#288: Winter Comforts We Rely On (a snowed-in episode)
A Beautiful Mess Podcast
Elsie Larson and Emma Chapman
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
This week we're sharing winter comforts that reliably get us through our least favorite season of the year.
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Winter Comforts:
Elsie: Books in bed!
Emma: Snow Suit
Elsie: Hot water - tea, coffee, apple cider, hot toddies, hot tubs, and bathes
Emma: Daydream, redecorate, and organize your house
Elsie: Go out with friends. (get out of the house!!)
Emma: Game of fire, cozy life
Guilty Pleasure Treasure:
Elsie: Christopher Nolan movies
Emma: Turkish Delights and Vanilla powder from Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf
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Elsie: The Emotional Craft of Fiction by Donald Maas
Emma: The Ministry of Time
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The Beautiful Mess podcast, your cozy comfort listen. |
| 0:08.4 | I'm your host Elsie Larson. |
| 0:09.8 | And I'm your host, Emma Chapman. |
| 0:11.2 | This week we're sharing winter comforts that reliably get us through our least favorite season of the year. |
| 0:17.5 | Talking about winter. |
| 0:18.9 | Getting through the winter. |
| 0:20.2 | Yes. |
| 0:26.3 | We're coming towards somewhat the end of it, the middle, mid end of it here at the end of February. |
| 0:26.9 | Yes. |
| 0:27.3 | I will say my Canadian friend was roasting me. |
| 0:31.8 | She said we are all pussies because, and we don't really even know what a snow day is and after hearing her side of the |
| 0:40.7 | story I will actually agree with her that we don't know what a snow day is and I never want to |
| 0:46.2 | find out but yeah we have our own Missouri. That's fair. Light little I I'm scared of I'm scared of |
| 0:52.6 | driving on the on the ice kind of vibe yeah no the last snow day was |
| 0:57.6 | not a big deal and I literally got some groceries from Walmart which we have like 13 |
| 1:03.2 | walmarts in our town and the meat was all sold out like I couldn't even get but I had I had to |
| 1:09.8 | get something else which was fine but I was to get something else, which was fine. |
| 1:10.9 | But I was just like, wow, everyone's really worried. |
| 1:14.4 | Yeah, that is true. |
| 1:16.0 | That's a Midwestern trait. |
| 1:17.3 | I think, and they had it when I lived in Nashville, too, where people just, like, clear out the grocery stores if there's an inclement weather advisory. |
| 1:26.4 | It kind of makes me think, what if the weather men and women were in cahoots with the grocery store owners? |
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