How to Take Care of Your Clothes (No sewing necessary!)

fewer clothes, you obviously want them to last longer. But even if you love clothes and that's something you value, you want to take care of them because you're gonna be buying probably nicer clothes. Yeah, and it's a hot take to say no sewing necessary. Well, we're talking to look at taking care of your clothes without sewing. We're talking longevity more than we're talking about mending. We do have some other episodes that where we kind of touch on that, but I am not a sewer. I don't

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So there are some already up, there are more to come. You are going to love them. I love them and I know you will too. So let's talk about mending, or let's talk about taking care of your clothes. Sorry, So if you want information on mending or just saving money on clothes in general, check out episode to eleven, which we've got how to save money on clothes, and then episode tips for creating a capsule wardrobe that is

a fan favorite. Everybody loves the capsule wardrobe episode here it all the time, so definitely check that one out. That one pairs minimalism with frugality to create this capsule wardrobe that isn't restrictive but does capitalize on your unique style and also saves you money. So those are really good ones to cue up for after. But let's talk about longevity. And this is more of a Jill episode for sure. So Jill take us to the first headline. The first one comes from Simple Lion Heart Life. I

like lions, so that's great for me. And it's talking about how to take care of your clothes and help your simplified wardrobe last longer. So this is not just talking about extending the life of our clothing, but sprinkled throughout its chatting about simplifying our wardrobe as well, or once we've simplified, how do we make it last longer?

And I do appreciate some of the introduction before it gets into the various tips that I think can keep people from simplifying a wardrobe of I mean, first of all, just I won't have as many options, But then it can also bring the question of won't my clothes wear out faster if I have less? And reality is and we've seen this mention kind of across the board, and we just know it based on our own lifestyles, is that we tend to, regardless of the size of our wardrobe,

where only about of our clothes of the time. So chances are what you're wearing is already just your simplified wardrobe. And we can clear some of that clutter by getting rid of donating, passing on to someone else the clothes that you're just simply not wearing. And we'll get into more tips later, but not having jam packed closets is going to be another way of extending the life of our clothing, allowing some of that airflow and that kind

of thing. So I just appreciated that statement and acknowledgement here that and it's kind of a motivator for me too, of yes, keep a simplified wardrobe so that you're just actually you just actually keep on hand the things that you wear. But then in general, it's probably going to be the things that you act that you really like. It's that's what I say all the time. People think I'm always dressed up except for right now. I don't know if anyone's ever going to be able to watch

this video not currently level. Usually though it looks like I am, people will often be like, WHOA, where are you going? And I'm like, nowhere. I just don't truly, I'm not going anywhere. I'm sitting at home. But I don't have many clothes. So the clothes that I do have, I really like I have really paired it down to what I enjoy, and so then when we get to that point, we feel higher motivation to take care of it,

to extend the life. And I think that there's some really great tips in here, so I'll just we're not going to go through all of them, but our favorites. The first is to use less heat. So when we are washing our clothes, generally, if we're not doing the hottest of hot hot waters and drying it all the way through on the highest of hot temperatures and the dryer,

we're going to extend the life of the clothing. When we use a lot of heat, whether that's in water or in the drying process, it can shrink our clothes. It can just be really harsh on it. I mean similar to our hair, right they say, like heat damage to the hair, heat damage to clothing happens as well in a variety of different ways. That's one way we can be gentle it's also really great for our utility bill if we are primarily washing in cold water, using

less electricity for the heat. Whether that means we're just kind of doing a tumble dry and then hanging the rest to dryer, we're just completely drying air drying it from the washing machine. That serves so many different purposes of helping our wallets, helping our clothes. So use less heat, do less, do less, you can always do less. Yeah, And I think this goes for like ironing as well. I was reading in a few articles like just overall, keep more heat away from your clothes and the colors

and the quality will be preserved longer. And so even doing shorter dryer settings, I know we've said this before, you can if you don't want to line dry for a really long time, which who has time for that, then dry for a shorter amount of time until it's mostly dry, and then you can just lay them out on your bed to dry the rest of the way it works, So that is my that's my personal experience. So and you can hang more things with hangars if you have the room, and then once you're dry, they're

already on hangars and there you go. Why use a line. It's fine. Uh So number two is one that I like a lot, and it's only washed clothes when they are dirty. And so there are a lot of rules for and and feelings about how often you should wash things. So I have seen, for at least like underwear, sports bras, workout close after you work out, socks like those things you should wash after every wearing. But everything else, for the most part, can go two to five wars without washing.

