We start with a dose of therapy - because sometimes you have a moment, whether is 6 donuts or a forgetful moment - and it’s best just to tell someone, to lay it on the table … errrr the podcast. If you’ve ever had to buy a whole new wardrobe at Target, because you forgot your suitcase at home, you’re in good company.
Tales of the tallow - Instagram got the better of us (once again) when we stumbled upon a a reel touting beef tallow face cream. What seemed like a bizarre skincare trend has turned into an amusing anti aging experiment. Toss in a handwritten note - because we bought the beef from a small business (say that 5 times fast) - and big promises from simple ingredients and you’re speaking our language.
We tiptoe into the reason “influencers” are dying out - whether we buy based on celebrities or tv star recommendations (the surprising answer is, no) - and why genuine product recommendations from friends are worth more than any flashy ad. * Hint - trust is big around here. And then we unpack the power of social presence, and why likes and followers, aren’t how we gauge social media impact.
This episode is all Amazon - we pull back the curtain on the Amazon Influencer Program and our love-hate relationship with online shopping. From the brutal commissions for affiliates (3% - that’s $30 for every $1,000 sold, YIKES) to the name Amazon almost had … Cadabra. Which brings up a great point - the importance of branding and a strong marketing strategy. Because Cadabra … sounds an awful lot like cadaver.
In celebration of Prime Days - we share some personal shopping favorites, including a face sculptor, cooling sheets, and a conversation about balancing support for small businesses with the lure of two-day shipping. And of course - because we are who we are - we can’t help but remind you that Amazon started in a garage - in 1994. There’s still time to chase the dream or do the big thing. Trust us. Whether it's beauty tips, home decor hacks, or just some good old-fashioned humor, this episode has something for everyone.
We start with a dose of therapy - because sometimes you have a moment, whether is 6 donuts or a forgetful moment - and it’s best just to tell someone, to lay it on the table … errrr the podcast. If you’ve ever had to buy a whole new wardrobe at Target, because you forgot your suitcase at home, you’re in good company.
Tales of the tallow - Instagram got the better of us (once again) when we stumbled upon a a reel touting beef tallow face cream. What seemed like a bizarre skincare trend has turned into an amusing anti aging experiment. Toss in a handwritten note - because we bought the beef from a small business (say that 5 times fast) - and big promises from simple ingredients and you’re speaking our language.
We tiptoe into the reason “influencers” are dying out - whether we buy based on celebrities or tv star recommendations (the surprising answer is, no) - and why genuine product recommendations from friends are worth more than any flashy ad. * Hint - trust is big around here. And then we unpack the power of social presence, and why likes and followers, aren’t how we gauge social media impact.
This episode is all Amazon - we pull back the curtain on the Amazon Influencer Program and our love-hate relationship with online shopping. From the brutal commissions for affiliates (3% - that’s $30 for every $1,000 sold, YIKES) to the name Amazon almost had … Cadabra. Which brings up a great point - the importance of branding and a strong marketing strategy. Because Cadabra … sounds an awful lot like cadaver.
In celebration of Prime Days - we share some personal shopping favorites, including a face sculptor, cooling sheets, and a conversation about balancing support for small businesses with the lure of two-day shipping. And of course - because we are who we are - we can’t help but remind you that Amazon started in a garage - in 1994. There’s still time to chase the dream or do the big thing. Trust us. Whether it's beauty tips, home decor hacks, or just some good old-fashioned humor, this episode has something for everyone.
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Hosted by @raebecca.miller and @jennyfromthe843
Speaker 1:
Good morning, you are on location again.
Speaker 2:
I am in my parents' home, my parents' office in Powdersville, South Carolina.
Speaker 1:
I've never even heard of Powdersville, South Carolina.
Speaker 2:
I know it's a very small town where I'm from. It's near Greenville, so if that puts anything in perspective, it's like. If it's like 15 minutes from Greenville, 30 minutes from Clemson.
Speaker 1:
That's kind of like how I grew up, though, like in a really small town.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, I love a small town. I mean, when I come home I'm like I feel like every time I come home I'm like, do I want to like move here? Because, like we were driving yesterday to go visit my grandmother and there's just like rolling hills and cows and it just seems so simple and quiet and and I'm like I could definitely do this.
Speaker 1:
And not to mention, real estate is like hella cheaper up here compared to I love that you have thought about moving there so much that you completely forgot your suitcase.
Speaker 2:
Completely forgot my suitcase, all right, so we flew home.
