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3 Cocktails In
Addicting conversations between friends who have been there, done that and still want more.
We are 3 friends who got this crazy idea to start a podcast based on our friendships, family lives, professional lives and experiences! This idea kept coming up in our conversations, especially after a cocktail or two or maybe three, and we finally decided to ACT on it!
We don't claim to be experts on too many things, but friendship? Well, we've got that down. We're making our way through major life changes, searching for work that excites us, busting myths associated with 'old' people, and keeping a sense of humor about it all.
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Amy, Kitty & Stacey
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3 Cocktails In
Ever Feel Like You Need De-Influenced? Products That Don't Cut It!
Curious if your beauty products are worth the hype? Join Amy, Stacey, and Kitty for a fun chat about influencer marketing, beauty products, and online shopping. With cocktails in hand, we catch up on Stacey's new hairstyle plans and Amy's excitement over her Jennifer Coolidge-inspired lip injections.
We share our trials with beauty products, from purple toothpaste disasters to magnetic lash struggles. Amy talks about "de-influencing" after her disappointing experience with Zevia soda. We'll also tackle the frustration of makeup products that don't live up to the hype, like all the false eyelash products Kitty's tried.
Our chat wraps up with the joys and challenges of online clothing shopping, especially on Amazon. We'll discuss the "try before you buy" feature and quality inconsistencies. Whether you shop on Amazon, H&M, or Target, you'll relate to our mixed feelings. Join us for a candid and entertaining episode filled with laughter and honest insights!
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Amy, Kitty & Stacey
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Speaker 3:Hello, hello, my friends, good evening, hello, hello Doing great, doing great.
Speaker 4:Well, we are here, three cocktails in for another. Riveting conversation, addicting conversation, by three friends who have been there, done that, still want more. I'm Amy. I'm here with Stacey, the delegate from Iowa, and Kitty, the delegate from Southwest Metro System. So peace to all of you.
Speaker 1:No matter where you are.
Speaker 4:Yes, wherever you are, Our friends far and wide, yes, yeah, what did you guys do today, stacey, did you get to golf this week since Memorial Day?
Speaker 2:Nope, not this week, it's been kind of rainy? Yeah, no, not since Memorial Day. I am looking forward to my haircut tomorrow, though. What a mess, what a mess, but I get a haircut tomorrow, oh my gosh. No, yeah, thank you, but it needs a cut.
Speaker 4:I got super excited yesterday because I tried a new cosmetic facial person and I really liked her and she's going to come on the podcast, you guys. I'm so excited for when we get it. I can't wait, yes, but I I'm feeling rather like Jennifer Coolidge today. I don't know if you guys can see. I got the old lip injections and they're about this big. You know that feeling like when you go get Novocaine you get your teeth done and you feel like I have about 17 layers of lipstick on so you don't see the bruises.
Speaker 4:Yeah, Good luck. She was really bubbly and smart and funny and I asked her if she'd want to be on. She's like hell. Yes, Took her about two seconds, so we're going to have that coming up. I hope people if they have questions about cosmetic procedures that don't require going under you know, Botox, Dysport, lip stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Just to find out. Just a little filler little whatever.
Speaker 4:Send them to us, that would be fun. Well, I'll ask questions.
Speaker 3:Yeah, We'll dig into all of the all of the questions.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, we will. The things that that I never thought I would do 15 years ago, 10 years ago, cause I didn't realize it was a thing. But you know, social media here we are, right, yeah, um, so that's kind of something that we kind of want to talk. Talk about tonight a little bit Influencing, being influenced and putting the kibosh on some of the stuff that we have bought. Some of it is so bad we need to do a little de-influence, un-influence, what's the proper terminology?
Speaker 2:I like de-influence, de-influence.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay. So what do we mean? We're just not. We're going to ignore all the influences, or we're going to think through what we're seeing online.