I think I saw for like bras and pajamas it's like two to three wears, and for jeans shirts, especially if it's like out, if you're wearing like an undershirt, maybe two to three. If you're wearing over shirts, four to five. But yeah, honestly, do what's in your comfort zone, because this is you live a unique life, and some days you sweat more than others, like obviously in the summer and Florida we're doing much more laundry than we

are in the winter. So I don't know if you can go by like those rules specifically, but those are the general guidelines I was reading. I usually wear my pajamas for a week. I don't know if that's for sure. Okay, I wear my pajamas for a week. I also if I wear socks at night. I know that's like a hot take. People think there are at various ends of that. There's not even a spectrum. It's like he's here. We all even put like take my socks off that in the morning and keep them by the side of the bed,

because what am I doing to the night night. I don't need to wash them after just wearing them one night through the night. Another hot take. You may not be as on board with this, but I so I exercise at home, so I will wear the same exercise outfit for the week. I just keep it hung up on a hook in my bathroom and I don't wash that those clothes until the end of the week, so I might as well just keep sweating in it and then wash it. But I can very gross. I washed

it after everywhere. I'm not saying it's not gross, it's just what I do. That's how I get away with not having like ten exercise outfits. I just have to that I have on rotation. There you go. But I can be guilty of washing things when they're not actually dirty as a way of quickly picking up and feeling like I cleaned. And that is something I've had to challenge myself with of if it's not dirty, actually put it on the hang or put it away, don't just

throw it in the laundry. But because that's easier. Here is my solution for that is I got like a blanket ladder and I put it next to my dresser. So if I've worn something and it's not dirty yet, but I don't want to put it back into my dresser, and I don't want to put it in the dirty clothes, also don't want to have it on the floor, then I hang it on the blanket ladder. I love that she has clothes just like everywhere in amis like do you want this cleaned? He's like, no, I'm thinking of

doing it for Travis Um. I was only thinking about myself when I got it. But you can find blanket ladders everywhere by nothing groups, drift stores. I love that tip. Yeah, ladders the ladder, get a ladder. Look at us cooking with gas. My next favorite on here is number four take simple steps to protect clothes in the laundry. Okay, I feel militant about this, and I know a lot of my friends who don't do stuff like this, and they engine at me with only because we're podcasting together.

I don't know what happens for you. I just this happens for a lot of people. Is not being super careful with how we put things into the washing machine. And that can be simple steps like zipping up our zippers, buttoning our buttons, emptying our pockets, Turning shirts inside out. This is especially important, like sweaters that can pill or shirts with prints or logos on them. It can protect the threading, the decals, the whatnot if we turn it inside out. And I know that these are extra steps,

but they will prolong the life of our clothes. I have had clothes a lot of the holes. I know we're gonna be talking about ways to mend without selling, but a lot of times holes in our clothing happened because we've not done these steps. And you've got Jean zippers just bouncing around with everything else just shredding, shredd not in a good way, not like the musical shredding, the shredding of our clothing that we've spent hard earned money on. And even worse, if we don't check the pockets.

Holy smokes, what's in there, sharpie? That didn't believe sharp because in our pants. I stopped washing my clothes with Travis's clothes, and I make him do his own laundry because the number of things like I can't do it all the time. I will I'll do. I kind of prep my cloth my clothes for washing when I'm taking them off, so when it's going into the washing machine, it's going into the wine. I'm not re checking it.

