those items, putthem on top of my laundry room
counter, put a piece of tape onthem and say these go back to
Felix, these go back to Landon.
And then this way, it's there,yeah, it's communicated, you
know, and then when they're ontheir way to that practice or
whatever, so it does helps theinternal communication, because
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otherwise it's just a shirtsitting on top of the laundry
room.
Right, I mean depends on whowalks by.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
If they know what it is, they'll sit there forever,
Right exactly, or get foldedsomewhere else Exactly.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
So I've used that for having that masking tape.
This also works on if I have toget a message to my husband.
I put messages on the steeringwheel.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Love it, so smart Love that Yep.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
I put a message on the steering wheel wheel and
masking tape is great because itleaves no residue.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Right and it stays.
You know sticky notes, justdon't hack it.
I mean, I've tried sticky noteseven on the fridge and they
fall.
I know.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I love sticky notes, the concept of them, but, yes, I
when they fall and like, oh mygosh, it's gone forever, they're
not reliable.
I'll put a message on my um, uh, on my mailbox.
If I have a package down belowmy mailbox, I can't find that I
need to ship out.
I'll put a message to my mailcarrier.
I say, hey, please grab thepackage down below because
otherwise they won't.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Right, yeah, no, that's actually interesting.
You say that because I've hadthat trouble and I'm shipping
some stuff out now that I've gotto get out to go take it,
because I know my mailman, if Iput it out there down below
they're not going to take it.
But I might put that on thereWould you mind please?
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Now, I do have you know, I do know my mail carrier
by first name, so that does helpyou know, because I think too
there's probably some federallaw that they can't just grab
something outside of you knowpostal receptacle.
But if you have that, you knowrelationship.
Anyway, here's your, here'syour and this is available on
wwwanywhereyoubuystopscom.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Anywhere right.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
So just a little hack that really helps to with the
internal communication and withand with with others.
So okay, I know right, it's oneof those things that who knew
and I said also.
But I said to the teacher I'mlike this is he mail also
available in she mail and wemail too?
Speaker 2 (23:30):
yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Oh, so good, I know right, so, um, but they, they
get it.
They're like, okay, I got it.
So when the message absolutelyhas to get there, so, um, okay,
so that was the masking tape wasnumber four.
Number five and this wasinspired by my sister who has
into her garage from her houseis a metal door, so she keeps
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those little little magnets andthat's where she puts eye level
any flyer coupon whatever righton the door and that's kind of
you know, and the garage doorsomeone of an internal door, so
she would put a magnet there.
I was like that is brilliant.
Now my joke my door to my housewas not metal so I couldn't do
that, but we implemented amagnetic strip.
(24:16):
Yeah, that's nearby there.
I know commonly when peoplehave, like they go through the
garage, just come on, yet youknow lucky level refrigerator or
a freezer in the garage.
But, we have a section ofcoupons and right now I've got
teenagers who go on theire-bikes and of course they you
know money grows on trees, sothey don't think about the fact
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that you know the Jersey Mike's.
Here's a $2 off coupon, right.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
I love that because I feel like you'll like have the
coupon and then it just getslost somewhere or it's like oh,
it's over here in this bag.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
It's in the diaper bag.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
It's in my purse, you don't have it when you need it,
but if it's right there andlike a common like foot traffic
area, it's perfect.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Right, and sometimes yeah sometimes you're not the
one using said coupon, someoneelse.
Right, but I think it's really.
Everything has its place,everything in its place, and you
can see the undercurrent to allthis.
Stop searching for stuff.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Put it right where you're looking, right where you
are when it makes sense andthat's kind of where a lot of
these things will save you somuch time because going and
looking for things.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
So this next tip, so this is also an idea that's
evolved over time.
But my sixth tip is obviouslyso many of us now do online
grocery shopping, which Iremember gosh, I remember 20
years ago a friend of mine usedto do that.
I was like what it was calledlike Home Grocer or something.
They were like the pioneers.
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I was like what kind ofpointy-toity life do you do?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Yeah, what do you pay for that stuff?
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Yes, I know which, now you know, all these
providers make it so easy to dothat.
But one of the things I do wedo grocery online, grocery
delivery almost more often thananything thing.
(26:04):
But the two things I do is Istill use that time when the
groceries are coming in to usethe opportunity to reorganize,
clean out a drawer, a shelf inmy pantry or my fridge, because
you're still you're still foundtime, right, you know?
And what's nicer than when youopen the fridge and you're like
it's all organized all organized.
There's still.
Invariably it's going to be alittle hodgepodge.
(26:25):
That's just family life.
But what I do in myrefrigerator and this is the
magic part is we have an eat itnext drawer.
Oh, so smart.
So, as you can see, the win binmay have inspired this the eat
it next drawer.
So there is one drawerdedicated in our refrigerator to
vegetables that might need tobe consumed, something that's
(26:48):
partially eaten, leftover pizza,anything that's kind of like
eat this next, right, even ifit's recycling broccoli.
Okay, hey, we bought morebroccoli, you already had some.
Put that in the eat it nextdrawer.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
I mean yeah, Searching for, oh, there's like
this container in the back thatjust got shoved back there.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
That everybody forgot about.
And when was that from again,you know, like it's been in
there a couple of weeks, it'sbeen a day.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Exactly, exactly so, and, depending on you, dedicate
one of the bigger drawers or asmaller drawer or something, but
that's all the eat it.
Next drawer, the onion that gotpartially cut up, and things
like that.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Even like yogurts and stuff that are getting ready to
expire, because they get stuckin the back of our fridge and
then I move them up but nobodyrealizes what I want them to do
with it, because there's nothingthat says eat it now.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Exactly, and we don't , and I probably should make
labels for it.
My family knows now Well yeah,you have a dedicated drawer.
Yeah, yeah, it's that dedicateddrawer.
But given the nature of myindustry, given that I am a
designer, illustrator, you know,provider of the like, denise,
make a sign that we don't put onthere you know Right.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Okay so but anyway yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
So we have the wash it next bin and the eat it next
drawer.
I love it.
Brilliant, right?
Um so, okay, so then, um, theother um.
So tip number seven is have youever struggled with, like,
looking at a task and you'relike, oh my gosh, I just don't
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want to have to do this, whetherit's it could be a little bit
bigger of a task, like whetherit's going through a closet or
you know, uh, I just need tostraighten up this kitchen or do
all these dishes Right, it justcan be feel daunting, you know,
and if it, if it takes me toolong and my phone's too close,
invariably, you know, you getstuck, right, yeah, so what I'll
(28:36):
do is I will literally perch myphone up somewhere, sometimes
even tape it to a cupboarddrawer with that map, this
masking tape that I bought atwwwbuyanythingyouwantcom, and I
will put on a time-lapse cameraon myself.
Oh, so it does two things.
(28:57):
One is it keeps me on task.
Actually, there's three thingskeeps me on task to, I will not
be able to even look at my phone, right, because it's been
utilized.
And three, those output videosare so fun to watch.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
I was going to say that's like content.
Right there, there's somecontent we need that yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
I did that when I was putting away.
We did.
I did that Um, uh, when I wasputting away.
Uh, we did a couple of things.
Um, when I was putting all myChristmas decorations, you know,
we kind of gathered all up andput it all in the ping pong
table and then kind of put itall in its boxes.
And I was like oh, this isgoing to be so daunting, but I
put the time last camera on.
I was like, okay, let's get itdone.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Yeah, that's a really .
I really liked that.
That would definitely motivateme too, cause I wouldn't you
know well, it's like someone'swatching you or packing when you
have to pack Like.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Sometimes I feel like , oh, packing is such a I don't
want to pack right now.
You perch it up on, you know,on your dresser, and then you
pack all your stuff, you know,and then it's just kind of a fun
thing and and then then youhave content for who knows what.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
I know.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Whatever you want.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Brilliant piece of that.
Oh my gosh, we could so usethat.
It'll come in handy somewhere.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Yeah, yeah, I mean moving, setting something up,
baking, cleaning, all this.
I mean the list goes on and on,right, you know.
So, ok, so, um, okay.
So then, tip number eight um,and this we we touched on this a
little bit in having kind oflike, where to find stuff, um,
and that's really um, having adedicated, um outgoing bag for
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anything you, any type of eventyou have, you know, especially,
um, and depending on where youare in the stage of life, like
you know, diaper bag would beone that Samantha, you've got at
the ready.
You know, having life, like youknow, diaper bag would be one
that Samantha, you've got at theready.
You know.
Having a baseball bag, you knowJessica, is another one that
you would have.
Beach bag, you know, just a,then your own personal personal
bag, you can take that to thinkthrough every time.
(31:10):
Yes, you know, um, having itready to go, that's the magic,
yeah, and in that, in that vein,and having everything ready,
for example, um, right about nowis the time of time of year,
I'll go out and back up thetruck on sunscreen and I will
put one in my baseball bag, inmy diaper bag, in my car, in my
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camping bag, in the, you knowthe beach bag.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Yeah, sunscreen and bug spray, those would be the
two that I would grab.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Yeah.
And so to actually get you know,buy in bulk and distribute them
wherever you need them and havethat bag ready to go with all
the mainstays it certainly helpstake them down wash them,
towels or what have you, buthaving that mainstay and you can
even take that to the pointwhere, if you are a you know a
weekend warrior family and go toVRBOs, you know what have that
(32:01):
prefab bin that has all thosethings that you can never count
on them, having the Ziploc bagsand the kitchen shears and the
lighters and all those thingsthat you're like, oh, I just
wish I had that lemon squeezerWine bottle opener I mean having
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just things and again trying tothink it through once you know
and kind of know what the whatneeds to happen, what you need
to have in that, in that bin,and then you, just when it's
washed or ready or whatever, youput it back in the bin and then
it's ready to go.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
You know, these are such obvious things that we
don't do Right.
