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- 0:00Speaker 1: Hello, my name's Santasha Nabananga Bamblet. I'm a proud Order
- 0:05Speaker 1: Order Kerni Whoalbury and a waddery woman. And before we
- 0:08Speaker 1: get started on She's on the Money podcast, I would
- 0:11Speaker 1: like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land of
- 0:14Speaker 1: which this podcast is recorded on a wondery country, acknowledging
- 0:18Speaker 1: the elders, the ancestors and the next generation coming through
- 0:23Speaker 1: as this podcast is about connecting, empowering, knowledge sharing and
- 0:27Speaker 1: the storytelling of you to make a difference for today
- 0:31Speaker 1: and lasting impact for tomorrow.
- 0:33Speaker 2: Let's get into it.
- 0:34Speaker 3: She's on the Money, She's on the Money.
- 0:57Speaker 2: Hello, and welcome to She's on the Money. If you
- 0:59Speaker 2: are like the many households feeling the pinch when it
- 1:02Speaker 2: comes to transport costs, you are not alone. The Transport
- 1:06Speaker 2: Affordability Index by the Australian Automobile Association or the AAA,
- 1:12Speaker 2: has revealed the average Aussie household spends almost five hundred
- 1:15Speaker 2: dollars on transport each week.
- 1:17Speaker 4: Five hundred bars. Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm just in the background.
- 1:21Speaker 2: And where'd you come from?
- 1:23Speaker 4: Five hundred dollars a week? That's what some people earn.
- 1:26Speaker 2: Beck I know, I know that's so hectic. So today
- 1:31Speaker 2: we're gonna give you all the tips and tricks you
- 1:32Speaker 2: need to relieve some of that pressure you were feeling
- 1:34Speaker 2: when it comes to your transportation cost fun. Thank goodness,
- 1:39Speaker 2: I feel like that's a lot. I guess like when
- 1:41Speaker 2: I think about tollers, you got your petrol, which is
- 1:43Speaker 2: like a million dollars a leader.
- 1:44Speaker 4: Now we're gonna break it down.
- 1:46Speaker 2: Let's break it down. Joining me today is the woman
- 1:49Speaker 2: who's all about helping you keep that hard earned cash
- 1:52Speaker 2: in your pocket. I say it like this's some one extra,
- 1:54Speaker 2: it's like another person here, but.
- 1:55Speaker 4: I always dive in, like you write these beautiful intros
- 1:58Speaker 4: after I'm like, this is what we talking about, and
- 2:00Speaker 4: then you're like this is where you come in V
- 2:04Speaker 4: And I'm like, no, it's not. But that's really cute.
- 2:06Speaker 2: So trying to keep it a surprise.
- 2:08Speaker 4: So who's with you? Wow, betrayed Vine, Molly BECKSI yed.
- 2:13Speaker 4: Thank you for having me.
- 2:15Speaker 2: Oh you're so welcome.
- 2:15Speaker 4: Thank you for being I'm excited to talk about transportation
- 2:18Speaker 4: costs today mainly because once we started digging into this,
- 2:22Speaker 4: I was so mad about how much we're spending on transport.
- 2:25Speaker 4: I did not realize that it was that much. And
- 2:27Speaker 4: then when I reviewed my own budget, Beckett, is indeed
- 2:29Speaker 4: that much, and it's just not okay. I know.
- 2:32Speaker 2: So I can gather you were as shocked as I.
- 2:34Speaker 4: I was as shocked as you are. I have had
- 2:37Speaker 4: a little bit of time to mull it over. According
- 2:39Speaker 4: to the report, over the twelve months to June the thirtieth,
- 2:42Speaker 4: twenty twenty four, my birthday, transportation costs for the typical
- 2:46Speaker 4: Australian household rose by ten and a half percent. That
- 2:51Speaker 4: is almost triple the CPI increase of three point eight
- 2:55Speaker 4: percent over the same period. It also showed that in
- 2:57Speaker 4: the June twenty twenty four quarter, typical Australian household spent
- 3:02Speaker 4: seventeen percent of its income on transport, which is now
- 3:06Speaker 4: up from fifteen point nine percent twelve months previous. Who
- 3:11Speaker 4: like a double whole, I mean, up from fifteen point
- 3:14Speaker 4: nine percent. But beck I had never deep dived into
- 3:18Speaker 4: the statistics around what transportation costs, and I feel like
- 3:22Speaker 4: if I made this episode a year ago, I think
- 3:24Speaker 4: I still would have been offended. At fifteen point nine percent.
- 3:27Speaker 2: That is massive and also worrying of course, so how
- 3:30Speaker 2: do we break down those costs?
- 3:31Speaker 4: So the report says that the average household spend on
- 3:34Speaker 4: transport is four hundred and fifty eight dollars and eighty
- 3:38Speaker 4: two cents, and forty six point two percent of that
- 3:42Speaker 4: goes to car loan repayments for an average of two
- 3:45Speaker 4: hundred and eleven dollars and eighty two cents, and then
- 3:48Speaker 4: BECK one hundred and one dollars and forty four cents,
- 3:51Speaker 4: or twenty two point one percent goes to fuel checks out.
- 3:55Speaker 4: I don't think anyone's surprised by that one. We're spending
- 3:57Speaker 4: on average forty three dollars and fifty eight cents on insurance.
- 4:01Speaker 4: That's nine point five percent. Servicing and tires take up
- 4:04Speaker 4: seven point seven percent or thirty five dollars and thirty
- 4:09Speaker 4: six cents, which I feel like so many of us
- 4:11Speaker 4: forget to spend on. So just a reminder, if you
- 4:13Speaker 4: haven't got your tires checked, do it now. Registration, CTP
- 4:18Speaker 4: and licensing is thirty two dollars and fourteen cents per
- 4:21Speaker 4: month or seven percent BECK. And we're spending twenty dollars
- 4:25Speaker 4: and ninety nine cents on public transport and two dollars
- 4:27Speaker 4: and thirty six cents on roadside assist.
