1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,520 On this episode of the dudes and dads podcast we're talking all about hacks 2 00:00:04,520 --> 00:00:09,960 You're listening to the dudes and dads podcast 3 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:17,640 A show dedicated to helping men be better dudes and dads by building community through meaningful conversation and storytelling 4 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:21,640 Here are your hosts Joel Deman and Andy Lehman 5 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:22,640 Hackey hack 6 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:25,640 I'm thinking like hack like old hacks 7 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:26,640 HACK AT HACK 8 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:27,640 HACK 9 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:30,640 That's my way that's the name of this episode 10 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:31,640 HACK ATHACK 11 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:34,640 Love it, hey I love it 12 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:35,640 Hi Andy how are you? 13 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:38,640 Hey I'm good, hey we're streaming to your Facebook page today too 14 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:40,640 Oh boy we'll see something we've never done 15 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:43,640 See how many people unfriend me after this beast 16 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:44,640 Probably a lot 17 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:48,640 But we are going live this is the dudes and dads podcast that you're listening to 18 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:53,640 Oh no, well hey hi everybody out on wherever you are on the social media 19 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:55,640 Universe 20 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:59,640 Yeah hey so Andy as I was just mentioning before 21 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:02,640 On my way over to the studio 22 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:04,640 Well not like on my way on my way but 23 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:07,640 We had some piping hot 24 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:09,640 Dujurno pizza 25 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:10,640 I was thinking on 26 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:11,640 Coming out of that 27 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:12,640 On the way over 28 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:19,640 No, no I was like okay this pizza needs to be done 29 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:23,640 So I can put some in my belly before I head over to the studio 30 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:25,640 And so it came out piping hot 31 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:26,640 Piping hot 32 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:27,640 Gotta get that 33 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:32,640 And I'm like you know what I think I can handle this 34 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:34,640 I'm gonna get some bites in 35 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:42,640 And literally I can feel right now as I'm talking to you can feel the skin hanging from the top of the roof of my mouth 36 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:44,640 Because I destroyed it 37 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:46,640 Friends what is it? 38 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:49,640 What is it about super hot pizza? 39 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:50,640 Where we go all these years 40 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:54,640 I mean four decades of life plus in 41 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:56,640 And I have not learned my lesson 42 00:01:56,640 --> 00:01:59,640 That that pizza will come and get you 43 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:01,640 It will get the top of your mouth it will burn it 44 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:06,640 And like you think that we would learn that because you know I'm 44 years old and I've done it so many times 45 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:07,640 So many 46 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:09,640 But I needed it I need it 47 00:02:09,640 --> 00:02:11,640 Like hot pizza and I need it now 48 00:02:11,640 --> 00:02:17,640 And when I eat it and then my whole roof of my mouth is messed up 49 00:02:17,640 --> 00:02:18,640 It's bad 50 00:02:18,640 --> 00:02:24,640 Yeah I just I can't like I got a really weird weird sensation going on in the roof of my mouth 51 00:02:24,640 --> 00:02:27,640 But you know where I don't have a weird sensation 52 00:02:27,640 --> 00:02:29,640 Where I don't know where this is going 53 00:02:29,640 --> 00:02:32,640 Sitting here talking with you here on the Dudes and Dead's podcast 54 00:02:32,640 --> 00:02:33,640 It's been a long time 55 00:02:33,640 --> 00:02:38,640 It's been a spell we did we took a we took a week off we had some vacation travels and all that good stuff 56 00:02:38,640 --> 00:02:41,640 Believe it or not we do get PTO on the podcast 57 00:02:41,640 --> 00:02:44,640 We did it's part it's written into our contract 58 00:02:46,640 --> 00:02:49,640 We have to we have to sit down with a board of directors every year 59 00:02:49,640 --> 00:02:53,640 And Andy and I we have to you know we have to battle it out we have to say no 60 00:02:53,640 --> 00:02:55,640 We need to keep the PTO 61 00:02:55,640 --> 00:02:56,640 We're going to keep the PTO 62 00:02:56,640 --> 00:03:00,640 And believe it or not all the all the zeroes we still have PTO 63 00:03:00,640 --> 00:03:06,640 That's right the the the board while the Dudes and Dead's podcast executive board 64 00:03:06,640 --> 00:03:11,640 While a bunch of sticklers I will say they've they have come around to our way of thinking 65 00:03:11,640 --> 00:03:13,640 So we're super grateful 66 00:03:13,640 --> 00:03:17,640 Well like Joel said tonight we are going to be talking about 67 00:03:17,640 --> 00:03:20,640 Dad hacks time-saving parenting tips 68 00:03:20,640 --> 00:03:22,640 But first 69 00:03:22,640 --> 00:03:27,640 Everons is sponsoring this episode Dudes and Dead's is sponsored and supported by Everons Financial 70 00:03:27,640 --> 00:03:33,640 Helping individuals and organizations combine faith and finances through asset management 71 00:03:33,640 --> 00:03:36,640 Charitable giving and other financial services 72 00:03:36,640 --> 00:03:39,640 More at everons.com slash Michiana 73 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:43,640 Securities offered through Conquest Financial Group and Securities Incorporated 74 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:46,640 Member FINRA SIPC 75 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:50,640 Oh boy thanks everons we love you 76 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:52,640 So so dead hacks 77 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:59,640 Dead hacks here this uh you you got a lovely list by the way Andy really took charge on this one 78 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:03,640 I'm so appreciate because I told him I was like Andy I love hacks but uh 79 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:07,640 I'm just not sure I have I don't know if I have any hacks I'm not sure I'm living in a 80 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:13,640 Hack filled life a life that is hack aware 81 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:15,640 Hackalicious 82 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:22,640 Made me giggle more than it should have 83 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:30,640 But like as you tossed out this list I was like yeah this is this is I have I guess they have at some point dabbled 84 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:33,640 And tried some of these done some of them it's helpful so 85 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:36,640 The first one um Andy 86 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:38,640 And we can skip around on this list 87 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:45,640 We're gonna skip all over some of these might really they might really hit home in a deeper level there might be some this might be some real gems of conversation here 88 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:56,640 Uh you know we're always talking about hacks on the meal prep side I don't know about you Andy it feels uh in some seasons stronger than others that um 89 00:04:56,640 --> 00:05:01,640 Feeding our children feeding our families 90 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:07,640 Uh in a reasonably timely and reasonably healthy manner is is a challenge 91 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:09,640 It is yes 92 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:21,640 And I I know that uh Jackie and I have I can literally play the conversation out my mind 93 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:24,640 Conversation goes like this 94 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:27,640 Uh ring ring ring hello 95 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:29,640 Uh hey where are you 96 