Dead Mom Scavenger Hunt
Welcome to Dead Mom Scavenger Hunt where cousins Christmas and Cara tick off the wild, sometimes ridiculous wishes from the bucket list of the late, great Bonnie—Christmas's mom and Cara's bonus mom. Every episode, we unpack grief and life’s absurdities through belly laughs, bizarre encounters, and the kind of soul-searching that only happens when you're half a bottle deep into questionable wine, munching on crackers and what-the-hell-is-this cheese. It's not just about where we go, but the oddballs we meet, the unbelievable stories we gather, and the existential crises we tackle together. Strap in and hold on —Bonnie's list isn’t going to complete itself, and things are about to get hilariously out of hand!
Dead Mom Scavenger Hunt
Mouthtape: I Should've Taped Your Mouth Shut Years Ago!
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Mouth tape is gaining popularity as a unique and practical solution for reducing snoring and improving sleep quality. We share personal experiences, testimonials, and dive into the reasons why this unconventional method is worth trying for anyone struggling with sleep disturbances.
• Exploration of mouth tape as a solution for snoring
• Discussion of personal experiences and testimonials
• Consideration of safety measures and product selection
• Humorous contrasts between sleep-related choices
• Emphasis on building a community around sleep solutions
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Dead Mom Scavenger Hunt is about moving through life after loss without turning it into a whole identity—or pretending it’s not there. It’s two women traveling, eating, finding mildly chaotic situations, and narrating with humor that’s just dark enough to tell you they’ve been through something. The “scavenger hunt” isn’t literal. It’s the ongoing practice of noticing what’s still good, still funny, still meaningful…even when you don't feel like laughing.
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Mouth Tape and Health Issues
Speaker 1Hi everyone. I'm Christmas and I'm Kara and this is dead mom scavenger hunt and this is birdie. For those of you who are Patreons and can see the video, my adorable dog is joining us at the moment. Um, she will be seen and hopefully not very heard. Lay down, no, lay down, Vamp. Will I get her to lay down? She loves me. She does. Well, she'll figure it out Once we stop paying attention to her. She will lay down. So Kara is very passionate about mouth tape and demanded that we post-haste, right out of the gate, do an episode about mouth tape. You want to?
Speaker 2This is an educational show. This is very important that we share our knowledge with the masses. You want to talk to the people about mouth tape.
Speaker 1I do and then I want to hear how you feel about mouth tape, because you have been developing some opinions about mouth tape also okay, so I'll set the stage here.
Speaker 2let's set the scene. Somehow my tiktok algorithm has been showing me all of these mouth tape options and I've been getting wind that I should. I'm sorry I can't focus right now. Your dog is too much.
Speaker 1She's just. She's just trying to be cute and get attention. She'll settle down. You just got to ignore, but she loves you so much and, for those of you who are Patreons, you can see her. For those of you that aren't, you are missing out because she's fucking adorable, fucking adorable.
Speaker 2Okay, you're too much. I love you. I can't handle it. Okay, back to the mouth tape. We do tend to get a little sidetracked.
Speaker 1We're going to work on that.
Speaker 2I mean, I've kind of been working on that my whole life and it's probably never going to change.
Speaker 2It's the ADHD. Is it part of our charm? I don't know, we'll find out. Yeah, okay, sorry for the extra little noises there. I'm trying to get comfortable under the table. Okay, so here we go. My TikTok feed is full of mouth tape and I apparently it does all these amazing things. It helps you not snore, it chisels your jawline, you get better sleep and all this stuff. And I'm like really curious, because I've snored my whole life to varying degrees. It used to be absolutely like a freight train.
Speaker 1All the time, all the time, no matter what.
Speaker 2I have had my tonsils and my adenoids out. I didn't they didn't take the tonsils out because of the snoring, but that did help a little. Yeah, they used to abscess all the time and so I had my tonsils. Did you get strep all the time? I didn't get strep, I don't know. I don't think I've ever even had strep throat, but they would just get really inflamed and infected and then they would abscess. I almost died when I was 12 or 11 because of it, cause I don't remember that I wasn't living. I was living in Canada and you were a teenager. You would have been 16 and could probably have cared less about what was going on with me at the time as an 11 year old.
Speaker 1I can tell you that at 16, I probably could give a shit less about anyone except my own self.
Speaker 2Yeah, 16 year old, it wasn't just me.
Speaker 1Yeah, 16 year old girl form. I really had the blinders on about. How does this affect me Precisely?
Speaker 2Okay, so yeah. So when I was 11, I'll just give you the short version of this story they abscessed and I w it was so bad I could only drool Like I couldn't even swallow, and I I ended up spending like three days in a hospital. We were camping, we were spending some vacation time in Banff, canada. I'm familiar.
