Girl Gang Podcast

Episode 14: Boxes Full of Yesterday: Our Collections Through the Years

• Girl Gang Podcast • Season 1 • Episode 14

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Remember those precious childhood keepsakes tucked away in cedar chests and storage bins? The Girl Gang unpacks their collection obsessions in this heartwarming, nostalgic conversation about the things we treasure and why we can't let them go.

From concert ticket stubs (now sadly digital) to playbills destined for shadow boxes, childhood toys that survived into adulthood, and travel magnets that tell stories of adventures, the Gang explores how collecting evolves throughout our lives. They share creative display ideas like magnetic walls and curio cabinets while laughing about the perpetual struggle between wanting to declutter and being unable to part with sentimental items. The conversation takes a thoughtful turn when they consider which single treasured possession they'd grab in a house fire—revealing the deep emotional connections behind our most cherished objects.

Whether you're a "clean hoarder" with organized collections or simply someone who appreciates items that spark joy without matching any particular theme, this episode celebrates how our collections tell our stories. 

What do you collect? What childhood treasure do you wish you'd kept? Share your collection stories with us on social media—we'd love to see what makes your collection special!

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Rachael:

Hi everyone, welcome to Girl Gang Podcast. My name's Rachael,

Sarah:

I'm Sarah

Brandi:

and I'm Brandi and we're your hosts for this episode.

Rachael:

So earlier, the Girl Gang we were talking about childhood memories, and then we got down this rabbit hole of things that we used to collect as kids and that kind of morphed into what do we collect now. So we just decided we should talk about this because it's interesting and some of the things that at least Kozy collects we've never even heard of so we we want to know more.

Rachael:

Um so Kozy. What are, what's the main thing that you collect, and is it from your childhood, is it from adulthood, and how did you come to collect these items?

Sarah:

I have so many random things. I feel like I'm kind of borderline hoarder. I think we've talked about that before. Like I, I love to be prepared and just have the things that make me happy for no reason. Some things will never get used, but I have them if I ever need them. And some things I just keep for no reason and I have plans to do something with them, but that's something that's future Sarah's problem. They're going to be something eventually. So I collect a lot of different things. I really miss having printed tickets. That was like one of the first things that really came to mind, because I used to collect all of my concert tickets and I really wanted to put them in like a really cool looking shadow box, but now all the tickets are online, which is I get it. It's more environmentally friendly, but come on. So then I also collect playbills from all the musicals and shows that I go to see

Rachael:

Nice,

Sarah:

and eventually I'd like to put those in like a big picture frame, kind of like Twilight, if you were a Twilight fan.

Brandi:

The graduation cap.

Sarah:

The graduation cap.

Sarah:

Oh yes, like I want a cool shadow box of like all the different playbills in all the shows I've seen throughout my life

Rachael:

So when he gets on video calls, people are like oh, you go see shows.

Sarah:

I mean, I don't have the ones

Brandi:

You're cultured,

Sarah:

I don't have the ones from like when I was a kid kid, but I mean I feel like I've been collecting them at least since like I've been buying my own tickets to like shows.

Rachael:

Do you have like a cedar chest where you keep all your keepsakes and like things that are important?

Sarah:

I do. I have a couple different ones. All of my playbills are in a shoebox like they're well in an overflowing open shoebox, but something cool this is kind of what got us talking about. It too is something cool my mom really did, which I absolutely loved and adored.

Sarah:

That she did this is she put together a treasure box and she made like a little keepsake of all of the things that I did in school and she gave it to me as a gift for my high school graduation.

Sarah:

So she put it in like a little big treasure chest kind of trunk. You open it up and it's got all these different file folders and it starts from infant to toddler, pre-k, kindergarten, all the way up to my senior year of high school, and it had like accomplishments or like certificates or artwork stories. I wrote schoolwork, you know, volleyball pictures, like a little bit of everything and I thought that was really cool because I love like scrapbooking in the baby books and I know I had one, but this was kind of like just everything in one little box,

Rachael:

yeah,

Sarah:

and it was all like the most important thing. So I turned that into. Now, whenever one of my friends has a baby, I get them like a little collapsible bin, file cabinet bin thing, and I'll put the file folders in there and I'll start to mark some of them and then leave some empty ones so they can market themselves, whether they want like pictures from holidays or if their kid is really, you know, a big scholar or really into music or sports.

Sarah:

They have like different areas or little file folders

Brandi:

and all their art when they're kids too.

Sarah:

Yes,

Brandi:

there's so many little projects like that.

Rachael:

I wrote a book like I think it was oh, what grade was this? Maybe fifth grade that I wrote a book like you could write it and then they would actually print it. You do the artwork and everything. And I was down at my grandparents house a few weeks ago and my mom was like, do you want any of this stuff? And it was my book that I created in like the fifth grade. It was called the gateway flames. It was about a hockey team and a girl falling in love with a hockey player and it was pretty bad, so it's going to my cedar chest yes I will say first boyfriend was a hockey player.

Sarah:

That's cute

Brandi:

hockey romances are quite big right now,

Rachael:

I know it's a whole genre the girl that I met in Florida is writing a hockey romance

Sarah:

oh

Rachael:

she's getting into

Sarah:

I could get into some sports romance books

Brandi:

I loved writing um and my, my grade school had a um, oh god, what was the writing program called?

Brandi:

oh, it's gonna bother me now, but I wrote for them in one year I think it was fourth grade my story. So each grade level, so it was broken up into third, fourth and fifth grade at my one school and so everyone in that grade could it was voluntary could submit one and then you could win for your grade.

Sarah:

Oh yeah,

Brandi:

and then I also won for the entire school.

Rachael:

That's badass.

Brandi:

I beat everyone and then I got to go to a conference where there was like some authors and stuff and I got my book signed by her and I still have all of my stories and I've actually been thinking about going back and like obviously I was in third and fourth grade, so they're not like the most robust books, you know. But I was like maybe I should go back and like structure them a little bit more

Sarah:

it's kind of like going back to your childhood imagination and like

Brandi:

I had some good stories.

Brandi:

The one that won everything was about this girl who found these letters from this old veteran and like all of this stuff, and I was like that would actually like make a really cute like

Sarah:

that'd be super cool,

Brandi:

so I I made copies of them because my dad wouldn't let me have the original. He's like no, I'm keeping those fair enough, so I have copies.

Rachael:

Put it in a folder like does, did he store all that stuff?

Brandi:

Oh yeah, it's all organized by, by grade,

Rachael:

collecting all that good stuff,

Brandi:

and then he also did of like.

Brandi:

It's not like a full scrapbook where you know it was the special paper and the stickers and everything, because he's a dad, he wasn't really into all that, but he did make a memory book and he took like my favorite artwork from each grade and everything and he made like it was more like collages in the pages.

Sarah:

Oh nice

Rachael:

that's cute.

Brandi:

But yeah, he, he made a whole.

Brandi:

He had to get an extender for it because it's so big.

Rachael:

I feel like I've never met your dad, but every time you talk about him I'm like best dad ever. Let's met this guy.

Sarah:

Oh yeah,

Brandi:

I love my dad, yeah,

Rachael:

thanks, dad.

