Speaker 1: Episode four forty seven, How to have a Frugal Spooky Season.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the Frugal Friends podcast, where you'll learn to
Speaker 2: save money, embrace simplicity, and live a life here your
Speaker 2: hosts Jen and Jill.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Frugal Friends podcast. My name is Jen,
Speaker 1: my name is Jill, and today we are talking all
Speaker 1: things Spooky Season. It has become, really, I think, the
Speaker 1: holiday of choice for millennials, and the data we will
Speaker 1: read to you will reinforce that for many reasons. But
Speaker 1: today we are going to put some of our millennials
Speaker 1: spending maybe into perspective. We're going to talk a smidge
Speaker 1: it's just a smidgeon about inflation in the economy, but
Speaker 1: not enough to bore you. And then we're also going
Speaker 1: to talk about if you choose to partake, how you
Speaker 1: can partake frugally.
Speaker 3: You've really laid it out well, Jen.
Speaker 4: I'm excited for this journey together that we will take
Speaker 4: through October.
Speaker 1: I mean, I am a pumpkin spice girly, so I
Speaker 1: have been here, I am here and I will be
Speaker 1: here for Spooky Season. And I'm excited about this episode.
Speaker 3: I think that's part of it.
Speaker 4: And we did pull you all for those of you
Speaker 4: who get the Friend Letter, which is the email that
Speaker 4: we send out weekly if you're not getting it Frugal
Speaker 4: friendspodcast dot com. But we asked you all what are
Speaker 4: you most likely to spend on unnecessarily this fall? The
Speaker 4: options being decorations, anything involving pumpkins, trick or treating, slash, costumes,
Speaker 4: or other. You all said decorations mostly, but pretty neck
Speaker 4: and neck on the pumpkins, the trick or treating, and costumes.
Speaker 4: But I think at least related to decorations. That's part
Speaker 4: of why I think spending is so high around this time,
Speaker 4: because it's that combo of Halloween and fall. And I
Speaker 4: think we talked about in a recent episode how much
Speaker 4: fall is this overinflated time of year. Everyone loves it.
Speaker 3: We've had a.
Speaker 4: Long conversation about pumpkins, spice lattes and just pumpkins.
Speaker 1: And yeah, in our episode what to budget for this Fall,
Speaker 1: it's fall. Fall has been a heavily marketed season. It
Speaker 1: needed a rebrand. You know, Winter has its things, Summer
Speaker 1: has its things. Even spring, the shoulder season of seasons,
Speaker 1: had its thing, you know, coming out of the cold,
Speaker 1: Fall didn't really have a thing. Fall was ugh, Summer's over,
Speaker 1: Winter's coming like fall back to Yeah, fall was really
Speaker 1: the worst season, and it has had a glow up
Speaker 1: and and now it's become another opportunity for us to
Speaker 1: spend money.
Speaker 3: And uhlow up. Yeah, and yes, affecting our wallet.
Speaker 1: But a couple of things I wanted to say about
Speaker 1: some of the things that you guys said about quote
Speaker 1: unquote unnecessary fall spending. I I love knowing when something
Speaker 1: is unnecessary and necessary, and just because it's unnecessary does
Speaker 1: not mean it's bad. And so a lot of you
Speaker 1: were saying, like all the all the false stuff, apple picking,
Speaker 1: pumpkin everything, just fall drinks at cafes, apple flavored drinks,
Speaker 1: pumpkin hand wash and soap and men. So like, there's
Speaker 1: a difference between feeling guilty about buying these things and
Speaker 1: buying them without guilt but knowing that they're unnecessary, knowing
Speaker 1: that they're not needed, and being in total alignment with
Speaker 1: those things and knowing I love these things. They don't
Speaker 1: get me closer to my highest values, but I still
Speaker 1: love them and embrace them, and putting money aside for
Speaker 1: them is totally great. We totally support that, but we
Speaker 1: also want to come at that combating some of the
Speaker 1: over consumption that has been marketed to us in this season.
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Speaker 1: Like we said, marketing is very heavy in the fall.
Speaker 1: It's heavy in every season, but I would say especially
Speaker 1: fall and winter because there's not as much going on outside,
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Speaker 1: talk about holiday impulse, spending, this spooky season consumption with
Speaker 1: Let's start it out with a little bit of data research.
Speaker 3: We love it so sexy.
