5-MINUTE FRIDAY: So, I Threw Out My Scale
Hurdle with Emily Abbate
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4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2020
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
I've been on a tear lately of throwing out things. A lot of things. I came back from vacation a few weeks ago and had this impulse to upgrade and declutter. In today's episode of 5-MINUTE FRIDAY, I'm chatting about how it feels, and the unexpected choice I made to ditch the scale I've had for 12 years.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, hurdlers. Emily, I'm out of out of bringing you another installment of five minute Friday. |
| 0:23.2 | I've been getting a lot of really great feedback on this segment lately. |
| 0:26.7 | And that's good, as always, because for a while there, I felt as though I wasn't getting much of it and was just kind of hoping that this was resonating with you. |
| 0:38.9 | So if you do like what you listen to on these five-minute Friday segments, do not hesitate |
| 0:46.0 | to let me know over on social at Hurtle Podcast at Emily Abadi or also over email. |
| 0:52.6 | You can hit me up at Emily at Hurtle. hurdle.us. If you're new to five-minute |
| 0:57.2 | Friday, welcome the gist here. I share a little story. I offer you a thought prompt and I give you |
| 1:04.0 | some highlights from my week, some content picks, some things that I'm digging to send you off into the weekend. |
| 1:12.8 | So this week, I did something kind of, it kind of felt like a big deal. |
| 1:19.9 | I threw out my scale. |
| 1:22.4 | Listen, I have been on a tear lately and not like the kind of tear where you're just like drinking yourself |
| 1:28.3 | into oblivion, although like, believe me, I've had those moments in my life or like shopping like |
| 1:34.1 | crazy, although there has been some of that. I have been on this tear of decluttering and getting |
| 1:42.7 | rid of things that just don't make me happy. It started with, I went to |
| 1:47.8 | visit my best friend in Rhode Island a few weeks back, as I mentioned on the show. And her home |
| 1:52.6 | literally belongs inside of architectural digest. First of all, her home itself is stunning. |
| 1:57.7 | But the way she has decorated it is perfection. Everything is minimalist |
| 2:03.7 | and it's full of neutrals and everything in the home like has a very specific place. It's like |
| 2:10.7 | she's one of those people that if you say, hey, do you have an iPhone charger? The iPhone charger |
| 2:15.5 | is not in a messy box of cords like I used to have. |
| 2:20.3 | It's actually like perfectly rolled up in this one drawer off to the side by the right and she only has two. |
| 2:27.2 | Clearly, you know, we differ on that. Anyway, I went to visit her. I came home and I walked in my apartment and all I wanted to do was just get rid of the bulk. |
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