Brandi:

Um, yeah, no, he, he doesn't know this, but I found he had parenting books um on his shelf and one was like how to raise like a, something about a strong-willed daughter, or something like that. I was like, well, I think he like did something right because I feel like I turned out okay.

Rachael:

Hell, yeah,

Sarah:

definitely,

Brandi:

yeah, um,

Rachael:

that's badass.

Brandi:

So, yeah, no, he's got all of that kind of stuff still yeah,

Rachael:

I feel like my mom and my grandma like going since my grandpa passed away, like they've been going through my grandparents house and she kept a lot of like birthday cards and all of these things. But something that I really like when I think of my grandma, I think of this she collected egg cups. So if you don't know what egg cups are like, google them. But they're basically like porcelain cups and they're designed all different types of ways and then you can put an egg in it and she put fake eggs in it.

Rachael:

But she has literally two cases, like glass cases, of these egg cups um and so when I was down there a few weeks ago, I got to pick out a couple of my favorite and I don't know, it's just like when I look at them, I just like think of my grandma

Sarah:

you just put them out on display?

Rachael:

yeah.

Rachael:

So I have kind of a shelf behind, like in my office. I have this full shelf bookcase and so I have like the egg cups that I took. I took like three or four, and then my great grandma collected owls, and owls was also um the mascot for, like my sorority, so I've always collected. So when my great grandma passed away I got all of her um like gold, brass owls. And so you know friends who have gone to like different countries, like I have one from Italy when I studied abroad in Italy, like I got a owl made out of like lava rock from Mount Vesuvius. And then, like my friend studied abroad in Mexico, so he brought me an owl from Mexico, um, so I feel like egg cups and owls, like that's my, that's my thing, but I mean like it very much like stemmed from my grandma.

Rachael:

And then you know things that I wanted to do for myself. I just remember when I was a kid, like my babysitter brought me this little snow globe from Disney and I broke it and I was so devastated that I always wanted snow globes. I always wanted to collect snow globes. So I collected four or five of them and then I quickly realized like it's kind of hard to like store snow globes

Sarah:

and ship them yeah

Rachael:

like travel with them, make sure they don't break. I always just have this thing in the back of my mind of like I'm gonna shatter it, just like I shattered my Disney one as a kid. Um, so then when I was, you know, making all my life changes the past couple years, I switched to magnets, and so every time I travel somewhere now I collect a magnet where I go.

Sarah:

Those are easy to carry with you.

Rachael:

Exactly.

Brandi:

And you can do some cool stuff with them.

Sarah:

Absolutely

Rachael:

yeah.

Brandi:

I mean, I have a. As a kid, my grandparents were over-the-road truck drivers,

Rachael:

really?

Brandi:

and so they would get me in new states. They went to, they'd get me. Do you guys remember the state magnets?

Sarah:

Oh yeah,

Brandi:

it could like build the us, even though half of them weren't the right proportion.

Brandi:

So like it looked really wonky when you have the full country like mapped out appropriately. But they'd give me one of those magnets and a postcard from the states they went to. So I still have those. I never got a full country, but again, like you go to northeast and it's really hard to get because they make them big enough that you can read them. So you're not going to get like a little tiny rhode island, right, um, and so I've kind of started collecting magnets. My stepmom has a whole fridge full of them, to the point where she has to like take one off if you get her a new one. And we've talked about because there's magnetic paint out there now.

Sarah:

Oh yeah,

Brandi:

we've talked about like taking a wall and like the basement

Rachael:

oh, that'd be badass.

Brandi:

And putting magnet paint, and then she can put them all on display.

Sarah:

Because I've seen people do that with, like, old license plates too.

Brandi:

Yeah,

Sarah:

and like decorate a whole wall.

Sarah:

That'd be really cool.

Brandi:

So yeah, there's, there's cool things you can do with, like to display things like that. But yes, magnets way easier to travel with. Tsa does not like snow globes.

Rachael:

I know

Brandi:

they because it's got like um like a gel in it, almost in the water and stuff.

Brandi:

Yeah that flags bright bright red on their monitors

Sarah:

and it's not like you can really test it without opening the thing up, because, like I like I've tried it with candles and they have to swab those.

Brandi:

You have to either throw it away or check your bag.

Rachael:

Oh yeah, my mom was always a big collector of coffee mugs, and so I always liked to collect coffee mugs. But again, like you, only have so much cabinet space.

Rachael:

Oh, that's really hard to like collect that many and

Brandi:

you only drink so much coffee you.

Rachael:

and once you find a, mug like you use that mug every time. Like you like it.

Sarah:

It's, you know my dad collects mugs, but it's only specifically Waffle House mugs,

Rachael:

really,

Sarah:

and he will never get two of the same. He gets a kick and he doesn't really go to Waffle House all that often, but it's like every once in a while he's like

Rachael:

so good

Sarah:

and he really likes going it when he goes to like a new state or a new place that he hasn't been that has a Waffle House.

Brandi:

Do the Waffle House mugs have a state on them?

Sarah:

So from what my dad said, because he obviously, I think he befriended a manager of one of them-

Brandi:

Of course he did

Sarah:

, yeah, of course Each one will have different ones. They have like a new yearly logo ones they'll come out with. But he said it's kind of fun because each different Waffle House either like has some back in their, their back room of ones that haven't sold, or they're all kind of different and sometimes you'll find like antique ones, Sometimes you'll find new ones.

Brandi:

So it's not like Starbucks, where they have like the state on them.

Sarah:

I mean, it could be not to I don't know about it to my knowledge, but that's at least what my dad had said

Brandi:

I've only gone to waffle house once in my life.

Sarah:

Oh, I love a good waffle house. It's entertaining too good

Rachael:

my friend

Sarah:

breakfast in the show yeah, yeah.

Rachael:

My friend came to visit from Chicago last year and he was literally like all I want to do when I come to see you is go to Waffle House. And we went

Brandi:

disgusting,

Rachael:

and to be fair, I was like really like you want to go to Waffle House, but okay, sure, if you want to go, let's go. We went and it was so fucking delicious.

Rachael:

I was like this is so good and

Sarah:

absolutely

Brandi:

still the minute they put an american slice of cheese on my eggs.

Brandi:

When I said I wanted, I was like this isn't for me

Rachael:

honestly, I feel like you should give it another try, because the Waffle House that we used to go to at like 3 am after drinking all night is way different than the Waffle House today, with all the same character. We should try it.

Sarah:

And they're never closed.

Rachael:

She's giving me the evil eyes right now. She's like why would you even suggest?

Brandi:

I will keep to IHOP.

Rachael:

IHOP is just too commercialized

Sarah:

Waffle House all the way. I mean.

Brandi:

Waffle House isn't?

Sarah:

Unless you're local to the area too. We have Ginghams.

Rachael:

Ginghams is fucking delicious,

Sarah:

you've never been to ginghams,

Rachael:

oh my god

Brandi:

and I lived 30 seconds from there and I never went.

Rachael:

Okay, we're literally going to a concert on Thursday and we should go there afterwards for those, yeah,

Sarah:

for those who don't know it's local to our area. It's a little 24 hour like home cooked comfort meal food ever you get breakfast, lunch, dinner, all of the above.

