40ish - Father’s Day Fail, Ozempic and the Tupperware Fairy

Episode Date: June 19, 2025

This week on 40ish: Lauren takes on Moonpig and somehow sends a blank Father’s Day card (nailed it). Nicole’s makeup has mysteriously vanished, and she needs to cover her newly grey eyebrows. Meanwhile, one listener is fed up being lied to by her friend about being on Ozempic (We all know green tea does not make you lose two stone!) and another woman is in a Tupperware stand-off with her mother-in-law. She knows it’s petty - but she wants it back. It’s midlife dilemmas, pet peeves and the usual business.  To buy tickets for our live show in October click here: https://cheerfulearful.podlifeevents.com/festival/40ish---live-from-cheerful-earful-podcast-festival-16-oct-2025-tickets?clientside_routing=true We love to hear from you! To share your feedback, dilemmas, rants, funny stories or general complaints about midlife please be in touch at: Email [e-mail] Instagram https://www.instagram.com/40ish.podcast  TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@40ish.podcast Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/share/DVQWb6y2vesgeHEK/?mibextid=LQQJ4d  To order our book HAVE YOU TRIED THIS?” click here  https://www.amazon.co.uk/Have-You-Tried-This-Only/dp/1801293139/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1O7EA4ZF1O5CS&keywords=have+you+tried+this&qid=1699449028&sprefix=have+you+tried+%2Caps%2C125&sr=8-2 Get 10% off Daily30+ today. Go to zoe.com/daily30 and use promo code 40ISH10 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I have a confession to make. Go on. I've done this. Hello everybody. Welcome to Fortier's. I'm Nicole Goodman. And I'm Lauren Mishcon. This is the podcast that navigates the challenges and absurdities of 40-something life. And every week, including this very week, we will discuss your problems, your dilemmas, your issues, your rants that you've shared with us. We especially like the rants. We really, really enjoy the rants. Yeah. It makes us

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and we know that you do, please head over to our subscription over at Apple Podcasts where you get bonus content, you get ad free shows on this show and Self Care Club, and you get early access on this show and Self Care Club. What's going on with you? I did quite a 40ish thing this week. It was fairly special. It's slightly tech related and I know how last week we were talking about tech and you were like it always amazes you every time you hear something from me about how inept I am at tech. But this was a piece of-

What were we talking about last week? You said you didn't need a password on Spotify or something. Yeah, I think that's what it was. But anyway. Shame. I really felt like one thing that I could navigate was Moon Pig. It is a... Moon Pig is a... I'm sorry to say, but Moon Pig is a lot.

There is a lot of choices. There's a lot of choices on Moon Pig. A lot. It's a very big site. Thank you for validating that. You are welcome. I don't know what you've done though. Okay.

So for anyone who doesn't know Moonpick it's a it's a greeting card website. Thank you and you can personalize stuff and there's like a gazillion billion trillion cards you can choose from anyway. But you don't but sometimes you can personalize photos. Yes. And sometimes you can personalize just text. Sometimes both. Or sometimes none. And sometimes none depending on what you choose. And then you can also like make the cards different sizes. Yeah, and I've bought stickers on. Oh yeah, I've bought, I've bought cards before that have ended up the size of this screen behind me and you think, oh, okay.

That's a bit extra. Yeah, that's a bit embarrassing actually. So I'm going to just preface this by saying I went in on there to buy a father's day card for my dad, but I also needed to buy a get well card for someone and I wanted to send a gift along with that. So I was actually ordering a few things simultaneously. And also obviously I had to do a Father's Day card from Beba the puppy to Ollie because it's you know her first Father's Day. So I had to find some photos of them together and do a whole card so I

was multitasking. Anyway I was so pleased with myself because I got this job done, I ordered all the cards, they were all going to be there on time for everybody and then about an hour later I had this sad sinking feeling and I don't know why I realized this, but I realized that I had posted my dad a Father's Day card, but I had not put any message inside. I just sent him a blank card. The whole thing was blank? Nope. There was just a photo of him and me on the front saying Happy Father's Day. Right.