Speaker 4:I think we need to tell the truth about some things that we've been influenced to buy, have bought, have tried and think they're crap. And I have one to start with.
Speaker 2:Okay, Is this the one we all have?
Speaker 4:Oh no, this just hit me today. So this is Zevia, a zero sugar soda, and this flavor happens to be cola, naturally flavored. I was um influenced to purchase this and use this as a substitute for diet Coke. You know my, my diet Coke addiction, and I thought okay, I'll give it a try. This was $1.79, 12 ounces Okay, so already that's a lot. I could barely choke down one sip. It was really bad, yeah. And here's why Cola naturally flavored, that's my question what does?
Speaker 4:that mean. That's right and that's what I did know You're exactly onto something. Cola is not a flavor found in the natural world and we just have to admit it. If you like the flavor of Diet Coke, there is not a natural substitute. First of all, it was clear, and so when you pour it in and you're thinking it's a cola, it's clear and then you know it's got good bubble, good effervescence, but all it is is like ginger water, like straight up cinnamon ginger. It was awful, awful. This is a big fat zero on the scale of colas.
Speaker 3:Wow, I've never seen it.
Speaker 4:Well, it's in a weird area I was looking for. Is it stevia? Is the sugar right Sugar substitute? Okay, so this is zevia supposedly. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:No thank you.
Speaker 4:That's my first one, not a fan.
Speaker 2:Good to know, and that's hard because there's a million of those and I feel like the same as you. I've tried a lot of them and nope, nope, nope, yeah.
Speaker 3:Well, okay, so if you think about it, what was the last launch of a soft drink, a soda, whatever that has actually stuck? Whatever that has actually stuck? Because you think about the Coke. You know Coke and Pepsi and Mountain Dew and Dr Pepper and Sprite, and these have been around forever. The innovation has come in flavors. So you know Coke tried to, you know Coke had the new Coke and you know some things work and some things don't. But what would be an example of a new beverage that has come out other than alcoholic, like white claw?
Speaker 4:and white claw yeah.
Speaker 3:Those have taken off in a big way. But dang, it is hard to innovate in the soft drink category and actually make it.
Speaker 4:It's even hard to go back and drink stuff that we used to drink. I mean, I occasionally see I've seen like a 12-pack of Tab, I've seen a 12-pack of Diet, right, you know, trying those things now is like, ooh, that doesn't. I think probably the most consistent has to be like root beer. That doesn't. I think probably the most consistent has to be like root beer, right, yeah, it doesn't seem like.
Speaker 3:I don't think root beer has changed at all.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, you know there's caffeine-free and there's diet and whatever, but yeah, I don't think the taste changes.
Speaker 4:Yeah, not that significantly. When was the last time you?
Speaker 3:guys had a fanta, an orange pop, um so many years. Couldn't even tell you, but I guarantee you that the first sip of fanta will take me. I'll be eight years old.
Speaker 2:Yes again, orange crush in a glass bottle.
Speaker 4:Oh, yes, yes, or like did you guys ever make a float with orange crush so good now that I would go, for matter of fact, that might have to add the best to my grocery list. Ice cream and a can of orange pop. Yeah, that's a fun little treat?
Speaker 2:yes, it would.
Speaker 3:Yeah, all right, ladies okay so when I think about this topic, I think about a couple of things and you know one is I mean, I've always been fascinated with truth and advertising and you know, and marketing in general, and I'll tell you what fries my ass. So when I see Subway, this is going to be big.
Speaker 4:Watch out.
Speaker 3:I'm going to disappoint. It's all about Subway and fast food restaurants, but when you see the Subway, has everybody said Subway? Yeah, so you see an ad for Subway and fast food restaurants. But when you see the Subway, is that what you said? Subway, yeah. So you see an ad for Subway. Or you see the big billboard and you've got this big, fat, beautiful sub and the meat is piled high and you go and order that six inch sub, or even if you get a foot long, that thing does not. It does not look anything like the advertisement.