Speaker 1: So before we started recording, I looked at the data
Speaker 1: set that we had been presented with and I was like,
Speaker 1: this is a and you will see this every season.
Speaker 1: You'll see this on the news, are on the radio
Speaker 1: where they'll talk about Americans are projected to spend X
Speaker 1: this holiday season or will increase by X, and it's
Speaker 1: all prediction. It's all planned and it's not going to
Speaker 1: be that far off, but you know it's it's not
Speaker 1: one hundred percent accurate. The problem with Halloween is that
Speaker 1: normally you can find the actual data set after the
Speaker 1: holiday for what people really spent, and that's usually what
Speaker 1: we go off. The problem for this holidays we could
Speaker 1: not find the actual data. Even when we were looking
Speaker 1: at predictions for twenty twenty four, they all kept referencing
Speaker 1: these articles that were the planned and so you always
Speaker 1: got to look at the cited data as well as
Speaker 1: the data. So we're going to assume that the you know,
Speaker 1: quote unquote planned spending that they reported in twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: we're just going to go off of that. We're gonna
Speaker 1: look at spending, not at what is predicted for twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four, but we're gonna look at how much did
Speaker 1: people spend in twenty twenty three versus twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: That's when interests are that's when inflation's stabilized, right, So
Speaker 1: from twenty one to twenty two you have that eight
Speaker 1: nine percent interest From twenty two to twenty three, we
Speaker 1: saw it stabilize at four which is still over the
Speaker 1: two to three we like to see, but obviously much closer.
Speaker 1: And so did spending increase at a rate of four
Speaker 1: percent or did it increase at a higher rate, which
Speaker 1: means it wasn't just spending that was increasing. It means
Speaker 1: that's consumption increasing. So what did we find? What did
Speaker 1: we find?
Speaker 5: Jill?
Speaker 3: Here we go.
Speaker 4: So we've got a couple of data sets that we
Speaker 4: can go off of. One from National Retail Federation. The
Speaker 4: NRF stated that in twenty twenty two, individuals spent on
Speaker 4: average one hundred dollars just for Halloween. That was individuals
Speaker 4: they didn't say households. They truly said each individual on
Speaker 4: average spent one hundred dollars in twenty twenty two, and
Speaker 4: then in twenty twenty three that on average individuals spent
Speaker 4: one hundred and eight dollars. Doesn't sound like that much,
Speaker 4: but that is an eight percent increase from twenty twenty
Speaker 4: two to twenty twenty three, which, as you just stated,
Speaker 4: the inflation rate stabilized at four percent, So that's nearly
Speaker 4: double the inflation rate that people spent. So I think
Speaker 4: a lot of times. One of the things that you
Speaker 4: said before we hopped on was they're always going to
Speaker 4: predict its higher, of course, and people will say, yes,
Speaker 4: of course, I'm going to spend more because inflation is
Speaker 4: causing me to spend more.
Speaker 3: Things cost more money.
Speaker 4: But this is pointing out to us that that's not
Speaker 4: the only thing we can point the finger at. Our
Speaker 4: desire for more. Our degree of consumption is outpacing inflation, and.
Speaker 1: It's outpacing what we've seen historically for the holiday too.
Speaker 1: So NRF also looked at how many people are celebrating.
Speaker 1: So in twenty twenty three you had seventy three percent
Speaker 1: versus in twenty seventeen, you had seventy two percent, and
Speaker 1: that rate actually just kept going down until twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: So we had seventy two, we had seventy, we had
Speaker 1: sixty eight. In twenty twenty, we had only fifty eight
Speaker 1: percent of people celebrating Halloween. And then we have our
Speaker 1: post pandemic reawakening into the world where things just go
Speaker 1: off to where in twenty twenty three it did surpass
Speaker 1: that pre pandemic levels of people said celebrating Halloween, and
Speaker 1: I part of it to do with that post pandemic
Speaker 1: kind of reawakening. Part of it also is social media
Speaker 1: and a lot of content creators will create content around
Speaker 1: seasons because like, what else do you do? And so
Speaker 1: there have been every season you'll see this onslaught of
Speaker 1: inspired costuming, wearing decor, diy, all of this stuff, and
Speaker 1: it makes you think that more people are celebrating the holiday,
Speaker 1: when in reality, it's just content creators looking to schedule
Speaker 1: their content creation and looking trying to be relevant and
Speaker 1: trying to come up with new ideas for content. And
Speaker 1: don't worry, we're going to have an episode about influences
Speaker 1: coming up.