And then just a completely blank card. No message. At least you did that. You uploaded the... I'm actually impressed. Thank you. I am impressed that you did that. Yeah, I felt like I'd done so well for myself. You had. Maybe you had. Then I fucked it up. No, but you had done well for yourself and the fact that you'd even gone onto Moonbe Pig. I have an account. Right. I think there's a password. We are all. We're all impressed. We're all impressed that you're doing it on Moon Pig and you're not going to John Lewis to buy a card. We're all impressed

with this. So I had to send Moon Pig an email to try and stop the card. I sent the email. Hello. I'm sorry. I'm Perry Minnipelle and I've sent a card to my dad with no message please can you unsend the card dear Lauren we're terribly sorry but we'll be back to you in three to five working days. Yeah exactly all cards are personalised it's already been made so but we can give you a credit for another card. That was kind. Really nice I was like thank you Alex his name was or maybe it was a her I don't know I said I so appreciate your kindness so I made the card again with a message and then when I saw my dad I said dad just to let you know you may receive two cards from me and you'll understand why. Did he did he get the cards? Got the cards. Both of them because I've seen a few moon pigs before and they've never arrived. Okay, that's no, they arrived and then he messaged me saying, got your cards, couldn't stop laughing. I was like, okay, okay, but it was fine because it was old.

Did you send the second card? Was it the same card? The same card. Oh right, you didn't even upload a new photo. No, I just did the same one. Didn't do a new format. No, no, fuck it. Yeah, fuck it. Just go back to my old orders and just like edit yeah amazing okay that's quite 40ish it was yeah but also 40ish a little bit tragic but also impressive and the two are co-existing and i think that's really special. Thank you very much. You're welcome. What's your, in your 40th moment this week? You know, I don't think I've had that many. Gosh. What? Maybe it's

just all a fucking blur at the moment. I don't know. Okay. I don't know. Wow. You're back on the paddle court though I heard. I, who did you hear that from? The rumor mill. It's spinning. I am back on the paddle court. The paddle world are delighted to have you back. Are they? They've missed you. Oh, I have missed it. I have never felt happier. You don't seem to have any tape on your body.

To be back on the, I will say that my back is less happy that I am back on the paddle court because I was like, other than my tennis elbow when I wasn't playing, I was paying free. Yeah. So, you know, the fact is I'm still injured. I still have my tennis elbow and I took four weeks off of paddle for I know away from the love of my life. I know it was a long old month. It really was and I'm still injured and I just thought, fuck this. I'm just going to play. Okay. So I'm now playing injured even though I've rested it and I've had physio and I've been taped up and I've had acupuncture and I have actually done all of my exercises. Well done because normally you don't. No I do. Do you? Are you very good? Are you a very diligent physio patient? I wasn't until last year.

I wasn't until last year. Now I am. Okay. That's middle aged just in itself. It is, isn't it? Yeah. But it's even more middle aged because it hasn't sorted the problem out. So now I have to walk. This is so embarrassing and you won't really understand this because you're not a gym goer. I'm not. But for all the gym goers out there, I have to walk around and I'm talking to you personally and you will understand. I'm not. But for all the gym goers out there, I have to walk around and I'm talking to you personally and you will understand. I have to walk around with a one kilo dumbbell doing my physio. So people think that I'm actually doing like bicep curls with a one kilo. I mean, it got so embarrassing the other day. I just picked up the two and even that's embarrassing. Why don't you just like with a Sharpie just add a one before it?

No, no, no. It looks like it's a 12. Because everybody knows the size of a 12 kilo dumbbell. It doesn't. Okay. I mean, I might be able to do that with you, but yeah, you can do it with me. I would totally believe you. It's so embarrassing.

Also, I wouldn't care. I walked around the whole gym with this one kilo dumbbell. My physio listens to this show, so I hope she's impressed. I'm sure she's impressed. I hope she's impressed. I mean, I have a vague idea of what kilograms are now because I have to go and weigh the puppy and she's now 7.2 kilograms and I can tell you she's heavier to pick up than she was last week.

Yeah. Yeah. Can't do that in one hand. She is quite weirdly heavy because she's quite small. She's solid. She's going to be a solid dog. She's got long, lovely, gorgeous legs. She's going to be a big lass. I haven't actually seen her in days. She's growing. You better hurry up.

I know. Well, not you better hurry. You better invite me over. Like you need an invite. I can't just turn up on your doorstep. You totally can. Everyone else does. Who? Who does? You were there the other day when the neighbor's grandma turned up. Yeah. And you didn't know her name. That was embarrassing. She just invited herself in and then you didn't because you didn't introduce me. I just said, this is Nicole. Come on, let's get to a listeners dilemma. Okay, but before we go to the dilemmas, a very quick disclaimer. Are you a doctor or

a health professional, Nicole? No. Okay. So neither am I. And I wasn't last week. I'm still not. And I won't be next week. Me neither. So if there is an issue that you're seriously struggling with, please contact a qualified expert.

