In this personal vlog, the speaker reflects on the profound influence of their grandmother, who lived through the Great Depression and cultivated a life of extreme thrift, repurposing, and honesty. The grandmother saved every plastic container, turning margarine tubs into storage for soup, salad, Easter baskets, and more, teaching the speaker that waste is harmful to the environment and that resourcefulness can save money. These habits formed the speaker's ethical backbone, guiding their business practices: they prioritize fair wages for suppliers, use mostly organic ingredients, and are transparent about uncertain aspects like the organic status of beeswax. The speaker also shares warm family memories—simple lunches of Campbell's soup and grilled cheese, playing Scrabble, and the quirky habit of the grandfather favoring moldy cheddar—illustrating how love and care shaped their values. The video concludes with a call to engage (like, follow, share) and a brief lyrical outro.
Be on them private jets, taking trips, some backseats with me and your child. And then won't lay today, make me wonder who you might have been playing with. Makes me wonder who you think—
So on Monday I told you I'd talk to you more about who my grandmother was and kind of like how she supported me through all of the things that I do with my business. One, she was an incredibly kind human being. Both my sister and I have memories of walking to her house to have lunch where she'd make simple fare. It would usually be a tin of Campbell's soup and then some sort of grilled cheese sandwich or something like that. It was always very simple fare, um, but she was completely amazing. She took the time to care for us. Even when it was not convenient. And so then the story about her living through the Depression— she lived through the Depression and came out of it on the other side with just like this amazing set of skills where she used everything, and she used everything in a way that was probably very bizarre to some of us. Um, my grandfather, he didn't play into this picture so much, but one of his weird habits was that if the cheddar cheese went moldy, that like became his favorite part. And to me as a kid, that was so, so incredibly bizarre and weird. My grandmother used to save every single plastic bin that anything came in. And the ones that I remember most vividly were this brand of margarine called, called Parquet. And, um, they had a yellow, kind of a, a light yellow container, but then it had this like blue stripe around it, kind of a dark navy blue stripe. And she would turn those back— those, those little tubs into everything. It might Store soup in the freezer. It might store salad in the refrigerator, and she used them for Easter baskets and containing other little things. Maybe she'd mix frosting in it. But those were the sorts of things, and the lessons that I learned from her was just that everything, everything, or most everything, could be repurposed on some level, and that wasting things was not good for the environment. And the— if The least we waste. And I think some of this like bleeds into that thriftiness as well. So if she had a very small amount of trash at the end of each week, it was less money than if she had a lot of trash, especially when she had lived in bigger cities. So those habits that she just cultivated her entire life really left a lasting impression on me. And so part of that is that ethical backbone, that idea that everyone should be taken care of within my business. So where we get things, who's making them, are they getting paid a fair share, things like that. All those things are very, very important to me. It's also why, even though almost everything that goes into my products is organic, the beeswax— they might tell me it's organic, but I have no idea because bees go wherever they want to go, and that's fine. But I want to be honest with that. I want to be honest with my clients about that. And that's the kind of honesty and the forthrightness and that ethical backbone that I got from my grandmother. She was amazing, and she was smart. Some of her favorite things to do was play Scrabble with us kids, which was always— when I was— I was the youngest for a long time, and so I always Sucked hard compared to everybody else. But I just remember those moments of being able to hang out together with her and feeling so cared for, so special. And what she gave to me and how I have utilized that in my business has just been really something that is very, very important to me. If you have any questions or comments, like, follow, share. Thank you so much for watching. Have a great evening.
Take me, chase me, pull me up like the Northern Lights.