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:35,640 Well I'm uh I haven't left work yet believing soon do you have any ideas for dinner 97 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:47,640 No no actually this is the first time thinking about dinner do you have any ideas no I have zero ideas and and by the way and this could be either one of us uh saying this 98 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:58,640 The meat that we would need to have thawed uh at home or whatever it is the thing we would now need to have it somewhat ready in order for us to do this to make this meal in a timely manner is not ready 99 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:15,640 Uh oh no what are we gonna do and then we have to scramble or get something it whatever it feels it feels like that whole conversation plays out on the regular uh with with you get kids in different activities are going places whatever we are lucky 100 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:23,640 What would you say is your average dinner time at the layman household right now I mean we try so we try to prepare things ahead of time so I 101 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:32,640 I hate to be good no but we do I would say I mean our average time is usually you know six o'clock or so just because we do a lot of this meal prep ahead of time 102 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:52,640 I'm gonna tell you guys one of the best hacks that I found with it well I can't really even claim this one it's gonna be Julie but prepare you can get something that's gonna fit in your crackpot and it you know I get up in the morning and one of us will put all the stuff in the crackpot hit it on low for you know the time being and then all of a sudden we get home and it's like mmm this smells good and 103 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:54,640 it's done and we're ready to go 104 00:06:54,640 --> 00:07:02,640 Aaron I just I just this is my eldest son Aaron is here with us this evening hi Aaron how are you he's waving hello hi 105 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:13,640 I just had a great idea I think Aaron because he's the last one out of the house because they don't the junior high doesn't start school until 915 in the morning 106 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:35,640 Aaron could start our crock pot meals for us in the morning he could be the guy I mentioned this because Aaron actually made also made a dinner for our family this evening oh nice then I'm not chicken curry good job Aaron yeah he's in culinary culinary arts class right now and I gotta say this might be the most applicable 107 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:47,640 public education that he's received it's from the classroom to our table I'm super excited about it but yes the meal prep time what I will say we did have some luck with this we want to get back to it 108 00:07:47,640 --> 00:08:03,640 eating decent breakfast is a is a challenge specifically Jackie and I because look everybody else you know everybody else getting around right and it's like oh did I even eat anything this morning what we have found what we like to do is pre made breakfast burritos 109 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:18,640 and freeze and freeze them and then just take like take them frozen with you I pop them in the mic it's like a three minute microwave and done so I also want to remind all of our listeners that if you are listening with us today and you have comments go ahead and put them oh yeah 110 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:38,640 and get them as if you've got hacks that are great for this we love to we love to see those so yeah yeah yeah can I move on to my mind I loved it I love to hear it so the next one is going to be a shared calendar and I like doing the shared calendars because so I have we have a shared calendar except for I have to make a 111 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:51,640 confession the other day but we have a shared calendar and it's great because I can see it on my phone and Julie can see it on her phone and the nice thing about it is because then I 112 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:54,640 when I when we do that 113 00:08:54,640 --> 00:09:02,640 I am able to see you know if I put something on the counter she put something now I have my own calendar still because I 114 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:06,640 because I can because I because I some things that she doesn't want to see 115 00:09:06,640 --> 00:09:16,640 I don't want to see my wife's calendar because that that is that would stress me out but yes right but there are things that 116 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:25,640 the chair is nice because then you can see each other's things out my confession though is this I either week she said something like hey 117 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:31,640 we have this thing going on I'm like no we don't because I'm looking at the calendar is not on there doesn't exist it's not the calendar it's not right and 118 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:40,640 no look here on my phone it exists and I said no look at my phone it doesn't exist and come to find out my calendar had like got disconnected I needed to put the password back 119 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:50,640 and I didn't realize that and I was missing all of these things we do live and die by the calendars the shared calendar is great we 120 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:53,640 we have some 121 00:09:53,640 --> 00:10:11,640 we have some of that we have some shared practice in our in our calendars Jackie wants our here's what Jackie wants she wants our shared calendar up on some sort of on the wall like electronically she wants like an electronic display on our wall of at all times we could probably do that I said I said we 122 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:24,640 didn't talk to Andy I'm sure you can come up with a great a great solution I think she wants literally like a touchpad screen with our calendar you can yeah and whatever but I think she's gonna like a clear plate pane of glass that it just shows up in front of her it's 123 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:43,640 the way what she said was like she thinks we live we live in 2050 or something but I think there's probably a solution yeah so toy rotation this this is a good one for for not necessarily when you're even older can do this but 124 00:10:43,640 --> 00:11:12,640 especially when they're younger you know you have all these toys kids are getting toys from everywhere whether it be Donald's or you know whatever birthdays like everyone seems to give everyone everything and so you have all of these toys and then if you especially if you have multiple kids you end up having you end up having these all of these toys that you can the nice thing you can just rotate those out whether I mean I would say also clean them out so get get rid of them if there's a time that you don't like those toys or you know you just say okay you Aaron you've had these toys for a while 125 00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:41,640 I'm picking on Aaron because he's sitting here you've had these toys and I'm getting rid of your kids toys by the way but but you can take those toys and you can put them off to either sell them get rid of them sometimes it helps that I've seen to be able to say okay what we're gonna do is we're gonna sell these toys because you know you can take the money from this and do what you want and the nice thing about that is because then they want to get rid of the toys and so that's what I found it's nice because they can 126 00:11:41,640 --> 00:12:00,640 you can do that and then get rid of the toys the other thing that you could do is you can take and just put some of them away because if you have all of them out kids are gonna get bored with them but so what's nice is if you can put those away for maybe half a year or a quarter and then switch them out because then it seems like they're very new toys and they stay interested in them. 127 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:19,640 You've got basically a you have a portfolio or a repertoire of toys that you're that you've segmented and you're moving in and out and so sometimes and I know we've done this where we've we've had toys that are out of circulation that come back in it's almost like they're brand new. 128 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:20,640 Right they are. 129 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:21,640 It's like oh that's right. 130 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:22,640 Yeah we had that. 131 00:12:22,640 --> 00:12:24,640 Yeah yeah yeah that's good. 132 00:12:24,640 --> 00:12:46,640 For our for our I guess what we'd say our younger our younger listeners because I remember this the the diaper changing station. 133 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:48,640 Oh yeah that one yeah. 134 00:12:48,640 --> 00:13:17,640 So we had one in our in our first house that was like almost right by the front door quite honestly it was looking at a central in a central location and just like it was like stocked with all the stuff if I remember correctly because it just feels like in those early years all the the accoutrements of changing the kid changing and all this all the stuff or whatever even as I'm saying it out loud I'm just like I'm having a lot of a lot of flashbacks. 