Hi, I hope you don’t mind me asking, but how is your name pronounced? I googled it & got this video, but the spelling is slightly different, so maybe it’s not the same? ruclips.net/video/_YlkXxHcQ7s/видео.html
Hey Girl! I am a registered dietitian and for years we always thought coffee didn’t count towards daily fluid needs because the caffeine is a diuretic right? Well that has recently been updated! We “get” more water than we thought based on studies looking at fluid intake versus output (how much are we peeing lol) and we now count coffee and other caffeinated beverages as 1/2 their volume. So 8 oz of coffee counts as 4 oz water. Also, be careful not to OVER hydrate, yes that’s a thing! All that fluid can actually start to dilute your electrolytes like sodium in your blood stream and start messing with your blood pressure and heart. Luv ya! Keep the great content coming 😁
This has made my day 😅 sometimes I honestly don’t remember to drink water until late afternoon haha but I would’ve had my coffees and teas and juice etc during the day!
Marsha Foshee Herbal tea counts as 100% fluids because of the lack of caffeine. As for other teas, like black, green and white, they have less caffeine than coffee as a rule, so they count as a little more than 1/2. Just know the more caffeine the less it counts, but nothing ever doesn’t count at all. In the hospital we even count jello and popsicles and soups as fluids and in the summer, melon and other high water-content fruits provides a good punch of hydration too 😉
Marsha Foshee Also, if you don’t like plain water, try fruit infusions by adding fresh or frozen fruit or fruit and herb combos to water for a hint of flavor. Sometimes I will even just pop one of my favorite tea bags (looking at you peach tea!) to my water bottles to “cold brew” and add a little flavor
Of all the RUclipsrs I have watched transition into motherhood and have transitioned their channels as well, you are one of the few I still watch. I subscribe to beauty channels because I love make-up! It's not that I don't love babies and motherhood but I'm passed that stage of life so I'm not hugely interested in baby related videos. You've done a really good job finding the balance between beauty and general lifestyle 😁
48 here and so glad I’m not alone! 😁 My husband heard some of the video and came in the room with me and I was getting lots of nods because she was hitting on things that he’s mentioned before. Thanks, Jess! 🤣
I recommend going thru your pantry/freezer once a month to see if anything needs used up, then meal plan around those ingredients. It's easy to do with the fridge, but I really lose track of what's in my pantry.
I like to wash my sheets and gowns\pajamas on Friday nights because I can sleep late on Saturday and Sunday and enjoy the freshness. I dry my clothes with wool balls and some peppermint essential oil. It is nice waking up on the weekends in clean, nicely smelling sheets knowing you can loaf around a little longer than usual.
Thank you Jess for giving us a real BEAUTY COMMUNITY! One with honesty, caring, and reliability! You’re one of the hero’s of RUclips, at least in my opinion! 😘
Jessica thank you for posting so often (maybe it’s not more often but it feels like it to me hahaha). Your videos are my happy place especially these days
I love the app “Habit” to build good, healthy habits. I include everything from making my bed, to a water drinking goal of 96 oz, to flossing. It allows you to see a month layout of when you did each thing and has been great for keeping me accountable!
Loved this video! Have to share: the Tody app for tracking chores is amazing! It is super simple and helpful. For example, you can set a chore like "Wash sheets" to be done every week or two, then it's one click to mark it as Done once you wash them. It keeps a history of when you mark off each chore and how long it's been since you've done it.
Total pet peeve of mine. NOTHING lives on my bed that isn't on my bed when we are sleeping in it. No throw pillows, No throw blankets nothing. Keeps bed making simple and fast.
I don't know if it's just me but, I can't leave my house without making my bed. Oh I've done it and I obsess over it all day. "My OCD kicks in". 😳 Besides, isn't it nice when your ready to go to bed to just pull down the duvet and slip into fresh sheets? I tend to sleep better on clean sheets. Weird huh? But It is what it is. 😁
My grandmother made my sister and I a recipe binder as a Christmas gift one year! I didn’t appreciate it when I got it but man has it been great to reference the older I’ve gotten. There’s tons of sections in mine (soups, appetizers, main courses, breads, one pan meals, plus about 10 more) and it has a conversion chart at the front which is super helpful!
Thank you so much for recommending MINT! After using it for one day, I noticed a recurring charge I had missed. I ended up getting a refund of $270. Thanks to you and MINT!
This was so helpful! I’m 19, still at home, and not doing college. I have a ‘lil puppy and help my parents with running a busy and full household. I have 7 brothers, 6 of which are younger than me, and the youngest has special needs. Helping take care of him at home is actually my mother and I’s paying jobs. I’m not out on my own figuring things out and paying the bills and so on, and these little tips were so helpful and encouraging in me trying to be more responsible in how I live day to day. Love you, Jess! 💖
I love this content from you since I started watching you when I started college and now 4 years married trying to adult 🤣 you are like sister we all need!!!
Meal planning every week is a must in our house. We don't eat out and I cook dinner every night so meal planning for the week on Sunday before I go grocery shopping is a must. Also I purchased a blank recipe book to add all of our family recipes that were a hit with my 3 kids. That way when they are older they will have a collection of our family recipes. I wish my mom had done that when we were kids!
Girl, I am an Aesthetician, and I LOVE that you are encouraging people to wear sunscreen!!! Preach it!😉 Also, I just wanted to say I stumbled upon your channel recently while searching for videos on Invisalign, and I’m so glad I did!! Loving your videos. (Starting my one Invisalign journey in about 2 weeks! Yay!)
I have a "plan the week" reminder on my phone set for Sunday afternoon. And then I sit down with my work calendar and my google calendar (which is my version of a planner) and put in everything. Days we have meals planned, workouts, time for projects, time for extended self care. Its a huge relief to have the week planned on Sunday afternoon. And I usually do it between returning from the grocery store and starting a couple of larger meal prep items.