What's our first question of the day? Hi Lauren and Nicole, I need your help with a very awkward situation. Oh, I love an awkward situation. Yeah, yeah. Not when it's mine, but when it's other people's. Or if it's something that you have actually experienced yourself and then it's just awkward. Yes. One of my close friends has recently lost a lot of weight. Oh. I commented on it because I feel like every time I see her, she's shrunk more. Yeah. And she said she's her, she's shrunk more. Yeah. And she said she's just cut carbs and started walking more. Okay.

Fair enough. It's very common now, isn't it? She says fair enough, but over the past few months, it's become obvious to everyone that this is not just a result of salad for lunch and 10,000 steps a day. She has that weird ozempic face thing going on and I know that she is on the weight loss jabs. I don't care. She can do what she likes. What is bothering me is that she keeps lying about it and she flat out denies it. She has also started giving unsolicited health tips like drinking green tea before bed

and taking cold showers to lose weight. I feel like she's being dishonest and perpetuating unrealistic expectations, especially because some of our group of girlfriends have really struggled with their weight since perimenopause. She's basically gaslighting everyone into thinking this is all just willpower and that anyone can drop a load of weight that easily. Do I say something or do I keep my mouth shut? Thank you P. Now the thing is, full disclosure, I genuinely and I really thought about it when this question came in, none of my friend group, not a single one and it's not a lie or a cover-up or I don't

know about it, none of them are on it. I do know one man on it and he is in his 70s and he told me day one, guess what? I'm very overweight and I'm starting on the old jab. And I was like, good for you because he actually needs to do it. But I don't actually have this going on in my circle of friends. So it's not something I've had to deal with. So I have, I know quite a lot of people that are on it. Yeah. Versions of it, whether it's a Zempik or Monjaro or what's the other one?

Wagovi. Wagovi, that's it. So it's actually quite common. Yeah. I'm actually surrounded by it. But people, but they're honest about it. Oh, okay. They're being honest. Okay. But have they said to you, guess what, I've started, or have you been like, oh, you've lost a lot of weight, and then they'll tell you? No, they've told me they're starting. Okay. They've told me this, but they're really close friends of mine. Okay. So it would be weird if they didn't tell me. Okay. Because we tell each other everything that's going on in our lives. Yeah. And I think the thing is with these injections is because the weight loss is so rapid. Yeah.

It's almost impossible to not be honest about it. One of my friends, she has lost so, so much weight. I mean, she's gone from, well, she's, I think she's lost like three stone, three and a half stone. She wasn't, she wasn't huge. She really wasn't. Um, but she's struggled and whatever. Anyway, so she's dropped this amount of weight. So she looks completely different. Yeah. And we were talking about it the other day and she said, you know, if people ask me, I'm really open about it. I said, to be honest with you, you have lost so much weight that it is. What are you going to say? You're either really ill or you're on the jabs. Yeah. I mean, at this point you would

have to be honest about it because you, she's unrecognizable. Yeah. So, and that it happened in four months. Oh, wow. So there's going to be many people that saw her pre and post. Right? Yeah. So that was the conversation I had with her. And I think that, listen, what people want to do and their reasons for doing it is totally up to them.

She says she doesn't care. She just cares that she's lying. I would have a real problem if a close friend of mine was lying to me about it. I would feel really insulted that a, they couldn't be honest with me. Like what is it about our relationship and why you can't be honest? I feel really upset about that. And why do you, why are you hiding it? But also it's the unsolicited advice that I don't like because if that is, if she is on the jab, then that's another level of dishonesty.

And also green tea before bed, firstly it's got caffeine in it. I know that's not the issue. I don't think you can melt fat by having a cold shower. I mean, I'm no dietician, but my general feeling is that's just not true. And also as you come into perimenopause, like for me to cut out carbs and walk, I mean, I walk 10,000 steps a day anyway, it doesn't work like that.

Yeah. It just doesn't. It is so hard to shift weight. It's slower. It's manageable and it's doable. It's hard work. But it's more than a green tea and a fucking cold shower. Yeah.

Definitely. It's hard work. But it's more than a green tea and a fucking cold shower. Yeah, definitely. So I think that as she said, she's perpetuating this narrative that is not helpful for other women around her. It's not okay. No. And also it is so obvious like when you see it on Instagram, for example, they did, they dropped a trailer for the new series of Real Housewives of Orange County. And it was like, what are you expecting this season? And my first thought was, I'm expecting everyone to be on Ozempic. And they showed the photos. They don't really need to be on Ozempic.

