Amanda Barroso

Exactly.

I think that that's wonderful.

OK, so I got a brick for Christmas and I've been to build a house.

Okay, for those of you who don't know, a brick is like this little small like physical device that helps you block the apps on your phone by adding a little friction to how you access apps on your phone.

So it's like a little, it has a magnet.

So I have it like up on my fridge and you tap your phone to the brick

And it locks certain apps and it's like fully customizable.

You can set up different times, like a workday time, family time, weekend time, whatever that is.

And the only way that you can unlock those apps is to physically tap the brick again.

The idea is that by making you get up and go to the brick, you have to touch your phone to it.

You're going to be more intentional about when and why you're using your phone instead of just unlocking those apps on autopilot.

I know some other apps, you can go in and just do it from your phone, but like the

physically being forced to like get up and tap it's not a brick to build it's it's building something else right it's building good habits it's building good habits okay so i got this for christmas and i've kind of been experimenting with how it will help me recapture my attention i don't know if you guys have this problem too but just especially during like peak family hours on weekdays

I was thinking about like, what do I want my kids to remember about me?

And I do not want them to have this image of their mom, like sitting around on her phone after school or whatever.

Like I want to be more present.

I want to be a more present mom, more present partner.

And that's one of my resolutions for 2026.

But I was also thinking about the financial piece of this and

And I wanted to track my total personal spending in February to see if there's a connection between being on my phone during those hours and spending money.