Speaker 1:
I mean, like no, I know, I want you to paint the picture because this is like a really big ask, and I actually think I was telling my cousin Tiara Nope, I was telling my cousin Amanda this is sort of therapeutic the time that we get sometimes on air to like catch up, and it is a weird kind of therapy for both of us. So I actually think if you release it, you know, like sometimes when you eat like six donuts and you have to phone a friend and be like dude, I just freaking, yes, and you like, and I that's never happened to me, but I'm just saying it could be like three hot dogs. I would have to call you if I did that. But you have to like get it off your chest and like release it back into the wild.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, cause I kept saying it out loud yesterday I was like I legit cannot. So we get home, we fly home Saturday night, right? Yes, I have approximately 12 hours to wash clothes, go eat dinner with my dad, pack my suitcase, repack my suitcase, repack Clark's suitcase and get a decent amount of sleep, because we were leaving at like five o'clock in the morning to avoid like July 4th traffic, so I did all of it, knocking it out of the park, like the suitcases were packed I'm talking like packing cubes and everything. We went to my dad's. We had some dinner, had a couple of glasses of wine. Come home freaking exhausted, go to bed I mean I got all my stuff sitting there by the door Nate loads the car.
Speaker 2:
The next morning we get on the road. I get to my parents here for like four hours and I go to get something out of my suitcase and I'm like where's my suitcase? And I'm looking around and Clark had a toy suitcase and then a clothes suitcase and that was it. There was no other suitcase. And so I call Nate. I'm looking around and Clark had a toy suitcase and then a clothes suitcase and that was it. There was no other suitcase. And so I call Nate. I'm like did I leave my suitcase sitting by the door? He's like no, and I go out to my car. I'm like what the hell? And he's like it is laying on the floor in the bed, in the bedroom. I'm like, so I legit like it's not, like you forgot one thing out of the suitcase. I forgot.
Speaker 1:
You're going to forget one thing. You know you're going to forget one thing.
Speaker 2:
You know you're going to forget the one thing. Well, apparently, my one thing was my entire suitcase.
Speaker 1:
Now you, not only did you not raw dog, six donuts, you literally just raw dog, your trips.
Speaker 2:
Like the whole thing. And so I'm like dying laughing and I'm like, okay, I'm only here for like two nights, so I can figure this out. So we went to Target. I picked up a couple of pairs of panties, a couple of tank tops and a bathing suit golden but I mean like that's the state that I'm in right now. I have been gone for two. I love that. It was the undies for you. I mean, like you know.
Speaker 1:
I cannot not wear panties. It is no way I would have bought undies for you.
Speaker 2:
I mean, like you know, I cannot not wear panties.
Speaker 1:
There's no way I would have bought undies for like this, like trip.
Speaker 2:
Unless I had my own pair of jeans. It is too damn hot to be raw dogging.
Speaker 1:
It's not like cooler up there.
Speaker 2:
No, it's so hot, it is so so hot.
Speaker 1:
But so yeah, I've been gone for.
Speaker 2:
I mean how?
Speaker 1:
seriously like how long have I been gone? It's been like a full 17 days. No, I think you left like before pilot's birthday, like that would mean upwards of like 18 days is my I am.
Speaker 2:
I need some routine. So. So I love summer. I was actually talking about this yesterday with my sister. I love summertime, but like I love routine, so like to be out of my routine.
Speaker 1:
You are my routine friend.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, like, I'm definitely like I, which is why I forgot my suitcase, cause I'm so out of sorts. I'm just like I, just you know, which is fine because it's summer and I'm loving it and Clark's having the summer of her life, but, damn dude, mama, mama's losing it.
Speaker 1:
I think it's better, obviously, that you forgot yours, not hers.
Speaker 2:
Oh for sure, Cause she's here for like the whole week.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, well, and just like, yeah well, and just like I feel like you know we already did all of our kids shopping at target, so you'd have to rebuy the same things you already bought. Yeah, and then you're like what's next? Like now, shoot, now your mom has an entire wardrobe that's not even worth you bringing home right like because it's I don't know anyway, I mean again, it's just a very on brand.
Speaker 2:
The only thing I was really upset about is I left my skincare at home.
Speaker 1:
Oh shoot, do you have to go like, get Maybelline.
Speaker 2:
Well, luckily my mom's bougie too, and so she uses a lot of skincare. So I just I used hers.
Speaker 1:
I started a new skincare last night. Oh did you? Oh, yeah, you told me about this. What is it? It's, I'm gonna butcher this and I, you know, I told you I was another thing. I had to get off my chest because I ordered it so long ago and I was so frustrated that it was never gonna come. And then, of course, it comes with this like cute little handwritten note about how much it means to her that I purchased it and I was like dang good thing I didn't do that good thing.
Speaker 1:
I didn't do that, um, but it's like beef tallow where did you find out about this?
Speaker 2:
I feel like you, like, you're that person who, like, sees an ad or like an infomercial back in the day and is like you know what I do?