Pretty much same here! It’s 1pm here (Seattle) and I’m still in the bike shorts & sweatshirt I slept in. I just ate banana bread (which is basically cake) for breakfast. You’re my soul sister! 😂
Love this type of video! And I especially agree about making your bed. My mom always said a bedroom always looks so much cleaner once you make the bed and she’s right, it makes a huge difference.
If you ever feel like upping your meal planning game, I LOVE Plan To Eat. The app saves recipes from the web and can even make your shopping list for you. I've used it for years and LOVE it.
Jess, for travel, creating separate reusable packing lists in AnyList. One for each member of the family, one for toiletries, one for if it’s a beach trip, one for if it’s camping. For meal planning, recipes and calendar, Cozi. I’ve used the calendar for years and just found the meal planning part on the web version. I plan the same, 4-5 meals that I drag from my favorite recipes onto the calendar. Simple, and I can shift them around as needed when we have leftovers to finish up.
Hi! Love the prep meals tip. You really should change/wash your sheets and pillowcases every week. They accumulate so many dead skin, sweat, dust, etc and are the biggest source for allergies. Just pick a day in the week and change them. That and cleaning under the bed. Here in Portugal is something so cultural/tradicional that i don't even think how people don't do it. There's a day where you clean the whole house and you always start by changing the sheets 😄. Love you channel and all you makeup tips
I wash my sheets every week as well. I cringed when she said month or more. Spouse has suddenly developed serious allergies and need to keep the bedroom clean... and we kicked the animals out. No longer allowed in the bedroom. We got in the habit of weekly washing on Sundays. Love fresh sheets! 👍🏻
Our daughters made my husband a binder for Father's Day a few years ago with his recipes as he likes printed or written recipes as well. They named it Recipes of Chef Boy R Dad😂 They made a picture of a chef with his face photoshopped on it. We love that binder cookbook 🥰
My father in law left home and married at 17, worked two jobs and had his first child at 18. (Times have really changed!) He and my mother in law have been married 45 years and they are the most “adult” people I know and I turn to them for advice and help.
Maryanne Miles me too! Clean sheets every week is a must for me!!!!! It’s the best feeling when you get into bed with clean sheets. I always have a shower before bed when I changed them too. Clean pjs. Love it! If I don’t change them on the weekend, I feel my week will suck sleep wise lol. 🤣
My favorite body sunscreen is the Banana Boat Light as Air SPF 50, it comes in spray & lotion form. Love this stuff!! Its water resistant up to 80mins, UVA & B, doesn't have that horrible sunscreen smell or thick feeling. Will use this forever!!!
One thing that I’ve been doing during the pandemic is keeping a chore chart for myself. It helps me to see what I’ve done during the week, and what I need to do. Also, track my husbands chores (he only has two, cooking and dishes) as a way to incentivize him to help out more, which he has by adding trash duty to his chores. 😉
I LOVE meal planning! We do it the same way you do, then we make our shopping list from that. It keeps you from over spending and buying stuff you really don’t need.
I used Scentbird, but loved having a fragrance subscription! Highly recommend. Yeah, that dishwasher situation is definitely adult worthy. Great ideas! 💖💖
I have an app recommendation that combines grocery lists with meal planning and recipe storage - Paprika 3. I NEVER buy apps, but after my friend showed me this app in person (she has twins and needs efficiency at all times), I knew it would be worth it and it is! I’ve had it for a couple of years now (after I turned 30 ha!) and I use it literally every single day. You can add recipes by manually typing them in, or by browser link (I copy and paste from Pinterest all of the time), and it auto saves everything in the recipe! Ingredients, photos, instructions, etc and you can edit it at any time - I’ll add notes with how I’ve adapted recipes. You can also tag recipes so you can search by ingredients or what type of recipe it is like entree or dessert, etc... you create the tags. I can meal plan my week (or you could go by month) by either adding a quick note to a calendar inside the app or by linking to a saved recipe you have already added to the app. Then I can add items with quantities FROM the recipe to a grocery list inside the app and it categories everything by aisle like that one you mentioned. It’s 😙👌 meal planning perfection! 💖 I seriously recommend this to everyone because it’s so easy to use regularly once you start adding your recipes to it. I always have the app open on my phone with my recipe ingredients and I can follow along with the instructions and check off what I’m doing as I go and set timers from there too. It’s changed everything in our meal planning, grocery shopping, and cooking routines. Totally not sponsored, just LOVE this app! 👩🏻🍳
I LOVE LOVE LOVE that u laugh so much during every video u make. I've been a subscriber for a while now and your videos are the best to put me in a good mood. Very humble, down to Earth and honest unlike some other RUclipsrs. Silly and quirky. I'm the same way and I feel like that is the best way to live life. I'm always tuned in! Keep up the great work!!
It's reassuring that even you don't feel like an adult, because I sure don't. I thought something was wrong with me 😂 Honestly, I love your vlogs and look to you as a role model! 💕
I remember growing up thinking when I became a mum I would be so grown up and mature and have all the answers... I’m a 31 mum of two and I have NO IDEA what I’m doing (with my kids, my career and my life!). This is so refreshing
I love videos like this. Seeing ways other people do things gives me ideas or new ways to do things myself. Jessica - I love your content and appreciate that you’re not ignoring things going on in the world but you still give us a break from everything. It honestly feels like I’m sitting with a friend having coffee and chatting when I’ve got your videos on. Love the evolution of your channel as you’ve grown yourself. Thank you for your wonderful and helpful content! 💙💚
Clean sheets on our bed helps me sleep better. I wash our sheets sometimes twice a week. I’m not a fan of planners. I like the idea of writing down what I actually did every day rather than what I need to do.
