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Two Broke Chicks on the Cost Of Living Keep Up! · She's On The Money

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  Speaker 1: Hello, my name's Santasha Nabananga Bamblet. I'm a proud yor
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  Speaker 1: the Order Kerni Whoalbury and a waddery woman. And before
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  Speaker 1: we get started on She's on the Money podcast, I
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  Speaker 1: would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land
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  Speaker 1: of which this podcast is recorded on a wondery country,
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  Speaker 1: acknowledging the elders, the ancestors and the next generation coming
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  Speaker 1: through as this podcast is about connecting, empowering, knowledge sharing
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  Speaker 1: and the storytelling of you to make a difference for
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  Speaker 1: today and lasting impact for tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get into it.
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  Speaker 3: She's on the Money, She's on the Money.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, and welcome to She's on the Money, the podcasts
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  Speaker 2: for millennials who want financial freedom. My name is beck
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  Speaker 2: Side and Jess Ricky joins me today because it is Friday,
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  Speaker 2: and today we celebrate you the incredible She's on the
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  Speaker 2: Money community. Today we'll be sharing our favorite money wins.
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  Speaker 2: We'll be helping to answer a juicy money dilemma, which
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  Speaker 2: this week is all about keeping your clothes budget for
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  Speaker 2: a big schedule of events by purchasing fast fashion and
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  Speaker 2: we unpack something that you slim into our DMS about
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  Speaker 2: this week. You asked how to get on the same
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  Speaker 2: page with budget and throw away items when organizing a
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  Speaker 2: hen's weekend with your besties. That sounds juicy?
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  Speaker 4: It does, isn't that?
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  Speaker 5: Jess?
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  Speaker 2: How you going?
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  Speaker 4: I'm good?
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  Speaker 6: But today our team has doubled today and we have
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  Speaker 6: not one, but two guests who are fellow podcasters, journalists
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  Speaker 6: and of course twin Flames Sally McMullen and Alex Horrigan
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  Speaker 6: aka the Two break Chicks. Welcome down, Welcome, I'm so excited.
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  Speaker 6: We are so pomed to have you. I feel like
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  Speaker 6: the vibes are good. The vibes are immaculate, as always,
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  Speaker 6: overcomes some technical difficulties, and I think today's podcast is
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  Speaker 6: going to be such a good one.
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  Speaker 2: I think. So how's your week beans? Girls?
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  Speaker 5: Been good? We were talking about it earlier and we
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  Speaker 5: were saying, it was Sal's birthday yesterday and we went
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  Speaker 5: and visited an animal shelter that I used to volunteer
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  Speaker 5: at to try and help some of the animals.
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  Speaker 2: Get It was a very advice. Yeah, celebrations.
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  Speaker 5: We were just cuddling like kittens and bunnies. And however,
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  Speaker 5: I was like this every day.
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  Speaker 2: I was literally like, can we come do this once
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  Speaker 2: a month? Honestly? And I was like sweet.
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  Speaker 6: They would have been amazed too, to like get I
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  Speaker 6: feel like you guys have such a big platform even
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  Speaker 6: if a few people adopted pets off the back of that, Like,
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  Speaker 6: what a big impact that you're having. What a special
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  Speaker 6: way to spend your birthday. And it was so cute.
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  Speaker 6: They put a video up on Instagram and TikTok. You
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  Speaker 6: should go watch. It's freaking adorable.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, seriously, that's really cute. Did you guys get
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  Speaker 2: up to anything else? What do we do? We had
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  Speaker 2: coffee with whipped cream on it. That was yeah, and
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  Speaker 2: we had bagels. Lovely, lovely. A good week overall, Jess,
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  Speaker 2: how about you? Has a week been?
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  Speaker 4: It's been good?
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  Speaker 6: Nothing exciting to report really, where just plodding along.
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  Speaker 4: It's getting cold. Not loving that.
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  Speaker 2: I love that it's getting cold.
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  Speaker 4: I'm so excited.
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  Speaker 5: Like the air is like a bit crisper, and I'm like, oh, there's.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing better than a crispy cold morning.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, I'm so in the minority here, Like cold morning,
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  Speaker 6: I don't want to get out of bed.
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  Speaker 4: I just want to stay there.
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  Speaker 5: Though I agree, like next week when it's cold in
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  Speaker 5: the morning, I'll be like, behave this. This is terrible,
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  Speaker 5: change my mind every two seconds. Yeah, exactly. We're a
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  Speaker 5: big ball of contradictions.
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  Speaker 4: How about you back, how's your week been.
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  Speaker 2: My week's been really, really nice, just been chillin's, been
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  Speaker 2: cruised and just been living life. I honestly haven't done
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  Speaker 2: too much. I just got back from Sydney. My girlfriend
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  Speaker 2: met my parents for the first time. So let's get
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  Speaker 2: real serious. You gotta get real serious. But yeah, other
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  Speaker 2: than that, nothing really, But I am keen to jump
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  Speaker 2: straight into your muney wins slash losses.
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  Speaker 6: All right, let me get into it, because I do, have,
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  Speaker 6: of course, some goodies for you guys this week. Firstly,
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  Speaker 6: I've got a money win from sus who said money win.
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  Speaker 6: Found out that Shannon's cur insurance also do roadside assistance
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  Speaker 6: and one payment can cover multiple cars on one policy
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  Speaker 6: or price. This is my pro tip because my car
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  Speaker 6: broke down recently and I don't have roadside assistance, but
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  Speaker 6: my boyfriend does and you can.
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  Speaker 4: Use it for multiple cars.