Speaker 3: If I care about them.
Speaker 1: It's because I just got off that out of that
Speaker 1: rabbit hole. Ji'll just literally pulled me up out of it.
Speaker 1: But it's this like perfect storm of like marketing, social
Speaker 1: media post pandemic that's created this over consumption on this holiday.
Speaker 3: Which I am. I'm right here with you.
Speaker 4: I'm loving to look at the realities of this and
Speaker 4: really inwardly too, at the ways that we're being sold to.
Speaker 4: I have appreciated the focus that we've had just for
Speaker 4: ourselves of how are marketers marketing to us, How are
Speaker 4: we choosing to spend money so that we can feel
Speaker 4: more resourced and more knowledgeable to be able to make
Speaker 4: some of these better spending decisions. So all of this
Speaker 4: I think just serves to help us and benefit us
Speaker 4: in the decisions we make with our money. There's one
Speaker 4: final stat I want to note, and it probably has
Speaker 4: to do with what you're describing, jen of more people
Speaker 4: participating in the holiday, So not necessarily contradictory to the
Speaker 4: other stats, but interesting nonetheless. So the NRF again also
Speaker 4: stated that spending went from ten point six billion dollars
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty two on Halloween in the United States
Speaker 4: to twelve point two billion dollars in twenty twenty three,
Speaker 4: and that is a twenty percent increase in spending, and
Speaker 4: that might have to do with not so much one
Speaker 4: individual to the next, you know, increasing about eight percent,
Speaker 4: but also the influx of how many more people are
Speaker 4: now engaged in the holiday as well, so that even
Speaker 4: pushes the degree of consumption even higher than just individual
Speaker 4: to individual, like what we're choosing to engage in collectively
Speaker 4: this time of year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so some of the things that they were saying,
Speaker 1: people are spending more on this This isn't necessarily overall costumes.
Speaker 1: That's like the first thing we think about, but like
Speaker 1: a lot of it is candy, and people are starting
Speaker 1: to buy earlier. I think it was I am I
Speaker 1: have lost a step. But Amazon searches for Halloween in
Speaker 1: August from twenty to twenty two to twenty twenty three
Speaker 1: increased two hundred percent, So like two hundred percent more
Speaker 1: people are starting to plan for Halloween in August. And
Speaker 1: the earlier you start shopping for something, obviously, the more
Speaker 1: time you're going to be buying stuff for it, and
Speaker 1: so just little little things here and there. One of
Speaker 1: the stats is the most the highest or the leading
Speaker 1: destination to buy Halloween items is discount stores. It's it's
Speaker 1: the little things that are adding up. So we're going
Speaker 1: to these discount stores. We're finding more affordable trinkets and trash,
Speaker 1: and we're starting to buy them earlier, so it makes
Speaker 1: less of a dent in our month to month budget,
Speaker 1: but overall it is in total.
Speaker 4: And you know why we're buying it sooner because they're
Speaker 4: selling it to us sooner because it's working, because marketers
Speaker 4: are putting these things in the stores in August and
Speaker 4: we're scooping it up like.
Speaker 3: Hungry little We love change, gremlins.
Speaker 1: We love change, so we want buying something makes us
Speaker 1: feel like things are changing, especially you're when you're in
Speaker 1: that back to school rut like that, you're in the
Speaker 1: thick of it and you just want to control something
Speaker 1: and you can't get out of the season that you
Speaker 1: are in. But jack O lanterns are back and little
Speaker 1: cute little skeletons so you can make them put your
Speaker 1: their arms in different ways. And I saw this the
Speaker 1: cutest skeleton heads at Target that were covered in like
Speaker 1: this dark green velvet and they're so cute. But like
Speaker 1: what I said, when I was shopping with Kai and
Speaker 1: we were looking.
Speaker 3: At the stuff.
Speaker 1: We can appreciate it without having to take it home. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so yeah, they do it because it works. And
Speaker 1: I'll give one more stat on costumes.
Speaker 3: Okay, make it quick, becaus we said we wouldn't bore them.