I started saving our recipe in a binder. I got tired of looking back through Pinterest for the receipt or through texts to my husband. It’s small but will surely start to grow.
Mint really is great. I also love Digit. Digit will actually pull small amounts of money out of your account to save for whatever you want. You have complete control of how much (or little) they pull out and you can have many “savings accounts” for whatever you want (credit cards, car payments, vacation, mortgage etc.)
Love this video! I will get the grocery list app because my grocery list is always a hot mess! I spend way more time inside the grocery store than needed! Thank you Jess for all these great tips to "adult" a little better day by day. Sending you love from Boston, MA
Hi Jessica! I’m a young single person and I love all these tips and it made me feel good to know I do some of these on my own. I would love to see more videos about how you and your family handle your finances and day to day life hacks, if you will. Thanks for doing what you do!
I felt you when you said you never felt you could use a planner the way you wanted to. I hate pre-done planners. But I’ve enjoyed using elements of the bullet journal to create my own spreads and lists and notes. My favorite thing is fun a lined notebook, number each page, and create a TOC. Then use each page however I want but it’s all in one place.
As someone with dust allergies I wash my sheets once a week but my top tip (being a 40+ yr old!) is to get rid of all the extra pillows, cushions and blankets on the bed and just put on the ones you actually use. When you get up in the morning turn down the duvet to let the bed air out and breathe. This cools it and gets rid of overnight moisture, which is where dust mites thrive! I leave mine turned down all day then it’s nice a cool when I get in at night.
I have Lupus and I also have had skin cancer and the Nuetrogena sunscreen is the only one I use. It doesn’t burn the rash associated with lupus and works great. You’re so right skin cancer can effect anyone. I was 30 when I got it. Love the videos btw. Thanks for all the tips.
I’m so so excited about your fragrance.com sponsorship. I’ve been wanting to buy a specific new fragrance I tested at ulta that I love (the coach floral blush perfume is so nice). But it’s been difficult to want to fork up the money for it. This website along with your 30% off code made it sooooo much cheaper. I’m so excited to get it in the mail. Thanks Jessica!! I’ve been watching you and subscribed for years and it’s nice to support you in this way as well. ❤️
Love these! Especially the spf ! Coming from a derm nurse: Just be careful with the spray as you really need to make sure you are putting enough on and then rubbing it in, it’s really easy to miss areas and not put enough. And yes hold your breath not the best for kids I use it for reapplication but most ppl don’t get enough on with the spray! I also read once that NOT making your bed allowed the sweat and bacteria from the night air out and not proliferate as much in your sheets 🤷🏻♀️ but idk how much that matters
I had to watch the beginning twice because I didn’t hear anything wrong with your intro the first time 😂 I downloaded every app you mentioned, wiped my whiteboard for the meal planning and realized that my planning system is missing a little something so I’ll incorporate a daily plan! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for putting up this video!!! I watched it twice, it was THAT good!!!💖
Take a look at Plum Paper planners. They have lots of different layouts (daily, weekly, etc) and they are totally customizable. You even get to pick your own cover from dozens of designs and customize it as well. I started using one last year and will be getting my second one soon. You can even pick what month you want it to start. They cost more than something you would get at Target but the fact that you can customize it to fit what you like makes up for that (and they cost less than Erin Condren planners). I recommend them to everyone. I even have both of my daughters hooked on the.m.
Another cool thing about running your dishwasher at night is that (at least in our city) the water is actually cheaper later at night! So we’ll just get it started around 11pm or midnight and not only is it saving money, but the dishes are ready to slog every morning!
Yep I just started wearing sunscreen daily since a few months ago (I am 30) wished I had started sooner but thankfully I stay out of the sun, I am now a sun-screen believer though! 😂👍
TFS! Btw running your DW at night (as well as washer & dryer when possible) actually saves on your utility bill too. You get “off peak” rates.. so it’s a win-win! Stay safe, keep sharing 🙏🏻God Bless 🙏🏻
I use the Neutrogena spray as a setting spray sometimes. I love that you are so honest. Most wouldn't admit stuff like the sheets. I know I forget at times when I washed mine last.
love a smart grocery list! I use Our Groceries. So happy that at 36 I am already doing lots of these! one thing I'm adding is a page a day planner, this year I had a weekly one and kept running out of space! perfect time to change planners too as the academic ones are July-July. Thanks!
Regarding the dishwasher, a lot of municipalities will charge for electricity based on time of day. Middle of the night tends to be the cheapest. So what I’ve been doing is setting my dishwasher to run after midnight (check your settings, many allow you to delay running for up to 12 hours). I load the dishes after dinner and set the delay, watch some tv, the go to bed. I don’t have to worry about a noisy dishwasher while I’m relaxing and my dishes are clean in the AM. I’m someone who grew up without a dishwasher and I LOVE having one! 🤣
Great ideas Jessica! Our family use paprika app for meal planning, recipes and grocery lists. It organizes by isle add all recipe ingredients together too! Thanks for the sharing the ideas.
This video is exactly what I needed. We are realizing that meal planning is exactly what we need and these tips were super helpful in making the process seem more approachable. 👍❤️
Dishwasher every night wk's so well.... it also helps me to clear off the countertops & makes my kitchen a little more presentable in the mornings! When I wake up earlier & have my coffee's then put on my makeup, this helps to b more productive during the day aswell! Gonna look into that perfume site & he grocherie app! L.O.V.E. this video. So helpful. Thax u Jess
Kinda hate these devices listening all the time... haha, I had a Google mini and then got an Alexa. We were like Alexa this, Alexa that, Alexa, Alexa; then my Google out of the blue speaks "I am flattered, but I am not Alexa " ; needless to say , I unplugged them both 😁
A vlog from Tyler's channel and a Jessica vid right after? YES PLEASE. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Also sidenote: you were SO RIGHT about the Amazon leggings! I just wore mine for a run and they're AWESOME!
