30 Old 30 Young
30 Old 30 Young explores the fascinating contrasts of life in your thirties through the eyes of two cousins living vastly different paths. Join us as we navigate the uncertainties of adult life, from career choices to lifestyle decisions, through both a globetrotting adventurer's and a family-focused perspective.
Our main episodes dive deep into real-life challenges facing thirty-somethings today, while our mini-episodes break down the three best and worst aspects of pivotal adult life scenarios.
Whether you're questioning your life choices, seeking perspective, or just wanting to hear honest conversations about adulting, this podcast offers authentic insights into the beautiful chaos of your third decade. New episodes released weekly, featuring raw discussions about career transitions, relationships, mental health, and the endless quest for work-life balance. Your thirties don't come with a manual - but this podcast comes pretty close.
30 Old 30 Young
Top 3 - Life Changing Purchases
Here it is… our first unfiltered mini bonus episode 🙌🏼
We talk about our top 3 life changing purchases
Jake dives into the simple buys that had a massive impact on his life - while Charlotte shares the deeply meaningful items that have truly changed everything for her.
And the best part? Charlotte is completely blown away by Jake’s choices. Like… really? That made the list?!
It’s unedited. It’s real. And it's about to get interesting.
What are these life-altering finds? Tune in to find out!
Thanks for Listening, find more content at our Instagram @30old30young
Two cousins taking different life paths discuss the highs and lows of being in your 30s, and nothing is off limits. This is life in your 30s. This is 30 old, 30 young.
Speaker 2:You good, I'll keep that in okay, here's the edit. This is where you're cutting right vote vote bonus episode two welcome to the bonus what's today's top three? I want to hear the top. What am I doing so far away from the microphone? Terribly sorry. I want to hear the top three items that have changed your life something you bought that's changed your life, maybe an item, because mine are why did you get the items? Okay one day. I just walked in. It was there.
Speaker 3:Change my line all right, go one oh me uh, or do you?
Speaker 2:go third into my arm in order right. This one's recent and it's a big hit for well. I bought my wife many presents over the years and this one has been like that. She's gone. That is a good one from you that's a diamond no, not a diamond bracelet, though of, of course.
Speaker 3:No, no, that one.
Speaker 2:That one it was yeah, thanks, I love it, but this one's got more conversation out of it.
Speaker 3:Please don't tell me you bought a Billy Hoover and you're saying this is the best present ever.
Speaker 2:Oh, my wife, yeah, domestic.
Speaker 3:She loves a Hoover. I got it for her.
Speaker 2:I got her a torso, no.
Speaker 3:What A?
Speaker 2:candle warmer. It's basically a lamp right with new marketing on it what does it even do? It all it does, it sits, so it basically you've got your candle, yeah, and all it does it sits with the bulb above it and then the heat from the bulb like melts the candle but we used to like light candles all the time and also you got all the carcinogens and the candles and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:Apparently it's fucking terrible for you shouldn't light candles, because it's just you're burning shit in your house.
Speaker 2:That you shouldn't be, and there's loads of stuff in cheap candles as well that can get you. So no, thank you, but the candle warmer you get the smell of it without all the burning and also safety wise, because I I fear about the house burning down all the time and this thing, you just pop it on. Got a little timer on it, oh what's it called? It's a candle warmer candle, warmer candle lamp, candle, warm lamp so how did you see this?
Speaker 3:did bri actually ask for it?
Speaker 2:what we've got an abundance of candles. Like we, we buy a lot of candles but we never light them because we're always oh that's cute how good, yeah right oh, I love this.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's really nice so I've, I've now actually made these. How nice is that that's. That's what's gone now but yeah, is that the one you?
Speaker 2:bought. No, I mean it's got.
Speaker 3:It went to spill screen but I got that one I haven't got that one, but there's loads, of loads of different ones right and so now it doubles up as well because I've been trying to read more in bed rather than going on my phone.
Speaker 2:For like the last half hour of bed I've been reading. Now I've got a little candle warmer going so it doesn't actually so you didn't have to light the candle no so it's a lamp it just heats it up and it just like and it can't cause a fire can't cause a fire, obviously, unless the electrics are terrible on it.
