Welcome to Indulgence Gospel After Dark!
We are Virginia Sole-Smith and Corinne Fay, and it's time for our annual Ins & Outs Episode!

This is what we do every New Year, instead of making resolutions or setting problematic body change goals. It's deeply unserious but still satisfies that urge to reflect and make some (fun) plans for the year to come!

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⭐️ The pants Virginia forgot she was wearing.

⭐️ The food trends Corinne is SO OVER.

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Episode 227 Transcript

Corinne

So today we have a topic that we have done before.

Virginia

I think we've only officially done it once before? But it now feels to me like a Burnt Toast institution.

Corinne

Yes, and that institution is called Ins and Outs.

Virginia

Ins and Outs for the new year, because it is 2026!

Corinne

It's our little way of ringing in the new year and talking about what we're feeling right now. It's not a resolution. It really is a snapshot of what we're thinking at any moment in time.

Virginia

Whenever we happen to make the list. I like it because it's the epitome, to me, of anti-diet resolution culture. It's really just: These are things I love. These are things I'm done with.

I suppose you could do a diet-y version of this. But we don't, and we encourage you not to.

Corinne

And I think we'll see, perhaps, as we look back at some of ours from last year, how fleeting some of these really can be.

Virginia

Which is the fun of it.

So you brought this concept into all of our lives. And I'm very grateful to you, because I do like having a New Year's ritual. The part of my brain that gets excited for New Year, fresh start, blah, blah, blah. That part of my brain that likes new pencils and whatnot, is like, oh, good. I have a thing to do.

Corinne

I feel like in past years people have done ins and outs like on Instagram. Like they would just do them in their notes app and then post a screenshot of it. And I haven't seen any of that yet this year. It is a bit early, but I'm curious whether that's going to be happening.

Virginia

Or if this social media trend is dying. But not here!

Corinne

Not here on Burnt Toast!

Virginia

Ins and Outs are still In. For us.

All right, should we look back at our 2025 lists before we get into the new lists?

Listen to the 2025 Ins & Outs ep!

Corinne

Yes. I'll read yours.

Okay, so for 2025: In for you was Bird Buddy. Out was Instagram.

Virginia

I do think I've done a lot less Instagram! I wouldn't say it's gone completely, although I am currently in the middle of a spontaneous extended break for the holidays, and I love it. And Bird Buddy, I do still love. I ended up getting one for my mom for her birthday, and we have both our Bird Buddies on the same app. That said, ours is currently on a technical hiatus because we had to switch our wifi network. And I have to re-sync it with the wifi network. And, you know, that's the kind of annoying chore that's going to take you, like, six months to do. But I'm getting there. And bird feeders in general, are still very in over here. We're very into them. We did them all year, and it's a major joy.

Corinne

Okay, cool.

In: bootcut pants. Out: Colette cropped pants.

Virginia

Did I even buy any bootcut pants?

Corinne

Wasn't it bootcut Beyond Yoga pants?

Virginia

Oh, wait. I'm wearing them right now!

Corinne

Oh my God. Okay, wow.

Virginia

I guess they're in! I didn't take it any further, though.

Corinne

And are the Colette crop pants still out?

Virginia

Well, I think those blue corduroy pants I wore over the fall are the Colette pants.

Corinne

So, no.

Virginia

I don't know, man. All pants are out for me. They're all out, they're all in. It's ever changing.

Corinne

Okay. In: air fryer cookies. Out: Tate's cookies.

Virginia

Well, I definitely did not stop buying Tate's cookies, even a little bit. But I did make so many air fryer cookies, like at least once a week. So I think pants are always out, cookies are always in.

Corinne

That seems fair. All right, In: two pieces. Out: apology ruching.

Virginia

I do love a two piece swimsuit, and I don't think anyone needs to ruch. I think your midsection can be whatever shape it is, and you don't need to put bumpy fabric on top of it.

Corinne

Fair. In: buying meat and eggs from the local butcher. Out: buying grocery store meat and eggs.

Virginia

I think we did pretty well with this one. I mean, now our eggs are our own chicken eggs.

Corinne

That's awesome.