- 4:31Speaker 3: Beck.
- 4:32Speaker 4: I know when you like start to add them all up,
- 4:35Speaker 4: it really starts to eat away your budget. I know,
- 4:38Speaker 4: and I feel like I've said this a million times,
- 4:41Speaker 4: but we're so good at not zooming out when we
- 4:44Speaker 4: look at car costs. I go, what's to fuel this month?
- 4:47Speaker 4: You go, yep, one hundred bucks and I go, great,
- 4:49Speaker 4: Nor does that make sense? Move on? We forget to
- 4:52Speaker 4: really budget in registration CPT what your actual license in
- 4:58Speaker 4: your wallet costs?
- 4:59Speaker 2: True?
- 5:00Speaker 4: Exactly, because like you're not paying that every single year.
- 5:03Speaker 4: Most of us are paying it like every five or
- 5:05Speaker 4: ten years usually, So we forget that roadside assist. Did
- 5:10Speaker 4: you remember that some of us pay that? Because I
- 5:12Speaker 4: forgot that.
- 5:13Speaker 2: I am shocked by how little it is, and I
- 5:15Speaker 2: don't know why. It's because it's.
- 5:16Speaker 4: About one hundred and twenty bucks a year on average,
- 5:18Speaker 4: yeah okay, chat and eleven dollars and fifteen cents on
- 5:23Speaker 4: tolls each month, Beck, which I need to tell you
- 5:27Speaker 4: about something. I'm in a little bit of trouble.
- 5:29Speaker 2: What did you do?
- 5:30Speaker 4: Oh, I'm in trouble with the police. Beck.
- 5:33Speaker 2: I would never have thought it's me.
- 5:36Speaker 4: There's going to be a warrant out for my arrest.
- 5:38Speaker 4: Do you want me to tell you why or should
- 5:40Speaker 4: we just not tell anybody and leave it be on Lucy.
- 5:43Speaker 2: That's cruel, let's do it.
- 5:44Speaker 4: Okay. So I recently got a new car and did
- 5:48Speaker 4: everything for it, but the thing I forgot to do
- 5:51Speaker 4: was update my tolls. Yeah right, So obviously the toll
- 5:55Speaker 4: company has been sending me in voices, but very complex,
- 6:00Speaker 4: very I guess privileged position that I'm in. My car
- 6:05Speaker 4: is registered in my business's name. And as you know,
- 6:08Speaker 4: I've recently moved offices, haven't I Oh, which is exciting.
- 6:12Speaker 4: So all of the toll letters have been going to
- 6:15Speaker 4: my old office and I haven't swung past there in
- 6:19Speaker 4: a little while to pick up my mail. So get
- 6:21Speaker 4: my mail back. And not only are their toll notices,
- 6:24Speaker 4: and I saw them and I'm like, oh my gosh,
- 6:25Speaker 4: that's so silly of me. I need to pay them.
- 6:28Speaker 4: Put them on my desk. No worries. You would think
- 6:31Speaker 4: that's where it ends. The police. I've sent me a
- 6:35Speaker 4: fine for driving on toll roads without the toll licensing
- 6:40Speaker 4: or whatever it is. Yes, I didn't realize that the
- 6:42Speaker 4: police got involved in that.
- 6:44Speaker 2: Well, I hate to break it to you, but I
- 6:46Speaker 2: have had at least twelve of those exact same things.
- 6:49Speaker 4: So well, I'm not going to jail. I'm not going
- 6:52Speaker 4: to go to jail.
- 6:52Speaker 2: I don't like this part of Victoria. It is a
- 6:55Speaker 2: very Victorian thing. I never had this in Sydney.
- 6:57Speaker 4: You were like I could not pay my tolls, and
- 6:59Speaker 4: nobody would come trying to arrest me.
- 7:02Speaker 2: Yeah, or at least I'd be like, oh, you need
- 7:03Speaker 2: to pay your tolls. And if I can't pay my tolls,
- 7:05Speaker 2: it's because they can't afford my tolls.
- 7:07Speaker 4: I felt like i'd been dibbitdobbed.
- 7:08Speaker 2: Yeah, because now it's like with the police, you at
- 7:11Speaker 2: least ten times more than the actual time.
- 7:14Speaker 4: I'm thankful that there's no demerit points. I just have
- 7:16Speaker 4: to pay a fine. But like, I just forgot to
- 7:19Speaker 4: register my car, and like, don't get me wrong, of
- 7:22Speaker 4: all people to have not done something, it should not
- 7:26Speaker 4: have been me, Like I should be better than this.
- 7:28Speaker 4: I get it, crucify me, but I'm just a girl.
- 7:31Speaker 2: I'm just trying to make it in this well. I'm
- 7:32Speaker 2: just trying to make it in this world. I get it, Okay,
- 7:35Speaker 2: I think we can say about listeners. Some of these costs,
- 7:37Speaker 2: do you reckon? We could obviously.
- 7:39Speaker 4: Yes, Like I didn't come here to just have a
- 7:42Speaker 4: silk about something and then walk away and be like,
- 7:45Speaker 4: this is your problem to deal with. I don't want
- 7:47Speaker 4: to do that.
- 7:47Speaker 2: For my entire life.
- 7:48Speaker 4: Purpose is to save people money and get them investing
- 7:52Speaker 4: so that they can be rich. Like I want everybody
- 7:56Speaker 4: to be rich.
- 7:56Speaker 2: It's so nice.
- 7:58Speaker 4: It'd just be so fun.
- 7:59Speaker 2: Would be fun. You're all rich?
- 8:00Speaker 4: Yeah, Like we can all be rich friends.
- 8:02Speaker 2: That's the goal, all right.
- 8:03Speaker 4: So I obviously want to start by talking about getting
- 8:07Speaker 4: a better deal on two of the bigger ones. So
- 8:10Speaker 4: your car loan and your insurance, those are like big
- 8:13Speaker 4: hitting ones we're going to start with. And I know
- 8:15Speaker 4: for some people, Beck, they might feel a little bit
- 8:18Speaker 4: icky when it comes to asking for a better deal. Yeah,
- 8:21Speaker 4: drop the ick at the door. We don't have ick.