135 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:26,640 A lot of flashbacks changing but to have some sort of changing station centrally located that was that was one of those ideas where I was like yeah that's that's good. 136 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:27,640 Perfect idea. 137 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:46,640 Maybe somebody is you know and on top of that it's also good because like if you're like jumping out the door real quick and you're like oh do we have everything that we need in the diaper bag sometimes you don't and sometimes you need to be able to like jump over to a place grab things and throw it in on your on your way out so to have a. 138 00:13:46,640 --> 00:14:01,640 Yeah have that centrally located of a place and here's the deal just just put it just put it out in front of God and everybody with the people and the people know you've got kids just have it out have it out there this is it's just it can it's part of life so what it comes down to. 139 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:11,640 So since you mentioned babies and I mean it's been a while since we've been in that stage right I mean it's been a few hot minute or so someone asked me to hold their baby the other day. 140 00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:15,640 Did you know how to hold it even I did but it was like it's it's weird now it was really really lovely and I was so. 141 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:23,640 I was so glad to hold this little baby girl and she didn't freak out her that's always possible. 142 00:14:23,640 --> 00:14:44,640 I was yeah the a friend of mine had her kid with her and she had to like she had to like lock a door and so like she just turns hands to the child I'm like oh we're doing this now okay all right all right it all came back to me but it nevertheless it's like it was like wow it has been seven years since I've had to do this right yeah and that's it's like. 143 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:59,640 Right yeah and that's I mean it again these are something a lot of these things are stuff that we're through because if we're talking but some of them are stuff that we're still in you know today but another thing that you can do it is helpful is like the baby wearing slings and this is again like. 144 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:11,640 Because you can't you can save time with doing those because you can put the baby on where you're washing the dishes or whatever maybe not wash the dishes because it might fall out into the day not really but you don't want to. 145 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:25,640 Flash the child yeah don dish soap straight in the eyes hey that's another way to save time do the shower with the baby that's right in as you're doing was your dishes wash your baby it's all perfect it's totally fine that will help to be able to keep. 146 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:36,640 Except for when it frees your hands up to for doing things to because you can move around with your baby but you can also have other things that you're doing but your baby is with you so that that can be helpful. 147 00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:40,640 And I want to talk about. 148 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:46,640 I want to talk about my because this is a Xeran will know a little bit of a pet peeve of mine. 149 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:48,640 Car organization. 150 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:49,640 Oh yeah. 151 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:51,640 Because people. 152 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:53,640 Are leaving things. 153 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:58,640 In the cracks of seats on the floors rolling around. 154 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:02,640 That's the best place to find all those stale fries that's all my gosh. 155 00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:05,640 Yes. 156 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:09,640 Yep. 157 00:16:09,640 --> 00:16:15,640 I don't ever go bad right I mean they have that's that's yeah never go bad wow. 158 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:17,640 I'm gonna back up on the dashboard. 159 00:16:17,640 --> 00:16:19,640 I mean the warm up. 160 00:16:19,640 --> 00:16:34,640 I mean there's they they maintain the same visual appearance I don't I can't really vouch for anything else but there there's a the thing that I who so here's one things I started doing I have like in the side like door whatever. 161 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:49,640 I have rolled up like shop plastic shopping bags all the time because what I do before they will get out is I will hand them a bag and I will say all your junk all your junk in here right now in here now in here now goes out with you. 162 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:52,640 Leave it better than you found it. 163 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:57,640 And we have some success with that not not always. 164 00:16:57,640 --> 00:17:07,640 But that and we've got I think ours is we have we have water bottles in our vehicle all the time to take them to school. 165 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:15,640 Oh like not like like the disposable ones but actually like yes these I would that I would say that was a little ASMR for that. 166 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:29,640 I guess that's a little water. No. Yes those but also yeah the the like reusable like the reusable ones all the time because they're sporting events and taking back and forth. 167 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:44,640 They don't make it back in the house and I just feel like if we but I think it's like they fall on the floor and roll behind stuff whatever and they're out of sight so if you have if you have some sort of like organizational thing that you could like put those in or at least keep them visible. 168 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:47,640 That would be it would be helpful. 169 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:56,640 So I'm all the thing I'm going to bring up to is emergency kits and I'm not thinking just like straight on emergencies. 170 00:17:56,640 --> 00:18:12,640 When you're you know when we're talking about like like first aid type things but I'm talking about things like spare change of clothes and first aid but also snacks. 171 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:17,640 Because you never know what's going to happen with kids you know you may go take a day at the park. 172 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:23,640 You never know what's going to happen with yourself Andy. Right. So I should put you might. I don't know. 173 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:39,640 One day you're at work and you're you know you got to you got to make an evasive maneuver and before you know it you know the seams the seams in the pants they don't they don't hold like they used to know what do you do what do you do if you've got an extra pair of gackies. 174 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:41,640 You're good to go. You're good to go. 175 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:45,640 Funny story I did have my one time when I was working in the factory. Yeah. 176 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:48,640 I did have my pants split like right down the back. Yeah. 177 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:55,640 And I had to just go with my underwear hanging out all day is disgusting and my co-workers probably hated it but I had to do it. 178 00:18:55,640 --> 00:19:00,640 What was it going to do go home life life lesson have the right change ready. 179 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:07,640 But you never know. I mean you could be at the park and come up on a friend that you've never seen for a while. 180 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:16,640 And then next thing you know the kid is wanting a snack and you can just pull out your emergency prepared in this bag a snack and a change of clothes for when they get the snack all over their clothes. 181 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:19,640 And be the awe and be the awe of your community. 182 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:20,640 You can even share. 183 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:22,640 You can. That's true. Yeah. 184 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:31,640 We I have I think I've got a general you know what I don't know if I put it in my car or whatever. 185 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:39,640 I have like a I do have like a oh like a like a small toiletry kit in a case that I have actually in my office or whatever. 186 00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:46,640 And because you never know like you might need you know maybe you need I've always well here's what I have. 187 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:53,640 I've got Tom's I've got Q tips I've got I got some deodorant in there. 188 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:54,640 That's always positive. 189 00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:55,640 That's you never see this. 190 00:19:55,640 --> 00:20:01,640 You just never know. Let me see what else do I have toothbrush toothpaste in there. 