Speaker 2:If you get like a cheap, shitty one, but like it can't like this one, I have to buy it honestly game changer because it also doesn't come on too strong either and it burns it because now we use the candles, the house is smelling lovely, it's not too strong and they also seem to like not really melt the candle that you can smell it yeah but it doesn't whip through the candle very quickly, so you buy these expensive candles?
Speaker 2:and you don't like burning them yeah and you just leave them as a decoration. Now, this candle warmer thing, and I've got one by my bed, like I was saying, I'm reading with this lovely smell coming off it, oh yeah. I put it on a little timer, half hour timer.
Speaker 3:Can you put any candle on there?
Speaker 2:Any candle, oh, so you can buy a candle from the shop.
Speaker 3:Well, you on here, absolutely, oh, absolutely so why can't I use my normal lights?
Speaker 2:well, you could just stick this whole thing. It's got a platform platform lamp on top and it just concentrates the, the heat straight to it okay and then, like I, said doubles as a bedside lamp that's so cool and I love that. I'm glad you started as a naysayer, though you're very much now. You're on side now I am. We have to buy one well, that was my number one. You go for it. What's yours?
Speaker 3:buying my own house fuck you.
Speaker 2:I knew, I I'm sorry, but it is well, yeah, obviously, but of course it changes your life.
Speaker 3:But like no, but obviously like I love my little space it's great, I've got a live life in my own terms, beautiful you can do it anywhere no, you can't. I've been here before, but I've not been at home in my own home okay well, but here I am here you are, here you are.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, it's our, it's our home. Come podcast studio, your home lovely number two that was straight. Love how the candle warmer got five minutes of chat house 30 seconds done.
Speaker 2:Blender water bottle as you people are going to realize I am um, I'm a tiktok shop. Well, I said my biggest waste of money is kitchen gadgets, right, but this blender water bottle, well, one of my resolutions I forgot to say is that I I will get through this year you heard it here first using the same water bottle, because I buy no over exaggeration if you can do 10 a year because I'm constantly losing them. I don't even know how I lose them, and I I still think about one.
Speaker 1:I can't buy anymore.
Speaker 2:It's not available and I loved it back in the day and I lost the fucker. So I think about it. And this blender water bottle is amazing. I'm I'm plopping protein in it, turn on. But obviously it can't blend fruit or anything like that and I don't really want it to. I just wanted to just blend a little, blend the powder, and not have chunks of powder in me in the face you know, so I'm having that and it's a game changer and I recommend it. What's yours?
Speaker 2:by amazing fuck's sake, I was like my entire identity. That's my three, second, third, buying Maisie come on whatever I buy, maisie is game changer.
Speaker 3:The best purchase I've ever bought, and I didn't really. I was just joking about it when I said I was Maisie or your house?
Speaker 2:what Maisie or your house like if you had to if you had to be renting but you had Maisie or you lived in a?
Speaker 3:mansion? No, maisie, oh my God. Yeah, but that's really hard, because I'd have no roof over my head.
Speaker 2:No, renting doesn't mean you don't get a roof. You'd still have a roof.
Speaker 3:that's included what you're so you yeah, we rent it. You'd rent the mazey yeah, I'd have my dog. I wouldn't like choose my house over mazey, that's good, that's nice, you're in that yeah, make be good girl now, yeah we'll have to edit around you, bloody hell I'll be picking, picking the house um so yeah, that's my okay, I I could I?
Speaker 2:I think I could have guessed that, and that's a shocking one for all the listeners. Um, and number three this one isn't. This is a thing I I buy whenever I can extra leg room on the fly oh, business class baby all right, absolutely someone's doing well um.
Speaker 3:I just got extra extra room that's.
Speaker 2:That's all it is. I just get.
Speaker 3:I just get a bit of extra you're like I'm lying down business, no, out of business no, oof, I wouldn't.
Speaker 2:I also, even if I could afford it, I wouldn't do it now with the kids anyway, because I I have a theory.
