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Self(ish) storage? · She's On The Money

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  Speaker 1: Hello, my name's Santasha Nabananga Bamblet. I'm a proud yr
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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. She's on the Money.
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  Speaker 3: She's on the Money.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, and welcome to The Money, the podcast for millennials
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  Speaker 2: who want financial freedom. Today, my friends, it is Friday,
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  Speaker 2: but it is not your average Friday. Today's my last
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  Speaker 2: day for a little while. I'm going on matrinity leave.
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  Speaker 3: That's exciting, but it's exciting.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I completely agree with what Jessa said.
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  Speaker 5: Oh thank you you're social that I wasn't listening at
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  Speaker 5: all and I didn't do anything You've.
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  Speaker 2: Never listened to before. Why stop now or why start now?
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  Speaker 2: We'll start now. I'm really excited. Actually, obviously, today is
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  Speaker 2: about getting our little team together, celebrating our community. That's
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  Speaker 2: my favorite thing to do. But also we just have
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  Speaker 2: so much in store. We didn't want Fridays to just
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  Speaker 2: fall off the bandwagon because I wasn't here. We have
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  Speaker 2: some beautiful guests lined up that are going to take
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  Speaker 2: my place, not necessarily as host, but more is like,
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  Speaker 2: you guys get a fun friend every week, which I
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  Speaker 2: think will be really cool. I've pulled them out of
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  Speaker 2: either our She's on the Money community or my friend
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  Speaker 2: ship circles, and I just think this is gonna be
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  Speaker 2: the best. In fact, I'm slightly concerned that the community
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  Speaker 2: is gonna like these more and be like me, don't
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  Speaker 2: come back. It's all good. So we're having a lot
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  Speaker 2: of fun with your guest episodes. Can we just keep those?
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  Speaker 2: So if that's the case, obviously, please let us know
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  Speaker 2: kindly kindly, because like, I'm itching to get back and
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  Speaker 2: I haven't even left, but I think that you guys
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  Speaker 2: are gonna have the best time while I am away
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  Speaker 2: having a bambini. It's not white.
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  Speaker 4: It is so wild.
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  Speaker 2: It feels fake still, like I cannot comprehend that there
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  Speaker 2: is an entire human being in my stomach. Right now.
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  Speaker 2: I can't comprehended at three am when they're kicking the lungs,
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  Speaker 2: but like you know, day to day it feels very novel.
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  Speaker 2: But let's get into today's episode. Miss Jess Gricci, you
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  Speaker 2: have a heap of our favorite money wins. Miss becksay ed,
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  Speaker 2: you've got some broke tips, three of them I believe,
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  Speaker 2: to share with the community. We're going to be helping
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  Speaker 2: to answer juicy money dilemma, which this week is all
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  Speaker 2: about having bad neighbors. And are we gonna unpack something
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  Speaker 2: that you slid into our d MS about this week?
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  Speaker 2: You asked what to do about friends who store things
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  Speaker 2: at your house long term and offer no money in return?
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  Speaker 3: Juicy.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like that's a really hard one, that is
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  Speaker 2: so juicy joicy. But before we get there, I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 2: did we go to Taylor Swift on the weekend?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: We did? Over?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely not over.
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  Speaker 5: I feel like a lot of people are probably like, yes,
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  Speaker 5: it's over, I'll never gonna hear about it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: I got through that whole intro of the podcast with
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  Speaker 2: not even mentioning Taylor Swift. Thank you, Beck's already over us. No, No,
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  Speaker 2: I'll hear it over and over again till the day
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  Speaker 2: I die. Yeah, you will, and you will take it.
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  Speaker 6: You will like it.
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  Speaker 2: That's the joy.
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  Speaker 4: Said that, and without saying like whether it's a good
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  Speaker 4: or a bad thing, but I will hear about it.
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  Speaker 2: Your choice. How's your week being? Are you still high
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  Speaker 2: as a kite? Absolutely?
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  Speaker 1: I am.
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  Speaker 5: It was so much fun, just, you know, seeing everybody
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  Speaker 5: in one space be so excited for her biggest show.
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  Speaker 2: And we went to the biggest show.
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  Speaker 3: We went to the biggest show. It was so exciting.
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  Speaker 5: There's so much going on, and I just like, I can't, like,
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  Speaker 5: I don't have the words.
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  Speaker 2: I know that not everybody in our community is a
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  Speaker 2: swifty though, so we won't go on and on and on.
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  Speaker 2: That's what our socials are for. So head over there
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  Speaker 2: and you will see relentless amounts of content. Beck, you
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  Speaker 2: didn't go to Taylor Swift because you just don't care
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  Speaker 2: about Taylor Swift, which is honestly a foreign concept to
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  Speaker 2: the other people at this table right now. How was
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  Speaker 2: your week?
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  Speaker 4: So my week has been. I should have gone before, Jess,
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  Speaker 4: because you know, I can't say that I saw any
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  Speaker 4: famous people actually except for you guys.
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  Speaker 2: I think you're technically famous. I don't think we can.
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  Speaker 3: Definitely, I'm definitely not you probably are.
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  Speaker 2: You got stopped in public Miss jessic Ricci.
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  Speaker 3: Mostly with you, they're like, hey, can you Or when
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  Speaker 3: I'm with Lucy, oh yes, she is the most famous.
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  Speaker 4: Like hey, I don't know your name, but can you take
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  Speaker 4: a photo for us?
