Working Girl's Guide #22: Living above a Costco and bagels for every meal

We’re talking the end of Tupperware, the advent of hot dogs at home, my renaissance with cream cheese, and the cutest faux leather jacket that I will officially never take off. Could be cute with the right pajamas, who knows!

Let’s get into it.

We’re Getting a New Moon (not a Twilight Reference!)

This sounds extremely fake but it’s not. We’re getting a new moon… like, we as in Earth. I’m sorry? Excuse me? How am I just learning about this? It’s name is 2024 PT5 (feel like they could have come up with something better but ok) and its diameter is the length of two giraffes, which I guess is a size scientists think we’re familiar with. Poor little guy will be released back into the solar system on November 25, apparently. Miss him already!

Tupperware is RIP

Tupperware filed for bankruptcy after reporting debt to the tune of $1.2 billion. CEO Laurie Ann Goldman said they’re going to restructure, and come back as a “digital-first, technology-led company.” I have absolutely no idea what digital-first plastic containers looks like, and I’m weirdly scared, but given all the microplastics news, I’ll personally be sticking to glass containers for my food storage needs.

Babe, We Have Costco at Home

California built the first apartment complex built on top of a Costco, so now I can grab a Costco pizza (my favorite) and walk it directly into my bedroom. This project is a result of Assembly Bill 2011, which essentially allows developments to avoid some of the super slow regulatory processes that tend to curb California construction projects (as long as they include affordable housing units and pay construction workers union wages or higher). The development is slated to add 800 housing units and 400 jobs to the LA neighborhood.

Saturday. Morning. Bagel. Runs. are truly life-giving. Be sure to schedule one with your friends for this upcoming weekend. My recommended itinerary = little walk, big coffee, huge bagel, then hit the couch to binge a show (anyone else watching The Perfect Couple on Netflix?).

I discovered the brand Dynamite at LTKCon and I’m…obsessed? I genuinely could wear any item they sell, but I immediately had to buy this jacket. I feel like I NEVER know how to layer, but something about the belted look makes this so polished/easy over jeans. Anyone else suffer from JC (jacket confusion)?

Our lazy girl hack this week is a productivity pointer I love, which is kind of like the opposite of habit stacking. A variant of a rewards system, perhaps? A productivity-geared dopamine menu? So instead of stacking two tasks on top of each other, stack a hard-ish task with a comfy cozy non-task. If you’re trying to get to the bottom of your email inbox, promise yourself 10 minutes of LTK scrolling as a reward. Need to apply to jobs? Each job applied = 1 minute on TikTok. Save your Kombucha to sip on during a hard meeting with your boss. These little rewards actually feel more satisfying, at least to me, when they’re rewards for hard things.

In this week’s episode of the podcast, Ross and I chat performance enhancing methods, rituals, supplements, and substances, from the legal (espresso) to the also extremely legal (pomodoro method). We also get into Ross’s love of smelling salts, because yes, he is a high school hockey player at heart. Listen here.

Thanks for reading!