Speaker 3:Oh no, if you could afford it, you'd be straight in that in that no because because I yes you would what with the kids? Yeah no yeah, they'd have their own little space.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I'll also surrounded by twats.
Speaker 3:I have a theory that yeah, but your kids are good, well-behaved kids. Coop's well, coop's never flown before, so I have a feeling he's going to be a bit of a nightmare because he's at the age now where he wants to get into everything and we're going to be like you can't get into anything, it's a plane, so stay still for nine and a half hours. Yeah, I do see what you mean, but then what's it called?
Speaker 2:Oh, you get a lot more attention.
Speaker 3:Exactly. Can you look after my kids?
Speaker 2:Thanks, no, but I feel I must go and sleep. Well, I don't know if they are full-on Nanny McFear in this situation, but I have a theory that in business class you're going to get more twats than you are in economy.
Speaker 3:I mean yeah, you do In economy, yeah, You're going to get like people will be like.
Speaker 2:I've paid five thousand pound for this scene.
Speaker 3:I've got a crying baby yeah, it's like mind your own fucking business also, especially if it's a burst out of the flow business and it's the only time we're gonna fly yeah, someone's screaming kid, but sidebar sidebar noise cancelling headphones exist.
Speaker 2:Grow up, buy a pair. You know, I've never completely, I've never been bothered by, even before, kids I've never been bothered by a kid on the flight because headphones exist. Yeah, if your headphones can't mask the sound of a crying baby, you haven't got good enough headphones but if you can afford busy class, they need to go on holiday.
Speaker 3:They need to go on holiday. I don't care if kids crying exactly they let me like entertain the child, like do you want me to help?
Speaker 2:I can stop your kid from crying um, yeah, no, I wouldn't get involved because.
Speaker 3:I remember once I never have got involved.
Speaker 2:We, we flew. We flew to Florida with Bryn when she was younger she was about, I think she was just over a year, yeah, and she was doing great. It was like the seventh hour in. Yeah. She really just started to go off the rails and we were like we couldn't get it. What happened? Well, she'd gone past the point of like being tired.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And not this isn't to besmirch all air hostesses, but the one that we had on this flight.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Massive twat.
Speaker 3:Oof.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and Right, so they snagged her down.
Speaker 2:Well, she just she didn't really have any like finesse about her. So the fastened seatbelt light came on and Bryn wasn't allowed to be in the bassinet at the front anymore because she had to be like tied to one of us. So when it came, it literally went bong to turn on. Brie went to me like we've got to get brin out of there and I said, oh, she's gone to sleep. So I was like, so I waited like a second, maybe, you know, it's just a quick little turn off.
Speaker 2:Again and the air hostess came out fucking nowhere and shone a torch in brin's face and said you need to get her out of there now and went to go and started unstrapping her to pick her up. I was like wait on, back up, don't touch my child. You weirdo. If you were a bloke I think I'd be calling someone. You have a word, so get your hands off my child. And then, right in the last 10 minutes we're about to land she threw up all over me and the same air hostess, obviously still angry about her, trying to, you know, grab my child. Uh, I went to go to the toilet. She's like fast, seatbelt lights are on, sit down. Like that I'm covered in sick.
Speaker 2:So for the final and I was like no, I have to. She was like no, they're all locked now you can't use them so I sat there and obviously we were next to a couple that were just retching from like the smell of the sea, meanwhile, meanwhile, she started serving champagne to another couple walking around bottles of champagne like giving them like. I was like you're just a massive twat, aren't you? So yeah, so that's why I wouldn't fly business, because I just feel like there'd be a lot of massive twats and so economy with extra leg room.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I do get that If your kids are screaming and stuff. You don't want to ruin it.
Speaker 2:Also, it doesn't sting as much extra leg room and it feels a world apart from you know, paying for business.
Speaker 3:Honestly, business is another level. It really is. I went to sleep. They put down my blind Bedouin didn't ask this and I woke up they had a champagne waiter for me with some nuts. I was like, oh, this is the best. Honestly, I had a pillow like a nice pillow, nice blanket I was just in heaven.