Virginia

The meat we are mostly buying from the local butcher, or we have one grocery store that stocks some local farm-sourced meat. It's a very bougie thing, but it also, if you're going to be a meat eater, trying to be an ethical meat eater, is, I think, valuable. So I feel good about that.

Corinne

In: teal, dark green and pink. Out: light gray.

Virginia

If you could see my house, there's so much teal, dark green and pink in it.

Corinne

That's awesome.

Virginia

I'm really noticing what a stranglehold gray had on home decor from like the 2010s on. And when I go somewhere with a lot of gray now, I'm like, oh, this is kind of sad. And I mean, I had a very gray, neutral house for a long time.

Corinne

That's so funny, especially because wasn't the Pantone color of the year was just announced?And it's like... cloud.

Virginia

If depression were a color. Not good. But for me, color is in.

Okay, let's do your 2025 list. In: wearing one thing over and over. Out: buying multiples of the exact same thing.

Corinne

Okay, I'll say I think I did okay at this. I don't know how I did wearing one thing over and over, but I think I did cut back a little bit on buying multiples. Although I have bought some of the same thing in different colors.

Virginia

Is that not buying multiples?

Corinne

Well, I don't know. It was unclear what "buying multiples" was supposed to mean. I think buying multiples meant buying the exact same thing.

Virginia

Oh, because of scarcity mindset.

Corinne

Yes. And I think I've done better at this.

Virginia

If you're buying multiples, but they're different colors, that feels like a baby step out of buying multiples of the same item. So I give you a gold star.

Okay, bird watching is in. Tiktok watching is out. Corinne, how did it go breaking up with Tiktok?

Corinne

I have not broken up with Tiktok. I am still watching Tiktoks. I did recently start using an app blocker to block Tiktok after 10pm and that is working pretty well for me.

Virginia

That seems great.

Corinne

And I haven't done too much bird watching, but I do still really enjoy passive bird watching.

Virginia

Do you do bird feeders? Bird feeders are really great if you just want to passively bird watch.

Corinne

No, I should get a bird feeder.

Virginia

You would really enjoy a bird feeder. The key is you hang it somewhere that you already sit, and have a window you can look out of, so then they really are just coming to you. Otherwise, you'll forget about it and you won't fill it.

Corinne

Okay, let me think about that.

Virginia

In: Decluttering. Out: Organizing.

Corinne

I mean, who knows.

Virginia

I'm confused about how those are different?

Corinne

It was based on some blog post I read where she was like, "Organizing is pointless. You need to declutter first." So if your closet is messy, don't just buy new hangers. You actually need to get rid of stuff.

Virginia

You actually could stand to have like, a third less stuff.

Corinne

And I will say I did do a big closet declutter, and it has been helping. So.

Virginia

Yes, you did, we have not yet seen post clutter, post decluttering, organizing photos of that closet. But we trust.

Corinne

Probably doesn't look that different to anyone else, but.

Virginia

You know.

Corinne

Wait, I think I did do photos.

Virginia

Oh, maybe you did. I'm sorry. Okay, In: accessories. Out: matching sets.

Corinne

Um, hard to say. I will say, I think this is still true for me. I think matching sets, I really want them to work, and then when I put it on, I just don't feel it.

I just wrote this post about sweatpants, and I have a matching sweat top for all of those sweatpants, and I almost never wear them.

Accessories are in, though. I'm currently wearing a bandana.

Virginia

And you've been wearing your new red collar quite a bit.

I also struggle with the matching sets. Although I will say Naadam, which is a sustainable cashmere brand that Corinne and I both love, gifted me some pieces recently. (Full disclosure, it was gifted.)

And because I've already bought myself several Naadam pieces, I didn't really need stuff. I did get this hoodie that I'm wearing, but then I got Jack a matching set, like cashmere pants and a zippered hoodie. And every time he wears it, I'm like, God damn it, I really want a matching set. This is so cute.

Corinne

That's cool.

Virginia

He wears it around the house all the time and loves it. And now I'm like, maybe I do want that? So I don't know. I think I'm coming back around on those.

Okay, in was beef stew. Out was pulled pork.

Corinne

I mean, yes, sure, yes.

Virginia

Controversial position.

Corinne

I haven't had too much pulled pork this year. If it was offered to me, I would eat it.

