Speaker 1: Apoche production.
Speaker 2: Looks back to another episode of Am I A Bad Mom? Podcast?
Speaker 2: We're on Instagram too, am I a Bad Mum? We
Speaker 2: are not yet on TikTok. However, our videos are going
Speaker 2: mighty well on TikTok.
Speaker 1: Did you Yeah? I was gonna say so, did you
Speaker 1: end up posting the cat one?
Speaker 3: Because I got a hell of a lot of feedback
Speaker 3: on our last episode that went up on our video
Speaker 3: about my dead cat getting dug.
Speaker 2: Up more than once by your dogs.
Speaker 3: By the dogs until the third time started chewing on
Speaker 3: the towel, which then meant Sam disposed of the body
Speaker 3: in the bin and there he goes, my little pussy cat.
Speaker 3: It's fucked up, Katie, but a hell of a lot
Speaker 3: of feedback.
Speaker 1: A lot of people are lulling at it. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: that's a positive.
Speaker 2: Chewing on the table for me.
Speaker 1: That was it.
Speaker 2: No, I did not put that on TikTok because our
Speaker 2: last one I put on TikTok, which was the one
Speaker 2: where we talked about you taking your kids to the
Speaker 2: Gracie Abrams concept.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and the.
Speaker 2: Twenty year old behind you being very vocal about not
Speaker 2: wanting kids to be at the concerts and be at
Speaker 2: the concert. Now, this particular video, rach I said about
Speaker 2: fifteen thousand views on TikTok. When I say fifteen thousand
Speaker 2: views on TikTok, I've got like sixty followers. I've got
Speaker 2: like no followers on TikTok. Yeah, I don't know how
Speaker 2: the algorithm works, but somehow this video is getting around
Speaker 2: and the.
Speaker 1: Comments why really interesting? Well, I think it was the
Speaker 1: anti bullying protection I got.
Speaker 2: I got.
Speaker 1: I got that got me because I don't understand TikTok.
Speaker 3: So when you send me a screenshot of that, I
Speaker 3: was like, bay, oh my gosh, it gets heated.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I got from TikTok. I'm just having a
Speaker 2: look at it now, an anti bullying protection for this video.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Some people are like, yeap, I completely get it.
Speaker 3: Other people are like, no, you're privileged parents that think
Speaker 3: you should get whatever you want.
Speaker 1: Kind is that what it was? Yeah? Like and not.
Speaker 2: On TikTok, A lot of the comments are kids shouldn't
Speaker 2: go to concerts, they ruin it, blah blah blah. And
Speaker 2: then they're like arguing with each other.
Speaker 3: Are they literally like kids arguing their point of other
Speaker 3: kids not being allowed to be there? Like when I
Speaker 3: say kids, like their demographic is within that twenty to
Speaker 3: twenty five year old sort of bracket.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I'd say all of that age group are
Speaker 2: saying kids shouldn't be at concerts, and then the argument
Speaker 2: from other people is why shouldn't they yet.
Speaker 1: What's the difference? Go to Katy Perry.
Speaker 3: Go to Katy Perry, like how many people would have
Speaker 3: had their kids at Katy Perry. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, one of the comments that I made bad. I
Speaker 2: haven't room back to all of them. Every time I
Speaker 2: go in there. There's like a whole nother leg You.
Speaker 1: Get any other followers from it? Yeah?
Speaker 2: And I wrote back to one saying it was Gracie Abrams,
Speaker 2: it was very PG. It wasn't Snoop Dog.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I probably, Yeah, I mean i'd consider Snoop Dog.
Speaker 1: I mean if they're a fan. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So anyway, I guess in summary, we are kind of
Speaker 2: on TikTok, but we are well getting slammed.
Speaker 1: Let it. What was your reply to me?
Speaker 3: I said, oh, I don't know, will I get int
Speaker 3: the lie by cat ladies? And you said, oh, well,
Speaker 3: any press is good, any press is good press. Take
Speaker 3: her down, let her go, let us send her out
Speaker 3: to the wall.
Speaker 2: Am I about mum for being really tight?
Speaker 3: We had a very quick discussion around this before we start,
Speaker 3: and your girls are a different age.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Look, I think everyone should be some form of education
Speaker 3: towards their kids around not having the availability of funds
Speaker 3: as they wish at their disposal.
Speaker 2: It's a really hard one I think for everyone weighing
Speaker 2: up that turn the light off electricitism. Yeah, free kind
Speaker 2: of thing. Get out the shower, you've been in there
Speaker 2: so long before paying at that water?
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But also going if I'm on my deathbed, am I
Speaker 2: looking back going I wish she'd have switched the heating
Speaker 2: off because the electricity bill was expensive?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Or am I going let's enjoy life because it's short.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you.
Speaker 2: And it's also such a hard one in going teaching
Speaker 2: kids the value of money and going, oh no, don't
Speaker 2: get that one. Get that one, it's on special or whatever.
Speaker 3: It might be the only way that they will learn
Speaker 3: that is with their own money, yeah, because they don't
Speaker 3: want to spend it.
