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- 0:00Speaker 1: Hello, my name's Santasha Nabananga Bamblet. I'm a proud Order
- 0:05Speaker 1: Order Kerni Whoalbury and a waddery woman. And before we
- 0:08Speaker 1: get started on She's on the Money podcast, I would
- 0:11Speaker 1: like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land of
- 0:14Speaker 1: which this podcast is recorded on a wondery country, acknowledging
- 0:18Speaker 1: the elders, the ancestors and the next generation coming through
- 0:23Speaker 1: as this podcast is about connecting, empowering, knowledge sharing and
- 0:27Speaker 1: the storytelling of you to make a difference for today
- 0:31Speaker 1: and lasting impact for tomorrow.
- 0:33Speaker 2: Let's get into it.
- 0:34Speaker 3: She's on the Money. She's on the Money.
- 0:57Speaker 4: Hello, and welcome to She's on the Money Podcast, Millennials
- 1:01Speaker 4: who want financial freedom. My friends, today is Friday. I
- 1:04Speaker 4: bet you didn't see this coming, but it is time
- 1:07Speaker 4: to get my little team together and celebrate you our
- 1:10Speaker 4: incredible She's on the Money community. Miss Jess Gorici is
- 1:13Speaker 4: going to be sharing our favorite money wins and telling
- 1:16Speaker 4: us about her thirtieth birthday. Miss Bechsayed has a number
- 1:19Speaker 4: of broke tips for us which I cannot wait to
- 1:22Speaker 4: get to. We also have a juicy money dilemma this week,
- 1:25Speaker 4: which is all about whether you're liable if your partner
- 1:28Speaker 4: owes tax, which I think is an interesting conundrum. I
- 1:31Speaker 4: love talking about partner debt. And then we have a
- 1:34Speaker 4: juicy little DM that you slid into our messages about
- 1:37Speaker 4: this week. We're talking about contributing to shared funds when
- 1:41Speaker 4: you're on Matt leave and your partner is full time,
- 1:44Speaker 4: which I feel like can also be really juicy.
- 1:47Speaker 2: I'm excited.
- 1:47Speaker 4: But before we get there, my loves, how are your
- 1:51Speaker 4: weeks specifically, Jessica, How are your thirties treating you?
- 1:54Speaker 5: Oh?
- 1:55Speaker 2: My god, great, I have been here for all of
- 1:58Speaker 2: twelve hours.
- 1:59Speaker 4: Twelve hours of thirty. It feel old? Excuse me? Were
- 2:04Speaker 4: this offly? And I am older than you?
- 2:07Speaker 2: And sorry?
- 2:10Speaker 4: Do you know what I really liked when I was like, yes,
- 2:11Speaker 4: I'm older than you. Just was like, oh, you're only
- 2:13Speaker 4: a year older. And I was like, I'm not though
- 2:15Speaker 4: I'm much older, but let's go with that.
- 2:18Speaker 6: It's very flattering.
- 2:18Speaker 4: And I was like, thanks, thanks, thanks, you just give
- 2:21Speaker 4: youthful fat. You know I'm immature. Yeah, I think that's
- 2:24Speaker 4: what they might.
- 2:25Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's been good. Nothing crazy, as you said.
- 2:29Speaker 2: I think when it was your birthday, like a week ago.
- 2:32Speaker 2: As year older, I think birthdays become like less of
- 2:34Speaker 2: a big thing, and I think I don't know, it
- 2:37Speaker 2: was weird. I was in two minds. I was like,
- 2:39Speaker 2: this is like a huge birthday, and then part of
- 2:41Speaker 2: me was like, oh, I just want to let it
- 2:42Speaker 2: like roll. So I was kind of like speaking to
- 2:44Speaker 2: the middle old Yeah, like it's just somewhere in the middle,
- 2:47Speaker 2: you know. But it's been really good. I came in,
- 2:49Speaker 2: I got lots of birthday love, I got my face
- 2:51Speaker 2: photoshopped onto a sign. What more could I ask for
- 2:54Speaker 2: from you?
- 2:55Speaker 4: But truly not anything more. Beck and I just use
- 2:57Speaker 4: that as an excuse to make your birthday aout us
- 3:00Speaker 4: to is also on that sign.
- 3:02Speaker 2: I love it.
- 3:03Speaker 6: I love other people's birthdays for this exact reason.
- 3:06Speaker 4: I just like celebrating other people. It's just really fun.
- 3:09Speaker 6: Yeah, And honestly, like I feel like once a year
- 3:13Speaker 6: we get to really bask in the glory and just
- 3:18Speaker 6: like we hear from everyone that we care about. It's
- 3:20Speaker 6: like it's a day where you can have all the
- 3:22Speaker 6: attention on you and you can feel good about it,
- 3:25Speaker 6: Like you don't have to feel bad about anything, not
- 3:26Speaker 6: that you do anyway, But like I am just so
- 3:29Speaker 6: happy to be able to celebrate you without it being
- 3:31Speaker 6: weird like that.
- 3:32Speaker 4: Without it being weird. Yeah, although she comes into work
- 3:35Speaker 4: every day justin she's like, I really wish I could celebrate.
- 3:40Speaker 6: Yes, Ricky, every day I wake up and think, oh
- 3:44Speaker 6: my goodness, I'm so happy she's alive. But today it's
- 3:47Speaker 6: not weird to stay say it out loud.
- 3:49Speaker 4: I love that. I love that. It's incredible. That's not
- 3:52Speaker 4: weird at all.
- 3:55Speaker 2: Apart from getting to celebrate, it's been the.
- 3:58Speaker 4: Best week ever. She got to tell you how what
- 4:00Speaker 4: you mean.
- 4:00Speaker 2: The best best week?
- 4:02Speaker 4: I'm so happy that you're live.
- 4:04Speaker 6: No, my week has been yeah, Rutchull you know it's
- 4:08Speaker 6: actually Also it's a fair.
- 4:09Speaker 2: While away, nearly your birthday.
- 4:11Speaker 6: Two is nearly my birthday. And usually I say July
- 4:14Speaker 6: is like the whole of July's yeah birthday.
- 4:17Speaker 4: It is your birthday.
- 4:17Speaker 6: Yep, but yes, I kind of have to share it
- 4:20Speaker 6: with both of you now, like you're like thirtieth of June.
- 4:23Speaker 2: Yeah, our team is like all cancers. There's so many
- 4:26Speaker 2: of us concentrated Corris this month as well.
- 4:29Speaker 4: Is it actually? And Brook is also a cancrian? Yes, yeah,
- 4:33Speaker 4: Mike is I feel like you can't work here unless
- 4:37Speaker 4: you're a Cancrian. I'm Leo actually, But do you know
- 4:43Speaker 4: what that tells me? I do not know that much
- 4:45Speaker 4: about the star science, which do you know what? Probably
- 4:48Speaker 4: a flex? Yeah, no, that's true.
- 4:50Speaker 6: It's very telling you don't want to know too much
- 4:53Speaker 6: about star signs. You kind of want to be on
- 4:54Speaker 6: the cusp, you.
- 4:55Speaker 4: Dabble, I know. So I've really been into dating shows
- 4:59Speaker 4: recently and just like watching dating shows on like Netflix
- 5:02Speaker 4: and stuff. And we've been watching a dating show on
- 5:04Speaker 4: Netflix at the moment, and like we've started a new season,
- 5:08Speaker 4: and I just knew it was going to be a
- 5:10Speaker 4: good season when like two of the girls they were like, Hi,
- 5:13Speaker 4: I'm Jess and I'm the Cancerrian, and I was just like,
- 5:16Speaker 4: this is gonna be So you just know that when
- 5:20Speaker 4: they introduced themselves by this star sign.
- 5:23Speaker 6: They're letting a lot of their bad behavior go like well, I'm.
- 5:26Speaker 4: Cancerrious really rude because of my star sign.
- 5:32Speaker 2: Do you remember when Abby Chatfield was on the Batch
- 5:35Speaker 2: and she got done so dirty because she was astronomer
- 5:40Speaker 2: and he like they came on, they were talking about
- 5:41Speaker 2: what they did and she's like, what are you doing?
- 5:42Speaker 2: He's like, I'm an astronomer, and she was like, amazing,
- 5:44Speaker 2: I'm a cancer or like whatever or whatever. She said yeah,
- 5:48Speaker 2: and she was like making a joke and trying to
- 5:50Speaker 2: be funny, but they made her look so dirty.
- 5:52Speaker 6: But really it's so clever, Like that's such a funny,
- 5:55Speaker 6: Like I would never have made that joke. It wouldn't
- 5:57Speaker 6: have come to me fast enough. And she's so sweaty.
- 6:00Speaker 4: She is so witty. It does my head in how
- 6:02Speaker 4: smart that woman is, Like do you guys know she
- 6:04Speaker 4: has a master's degree as well?
- 6:06Speaker 2: That doesn't so proud, doesn't. It doesn't.
- 6:08Speaker 6: She is very very smart.
- 6:09Speaker 4: It makes sense. I just feel like they did her
- 6:11Speaker 4: a dirty with that edit. But like low key, that
- 6:13Speaker 4: was really funny.
- 6:14Speaker 2: It was hilarious.
- 6:15Speaker 4: It was amazing. It was really funny.
- 6:17Speaker 6: I'm not going to go into this too much because
- 6:20Speaker 6: I know that we have a whole episode to do,
- 6:21Speaker 6: but they do make really pretty girls on like well
- 6:25Speaker 6: any kind of girl. They always make them look like
- 6:28Speaker 6: the dumb bimbo. But like, if you're smart, you're smart,
- 6:31Speaker 6: doesn't matter what gender you are, you just you're smart.
- 6:32Speaker 4: And she's really smart.