That's, I think, why Iabsolutely love this, because,
duh, I mean, yes, it would beeasier if it was just ready to
go, but do we do that?
Speaker 1 (32:51):
No, we just search and search, and that's why I say
nothing here.
Anybody can do any of thesethings because you're like, oh
my gosh, of course that's what Ido.
My sister was here recently,like I love the fact that you
two are so close, but I have,I'm pretty close to my sister
and I was telling her about this, what I'm doing, and she gave
me a little little bonus ideaand I thought this was pretty
(33:13):
good.
Where her kids are, she, shehas a whiteboard kind of in and
near her drop zone, and they area family who does my niece is a
big track star they'reconstantly doing little
overnights, things like that,and what they'll do is she'll
put on the whiteboard which eachof the kids have to pack for
this little overnight excursion.
So she'll put on the whiteboardwhat it is, okay, you need, you
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know something to sleep in, anoutfit for tomorrow, you need to
have whatever blah, blah, blah.
And then each kid goes thereand and reads the board and I
thought that was a really goodcentralized location.
She thinks it through once.
She doesn't have to say did youget that?
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Oh my gosh, that's what I'm doing, right, they
still don't get packed unless Ido it.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
You know, you kind of graduate from the having the
diaper bag ready to like okay,kids, this is what you need to
have ready, someresponsibilities, some
responsibilities, exactly.
So I thought that was a goodtip.
I like that.
Okay so, and then let's see.
That was the.
I think I jumped around alittle bit, but one of the other
(34:13):
I said probably, I guess isnumber nine is I keep back stock
on just about all my consumableitems in my house, um and uh.
One of the um I did a guy amillion years ago and he used to
um, he used to tell me that ifhe was trying to, if he was
(34:33):
contemplating a decision onsomething, he and he didn't want
to make a decision, he wouldsay you know what?
I'm going to think through this, uh, uh.
How would he say it?
He said I'm going to givemyself a tube of toothpaste to
think through this.
And he said that he would waituntil he got through a tube of
toothpaste to then think throughsomething.
Because he's like, let me justreally mold this over and I'm
(34:54):
not going to pressurize myself,let's just see if it's still
really important really pressingafter a tube of toothpaste.
I thought, yeah, well, that's aweird like metric, interesting,
yeah, interesting, so you know.
So I kind of have that.
That was influenced, kind oflike when I go and I will one
buying soap.
I literally this morning I saidto my husband, hey, we need to
(35:14):
order bar soap.
I said, go to the Walmart,order and see he goes.
Oh my gosh, the last time youordered bar soap, denise, was
November of 2022.
Right now we're talking it is2024 spring and I realize that
not everybody's going to havethe room or the space, but when
it comes to soap, we're nottalking about a huge investment.
(35:37):
But but sometimes what I'll findmyself doing too is when I buy
something and you buy the, youknow the one million Q-tips I'll
be like you know what, by thetime these Q-tips are gone, I
will be insert goal here I willbe.
You know, have this net paidoff?
Yeah, this, you know I will beable to be run, you know, run
three miles without panting.
(35:58):
You know, like, whatever it islike these goal setting things.
But the fringe Benny is thatliterally I don't have to think,
mom, we're out of soap, have togo get it.
It's kind of a backstock areain our home that has all the
backlog of deodorant and tonersand conditioners and shampoos
(36:19):
and whatever, and so that thisway I don't have to think about
it that much.
Yeah, right.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
That happens so often here.
It's like you have to thinkabout so many other things.
It's like having to not have tothink about those things is
nice.
It frees up your day.
It does, and I mean that's lessthinking.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
I stocked up during COVID and I mean like toilet
paper.
You know that was the wholething, but I still am using some
of the toilet paper that wehave.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
But it's nice because then you don't have to worry
about it when you go to thestore.
That's one less thing on yourlist.
That's why I love Costco.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
I'm like, okay, I do the Amazon delivery, you know
like the monthly delivery orwhatever, but I got in it and
they were able to ship it, so Ididn't stop it.
And then we also had a verybackup backup of Scott's if
there was an emergency, becausewe wanted something softer.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
But we still have that.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
I don't know why we stopped, that we should have
just continued and realized, Imean that, that paper towels and
gosh, I know, and I try to keepeverything in that back stock.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
If you look at my back stock now, everything is
kind of unwrapped and ready togo.
Yeah, the toothpaste is out ofthe boxes, out of the cellophane
, even unwrapping the bars ofsoap to make it super quick and
easy yeah, easy to grab.
And I can take all thosetoothpaste boxes of the 12 tubes
of toothpaste that I justbought, recycle them and I have
just the tubes lined up thereand I have to admit I like what
that kind of looks like.
(37:44):
I'm not going to lie.
All I can say Love it.
Jessica, you and I have alreadykind of gone down this path of
helping parents and fellow youknow fellow parents organize all
(38:10):
their kids' keepsakes and notbeing overwhelmed by the
day-to-day influx of all thethings that kids bring home,
whether it's the real littleswith all the crafts and the
pom-pom art or, you know, it'sthe play pots and like the
awards that my kids get now forsporting participation
participation.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
Oh my God, I can't say participation, no
participation, because there'sno more.
Like everyone gets a ribbon,that's a whole thing.
I mean like yeah, that's awhole other bucket, but yeah,
everybody gets one.
So there's a million of themlaying around our house, right?
Speaker 1 (38:44):
And one of those things at some point.
You know it's easy in thatmoment to just kind of pile it
up or put it, put it in a box orbin and kind of put it in the
back, you know closet, the guestbedroom or in the attic or
garage.
But then invariably whathappens is then one day you're
going to have to deal with saidbins of and my girlfriend calls
it keepsake soup.
(39:05):
Yes, because it is a hodgepodgeof stuff.
And so, given, you know, givenwhere I am in life I mean, my
oldest is in eighth grade, Istill have one in first but I
have plenty of bins and keepsakemementos that I'm like why am I
keeping this?
We've moved several times inrecent history.
(39:26):
Every time I move I question mylike what?
Speaker 2 (39:30):
was I thinking Macaroni shaking in the box?
Well, I feel like my mom justwent through this with me.
Speaker 3 (39:37):
She's like I have these boxes no-transcript boxes,
(40:07):
samantha.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
Then you're like what do I do with them?
Because she kept them for allthese decades.
I'm like what do I do with it?
Yes, so what?
So?
Something that that kind ofbubbled up during the pandemic?
We have a, a physical scrapbook.
Among my, my products.
(40:28):
We have a physical scrapbookcalled the class keeper and
during those you know, 18 monthsor whatever the thick of it, we
sold 140,000 of those binders.
With that.
To me I was like huh, wow,we're all living in parallel
(40:50):
lives, all staring at thosegiant bins, all those things.
And we're like what do we dowith this stuff?
Now, none of us have the timeto deal with it.
Now people are kind of deepdiving in, like, okay, let's put
enough of this, enough of thegood stuff, in a physical book,
so at least we can like okay,check the box and maybe quell a
(41:11):
little of the mom guilt forhaving never done a baby book,
yeah.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
Right, it's something from every year, it's good.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
So the so what?
What bubbled up from that wasthe realization that we are
dealing with these mementos thatwe don't know how to properly
organize and keep and give themtheir due commemoration, and so,
um, in that process, we built,uh, and and developed a mobile
(41:42):
app, also called the classkeeper, that helps parents
digitally organize all theirkids keepsakes, whether it's
photos, photos of you with yourkids, stuff, just the stuff,
just the participation awards,um, in an organized way in each
child's profile's, a all kindsof pre-populated with albums and
(42:04):
sections for all thesedifferent things, where you
don't have to do any thinking,right.
So we took the same concept fromthe physical book no thinking,
just inking.
Now it is just no more.
Um, you have it right from theum, whether it's from your
camera, camera roll or a livephoto, or you can also go back
and backdate photos that you mayhave from years before, or even
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taking pictures of all thekeepsakes and logging them.
Yep, and the other, probablythe most magical part about this
as a mom is, each child'sprofile has what we call keepers
, which is a log.
Think of it kind of like yourlittle micro blog of all the
cute things your kids said anddid that you want to remember.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:49):
But trust me, over time you're like wait.
Which one of you said that?
Speaker 2 (42:53):
Yeah, that's my favorite part, I think, because
it is all those little things,the words like we had union and
oh well, shoot, you was aquassadilla.
Speaker 3 (43:05):
I called it a quassadilla, a quassadilla A
quassadilla yes.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
Genetically, Absolutely.
Oh yeah, I just.
There's so many things I mean Ido remember that one still, but
there's going to be a day whenI forget many things.
I mean, I do remember that onestill, but there's going to be a
day when I forget it.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
Yeah, there will be.
Speaker 2 (43:23):
Pedestrianian was Sydney.
And I think oh my gosh Hiccubuswas me yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:32):
Hibiscus was Hiccubus .
I just See, I know.
So all those things you want to, you want to log and remember,
you know, or even, and in thekeepers you can put a photo with
it if you wanted to put, orjust a story, just text, and
everything is searchable.
And the other part is that it'sshareable as well, and when you
share, you can share withsomeone as a view only.
Like, maybe you know, our momsand dads may not be contributing
content, but they want to seeit in real time.
(43:52):
But then you know, like myhusband, he's got some of the
best photos on his phone and thebest memories.
Ok, babe, he's got some of thebest photos on his phone and the
best memories.
I'm like hey, babe, you knowyou can upload too, so I share
it with him.
You know, and I'm the only youknow, I only have to have one
membership for family.
