Furniture, Television, Italian Food, Time Reclamation, and Tech Upcycling (Week of 2/3/25 Roundup)

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The tips last week were:

A Tip For Moving Furniture on Carpets (February 3, 2025)

You know those annoying indents in your carpet after you move a piece of furniture? Well here’s a tip to get rid of ‘em!

A Tip For Watching Television (February 4, 2025)

Do you have ever trouble remembering just what’s going on in a tv show you’re currently binging? Stop binging it!

A Tip For Italian Food Consumption(February 5, 2025)

We’re heading to Italy for today’s guest tip. Welcome to the show, Catrin Skaperdas, our resident Italy expert. She gives us a tip about figuring out your food options when you visit the country.

Learn more about Italian, For Sure and Catrin at https://www.italianforsure.com/

A Tip For Reclaiming Your Time (February 6, 2025)

Do you have trouble getting all your tasks done in a work week? Here’s a simple tip that can help!

A Tip For Upcycling Your Tech (February 7, 2025)

Is your phone feeling like it needs an upgrade? STOP! Arielle’s got a tip for you, and we have a bonus tip for a great place to look if you *do* need a new phone.

Daily Tips That May or May Not Help You is hosted by Arielle Nissenblatt and Ned Donovan.

Music is by Marcus Thorne Bagala

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Transcript

Arielle: [00:00:00] It’s Monday, everybody. And we’re here with a Daily Tip That May or May Not Help You. Ned, you have a household tip for us. You household guy. What is it?

Ned: You household guy feels very targeted, but yes, this is a household tip. A friend of mine gave me this tip like a year ago and I’ve only had the opportunity to do it once, but man, did it work? So this tip comes to you. You know, when you have a chair in the same spot on a carpet for many years and then you move the chair and now there’s those indents on the carpet, you don’t want those indents anymore.

The tip of the day is this. Overnight, just take an ice cube, put it on the indent and leave it. And when you come back the next morning, the indent will be significantly reduced or even gone altogether. Uh, that’s the tip of the day, ice cube on the indent.

Arielle: Very good. Very good. You heard it here, Tippendales. Try it out. Let us know. Take pictures of your indentations and share them with us, @DailyTipsPod on all socials. We’re back tomorrow with another daily tip, and that tip may or may not help you.

Ned: When you’re watching a [00:01:00] TV show, do you have trouble remembering what happened in the last episode? Well, today’s tip is to help with that. Hey there, I’m Ned. It is Tuesday, February 4th, 2025, and this is Daily Tips That May or May Not Help You. Today’s tip of the day is this: simply do not binge tons of episodes of a show in one sitting.

Set limits on it. Television was developed to be watched weekly, and then you would have time between episodes to discuss things with your friends and go over things and create conversation that would help lock in plot elements of your favorite shows. So by binging a show, you often end up overloading your brain with information and it only retains some of what you watched, therefore it ends up all becoming a blur.

So the tip of the day is instead of watching one show that you binge all of, watch a few shows and limit yourself to, let’s say, three episodes at a time max. That will ensure that you remember the plot and you remember what’s going on. And as a bonus, you can talk about it with your [00:02:00] friends and enjoy the television show just a little bit more.

And that’s the tip of the day. We’ll be back here tomorrow. It is our first guest tip of February, and we can’t wait for you to meet this month’s guest.

Arielle: Tippendales, it is Wednesday, which means it’s time for our first February guest tip and we have a new guest tipper and that is Catrin Skaperdas. So she’s here to give us a tip today. But before she does, Catrin. Quick introduction. Who are you? And then let’s launch into your tip.

Catrin Skaperdas: Well, thanks for having me on Arielle, I am Catrin Skaperdas. Um, I am an expert in podcast development, specifically audience development. I host a podcast called “Italian, For Sure” a podcast about Italian culture. Um, and I’m an American who moved to Italy a little over two years ago.

Arielle: So what’s your first tip?

Catrin Skaperdas: It’s that Italian food doesn’t exist. And let me explain. So Italy has 20 regions. So some people say that there are [00:03:00] 21, but we don’t have enough time to talk about that. Um, but the point is food is very different from region to region. So it’s much more than pizza and pasta. And here’s my tip. If you’re coming to Italy and you are heart set on getting the best pizza of your life, then you have to go to Campania, which is the region of Naples, which is where pizza is from.

If you grew up on pesto pasta like I did, which is basil and pine nuts and olive oil, then you need to go to Liguria and don’t be worried if there are potatoes and green beans in that pasta because that’s how they make it. If you’re looking for a canolo and yes, not canoli because canoli is plural for a singular canolo, then you need to go to Sicily.

So food comes from a particular region in Italy. And if you want a particular type of food, Research where that food is from in Italy and go specifically to that region.

Arielle: Italian food does not exist. That’s the headline. I love that.

Catrin Skaperdas: Italian food does not exist.

Arielle: Perfect. That was the guest tip of the [00:04:00] day. Thank you, Catrin. And welcome to the show for February 5th, 2025. This is Daily Tips That May or May Not Help You. Ned is not here today. We’re sad to miss him, but we will catch him tomorrow. Ned, in our ongoing quest, in our never ending quest, to figure out our calendars, to master our calendars, we have a lot of tips for the folks on Daily Tips That May or May Not Help You, and today is another one of those days where you impart one of those tips onto us — unto us.

Ned: This tip is so simple. A lot of y’all probably do it, but if you don’t, I could not recommend it more. If you have a work calendar, especially one that other people can see and book time on. Preemptively book out like two hours a day that you just mark as busy for yourself to get stuff done because otherwise your day will get quickly filled up at the whim of someone else’s calendar who’s protecting their own time.

You can change it later, but this way no one can surprise you with a meeting and you know you have at least two hours set aside to get [00:05:00] tasks done on your work day. That’s the tip of the day.

Arielle: Reclaim your time on February 6th, 2025. We’re back tomorrow for a Friday tip. Ooh, I love today’s tip and I need to implement it actually.

Ned: Sure. Ready?

Arielle: Yeah, we can start with that. We already started.

Ned: Great.

Arielle: May I, may I dive in?

Ned: Take it away.

Arielle: Today’s tip is that you probably don’t need a whole new phone. You probably just need a new screen protector for your phone. My phone is maybe a year old and I find myself thinking that it’s done. Dead. But then I realized everything works perfectly. It just like, looks bad. It just has a lot of, um, scratches on it. And I’m just going to update the screen protector and then I know it’ll feel like a brand new phone. So that’s my tip is consider, do you need a new phone or do you just need a new screen protector?

Ned: I’m all for [00:06:00] a longer lifespan of hardware. Uh, I’m going to give a shout out to a company who does not pay us backmarket.com

Arielle: They’re all over the subways.

Ned: Huge fan of Back Market. A friend of mine is their Chief Marketing Officer.

I’ve been texting her, letting her know that her subway ads are very effective and I like them very much.

but anyway, backmarket.com is a great place to go if you need a new phone and don’t want to buy brand new, but yes, a screen protector, if it’s just cosmetic, please don’t change out your phone. If you don’t have to. Hey, it’s Friday, February 7th, 2025.

Arielle: You know what you can change out? The weekend. You can change out the week for the weekend. You gotta let me do the transitions.

Ned: you go. Yeah. I’m not good at this. Uh, Hey, have a good Saturday. Have a good Sunday. We’ll see you on Monday.