Virginia

I made a delicious pulled pork yesterday. Throw it in the slow cooker and put a Dr Pepper over it.

Corinne

Oh, that sounds delicious.

Virginia

So easy, so good.

I made beef stew two weeks before that. I mean, this isn't my list, so I'm allowed to have it all.

In was passion fruit as a flavor in pastry and desserts. Out, was matcha as a flavor in pastry and desserts.

Corinne

I mean, I'm still really excited about passionfruit. I did drink a lot of matcha this year.

Virginia

I will say neither of those flavors ever come up over here with air fryer cookies.

Corinne

Passionfruit is so good. I ate a lot of passion fruit ice cream this summer.

Virginia

That does sound delicious.

Corinne

It was really good.

Virginia

Well, when you look at your 2025 list, do you feel like, who was that person? Or do you feel like, yeah, that's pretty consistent with what I'm still into.

Corinne

I feel like, I remember that person.

Virginia

I feel like I stood by most of mine, except being confused about pants. But that's also very universally on brand for me.

All right. I feel like we need a drum roll sound effect or something. Tommy drop in whatever speaks to you.

Here, it is time for the 2026 lists!

Corinne

Okay.

In: meatballs. Out. I don't know what the out is. I want it to be beef stew, but beef stew could never be out.

Virginia

I'm sorry you only get one delicious meat dish per year.

Corinne

At first I was like, mac and cheese, but no, mac and cheese can't be out. I don't know what's out.

Virginia

Veggie meatballs?

Corinne

I mean, veggies could never be out.

Virginia

Out with a food is a really hard choice.

Corinne

I know it is. I will say, I'm never eating meatloaf. Meatloaf could be out, but like... I like meatloaf! As a concept.

Virginia

You're not politically or morally opposed to meatloaf.

Corinne

Or maybe it's like, deli meats.

Virginia

I'm sorry. You're not gonna eat a hoagie?

Corinne

I'm definitely going to eat a hoagie. I was just trying to think of meat in non-ball form. Like flat meats. Meatballs are in. Patties are out.

Virginia

If you want a hamburger, you'll just make a big round one.

Corinne

Totally normal.

Virginia

"Sorry, I only consume ground meat if it's ball shaped."

Corinne

I was actually kind of wondering if you might have meatballs on your list.

Virginia

I don't have meatballs on my list. At this moment, I don't have any food.

Corinne

Wow. I definitely made my list when I was hungry, because I have three.

Virginia

My first one in for 2026 is therapy, because I just restarted.

Corinne

Congratulations.

Virginia

Thank you. I have been in and out of therapy for years and years, but I've been on a break for a while, and I was like, you know what? It's time to get back to it. The break was nice, but my brain needs it, so I'm back. My therapist was very happy to see me, and I feel good about that.

I think all the mental support in 2026, for all of us. Out, this one's optimistic, but I wrote migraines? Question mark because they are my body's primary response and manifestation of stress. So maybe being back in therapy will help cut down on migraines.

Corinne

I love that.

Virginia

We shall see. But it feels good.

Corinne

Okay, my next one is In: card games. Out: board games.

Virginia

All right, I respect it. What card games are you into?

Corinne

Well, this is again, me being slightly influenced by my very current present self. I just went away for the weekend with some friends, and we were playing cards. We're playing a game that we were calling, up, up, up. And then I was trying to google it, to find some finer points. And I think it's called Oh Hell or Oh Pshaw. Something like that.

Virginia

These all have nothing to do with each other.

Corinne

I was reflecting on how many card games have swears in the title. Oh Hell, Shithead, a lot.

Virginia

And these are traditional pack of card games that are sold in decks?

Corinne

These are using a traditional deck of cards.

Virginia

Got it, got it.

Corinne

I think the traditional deck of cards is nice also, because most people have them. They're easy to get.

Virginia

Super easy to travel with. And you can do a lot.

Corinne

Versatile. You can play so many different games with them. But again, if someone invites me to play a board game, am I saying no? No, I am not.

Virginia

"Sorry. This year is for cards."

I also do like quite a few games that are card-based. I'm a big fan of Quiddler, which is like Scrabble, but in card form. Jack's family introduced to me, and I love it.

