Libraries, Work Views, Italian Culture, Bingo, and Soup Spoons (Week of 2/10 Roundup)
Missed our latest tips? Don’t worry. We’ve got all the tips for the week of February 10, 2025 right here for you!
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The tips last week were:
A Tip For Maximizing Your Library Access (February 10, 2025)
If you’re an NYC resident, then this tip from Threads user @cecileyreads will help you supercharge your library life!
A Tip For Changing Your View (Literally) (February 11, 2025)
If you work from home, Ned has a tip to help switch things up!
A Tip For Actualizing “When in Rome” (w/ Catrin Skaperdas) (February 12, 2025)
You know the old saying, “When in Rome, do as the Romans do.” Well today our resident Italy expert Catrin Skaperdas is back with a tip to help you do just that.
Check out Italian, For Sure and learn more about Catrin at https://italianforsure.com
A Tip For Deeper Connections With Your Friends (February 13, 2025)
Planning a friend trip, family gathering, or a social event of any kind? Arielle’s got a tip to help you liven up the party.
A Tip For Keeping Your Soup Spoon Temperate (February 14, 2025)
This tip feels like it should be obvious, but it wasn’t to Ned. So he’s giving it to you!
Daily Tips That May or May Not Help You is hosted by Arielle Nissenblatt and Ned Donovan.
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Transcript
Ned: [00:00:00] It’s Monday, February 10th, 2025, and this is Daily Tips That May or May Not Help You. I’m Ned. That’s Arielle. Today is Arielle’s tip. Hello.
Arielle: This is Arielle’s tip, but really it’s @cecileyreads tip. That’s the handle of somebody on Threads who does not know that they have given us a tip for Daily Tips That May or May Not Help You. Ned, I would actually like to hand the microphone over to you for this one. Would you please read @cecileyreads Thread?
Ned: Yes, this thread reads “if you live in any of the five boroughs of New York City, you can get all three library cards, New York Public Library, Queens Public Library, and Brooklyn Public Library. All you need is your New York State ID. I have them all and use them frequently with Libby.” Which you may remember from other recent tips about your library and eBooks.
Arielle: And with that, go check out some of the New York City public libraries. If you’re here, and if you’re not, try a public library in your city or town.
Ned: We’re very pro [00:01:00] Libby here. We’ll see you all tomorrow.
Arielle: Oh boy. I hope that records that.
Ned: Me too. Do you work from home or you work remotely? Well, today’s tip on Daily Tips That May or May Not Help You is for you, and the tip is simply this switch up where you’re sitting to get your work done. If you’re at home, try moving to a different table or turning your chair a different way. If you’re in a co-working space, try picking up a different desk or exploring a different nook.
Sometimes when we sit in the same spot, we can end up in sort of a monotonous rut that doesn’t allow us to get our best work done. For me, since I’ve started recording this podcast, I’ve sat at my desk every time, so today I came out to my terrace to record this episode and get a little bit more work done.
This is Daily Tips That May or May Not Help You. Today is Tuesday, February 11th, 2025. I’m Ned one of your hosts. My co-host, Arielle Nissenblatt couldn’t be with us today, but we will be back tomorrow with our guest Tipper of the month and we can’t wait for you to hear the tip. [00:02:00] Pasta is my favorite food in every single region of the world. And that’s why I’m really excited to have you here, Catrin Skaperdas, for our second guest tip of the month. You have a podcast called Italian, For Sure. Why don’t you quickly tell us about you for the folks who didn’t catch us last week and then jump into your tip of the day.
Catrin Skaperdas: So I am an expert in podcast development, specifically audience development. I do have a podcast, as you mentioned, called Italian, For Sure the podcast about Italian culture, and I’m an American who moved to Milan, Italy a little over two years ago.