The sunscreen one was my favorite 👏🏼I work for a dermatologist and it’s SO important for SO many reasons!!! I never wore it when I was younger. Now I’m almost 30 and won’t leave the house without it.
Totally agree with running the dishwasher every night. I use the half cycle when needed. Started the day with EVERYTHING clean is essential. Also it lets us get away with owning a lot less particularly in terms of toddler utensils.
Completely agree with using a financing app or just working to get finances in order. I have been using mint for 6 months now and even though i didn’t need to use the budgeting app, it is nice to know exactly how much i was spending and now even if i would go over 20$, i just don’t make that purchase.
I found that if I wash and cut my fruit/salad stuff I’m more likely to eat it. Even though those things take no time at all for some reason I never want to do it so I just do it all at once and put it in Tupperware and I eat it when I feel snacky . Such a weird thing but it works! Also I’ve been trying that idea of writing down dinners but not assigning a day and it is so much less stress! I tried it when you mentioned it in a vlog. Changed my life
Omg this is me! I buy fruit and veggies with great intentions and then never reach for them cos it’s so much easier to pull off a wrapper than wash/peel/cut up/clean up
I love the Neutrogena zinc sunscreen with spf 50! It’s not greasy, doesn’t make me break out, and it’s been helping with my melasma! I wear sunscreen everyday, even if I’m inside, and you’re right! If you find a good sunscreen, the stores are almost always out of stock! Thanks for the other suggestions!!! I’ll try to pick one of those out sometime! :)
As a kid I had a neighbor friend whose parents made her change her sheets once a week. She also had to plan, shop for, and cook a meal for the family one night per week. We were 11!! At the time, I thought her parents were crazy strict & authoritarian. But now that I’m 40 and can’t cook, and sometimes change my sheets after a whole month(!) I think they really had it right. She is a really well adjusted adult now. Successful career & mother of two kids. I’m ... not so well adjusted.
Probably my favorite video of the year! Great job and thanks for the tips! Even at almost 42 😬, I still look for ways to “adult” better and teach them to my girls.
Anylist is also a fantastic app and Web application for shared recipes, grocery lists and more. We also use it with Google. The best part of it is the button used in your Web browser to copy recipes and store them, it's amazing.
Jess...as long as you have both your parents you won’t feel like an adult......I was 62 when I lost my Mom & Dad.....there’s no longer anyone on Earth that knew me as a child.....it’s a sobering feeling.......enjoy being young as long as you can ❤️
Your hair + your shirt is giving me strong Ariel in her ball gown vibes 🥰
Omg with the pearls too!!!
Woah so true. Love it!
Yeah I was getting like 40s-ish vibes maybe? But yes Ariel in her ball gown is right on!
Oh totally !
Completely right!! I couldn’t place it, but as soon as I read your comment I said “BINGO!” That was it! 🤣
Can we have an "adulting with Jess" session every single month? ❤️ p.s. I am a 35 year old woman.
Hi, I hope you don’t mind me asking, but how is your name pronounced?
I googled it & got this video, but the spelling is slightly different, so maybe it’s not the same?
ruclips.net/video/_YlkXxHcQ7s/видео.html
Yesssss. We need this.
@@MDNELLEY hi! Yes it is pronounced pretty much the same 😊
I’m 41 and need that! 😂😂
Yesss!!!
Hey Girl! I am a registered dietitian and for years we always thought coffee didn’t count towards daily fluid needs because the caffeine is a diuretic right? Well that has recently been updated! We “get” more water than we thought based on studies looking at fluid intake versus output (how much are we peeing lol) and we now count coffee and other caffeinated beverages as 1/2 their volume. So 8 oz of coffee counts as 4 oz water. Also, be careful not to OVER hydrate, yes that’s a thing! All that fluid can actually start to dilute your electrolytes like sodium in your blood stream and start messing with your blood pressure and heart. Luv ya! Keep the great content coming 😁
Thank you! You said exactly what I wanted to mention. What we've always been told isn't always 100% accurate.
Does this 50% "rule" also work for tea? I can't stand water alone but love tea.
This has made my day 😅 sometimes I honestly don’t remember to drink water until late afternoon haha but I would’ve had my coffees and teas and juice etc during the day!
Marsha Foshee Herbal tea counts as 100% fluids because of the lack of caffeine. As for other teas, like black, green and white, they have less caffeine than coffee as a rule, so they count as a little more than 1/2. Just know the more caffeine the less it counts, but nothing ever doesn’t count at all. In the hospital we even count jello and popsicles and soups as fluids and in the summer, melon and other high water-content fruits provides a good punch of hydration too 😉
Marsha Foshee Also, if you don’t like plain water, try fruit infusions by adding fresh or frozen fruit or fruit and herb combos to water for a hint of flavor. Sometimes I will even just pop one of my favorite tea bags (looking at you peach tea!) to my water bottles to “cold brew” and add a little flavor
Of all the RUclipsrs I have watched transition into motherhood and have transitioned their channels as well, you are one of the few I still watch. I subscribe to beauty channels because I love make-up! It's not that I don't love babies and motherhood but I'm passed that stage of life so I'm not hugely interested in baby related videos. You've done a really good job finding the balance between beauty and general lifestyle 😁
This is the kind of Millennial content I am HERE for!! 🙌🏻
Who knew "adult" was a verb?! I'm 53: it doesn't get any easier and I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up.
Say it ain't so, Jo, say it ain't so lol
I am 48 and I agree with you.