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  Speaker 2: Is that what they usually say. I'm still convinced that
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  Speaker 2: half the people in this office don't know my name,
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  Speaker 2: but they definitely know my dog and the amount of
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  Speaker 2: people that I run into in the kitchen who are
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  Speaker 2: like Lucy's mom. Yeah, And I'm just like mm hmm, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm perfect. I'm happy with that. Sure me, that's me.
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  Speaker 2: I'm proud. I'm a proud Lucy mum. Oh my god.
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  Speaker 2: It's so exciting.
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  Speaker 4: I've been stopped like two times, not stopped stopped, but
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  Speaker 4: like people have been like, wow, I think I recognize you,
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  Speaker 4: and I just want everyone listening to know. I want
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  Speaker 4: to be bothered on the streets please say hi, because
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  Speaker 4: it makes my whole entire life anyway so so exciting.
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  Speaker 4: But that hasn't happened to me in many a month,
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  Speaker 4: and certainly not this week. No, my week otherwise has
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  Speaker 4: been very very lovely, just chill, you know, just cruising,
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  Speaker 4: just like love and love, seeing friends and as always
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  Speaker 4: and people probably seeing me saying this, still going to
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  Speaker 4: the gym. I don't know if you can tell, but you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, getting swoll am, I getting swollen? Thank you?
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  Speaker 2: What about you?
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  Speaker 4: VD.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to go back to this meeting people in
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  Speaker 2: public thing because I have to issue a public apology
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  Speaker 2: to the girl that stopped me two weeks ago out
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  Speaker 2: the front of Romana IgA. And she was so kind
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  Speaker 2: and so nice and she's like, oh my gosh, and
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  Speaker 2: I was like, I always meet you with the same energy,
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  Speaker 2: because like, I think it's wild that people think seeing
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  Speaker 2: me as wild. So I was like, oh my gosh, hi,
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  Speaker 2: and they're like wait what, and she's like, I love
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  Speaker 2: your podcast.
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  Speaker 3: Rah.
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  Speaker 2: But I was actually standing there and I'd had a
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  Speaker 2: mid morning freak out about not having my hospital bags packed.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm walking out of IgA and I'm carrying two
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  Speaker 2: packets of adult nappies, a bag full of snacks and treats,
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  Speaker 2: and a whole heap of stuff I think I had
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  Speaker 2: ural in my bag. I was carrying a bottle of
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  Speaker 2: Gaviscon and this poor girl got me at my worst
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  Speaker 2: literally because I had had not just like a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of a like, oh, I probably should pack my
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  Speaker 2: hospital bags. I had a hysterical meltdown. And my husband
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  Speaker 2: was like, just go to the shops and get the
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  Speaker 2: things that you think you need and we'll put them together.
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  Speaker 3: And I was like, okay, you know, worries.
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  Speaker 2: So I was red faced, I was sniffy, my hair
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  Speaker 2: was on top of my head because I was a
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  Speaker 2: little feral, and I was carrying outult nappies and she
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  Speaker 2: was still excited to see me. So shout out to
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  Speaker 2: you also, apologies for whatever you experienced in that interactions.
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  Speaker 4: So I would be excited to see that version of you.
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  Speaker 4: To be honest, Oh you have before.
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  Speaker 2: You've been too kind not to mention it. That's true actually,
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  Speaker 2: But yes, I have had a good week, same as Jessica.
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  Speaker 2: But the anticipation of having a baby is I.
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  Speaker 3: Don't know, it's startlingly more exciting.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what, I'm just glad that I didn't
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  Speaker 2: ruin the Tailor Swift concert, like so like some women
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  Speaker 2: had to stop the Pink concert. I'm just glad that
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  Speaker 2: wasn't me.
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  Speaker 5: You know. Wow, I don't know, like I'm really on
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  Speaker 5: the fence, like some people like that would be so
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  Speaker 5: exciting and fun and what a good memory. And I
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  Speaker 5: just think I would be so mortified to imagine, however,
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  Speaker 5: many Hunter people looking at you while you're like arguably
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  Speaker 5: in extreme din comfort.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely funny was that around the time that people were
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  Speaker 4: giving Pink random items and someone gave their baby to
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  Speaker 4: Pink on stage.
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  Speaker 2: No, this was truly like three weeks ago. Oh I see,
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  Speaker 2: I guess yeah, like wild. Anyway, let's get into the episode.
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  Speaker 2: Miss Jessagricci, what have you got when it comes to
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  Speaker 2: community money wins.
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  Speaker 5: My first money in this week comes from Holly, who
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  Speaker 5: said she went to the Lifeline book fair and filled
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  Speaker 5: a whole bag full of books for thirty five dollars.
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  Speaker 5: She says she got about thirty different books and she
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  Speaker 5: used money that was in a pickiebank, so girl Math
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  Speaker 5: says that they were free. She said, when I'm done
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  Speaker 5: with them, I will likely donate them back to Lifeline
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  Speaker 5: to on sale again at the next book fair. Lifeline
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  Speaker 5: in Canberra, which I missumean is where she's from, is
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  Speaker 5: a twenty four to seven suicide telephone and crisis support
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  Speaker 5: Center and it's a big fundraiser that they hold every
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  Speaker 5: couple of months.
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  Speaker 2: So adore that.
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  Speaker 5: Good for our fellow book lovers, great for you know,
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  Speaker 5: supporting a good cause.
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  Speaker 3: We love to see it. Well done, Holly.
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  Speaker 5: Next, I've got one from Stacy who said my son
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  Speaker 5: wanted a mister Potato Head and they are fifty plus
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  Speaker 5: dollars at the shops.
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  Speaker 7: What.
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  Speaker 3: Firstly, since when was mister Potatohead so expensive?