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  Speaker 6: So if you live with somebody or if you have
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  Speaker 6: a partner, see if their policy covers more than one
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  Speaker 6: because then you don't have to pay for two, which
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  Speaker 6: is a dream.
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  Speaker 2: That is amazing. Where was that again?
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  Speaker 6: Here? Take a little note next, I've got a money
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  Speaker 6: in from Melissa who said we got married recently and
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  Speaker 6: I bought way too much alcohol for the reception. The
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  Speaker 6: bottle shop which we purchased them from. Let us return
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  Speaker 6: what we didn't open. Eighteen hundred bucks back in her pocket.
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  Speaker 2: Or eighteen hundred bucks is a lot of alcohols are
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  Speaker 2: not drink.
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  Speaker 6: That's so good that we were there, obviously. I've got
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  Speaker 6: a money lost from Amber, who said I went to
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  Speaker 6: cancel my Netflix subscription thinking I had a few more
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  Speaker 6: days until the next billing cycle, only to find out
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  Speaker 6: that the billing cycle had started that day and I
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  Speaker 6: had to pay for another month.
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  Speaker 4: Hate that sucks.
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  Speaker 5: Note them down, you're not canceled and then it just
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  Speaker 5: doesn't renew the next month or doesn't cancel. When you cancel,
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  Speaker 5: I think it may be already debited or probe.
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  Speaker 4: Sometimes they have like a you got to give us
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  Speaker 4: twenty four hours notice or whatever. Yeah, I know that suck.
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  Speaker 5: The thing that I like about like iTunes, for example,
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  Speaker 5: is if you subscribe to something through iTunes, you can
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  Speaker 5: go into that app and then like unsubscribed, but it'll
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  Speaker 5: take you to the expiry date, so you don't have
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  Speaker 5: to remember when it's gonna, you know, rebill you just
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  Speaker 5: like this will expire on the twenty seventh of April
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  Speaker 5: next tunning.
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  Speaker 4: It's all in one place. It's easy.
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  Speaker 2: Some places like will cancel the same day and refund you,
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  Speaker 2: which is ideal. I don't think Netflix is going to
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  Speaker 2: do that though.
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  Speaker 6: I can't imagine Netflix taking because I've got a money
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  Speaker 6: in from Ayisha Hu said money win. I've been listing
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  Speaker 6: our unused items on Facebook Marketplace and in the last
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  Speaker 6: week I've made twelve hundred fifty dollars on stuff that
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  Speaker 6: wasn't being used.
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  Speaker 2: That's so good.
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  Speaker 4: There's what's that statistic?
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  Speaker 6: Everybody has like six hundred dollars worth of stuff in
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  Speaker 6: their house and that they're not using that could be sold,
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  Speaker 6: which I think is super interesting.
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  Speaker 5: I believe I reckon My parents are probably like a
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  Speaker 5: gold mine. Rember that thing when like all the Disney
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  Speaker 5: VCRs went viral and I was that, mom, yeah, give.
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  Speaker 2: Me the videos. It's giving Antiques Roadshow.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 6: I loved Antiques Roadshow when I was home sick as
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  Speaker 6: a kid, buy a little antiques roadshow that's sent in
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  Speaker 6: the afternoon.
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  Speaker 4: Incredible.
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  Speaker 6: And lastly, this week, I've got a money win from Claire,
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  Speaker 6: who said, my boyfriend and I have been craving a
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  Speaker 6: Southeast Asia getaway and I just found out I'm going
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  Speaker 6: to be sent to Thailand for work in a few weeks.
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  Speaker 6: So we really only need to sort some extra accommodation
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  Speaker 6: his flights and some sightseeing costs.
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  Speaker 2: That's so good, love it.
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  Speaker 4: That's cut very exciting.
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  Speaker 6: Now we have been saying to anybody coming on the show,
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  Speaker 6: we'd love for you to join in. So I was wondering,
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  Speaker 6: do you gals happen to have a money win or
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  Speaker 6: a money lost to share with?
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  Speaker 4: Everybody?
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  Speaker 5: Got boths?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we've got bothes. Should I start with the win?
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  Speaker 2: Let's start with a loss so we can end on
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  Speaker 2: a whim. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, So this was very fresh, this was very recent.
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  Speaker 2: There were tears. Oh no, what I'm gonna say.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, I didn't know you were going to
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  Speaker 4: share this.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm so excited, which is like, and our show
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  Speaker 5: is all about life lessons, so there is a life
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  Speaker 5: lesson at the end of this. But sal and I
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  Speaker 5: booked Hawaii flights during one of their like really good
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  Speaker 5: sales earlier this year, and then when we went to
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  Speaker 5: book our accommodation, it was also during a week that
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  Speaker 5: was like it was boxing days, so we were a
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  Speaker 5: bit tired from doing like sail recaps.
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  Speaker 2: We'd also just launched planners.
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  Speaker 5: It was just a big week, right, So I was
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  Speaker 5: a bit sleepy, bit tired, and I was also excited
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  Speaker 5: to be booking a commodation.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, let's go babbablah.
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  Speaker 5: And the way that my brain works when i'm excited,
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  Speaker 5: I'm just like a bit of a million miles an hour.
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  Speaker 5: And I was kind of rushing, but not because I
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  Speaker 5: wanted to get it done, but I was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: let's book accommodation.
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  Speaker 2: And so we're going in May.
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  Speaker 5: And then on the weekend, I got a notification on
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  Speaker 5: an email that I was like, what why is this
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  Speaker 5: email getting emails because it's not one that I use anymore,
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  Speaker 5: and it was like rate you'll stay at the hotel
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  Speaker 5: wed booked, and I was like what rate? My say,
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  Speaker 5: what are you talking about? I was like, you silly goose.