I'm not turning things inside out at that point. I have washed clothes with UH and gotten pen stains on them. I once washed my clothes and he had a packet of honey mustard from Chick fil A, and the clothes came out dirtier than when they went in. And and he's always bringing home like nuts and bolts and screws and nails from work, and that's just I can't. I'm like, you're gonna. And he doesn't care. He'll wear shirts with holes in them, and I'm like, you're He's like, I

like a screws shredding in the Washington. He loves he loves shreads shredding. And if you you got to give grace to your partner, that is that way. But you don't have to subject yourself to it. But here's the thing. If you're if you are checking the pant pockets and everything, that's just going to prolong the life of your appliances. Is not for a washing machine or a dryer to have nuts, bolts, screws, pens, coins just bouncing around, shread

and shread and clothing shred and appliances. You're right, You're right. It's something I will I will look into. I will have a stern talking to him about it with my finger out pointing to the sky. Yeah, your finger will be there for that, Yes, all right. My next favorite is to treat stains before they set. This comes along with that making sure things are ready before they go in, because when things are going into the wash, I just don't like that's it for me. I'm not re checking things.

So if I am and I know I'm going to do a wash in the next day or something, I'll just treat the stuff early and let it kind of sit. Which I don't know if it's the best method, but most of the times I'm not doing that. Most of the time I am setting the stain next, I'm setting instead of putting it in my laundry basket. I'm bringing it to the laundry room and putting it next to the washer, so that way I know, Okay, this needs to be treated before stuff goes in, So that is

usually what I'm doing. If it's your own clothes and you know it. As a stain happens, it is best to just address it right then and there if possible. But yeah, otherwise before it goes into the wash, because once it's washed, that's usually then how a stain sets. If it wasn't treated, Yeah, usually the stain has already been there for several hours, so there before I notice it. So there is no immediate spot treating in my life. I wish there was, but it just doesn't happen. Bonus

tip that my mom used to do. Shout out to Brenda on this one. If you're doing laundry for a household, if you're not Jen who's making everyone do their own wash, which I respect mad props do less, but I have to do kies laundry, so so there you go. If you're doing it for other people and they're able, they're

somewhat functioning, able bodied people. One of the things my mom did when we were growing up was to have us not our clothing like put a knot in it if it had a stain like needed to be treated somewhere. So then when she was going through the wash and adding it into the washing machine and came across like a nodded shirt, sweatshirt, pants, you name it, she'd know there's a stain somewhere on here and be able to

treat it. So it wasn't like you have to check every single article of clothing for do I need to treat something on here? I thought that was like a nice hack, good job, Brenda's good way to go. Brenda. Yeah, that I would just I'm gonna make my kids treat their own stains. They're doing their own laundry at five. Yeah, Kai has about a year and a half left of me doing this for him, so he better he better make some moves to learning laundry take advantage of it

while he has you, all right. The last one I'll note on this list is number nine. To store clothes properly. And the reason that I picked this primarily is because I have been victim to not storing clothes properly, and I know how much it can damage and not prolong the life of clothing when we don't do this right with particularly airflow, needing airflow through your clothing. I used to be, you all know this, heavy on the thrift stores and yard sales and just collecting things because it

was just a good deal. Since those times, I've become far more minimal. But in my days of having a lot, I would just shove it all into the closet, and I've gotten like, my clothes have gotten moldy because they're just like, yeah, I don't know. I get there's not a whole lot of air flow in most closets, so then if there's any kind of moisture in the air, it can get trapped in the clothing and there's not airflow and it gets smold and then that doesn't come out. Yeah,

it's not good. So definitely not packing your closet super full, making sure that there's space in between. But they also had some decent tips. If you ever do look up this article, you can check the link in our show notes. It has pictures of various ways to store sweaters and pull the arms of sweaters up over the hangars. That was really interesting the pictures. They put the arms over the shoulders so the arms don't stretch out who to thought.

I know, and this is something I've noticed too, But if you are primarily hanging things, which I think is a great way to store clothing, having more quality hangers, which you can still find those at thrift stores, yard sales, buy nothing groups, but they better hangers over your your just wire hangers are going to allow the clothing to hang better. It'll avoid some of those like pointy parts in the shoulders, it'll keep the clothes from falling off

the hangar, so hanging them properly, having airflow. Oh and also if you are storing some seasonal clothes, truly making sure that the clothes are clean, do that final load of wash, make sure that they are fully dry, and then in a sealed container because again mold issues, but also bug issues depending on where you're going to put the clothing. And then also so that when you reopen them up, it's not like super gross and smelly because you've cleaned them already. And all of these things will

prolong the life of the clothes that you love. Now that you have minimized your closet. Amen. Um, My last one that I'm going to bring up is by as good of quality as you can afford, because the better the quality of the garment, the longer it's going to

be able to be cared for. Because if you're still buying the cheapest three dollar fast fashion clearance items over and over and over, those things aren't going to be able to be preserved for as long as better quality fabrics, better quality blends, better quality stitching, all of that stuff. So really, do look at the quality of the clothing that you are buying. If you are buying less, then you can afford to pay a little more for better quality.

