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An extra helping of clever hacks, a bonus tip just for you and an insightful podcast recommendation in this week's newsletter
As a regular newsletter reader (thank you), you’ll be well used to how invaluable the smart save tips of the week are that I share with you here (do feel free to agree on their usefulness). Well this week there’s a whole slew of new tips (not sure what the group name for tips is. That seemed as good as any), to try out, because I’ve used the blog to share a random round up of some of the ones I’ve been collecting that don’t quite fit into this newsletter.
Find out what they are by CLICKING HERE, and see if you can guess what this one is
Any ideas? You’ll find out in the blog. (Obviously I wouldn’t just leave you wondering)
Because you are reading this (thank you again) I’ve got a extra
SMART SAVE TIP OF THE WEEK
for you that’s a bonus in two ways. Not only is it an extra one because you’re here (don’t worry, I’m not going to thank you a third time. Enough’s enough) but it’s also a reminder of one from waaaay back because it honestly blows me away how much product and therefore money and waste, it saves me.
When you’re reaching the end of a tub of product, cut it in half. Like this (excuse the hair in the pic, I only just noticed it!)
I promise you’ll be amazed just how much product there still is inside
which you can then use by scraping it out with your finger. This was what was still inside a tube of body cream that I thought was finished because I couldn’t squeeze any more out of the tube
Mad, isn’t it? Every time I do this (which I do with every tube) I get several more applications of whatever’s inside. And to make sure the product doesn’t dry out in the meantime, you can use the cut bit of the tube as a lid - like this
FRIDAY FUNNY
This relates to not one, but two of the tips in THIS WEEK’S BLOG, but of course you’ll have to read it to find out how
THIS WEEK I’VE BEEN……LISTENING TO
They say you never really know what goes on in other people’s relationships. But it isn’t half fascinating to find out, is it? And then perhaps a little uncomfortable when you see how those revelations might apply to your own.
Which is exactly what makes Where Should We Begin so compellingly absorbing.
In each episode of this revealing and insightful podcast we hear a different couple unpicking the issues and challenges they’re facing in their relationships. The couple are anonymous but the details of their story and their conversation is largely unchanged (some details have been altered so they can’t be identified). That alone is intriguing enough. But what makes their discussion so especially fascinating is that they are being guided through it by psychotherapist and relationship expert Esther Perel.
A best-selling author, recognised as one of the world's most original and insightful voices on personal and professional relationships, Belgium-born Esther brings her own laser sharp, but gently and sympathetically delivered insight and guidance to the unnamed couple. Her comments to them are enhanced further by the commentary she shares with the listeners before, during and after the session.
I’ve yet to hear an episode without a) feeling I want to give at least one of the couple a good shake (I’ll admit to some agitated shouting at times) b) being clear at the outset what I think about the issue, who’s ‘in the right’ and what I’d do about it and then by the end finding myself thinking quite differently and c) musing on the ways I can, and almost certainly should, apply Esther’s softly-spoken wisdom to my own relationship.
You can find WHERE SHOULD WE BEGIN wherever you get your podcasts, including Esther’s own website
It seems only right to end with some typically thought-provoking relationship-related
WORDS OF WISDOM
from Esther herself
I’m away next week - on a driving tour of Croatia (which I’ve done all the booking and organising for, so fingers crossed it all works!) - so the next blog and newsletter will be on Friday August 18th (no prizes for guessing what it’ll probably be about).
Provided, of course, we don’t get lost on the way.
Have a good couple of weeks
Love is positive discrimination!!