Speaker 2Okay, so we were in Banff and my family was out there and we didn't. Um, basically, I, my mom, drove me to a hospital where I stayed for a few days by myself because the family was still. It was kind of sad.
Speaker 1The family was still on vacation and they just went on the vacation and left me.
Speaker 2They left me in the hospital and, um, I refused an IV, so they were having, like they were coming in once a day to bring me horse pills that I would try to swallow and was actually.
Speaker 1You only have to get the IV once and then you're good to go. The horse pills you got to do every day. You know what?
Speaker 2I was 11. Sure, I was very stubborn, my mom.
Speaker 1Wow, I can tell you that hasn't changed.
Speaker 2No, and I like, of course, looking back away with that, but I refused the idea iv. It kept getting worse. Um well, your mom was like I'm going on vacation. Bye, yeah, I mean, there was more involved, it's not just. It wasn't that simple. I was traumatized by this, yes, but my stepdad was there and he was on a fishing trip and he was really. He was like a really bad dude right and he was really abusive and terrible, and so I think my mom was she had like he will never get a tip of the hat or cheers, or he gets um, what's the opposite of a tip of the hat, um.
Speaker 1I hope right now you a shove of the shiv, a shove of the shiv of the shiv, yeah, or I hope that you have terrible, terrible hemorrhoids every single day yeah yeah um a hell of a hemorrhoid. Yeah, hell of a hemorrhoid. I don't even want to say his name whatever, no, we're not going to.
Speaker 2It doesn't matter, he's dead to me yeah anyway, there were other circumstances that made it so that I we stay. I stayed at the hospital for a few days. I survived, whatever. There was a little traumatic experience where I was so dehydrated. They did bring me tea one day and I drank it and then immediately had to pee and it came out the same color as I should have told this a different way, but I thought I started my period. Was it like hibiscus tea? No, but it was like dark. I had never had a period. I thought I just knew it was brownish. Okay, is it misty? No, but it was like dark. I had never had a period. I thought I just knew it was brownish.
Speaker 2Okay, but it's not really, I don't know, right, right right, right, like it can be, but I mean, we're getting really off track.
Speaker 1right now, let's land the plane.
Speaker 2Okay, I ended up. They sent me home with my parents. I ended up going back to the hospital later that night, seen an abscess tonsil before because they're not very common. This is an abscess. You need to. We can take her by ambulance or you can drive her, but she's got to go to the children's hospital in vancouver right now to get her mom drove me in there.
Speaker 2My mom and my grandma drove me into vancouver. They know not to get out they had to stick a needle down my throat, but um into the space between my tonsil, into the abscess, and um drain thecess Gross. And they pulled out like five or 10 cc's. It was a lot Like the doctor was like holy shit, that was a lot, so this didn't help with your snoring.
Speaker 1This is just a complete sidebar.
Speaker 2Total sidebar. Yeah, but eventually I did get my tonsils out, because they abscessed again when I was 16.
Speaker 1Gotcha okay, and then I had them out. Okay, which helped the.
Speaker 2But, it's still really, really bad. Okay, I don't. I really don't think anyone probably cares about this. We will get to the mouth tape very quickly, but if you snore.
Speaker 1Well, do you? I'm trying to think.
Speaker 2I've tried. Everything is what I'm trying to get at here.
Speaker 1I know I snore when I have been drinking. Yes, um, I've been told. There's no actual proof. I was there.
Speaker 2Did you video me? I had to earplug myself every night on the cruise.
Speaker 1Yeah, so I snore when I drink yeah.
The Benefits of Mouth Taping
Speaker 2And I do snore, like sometimes I don't snore on my side or whatever, but I always snore my back, even after having had my deviated septum fixed. I had sinus surgery. They fixed my deviated septum fixed. I had sinus surgery. They fixed my deviated septum. I have pillar implants in my soft palate. I have plastic implants in my soft palate to help it. You're falling apart.
Speaker 2The idea is that the scar tissue will form around the pillar implants and that it will prevent your soft palate from collapsing, which is one of the reasons people snore right? I also shaved. They shaved off my uvula, which is the dangly thing in the back of my throat.
Speaker 1I know what. Yeah, I know what that is.
Speaker 2That was for the people who may not know.
Speaker 1Oh okay, it's the dangly thing, like when you see cartoon opera singers and it's all.
Speaker 2Yeah, that was how I made like the rolling R sound. Can you not do it now? I can't do it because my tongue tongue is tied.