So. If you wanna blend in as a foreigner in Italy, my tips are don’t use a spoon to twirl your pasta. Don’t ask for salt and pepper or any sort of condiment after receiving your food. Don’t drink cocktails with your food. Cocktails are to be consumed before your dinner, during aperitivo or after your dinner. When you’re having pizza, have beer or Coca-Cola [00:03:00] not wine.
Don’t carry a huge reusable water bottle around, despite the fact that water in Italy is pretty accessible. you can walk around and see fountains of drinking water to uh, consume. Carrying a huge reusable water bottle is not part of the culture here. Um, and unfortunately, don’t pet a stranger’s dog.
It’s something I really like to do in America. you know, go up to an owner and say, Hey, can I pet your dog? And hopefully they say yes, and then I bend down and pet the cute dog. It’s not really part of the culture here. So if you wanna blend in. Don’t do that. The list goes on and on. It’s obviously a different culture and a different country. And there are even more differences among the north of Italy and the south of Italy. Um, but all these cultural differences, I go into detail with actual real Italians that can explain it better than me, so that you can go to Italy and feel comfortable, blend in, all on my podcast, Italian, For Sure.
Arielle: Our resident Italy expert for the month of February, our guest tipper of the month. That’s Catrin Skaperdas on February 12th, 2025. This is Daily Tips That May or May Not [00:04:00] Help You. Ned and I will be back tomorrow with another tip.
Ned: Arielle, do you have a tip for me connecting with my friends a little deeper?
Arielle: Sure. Yeah. Let’s put it that way. You Cheeseball? .Oh my God. Um, yeah. So I am going on a trip later this month and I just came back from a trip with two different friend groups. And for both of those friend groups, I made personalized bingo for our friend group and for this trip. What I’ve done is for the first friend group, we have known each other for 25 years, something like that. So lots of inside jokes on there, but then also lots of funny vacation things, lots of beach things. It’s designed to give us fun activities to do throughout the day, in addition to all the fun activities that we will be doing throughout the day, but now we can check it off on a box and then there can be a winner and then you can do prizes.
So bingo for your friends.
Ned: I’m a huge fan of this tip. My wife and I actually did this when we got married. We got married during COVID times and we met pretty close to COVID times, which meant that a lot of our people never met. Our families, our friends [00:05:00] from all sides. And we threw a huge party when it was safe. where we had bingo cards that were five different cards that got handed out to everyone coming in the door so that you were forced to mingle with the people you didn’t know and learn something about the other community.
I love bingo at a big party. I love this tip. I’ve never done it on a friend trip and now I’m desperate to do it
Arielle: Well, Ned. In order for you to do that with a friend group, you have to have friends.
Ned: oh, how dare you? How dare you on this Thursday, February 13th, 2025, Arielle Nissenblatt, I am your cohost Ned Donovan, and we’ll be back tomorrow, which is Friday with another tip. Arielle, the other day I was eating a bowl of soup and I burned my mouth when I took my first bite and my immediate reaction was, ah, the soup’s too hot. And then my wife said something very profound, which was, “no, the soup is perfectly fine now. You left the spoon in the soup when it was too hot.” And she was right.
And the tip of the day is [00:06:00] this, when you pour yourself a bowl of soup or whatever, don’t put the spoon in the soup and then wait for it to cool down. Keep the spoon out of the hot bowl of soup and protect your mouth when you put the soup in your mouth. Uh, that is the tip of the day. Don’t put the spoon in the soup. It will get overly hot Uh, and even when the soup has cooled down a little the spoon is still horrifyingly hot.
Arielle: It retains the heat. So this is a tip. First of all, to improve your eating experience, but also second tip. Jenni is always right.
Ned: Jenni is always right Shout out to Jenni
Arielle: Yeah. Shout out to Jenni. Have a happy weekend, everybody. We’ll be back on Monday with another tip that may or may not help you. That’s Ned. I’m Arielle. Go watch or listen to our podcast. We have so many episodes for you to check out so many tips that may not improve your life.
Ned: over 300 now