49 here. Same.
Agreed, and I’ll be 61 in 3 weeks!
48 here and so glad I’m not alone! 😁 My husband heard some of the video and came in the room with me and I was getting lots of nods because she was hitting on things that he’s mentioned before. Thanks, Jess! 🤣
I recommend going thru your pantry/freezer once a month to see if anything needs used up, then meal plan around those ingredients. It's easy to do with the fridge, but I really lose track of what's in my pantry.
Yesssss
I like to wash my sheets and gowns\pajamas on Friday nights because I can sleep late on Saturday and Sunday and enjoy the freshness. I dry my clothes with wool balls and some peppermint essential oil. It is nice waking up on the weekends in clean, nicely smelling sheets knowing you can loaf around a little longer than usual.
Thank you Jess for giving us a real BEAUTY COMMUNITY! One with honesty, caring, and reliability! You’re one of the hero’s of RUclips, at least in my opinion! 😘
Jessica thank you for posting so often (maybe it’s not more often but it feels like it to me hahaha). Your videos are my happy place especially these days
Jessica: Here are some tips on how to be an adult... 2 minutes later: **Burns mouth because she can’t wait for her coffee to cool** 😂😂😂 SAME GIRL
I love the app “Habit” to build good, healthy habits. I include everything from making my bed, to a water drinking goal of 96 oz, to flossing. It allows you to see a month layout of when you did each thing and has been great for keeping me accountable!
There are so many with similar names, can you describe the icon of the one you use?
How can editing jessi NOT be wearing glasses!
lol my alter ego forgot her glasses!
@@itsjessicabraun 2020 man, 2020 😂😂😂
I came here for this comment, too!! 🤣
Imposter!! 👀
Thats a great new thing that you have begun to incorporate into your videos. Keep it up! We love you!!
I love how you’re an actual Disney princess
Lol omg ultimate compliment 😭😭 thank you!!!
Loved this video! Have to share: the Tody app for tracking chores is amazing! It is super simple and helpful. For example, you can set a chore like "Wash sheets" to be done every week or two, then it's one click to mark it as Done once you wash them. It keeps a history of when you mark off each chore and how long it's been since you've done it.
Total pet peeve of mine. NOTHING lives on my bed that isn't on my bed when we are sleeping in it. No throw pillows, No throw blankets nothing. Keeps bed making simple and fast.
Same!
I don't know if it's just me but,
I can't leave my house without making my bed. Oh I've done it and I obsess over it all day. "My OCD kicks in". 😳
Besides, isn't it nice when your ready to go to bed to just pull down the duvet and slip into fresh sheets? I tend to sleep better on clean sheets. Weird huh? But It is what it is. 😁
I turned 32 yesterday and I can SO relate to looking for “an adultier adult”😂. This video has perfect timing!
I’m 40 and I just learned this year that my cousin who seemed SO MUCH OLDER than me when we were kids, is 43 🤯
Happy birthday 🎂🎁🎊
My grandmother made my sister and I a recipe binder as a Christmas gift one year! I didn’t appreciate it when I got it but man has it been great to reference the older I’ve gotten. There’s tons of sections in mine (soups, appetizers, main courses, breads, one pan meals, plus about 10 more) and it has a conversion chart at the front which is super helpful!
Thank you so much for recommending MINT! After using it for one day, I noticed a recurring charge I had missed. I ended up getting a refund of $270. Thanks to you and MINT!
This was so helpful! I’m 19, still at home, and not doing college. I have a ‘lil puppy and help my parents with running a busy and full household. I have 7 brothers, 6 of which are younger than me, and the youngest has special needs. Helping take care of him at home is actually my mother and I’s paying jobs. I’m not out on my own figuring things out and paying the bills and so on, and these little tips were so helpful and encouraging in me trying to be more responsible in how I live day to day. Love you, Jess! 💖
My tip is a “notes” chalkboard on the fridge to write what you need to defrost that day. I meal plan but always forget to take the meat out! Lol
I love this content from you since I started watching you when I started college and now 4 years married trying to adult 🤣 you are like sister we all need!!!
In Australia, 2 out of 3 Aussies will develop skin cancer. I've already had it! Thanks for the recommendations. I'll try the water app too.
What makes me feel the most adult is having a signature look I can always fall back on. Put together without trying.
Meal planning every week is a must in our house. We don't eat out and I cook dinner every night so meal planning for the week on Sunday before I go grocery shopping is a must. Also I purchased a blank recipe book to add all of our family recipes that were a hit with my 3 kids. That way when they are older they will have a collection of our family recipes. I wish my mom had done that when we were kids!
Girl, I am an Aesthetician, and I LOVE that you are encouraging people to wear sunscreen!!! Preach it!😉 Also, I just wanted to say I stumbled upon your channel recently while searching for videos on Invisalign, and I’m so glad I did!! Loving your videos. (Starting my one Invisalign journey in about 2 weeks! Yay!)
I have a "plan the week" reminder on my phone set for Sunday afternoon. And then I sit down with my work calendar and my google calendar (which is my version of a planner) and put in everything. Days we have meals planned, workouts, time for projects, time for extended self care. Its a huge relief to have the week planned on Sunday afternoon. And I usually do it between returning from the grocery store and starting a couple of larger meal prep items.
Watching this at 1 pm in my jammies eating cake for breakfast 😬
Pretty much same here! It’s 1pm here (Seattle) and I’m still in the bike shorts & sweatshirt I slept in. I just ate banana bread (which is basically cake) for breakfast.
You’re my soul sister! 😂
Sounds like goals to me LOL
😳😆 and now I want cake. 😍
The best pet about being an adult- you go to bed and wake up when you want, and eat what, when, and where you want!