Corinne

Wait, you don't need special cards?

Virginia

Oh, no, sorry. You do need a Quiddler card deck. Their cards are all letters, and you get letters and you make words. So it's like a more portable way to do Scrabble. That's cool and faster than Scrabble. It's fun.

Next up is my one food-adjacent one. In for 2026 is the AnyList app where you can put recipes and do meal planning. And Out, I say tentatively and with some trepidation, Instacart. I'm moving away a little bit from my "people need to bring food to my house for me all the time" era. Because I have someone to share meal labor with now. We are using the AnyList app. It's really great. You can dump in your recipes, and it will pull the ingredients out, put them on a shopping list for you.

I've always been skeptical of this concept, but I've actually been finding this very helpful for my brain, and especially Jack having the list as well. So if either of us notices something's out, it goes on the list, and then we both know. Shared mental labor, food labor stuff. Big fan.

Corinne

How do you put the recipes in? Is it just a link?

Virginia

I don't understand the technology. But I do know that now, if I'm in the New York Times cooking app, or I'm looking at the Smitten Kitchen website, or one of the other places I get recipes, if I go down in my phone to "share," a little option comes up to put it in AnyList.

Corinne

Okay, cool.

Virginia

And then I go over to the app, and it's there, and then it can go on the grocery list.

And if it's a week when I'm not over Instacart, you can even click "add to online order," and it will put everything on your grocery list into Instacart for you. But like I said, I'm trying to live clean now, so. Trying to do less of that, because the fees have really gotten quite out of control, yeah? But there are some weeks where it's necessary, and that's fine.

Corinne

Those are good ones. All right, my next one is: In is wearing a t shirt over a long sleeve shirt. Out is wearing a long sleeve shirt over a short sleeve shirt.

Virginia

My eight year old is so with you on this trend. They really like to put a t-shirt over a hooded sweatshirt.

Corinne

Oh, cool.

Virginia

Or over a really thick buttoned cardigan.

Corinne

Wow. I love that.

Virginia

They really feel like their t shirt collection is getting short shrift in the winter, and while they hear me about weather, they are unwilling for it to be a base layer. They want it to be a top layer. We're also doing a lot of shorts over fleece leggings.

Corinne

Oh, interesting. Okay.

Virginia

And skirts over sweatpants.

Corinne

Inspiring. I've been seeing this one a lot out in the wild, and I have yet to really try it myself. I actually feel a little confused about what t-shirt goes over a long sleeve shirt, because I have a lot of plain, colored t-shirts, and I feel like sometimes it's better if it's graphic or stripe or something.

Virginia

What this trend brings me back to is eighth grade, when my eighth grade crush—Brian Chamberlain, hope you're doing well, wherever you are—always wore a band t-shirt or some kind of t-shirt over a turtleneck. In retrospect, I'm sure this was his mother being worried about weather. But I was like, that is a look.

Corinne

I do like that look, but I don't really wear band t shirts. So like, what am I doing?

Virginia

Yeah, do you have whimsical t-shirts, or political t-shirts, food based t-shirts?

Corinne

I have one t-shirt that has a graphic on the front, so I'm going to try with that one. And then, yeah, I might need to buy some graphic tees.

Virginia

Maybe this is the year you get really into t-shirts!

In for me in 2026—okay, this one might be controversial, and I'm worried people are going to tell me it's bad ethically. I just want to say right now that if that's true, I don't want to know about it just yet. But you can tell me in a few months. Okay, In for me for 2026 is being really good at credit card points. And out, I hope, will be paying for vacations, because I'm going to pay for them with credit card points.

Corinne

Oh, cool.

Virginia

But I am worried that there's some consumer ethics issue around credit card points? I think I'm doing something bad, but I don't know what it is. I'm being complicit with big banks, I guess.

Corinne

You're asking the wrong person. I have no idea.

Virginia

I don't know. I'm pretty sure there's a moral dilemma around this that I'm choosing not to look at because I did just book a February trip to Jamaica on points. And I feel great about that.

Corinne

Well, I like not paying for stuff.

Virginia

Yeah, not paying for stuff, seems great. My friend Tracy is a points master. She's been teaching me a lot. There's an online course you can take. It's all about opening new cards to get the sign up bonuses, and then knowing how to use your cards so that you're maximizing points.