- 6:33Speaker 6: Anyway. I didn't like that at also thank you for.
- 6:36Speaker 2: I Love You.
- 6:37Speaker 4: But we're going to move on from our Abby fan
- 6:40Speaker 4: club because it's actually meant to be a Jess fan club,
- 6:44Speaker 4: so it's always going to come back to That's so great.
- 6:46Speaker 4: It's also Jess's birthday, which I think is a good,
- 6:50Speaker 4: good theme of this episode. But I want to jump
- 6:53Speaker 4: in because Jess. This week we have a number of
- 6:55Speaker 4: really good money with What are they? Do you want
- 6:58Speaker 4: to start at the top?
- 6:59Speaker 2: Absolutely? Firstly, this week, I've got one from Jade who said,
- 7:02Speaker 2: money win. I purchased a cookbook that's called ten Dollars Meals,
- 7:06Speaker 2: and using it has significantly reduced my grocery bill. She said,
- 7:09Speaker 2: it's almost been halved because all the recipes in this
- 7:13Speaker 2: book are ten dollars a under the cook which I
- 7:14Speaker 2: thought was very cool.
- 7:16Speaker 4: I love that. Is it still relevant or is this
- 7:18Speaker 4: like a little bit of a Curtis Stone moment where
- 7:20Speaker 4: he used to be able to do the ten dollar
- 7:22Speaker 4: meals with the supermarket and now it's like, oh, the
- 7:25Speaker 4: block of cheese is ten dollars.
- 7:26Speaker 2: Oh my god, depressing. I mean, I love that, though
- 7:29Speaker 2: yea half her grocery bills, I'm assuming it's at least helping.
- 7:31Speaker 4: It's actually working. A money win shed called Curdis Stone.
- 7:34Speaker 4: Let him know we could go back into business.
- 7:36Speaker 2: Have a look at the book, Curtis, maybe'll help you out. Next,
- 7:39Speaker 2: I've got a money win from Sheridan who said she
- 7:42Speaker 2: got a free ticket to Missy Higgins on Louis Yet.
- 7:44Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, I saw that money win. How does
- 7:46Speaker 4: it feel to lift my dream? Incredible?
- 7:48Speaker 2: I didn't even know miss Higgins was touring, and seeing
- 7:50Speaker 2: the name just took me, like right back to being
- 7:53Speaker 2: twelve years old. I remember, were you here?
- 7:57Speaker 4: I don't know if you were here, but you got
- 7:59Speaker 4: tickets and I was like, why didn't you tell me?
- 8:02Speaker 2: No, I don't think I was here for that for them.
- 8:06Speaker 4: But also Missy Higgins defined this won't be relevant to
- 8:09Speaker 4: you because you're a child beck, but it didn't find
- 8:13Speaker 4: my grade nine experience. I feel like all of your songs, yeah,
- 8:18Speaker 4: like I just be's like I wasn't born yet, but
- 8:22Speaker 4: I just I'm a test.
- 8:23Speaker 2: You're older than me.
- 8:26Speaker 4: Yeah, baby, you are your baby. You're all babies.
- 8:29Speaker 2: The vibe is I'm just a babier.
- 8:31Speaker 6: We're all just babies.
- 8:32Speaker 2: Actually, at the end of the day, just a little we're.
- 8:34Speaker 4: All just doing life for the first time. Behind.
- 8:37Speaker 2: Oh my god, that's so true. Put it on a
- 8:39Speaker 2: T shirt Salibate's merch. Next, I've got money in from Kalise,
- 8:43Speaker 2: who said she went to Freedom to look at shears
- 8:46Speaker 2: for her new home and she found a dresser that
- 8:48Speaker 2: she'd wanted for years that is now sold out for
- 8:51Speaker 2: two hundred and ninety nine dollars. It was originally fifteen hundred.
- 8:57Speaker 2: Oh my god, it was old floor stock. It's in
- 8:59Speaker 2: perfect condition, and I wanted to give it a shout
- 9:02Speaker 2: out because I'm really jealous because I've always wanted this
- 9:05Speaker 2: dresser and a picture. Yeah, well you see called the
- 9:09Speaker 2: Raffles dresser from Freedom. It's got a cute return yeah,
- 9:15Speaker 2: very website. Yeah, so absolutely well done from you, colle.
- 9:19Speaker 4: You can see why we have bought it because fifteen
- 9:21Speaker 4: hundred dollars for a dresser feels like a lot.
- 9:24Speaker 2: Three hundred bucks so money win.
- 9:26Speaker 4: That is a very good money win. Because also if
- 9:28Speaker 4: she decides that she doesn't like it, Galise can stick
- 9:30Speaker 4: it on Facebook market play make a problem exactly. You
- 9:32Speaker 4: can stick it on Facebook market place for five hundred
- 9:35Speaker 4: bucks and people would think that's a bargain absolutely completely.
- 9:38Speaker 2: Next, I've got a money win from Jackie who said
- 9:40Speaker 2: she got an email from Hoints today offering her a
- 9:43Speaker 2: one dollar movie ticket that comes with a free small popcorn.
- 9:46Speaker 4: Well, thank you.
- 9:47Speaker 2: Don't know how we get on that lead. That is
- 9:50Speaker 2: incredible if anyone works on hots and knows how to
- 9:53Speaker 2: sort that out.
- 9:53Speaker 4: You can't even popcorn these days for a dollar.
- 9:56Speaker 2: And they've shrunk the sizes and a lot of places too.
- 9:59Speaker 2: We went to a cineer the other day and I
- 10:01Speaker 2: was like, James grabbed the popcorn and I was like,
- 10:03Speaker 2: oh no, I want a large, and he's like, that
- 10:04Speaker 2: is a large asilation a drink with ten bucks. I
- 10:09Speaker 2: nearly died.
- 10:10Speaker 4: Do you know how hand doors for a drink?
- 10:12Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 10:12Speaker 4: No, no, no, And it would have been just post piccorn. Yeah,
- 10:15Speaker 4: it would have been post mixed. There's not even a
- 10:16Speaker 4: free bottle post so I stand post mix. Like my
- 10:20Speaker 4: favorite type of coke is McDonald's coke. Oh yeah, like
- 10:23Speaker 4: a crispy McDonald's coke zero.
- 10:26Speaker 2: It's different really like nothing else.
- 10:29Speaker 4: Like nothing else. I don't know why, but we also
- 10:31Speaker 4: know on this show if you've been a long time
- 10:33Speaker 4: listen that you know how obsessed Jess is with movie popcorn.
- 10:37Speaker 4: But do you know Jess has been known to order
- 10:39Speaker 4: movie popcorn or uber eats.
- 10:41Speaker 2: I think you do you want to go to the cinema?
- 10:44Speaker 2: I have done that because they cinema, my local cinema
- 10:47Speaker 2: closed a while ago, and so I can't uberets it anymore,
- 10:50Speaker 2: and so I do occasionally just pop into a different
- 10:52Speaker 2: cinema and take it to go.
- 10:54Speaker 4: You take the popcorn to go.
- 10:55Speaker 2: It's always quite embarrassing because I get in the line,
- 10:57Speaker 2: they go, do you want a ticket? And I go no,
- 10:59Speaker 2: and you know they might assume that I've bought a
- 11:01Speaker 2: ticket online. They give me the popcorn, and then instead
- 11:03Speaker 2: of going right into the cinema, I just do it
- 11:05Speaker 2: hang a left.
- 11:07Speaker 6: Literally I can picture the person there that's like waiting
- 11:11Speaker 6: to like rip your ticket. Watch you walk straight and
- 11:15Speaker 6: then go sharp left out back into the car.
- 11:18Speaker 4: Where's she going? She doesn't want to see a movie?
- 11:20Speaker 4: Little do they know you were never going to see I'm.
- 11:23Speaker 2: Watching a movie and at home, babe, it's so much cheaper. Next,
- 11:27Speaker 2: I've got a money in from Jessica excellent name, who
- 11:30Speaker 2: said she paid off her zip pay with her tax return.
- 11:34Speaker 4: Oh, money win and very good use of your.
- 11:36Speaker 2: Tax I can completely agree. If you've got debt and
- 11:39Speaker 2: you've got a tax coming in, maybe think about allocating
- 11:41Speaker 2: it there because I feel like that's a very good
- 11:43Speaker 2: use of it. And then lastly, I've got a money
- 11:46Speaker 2: in from Lauren, who I feel like we'll all appreciate.
- 11:48Speaker 2: She said she's just realized her kids daycare makes free
- 11:51Speaker 2: coffees for parents ont drop off. WHOA, I'm sorry, what
- 11:54Speaker 2: is that incredible stuff?
- 11:57Speaker 4: Harvey? Are you going to go to daycare soon?
- 11:59Speaker 2: Because I like that that's a prerequisite now and I
- 12:01Speaker 2: wonder they fact checked if you're a parent? Try do
- 12:10Speaker 2: you know if there is mine? Do you know what.
- 12:14Speaker 4: I can't with you too? Do you know what's weirder
- 12:16Speaker 4: than going to the movies and getting popcorn without seeing
- 12:18Speaker 4: the movies is going to a dayare for the coffee
- 12:22Speaker 4: ar when you don't have kids.
- 12:25Speaker 6: Okay, I see, I love this for us.
- 12:28Speaker 4: I would like to move off this if you ever
- 12:30Speaker 4: want to do daycare drop off in the future. For Harvey, though,
- 12:32Speaker 4: you let me know to be really appreciated. But Beck,
- 12:36Speaker 4: what broke tips have you got for us this week?
- 12:38Speaker 2: Okay?
- 12:39Speaker 6: So I actually really the community came through this week.
- 12:42Speaker 4: You didn't steal your girlfriend's home work, did you.
