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Retail Therapy by Sunday Scaries

Blackout Nights, Peak Relaxation Moments, Wedding Season, and More Listener Questions

Retail Therapy by Sunday Scaries

Sunday Scaries

Arts, Fashion & Beauty

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

This month's listener questions include (but are certainly not limited to) the ideal workday morning routine, the five best occasions to get hammered with little consequence, spring playlists, living in any country outside the United States, making friends at a wedding where you know no one, pre-wedding advice, two ideal coffee table scenarios, the most relaxing thing I've ever done, and a bunch of rapid-fire questions ranging from calming documentaries to Trader Joe's products to Birkenstocks & Socks. Subscribe to The Sunday Digest: www.willdefries.substack.com Shop the Sunday Scaries Scented Candles: www.vellabox.com/sundayscaries Shop Sunday Scaries Merch: www.sunday-scaries.shop Support This Week's Sponsors Vizzy: www.vizzyhardseltzer.com/washed Ladder: www.ladderlife.com/scaries Follow Along Sunday Scaries on Twitter: www.twitter.com/sundayscaries Sunday Scaries on Instagram: www.instagram.com/sunday.scaries Will deFries on Twitter: www.twitter.com/willdefries Will deFries on Instagram: www.instagram.com/willdefries  Barrett Dudley on Twitter: www.twitter.com/barrettdudley Barrett Dudley on Instagram: www.instagram.com/barrettdudley Credits Podcast artwork by Alfonso Ruiz and Tristan Pigott All music by Kevin MacLeod Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

My name is Will DeFrees, and this is the Sunday Scaries Podcast, your cure for the Sunday Blues.

0:07.0

This week we're doing a bunch of listener questions, so let's not waste any time and dive

0:19.6

right into them.

0:21.1

Our first.

0:22.1

What's your ideal weekday and workday morning routine?

0:26.2

I've always been a big proponent of routines ever since the inception of this podcast, but

0:31.1

I've actually become more and more intrigued by breaking my routine lately.

0:35.4

I don't have any specific reason for this other than trying to keep myself on my toes,

0:39.5

and I think my son being born, I think it took my tightly refined routine that I pretty

0:44.1

much stuck to every single morning and really turned it on its head.

0:47.4

My routine before he was born was one that I really leaned into and had it for about

0:51.5

three plus years.

0:53.3

I would wake up a bit after 6am, I would scroll my phone to see if I missed anything from

0:57.7

the night before on Twitter or Instagram, and then I would get out of bed, make a cup

1:01.5

of coffee, and then I'd return to bed with my laptop.

1:05.4

Those mornings I was doing a lot more writing, so I would knock out any writing that I wanted

1:08.9

to get done that day for Sunday Scaries or for PGP, and then maybe I'd do a few other

1:13.2

tasks as well, like maybe make some graphics for Instagram or respond to some emails, and

1:18.1

then finally before going to work, I would finish my coffee and get in the shower around

1:21.7

8.30 before I headed out for the day.

1:24.8

Nowadays things are much more simplistic because I don't really have the bandwidth to do

1:28.1

anything other than play with my son until childcare arrives.

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