- 8:24Speaker 4: We want to be rich and rich people they ask
- 8:28Speaker 4: for a better deal, Yeah, that's rich girl energy. Here's
- 8:31Speaker 4: the thing. If you don't ask, though, Beck, you don't
- 8:34Speaker 4: get so you can stay with your crap deal or
- 8:37Speaker 4: you can get a better deal. When I put it
- 8:40Speaker 4: like that, it makes you feel a little bit bad
- 8:42Speaker 4: for staying with a crap deal, doesn't it that's my
- 8:44Speaker 4: intention moving on. Great, No one's going to ring you
- 8:47Speaker 4: out of the blue and be like, hey, here's a
- 8:49Speaker 4: better deal for you, Beck, because that's just not what
- 8:51Speaker 4: they do. And they're definitely not going to say, oh,
- 8:54Speaker 4: we're going to cancel your loan or your insurance just
- 8:57Speaker 4: because you asked. Sadly, So you've got nothing to lose,
- 9:00Speaker 4: and here are the steps that you need to take.
- 9:03Speaker 4: So start by doing your research. For car loans, compare
- 9:06Speaker 4: interest rates, fees, and the loan term. Then for insurance,
- 9:09Speaker 4: check out the premiums, coverage options, and the customer reviews,
- 9:12Speaker 4: which I think is really important because at the end
- 9:15Speaker 4: of the day, insurance I want to be the biggest
- 9:18Speaker 4: waste of money ever, Like I want you to be like, damn,
- 9:20Speaker 4: I didn't use insurance. Great, nothing bad happened, you didn't
- 9:23Speaker 4: need to claim on it. Money win, life win. But
- 9:26Speaker 4: when it comes time to claim, reviews are really important
- 9:30Speaker 4: because if it's then a really fickle situation to claim,
- 9:33Speaker 4: or they're not nice to deal with, like, we don't
- 9:35Speaker 4: need that in our lives, especially when you're probably already
- 9:37Speaker 4: stressed because you probably had a little bit of a
- 9:39Speaker 4: bingle with your car. The more you know, the stronger
- 9:41Speaker 4: your negotiation position. So just a quick heads up. If
- 9:44Speaker 4: you're using comparison websites, remember that some of them are
- 9:47Speaker 4: actually just marketing tools.
- 9:49Speaker 2: Yes, that's true.
- 9:50Speaker 4: They might be getting paid to promote certain retailers, which
- 9:53Speaker 4: means they're not always showing you absolutely every single available option.
- 9:57Speaker 4: You might need to dig a little bit deeper, do
- 9:59Speaker 4: a bit more Google. You could be missing out on
- 10:01Speaker 4: better deals elsewhere. And our community member Jess, I've pulled
- 10:05Speaker 4: this from our Facebook group. She says, before you do
- 10:08Speaker 4: your research, wipe your cash on your browser so that
- 10:12Speaker 4: your history is completely clear on your computer, so that
- 10:15Speaker 4: the Internet shows you new customer prices instead of current
- 10:19Speaker 4: customer prices when you look at your current provider.
- 10:22Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, smart.
- 10:24Speaker 4: Girl, Thank you, Jess.
- 10:25Speaker 2: That's really clever.
- 10:26Speaker 4: Yep. And they often offer new customers better prices to
- 10:29Speaker 4: lock them in, only to jack up the price next year.
- 10:32Speaker 4: It's called loyalty tax. We've done an entire podcast episode
- 10:35Speaker 4: on it. Look it up. I've heard stories of people
- 10:38Speaker 4: canceling their current policy only to sign straight back up
- 10:41Speaker 4: with a new one with the same company on the
- 10:44Speaker 4: same day, just to save themselves some serious cash.
- 10:46Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 10:46Speaker 4: Cool from my perspective. I don't know if this is
- 10:49Speaker 4: ballsy or not, but like tell them you can do that,
- 10:53Speaker 4: like on the phone, be like, either give me a
- 10:55Speaker 4: better deal or I'm counseling it. I'm just going to
- 10:57Speaker 4: sign back up.
- 10:59Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 10:59Speaker 4: True. You want me to do here, like make the
- 11:01Speaker 4: math math? Yeah, Like, I'm not trying to be a dick.
- 11:04Speaker 4: I just want to not pay loyalty tax.
- 11:08Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 11:08Speaker 4: Like I've been loyal to you. I've given you my
- 11:11Speaker 4: money consistently for the last few years, and you're telling
- 11:14Speaker 4: me you're going to give someone else a cheaper deal.
- 11:16Speaker 2: It would be wise sentive to stick around. Yeah, like
- 11:19Speaker 2: they get me.
- 11:20Speaker 4: Imagine a company that said, beck join us, pay the
- 11:23Speaker 4: market rate, and then every year we give you a
- 11:26Speaker 4: little discount to stage, we give you a little treat
- 11:28Speaker 4: we give you a little treaty tree.
- 11:30Speaker 2: Yeah, that would be way more centige.
- 11:32Speaker 4: Exactly, I mean exactly, no, but like we could be
- 11:35Speaker 4: look at how smart we are. But getting back to
- 11:37Speaker 4: doing your research. Once you have all of that information,
- 11:40Speaker 4: it's time to make the call. You can start with
- 11:42Speaker 4: high I've noticed that competitor X is offering a lawer rate,
- 11:45Speaker 4: and I'd really like to talk to someone who can
- 11:47Speaker 4: match that. What we want to do here, Beck is
- 11:51Speaker 4: kill them with kindness. If you go in aggressive, which
- 11:55Speaker 4: you might feel because you might have realized that you're
- 11:57Speaker 4: being taken for a ride. Sure, we don't want that
- 12:00Speaker 4: energy on the phone. We don't want to bring that because,
- 12:02Speaker 4: like used to work for a super company. If someone
- 12:05Speaker 4: called you salty, will you happy to help them? No? No, no, no.