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  Speaker 2: Also, secondly, I didn't know who still existed.
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  Speaker 5: Inflation's wild, she said, but I found one for free
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  Speaker 5: on Facebook marketplace. Her son lost most of the pieces
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  Speaker 5: and his interest a week later, so she's very glad
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  Speaker 5: that she didn't spend the fifty bucks. Money win, huge
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  Speaker 5: money win. Well, now I've got one from Renee who said,
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  Speaker 5: I went to Mecca to get foundation color atched. They
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  Speaker 5: gave me three free sample pots of my shades I
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  Speaker 5: can generately out before committing to a whole bottle, and
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  Speaker 5: those sample pots will last you yox like absolutely eight es.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, that's a little bit of a broke tip. Actually,
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  Speaker 2: if it's not payday and you're you know you've got
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  Speaker 2: a bit too much month at the end of your
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  Speaker 2: money going into Mecca and being like, hey, can I
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  Speaker 2: have a sample of XYZ that'll last you till the
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  Speaker 2: end of your month?
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  Speaker 5: That's so true to file that right away for later
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  Speaker 5: back Yeah, sorry, sorry. Next, I've got a money win
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  Speaker 5: from Laura who said small win. I got my moving
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  Speaker 5: boxes for free off marketplace instead of buying them. Big
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  Speaker 5: when I'm getting a rental for ten dollars less per
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  Speaker 5: week than what it was advertised, which is huge. Never
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  Speaker 5: heard of that happening. Cool, Please, for the love of God,
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  Speaker 5: never buy moving boxes. That industry is such a scam.
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  Speaker 5: Don't buy moving boxes. You can get them for free
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  Speaker 5: at Bunnings. If you go into literally I'm sure if
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  Speaker 5: that is before any retail store ever and say hey,
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  Speaker 5: can I grab some of your boxes? They'll give them
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  Speaker 5: to you.
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  Speaker 2: They want to get rid of them because they don't
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  Speaker 2: have anywhere to put them.
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  Speaker 3: I would say, they don't want to have to lug
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  Speaker 3: them to the bin. It's the worst.
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  Speaker 5: So if you say hey, can I grab some boxes,
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  Speaker 5: they'll probably say yeah, come back on Tuesday, that's delivery
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  Speaker 5: day and you can have as many as you want.
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  Speaker 5: So I use garbage bags also, I use laundry baskets
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  Speaker 5: a lots coals bags, literally, anything that is not a
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  Speaker 5: moving box that you paid for. Any vessel, any vessel
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  Speaker 5: will do the palm of your head, your arms, we know,
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  Speaker 5: whatever works. Lastly, I've got a money win from Zanpi,
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  Speaker 5: who said I found out my counsel does rebates for
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  Speaker 5: purchasing reusable period products. Luckily I still had my receipts
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  Speaker 5: from the Christmas sales. I don't know what council, but
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  Speaker 5: check your local council website because that is phenomenal.
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  Speaker 4: That's equity, my friends, is it? Or is that a
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  Speaker 4: quality I don't know, booking or lost dos?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: I love that.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Beck, what are you bringing to the table
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to broke tips this week?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, sorry, I'm filing this Mecca one away for but
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  Speaker 4: also for my own life. I mean, I don't really
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  Speaker 4: go there, but I will. Starting to say.
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  Speaker 2: Beck, do you wear makeup? Is that a thing in
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  Speaker 2: your repertoire? I don't. Actually, it's like you just have
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  Speaker 2: naturally gorgeous skin. You don't need it.
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  Speaker 3: You such a good broke tip. Don't wear makeups.
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  Speaker 2: Don't wear makeup. Yeah, break tip from Beck. Just have
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  Speaker 2: skin as good as me. And you don't need makeup,
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  Speaker 2: easy peasy. If I had her skin, I wouldn't wear
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  Speaker 2: makeup either. Why would you break?
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  Speaker 3: That is really sweet?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, and I was feeling that I wasn't. That
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  Speaker 2: wasn't even a compliments, just a fact.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I really appreciate it. Whatever it was, I'm very grateful.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks. Thanks for the facts.
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  Speaker 4: So, as always, there are two broke tips from the
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  Speaker 4: community and one from myself.
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  Speaker 2: So I'll start off with Natalie.
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  Speaker 4: I know that we've mentioned Seven eleven coffees before, but
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  Speaker 4: this one is kind of like an all round any
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  Speaker 4: petrol station. So Natalie says, buy your coffee from petrol
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  Speaker 4: stations a dollar fifty for a small armond cap. It's
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  Speaker 4: not the worst thing in the world. I have seen
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  Speaker 4: that it coals as well, especially one on Swan Street
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  Speaker 4: in Richmond. If you live in Melbourne, they do. I
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  Speaker 4: believe it's a dollar fifty or two dollars max for an.
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  Speaker 2: Arm is still going to be an absolute stan of
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  Speaker 2: the Seven eleven coffee.
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  Speaker 4: Totally because they do do soy milk.
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  Speaker 2: They just have They've nailed it.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, they have old milk, regular milk, everything. It's all
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  Speaker 4: the same price and it's no more than two dollars
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  Speaker 4: if you just want.
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  Speaker 2: I think my favorite thing about the seven eleven one
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  Speaker 2: was on Chapel Street a couple of months ago. Seven
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  Speaker 2: eleven did a pop up store of like an unbranded
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  Speaker 2: cafe and they basically ghastly everybody. And that was my
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  Speaker 2: favorite thing ever because you go in and they're like,
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  Speaker 2: we're doing, you know, grand opening, free coffee, and you
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  Speaker 2: go in and you relate the coffee, here's elite, so good,
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  Speaker 2: and then on your way out, they gave you a
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  Speaker 2: little like card and you scratched it and it told
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  Speaker 2: you that it was seven eleven coffee. That is such
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  Speaker 2: a idea. It was genius.
