Sally Tamarkin is nursing an achey breaky back this week so we’re running a Patreon-only episode from last holiday season with Nora! We talk about our first Vegas trip, the Jessica Simpson holiday song that Sirius XM is literally OBSESSED WITH playing 24/7 (true last year and true this year!), and the startling discovery Caroline made when rewatching the Newlyweds Nick and Jessica Christmas episode for the 9 millionth time. Check out The Shop Hub, a spreadsheet designed by us for you to help mak...
Nov 18, 2022•31 min
HOLIDAY EPISODE SEASON BEGINS! Hotel Lobby Candle, Able Clothing, Nori and Minor History leather goods are just some of the many places you can shop with code GEETHANKS and save on your shopping. Consider it our gift to you ;) In part with our Shop Hub, we also launched our FIRST EVER IRL, hold-in-your-hand, Gee Thanks!-branded goods in collaboration with Balance Bound. You can get your gift planner and tracker for 15% off using code GEETHANKS. Special Shoutout to CANDLE CHATS, a podcast hosted ...
Nov 15, 2022•23 min
It’s the holiday season! Check out The Shop Hub, a spreadsheet designed by us for you to help make your holiday shopping an easier, more enjoyable experience. On The Shop Hub you’ll find all the brands you love to shop and their corresponding sales, codes and deals. We also worked with some of these brands to get you exclusive codes for 20% (or more!) off your purchases. Hotel Lobby Candle, Able Clothing, and Minor History leather goods are just some of the many places you can shop with code GEE...
Nov 11, 2022•1 hr 18 min
Two products I bought in the last 60 days that have been worth it: an air fryer and a leaf blower. Sally has neither but maybe by the end of the show has both? And why I think an air fryer has much more staying power than the Instant Pot. Plus Hannah, who took home the vintage dresser I couldn’t stop thinking about, joins us to give an update on how it’s doing in her home. Then she stuns us with a baby powder lifehack that leaves Sally and I gasping. Mentioned on the show: Air Fryer: https://amz...
Oct 21, 2022•59 min
Which Gee Thanks! guest co-host penned the controversial argument, “Against Trick-or-Treating” in the 90s? If you guessed Sally Tamarkin, you’re right! We dive deep into Halloween: the costumes we bought, the candy we counted, and what made a neighborhood trick-or-treatable (PS. our opinions were not always correct). Plus, what we think of Halloween as adults and what Caroline thinks Sally should do with the essay. Also, did your high school have a Halloween parade? Caroline’s did. Do you listen...
Oct 17, 2022•1 hr 3 min
When your therapist abandons you to become an executive life coach for the rich and famous, what white noise machine do you buy while you’re trying to find your next shrink via Zoom? Also, a collapsible tea kettle for on the road, which Sally is! Mentioned on the show: White Noise Machine: https://amzn.to/3fVlFdt Collapsible Tea Kettle: https://amzn.to/3rI1oKV GO SHOPPING WITH US! Subscribe to the newsletter for exclusive discounts just for you: www.geethanks.substack.com Shop our Amazon Storefr...
Oct 10, 2022•1 hr 6 min
A week ago I walked into a thrift store and found truly the vintage dollhouse dresser of unrealized dreams for sale for $125 and I balked and didn’t buy it (but listener and new friend Hannah did). Now I can’t stop thinking about it and I had to call Sally in to help me figure out why I, a professional money spender, panicked and didn’t spend the money on this dresser. We’re calling it non-buyer’s remorse. PS – Do you have this 70s dresser? Can I buy it from you? Mentioned on the show: This is t...
Oct 01, 2022•55 min
Sally and I both shelled out the big bucks for the $700 (*SUCKS IN BREATH*) Litter Robot, and now we’re giving you our full review. If these cats could talk. Plus, a familial connection to the Hammacher Report! Mentioned on the show: The Litter Robot: https://fave.co/3UBmXKu GO SHOPPING WITH US! Subscribe to the newsletter for exclusive discounts just for you: www.geethanks.substack.com Shop our Amazon Storefront: https://www.amazon.com/shop/geethanksjustboughtit Gee Thanks! appreciates its supp...
Sep 25, 2022•1 hr 3 min
I am nervous to share with you that we’re talking about car things again. I think this makes three episodes where car things have come up, but Sally is going on a Road Trip (capitalization for formality) in October and we thought it was appropriate to bring up some car things. But I know Gee Thanks-heads who are loyal listeners will be like “REALLY, CAR GARBAGES AGAIN, CAROLINE?” but look, we don’t go through life CHOOSING our passions, okay? We are born this way. Or at least, I am. But I do bri...
Sep 16, 2022•1 hr 38 min
If you haven’t guessed yet, Sally Tamarkin is here for the long haul (or until she gets sick of doing this; really who knows!). This episode will let Sally Heads get even more hardcore about their Sally Head-ness and for soon-to-be Sally Heads have their inaugural episode! We play two truths and a lie and I make a claim that nothing bad happens at Disneyland, death-wise. Do not send me any claims refuting this. I will not read them. It's the only time I go on rollercoasters, I don't wanna know a...