Adulting at it’s finest 😂
Love this type of video! And I especially agree about making your bed. My mom always said a bedroom always looks so much cleaner once you make the bed and she’s right, it makes a huge difference.
If you ever feel like upping your meal planning game, I LOVE Plan To Eat. The app saves recipes from the web and can even make your shopping list for you. I've used it for years and LOVE it.
When you're 35, married, and with a kid and still trying to figure out how to be an adult you tune in immediately to this video. 😂
34 in Dec... Three boys... Mortgage and a Wife.... #agreed 😂😂
I love a fresh kitchen with clean dishes. I've been trying to do this every morning.
You had me at “I had this video for this idea a few months ago” 😂😂😂😂😂 made my day. Had to pause the video so I could rofl. I feel you sister 🙌🏼
Jess, for travel, creating separate reusable packing lists in AnyList. One for each member of the family, one for toiletries, one for if it’s a beach trip, one for if it’s camping. For meal planning, recipes and calendar, Cozi. I’ve used the calendar for years and just found the meal planning part on the web version. I plan the same, 4-5 meals that I drag from my favorite recipes onto the calendar. Simple, and I can shift them around as needed when we have leftovers to finish up.
Hi! Love the prep meals tip. You really should change/wash your sheets and pillowcases every week. They accumulate so many dead skin, sweat, dust, etc and are the biggest source for allergies. Just pick a day in the week and change them. That and cleaning under the bed. Here in Portugal is something so cultural/tradicional that i don't even think how people don't do it. There's a day where you clean the whole house and you always start by changing the sheets 😄. Love you channel and all you makeup tips
I wash my sheets every week as well. I cringed when she said month or more. Spouse has suddenly developed serious allergies and need to keep the bedroom clean... and we kicked the animals out. No longer allowed in the bedroom. We got in the habit of weekly washing on Sundays. Love fresh sheets! 👍🏻
Our daughters made my husband a binder for Father's Day a few years ago with his recipes as he likes printed or written recipes as well. They named it Recipes of Chef Boy R Dad😂 They made a picture of a chef with his face photoshopped on it. We love that binder cookbook 🥰
My father in law left home and married at 17, worked two jobs and had his first child at 18. (Times have really changed!) He and my mother in law have been married 45 years and they are the most “adult” people I know and I turn to them for advice and help.
I lllloooove the feel of clean sheets! It's a weekly thing for me
Maryanne Miles me too! Clean sheets every week is a must for me!!!!! It’s the best feeling when you get into bed with clean sheets. I always have a shower before bed when I changed them too. Clean pjs. Love it! If I don’t change them on the weekend, I feel my week will suck sleep wise lol. 🤣
Same for me! Nothing better than taking a long bath or shower that night and crawling into a nice fresh bed 😴
My favorite body sunscreen is the Banana Boat Light as Air SPF 50, it comes in spray & lotion form. Love this stuff!! Its water resistant up to 80mins, UVA & B, doesn't have that horrible sunscreen smell or thick feeling. Will use this forever!!!
My husband and I have been using AnyList since we got married 2 years ago, and we love it!!! It makes grocery shopping so easy for us!
I started meal planning too! Helps with your grocery list and not wasting vegetables and fruits. Good money saver believe it or not
One thing that I’ve been doing during the pandemic is keeping a chore chart for myself. It helps me to see what I’ve done during the week, and what I need to do. Also, track my husbands chores (he only has two, cooking and dishes) as a way to incentivize him to help out more, which he has by adding trash duty to his chores. 😉
I LOVE meal planning! We do it the same way you do, then we make our shopping list from that. It keeps you from over spending and buying stuff you really don’t need.
I know what you mean about making your bed in the morning! That simple act of making your bed in the morning is such a game changer!
I used Scentbird, but loved having a fragrance subscription! Highly recommend. Yeah, that dishwasher situation is definitely adult worthy. Great ideas! 💖💖
I have an app recommendation that combines grocery lists with meal planning and recipe storage - Paprika 3. I NEVER buy apps, but after my friend showed me this app in person (she has twins and needs efficiency at all times), I knew it would be worth it and it is! I’ve had it for a couple of years now (after I turned 30 ha!) and I use it literally every single day. You can add recipes by manually typing them in, or by browser link (I copy and paste from Pinterest all of the time), and it auto saves everything in the recipe! Ingredients, photos, instructions, etc and you can edit it at any time - I’ll add notes with how I’ve adapted recipes. You can also tag recipes so you can search by ingredients or what type of recipe it is like entree or dessert, etc... you create the tags. I can meal plan my week (or you could go by month) by either adding a quick note to a calendar inside the app or by linking to a saved recipe you have already added to the app. Then I can add items with quantities FROM the recipe to a grocery list inside the app and it categories everything by aisle like that one you mentioned. It’s 😙👌 meal planning perfection! 💖 I seriously recommend this to everyone because it’s so easy to use regularly once you start adding your recipes to it. I always have the app open on my phone with my recipe ingredients and I can follow along with the instructions and check off what I’m doing as I go and set timers from there too. It’s changed everything in our meal planning, grocery shopping, and cooking routines. Totally not sponsored, just LOVE this app! 👩🏻🍳
I LOVE LOVE LOVE that u laugh so much during every video u make. I've been a subscriber for a while now and your videos are the best to put me in a good mood. Very humble, down to Earth and honest unlike some other RUclipsrs. Silly and quirky. I'm the same way and I feel like that is the best way to live life. I'm always tuned in! Keep up the great work!!
It's reassuring that even you don't feel like an adult, because I sure don't. I thought something was wrong with me 😂 Honestly, I love your vlogs and look to you as a role model! 💕
Same! I always need an adultier adult than myself
I'm 45 & still waiting to feel like a grown up. :)
🙋🏼I’m 55, still waiting to feel like an adult...