191 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:16,640 And I want to say what else do I'm trying to think of I have some other trying to think about some other tool or some other thing but those sort of you know those sort of things and and I haven't little this little like snap case. 192 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:19,640 I think it's actually supposed to be used for like a pencil. 193 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:20,640 Oh yeah. 194 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:21,640 Pencil case or whatever works really well. 195 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:23,640 Got at the Dollar General 98 cents. 196 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:24,640 Nice. 197 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:32,640 So I'm going to say this is this next one is one that I sometimes struggle with delegating tasks. 198 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:42,640 So you know you can your children that are old enough so this doesn't apply to you know Sally newborn but it does a I don't know where Sally came from. 199 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:43,640 I love it. 200 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:49,640 Neither of us have kids named Sally easy enough Sally newborn instead of John Doe or Jane Doe it's Sally newborn Sally newborn. 201 00:20:49,640 --> 00:21:10,640 So anyways you can delegate some tasks them they can help with the age appropriate tasks and chores and responsibilities but it gets them off of you and this is something that I always I struggle with this one because for me a lot of times I'm like well no my thing is to do the chores my thing is to do the dishes and so that's just my job. 202 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:29,640 But then I I like being able to say no Reagan I need you to do the chores and I need Eli to put away or go do the dishes wash them I need Eli to put them away and I need Micah to start a fire start a fire yeah no usually it's something like that. 203 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:33,640 I don't know if you were like I don't I made your family like suddenly in the 19th century. 204 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:34,640 Sorry. 205 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:35,640 Go start. 206 00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:37,640 Fire so we can have some food. 207 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:38,640 That's right. 208 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:43,640 But yeah so. 209 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:49,640 That's a quick easy one to take to take but again I mean I know I struggle with that a little bit. 210 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:51,640 Joel do you struggle passing those things off. 211 00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:52,640 Oh geez yes. 212 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:53,640 Here. 213 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:59,640 Well as you were saying this this is a this is kind of a heck this is something Jackie does. 214 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:07,640 She will put like if there's like a bunch of little like tasks things whatever that need to get done this usually like with like house like house clean up like. 215 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:18,640 Is we run into the situation where it's like hey we're going to be gone like oh shoot it's kids are home on Friday and we know we're going to be gone a good portion of Saturday and it's like hey we got to get some things knocked out here. 216 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:20,640 Jackie will get a bowl. 217 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:32,640 She'll write down a bunch of shake it up tasks yeah like a bunch of things on the sheets of paper and actually it's like it's really effective actually and the kids actually interact with it probably the best. 218 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:40,640 They just have a it's all these random strips of paper with with like one task to do they mix it all up and they just pull them out of until they're done until they're done. 219 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:51,640 That's a good idea because then you're not it randomizes everything right and I mean as long as there are things that the kids can all do together I mean each one can do it you know because if right you know there'd be maybe things that Aaron can do that Molly can't do. 220 00:22:51,640 --> 00:23:01,640 I mean Molly's getting older but there may be things but then that's nice too because then you're not like well I always do the dishes or I always full my lawn or whatever so it mixes it up so it's fun. 221 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:03,640 That's a that's a fun little. 222 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:29,640 I would it just feels like they have been but they've been more responsive to that sort of thing and and again I think my wife is more creative about those sort of things because she is task driven but she is also she's very driven by like rewards so the reward the reward is that we're we're getting to the bottom of this bowl we don't have any more slips of paper to worry about. 223 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:30,640 That's awesome. 224 00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:31,640 Yeah. 225 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:40,640 Um, what was there was another one that was going to oh my gosh. 226 00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:49,640 We had one of them here about napping which I feel like I get I don't know if I'm maybe I'll get to that. 227 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:59,640 These Andy on here on our list we had this kind of like joining parenting groups or joining like online communities or whatever which I am. 228 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:12,640 I think I'm a part of a couple of those maybe it you know Andy's always I was the big advocate for a lot of different online community groups things that he's a part of and has found that I know helpful I. 229 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:16,640 I would say this. 230 00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:23,640 You know there's so find yourself a good online parenting group. 231 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:42,640 There are some that are cesspools of judgment and you know what I'm like because now everybody parents the same way and everybody has the same whatever but there are some I think that legitimately just are just trying to share resources and be helpful and and cool which is which is great which is you know what we're trying to do. 232 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:57,640 So I would I'd seek out seek out some of those are you I'm trying to think what there's some online groups that I'm thinking of right now that are they're not so much parenting focus groups. 233 00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:01,640 I'm almost embarrassed to say that we're part of them. 234 00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:03,640 They're groups there they're nosy neighbor groups. 235 00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:04,640 Oh yeah. 236 00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:05,640 We're talking about. 237 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:06,640 Oh yeah. 238 00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:07,640 Yeah. 239 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:08,640 Those aren't parenting groups. 240 00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:11,640 They're not parenting groups but it's like hey does anybody know what what Johnny's running around the street. 241 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:12,640 Yeah. 242 00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:15,640 What's it's anybody's seen this man. 243 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:16,640 Those sort of things. 244 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:20,640 That's not really what I'm talking about so much but there there's some good there's some good stuff out there. 245 00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:22,640 People people sharing with each other. 246 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:27,640 So Tim Blom is commented on it and he says that he's here to spice up the chat. 247 00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:31,640 So Tim Blom thanks Tim for spicing the chat up. 248 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:32,640 Yeah. 249 00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:50,640 So the next thing that I'm all a fan of is digital record keeping and I'm talking about things like note apps particularly you know whether it be Evernote or just the you know Apple notes on your phone but important information like your medical history. 250 00:25:50,640 --> 00:26:01,640 The nice thing about if you have an app that like the notes on your Apple iPhone or on Evernote is you if you have that a shared account with your wife because I'm thinking about thinking things in there. 