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  Speaker 4: Can you believe that is two dollars or a dollar fifty?
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  Speaker 4: It's so cheap five or so pay sometimes, yeah, totally,
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  Speaker 4: like I pay sixty.
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  Speaker 2: What This inflation is unacceptable. I know it's really really bad.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I get it, but I'm mostly like I
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  Speaker 2: don't get so much money. I don't get it. Like
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  Speaker 2: as a girl who completely understands inflation, I understand the
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  Speaker 2: cost of living crisis, I understand everything. Like at this point,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to need the government to subsidize coffee.
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  Speaker 5: I'll get against that, as I say, I don't know
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  Speaker 5: the Prime Minister is right now, get at but easy
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  Speaker 5: on the phone.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got a bone to pick with you. My
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  Speaker 2: coffees are a bit too expensive. And He'll be like, Victoria,
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  Speaker 2: I'm actually working on the cost of living crisis right now.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll be like, yes, but do you know it
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  Speaker 2: costs a dollar extra to get oat milk? Sit down,
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  Speaker 2: Sit down, alow. She put it on the top of
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  Speaker 2: his priorities list. I'll call it. I'll call him once.
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  Speaker 2: I definitely quit leave. I might pick that up. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: if you could.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure his numbers in your phone. What else you got, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: Also just want to say that. Natalie also says, buy
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  Speaker 4: iced coffee from an Asian groser. It's two dollars per pack.
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  Speaker 4: Asian grocery is something I've been privy to, not privy
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  Speaker 4: too because it has existed in my whole life, but
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  Speaker 4: kind of been looking into recently because it is like,
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  Speaker 4: you know, everything's all cheaper there.
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  Speaker 2: Fines are so fresh.
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  Speaker 5: I was.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely so fresh, and it's also so cheap. Anytime I'm
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  Speaker 2: getting like, you know, Chinese broccoli or like any type
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  Speaker 2: of greens, I will purposely go out of my way
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  Speaker 2: because it lasts so much longer in my fridge. It's
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  Speaker 2: like two dollars a bunch.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yes, definitely shop at the Asian grocer.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: This next one comes from Catherine, who says the plant
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  Speaker 4: Jammer app or similar gives you recipe ideas based on
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  Speaker 4: what you already have in your fridge slash pantry, which
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  Speaker 4: is a great idea something I mentioned recently, but I
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  Speaker 4: didn't actually have an app for it. So the plant
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  Speaker 4: Jammer app is good. If you don't want to go
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  Speaker 4: to the shops and you don't know what to cook,
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  Speaker 4: just chuck some things in the app and I will
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  Speaker 4: tell you what to cook. And I think that's a
• 14:50
  Speaker 4: really greatita love it so my own one. I'm sure
• 14:54
  Speaker 4: you know, maybe you guys have tried this before.
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: I'm not too sure.
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: But so if you're wanting a little sweet tree, or
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: you're maybe hosting a dinner party, or you're bringing dessert
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: for a pot lucks, when you should.
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: Check the kitchen at work first because they might have cinnamon.
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: Do that.
• 15:09
  Speaker 4: We did happen upon some cinnamon scrolls in our work kitchen,
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: and what we did to deserve this.
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: We liberated them. There were pancakes earlier too. I don't
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: think we missed those.
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: But what I have found is if you go to
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: muff and Break before they close, maybe like thirty Gonna.
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: Getsh didn't know muff and Breaks still existed.
• 15:30
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: That's the other thing too, is that the sorry muff
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: and Break.
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: They're hard to come by now, but I am sure,
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: I like, I know this for a fact. Actually they
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: are the best muffins slash cookies I've eaten, and I
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: have not been able to find anything has good since.
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: I know that's a big call to make. That's a
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: huge call to make, but I love, love, love them anyway.
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: So you go there maybe like half an hour before
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: they're closing or just a little bit before, and they
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: usually have like super super cheap muffins, cookies, tasty treats,
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: and loads of them too. You can get five for
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: five dollars and that's totally and that's enough to like
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: take as a potluck dessert or whatever. But sometimes if
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: you're lucky, if they're in a good mood, they might
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: give them two for free.
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: I guess if it's.
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: Money means before the crack, maybe they'll chuck an extra
• 16:16
  Speaker 5: one in or something totally exactly.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: So God, Muff and Break. Everyone, don't forget about Uff
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: and Break please. I did. I did, and I'm glad
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: that you've reminded me that they exist.
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: It sounds like we're sponsored, but honestly, like I just
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: I just love Muff and Break.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: If we were sponsored, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: said what I just said was sponsored. I'd be like, wait,
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: are they still around? Like Muff and Break are going
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: to be like, yeah, thanks for the mention. Next time,
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: could it be more positive? We love your stuff. Let's
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: wrap this up really quickly and go to a little
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: art be as you could say, a Muff and Break,
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: because I feel like I'm going to get canceled if
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: i keep digging this whole any deeper. So we'll see
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: you guys on the flip side, because we're going to
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: be talking about one bad neighbors and two. This week,
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: you guys asked us about what to do about a
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: friend who stored things at your house long term but
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: doesn't offer you any cash for it. Guys, don't go anywhere.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: Welcome back, everybody. Let's take a listen to this week's
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: money dilemma.
• 17:16
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• 17:19
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• 17:21
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• 17:35
  Speaker 6: listen to this week's money dilemma.
