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Retail Therapy by Sunday Scaries

Holiday Cocktails, Comfy Sunday Essentials, Enduring Seasonal Depression, and More Listener Questions

Retail Therapy by Sunday Scaries

Sunday Scaries

Arts, Fashion & Beauty

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This month's listener questions include the best large-batch holiday cocktails, the best storylines from Season 2 of White Lotus, top-five comfy things for a lazy Sunday, the worst things about the holiday season, which products are in my self-care rotation lately, getting through seasonal depression episodes, looking back at the most proud moments from Sunday Scaries in 2022, the ideal holiday morning routine, and more. Shop the Sunday Scaries Scented Candles: www.vellabox.com/sundayscaries Subscribe to the Sunday Scaries newsletter: www.willdefries.substack.com Watch select Sunday Scaries and Retail Therapy episodes on YouTube: www.youtube.com/sundayscaries Support This Week's Sponsors Vizzy Hard Seltzer: www.vizzyhardseltzer.com/washed 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 DeFries and this is a Sunday Scariest Podcast, your cure for the Sunday Blues.

0:06.7

This week we're doing December's listener questions, so let's dive right in.

0:20.6

Our first.

0:22.1

What are the best holiday cocktails to make in a big batch?

0:26.1

A group in a small town named Harborsprings, Michigan, and doing so we had a tradition

0:31.8

every year where everybody would gather downtown.

0:34.8

Numerous times throughout the holiday season.

0:36.8

The first time was for something called the tree lighting where Christmas trees at the

0:40.7

end of Main Street.

0:41.8

And we'd all stand there, we'd care altogether, and then they'd light up the tree and everyone

0:45.8

would disperse to the bars and have a good time.

0:48.6

But the other one feels much more like a hallmark movie, even more so than the first

0:53.2

thing I described.

0:54.5

And that was our Christmas open house.

0:56.9

And like I said, this is a small town and so everyone kind of knows each other.

1:00.7

There's snow all over the sidewalks and there's people caroling.

1:04.6

It's honestly one of the more fun nights of the winter.

1:07.0

There's snow, there's familiar faces, there's Christmas music and it's the perfect small

1:10.7

town Christmas scene.

1:12.7

And because I used to work downtown, I was very well versed in serving people throughout

1:17.2

this process.

1:18.6

The store that I worked for we prided ourselves on having very good large batch cocktails,

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