Speaker 3:It just doesn't, and I don't know how they get away with it. They do, they've been doing it for so long, but that is not accurate marketing. So, but that's the old way. I mean, those are traditional forms of media. Now, today we've got influencers and yeah, we are, we are compelled to stack up on all of the here's my pile we're all into the makeup.
Speaker 4:You guys look at all the makeup products that we're trying, okay something. We got to go right to the very first one.
Speaker 2:That all three of us have.
Speaker 3:We need that screen grab of all of us holding up these products.
Speaker 4:All right, everybody. What colors were yours? Where are my glasses? 105 woke up like this Well, they're all called.
Speaker 2:woke up like this Mine's 80.
Speaker 3:Oh okay, yours is is 80, mine's 105. You guys, I can't even freaking read it.
Speaker 4:Oh, come on, I'm not kidding I can't read it, hold it up, let us okay wait um yeah, I can't read that's too, blurry, too blurry, but I'll never.
Speaker 2:I want everybody to know that we did not influence each other.
Speaker 3:We did not know that we all had bought that we were not sitting around at Girls Weekend saying, guys, let's try the Il Makiage. They've done a very good job of marketing.
Speaker 4:I ordered two. I ordered a color, Didn't like it, Sent it back and then ordered a color and a replacement of that in another one. I figured I'm going to try these a couple of them. I hated all three. I hated the way it felt, the colors horrible.
Speaker 2:I will say I got through about. I'm going to say a third of mine. Before I pitched it, ditched it, didn't use it again, but we probably should explain how they marketed it, whiched it didn't use it again, and but we probably should explain how they marketed it, which really was good it was. You take this quiz and it will just give you the perfect color and they show these women you know putting it on and it literally matches their skin.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, like it has some sort of magic formula. Talk about truth and advertising. I did think it had something in it that was going I mean, how stupid am I? Yeah, this liquid is magic, it will match the three of us.
Speaker 2:We're all stupid. Yeah, I know so bad.
Speaker 3:so yeah, not not great. Well, I didn't just do that, but I also have this. This is the primer, this is the face primer.
Speaker 2:And that didn't look better.
Speaker 4:Did you like the primer?
Speaker 3:It's a nice creamy product. It really is. But you know the 30-something models that are showing this. They put it on and it's like it blurs your skin. The concept is that it's supposed to, you know, fill in the fine lines and then you put your foundation over it. I mean, that's what primer is supposed to do, but it doesn't.
Speaker 3:And I and I I think that there is. I haven't found again the influencers that are in our age range, because I think we're still taking advice from twenties and thirties and the products need to be different am not watching 20s and 30s for the makeup advice, with the exception of this one.
Speaker 4:I'm watching women in their 50s, and not so much women too much older than that, because they're all doing this thing where, yeah, I'm not dying my hair and I'm only wearing red lipstick yeah, I'm not there yet.
Speaker 2:Yeah, maybe that's what we need to post because, like guys, do you? Have you seen kim light up your face? I like her never no, no never heard of her. He's over 50 and she's literally. That's what she's talking about, and she's pretty problem is, I don't have her cheekbones.
Speaker 4:Well, I guarantee you at that age, those aren't original cheekbones either.
Speaker 2:Very well, that could possibly be.
Speaker 4:I don't know the woman I like so much is making up for glossed time, because she worked for, I think, lan no Chanelanel for many, many, many years and she was a trainer and a manager and she is very much a loves beauty products and she's really good about saying you know, this one is a target and this is, you know, a higher end. And if you don't want the higher end, try this. But, um god, we got duped on the eel maquillage. They had an excellent campaign, so props on the campaign yep thumbs down on the product?
Speaker 4:yeah, so what? Else we got a big thumbs down on yeah, so I've tried the purple toothpaste.
Speaker 2:Oh, can you brush your teeth and let us see how purple you're teeth are. Do you need a?