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  Speaker 5: I open it and it's the exact dates that were
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  Speaker 5: going in May, but in.
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  Speaker 2: March, oh much.
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  Speaker 5: Not May, because I am an idiot, and I was like,
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  Speaker 5: the way my tummy dropped, I was like, oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 5: And like Hawaii accommodation is definitely towards like the higher
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  Speaker 5: higher of the spectrum, Like the flights were very affordable,
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  Speaker 5: but the accommodation was definitely where we were. It was oh,
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  Speaker 5: and I just felt sick and I just called down
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  Speaker 5: and I was crying my eyes out and I was like.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just wasting all this money. And then so I
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  Speaker 2: was like it's okay, I'm not mad at you don't
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  Speaker 2: worry and.
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  Speaker 4: That's a good friend.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, I know.
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  Speaker 5: I was like, thank you so much, like you definitely
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  Speaker 5: could have annoyed if you wanted to be.
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  Speaker 2: And then anyway, I.
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  Speaker 5: Called the hotel and they were like, it's okay. You
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  Speaker 5: got charged a no show fee, which is only the
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  Speaker 5: one night rather than six nights, which was a lot better,
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  Speaker 5: but it was still a couple one hundred dollars, which
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  Speaker 5: I was like, I have learnt a veriable lesson that
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  Speaker 5: I will be double checking not only dates, but the email,
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  Speaker 5: like the contact email, because I would have picked up
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  Speaker 5: on it so much more. But for some reason, you
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  Speaker 5: know how you know Chrome and Google can like automatically
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  Speaker 5: load an email. It had automatically loaded some rogue email
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  Speaker 5: from years ago that I was like, Oh, it was
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  Speaker 5: like an old world like Club sixty seven, like the
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  Speaker 5: most random one that you would never pick.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that one.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah really, And you're embarrassed when you're on the phone
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  Speaker 6: to the person and like what email is the booking
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  Speaker 6: under and you're like, oh, it's horse Girl.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And it was just as well.
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  Speaker 5: I think she was so nice, which was great because
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  Speaker 5: I think she could tell that I was like, and
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  Speaker 5: I booked it on and I was like, I know
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  Speaker 5: that there's probably so many people that have done that,
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  Speaker 5: but there's probably so many people who have booked holidays
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  Speaker 5: that I just want everyone to go and recheck the
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  Speaker 5: dates and details and don't do what I did.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my goodness.
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  Speaker 6: Whenever I book anything with anyone to travel, I always
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  Speaker 6: make sure that I forward the email to everyone going,
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  Speaker 6: because I go it's a group responsibility because you've all
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  Speaker 6: also seen the email. So if I have stuffed something
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  Speaker 6: up when I booked it, you have a chance.
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  Speaker 4: To catch it.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't see it either, Yeah, plod.
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  Speaker 4: And ability our fault group.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, it's the group's exactly exactly exactly.
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  Speaker 6: Lesson learned. It sounds like, what's the wind to bring
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  Speaker 6: it back up?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. We'll finish on a high.
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  Speaker 5: So Al and I both huge fans of cash back
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  Speaker 5: because we're both big shoppers, but we also love to
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  Speaker 5: like either save money or get money back whenever we can. Really,
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  Speaker 5: this goes for any cash back service that you like
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  Speaker 5: to use. And I've been using it for maybe the
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  Speaker 5: last year or so and I haven't ever withdrawn any
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  Speaker 5: of the money. And I had a goal that I
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  Speaker 5: wouldn't touch it until I'd gotten five hundred dollars cash
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  Speaker 5: back saved. And I'm almost there. I'm at like four
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  Speaker 5: hundred and seventy something, and it's largely because my local
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  Speaker 5: cafe does cash back. I buy coffee every single day,
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  Speaker 5: which is my toxic trait, which I know, but I've
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  Speaker 5: like factored that into my budget. But now I'm like,
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to get five hundred dollars back just from
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  Speaker 5: your coffee, just from my coffee, which was an expense
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  Speaker 5: I was already going to do exactly, No, I'm going
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  Speaker 5: to buy something stupid. Yes, good good, like i'maly gonna
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  Speaker 5: withdraw and like yeah by like a treat.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, that's incredible. And it just adds up so quick, really,
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  Speaker 6: doesn't it. We stand up?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I couldn't believe it. I want to know what
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  Speaker 2: stand means well, because we don't have time. We don't
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  Speaker 2: have time maybe off air, but maybe one day I'll
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  Speaker 2: feel that out. Okay, So next up, we're going to
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  Speaker 2: go through some broke tips, and I know that you
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  Speaker 2: girls came with one each, which I'm very excited about.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm just going to share one from the community
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  Speaker 2: and then we'll get to yours. So my first and
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  Speaker 2: only broke tip for this week comes from Alyssa, who
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  Speaker 2: says that she posted to a local buy nothing page
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  Speaker 2: to borrow a steamer, and one lovely lady obliged, and
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  Speaker 2: today she steamed her whole house a return to Wednesday morning.
