Speaker 1: Welcome to How Do They Afford? That's budget battle where
Speaker 1: we each take a money tip from a listener and
Speaker 1: go head to head. I'm Michael Thompson and hello, Canna Campbell,
Speaker 1: Good morning.
Speaker 2: How are you.
Speaker 1: I'm going well. I'm looking forward to a win. We
Speaker 1: have an esteemed colleague, a judge in the studio here
Speaker 1: to help us decide a winner today. That judges my
Speaker 1: colleague from the Fear and Green business News podcast, Sean
Speaker 1: almas Sean.
Speaker 3: Hello, Hello Michael, Hello, Canna, Hello Sean?
Speaker 1: Can I kick us off? What have you got for
Speaker 1: us today? What tip have you dredged up from somewhere?
Speaker 2: It's a simple but powerful one. Just a reminded everyone
Speaker 2: to consider using air Tasker recently. I've been having lots
Speaker 2: of IT problems and I called a few various different
Speaker 2: tech gurus who provided me a range of quotes which
Speaker 2: were very expensive and involved coming and collecting my computer
Speaker 2: with me having to drop it off and lose it
Speaker 2: for a few days. But I jumped onto air Tasker,
Speaker 2: uploaded my issues and put up a budget and I
Speaker 2: was able to have someone help me online for twenty
Speaker 2: percent of what the original quote was provided, and I
Speaker 2: now have their details saved, so if I have any
Speaker 2: other future IT issues, I can contact them directly. I
Speaker 2: am going straight to the source, saving time and money.
Speaker 3: Thank you, excellent one, Michael, be that well.
Speaker 1: I will. In fact, I won't, Josh will because Josh
Speaker 1: has sent this to me via Instagram, and I'll read
Speaker 1: it exactly as it's written. In fact, he says, Hi, Michael,
Speaker 1: want a money saving tip that'll beat Canna. I have
Speaker 1: two words for you. Tool libraries. Seriously, he says, you
Speaker 1: need to get on board with these. Don't be fooled
Speaker 1: by the name. They're not just for tools. What do
Speaker 1: you mean, so for everyone, not just for me? He goes,
Speaker 1: don't be fooled by the name. They're not just for tools.
Speaker 1: A lot of them are called libraries of things now.
Speaker 1: It's capital L and capital T libraries of things now,
Speaker 1: says But the idea is that you go there and
Speaker 1: you can borrow what you need, garden tools, power tools,
Speaker 1: things for the kitchen, things for around the house. You
Speaker 1: can typically get them for a fortnight. Then you return it.
Speaker 1: You pay an annual fee, right, and this is kind
Speaker 1: of this is the money side of it. You pay
Speaker 1: an annual fee. Often somewhere around eighty dollars, which goes
Speaker 1: to maintaining the collection, and then you just go for it,
Speaker 1: and he says, it is so much cheaper than having
Speaker 1: to buy all these things yourself and store them. Pressure
Speaker 1: cleaner for the driveway, borrow one if you need a wheelbarrow.
Speaker 1: You borrow one ice cream maker for a dinner party,
Speaker 1: borrow one. Sporting gear, borrow it, camping gear, borrow it.
Speaker 1: You can borrow all of it and you only have
Speaker 1: to pay one fee of about eighty bucks per year.
Speaker 1: And you can just keep on borrowing things and you
Speaker 1: take it back and a fortnight is long enough to
Speaker 1: actually get the use out of it that you need.
Speaker 1: He says. Tool libraries or libraries of things are now
Speaker 1: dotted around the country and they will save you an
Speaker 1: absolute fortune. He says to me, he says, Michael, you're welcome.
Speaker 1: I think that's a cracker.
Speaker 3: I reckon it's a family member of yours. If he
Speaker 3: says Michael, you're welcome, that's exactly what you would say.
Speaker 1: Actually, it kind of is, isn't it. I think he's
Speaker 1: probably been listening to the podcast for a while. God
Speaker 1: Old Josh, but that's a cracker. Isn't it like it's
Speaker 1: just and what I have had a look at the
Speaker 1: websites and I kind of checked to make sure that
Speaker 1: they are available in Sydney, and I checked for Brisbane,
Speaker 1: and I checked for Melbourne. I checked for a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of different places, and they are. They are everywhere now,
Speaker 1: and they are just like if you need a tent,
Speaker 1: you go and borrow one from there, and you can't
Speaker 1: get like all these things for the kitchen, like expensive
Speaker 1: appliances and things, and you use it and then return
Speaker 1: it and you only pay once for all of it.
Speaker 1: And it's just I am blown away.
Speaker 2: By it once or once a year.
Speaker 1: Like once a year, yes, but I mean, that's it's
Speaker 1: pretty it's pretty amazing.
Speaker 3: Tell me, Cannam, if you were the judge in this
Speaker 3: and you weren't a competitive person and I was you,
Speaker 3: which one would you give it to?
Speaker 2: Michael wouldn't win that?
Speaker 1: It's good, it is good.
Speaker 2: Let's just give it to Josh, Like Josh, it's just
Speaker 2: not Michael. I'm coming with all my.
Speaker 3: Tips myself here. Give me a.
Speaker 2: Chance, like Michael's getting them off from everyone else.
Speaker 1: Getting all the hard work here.
Speaker 3: I'm not giving any credit to Michael, what service. So
Speaker 3: don't get me wrong here, it's always the listeners of
Speaker 3: how they afford that that's winning versus yourself in this one.
Speaker 3: That is just a great idea, Josh, not you, Michael,
Speaker 3: Josh big win.
Speaker 1: I love that you robbed me of my victory here
Speaker 1: I have won, yet I have so I cannot celebrate
Speaker 1: like you two, the collusion between the two of you
Speaker 1: to deny me what is rightfully mine. Like that's like
Speaker 1: saying that that a gold medalist at the Olympic didn't
Speaker 1: win the gold their country did. Like, No, I am
Speaker 1: the medalist here. I'm the one standing on the podium
Speaker 1: with the medal around my neck. I won, Josh. All
Speaker 1: Josh did was give me the tip. It was the
Speaker 1: presentation of it that really kind of brought it home.
Speaker 3: No, that's not right, Josh. Well done.
Speaker 1: Oh cheers, all right, Thank you very much, Sean.
Speaker 3: Thanks Michael, Thanks Hannah, thank you.
Speaker 1: There we go. That was the budget battle from how
Speaker 1: do they afford that? It is a bonus episode out
Speaker 1: each week. Send your own savings tips in. I'll put
Speaker 1: the links in the show notes so that you can
Speaker 1: pick either me or Cannah. Please be me because I
Speaker 1: need all the help I can get. It may be
Speaker 1: yours in the battle next week.