251 00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:10,640 Keeping things like medical history, milestones, school activity because inevitably I get somewhere where I end up having to take the kid to one of our kids to the doctor. 252 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:12,640 You gotta fill out a form or whatever. 253 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:17,640 Fill out a form and I have no idea what their social security number is or not even that but I don't know. 254 00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:19,640 I mean most of the time I know what my kids are. 255 00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:22,640 I mean I do know what my kids are allergic to so don't get me wrong there. 256 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:23,640 Good. 257 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:24,640 That's a job. 258 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:32,640 I mean I'm not sure but that way you have it with you and you don't look like that dad who's just like I don't know. 259 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:33,640 Yeah. 260 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:34,640 What? 261 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:39,640 I thought frequently it's like I don't. 262 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:53,640 I think I have pictures saved of my kids like birth certificate like birth certificate and or social security card number but like there's probably there is a better way to. 263 00:26:53,640 --> 00:27:01,640 Jackie and I so we have some Google Docs that are shared like with all of our online account information stuff. 264 00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:02,640 That's another good one too. 265 00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:11,640 I didn't really think about that but Google Docs would be good because then you can kind of keep, especially if it's medical history or whatever you can keep it in a spreadsheet you can keep it in the Google Docs. 266 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:19,640 Yeah I just, namely it's my Southwest Airlines account whenever Jackie gets tickets. 267 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:20,640 I need the miles. 268 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:25,640 I'm working toward a goal and I need, let's get the points. 269 00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:27,640 Let's log into the account. 270 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:29,640 I totally hear you. 271 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:32,640 Let's make the most of the situation. 272 00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:33,640 Yeah. 273 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:37,640 Those are shared Docs are good. 274 00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:48,640 We do, we have a, what I was going to say is we have like our monthly finance doc like Bill paid that. 275 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:52,640 That like helps us keep track of like, hey, did we pay that? 276 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:54,640 So that's nice. 277 00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:55,640 Okay. 278 00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:57,640 So Tim, I, Tim actually just commented. 279 00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:13,640 He says that they share notes on like things like eternal shot, eternal shopping lists, you know, so they can quickly pick up something that she needs from the grocery store as well as a shared packing list for family trips so that they know who packed what that isn't. 280 00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:14,640 Excellent idea. 281 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:15,640 Excellent idea because. 282 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:16,640 That's an excellent idea. 283 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:28,640 Because if you're especially if you're packing, you know, you don't want to get to let's say Colorado and for instance, for instance, and then go, hey, Joel, did you pack Molly's whatever and you're like, no, I thought you did. 284 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:30,640 So no, it's 2000 miles away now. 285 00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:31,640 Yes. 286 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:32,640 Then you got to go buy it. 287 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:34,640 Do you guys have a, here's one list. 288 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:38,640 Do you guys have a camping packing list, like a one that you've established? 289 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:47,640 No, because, because this kind of goes with our, our, my next thing in the next thing is the designated toy zones. 290 00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:49,640 So, but. 291 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:51,640 I love to see how you're going to tie this together. 292 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:55,640 I'm going to because because with your toy, with designated toy zones, you can have toy bins too. 293 00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:58,640 And so that way makes it easy to clean up. 294 00:28:58,640 --> 00:28:59,640 I see. 295 00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:01,640 But the nice thing, I'll go back to the camping thing, don't worry. 296 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:07,640 But the nice thing about having a toy zone is because then you can say, no, those toys need to stay here. 297 00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:12,640 Instead of, instead of all over the house, because inevitably I'm going to end up, in fact, I just saw this today. 298 00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:20,640 As I was leaving my house, I look and I see right by our back door, we have a rack and it has a little like coat hooks on it. 299 00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:25,640 And I saw two Barbies hanging from that in the kitchen. 300 00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:27,640 Right. 301 00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:28,640 And those don't play. 302 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:32,640 We don't, we don't have designated Barbie kitchen or kitchen Barbies. 303 00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:37,640 So. 304 00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:39,640 Those Barbies were out of their zone, man. 305 00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:40,640 They were. 306 00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:41,640 They were out of their zone. 307 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:42,640 They were terrible. 308 00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:49,640 But so I'm tying this back to the camping is because we do have a bin or two of things that are essential. 309 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:54,640 Like a lot of stuff for us since we have a camper stays in the camper as far as camping stuff goes. 310 00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:58,640 In fact, we do even do have designated toys that stay in the camper for Hattie. 311 00:29:58,640 --> 00:29:59,640 Camper toys. 312 00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:06,640 We know that they're in there and it goes back to the rotating toys because she doesn't get to see those toys every day. 313 00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:10,640 And so then when she's like, yeah. 314 00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:14,640 And so that way, yeah. 315 00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:29,640 And so the, for us, like our essential camping stuff that doesn't stay in the camper stays in a bucket, a bin, a plastic bin that we can easily go find those things when we want to find them. 316 00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:31,640 So, so yeah, that's how I tied that back. 317 00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:32,640 I like it. 318 00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:33,640 Yes. 319 00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:34,640 So you've got it. 320 00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:37,640 And that's the. 321 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:46,640 I am a, I'm a big, I'm a big fan of, and I'm actually very, I'm a very particular about my, about my bins and my bin management. 322 00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:47,640 Oh, you're one of those. 323 00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:48,640 I am. 324 00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:49,640 I'm a bin elitist. 325 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:51,640 Well, because here's the deal. 326 00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:58,640 I've just decided with the bins, like I get good ones because it's like, I'm going to beat them up. 327 00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:00,640 And I'm going to put, and by the way, I'm going to stack them. 328 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:02,640 They're going to get stacked tall. 329 00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:03,640 Yeah. 330 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:06,640 And so, you know, let's let them hold. 331 00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:09,640 Andy, you'll know the bins I'm talking about because you can get them at Menards. 