#301: Comfort Objects
A Beautiful Mess Podcast
Elsie Larson and Emma Chapman
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
This week we're discussing comfort objects- little things that bring inordinate comfort into our lives. We're also sharing our cozy rituals and ideal way to spend a day.
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Elsie's comfort objects:
- Hoodies and quilts
- A blank journal
- Books / Library ladder
Emma's comfort objects:
- Cardigans
- Bedside books
- Couch blanket
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The A Beautiful Mess Podcast, your cozy comfort listen. |
| 0:08.3 | I'm your host, Elsie Larson, and I'm your host, Emma Chalman. |
| 0:11.3 | This week, we're discussing comfort objects, so little things that bring inordinate comfort |
| 0:16.6 | to our lives. |
| 0:17.7 | We're also sharing our cozy rituals and an ideal way to spend the day. So before we |
| 0:23.8 | jump in, I have like a funny, weird update. I think this is like, I think I'm either evolving, |
| 0:30.0 | either evolving, getting old or both. I think getting old might be evolving though. So I think |
| 0:37.3 | your only option is both. I think I'm getting old and evolving evolving though. So I think your only option is both. |
| 0:38.6 | I think I'm getting old and evolving. |
| 0:39.9 | Okay. |
| 0:40.4 | So I have been known my entire life as a messy person. |
| 0:44.5 | And in fact, that is like how our blog, A Beautiful Mess, got its name in, I don't know, what year 2012 or something whenever we named it. Probably before that. |
| 0:56.7 | Oh, yeah. You're right. 2006. 2006 or seven, probably. When we named it? That's my, anyway, |
| 1:04.4 | it doesn't matter. Okay. Date that sounds a long time ago. Okay. So, anyway, I've been messing my entire, entire, entire life. But this year, |
| 1:14.0 | I don't know if it was getting a new kitchen. It is the greatest kitchen ever. I'm not going to |
| 1:21.6 | lie. And it took six months of it being ripped out for it. So a very long renovation it was very taxing it was |
| 1:29.1 | hard on my kids it was a health scape we talked about it at the time and i'll probably talk about it |
| 1:34.8 | more in the future i'm sorry i know i know i can't complain but anyway you can and you are |
| 1:40.2 | anyway yeah ever since are. Anyway. |
| 1:52.2 | Ever since I got my new kitchen, have you noticed, I am now a clean person. And I also have been keeping my house super clean every single week. |
| 1:57.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:57.8 | We have a couple problem areas. |
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