And we're not talking about like buying new even you can buy gently used or brand new stuff from online stores like posh Mark and thread Up. You can go to consignment stores or two these like these buy back places like Plato's Closet, and they have now they're popping up with even better ones that are kind of like

individually owned. But there are so many ways to get brand new or barely worn, really good quality clothing, and that's kind of what we are advocating for, not the you know, not the thrift store stuff that's on its last leg, because that is just as bad as buying the three dollar fast fact. I mean okay, not just as bad. It's better for the environment, but as for longevity and what you're spending, it's about on par with that.

So we're looking for better quality, but not full price is ideal, and make sure you really like it, because even if you're only spending two or three dollars at the thrift store, it's not going to mean much if you're just gonna be throwing it away in a few months. So finding the quality clothes that you really like, that are staple pieces that you can wear often and take care of it. And man, does this just breed contentment.

I have bought so much fewer clothing in the last few years just by doing these things, really enjoying the things that I buy, making sure that pretty much everything I wear I really like, and caring for the things as I go. Has read so much contentment, so much less time wasted just chopping and spending money. And I like my closet. I like the things in my closet and they're not going moldy because it's not jam packed. Amen. Amen. So that brings us to our next article, how to

fix clothes without sewing. It's specifically how to fix a whole in clothes without sewing. Jen loves this one. This one's for you. This is your part of the episode where you shine. I mean, this is personally just something I wanted to know. So that's why I had no idea about I mean, there's only three things on this list, but I didn't I did not know about two of them. Yeah, so we're gonna we're just going to talk about there's three in here, right, Yeah, there's three. We're gonna talk

about all three. Yeah. I mean, certainly this is only going to be super useful for you if you've got a hole in your clothes that you don't want to sew. But when else are you sewing? But you are going to need to like go to this article for the details on it. Like we'll give an overview, but this is not gonna be the exact tutorial on how to with these items, just an overview. So you know that this exists, Well, yeah, it's it's in the hopes of the next time you have a hole in your clothing

or something gets messed up. You remember this this episode. You're like, oh, yeah, let me google that. You don't know what to google until you know what to google. So here's what to google and yeah, right, and back to prevention though, before you even get to this stage, avoiding holes altogether is going to come from taking care of your clothes and some of the ways that we just outlined. So you don't even have to like do

any of this stuff. But if you do, if you do have to patch a hole and you don't want to sell, what can you do? Jen, what's one way? Well, the first thing is to get a patch. Wow, go figure, that's the one I knew about. You have heard of this, so uh. They are saying it can be tricky though, because you want to use a patch from the same

fabric to obtain the best results. And right now in this picture they are patching a flannel with a piece of denom And I don't know if you can say that those are the same fabric rick, but I think if you're using the same piece of cotton like blend or hopefully maybe you're buying cotton, that is the best. That's ideal, that's prime, and then you've got your d

cotton patch again prime. There you go. They don't have to be the same exact but I think the fact so they sell fabric patches too, and from what my mom used to do. She would just iron it on, just the patch on the back, and I don't know if she would wash it before. I don't think you can wash it before. But there's got to be a trick in the instructions that say, like because you can't, I can't put new wine in old wine skins. You know,

you can't put new patches on old shirts. So there's gotta be some trick, like pre washed fabric patch or maybe it's good if it's inks because it just kind of pulls the hole to gather more. Maybe, but they say you can also use fabric glue if you want to get really like close fabrics, if you don't want to get like an iron on fabric patch. So those are the patch methods. Yeah, And I hadn't really thought about putting it on the other side, like the inside

of the clothing. Whenever I think of patches, I think the outside these kind of really large and in charge, separate pieces a very different looking fabric sewn onto it, And that's not you could do that, but that's not what we're talking about. It's just kind of like covering it up on the inside with fabric, which, yeah, you may not even notice, depending on how closely you can. Yeah, hopefully it's a whole and not like a gash, Like that's a different thing. I think you need to find