- 12:11Speaker 2: I would go out of my goddamn way for someone
- 12:14Speaker 2: who is nice to me. Yeah, exactly, who's immediately mean
- 12:17Speaker 2: and I don't even know them. They don't know me,
- 12:18Speaker 2: I don't know them. I'm literally just here trying to
- 12:20Speaker 2: make a buck, exactly.
- 12:21Speaker 4: So we're going to be polite, but firm. Kindness obviously
- 12:24Speaker 4: goes a really long way. I adore the saying you
- 12:26Speaker 4: catch more flies with honey, and it really rings true
- 12:29Speaker 4: when you're dealing with customer service operator, so true, don't
- 12:32Speaker 4: be dick, Yeah, I love that hard. Make sure that
- 12:35Speaker 4: you mention your loyalty, but highlight the better deals that
- 12:38Speaker 4: you found. So, for example, you might be whipping out
- 12:40Speaker 4: your pen at this point, your introductory rate for new
- 12:43Speaker 4: customers is much lower than what I'm currently getting as
- 12:45Speaker 4: a very loyal customer. Or consider bundling. So say, if
- 12:50Speaker 4: I bring my car insurance over in addition to my
- 12:52Speaker 4: home insurance that I already have, can you offer me
- 12:55Speaker 4: a discount? Make it worth their while? And remember, be
- 13:00Speaker 4: ready to walk away, So that one is the hard one.
- 13:03Speaker 2: Yeah, be ready to walk away.
- 13:05Speaker 4: Sometimes the best deal is actually with another provider, and
- 13:08Speaker 4: that's totally okay. You can say on the phone, thank
- 13:11Speaker 4: you so much for your help. Beg Like, I know
- 13:13Speaker 4: that you've said that you're trying your best and that
- 13:16Speaker 4: that's the best deal you can offer. Unfortunately, I just
- 13:18Speaker 4: think I can get it elsewhere cheaper. Like I'm sure
- 13:22Speaker 4: you can understand that. Like everyone is just out to
- 13:25Speaker 4: get the best deal from themselves. Beck just worked for
- 13:27Speaker 4: the super company, you know, Like you're not mad that
- 13:31Speaker 4: Sandra is not going to stay.
- 13:32Speaker 2: I don't mind, you don't mind.
- 13:34Speaker 4: Yeah, And you're probably like sleigh, Sandra, like get that
- 13:37Speaker 4: budget Greween.
- 13:38Speaker 2: Because they can't say it, but they know in their heads,
- 13:40Speaker 2: they're like, you can get a bad deal elsewheah.
- 13:41Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, like you know that that's a shitty deal.
- 13:45Speaker 4: You know that that's not exactly what we want, but
- 13:48Speaker 4: I can't tell you. Yeah, by the way, go down
- 13:51Speaker 4: to this other provider. They're going to give you cheaper insurance.
- 13:54Speaker 4: They're not gonna say that because I'd lose my job
- 13:56Speaker 4: in no way, absolutely not. You can have a laugh
- 13:58Speaker 4: and be like you and I both know beck catch up.
- 14:01Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 14:01Speaker 4: I love when you're working with like hospitality or retail stuff,
- 14:05Speaker 4: or like something stinky happens and you say something that
- 14:07Speaker 4: you know they can't respond to, so all you get
- 14:10Speaker 4: back from them is like a little smirk and then
- 14:11Speaker 4: they walk off. I'm always like, here, here exactly, so
- 14:15Speaker 4: we are going to be ready to walk away because
- 14:17Speaker 4: we want a better deal. But do you know what,
- 14:19Speaker 4: sometimes when you say you're going to walk away, look
- 14:21Speaker 4: at that they have a last minute offer.
- 14:23Speaker 2: Where did this come from?
- 14:24Speaker 4: Cocidence?
- 14:25Speaker 2: Haha. Now, if you didn't take notes on all that,
- 14:28Speaker 2: don't worry. If has made a handy little guide for you.
- 14:31Speaker 4: And when I say I have, I mean my gorgeous
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- 14:36Speaker 4: of this information and put it into a handy dandy
- 14:39Speaker 4: little guide that you can download. Guess what, Beck, Yeah
- 14:42Speaker 4: for free? Whoa on our website. I love for Do
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- 14:47Speaker 2: Name your trade yeah, Apple or something?
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- 14:56Speaker 1: So.
- 14:56Speaker 4: There are also some other ways to cut down your
- 14:57Speaker 4: insurance costs. The most obvious is OPTI for a higher excess,
- 15:01Speaker 4: which you can budget for. This means you'll pay more
- 15:04Speaker 4: upfront if you end up making a claim, But if
- 15:08Speaker 4: you've got your emergency fund sorted, it might be worth
- 15:10Speaker 4: considering to bring down those premiums. Like, if you're planning
- 15:13Speaker 4: your emergency fund, maybe have a look. Maybe you go,
- 15:16Speaker 4: all right, well, I know that if I had one
- 15:19Speaker 4: thousand dollar excess instead of a five hundred dollars excess,
- 15:23Speaker 4: I'd pay less premiums over the year. Can we also,
- 15:26Speaker 4: just like I guess sense, check this as well, Beck,
- 15:29Speaker 4: because you might want to be saving that, but you
- 15:31Speaker 4: don't have the capacity to have a emergency fund with
- 15:35Speaker 4: an extra thousand dollars in it. Like, I'm not delusional,
- 15:38Speaker 4: I know that that is hard for a lot of people.
- 15:40Speaker 4: So if it works for you, fantastic. That's what financial
- 15:44Speaker 4: freedom affords you.
- 15:45Speaker 2: Beck.
- 15:45Speaker 4: Financial freedom can sometimes afford you to go with the
- 15:48Speaker 4: cheaper option, right, Like some people have to go with
- 15:51Speaker 4: the higher option because they don't have that emergency fund.
