🛍️ Closet Chat: Organization, Outfits & Prehistoric Bugs! 🐞

CLOSET CHATS:  New Recurring Thing or One and Done?  Let me know what you think!

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Transcript

0:01 Hey ladies, it's time for a closet chat. Cue the music. No, I don't have any music, and I have no idea what a closet chat is. It just came into my head as a nice little alliteration this morning when I was thinking about the fact that I was... it dawned on me, oh, I'm wearing an outfit that I have for sale on the website, so I should go take some photos.

0:23 And my closet is so much better right now. {phone falls off shelf, see photo 😆} And there you go. The end. No, that was nuts. Okay. I've got you propped on a shelf. What can I say? And I'm sitting on a bench that used to be in my closet but I pulled out recently because it was supposed to be decorative and now it's just in the way. And it gives me places to put clothes on, so I wanted to get rid of that.

0:52 This whole closet used to be full of bags for donation, garbage bins of clothes that had to be put away and organized. And it's so much better right now. I feel like I'm talking about it, I have to show you. Look at this. Oh my gosh. This... I used to have a tiny aisle down the middle. And the two benches I'm sitting on were pretty and were at the end, but... yeah. So I've been doing a lot of work on my closet lately in little bits here and there.

1:22 Here's my tip. I set the timer for 15 minutes or a half an hour, whatever I think I can handle. And I say, that's how much time I'm going to work on my closet. So I'm never like pulling everything out at once—that's too overwhelming, I can't do it. But I pick a section to do in that time limit. Well, it doesn't have to be done in that time, but then when the timer goes off, usually I'm like into it and I go, "Okay, I can do another," and I just hit the timer to go again. So another 15 minutes or another half an hour or whatever.

1:51 Or sometimes I don't even do the timer again. I just say I've done what I need to do, timer-wise my minimum has been met, and now I'm going to keep going until I want to stop. So I usually get a whole lot more done than what I think. But at least I give myself that minimum, like 15 minutes, something very doable, or half an hour. And that makes it... I get started way easier. So that's my tip.

2:14 I also wanted to share with you a couple things. I'm going to try to keep this under five minutes because I know a lot of people have only 20 seconds to watch me. I'm sorry, I can't do anything in 20 seconds. So, I do want to show you my outfit real quick and then I'm going to tell you about some other just miscellaneous non-boutique related stuff.

2:32 So, this two-piece... it's a jumpsuit with cute little bottoms there. Look, I've got these adorable little slip-on leopard shoes on from Amazon. It has pockets. The jumpsuit is a sleeveless jumpsuit. It has elastic here at the waist, so it gives you this nice little blousy top. It has a drawstring. I don't need it; it fits perfect with the elastic, but it's there. Pockets on the jumpsuit. And it has this coordinating longer duster. It goes... can you see the bottom of it? I don't know. It hits past my knee but not terribly much longer past it. I'll put some photos.

3:22 Yeah. And pockets on this. I think I said that. But anyway, this is a small. They run true to size. Small, medium, large, I believe is what I have from this brand. Let me sit back down. Here I am. Okay, I'm not going to bother getting in my criss-cross applesauce 'cause it takes a few extra seconds.

3:44 Anyway, so here we go. That was that. I'll post the link for that. Wearing a beautiful Bomb Party necklace today which I love from one of the last year winter layers collections, I think. It came with like two or three other necklaces but you don't have to always wear them together.

4:00 Okay. Oh, one more boutique related thing. Oh my god, I have less than a minute. Okay, I'm going to do a speed round at the end. But one more boutique related thing: the replays are back up for the cash back. 50% cash back—a couple, two items were 40% cash back—for everything on those two lives, part one and part two. They are... just go check it out. There's lots of things that are in... almost all the sizes are available, some are only a couple left. It's a variety of things, but almost all fall/winter so it's not like out of season.

4:36 And with the 50% cash back you get instantly store credit in your account. So you might pay $38 for a super cute top, but then $19 is instantly in your wallet on your account and you can apply it on the next order that you place. It's that simple. Now I have 10 seconds left. I can't do it. Pause. No I can't. Let's just go.

4:59 Okay. Couple two things to share. I'm on a scrubby kick. I love a body scrub. A good body scrub that my nail lady uses on my legs when I get a pedicure and I absolutely love how that feels. I also have one I use in my shower that I do all over my body. I don't have that in my hand, but you know.

5:19 But these are two new products to me that I have fallen in love with. My face lady... my face lady recommended this one. It's ZO... Skin Health... Exfoliating Polish. That's not going to be in focus is it? I don't have my glasses on. Anyway, it's an exfoliating polish. My face lady recommended this one because I asked her, "I have these two little spots... one right here... there's another one down here somewhere... that started out as like a zit or something a long time ago. And then I feel like the zit healed but it left this like... skin taggy thing." And I asked her about it and she was like, "Do you have a scrubby exfoliation thing in your routine?" And I'm like, "I do not." So she recommended that. And you just get your face wet and you scrub it. I swear to god I'm seeing big improvement on those two things already. I love the way my skin feels after I do it. I wait a little bit and then I do my next layers of things. And I just feel like it also helps your skin suck in those other two things after you've done that first. I'm sure there's some science to that.

7:23 Okay, and then this stuff I got on Amazon because I'm like, "Ooh, remember those lip scrubs I used to sell?" Loved those. Kind of forgot about 'em. So I looked at Amazon, looked at the ones that were highly reviewed. I bought two of 'em. This is the one I like by far better than the other one. {OOPS!  I grabbed the wrong one.  The one I'm holding is fine, but the one I prefer is: Strawberry Flavor }  Again, you're probably not going to be able to see that... maybe. I'll see if I can find a link. Well I will cause this is on Amazon. This is for your lips. It's got the scrubbies in it. Love it. Wet your lips, put that on, scrub scrub scrub. I always have dry peely skin on the bottom of my lip. Maybe it's just fall and winter but drives me nuts. So this really helps smooth that out and get rid of that peely stuff. So then if you ever do want to wear lipstick, you can actually put it on cause if you've ever had like... dry, sort of chapped lips, you know putting lipstick on is like a no-go really. It's going to look awful.

8:26 Okay. That's it. That's all I got. Eight and a half minutes. What's eight and a half minutes of your time? Put this on when you're like... you know, doing dishes or something. So that's it. If you watched, tell me what resonated with you. Was there anything... Oh and I have a giant ugly roach type bug dead in my... dying in my bathtub. I asked my husband, "How the hell did he get in there?" He told me all about how they live in the pipes and... I hate it. He's coming home tonight, he's flying home and he's going to get it out because I can't do it. Anyway, comment something please.

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