Sarah:

They have a great menu.

Sarah:

It's amazing

Rachael:

okay, you want to hear some fun

Brandi:

those yellow apartments behind it.

Brandi:

That's where I used to live.

Rachael:

Okay, my last two experiences.

Rachael:

Going to Ginghams's I know this is not related to collectibles, but should know. My partner was joking around, pushed me out of the booth and I fell over in the middle of everybody and everybody's like what the fuck Is this girl drunk? I'm the only sober person here, people Okay. And then he proceeds to eat five bowls of chili, not exaggerating.

Rachael:

He's like, obsessed with their chili.

Brandi:

Yeah, the last time I saw him and you guys were like let's go to Gingham's, he's like I'm getting the chili and it was like 80 degrees out and I was like, ew,

Rachael:

yep, gotta get that chili.

Sarah:

The Waffle House mug is what, I'm sorry, collect. The other thing I think I have from my like childhood childhood are these, um,

Rachael:

the mice.

Sarah:

They were called the mice. Yeah, I have these little figurines. They're called charming tails and I think there are different like animals that they have, but I specifically have the mice one. That's what my grandmother assigned me as a child.

Sarah:

I think I was mice and my sister was bunnies.

Rachael:

Really,

Sarah:

yes,

Rachael:

that's cute

Sarah:

and so I remember it was and I think these were. I don't know if they were big, like in the 90s, early 2000s, it was a big Hallmark thing. I can remember they always had them at hallmark in those like fancy little glass figurine stores,

Brandi:

okay,

Sarah:

and we would get one for like our birthday and for Christmas, and it'll always be a different one. So out of the ones that I have, I have a little like cute little mice statue for like every holiday, um, I have like the nativity scene, I have like a little um parade float of like this little train kind of thing and I have like a birthday one and like statue of liberty and all sorts of really cute little.

Rachael:

Where do you keep them?

Brandi:

I've never seen these

Sarah:

at first I started rotating them like throughout the season and only bringing out like the holiday ones. But I don't have too too many for each holiday, so it'd be like four of them out at a time and then I'd forget to switch them out. So I kind of just took all of the non-holiday ones and I just keep them out, or, like all of my spring ones, all my summer ones, I have them by my plants, like on my kitchen, but

Brandi:

I think I actually think I have seen them by your plants.

Sarah:

They're kind of like all over the place, like wherever my cats can't jump up to get, because I don't want to.

Brandi:

So when you guys get a bigger house, you're gonna get like um

Sarah:

they will all be on display

Rachael:

in like a cabinet

Brandi:

aren't they called like curio cabinets?

Sarah:

yeah, like those little display corner cabinets or something.

Brandi:

Yeah, you're gonna have.

Brandi:

Yeah, you're gonna

Sarah:

have one of those

Brandi:

you're gonna have one in each corner for something different yeah,

Rachael:

didn't you also collect?

Rachael:

didn't you ask for gnomes for your wedding?

Sarah:

I always love gnomes.

Sarah:

That was right. I did add a quite a bit of gnomes on our wedding registry list.

Sarah:

I really don't know why.

Sarah:

I just wanted like little garden figures.

Rachael:

Garden figures,

Sarah:

I think it was when my mom and my dad moved out of my childhood home. My mom gifted me like a lot of different garden I don't know if you still call them figures Like flower beds, not even that. Like frogs or like you know a gnome sitting under a palm tree umbrella, like little statues you'd put like out in your yard or in your garden, like turtles

Brandi:

I have the turtle,

Sarah:

oh yeah, see, my mom does the frogs. So we have quite a bit of frogs, but gnomes are just cute. I don't know why I like gnomes. I'm getting into like those little fairy things too, like little fairy doors and like,

Brandi:

oh the little fairy gardens

Sarah:

yeah, I want to collect all those little things because I love little figures but I have.

Sarah:

I need to get a proper display case because I can't just put them out on my countertops, because my cat has really been liking climbing on our main island and she's never done that before, or at least haven't caught her doing it. So I have to be careful with the little things I put out.

Rachael:

Yeah,

Brandi:

I get that.

Brandi:

I can't really do puzzles anymore because my cat, like I, have to either finish it in one sitting.

Sarah:

Oh, online puzzles,

Brandi:

finish it in one sitting.

Brandi:

I actually did get like a little roll-up thing, so that way, when I'm like I got that from my mom yeah, I was. Just I got tired of being like where the hell is this puzzle piece? And it's, there's like five of them scattered on the floor because of a cat

Rachael:

can you collect.

Rachael:

I've always like I like puzzles, but I'm like, once you're done with them, then you have to break them all up which is sad, or you can glue them and hang them.

Brandi:

I saw on tiktok you take painter's tape and you do like

Sarah:

oh, on the back, yeah, I've seen that too,

Brandi:

and then you do it again vertically and then it almost makes it like this, like wavy thing, because they're all like double attached,

Sarah:

that almost is better for, like the time that you do want to take it apart and like maybe redo it or something, because my mom would always mod podge them and then put them into a frame and hang them on the wall, but then you got to keep them for a while, so it'd be like one really cool puzzle,

Rachael:

yeah

Sarah:

or one, you can change out

Brandi:

she had some kind of like case that she like slid them into

Sarah:

oh

Brandi:

and like to store them but again,

Rachael:

I always wanted to collect something like that or like those paint by number kits.

Rachael:

I'm like, oh, it'd be great if I could like paint by number and that. But then I'm like what am I gonna do with all this artwork?

Brandi:

you throw it away just like, just like Painting with a Twist

Brandi:

and like all those places. Like I had a couple of them but like I'm always rushed during those things because I'm too busy drinking and talking to you that they never turn out very good and I'm like I'm not hanging this up and I end up like I probably donated a couple and then I've thrown a couple away, like I'm like I literally just went for the social aspect

Sarah:

we did a lot of those in college like, yeah, I mean, we I think it was before we were legal drinking age too we wanted to have like those painted home nights.

Sarah:

So we had so many nights in college with my roommates and my friends who lived in our apartment complex and just come over and take a canvas and like paint something, like to make our own house artwork. So I have all of those still in my office.

Rachael:

We did that one night at your house we did

Sarah:

oh yeah, that was I think it was, and it was before, like I got my cricket too, like in college

Brandi:

we also did.

Sarah:

I just love making little canvases

Brandi:

flower pots.

Rachael:

Yeah, we painted flower pots that one night,

Brandi:

yeah, but that kind of stuff's useful, but the bunch of canvases, I'm like I have too much stuff that I actually want to hang up that I'm not going to like put those god-awful paintings on, because I have an artistic ability and like I don't want those on display, like I'd rather take my time and paint something and then put it up.

Sarah:

Yeah, and my office is not like nothing matches, like there's no theme, it is just. Here's a ton of artwork on one wall matches like there's no theme, it is just.

Brandi:

it's not like Kozy just vomited her ideas up on the wall.

Sarah:

Absolutely,

Brandi:

I never would have guessed

Rachael:

that this depends on the time in the day and how you're feeling, and all that good stuff

Brandi:

girl, the day that your events are one thing, but the day your house has a set theme,

Sarah:

yeah,

Brandi:

it probably will day hell freezes over.