But they showed the photos. They are all like- Skin and bone. Skin and bone, like Barbie dolls, the whole cast. Whereas before they would vary in size. There is no variation. They are all size zero. I just thought this is just like, what? And also you can't hide it because there is an ozempic face, there is that look. That kind of drawn, weird look.

I think it's because the weight loss is so rapid. And you lose muscle. And you lose muscle and it, yeah. So your face does look different. But you can't really lie about it because it's pretty obvious. And I really do understand people's reasons for wanting to go on it. Whether it's a health issue, whether it's an aesthetic thing, whether it's, you know, you've struggled with your weight, you struggle physically, emotionally with your weight, whatever it is, I get it. But I really wouldn't want to be lied to about it, especially from a good friend who's and then dressing it up and telling me what I should be eating. Should she say something? Yeah. What would you say? I just go and look in a fridge and find the jabs. I don't

actually know if they're kept in the fridge, but I'm pretty sure they are kept in the fridge. Okay. I just go look in a fridge. That's what I would do. I think it would need a sensitive conversation. Again, like if it's a really close friend, I would say, are you on the jabs? Because the weight loss has been so rapid and, and if you are, it's totally fine. Like, Gary, you don't need to lie to me. Yeah. If that's, yeah, but you have to forgive me for asking because obviously so many people are on it now. And anyone that I think the problem is anyone that does have a lot of weight loss now, just assumes that it's Ozempic. I saw a friend the other day and when and you know I'm the most unobservant and mainly oblivious human being ever I don't notice anything I mean someone

could walk into my house with a head cut off and I might not notice for at least 10 minutes but she walked in and and she definitely did look. And my immediate thought was, bet she's on the jabs. And I said, you look very slim. And she said, oh, I started this diet like two weeks ago and I've only lost two pounds and actually I'm really hungry. And I thought, okay, she's definitely not. But you know, it's funny how she would tell me, she would tell me, but it's just, it's a funny culture. Yeah. Some people are so open about it and some people obviously hold a lot of shame around it. And I don't really know why. Because I think it can be perceived as cheating. That's why, because other people might have to work incredibly and enormously hard and put in a lot of effort and willpower to lose that

amount of weight and someone else just sticks a jab in them. But that's what it's for. It's here to help you lose weight. It's here to help you. But again, I am around it a lot and I do appreciate why people do it. But I wouldn't want to be lied to. Me neither. And I would say something. Would you not say something? I think I'd find it so hard not to say something. Yeah. Especially like after the fourth time. Yeah.

Do you know what I mean? I'd be like, oh, come on. Yeah. Pull the other one. Yeah. It's too rapid. Yeah. Yeah. Whether it's a family member, friend or furry companion joining your summer road trip, enjoy the peace of mind that comes with Volvo's legendary safety.

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once you have it, it's like the Apple watch. I know you're going to roll your eyes, but it is a bit like that with Apple. What any Apple product you get that feels like a little bit of a luxury and not a necessity, then you get so reliant on it and you're so annoyed at yourself that you're so reliant on it. Okay. They're good at that. It's like I don't need an Apple Watch. I don't need AirPods, but like it would make my life slightly more difficult if I didn't

have either. Okay. Difficult is the wrong word. It's just anyway, it's like the waste disposal. Yeah. Like you know what I mean? It's just I'm validating it. It's in my kitchen sink. You shove food down it. It like makes life so easy. Right. You've been doesn't smell. It's great. Anyway, it just broke. It just broke the switch. Nothing happened

and it broke and we had nine people for dinner and I was like, ask my husband, can you have a look? I think it's a fuse. I don't. this is a blue job. I don't deal with fuses. You don't deal with fuses? No, what? No. Literally a fuse. Does he deal with if we run out of yogurt? No. No, but a fuse is different. No. Why? My mental load is very large.

Nicole, excuse me before you get overexcited about the fuse box. Yeah. Not the fuse box, the fuse in the actual machine. Oh, I'm not with you on that side. I can deal with you. Flicker switch up at the fuse. I was about to educate you in that. I know where my fuse box is and I know how to fix it. Yeah. No, I'm talking like in the actual mechanics.

It's like, I think something's stuck in the blade, the rotator, that I don't know. Anyway, fix it. Just deal with it. He was like, I have not got time to be calling electrician. So we call the electrician, electrician comes out. He's like, no, no, it's, you don't need me. You need to call the people who run the waste, the company, the waste disposal company. And we've had all this. Oh, so I was like, I've actually got to spare waste disposal at home. Have you? Yeah. Anyway. So I said to Ollie, I was like, the guy couldn't fix it. And can you, I don't even know who the waste disposal company are. And can you find the number? Can you just deal with this?

