hi guys in this video i'm going to be taking you shopping at paper source
which is one of my favorite places to shop for stationery although
it is kind of overpriced i always like to come here and see what they have
in season and i knew that for valentine's day they would have some really cool stuff
so for valentine's day this year i wasn't sure if my kids would be exchanging
anything at school because of covid but they are going to do a valentine exchange
so i know that some of you guys are not from the us but what we do here and i also did this when
i was a child is we exchanged valentine's day cards with our classmates at school
and so for my kids class and i think when i was younger as well there is a rule that if
you bring cards to school you have to bring one for everybody so that nobody feels left
out and you can get valentine's cards pre-made for classrooms at the grocery store or at target and
when i was little we would just give out cards and like maybe out of the set
i would look for my favorite ones and give those to my favorite friends or a cute boy in my class
my husband and i recently were talking about valentine's day and he was pressuring me to tell
him the name of the boy that i liked when i was in elementary school and i don't know why but i felt
so shy and i didn't want to tell him so i made my husband tell me who his crush was first which is
so silly because like we didn't know each other but i mean it's just ridiculous i mean we're so
old now um that's ancient history but i don't know it just made me feel really shy to tell him so
um i probably gave that boy like one of the nights or valentines in the pack but it wasn't
anything special or out of the ordinary not like on charlie brown where charlie brown makes the
redheaded girl um a really nice valentine i may be remembering the charlie brown stories incorrectly
i'm not really sure but valentine's day wasn't really super related to love when i was younger
i mean it was an opportunity to give your crush a special card but it was just more of
a fun opportunity to exchange cards with your friends sometimes people would put like one
or two of those little conversation hearts in the envelope and seal it up and i mean
in the age of cobit i can't imagine anybody putting non-wrapped candy into an
envelope and anybody's still eating it or like sometimes they might put a piece of chocolate
like a dove chocolate or hershey's chocolate or something like that
but it wasn't like really fancy people didn't get all crazy and use puns and things like that
but now i think people do a little bit more because nowadays when you go to the grocery store
in the u.s you around valentine's day they'll have packs of candy
which are made to be given to the entire class so it'll have a space where it says to and from and
then you can write like out your classmates names and so my daughter did go to an american school
in seoul for a couple of years and so she she had this valentine's day exchange and she came home
with a lot of candy on valentine's day they decorated a box and exchanged candy or cards
and so it's kind of rare that people will just give a card now
i think they'll usually attach a piece of candy to it or give candy in place of the card so
like i said i wasn't sure if my kids would be doing a valentine's day exchange but this year
valentina's teacher asked that we not give out any food items just giving she just wanted us to give
out cards and she said if we plan to give out anything other than cards to please make it not
a food item so i i didn't want her to just give out cards i wanted to find something else that she
could give out with the cards so i just looked on amazon for party favors in bulk and i found some
slap wraps that were quite inexpensive and then we made this card which i printed out on my computer
on just paper that i already had like neon cardstock and it says
sloppy valentine's day and so my kids already they were really excited to assemble those we did it
way before valentine's day so we were ready but anyway at paper source as you can see they have
some really cool packs of things to give out at school and i think it would have been nice to do
this but this is also like way more expensive than what i spent on the slap wraps on amazon
and and printing things from my home computer but they also just had some really cute things here
so sometimes i think valentine's day gets a bad reputation because if you're single or you don't
have a boyfriend or on valentine's day maybe you feel left out but i think nowadays people
are doing a great job of being inclusive and having galentine's day personally i just like
any opportunity to celebrate a holiday with my kids and do something fun eat a sweet treat
decorate our our wall behind our table we always put up some sort of banner for whatever holiday
or whatever it seems than it is and so i like to go all out and celebrate valentine's day we make
heart-shaped cookies and decorate them and we just have a little party at home
when it was just my husband and i we probably did something romantic like go out to a nice
dinner or something like that and exchange gifts we always got each other really nice gifts but
now it's sort of a family affair because we have two new members of our family
and we all want to be part of the celebration so we all just celebrate happy hearts day
and we do something fun with our family together but let me know in the comments below if you guys
do anything to celebrate valentine's day and if so what do you do i think in japan in korea
valentine's day is a day where women and girls give men a chocolate or some sort of gift and then
on white day the men reciprocate and give a gift to women so girls don't receive presents
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so i rarely ever go to brick and mortar stores anymore and if i do it has to be really special
because ever since the pandemic started we've been able to get things delivered to our house
and now i will just get anything and everything delivered to my house just to save myself the
time of going to a store especially when it comes to places like target and the grocery
store i mean i do enjoy walking around target and i love looking at like the home decor section and
especially the seasonal section but it ends up being a really big time suck and i also
end up spending way more money than i anticipated i mean i think we've all had the experience where
we go into target for like some dish soap and then you come out with a whole cart full of stuff
but um now i have the target app on my phone and whenever i need something
i'll just add it to my cart so we need new laundry we need more laundry detergent so
i'll just add that to my cart right away and then at some point i'll have enough stuff in my cart
to get free shipping i think it's like 35 worth of stuff and then i'll make a purchase
and so i spend a lot less money that way i mean every once in a while i do end up spending more
time on the app than i need to just kind of looking at stuff mostly it's kids clothes or
holiday goodies like valentine's day treats but i think generally i end up spending less money that
way and the only thing is the target app can be a little bit misleading because below certain items
they'll say if you spend fifteen dollars on this group of products you can get a five dollar target
gift card for free but that only applies if you use same day pickup or at home delivery services
which you have to pay 9.99 for so they don't want you to have a bunch of stuff you know shipped to
your house they want you to come and pick it up in order to get the discount so i wish that they