Speaker 1:
need 14 cds for a penny I think I would have been your qvc friend, oh, 100 have yeah. I had a boyfriend that actually did the voice for QVC like late at night for a while. Stop.
Speaker 2:
That's fun fact. So I see this beef tallow face cream, so it's like, because I'm like dying to know what made you buy it.
Speaker 1:
It's beef fat and then it's olive oil, so it's basically a two ingredient skincare. It's supposed to be really nice olive oil and there's something about it that gets like deeper it's a deeper cellular level of moisture and like refilling. So it's actually supposed to negate this need for, like it's, beef fat.
Speaker 2:
And it literally looks like coconut oil right here. Yeah, and it doesn't smell like anything, I'm just just get ready.
Speaker 1:
Okay, so like an Instagram ad actually it wasn't an ad, an Instagram reel Then I watched it. Then I went to their webpage. I watched a bunch, then I started searching beef tallow. This is like a four night journey. Then I forgot that I did this, or I just like was done with it. And then, like two weeks later, because I had watched a few of this person's videos, another one came up. Actually, this is very interesting. So another one came up and I watched it again. I was like she literally is like it looks like you could eat it when she's making it. It's like whips it up.
Speaker 2:
Oh yeah, it literally says right here food preparation as an ingredient or cooking oil.
Speaker 1:
Yes, oh, it's. Um, I'm going to send you on Instagram the person that I have, the person that I have. But so then I like watch this whole thing again and I was like you know what? I'm going to give it a shot, like if it's, if I don't have to do all the other things oh, it's super high in vitamins and essential fatty acids too. Anyways, what's really interesting about their account? Because at first I was like this is fake, like this is a fake account because each of the videos has like 89 to 460 likes, but the account itself has 42,000 followers. So I was like but then I switched over. You know how you can see the reels views? Yeah, her reels views are epic. So I was like this is kind of like the funeral home. It's not necessarily somebody where you're going to go and like every video, but her engaged following is actually pretty deep. So then of course, my like marketing mind took like a hard left and I was like now I have to buy the skincare because they got to know Book lawn sinker.
Speaker 2:
They gotcha.
Speaker 1:
I mean, jenny for skincare. Believe me, you're the same. But if this, if this is a game changer, you're going to be on it next batch.
Speaker 2:
Oh, I, totally like I am, I am influenced, like I don't feel like I would be influenced by many people, but you are one of those people. Why?
Speaker 1:
Because, I trust you. Is it because I try so many things, though, and I don't talk about?
Speaker 2:
it.
Speaker 1:
Okay.
Speaker 2:
No, I think it's because, like, I don't feel like you would tell me something is good unless it was genuinely good oh no, I wouldn't, that's what I'm saying. So, like, which is a great segue into our conversation today but like I trust you because I don't think you would just be like, oh, buy this, just to say it. Like I feel like if you told me to buy something, it would be like I need to buy it and so far you have not seared me wrong.
Speaker 1:
Well, I give it time, Right? I don't like it's not like you buy it and then I buy it for myself after all of the residual from it. I did put it in the fridge, I don't know why. I thought because it was well, this real.
Speaker 1:
You just said me they're making like martinis with it I think she does like a little aesthetic, like she makes, like these cute little I was like why isn't a martini? I think she like likes the planet being edible, so like her whole, she like finds cute little music. Like what is that? One to like the song tipsy or something. But I didn't buy a scented one, I didn't do I. You know, I feel like I have enough sense in my house. I'll be fine if I but let me so what's?
Speaker 2:
what is the application you just like smeared on your face before bed?
Speaker 1:
Let me just tell you, first of all, don't put it in the fridge, cause it got kind of hard and now it's re softened. I don't know why. I don't know what I was thinking it was beef. I just was like, oh, obviously it's refrigerated, it's not. Well, don't grill it. I know I put so much on last night you about slid off your pillowcase.
Speaker 1:
I mean the minute it went in, because it's supposed to get really deep, that's supposed to be the reviving part, because it's actually from another animal. So I was like the minute it got a little bit absorbed I was like more, more, more.
Speaker 2:
I don't know why I'm like this. Okay, so what is it? Is it like anti-aging or is it just like a really good moisturizer?
Speaker 1:
Yeah, no, I think it is actually. What I kept seeing was the fact that A obviously it's like you know, even though I'm like maybe with all the wallpaper and the neon lights and some of the craziness, it might look like I'm like a little bit out to lunch. As far as like, I'm not going to be your sourdough girl, in that I'm not going to make it for you, but I'll eat the shit out of your sourdough girl, in that I'm not going to make it for you, but but I'll eat this out of your sourdough.
Speaker 2:
But like.
Speaker 1:
I things like you know, kind of like how I go back and forth about like oh, should I like be this obsessed with candles? Are they really that good for you? I can go down the rabbit hole of like supplements or things that are a better choice.