332 00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:11,640 It's black bin yellow. 333 00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:12,640 Oh yeah. 334 00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:13,640 Yeah. 335 00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:14,640 It's the quintessential bin. 336 00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:16,640 They lock in, they lock in nice with each other. 337 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:17,640 Yeah. 338 00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:18,640 And they sit on top of each other nice. 339 00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:19,640 Yeah. 340 00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:20,640 Can't beat it. 341 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:27,640 And I'm not ashamed to say that I, that I just have very particular about, about my bins and those, and those are the ones. 342 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:31,640 I think they run, I think those run around eight. 343 00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:32,640 Well, they were like eight. 344 00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:36,640 You can get them at Menards, I think right around eight dollars per bin. 345 00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:37,640 They're probably more now. 346 00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:38,640 Yes. 347 00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:39,640 Probably a lot more. 348 00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:41,640 I just remember getting them on sale. 349 00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:42,640 I'm not looking for that. 350 00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:43,640 I don't have any of those. 351 00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:49,640 I have more of the bigger rubber made type ones that aren't quite as rugged as the ones you're talking about. 352 00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:56,640 But those, but those ones I, those ones I like to use for our long term storage or the ones that were, well, it's the ones that were, 353 00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:59,640 for like the kids clothes management and stuff like that. 354 00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:00,640 Oh yeah. 355 00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:02,640 We're, we're putting away each year. 356 00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:04,640 We're rotating stuff through in and out all the time. 357 00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:09,640 But the reason I was going to say the reason for the bin is exactly that. 358 00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:19,640 Or if I have a bin that's dedicated to something and for trips or things like that, that we, it's just like, you just know when you grab it and pull it and throw it in, everything's there. 359 00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:21,640 Now, do you, do you label the top of your bins? 360 00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:24,640 So like with a great tape on the top and put. 361 00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:25,640 I do. 362 00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:28,640 The other thing here, let me, let me tell you this. 363 00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:29,640 Okay. 364 00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:31,640 So this is a handy, handy tip too. 365 00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:38,640 So what I would do, and I've not done this for a little while, but I've done this before is I print out a QR code. 366 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:39,640 Yes, you do. 367 00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:41,640 That I stick on top of the bin. 368 00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:42,640 Yes. 369 00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:49,640 And then I have a note that that, you know, the public note from my, you know, like, whatever note at taking out. 370 00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:55,640 And so I can scan that and it brings up my notes and that you can put right in there and it's easy to update. 371 00:32:55,640 --> 00:33:00,640 Cause then they'll say you take out the lantern and you don't, you replace it with Johnny's shoes. 372 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:02,640 No, baby set. 373 00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:03,640 What was her name? 374 00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:04,640 Uh, baby. 375 00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:06,640 Silly newborn. 376 00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:10,640 You put Silly newborn diapers in there. 377 00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:14,640 You can see that easily and but you don't have to update the tape on it. 378 00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:15,640 Right. 379 00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:16,640 So that's, that's like. 380 00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:21,640 Andy, Andy, what you've just shared here is worth the price of admission for this entire show. 381 00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:23,640 Uh, you've just blown my mind. 382 00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:25,640 I love everything about that idea. 383 00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:31,640 Uh, so it's basically like, Hey, this is, this has been number one QR code. 384 00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:32,640 Right. 385 00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:33,640 You can permanently assign. 386 00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:36,640 You could cause I, I'm a big fan of laminating things. 387 00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:45,640 If you've got access to a laminator, um, I may or may not have been using church office materials for years, but while I was still in there. 388 00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:52,640 When you find yourself a good church laminator boy, oh boy, laminates at QR code, a fix it. 389 00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:54,640 Maybe some, maybe a hot glue gun situation. 390 00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:55,640 Tim is on it tonight. 391 00:33:55,640 --> 00:34:00,640 He says no one puts baby salad newborns, Sally newborn in a band. 392 00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:01,640 Nope. 393 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:02,640 That's not what we're advocating for. 394 00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:03,640 No, just the diapers, Tim. 395 00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:04,640 Just the diapers. 396 00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:05,640 Thank you. 397 00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:07,640 Thank you for the clarification. 398 00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:09,640 Um, see how much fun you can have if you join us live. 399 00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:10,640 Yeah. 400 00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:12,640 That's a good time. 401 00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:14,640 Uh, but I like, I love, I love the QR code. 402 00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:17,640 Linking the QR code to a doc. 403 00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:18,640 Doc pulls up. 404 00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:19,640 Right. 405 00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:22,640 See, you have a doc, you have a doc for each bin. 406 00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:24,640 And so that way it's easy to just scan. 407 00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:28,640 And then if it's again, if it's public, your wife can scan it. 408 00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:29,640 Anybody can scan it and see it. 409 00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:32,640 And that way it stays with the bin. 410 00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:36,640 And yeah, that's a, that's a great, that's a great, that's a dude's now. 411 00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:42,640 I like what I would also do is, is I would also maybe, uh, put a number or something on there. 412 00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:44,640 So you are named the bin. 413 00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:48,640 Uh, so that way you know, cause otherwise you'd have like 50 yellow tubs, 414 00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:50,640 yellow and black tubs that just have QR codes. 415 00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:53,640 Then you don't, without scanning each and every one, you don't know, kind of know, 416 00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:54,640 but you know what I'm saying? 