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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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Speaker 2: Today's tip is to enjoy being penny foolish. If you've

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Speaker 2: got the big pieces of your financial life in good shape,

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Speaker 2: then there is no risk of you being penny wise

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Speaker 2: and pound foolish. You are pound wise, so why not

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Speaker 2: take advantage of that to feel a little profligate on

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Speaker 2: the small stuff? Just from time to time. Longtime listeners

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Speaker 2: have heard me talk about the importance of getting the

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Speaker 2: big things right for financial health. Buying or renting less

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Speaker 2: house than you could theoretically afford is one way to

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Speaker 2: create massive amounts of space in your budget. The same

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Speaker 2: goes for spending less on transportation. Perhaps you decide to

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Speaker 2: move to a lower cost of living area, or you

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Speaker 2: choose a district where you can send your kids to

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Speaker 2: excellent public schools for the cost of your taxes, which

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Speaker 2: you have to pay. Anyway, you've paid close attention to

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Speaker 2: your retirement account and you aren't paying exorbitant fees. Ideally,

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Speaker 2: most of it is in low cost index funds. If

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Speaker 2: you are doing all these things right, and the money

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Speaker 2: coming in is greater than the money going out. Then congratulations,

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Speaker 2: you are the opposite of that saying about being penny

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Speaker 2: wise and pound foolish. You are pound wise, so you

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Speaker 2: can probably be a bit penny foolish sometimes without it

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Speaker 2: being a problem. One of my favorite penny foolish things

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Speaker 2: to do is to buy red peppers instead of green

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Speaker 2: peppers in the grocery store. Red peppers are always more expensive,

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Speaker 2: so I am tempted to just go with the green ones,

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Speaker 2: which are generally fine, But then I realize I don't

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Speaker 2: necessarily have to buy the least expensive peppers. Then suddenly

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Speaker 2: I feel rich buying the red peppers for the price

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Speaker 2: of an extra dollar or so in the grocery store.

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Speaker 2: I have talked with various people about how they let

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Speaker 2: themselves be penny foolish from time to time. One person

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Speaker 2: decided it was okay to order dinner if her spouse

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Speaker 2: was out of town for several days. Another called an

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Speaker 2: uber rather than walk from the train in the rain.

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Speaker 2: Someone else told me he had bought that best seller

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Speaker 2: he was eyeing when it looked like the library hold

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Speaker 2: queue was going to take months. None of these were

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Speaker 2: per paricularly huge expenses, but these were frugal people. Who

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Speaker 2: tended to try to make wise choices with both pounds

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Speaker 2: and pennies, so consciously choosing to make penny foolish decisions

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Speaker 2: felt very decadent, which can be kind of fun. One

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Speaker 2: of my favorite quotes is from Pablo Picasso, who said

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Speaker 2: I'd like to live as a poor man with lots

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Speaker 2: of money. The idea is that the poor man could

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Speaker 2: still be delighted by little things, the sorts of things

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Speaker 2: that a lot of money would let him easily do.

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Speaker 2: If you are a pound wise person, being occasionally penny

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Speaker 2: foolish is about the closest thing to approximating the sentiment

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Speaker 2: behind that quote. I know I feel that way buying

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Speaker 2: my red peppers. It's such a little treat. If the

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Speaker 2: big pieces are good, then it's probably fine. In the meantime,

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Speaker 2: this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making

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Speaker 2: the most of our times.

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