Speaker 2:
So I was like, oh, it's going right on my face If it negates the other things that I do, which, by the way, to be fair, I actually don't have that much Botox.
Speaker 1:
I literally have done it two times in my entire life. I think I'm ready. I think I decided the other day that I'm ready, okay, okay, I'm kind of hoping that this is it, but I will go back. It gives me me a nasty headache, gosh.
Speaker 2:
I don't know that.
Speaker 1:
Like a three day nasty headache. I have only done it the two times because both times I was like this thing is crippling, like this cannot possibly be like. And somebody was like, well, you get used to it. And then after a little bit it's not such a big deal. But I mean it's like, well, you get used to it, and then after a little bit it's not such a big deal. But I mean, here down it's just, and I don't get headaches, I don't you know, we do ourselves.
Speaker 2:
I hate a headache.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, I hate a headache. I think that's why you and I are so like. I'd rather eat your salt, I'd rather do whatever. A crippling headache, yeah.
Speaker 2:
Okay, so I'm just going to go with you and go on the beef tallow, but again, yeah, like you're definitely that person that I trust.
Speaker 1:
I have. Then I started seeing how it was like basically an ancient remedy thing and I was like, wait a minute.
Speaker 2:
If this is what we need to do, surely a little beef tallow on the face never hurts, I mean I know, but I don't feel like those people lived very long, so I don't know if I really trust like anything that says ancient.
Speaker 1:
I'm just saying I don't think they live long though because of like predators and wars and like influenza, so we should follow their skincare routine of people who live till like they were 20.
Speaker 2:
But you know what, Becca, I'm going to trust you. I look forward to your feedback and if it requires me throwing some beef fat on my face you know what I do it I would do it in a heartbeat.
Speaker 1:
I was like, if we need to, we can start putting it everywhere. What else will it revive?
Speaker 2:
Let's not go down that rabbit hole. Seem of the long game here, oh my gosh. So what are we talking about today? We are talking about we have.
Speaker 1:
Amazon Prime Day. I know it's the 16th and 17th.
Speaker 2:
It's the 16th and 17th. Yes.
Speaker 1:
I mean it's around the corner.
Speaker 2:
first of all, it's around the corner and we were going to talk about Amazon Prime Day and some of our favorite things. And the reason that we wanted to kind of talk about that was because, obviously, amazon prime day is coming up, but you wanted to talk about the power of the influencer which I just mentioned, that you are, but that I trust you.
Speaker 1:
I know, because we've talked about this like I think this idea, this you know static idea of influencers, what it used to be, is very much dead. Yeah, I don't know if I would really follow anyone that's a true influencer at this point, because it seemed fun for a little bit and now it just feels very fake to me. Shopping after shopping, product after product, it's just this constant. There's no way. First of all, let's talk about what it's like to be an Amazon influencer, cause a lot of those girls are sharing the link. Yeah, it's a 3% commission. You would never take a job on a 3% commission. 3% means and I'm just going to break it down because this is how shocking it is For every $1,000 of product that people buy from you, you make $30,000.
Speaker 1:
$30 for 1,000 sold. No one is paying their mortgage off of the Amazon Influencer Program. If you are, I would love to speak to you, but only if you can be very honest. But I don't understand, because I'm full of dishonest. Why do you feel like people still do it? Oh, I mean, I have the Inf, have the influencer link, but the only reason is because, first of all, if I love something, I'm gonna wear it 5 000 times and talk about it, and then I'm gonna buy a second one, like I. Just it's like our sports bra.
Speaker 2:
I mean, I know it's on my list of my favorite things, okay, so we'll come back to it, but I have four, you have four.
Speaker 1:
If you don't have, I have six. Okay, I got a full week's worth, so but we that's how much we love it. But, like I mean, you can only share an Amazon link on Instagram if you are an influencer, because you get a shortened link specifically for that platform. Otherwise, the links are too long, which I'm sure is on purpose.
Speaker 2:
But just to be clear, like, the links that you share are things that you genuinely like oh for sure.
Speaker 1:
I mean, I don't even share links to half the stuff. Sometimes I'll go through because, like you'll see something in the background and I'll be like hey, I heard this a few times in my DMs, I'm not lying. Like I'll get 17 people who are like what is? Is that wallpaper? Or where did you get that candle? Or I have that cutting board. That's like the loose site one that I just keep on the counter. Quite. A few times people have been like can I have the link to your cutting board? Would you buy it again? Do love it. I love it because it looks like it's part of the counter and I don't use it for me, I only use it for fruits and vegetables. I tell people stuff like that, um, because I don't want it to be all like gnarly and I don't want one of you guys to get like food poisoning.
