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Monday Mini: A Checkin on House Ownership · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Anny and Samantha and welcome to Steffan.
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  Speaker 1: Never told you your prediction of iHeart Radio.
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  Speaker 2: And for our Monday Mini, we kind of had a
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  Speaker 2: listener request, I guess you can say. They were like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: checking in, how's that anything going, And they were asking
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  Speaker 2: about my current status as a homeowner, which fun fun fact.
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  Speaker 2: Today I got a text from a friend who lives
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  Speaker 2: in Canada. Haven't seen her in a while and we
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  Speaker 2: kind of communicate every few months. She said, you have
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  Speaker 2: a home, a steady job, that you like, you raise
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  Speaker 2: a dog, and that you you worked from home and
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  Speaker 2: that are happy. She's like, you're the most successful adult
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  Speaker 2: I know. I was like, wait, what scary? I'm sorry
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  Speaker 2: with no children, those actually active, I was like, oh
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  Speaker 2: wait what, there's a lot of things. But yes, so
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  Speaker 2: I have been told that I have become a successful adult. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm very surprised and it still doesn't feel right,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, I'm gonna take it.
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  Speaker 1: Take it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So it's been about a year since my whole house
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  Speaker 2: buying venture and for this Monday Mini, I was going
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  Speaker 2: to give you all an update. Yeah, I am still
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  Speaker 2: currently living in this house. It is not completely renovated,
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  Speaker 2: and it doesn't really need to be renovated. You've been
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  Speaker 2: here any you have a room, you have your.
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  Speaker 1: Tooth brush, hair, Do you have a toothbrush, pajama pants?
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  Speaker 2: But you take it with you? Don't lie to me.
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  Speaker 3: I do, but I'm ready to move them in.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, I'll give you a drawer, come on.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah. So my partner and I have lived here
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  Speaker 2: for almost a year. We probably had one of the
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  Speaker 2: easiest buying processes. No hiccups, fast in getting everything approved,
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  Speaker 2: getting everything signed, smooth inspections that could happened. Have been
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  Speaker 2: here for a full year. No huge things have happened.
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  Speaker 2: Like I've had friends who also bought the house around
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  Speaker 2: my around the same time I did, and they've had
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  Speaker 2: huge things happen that had to pay thousands of dollars.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't had that yet, knock on wood. But I
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  Speaker 2: still love my house. I still love my neighbors. We
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  Speaker 2: have a great relationship. Got them Christmas presents a little
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  Speaker 2: like treats. We check in on each other. They make
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  Speaker 2: sure my packages don't get stolen, like they're they're there
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  Speaker 2: for me. So so far, so good. And I thought
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  Speaker 2: it was really interesting because A recent article came out
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  Speaker 2: about how they're more single women who own a home
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  Speaker 2: than single men according to a twenty twenty one census.
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  Speaker 2: They said ten point seven million single women own homes
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  Speaker 2: while only eight point one million single men own homes.
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  Speaker 2: So there's at least who would have a million more
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  Speaker 2: women buying these homes. And actually, as I think about it, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: most of the friends that I know who own houses
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  Speaker 2: are typically women, either single women or women and their
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  Speaker 2: husband type of brain. So I'm like, oh, okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that makes sense. It doesn't, but it does. And a
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  Speaker 2: lot of that conversation has to do with the fact
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  Speaker 2: that people are saying in the statistic that women are
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  Speaker 2: more educated, less likely to marry young or pushing back
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  Speaker 2: marriage and having children, and so are more financially able
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  Speaker 2: to own a home, and that they are more responsible
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  Speaker 2: in investing by buying homes, which was never my thing.
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  Speaker 2: I was just tired of paying for rent, to be honest,
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  Speaker 2: and I hit it under the wire because we know
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  Speaker 2: interest rates are crazy right now. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: conversation about housing market going down, a lot of big
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  Speaker 2: evil corporations buying it out to drive up prices, so
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  Speaker 2: you know, all of that stuff, so I was able
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  Speaker 2: to get that done. I still pay a lot more
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  Speaker 2: than I's expected, but it's not bad. It's not bad.