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  Speaker 2: So basically her tip is to just go into your
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  Speaker 2: local community pages on Facebook or marketplace or wherever, and
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  Speaker 2: literally you don't have to go to like Bunnings, like
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  Speaker 2: borrow like a carpet cleaner. You know, when you're going
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  Speaker 2: to move out of a house, you need to full
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  Speaker 2: lease clean. Just asking the question and seeing what's out
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  Speaker 2: there in your community pages, seeing if you can just
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  Speaker 2: borrow something, even if it's something as small as like
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  Speaker 2: a mop for a broom or a dustpan, just borrow,
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  Speaker 2: see what you can borrow, and just kind of like
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  Speaker 2: create a little kind of similar to what you were saying,
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  Speaker 2: just like ages ago, just creating this like kind of
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  Speaker 2: like swap and sell sort of community vibe. That way,
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  Speaker 2: you almost never have to spend money on just those
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  Speaker 2: little things, you know, like cleaning products and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: So I just think that's a really great idea. Jump
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  Speaker 2: onto community pages and just put the word out there
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  Speaker 2: before you spend money, because they can be very very pricey. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: sal and l can we grab yours? Of course? Do
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  Speaker 2: you want to kick off sound?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Sure, so over at two Broke Chicks.
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  Speaker 5: Oh my god, I reckon, we're gonna add the same one,
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  Speaker 5: do you think I I don't think so, okay, but maybe.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: My brain just tingled a bit. We like joined telepathically.
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  Speaker 4: It's the twin flame thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Sometimes we won't play and stuff and then.
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  Speaker 5: I'm like, oh wait, And a lot of the time
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  Speaker 5: we do because otherwise we'll come prepared with the exact
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  Speaker 5: same respect I know I've find now I feel fine, say, okay,
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  Speaker 5: we're good. But you know, at two Broke Chicks, we
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  Speaker 5: love to provide tips for all different types of savers
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  Speaker 5: and budgeters and shoppers because we know that, like, nobody
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  Speaker 5: has the same money mindset. But I think for us,
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  Speaker 5: when we're talking about savings goals, a lot of people
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  Speaker 5: are like, I can't save five thousand dollars in a year.
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  Speaker 5: That's you know, too much, especially with the cost of
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  Speaker 5: living crisis and everything, which I definitely think is a
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  Speaker 5: valid concern and is something that throughout pretty much all
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  Speaker 5: of my twenties was something that I thought, and it's
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  Speaker 5: because I was never breaking it down day by day.
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  Speaker 5: I was always looking at it maybe monthly, and I
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  Speaker 5: was like, I can't afford to squirrel away hundreds of
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  Speaker 5: dollars a month, Like it's just not going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: I never have that money at the end of the month.
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  Speaker 5: But so my tip, my Broke Chick tip for today,
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  Speaker 5: is that you can start small and it only takes
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  Speaker 5: thirteen dollars and set any cents per day to add
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  Speaker 5: up to five thousand dollars per year. Yeah, and like
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  Speaker 5: think about how many times you walk out your front
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  Speaker 5: door and you literally bend down to tie your shoe
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  Speaker 5: and you all have a sudden spend literally yeah seriously
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  Speaker 5: speaking of buying the coffees every morning. So I think
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  Speaker 5: either you can set up the automatic transfer or you
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  Speaker 5: can build that habit and do it every single morning
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  Speaker 5: when you're having a coffee or when you're having a brecky.
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  Speaker 5: And by the end of the five thousand dollars, that
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  Speaker 5: is a lot of money.
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  Speaker 6: That's heaps of cash that you could put something good.
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  Speaker 6: You could put it Christmas, you could spend it on
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  Speaker 6: the holiday treat yourself.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 15:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Obviously that also comes down to expendable income, like
• 15:42
  Speaker 5: you have.
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: To have like that thirteen seventy a day. But that's
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: the thing.
• 15:47
  Speaker 5: You can kind of cater it towards whatever the goal is,
• 15:50
  Speaker 5: even if it's a dollar a day and then you
• 15:52
  Speaker 5: end up with, you know, over three hundred and sixty dollars,
• 15:56
  Speaker 5: It all adds up business presence down for yourself. My
• 16:04
  Speaker 5: money tip at the moment is I'm really trying to
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: embrace saving on money that I'm already spending, Like on
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: money that's already kind of happening to be spent leaving
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: my account as part of process of life. And I
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: love saving, but I also want to live my life
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: like I'm in my twenties. I want to have fun,
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: Like I want to be able to go out and
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: experiencings as much as I want to do that.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: So if I want to go out.
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: To dinners and I want to do that, I want
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: to get.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: Some cockie teas. That's cocktails for anyone that speaks normal.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: I'm playing at home.
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: I was thinking something very different.
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah, look that's great too. But and so what I've
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: been doing is using a lot of apps, whether that's beauty.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: Fashion or groceries.
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: Another one which has been sent into us by one
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: of our audience members was first Table, where you save
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: a certain discount or percentage on your meat by booking
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: an earlier time slot.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: Another Yeah, it's cool.
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: So if you eat maybe that like five, five thirty
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: or six, you save a certain percentage off your meal.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: And I love an early dinner, so like that.
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah, if I'm gonna have a cocktail too, two cocktails,
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: I'm asleep by eight thirty.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, dam Like I'm good.
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: I'm having a little nat and I'm hungry by then yeah,
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: same eat club. Eat club will show you like discounts
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: for like takeaway and dining meals. And then another one
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: was just switching to a high interest savings account and
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: just making the money that's in my savings work harder
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: for me. And I don't hundred do anything like I
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: think there's so many little things that we can just
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: set up and just like set and forget that or
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: just incorporate into the habit in our spending that we're
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: going to save a little bit more. And it's basically
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: just me embracing like seventeen year old Alex who would
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: search for an hour for like a fifteen percent off
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: promo cope that was like I will get one. I
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: will say five dollars if my life depended on it.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's just like incorporated into my big girl,
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: grown up spending.