This is a blue. He's like, I'm going to do it myself. I was like, are you? This was on Saturday morning. Yep. I said, are you going to like change into your boiler suit? Cause he does, he, he used to like strip engines and fix cars. So he has actually got like a mechanic. I feel like this is going in a really weird direction that is not necessary. Anyway, are you now going to start telling you perving over your husband fixing the waste disposal? Yeah, I actually was. I was like, are you going to change into a boiler suit and like get on your knees

in front of the sink and fix the waste disposal? And he was like, yeah, do you want me to? I was like, yeah, I do want you to anyway. He fixed it. He fixed it and I paid him in kind. I'm very grateful and that works. And that was great. Yeah. I perved over my own husband, fixing the waste disposal. I like it when men do blue jobs and get things done. I just didn't want a story of you perving over your own husband. Sorry, what, it's better than me perving over a stranger. Yeah, of course it is. I'm just saying like...

It would have been a really inappropriate story if I told you some like 22 year old British gas mechanic. I thought that's where it was going. I've got to be honest. And he was like, oh, it's a hot day. Do you mind if I just take my boiler suit off while I fix your waste disposal on my hands and knees at your sink while the puppy jumps all over me. You know, no it wasn't an appropriate story. Listen, it

was fixed and I'm happy. As is he, I'm sure. We're both happy. It was middle-aged joy. It's not middle-aged joy, it's middle-aged foreplay. Okay, our second question of the show. What is it? Hi ladies, I realize this sounds petty, but please hear me out. Oh, I love petty. I'm here for petty. But you're not petty at all. Yeah, but I love petty things. Okay. Don't you love a petty little rant? I don't really do petty. No, but don't you love hearing about it? The beauty's in the detail.

Shall we hear it? Yeah. I set my mother-in-law home with leftovers in one of my nice glass tupperware dishes, the kind with the snap-on lids that don't leak and actually stack properly in the cupboard. I love those click and click. Are they called click and click? I don't know. She didn't say. I bet you have those. Calm down. You have those. I do have those. You know I have those. Glass bottom with a plastic top. You always, always comment on my Tupperware drawer.

They are the most high end. She likes that it's organized and she likes that there's glass Tupperware in there. I would say it's premium Tupperware drawer. They are the most high end. She likes that it's organized and she likes that there's glass Tupperware in there. I would say it's premium Tupperware. Cause it's not even Tupperware, it's more Pyrex with the Tupperware lid. I mean, you know, him changing the waste disposal really got you going, didn't it? Imagine if he'd organized my Tupperware drawer.

Anyway, she said, should I send him a text? She said, her mother-in-law said, I'll wash this and give it back to you. I said, sure. Thanks. Fast forward eight weeks. I've been to her house twice since then. The Tupperware is still not returned.

And I even spotted it in her fridge with her leftover curry in it. When I was clearing up lunch, I said to her, Hey, isn't that mine? And she said, Oh, I thought I gave it to you. Gave it to me? I'm not fucking Tupperware Santa, she says. Tupperware Santa? No, she's not. In capital letters.

Who gives away click click? Tupperware no one. I know it's just a plastic container. I'm 46. I shouldn't be losing sleep over Tupperware politics. But it's the principle. Tupperware politics. I mean, I don't think that is going to make it on the news agents to you. All the rest is politics. But anyway, my husband has told

me to drop it, but every time I see her, I wonder if I should say something or if it's just pathetic. So this is her question everybody. Listen, everyone listening? Do I bring it up and risk sounding unhinged or do I just let it go and buy a new one like a normal adult? Thank you, Nikki. I have a confession to make. Go on. I've done this. You've purposely stolen good Tupperware from my mother-in-law. Nicole Goodman. Not purposefully. Well, maybe, well, no, not accidentally on purpose, forgot to return it. It was exactly the same. In fact, I hope this isn't her. She might be writing in about it. Nikki, are you secretly Nicole's mother-in-law? She sent me home with leftovers in this really like lovely cylinder of a Tupperware, a cylinder,

a deep cylinder. I've got one of those. Love that one. A deep cylinder. Yeah. So useful. It is so useful. And as she gave me the leftovers, I just thought, I'm like, literally my eyes lit up. You're more excited about the container than the food that was inside it. Yeah. Totally. Yeah. And I knew there and then she was never getting it back. She never asked me for it. I wonder if she thinks about it. She might be holding that against you. No.