Speaker 4:blue light to see your teeth.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that didn't work. But also, I mean, I got the whole teeth whitening system from my dentist and that didn't work either. Wow, yeah, so, and this is just supposed to be like a daily maintenance sort of thing. And here's what I don't understand. The concept is smart. So we're all blondes, we're all. You're a're natural blonde, aren't you Stace?
Speaker 2:oh sure yeah, oh sure, okay, so we are yes, 100.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but I mean, you were that one time, many moons ago.
Speaker 3:Yes, okay so for those of us who have color treated hair, blonde hair, we understand the use of purple shampoo, right, yeah, right, okay. So purple shampoo will take the brassiness out of color treated hair and it's a fabulous product. And so actually and I my bottle ups I don't even remember what the brand is, but I swear by it. So in between my colors I will do a purple shampoo and it takes, you know, puts the right tone back in. So I actually asked my dentist when I was in one time so you know how there's purple shampoo to take the yellow out of blonde color treated hair. Could that work for coloring? Because you're taking away the yellow, you're neutralizing the yellow. Can that work?
Speaker 3:And I was speaking to a male dentist and he's like I know what you're talking about, my wife uses that shampoo Interesting. And I'm like, seriously, you hadn't thought about this, you're a dentist. Interesting. And like, seriously, you hadn't thought about this, you're a dentist. And then I started seeing these purple treatments, the purple shampoo or the purple toothpaste, and stuff coming out and, um, you know, specifically for teeth. So, but it doesn't work.
Speaker 2:You don't think it does anything.
Speaker 4:So it's not just the taste.
Speaker 2:It really doesn't work.
Speaker 3:I didn't notice any change.
Speaker 4:Have you tried the god awful charcoal toothpaste? No, don't. As they say in the cooking world, it's a bad mouthfeel, which is also just a bad word.
Speaker 2:Doesn't sound appetizing either.
Speaker 3:Yikes, yikes um, I can, I can keep going.
Speaker 2:Yeah, stacy you got one too should we, we all have some kind of eyelashes that we don't okay.
Speaker 4:Yeah, are we gonna do the eyelash thing.
Speaker 3:Everybody show their I didn't bring mine because I've thrown them all away.
Speaker 2:Oh, did you really? Yeah, mine, mine is lash buddy. Oh, lash buddy, do you okay them? You see them, and lickety split, they have them on and lickety split they put the other one on and you can reuse them and then you can use a different sticky thing. Oh my gosh. Well, I'm showing you this one that I haven't opened, because the first pair you know and of course I bought three pair still have two. The first pair I mangled so bad that I threw them away. It's like it's not. I cannot get them on like that. You know what I mean. Yep, I bought them too. Did yours come in a purple box? I don't know. They came in three little clear, little things.
Speaker 4:Then I bought a different brand in addition to this brand, in addition to the ones from the Mac counter. This is Glamnetic. I got them at Ulta. I'm sure you can get them a lot of different places. Um, they've held up really well. They are magnetic, um, but I don't know if you can see look at how thick that that ridge is okay, the magnetic strip. So when I first started with those, it was liquid liner and for anybody that needs bifocals to see to do it, you better have those bifocals that have the, you know, the lens that flips up because you can't see your eyelid to put that on straight and you got to put a lot on. So these you can't get on and make them look nice.
Speaker 2:They're too thick, You'll look like a magnetic. Did you try the magnetic ones where you put on magnetic eye liner? This is magnetic. Well, that's exactly the problem. It's so magnetic.
Speaker 4:Well, that's exactly the problem. It's so you have to put on such a thick line that, yeah, now I tried it this last time around I tried. This is a magnetic liner, also by glamnetic. It's really small. Look at this fine. Oh good, I finally get to do that. Look at this fine tooth right there. That just really fine. Point on that. You don't need nearly as much of this, but you still have to be able to draw. You know a line, kitty? Did you try the kind that are in pieces that go underneath your eye? How'd that work? Didn't. Did they not stay on, did they? Was it too hard to?