Speaker 1I'm all fucked up okay, like that is the saddest thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 2That's a but I have to use like the side of my tongue anyway, so I have no dangly thing now okay for the people, um, and it's, and I still snore, so fast forward to tiktok and I'm like there's no fucking way, that is such bullshit, yeah. And then I run into a friend of mine at the gym and he's all. He's like, yeah, we somehow get on on mouth tape. And he's like, yeah, I mouth tape religiously, it helps me sleep so much better. Um, I don't snore anymore and I'm like this is an actual, real person in my life telling me and I had never heard of this until you told me about it.
Speaker 2I did not know this was a thing that existed in the world which is why we're talking about it here on a more public platform, because I think I think people need to know about mouth tape, because I have not snored since I started taping my mouth a month ago. You're a big fan, I know you are. I'm a huge fan, I'm sleeping better.
Speaker 1A mouth tape proselytizer I am.
Speaker 2I'm I'm a mouth tape devotee. Call me a fan. I'm a big fan of mouth tape and, um, I did not think it was real, but my husband is sleeping better, jeremy.
Speaker 1I know who I'm familiar with, jeremy's sleeping better, because I'm not.
Speaker 2He's not constantly telling me to roll over and stop snoring, yeah. I'm sleeping better. I'm waking up like way fewer. I don't wake up and like need to pee or have a drink of water because I'm asleep. Huh, okay.
Speaker 1So I call you and I tell you about this cause.
Speaker 2I know that you snore. I don't know if you care or not, but if you did.
Speaker 1I do care and my and my husband cares, he says. He claims that it's not so much a a big like guttural snore as it is a very heavy breathing, like he says it's kind of cute which I don't think he really actually means, because he tells me all the time hey, honey, could you turn over?
Speaker 2if it was that cute he wouldn't be telling me sometimes, um, he wouldn't be telling me to turn over right, if it was that cute, he'd be begging you to snore more exactly which?
Speaker 1so you call me and tell me about the mouth taste.
Speaker 2Yes.
Speaker 1And I'm like dude and I said what is this? And asked for a screenshot of it. So I have props here, If you're if you're a patron, where did you buy this one?
Speaker 2I got this on TikTok because I don't know where else to buy it.
Speaker 1Okay, I purchased on TikTok, which had the same picture, didn't have the same writing, and I got this.
Speaker 2Okay, didn't have the same writing and I got this. Okay, that's clearly off-brand, yeah, so these ones that I have it comes with like a 30-day supply.
Speaker 1I do think there's 60 in. I'm sure there are a lot. Maybe there's 30. I don't know.
Speaker 2Mine says 30-piece, yours says nothing.
Speaker 1Yeah, we don't know. I could take them out and count them, but I'm not going to do that.
Speaker 2It looks about the same. That looks like 30, right? I would say probably so. I'm sure there are lots of different kinds of mouth tape. I did buy another kind, we feel mine feel a little bit scratchier.
Speaker 1maybe let's look at the back. They kind of oh there a different backing. Mine have a mouth hole pre-cut, yeah, which is part of why I specifically bought these.
Speaker 2So the reason that we're sharing this is because I have not. I have not had any problems. It doesn't irritate my skin. It says right on the package breathable, hypoallergenic, like okay, I thought for sure.
Speaker 1Again mine says nothing.
Speaker 2I thought for sure. Again, mine says nothing. I thought for sure this would be like what's the word I'm looking for? Like I'd be claustrophobic.
Speaker 1Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. When I tried it for the first time, me too. And my friend that was telling me about the mouth tape said well, yeah, I mean you got to kind of get used to it, but you can kind of breathe through it and stuff like that Well, especially if you have the biggest mouth hole.
Speaker 2You can't really talk through it. But what I do? You think that's what jeremy likes the most? Yeah, he's, he's like. I should have taped your mouth shut a long time ago. We're years behind, we're decades behind this, so what I do is fold it fold it in half and in quarters like we're making an old school snake, because my kind doesn't come and I'm just gonna call it my favorite kind, because it doesn't irritate my skin and I did buy another kind that did irritate my skin.
Speaker 2this kind does not irritate my skin and I did buy another kind that did irritate my skin.
Speaker 1This kind does not irritate my skin.
Speaker 2I cut just the tiniest little like bloop there and then it has the hole. And when it has the tiny hole you can.
Speaker 1That's a much tinier hole than my hole.
Speaker 2Yeah, your hole's much bigger than my hole, that's very true.
Speaker 1Can I see one of yours and try to cut one.
Speaker 2And, yes, one of yours and try to cut one. And, yes, I want to try something. I will show you how this works when I'm ready to go to bed, to turn in for the night and all the panky panky's done and it's time to sleep.
