After a holiday break, Andrea and Lorilee catch up with weird things their kids believe, their hopes for 2025 and try to understand how AI actually works.

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Andrea and Lorilee are taking an extended break for the holidays, and are re-releasing one of our most popular episodes of 2024!

Please enjoy Episode 87: Pocket Privilege, Wardrobe Levels and Instagram Algorithms: Do you know what to wear for a dinner at a family restaurant on a Wednesday evening? Andrea proposes a grading system for wardrobe decisions, the girls discuss pockets vs. purses and the Instagram accounts they enjoy and the ones they unfollow.

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This mini-episode features tips to minimize unexpected gift-giving, hacking your morning coffee and buying the perfect Ugly Christmas Sweater (or is it??).

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Jingle Bells Rock - Energetic Positive Upbeat Happy Christmas Party by SoundGalleryByDmitryTaras

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This episode includes stories of unexpected behaviour by the person cooking you dinner, discussing winter walking and a gift-wrapping supplies hack which Andrea tries to over-complicate. Lorilee misses out getting rich on another invention.

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IT’S OUR 100TH EPISODE!!  Thank you for following along with our little experiment 🙂

Andrea and Lorilee chat about different ways to remember and celebrate birthdays, ways to give a gift and share wish lists, and when the Christmas decorations go up at our respective houses.  

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• ​GoWish app 
• ​Birthday Wall Calendar

What we are watching:

• ​Outer Banks
• ​Bad Monkey
• ​Disclaimer

What we are reading:

• ​Field Notes for the Wilderness by Sarah Bessey
• ​Conspiracy 365 by Gabrielle Lord
• ​Never Lie by Frieda McFadden

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Andrea’s brief re-entry into the realm of dating takes a turn, Lorilee experiences some awkward moments with her Mother-In-Law, and they discuss when advent calendars became their own market share.

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• ​Best Advent Calendars of 2024 (Canada)
• ​23 Breakup Texts
• ​Christmastime is Here by Vince Guaraldi Trio

What we are watching:

• ​The Lincoln Lawyer
• ​Nobody Wants This

What we are reading/ listening to:

• ​The Selection Series by Kiera Cass
• ​My Story by Elizabeth Smart
• ​Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez
• ​The Chemist by Stephanie Meyer

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Lorilee justifies her latest influenced-purchase, Andrea remembers Halloween costumes from her childhood, and both discuss what to do with all those fabric masks.

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This episode Andrea and Lorilee reminisce about when they were new moms to help out loyal listener Aimee as she anticipates her first child!! They also talk about finding balance with changing schedules and discuss both new and old TV shows to watch this fall.

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• ​Parenting today vs. in the Past
• ​How to find a good work/life balance

What we are watching:

• ​Matlock
• ​Ilona Maher on Dancing with the Stars

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Andrea and Lorilee discuss the finer points of giving items away for free vs. selling them, donating bodily fluids for money and the changing household dynamics when someone moves out. Also discussed is household budgeting the YNAB way, and trying new fruits.

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• ​You Need a Budget (YNAB) (referral link)
• ​How to peel a Prickly Pear not like Lorilee
• ​Calgary’s Curbside Treasure Hunt

What we are reading:

• ​The Huntress by Kate Quinn
• ​Morgan’s Cross by Nora Roberts

What we are watching:

• ​The Perfect Couple (Netflix)

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It’s not unusual for the girls to talk about food… this time it’s the finer points of making fruit perogies from scratch. Andrea and Lorilee discuss past and future fast food prices, and muse about things they will never do.

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• ​Is fast food affordable anymore?
• ​Recipe for Plum Platz

What We are Reading:

• ​It Ends with Us - Colleen Hoover
• ​Deaf Utopia: A Memoir—And a Love Letter to a Way of Life - Nyle DiMarco & Robert Siebert
• ​Morrigan's Cross - Book by Nora Roberts

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