 Good morning, I'm Mary Ellen from the channel Mary Ellen after 60 and today I'm here to do a video on the 10 things that I don't want to do without I don't want to live without I was tagged by two of my dear friends Kathy from Kathy's Beauty Care Chats and I had the pleasure of spending a day with Kathy and Jennifer from the channel Jennifer loves even though I haven't met Jennifer she is my Midwest sister she grew up exactly one hour from where I live we definitely have a Midwest connection and I'm going to link both of their videos below and I hope you go watch them because I enjoy both of them so much before they even uploaded their video both of them asked me if they could tag me and I thought I said sure I can come up with 10 things that I don't want to live without and before they even put up their videos I was on my computer and I listed 10 things that I couldn't live without that I didn't think I could live without and I'm glad I did because I've heard several other people do this and I think it would have swayed me so I'm going to stick with my original list that I have here and my very first thing is I could not live without my faith in God my family and my friends that is number one and I don't need to say anything more than that but I could everything it is all good as long as I have God that is what I believe and the second thing that I cannot live without is my pillow classic and I am going to put a link either at the end of this video or below or somewhere I've had my pillow classic for over five years and I did a review on it and I had no idea that it was such a polarizing subject at the time and I'll show you my pillow classic I I think I had more hate on that video five years ago than I have had on any other video I mean there's people that just don't like it I even here I'm going to bring mine out mine's five years old I still have the tag because I don't want to be arrested what is it don't remove under penalty of law well I heard so many things about it that I cut my pillow and inspected what was on the inside and it was perfect I watched this every month I dried in the dryer it is just perfect for me I can mold it any way that I want it and it stays you know I'm a back sleeper so I will you know kind of get my hand in there and make a little hole and I put my head there if I want to go on my side for sometimes you know you kind of get tired I just put my head at the very end of the pillow and and I love it and I it just works for me so I'm not tempted to try any other pillows and on top of my pillow I always have a silk pillowcase a real silk pillowcase and I've used real silk pillowcases before I knew YouTube videos existed prior to real silk I used satin and prior to that I used a nylon slip a half slip I would sew up that the waistband and I stuck it on my pillow but the very best and you're seeing so much now about real silk and how good it is it is good for you it's good for your skin it keeps your hair from getting frizzy it does not pull moisture from your face or from your hair and it's very hygienic I just changed mine once a week a lot of people will change their pillowcases every few days I don't have oily skin and I don't have well I'm not on my you know I don't have my face in my pillow but I there's several different kinds of silk pillowcases and in my experience anywhere from a 16 mom and that's spelled M-O-M-M-E that is the weight of the silk that is in the pillowcase I think this is a 20 I think I know this is a 25 and this is zippered because I write yeah this is like I write where I bought these this is windjoy and it's a 25 my friend Jackie from upstate New York recommended this and this is a 16 but I tell you what it feels wonderful so really anything above a 16 mom it's called a lot of times mulberry silk but you really to get all the benefits you really want a silk pillowcase and I have seen them as high as $100 a piece and I used to years ago when I bought my first one I'm I'm get I'm thinking it was like $80 but I have quite a few silk pillowcases I bought all of them but one and the one that I didn't buy did not have silk on that whole pillow it was like the top was silk and the bottom wasn't and that's a gem like silk pillowcases too now and that's the one he uses I rotate with a couple of them for him but I like to put my hand underneath my pillow and I like the way it feels so that is something that I know I can live without but I don't want to live without you know I love coffee and I drink a couple of cups of coffee every morning and I have half and half in it and I've been drinking out of the same cup since before Jim and that what it says on it is the difficulty in life is the choice and I just find this to be very true so I put my half and half in here warm it up and I know I talk about this a lot but I love this and I get my frother that has a little wheel that and I press the button and that little thing goes 19,000 times really fast froths at my coffee pour it in there and I have wonderful coffee I used to kind of be a coffee snob and I only wanted fresh beans and then I would grind them and I for some reason I'm thinking I used to order from someplace in New Hampshire and I think it was Mike's coffee I don't know I can't