You can share it to whomeveryou like, and then they can be,
they can have the option toshare as a contributor, so my
(44:16):
husband can upload content too.
Speaker 3 (44:18):
Yeah, I love that and I'm so excited for this because
, like you know, I have mo.
He's 18 months and then I'mgonna have another baby.
I'm like this is great, I couldstart doing this, like now.
And it's just like I have allof this this time and all these
memories that I'm already goingto be able to have organized and
not have to like worry about itlike 30, 40 years from now and
be like oh my God, here's yourbin.
Speaker 1 (44:39):
Like and there will be probably some you know but
the you know your child get likemaybe one box where kids these
days are getting like they'relike oh yeah there's an entire
pallet full.
Speaker 2 (44:52):
Get a U-Haul Totally.
Speaker 1 (44:55):
And that's where I wish somebody you know would
have would have grabbed theshirt collars of my preschool
mom self and said look andmatter of fact I even have.
You know I have somewhere.
It's not handy.
I did start doing that beforethis app was even a thing, and
this is my, this is my tip thatI that I started then, which I
can now log in the classkeeperapp.
(45:15):
I can now log in theclasskeeper app when your child
comes home from a few days ofpreschool.
What I literally did with mylittle guy he was four at the
time I sat him down in themiddle of the like, right in
front of a window, crisscrossapplesauce, put all his artwork
around him and then had him lookup at me and take a picture.
Love it.
Yes, that's what goes into myclasskeeper.
(45:36):
That's the joy.
Seeing his face and seeing whathe made, because you know what?
That styrofoam?
It was a styrofoam cow and apopsicle stick, john Deere
tractor and his whole theme offarm animals.
That was the theme for summercamp that week and I'm like
you're never going to do thosethings justice.
You don't want to keep it, butseeing him with that, you know
(45:56):
fruit and rainbow, him with that, you know fruit and rainbow,
yeah, that's magic, priceless,yes, yes and so, and then you
know what you can do with allthat.
That cereal art then.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
Right, yeah, I don't want rodents and all that coming
in you just you know secretly,Snack later.
Speaker 1 (46:11):
Bye-bye.
No one can see my, my, mygestures.
That you're listening.
But yes, then you can let it go.
Yes, you have it, it's there,it's perfect, you've given it
the, the, the proper, um, youknow, uh, attention that it
needs and, and, and, reallythat's you know what, what you
(46:33):
really want.
And then one day, when they'relike mom, what was it?
Did I smear Vaseline all overmy face?
Or was it spaghetti sauce?
Or was it baby powder?
Let me search it up real quick,yeah.
Speaker 3 (46:43):
I'll tell you the day .
Speaker 2 (46:45):
Yeah, and that's the.
I mean like the artwork, thething you keep it.
But then to remember, okay,what grade was this?
You know, like, when was itwhat?
You know who was your teacher,like you can't remember all of
that stuff, and this is kind ofa cool way to incorporate all
the details within it.
Speaker 1 (47:00):
Oh yeah, or, like you know, the leprechaun traps.
Do you want to picture them?
They're so proud of that thing.
But then go bye, bye.
The gingerbread houses Allthose you know, the student of
the week posters.
Oh yes, you know there's somany oversized three dimensional
things that I'm like I don'thave the space nor the moving
truck big enough.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
And you'll never do anything with it.
Like there's not, you're justkeeping it to keep it.
You're not doing anything withit, it's not going to turn into
something later, you're justkeeping it.
To keep it because you feelguilty.
Speaker 1 (47:31):
And your, your kids won't.
Your kids won't want it eitherone day.
And just like Samantha's sayinglike no, mom, don't throw it
away, but no, I don't want it.
Speaker 3 (47:38):
Right, it's like I don't have room for that, but
please don't get rid of it.
Like right, right.
She's like well, someday, ifyou don't take it now, it will
be yours.
She's like when we're long gone, it'll be yours.
It'll be yours somehow.
And I was like okay.
Speaker 1 (47:53):
Well, we could kind of wrap up these 10 things with
the Classkeeper app and thenalso offering your listeners a
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(48:14):
To now present the Classkeeperoffer.
Yes, no, that's perfect,perfect.
So, basically, by using, we'llshare a link to that offer.
Yeah, in the show notes andnormally the the, the annual
membership.
It is $39.99 right now, but no,no, not for you.
(48:36):
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And we talked to Jessica.
She's like what is it going tobe, jessica?
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(48:57):
So, finally, that's less thanyou know what a latte these days
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Speaker 3 (49:01):
Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (49:03):
It's really a mental free space.
I'm not the physical free space.
You don't have those eight binscrowding.
So anyone listening who whetheryou have kids who are just
starting out, like whereSamantha is and kind of doing an
active uploading, or maybewhere Jessica and our Jessica
and I oh my gosh, it's hard tosay Jessica and I are- Wow, it
(49:25):
is a really, it's a mouthfulyeah.
Right, you know some teens andtweens.
You know, between us, you knowit's a little bit more of a
backlogging, which is stillpossible, you know that I can
still go through Exactly, youknow, and even to say to in
later stages.
I know parents who have sharedtheir profile with their grown
(49:48):
teenager, grown teenagers.
But here, here's your bin.
Speaker 2 (49:51):
Yeah, there you go, you you right.
I like that.
I mean, that's perfect the past, that you can pass it off.
I guess, yeah, that's so nice.
Because again it's anotherthing like okay, well, yeah,
I've got all these memories,what am I gonna do with them?
Speaker 3 (50:07):
but here you go when it's easy to look at them too,
you can go, you can look at themwhenever you want.
Speaker 1 (50:13):
You don't have to like rifle through a bin or it's
usually like up in the attic orsomewhere where you can't see,
like what dish, you can seewhatever you want.
Yeah right, I had a girlfriendof mine, her daughter's in
college, and she said, um, shewas going through a sorority
rush and needed pictures of somechildhood things and and she
could find them in the app,versus, like, having her mom go
(50:34):
back.
Speaker 2 (50:34):
Oh my gosh, how am I ever gonna find yeah, and who
prints?
Now that's like the other thing.
It's like I have all thesepictures in my cloud, my iCloud,
you know at least now puttingthem in the classkeeper app.
Speaker 1 (50:48):
They're somewhere that someone's going to look at,
because right now in my cloud,they're just there, you know,
right, and you know if there's,and I'll tell you because you
can also share it with someoneas a contributor.
Say, for example, you areoverwhelmed with all those
photos or all those bins, youcan actually one outsource it to
someone else.
Whether you there'sprofessional organizers who will
(51:09):
do this for you, you know, andwhether or even, if you want to,
you know, pay your own team tobe like, okay, go through these
photos and just pick, cherry,pick some good ones and put them
in this album.
Yeah, the digital album, yeah,you know, on the app, so you
don't have to necessarily do ityourself.
Well, now, I did want to put theput the bonus offer out there
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(51:34):
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So, and improving the app andgetting the word out there.
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(52:18):
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Speaker 2 (52:22):
So awesome.
Yeah, the products are amazing.
I got a million of them herenow.
My favorite is the reminderbinder.
Right now, like that's where mylife is at the moment, and I
also, I like your, your fine,your budget binder.
I like that one too Like thoseare the ones I've really dove
into.
Speaker 1 (52:41):
That one's been a great uh.
It's a compilation of all thepractices and principles and
kind of.
Again, you can see everythingin one place, right, you need it
.
Speaker 2 (52:48):
That's exactly it, it's convenient.
Speaker 1 (52:49):
Yeah, the, the reminder binder has been an
evolution of the um.
You should see the first one Ithink I did in 2008, compared to
the one now.
It's just been.
As I get feedback, you know,we're able to build and stack
things on there.
Speaker 2 (53:03):
Oh, so cool.
Yeah, Absolutely worth everybit.
Class app keeper is you knowlike that's amazing.
I use it.
I mean, I'm probably onlythrough my first three years-ish
, that's impressive though youdid that fast.
Yeah, I mean it's taken acouple months but that's because
I don't have a lot of time todedicate to it.
(53:23):
But it's working really welland it is.
It's so nice because we canjust refer back really easily
and it's been fun going downmemory lane, honestly, doing all
of this backlog.
I think I've enjoyed it morethan I realized, because it's
not feeling like a task, it'sfeeling like just going down
memory lane and it's, it's cool.
So, yeah, definitely,definitely grab it If you've got
(53:45):
kids and need to organize your,your photos and all of your
projects and whatnot.
Totally worth it.
Speaker 1 (53:51):
So one, one more little system just to like just
take care of all that, becauseotherwise it just piles up and
then it becomes overwhelming.
So if you start, you implementsome of these things that we
shared today are just great wayto kind of condense things down,
make a little bit morestreamlined and find some extra
minutes, because minutes matter.
Yeah, that I couldn't say itbetter.
Speaker 2 (54:11):
Minutes matter, and I mean you.
Your tips were so good.
I mean, like I said, they makeso much sense, and it's just
amazing that we don't realizethis.
We need someone to tell us.
So thank you so much forsharing all of that.
It was definitely worth the 45minutes talking about all of
(54:31):
this.
I mean, it really, really was.
So again, thanks for joining us, and do you want to tell
everybody where they can findyou if they want to connect?
Speaker 1 (54:41):
Absolutely so.
Again, try to keeping it all inone place.
Probably the best way to findme and all the different
channels is just to go to mywebsite, which is
denisealbrightcom.
Speaker 2 (54:52):
Yes, can't forget that one.
Awesome, all right.
Well, we will be back next week.
Thanks for joining us today on.
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Until then, keep embracing your unique journey
and remember you've got ittogether more than you think.
What I found over time is I started stacking all
these things that I would do tooperate to run my household more
efficiently.