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  Speaker 7: Hi, I've got a question. I've got really really bad
• 17:41
  Speaker 7: neighbors living in next door to my house. They're in
• 17:45
  Speaker 7: commission housing. I've tried multiple things to try to get
• 17:49
  Speaker 7: them evicted. It's really a planing on my mental health
• 17:53
  Speaker 7: and fear for my safety. I bought this house, but
• 17:56
  Speaker 7: now I'm not sure if I should sell. I'll probably
• 17:59
  Speaker 7: have to say self for a loss. I spent a
• 18:01
  Speaker 7: lot of money on renovations. Do you know changing up
• 18:03
  Speaker 7: this house? Should I just cut my losses or and sell?
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: Or do I just keep trying to, you know, fight
• 18:11
  Speaker 7: my neighbors and try to take them to court?
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: Thank you, jeez, Louise, Well, that is such a good question.
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: I have a colleague in this exact situation.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: We're missing so much context. I just I feel like
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: there's always three sides to a story. There's like their side,
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: your side, and the truth. And I'm not saying that
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: you're not telling the truth, but like we don't have
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: any conflict, why would you take them to court? Like
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: we need some we need the juice, Like what have
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: they done so that we can have an opinion? What's
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: going on with your colleague though?
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: Back So it's a very very similar situation. My colleague
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: just brought her, I believed, like a little unit in
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: like a block of units, and her downstairs neighbor is
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: like really causing her a lot of trouble. And that's
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: sometimes she actually is as well scared for her safety,
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: but she doesn't like she doesn't really know what to do.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: And this is and so also I don't know when
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: you buy a property what the neighbors are. You just
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: don't know. And I also don't know.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: I don't have advice for this because I would be
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: completely stuck. I guess, I guess, cell but I don't
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: know anything, so don't listen to me. But no, she's
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: in the exact same situation, and it's really weighing on
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: her mental health, and unfortunately it's such a tricky one
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: because you just I don't know where you'd go from here.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: But I'm hoping you guys have more advised because I'm
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: being useless.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Yess.
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I just want to say I'm really sorry for
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: our listener, because buying a property is so excited and
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: I can only imagine the joy and the pride that
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: you would have felt buying this house and then moving in,
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: and then to go through whatever experience you're going through.
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: Nobody should ever ever feel unsafe in their own home,
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: and I can only imagine how hard that is and
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: how it would have ruined what should be such a
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: fantastic and exciting time for you. So I'm really sorry
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: that that is the case. It's just awful. I think
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: it's hard to say because obviously, if you're selling because
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: of the location that you know, you're not necessarily looking
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: at the ideal timing of the market. And if you
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: purchase recently, you might have to if you use any grants,
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: you might have to pay those back, depending on if
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: you're a first home buyer, and there's all of those
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: I guess financial considerations. But at the same time, I
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: might gut instinct, which again may not be the most logical,
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: but is just your safety needs to always be your
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: number one priority. And if you're saying that you're concerned
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: for that, that makes me concerned for you. It sounds
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: like she's tried to go through some form of official channel.
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: I'm assuming that's what she meant when she said that
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: she's tried to get the neighbor evicted. And without the
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: context of what they're doing, we can't really provide any
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: insight into what channels you can go through, like I'm assuming,
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: if they're doing something illegal, or if they're threatening you
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: in some way, if you haven't speak to the police,
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: you know, I would say, maintain a chain of records.
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: So it might feel really futile to keep reporting the
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: same thing, but sometimes, unfortunately the system can work in
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: a way where you need a certain amount of proof
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: or a certain historical record of things occurring regularly or frequently.
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: So even if it feels like you're getting nowhere, continue
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: reporting to whatever the relevant body may be, whether it's
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: you know, if they're renters, reporting it to their landlord
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: or their property manager if you can find that out, or.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: To the police.
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: Or to whoever the I don't know, we don't know
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: the context, so it's hard to say where. But if
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: you can keep making reports above and beyond, all make
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: sure that you're safe. I would say, if you haven't,
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: maybe pop some security cameras in.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: I was about to say the same, like, have you
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: got security cameras? Are you looking after your safety?
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Right now? Because like moving, it's a privilege, right, Like
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: you've probably just spent every single cent you have on
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: this property. You probably can't just be like, oh, I'll
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: just go rent somewhere else, Like you're right, Jess, Like
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: what are you doing? Document? Document? Document, I'd be calling
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: the cops. I'd be getting everybody involved, to be honest.
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah, And you can get really on the security camera thing.
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: You can get really affordable. I know I even when
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: I was renting, I purchased ring. You can get them
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: on sale, usually at Bunnings or on Amazon, and you
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: don't have to hardwire them in. So if you don't
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: have the cash to get something installed that's really heavy duty,
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: you can get ones that you just screw into the
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: wall with some screws and bolts, and sometimes even just
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: the presence of cameras can be enough to deter people
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: from doing things that are a little bit sketchy, and
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: you can get ones that go inside your property too,
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: if that will make you feel more secure and safe.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: But it is.
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: You're right, it's such a hard one because you don't
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: I mean, partly because we don't have the context, but
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: also because it's a rock and a hard place between.
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: Your safety should be your priority, but also like from
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: a financial perspective, just up and selling may or may
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: not from a financial angle, be the best choice.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's so hard.