I remember growing up thinking when I became a mum I would be so grown up and mature and have all the answers... I’m a 31 mum of two and I have NO IDEA what I’m doing (with my kids, my career and my life!). This is so refreshing
I love videos like this. Seeing ways other people do things gives me ideas or new ways to do things myself.
Jessica - I love your content and appreciate that you’re not ignoring things going on in the world but you still give us a break from everything. It honestly feels like I’m sitting with a friend having coffee and chatting when I’ve got your videos on. Love the evolution of your channel as you’ve grown yourself. Thank you for your wonderful and helpful content! 💙💚
Thank you so much, Staci!!!
Clean sheets on our bed helps me sleep better. I wash our sheets sometimes twice a week. I’m not a fan of planners. I like the idea of writing down what I actually did every day rather than what I need to do.
I started saving our recipe in a binder. I got tired of looking back through Pinterest for the receipt or through texts to my husband. It’s small but will surely start to grow.
Mint really is great. I also love Digit. Digit will actually pull small amounts of money out of your account to save for whatever you want. You have complete control of how much (or little) they pull out and you can have many “savings accounts” for whatever you want (credit cards, car payments, vacation, mortgage etc.)
We have used AnyList with Alexa for the last few years and we still love it! Good tip.
Love that you are doing videos on how to do life pretty much! As a 23 year old who is trying to figure things out, I love these videos!
Love this video! I will get the grocery list app because my grocery list is always a hot mess! I spend way more time inside the grocery store than needed! Thank you Jess for all these great tips to "adult" a little better day by day. Sending you love from Boston, MA
Hi Jessica! I’m a young single person and I love all these tips and it made me feel good to know I do some of these on my own.
I would love to see more videos about how you and your family handle your finances and day to day life hacks, if you will. Thanks for doing what you do!
I felt you when you said you never felt you could use a planner the way you wanted to. I hate pre-done planners. But I’ve enjoyed using elements of the bullet journal to create my own spreads and lists and notes. My favorite thing is fun a lined notebook, number each page, and create a TOC. Then use each page however I want but it’s all in one place.
As someone with dust allergies I wash my sheets once a week but my top tip (being a 40+ yr old!) is to get rid of all the extra pillows, cushions and blankets on the bed and just put on the ones you actually use. When you get up in the morning turn down the duvet to let the bed air out and breathe. This cools it and gets rid of overnight moisture, which is where dust mites thrive! I leave mine turned down all day then it’s nice a cool when I get in at night.
I have Lupus and I also have had skin cancer and the Nuetrogena sunscreen is the only one I use. It doesn’t burn the rash associated with lupus and works great. You’re so right skin cancer can effect anyone. I was 30 when I got it. Love the videos btw. Thanks for all the tips.
I have lupus and also use the Neutrogena. I use the spray on my body and lotion on my face.
I’m so so excited about your fragrance.com sponsorship. I’ve been wanting to buy a specific new fragrance I tested at ulta that I love (the coach floral blush perfume is so nice). But it’s been difficult to want to fork up the money for it. This website along with your 30% off code made it sooooo much cheaper. I’m so excited to get it in the mail. Thanks Jessica!! I’ve been watching you and subscribed for years and it’s nice to support you in this way as well. ❤️
My type A personality loves this kind of video. I immediately downloaded Anylist and I already love it!!
Love these! Especially the spf ! Coming from a derm nurse: Just be careful with the spray as you really need to make sure you are putting enough on and then rubbing it in, it’s really easy to miss areas and not put enough. And yes hold your breath not the best for kids I use it for reapplication but most ppl don’t get enough on with the spray!
I also read once that NOT making your bed allowed the sweat and bacteria from the night air out and not proliferate as much in your sheets 🤷🏻♀️ but idk how much that matters
I had to watch the beginning twice because I didn’t hear anything wrong with your intro the first time 😂 I downloaded every app you mentioned, wiped my whiteboard for the meal planning and realized that my planning system is missing a little something so I’ll incorporate a daily plan! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for putting up this video!!! I watched it twice, it was THAT good!!!💖
Take a look at Plum Paper planners. They have lots of different layouts (daily, weekly, etc) and they are totally customizable. You even get to pick your own cover from dozens of designs and customize it as well. I started using one last year and will be getting my second one soon. You can even pick what month you want it to start. They cost more than something you would get at Target but the fact that you can customize it to fit what you like makes up for that (and they cost less than Erin Condren planners). I recommend them to everyone. I even have both of my daughters hooked on the.m.
Another cool thing about running your dishwasher at night is that (at least in our city) the water is actually cheaper later at night! So we’ll just get it started around 11pm or midnight and not only is it saving money, but the dishes are ready to slog every morning!
Literally as soon as you said “wear sunscreen” I walked to my bathroom and put on sunscreen
Yep I just started wearing sunscreen daily since a few months ago (I am 30) wished I had started sooner but thankfully I stay out of the sun, I am now a sun-screen believer though! 😂👍
I did the same thing with drinking water.
LOVED THIS! Currently in nesting mode so anything to help organize life👌🏽
TFS! Btw running your DW at night (as well as washer & dryer when possible) actually saves on your utility bill too. You get “off peak” rates.. so it’s a win-win! Stay safe, keep sharing 🙏🏻God Bless 🙏🏻
I use the Neutrogena spray as a setting spray sometimes. I love that you are so honest. Most wouldn't admit stuff like the sheets. I know I forget at times when I washed mine last.
love a smart grocery list! I use Our Groceries. So happy that at 36 I am already doing lots of these! one thing I'm adding is a page a day planner, this year I had a weekly one and kept running out of space! perfect time to change planners too as the academic ones are July-July. Thanks!
