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Things We Splurge On When Times Are Tough · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: What six point seven light FM variety from the eighties
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  Speaker 1: through today and don't you worry Christmas music coming soon
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  Speaker 1: here on light FM. It is currently what's the temperature?
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  Speaker 1: It's forty five degrees? Is it forty five degrees? No,
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  Speaker 1: forty three, it's forty three right now? I have forty one,
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  Speaker 1: you have forty one.
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  Speaker 2: Depends on what source you go to. My computer says
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  Speaker 2: forty three.
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  Speaker 1: I have forty one. It says midtown forty one degrees,
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  Speaker 1: going to a high fifty two.
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  Speaker 2: You're forty two forty two two.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I know it is. You know, it's a little chilly,
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  Speaker 1: and I kind of wish there was a campfire setting
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  Speaker 1: on in my car. Wi'll that'd be nice. Wow as
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  Speaker 1: a heat setting, like you hit a buttons campfire campfire
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  Speaker 1: kinda smell it.
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  Speaker 2: No, you don't want that, so.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want to burning smell in your car?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Christine, where are we going?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we're going on what we like to splurge on
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  Speaker 2: during tough times because economically we can't agree.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: This has been a little challenging, absolutely a little hard.
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  Speaker 2: We've seen prices going up like crazy, but there's always
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  Speaker 2: these studies that are done that like when the economy's bad,
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  Speaker 2: the things that we spend money on. And the people
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  Speaker 2: who follow this even say when they see sales of
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  Speaker 2: lipstick go up, they know the economy is not doing well.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting, Yeah, so different things that show signs of up
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  Speaker 1: or down.
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  Speaker 2: Oh exactly. So even though the economy, even though it's
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  Speaker 2: hard on us, there are certain things that we won't
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  Speaker 2: compromise on. And people are saying toilet.
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  Speaker 1: Paper, no matter what, we want your.
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  Speaker 2: Brand, o, your brand, skincare and makeup products, and again
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  Speaker 2: like the lipstick, and I think they're they're saying, like,
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  Speaker 2: maybe you can't splurge and get a big expensive outfit
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  Speaker 2: right now, but you can the lipstick is attainable. Sure,
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  Speaker 2: So that's kind of that's it's seen that way. Also,
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  Speaker 2: we will not compromise on our coffee.
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  Speaker 1: No matter what we have to have. Our brand has
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  Speaker 1: to be our brand.
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  Speaker 2: Again, that's according to the experts. A way that people
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  Speaker 2: feel is self care, Like you're telling yourself, I'm worthy
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  Speaker 2: of this, so im going to stick with my coffee.
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  Speaker 2: Pet food because you know, are fur babies that are
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  Speaker 2: so important to us, so we want to make sure
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  Speaker 2: they're happy and they're healthy. Our laundry detergent is a
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  Speaker 2: big one. We don't want to go cheaper on the
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  Speaker 2: laundry detergent. We want what we want.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have a go to laundry detergent? I'm assuming
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  Speaker 1: you do. What is it you do? Pods or powder?
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  Speaker 1: I I prefer the liquid liquid. I feel in the
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  Speaker 1: whole pod in there and yeah done.
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  Speaker 2: I see Eric likes the pods.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's like because like, yeah, you toss and go,
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  Speaker 2: but I prefer the liquid.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, nothing like tossing and saying.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Big ticket items like household appliances, we will buy them,
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  Speaker 2: but we wait for them to go on sale. So
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  Speaker 2: like mattresses, laptops, smartphones, we want them and we want
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  Speaker 2: the top of the line still, but we wait for sales.
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  Speaker 1: What are mattresses not on sale? Well, that's there's always
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  Speaker 1: a mattress sale every time I drive by a mattress place.
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  Speaker 2: Sale sales, which means don't buy unless you see that sign. Right.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, these are just just signs that things are
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  Speaker 2: a little tough, but we want to take care of ourselves.