- 15:54Speaker 4: And I don't want people listening to this and being like, well,
- 15:56Speaker 4: that's not me. I guess I fail. No, you don't, queen,
- 16:00Speaker 4: Look at you listening to finance content getting.
- 16:02Speaker 2: Ahead, Get a girl, get it.
- 16:04Speaker 4: I actually think it was really important to sense check there.
- 16:07Speaker 4: But that's definitely something worth considering if you want to
- 16:10Speaker 4: bring down those premiums. And then another sense check here,
- 16:13Speaker 4: because I completely understand that not everyone has the cash
- 16:16Speaker 4: on hand to pay their car insurance for the whole
- 16:18Speaker 4: year upfront. But if you plan ahead, often paying in
- 16:22Speaker 4: one lump sum could save you some money on premiums
- 16:25Speaker 4: because they often have a lower rate, like overall if
- 16:29Speaker 4: you pay annually instead of monthly. I think that that's
- 16:32Speaker 4: just another reason why the rich get richer. So true
- 16:38Speaker 4: these so annoying, right, I know.
- 16:40Speaker 2: It's like if I could early a ford months a month,
- 16:42Speaker 2: give me, it just.
- 16:43Speaker 4: Really frustrates me. The economic inequality that exists. Like it's
- 16:49Speaker 4: the stereotypical example, right of a pair of shoes, Like
- 16:53Speaker 4: somebody who has the wealth can buy their kid a
- 16:57Speaker 4: pair of school shoes that last the whole year, because
- 16:59Speaker 4: that pair of school shoes is like one hundred and
- 17:01Speaker 4: fifty dollars, and like that's so wild for a lot
- 17:05Speaker 4: of parents. But then over the course of the year
- 17:07Speaker 4: they might go to Cama a heap of times because
- 17:10Speaker 4: they're just like, I'm just buying school shoes from Cama.
- 17:13Speaker 4: But like every second month or so, they break or
- 17:15Speaker 4: they you know, fall apart, and then they end up
- 17:18Speaker 4: spending more on school shoes because they didn't have that
- 17:22Speaker 4: high entry price point to begin with. Yeah, like it's
- 17:25Speaker 4: just again, the rich keep getting richer because they have
- 17:28Speaker 4: the ability to invest in more sustainable options. And I
- 17:31Speaker 4: don't mean sustainable for the economy, I mean more sustainable
- 17:35Speaker 4: for them. Like that pair of school shoes might get
- 17:37Speaker 4: three or four years of use out of them because
- 17:39Speaker 4: they're just a good quality shoe, you know, totally v
- 17:43Speaker 4: So it just really frustrates me that that exists. But
- 17:45Speaker 4: apparently it also exists in the insurance world.
- 17:48Speaker 2: Ah, good, good, good good. We can't escape it.
- 17:52Speaker 4: So then finally, Beck, some policies have dry less payless options,
- 17:56Speaker 4: which bet you didn't know that existed.
- 17:58Speaker 2: Hah.
- 17:59Speaker 4: And I also think is really exciting because you pay
- 18:02Speaker 4: a lower premium if you stay under a certain number
- 18:04Speaker 4: of kilometers each year. So if you know your average mileage,
- 18:08Speaker 4: use that for when you're getting a quote, and it
- 18:10Speaker 4: might actually make you get a cheaper rate. Kind of attractive,
- 18:14Speaker 4: And don't hesitate to ask for a discount on low
- 18:16Speaker 4: kilometers even if it's not advertised. They might offer it
- 18:19Speaker 4: over the phone. Yeah, true, everything's up for negotiation, yes,
- 18:23Speaker 4: and if they say no, I'm just going to negotiate
- 18:25Speaker 4: with you from a different angle. I'm lucky to get
- 18:28Speaker 4: me on the phone.
- 18:29Speaker 2: I would cry immediately.
- 18:31Speaker 4: So unlucky. I do apologize for anybody who does get
- 18:34Speaker 4: me on the phone, except for that one girl at
- 18:36Speaker 4: Boopa who one time said that my podcast was really nice.
- 18:39Speaker 4: At the end of our phone call, she's like, I'm
- 18:41Speaker 4: really glad that I could help you. Also, I really
- 18:43Speaker 4: like your podcast, and I was like, oh my god,
- 18:45Speaker 4: did you know me this whole time? It was really wholesome.
- 18:48Speaker 2: That is so sweet.
- 18:49Speaker 4: It was my favorite thing ever. Wow, definitely was put
- 18:52Speaker 4: through her paces, poor girl, like when she love your podcast.
- 18:55Speaker 4: I was low key thinking like at least I walk
- 18:57Speaker 4: the walk, you.
- 18:58Speaker 2: Know, yeah, like can't even imagine. So there are obviously
- 19:03Speaker 2: some good ways to save on insurance. Let's take a
- 19:05Speaker 2: quick break and when we come back, we'll have more
- 19:06Speaker 2: tips to spash your transport costs. Don't go anywhere, all right,
- 19:14Speaker 2: V we are back. Should we tackle petrol costs?
- 19:16Speaker 4: Yes, so this episode just don't use petrol.
- 19:20Speaker 2: Yeah, well I did cycle actually for a few months
- 19:22Speaker 2: to work.
- 19:23Speaker 4: That's a good money saving hat. Yeah, from Brunswick to
- 19:26Speaker 4: I won't be doing that. No, if you can't do that,
- 19:28Speaker 4: or like me, you just won't do that.
- 19:30Speaker 2: And that's very valid as well, very very valid.
- 19:33Speaker 4: So it's probably a good idea to talk about it
- 19:35Speaker 4: because in that report we quoted earlier, the average household
- 19:38Speaker 4: is spending over five grand a year on petrol. Beck,
- 19:42Speaker 4: five grand, that's a whole family holiday.
- 19:44Speaker 2: Yeah, seriously, that's on stuff you literally burn.