the sewing episode for that one. Yeah. Okay, so this one I was not aware of. And they're calling it the disappearing act using a fusing web. So this is something that you could buy from the craft store. Is a fusing web. It can be also used for like applications and quilts, but also on your clothing with a whole. And it's a type of fiber that melts when heated. So it comes in a variety of weights and it ideally would be best if you choose the weight that

kind of most closely matches the clothing. Uh. And so you would need an iron for this, but you flip the clothes inside out, and you might need some parchment paper to kind of help with the heat. Have it not get stuck to the iron itself. And essentially, like the fusing web kind of like melts the fibers of the fabric together, like together with it. Like as the fusing web melts, it kind of pulls the fabric together and pretty much kind of makes it look like the

whole disappears. Of course, you're going to make need to make sure that it works with the type of fabric that you have. I imagine this would be best for your smaller holes in your clothing. But this one just sounds really great for fixing some of those minor minor holes in It's also called fusible web. I'm googling it now because it's just it doesn't make sense to me

how it works, but it looks like it works. It probably like the product itself, the fusing stuff probably is melting, and as it's melting, it's like bringing all of the fibers of the clothing together with it. Okay, I trust it, I trust it. Let's try it. I doubt that this would work great on like silk or fabric that is a lot more a lot less porous, if I can describe fabric in that way. Probably better on like your cottons. But I would imagine that the fusing web would give

that those types of instructions. So it comes in different weights. It comes in different weights, so if you're having a lightweight fabric, you use a light fusible web fabric. I want to various widths. Try it out with core back friends. All right, John, what's the third one? Hemming tape? Hemming way. So so this is another adhesive kind of solution that you can substitute for sewing, called hemming tape. And these are just good things to know because so many people

will clear out their sewing kits. And if you see something like this at like a thrift store or a yard sale or something and you know what it is, then you can get it and be prepared with it. But it it is just another heat activated repair tape essentially, So it comes in thick or thin. Thick is used for you know, canvas, quarter right, denim, wool swade, while the thin one is like cotton, chiffon, linen, rayon, silk. And there will be instructions hopefully on the hemming tape.

But this is it looks like very similar to the feasible web and how you use it. And I think these kinds of fixes are so worth it when we are buying the more quality, when we really like the clothes that we have. I think when we're kind of just getting the throw away, the fast fashion, we get a hole in something and who cares? Just chuck it.

But what we're advocating for is moving away from that mentality, finding a more simple wardrobe of the things that you really enjoy, taking care of them, learning how to mend things. Don't even have to have a sewing skill set. But I think sometimes it can sound silly, like, well, why are we talking about patching our clothing? But I think when we really like the things that we're wearing and we want to extend the life of them, why not. And I have had so many articles of clothing have

various things in them. A button falls off, for yes, I get a small hole in it, or a stain, and because I love the things that I wear, I want to know how to repair this, how to fix it, how to make this look better so I can keep wearing it and not just throw it out just because there's a pen size hole in it, or just because there's this stain that I didn't have the energy to look up how to treat that type of stain. But finding that energy, hopefully we can be that motivation to say,

let's do the thing. We don't have to have this broad skill set to fix our clothing, but let's find clothing we like and let's take care of it. Yeah, And just having literally the base knowledge to know what to google, I think is really helpful of getting over that barrier to entry. Do you know what has very low barrier to entry? Super attainable? Anyone could do it. You're not gonna want to google it the week. That's right, it's time for the best minute of your entire week.