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  Speaker 2: And again, like I said, I really do love the
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  Speaker 2: fact that I do live in a home. Even though
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  Speaker 2: it's only a few hundred square feet larger than my apartment,
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  Speaker 2: it still feels like two or three times bigger.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it feels huge, but it's not it.
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  Speaker 2: The measurement is not I will say, I do not
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  Speaker 2: love that. There's sometimes a smell that I cannot identify
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  Speaker 2: and it drives me damn crazy. I cannot stand it.
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  Speaker 2: I guess I'm really sensitive smell. And there's something that
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  Speaker 2: is very specific to could be like trash, but it's
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  Speaker 2: not trash, and I'm like, where is it? And I
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  Speaker 2: can't stand it. All the conversation having to make sure
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  Speaker 2: I do the seasonal stuff that I would have never
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  Speaker 2: thought about. It's been an adventure having gutter guards, caring
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  Speaker 2: about gutter guard. I just feeling like I am my
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  Speaker 2: parents in having these conversations, Like there are so many
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  Speaker 2: things that I'm like, this doesn't seem normal, but I
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  Speaker 2: know it is. Like I'm so caught up in trauma
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  Speaker 2: and things going wrong and being dramatic, And maybe that's
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  Speaker 2: just me being a millennial, elderly millennial who saw things
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  Speaker 2: falling apart and assumed I would never be able to
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  Speaker 2: buy a house, or never would want to because I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to deal with like you and the refrigerator
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  Speaker 2: and the landlord.
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  Speaker 3: I thought you were just saying, like I want to
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  Speaker 3: deal with you.
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  Speaker 4: You're my example, Okay, why.
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  Speaker 2: Renting is sometimes not as great as.
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  Speaker 1: I thought once all the time. But of course your
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  Speaker 1: landlord is he's a particular case. Yeah, there you go.
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  Speaker 2: That's how he is. He is a singular dude.
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  Speaker 4: That's how I want to get that singular dude.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, it's been interesting. I'm still trying to figure
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  Speaker 2: out what to do with my backyard because I do
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  Speaker 2: have a small backyard. My dog loves it, but there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of vines and a lot of poison oak
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  Speaker 2: and poison ivy, which I am not allergic to, but
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot out there. I really want to get goats,
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  Speaker 2: but I've been told that it is impractical. I think
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  Speaker 2: I said this the first time I was talking about
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  Speaker 2: my house. I still want them, I still really want them,
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  Speaker 2: but it turns out my brother has some I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: how do I get those goats, drive them two hours
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  Speaker 2: to Atlanta and have them sit in my backyard? How
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  Speaker 2: do I do this?
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  Speaker 1: That's a buddy guy.
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  Speaker 2: It is also those goats were main One of them
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  Speaker 2: just kept trying to headbutt me. It was not nice.
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  Speaker 2: It was not nice. But yeah, so right now we
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  Speaker 2: do have everything's up and running. My office is kind
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  Speaker 2: of a mess. But if you ever want a picture
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  Speaker 2: of what my office looks like or what my studio
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  Speaker 2: looks like, it looks like I have a floating head,
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  Speaker 2: the complete darkness of the background, and then because my
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  Speaker 2: hair is black, it just blends in it. I'm just
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  Speaker 2: a face that was.
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  Speaker 1: There, you go.
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  Speaker 2: I was talking when I was on Daily Zeit guys.
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  Speaker 2: That's the first things they said about, like, whoa, you're
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  Speaker 2: just floating. I was like, yeah, I know, don't worry
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  Speaker 2: about it.
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  Speaker 1: It's fine.