417 00:34:54,640 --> 00:35:00,640 Like if you, if you name it something, then you know, um, then you know exactly kind of, 418 00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:01,640 you get an idea. 419 00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:10,640 You may remember that, oh, in bin, whatever, yeah, green bin or red bin or, 420 00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:13,640 I can't think of any naming schemes right now, but, uh, 421 00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:14,640 Bin alpha. 422 00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:15,640 Yeah. 423 00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:16,640 Whatever you want to call it. 424 00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:18,640 That way you, you kind of have an idea what's in there. 425 00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:21,640 Um, again, you may not know all of the details in this, you scan it, 426 00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:23,640 but that way you can kind of get an idea. 427 00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:24,640 Okay. 428 00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:26,640 I know that this is normally the camping bin. 429 00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:27,640 Yep. 430 00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:28,640 So that's the stuff. 431 00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:29,640 That's good. 432 00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:30,640 Yeah. 433 00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:36,640 I, uh, I just like, again, I'm a big fan of a quality of a quality bin. 434 00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:40,640 Not to mention the black and yellow or also the dudes and dads brand. 435 00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:41,640 That's actually true. 436 00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:42,640 That's a Tim Blom. 437 00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:43,640 Another Tim Blom. 438 00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:44,640 That's honestly Tim. 439 00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:45,640 I'm glad you said that. 440 00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:48,640 Um, that's honestly probably like some sort of weird subconscious thing that I 441 00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:50,640 haven't like, why was like drawn to it? 442 00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:53,640 I just, I liked him, I liked him because they were built. 443 00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:56,640 I really think it is they stack the best. 444 00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:57,640 They do. 445 00:35:57,640 --> 00:36:01,640 And they don't, cause Jack and I, a few years ago had what I like to refer to 446 00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:04,640 as the great Ben Avalanche of whatever, whatever year it was. 447 00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:09,640 It was when we were still doing a lot of the child, the children's resale, um, 448 00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:13,640 stuff and we're, you know, we're trying to make use, we were making use of the 449 00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:15,640 bins, but not of any sort of shelving unit. 450 00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:19,640 And so we're stacking them high downstairs in the storage area and a few of them 451 00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:22,640 gave way and it was, it was not pretty. 452 00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:24,640 It was not, there was, there was, there were damaged bins. 453 00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:28,640 So we've, I've tried to our game a little bit and never put Sally in the bin 454 00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:29,640 because then she will be damaged. 455 00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:30,640 Yeah. 456 00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:32,640 That's true for life. 457 00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:33,640 That's for sure. 458 00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:36,640 So, so what do you think about automated bill playing? 459 00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:41,640 Oh, so the reason I would say that is because again, that way you can have, 460 00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:44,640 you make sure that you're not going to miss things. 461 00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:46,640 You're not going to miss the payments. 462 00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:48,640 Um, that, that is a good thing. 463 00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:52,640 And it saves you time too, because then you don't have to go through every week 464 00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:55,640 or every other week or however often you get paid and make those payments. 465 00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:57,640 Now again, this may or may not work for you. 466 00:36:57,640 --> 00:37:02,640 Uh, some people, um, myself included, like, like our, for our family likes to have, 467 00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:04,640 we like to do the bills just because that way we have, 468 00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:09,640 we both can talk about it and have an eye on what our finances are happening. 469 00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:14,640 But, um, if you're into the automated bill, bill pay, or want to give it a try, 470 00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:18,640 I'd say that that's a good thing to try and set up because you end up having, 471 00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:21,640 you get free time back because you don't need to actually make those, 472 00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:23,640 those bill payments then. 473 00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:24,640 Yeah. 474 00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:27,640 There's always just a few that I'm always like, I'm always just concerned about like, 475 00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:30,640 will we, will we remember to do, right? 476 00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:34,640 Or that also can get you in trouble because you can forget that you're paying for things. 477 00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:35,640 Yeah. 478 00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:37,640 That you have, you know, again, I wouldn't necessarily, I mean, 479 00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:40,640 Netflix is a bill that you may forget about that you have that. 480 00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:44,640 And so when you really could be getting rid of it because you're not using it anymore. 481 00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:47,640 So that's the other downside of that is you may end up with accumulating 482 00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:51,640 services and things that you don't remember about. 483 00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:54,640 So that's, as they say, that's how they get you Andy. 484 00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:55,640 They do. 485 00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:59,640 So another thing that I think is really important is an emergency contact list. 486 00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:05,640 Cause this includes things like doctors and schools and babysitters for easy access in 487 00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:09,640 case of emergencies, not just for, for babysitters, because I mean, 488 00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:14,640 that's handy for babysitters because then they can know who to contact. 489 00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:19,640 You know, and this, I would include things like grandparents and obviously parents, 490 00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:23,640 but doctors, cause that way anyone who's watching your kid can have it. 491 00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:26,640 You could even land my QR code and put it on the back of the baby. 492 00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:30,640 I'm all about the QR codes today, but who's baby is this? 493 00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:31,640 Please scan it. 494 00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:33,640 Oh, here's a grandparents. 495 00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:40,640 So, no, I think that's a good idea because it allows you to leave it again on the fridge 496 00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:41,640 or whatever. 497 00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:45,640 And anyone who's watching your kid can know who exactly to contact. 498 00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:49,640 And again, you could even put things like alert allergies, 499 00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:55,640 and things on it, you know, like especially for, for, you know, you have a kid who's allergic to nuts, 500 00:38:55,640 --> 00:39:00,640 tree nuts and, and so like those are things that are important to have. 501 00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:05,640 So I would definitely have a contact list that's visible in your house, 502 00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:07,640 but as well as something that can easily be shared. 