So I'm not spending more, but I am being more careful about, like, oh, wait, I have to pay for that with this card, because it gets more points. Or let me get that bill moved over to a card, so at least if I'm paying a gazillion dollars a month for therapy for everybody, we're getting points on all those therapy appointments.

Corinne

I feel like I'm not type A enough for this. I would be like, Oh, I forgot I even have this credit card and now there are thousands of dollars on it. So that's who was paying my electric bill!

Virginia

Thanks, MasterCard!

You do have to be really diligent about paying off your balances every month. I feel like it's actually making me engage more with my spending, because I am so petrified that I'm going to leave a balance on a card I forgot about. So I'm being really diligent about checking all of them. And a side perk is that I have spotted some recurring subscriptions to things I forgot about, and I've been canceling some of those. Because now I'm actually looking at my statements a lot more often.

Corinne

I'm going to do another controversial food one. In: breakfast sausage. Out: bacon.

Virginia

That's going to be hard for the Burnt Toast community. I think we're going to have to really sit with that as a community.

Corinne

Once again, I will still be eating bacon.

However, I just want to say some things about breakfast sausage. I think bacon gets all the love, and I think breakfast sausage deserves more love.

Virginia

I agree with you actually.

Corinne

One, it's freaking delicious. Two, it's so much easier to deal with than bacon. Much less messy, much easier to cook.

Virginia

You can't screw it up. You're not like, oh, it's too crispy. It's not crispy enough.

Corinne

And I guess that's really all I have to say.

Virginia

I feel like it's more filling, too.

Corinne

Yeah. I think you're right in a way. So, breakfast sausage is in.

Virginia

I can get on board with this. I like breakfast sausage. I find it hard to find good breakfast sausage.

Corinne

Oh, not me.

Virginia

Is there a brand you like?

Corinne

Does your grocery store carry Niman Ranch?

Virginia

I don't know, but I will look.

Corinne

It's a slightly higher end brand. Whole Foods usually has it. But Niman Ranch has really good breakfast sausage. They have a basic breakfast sausage, and they also have one that's like bacon breakfast sausage, and it's freaking delicious.

Virginia

Well, there you go. You just combined the best of both worlds.

Corinne

Yes, exactly.

Virginia

We do breakfast for dinner a lot with the kids, and I often do breakfast sausage for the meat, because I just don't feel like dealing with bacon in the evening for some reason.

Corinne

Yes, bacon is slightly annoying to deal with, so that's why breakfast sausage is in.

Virginia

But if other people want to make us bacon, we will still eat it.

Corinne

Yes, and I'm sure I will still be eating bacon.

Virginia

Okay, this next one is a little obscure maybe, or just really only applies to me. But in for 2026 is putting all my lamps on timers.

Corinne

Ooh. Love that.

Virginia

And out is basically either having lights that are always on or never on. I love a floor lamp. I prefer floor lamps to overhead lights. I like a cozy ambiance. But I'm tired at night. I can't be walking around the house turning off floor lamps.

Corinne

Wait. Have you gotten into smart plugs, or you're just doing timers?

Virginia

Okay, yes, I'm into smart plugs. I got an app on my phone. I can turn all these lights on and off with my phone. And you can schedule them so they just come on on their own and put themselves to bed. And I just feel like more of my house needs to be self-managing. Because there's a lot in my house that I have to be on top of, and I don't really need the living room floor light to need that much from me. I want it to show up, do it's job, be a cozy glow, and then put itself to bed.

Corinne

My sister is really good at this.

Virginia

You have to get over the initial annoying 10 minute time setup, and then you're just like, oh my god, this is changing my life.

Corinne

Yeah, I've set them up when I've gone out of town before, so they come on and off.

Virginia

The Home Alone strategy!

Corinne

But then I get back and I get annoyed and unplug them, and then I forget what the app is called.

Virginia

I can understand that.

Corinne

But it is useful to be able to turn things on and off with your phone.

Virginia

I also had my electrician put my front porch light on a timer for me, which I think is actually something you could do yourself if you are a more together person. Because otherwise it had just been on for, like, five years I think.

Corinne

Oh, wow.