- 12:44Speaker 6: I didn't steal my girlfriend's ideas this time around. So
- 12:48Speaker 6: the first one I have comes from this is looking
- 12:51Speaker 6: really bad. But the person in our community, her name
- 12:54Speaker 6: is Jess.
- 12:55Speaker 4: Sure, Jeez, name is Jess. Does she happen to work for?
- 12:59Speaker 2: Are not this one?
- 13:02Speaker 4: Not this one?
- 13:03Speaker 6: I promise you, Jess, you know that I'm talking about you,
- 13:06Speaker 6: and I really appreciate you, so Jess suggested. And I
- 13:09Speaker 6: guess this is like if you maybe if you own
- 13:10Speaker 6: your own home, but I'm sure also if you rent,
- 13:13Speaker 6: you do have.
- 13:13Speaker 4: The ab ablity to do this.
- 13:14Speaker 6: I guess it's also if you have like a big,
- 13:16Speaker 6: you know, plot of land, but you.
- 13:20Speaker 4: Just happen to have land, you might not be broken.
- 13:23Speaker 6: But basically, Jess said that housing chickens were either like
- 13:27Speaker 6: in a little coop or whatever, just owning chickens of
- 13:29Speaker 6: some kind. I'm sure you don't need like a big
- 13:31Speaker 6: bit of land like I feel like I could do that.
- 13:33Speaker 4: I'm married.
- 13:34Speaker 2: My boyfriend's mom has the inn back out.
- 13:35Speaker 6: Yeah, and it's not like it doesn't have to be
- 13:37Speaker 6: a big plot of land.
- 13:39Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I don't like that.
- 13:40Speaker 4: I feel like hold on, so the broke tip this
- 13:43Speaker 4: week have a big plot of land and get some chickens.
- 13:46Speaker 6: Own a home and then have a big plot of land.
- 13:50Speaker 4: How relatable. I love this, Just really cute, Jess. They're
- 13:56Speaker 4: just really cute.
- 13:57Speaker 6: No, but you do get obviously free a I'm not
- 14:00Speaker 6: sure how it works, like if you need a hen
- 14:03Speaker 6: as well, but chickens.
- 14:05Speaker 2: I genuinely don't know how that works.
- 14:07Speaker 4: But hens lay eggs.
- 14:08Speaker 6: Roosters do not, Okay, so what I have one of
- 14:12Speaker 6: one all the other I don't really understand. But you
- 14:14Speaker 6: do get free eggs, which is also obviously amazing, and.
- 14:19Speaker 4: Trying to move only have to buy food for them
- 14:21Speaker 4: and up keep them instead of buying real eggs.
- 14:24Speaker 6: No, this is the thing that just said that actually
- 14:27Speaker 6: feeding them is really really cheap. You can you know,
- 14:30Speaker 6: my best friend live who I talk about, her family
- 14:32Speaker 6: have chickens and we literally just give the chickens else
- 14:36Speaker 6: are left over anything like whatever. We've got a lot
- 14:39Speaker 6: of organic produce, so when they eat them very in
- 14:42Speaker 6: your garden they do, and it's very very cheap to upkeep.
- 14:45Speaker 6: And then if you move the coop every few years,
- 14:47Speaker 6: and you get like a big thing of compost. Like
- 14:48Speaker 6: it's just like it's all about like regeneration and eggs
- 14:52Speaker 6: and I don't know, it just sounds a wholesome.
- 14:54Speaker 4: And I love this. Keep them in small spaces, and
- 14:57Speaker 4: like I would like to just claim that you don't
- 14:59Speaker 4: need to own a big plot land to have some chickens.
- 15:03Speaker 4: You can actually just chuck them in your backyard. They're
- 15:05Speaker 4: really good pets because they're actually really affectionate and they're great.
- 15:08Speaker 2: They're great for kids, right because I know one of
- 15:10Speaker 2: my friends is a kind of teacher and they have
- 15:12Speaker 2: they do chickens every year, but then they go to
- 15:14Speaker 2: a loving home. They don't go anywhere they shouldn't be going.
- 15:17Speaker 2: They go to a loving home at the end of
- 15:18Speaker 2: the year. But they're good for like teaching kids about
- 15:21Speaker 2: like the circle of life kind of. Yeah, really sharing
- 15:24Speaker 2: for a pet because they're pretty low maintenance.
- 15:26Speaker 4: And growing up, my grandparents had a big farm in
- 15:29Speaker 4: Tazzy and I was taught once how to pick up
- 15:32Speaker 4: the chickens when I would have been like four or five,
- 15:34Speaker 4: And that was a really bad thing to teach me
- 15:36Speaker 4: because all I do is pick up chicken, no fear
- 15:39Speaker 4: at all. I just go in and grab a chalk
- 15:40Speaker 4: and be like we're going, We're going.
- 15:43Speaker 2: They're kind of like cats because they loaf.
- 15:46Speaker 4: I yeah, they do.
- 15:47Speaker 2: They do the loaf and you just like cuddle them.
- 15:50Speaker 4: They're very affectionate.
- 15:51Speaker 5: I like that.
- 15:51Speaker 2: I think it's a fun to get chickens.
- 15:53Speaker 4: Summary of that story, but not a big plot of land,
- 15:57Speaker 4: because it turns out it's actually not that easy. That's right.
- 16:00Speaker 6: You don't need all those things that I mentioned, so
- 16:02Speaker 6: actually you don't forget that, but you do just I
- 16:07Speaker 6: don't know, maybe you need a backyard, I guess at least.
- 16:09Speaker 4: Yeah, like probably don't keep them in your bedroom. Yeah,
- 16:12Speaker 4: I mean a second tip. The second one comes from
- 16:15Speaker 4: Maddie who sent me real that was it's actually by
- 16:17Speaker 4: the money mum, and she says that cleaning supplies are
- 16:20Speaker 4: usually a lot cheaper buttings, if not like half price,
- 16:23Speaker 4: sometimes half the price of woolwors and goals and things
- 16:25Speaker 4: like that. Your dish washing tablets, yeah, just you know,
- 16:28Speaker 4: your general cleaning supplies. No, I can't think of any
- 16:31Speaker 4: right now. It's very clear that I don't do a
- 16:33Speaker 4: lot of cleaning at home.
- 16:34Speaker 1: Uh.
- 16:34Speaker 4: Anyway, that's the second that's a great tip. Jess and
- 16:37Speaker 4: I are also really big fans. This is not sponsored
- 16:40Speaker 4: at all of the Reject Shop. Like I signed, cleaning
- 16:43Speaker 4: supplies so cheap at the Reject Shop that now I'm
- 16:47Speaker 4: always getting like my dish washing tablets and my laundry
- 16:50Speaker 4: liquid and stuff like that there because I'm shocked at
- 16:53Speaker 4: how cheap it is. In comparison, they carry niche things
- 16:56Speaker 4: like there's this one spray. If you have an air
- 16:58Speaker 4: fry you know how hard those things are to clean.
- 16:59Speaker 4: There one spray beat sell it cold, so boring.
- 17:03Speaker 2: It's really good content.
- 17:05Speaker 4: This the good content.
- 17:07Speaker 2: Is this spray that cleans the air fryer really well.
- 17:08Speaker 2: They stopped something that cold. It was really sad, and
- 17:10Speaker 2: then I found it at the reject Shop and it
- 17:12Speaker 2: was cheaper than itals.
- 17:13Speaker 4: And also just one time bought Christmas themed scrub daddies.
- 17:17Speaker 6: That's cute.
- 17:18Speaker 2: They do testive ones, which we love.
- 17:20Speaker 4: It's just so grand.
- 17:21Speaker 6: There was no one needs it, but you need it, you.
- 17:23Speaker 4: Know, guys. The Windex is two dollars a bottle at
- 17:26Speaker 4: the Reject Shop. Like riddle me that. It's a constant
- 17:29Speaker 4: living crisis.
- 17:30Speaker 6: Just shopping the Regi Shop and Bunnings for all of
- 17:33Speaker 6: your stuff everything.
- 17:34Speaker 4: I love it. Audi like we are not no, sorry,
- 17:37Speaker 4: we're worth coals. I mean, if you want to work
- 17:39Speaker 4: with us, let us know. But we all know your
- 17:42Speaker 4: dishwasher tablets are exorbitant. Sorry someone, Yeah, they're actually outrageously expensive.
- 17:48Speaker 2: So this next one, this is my one.
- 17:50Speaker 6: It's more like Melbourne based, but I'm sure there's an
- 17:52Speaker 6: equivalent in other cities in the States, in territories. So
- 17:56Speaker 6: there's a pub very close to my house. It's called
- 17:59Speaker 6: The Emperor and they do wonderle hot Wings. I'm sure
- 18:02Speaker 6: there's like you know.
- 18:03Speaker 4: Hot wings.
- 18:03Speaker 6: Yeah, they do one whole hot Wings. I believe it's
- 18:06Speaker 6: only on Mondays, but I know that there are other
- 18:08Speaker 6: pubs in the area that also do that on like
- 18:10Speaker 6: different days. So you just have a look around your
- 18:12Speaker 6: area and see if your pub offers anything, you know,
- 18:15Speaker 6: kind of like I feel like there's theme night, so
- 18:17Speaker 6: smart a pub totally, there's usually like a specials.
- 18:20Speaker 2: There's like Monday's, Tuesdays and Wednesdays they do steak night
- 18:23Speaker 2: in these days.
- 18:24Speaker 4: I feel like you should only be buying it on
- 18:26Speaker 4: like the pubs Steak night definitely, definitely, And yeah, you
- 18:29Speaker 4: can get really really cheap food stuffs from pubs, which
- 18:33Speaker 4: I know, it's like, you know, it's obviously a lot
- 18:34Speaker 4: of the time cheaper to cook your own food, but
- 18:36Speaker 4: sometimes when it's like wondle hot wings, you like can't
- 18:39Speaker 4: beat that. And if you're like me, I can.