Speaker 3:do too hard to get them on, and and what's really frustrating is that when we watch people do this on videos, yeah, just boom, they make it look like it's the simplest thing in the world. And I have, I have, like, studied these videos and I there are some that you can tell they're doctored, they're, yeah, splicing together, so it's just completely deceiving marketing. Um, but there's one influencer that I really trust and, um, she was talking about the, the little, the little, tiny pieces that go under, and she linked it to Amazon. So I grabbed those and, no, no, they don't go on, like you showed that they go on. So, oh my gosh, it's so, so, so frustrating. So I've let my. I did extensions for quite a while and I loved it. I miss it so much, I miss my lashes so much, but I didn't, I didn't want to pay for it. I don't even want to tell listeners.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:If you don't know how much lash extensions cost, I don't want to tell you. I don't want bill to know how much I spent my money and I can spend it on whatever I want, um, so I will go back and get lash extensions again before I go to the paparazzi convention. I will do that, um, but I can't. I can't do it on a regular basis. So, amy, when you had your makeup done for the wedding, what, what lashes did she put on you?
Speaker 4:I don't know, but she glued them on and she, um, if I'm thinking correctly, I know she trimmed it. I think it was one piece, because I took one. It was, it was a one piece and I don't think they were very expensive ones, but they looked really nice and they didn't itch all night. But of course, you know, she did all my makeup.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I have a feeling that we could do each others. It's just very hard to do your own. You know what I mean. Well, I think you could learn how to do. I think you could learn how to do someone else's. I just it's like impossible for me to do my own.
Speaker 4:I don't know the other thing I could that always happened was I could get like, just like my knitting. I can get one, I cannot do the other. And so then you start monkeying around with it. Not only do you have to take off either the magnetic or the glue, you now have to redo your whole eye makeup, yeah. And then in the end you just rip the other one off and say screw it, not today.
Speaker 2:Yep, yeah.
Speaker 1:So there you go.
Speaker 2:Maybe a listener has just the perfect set for us.
Speaker 4:Again, I am intrigued by those ones that you put in and it's the magnetic little eyelash curler thing and it just does it for you. Yeah, I've seen that. I tried those.
Speaker 2:Oh, and you didn't like that either. Nope, cause that makes sense to me. Like it would magnet around your own eyelashes, yep, but no it didn't work.
Speaker 4:What was so? Did it? Was it not magnetic? Could you not get them in far enough? What was the deal?
Speaker 3:First of all, it took a long time to get them lined up on the little device thing. Really, you know, lined up. The magnets have to be lined up perfectly so that they will touch each other. It's not magnet that goes from one end to another, it's just little. It's just little pieces of magnet, just like the magnetic ones that you have, so just little bits along it.
Speaker 2:Those have to match up. So it's not like you just slap them on because they match yeah. So I'm like no, hmm, interesting.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:All right.
Speaker 4:Well, so much for that. In keeping with the makeup theme that we've got going on here, which it must be, or I don't know how you guys feel about it it does irritate me that I continue to buy this stuff, but also I'm not paying a crap ton for any of it, so I can easily convince myself. Oh, I can try this, it's only you know, the problem, of course, being that when you put the pile together and add it all up, it's not a shit ton of dollars. Yeah, okay, so, okay. So I tried this one physician's formula.
Speaker 4:So this is a target drugstore whatever brand butter, glow, liquid bronzer. This was suggested by Bethany Frankel, cause she does that whole makeup thing where, um, what did she call it? Rich bitch shit or something like that. You know that this is this, is it? This is the level, whatever. This is like like hershey's chocolate that you put on your face. It is gooey, it's thick, it's sticky, it's not good. I don't know. You have to be like a master's in fine arts to get this on correctly and correctly. It's just thick and goopy. It's a bronzer, it's a liquid bronzer. So you know how everybody puts the little thing on their hair, on their hand, and then they put their brush in there.