Sarah:

Gen Z I have to look this up. Gen Gen Z is calling that something now.

Brandi:

Yes, we talked about this a couple weeks ago.

Sarah:

It's a certain like aesthetic.

Sarah:

this like messy vibe Not messy vibe aesthetic, but it's.

Brandi:

Oh God, what did you call it when you were telling me about it?

Sarah:

Oh, I don't know, I can't remember now.

Rachael:

Well, aren't they calling scrapbooking junk journaling?

Sarah:

Okay,

Rachael:

I feel slightly offended by that,

Sarah:

but it was this concept of like you no longer have to have like a dedicated theme, like you just have the things that just make you happy and you put it up on your wall because you like it. Yeah,

Rachael:

so it doesn't have to be a theme,

Sarah:

right, and I'm like okay, gen Z, I see you. This is one thing that.

Sarah:

I like

Rachael:

the theme is happiness.

Sarah:

Yes, this is one thing I like, because theme and I do like to collect random things and just buy things that make me happy and I want to like hang them up my wall, but nothing is ever really like coinciding together. But it doesn't have to.

Sarah:

Gen Z says it doesn't have to

Brandi:

and I was kind of stuck in that mindset of like, oh, this has to go with this and this has to go with this and then. I was just like

Sarah:

who cares?

Brandi:

I was like I have all this cool shit that I don't really I can't put on display because it doesn't match the aesthetic of

Sarah:

who cares. We're over it yeah

Rachael:

I collect plants!

Rachael:

how

Rachael:

did I not think about this as a collectible?

Sarah:

Absolutely

Rachael:

I collect the hell out of plants

Rachael:

I have so many plants,

Sarah:

the leaves that I find on the floor and I try to propagate them.

Rachael:

Oh, okay,

Sarah:

they're like it's not technically stealing some of them, some of them, but I mean.

Sarah:

So I used to work at Lowe's back in college so like I mean, you know outside home and garden, if they're on the floor they're just gonna get swept up anyways. So like might as well see if I can propagate them. So there's been quite a few that I've propagated.

Brandi:

I'm a pro at getting them to regrow, like I have this one plant and like it goes in vines and like I swear god every time I look at it like the half that's in the dirt is dead and then the other half of it's fine so I pull the whole thing out, cut the dead part off and then I stick the good part in dirt again and it grows all over again.

Brandi:

Nice. So I can propagate, keeping things alive, unless they're succulents. I have I've killed many a succulent and I've killed many a cacti, nice. But the ones that are surviving, we're in for the long haul, so

Rachael:

You gave me a plant for something. My birthday,

Brandi:

yes,

Rachael:

something. You gave me a plant for something and it was like in this little disco ball planter. I moved it into a different planter and it is thriving it is, like

Brandi:

mine's still my disco ball.

Brandi:

Maybe I need to move it.

Rachael:

It probably needs to be moved into something bigger, but then I moved a smaller plant into the disco ball and that one's thriving too. So I'm just like rehoming.

Brandi:

Yeah, mine's growing quite a bit and I'm sure it would just go crazy if I put it something bigger. So yeah, but my goal in my new bedroom is to put like hooks like on the wall and have them like actually hang and stuff so they can get, because there's only like one good spot in my house with sunlight right now and I'm like I can't have all of them right here

Sarah:

that's what you want to do with our books, because I know you have quite a collection of books too.

Brandi:

So many books actually. I just I got a new one in the mail earlier this week, so I have an updated um catalog which, if you want to know about my book catalog, check out my blog. Um, I am up to, I think, 588 now nice so my goal is 600 by the end of the year.

Rachael:

That's badass

Brandi:

I think.

Rachael:

I went to the Strawberry Festival this weekend and I bought one of those mystery book packs. So it's like,

Brandi:

oh, like a mystery date with a book.

Brandi:

Yeah, it just gives you a synopsis or a trope.

Rachael:

Yep,

Brandi:

nice,

Rachael:

I opened it up and it's about dog love. It's like two owners with Dalmatians and I'm sure they fall in love by the end.

Brandi:

A little meet cute A little. 101 Dalmatians without Cruella.

Rachael:

I know Exactly, so I'm excited about that.

Brandi:

That sounds like a good one.

Sarah:

Oh, I definitely have something to collect. When we talk about books, I have a collection. I have no idea where these came from, but I remember telling my parents that I really wanted to keep them because I wanted them for my children.

Sarah:

It's like a collection of not kid kid books, like there's not, it's not like a picture book, but they're all of all of the um most popular books, like Huckleberry Finn like the Prince and the Pea like the classics, you know, Peter Pan like all those books, but they're probably like middle school age reading, um, so they still have like the story and then maybe every couple pages there's like a black and white photo or something.

Brandi:

Yeah, like a sketch kind of.

Sarah:

Yeah, um, I have all of those. There's probably like a collection of 30 of those books.

Rachael:

Nice,

Sarah:

Frankenstein's in there.

Brandi:

Yeah, I collect different versions of Pride and Prejudice because it's my favorite.

Sarah:

Oh,

Brandi:

and what I've, I actually saw this and I wanted to do it when I went to Dubai a couple years ago. But we didn't really go to a bookstore or have the time to do it. But I saw this one lady she did. The Great Gatsby was her book. Every country she went to she got it in that language.

Sarah:

So a book in a different language is what you collect.

Brandi:

Like I would get Pride and Prejudice because it's a classic.

Brandi:

Like you have to pick one that's like a classic. So yeah, like when I go to Norway later this year, like I want to try to go to a bookshop and find it,

Sarah:

oh, that would be cool

Brandi:

In Norwegian,

Rachael:

that would be so cool,

Brandi:

yeah.

Rachael:

Pride and Prejudice is my favorite.

Brandi:

That would be so cool, yeah that and The Hobbit, like if I could get one or the other.

Brandi:

Like those are my two favorite books

Sarah:

oh yeah

Rachael:

I, oh okay, this is like newer for me um pins like

Brandi:

oh yeah, because you got a couple at Dance fest

Rachael:

yeah. So like I bought some pins at Dancef est last year and now I have like an obsession, so they go on my hiking backpack and I'm just like new pin hiking backpack.

Rachael:

Let's go.

Sarah:

There are so many more things popping up for me right now.

Sarah:

Do you want to know how many ribbons.

Sarah:

I have?

Rachael:

what kind of ribbons?

Sarah:

I have a ribbon from damn near every single volleyball played. Volleyball game I've ever played

Brandi:

like a hair ribbon?

Sarah:

like from my travel team. High school, mostly through college too, but mostly I would say elementary school, middle school, high school every single game.

Rachael:

What do you mean by ribbon?

Sarah:

like a ribbon you would put in your hair or like a bow we had a thing at the club that I played at where every single game girls would rotate and, like each person would just bring a couple ribbons and we each have like a theme ribbon for that game. So on my vault you said backpack. So on my volleyball backpack I have, oh my god, probably thousands

Rachael:

really

Sarah:

just like one string cut ribbon that's just tied on a knot to my

Brandi:

probably frayed like hell now,

Sarah:

oh yes most definitely yeah but that's reminding me of that I have so many of those that was so much fun to do as a kid, for like sports, like it was something that was just kind of I don't know and I see a lot of like.

