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Retail Therapy by Sunday Scaries

Dirty Martini Alternatives, Fireplaces, and How Rhys McKee Spends His Sundays

Retail Therapy by Sunday Scaries

Sunday Scaries

Arts, Fashion & Beauty

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

This week's episode features the zen of tending to your fireplace, five alternatives for the classic dirty martini, and how Rhys McKee (@cakenotcrumbs) spends his Sundays. Subscribe to the Sunday Scaries newsletter: www.willdefries.substack.com Shop the Sunday Scaries Scented Candles: www.vellabox.com/sundayscaries Watch all Retail Therapy episodes on YouTube: www.youtube.com/sundayscariespodcast Support This Week's Sponsors Earth Breeze: www.earthbreeze.com/scaries (40% off!) Grove: www.grove.com/scaries (free starter set!) 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  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 a Sunday Scaries Podcast.

0:03.8

You are here for the Sunday Blues.

0:06.0

There are a lot of things during the winter months that I can simply chalk up to seasonal

0:18.5

depression.

0:19.5

Truthfully, I think it's fair in most cases.

0:22.1

Just feeling generally in a rut, seasonal depression.

0:25.9

Scaries hitting a little harder because I haven't left my place all day because it's

0:28.9

so cold outside.

0:29.9

Ugh, seasonal depression.

0:32.4

Buying things I don't need online just to feel something.

0:35.0

Well, that might just be another problem I need to confront, but whatever.

0:38.9

And due to the nature of this show, seasonal depression is often something that gets asked

0:42.3

about.

0:43.3

In growing up, somewhere that hardly gets any sun in the winter time, well, yeah, I do

0:47.6

have more than enough experience with it.

0:50.0

But then there are those intricate seas of the winter months that get overlooked that

0:53.4

give you a little joy.

0:55.0

The accomplishment of shoveling snow.

0:57.4

How good it feels to wrap your hands around a warm to go coffee on a cold day.

1:01.6

But my favorite by far is tending to a fire.

1:05.8

I remember watching my father do it as a child.

1:08.5

It was traditional our household to have one burning in our living room at all times during

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