Speaker 4:And then they put a little here and here and then you know here, you know all that it's so thick. This is not a good product. No, bronzer should be kind of sheer Bronzer. I think can be different than contour. You know, contour wouldn't necessarily have the shimmer in it. This has got the shimmer. This is supposed to be like summer butter glow, whatever. No, bethany, you're wrong. Yep, not a fan.
Speaker 3:Kitty, what else you got? I saw some other bottles he had there. I have dermatology. This is a foundation. I've looked at that. It took moisturizer, yeah is that?
Speaker 4:that? Is it dermatology or Dermatologica? What is that? Oh, where do you find that? Not that I need to, because you're telling me it's not any good.
Speaker 3:Where did you find that? It was just online, it was for Instagram and I mean, I think it was just okay. But you know. So there's the just a. It's just a nice tinted moisturizer. I don't know, I'm not saying that this sucked. I'm not saying that this sucked, and I don't remember what the price point was on it. I don't think it was bad at all, but there's just, there are just so many of these out here that are, um, the way that people rave about them and then what they really are. They're just okay products.
Speaker 4:Yeah, you know they're either just okay or they're crap. I wonder. Much like clothing. Clothing looks really good on size two, size zero people, a lot of these product companies. Always again coming back to Kitty, your idea that they're maybe too young. Young, but anything looks good on perfect skin to start with? Yes, or how many layers of makeup do they have on before they put on this product that they're showing us?
Speaker 2:yippers, and and doesn't everybody try to be a, you know, try to be an influencer or a, what do they call it? I don't know but you know, by giving good comments yeah, giving good comments and showing it off and all that kind of stuff, yeah.
Speaker 4:I've gotten to laughing lately about Amazon clothes. I still go down the rabbit hole and still think that, oh, that'll be perfect. So I've bought a lot of Amazon clothes and I actually wore the dress I wore to Stacy's daughter's wedding, madison's wedding, year ago. I loved that dress. It actually fit, it looked like it was supposed to. But here's the bummer when you buy things off Amazon that a lot of people have seen, I had three people stop me that night. Three women stopped me. One was the server who was clearing out the dirty dishes oh, is that from Amazon? I bought that one in black to wear to whatever. I had another woman who was a guest come up and say, oh, I looked at that, is that on Amazon? I'm like, okay, now I see the problem here. And I've had somebody else say that too. When I wore it I'm like, okay, I am never wearing that dress again. I've worn it twice and like four people have said, oh, did you get that from Amazon?
Speaker 3:Wasn't there somebody in Vegas a couple of weeks ago that had the dress in, yet a different color or print?
Speaker 4:Yep Exactly, exactly.
Speaker 3:I agree Amazon clothes can be very hit or miss. From a quality standpoint, I'd say more of them are misses than hit. But I do like that Amazon has try before you buy. Have you done that? No, so not everything is eligible for try before you buy, and I mean the nice thing is you can return anything to amazon, which is great so, and they're quick about it. You know you get your refund very quickly, yeah. But yeah, there are specific products um, I think it's it's clothing, it's clothing only sure fall into the try before you buy category and you can throw a whole bunch of stuff into your cart. I think they. I think they do limit, I don't know, maybe it's eight pieces or something, and they will ship it all to you and you have three days to decide if you're going to keep it or ship it back, and you won't get charged until that three days expires. So that's, that is kind of a nice option as well.
Speaker 2:I should look into that or stop. That was kind of going to be my lesson in all this, or at least what I've learned, because I've ordered a crap ton of stuff. I swear Um that now, if I see something you know, like through Instagram or somewhere, and I think, oh, I, I want this, instead of right away saying, yep, I'm going to order this, I immediately go to Amazon and see if I can find the same thing, just because the return policy itself is you know, you can at least return it. I've ordered a few things that they your choices are. We'll give you 20% back or 40% back.