Speaker 2:It was great.
Speaker 3:Traveling without kids, to be honest, would probably just feel like business class, no matter where you put me no, if you what san economy like squinched in, like this, yeah, but I'm, I'm just thinking, I hate it, I'm just thinking nine hours of nothing, you know that's fine, I'll just, I'll just watch the map and just sit, sit quietly, not have to be like you got a snack, got a snack, got a snack, got a snack. None of that, just how did we get onto this one?
Speaker 2:extra leg room on flights oh, is that 30 quid. Oh, anyway, what's your third? So I said Maisie again Maisie's dog collar I thought really he's kind of Maisie again no, not really okay.
Speaker 3:Joining David Lloyd's what absolutely well, I suppose it is literally the best thing I've done since being single join that club. It's given me so much back.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I absolutely love it. I've met so many new friends who were just like amazing, you're made for that kind of club, though, aren't you? What are you trying to?
Speaker 2:say yeah, you're hussy, no, you're made for it because you're social. You, you can talk to people and are happy to talk to people, whereas not all the time I go sometimes at nine o'clock at night no but like, but for the most part you. If someone you'll have a chat with someone, someone wants to open a conversation with you, you'll happily have a conversation yeah, it's nice, you know whereas I am. I'm fine. I'm fine, I'm in to do what I want to do and I'm getting out like I've met so many inspiring people.
Speaker 2:That's the point of that club. A health club is meant to be like that you're meant to be. You're meant to be enjoying the, the extra. It's not just for the exercise, it's for the social as well yeah, and it literally is the best. Thing hence why you find me a pure dream.
Speaker 3:Three things done, done they are literally, but right, oh, wait a minute. What? What? I just need to put something.
Speaker 2:This is number four.
Speaker 3:No, but what is your number one, the thing you bought that has changed your life? Or can you not think of anything Like what? Because a water bottle?
Speaker 2:I know it's, I know it's like it's massive the amount of protein shakes.
Speaker 1:I have a day is massive for me.
Speaker 2:Okay, off the cuff, this is going to be great, for, since I'm not editing this episode, this is going to be great for everyone listening Enjoying me going. I mean, my membership to man Vs Fat has changed my life, is it? No, it's boring.
Speaker 3:No, it's not it's true. It has.
Speaker 2:but you know, no, there's got gotta be a glaringly obvious one gotta be something come on, come on, think about it I mean from a dad perspective.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the um I didn't actually buy it, I was gifted it we have a poof in the lounge, a little poufay, and it's just. It's now just a toy storage like we had, like loads of little boxes. But now I just open that poufay and just lob that shit in there and it's gone. And clean up. Clean up by barney is one minute 20 seconds and I can clean that place in no time. Lob it all in because let's face it you can put the toys as neat as you want, they're just gonna still pour them all out.
Speaker 3:I had it all.
Speaker 2:I had all the pepper toys in one box, all the like magnets in another box, the building blocks. Why day one peppers in the building?
Speaker 3:it's just, it's a mess so I'm now just lob it all in and go it's your own chaos.
Speaker 2:Kids enjoy okay, there we go okay, what's your number one game changer that you haven't said?
Speaker 3:I've just told you about three well I told you three and I had oh, don't minimize. No, no, no, change my life, no but a can of water bottle it's not top three things that change your life all right. What's it called the blender? No, because it is, it's my when I did the blender and the water bottle daggers it's my, how dare you.
Speaker 2:It's my. It's like a prime example of my small thing that's leading to a bigger thing. Right, because one of the reasons I have to get rid of a lot of water bottles is because I put the stuff in there I forget about it.
Speaker 2:They stink. I have to get a new one or I lose it, yeah, and then I have to. You know, and all that stuff, this thing it is. It's bigger than the water bottle, all right, okay. It's so much more all right, it's a blender, too, okay. Well, once again, thanks again for listening to the bonus and we'll see you in a couple weeks have the best week, best couple thanks for listening.
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