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: I love that because it's not about like restricting your spending.
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: It's about complimenting the spanker that you're already doing.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, good job, thanks awesome, those are so good. First table?
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Was it is that?
• 18:17
  Speaker 7: What?
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: It's first table? Es table? Okay, I'm going to look
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: into that. Thank you much. All right, guys, let's go
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: to a quick break and on the other side, we're
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: going to be unpacking a money dilemma, which this week
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: is all about keeping your clothes budget for a big
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: schedule of events by purchasing fast fashion. And then we
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: unpack something that you slid into our dms about this week,
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: you asked how to get on the same page with
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: budget and throw away items when organizing a hen's weekend
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: with your besties. Don't go anywhere.
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: Welcome back, everybody. Let's take a listen to this week's
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: money dilemma.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: Hi, there, have you got a money dilemma you just
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: can't solve? The Sheese on the Money team is here
• 18:55
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• 18:58
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• 19:02
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• 19:05
  Speaker 3: us a short voice recording and you might just find
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: yourself on the show. Now, let's take a listen to
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: this week's money dilemma.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: Hey, babes, love the pod.
• 19:14
  Speaker 7: I'm a single gal in my thirties on sixty K
• 19:17
  Speaker 7: before super All my friends are getting married this year
• 19:20
  Speaker 7: and having milestone birthdays. Everyone's already getting new expensive outfits
• 19:24
  Speaker 7: for these events and I'm freaking out. I can afford
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: to get what I need through fast fashion brands, but
• 19:29
  Speaker 7: I know they're not good.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: What would you do interesting?
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: There's such a big debate around fast fashion, and the
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: one thing that I really want to articulate is, as
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: much as I think it is really important to consume
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: consciously the responsibility of ecological and impact, it should be
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: sitting with large corporations, not on an individual on the
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: level that people are current, like, yes, we all have
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: an individual responsibility to do the best that we can.
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: But also I think that there's been a bit of
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: a trend of demonizing people who shop fast fashioned brands,
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: and I think sometimes all you can afford is the
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: shirt from Kmart, and if you wear that shirt from
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: Kmart every day for you know, however many years, you're
• 20:16
  Speaker 6: still spending your money. Well, I think the issue is
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: the pressure that this girl is feeling maybe to wear
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: something different to one of these events every time re
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: wear your clothes. I think that that is so fine.
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: But I just really wanted to table at the start
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: of this because I feel very strongly about it. It
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: really frustrates me that we really are canceling people and
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: coming after people for doing things that might be within
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: their means, like not everybody can afford to buy the
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: super ethical, you know, well produced garments, and I understand
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: that that's the gold standard and that's what we all
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: really want to do, but it's just not attainable for everybody.
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: And I don't think that it's fair to be putting
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: pressure on individuals when really the problem is the conglomerates
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: that are producing these things unethically.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: One not.
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: Have said it better, honestly, because I think there's two
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: reasons surrounding this. And the first one that I wrote
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: down was the most common reason is that.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: People can't afford to spend more.
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: We're in a cost of living crisis, and we're vilifying
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: people for shopping within their means and we're in their budget.
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: And I do think there is the social stigma, society
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: stigma that has been pushed especially onto women, that we
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: have to always look different and be wearing something different,
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: especially for big events. And then the second one is
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: that fast fashion does tend to have more inclusive and
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: extensive size ranges, you know, that is often also another
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: reason why people are shopping fast fashion. There was A
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: really interesting article written in Fashion Journal by an Australian
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: model called it Jennifer at emmerely I'm.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Assuming I'm so sorry if I butchered that last name.
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: Unsustainable fashion's aversion to size inclusivity, and in her articles
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: she wrote sustainable fashion generally excludes women over a size twelve,
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: especially in Australia. She continued to say, for anyone above
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: a size sixteen, it's impossible to cut out fast fashion
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: completely because what else do you wear? And given that
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: the average size of an Australian woman is a fourteen
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: to sixteen, this kind of highlights the issue that even
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: if people want to, you know, shop more sustainably and
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: with a slower fashion brand, there's not as many options.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: I do think this is slowly.
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: Improving and we're seeing, you know, more brands come out
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: with more exclusive size ranges. But this is also a
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: thing to take into consideration, that people actually can't find
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: the things to wear.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: That's a really good point. I had not even thought
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: about that, even like, you know, I was going to
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: suggest like op shopping and things like that, but even
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: even then it can be really yeah hard to You
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: might see one thing you like and it's like way
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: too big or way too small for you. So it's
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: like even then it's not really always the best option
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: or always the you know option that's going to Yeah,
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: I guess take you of the line, But yeah, I
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: think it really is. I think just kind of taking
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: away that pressure of having to wear something new for
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: like big events, yet absolutely re wear your clothes.
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: I really think as well, Like, think about how many
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: times you have looked at someone at a wedding and thought, oh,
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: I've seen them wear.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: That just before.
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: I've ever noticed when someone's worn something more than once.
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: So I do think it is completely in our own head,
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: but also it's what has been pushed on to us,
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: so you know, we always have to be fashionable and
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: on the newest trend and all that kind of stuff.