Speaker 2:
But yeah, I feel like a lot of the people that I follow. You know I love my reality tv. You, you do, I know. Yes, so I definitely feel like I mean, obviously they post a lot of other things, but there are a good bit of links and I would not buy any. Well, I'm not going to say I would not, but I most likely would not buy something from them because I'm like they're just doing it to get paid, yeah, but on average. I'm like oh, he likes it.
Speaker 1:
No, literally on average, I make about 28 to $42 a month on Amazon and I literally turn around and I ask people constantly what they're obsessed with and all I do is use that to buy something that somebody else told me that they love. It's kind of like in my mind I feel like I don't think it's an integrity thing, but it feels better to me to go ahead and dump that back into giving something else a try that some one of my like people is. I mean cause people will send stuff to me and I'm like, hey, I'm going to get it on my next payout, like, why not? Yeah for sure.
Speaker 2:
Do you hear it? Like Amazon prom day, like I Day? We did a little bit of research about it and it's kind of interesting that it's been like this?
Speaker 1:
I don't know much about it.
Speaker 2:
It started in like 2015.
Speaker 1:
Well, so Amazon started in 1994, which for some reason blows my mind In a garage. I just want to remind everyone that you still have time to do the really crazy thing that you've been thinking about.
Speaker 2:
I mean Amazon started in a garage.
Speaker 1:
That has literally reshaped the way that we shop, the way that we expect people to do business pricing, it's influenced like.
Speaker 2:
it is just wild to me, but it started as an online marketplace for books, which I did not know. I found that very interesting, so I'm like in. I mean, what? 20 years?
Speaker 1:
I'm just realizing how many books we share and we've never once linked one. And I go to Amazon.
Speaker 2:
That's funny that you say that, because I was actually said we're going to talk about some of our favorite things that we've bought lately today and I'd noticed as I went through my orders like books was like one of them.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, I, you know, mine go to my kid though, but in a garage.
Speaker 2:
So that is like blow in my mind. Do we need a garage? I don't know. I mean, I feel like 204 is fine. 204 and my screened office porch are just just sufficient.
Speaker 1:
No, that's probably like what the dream was at that point and do you know?
Speaker 2:
so listen this also fun fact about amazon. So he chose the name amazon because it was a place that sounded exotic and different, just like he envisioned for his internet company.
Speaker 1:
I cannot. I just got chills.
Speaker 2:
Right. So that's why your name selection of your company is so important. Like you have to have that much thought behind it. Like, can you imagine it being being called? So it was originally going to be called you're gonna die, hang on. Let me get out of my beef tallow information here. It was originally going to be called you're gonna die. It's hang on, chill, cadabra, cadabra. But do you know? Listen to this.
Speaker 1:
After a few months, he changed the name because a lawyer misheard its original name as cadaver and this, my friends, is actually why you need a marketing team, because the sheer amount of like we I had a cat. The cat's name was boots. The cat had white paws. We got the cat before we had kids. My ex-husband wanted to call it socks. I was terrified that a kid would butcher the name socks and it would sound like we had a perv cat for the entire duration of their childhood. But if you aren't in our business, you don't think about the fact that Socks sounds a lot like sex and a child or an elderly person is literally going to think that you have an OnlyFans and that you are a handful just because you own a rescue cat. Yeah, Cadaver.
Speaker 2:
So there was also this. There was this other quote. I had to give you this one because I read this and I was like, oh my gosh, becca's going to love this one. So Jeff Bezos obviously is the founder of Amazon, but he had a quote. It says there's nothing about our model that can't be copied over time. But you know, mcdonald's got copied and it's still built a huge, multi-billion dollar company. A lot of it comes down to the brand name. Brand names are more important online than they are in the physical world I truly am obsessed with that.
Speaker 1:
I would get that as a tattoo, and that's so good it's so.
Speaker 2:
It was just interesting. I mean I you know I could, you know I geek out on things like that and I just I found it again. It shifted so much of how we shop and you know, beck and I are huge small business supporters. We still shop local very frequently. But I mean I will be honest with you. When I found out on a Tuesday that my daughter needs a white T-shirt by Thursday for some kind of project, I ain't driving all over Charleston, I ain't got time, don't happen.
Speaker 1:
Just say I immediately get in my car in car line, order it and move on to the next thing and move on to the next day.
Speaker 2:
That's it. Just yeah, yep, yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 1:
So yeah, I did not realize that we didn't even offer two day shipping until 2005. I can't even offer two-day shipping until 2005.
Speaker 2:
Stop, I can't even imagine life without two-day shipping.
Speaker 1:
I know, is it too big or you love it? The girl's got new leotards. Oh yay, I can always try some and some, because we can use that one for right now to grow into it. It's leotard season. Leotard season.