Sarah:

Maybe it's more softball that I see like online. They all do like the colored hair and they all like have something that they do together as like a team. But the ribbons were always really fun.

Sarah:

I wonder if kids still do that or not

Brandi:

oh yeah,

Sarah:

I would think

Brandi:

I think more of it now is like friendship bracelets and things like that but

Sarah:

yeah

Brandi:

which were, I think, big in our day too, but I feel like the Swifties have really

Sarah:

yeah, because we went to Claire's and like bought the friendship like the half-half heart,

Brandi:

the matching like the ones and they would turn your skin green after a couple of years,

Rachael:

or the matching mood rings.

Rachael:

Yeah, yeah, I miss those mood rings.

Sarah:

Those were fun

Rachael:

Tell me how I'm feeling

Sarah:

and I feel like it really just went to your body temperature.

Brandi:

It is Well. I always stuck mine in like ice water, so it turned pitch black. If that doesn't tell you my personality, I don't know what does.

Rachael:

Oh my god, I love that

Brandi:

Match my cold heart.

Sarah:

I still have all of my VHS tapes from my childhood.

Rachael:

That's pretty cool.

Brandi:

I do too,

Sarah:

and I kept the VHS slash DVD duo player because for some reason I'm like I don't know where I'm gonna find a vhs player, so I might as well keep this one, because I know it works

Brandi:

yeah, I don't have either.

Brandi:

I have all my dvds, all my vhs and not a single way to watch them.

Sarah:

I have all of my old burn cds.

Brandi:

I do too.

Sarah:

I would love I don't have a player. I mean I could probably put it in the dvd player.

Brandi:

Yeah, you can.

Sarah:

I can put in my car. My car still has a cd player

Brandi:

girl, you need

Brandi:

This is actually my car that I just got is the first one without a cd player and it actually made me really sad because my first Jetta had a five disc changer and I lost my five favorite cds because the radio went down.

Sarah:

Oh no,

Brandi:

that's my original Avril, my original Sick Puppies like all five of my, like top five were stuck in this radio, and then, when I got my car accident with my other one, I had another good cd in there that someone had given me as a gift and so I lost that one too, because you can't get that one out.

Rachael:

that's so sad,

Brandi:

but now I'm like thank God this one doesn't have a CD player, because I can't keep losing these damn things. But yeah, I have my whole book of them.

Sarah:

Oh yeah, and then.

Brandi:

I also have the thing that went on the side.

Rachael:

Oh, the visor,

Sarah:

oh, on your visor yes,

Rachael:

and mine was a two-layer.

Brandi:

It had the velcro, so you could open it up and it had twice as many slots. Of course I always doubled them up anyways because you know you can't have too many burned days.

Sarah:

I definitely want to go, I feel like the only. I think I'm pretty sure the cd that is actually in my car is the broadway Wicked soundtrack cd

Brandi:

of course it is.

Sarah:

I know all the other cds I have I feel like they're just burned ones, but they don't actually have the songs on them. They're vibes, they're like car ride vibes.

Brandi:

Oh no, I wrote every single song in order.

Brandi:

I'll have to find mine and bring them in

Sarah:

Same. Oh, that should be a good episode.

Brandi:

We should have a little jam sesh with our.

Brandi:

But I'm a very nostalgic person and while I am trying to declutter my house, still after six months I think we've talked about this, like in February, about cleaning. Yeah, maybe March. I'm still decluttering, but I have such a hard time getting rid of sentimental things.

Sarah:

Yes,

Brandi:

so, hard.

Sarah:

Yes,

Brandi:

and I'm like trying to get changed my mindset, but like I'm borderline, I'm not like a dirty hoarder,

Rachael:

she's a clean hoarder.

Brandi:

You know, like I don't have rats in my house or like, but like I have so much shit for one person.

Sarah:

Well, I feel like we're kind of at that age, with that generation too, like our parents, like kept everything, at least my parents did.

Sarah:

They kept everything and they had everything from their parents and from their grandparents. And now I think our generation is like we're all moved out and some of us are married and have kids and everything, and I know my parents were like here's everything that we kept from our childhood. For you, take it, and I'm like I live in a 900 square foot house. I don't have a place to put all this stuff, but it's things I do want to keep.

Sarah:

So we eventually had to get a storage unit for some things because, yeah,

Brandi:

so I think my dad was so particular about keeping everything

Sarah:

same

Brandi:

because he got rid of all his stuff like he had like the entire original so he has that regret collection from the 80s. I mean they're worth without. This collection would be worth thousands now, and he sold it when he was in college just for some spending money and so like to this day.

Brandi:

He is just like it makes him sick when he sees these prices at auction and stuff

Sarah:

oh yeah

Brandi:

pristine condition and so he kept all of my stuff because he's like, nope,

Rachael:

you never know.

Rachael:

you can Honestly okay, so my mom made me keep all of my Barbies.

Rachael:

I could not open them.

Rachael:

And like every birthday, I got like my birthday Barbie.

Rachael:

They had like the you know turn however old, and the Barbies made it through all the way, up until three years ago actually. Like made it through the divorce, like made it into the apartment. Great,

Brandi:

didn't survive Marie Kondo, did it?

Rachael:

No, actually this was before the Marie Kondo days. I was living in my apartment and I was like I don't care about making money off these Barbies, like truly so. I'm just gonna gift them to my nieces and that was like their Christmas gift for a year

Brandi:

I did have some of those like box collector ones, but then I

Rachael:

I had the Wizard of Oz collection, I had all the Munchkins and I had Dorothy.

Brandi:

That's probably some money.

Rachael:

It was cute.

Brandi:

I have all my American Girl doll stuff, all my Beanie Babies, all my Barbies, all my Legos, all of my normal stuffed animals.

Sarah:

I don't think I have that.

Brandi:

I have all of it still.

Sarah:

We had all of them. We did American Girl dolls had all of them. I messed that up by cutting one of their

Sarah:

I did it once.

Sarah:

I'm sorry, Kirsten, I'm really sorry but, the haircut turned out really cute. It wasn't bad. I didn't like shave her head, I just gave her a little short haircut?

Brandi:

Absolutely not

Sarah:

yeah, my mom was not happy

Brandi:

oh my god. No,

Sarah:

she was not happy, so we didn't get any more American Girl dolls after that,

Brandi:

oh my god.

Brandi:

No, I didn't touch my barbie. No, I didn't touch my Barbie's hair. I didn't touch my doll.

Sarah:

Oh, I always cut everyone's hair.

Brandi:

No, oh, man,

Sarah:

One Polly Pocket was bald. She's got a little afro going.

Rachael:

Oh, I loved Polly Pocket,

Brandi:

you were my nightmare.

Sarah:

Yeah. I wanted to be your stylist for a little while. Oh, never someone else's.

Sarah:

only my own.

Rachael:

So what I did, I feel like I used to be very sentimental, and I still am to an extent, but I'm more selective with my things now. And what I did a few years ago is I had my cedar chest. Like I had my cedar chest, I have like a couple of tubs of things, like I have multiple things of all of my past experiences, so, but I went back through everything and if I did not like remember where it came from or like the memory attached to it, then I decided to get rid of it.