Maybe a baby was born and his name is William. Maybe you've paid off your mortgage, Maybe your car died and you're happy to not have to pay that bill anymore. That's bills, Bills, Bill Clinton. This is the bill of the week. Hi, John and Jill, this is Franz and now officially two years after bankruptcy, we knocked our a p R down on our auto loan by two percentage points this week. My wife thinks it's a little silly because we're only saving ten dollars a month, but I'm

super excited. Keep up the great work, Ah, Franz, thank you for calling in that bill. It's not stupid, it's great. Ten dollars. You know what you could do with ten dollars, good by dinner, taco bell for yourself. You could and then bring it home to your wife and be like you thought this was stupid, So I'm gonna eat the stackle bell. You could probably buy some fusing web to

like for roles. I don't know if it comes in a role or what, but to buy some refusing using web to fix some clothes plenty you can do with ten dollars. But you know what, it's not just about the monetary amount. It's about the deeper choices and awareness that's happening here, of doing well with your finances, paying attention to interest rates, wanting to pay down car loans. Like, there's so much more attached to what you're describing, and we just want to say well done and thank you

for your bill. There are so many valid reasons to be proud of you. But also go get some taco bellt go to it. You have earned it. If you all listening, cut a bill a taco bells worth amount or you're just out here being a person named Bill, you know the drill Frugal Friends podcast dot com slash Bill. We're here. We need you, We actually do really need you. Now. We've got two episodes a week, a lot of space

for all you bills. Yeah, if you have big bill energy, give us a call please, Now it's time for let me round sure super vulnerable. Yes, this one's not too vulnerable. Oh yeah, I agree with yours too. Okay, So the question is what do you hate most about laundry? Go for it, Jen, Okay, So besides finding Chick fil a honey mustard, not just because it ruined the clothing, but because the honey mustard packet now was wasted, ruined the honey mustard. I mean, I just had to wash it again.

And it's not like the pen, the pen that opened up and just destroyed half the wash. I can't with that man. I love him dearly, but I can't with his laundry. I hate folding, and Travis says it's because I fold. I use the I do the Conmari method of folding, so it does take a smidge longer, but it allows me to place my clothes in face up, like like I can see it's stacked, like it can

see everything versus just the top one thing. And I like that because when I put the laundry in, I put it in the back, so I cycle through everything, like I know what I'm wearing when I'm not wearing. So if something stays at the front too long, it just leaves, but so I have a reason I do it, and Travis, you know s as that's why I hate folding. But I think I hate folding just and I just hate folding. Yeah, that's a chore. I don't mind because it's the one thing you can do and be productive

while doing sitting and maybe even watching TV. Like to me, that's oh, I'm being productive. I'm doing a chore. But yet I get to sit like chore is standing moving around. Ben, I have to wait till Kai goes to bed because he will unfold what I have folded because they'll want to help. He's like, can I help? And then he'll take the folded stuff and help do that, and and so I have to wait. So it sounds like you've got a ways to go for him to be doing

his own laundry in a year and a half. You're right, another hack there, Although I don't know if this is any better, but I hang my mot to my stuff, So there's a very minimal folding. When you when you minimize your wardrobe, you don't have to have a bunch of different places that it goes. You could just hang everything and it can all fit in your closet. Because you don't have too much. Yes, that will be my

solution soon. Right now, I have probably about fifteen inches worth of closet space, um fifteen inches for for all of the hanging and I've used it to its max. So now, yeah, well it's open air. There's no doors on the closet. It's really a dumpster fire right now because the rack hanging rack actually collapsed and it's just one of the many things collapsing on this house. And so I'm just and I have so many maternity clothes

right now. Like so I have this whole wardrobe that I don't want to get rid of because I will go back to it. But I have this whole wardrobe that I have to be in right now. So that's just kind of like hanging out, Like those clothes are just out like to It's it's such a weird stage that I'm in right now. And I'm not even trying to be cute about it. There, I am doing the

least Jill, how about you. So this doesn't have anything to do with clothing, but it does have something to do with the injury when you really don't like remake in the bed. Oh, it's one of the reasons that I wait so long to wash my sheets because remaking the bed, and it's not just about putting the sheets back on the bed. It's also about pulling the comforter and if there's extra pillows or blankets on the bed, finding a spot to put that while you put the other.

It's just a lot of moving big blankets around and rassling things and hoping my nails don't break. I haven't had that one, but I have to take my watch off to get the fitted sheet between the headboard, Like yeah, and I just can't do much anyway. So I actually saw this Instagram reel that was too real about this girl coming out of her bedroom and she's like huffing and puffing and the things like did you just work out? And she's like, no, I just made the bed. And

I was like, yeah, you're right. Yeah, I'm about to be making beds constantly when we have the Airbnb up and running. But I'm hoping i'll have to report back. But we just got a platform bed, so literally there's no amount of space that the mattress drops down into the bed. Because that's really the worst. You gotta like lift up the mattress to get the fitted sheet around the corner of the bed, drop it down, scrape yourself. It's just yeah, it's or asslin. But this one platform bed.