- 18:42Speaker 6: I really can do a fifteen bucket. But if I'm
- 18:45Speaker 6: trying to be cheap, that's a lot of wings, a
- 18:49Speaker 6: lot of I will inhale those wings. But no, it
- 18:52Speaker 6: is a really I think just have a look at
- 18:54Speaker 6: pubs around you, look at their specials things like that.
- 18:56Speaker 6: But yeah, Wonderle hot wings. I just think it's really
- 18:58Speaker 6: great for this cost ofly in christ to go out
- 19:00Speaker 6: and be able to still maybe affward to eat out
- 19:03Speaker 6: with friends every now and then have a little.
- 19:05Speaker 4: Date night or have like a girl's night out. Pick
- 19:08Speaker 4: the night that works, like you don't just have to
- 19:10Speaker 4: have a night out on a Friday or Saturday night.
- 19:13Speaker 4: Like we're all in our thirties now, so I feel
- 19:15Speaker 4: like going out on a Tuesday, if I meet my
- 19:17Speaker 4: friends after work, can still be home by eight. I
- 19:21Speaker 4: love that some dollar hot wings.
- 19:23Speaker 2: Jess is in sold easy. I love this for you
- 19:26Speaker 2: guys there next Monday.
- 19:27Speaker 4: All right, see you there. Let's go to a really
- 19:29Speaker 4: quick break on the flip side. We're going to be
- 19:31Speaker 4: talking about whether you're liable if your partner owes tax
- 19:34Speaker 4: and we're also going to be diving into a little
- 19:37Speaker 4: slippery DM that you asked us about, and that is
- 19:40Speaker 4: about contributing to shared funds when you're on matleeve and
- 19:43Speaker 4: your partners working full time. So guys, don't go anywhere.
- 19:51Speaker 2: Welcome back, everybody. Let's take a listen to this week's
- 19:53Speaker 2: money dilemma.
- 19:57Speaker 4: Hi, there, have you got a money dilemma? You just
- 19:59Speaker 4: can't that She's on the Money team is here to help.
- 20:02Speaker 4: Every week, we tackle your dilemmas, both big and small,
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- 20:14Speaker 4: yourself on the show. Now, let's take a listen to
- 20:16Speaker 4: this week's money dilemma.
- 20:20Speaker 5: Hi, She's on the Money. My partner and I have
- 20:22Speaker 5: been together for four years. He makes significantly more than me,
- 20:25Speaker 5: but we do keep our finances separate. I've been thinking
- 20:28Speaker 5: more about my future and about property as I'm nearing thirty.
- 20:32Speaker 5: I just got a new job as a junior accountant
- 20:35Speaker 5: thanks to the podcast. By the way, and on the
- 20:38Speaker 5: topic of tax he made a comment that really threw me.
- 20:42Speaker 5: He's sixteen years my senior, and he's never filed a
- 20:45Speaker 5: tax return as a sole trader in his past, he
- 20:48Speaker 5: never paid himself super. Ever since that comment, I've been
- 20:52Speaker 5: planning my super around having enough for both of us
- 20:54Speaker 5: in our future. But I'm worried that his tax history
- 20:57Speaker 5: is going to negatively influence my hopes dreams of owning property.
- 21:02Speaker 5: How worried should I be regarding his taxes? Is super?
- 21:05Speaker 5: And am I liable as a partner. I'd really appreciate
- 21:10Speaker 5: your help on this one, and I love the podcast.
- 21:12Speaker 5: I really respect you girls. Thank you.
- 21:14Speaker 4: That was really sweet. Thank you so much. She's so
- 21:16Speaker 4: thank you. That's really really kind. I'm sorry you're going
- 21:20Speaker 4: through this because that would be really stressful. Short answer
- 21:23Speaker 4: is no, you are not legally responsible for your partner's debt,
- 21:26Speaker 4: whether you are married or not. You might be responsible
- 21:30Speaker 4: for debt that you had applied for jointly, obviously that's
- 21:33Speaker 4: not tax debt. And when you do your personal tax returns,
- 21:38Speaker 4: if you have a partner. It will ask you what
- 21:40Speaker 4: your partner's tax return was or what their income was,
- 21:44Speaker 4: and you do have to declare that, but that's not
- 21:46Speaker 4: so that you take ownership for it. So I think
- 21:48Speaker 4: tild that just family tax brackets and stuff like that.
- 21:53Speaker 4: So like if we talk about like the Medicare levy
- 21:55Speaker 4: surcharge and stuff like that, it's about household income, and
- 21:58Speaker 4: often that needs to be calculate at like a family
- 22:01Speaker 4: level as opposed to just an individual level. It doesn't
- 22:04Speaker 4: mean a lot. Often it's working out whether you're over
- 22:08Speaker 4: a family tax bracket. So for example, if you want
- 22:11Speaker 4: to claim the childcare subsidies, like a stay at home
- 22:14Speaker 4: mum might not have any income when she does her
- 22:16Speaker 4: tax return each year, and then the partner has a
- 22:19Speaker 4: really really high income, which means that they don't get
- 22:21Speaker 4: any of that, so it needs to be applied to
- 22:23Speaker 4: her as well in case she lodges for their childcare subsidy.
- 22:26Speaker 4: Does that make sense? So it's all about just tracking stuff,
- 22:29Speaker 4: it's not about allocating debt to you. I do think
- 22:32Speaker 4: that there's a bigger problem there, and that is that
- 22:35Speaker 4: he's never lodged a tax return, and that can get
- 22:39Speaker 4: you in a fair bit of trouble, but it is
- 22:43Speaker 4: not that uncommon, so sadly, lots of people have been
- 22:46Speaker 4: in this situation, and I feel like once you get
- 22:48Speaker 4: a few years into I guess that mode, it becomes
- 22:52Speaker 4: really overwhelming because you're like, well, I don't want to
- 22:55Speaker 4: talk to an accountant. They're going to judge me, they're
- 22:57Speaker 4: going to XYZ or you know, I might be in
- 22:59Speaker 4: trouble with the ATO. But the important thing here is
- 23:02Speaker 4: to be the proactive one. So if you're the one going, hey, accountant,
- 23:06Speaker 4: I haven't done this, they can clean it up and
- 23:09Speaker 4: help you. It's not going to be as overwhelming or
- 23:11Speaker 4: hard as you think it is. I mean, there might
- 23:13Speaker 4: be some admin you need to do, but given it's
- 23:17Speaker 4: what sixteen years or so, I mean that was the
- 23:20Speaker 4: age difference, not necessarily how many tax returns he hasn't submitted. However,
- 23:24Speaker 4: I think it's really important you have a brand new
- 23:26Speaker 4: accountant thanks to our matching program on She's on the Money,
- 23:29Speaker 4: which is really cool if you want a new accountant,
- 23:31Speaker 4: or a financial advisor or a mortgage broker. We do
- 23:33Speaker 4: have a matching service on our website. But that's conversation
- 23:37Speaker 4: for another day. But you could get him on that.
- 23:38Speaker 4: You could introduce your accountant if you really like them,
- 23:41Speaker 4: and say all right, what can you do here, because
- 23:45Speaker 4: it does need to be sorted out, and you want
- 23:46Speaker 4: to be the proactive one because the ATO is going
- 23:48Speaker 4: to go a lot easier on you and go all right, well,
- 23:52Speaker 4: let's get this processed, as opposed to them going, hey,
- 23:55Speaker 4: our data matching is actually, you know, pointed out that
- 23:58Speaker 4: Joe Blow has never done a tax return. We need
- 24:01Speaker 4: to track him down because he's on purpose evading tax.
- 24:05Speaker 4: That's a different story. Whereas if you go to them
- 24:07Speaker 4: and be like, hey, really sorry, I've never done it,
- 24:10Speaker 4: really anxious, really this really that, they're going to go
- 24:12Speaker 4: all right, well, let's help you work through this and
- 24:14Speaker 4: get to it. But also it's important to note that, yes,
- 24:17Speaker 4: it might be lots and lots of years, but a
- 24:20Speaker 4: lot of it's going to come out in the wash.
- 24:22Speaker 4: It depends on how tax has been handled throughout the years,
- 24:26Speaker 4: whether he was paying it or not. But you know,
- 24:28Speaker 4: you might have good years and you might have bad years.
- 24:30Speaker 4: And so if you get it all together and you've
- 24:32Speaker 4: got a good accountant that can like backtrack all of it,
- 24:36Speaker 4: hopefully it's not that much of a debt owing, but
- 24:38Speaker 4: I definitely would be trying to calculate it because it
- 24:42Speaker 4: can impact you. So while it might not be something
- 24:45Speaker 4: that you have to pay back, it might stop you
- 24:47Speaker 4: from getting a home loan. It might stop you from,
- 24:49Speaker 4: you know, getting personal debt together, if that's something you
- 24:52Speaker 4: want to do. It might stop you, you know, from
- 24:55Speaker 4: becoming a guarranteur, if you've got a kid that wants
- 24:57Speaker 4: a property, Like, there are lots of things that it
- 24:59Speaker 4: can imp hacked. It doesn't mean that you're going to
- 25:02Speaker 4: be in a heap of trouble personally, but I mean,
- 25:05Speaker 4: if the ATO decides to come for you, and I'm
- 25:08Speaker 4: not trying to be dramatical trying to scare you, but
- 25:11Speaker 4: if the ATO comes for you and you have a
- 25:12Speaker 4: joint house together, that's up for discussion. So it might
- 25:16Speaker 4: not be you they're coming for, but because you have
- 25:18Speaker 4: a joint asset and they're like, well we want our money,
- 25:20Speaker 4: that might be up for discussion and you might miss
- 25:22Speaker 4: out that way. So I think it's really important to
- 25:25Speaker 4: have that conversation and really urge your partner to go
- 25:28Speaker 4: and get help with that and go, hey, this is
- 25:31Speaker 4: something that is really serious and we can avoid a
- 25:35Speaker 4: lot of the trouble if we just get onto it now.