And I was talking to agirlfriend of mine and she's
like, oh my God, I never thoughtof that.
I'm like what do you mean?
And she's like no, she's likethat she goes wait, did you just
tell me?
I mean, it started by saying Itold her.
I said I find laundry relaxingand she goes wait, what?
(00:21):
And I started telling her someof my things I do.
She's like oh, I never heard ofthat.
She's like you need to tellpeople about that.
I'm like, really you think shegoes oh my God, yes, so you know
, we started thinking like youreally can find you know the
minutes and the mundane things,the unsexy things about our
household.
And really, when you stack themall together, you know you
(00:46):
think of it like a game ofTetris.
I don't know who listeningmight know the game of Tetris,
right?
You're trying to efficientlyblock all those things together.
So you have all that emptyspace above you, right?
Same thing with your household,if you can take all these
little micro tasks and stackthem all together and just find
a little more time in each andevery one of them.
They all add up, right?
Yes.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Hi everyone, and welcome to a brand new episode
of she's Got it Together.
I'm your host, Jessica.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
And I'm Samantha.
Each week we peel back thecurtain on what it really looks
like to have it together.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
From the messy moments to the milestones, we're
here to share it all.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
So grab your favorite drink, get comfy and let's dive
into today's topic.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
get comfy and let's dive into today's topic, jessica
, here we're back for anotherepisode of she's Got it Together
, and I am joined with mysidekick, samantha Hello, and
she is not feeling 100% today,so you probably won't hear as
much from her as we typically do.
Allergy season yes, not verynice to her right now, and we
(01:47):
have our guest, denise Albrightfrom denisealbrightcom, and she
is going to be chatting with ustoday about 10 ridiculously
simple systems that you canimplement today.
So, denise, how are you?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I'm great.
I love the intro saying this isDenise Albright.
From Denise Albright, I neverfeel so narcissistic.
I love it, I love it.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
That's so funny, it's hard, I mean, how else do we do
it?
Yes, of course you do it as youdo it.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
That's so funny.
Back in the day, when I wastrying to name my company, I was
really kind of like I don'tknow what I'm going to do
exactly.
So I'm like, yeah, name works.
My maiden name fun fact mymaiden name is Shrek.
So that would be amazing.
I mean that would be good.
That's a marketable, so yeah.
So Denise Albright, which is alittle more phonetically sound,
a little bit more you know so so, but I'm doing well and
(02:42):
thrilled that we could pull thistogether.
Thank you guys so much forhaving me.
Yeah, it's going to be fun.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
So, Denise, I'm going to kind of let you tell
everyone about yourself and youknow where they can find you and
all that fun stuff, but then wecan dive in.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Awesome.
Okay, so I am a married mom ofthree.
I started my first businessback in 1999.
I think I was like 12.
I've always been kind of alittle bit of an entrepreneurial
spirit, and so I've worked formyself back in the day and
creating invitations,announcements for you know, all
(03:17):
kinds of social engagements.
Sold that company in 07.
Thought I wanted to take timeoff to have a family.
Did that.
Realized I really like myselfworking and so does everybody
else.
Got a little bored yes, Peopleforget to tell you that about
motherhood, right that it's kindof a little bit lonely, right,
Right?
So I know I'm preaching to thechoir here, and so I did take
(03:41):
some time off, had a few kidsand then got back into it in
2016 with the company I havetoday, which is really designed
about helping busy womendeclutter their mind, and all
the products we bring to thetable are planners and journals
and weekly planner pads and mealplanning pads, things like that
that can really sort of helpyou organize all of your
thoughts.
(04:02):
You know we spend so much timeorganizing our homes physically,
but really there's so muchcluttered in my brain.
You want to clear that mentaldance floor so you can do one of
two things.
You can actually I don't knowthink, and then, secondly, enjoy
the moment once you're there.
I mean, how many of you haveactually gotten to an event
right, Maybe it's been.
You know the sidelines, thebleachers across the dinner
(04:23):
table from a loved one.
You're there physically, butmentally you're three days ahead
.
Right, right, yeah, Right.
And so you know, I'll tell mykids look, even the word moment
has the word mom in it.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Shouldn't.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I get to enjoy it too .
Yeah, absolutely, I love that.
Yeah, so, anyway.
So my mission is really to helpwomen declutter their mind and
get things out of their head sothey can actually think on
things and just operate a littlebit more efficiently and,
honestly, stress-free.
When there's so much in yourmind, no one gives credit to all
of that energy you expend onthe invisible work.
(04:58):
Lennon Doyle coined that phrase.
Invisible work Nice, all themental logistics that we have to
think through right to getthings done, that no one
appreciates.
They just get to show up to themenu and the venue and think
this is great, right?
No, just relax, mom.
I'm like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
As you're serving everyone in here, you know, oh
my gosh Right, right, exactly so, but anyway.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
So it was kind of with that sort of undercurrent
that I've kind of pulledtogether my topic here today,
because when I did become a momI was an older mom.
I didn't have my first babyuntil I was 39.
And you know, my husband and Icoined a phrase called minutes
matter.
And I know, samantha, that'sprobably you're in it to win it
(05:43):
right now Minutes really domatter.
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Yes, you know, um, my husband, I'm like, if you tell
me you're going to be here in 15minutes, do not make it 22.
Right, oh, yes, love it.
Sometimes those minutes likeeverything can unravel in those
extra seven minutes.
Yeah, and so, you know, Ireally started thinking about
how to do things a little bitmore efficiently, because
(06:10):
minutes really do matter.
Like, sometimes you have theselittle bite-sized pieces where
you can sort of really try toget things done.
And so what I found over timeis I started stacking all these
things that I would do tooperate to run my household more
efficiently.
And I was talking to agirlfriend of mine and she's
like oh my God, I never thoughtof that.
I'm like what do you mean?
And she's like no, she's likethat she goes wait, did you just
(06:33):
tell me?
I mean, it started by saying Itold her, I said I find laundry
relaxing.
And she goes wait, what?
And I started telling her someof my things I do.
She's like, oh, I never heardof that.
She's like you need to tellpeople about that.
I'm like, really, you think shegoes oh my God, yes, so you know
, we started thinking about youreally can find you know the
minutes in the mundane things,the unsexy things about our
(06:58):
household, um, and really, whenyou stack them all together, you
know you think of it like agame of Tetris.
I don't know who listeningmight know the game of Tetris.
Right, you're trying toefficiently block all those
things together so you have allthat empty space above you right
?
Same thing with your household.
If you can take all theselittle micro tasks and stack
them all together and just finda little more time in each and
every one of them, they all addup, right?
Yes, I love that.
(07:20):
But anyway, that's kind of wherethis all came to be, and so
what we're going to talk abouthere today Awesome awesome.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Well, tetris was one of my favorite games.
I think our mom was obsessedwith Tetris too, so I mean, we
had that on Nintendo, theoriginal Nintendo.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Yeah, Nintendo.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I don't know if you even remember that I feel like
Nintendo was going out when Ikind of got to that age, and it
was the PlayStation, yes, andNintendo the second one was
probably the one that you sawand I think we had the original,
like the cartridges and thegray box and all of that.
Oh, totally the duck game, youknow, with the gun.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
I'm an Atari girl.
I'm an Atari girl, I'm AtariLike.
You know what I mean.
So, yeah, I was pretty much,yeah, pac-man, all that stuff.
But it's funny to go back andpeople who had like Nintendo or
Intellivision all that were likewhoa, you guys are the best.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Yes no no, so I, I started with Atari.
Actually I mean that one, thatone was on my way out, I think,
but my grandparents had it andthen my dad and that was like I
love that one, loved it LikeSpace Invader and you know like,
oh my gosh, all of them.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Was that the social media of the seventies and the
eighties?
I think so.
I think it must have been.
That's what we all did as teensand tweens, right?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
And there was no chatting like, unless you were
in the room with the person,there was no chatting across
lines, yes, room with the person.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
There was no chatting across the line.
Yeah, that was.
We always find something right.
We'll always find somethingthat pays.
So so, yeah, well, um well, ifyou, if you want, I can just
kind of dig into a couple ofthings.
I was going to say that one ofthe things that I realized, too,
and and kind of piecing allthis together, is, you know,
I've always, um, tried to dofull-time work in part-time
hours, you know, and I think weoperate just as women.
(09:06):
We are always trying to, youknow, put 10 pounds of you know
what in a five pound bag, yep,and so I'm hoping that some of
the things I share with youtoday are kind of, you know,
people that resonate with people.
And the real takeaway here forme is I know, jessica, you and I
listened to some of the samethought leaders you know on, and
we get some of these greatplans and these great long games
, you know.
(09:27):
But sometimes you kind of wantto know what can I do right now?
Yes, what can I do today, youknow, and so, and two, I know we
both listen to Stu McLaren.
He talks about like, whenyou're teaching something,
something, something to someone,all you need to do is be one
step better than the personyou're talking to One step
further not better, but justahead of some yeah, just ahead.
(09:50):
And so really a lot about whatI'm going to talk about today
there is, there is it'severybody can do anything I'm
about to talk about and it'sjust I, just I just got there
first and I can articulate itfor you, and implementation is
easy.
And that's really what I'mgoing for here.
Is that being able to implementthese things without some big
long strategy or implementationplan, right?
(10:12):
So I thought I started out bigwith one that, jessica, you and
I talked about and you were like, oh my gosh, you were one of
those people when I talked aboutlaundry being relaxing.
And unfortunately, you know,laundry is part of everybody's
household, right, and it's notexactly the most fun.
(10:34):
It can be overwhelming and yousee, these piles of to-dos, you
know that can be very, you know,daunting, and I get that.
