Hi everyone, I'm Joanna.

And I'm Jenny.

And this is hyphenated, the podcast about living in the hyphen.

Jenny, this is an episode that you have been wanting to do for quite some time.

Mostly because you have a lot of stories about objects, about parents keeping objects, about stuff that your

grandparents have kept, you know, in search for keeping memories alive. And as our conversations

have sort of continued about this, we've sort of realized that there's something kind of cultural

about the stuff that you found your parents

keeping. And I've always found it really fascinating. It's absolutely fascinating. Yeah, I've been,

this is a topic that I've touched upon multiple times in my videos and every time I bring it up,

whether it's in a meme or a photo or again,

in a sketch, people go wild because so many, it's a mix. It's either people relate to it and they're

like, oh my God, same. My mom kept this, this and that from, you you know when I was a kid soups weird and then

there was the other half were people that were absolutely grossed out and appalled by some of the

shit my mom would keep because like okay I know parents keep stuff around. Like, I personally come from a family.

We moved every two years.

My mom loves throwing away things.

My mom has literally thrown away shoes I still use.

My mom has thrown away, like, little letters I make for her because she's like,

oh, God, this is a bit fatio to move when no mowledmos.

So my mom is someone, like, my home was always a place of like minimalism.

Like also my...

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