- 25:37Speaker 4: And I think that that's the best thing that we
- 25:38Speaker 4: can do.
- 25:39Speaker 2: Arguably just a symptom also of like I think, you know,
- 25:43Speaker 2: if you're two adults building a life together, you need
- 25:46Speaker 2: to know that you can rely on the other person
- 25:49Speaker 2: to take care of stuff that needs to be taken
- 25:51Speaker 2: care of. So will I understand the anxiety? And if
- 25:54Speaker 2: you leave it for ages and whatever, that can be stressful.
- 25:57Speaker 2: I think if you said to your partner, hey, happy
- 25:59Speaker 2: to help you, put your in touch with an accountant,
- 26:01Speaker 2: support you whatever, and they still, you know, are hesitant
- 26:05Speaker 2: to sort something like that out, I would be just
- 26:08Speaker 2: a little bit concerned about what that kind of behavior says.
- 26:12Speaker 2: I don't know, like not to make it to something
- 26:14Speaker 2: that maybe isn't a huge deal but just could be
- 26:17Speaker 2: symptomatic of something. Yeah, exactly exactly right. And it's just
- 26:21Speaker 2: I think like, if your partner is willing to help
- 26:23Speaker 2: you sort through whatever that is, like, I don't see
- 26:27Speaker 2: a really good reason for you to not want to
- 26:29Speaker 2: get that sorted. Yes, yeah, I mean.
- 26:31Speaker 4: And an accountant is not going to be judgmental about it.
- 26:33Speaker 4: They know that this happens. In fact, yeah, they've definitely
- 26:37Speaker 4: seen worse, but like they also see that type of
- 26:40Speaker 4: thing a couple of times a year, Like it's not
- 26:42Speaker 4: the job.
- 26:43Speaker 2: Is to fix it. Fore, Yeah, like that's literally what
- 26:45Speaker 2: you're paying.
- 26:45Speaker 4: Yeah, and I mean you can claim an accountant on
- 26:47Speaker 4: your tax return as well, so you're going to have
- 26:49Speaker 4: to pay the accountant. This actually isn't something at this
- 26:52Speaker 4: point that you can sort out yourself. Even if you
- 26:55Speaker 4: want to sort it out yourself, you actually need an
- 26:57Speaker 4: accountant to laise between the atier when you because otherwise
- 27:01Speaker 4: you're going to have a whole heap of really late
- 27:03Speaker 4: things to pay. And often if the accountant is you know,
- 27:06Speaker 4: good with their words and good with their numbers and
- 27:08Speaker 4: organizing stuff, they can often negotiate with the ATO on
- 27:12Speaker 4: your behalf. And that's not something that you can usually do.
- 27:15Speaker 4: So I would say this is like a non negotiable
- 27:18Speaker 4: to get it sorted out by a professional, especially because
- 27:20Speaker 4: it backdates so much and tax law has changed. As
- 27:23Speaker 4: you know, most years we do an update and say, hey,
- 27:26Speaker 4: you know, supernuation rates have changed, your tax rates have changed,
- 27:29Speaker 4: Like all of those things need to be considered, and
- 27:32Speaker 4: if you're not a tax specialist, I think that you'll
- 27:34Speaker 4: end up in a bit of a pickle if you
- 27:36Speaker 4: did it yourself. So I would definitely be getting help.
- 27:39Speaker 4: But yeah, Jess, you're right. I think it's a bit
- 27:41Speaker 4: of a red flag if they're not willing to take
- 27:42Speaker 4: on help because it's like, well, you haven't done it yourself,
- 27:45Speaker 4: and it might be a hard conversation. And who knows,
- 27:47Speaker 4: maybe I'm reading into this too much, but I can
- 27:50Speaker 4: just imagine it would be a hard conversation to have
- 27:53Speaker 4: with a partner to begin with, but especially a partner
- 27:56Speaker 4: that owns their own business and is sixteen years you're senior,
- 27:59Speaker 4: Like I can just imagine that being, you know, don't
- 28:02Speaker 4: tell me what to do. I don't know if that's
- 28:04Speaker 4: the case or not, but I just go that should
- 28:06Speaker 4: not be the case. But that would be a red flag.
- 28:08Speaker 6: Any Yeah, definitely a red flag if they that would
- 28:10Speaker 6: be a really sort of power imbalance at all. Absolutely not,
- 28:13Speaker 6: that's not that's the problem. But I just want to
- 28:15Speaker 6: quickly say, so this is a bit different to like,
- 28:18Speaker 6: and I guess like there are probably people listening who
- 28:20Speaker 6: know this already, but just because I didn't know this
- 28:23Speaker 6: until like literally six months ago. There was like a
- 28:26Speaker 6: few years that I hadn't lodged a tax return, but
- 28:29Speaker 6: I had never worked for myself. So there's definitely a
- 28:31Speaker 6: difference between having like years that you hadn't done your
- 28:34Speaker 6: tax and you've never worked for yourself. In this which
- 28:38Speaker 6: is assuming his best statements that he hasn't done is
- 28:43Speaker 6: a lot more. That's why I'm saying to go talk
- 28:46Speaker 6: to a accountant, because I think that that's the best
- 28:49Speaker 6: place to start. It's also you know, a space where
- 28:52Speaker 6: you can have a conversation where you're not talking directually
- 28:54Speaker 6: to the ATO to make a plan to then go
- 28:56Speaker 6: to the ATO, because it does need to be sorted out,
- 28:59Speaker 6: but would be and I don't want to be too dramatic,
- 29:02Speaker 6: you know, Let's say, for example, Jess, who you know,
- 29:04Speaker 6: earns salary and then super working directly for me, I
- 29:09Speaker 6: as her employer, pay her tax, so like if she
- 29:12Speaker 6: hasn't submitted it, like it's probably gonna all come out
- 29:15Speaker 6: in the wash and there shouldn't be any issues, Like
- 29:17Speaker 6: I can't imagine Jess, You've got receipts from sixteen years
- 29:19Speaker 6: ago you can claim, so you're probably just going through
- 29:22Speaker 6: and being like, I'm not claiming anything. I'm just declaring
- 29:24Speaker 6: how much I made and seeing if I owed any tax,
- 29:27Speaker 6: and it should come out in the wash. But like,
- 29:30Speaker 6: if you haven't paid tax for sixteen years, like, that's
- 29:33Speaker 6: a way bigger problem that's gonna hatter. And again, I
- 29:36Speaker 6: don't want to be scary, but this is something that
- 29:39Speaker 6: needs to be dealt with because you know, if you
- 29:41Speaker 6: then find out your partner has you know, potentially hundreds
- 29:45Speaker 6: of thousands of dollars of debt, that's going to change
- 29:48Speaker 6: the trajectory of your wealth creation journey as a couple.
- 29:51Speaker 6: Could I ask one question, of course you can do
- 29:53Speaker 6: we know if say, for example, obviously touch wood. Let's
- 29:56Speaker 6: say something would happen is a tax debt passed on.
- 29:59Speaker 4: No, don't inherit debt in a str and, It gets taken,
- 30:04Speaker 4: it gets taken from the estate. So what happens is
- 30:07Speaker 4: let's say I passed away yesterday and I had a
- 30:11Speaker 4: debt of one hundred thousand dollars. My executor of my
- 30:14Speaker 4: will would work out what my assets are and they
- 30:17Speaker 4: might say, Victoria, you own a house, you own a car,
- 30:20Speaker 4: you own this, that the other, and they will say
- 30:23Speaker 4: from your estate, you know, if I had cash, you
- 30:25Speaker 4: need to pay off your debt before we can distribute
- 30:27Speaker 4: any of your other assets to your family and friends,
- 30:30Speaker 4: like you have outlined in your will, So it would
- 30:32Speaker 4: be taken first. If there's no cash for me to
- 30:35Speaker 4: pay off that debt. They would then say, okay, well
- 30:38Speaker 4: we need to extinguish a property or get rid of
- 30:41Speaker 4: something to sell. So they might go, well, let's sell
- 30:44Speaker 4: your car and let's sell your house and we'll get
- 30:46Speaker 4: some cash, and then your family and friends can have
- 30:48Speaker 4: the rest, and then we'll distribute it evenly. If there
- 30:51Speaker 4: is nothing left over at the end, your family doesn't
- 30:53Speaker 4: owe that money, the creditors that or the people that
- 30:57Speaker 4: you owe money to, they just don't get paid back.
- 30:59Speaker 4: It's not a good thing. But it's not your responsibility
- 31:02Speaker 4: to take on somebody else's debt in that circumstance. But
- 31:06Speaker 4: that is a different story if it is a joint debt.
- 31:09Speaker 4: So if you had a joint debt with somebody, so
- 31:12Speaker 4: say something happens to me yesterday and Jess and I
- 31:15Speaker 4: own property together, that debt would fall onto Jess and
- 31:19Speaker 4: the mortgage repayments would become her mortgage repayments and then
- 31:22Speaker 4: it's up to her to decide whether you know, she
- 31:25Speaker 4: wants to continue paying my helf or not. And hopefully
- 31:28Speaker 4: that's when my life insurance policy and any personal insurances
- 31:32Speaker 4: I have come in to save the day, to make
- 31:34Speaker 4: sure that Jess is not financially implicated by that. Does
- 31:37Speaker 4: that make sense?
- 31:38Speaker 6: Totally makes sense.