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: But as well, I saw a creator on TikTok called
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: brook Upden speaking about shopping your own wardrobe and she
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: said this quote in it, and I thought that was
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: so powerful, and she was like, are you bored of
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: your wardrobe or are you bored of how you style it? Yeah? Yeah,
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: I love that, Like if you can just tweak some
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: things on how you're styling things in your wardrobe, or
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: pair it differently. You're going to feel really really differently
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: about one piece of clothing and it'll completely change your
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: perspective on it. That's what I was going to say,
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: Like the power of accessories really can change up an
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: outfit or even the way that you do your makeup
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: or the way that you do your hair. If it's
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: for you know, a wedding or a big birthday or
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: something like, there are options for you to I suppose
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: customize the one outfit, Like we've all seen that episode
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: of The Simpsons and March has that like one pink
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: Chanel suit she like.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Tailor is it to be a billion different outfits? We
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: don't have to go that extreme. But she's so sad too,
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: But I love March. We have the same birthday, by
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: the way, do you that is amazing? Yeah?
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: Flex, But yeah, I do really think that you can
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: accessorize within your own wardrobe or if you do, you know,
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: want to perhaps just splurge on maybe a different pair
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: of shoes or jewelry. You don't have to have a
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: completely new outfit for every single event, because even if
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: you're shopping fast fashion, but you're buying a new outfit
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: for every single event that you have coming up in
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: the air that's going to add up.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's so true.
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: There's other ways that you're in, like you have an
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: environmental impact in other ways as well. I think the
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: other thing i'd say is look into maybe swapping clothes
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: with your friends if you can. If everyone's buying stuff
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: for these events, it sounds like everyone's gonna have fancy stuff.
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: Maybe you can all do a trade and you can
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: wear each other's stuff, or you can rent things like,
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: there are other options as well. But I think, yeah,
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: I completely agree, it's it's about the pressure that we
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: feel to wear those things. I feel like that's the
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: bigger issue. Even though that wasn't really what the question
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: was asking.
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: It would be hard though, because you're probably in like
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: a group chat and you're seeing everyone sending you know, oh,
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: I'm thinking about this dress where I'm thinking about that,
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: and you would start having that oh I wasn't even
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: thinking you're buying anything new like that. You know, the
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: thought process that goes into your head. And that is
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: so fair enough. But I really love that point. Sal
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: and I swap clothes all the time, like and we're
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: lucky because.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: We, you know, have very similar structure.
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: Obviously, if your friend's five nine and you're five to one,
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: it's gonna be a bit tricky. Sure, But if you
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: do have a friend that you can swell close with,
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: it's literally like having double the wardrobe.
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: It's great, it's the best one hundred percent. Yeah, all right,
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: should we get into the DM for this week?
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: I am so excited. Okay, you guys are ready for
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: a juicy juicy DM.
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: Absolutely.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: Okay. So a listener read in and wrote, help. My
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: girls and I are organizing a Hen's weekend for our
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: best year, and there is a couple of things I'm
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: having problems with. Firstly, on the cost per person of
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: this hens. It's totaling three hundred and ninety dollars each
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: for bus hire, a stripper in brackets. I personally am
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: not a fan of alcohol, food, venue, hire, activities, etc.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: It's way out of my budget. But they have ignored
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: this and made comments like, don't be a buzzkill, it's
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: for our friend, it's just what it costs. And secondly,
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: for costumes, games, et cetera. For the day, my friends
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: want to buy a whole bunch of cheap, single use,
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: throwaway stuff and it hurts my soul. To be honest,
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: I would rather we spend time making stuff, more money
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: on reusable stuff. I don't get it. They are happy
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: to spend loads of money on a strip up but
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: want to be cheap as with this, it totally doesn't
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: sit right with my values. I don't want to be
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: a down up, but I feel I need to put
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: my foot down. What would you do? We were talking
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: about this the other day.
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: This is so tough, and I feel like, as you're
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: going into your late twenties or thirties, this is absolutely
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: a conundrum that a lot of.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: People are facing.
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: I think as well, because we unfortunately had, you know,
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: those years in lockdown and COVID. People are so excited
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: now for weddings, for baby showers and those monumental experiences
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: in their life that are such a big experience that
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: they want it to be really big.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: They want it to be really amazing and memorable.
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: However, Sal and I always say that, like, your wedding
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: is so special and amazing and beautiful and stunning and
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: sparkly and gorgeous for you, Like I think sometimes we
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: don't understand that not everyone cares about your wedding. Is
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: much as you do, yes, which sounds really harsh, but
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: I think it's a really empathetic thing we need to
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: remember when doing this.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: But it sounds like it's the friends as well.
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: It sounds like the friends that are putting the pressure
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: on into friends. Yeah, and that is a lot of
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: money to be, you know, putting towards a singular event
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: of a hen's night, especially like if it was aligned
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: with your values, you'd probably be like, okay, sure, yeah,
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: but it's not.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: So it's very tricky.
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: And it's also just not not like, don't be calling
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: a friend a buzzkill now it kiss me off?
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, excuse me exactly.
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: Any content talking about money with friends is already really difficult,
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: even if it is for you know, something that perhaps
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: isn't as much of a milestone as like a bridal
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: shower or whatever. The event is a hen's weekend, even
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: if it's just going out for dinner. So I totally
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: understand where she's coming from. But I do think that
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: she should put her for down because even though yes,
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: it's a group effort, if she doesn't want to put
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: her money towards those things, I just don't think that
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: she should have to but you can always explain yourself
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: and provide an alternative. So we always say that if
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: this happens, you know you can say I'm so sorry,
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: I'm saving up for XYZ, or this doesn't fit into
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: my budget so I can't afford this. However, how about
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: we do x yzed here and come like prepared with
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: perhaps more affordable options so that you're not just being like, no, yeah,
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: I'm not going to do it, because especially it seems
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: like the friends are already going to be like, oh, well,
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: you're being a buzzkiller.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: Why are you being a team player?