Sep 09, 2022•1 hr 1 min
This is a replay episode! I'll be back on September 9! I LEARNED WHAT A TUBING MASCARA WAS. Alison Rosen is your (my) new best friend! It’s her podcast but it’s also a true statement. As I was listening back on this episode for editing I was like JFC, Caroline, if you love New York so much why don’t you just marry it! I am sorry it always comes up. But anyway: ALISON! She’s here to talk about her Balsam Hill Christmas Tree, sandwiches, mascara, and so much more. She’s also lived in LA for a long...
Sep 02, 2022•1 hr 8 min
THIS EP IS A RE-RUN BECAUSE I AM ON VACATION! SEE YOU SEPTEMBER 9 WITH A NEW EPISODE! Ammie Williams aka AmmieYall is HERE! And we’re LOLing and Living and Loving together! Ammie wants you to ergonomically improve your consumption routine in the bedroom (no, don’t be gross!), and she brought two products that go hand in hand. Plus, a little RHOA tea for fans… Mentioned on the Podcast: The Gooseneck Tablet/Kindle Holder: https://amzn.to/3teHyra Clicker Page Turner for Kindle: https://amzn.to/3...
Aug 26, 2022•1 hr
If you haven’t guessed yet, Sally Tamarkin is here for the long haul (or until she gets sick of doing this; really who knows!). This episode will let Sally Heads get even more hardcore about their Sally Head-ness and for soon-to-be Sally Heads have their inaugural episode! We play two truths and a lie and I make a claim that nothing bad happens at Disneyland, death-wise. Do not send me any claims refuting this. I will not read them. It's the only time I go on rollercoasters, I don't wanna know a...
Aug 19, 20220
Back to school season is here and we think it’s kind of unfair that as 30 and 40-somethings who are not, in fact, going back to school, we don’t get to participate. So we spent a bunch of time trying to convince ourselves that purchasing a vintage Trapper Keeper is actually a productive purchase. Points are made. Trapper Keepers are purchased. But not the ones that are on sale for $200+ (WTF???). Additionally: Frank HBO and The Real John Max get scolded (by us). (@TheRealJohnMax) Trapper Keeper ...
Aug 13, 2022•1 hr 13 min
It seemed too good to be true, but these weird products actually work. Sally brought RainX and Caroline brought the Hiccaway and The Bug Bite Thing. Shark Tank, we have ideas! Mr. Wonderful, give us your phone number! Hiccaway: https://amzn.to/3Qqo90u The Bug Bite Thing: https://amzn.to/3p2J6CE RainX: https://amzn.to/3dekdBG GO SHOPPING WITH US! Subscribe to the newsletter for exclusive discounts just for you: www.geethanks.substack.com Shop our Amazon Storefront: https://www.amazon.com/shop/gee...
Aug 05, 2022•1 hr 11 min
This episode is alternatively titled, "Where Elon Musk does his Father's Day shopping, probably?" Sally got served one ad for a gravity chair and then we got lost on the world's weirdest website full of $500,000 hover golf carts that you can add to cart but can never, seemingly, check out? Also, why do I want something called an AeroSki more than I have wanted anything ever? Plus, The Pickleball Report. Plus! The Cleaning Report. The name of the game is SOPHIE'S CHOICE: WHAT ARE YOU BUYING FROM ...
Jul 29, 2022•1 hr 12 min
Sally and I go deep on DEEP CLEANING thanks to the Gee Thanks! community basically selling out the Bissell Little Green spot cleaner. Bissell-heads know this thing packs a punch and Sally said she would lay down her life for Little Green, no cap. I talk about my drill attachment cleaner brushes, how vinegar and lemon is my new personality, and how much I hate my front-loading washer. We also reveal the things in our houses we just don’t care enough about to clean. Products we talked about: Bisse...
Jul 22, 2022•1 hr 4 min
Sally Tamarkin is back as my guest co-host and this week, their new personality is TENNIS PLAYER. By the end of the episode we both have newer personalities (Pickleball enthusiasts!). This episode is all about accessorizing for hobbies we’ll probably get bored of by next week. But boy isn’t it fun to pick out a colorful headband? Did you see that picture of space that was going around this week? It was like specks of millions of galaxies? If you look REALLY hard you can see Sally and I ignoring ...
Jul 15, 2022•50 min
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Jul 12, 2022•2 min
Ashley Hosmer has no pants. She owns no pants. This is not hyperbole. If we asked her to count how many pants she has, the answer would be zero pants. She also doesn’t own an umbrella. But she does own a Victorian house, and she just Gucci wallpapered her entryway (and it’s not tacky even though it sounds SO tacky! Hi Ashley!). She has a great story about finding $$$$$$ chairs on Facebook Marketplace, and she doesn’t know what’s inside the walls of her old-ass home (because she doesn’t want to k...
Jul 08, 2022•1 hr 16 min
My guest co-host Sally Tamarkin returns for a pop-up episode regarding #feelings, #politics and #feelingsonpolitics. If you follow the Gee Thanks! Instagram you know that we had a big convo about progressive politics and evolution of thought from 2016 to now, and I wanted to invite Sally to continue that conversation together! Things we talked about: Working Families Party Are Prisons Obsolete? By Angela Davis Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler CommonCause.org You can hear me co-host Oh, I L...