- 19:49Speaker 4: Don't talk to me about cigarettes, not me, you Beck.
- 19:52Speaker 2: Yeah, I love a c.
- 19:55Speaker 4: We're not endorsing cigarette. That is dirty bit and you
- 20:00Speaker 4: should kick it, and you know you should kick it.
- 20:02Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am, but I do not judge you. Thank you.
- 20:05Speaker 4: I couldn't care less you make a decision about your
- 20:07Speaker 4: body anyway. Choice Consumer poles surveyed this year found that
- 20:11Speaker 4: eighty one percent of households were concerned about the cost
- 20:14Speaker 4: of fuel. The other nineteen percent must be pretty chill
- 20:17Speaker 4: to be honest, imagine not being concerned about five grand
- 20:20Speaker 4: on petrol. Be for real. I feel like petrol is
- 20:24Speaker 4: constantly over two dollars a leater these days. I don't
- 20:27Speaker 4: feel like I'm spending less, which is so expensive. But
- 20:30Speaker 4: the good news is there are some ways that you
- 20:32Speaker 4: can save at the pump.
- 20:34Speaker 2: Cool Like, I know a lot of our communities swear
- 20:36Speaker 2: by this first tip. I get a lot of people
- 20:38Speaker 2: recommending it for my bride at.
- 20:39Speaker 4: The seven eleven well because I feel I feel like
- 20:43Speaker 4: the seven eleven app has a cult following.
- 20:45Speaker 2: It actually is incredible. But also petrol spy.
- 20:48Speaker 4: I love a petrol spy as well.
- 20:50Speaker 2: There are so many of them, so how do you
- 20:52Speaker 2: know the one you're using has the best info?
- 20:54Speaker 4: Well, according to the A Triple C, they are about
- 20:57Speaker 4: forty of them in total in Australia. Isn't that why
- 21:00Speaker 4: I could not name forty, I could name the seven
- 21:03Speaker 4: eleven petrol app. Yes, that's it. That's the only one
- 21:05Speaker 4: I use. And they all run a little bit differently.
- 21:09Speaker 4: So most of the state governments actually require petrol companies
- 21:12Speaker 4: to report their prices and have their own data systems
- 21:14Speaker 4: and government run apps, which is interesting. Then there are
- 21:18Speaker 4: third party apps. Some of these run using the government data,
- 21:22Speaker 4: while other commercial services use information that is community sourced,
- 21:26Speaker 4: meaning you're relying on other motorists to update prices, which
- 21:29Speaker 4: you might see in like the ways app, so you
- 21:32Speaker 4: know how you can like track things in there. I
- 21:34Speaker 4: find that really interesting conversation for another day. The ones
- 21:38Speaker 4: that use government data seem to be the most accurate
- 21:40Speaker 4: as it comes straight from the source. And this is
- 21:43Speaker 4: a shame for us in Victoria as our state government
- 21:46Speaker 4: is the only state that doesn't do this.
- 21:48Speaker 1: Good.
- 21:48Speaker 4: Yeah, really nice. But seven eleven app, well you just
- 21:52Speaker 4: lock it in, yeah, and it's guaranteed. We love to
- 21:55Speaker 4: see it, even with short notice. We're not being sponsored
- 21:58Speaker 4: by seven eleven. By the way, I just really love
- 22:00Speaker 4: these sand which just had to disclaim that because I
- 22:04Speaker 4: see under like a little bit of an ad. They've
- 22:06Speaker 4: got nothing to do with this right now. Shock is so,
- 22:08Speaker 4: I mean we should have approached them. Actually, that would
- 22:10Speaker 4: have been good. Oh it's also I didn't know it.
- 22:13Speaker 2: It's too late.
- 22:13Speaker 4: It is too late. Even with short drive though, beg
- 22:16Speaker 4: you might find significant price differences between different petrol stations.
- 22:21Speaker 4: A Choice article highlighted a fifty two cent per liter
- 22:24Speaker 4: difference they found in the same type of fuel between
- 22:28Speaker 4: two petrol stations only five minutes apart. Those dogs, isn't
- 22:32Speaker 4: it insane? So it's definitely worth using these apps to
- 22:35Speaker 4: shop around and to save and put yourself in the
- 22:37Speaker 4: best possible position. The Premiere of South Australia has even
- 22:41Speaker 4: come out and said that their app has saved locals
- 22:43Speaker 4: who use it about three hundred and fifteen bucks each
- 22:47Speaker 4: in the last year. So if you're listening Victoria Government,
- 22:50Speaker 4: it's me Victoria Divine and it's time to start your
- 22:53Speaker 4: own please and thank you.
- 22:55Speaker 2: And don't forget a lot of fuel retails in Australia
- 22:58Speaker 2: are owned by supermarket, so it's always worth checking if
- 23:01Speaker 2: your rewards cards can score you an extra deal. You know,
- 23:05Speaker 2: back in the day you'd have those little.
- 23:06Speaker 4: Yeah shop a Dockers.
- 23:07Speaker 2: That's all on the rewards.
- 23:08Speaker 4: These episodes getting really long. But I looked at the
- 23:11Speaker 4: back of my supermarket receipt the other day back well,
- 23:13Speaker 4: there was no deals on it.
- 23:18Speaker 2: Here.
- 23:18Speaker 4: I don't want to live in four.
- 23:20Speaker 2: It is nice to get little Domino's ones, obviously, all.
- 23:23Speaker 4: Right, So back to this, it's all about looking at
- 23:25Speaker 4: your shopping habits and seeing where you can use some
- 23:27Speaker 4: points and rewards and even cash back to maximize your savings.
- 23:31Speaker 4: We saw in the community recently people buying gift cards
- 23:34Speaker 4: on shop back to then use to spend on fuel
- 23:38Speaker 4: genius is hacking the system. And you might remember us
- 23:40Speaker 4: talking about the savvy queen from our community a few
- 23:43Speaker 4: weeks back who was buying upsized a pole vouchers from
- 23:46Speaker 4: shop back and then scanning her wool Is card for
- 23:48Speaker 4: points and hacking the system completely for real.