Regarding the dishwasher, a lot of municipalities will charge for electricity based on time of day. Middle of the night tends to be the cheapest. So what I’ve been doing is setting my dishwasher to run after midnight (check your settings, many allow you to delay running for up to 12 hours). I load the dishes after dinner and set the delay, watch some tv, the go to bed. I don’t have to worry about a noisy dishwasher while I’m relaxing and my dishes are clean in the AM. I’m someone who grew up without a dishwasher and I LOVE having one! 🤣
Aw yes! Any List app!! Been using for years! I make separate lists for Costco, Walmart, any shopping place I need items from!
Omg your idea to use a monthly planner to track workouts. That's brilliant!
omg I CANNOT WAIT for your recipe video because I struggle so much with finding out what to cook.
Great ideas Jessica! Our family use paprika app for meal planning, recipes and grocery lists. It organizes by isle add all recipe ingredients together too!
Thanks for the sharing the ideas.
This video is exactly what I needed. We are realizing that meal planning is exactly what we need and these tips were super helpful in making the process seem more approachable. 👍❤️
Dishwasher every night wk's so well.... it also helps me to clear off the countertops & makes my kitchen a little more presentable in the mornings!
When I wake up earlier & have my coffee's then put on my makeup, this helps to b more productive during the day aswell!
Gonna look into that perfume site & he grocherie app!
L.O.V.E. this video. So helpful. Thax u Jess
The way you spelled grocery made me say it with a French accent in my head 😄
I call ourAlexa “Alice” when we’re talking about her. 😂
Kinda hate these devices listening all the time... haha, I had a Google mini and then got an Alexa. We were like Alexa this, Alexa that, Alexa, Alexa; then my Google out of the blue speaks "I am flattered, but I am not Alexa " ; needless to say , I unplugged them both 😁
I tend to click on videos like these and end up not being surprised by anything. This was genuinely helpful and unique, thank you!!
LOVE this video. I love to here about new apps that actually work and make your life easier.
A vlog from Tyler's channel and a Jessica vid right after? YES PLEASE. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Also sidenote: you were SO RIGHT about the Amazon leggings! I just wore mine for a run and they're AWESOME!
Maybe it was an older one I missed. 😅
The sunscreen one was my favorite 👏🏼I work for a dermatologist and it’s SO important for SO many reasons!!! I never wore it when I was younger. Now I’m almost 30 and won’t leave the house without it.
Totally agree with running the dishwasher every night. I use the half cycle when needed. Started the day with EVERYTHING clean is essential. Also it lets us get away with owning a lot less particularly in terms of toddler utensils.
Completely agree with using a financing app or just working to get finances in order. I have been using mint for 6 months now and even though i didn’t need to use the budgeting app, it is nice to know exactly how much i was spending and now even if i would go over 20$, i just don’t make that purchase.
I found that if I wash and cut my fruit/salad stuff I’m more likely to eat it. Even though those things take no time at all for some reason I never want to do it so I just do it all at once and put it in Tupperware and I eat it when I feel snacky . Such a weird thing but it works! Also I’ve been trying that idea of writing down dinners but not assigning a day and it is so much less stress! I tried it when you mentioned it in a vlog. Changed my life
Omg this is me! I buy fruit and veggies with great intentions and then never reach for them cos it’s so much easier to pull off a wrapper than wash/peel/cut up/clean up
I agree! If I wash/prep it right away, I eat it, but if I leave it for later, it just goes bad 😳
I love the Neutrogena zinc sunscreen with spf 50! It’s not greasy, doesn’t make me break out, and it’s been helping with my melasma! I wear sunscreen everyday, even if I’m inside, and you’re right! If you find a good sunscreen, the stores are almost always out of stock! Thanks for the other suggestions!!! I’ll try to pick one of those out sometime! :)
So many website/blog recipes have an option to pin to your Pinterest as well and you can organize all your recipes into different categories
You’re such an organized person
Anylist is great! I use it ALL the time! I make lists for camping, groceries, Christmas.
Absolutely love when you include lifestyle stuff in your videos! Would love to see videos on how you organize your house and beauty space
This was fun...love the planner tip...maybe a video comparing different planners and the layouts they have would be nice...
I change my sheets every week, I can’t go more than that...it’s definitely an adulting thing LOL
As a kid I had a neighbor friend whose parents made her change her sheets once a week. She also had to plan, shop for, and cook a meal for the family one night per week. We were 11!! At the time, I thought her parents were crazy strict & authoritarian. But now that I’m 40 and can’t cook, and sometimes change my sheets after a whole month(!) I think they really had it right. She is a really well adjusted adult now. Successful career & mother of two kids.
I’m ... not so well adjusted.
Me too. I thought everyone did 🤷♀️😆 I recently skipped a week and it drove me almost insane
I loved this video! Everything was super simple, but helpful. And easily doable! I’d enjoy more videos like this in the future!
Have just downloaded a water app, so useful! I've been getting headaches because of being dehydrated. Thanks for the simple tip 👍 x
Probably my favorite video of the year! Great job and thanks for the tips! Even at almost 42 😬, I still look for ways to “adult” better and teach them to my girls.
Anylist is also a fantastic app and Web application for shared recipes, grocery lists and more. We also use it with Google. The best part of it is the button used in your Web browser to copy recipes and store them, it's amazing.
Omg love you!! Just downloaded AnyList for my hubby and I and I’m so excited to use it!
Jess...as long as you have both your parents you won’t feel like an adult......I was 62 when I lost my Mom & Dad.....there’s no longer anyone on Earth that knew me as a child.....it’s a sobering feeling.......enjoy being young as long as you can ❤️
Gosh I love this type of video!! You are someone who I truly admire and respect so I love when you share insight! Thanks!!