Brandi:

Girl, you know how good my memory, my long-term memory, is.

Brandi:

Short-term sucks now

Rachael:

well, yeah, because you're a fucking genius,

Brandi:

fucking everything I have a memory of

Rachael:

Kozy and I Kozy and I don't remember what happened five minutes ago

Brandi:

but 10 years ago, 20 years ago, oh, my friend from high school was like, hey, remember this one time. She's like I can't remember and I like launch into this detail. She's like this is why we're still friends, because I just mentioned something and you can just tell me exactly. So everything's got a fucking memory for me.

Rachael:

I mean hey, that's your brain capacity.

Rachael:

I'm not remembering to those things. So I'm just like nah,

Sarah:

I feel like I'm really bad with like the. I want to keep it because I want to do something with this or I want to use it for this. So I'm just going to keep it into a box and whenever that feeling or motivation to do it comes to me, I'll have it all ready. But I'm very bad at collecting.

Rachael:

Aren't you planning on doing that with some of the stuff that you have, Brandi, like the quilts of, like concert t-shirts or like?

Brandi:

yes, I have so many t-shirts that I want to make into quilts, so that's on my list. But now that I have like nieces and nephews and stuff and they're getting old enough now where I'll actually like I'll babysit if the parents need to, because they're potty trained, or like my sister just had her little girl. Like my barbies and stuff are gonna come in clutch. I'm not gonna have to buy new toys for my house when they come to visit, they're gonna have, I've got. I've got boy toys, I've got girl toys, like they're gonna be set

Sarah:

same.

Sarah:

That's why I kept all my beanie babies, like

Brandi:

I have two totes.

Sarah:

Oh my gosh. My sister and I, I remember as a kid, used to play zoo, like in my grandmother's basement, and we'd pair up all the animals like they would be in the zoo, the cats together and the bears together, and I'd drag her along in a little wagon and then bring the parents downstairs and like give them a zoo tour of everything.

Sarah:

And that was, oh, that was another thing I can beg my parents to keep

Brandi:

I cam tell you like grew up with siblings, because I have siblings but like I didn't see them very much, uh

Sarah:

and you guys weren't close in age right.

Brandi:

No, my sister and I are like eight years apart,

Sarah:

okay,

Brandi:

but like I had a wooden block set and I would make like an actual zoo layout with like the blocks as their pens.

Sarah:

Nice

Brandi:

or make them, little houses with my blocks

Sarah:

oh nice.

Sarah:

Oh yeah, we just took over the whole basement.

Sarah:

This corner here, the couch, here is this. Yes,

Brandi:

imagination was

Sarah:

love it.

Brandi:

I used to have all my Polly Pockets, but then I gave them to my little sister and I don't know what happened to them after that. Like the big ones, like the, the ones with, like the rubber clothes

Sarah:

oh, yeah,

Brandi:

I had so

Rachael:

Polly Pockets were a lot of fun

Sarah:

we had groovy girls and either one of you had groovy girls.

Sarah:

I don't know if that's like a midwest thing or like just where I was from or like what group I associate with that had groovy girls. But I had all the groovy girls.

Brandi:

It had to have been a little after older gen z's

Sarah:

it might yeah, it might have been, because I just remember having those,

Rachael:

yeah,

Sarah:

and that was yeah, you're probably right, because it was after the Barbies and the Polly Pockets. It was kind of like moving out of dolls, but these were like,

Rachael:

was it

Rachael:

Diva? Like Diva Girls or something like that. I felt like those, or maybe we're talking about the same thing.

Sarah:

These were kind of like things Cabbage Patch

Brandi:

I was not

Sarah:

Think like Cabbage Patch Kids and Bratz dolls had a baby, that's kind of how I referred to it.

Rachael:

Ah, okay,

Sarah:

I don't know if that's a really good idea or not, but because they were made like do you

Rachael:

remember Furbies?

Sarah:

Furbies, oh my god, you want to know something about Furbies.

Sarah:

I might have said this in a previous episode or not, but my sister and I had a Furby. The last one that we got was like the mom of Furby, where she would give birth to a baby Furby

Brandi:

they had that?

Sarah:

they had it. She was supposed to hatch an egg and out came like a little stuffed animal, Furby

Rachael:

that's weird.

Brandi:

Did the stuffed animal one talk?

Sarah:

no, it was just like a normal stuffed animal, but the mom one was the actual mechanical Furby and it was supposed to be. You have to care for her. You pet her so many times and, like you do all these things, eventually she's going to pop out an egg. My sister and I had that for probably two years thing would never happen out of that thing would never hatch.

Sarah:

Nothing happened. We're like all right, it's kind of broken, kept it in the basement. I think I went out to college and I think my sister went off to college and there was one time we came back and we were going through stuff in the basement and we're like the Furby she still hasn't hatched. We touched this thing once and out pops the egg.

Rachael:

You just weren't touching it in the right spot, I guess,

Sarah:

or she just needed one more,

Brandi:

oh god.

Rachael:

Magic touch, obviously.

Sarah:

Or she really just needed that one more touch that we just didn't do back then.

Rachael:

Yeah, yeah, it's such a certain way.

Brandi:

Those things were creepy. There's no way anyone had a collection of those, because one was terrifying enough.

Sarah:

Yes, webkinz.

Rachael:

I bet people have collections still.

Brandi:

Oh, I'm sure they

Sarah:

do, do you?

Sarah:

remember the Webkinz?

Brandi:

Those were after us.

Sarah:

That was still after Okay, so that's still aging me. So I did get the Webkinz things because those are all with my Beanie Babies.

Rachael:

I have no idea what that is.

Brandi:

I think like it was a Beanie Baby, but it's like Neopets too.

Sarah:

Yeah, you could like take the.

Sarah:

You buy the stuffed animal, you get the code and then you can go and play in like take care of them.

Rachael:

Interesting.

Sarah:

So I have quite a bit of those from myself and my sister.

Brandi:

My younger siblings did that, but I did not.

Sarah:

I mostly liked them for the stuffed animals because I thought they were just kind of cute and like different looking. But that was also, like, I guess, my age video game era, like the Neopets and computer ROM games and Sims.

Rachael:

I had my Game Boy.

Rachael:

That was what I did.

Sarah:

Yeah, I never had those

Brandi:

Sims. I had my Game Boy. That was what I had. I still have my Game Boy Advance with my original Pokemon cartridges.

Rachael:

I love that.

Brandi:

I told you I don't get rid of shit.

Sarah:

I still have the first version of the Wii that came out, because when that came out my dad was obsessed. He's like we can do all of these fun games and it's like exercising. He got the Wii Fit Board, we got bowling and the tennis rackets, all the attachments and everything. So I still have all of those but it's very outdated but it still works. I

Brandi:

have a Wii U

Sarah:

.

Brandi:

I'm getting the Switch, this year Switch 2. Nice, that's going to be my Christmas present to myself. They're kind of pricey and I have to wait until after my trip.

Rachael:

You know

Brandi:

that's my Christmas present to myself.

Rachael:

It's balance.