And so one of the tips that oneof my friends gave me she had
she has, uh, boys that were justa few years old, you know,
older than mine, and so she saidone of the tips she shared with
me and I uh love was she saidthe uniforms never leave the
(10:58):
laundry room.
And I was like I know, and I waslike, oh my gosh, I said that's
really, she goes.
Yes, she said so, she'sliterally.
You know she's like the boyswill come in.
Of course, everything's usuallypretty dirty, dusty.
You know grass stain.
You don't really want ittraipsing through your house, so
everything stays in the laundryroom and she's like, even when
(11:19):
it's clean, it stays in thelaundry room and that's the
magic.
Um, so I thought that was abrilliant tip, and what I did on
top of that was I start.
I created what I call.
This is my first tip I'm goingto share with you.
So I'll number them so peoplecan kind of really follow along
and what these 10 ridiculouslysimple systems are.
(11:41):
So I created what the wind binand what the win bin is.
It's the wash it next bin in mylaundry room, and what that
enables me to do is create aspace for me and my family.
If that person needs thatuniform, that those favorite
(12:02):
shorts, whatever it is theymight need goes into that bin.
If it's there, I will wash itnext.
Yes, right, I will wash it next, because I'm not going to be
traipsing around trying to findall these favorite things and
don't go unraveling the entirehamper to find those favorite
(12:22):
jeans, right, yes, and so thatkind of falls along with like
uniforms and things.
So all of my boys know I've gotthree boys.
I've um.
I don't know if I mentionedthat I have three kids, but
three boys.
I only know how to make boys Um, or maybe my husband only knows
how to make boys.
Um, but anyway.
So the um, anyway, all theuniforms go into the wash it
(12:44):
next bin, and what that does forme is then I literally only
have to do laundry, um on aregular basis when that bin is
full.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Because in the, in the background, I'll do laundry.
Believe it or not, I've gotthree active boys.
We're a family of five.
I do laundry about once everytwo weeks.
This blows my mind about onceevery two weeks.
This blows my mind.
Yes, Cause?
Well, and I'll tell you.
I'll tell you that the wind binhas been the magic of it all,
(13:13):
because literally all thecritical things that need to be
washed quickly are washed.
Yeah, Aside from that, what Itried to do in the background is
stack all of my um.
You know, each of my sons have15 days worth of underwear, just
that extra day in case I'mrunning late.
Right, but everybody'sunderwear is rounded up to 15.
All my dish towels and handtowels are rounded up to 15.
(13:35):
So that, literally, what I'lldo is an entire load of just
kitchen towels and um washcloths, or I'll do an entire load of
just the kids socks andunderwear.
You know, and the magic aboutthat is when you think about
this laundry.
The magic about that is thatwhat, what is the most pain in
(13:56):
the butt thing to do aboutlaundry?
It's not putting in the washerand turning it on.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Oh, putting it away and folding it up.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Right, exactly, it's putting it away.
So I set myself up for successat the front end in only putting
like things together, so that,literally, how long would it
take you to fold an entire loadif it was nothing but hand
towels and washcloths?
Speaker 2 (14:22):
for your kitchen Seconds.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I mean right, and so you know what I do in the
meantime.
What I'll do is like so when Italk about being relaxing, not
only is it mindless, becauseit's um, you're doing the same
thing over and over again and itall goes back in the drawer.
And then, because you've washedit in this sort of cyclical two
week cycle or whatever,whatever your cycle ends up
being, um, the drawer is darnnear empty.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
It fits Like that's my thing, it fits, because I
hate it when things don't fit.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Exactly Cause you're like, oh, and they have to
rotate and all this stuff.
You're like, oh, my gosh, itdoesn't fit and it's so easy to
put away.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
So well, that's nice too because you're not going to
all these different places, likeyou're not like in the kitchen
over here.
Yeah, like it's one area.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
You know, it's so simple but brilliant and I don't
know why we didn't think ofthese things.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
I mean, you know, you nailed it, because my husband's
great about, like, he does allkinds of things around the house
and every now and then I'm like, oh, I threw a load in.
I'm like, oh, I'll tell you why.
Because then by the time itgets out of the dryer, I'll
throw it on the ping pong table,which is what sits in the
middle of our living room.
You know, aforementioned threeboys, I'll throw it there.
(15:31):
I'll say, now you fold it andput it away, run the 18 places,
because you put one pair ofsocks in his underwear.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Well, at least it was a pair of socks.
How about one sack in this loadand one sack in that?
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Exactly so.
I was like that's, that's thethe.
The hurdle that we don'trealize is, like you know,
throwing stuff in the washer andturning it on.
Throwing stuff, that's easy,like oh, I'm doing laundry, I
don't know, it's the putting ofputting away of the laundry.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
So brilliant it is.
The wind bin is really the kindof kickstart and it was
(16:24):
recently.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
I was at a my, my son's, soccer game.
It is no more running aroundtrying to find you know the, the
shock soccer socks and all thisstuff.
I'm like, yep, I love it.
I mean in the the fact that youkeep it in the laundry room
after it's washed, becausethat's the other thing it's like
once it's put away.
Oh, mom, I don't remember whereI put it.
Can you help me find it?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
like it's, it's almost, it's yes who knows where
it is, and and neither thesethings are fancy.
I literally my wind bin is justa plastic tub, you know, from
Walmart, it's not.
It's not nothing fancy.
My kids' uniforms we have acouple baskets that literally I
will roll up their.
You know, I roll up all theirclothes like a burrito and I
stick it in there with their,you know, socks and jerseys and
things like that.
(16:56):
So you don't have to be, youdon't need to like redo your
laundry room, you just need tohave a designated area where
these things are stacked andthey're always here.
Now I have been known to havesome kids streaking through my
house up to the shower, butthat's all right, Right now it
still works.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Yeah, as they get older, they'll have to be new
rules.
Right, right, exactly.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
My 14-year-old could be a little bit like no, no
problem, but anyway that it'slike I said, doesn't have to be
fancy, just has to be functional.
So good, um, yeah, so kind of onthat, um, on that vein, yeah, I
talked about the.
The second thing is is really,um, we talked about rounding
(17:38):
everything up in your, in yourlaundry, your critical parts to
15, 15 pieces and so on.
Building on that, because Ihave so many of those cloths I
want to have on hand, I alwayskeep a microfiber cloth right
where I need one, and I knowthere was Norwex advised that,
like putting putting one on theevery bathroom counter and
(17:59):
things like that.
So the level up from that isthat on my kitchen counter I
always keep to a glass jar ofDawn dish detergent water, just
simple water with just a fewdrops of Dawn, and what that
enables me to do is that whenyou are trying to be efficiently
wipe down a counter, wipesomething off, get some sponge
(18:21):
something off of someone's shirt, you know Dawn does everything
right.
It does.
Yes, it's incredible.
Every time I watch all theselittle reels I'm like, oh my God
, just Dawn does that really?
I mean, we're saving everything,um, but anyway, having that
there it is makes things so muchmore efficient for cleanup.
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Uh, whether it's your kitchentable, your counters, you're not
using um, uh, uh chemicals, butyet it's still a um, viable
cleaning solution and literallyjust water with a few drops of
Dawn having it there and thenthis way you can quickly clean
up your kitchen, which you don'thave to get the whole basin of
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dishwater and all that stuffgoing on.
So you'd be amazed how handythat can come in place.
Very cool, all right.
So my next little tip here thisis one that I started when my
kids were really little, whenthey would go into childcare and
I had to get a message to thechildcare provider, and so I
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started what I call he-mail, andI'm showing a visual here.
I love it.
This is my he-mail I wouldliterally write a message to the
teacher and tape it to his back.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
I love it.
I love that.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
And I'm a former teacher.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
So I would just love that.
It's like I mean, it's likethey have all the apps and stuff
now and whatever, but it's likeyou know what that's like?
Foolproof.
The message will send, like youcan see it.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
It will send and it will get where it needs to go.
So I'm holding up this visualwhich my husband was telling me.
He's like.
He's like, wow, he's like, soyou're doing this video.
It's a podcast.
I'm like, yes, but they have avideo.
And he's like I see you go.
So those are your visual props.
And I'm like those of you whoare just listening.
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I have a Sharpie in one hand anda roll of masking tape in the
other.
Um, but I want so I tell you.
Um, so, literally like my, myson's, my youngest is in first
grade.
When he was in kindergarten,you know they they asked for
wipes and paper towels andthings.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
There's a list, right .
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Well, those wipes went to and from school three
days in a row, and so got out myemail, taped it across his
chest and said please check mybackpack.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
They're in there, I promise.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Please check whatever Right and so um.
So a couple of things that I'vekind of adopted this whole
little process.
So now that my kids havefriends coming over all the time
and we have like at least sixkids sleeping over every weekend
and invariably there are alwaysthings to end up in said wind
bin that aren't my kids.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
So what I'll do?
Speaker 1 (21:13):
is.
I will take those items, putthem on top of my laundry room
counter, put a piece of tape onthem and say these go back to
Felix, these go back to Landon.
And then this way, it's there,yeah, it's communicated, you
know, and then when they're ontheir way to that practice or
whatever, so it does helps theinternal communication, because
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otherwise it's just a shirtsitting on top of the laundry
room.
Right, I mean depends on whowalks by.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
If they know what it is, they'll sit there forever,
Right exactly, or get foldedsomewhere else Exactly.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
So I've used that for having that masking tape.
This also works on if I have toget a message to my husband.
I put messages on the steeringwheel.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Love it, so smart Love that Yep.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
I put a message on the steering wheel wheel and
masking tape is great because itleaves no residue.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Right and it stays.
You know sticky notes, justdon't hack it.
I mean, I've tried sticky noteseven on the fridge and they
fall.