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: But I just want to say I feel very sympathetic
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: and I'm really sorry that you're struggling with this, because
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: like the three of us are kind of struggling to
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: come up which to ourselves.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: I do just want to say one quick thing though,
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: I guess if like obviously again like we don't really
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: have context, but if I feel sorry for the listener here,
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: I also kind of feel as though the neighbors themselves
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: if you get like the idea, like maybe the feeling
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: that they don't they don't have the I guess like
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: means to be living anywhere else or be able to
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: like if them getting evicted means that they become homeless
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: or something. I kind of also feel for them as well.
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: Maybe they didn't have the best upbringing, that's what's causing
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: their behavior or whatever it might be, you know what
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: I mean. I just want to also take a minute
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: to acknowledge that bad neighbors also may have a bad
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: story behind them or maybe in a tough situation, and
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: we don't actually always know, and you know, and I
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: do feel really awful for people out there that had
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: their future written for them before they were even born,
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: if that makes sense. I just want to take time
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: to acknowledge that. But I also feel really bad for
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: you listener. It's a very tricky situation.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: Same neighbors as well.
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: Actually made me think of one other thing, which is
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: if you haven't spoken to your neighbors because you're a block,
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: speak to your neighbors because maybe they are taking steps,
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: maybe they're not taking steps. Sometimes if everybody bands together
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: like that can also be very impactful. They see what
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: they're doing, see if they've got any more information. The
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: safety in numbers too, So keeping an eye on your neighbors,
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: them keeping an eye out for you. It can be
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: nice just knowing that that's there for you, like your
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: other neighbors, not the bad neighbors obviously, but yeah, it's
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: it's such a hard one. I feel like I really
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: don't have a good answer.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: I don't either, because there's no like perfect outcome here.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: I mean, perfect outcome would be your neighbors move away, slay,
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: but that's probably not gonna happen. I had terrible neighbors
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: before I moved where I have moved to, and I
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: feel like I put that on the podcast a lot. Yes,
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: like they were horrendous, Like we're not talking like, oh,
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: I just didn't like these people. They would yell and
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: scream at us. They would like literally like I had
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: called the cops on them a number of times because
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: it was actually so unhinged. And whenever I'd tell people
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: the stories, they'd be like, what, like if you're a
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: close friend of mine, you know, and you've heard the
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: horror story anyway, so I so get it. We ended
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: up having the privilege of being able to move away
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: because that was a rental. But you know, if you're
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: not comfortable there, I would be looking at ways that
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: you can leave. Can you rent out the property, like
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: just because you spent a lot and renovated. It doesn't
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: mean you need to dispose of that asset either, Like
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: what can you do? How can this work? But yeah,
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: I'd go back to literally everything just said, like document everything,
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: call the cops when anything goes wrong, Like protect yourself
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: and put some cameras up, take photos of everything, make
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: sure it's really well documented. And if you can find
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: out who their landlord is, provide that to them and
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: work out what next steps would be from there, because
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: that's just not fair.
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's such a hard place and we're sorry going
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: through that. Ye, please be safe above everything else. That's
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: all I can really.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and if they are renting, a little sneaky tip
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: that I learned when I had bad neighbors is google
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: their address and it will usually come up with you know,
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: like the old real state, dot com, dot au listing
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: and will have the real estate agent who listed it.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: You can call them and say, hey, do you still
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: you know manage one, two, three Boring Street and they'll
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: be like yeah, we do, and you go great, I
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: have a whole heap of stuff that's going to be
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: really interesting for you guys and the landlord, Like, you
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: don't even need to put me in contact with the landlord.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: I just want to be able to provide this information
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: because you know, obviously they think they're getting away with it. Yeah, anyway,
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: that's me throwing other people under a bus. Let's move on, though,
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: because we have a community DM which I would be
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: really annoyed about this, So let's read it out. Hi,
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: she's on the money. I've got a bit of a
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: random question. If a friend asks to leave their stuff
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: at your house while they go one a three month
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: overseas holiday, should you charge them rent for keeping their stuff?
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: To this date, they still haven't booked a return flight,
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: and they've been gone since November twenty twenty three. They
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: stayed at my house for a couple of nights prior
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: to their flight, and I even drove them to the
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: city to catch the skybus to the airport. I've not
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: received a single dollar from this person. I wouldn't say
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: that they are a super close friend, but I've known
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: them since July last year. I am doing them a
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: huge favor storing their stuff at my house in my
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: spare room. Their stuff includes their bike in my garage,
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: several helmets, shoes and boots, a laptop, clothes, cooking and
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: groceries which are currently in my fridge and things like
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: snacks and toilet paper that are currently sitting in my cupboards.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: What would you do and how would you go about
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: asking for money if they don't come back? Do I
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: have a right to sell all this stuff?
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: Interesting?
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: Interesting? This has gone real deep, real quick, Like you're
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: asking if you have a right to sell this stuff,
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: but you've.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: Gone very weirdly.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Have you had a conversation with this person? Like why
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: are you asking me if you have a right to
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: sell someone's stuff before asking them when they're returning.
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: Which, by the way, abandoned property is I think like
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: a six month rule after you have contacted the relevant party.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Oh I see, I see, I see.
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah, this is a true I think personally, I it depends.
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: I guess how much space this is taking up. It
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: doesn't sound like it's taking up a whole lot of space,
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: but it's also like if it's like a one bedroom
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: apartment or a share house, it could be you know,
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: that's you know, a very crucial amount of space that
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: you could be using for other things. So I totally
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: get that. I guess my thing is if you hadn't
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: had a conversation ahead of time about them paying for
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: like storage fees. I guess you'd call it then I
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: wouldn't expect any money. If I had this conversation ahead
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: of time and I wasn't expecting storage fees, I wouldn't
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: be then expecting storage fees in three, four or five months,
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: no matter how long they took. Really, I guess like
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: they're outliving their best. But I think if you had
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: that in mind already, that you were going to get
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: storage fees, maybe there were some sort of conversation and
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: I would like that context but totally find that is
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: a bit of a tricky one. But I guess at
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: this point if you hadn't discussed it, I wouldn't expect it. Yeah,
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: maybe they maybe have a conversation.