wouldn't like advertise that below the products because it does tend to be a little bit misleading
they used to offer those discounts for products that you could get shipped to your house but
then all of a sudden like out of nowhere these they decided not to offer those anymore and i can
i can understand why because there is an additional cost of shipping which is probably
significantly higher than uh having somebody pick up their items but i just wish that they wouldn't
bait you like that you know now that i kind of know to look out for it they don't always get me
but there was a transitional period where i would spend a lot of time trying to find extra stuff to
meet that like 15 or 25 dollar threshold and only to realize that it was only available for
store pickup or um same day delivery and not for shipping so i would have just wasted like 20
minutes of my time when i could have just gotten that one item that i needed and like purchased it
whenever like i had 35 dollars in my cart
but now that i've phoned for that trip multiple times i just try to get only what i need and then
leave get out of the app just close it put put the thing in your cart and then close the app
and do something else i mean nowadays when i go into the store and i have to wait in line
especially if it's something that i can just as easily buy online i start feeling really antsy
and annoyed and i get really annoyed at myself for even coming to the store in the first place and i
vow never to go there again in person so today for example i decided to go to anthropology because
i had been eyeing these agate coasters for a project that i'm working on and i also have
wanted them for a long time just to put them in in my home cafe but when i read the reviews online
like i don't know how many months ago people commented that they weren't as pretty in person
and i i think that makes sense because you know they're all a little bit different they're just
cuts of a particular piece of quartz so you know they could vary in color and quality
so i wanted to go into the store and pick out the particular pieces that i liked so my anthropology
is 25 minutes from my house i drove there but on the way i stopped at the library and i picked up
some books that i had on hold and then while i was there i got distracted
and i was like well i'll get a bunch of books for my kids because um we were supposed to go
to the library today but we didn't so i spent kind of a long time there and then
by the time i got to the anthropology store it was about 6 p.m i mean it was 6 p.m exactly and
as i reached the door i was reaching out to open the handle and i saw this worker approaching the
door and she opened the door first and i was like oh how nice she's opening the door for me but
she opened the door crack and she said i'm so sorry we closed at 6 pm and i just had nothing
to say i was absolutely shocked because i had driven 25 minutes on a saturday my day off when
i could be doing things with my kids or editing videos so it was like a total waste of time
and that is a perfect example of why i don't go to brick-and-mortar stores anymore
although maybe you know it's a phenomenon of people not going to brick-and-mortar source that's
causing them to close earlier maybe they don't get enough traffic in the evening i don't know
but that was a really annoying experience and i just decided i'm gonna do without the i get
coasters so and it ended up being better in the long run because i saved myself about like 50
or however much i would have spent on those and instead i got books for free at the library
i did manage to sort of salvage the trip because i did pick up food for us while we were there so
it was okay but still i was kind of annoyed so the anthropology store that i go to it actually
sells furniture so i was planning to go around and look at the furniture and that's also something
you want to see in person if you can before you buy it but yeah that was really annoying and
it just reminded me of why i don't like going to brick and mortar stores anymore
unless the store has something really remarkable like really nice pretty displays or
unique products or if they don't sell online i generally try not to waste my time going in person
because you have to drive there you have to find parking you have to wait in line
and i mean there is something really nice about being able to see things in person
but for things like toilet paper or tissues i have i find no joy whatsoever in going to
the store and buying those things so i'll always opt to get them delivered
anyway i guess that's just one of the ways that coved has just fundamentally changed the way in
which we live our lives so i think one of the reasons that i get so annoyed when i spend time
doing something that i don't really want to do is because lately i've been having this sense
of awareness that there's just not enough time for me to do all the things i want to do and the way
that you spend your time is the way that you spend your life so when you're doing these mundane tasks
from minute to minute it doesn't really seem like much but if you look at the big picture i
mean when i look at my kids and i look back at the old pictures and see how quickly they've grown up
i realized that every moment that i'm spending that's not with my kids or doing something fun
that makes me happy then that thing had really better be worth it so now that i work full time
and i also run this youtube channel i have a lot less free time and i want to spend my weekends
wisely i don't want to spend my weekends waiting in line or doing something that doesn't really
bring me joy and if that means getting my toilet paper and my laundry detergent delivered to
my house rather than going to the store and carting at home then why not so i'm curious
to hear what you guys think i i feel like time is our most valuable resource and and nowadays
everyone is competing for your attention and if you don't think that's true then just take a look
at instagram and tick tock and youtube i mean sorry i'm guilty of this i'm trying to take your
attention to every time i post a new video and ask you guys to watch it i'm trying to get your
attention as well every podcast every instagram post it's competing for your attention and so i
think that the important thing is to be conscious of that you know sometimes these other things add
value to our lives maybe you learn something new or you get a new piece of information
you find something cool that you might want to do or experience and so in that way it enriches your
life and maybe it it's worth it but i think that it's important to be mindful and be conscious of
the way that you're spending your time and so that's what i try to do i mean every once in a
while i have to delete social media from my phone and just detox because i feel like i'm spending
more time than i want to on these platforms and maybe i would rather be doing something else like
drawing with my kids or doing an art project with my kids or cooking something really delicious or
reading a book so i mean social media is not awful it's not the devil but it's something that it's
easy to like consume your time without you even realizing it so i think that it's important to
be conscious of it and it's something that i also struggle with and i try to balance
but it can be really difficult anyway just some food for thought
um as always i want to give a big thank you to my patreons and channel members michelle safarino
danielle catherine v pinball review of repairs and aaron as well as sanyo cam and crafty avino thank
you guys so much for supporting me i hope you have a great day and i'll talk to you next time bye