Speaker 2:And then it's like well, what's the point of that? I'm not, you know, I'm not going to do anything with it. Or you can pay $30 to return it and, trust me, I'm not ordering anything that's worth shipping it back to them, you know, for that money. So I just figured, if I can't find it on Amazon and can return it, then I don't need it, I guess.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:I get a lot of crap from um. A couple of my daughters who don't like that we buy anything from Amazon, you know comes back to fast fashion, comes back to. It's not very, it's not very energy efficient to keep ordering stuff and send it back and forth. And all the plastic, you know, envelopes and stuff, everything comes in Um, but damn, it's easy.
Speaker 3:They don't. They don't like that that people buy on Amazon.
Speaker 4:Um, they, they don't like to go shopping. So, first of all, they don't like to go to malls and go shopping, but they really don't want to buy from Amazon. So who do you buy from? I think, kitty, you mentioned that You'd like to find something in between the $15 and the $150. Sure, some sort of range. Yeah, I've tried H&M for some of the the trendier or summer things that you know and that to me, that price point is like Target, without it being weird. Ass. Target stuff. Targets lost their mind lately. Oh, I don't know what. I don't know what's going on there. Yeah, how did we go from from prairie prairie little house on the prairie to 1970s d Diane von Furstenberg I love the wrap dress. What the hell were those prints? Yeah, it was like the old after-school Zoom that they were wearing. It was. Yeah, it has gotten weird and I don't want to pay $70 for clothes at Target. No, no.
Speaker 3:Yeah, hmm, yeah, I think this is. I like boutiques, so I feel like I feel like that moderate price boutique has popped up in a lot of places, so a good example of one around here is that mainstream boutique. Yeah, I find cute things in there and they are. They are moderately priced and we used we've talked about this before we used to like ever eve, not anymore nope, also the day that I pulled out a short sleeve blouse um, just pretty little.
Speaker 4:You know couple buttons right here. You know flowery kind of work blouse and it was 275, I'm like oh at every.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what you're talking. What? Yeah, yeah, not good, I have friends that shop there, so it must depend on where you, I don't know.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I do know some of their locations carry different lines. That happened to be down in Edina 50th and France. I think we went in there after one of our brunches, yeah, and I remember pulling that out and went. No, I will say Eden Prairie has a pretty good sale room. I do go. I will stop in and look in the sale room.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 3:I mean that's pretty much the only if I go into every, that's I, that's where I go. I go back to the sales stuff. I don't even look at the regular priced stuff.
Speaker 4:I'm feeling a little bit like I used to buy a lot of clothes at Loft. I'm feeling like a lot of not truth in advertising with their stuff lately. It looks really pretty in the picture and then the you get there and the the clothing is like in weird textiles, weird like really heavy spring clothes, like heavy denim or you know where. You'd think that things would be lighter in the summer. I don't know. I just don't feel like that's like it used to be I haven't been into a loft for years.
Speaker 4:Oh, I think they. You know, actually I'm wearing a loft t-shirt, I think, for you know, staples again, they're that in between.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:And they do run good sales. I just I don't.
Speaker 3:I just don't go to malls anymore. Oh, I buy that stuff online.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, I don't. I just don't go to malls anymore.
Speaker 3:Oh, I buy that stuff online. Oh yeah, I don't. I don't even think to go to places like that online, why, I don't know, and it's. I think it's because, well, I'm sure they're. I guess I don't follow them on social media, so I don't see so they're not the you're not popping up in your feed.
Speaker 4:Yep, if your phone's closed, you're probably going to see those ads now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we talked about it, Yep.
Speaker 4:I want to know how you get rid of some of the ads. Don't accidentally hover over something.
Speaker 2:That's all the ads you're going to get after that for a while I know the minute you click on something just to see oh, I wonder what that's about. Then you get 52 different brands of the same same type of thing.