Speaker 2: No. And one of the and a friend was telling
Speaker 2: me her and this with her it was a great thing.
Speaker 2: It was giving her a budget a certain amount of
Speaker 2: money and going, you're gonna buy your own toilet tries
Speaker 2: with this, Yeah, you to work out whether you pay
Speaker 2: extra or that. Yeah, but you've got to then scrimp
Speaker 2: on that and all that kind of stuff. So yeah,
Speaker 2: great idea. I still haven't implemented it, but I would
Speaker 2: like to. But my girls are at the stage where
Speaker 2: they will get Uber eats if we're not home or
Speaker 2: there's no food in the house.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well there's probably food. I know your house, but
Speaker 1: there's probably food. Yeah, I'm sorry, but.
Speaker 2: I am the queen of making dinner out of nothing, like.
Speaker 2: I actually really pride myself on that. When they go
Speaker 2: there's nothing in the house, I'm like, let me have
Speaker 2: a look, ah, let me find anyway something out of that.
Speaker 2: But the situation that I find myself in often is Mum,
Speaker 2: can you give us the money back for that? Because
Speaker 2: they use their card and then they're down and you've
Speaker 2: got to pay for their dinner still, And so then
Speaker 2: I get texts and so this is how the text
Speaker 2: exchange went today with Holly, and she said, please pay
Speaker 2: me back for gyg and Uber eats. The other day
Speaker 2: I go, I just did GYG. I had already done
Speaker 2: Uber eats you paid back forty one dollars. It was
Speaker 2: forty two dollars almost like okay, now are we getting
Speaker 2: rid of? Like yeah, he's gone there, Now do I
Speaker 2: go there too? Like I'm really on the sync to
Speaker 2: that level. It was forty one dollars because you had
Speaker 2: a one dollar refund from Uber eats because your corn
Speaker 2: chips didn't turn up.
Speaker 1: Forty one dollars. Is this for one person? Or is
Speaker 1: this like feeding off family that's for two people?
Speaker 3: It's extensive twe I was like, ps, can't you just
Speaker 3: stick with your two minute noodles?
Speaker 2: Then she says, I need three more dollars because I'm
Speaker 2: missing it gez.
Speaker 1: One hundred percent taking the piss.
Speaker 2: I was like, okay, first of all, I'm at work
Speaker 2: arguing over a dollar. You don't get that extra dollar
Speaker 2: you had the no and I'm like, oh Jesus, you're
Speaker 2: being so tight. Does it really matter? Yes, it does
Speaker 2: matter because I'm trying to teach her you don't go
Speaker 2: to woolies and they go your groceries. That's forty two dollars. Please,
Speaker 2: Oh I've only got forty one. I actually don't know
Speaker 2: what would happen in that situation. But what should happen
Speaker 2: is they should go, oh, no, sorry, it's forty two.
Speaker 3: You'll have to put one product back, so it's underneath
Speaker 3: forty one dollars that you do have. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it sounds petty, but I was like, I'm
Speaker 2: trying to teach her. Then she's then asking for three
Speaker 2: dollars for nothing just because she.
Speaker 1: Feels I know. But I was like, what's this three
Speaker 1: dollars about.
Speaker 2: I've gone from one extreme to the other, Rach, I've
Speaker 2: gone from arguing about a dollar to going, fuck it,
Speaker 2: give us three dollars. And I get these messages all
Speaker 2: the time, and I realized, I'm like, I'm spending all
Speaker 2: this time and I'm being super tight, being so tight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you're not teaching them anything by just giving. No,
Speaker 3: if you just keep giving and giving and giving, you
Speaker 3: are not teaching them anything. And I totally respect where
Speaker 3: you're out of going. I bought them dinner, but like,
Speaker 3: how many Uber Eats deliveries of food do you have
Speaker 3: to pay for when they're just opting in not actually
Speaker 3: finding something in the fridge? Yes, where is this leniency
Speaker 3: gonna go of going? Look, hey, I don't mind covering dinner.
Speaker 3: But that does not give you a small gas board
Speaker 3: on Uber eats for the whole entire day and think
Speaker 3: I'm going to return your funds.
Speaker 2: No, especially with school holidays coming up.
Speaker 1: I just don't get that. Like I don't get it.
Speaker 1: I go you're taking the piece.
Speaker 2: So they have to ask permission to Uber eats.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: If they don't ask for permission, they pay for it themselves.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the rule.
Speaker 2: The rule now also is rage if you forget your
Speaker 2: lunchbox in school, because I've paid that food and you've
Speaker 2: made a lunch box and it's in the fridge if
Speaker 2: you forget it, or you don't make your lunchbox because
Speaker 2: you haven't had time or whatever the reason might be. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you can get food at school, but that's your money too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've paid for the.
Speaker 2: Lunch that was in the fridge that you should have
Speaker 2: remembered or you should have made. So that definitely happens.
Speaker 2: I am in a situt situation now where the girls
Speaker 2: are also doing tafe one day a week, Rach. Honestly,
Speaker 2: this is another battle, right. They've got a group of
Speaker 2: friends and literally the highlight of their day is they
Speaker 2: all chat about where they're going to go for lunch.