remember but that was just something I did for years and years and I worked in a hospital and one time I was going over to one of the doctor's offices and I was in her private office and I said oh my gosh this smells so good this coffee what is it you're drinking and she said Folgers Columbian and I thought oh my gosh I've got to give that a try well I bought it and I've never special ordered coffee again I always buy it in this size it's a Folgers 100% Columbian I like to get it in the in the medium dark this one is the medium but it's still really good and in the carry this is what we like the cafe bestello and it's delicious so that makes me happy so I'm not sure how many I'm going to count that for maybe one or two things I don't know but the next thing I want to talk about is my chair in the living room and I'm going to try to take a picture of it it's a big leather chair and I bought it I think in 1995 and what is so special that's where I sit that's where I when I am editing my videos when most of the time when I'm watching my videos I sit there and I use the earplugs and gyms in the living room watching television and it's just the most fabulous chair well one time I think it was New Year's Eve 2001 and I was babysitting with my daughter's oldest son and my son's oldest son and my son's oldest son it's so hard not to mention names but I've tried not to my son's oldest son was 10 months old and my daughter's oldest son he was a little over three well the baby was not a happy camper I don't know if he did he just didn't feel good so I got up and we sat in that chair I had both those kids around my arms and I had plenty of room and I rocked and I rocked and I rocked and I literally rocked all night long and they were comfortable and I was comfortable and I was so impressed with how wonderful that chair was that that year I bought my son a one just exactly like mine and then I come to find out my daughter was pregnant with her second child and so the end of that year I bought her one but you know I just don't think you can beat real leather I think it gets prettier with age I bought this one for in here and it will outlive me but I don't want to do without my leather chair especially the one that I have in the living room last year I bought an Apple watch and it did not agree with my skin there was nothing I could do I broke out underneath it so I went with a Fitbit and I bought it May of 2019 well it quit working oh probably about a month and a half ago it would not register and you can't use the watch unless you have the app on your phone well I tried everything to find I mean I did I went to the Fitbit website I followed all their instructions I went to YouTube and followed all the instructions so I finally called the company but before I even called the company I got online and I searched for a Fitbit Versa light and I'll put the name up here it's not the newest that they have but what I really like about it it monitors my sleep it monitors my heart it monitors my steps if my phone is in the other room and it rings and I don't hear it it'll tell me that my phone's ringing I can look down and see who it is and I didn't have one for about a week and I really missed it so before I even called the company to talk about this I thought I'm gonna order one because I don't want to wait so I ordered one and I believe I ordered it from Coles and I got it in and got it set up and then I called Fitbit because I thought I don't want to just have a watch that doesn't work that I could get it get it working and give it to somebody well I called them and they went through everything that I had done and they were super nice but because it was over a year old they could not do anything but send me a discount for another watch well they said they send it through the email and when I got it I opened it up and it was 25% off and I think the watch on their website was a hundred and fifty nine ninety something and 25% off that would have made the watch a hundred and nineteen dollars and I know I paid less than that strictly when I ordered it from Coles so anyway I don't want to do without my watch I was a little disappointed my watch only lasted like 15 months before it died but I will tell you if my new watch only last for a year that's like eight dollars and a quarter a month that's average it out how much and I would definitely pay that amount because I really do rely on it a lot and it'll do a whole lot more things than what I use it for there's a stopwatch there's a timer which I use a timer but it's really well it's been really important and I it comes with two bands two different links bands but they're plastic and I don't care for that plastic so I ordered Jim and I ordered I ordered myself a tan one this color and a black one from Amazon and I ordered Jim a black one for his watch a leather band that just to me I like so much better so sometimes it really pays not to get the newest version of something you can save some money that way and I have an iPhone I have an iPhone the plain iPhone 10 and then I'm filming with my old iPhone which was an iPhone 7 it would be very hard for me to do without my smartphone this helps me so much I in fact Jim even has an iPhone he had a flip phone and