Well, I don't know. Isn't it different with like that way? When it's family? Yeah. Well, when I'm the child in the situation, when you're the 48 year old child who steals Tupperware from her mother in law, I think she's all right with it. She's never, I'm going to ask her. I'm actually going to ask her. So after this question came in, I was unloading the dishwasher and I looked in my bottom drawer where the plates are and I realized that I had this porcelain container that my sister-in-law brought something over in at Christmas and I had not returned it. And I

was seeing her that afternoon. Does she expect you to return it? Well, I would expect mine to be returned because I'm telling you, I am not joking Nicole, somewhere in my family, there is a very large white porcelain salmon platter that is gone missing. Someone has it. Let them have it. I want it back. I took us cake over to my friend's once for dinner. Yeah. And I asked her a couple of times later, she had the cake tin that it came in. Yeah. And she looked at me like I was fucking mad. She's like, you seriously asked me if your cake tin back?

I was like, yeah. She goes, oh, please. That was the end of the conversation. Oh my God. I couldn't have that person as my friend. Oh, I love her. I loved her for it. I loved her for it.

Because it's like, get a fucking grip. We're like, best mates. Who cares? Let it go. I served salmon last Friday, right? And I could really have done with this thing and it's gone missing anyway sorry she's being ridiculous and she I'm with her husband she needs to drop this now I disagree it's tough aware I returned the porcelain okay I have as you can imagine

an extensive Tupperware collection I make a lot of soup especially in winter and if people are old or dying or in need they get chicken soup. I never ever ever get those motherfuckers cylinder containers back. You're never going to get the cylinder container back. I feel like I should buy one for my mother-in-law. I've let it go. I've let it go. I've let them all go and it's fine. It's fine. You haven't let it go. I have. You haven't let it go at all.

I accept it. Nikki, I think Lauren is best placed to answer. No, in fact, I think I'm best placed to answer this. Both of you get over yourselves. They are platters, Tupperware. There's more important things going on in the world and this doesn't matter. Finished. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. It's your mother-in-law. Let her have it. Let her enjoy it. Let whoever in your family is enjoying your salmon platter. Let them have the joy. Let it go. I couldn't enjoy it knowing that it was someone else's. I have enjoyed that cylinder Tupperware to death let me tell you I get so much

pleasure and joy from it thank you to my mother-in-law for letting me have it. Okay so maybe this is what Nikki should do maybe next time. I wonder if she's even noticed it. I don't know how long has it been? About a year. Okay probably not. So maybe next time that Nikki sees her mother-in-law goes around to the house she should say to her you know that Tupperware from like three months ago isn't it such a useful size and then her mother can go yeah I've used it for like 18 things and she can say to her do you know what keep it you're obviously enjoying it I'll buy a new one and then it's like a little gift.

It's not a little gift. It's totally passive aggressive and that is very bad advice. It is. No, I meant don't say it in a passive aggressive way. Say it in a genuine way. It's passive aggressive and you know it. It's basically saying, I'm letting you have it.

And just so you know, I know that you've got it. I'm watching you. I'm watching you. know, I know that you've got it. I'm watching you Actually Emotionally, let it go. Let it go. This shit doesn't matter You could drive yourself mad with this shit. Honestly, just let them let them and let it go Okay, that's the advice stress that it is causing is not worth it. Just go onto Amazon and get yourself a new one. Finished. Yeah, you could do that. You could do that with

your salmon dish or whatever it was. I don't care. Don't say anything. That is our show on 40ish. We hope you enjoyed it. Please be in touch with us. Hello at 40ish.co.uk or you can email us on Instagram, DM us even on Instagram at 40 ish dot podcast. Yeah they could even send us a moon pit card. It could. That would be so sweet. It would be really unnecessary. I'd love it.

As well. I'd love it. But then we'd have to give out our home addresses. We're not going to do that. Oh yeah that's true. Yeah. Send it to the people. No they can all come and see your new puppy.

Why don't you give out your address and then everyone will be on your doorstep. I've got my neighbours there every day. I haven't got time for the listeners as well. Yeah. We will be back on Tuesday with an Unfiltered and see you then. Bye bye. Hello, I'm Sarah Cox. I'm Claire Hamilton. We became besties as teenagers and know we're parenting five teens between us. Twice a week we commiserate and laugh as we tackle the issues affecting teens now and then.

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