Speaker 2:
All right, so let's talk about.
Speaker 1:
Let's talk about things that you're loving, Um wait, I feel like you might have a list. Maybe you should go first. No, I have a list. Okay, I did buy a new face sculptor, which I have not shared either. I'm just waiting. It's like a lymphatic girl.
Speaker 1:
You know I love anything lymphatic, so I know I am excited for you and I for this. But it's like one of those wands that gives you light and is supposed to like pull the drainage out of, like the lower part of your face hello, I could totally use that right now.
Speaker 2:
I'm so freaking sound sick.
Speaker 1:
I will only on like day four, so I haven't shared it. I got to know, like, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2:
Like it's like I love that about you though.
Speaker 1:
It's a bigger price commitment than like I mean it's less than $100, but it's not a $19 tank and I love the tank. So I feel like I don't know. I just I got to know for sure before I actually share it.
Speaker 2:
That's actually good. That was when I forgot to write down here. Okay, let me tell you my things. Yes, code zero. Okay. So I recently bought this may call I'm almost sound a little bougie here. I like good sheets, like I like a soft sheet, I like a thin sheet, I like a good sheet. So when I travel and people don't have good sheets, I don't love that and I can't sleep well.
Speaker 1:
So can I tell you something? Is that bougie? I have a friend who literally brings her sheets everywhere, even to a hotel. She will strip the entire. It's a germ thing for her. She's also a listener Everybody's. It's a family of four, an entire suitcase of sheets and she will strip every single bed and start over. I'm about there.
Speaker 2:
I'm going to be honest with you. I thought it might make you feel better. Okay, that does make me feel better.
Speaker 1:
She is, I would say, quite a bit younger than me. We're going to say six years.
Speaker 2:
It just really impacts my sleep and you know I struggle with sleep anyway. So I'm like you know, I struggle, so I'm like anyway. So, long story short, I have been traveling, so I ordered these cooling sheets. Yes, dude, they are. They were only the. They were marked down for like a flash deal on Amazon, so I got it for like 20 bucks, but normally they're like 29.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, I think I got like 35 from. You.
Speaker 2:
They are banging Like. I've already bought three sets of them so did I tell you that when?
Speaker 1:
because I was like, obviously, please tell me, send me the links immediately because I'm gonna buy the sheets I went to go log in to purchase them and I had purchased them once, like 18 months ago.
Speaker 2:
I was like we'll see. I mean great minds think alike.
Speaker 1:
I loved it, made me so happy, so then I obviously like re-bought it again. I was like damn, and I do love that. They're not expensive. They're amazing though.
Speaker 2:
And you know, like I read through all the reviews and it was like you know they're kind of thin, they don't last a whole lot. I'm like listen man for of the cool wind sheets. Well, you know I'm not putting my sheets in right now.
Speaker 2:
So, I'm sure mine will last, just fine, okay, my next one is these aloe wipes. So it's these little well, they're not really, it's like little bitty things of aloe. So it's like a little, it's like the size of a wallet and they're like little packs of aloe. So it's like a little, it's like the size of a wallet and they're like little packs of aloe that you can travel with and my, we always are getting sunburned, like just because we're just traveling so much and just it's sun's just part of it. So they're just like it's like a pack of like 40 or 50 and so they're easy to just like pack like five to ten when you go on vacation and I love them like. I think I've ordered three packs of them.
Speaker 1:
Can I ask you a weird question?
Speaker 2:
I mean that's what the premise is, do you use?
Speaker 1:
banana boat sunscreen.
Speaker 2:
No, girl. No, you know I'm crunchy when it comes to stuff like that. I'm so crunchy with sunscreen.
Speaker 1:
I am not because I really can't stand a sunburn, but anytime I've ever had to use banana boat, like if I've been in a pinch and that's been the only one available, I always get scorched.
Speaker 2:
I have a listen. I have very deep thoughts about sunscreen we won't get into that.
Speaker 1:
I'm just, I'm not going to get down that rabbit hole today, but sunscreen burns me up. I don't know why. I wonder if people are going to be like that's a you thing or if people are going to hear it and be like damn same thing, because I swear to God it could be lotion. Um, I am a old school lotioner.
Speaker 2:
Hey, me too. I don't believe in the spray.
Speaker 1:
No, I will spray the shit out of some hairspray. I'm going to be honest here, but I will that definitely. So I don't want anyone to think that I'm like super ozone friendly. I don't want you to get carried away, but I like to leave my ozone damage specifically for my hair.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, for sure. Okay, my next one is tropical shaving coconut shave syrup. So I've ordered this one like four times, and this is how I shave my legs, so it's the shave syrup instead of like shaving cream, and it's just real like thin but smells delicious and you get such a close shave on your legs. We'll have to share that. Okay, it's a good one. I really like that one and it's inexpensive. But the next one is pillow covers. So, like you know, I love a theme. Yeah.