Virginia

It just never turned it off. And that's not great, so now it's on a timer, and that's making me really happy.

Corinne

That's a good one.

This perhaps another controversial one based on a product that I recommended in one of our recent episodes. For me, In is body butter--specifically this one made with tallow.

Virginia

Yes, we did talk about that.

Corinne

And I apologize for making it sound like I'm a MAHA, but IN body butter, OUT body oil.

Virginia

I don't think I've ever liked body oil.

Corinne

Oh, I like body oil, but, you know, I think my skin prefers a lotiony thing.

Virginia

The body butter is like a lotion?

Corinne

Yeah, but it's not in a pump. It's a tub that you kind of swipe. It's so good. The texture is incredible.

Virginia

Okay, yeah, I need to get that.

In for 2026 which I will say, is a work in progress, is, I am trying to establish a new religion in my household. And the religion, the faith that I want us to all partake in is, which I'm calling church, is that every Sunday morning we get in the hot tub.

Corinne

Oh, I love that.

Virginia

For a religious experience that is just sitting in the hot tub. We do not have any gods or dogma in this religion, but it's proving weirdly uphill to convince my kids we should do this. They're like, I don't feel like it. Whatever. That's why I started calling it church. Because I was like, you guys are like being dragged to church.

Corinne

Really funny.

Virginia

Kids I grew up with would always be like, don't make me go to church. And I'm like, we don't do that. I'm just trying to get you to relax in hot water and talk to your mom.

Corinne

That sounds nice. I would like to go to that church.

Virginia

It's a great church. And I feel like it's a good way for me to make sure I put some rest in my weekends. I couldn't really think of an out. I put cold plunging, but I would never have gone cold plunging. That was never in for me. That's a terrible idea.

Corinne

I love to cold plunge.

Virginia

You've done cold plunging!

Corinne

After a sauna or something. I love it.

Virginia

I mean, in the winter, you cold plunge from the hot tub to get out into the cold air to go back inside. Does that count? All right, that's all I'm willing to do.

Corinne

Okay, my last one. And I'm a little bit afraid to say this, is for me, in potatoes, out rice.

Virginia

I really like how all of yours were food, and you're afraid of blowback with every single one.

Corinne

I just don't want to offend anyone, because, you know, rice is really good, as is bacon and whatever the opposite of meatballs is.

But I'm really into eating potatoes right now.

Virginia

For me, it's always going to be pasta over both those two.

Corinne

Yeah, I'm choosing potatoes over pasta right now. But I like pasta as well.

Virginia

Well, that is hard for me to hear.

Corinne

I'm just loving potatoes. Potatoes are in for 2026.

Virginia

All kinds. Fries.

Corinne

Potato girl year.

Virginia

Potato girl year. That's actually really good.

Corinne

You know, chopped up and roasted. Also, I'm just loving a baked potato, which is not new for me

Virginia

You have been on the baked potato train for a while. That's a good reminder to me to make baked potatoes.

Corinne

Potatoes are such a good vehicle.

Virginia

They're a great base.

Corinne

As are as rice and pasta.

Virginia

Okay, that's a great one. I support you. I'm going to still be over here eating pasta, but I support you.

Okay, my last one for 2026 in is oral hygiene.

To be clear, I've always had good oral hygiene. I didn't just recently adopt oral hygiene, but I have leveled up my game. My dentist has really been on me about my perimenopausal gums. and something we all have to think about a lot in our 40s. Apparently, my oral hygiene has been too good. I was brushing too vigorously for too long, and I've eroded some gum. Yeah, that's a real lie fed to our generation, that you should brush hard. You shouldn't. Anyway. So now I have an electric toothbrush and I have a WaterPik.

Corinne

Oh, cool. I'm so curious about WaterPiks.

Virginia

It has a learning curve. It took me a while, but I've got the hang of it now. And I will say my teeth have never felt cleaner.

Corinne

Oh, that's very appealing.

Virginia

They're dreamy clean. And it's kind of the point where, when I eat lunch and that's not a meal I usually brush my teeth after, but I feel so gross. I want to go floss at least.

Corinne

A WaterPik is cleaning out between your teeth.