I'm thinking it's going to be the key to you, right. I hope you're right, and I hope you listening can find comfort in these struggles that we have, and I hope that you will share with us your own struggles about caring for your clothes and selling and making the bed, especially if you're in our membership the Frugal Friends Club.

A lot of you know that we have a membership for our listeners who are paying off debt, and we do monthly money challenges, we have courses, we offer accountability groups, and we want to congratulate one of our members for a win. This is Debbie and back in December, she's said, I am ready for my Christmas present. I'm going to ask my husband to choose one of the book club

books to read together. I have been looking for a way to share some of the financial load with him and TWBH getting a little push back, and this is a great way. And her update is that he said yes to the book club, so he's going to read one of our book club books. The like way to go, Debbie. Debbie has been on this this mission to share the load and you're getting you're making steps. This is not the first they were making steps. This is such a

great idea. I think we've talked about this before and episodes about how to get your partner on board. And usually when you can identify a third thing, like something outside of one of the two of you trying to convince the other and play tug of war, but finding a resource whether it's a podcast or a book to both be listening to share your thoughts on those that can be one of the best ways to have mutual buy in and kind of shared understanding around a topic.

This is just such a great idea and then a fun activity to do together. So great job, Debbie, m M, so thank you for listening. If you want to check out our membership where we have all kinds of of courses, interviews, challenges and more, head to Frugal Friends podcast dot com slash club to check it out. See you next time. Frugal Friends is produced by Eric Sirianni Jill. Should we get a little more vulnerable? Okay? Okay? And they're part well and there will be no protection there can be

protect myself. Okay, how how often do you wash your bed sheets prepared for that? Oh? Yeah, not as often as I should. However, I am proud to report that I did just wash my sheets yesterday. So I'm feeling real good right now. I do. This is like a weird fun fact. I don't know if it's that fun. Maybe just weird fact about me is that I really like to have my house clean before I leave for a trip. It's like my special treat to myself when

I come back. I'm not alone in that. I know there's a lot of people like that, and so like clean sheets, clean floor, clean bathroom, it's so nice to come back to. So we're about to leave. We leave tomorrow for just head back north, and I cleaned my sheets in preparation for that. But otherwise, I mean, if I don't have a trip for a few months, you can't disgust me, I know. I honestly, I'd love to say it's every two weeks, and like, potentially that's true,

but more likely it might be once a month. I'm a once a month girl. Yeah, yeah, I'm definitely a once a month girl. And I just I hate putting the sheets on the bed, that monch. Yeah, yeah, I just hate that. Yeah. And time goes by so quickly that right, you think I just did this and it's like, no, sweetheart, you did that when it was a different season. Yeah. Yeah, And I forget and I'm like, oh, should we change

the sheets. Oh, it's been a month. We should more than more than putting the sheets back on the bed. I hate folding the sheets. Folding, folding the Actually I'm decently good at it, but I gave up. Yeah, so when I when I washed the sheets, that's smart. I know someone who like wash washes. When they wash them, if they're not putting them back on the bed, they just throw it all into a pillow case. So then they know when they can just like grab a pillow

case out of the linen closet. It has everything in it, flat sheet, fittaged sheet, extra pillow cases. That's a your stuff is gonna be wrinkly. But I mean that's a great hack. Yeah. So because I hate folding it so much, then I just put the things that I just washed back on the bed. So that that that's great, But then it can also confuse me to not really remember when was the last time I washed the sheets, because I'm never the sheets never look different, like, it's always

my white sheets that I'm using, So who knows. And I'm not keeping a calendar. I'm just going off of what feels right, and what feels right is every six weeks. Yeah, yeah, when we pay the mortgage, I know it's time to change the sheets. But the mortgage payment is automatics, and there you go. There's the problem, so many problems. Yeah, So, um, I just changed the sheets every time I wet the bed. That's probably smart, that's probably that's probably the way to go.

That's probably the way to go. If I didn't urinate in the bed, then we're good to go. Why not, It's fine,