Speaker 1:
And I love a holiday.
Speaker 2:
So like I keep pillows on my couch Right and so I have two dogs and a child, yeah, and things get nasty and I'm freak about that, all that. I hate things smelling and like dog and like whatever. So I started, I ended up buying like 20 by 20 pillows, like four 20 by 20 pillows, and I just buy themed pillow covers, so, like right now, they're like summer pillow covers and then next will be.
Speaker 1:
What does a summer pillow cover look like?
Speaker 2:
Oh, they're cute, they're super cute. They say like, like they have a little ice cream on them and like little bright colors, and so, and they're, you know, you can take them off and wash them. Yeah, you wash them and then next it'll be like fall and then it'll be like Halloween, it'll be Thanksgiving. So I love that I can have these pillow covers and just wash them and then, like, keep my things going in my house. I mean, yeah, would I do this if I didn't have children? Probably not, but it's, I'm in my mom era, so I embrace the corniness of my themed living.
Speaker 1:
I love that, though I think that's amazing. I I cannot tell you how many times I've accidentally bought pillow covers um thinking that they were actually pillows from Amazon.
Speaker 2:
So same if I had I mean serious, I'd be a millionaire, cause like I'm an idiot and I do it all the time. My favorite stupid story on the amazon, though I ordered like a sequin tree skirt for Clark's Christmas tree in hurry. I got it, rebecca, and you know I'm not good. It's like a thing in my house I don't measure well, like I don't ever like take measures into consideration.
Speaker 1:
It is a real thing in your house.
Speaker 2:
It really is. But Rebecca, the tree skirt looked like it was like like Nate opened it. He was like is this a Barbie dress? Like it was that small.
Speaker 1:
Like I. I definitely know now to look at the measurements, but I'm going to be honest with you. I also. I'm notorious for missing a turn. If you tell me, if she tells me that it's 400 feet, I cannot for the life of me. So I can't judge your tree skirt and I don't know how far 400 feet is for a left turn. If there's anything that happens before that, I'm going early or I'm going late. I'm like I don't know.
Speaker 2:
I'm the same way Like I have to keep staring at it, hoping that I'll rear in somebody, because I'm, like I need to know what these what these feet mean.
Speaker 1:
Yes, no, okay. So we have our tank top that we love. I have the black bodysuit that I wore to fight night. I mean, I was going to ask you for that link, okay. Well, it comes in a three pack and I'm literally wearing one to drive four hours today with summer. It doesn't have a built-in bra, but it has kind of like a built-in bra, so I'm literally just say your babies look great in it.
Speaker 1:
by the way, Well, so I did have a bra on at that also, which I think helped, but thank you, I mean, that looks nice. Yeah, okay, I like that.
Speaker 2:
Yeah.
Speaker 1:
No, I like, I like the strap on it. There's some kind of yeah, it's like adjustable. And then there is this little like thing under that's like very supportive. So I'm literally wearing the bodysuit. We've taken the tank top next level with sweatpants to drive everybody four hours.
Speaker 2:
Love it and we love the bras. We love our sports bras.
Speaker 1:
Those bras have been a game changer for me. Same, I got a nighttime one and I know it's not going to matter so much to you because it is less bra, but it's just as cozy and it's like thinner and softer. And so I got the two pack to try out and it has like a little ruffle edge. It's not an actual ruffle, it's just like you know where the seam gets like kind of wavy. It's really cute. So I bought a flirty little pack of those.
Speaker 1:
So I've been living in cause. You know I sleep in sweatpants and some kind of sports bra. Yeah, okay, what else are you loving? Um, hold on, you know I love my Lucite cutting board. I have lamps I'm going to. I'm just taking you with me because I can't remember anything. I'm obsessed with my press for champagne bell. Yep, you know it makes me happy. It's one of my favorite gifts to give. If you like, have like a $20 gift and you don't want to get a bottle of wine for somebody. It is literally like makes a noise. I have it next to my bed. I have those Einstein lamps where they have the chargers built in and you double tap them and they change the actual like you go from like low to medium to high to off. Okay, I'm obsessed with the shelves in my bathroom. The rainbow lucite shelves make me so happy.
Speaker 2:
I'm writing all of this down so we can share all of these things we're going to.
Speaker 1:
And then I think my big things after that are like fragrance, and then I also which you would probably love this you got perfume on Amazon. Absolutely.
Speaker 2:
Okay.
Speaker 1:
Do you ever get the ads for this oil company?