Virginia

In my case, they told me to use it to trace the gum line. People can't see, but I'm making a kind of scalloping motion. You scallop along your teeth, and you have to do the outside, and you have to get in and do the backs of your teeth.

Corinne

Do you still have to floss? Or no?

Virginia

I am still flossing, but that's because I love flossing. So in the morning. I'm doing mouthwash and electric toothbrush. At night I'm doing floss, water pick, electric toothbrush. and so I decided my out for this one is hydration, because I am no longer tracking my hydration, and I'm putting all that same energy towards teeth. I'll hydrate when I hydrate.

Corinne

That's awesome.

Virginia

I'm realizing I had no clothes ones on my list this year, which is maybe fine.

Corinne

I only had one which was kind of random.

Clothes are out.

Virginia

But also read Big Undies, Corinne’s fashion newsletter.

Corinne

Big Undies Announcement: 2026, clothes are out.

Virginia

I do think clothes are the most changeable often. You're not going to stand by a clothes feeling you have in January.

Corinne

I think it's nice for clothes to not necessarily be so trend driven.

Virginia

Actually, that's a nice spin on it. I think I didn't have any clothes that I felt strongly I was over, which means I liked a lot of what I wore this year.

Corinne

Yes, your in bootcut pants from last year are the pants you're wearing right now.

Virginia

I stuck with it.

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Butter

Virginia

We're going to do Butter, and full disclosure, this is a brand that Corinne and I love. We both shop here, we have both spent so much money at over the years, but they do also send us free stuff from time to time, so it's not sponsored, but there is a gifted element here. So do with that information what you will?

Corinne

Yes. Well, this year on my gift guide, I put the East Fork Bitty bowls, which I had yet to own, and now I have gotten some which actually I did pay for, and I'm obsessed with them. I just want to double down on that recommendation. They're so useful and cute.

Virginia

They are so useful. I have them all over my house because I have a child who takes her earrings off wherever she stands, and then gets mad that she's lost her earrings.

Corinne

That's hilarious.

Virginia

And so whenever I find earrings around my house, which is always, I stick them in the nearest bitty bowl.

Corinne

That's so funny.

Virginia

They probably didn't anticipate that as a use.

Corinne

But it's so smart. I'm like, oh, now I need one next to my bed. I should put one on my desk. I also sometimes take my earrings off.

Virginia

I have one on my kitchen counter, because I take my rings off if I make meatballs. So I'll stick them in there. But they are also great if you're putting out a little jam on a charcuterie board, or we eat chocolate chips out of them while we watch TV.

Corinne

Or, like, a little salt on the table.

Virginia

They truly have endless purposes. And if you're an East Fork fan, as we are, when they release a new color and you're like, oh, I want the new color and you don’t actually need anything, I'll usually get a bitty bowl just to, like, add to the collection.

Corinne

Yeah, totally.

Virginia

Because it's like 14 bucks or whatever.

Corinne

That makes sense to me.

Virginia

I was also going to do an East Fork butter, because, yes, I love this brand. I am drinking tea out of an East Fork mug as we record. I have their weeknight serving bowl in two colors now, one I paid for, one was gifted. I have the light blue and I have the malachite green, and it's a very useful size serving bowl. I feel like sometimes serving bowls are too big, and feel like overkill. And sometimes they're cute, but kind of teensy, and then you're like, trying to toss the salad, and it's like, falling out of the bowl. The weeknight serving bowl is an excellent size for pasta salads, you could put potatoes in it for sure. All the things.

Corinne

I'm going to be needing some of those as well.

Virginia

All right. Well, that was a slightly sponsored butter. But anyone who's followed Burnt Toast for a while knows that our love of East Fork long predates when they sent us a few free bowls. So it's coming from the heart.

And use BurntToast15 at checkout if you decide to join us in the bitty bowl obsession and get 15% off!

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The Burnt Toast Podcast is produced and hosted by Virginia Sole-Smith (follow me on Instagram) and Corinne Fay, who runs @SellTradePlus, and Big Undies!

The Burnt Toast logo is by Deanna Lowe.

Our theme music is by Farideh.

Tommy Harron is our audio engineer.

Thanks for listening and for supporting anti-diet, body liberation journalism!

Episode 438 — Michelle Tea