Socks, Closet Cleanouts, Frequent Flyers, Coffee, and the “New Year” (Week of 1/20/25 Roundup)
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The tips this week were:
A Tip For Sock Drawer Organization (January 20, 2025)
Today’s tip is what Ned describes as a “super dude tip” and immediately asks you not to judge him. We’ll let you make your own decisions :P
A Tip For Closet Cleanouts (January 21, 2025)
Have analysis paralysis when trying to clean out your closet? Arielle’s got a tip to break through the mental noise.
A Tip For Maximizing Your Credit Card Points (January 22, 2025)
January Guest Tipper Anjali Bhimani is back with a tip about credit card points, travel miles, and turning every day purchases into faster free flights!
Learn more about Anjali at https://linktr.ee/sweeetanj
A Tip For A Quick Coffee Mix (January 23, 2025)
Skip a step and ditch a utensil with today’s tip from Ned. He’s all about optimizing that coffee intake. Are you?
A Tip For Milking the “New Year” (January 24, 2025)
It’s never too late to use the New Year to get ahead in life. Well, maybe February is a bit much. So, take advantage of these last few days with this tip from Arielle.
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Transcript
Arielle: [00:00:00] Here I am holding a blue Yeti. On this January 20th, 2025. Ned, tell us about socks. What’s the tip?
Ned: Yeah, today’s tip is like a super dude tip, I suppose. This might get me some flack, but I actually have been really happy with it, which is simply, um, buy packs of socks and then stop folding them into pairs. Just have like a chunk of socks. Grab two when you put socks on your feet. I have dress socks that I have a lot of, and I have a bunch of fun socks, but then I have like my athletic socks, and they’re just like, you know, if I bought a pack of five pair, I just have 10 socks in a row in my drawer and I just grab the front two and I put them on my feet and then I grab the next ones.
And when I wash them, I put them at the back first in first out from previous tip. And I don’t have to worry about like putting the socks together into pairs, buy packs of socks and then put them all together so that you can just grab two to put on your feet on casual or whatever days.
Arielle: And that’s the tip of the day on Daily Tips That May or May Not Help You. That was Ned. I’m Arielle. We’ll see you tomorrow.
Ned: [00:01:00] Arielle, I’m about to figure out a closet cleanout. Do you have any tips for me?
Arielle: Yes. For you, this tip, have you touched it in a year? I’m asking.
Ned: Uh, probably not. I wear very similar clothing a lot.
Arielle: The tip of the day is that if you haven’t touched it in a year and you’re trying to clean out your closet, get rid of it. Donate it. Use it as a rag. Whatever the situation is, you probably don’t want it anymore and you probably just don’t need it.
So consider getting rid of it if it’s been a year since your last, uh, contact with that piece of clothing.
Ned: That is a very good tip, and it means that I’m about to go through my drawer and have a whole bunch of stuff to get rid of.
And this is Tuesday, the 21st of January, 2025. This is Daily Tips That May or May Not Help You. I’m Ned that’s Arielle, and we will be back tomorrow with guest tipper Anjali
We are back. It’s Wednesday. It’s guest tip Wednesday with our tipper [00:02:00] of the month, Anjali Bhimani. Anjali, what is today’s tip?
Anjali: Okay. I am gonna do a curve ball from the last few that we’ve done, because I do frequent flyer points and hotel points and miles and all of that stuff, like most dudes do fantasy football. It is my jam. It is my lane. I love to do it. So here’s one of my favorite tips for people that doesn’t cost you a penny more than you are already going to spend, and here it is.
Every frequent flyer program, especially with the big airlines, has some kind of a shopping portal, So, if there’s a particular airline that you love to fly on the reg, go to that airline, find their shopping portal, and anytime you need to buy something online, check if the outlet that has that item is one of the partners of that airline. The cool thing about this is a lot of these portals, you can actually type in the item that you’re looking for. So say Nike shoes, whatever, it’ll show you the Nike store, but then it’ll also show [00:03:00] you specific products that are Nike’s at a bunch of different retailers, you can decide which one has the biggest points value, the biggest rewards value.
You can figure out which one you wanna do. So it’s one or two extra steps as you’re going online to buy it, but then you not only get the item, but you get frequent flyer miles or points or, uh, hotel points or whatever it is for your purchase. So your $1 goes a lot farther.
Arielle: Ned has been aggressively nodding his head for the last few minutes. Ned, does this resonate with you?
Ned: Uh, I love, I have a spreadsheet. I track all of my points. I have all of what card do I use when and for what I, I love — Anjali, I do this religiously and it brings my heart so much joy that you do as well.
Anjali: I don’t know how we haven’t figured out that we both did this together uh, sooner now. Okay. So this is what we’re gonna have to do. We’re gonna have to come over to each other’s house where we can appreciate the mug collection,
and then we can talk frequent flyer miles and points.
Ned: Yeah, [00:04:00] especially because we live on opposite sides of the country, so we’ll have to use those frequent flier miles to pull it off.
Anjali: Exactly. To get there.
We’ll bring, I’ll bring a mug. I’ll bring at least one mug with
Ned: Yes!
Arielle: good. And we will bring a mug tomorrow for the next episode of Daily Tips That May or May Not Help You with Arielle and Ned. Anjali won’t be here tomorrow, but she will be back next week with another guest tip.
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Ned: We said yesterday we would have mugs today and we do. Happy Thursday, Tippendales. Today’s tip is a coffee tip from me. It seems pretty obvious. I bet a bunch of you already do it, but instead of pouring cream into coffee and then stirring it with a spoon, you should put your cream in your mug and then add the coffee to it.
So it gets mixed up while the coffee swirls in the mug, saving you the spoon and getting a nice, even distribution of cream. That’s the tip of the day. Simple. Easy. Coffee.
Arielle: This is Daily Tips That May or May Not Help You. if you would like to leave us a comment, rating [00:05:00] and review, you can do that in a lot of different places. Probably one of those places you’re on it right now. So consider, consider dropping us a star or, even suggesting a tip. We’d like more.
Ned: That’s true. We have a form on our website you can fill out or give us a rating on Apple, Spotify, Podchaser, GoodPods, you know, wherever.
Arielle: That’s all.
It’s never too late. I’ll say that.
Ned: For what?
Arielle: Yeah. Thank you. Good — Thank you setting me up for that where I set you up to set me up. It’s never too late to, um, do some networking and to make it seem like you’re a good person professionally and what I mean by this is, yeah, sure, it’s the end of January right now. You can still send a letter to a colleague, you know, a coworker, somebody that you want to keep a relationship with in some way professionally saying happy new year and don’t include any asks in that email. Just say happy new year. Hope your year is going well and I’m looking [00:06:00] forward to catching up at some point. You never know what it’ll bring you. And I think the operative phrase here is there should be no asks. This should really just be a hello. How are you? Hope you’re doing well. Hope we get to connect soon.
Ned: This is a great tip. I’m gonna go do this as soon as we get off this call
Arielle: Good. Yeah.
Ned: It’s uh, friday the 24th of january 2025 which means we’re running out of time for happy new year’s messages to make sense. I feel like you get the month of January. and we will be back on Monday with more Daily Tips That May or May Not Help You.
Arielle: And always remember it’s never too late.
Ned: For what?
Arielle: That’s how we started this.
Ned: Yeah, I know. I’m gonna fade out on that.