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: Which yeah, like did was there a conversation at the
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: start around how long you were holding their stuff?
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: For?
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: Three months?
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: So I think, and well, so they've just hit the
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: three month mark.
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah really, So I feel like, if anything, just dropping
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: the message and saying, hey, like, I know when we
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: first chatted, you said about three months. We've just recently
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: you know, I've got a dog, my partner's like, any
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: excuse that you can think of.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: You don't even need an excuse. So I'm just wondering
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: when you're coming to gather stuff.
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: Like well, yeah, or if you want to be a
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: bit softer, I yes, you could just say, oh, I
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: really need the space, so we can't hold it for
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: too much longer. When do you want to come and
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: grab it? And so then the option is either they go,
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: oh my god, I can't come back, and you go, okay,
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: would you like me to sell it? Would you like
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: to pay for a storage facility? You know, here are
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: a few different options for you. But I think like
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: you've really jumped the gun on can I sell this stuff?
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: Can I?
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: You know, it sounds like you're kind of just coming
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: to be weird. It's going to be weird, And I
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: think like, maybe you're feeling weird because they haven't communicated
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: with you, which I totally understand. But I think, like,
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: if they haven't communicated with you, let's like put our
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: big girl pants on and we'll start the communication, which
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: I know is out answer a lot of the time communicate,
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: but you'd be surprised any things you can fix by
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: having a simple and kind conversation. So I think just
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: like bringing it up me like Hey, Like, I I know,
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: we said three months. It's been about three months. I
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: can't of need the space, So what's the go Yeah.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: I think given the diversity of the stuff that they've
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: left at your house, it tells me that you consented
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: to this at the start, Like they didn't just come
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: to your house before they went to the airport and
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: accidentally leave some stuff and then they're like, oh sorry,
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: I'll get it when i'm home, and it was a
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: bit awkward, Like you've got a bike, you've got a laptop,
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: you've got their shoes, you've got random things in your
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: house that are theirs. So I'm assuming that you said, yeah, yeah,
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: you can leave them at my house for now. What
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: you're now telling me is that your expectations have changed.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: But I'm assuming you haven't communicated those expectation changes, and
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: maybe you're a little bit frustrated with it now because
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: you might not have thought about charging them at the start,
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: and then you're like, hold on, she could have put
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: in storage and she'd have to pay for this. So
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: I feel like you need to have a conversation about like, hey,
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: when are you coming back, Like when you say they
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: still haven't booked a return flight. Does that mean you're
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: in communications? Or we're guessing, like have they actually what
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: does that mean? So I would literally just be like, hey,
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: you just wanted to check in. When are you coming home?
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: For a starter, And then they might say, oh my gosh,
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: like we haven't booked flights, but we need to in
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: the next week. We've been putting it off. Or they
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: might say, oh my gosh, we're loving it. We're going
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: to stay here another month and a half, at which
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: point you go, cool, what are we going to do
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: about your stuff? Like, there's stuff in my house. Do
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: you want me to like move it to a friend's place,
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: or do you want me to give it to your parents?
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: Do you want me to put it in a storage
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: unit for you so that it's all together and safe.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: I'm just worried about breaking it, or you know, whatever
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: it is that makes you feel comfortable in having that conversation,
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: but I do. I don't know what it is about
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: this message, and I'm sorry to the person who has
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: written this in but I find it very strange that
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: you are going from going yep, cool, I let them
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: keep their stuff. Also, should I be charging them? We'll
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: have a chat with them about that, but also can
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: I sell their stuff? Like oh, I.
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: Don't escalated quickly.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: I know, Like Jesse, if I asked to leave my
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: bike at your place because I was traveling and it
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: was all Riggie did and you were like, oh, yeah,
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: they you can leave it in my garage, I just
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: would have thought it was fine because you're one of
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: my girlfriends, and yeah, my bike's just in your garage.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: I'm not worried that you're going to sell it. And
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: then that just is another layer of like imagine if
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: I came home and said, hey, Jess, can I come
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: get my bike and just is like I saw it. Actually,
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: I'd be like what and just to be like, well,
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: you said you'd be gone for three months and you
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: were gone for four, I'd be like, yeah, you know
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: what I mean, like weird.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: Your space back.
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: But I think, like, not at the expense of dogging
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: your friend.
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: Do you have slight suspicion if they've only known each
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: other since July that maybe this other person doesn't have
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: a lot of other close friends because I don't know, Like,
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: I think that if they had other people to leave
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: it with, they would probably go for that option over
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: someone they've not known for that long, You know what
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: I mean, Because it's it's a big thing to trust someone.
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: With all your stuff because what if they sold it?
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: So that's the other thing I'm I'm like, well let
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: them be Yeah, I'm just so confused. Why have you
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: got their groceries in your fridge?
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: I think that's I feel like you're allowed to throw
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: out the groceries, Like is there a half eaten jarriff pickles?
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: Why are we holding this?
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: Yes, they might not be perishable, so so maybe you check.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: The why are they in the fridge?
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah? A good question.
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: Whateveryone else say?