Speaker 3: Yeah, where are they doing? Tathe are they in this
Speaker 3: South Bank? So then I g like, there's everything there.
Speaker 2: For a slap up Friday lunch Friday as well.
Speaker 1: Go to the pub, girls, whyted you to grab a
Speaker 1: bottle of bubbles? Way there? I'll fix it up and
Speaker 1: I'm not a part of it.
Speaker 2: At work with my lunch box.
Speaker 3: Lap slavings, I can make money to be able to
Speaker 3: give it to you while you're having a slap happy
Speaker 3: Friday lunch at Tay.
Speaker 2: I did say at one point I was like, you're
Speaker 2: gonna have to start taking your own lunch, yes, at
Speaker 2: some point. But then the other part of me is like, oh,
Speaker 2: they really love doing that, this little group of friends
Speaker 2: of where we go for lunch.
Speaker 3: That's totally fine. You can love it with your own money. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm like that with my girls. Now as soon as
Speaker 3: you walk past the Kingpin place with like that, Okay,
Speaker 3: come on, mom.
Speaker 1: It's just thirty dollars, just thirty dollars.
Speaker 2: Would you be paying if you had thirty dollars off
Speaker 2: your own money on you right now?
Speaker 3: With that?
Speaker 2: What you can spend it? One would I say to
Speaker 2: the girls all the time.
Speaker 3: What just thirty dollars, Like that is a lot of money,
Speaker 3: and you just think just thirty dollars. Their touch shop
Speaker 3: now costs nearly twenty bucks every Friday.
Speaker 2: Each Oh, don't even get me started. Don't even get
Speaker 2: me started down school bus. Don't get me started on
Speaker 2: school bus. Why so in Brisbane at the moment, yeah,
Speaker 2: fifty cents public transferort. Yeah so buses and trains, Yeah,
Speaker 2: fifty cents blows my mind. I don't know how they operate,
Speaker 2: but so good fifty cents yeah right, yeah. So why
Speaker 2: is the school bus six dollars each way? I know why?
Speaker 3: Because it gives them the privacy of only being in
Speaker 3: there with students and no one else.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that is disgusting. That is disgusting if you're
Speaker 2: a bus company.
Speaker 3: Six dollars one way, yes, dollars to school, six dollars back,
Speaker 3: twelve dollars.
Speaker 1: I heard, like, there's other.
Speaker 3: Schools and they're like, I've got to pay four hundred
Speaker 3: and fifty dollars for the school bus.
Speaker 1: This term, just one term.
Speaker 3: I was like what I was like, for the amount
Speaker 3: of money you're paying for fees, those buses should be free.
Speaker 1: They paid for the buses forty five times over.
Speaker 2: That bus should be free yet on the public, but
Speaker 2: on the fifty cents, you can have fifty cents. Have
Speaker 2: your fifty cents.
Speaker 1: Here's your fifty cents when you're getting on board.
Speaker 2: Next time they get the school bus, you're going to
Speaker 2: get them to take fifty cents. Here's your fifty cents.
Speaker 1: Where's the Oh, I'm price matching.
Speaker 3: I am price matching. I'm sorry, that's it. Fifty cents.
Speaker 3: That's what the other bus takes.
Speaker 2: Don't eve. We started on price matching. I know we
Speaker 2: like to go off on a tangent on this podcast,
Speaker 2: but price matching now liquor land, Yeah, I said to them,
Speaker 2: is this a new thing? Yes, this is new this
Speaker 2: year we've started price matching. I went amazing, got down
Speaker 2: a bottle of moere. I was like, how much cheaper
Speaker 2: can I find this? I've gone online. Rache found it
Speaker 2: online online price, which I'm pretty sure they shouldn't be
Speaker 2: in Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was like, no, can't be online though, it has
Speaker 3: to be an in store price.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, I did particular the place was fine with
Speaker 2: it fifty dollars online. I was like, perfect. So the
Speaker 2: mother he was like, yep, yeah, I can price maatch that.
Speaker 2: I went, great, I'll get two. I've got two bottles.
Speaker 2: He then said to old Love behind the counter. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: she's price matching these. Old Lover's gone, okay, put the
Speaker 2: two bottles through. She went that sixty five dollars please,
Speaker 2: I went sure.
Speaker 1: I would have tapped. I would have tapped him. Run.
Speaker 2: I've walked out. I'm like, she's gonna get fired.
Speaker 3: She just can go to be like I'm tapping and
Speaker 3: running and I can't come back in this little land again.
Speaker 1: Now thirty dollars. That poor girl's got no job. I
Speaker 1: got two bottles of champagne for sixty one dollars. Like it.
Speaker 3: I would have been back in straight back in the door.
Speaker 3: You know what, My husband just dropped me a couple
Speaker 3: of hundred.
Speaker 1: I might take a box.
Speaker 2: How much you got out of the back, I'll take
Speaker 2: it all? Hello? Can I hire a mute