- 31:39Speaker 4: So no, you won't inherit debt. In some other places
- 31:42Speaker 4: in the world you can inherit debt, but it is
- 31:45Speaker 4: not in Australia. Cool, You're welcome. You're welcome, all right.
- 31:48Speaker 4: So I feel like that is a very sticky situation
- 31:51Speaker 4: and it's one that needs to be rectified sooner rather
- 31:53Speaker 4: than later. I don't have a lot more to say
- 31:56Speaker 4: on that except if you need, you know, some additional
- 31:58Speaker 4: help and guidance, we're obviously always here dm US and
- 32:01Speaker 4: we can help send you in the right direction. As
- 32:04Speaker 4: we said, it is not that uncommon. So guys, are
- 32:07Speaker 4: you ready? We have the community DMS and I feel
- 32:10Speaker 4: like this one's gonna be a little bit relevant for
- 32:12Speaker 4: a lot of people, whether you're going through it or
- 32:14Speaker 4: planning to go through it. I kind of like that
- 32:17Speaker 4: we get this advice before we might go through this.
- 32:20Speaker 4: So our DM this week reads, HI, she's on the money.
- 32:23Speaker 4: I've come off maternity leave early to work casually from
- 32:26Speaker 4: home around bub I'm wanting to save a percent. I
- 32:29Speaker 4: was thinking around twenty percent in my personal savings before
- 32:32Speaker 4: depositing the remainder into the joint bill's account. My partner
- 32:35Speaker 4: thinks this is unfair, since he will be paying for
- 32:38Speaker 4: a majority of everything now that my government payments have stopped,
- 32:42Speaker 4: and I should be putting it all into this joint one.
- 32:45Speaker 4: Am I wrong for wanting this? He's still able to
- 32:47Speaker 4: save in his personal account while putting the bare minimum
- 32:50Speaker 4: into the joint bill's account. I'm regularly having to ask
- 32:53Speaker 4: for tob ups to cover everything that aren't regular bills,
- 32:56Speaker 4: for example, baby clothes and stuff like that. And if
- 32:59Speaker 4: I want something like if I want to get my
- 33:01Speaker 4: hair done, I have to ask for it. Before we
- 33:04Speaker 4: had a baby, I was so financially independent. So I'm
- 33:07Speaker 4: really struggling having to ask this. I don't feel like
- 33:10Speaker 4: he is equal any advice. Oh, I hate this. I
- 33:14Speaker 4: hate this so much, so much.
- 33:18Speaker 2: It feels very demeaning to have to be asking for money,
- 33:22Speaker 2: particularly for like so things like baby clothes, to me,
- 33:24Speaker 2: you're essentials, like you have.
- 33:25Speaker 4: One hundred percent if you need to clothe your child.
- 33:27Speaker 2: Yeah, Like if you're buying design a baby stuff, then okay,
- 33:30Speaker 2: different story.
- 33:30Speaker 4: Yeah, but let's pretend for the sake of this conversation
- 33:32Speaker 4: it's all just reasonable.
- 33:34Speaker 2: Purchases onesies or something, is what I'm assuming, in which
- 33:36Speaker 2: case I like, that's not.
- 33:38Speaker 4: You do stand a target onesie?
- 33:39Speaker 2: Yeah, gorgeous?
- 33:40Speaker 1: Like do you know me?
- 33:41Speaker 2: Like you just need that. That's not to me, there's
- 33:44Speaker 2: no question to join expense. And I think the other thing,
- 33:48Speaker 2: and this is something that I've kind of reflected on
- 33:50Speaker 2: a lot because, as you guys know, like my partner
- 33:52Speaker 2: and I don't share our finances. We have a joint
- 33:55Speaker 2: bills account and that's it. And I just thinking about
- 33:57Speaker 2: how when you are the prime, very caring parent and
- 34:01Speaker 2: you're staying at home and presumably not working, how hard
- 34:04Speaker 2: it must be to not be in that position where
- 34:07Speaker 2: you have your own money anymore. Yeah. You know, some
- 34:10Speaker 2: people obviously just have one big pool and you're like
- 34:12Speaker 2: out all of our money is. And in that situation,
- 34:14Speaker 2: I see how that would work. But if you are
- 34:17Speaker 2: splitting it a different way or doing whatever, like it
- 34:19Speaker 2: does seem quite like it seems like it would be
- 34:22Speaker 2: hard to image, you know what I mean. And yes,
- 34:23Speaker 2: I wouldn't want to go to my partner and be like, please, sir,
- 34:26Speaker 2: can I get Oh my god, totally like that would
- 34:28Speaker 2: make me feel wool, I know.
- 34:30Speaker 4: And these are conversations we should be having before we
- 34:32Speaker 4: go on maternity leads, a conversation would be having before
- 34:35Speaker 4: we even have a baby with someone. It's it's such
- 34:37Speaker 4: a shame to think that you are with this person
- 34:40Speaker 4: for so long and you're like, Okay, great, I think
- 34:41Speaker 4: we're both ready to be parents, and then you have
- 34:43Speaker 4: the baby and then you realize, oh, this person thinks
- 34:46Speaker 4: I need to ask them for money to buy our
- 34:49Speaker 4: baby clothes. Anyway, I just think so many things. First
- 34:52Speaker 4: of all, it feels so unfair, so your mind blowing.
- 34:55Speaker 4: As I was reading you, like, oh, I'm so angry,
- 34:58Speaker 4: I could just see it.
- 34:59Speaker 6: Yeah, it feels really really unfair, like to the core
- 35:02Speaker 6: of my belly, feels really unfair that this stay at
- 35:05Speaker 6: home mother is working twenty four seven. Let's not forget
- 35:09Speaker 6: working twenty four to seven, never a mental break. Ever,
- 35:14Speaker 6: I'm assuming if the partner comes home and is parenting
- 35:17Speaker 6: as well. It's like, cool, we can now share the load,
- 35:20Speaker 6: but otherwise you really are working twenty four seven and
- 35:24Speaker 6: then you're also trying to squeeze in on top of that,
- 35:26Speaker 6: working casually so that you just have a little bit
- 35:28Speaker 6: more of money to play with, which is you're absolutely
- 35:32Speaker 6: entitled to.
- 35:33Speaker 1: It.
- 35:33Speaker 6: Just it feels really unfair that one person is going
- 35:36Speaker 6: out and making however much they made before the baby
- 35:41Speaker 6: and still has the same freedom. I understand it's a
- 35:43Speaker 6: little bit more tight now there's only one and a
- 35:45Speaker 6: half income coming in. Income's coming in, but you are
- 35:48Speaker 6: so entitled to what's it called equity?
- 35:51Speaker 4: You know, it's like equity in a relationship.
- 35:53Speaker 6: Yes, yes, yes, exactly. So I feel like that's it's
- 35:56Speaker 6: just it just it feels the whole thing feels really
- 35:58Speaker 6: really unfair, and I'm really sorry that you're going through
- 36:00Speaker 6: absolutely more than allowed. I would say, maybe tell your partner, hey,
- 36:04Speaker 6: you stay at home, then maybe try and swap roles
- 36:07Speaker 6: and see if your partner's okay with that, then you
- 36:09Speaker 6: know what I mean. I just it just feel so unfair.
- 36:11Speaker 6: I don't even really know how to articulate it. I
- 36:13Speaker 6: just feel like it's shed.
- 36:15Speaker 2: There was such a good thread in the Facebook group
- 36:17Speaker 2: a week and a half ago, maybe a little bit more,
- 36:19Speaker 2: and it was a conversation around a stay at home parent,
- 36:22Speaker 2: and again, like her husband in this scenario was the
- 36:25Speaker 2: one working full time, she was staying at home, And
- 36:27Speaker 2: it was another conversation around money, and somebody brought up
- 36:31Speaker 2: the really great point that if the mum went back
- 36:33Speaker 2: to work and worked full time so that she could
- 36:35Speaker 2: contribute equally in the way that her partner was, the
- 36:38Speaker 2: cost of the house cleaner, the chef, the full time daycare,
- 36:42Speaker 2: the cost to cover all of the labor that she
- 36:44Speaker 2: was carrying at home would far exceed what she would
- 36:48Speaker 2: then bring in and contribute quote unquote to that shared account.
- 36:53Speaker 2: So it sounds like he's just not you know, he's going, oh, well,
- 36:55Speaker 2: you need to contribute a similar amount to me or whatever.
- 36:58Speaker 2: He's not accounting for any of that.
- 37:00Speaker 5: Totally.
- 37:01Speaker 4: Yeah. I have a few spicy opinions on this, but
- 37:04Speaker 4: I think the first thing is we can learn a
- 37:06Speaker 4: lot from this. DM. Yes, So I think this gives
- 37:09Speaker 4: us the opportunity that if you're thinking about children with
- 37:12Speaker 4: a partner, or maybe you don't even have a partner,
- 37:13Speaker 4: you just know that this is a conversation you need
- 37:15Speaker 4: to be having before you have kids, Like what does
- 37:18Speaker 4: money look like once you have a child?
- 37:20Speaker 1: Like?
- 37:20Speaker 4: Am I going to have to ask you for cash
- 37:23Speaker 4: if I'm not working? How will we mitigate that? Also,
- 37:26Speaker 4: what a reasonable expense is for me to be having
- 37:28Speaker 4: Walam or matt Leeve? Like what does my lifestyle look like?