Sarah:

Would there be one thing that you still have now that would be like your prized possession, like, is there one?

Sarah:

thing that

Rachael:

like if your house was burning down and you had to choose one thing?

Sarah:

Yes,

Brandi:

oh, this is my worst night. I'm terrified of my house burning down because of all the shit I would lose, like I would be. I'd have to get like put in a 72-hour hold, oh God, and it can't be my animals.

Brandi:

Like it has to be like a

Sarah:

yeah, no, I mean, obviously the animals are coming.

Rachael:

The thing that you've kept your entire life,

Sarah:

yes,

Rachael:

or like plan to keep your entire life, because it is like your most prized possession.

Sarah:

I'll go first because I already know mine. I have a stuffed animal that I got the day I was born. My cousin Missy, who's also my godmother, sewed it for me when she was in eighth grade. I named him Mr Snuggles. He's very, I think he's very cute.

Rachael:

Do you snuggle with Mr Snuggles every

Rachael:

night?

Sarah:

I used to. I don't snuggle with him now, mostly because I keep him high up so the dog doesn't accidentally get him. Um, but I still have him and that would probably be something that I don't know. It's the first thing that came to my mind and I've had it since literally I was born, so I'd probably go back and get that I like that.

Brandi:

Oh that's so tough

Sarah:

thanks, Missy,

Brandi:

you've literally hit on like one of my first, like the amount of times I've like I should get like a, a box together of like all the stuff that I like have to have, and then it's like a, it's like a go box where I just grab it.

Sarah:

Well, that's that's my box in the storage unit. Like I made, I have my own like personal box and then Brian's own personal box. That's just all of the random things we're never gonna touch or never really gonna need, but we just need to keep. So we each have our own little box in the storage unit,

Brandi:

so I think it would have been.

Brandi:

I have a little Tupperware not Tupperware but Rubbermaid. It's like the size of a shoe box, but it's got all the printed photos from over the years that I've thrown in.

Sarah:

Oh, there you go.

Brandi:

Yep, and that probably would have been it, but I just actually thought of I have my cat luke's urn of ashes,

Sarah:

oh,

Brandi:

and I'm like yeah, I'd probably take him and like leave the photos wait a minute I couldn't leave him because those urns aren't like fireproof or anything, you know, like they would

Sarah:

I was just gonna say that I mean,

Brandi:

it's ashes

Sarah:

put him in a fireproof case and that'll be fine, put him in a fireproof case and a fireproof urn, and and that'd work right.

Brandi:

But here's the thing. So, like I have a fireproof safe for, like my documents and stuff

Sarah:

oh yeah,

Brandi:

it's like the briefcase size. I need to get a bigger one, but I someone told me this a while ago and it like dawned on me so, like, gun safes are fireproof as well and all that stuff you should have them in the bottom floor of your house, if you have a basement.

Sarah:

Yes,

Brandi:

it should be there, because if it's on your second or first story and your house, like, is burned, it's gonna fall through the floor. it's going to crack open, Right, and the smoke and the water and the chemicals from putting the fire out are going to ruin everything in it.

Sarah:

That's true, that's a good point

Brandi:

yeah, anything that you want in your fire, safe or whatever safe, you keep it in, keep it in your basement or on the first floor of your house or whatever, because

Sarah:

and in tubs too, for water damage.

Sarah:

I know so many people who have lost collections of cards or books or pictures um from just having them.

Brandi:

Yeah, as I go through all the crap from my childhood because I do that is part of my purging plan at some point, um, I do plan on organizing things better, like labeling what shit is.

Sarah:

Yes,

Brandi:

because clear totes were kind of a thing then. But I feel like the old school totes were like those really thick rubber made you can't see in them.

Sarah:

Yeah, that's why I got the qr codes for the outside.

Brandi:

I have those I have those.

Brandi:

I haven't fully used them to their full potential yet.

Sarah:

Yeah,

Brandi:

End goals.

Sarah:

End goals. I gotta get rid of shit first, baby steps.

Brandi:

But yeah, no, I have. I've collected so much stuff over the years and just kept it all, Like you know. Yeah, it's insane how much shit I have in my house.

Rachael:

I feel like I don't have one thing, Like I don't really

Brandi:

oh, I have

Rachael:

I feel like I'm not sentimentally attached to anything so much that I can't live without it but I have kept for all these years is I had like this little jewelry box growing up and it's like white and on one side it's you open it up and it's like a necklace holder and then there are like four drawers on the left hand side and they're like ballet slippers on the front of it.

Brandi:

Oh, I know that's which one you're talking about. I didn't have that one, but a couple of my friends had something yeah.

Rachael:

And so when, hopefully when I have a daughter eventually, like that'll be like her jewelry box.

Brandi:

Oh, that'd be cool.

Rachael:

So I'm like and then I did not have these like this little mouse that somebody gave me I think it was like my grandma and it's like a little St Paddy's Day thing.

Rachael:

And so.

Rachael:

I feel like that little mouse in that jewelry box has like stuck with me for a long time.

Brandi:

So those would be what you take in the fire.

Sarah:

Those would be there,

Rachael:

granted, I wouldn't be able to get to them in time because they're in my cedar chest or like in a barrel in my basement.

Sarah:

Well, we'll put it into a place where yeah.

Rachael:

What was that? One that you said you collected stuff and then somebody threw them away. And now you're recollecting.

Brandi:

Oh, my Barneys, my stuffed Barneys,

Sarah:

Barney,

Brandi:

I was obsessed with Barney. So like by the age I think I was two, maybe just turned three, and I knew how to fully work VCR because I had the video like VHS, Barney, so it wasn't just on TV. I had the VHS party, so it wasn't just on TV. I had all the feature movies and everything, and that's how I would entertain myself, because I was also the oldest grandchild too, and everything. So we'd get together. So it was just me for four or five years. So I learned how to work the VCR so I could put one in play, knew how to rewind it, knew how to take it out and put another one in, start the process all over again. Loved Barney, and I had a lot of Barney stuffed animals. I just love stuffed animals in general. I think that's where my love of animals started. But my Barneys were like key and most of them got thrown away as a kid.

Brandi:

And so my family has started. I just got a barney for my 32nd birthday.

Brandi:

I'm still getting like if they find them like at an estate sale or something and they're clean and you know they, they buy them for me now.

Brandi:

So I've got like six or seven of the

Rachael:

they're just like the regular barnies too, like

Brandi:

yeah,

Brandi:

that's, yeah,

Rachael:

okay, nothing special

Sarah:

I'm pretty sure, I still have my vhs tape and I do have no memory of doing this or where it came from or why we did it, but I do have a vhs tape that is my face put into a Barney episode or song or something

Brandi:

okay, I did not have that.

Sarah:

I have a memory and I know that I have the tape and I have a weird memory of exactly what it looks like and I think they just would take your photo and they had a little music video and they just put your face on something.

Brandi:

Yeah, honestly, I don't know where my Barney VHSs are. I think my grandma had them. I don't know if she still has them or not. She's moved a couple times, so they're either probably in storage or they got rid of them, which it is what it is, but my Barney collection's coming back up.