Jun 29, 2022•1 hr 11 min
I have a guest co-host this week! Oh, I Like That host Sally Tamarkin joins me to talk about the commercials that influenced us as kids, the products we desperately wanted to buy (the Talkboy, anyone?) and the ad jingles we still sing to ourselves 30 years later. Especially on a day like today, I cannot recommend this enough: Take a weed gummy and watch 90s commercials on YouTube. Thank you for coming to help me host, Sally! Products we talked about: The Talkboy Vintage Dear Diary Toy V-Slicer E...
Jun 24, 2022•1 hr 3 min
Welcome to New Dad (of Caroline’s godson!) Mike Riggs! We’re talking strollers, strollers as cars when you don’t have a car, and the “Desitin diaper cream hack” his son’s pediatrician swears by that all new parents need to know. Products we talked about: Uppababy Strollers Shop our Amazon Storefront: https://www.amazon.com/shop/geethanksjustboughtit Gee Thanks! appreciates its supporters, especially Alley Peplinski, Becca Sheaffer, Allie Nagy, Angi James, Lindsay Creech and Erin Gibson ! Want to...
Jun 17, 2022•1 hr 4 min
Ultimate Edit creator Jenn Falik (The Today Show, Rachel Ray) returns to discuss summer must-haves! Subscribe to The Ultimate Edit!: https://jennfalik.com/ Products we talked about: The C-Table The Athleta Tank Top The Swipe Wipes Portovino Beverage Bag Reusable Ice Cubes Ostrich Stomach Lounger Shop our Amazon Storefront: https://www.amazon.com/shop/geethanksjustboughtit Gee Thanks! appreciates its supporters, especially Alley Peplinski, Becca Sheaffer, Allie Nagy, Angi James, Lindsay Creech an...
Jun 14, 2022•49 min
THIS IS A RERUN OF EPISODE 54! I was sick all week and decided to do a rerun. So many people requested a Dan episode (why!!!!), and I will NEVER TELL HIM!!! ----- A warm welcome to Dan Nosowitz, food writer extraordinaire and Caroline’s husband. No one is more intimately familiar with the shopping habits of our host than Dan is, and he’s here to tell us how he really feels about the KitchenAid, the $5 rice cooker, and the bread maker. He also wants to convert you to Pyrex glass storage and teach...
Jun 10, 2022•54 min
TikTok Star Kate Steinberg is here to talk all things Y2K. Amassing over 800k followers on TikTok and an additional 300k on Instagram, Kate has made a name for herself by performing those moments from our teen years that we wish we could erase from our collective memory (think grabbing your fake Coach bag for a night out at Applebees with the girlies and going into Abercrombie and Fitch and asking for…an empty bag). She makes a case for Uggs, and tells a truly hilarious story about working at a ...
Jun 03, 2022•1 hr 13 min
Some of you heard this episode and some of you said it never made it to your feed so I am reuploading. Top Buys from last week (5/23/22): Maya! Madewell! The Old Navy Linen Pants! But more importantly, we raised $10,000 for Sandy Hook Promise and we’re getting that 100% matched by various friends/family with corporate matching programs. Thanks to everyone who gave. You are the best. This community is the best. I am very appreciative. Support Everytown Support Sandy Hook Promise CALL YOUR REPS ON...
May 31, 2022•24 min
Author and FOTP Jess Goodman returns to tell me what she's been influenced by (correctly), which influenced purchases did her dirty and which corner of the internet she just can't quit. I share mine too. Then she told me about her favorite wedding registry item — her Nespresso maker. Her third book, The Counselors, is out on May 31! Jess’s beloved Nespresso machine: https://amzn.to/3wxDfKh Shop our Amazon Storefront: https://www.amazon.com/shop/geethanksjustboughtit Gee Thanks! appreciates its s...
May 22, 2022•1 hr 6 min
The post that got the most comments in the Facebook group this week? The one about needing a new can opener. Over 100 comments. People have CAN OPENER OPINIONS. Can Opener Opinions would be such a good band name. Nobody steal that. Kuhn Rikon: https://amzn.to/3sOugST Kitchen Mama Electric Can Opener: https://amzn.to/3NuN6Gk (I stand corrected that all electric can openers do not take up a ton of counter space; I am apparently living in a 1995 kitchen.) Zyliss Can Opener: https://amzn.to/3wAeRHY ...
May 21, 2022•23 min
Author of "God Spare The Girls" Kelsey McKinney is here to extol the virtues of the best Old Navy has to offer, as well as a kitchen sink accessory that makes dish doing easier. She's also the host of N ormal Gossip, a podcast about great pieces of gossip, shared and retold anonymously for your entertainment. Old Navy Favs: - Linen/Cotton Drawstring Pants -Bodysuit -Ribbed Dress -Matching Athleisure Track Suit Set Dish Accessory: -Umbra Dish Squeegee Shop our Amazon Storefront: https://www.amazo...
May 13, 2022•1 hr 9 min