- 23:52Speaker 2: But what about the way you run and take care
- 23:54Speaker 2: of your car.
- 23:54Speaker 4: The one thing that they really didn't take into account
- 23:57Speaker 4: is how much people spend cleaning their cars. I live
- 24:00Speaker 4: in a city and I'm really lucky. When I drive
- 24:02Speaker 4: home sometimes my dad will wash my car in their
- 24:06Speaker 4: front yard free for me money in But like I
- 24:10Speaker 4: can't just like put my car in the driveway and
- 24:12Speaker 4: wash it like I have to spend money cleaning my
- 24:14Speaker 4: car going through like the car wash or even the
- 24:16Speaker 4: day car wash that takes the two lotal coins you
- 24:18Speaker 4: know I'm talking about.
- 24:19Speaker 2: Yeah, totally.
- 24:21Speaker 4: They forgot that one.
- 24:22Speaker 2: That's another one. I've always wondered what the point is.
- 24:24Speaker 2: I don't think I've cleaned my car in a while,
- 24:27Speaker 2: Like do you do it for safety reasons?
- 24:30Speaker 4: Like can you see in your windscreen?
- 24:32Speaker 2: I can see it through my windscreen. That's all I
- 24:33Speaker 2: need to do.
- 24:34Speaker 4: We'll talk about this off air, But yes, servicing your car.
- 24:41Speaker 4: I know it might not be the most exciting thing
- 24:43Speaker 4: on your to do list, but a well maintained car
- 24:46Speaker 4: is a fuel saving machine. Like at the end of
- 24:48Speaker 4: the day, when your car is in its best shape,
- 24:51Speaker 4: it's less likely to gos will fuel because of issues
- 24:53Speaker 4: like clogged air filters and faulty spark plugs or low
- 24:57Speaker 4: oil that my car keeps telling me it's scott Like, baby,
- 25:00Speaker 4: you don't need oil, you're not cooking. Book in your.
- 25:03Speaker 2: Service book in your service But also do try. There
- 25:06Speaker 2: are so many things in my car that I've just
- 25:08Speaker 2: done myself. For example, like it wouldn't start once I
- 25:10Speaker 2: just change one of the fuel injector fuses, which doesn't
- 25:13Speaker 2: make sense right now, but if you google literally you
- 25:16Speaker 2: can do most things.
- 25:17Speaker 4: I mean, you can change your windscreen wipers, like you
- 25:19Speaker 4: can just go to autobar and eat them for like
- 25:21Speaker 4: twenty bucks. You don't need to pay one hundred and twenty.
- 25:23Speaker 2: Easy, easy fix it. I changed my headlights the other day.
- 25:25Speaker 2: We literally less than three minutes up.
- 25:27Speaker 4: You're in coolant.
- 25:28Speaker 2: You can do all of that stuff yourself.
- 25:30Speaker 4: So we should do Beck's car hacks, and it's Beck
- 25:33Speaker 4: teaching you how to do things you are seriously, I
- 25:36Speaker 4: could diagnose it a few and then we can go
- 25:38Speaker 4: from there.
- 25:38Speaker 2: But yeah, try and pressure, of course I do.
- 25:41Speaker 4: I've written that down as my next tip. So this
- 25:43Speaker 4: is something that you can easily do yourself next time
- 25:46Speaker 4: you stop for fuel and it's free. You can usually
- 25:48Speaker 4: find the right pressure for your tires on the driver's
- 25:51Speaker 4: side door frame, inside the fuel door, yeah, glove box,
- 25:55Speaker 4: or in your car's manual or on the actual tires.
- 25:57Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 25:58Speaker 4: Think of having underinflated time like trying to push your
- 26:01Speaker 4: bike up hill. It takes way more effort, which means
- 26:03Speaker 4: your car is using more fuel. So top up your
- 26:06Speaker 4: air for free to save some fuel genius. Keeping your
- 26:11Speaker 4: tires at the right pressure and aligned can make a
- 26:14Speaker 4: real difference. So you can help save on fuel by
- 26:17Speaker 4: making sure that there's the right air in your tires
- 26:19Speaker 4: back and also by not being Victoria divine and hitting
- 26:22Speaker 4: the curb as often as I do. Ideally, yeah, because
- 26:24Speaker 4: then you don't have to get your wheels aligned as often.
- 26:27Speaker 4: Two birds, one stone.
- 26:28Speaker 2: That's fantastic. And while you're ready to give your car
- 26:31Speaker 2: a little spring clean, because extra weight does mean extra
- 26:33Speaker 2: work for your engine as well, you're.
- 26:35Speaker 4: Just carrying heaps of stuff around in your back I've
- 26:37Speaker 4: never been in your car. I just feel like the
- 26:39Speaker 4: backseat of your car is probably like a house.
- 26:42Speaker 2: I was gonna say, you could probably imagine what my
- 26:44Speaker 2: car is like.
- 26:45Speaker 4: No, in a bad way. I just feel like you'd
- 26:47Speaker 4: be like nuts in the car because like you're always
- 26:49Speaker 4: at different friends' houses, like going to different places. I
- 26:52Speaker 4: feel like you're telling us to clean out our car,
- 26:54Speaker 4: when if you did it, you'd be annoyed at yourself
- 26:56Speaker 4: because now the handy stuff's not in your car totally.
- 27:00Speaker 2: Every single thing I've ever needed is in my car
- 27:02Speaker 2: at the moment, So you.
- 27:03Speaker 4: See, I get anxious if there's stuff in my car. Yeah,
- 27:06Speaker 4: fair Like, Nah, the boot has to be empty.
- 27:08Speaker 2: You would have a conniption if you my mood.
- 27:10Speaker 4: And then I have nothing. When I'm out, I'm like, oh,
- 27:13Speaker 4: I wish that was still in my car.