Speaker 1It's night, night time. Okay, good night, honey. I love you. Okay, so I can understand what you're saying and the fact that it's hot pink and looks like you have the weirdest biggest lips of all time it's really okay, I'm gonna try something here also if I need a drink of water.
Speaker 2If I need a drink of water, I can peel it off and put it back and it does not hurt okay, I'm gonna have to get these, because look at how pretty my mouth hole is your mouth hole is very pretty. You want to know what I did.
Speaker 1I didn't do the whole like let's try to even them out. I just did it again and went bloop so mouth tape tape hack.
Speaker 2Thank you, christmas, that's very smart.
Speaker 1Um, okay, so this is mine. I'm gonna put it on, but I am gonna do the thing that I have found that I have to do. They both have this kind of wavy pattern at the back do they, yeah, they do yeah.
Speaker 1I'm gonna put it on my hand stick once, pull off, stick twice, pull off, stick twice, pull off to try to get it a little less tacky, because mine kind of hurt like a son of a bitch when I was taking them off. I will say these do not irritate my skin. I do find I too sleep, don't wake. I shouldn't say I wake up less. Yeah, in the night I don't snore, mm-hmm, and that's a plus for everyone involved. Okay, so I'm on here and you can probably still kind of hear me. You don't sound great, but I can hear you.
Speaker 1I can still drink through my water bottle, through the straw, and that was really easy to take off. But I have to do the like stick remove, stick remove. Okay. Wait, you try one of mine and I'm going to try one of yours without doing the stick remove Okay.
Speaker 2Also, I have like lotion and powder and stuff on right now which I wouldn't have before bed Right, right, right, right so that was easier to remove than it usually is.
Speaker 1Okay. But all it basically does is I'm a trash person and I forget to wash my face all the time. So it's just fucking magic, it's science, it's just science I?
Speaker 2I cannot speak to the jaw tightening whether one of the things that they say on any kind of advert like there is advertisement. I think it's pronounced advertisement the lore around mouth taping includes the idea that it might chisel your or what snatch your jawline, as they say I would love a snatched jawline yeah me too. I don't know what all this waddle is down here okay, these days, but excuse you, birdie I'm gonna try. Okay, I'm gonna try one of your. Okay, dangerously sticky maybe okay, what?
Exploring Mouth Taping Benefits
Speaker 1what am I doing wrong? Why does this not want to come off? Okay, what am I doing wrong? You know what's your problem. I got it. I got it. It didn't have a slit. Okay, I'm not doing the stick and release. I didn't do the stick and release either. This is gonna hurt. You're gonna save money on waxing your mustache. Do I sound the same? I cut a bigger mouthful than you did. Yeah, I know I don't sound great, especially if I put my finger in my mouth. Okay, so Okay.
Speaker 2I don't know. I think your skin's more sensitive than mine, because that wasn't bad.
Speaker 1That was way better than what those are. I wonder also if they're on all night. If they like, get stickier or stick more.
Speaker 2I do think the longer it's on, like it does seem to adhere.
Speaker 1Better more. Yeah Well, I'm going to have to get some of those and these. I will going to have to get some of those and these. I will continue to play with with the. I think last time I did it I only did the like stick and remove once and on my hand and maybe I got to do stick, remove twice.
Speaker 2Well, everyone can make their own decision and strategy around this, but for me, I just want I just wanted to share this mouth taping advice because it does work.
Speaker 1I'm sleeping better if you snore, if you share this challenge, this is also for people who are either sleeping alone or have been with their person for a while. If you're trying to be sexy and cute, this ain't it. It's not sexy and cute. Yeah, but snoring's not cute either, yes, also. So, um, so, I guess. Um, the ones that you got are called queen tape. Don't sleep poorly, sleep like a queen, uh, running low. This is where you buy them, yeah, roomrefcom. I bought mine on TikTok also, and they did have queen on them, and I don't know if it said queen tape, I feel like it did. But what arrived and this was, mind you, the first time I've ever bought anything on TikTok my card also got hacked, but I don't know if it was from that. It could have been from anything. Um, this is what I got.
Speaker 2So so, there you have it, there you have it.
Speaker 1Mouth tape. Thanks for joining us for the mouth tape tutorial Do you think it makes your lips more chapped?
Speaker 2I usually put a little bit of lip balm on before I go to sleep.
Speaker 1I need lip balm right now, just because it's rainy and dry outside. I do think, if I don't, that sounded stupid. It's rainy and dry outside.
Speaker 2It is raining a lot but it's winter and dry typically. So yeah, that would be my advice. Put a little bit of lip balm on, otherwise, happy taping, bye, Bye.