- 37:32Speaker 4: Should I, you know, be allocating some cash to the
- 37:35Speaker 4: side because you know, I'm a mum man to be honest, like,
- 37:39Speaker 4: as a new mum, who I'm not the primary care
- 37:42Speaker 4: I mean I was for a number of weeks at
- 37:44Speaker 4: the start, but now my husband is a stay at
- 37:46Speaker 4: home husband. For now I'm not the primary care. But
- 37:49Speaker 4: I can't imagine my husband not getting out of the
- 37:51Speaker 4: house and going and getting a coffee, Like he would
- 37:54Speaker 4: go up the wall if he couldn't go for that
- 37:56Speaker 4: walk and get a coffee and you know, not just
- 37:58Speaker 4: talk baby all day until I got home, Right, So
- 38:01Speaker 4: I think is that reasonable to talk about, you know,
- 38:03Speaker 4: the coffees that you would have. You know, Jess is blonde.
- 38:06Speaker 4: If you're going to have a baby, Jess, is it
- 38:09Speaker 4: expected that you'd be able to maintain you know, your
- 38:11Speaker 4: haircuts and maybe you go get nails, Like are these
- 38:13Speaker 4: things that you know are reasonable? Or are these things
- 38:16Speaker 4: that we're cutting? Also, what's your partner cutting? So like,
- 38:20Speaker 4: I feel like so many times the conversation comes down
- 38:24Speaker 4: to being like, yeah, we had to really tighten up
- 38:26Speaker 4: the budget. And I'm seeing this on TikTok a lot,
- 38:28Speaker 4: and I'm not commenting or engaging in this. I'm just
- 38:30Speaker 4: seeing a narrative where these women are starting to share
- 38:33Speaker 4: their household budgets now they're on maternity leave, and I
- 38:36Speaker 4: think that that is fantastic and so transparent and I
- 38:39Speaker 4: adore it. I'm so pervy too, I just want to
- 38:41Speaker 4: know everyone's budget. So I'm like holding it. I watch
- 38:44Speaker 4: it on two time speed, like you best believe, watched
- 38:46Speaker 4: every second of it. But what I'm noticing is they're like, yep,
- 38:49Speaker 4: so we cut down the household budget. Like I'm not
- 38:51Speaker 4: getting nails. You know, I don't play netball anymore, so
- 38:54Speaker 4: I don't have that fee. Haha. I can't do it
- 38:56Speaker 4: anyway because I've just had a baby. And then like
- 38:59Speaker 4: they're talking about all the things that they've sacrificed in
- 39:01Speaker 4: their budget. But when you take a deeper look, it's
- 39:04Speaker 4: all stuff she's sacrificing in her budget, and I'm like, well,
- 39:07Speaker 4: what does he sacrifice, Like you haven't mentioned that he's not,
- 39:10Speaker 4: you know, buying new shoes, or you haven't mentioned that
- 39:12Speaker 4: he's not playing golf if that's for him, or you know,
- 39:15Speaker 4: he might have footy club fees, or like he might
- 39:18Speaker 4: have Friday night drinks with the boys. And it's very stereotypical.
- 39:22Speaker 4: But often, and this is again very is stereotypical, and
- 39:25Speaker 4: it is not true for everybody, but often when you
- 39:28Speaker 4: have issues like this, the men are like, well, I'm
- 39:30Speaker 4: still going to go out for drinks on a Friday.
- 39:33Speaker 4: Well I have to because I need to wind down
- 39:35Speaker 4: from work, but like, you're not getting that same opportunity,
- 39:38Speaker 4: and somehow that's still in the budget. But then you've
- 39:41Speaker 4: got mum who's scrimping at home, probably deserves the coffee
- 39:44Speaker 4: walk to go out grab a latte for her mental health,
- 39:48Speaker 4: but she's making coffees at home, and like, please, don't
- 39:51Speaker 4: get me wrong, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that, but
- 39:54Speaker 4: I just see this power imbalance, and you know, someone's
- 39:57Speaker 4: social life being prioritized over the others because they're the
- 40:00Speaker 4: primary care So for me, I agree we're not having
- 40:04Speaker 4: these conversations early enough. Steve and I definitely had them
- 40:07Speaker 4: because we had to talk about what that looks like.
- 40:10Speaker 4: I've spoken publicly on the podcast before about the way
- 40:13Speaker 4: Steve and I manage money, and we managed it exactly
- 40:16Speaker 4: the same as just us prior to owning property together.
- 40:20Speaker 4: But the second we had a mortgage, it honestly financially
- 40:23Speaker 4: made the most sense for us to be putting all
- 40:25Speaker 4: of our income into the offset account so that it
- 40:28Speaker 4: can offset the interest that we are paying on our mortgage, right,
- 40:31Speaker 4: Like saves us money, right, And so we started having
- 40:34Speaker 4: this conversation about, well, do we have separate offset accounts
- 40:37Speaker 4: and you know, separate our money or do we have
- 40:39Speaker 4: one together? And like, from my perspective, we were building
- 40:43Speaker 4: this life together, and I was like, well, my financial
- 40:46Speaker 4: decisions impact you. So it's kind of an US thing.
- 40:50Speaker 1: You know.
- 40:50Speaker 4: If I'm saving for something, it's kind of a we
- 40:53Speaker 4: a saving for something because there's not a lot in
- 40:55Speaker 4: my life right now that's like a Victoria cost. It's
- 40:59Speaker 4: like a we would like to go on a holiday,
- 41:01Speaker 4: that's a family cost. So that is where we moved.
- 41:05Speaker 4: And then now we've had a kid, it's way better
- 41:08Speaker 4: for us. For us personally, that doesn't work for everybody.
- 41:11Speaker 4: I've had clients historically who keep their incomes completely separate.
- 41:15Speaker 4: They have kids, they retire, it's still separate, and it
- 41:18Speaker 4: works perfectly for them. There is no one size fits all.
- 41:21Speaker 4: But it sounds like there needs to be more open
- 41:24Speaker 4: money conversations in this family because if you've got a
- 41:28Speaker 4: kid and you're having to ask for money, I don't
- 41:31Speaker 4: think that that means you've got a good enough budget.
- 41:34Speaker 4: It means that we need to go back to the
- 41:36Speaker 4: drawing board. Like please, don't get me wrong, it's not
- 41:39Speaker 4: about what you're spending money on and that you have
- 41:41Speaker 4: to ask, Like it could just be the electricity bill.
- 41:44Speaker 4: You're like, oh, can you transfer me a hundred bucks
- 41:46Speaker 4: I owe or we owe x on our electricity. It's
- 41:50Speaker 4: just not clean enough budgeting because baby clothes should be
- 41:54Speaker 4: in the budget, like things should be allocated for and
- 41:57Speaker 4: we should have a joint fund for that. Letely agree
- 42:00Speaker 4: with you having separate savings on both sides, but that
- 42:04Speaker 4: actually needs to be talked about after our basic needs
- 42:07Speaker 4: have been met. So if we do a budget and
- 42:10Speaker 4: work out what is our income and what are our
- 42:12Speaker 4: expenses and what does that look like? We need to
- 42:15Speaker 4: cover our butts before we start talking about savings. Like,
- 42:19Speaker 4: I totally agree with you keeping something for yourself, but
- 42:22Speaker 4: if you're thinking I'd like to save twenty percent before
- 42:24Speaker 4: depositing it into the bills account, I think that's a
- 42:28Speaker 4: backwards way of managing finances. And like, I know, there's
- 42:31Speaker 4: not a one size fits all when it comes to
- 42:33Speaker 4: managing money, but I do believe that you should be
- 42:36Speaker 4: covering your expenses first and having a look at all
- 42:38Speaker 4: your expenses. Where can we cut down. Are we happy
- 42:41Speaker 4: with everything coming in and going out of our accounts,
- 42:44Speaker 4: then we should be talking about savings. We're in the
- 42:46Speaker 4: middle of a cost of living crisis, and I feel
- 42:49Speaker 4: like there might be a bit of a disconnect between
- 42:51Speaker 4: you saying I'd love to save twenty percent of my income,
- 42:54Speaker 4: but also I have to ask my partner to spend
- 42:57Speaker 4: money on baby clothes. Like I feel like we might
- 42:59Speaker 4: not be on the same page when it comes to
- 43:02Speaker 4: what's coming in and what's going out. And I'm not
- 43:04Speaker 4: saying your partner is right by any stretch of the imagination.
- 43:08Speaker 4: And you are definitely not wrong for wanting this because
- 43:11Speaker 4: I think you're wanting your own financial independence. You're your
- 43:13Speaker 4: own financial freedom, which is really important, but that should
- 43:16Speaker 4: be in the budget too, Like your emergency fund should
- 43:19Speaker 4: be something that jointly you're contributing to, even if your
- 43:23Speaker 4: partner can't access it. Same for him, he should have
- 43:26Speaker 4: an emergency fund. I think everybody should have one. But
- 43:29Speaker 4: I think that this conversation actually needs to go back
- 43:32Speaker 4: to basics and go all right, well, what are our expenses?
- 43:34Speaker 4: How much do we need to contribute to our joint
- 43:37Speaker 4: account to keep the roof over our head, our kid clothed,
- 43:40Speaker 4: and our food on the table, right, and then whatever's
- 43:43Speaker 4: left over from that? What are we talking about? How
- 43:47Speaker 4: much of that amount are you keeping in your joint account?
- 43:50Speaker 4: Do you have joint savings? Should we be contributing to that?
- 43:53Speaker 4: What does that wealth journey look like? Is that fair
- 43:57Speaker 4: to say that the entire thing needs to be scrapped
- 43:59Speaker 4: and we go back to the drawing board.
- 44:01Speaker 2: Yeah, and when doing so, just kindly reminding your partner that,
- 44:04Speaker 2: like looking after a child, despite the fact that it's
- 44:06Speaker 2: probably the worst paying job in the world, is in
- 44:08Speaker 2: fact a job like.