I know.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I love sticky notes, the concept of them, but, yes, I
when they fall and like, oh mygosh, it's gone forever, they're
not reliable.
I'll put a message on my um, uh, on my mailbox.
If I have a package down belowmy mailbox, I can't find that I
need to ship out.
I'll put a message to my mailcarrier.
I say, hey, please grab thepackage down below because
otherwise they won't.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Right, yeah, no, that's actually interesting.
You say that because I've hadthat trouble and I'm shipping
some stuff out now that I've gotto get out to go take it,
because I know my mailman, if Iput it out there down below
they're not going to take it.
But I might put that on thereWould you mind please?
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Now, I do have you know, I do know my mail carrier
by first name, so that does helpyou know, because I think too
there's probably some federallaw that they can't just grab
something outside of you knowpostal receptacle.
But if you have that, you knowrelationship.
Anyway, here's your, here'syour and this is available on
wwwanywhereyoubuystopscom.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Anywhere right.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
So just a little hack that really helps to with the
internal communication and withand with with others.
So okay, I know right, it's oneof those things that who knew
and I said also.
But I said to the teacher I'mlike this is he mail also
available in she mail and wemail too?
Speaker 2 (23:30):
yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Oh, so good, I know right, so, um, but they, they
get it.
They're like, okay, I got it.
So when the message absolutelyhas to get there, so, um, okay,
so that was the masking tape wasnumber four.
Number five and this wasinspired by my sister who has
into her garage from her houseis a metal door, so she keeps
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those little little magnets andthat's where she puts eye level
any flyer coupon whatever righton the door and that's kind of
you know, and the garage doorsomeone of an internal door, so
she would put a magnet there.
I was like that is brilliant.
Now my joke my door to my housewas not metal so I couldn't do
that, but we implemented amagnetic strip.
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Yeah, that's nearby there.
I know commonly when peoplehave, like they go through the
garage, just come on, yet youknow lucky level refrigerator or
a freezer in the garage.
But, we have a section ofcoupons and right now I've got
teenagers who go on theire-bikes and of course they you
know money grows on trees, sothey don't think about the fact
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that you know the Jersey Mike's.
Here's a $2 off coupon, right.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
I love that because I feel like you'll like have the
coupon and then it just getslost somewhere or it's like oh,
it's over here in this bag.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
It's in the diaper bag.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
It's in my purse, you don't have it when you need it,
but if it's right there andlike a common like foot traffic
area, it's perfect.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Right, and sometimes yeah sometimes you're not the
one using said coupon, someoneelse.
Right, but I think it's really.
Everything has its place,everything in its place, and you
can see the undercurrent to allthis.
Stop searching for stuff.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Put it right where you're looking, right where you
are when it makes sense andthat's kind of where a lot of
these things will save you somuch time because going and
looking for things.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
So this next tip, so this is also an idea that's
evolved over time.
But my sixth tip is obviouslyso many of us now do online
grocery shopping, which Iremember gosh, I remember 20
years ago a friend of mine usedto do that.
I was like what it was calledlike Home Grocer or something.
They were like the pioneers.
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I was like what kind ofpointy-toity life do you do?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Yeah, what do you pay for that stuff?
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Yes, I know which, now you know, all these
providers make it so easy to dothat.
But one of the things I do wedo grocery online, grocery
delivery almost more often thananything thing.
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But the two things I do is Istill use that time when the
groceries are coming in to usethe opportunity to reorganize,
clean out a drawer, a shelf inmy pantry or my fridge, because
you're still you're still foundtime, right, you know?
And what's nicer than when youopen the fridge and you're like
it's all organized all organized.
There's still.
Invariably it's going to be alittle hodgepodge.
(26:25):
That's just family life.
But what I do in myrefrigerator and this is the
magic part is we have an eat itnext drawer.
Oh, so smart.
So, as you can see, the win binmay have inspired this the eat
it next drawer.
So there is one drawerdedicated in our refrigerator to
vegetables that might need tobe consumed, something that's
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partially eaten, leftover pizza,anything that's kind of like
eat this next, right, even ifit's recycling broccoli.
Okay, hey, we bought morebroccoli, you already had some.
Put that in the eat it nextdrawer.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
I mean yeah, Searching for, oh, there's like
this container in the back thatjust got shoved back there.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
That everybody forgot about.
And when was that from again,you know, like it's been in
there a couple of weeks, it'sbeen a day.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Exactly, exactly so, and, depending on you, dedicate
one of the bigger drawers or asmaller drawer or something, but
that's all the eat it.
Next drawer, the onion that gotpartially cut up, and things
like that.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Even like yogurts and stuff that are getting ready to
expire, because they get stuckin the back of our fridge and
then I move them up but nobodyrealizes what I want them to do
with it, because there's nothingthat says eat it now.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Exactly, and we don't , and I probably should make
labels for it.
My family knows now Well yeah,you have a dedicated drawer.
Yeah, yeah, it's that dedicateddrawer.
But given the nature of myindustry, given that I am a
designer, illustrator, you know,provider of the like, denise,
make a sign that we don't put onthere you know Right.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Okay so but anyway yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
So we have the wash it next bin and the eat it next
drawer.
I love it.
Brilliant, right?
Um so, okay, so then, um, theother um.
So tip number seven is have youever struggled with, like,
looking at a task and you'relike, oh my gosh, I just don't
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want to have to do this, whetherit's it could be a little bit
bigger of a task, like whetherit's going through a closet or
you know, uh, I just need tostraighten up this kitchen or do
all these dishes Right, it justcan be feel daunting, you know,
and if it, if it takes me toolong and my phone's too close,
invariably, you know, you getstuck, right, yeah, so what I'll
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do is I will literally perch myphone up somewhere, sometimes
even tape it to a cupboarddrawer with that map, this
masking tape that I bought atwwwbuyanythingyouwantcom, and I
will put on a time-lapse cameraon myself.
Oh, so it does two things.
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One is it keeps me on task.
Actually, there's three thingskeeps me on task to, I will not
be able to even look at my phone, right, because it's been
utilized.
And three, those output videosare so fun to watch.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
I was going to say that's like content.
Right there, there's somecontent we need that yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
I did that when I was putting away.
We did.
I did that Um, uh, when I wasputting away.
Uh, we did a couple of things.
Um, when I was putting all myChristmas decorations, you know,
we kind of gathered all up andput it all in the ping pong
table and then kind of put itall in its boxes.
And I was like oh, this isgoing to be so daunting, but I
put the time last camera on.
I was like, okay, let's get itdone.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Yeah, that's a really .
I really liked that.
That would definitely motivateme too, cause I wouldn't you
know well, it's like someone'swatching you or packing when you
have to pack Like.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Sometimes I feel like , oh, packing is such a I don't
want to pack right now.
You perch it up on, you know,on your dresser, and then you
pack all your stuff, you know,and then it's just kind of a fun
thing and and then then youhave content for who knows what.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
I know.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Whatever you want.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Brilliant piece of that.
Oh my gosh, we could so usethat.
It'll come in handy somewhere.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Yeah, yeah, I mean moving, setting something up,
baking, cleaning, all this.
I mean the list goes on and on,right, you know.
So, ok, so, um, okay.
So then, tip number eight um,and this we we touched on this a
little bit in having kind oflike, where to find stuff, um,
and that's really um, having adedicated, um outgoing bag for
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anything you, any type of eventyou have, you know, especially,
um, and depending on where youare in the stage of life, like
you know, diaper bag would beone that Samantha, you've got at
the ready.
You know, having life, like youknow, diaper bag would be one
that Samantha, you've got at theready.
You know.
Having a baseball bag, you knowJessica, is another one that
you would have.
Beach bag, you know, just a,then your own personal personal
bag, you can take that to thinkthrough every time.
(31:10):
Yes, you know, um, having itready to go, that's the magic,
yeah, and in that, in that vein,and having everything ready,
for example, um, right about nowis the time of time of year,
I'll go out and back up thetruck on sunscreen and I will
put one in my baseball bag, inmy diaper bag, in my car, in my
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camping bag, in the, you knowthe beach bag.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Yeah, sunscreen and bug spray, those would be the
two that I would grab.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Yeah.
And so to actually get you know,buy in bulk and distribute them
wherever you need them and havethat bag ready to go with all
the mainstays it certainly helpstake them down wash them,
towels or what have you, buthaving that mainstay and you can
even take that to the pointwhere, if you are a you know a
weekend warrior family and go toVRBOs, you know what have that
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prefab bin that has all thosethings that you can never count
on them, having the Ziploc bagsand the kitchen shears and the
lighters and all those thingsthat you're like, oh, I just
wish I had that lemon squeezerWine bottle opener I mean having
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just things and again trying tothink it through once you know
and kind of know what the whatneeds to happen, what you need
to have in that, in that bin,and then you, just when it's
washed or ready or whatever, youput it back in the bin and then
it's ready to go.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
You know, these are such obvious things that we
don't do Right.
That's, I think, why Iabsolutely love this, because,
duh, I mean, yes, it would beeasier if it was just ready to
go, but do we do that?
Speaker 1 (32:51):
No, we just search and search, and that's why I say
nothing here.
Anybody can do any of thesethings because you're like, oh
my gosh, of course that's what Ido.
My sister was here recently,like I love the fact that you
two are so close, but I have,I'm pretty close to my sister
and I was telling her about this, what I'm doing, and she gave
me a little little bonus ideaand I thought this was pretty
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good.
Where her kids are, she, shehas a whiteboard kind of in and
near her drop zone, and they area family who does my niece is a
big track star they'reconstantly doing little
overnights, things like that,and what they'll do is she'll
put on the whiteboard which eachof the kids have to pack for
this little overnight excursion.