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: Obviously, we asked some questions because if anything, we need
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: the drama. He said, do you think that you can
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: charge rent for this? Forty two percent said yes, but
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: fifty eight percent of you said no. We said, do
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: you think it's okay to sell this stuff? If the
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: person doesn't return after a certain amount of time, twenty
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: two percent of you said, yeah, they abandoned the stuff there.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: Twenty two percent.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: If you need to call your friend, I don't know it,
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: I would say abandoned.
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, if they ghost you and it's there for like
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: two years.
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: Like if you've tried to message them several times and
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: they haven't. Then yeah, okay, maybe.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: But you're ghosted. Absolutely different story. But you're telling me
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: that this friend doesn't have flights booked to come home,
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: and that tells me that you've been in communication with them.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: So maybe I'm reading a little bit too much into it,
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: but I feel a little bit weird about it. But
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: seventy eight percent of you said no, they trusted you
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: to keep their stuff safe, which I'm on that age.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: I agree. We said, if you said yes to selling
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: their stuff, how long do you have to have it
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: before you sell it? Ten percent of you said three months?
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: And it's sold three months. I'm screwed. But like, what
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: the hell that was? That was the expectation my friend
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: actually set with.
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: You to the day, Like it is July sixth th
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: they at two pm.
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: It's officially been three months. See you later. I watching
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: the clocks.
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: Did your friends say you could sell the stuff after
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: three I'm so confused. Twenty two percent of you said
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: six months. I would say fair. If they have fully
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: ghosted you and we have had absolutely no communication, and
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: you have tried to reach out to them via Facebook, messenger, Instagram,
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: text message, WhatsApp, an email, and you've done all of
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: this and heard nothing back. Then okay, sure, And then
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: sixty eight percent of you said after a year again,
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: I'm assuming if they have been ghosted, not like they
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: haven't still away. In the spicy bit, we asked, well,
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: what's your two cents? And here are some of the responses.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: Someone said, you should have worked out rent prior. If
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: you want rent now, you need to communicate that. Agree,
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: this is a very surprising response. Someone said, that's something
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: you should have discussed beforehand. I think you're the drama.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: Oh am, I the drama.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: But like, yeah, I also think you're being the drama.
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: I kind of agree a little bit.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: Someone said the timeline should have been clearly communicated. A
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: friend isn't just a free storage shed. Someone said, don't
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: offer to help a friend if you're expecting something in return.
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: Took a point, sure, yes, sure, yes, that's literally my thought, like,
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: did you offer this?
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: Did you say, oh, I've got a spare room you
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: can put it in. Yeah, because I would not immediately
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: expect if you said, oh, V you can put in
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: my spare room. I wouldn't be like, okay, so what's
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: the rent on? That, But it's just not how the
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: communications go, right. It's all about the tone of that
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: conversation exactly. You don't go, hey, Beck, do you want
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: to come down to my place for the weekend to
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: be really good? And you go yeah, I'd love that, vee,
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: and I go yes. So it's one hundred bucks a night. Yeah.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: Also there's a service fee anyway. Weird. So someone else said,
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: it doesn't sound like that much stuff. I think you
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: might be being a little bit over dramatic, gentle. Gentle, right,
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: I'm just reading.
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: Other people's everyone's safe.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: Today, doesn't feel that safe. Someone said you need to
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: communicate with your friend and ask when they're back, Otherwise
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: it would be very fair of you to ask them
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: to sort another storage option. Yeah, I think that's fair.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: They said, why did you bother saying yes? If this
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: is how you feel, you should have said no from
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: the start, which I think is very fair. Someone said
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: eat their groceries.
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: Honestly, like unless they're like really really old, in which
• 37:01
  Speaker 5: case maybe don't.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Someone else said, a friend left his couch at
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: my place when he moved overseas. It's now my couch.
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: Money in that's the other thing, like when does it
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: become your own property after you've communicated, after you community.
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: Absolutely everything's after communication.
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: So someone else said, you're a bad person if you
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: go and sell their things without communicating.
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've got to kind of agree with them.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: Sure.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: Someone said take the food, use the toilet paper. That
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: stuff's getting lucrative, and then at least you've sort of
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: got something out of this.
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah, use to I reckon, use the toilet paper. That's fine.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: I just don't know why the toilet paper's gone into storage.
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: So true, it doesn't make sense to me. But most
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: of the other conversations are literally communicate with your friend,
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: Like I can't tell you how many of them are,
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: Like why haven't you asked them? Why haven't you spoken
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: to them? Why haven't you communicated? You need to have
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: clearer communication. So you think that's going to be the
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: main takeaway from this is that you need to step
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: up and have a good conversation with your friend about
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: when they're going to come back and what your expectations are,
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: even if those expectations have changed totally. You can set
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: your own boundaries. It's not up to us to say, oh,
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't do that, or I wouldn't do this. That's fine,
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: but you have to communicate it.
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: Also, if the listener is listening, please give us an update.
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: I actually really really invested.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, can we have photos of this stuff?
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: Well, let you know if we get an update.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: Can you show us what groceries they left? I feel
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: like it's strange she.
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: Was the toils paper two. I'm curious about the TWI
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: was it.
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: Like an unopened roll or something.
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: Who gives a crap that it can be a little
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: bit expensive?
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: I get some all right. I think that's all we
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: have time for today, guys, which is very sad because
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: it is my last episode before I go on Matt leave.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: So instead of saying we'll see you on Monday, bright
• 38:44
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• 38:46
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• 38:49
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• 38:52
  Speaker 3: I am organized.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: No, that sounds really nice as well. I'm probably certified insane.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: And I've pre recorded all of them for you, so
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: you are welcome, but have the best time. I will
• 39:05
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• 39:08
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• 39:11
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• 39:17
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