- 44:09Speaker 4: Totally I feel like we shouldn't have to ask our
- 44:11Speaker 4: partner to cover a basic necessity in our house, like
- 44:16Speaker 4: it should be a conversation no, And to be honest,
- 44:18Speaker 4: I feel like your partner should be on board with
- 44:20Speaker 4: that cost too. We're not asking for permission, but we're
- 44:23Speaker 4: letting them know. Oh hey, did you know that it
- 44:24Speaker 4: costs this much? Because if they're not in control of that,
- 44:28Speaker 4: it's like the unpaid labor that women have on top
- 44:31Speaker 4: of all of the other pieces of unpaid labor we do, right,
- 44:34Speaker 4: Like it's more mental load, Like I know that. And
- 44:37Speaker 4: I'm not saying my partner doesn't do this because he's
- 44:39Speaker 4: fantastic at it, but like I'm thinking, wow, okay, Harvey's
- 44:42Speaker 4: four months now, He's going to be six months soon,
- 44:45Speaker 4: Like do we need to go shopping for some clothes?
- 44:48Speaker 4: Like I don't actually know because I haven't spoken to
- 44:51Speaker 4: my part or about this. Does he know how much
- 44:52Speaker 4: ones he's cost?
- 44:54Speaker 5: Like?
- 44:54Speaker 4: How many do we need in his wardrobe? How much
- 44:57Speaker 4: does this actually cost us?
- 44:58Speaker 1: So?
- 44:59Speaker 4: Is your partner away of these things? Does he know
- 45:01Speaker 4: how much the nappy cream is? Does he know how
- 45:03Speaker 4: much nappies are? Do you know how much that has
- 45:05Speaker 4: increased your grocery bill?
- 45:07Speaker 1: So?
- 45:07Speaker 4: I think it's important to have these conversations because I'm
- 45:10Speaker 4: hoping that the outcome of this is him going, oh,
- 45:13Speaker 4: I didn't realize. Sorry, Yeah, yeah, we can just fix
- 45:16Speaker 4: that and then it's all simple and done and dusted.
- 45:19Speaker 4: But the fact that you've taken the time to write
- 45:21Speaker 4: this message in I think it needs a little bit
- 45:23Speaker 4: more budget planning.
- 45:25Speaker 2: Yes, whateveryone else say so, you guys are cue today?
- 45:30Speaker 1: All right?
- 45:31Speaker 4: So we asked the community, do you think it sounds
- 45:33Speaker 4: like the partner is forgetting about the unpaid full time
- 45:36Speaker 4: job of a stay at home parent. Twenty seven percent
- 45:41Speaker 4: said yes, Beck's looking at me and going what the
- 45:45Speaker 4: heck it's because seventy percent said yes times two and
- 45:50Speaker 4: two percent said no.
- 45:52Speaker 2: But a lot of people clicked it accidentally and message
- 45:54Speaker 2: us to say I clicked the robber button. I think
- 45:58Speaker 2: I'm rude.
- 46:00Speaker 4: We then asked you guys, all right, can you give
- 46:02Speaker 4: us some tips on how to navigate contributions to a
- 46:05Speaker 4: joint account when one person takes time off work to
- 46:08Speaker 4: raise a child. Lots of conversation about this one in
- 46:12Speaker 4: our DMS this week, so there's lots of different things
- 46:15Speaker 4: that work for lots of different people. One person said,
- 46:17Speaker 4: all money into one account and then equal amounts into
- 46:20Speaker 4: personal accounts. We do seventy five dollars each week. Someone
- 46:24Speaker 4: else said, make sure that the stay our home parents
- 46:26Speaker 4: still has superannuation contributions. Very important, very important. Someone else said,
- 46:31Speaker 4: talk it would have been better to have these conversations
- 46:34Speaker 4: before having a kid totally, But we can't go back
- 46:37Speaker 4: in time, can we.
- 46:38Speaker 2: That's very true late now, late now.
- 46:40Speaker 4: We're doing the best that we can. Next person said,
- 46:43Speaker 4: if you have a child together, you should be stable
- 46:45Speaker 4: enough for money to be a joint thing. I mean,
- 46:48Speaker 4: in a perfect world, yes, but that doesn't mean that
- 46:51Speaker 4: you meant to have a child. It also doesn't mean
- 46:54Speaker 4: that you decided at a stable point in your life
- 46:58Speaker 4: to have a child, like lots of people have children
- 47:02Speaker 4: for lots of different reasons. Like we heard on the
- 47:04Speaker 4: podcast a couple of weeks ago on Money Diaries about
- 47:07Speaker 4: a girl who was told that if she didn't have
- 47:10Speaker 4: kids within the next year, it wouldn't happen for her.
- 47:12Speaker 4: And she was relatively young, and she's in a situation
- 47:15Speaker 4: where her partner was significantly younger than her, and she
- 47:19Speaker 4: was like, well, I could have kids, but it's not
- 47:20Speaker 4: right for my relationship. Like, what do I do?
- 47:22Speaker 5: So?
- 47:22Speaker 4: I think that, Yes, I agree, in a perfect world
- 47:26Speaker 4: we should be financially stable, but that does not mean
- 47:29Speaker 4: that we are, and we're all just doing the best
- 47:31Speaker 4: that we can. Someone else has said personal savings need
- 47:34Speaker 4: to be divided equally between both parties, regardless of their contribution.
- 47:38Speaker 2: Yes fair.
- 47:39Speaker 4: Someone else to combine money and take an allowance for
- 47:42Speaker 4: your personal expenditure. Seeing a theme, someone else said, I
- 47:46Speaker 4: think you need to restructure bill amounts to include everything
- 47:49Speaker 4: for baby, because that's actually a joint expense. Too.
- 47:52Speaker 5: True.
- 47:52Speaker 4: Absolutely, I like this person's thought pattern because it's basically mine.
- 47:57Speaker 4: Sounds like you need to do a budget reassessment. Really,
- 48:00Speaker 4: he was so smart. I love this. Actually I just
- 48:02Speaker 4: steal all my answers from the DMS. Yeah I'm check
- 48:06Speaker 4: out what Yeah yeah, Like you're stealing your homework from
- 48:09Speaker 4: your partner, I'm stealing from the community.
- 48:12Speaker 6: You're allowed in that case.
- 48:13Speaker 4: Someone said, just add the cost of care and send
- 48:15Speaker 4: him a bill. Wild Someone said, please make sure you're
- 48:19Speaker 4: looking after your super And then there were just lots
- 48:21Speaker 4: of people saying communication is the key here. You both
- 48:24Speaker 4: need to be on the same page. But then we
- 48:26Speaker 4: asked the community. We're like, well, do you have any
- 48:28Speaker 4: advice specific to this community member, and they said, if
- 48:32Speaker 4: he doesn't like it, he should be the one that
- 48:34Speaker 4: stays home with baby. Yes, and that's Beck's idea. Someone said,
- 48:37Speaker 4: he can stay home if he likes I love that.
- 48:40Speaker 4: You guys are all like, well, you do it, literally,
- 48:42Speaker 4: you do it, sir, see how easy it is. Someone
- 48:45Speaker 4: else said, divorce extreme. You all are dramatics sometimes. I mean,
- 48:50Speaker 4: I'm here for it because they want to know the
- 48:52Speaker 4: tea and I like reading it, but I'm also like, cool,
- 48:54Speaker 4: please don't take that too dramatically.
- 48:56Speaker 2: Let's work through some steps before we Yeah, let's.
- 49:00Speaker 4: Communication could actually solve this problem. Someone said, suggest a
- 49:04Speaker 4: joint account for the kid, So I think that could
- 49:07Speaker 4: work really well as well. Someone said, you can chat
- 49:10Speaker 4: to a financial counselor about how to approach the situation
- 49:13Speaker 4: in more depth, which I think is actually a really
- 49:15Speaker 4: good idea because sometimes obviously this is just a DM
- 49:20Speaker 4: and we can't give you enough nuanced advice. But if
- 49:22Speaker 4: you chatted to a financial counselor from our friends at
- 49:25Speaker 4: the debt helpline, that would be really good. And then
- 49:28Speaker 4: someone else said sit down with him and go through
- 49:31Speaker 4: the budget, which I think is the most important thing
- 49:33Speaker 4: here right, Like, to me, this is really important. I
- 49:36Speaker 4: think it's also really important here to point out the
- 49:39Speaker 4: coercive control in finances is actually financial abuse. Yes, and
- 49:45Speaker 4: I'm not saying that that's what's happening here, but there
- 49:47Speaker 4: were a few little, you know, maybe orange flags to
- 49:50Speaker 4: me that this was not a situation that was healthy,
- 49:53Speaker 4: And I think it's really important to call that out
- 49:55Speaker 4: because financial abuse comes in lots of different colors, shades
- 50:00Speaker 4: and ways, and having money withheld is financial abuse if
- 50:04Speaker 4: it's for things that you need to spend money on.
- 50:06Speaker 4: Even just feeling ick about it is a conversation you
- 50:09Speaker 4: need to be having. So I think that's unfortunately guys,
- 50:12Speaker 4: all we have time for today. But I think that
- 50:14Speaker 4: that's kind of a good rap, like just making sure
- 50:17Speaker 4: that on the surface it is what it is, but
- 50:20Speaker 4: making sure that we're educated about it turning into something
- 50:23Speaker 4: you don't want it to. Yeah, great advice if that's
- 50:27Speaker 4: something that you are worried about, though, the best number
- 50:30Speaker 4: to call is one eight hundred. Respect. They do really
- 50:33Speaker 4: great work and can send you to the people that
- 50:35Speaker 4: you need, and then obviously if you do think you're
- 50:37Speaker 4: in serious trouble, always called triple zero. Yeah, but we'll
- 50:41Speaker 4: see you next week. Guys, sorry, did you forget something?
- 50:44Speaker 4: It's Jess's birthday, having birthday jests. We'll do this again
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