So she'll put on the whiteboardwhat it is, okay, you need, you
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know something to sleep in, anoutfit for tomorrow, you need to
have whatever blah, blah, blah.
And then each kid goes thereand and reads the board and I
thought that was a really goodcentralized location.
She thinks it through once.
She doesn't have to say did youget that?
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Oh my gosh, that's what I'm doing, right, they
still don't get packed unless Ido it.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
You know, you kind of graduate from the having the
diaper bag ready to like okay,kids, this is what you need to
have ready, someresponsibilities, some
responsibilities, exactly.
So I thought that was a goodtip.
I like that.
Okay so, and then let's see.
That was the.
I think I jumped around alittle bit, but one of the other
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I said probably, I guess isnumber nine is I keep back stock
on just about all my consumableitems in my house, um and uh.
One of the um I did a guy amillion years ago and he used to
um, he used to tell me that ifhe was trying to, if he was
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contemplating a decision onsomething, he and he didn't want
to make a decision, he wouldsay you know what?
I'm going to think through this, uh, uh.
How would he say it?
He said I'm going to givemyself a tube of toothpaste to
think through this.
And he said that he would waituntil he got through a tube of
toothpaste to then think throughsomething.
Because he's like, let me justreally mold this over and I'm
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not going to pressurize myself,let's just see if it's still
really important really pressingafter a tube of toothpaste.
I thought, yeah, well, that's aweird like metric, interesting,
yeah, interesting, so you know.
So I kind of have that.
That was influenced, kind oflike when I go and I will one
buying soap.
I literally this morning I saidto my husband, hey, we need to
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order bar soap.
I said, go to the Walmart,order and see he goes.
Oh my gosh, the last time youordered bar soap, denise, was
November of 2022.
Right now we're talking it is2024 spring and I realize that
not everybody's going to havethe room or the space, but when
it comes to soap, we're nottalking about a huge investment.
(35:37):
But but sometimes what I'll findmyself doing too is when I buy
something and you buy the, youknow the one million Q-tips I'll
be like you know what, by thetime these Q-tips are gone, I
will be insert goal here I willbe.
You know, have this net paidoff?
Yeah, this, you know I will beable to be run, you know, run
three miles without panting.
(35:58):
You know, like, whatever it islike these goal setting things.
But the fringe Benny is thatliterally I don't have to think,
mom, we're out of soap, have togo get it.
It's kind of a backstock areain our home that has all the
backlog of deodorant and tonersand conditioners and shampoos
(36:19):
and whatever, and so that thisway I don't have to think about
it that much.
Yeah, right.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
That happens so often here.
It's like you have to thinkabout so many other things.
It's like having to not have tothink about those things is
nice.
It frees up your day.
It does, and I mean that's lessthinking.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
I stocked up during COVID and I mean like toilet
paper.
You know that was the wholething, but I still am using some
of the toilet paper that wehave.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
But it's nice because then you don't have to worry
about it when you go to thestore.
That's one less thing on yourlist.
That's why I love Costco.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
I'm like, okay, I do the Amazon delivery, you know
like the monthly delivery orwhatever, but I got in it and
they were able to ship it, so Ididn't stop it.
And then we also had a verybackup backup of Scott's if
there was an emergency, becausewe wanted something softer.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
But we still have that.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
I don't know why we stopped, that we should have
just continued and realized, Imean that, that paper towels and
gosh, I know, and I try to keepeverything in that back stock.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
If you look at my back stock now, everything is
kind of unwrapped and ready togo.
Yeah, the toothpaste is out ofthe boxes, out of the cellophane
, even unwrapping the bars ofsoap to make it super quick and
easy yeah, easy to grab.
And I can take all thosetoothpaste boxes of the 12 tubes
of toothpaste that I justbought, recycle them and I have
just the tubes lined up thereand I have to admit I like what
that kind of looks like.
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I'm not going to lie.
All I can say Love it.
Jessica, you and I have alreadykind of gone down this path of
helping parents and fellow youknow fellow parents organize all
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their kids' keepsakes and notbeing overwhelmed by the
day-to-day influx of all thethings that kids bring home,
whether it's the real littleswith all the crafts and the
pom-pom art or, you know, it'sthe play pots and like the
awards that my kids get now forsporting participation
participation.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
Oh my God, I can't say participation, no
participation, because there'sno more.
Like everyone gets a ribbon,that's a whole thing.
I mean like yeah, that's awhole other bucket, but yeah,
everybody gets one.
So there's a million of themlaying around our house, right?
Speaker 1 (38:44):
And one of those things at some point.
You know it's easy in thatmoment to just kind of pile it
up or put it, put it in a box orbin and kind of put it in the
back, you know closet, the guestbedroom or in the attic or
garage.
But then invariably whathappens is then one day you're
going to have to deal with saidbins of and my girlfriend calls
it keepsake soup.
(39:05):
Yes, because it is a hodgepodgeof stuff.
And so, given, you know, givenwhere I am in life I mean, my
oldest is in eighth grade, Istill have one in first but I
have plenty of bins and keepsakemementos that I'm like why am I
keeping this?
We've moved several times inrecent history.
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Every time I move I question mylike what?
Speaker 2 (39:30):
was I thinking Macaroni shaking in the box?
Well, I feel like my mom justwent through this with me.
Speaker 3 (39:37):
She's like I have these boxes no-transcript boxes,
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samantha.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
Then you're like what do I do with them?
Because she kept them for allthese decades.
I'm like what do I do with it?
Yes, so what?
So?
Something that that kind ofbubbled up during the pandemic?
We have a, a physical scrapbook.
Among my, my products.
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We have a physical scrapbookcalled the class keeper and
during those you know, 18 monthsor whatever the thick of it, we
sold 140,000 of those binders.
With that.
To me I was like huh, wow,we're all living in parallel
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lives, all staring at thosegiant bins, all those things.
And we're like what do we dowith this stuff?
Now, none of us have the timeto deal with it.
Now people are kind of deepdiving in, like, okay, let's put
enough of this, enough of thegood stuff, in a physical book,
so at least we can like okay,check the box and maybe quell a
(41:11):
little of the mom guilt forhaving never done a baby book,
yeah.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
Right, it's something from every year, it's good.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
So the so what?
What bubbled up from that wasthe realization that we are
dealing with these mementos thatwe don't know how to properly
organize and keep and give themtheir due commemoration, and so,
um, in that process, we built,uh, and and developed a mobile
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app, also called the classkeeper, that helps parents
digitally organize all theirkids keepsakes, whether it's
photos, photos of you with yourkids, stuff, just the stuff,
just the participation awards,um, in an organized way in each
child's profile's, a all kindsof pre-populated with albums and
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sections for all thesedifferent things, where you
don't have to do any thinking,right.
So we took the same concept fromthe physical book no thinking,
just inking.
Now it is just no more.
Um, you have it right from theum, whether it's from your
camera, camera roll or a livephoto, or you can also go back
and backdate photos that you mayhave from years before, or even
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taking pictures of all thekeepsakes and logging them.
Yep, and the other, probablythe most magical part about this
as a mom is, each child'sprofile has what we call keepers
, which is a log.
Think of it kind of like yourlittle micro blog of all the
cute things your kids said anddid that you want to remember.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:49):
But trust me, over time you're like wait.
Which one of you said that?
Speaker 2 (42:53):
Yeah, that's my favorite part, I think, because
it is all those little things,the words like we had union and
oh well, shoot, you was aquassadilla.
Speaker 3 (43:05):
I called it a quassadilla, a quassadilla A
quassadilla yes.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
Genetically, Absolutely.
Oh yeah, I just.
There's so many things I mean Ido remember that one still, but
there's going to be a day whenI forget many things.
I mean, I do remember that onestill, but there's going to be a
day when I forget it.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
Yeah, there will be.
Speaker 2 (43:23):
Pedestrianian was Sydney.
And I think oh my gosh Hiccubuswas me yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:32):
Hibiscus was Hiccubus .
I just See, I know.
So all those things you want to, you want to log and remember,
you know, or even, and in thekeepers you can put a photo with
it if you wanted to put, orjust a story, just text, and
everything is searchable.
And the other part is that it'sshareable as well, and when you
share, you can share withsomeone as a view only.
Like, maybe you know, our momsand dads may not be contributing
content, but they want to seeit in real time.
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But then you know, like myhusband, he's got some of the
best photos on his phone and thebest memories.
Ok, babe, he's got some of thebest photos on his phone and the
best memories.
I'm like hey, babe, you knowyou can upload too, so I share
it with him.
You know, and I'm the only youknow, I only have to have one
membership for family.
You can share it to whomeveryou like, and then they can be,
they can have the option toshare as a contributor, so my
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husband can upload content too.
Speaker 3 (44:18):
Yeah, I love that and I'm so excited for this because
, like you know, I have mo.
He's 18 months and then I'mgonna have another baby.
I'm like this is great, I couldstart doing this, like now.
And it's just like I have allof this this time and all these
memories that I'm already goingto be able to have organized and
not have to like worry about itlike 30, 40 years from now and
be like oh my God, here's yourbin.
Speaker 1 (44:39):
Like and there will be probably some you know but
the you know your child get likemaybe one box where kids these
days are getting like they'relike oh yeah there's an entire
pallet full.
Speaker 2 (44:52):
Get a U-Haul Totally.
Speaker 1 (44:55):
And that's where I wish somebody you know would
have would have grabbed theshirt collars of my preschool
mom self and said look andmatter of fact I even have.
You know I have somewhere.
It's not handy.
I did start doing that beforethis app was even a thing, and
this is my, this is my tip thatI that I started then, which I
can now log in the classkeeperapp.
(45:15):
I can now log in theclasskeeper app when your child
comes home from a few days ofpreschool.