Speaker 4:What else you got? What else would you like to de-influence people about?
Speaker 2:I have, I have something. Okay, what do you have? I have I have something. Okay, what do you have? We're running out of time, so I'm going to make this like a. You know, listeners and viewers. You know, dm me if you want to know anything about HelloFresh Factor and my latest one, oats Overnight. Yes, yes, these are all subscription. You know, hellofresh is a meal service where you um they send you the ingredients and you make it fresh as you're ready.
Speaker 2:Factor is pre-made in a little container that you heat up in two minutes and eat it. Not bad Oats Overnight. Also a subscription, which I wasn't very happy about, but I thought I'm going to try it. So I like oatmeal, I like the fact that it was going to be fast and dump it in, shake it up, go to work and drink it. It's like a drinkable shake. You can make it hot, um, if you want. But anyway, there's good and bad, I think, to everything, and the fact that these are subscriptions also to me an issue. You know they're pretty good in letting you stop or cancel or pause things, but it's just the fact that oh geez, a subscription, you know, all of a sudden you're barraged with all this stuff because I did, I forgot to cancel my oats overnight and have a ton of it. Now you know what I mean. So if anybody wants to know the good and the bad because there's both on any of those three, dm me I would love to tell you what I think.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I tried factor two and, like most of those subscriptions, you the price you start with. It doesn't take very long until they've jacked that price up. And when I realized I was paying about $14 for a microwave meal, yeah Like, okay, I could, I could stop my bitching and buy one for seven at the grocery store right across the street, which I would never do. I would never go into the grocery store and buy a $7 meal, which is just stupid because it just you know things.
Speaker 3:But factor has figured out the nutritional stuff and that's the value of that. So I did Factor for about six months and it was when I was doing keto and and it was good, I mean. So I only picked the keto meals and it was great and I thought, yeah, I thought the meals were good.
Speaker 4:I thought they were very tasty, very good.
Speaker 3:The kind of small portions. I was thinking about if Bill were doing it with me, he would starve. But, yeah, I agree, stacey, I don't like the subscription stuff. I don't like that. Can I just try it? Yeah, I still buy some of the Rodan and Fields products. I hate that. That's a subscription-based business. Do away with that, with that model, and just let people buy the products that they want to buy. That's maybe another conversation.
Speaker 2:Could be.
Speaker 4:Yeah, all right. What's everybody else tried? What have you tried? We need to know. So, if you're listening, if you've got a friend that always tries stuff, who's the most influenced person? Do you know who's a hard ass about it? We need to know these people before we buy, before all three of us buy the same thing again and decide that we could have saved each other. What 40 bucks.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no yeah.
Speaker 4:All right, anybody have a well. Actually, this whole episode was shots. Yes, not try. This is your Stacy. Speaking of shots, how's the refrigerator clean out going?
Speaker 2:The refrigerator clean up is going really slow, as expected. Yeah, I haven't cleaned much out. In fact I'm drinking. This is bad and I don't like it, but I'm drinking water tonight because I had a margarita with dinner and it's plenty of tequila and sugar anyway, so I'm drinking water, but yes my clean out is not going fast. All right, well, you got to power through. I do. Yeah, okay, peeps.
Speaker 4:All right, all right, good talking to your friends. Thanks for the advice on what not to buy.
Speaker 3:Yes, yeah.
Speaker 4:Always no purple toothbrush. Not going in any of my toothpaste, not going in my cards.
Speaker 2:No, nope Okay. All right, all right, until next time, my friends. Bye, okay, until next time, my friends.
Speaker 1:Bye, bye-bye. I know you're wondering how I got that vibe. Here I go, here I go, coming. I can't ever stop. I'ma tour the forest running, get me to the top. I don't need an invitation. Knock, knock. I'm about to start a celebration. Let me, in Brought a good time for some friends. Turn it up loud past ten, turning up the crowd when I hit them with a pow.
