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Retail Therapy by Sunday Scaries

The Ten Commandments of Weddings, Perfection vs. Greatness, and Martha Stewart's Instagram

Retail Therapy by Sunday Scaries

Sunday Scaries

Arts, Fashion & Beauty

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Looking at the world through the lens of Martha Stewart's Instagram account, The Ten Commandments of Wedding Season, and how we often stunt our personal progress by seeking perfection. Shop Sunday Scaries Varsity Crewnecks: www.sunday-scaries.shop Shop Sunday Scaries Scented Candles: www.vellabox.com/sundayscaries Support This Week's Sponsors Vizzy: www.vizzyhardseltzer.com/washed  Firstleaf: www.tryfirstleaf.com/scaries (6 bottles of wine for $29.95) 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 Scaries Podcast, your cure for the Sunday Blues.

0:15.6

Martha Stewart has two Instagram accounts.

0:17.9

One is simply at Martha Stewart which features everything you think it would feature.

0:21.6

Brand post, recipes, tableware, and everything else Martha has made her fortune on.

0:26.2

And much like cool teens, she also has a not-so-secret fenced account, or I guess you could probably

0:29.9

just call it a personal account, at Martha Stewart 48.

0:33.0

There, you'll find what I'd consider to be some of the most unhinged Instagram posts

0:36.7

we've seen over the last years.

0:38.9

When it comes to following people on Instagram, I have a few rules of thought.

0:42.4

You have to be a close friend, you have to consistently relax me, you have to consistently

0:45.8

make me laugh, or you have to be a brand that I absolutely love to support.

0:49.6

And when it comes to Martha Stewart 48, while she fits three out of the four criteria, obviously

0:54.1

not a close friend.

0:55.7

For the last couple months, I've jokingly reposted Martha's best posts on the Sunday Scaries

0:59.3

Instagram feed.

1:00.7

But just this past Monday, Martha decided to flex harder than she's ever flexed on everyone's

1:05.0

timelines by imploring everyone to consider buying a $185,000 Mercedes.

1:10.8

Postness and privilege aside, you can't help but laugh at this recommendation and favor

1:14.2

of criticizing it.

1:15.9

This isn't a 23-year-old ex-batchler franchisee who is out of touch with reality.

1:20.9

This is a 79-year-old woman who's absolutely soaking up her glory years.

1:25.4

And if anyone else posted something like this, I'm sure we'd all cringe a bit before

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