- 27:14Speaker 2: Okay, so this probably seems negligible, But when I have
- 27:16Speaker 2: like extra people in my car, I can see that
- 27:18Speaker 2: the petrol kind of runs out a little bit quicker
- 27:20Speaker 2: than it usually would. So if you have like junk
- 27:22Speaker 2: in your car, or you just want to give it
- 27:24Speaker 2: a good clean out, just keep it light, just keep
- 27:26Speaker 2: it bright, just keep it I love that.
- 27:27Speaker 4: While we're talking about what's in your car, maybe we
- 27:30Speaker 4: should talk about the car as a whole, because you
- 27:32Speaker 4: said it costs you more because there's more stuff in it.
- 27:34Speaker 4: But like, I don't know if I'm throwing myself under
- 27:37Speaker 4: a bus because I do drive a soccer mum car.
- 27:40Speaker 4: But if you're not hauling around a soccer team every weekend,
- 27:45Speaker 4: maybe you don't need the suv. Maybe it's time to
- 27:48Speaker 4: like downgrade. Smaller cars usually mean better fuel economy. I've
- 27:53Speaker 4: got a friend who bought the smallest car that they
- 27:55Speaker 4: could find, thinking it'd just be for their husband's commute
- 27:57Speaker 4: to and from work, but it turned out to be
- 28:00Speaker 4: so fuel efficient and such a money saber that they've
- 28:02Speaker 4: said a new rules. So whenever you're not driving the kids,
- 28:05Speaker 4: that's the car you got to take, yes, And it's
- 28:07Speaker 4: saving them so much money on their fuel and it's
- 28:10Speaker 4: practically their first choice now, like so smart. I really
- 28:14Speaker 4: like my car though, bex so like I can't bring myself.
- 28:16Speaker 2: To get rid of it, but I know, if you.
- 28:19Speaker 4: Can, and you're a money saving queen, maybe do that and.
- 28:22Speaker 2: The cheap to buy as well. You tried to exactly exactly,
- 28:27Speaker 2: but you can even consider going like electric if you
- 28:30Speaker 2: had the money to do that. I mean, I feel like.
- 28:32Speaker 4: That's an expensive option.
- 28:33Speaker 2: It's still really expensive option, but once you're there, I
- 28:36Speaker 2: feel like things are cheap. But from that.
- 28:37Speaker 4: Point, yeah, actually, do you know what? There's a video
- 28:39Speaker 4: and I'm gonna find it and I'm gonna link it
- 28:41Speaker 4: in the show notes. Queenie Tan did a video because
- 28:44Speaker 4: she has a Tesla and obviously Tesla's like to me,
- 28:47Speaker 4: a really bougie car, but she did the maths on
- 28:50Speaker 4: how much the Tesla costs her and how much she's
- 28:53Speaker 4: saving on fuel and how much her electricity costs her.
- 28:56Speaker 4: I think it's an Instagram real video. I'll find it
- 28:58Speaker 4: and I'll put it in the show notes. But that
- 29:00Speaker 4: video taught me that you do save money, but you
- 29:02Speaker 4: have to be kind of in it for the long haul.
- 29:03Speaker 4: It's like pullding solar panels on your roof, Like it
- 29:06Speaker 4: doesn't pay off in the first year, but over time
- 29:08Speaker 4: it does. Maybe if you're not ready to go like
- 29:10Speaker 4: full electric, you could think about like a plug in
- 29:13Speaker 4: hybrid car could be the perfect middle ground. So you've
- 29:16Speaker 4: got like the best of both worlds. You've got improved
- 29:18Speaker 4: fuel economy and the flexibility of a petrol engine. Like,
- 29:22Speaker 4: how good?
- 29:23Speaker 2: How good? I feel like we've covered so much today.
- 29:25Speaker 2: So we've given you some solar tips, how to negotiate
- 29:28Speaker 2: better deals on your insurance and loans, and the best
- 29:30Speaker 2: way to use fuel map apps, and a few clover
- 29:32Speaker 2: hacks to stretch your petrol budget even further.
- 29:35Speaker 4: But I feel like the best tip coming out of
- 29:37Speaker 4: this podcast today is like, don't us don't get Yeah,
- 29:40Speaker 4: let's just put our big girl shoes on and be like, well,
- 29:43Speaker 4: can you do a better deal for me?
- 29:44Speaker 2: Yes?
- 29:45Speaker 4: Like it's hard, but once you kind of like do
- 29:47Speaker 4: it for the first time, every other time after that
- 29:50Speaker 4: gets much easier. And I mean, in this cost of
- 29:52Speaker 4: living crisis, it's all about doing what we can to
- 29:55Speaker 4: keep money in our own pockets. I mean, I'm a
- 29:57Speaker 4: fan of that twenty four to seven, but right now,
- 30:00Speaker 4: I feel like people are feeling the pinch. So even
- 30:02Speaker 4: if you only do a couple of these things to
- 30:04Speaker 4: save yourself, like one hundred bucks or two hundred bucks
- 30:07Speaker 4: a month, beck, that's like twelve hundred or two and
- 30:10Speaker 4: a half grand a year. Yeah, Like, that's a lot
- 30:13Speaker 4: of money. That is so much money back in your pocket.
- 30:17Speaker 4: And let's be honest, who doesn't want an extra couple
- 30:19Speaker 4: of grand to work into their budget?
- 30:21Speaker 2: Wouldn't hate it?
- 30:22Speaker 4: I wouldn't hate it either.
- 30:23Speaker 2: In an ideal world, these things would be accessible and
- 30:25Speaker 2: cheap and affordable. But right now, exactly, we gotta do
- 30:27Speaker 2: what we gotta do exactly.
- 30:29Speaker 4: So we'll see you on Friday everyone. Now, I'm off
- 30:32Speaker 4: to finally drop that opshop box that's actually been sitting
- 30:35Speaker 4: in my car for a little while on my way home,
- 30:38Speaker 4: So we'll see then.
- 30:39Speaker 2: Bye, guys.
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