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: Or this is for your friend and making something that's
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: going to be a really special weekend for your friend.
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: I think if you come prepared with some more affordable
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: options or alternatives, then it isn't like you just be like, well,
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: I don't want to be involved in putting your hands up.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: It's a little bit.
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: More proactive and shows that you still care about your
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: friend having a good time, and also isn't like putting
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: all of the responsibility on the other friends to come
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: up with a different option. I want to know the
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: boundary line lies, because like if you're a bridesmaid, is
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: that like expected of you because I've never been a
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: bridesmaid before either, so but then it because Hans as well.
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: It's like multiple people are invited. It's like hand just
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: like yeah, it's like sometimes it's more than just the
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: bridal party, right that, Like are you able to just
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: be like.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: Sorry, I can't afford this at the.
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: Moment or my you know, monetary values lie elsewhere at
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: the moment, see you at the wedding.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: Or is that a bit rogue?
• 30:44
  Speaker 6: I think you can dip out for sure. But I
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: think the hard thing here is there's also the ethical
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: element that they've put in their their message to us,
• 30:52
  Speaker 6: which is they don't want to necessarily contribute to the
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: stripart because it's not something that's morally aligned to them,
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: which is fine, but then they would be happy to
• 31:00
  Speaker 6: more money on reusable cutlery and decorations and things like
• 31:04
  Speaker 6: that rather than disposable So I think that also might
• 31:07
  Speaker 6: be a bit of a confusing message to try to
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: convey to somebody, because if you, I think it's one
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: thing to say, hey, guys, not in the budget right now,
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: like I'll just meet you guys at the club, and
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: you know, I'll buy my drinks and i'll still be there,
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: but that's you know, an affordable way for me to
• 31:20
  Speaker 6: do it versus I guess the moral dilemma here is, well,
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: I don't want to pay for things that don't align
• 31:26
  Speaker 6: to my values, but I do want to pay for
• 31:27
  Speaker 6: things that do. And I feel like that's really hard
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: to manage in a group setting.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, Yeah, I completely agree. I'm also thinking, like,
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: my god, she's spending like three hundred and nine dollars
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: on the Hens, and then you've also got to like
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: pay for a wedding gift. I assume if you're like
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: I'm assuming, if you're being in viarted to the Hens,
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: you're close enough to the person to have to spend
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: like a a hextic amount of money and then, like
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: exactly as our message from before, our money dilemma, probably
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: a new outfit of some kind. Like I just feel
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: like this is really adding up costume she said, costumes
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: exactly exactly.
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: Where even is it an uber charged? Do you have
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: to drive somewhere? I get accommodation? Do you have to
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: get flights?
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: Like? Yeah, all of this adds up exactly, and I
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: know this is like extremely unhelpful for the person riding
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: in but I think that the problem.
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: She's like, thanks, guys, She's like, so I feel great.
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: So good.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: None of that was useful, and I'm really sorry for
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: to our listener, but I think that they've been issue
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: really is just like that people expect so much, like
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: if I'm not choosing to get married, if I'm not
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: getting married, if I'm nowhere near getting married, and one
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: of my good friends is I kind of get anxious.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: I don't want to feel anxious. I want to feel excited,
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: but I'm like, good, how much is this going to
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: cost to me? And that's a really bad way to be.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: But unfortunately we've kind of found ourselves in this place
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: where like, yeah, you can have to spend at least, like,
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: you know, eighty bucks ahead for a banquet or something
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: at a Hens, and then you've got your engagement party,
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: and then you've got your wedding, and maybe you've got
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: a kid's first birthday at some point in the future.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: But yeah, it just really really adds up. So I guess, yeah,
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: that's extremely unhelpful. What I'm saying to the listener is
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: change societal views. But I think putting your foot down
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: exactly as everyone else is saying, but just yeah, do
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: it in a way where you're explaining me you're coming from.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: And if your friends it doesn't sound like what the
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: like kind of the listener who's written in sounds like
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: their friends aren't very supportive of their views and their
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: values with each other don't even align, and it's like,
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: I don't know, I would maybe just be not like
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: obviously ending friendships, but just like considering who you're close
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: to and who's like in your close circle. Because I
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: know that my friends and hopefully the same with everyone
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: else in this room, if I was to say, oh,
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: my values is don't align with this, they would absolutely
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: respect that without even a second thought, you know what
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: I mean. So yeah, maybe just like reevaluating those relationships
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: but still keeping you know, put your foot down, absolutely
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: hold true to that.
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: Has some boundaries, I think, yeah, and good friendships will
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: always respect boundaries.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, exactly. So let's see what the community had
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: to say. So first we asked have you been to
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: a Hen's party before? Eighty four percent of you said
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: yes and sixteen percent of you said no. And then
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: we asked, if yes, how should it cost to attend
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: the event? Thirty six percent of you said between fifty
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: to one hundred and fifty, another thirty six percent said
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty to two hundred and fifty, fifteen
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: percent of you said two hundred and fifty to three
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: hundred and fifty, and thirteen percent of you said three
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: hundred and fifty to five hundred fifty. I'm talking dollars.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: By the way, how a mention that that's a hectic
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: amount of money.
• 34:31
  Speaker 6: We also had a bunch of people DM and say
• 34:33
  Speaker 6: they spent over one thousand dollars, which is god insane
• 34:37
  Speaker 6: to me.
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: I can say that if it's a weekend away, oh yeah,
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: that easily can add up to over one thousand dollars.
• 34:43
  Speaker 6: On a HENS, which, like I get is fun and
• 34:45
  Speaker 6: especially important, but like, to me, that's so not worth it.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: You're doing that.