What I literally did with mylittle guy he was four at the
time I sat him down in themiddle of the like, right in
front of a window, crisscrossapplesauce, put all his artwork
around him and then had him lookup at me and take a picture.
Love it.
Yes, that's what goes into myclasskeeper.
(45:36):
That's the joy.
Seeing his face and seeing whathe made, because you know what?
That styrofoam?
It was a styrofoam cow and apopsicle stick, john Deere
tractor and his whole theme offarm animals.
That was the theme for summercamp that week and I'm like
you're never going to do thosethings justice.
You don't want to keep it, butseeing him with that, you know
(45:56):
fruit and rainbow, him with that, you know fruit and rainbow,
yeah, that's magic, priceless,yes, yes and so, and then you
know what you can do with allthat.
That cereal art then.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
Right, yeah, I don't want rodents and all that coming
in you just you know secretly,Snack later.
Speaker 1 (46:11):
Bye-bye.
No one can see my, my, mygestures.
That you're listening.
But yes, then you can let it go.
Yes, you have it, it's there,it's perfect, you've given it
the, the, the proper, um, youknow, uh, attention that it
needs and, and, and, reallythat's you know what, what you
(46:33):
really want.
And then one day, when they'relike mom, what was it?
Did I smear Vaseline all overmy face?
Or was it spaghetti sauce?
Or was it baby powder?
Let me search it up real quick,yeah.
Speaker 3 (46:43):
I'll tell you the day .
Speaker 2 (46:45):
Yeah, and that's the.
I mean like the artwork, thething you keep it.
But then to remember, okay,what grade was this?
You know, like, when was itwhat?
You know who was your teacher,like you can't remember all of
that stuff, and this is kind ofa cool way to incorporate all
the details within it.
Speaker 1 (47:00):
Oh yeah, or, like you know, the leprechaun traps.
Do you want to picture them?
They're so proud of that thing.
But then go bye, bye.
The gingerbread houses Allthose you know, the student of
the week posters.
Oh yes, you know there's somany oversized three dimensional
things that I'm like I don'thave the space nor the moving
truck big enough.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
And you'll never do anything with it.
Like there's not, you're justkeeping it to keep it.
You're not doing anything withit, it's not going to turn into
something later, you're justkeeping it.
To keep it because you feelguilty.
Speaker 1 (47:31):
And your, your kids won't.
Your kids won't want it eitherone day.
And just like Samantha's sayinglike no, mom, don't throw it
away, but no, I don't want it.
Speaker 3 (47:38):
Right, it's like I don't have room for that, but
please don't get rid of it.
Like right, right.
She's like well, someday, ifyou don't take it now, it will
be yours.
She's like when we're long gone, it'll be yours.
It'll be yours somehow.
And I was like okay.
Speaker 1 (47:53):
Well, we could kind of wrap up these 10 things with
the Classkeeper app and thenalso offering your listeners a
special promotion on theClasskeeper app because of being
a fan of she's Got it Togetherwould be a great opportunity.
(48:14):
To now present the Classkeeperoffer.
Yes, no, that's perfect,perfect.
So, basically, by using, we'llshare a link to that offer.
Yeah, in the show notes andnormally the the, the annual
membership.
It is $39.99 right now, but no,no, not for you.
(48:36):
It is.
And we talked to Jessica.
She's like what is it going tobe, jessica?
$7.
$7.
Yes, so by using the link, youwill actually be entitled to
getting an annual membership andit's available both on Apple
and Android for just $7.
(48:57):
So, finally, that's less thanyou know what a latte these days
.
Speaker 3 (49:01):
Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (49:03):
It's really a mental free space.
I'm not the physical free space.
You don't have those eight binscrowding.
So anyone listening who whetheryou have kids who are just
starting out, like whereSamantha is and kind of doing an
active uploading, or maybewhere Jessica and our Jessica
and I oh my gosh, it's hard tosay Jessica and I are- Wow, it
(49:25):
is a really, it's a mouthfulyeah.
Right, you know some teens andtweens.
You know, between us, you knowit's a little bit more of a
backlogging, which is stillpossible, you know that I can
still go through Exactly, youknow, and even to say to in
later stages.
I know parents who have sharedtheir profile with their grown
(49:48):
teenager, grown teenagers.
But here, here's your bin.
Speaker 2 (49:51):
Yeah, there you go, you you right.
I like that.
I mean, that's perfect the past, that you can pass it off.
I guess, yeah, that's so nice.
Because again it's anotherthing like okay, well, yeah,
I've got all these memories,what am I gonna do with them?
Speaker 3 (50:07):
but here you go when it's easy to look at them too,
you can go, you can look at themwhenever you want.
Speaker 1 (50:13):
You don't have to like rifle through a bin or it's
usually like up in the attic orsomewhere where you can't see,
like what dish, you can seewhatever you want.
Yeah right, I had a girlfriendof mine, her daughter's in
college, and she said, um, shewas going through a sorority
rush and needed pictures of somechildhood things and and she
could find them in the app,versus, like, having her mom go
(50:34):
back.
Speaker 2 (50:34):
Oh my gosh, how am I ever gonna find yeah, and who
prints?
Now that's like the other thing.
It's like I have all thesepictures in my cloud, my iCloud,
you know at least now puttingthem in the classkeeper app.
Speaker 1 (50:48):
They're somewhere that someone's going to look at,
because right now in my cloud,they're just there, you know,
right, and you know if there's,and I'll tell you because you
can also share it with someoneas a contributor.
Say, for example, you areoverwhelmed with all those
photos or all those bins, youcan actually one outsource it to
someone else.
Whether you there'sprofessional organizers who will
(51:09):
do this for you, you know, andwhether or even, if you want to,
you know, pay your own team tobe like, okay, go through these
photos and just pick, cherry,pick some good ones and put them
in this album.
Yeah, the digital album, yeah,you know, on the app, so you
don't have to necessarily do ityourself.
Well, now, I did want to put theput the bonus offer out there
too, because, given that thisclass keeper app is, even though
(51:34):
it's been a labor of love forabout nearly two years, we still
are, we consider, kind of inthe early stages and we are
eager to get the word out there,and we know the best way to do
that is by getting feedback.
So, and improving the app andgetting the word out there.
So, anyone who does get thisapp for hello $7, use the next
(51:57):
link to write a review orprovide some feedback to us.
We will give you a $25 voucherto spend in our online shop,
where we have all of ourplanners and journals and weekly
planner pads and daily plannerpads to help declutter your
brain.
So physical sense.
(52:18):
But you have a $25 voucher thatyou can spend in our shop as
you wish.
Speaker 2 (52:22):
So awesome.
Yeah, the products are amazing.
I got a million of them herenow.
My favorite is the reminderbinder.
Right now, like that's where mylife is at the moment, and I
also, I like your, your fine,your budget binder.
I like that one too Like thoseare the ones I've really dove
into.
Speaker 1 (52:41):
That one's been a great uh.
It's a compilation of all thepractices and principles and
kind of.
Again, you can see everythingin one place, right, you need it
.
Speaker 2 (52:48):
That's exactly it, it's convenient.
Speaker 1 (52:49):
Yeah, the, the reminder binder has been an
evolution of the um.
You should see the first one Ithink I did in 2008, compared to
the one now.
It's just been.
As I get feedback, you know,we're able to build and stack
things on there.
Speaker 2 (53:03):
Oh, so cool.
Yeah, Absolutely worth everybit.
Class app keeper is you knowlike that's amazing.
I use it.
I mean, I'm probably onlythrough my first three years-ish
, that's impressive though youdid that fast.
Yeah, I mean it's taken acouple months but that's because
I don't have a lot of time todedicate to it.
(53:23):
But it's working really welland it is.
It's so nice because we canjust refer back really easily
and it's been fun going downmemory lane, honestly, doing all
of this backlog.
I think I've enjoyed it morethan I realized, because it's
not feeling like a task, it'sfeeling like just going down
memory lane and it's, it's cool.
So, yeah, definitely,definitely grab it If you've got
(53:45):
kids and need to organize your,your photos and all of your
projects and whatnot.
Totally worth it.
Speaker 1 (53:51):
So one, one more little system just to like just
take care of all that, becauseotherwise it just piles up and
then it becomes overwhelming.
So if you start, you implementsome of these things that we
shared today are just great wayto kind of condense things down,
make a little bit morestreamlined and find some extra
minutes, because minutes matter.
Yeah, that I couldn't say itbetter.
Speaker 2 (54:11):
Minutes matter, and I mean you.
Your tips were so good.
I mean, like I said, they makeso much sense, and it's just
amazing that we don't realizethis.
We need someone to tell us.
So thank you so much forsharing all of that.
It was definitely worth the 45minutes talking about all of
(54:31):
this.
I mean, it really, really was.
So again, thanks for joining us, and do you want to tell
everybody where they can findyou if they want to connect?
Speaker 1 (54:41):
Absolutely so.
Again, try to keeping it all inone place.
Probably the best way to findme and all the different
channels is just to go to mywebsite, which is
denisealbrightcom.
Speaker 2 (54:52):
Yes, can't forget that one.
Awesome, all right.
Well, we will be back next week.
Thanks for joining us today on.
She's got it together.
Speaker 3 (55:02):
it's been a real journey, sharing and laughing
with you all we hope you'rewalking away with a smile on
your face and a bit moreconfidence in your step remember
you're not alone in this crazyride called life.
We're all in this together, oneday at a time don't forget to
subscribe, leave us a review and, of course, share this podcast
with all the incredible women inyour life.
Speaker 2 (55:22):
Join us next week for more stories, more laughs and
more real talk.
Speaker 3 (55:26):
Until then, keep embracing your unique journey
and remember you've got ittogether more than you think.
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