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  Speaker 2: This is completely normal. But yeah, having this space has
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  Speaker 2: been amazing. There's so much that I don't know what
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  Speaker 2: to do with this space. I'm really glad for my
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  Speaker 2: partner because he comes in He's like, we're gonna do
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  Speaker 2: this and this and this, and I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Like, I don't care.
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  Speaker 2: If it was up to me, that would have never
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  Speaker 2: been painted, nothing would have ever changed. I would have
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  Speaker 2: gotten the new refrigerator still because I love it is
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  Speaker 2: my price possession, you know this. I show it off
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  Speaker 2: to people as well as my fancy bed. Yeah, because
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, I got to the point that I was
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  Speaker 2: like too old to hurt this much when I wake up.
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  Speaker 3: And it's funny because every time I use your refrigerator,
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  Speaker 3: I'm like an otter trying to open a clam because
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  Speaker 3: it has like a front.
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  Speaker 1: Door and then another front door.
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  Speaker 2: But to be fair, you don't know how to work
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  Speaker 2: coffee machines, so no, I have to you specific I
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  Speaker 2: have to set it up. Please set it up for
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  Speaker 2: you and say push.
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  Speaker 1: This one button twice. You're good. I'm just bumbling through.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh.
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  Speaker 2: No, but there's so much more technologically savvy than I am.
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  Speaker 2: It's like you've been a producer. You know how to
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  Speaker 2: work all these equipment. But just a generic hole. No.
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  Speaker 1: Can we talk about the can opener, y'all?
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  Speaker 2: She really struggles with a can opener.
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  Speaker 1: That's who like millennials of gen Z, we don't know
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  Speaker 1: what those are.
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  Speaker 2: I did buy an automatic one. I think you would
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  Speaker 2: have a harder time with that one. To be honest,
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  Speaker 2: I can't do it.
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  Speaker 3: My mom has one of those and she always laughs
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  Speaker 3: because none of us can work it. I've tried it,
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  Speaker 3: she's explained it to me. It's I get how it
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  Speaker 3: should work.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't work. It doesn't work.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, my home has come together. We do have
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  Speaker 2: two guest rooms. One is Annie's official guest room.
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  Speaker 1: We call it that.
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  Speaker 2: We've hosted many parties. We did all of our Last
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  Speaker 2: of Us viewing at my house, so I was very
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  Speaker 2: proud of that. Definitely kept me on a streak of cleaning,
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  Speaker 2: which I don't do as much now, Like I am
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  Speaker 2: going to be like spotlessly cleaning this week. But previously
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  Speaker 2: I was like, oh, I have to get ready for
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  Speaker 2: everybody to come over, because even when it was just you,
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, you can deal with it. There's Peach's
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  Speaker 2: hair everywhere. But when it was more people, I had
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  Speaker 2: to really put on like, oh, definitely I am a
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  Speaker 2: good housekeeper, listeners, I am not.
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  Speaker 1: I am average.
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  Speaker 2: I think we've already talked about this, but yeah, everything
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  Speaker 2: is going well.
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  Speaker 1: I fear things going wrong.
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  Speaker 2: I'm prepping for things to go wrong. I'm saving up
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  Speaker 2: like things are gonna go wrong, which is probably smart
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  Speaker 2: in itself. All in all, I feel very safe in
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  Speaker 2: that home. This does feel like a home. I am
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  Speaker 2: pleased to report and yeah, yeah, I love it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I have many fond memories. They're already so already. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna make so many more. Oh it's true.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna move you in as a neighbor.
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  Speaker 3: I don't gonna happen, and the curse of the fridge
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  Speaker 3: will continue.
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  Speaker 1: Never ends.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, I'm very very happy that things are going well.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's a lovely place, and I like what
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  Speaker 3: you've done with it, Thank you, and I like being
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  Speaker 3: invited there, so always always.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, yes, Well.
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  Speaker 3: We have been on a streak about talking about living situations,
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  Speaker 2: Amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all are amazing, Yes.
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