he saw all the things I can do with mine and he wanted one to S I R I I won't say her name but I can just I mean like I can just say hey Siri what's the population of New York City and she'll tell me as of 2019 the population of New York City was 8,336,817 anyway I mean I find out so much information and something that is I mean there's so many things that can help you like I can say right now hey Siri turn on my flashlight it's on you know anyway I know you can do that on any phone but I absolutely love it for so many reasons hey Siri turn off my flashlight it's off and one of the things I don't want to live without is my iPhone case it's it's leather it's my shield and leather it has that RFID or whatever protection for your credit cards I have my medication list some cash I just love this I just absolutely love it it has a kickstand you know you can watch TV on it if you want but I wouldn't buy a phone if I couldn't get a Sheldon leather iPhone case or Android they make all different kinds but I just makes my life easier and I guess the other thing is in 2015 I bought at a MacBook Pro I tell you that is it's so intuitive for what I need it for I edit my videos on iMovie and it's just so easy to use Jim has an a laptop a I think an HP laptop if he wants me to show him how to do something I tell you what I'm I can hardly do it at all so I really appreciate having that they're wonderful about updating it seems like that you'll I can always have my MacBook and I won't probably have to replace it I don't know maybe you guys can tell me but I love it you know I love my superhero mascara when I before I apply my mascara I brush my lashes with a clean old mascara wand and then within I do like 15 swipes without even going back in I do 15 on the other I comb my lashes and I have mascara on from morning to night it never flakes and it's just the best mascara for me that I've ever found so I don't want to do without superhero and they'll probably quit making it and I'll tell you what will be my favorite then it'll be the thrive I bought some of that I talked about it in the video but that will be if they quit making superhero I think it'll be thrive will be my number one and how can I do a video about things I don't want to live without without talking about my floccite mirror and I'm going to put a picture of it it's six and a half inches wide it's 15 times magnification I will tell you I could not do my skincare without it I can really examine my skin I can tell early if something is is aggravating me I can twist my eyelashes I can look in my eye to see if there's something in it I don't put my makeup on with that mirror but that has enabled me to be able to to know what my skin needs I go a lot by feel how my skin feels at night depending on what I'm going to do but I actually to see it and to actually look at the wrinkles and see how deep they are and to be able to assess my skin and see if a product's helping me I I love it I've had mine for over 14 years and the last thing is retin A I love what it's done for my skin I my skin I know I look older than I did when I started retin A in that was it'll be six years this month that I started retin A I look older but my skin looks better than it did 15 years ago I know it does my skin barrier is intact my skin is healthy I I see a lot of benefits from retin A and if I thought for a moment there was anything harmful in it I wouldn't use it at all but if you live in the United States and you want to buy your retin A in the United States go to goodrx.com I checked this morning and in our area 45 gram tube and that's the largest tube that I know of there's a 20 gram tube and then a 45 gram tube the 45 gram tube lasts me well over a year and right it's anywhere from 62 to 65 dollars you know 62 dollars for over a year I mean that's right about $5 a month but I know you kind of have to change up pharmacies you know you need to get a prescription from your doctor and go to one pharmacy one time and then the next year go to another pharmacy and use your goodrx coupon but it works for anybody whether you have insurance or not and if you're lucky your insurance will pay for it and if you're still here this is going to be a giveaway I'm excited one of my $50 e-gift card winners never claimed their gift so instead of giving two $50 e-gift cards I am going to give three so I will have three winners and of course you have to be 18 years old or older be subscribed to my channel before this video goes live it is international and I mean I'm trying to think what I want you to say in the comment section below so if you're interested in winning a $50 e-gift card or a PayPal deposit in the comment section below just tell me something that you would not want to live without I absolutely love reading the comments and I'm really interested to see the things you don't want to live without I am not going to tag anybody but anybody is just feel free to do this and let me know that you did it so I can watch your video it is all good I hope you guys are having a great day I hope you're staying safe and I appreciate you very very much and I will see you in my next video take care and Apple Watch and my I think it actually I I can't beat it I know hey Siri I put there