Brandi:

But yeah, I have hundreds of stuffed animals, like that was my thing

Sarah:

yeah

Brandi:

, like even after high school, every Valentine's Day my dad would get me a stuffed animal and like one time I, my babysitter, would take us garage sailing and she'd give us like like a couple bucks and we could like go buy something. And I got this Little Foot. This thing was so soft and it was like two or three feet Like. It was like not life-size because it's a fucking dinosaur, but like I could like hug it.

Brandi:

My dad got rid of it one time. My dad's really good at getting rid of stuff Because he got rid of my kitchen. We won't start with the kitchen, though. Um, it was a little play kitchen. To this day I'm still looking for one. They made it one year anyway. Trauma trauma is. My toys got taken away.

Brandi:

I got rid of

Sarah:

we will find one.

Brandi:

My life's so terrible. Um, I mean, they're available, it's just you got a road trip to get them. Anyway, he got rid of it and low and behold that next summer we went garage saling again and I found another one and I bought it and he's like god damn it. I was like don't get rid of my stuff. I was like I still have it.

Brandi:

I still have it

Sarah:

oh, my god,

Brandi:

and I was just like he learned after that like I will find a way you get rid of something that's coming back

Rachael:

talk about blast from the past.

Rachael:

I haven't thought of the Land Before Time since,

Brandi:

oh gee so good, I cry

Sarah:

good one

Rachael:

really?

Brandi:

yeah, I watch.

Brandi:

I watch kids movies all the time

Sarah:

same

Rachael:

okay.

Rachael:

No, I'm just more shocked, that you cry, because

Brandi:

if an animal dies, I will.

Brandi:

If a person dies, fuck them. You deserve that character you deserve stupid animal. It wasn't his fault

Rachael:

Exactly.

Brandi:

The mom Land Before Time.

Brandi:

Game over. Fox and the Hound, game over. I won't watch Marly and Me. I won't watch Old Yeller. I won't. Yeah, none of those. Oh yeah, animal death get me every time.

Sarah:

Yeah, can't do it.

Brandi:

Tiktok, I'm on all these like pet pages and there's this trend now where it shows like a picture of as a puppy and then it's got this really sad song and then it flashes to them with their gray whiskers and everything. Oh, every time I'm like, oh, my god, like, hold back the tears. I, I swear to god, tiktok makes me cry like once a day.

Rachael:

This is why you don't go on TikTok

Brandi:

TikTok's life.

Sarah:

It's addicting.

Brandi:

Do you know how much shit I've learned from TikTok?

Sarah:

So much

Rachael:

I know I should be on there and. I just don't want to.

Sarah:

It's a blessing and a curse.

Brandi:

Yeah,

Sarah:

most definitely.

Brandi:

I do like that. It tells you like, hold up, You've been scrolling for too long, It'll after like an hour.

Rachael:

That's why I have all my limits, Like I can only go on Instagram and Facebook five minutes a day.

Sarah:

If only they did that for the things we collect. Stop, you have too many.

Brandi:

And you know what I do, just like with the limits on my phone, I don't have that shit.

Rachael:

15 more minutes.

Rachael:

One more, 15 more minutes, it's fine, unlimited, let's go.

Sarah:

The limit does not exist.

Brandi:

I don't have good self-control me neither, in any aspect of my life.

Sarah:

Nope, not at all.

Brandi:

So if I want it, I'm gonna have it like that's just, that's, that's me,

Rachael:

yeah I always.

Rachael:

I feel like I say you know, I should have done this, I should have done that, and you know, Gina always tells me should shouldn't be a word in your vocabulary.

Sarah:

Shoulda, woulda, coulda that's what my grandma used to say.

Rachael:

Just do it.

Rachael:

You're a grown-up, you can do whatever you want, she's a wise woman.

Brandi:

Maybe that's why I don't go to her anymore, because I already knew all this.

Rachael:

You're like I'm gonna fucking buy it.

Brandi:

She's like I can't help you anymore. You already do all this.

Rachael:

You're a self-empowered woman that just does what she wants whenever she wants, and you know.

Brandi:

If you guys don't want to go to a concert, fuck it, I'll go by myself.

Rachael:

Yeah, yeah,

Brandi:

I mean I went. I traveled by myself all the time. Once I get my camper next year game over, y'all never see me.

Rachael:

Bye,

Sarah:

I'll be there.

Rachael:

Bye.

Brandi:

Yeah, you can come with.

Rachael:

Oh, yeah,

Brandi:

we'll have an extra bed,

Rachael:

we'll tag along. I'll sleep in my freaking tent.

Brandi:

Well, there'll be a queen and then all of us

Sarah:

If there's room for us with all of her Barnies.

Rachael:

Yeah,

Brandi:

fuck off, I don't sleep with them. Okay, I don't sleep with them. I have a couple of sploosh pillows in my bedroom

Sarah:

PillowPets! I had two, and that I had one with my name on it. That was pretty cool, it was a panda bear

Rachael:

Aw

Sarah:

I like that one.

Brandi:

Yeah.

Sarah:

Well, I think it's interesting of the things that we collect from our childhood, that we collect now. I'd be interested to see our listeners what kind of things you collect, things you have from your childhood, things that you wouldn't have thought to keep, because I think there's a lot of regret that comes with that too. You think of something and you're like, oh, I wish I would have kept this. I think I have that way with clothes. I go back and I look at pictures. I'm like what happened to that dress? What happened to that shirt? I have no idea what happened to it, but I got rid of it.

Rachael:

Yeah, so let us know.

Sarah:

Every once in a while you'll just have your purge moment and you just get rid of things and then I instantly regret it. So I agree, just keep everything, just find more room,

Rachael:

or not

Sarah:

Make more room, get a bigger house?

Brandi:

I'm getting rid of some stuff, I mean, there's a limit.

Rachael:

Does it bring you joy?

Sarah:

Does it bring you joy?

Sarah:

Yes. Does it serve a purpose?

Brandi:

All of it does.

Sarah:

Does it bring you joy?

Rachael:

I'm like a broken record here,

Brandi:

You guys should let us know your weirdest collection, give us your most prized collections.

Brandi:

Yeah, give us some more ideas Kozy and I could use new collection,

Sarah:

absolutely, absolutely

Brandi:

I might be getting rid of stuff, but we can add back to it.

Sarah:

Yeah, we're starting our lego collection too. We're slowly but surely we're getting there. My husband's got more of the lego collection than I do, but I'm starting.

Brandi:

I'm starting the plant yes, the flowers.

Sarah:

Yes, love that. Yep, send us pictures of your collection. I want to see how many you have. Yes, who's the actual collectors and who's just, you know, mediocre.

Rachael:

I'm like a wannabe collector. I like have a few, but not that many.

Brandi:

You've got ideas.

Rachael:

Yeah, I've got ideas but then I hold myself back, whereas you all you

Brandi:

always make more money.

Rachael:

well, let us know. Post on Facebook and social media what you're collecting, what you're thinking about collecting, what you regret getting rid of as a kid,

Sarah:

that's a good one

Rachael:

let us know. We look forward to learning about your collections. And until next time,

Sarah:

stay bold,

Brandi:

stay empowered,

Brandi:

Girl Gang out.

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