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Kate Buckmeyer

Writer, former substitute teacher, and founder of "Kate: Declutter & Redesign"; creator of The Grandma Project, a year-long exploration of her grandmothers' pastimes including golf, contra dancing, and sauerkraut making.

Jul 8, 2026

I Used to Be Fun

I Used to Be Fun

Play Date with Kate Buckmeier

Jul 8 · 50m

Anne-Marie Boyle
Anne-Marie BoyleHOST
21:20
But I'm actually curious if any of the activities surprised you, like surprised you from a standpoint of this is more fun than I thought, or I'm really learning something from this or any of those things.
Kate BuckmeyerGUEST
21:33
Yeah, yeah.
Kate BuckmeyerGUEST
21:35
So It wasn't that I was acting like my grandma's.
Kate BuckmeyerGUEST
21:39
It wasn't like I was trying to be, do and be what they did.
Kate BuckmeyerGUEST
21:42
I knew I had to make it work for me.
Kate BuckmeyerGUEST
21:45
And so my grandma B always made her sandwich and came and sat in her lazy boy and watched Days of Our Lives.
Kate BuckmeyerGUEST
21:53
And so there was a month where I took that daily pause and I started watching Days of Our Lives.

10 MINS LATER

Anne-Marie Boyle
Anne-Marie BoyleHOST
31:54
project, or has that been an ongoing process, or how did this project really help you dig into that?

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