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: If you're wanting your hends to be a destination thing,
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: you need to allow your friends to say no, yeah,
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: to be like, this is so optional, this is just
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: what I want to do.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: You do not have to do this and like really.
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: And not be like, because we will get messages like
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: this being like and she didn't come to my hens
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: in Barcelona two thousand dollars flights, and we're like, come.
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: On, come on, there's like a point where if you
• 35:17
  Speaker 6: want to be that bougie, I think there's a responsibility
• 35:19
  Speaker 6: on you to like to cover some of the cost,
• 35:23
  Speaker 6: Like Jery, Like, I've been to one hens.
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: It was Victoria's, and I don't think I paid for
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: anything the whole time. I mean, way to do it.
• 35:30
  Speaker 6: It was just sorted, which I know that not everyone's
• 35:32
  Speaker 6: in the position to do that, but I think, like,
• 35:33
  Speaker 6: if you're expecting people to do something really expensive, is
• 35:37
  Speaker 6: there a responsibility on you to make that easier for them?
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: I think so, yeah. And then we asked what would
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: be more important to you in this situation. Fifty five
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: percent of you said spending less and getting single use stuff,
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: and forty five percent of you said spending more in
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: getting reusable stuff. Interesting. Interesting. Then we asked, have you
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: ever had a friend not respect your budget and values
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: around spending? Seven percent of you said yes and thirty
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: three percent of you said no. And then we said,
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: tell us your two cents. So I'll just go through
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: a few of these. First, we had someone right, Hen's
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: parties are so overrated, just spend the money on the wedding,
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: which I kind of like, I don't know, I kind
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: of agree with this in this like really I don't
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: know old school way of thinking, Like did it come
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: from the idea that like you're only you're free for
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: it's like your last night of freedom.
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I'll take any excuse to drink with the girls. Yeah,
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: But like it doesn't need to be a big thing,
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: but I will.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: I would have a HEN tonight.
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: I'm not engaged, but my boyfriend's like slow down, Like
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: i'd be like.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: Yee, like I want to do that.
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: But I so I don't think it needs to be
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: this thing of like we don't need a hen totally.
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: It's up to what you want to do, because that's
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: a thing like whereas I don't particularly want to get married,
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: and if I decided to change my mind, I wouldn't
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: have a hens. Yeah, and Alex and I are best
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: friend and basically the same person. So even like two
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: people who are so close have very different views on
• 37:06
  Speaker 5: what they would want to do, Like, yeah, I think
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: it shows like that division.
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: You know, you either way and it just depends on
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: what you like.
• 37:13
  Speaker 6: But you're right, it doesn't have to be a big thing,
• 37:15
  Speaker 6: like you could just get the girls together at someone's house,
• 37:17
  Speaker 6: have some drinks, make some cheese platters, dance around track drunks.
• 37:22
  Speaker 6: I have it, you know what I mean. Like, it
• 37:24
  Speaker 6: doesn't need to be crazy. I think it's like the
• 37:26
  Speaker 6: social media world that we live in has really put
• 37:28
  Speaker 6: the pressure on for people to have this crazy instagram
• 37:31
  Speaker 6: worthy event.
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: I agree. No, it doesn't have to It can just
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: be like a little celebration. Just go to the to
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: the bar, whatever you want to do. Someone said, get
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: new friends, which I think in a.
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: We said that in a nice.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: What you said, it's a real boiled down version of
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: what I say. I like it. It's honest. I like it.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: You take it. Someone else said life is expensive these days.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: I expect to pay five hundred dollars plus for Hen's weekends.
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: That's standard. Oh my goodness, I can't. I couldn't know
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: if I agree with that.
• 38:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: None, it's a lot of money. It is a lot
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: of money. Here's what are you getting out of it.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: You've got your leaving the wedding, not married or anyway. Absolutely,
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: that's not always the best thing. But anyway, it's a
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: good time. It's an experience. Paying for an experience. Someone
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: else said, and this is probably more practical buy off
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: marketplace or sell the decorations after even single use. That's
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: very good advice, thank you. That's what my.
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: Question is going to be is with the reusable stuff,
• 38:36
  Speaker 5: what hens stuff would be reusable? That's actually a great question,
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: Like I'm not using.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: Dick straws every day of the week.
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: You know, maybe things like if you were like decorating
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: the table, like table settings and decorating that stuff, you
• 38:53
  Speaker 5: could hire, I would say, or yeah, buy your Facebook marketplace,
• 38:57
  Speaker 5: or you could handmake a lot of those things, like
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: there are so many really cool tiktoks and things on
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: Pinterest that you can use for inspiration that are going
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: to be so much more aesthetic and also meaningful and
• 39:10
  Speaker 5: more affordable than going to a party shop and buying
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: a bunch of single use plastic.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: If you want the dick straws, sure but surely we.
• 39:18
  Speaker 5: Can meet in the middle here and have like a
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: mix of handmade or borrowed or rented things and then
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: a couple of single use you know, cups and plates
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: and straws.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: Yea.
• 39:28
  Speaker 6: Anything that you buy that's not single use you can
• 39:30
  Speaker 6: then sell on afterwards. Theoretically, as well.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, exactly. Okay, I'll finish off with this one.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: So someone else wrote, sometimes we have to accept others
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: won't aligned to our values and we have to find
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: middle ground. Perfect. Yeah, I totally agree with that. I'm
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: sure there's even though it sounds like maybe the friends
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: aren't super willing to budge, there could be a middle
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: ground there, you just have to find it.
• 39:50
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 39:51
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