I love Martha Stewart these days. And when I say “love,” I mean I enjoy watching her do questionable things and simply not care about how it comes across. It’s entertaining. Recently she’s been telling Thanksgiving to f–k off and hacking away at icebergs to top off her cocktails. Now Martha is imparting her best billionaire-empire genius to MasterClass: don’t hang window curtains so you can wake up early. That’s what she had to say to MasterClass CEO David Rogier at an event last week (Martha also has a new class with the series available now). Another reason she doesn’t hang curtains? Because she likes “to look outdoors.” She does know that curtains can be drawn, right? People Mag wrote up more of Martha’s gems for us:
Martha Stewart has a trick to waking up early — letting the sunlight in.
The lifestyle guru and first, self-made American female billionaire doesn’t have curtains on any of the windows of her home in Bedford, New York.
“I wake up really, really early,” the 82-year-old explained during a Q&A with MasterClass CEO David Rogier at New York City’s Whitby Hotel on Thursday. “There are no curtains… so I let the sun come in as I start having workers come to my farm. I live on a farm and they come… at 7 a.m. so I have to be up.”
There’s a multitude of reasons Stewart is an early riser, but one is “I don’t sleep past that time ever because it would be embarrassing to be lounging around while my housekeepers were cleaning and how horrible.”
She also tends to her many animals — “hundreds,” Steward said — on the farm. “There’s lots and lots of animals, hundreds of animals and lots of gardens to take care of,” she explained.
Stewart has a new MasterClass offering that explores a day-in-the-life of the businesswoman, including her 5 a.m. wake-up calls. In the class, which launched Friday, she elaborates, “I’ve always gotten up with daybreak. I get dressed and I go to my Pilates instructor… It helps tremendously. Your state of mind.”
In a Zoom interview earlier this year with Apartment Therapy, Stewart also divulged her distaste for curtains, stating, “I like to look outdoors.”
[From People]
Guys, now I know it’s Hanukkah, and this story is all the gift I need. She’s asked to share nuggets of wisdom with the peasants public. Not only is Martha’s nugget simply “let the sun wake you up,” but it’s not even for her workday. It’s just so she’s up to supervise the workers on her property! Or so she isn’t lazing around when the housekeepers are there. How gauche would that be! And take note aspiring entrepreneurs: you really should be rising early to meet with your personal Pilates instructor! Somewhere in the Hamptons Gwyneth Paltrow is taking notes, breathlessly, on how to sound more tone deaf and rich.
Speaking as someone who doesn’t have a property but a one-bedroom first-floor apartment, curtains are a must. My bedroom windows open up to an inner courtyard. No one out there should be subjected to the sight of me disrobing. And as for waking up at daybreak a la Martha, well, I sleep hot. Which means I could be in varying stages of undress by the time I’m getting up. Again, my neighbors don’t need to see that. Unless later in that MasterClass series Martha has a lesson on going from unconscious to startled awake, but elegantly. And all while in the nude. That’s what I need a master class in.
Embed from Getty Images
Embed from Getty Images
photos credit: Backgrid, Getty, IMAGO/mpi099/MediaPunch/Avalon
Source: Read Full Article