Speaker 2:
that's like, it's like from the sea, it's like made from algae at one point like you know, I often wonder, like if we found out tomorrow from like some scientific study research, that, like if you rub dog doo-doo on your face that it was about the aging process, I would be out there as soon as my dogs went to the bathroom and bathing in it.
Speaker 1:
So this oil. I have been getting the ad for like four years. This oil smells like. It has a light citrus smell. It is so healing the girls and I use it on everything no-transcript. This is like a morning out of the shower, like so you use like a lotion. I don't use it anywhere. I put it on my face too.
Speaker 2:
That's pre-beef tallow, though I'm just trying to get the order of all these things. You what I'm just trying to get your order of all these things.
Speaker 1:
You what I'm just trying to get your order of all these things. Um, I mean my order of like, what's my top?
Speaker 2:
like oils in the morning and the beef tallows at night the beef tallow is new, though.
Speaker 1:
okay, in the bottom drawer the beef tallow is new, so I don't know. I don't know what our commitment level is. I I really got to like be in things before I like share them. Are you taking it with you on your trip? I have been very conflicted about this. Yes, I have it in my bag. I took it out. I put it back. Okay, I have two more things. I have a weekender bag that I love from Amazon. It's pink, of course, and I also have a crossbody that I wear almost every day that I am obsessed with. It was 20 bucks. It has beautiful details. You know I love a good handbag and every time I go to the nail salon, at least three people want the link and I don't know why there, but like something about being in that setting. People are like I need where did you get that? And then I'm like, oh my gosh, it was $20. I'll take I have text, so many random numbers the link to my handbag well, that's okay, so that's a good one.
Speaker 2:
I got all of yours. The only other thing I had on here was I had three more. I had, you know, I bought my Redmond sea salt, not the electrolyte one, but I bought my sea salt on Amazon as well.
Speaker 1:
A couple people have actually reached out and they've started using that Same.
Speaker 2:
Yep, I've had a few people reach out and they're like yeah, so I think that's we're going to have to make a highlight tab for this. Yeah, next is packing cubes. I think I touched on this briefly a few episodes ago, but I am obsessed. I am somebody who, when I get somewhere, when I get somewhere, I feel like I have a huge mess, like I cannot keep my clothes organized, and I'm sorry. I just got a really funny text message. I'm sorry. Um, when I get somewhere, I feel like I'm it was for Rebecca.
Speaker 2:
I'll wrap it up, becca, I'll wrap it up. Anyway, the packing cubes are a game changer.
Speaker 1:
It really helps keep your stuff organized, and I need more information about the packing cubes, because when you said it, you did say it at the very beginning of this conversation and I was shook because organization is like one of my like thrills, but I do not have a packing cube. Like I'm telling you like freak out if you saw my weekender bag right now.
Speaker 2:
But it's so organized I I love I do like bras, panties and socks together, shirts together, pants together, shorts together and like you put your, like your shoes in these things so they don't like touch anything else. I'm really weird about that. I feel like no same.
Speaker 1:
so I save bags from certain things for my shoes, like when you get like the nicer bags from amazon that have like the pull across and are like the frosted ones, yeah. We have those for like certain things like that.
Speaker 2:
Yep, so packing cubes or money. And then the last one I have was, like it's called out, pro wash work wear, so like it's basically like a supplement to your laundry detergent that you throw in for like athletic wear to kind of keep that funky smell out of it, um towels and like dog stuff.
Speaker 1:
So yeah, that's one of my you and I are very similar about smells like we love our children, we love our animals. We do not want it to smell like a frat house like it's.
Speaker 2:
No, I'm a freak about it.
Speaker 1:
I get super skeeved out about it well, because it feels like dirty. Yes, I have a car. These are a few of our favorite things. Yes, with some really fun amazon facts, I mean I'm basically my big takeaway from that is like a it really is important to have somebody handle your marketing and your branding who understands, like, the long-term vision. And then b You're never too old and it's never too shitty of a start to start, because you just might be in your garage.
Speaker 2:
I mean we could be like Jeff Bezos one day, like I mean, this is the beginning.
Speaker 1:
We are basically we're just in the journey. Basically we're in the journey still.
Speaker 2:
All right. Well, your text message has me tripping.
Speaker 1:
now I'm sorry, oh my God, everyone's going to be like share the text. Maybe we will, maybe we won't, I don't know. I'm sorry, we're at a different level right now. So I, you know our friendship. Not everything can be on air. Sometimes you're just going to get the highlights.
Speaker 2:
You've got the video. People, don't be greedy.
Speaker 1:
This is true. Well, have fun on your trip. I'm sure we're going to be talking like every five seconds. We're. This is what we do. We'll be working and balancing all the things Same as you, so I'll probably talk to you in like five minutes. Of course you will, I know.
Speaker 2:
All right, everybody. Thanks for tuning in and we will see you next week.