503 00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:10,640 Again, I'm all about the notes that can be shared. 504 00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:20,640 So if you can, you know, have, I know that the, the Apple notes app is really easy to create a note and you can invite people to it. 505 00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:26,640 So let's say you have a babysitter for the night, you can say, I'm going to text you this or whatever and text on the link to that. 506 00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:32,640 So it's really easy to, to share that out for the people if they need to get a hold of somebody. 507 00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:33,640 Yep. 508 00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:38,640 I think, I think Jack and I have used those for, the shopping list is what we're going to use. 509 00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:42,640 I've used those for, the shopping list is what we use that for frequently. 510 00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:44,640 I think that's probably the big one. 511 00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:47,640 But yeah, that's, that's good stuff. 512 00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:49,640 Andy, what else? 513 00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:55,640 So here's a couple of things that I, that I'm going to, I'm skipping to the bottom of our list right now, 514 00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:59,640 but I like the two that are the very last like digital story time. 515 00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:05,640 So, you know, and this is, this is something that I mean, my kids aren't necessarily, I mean, that's not true. 516 00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:12,640 Had Elex having story time with me still, because she's still young, but I was actually away on business this last week. 517 00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:15,640 And I didn't do this for her. 518 00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:19,640 Kind of wish I would have now, but digital story time. 519 00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:27,640 So you use something like ebooks or any other apps to read that you can read and read, go open your recorder app on your phone. 520 00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:32,640 So you have the, you know, whatever phone you have has a voice recorder memo on it. 521 00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:33,640 Yeah. 522 00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:36,640 You can read that out and then send it to your spouse. 523 00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:39,640 And that way when you're gone, you can go ahead and play that for your kid. 524 00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:41,640 And it's not quite like you're there. 525 00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:48,640 I mean, obviously it's, it you're not there physically, but it allows them to still hear your voice and still read the thing. 526 00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:52,640 The other thing you could do is if you, if you're going to be away, but you have time at bedtime, 527 00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:59,640 you could go to something like FaceTime or whatever it is, some sort of a video chat app. 528 00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:01,640 And you could go ahead and read it. 529 00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:07,640 If you'd bring the book with you or you have a copy of the book and they have a copy of the book, 530 00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:11,640 you can, you know, read the book to them as they're there. 531 00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:12,640 Love it. 532 00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:19,640 And then the last, I think the last thing that I'm going to say as a parenting hack is using a gratitude journal. 533 00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:26,640 So this is things for, I think all of us because I mean, you can, we've done it with our kids might, you know, 534 00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:30,640 especially how he has a gratitude journal, but I think this is great as a parent too, 535 00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:35,640 because you can reflect on the positive aspects of parenting and life even during challenging times. 536 00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:39,640 Because we know, Joel, we all know that challenging times happen and, you know, 537 00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:44,640 you may end up going pulling your hair out over parenting sometimes, right? 538 00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:49,640 But with the gratitude journal, you can go ahead and look back on that and go, oh, that's right. 539 00:41:49,640 --> 00:41:52,640 Like, but this is a positive thing that happened. 540 00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:57,640 And you can remember what you're thankful for while you're parenting. 541 00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:00,640 And so that can help out a lot. 542 00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:05,640 Yeah. And, you know, you can invite your kiddos into that too. 543 00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:07,640 Do it on a digital note app and share it with everybody. 544 00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:09,640 Perfect with a QR code. 545 00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:10,640 No, don't do that. 546 00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:13,640 Yeah, share your journal with everyone. 547 00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:14,640 Why not? 548 00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:16,640 I think it's called a blog. 549 00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:17,640 Yeah, it really is. 550 00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:18,640 Twitter. 551 00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:19,640 Oh, no, X, right? 552 00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:20,640 X. 553 00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:21,640 Whatever it is. 554 00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:24,640 The artist formerly known as that is Twitter. 555 00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:25,640 Yeah. 556 00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:31,640 Well, and I think, you know, nowadays, as we just think about, you know, 557 00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:35,640 the whole hack thing and shortcuts and things like that, there, there are a lot of, 558 00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:39,640 I mean, a lot of these have, there's a technological component to them. 559 00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:45,640 There's, you know, there's little, little to no cost with a lot of, with a lot of them. 560 00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:47,640 And it frees up a lot of your time. 561 00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:50,640 That's the idea with the hacks you're talking about tonight. 562 00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:52,640 There's a lot of them are time saving hacks. 563 00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:57,640 And so you can actually get more time back to parent. 564 00:42:57,640 --> 00:42:59,640 I mean, to, yeah. 565 00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:05,640 Not, not spending all your time doing, doing the admin work as we, as we call it. 566 00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:08,640 So that's, you know, hopefully it's helpful. 567 00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:16,640 And I would say, you know, these are things, man, just a couple of them, you know, 568 00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:20,640 if you do incorporate a couple of them, you know, you might see some real, 569 00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:28,640 you might see some real changes you and your, you and your spouse partnering together on that too. 570 00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:31,640 Kind of coming together as a team and saying, Hey, what are some, 571 00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:37,640 what are some things that we could do to gain back a little time, gain back a little margin. 572 00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:40,640 It's, it's a good and healthy conversation to have. 573 00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:43,640 Well, we want to thank you guys for joining us tonight. 574 00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:47,640 If you joined us live, which you should now streaming that live, 575 00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:49,640 you can always watch us live when we record. 576 00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:52,640 So that's where the best fun, it's where the most fun is at. 577 00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:55,640 Right. 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