Speaker 1: I know, I know. So Actually, the spending on costumes
Speaker 1: for children has remained relatively steady since twenty eighteen one
Speaker 1: point two bill one point two one point two one
Speaker 1: point two. We see a little dip in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: We were at one point four in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: People are not spending more on their children. Where we
Speaker 1: see the big jump, and here's people are not spending
Speaker 1: more on their dogs to either one point or we're
Speaker 1: at point five point five. When we reach in place,
Speaker 1: we get point seven. We stay pretty steady. People are
Speaker 1: buying more adult costumes and pricier adult costume, so more
Speaker 1: quantity and higher price. So it's not I'm spending more
Speaker 1: for my kids or my dog's I'm spending more for me. Yes,
Speaker 1: you know, And so we need to take a heart I.
Speaker 3: Deserve this, did that already yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Wow, so so yeah, so that's another thing to be
Speaker 1: aware of. And those are all the stats that we'll
Speaker 1: go through.
Speaker 4: Okay, so you all get the point. There's something to
Speaker 4: look at on our end of how we can just
Speaker 4: decrease consumption. And I love this about frugality and values
Speaker 4: based spending that when we get better at this, it
Speaker 4: helps us, it helps our community, it helps the environment.
Speaker 4: We're not just talking about saving our own money. We're
Speaker 4: also talking about decreasing our consumption in a way that's
Speaker 4: going to benefit us in the community. And so now
Speaker 4: that we can understand, we can take back some of
Speaker 4: this decision making for ourselves. Let's look at what we
Speaker 4: can do ways to be able to still enjoy Halloween
Speaker 4: but level out just like let's let it planteau a
Speaker 4: little bit and make some really informed decisions. We're going
Speaker 4: to look at the top areas that we do spend,
Speaker 4: from costumes and candy to decor. Okay, So this next
Speaker 4: article comes from Money and Mentors and it is titled
Speaker 4: best ways to save money on Halloween this year, and
Speaker 4: that is what we want to know. Yeah, and I
Speaker 4: like how they go into categories here of how to
Speaker 4: save on costumes, and so that's what we'll that's where
Speaker 4: we'll start with.
Speaker 3: And then candy and decor.
Speaker 4: But their first tip is pretty obvious, but it is
Speaker 4: worth restating because so many of us don't do this.
Speaker 4: But it is making your own costumes that you can
Speaker 4: find things around your house to create a costume with.
Speaker 4: It might take a little bit more creativity or problem
Speaker 4: solving or even sacrificing a little bit of exactly what
Speaker 4: it is that you want or your vision to create
Speaker 4: something with what you already have and not need to
Speaker 4: purchase a whole costume. That or you create something with
Speaker 4: everything that you have on hand, and maybe you need
Speaker 4: to buy one small piece to really complete the ensemble,
Speaker 4: but that's going to be far less than needing to
Speaker 4: go and buy the entire thing in and of itself.
Speaker 4: And there is plenty of helpful things on the internet,
Speaker 4: from Pinterest to just straight up Google on what are
Speaker 4: some just DIY costume ideas? How can I create something
Speaker 4: that can be fun, I feel good about, but I
Speaker 4: don't have to spend a ton of money on, not
Speaker 4: to mention, something that I most likely won't wear again.
Speaker 4: Like regular Halloween costumes, they are cheaply made, and I
Speaker 4: use that word accurately. Yeah they're going to fall apart.
Speaker 4: You're probably not going to want to wear it again
Speaker 4: next year, and you're most certainly not going to be
Speaker 4: wearing it just out and about. It's like your classic
Speaker 4: bridesmaid's dressed, right like, you're never gonna wear this again.
Speaker 1: There's never gonna be unless you wear the bridesmaid's dress
Speaker 1: for Halloween, in which there you go. That's the only
Speaker 1: other place you're gonna wear that bridesmaid's dress.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I love personally.
Speaker 4: I love the Halloween costumes that are just puns or
Speaker 4: something really outlandish, and it doesn't have to be just
Speaker 4: your classic Disney princess and you gotta get a Disney
Speaker 4: princess costume, just like if we're spending more money on
Speaker 4: ourselves and not our children, then we can get more
Speaker 4: creative and fun and funny with what we end up dressing,
Speaker 4: as it doesn't have to be just a classic character.
Speaker 1: You could also go secondhand. There are especially if you're
Speaker 1: doing like this weekend, when you're hearing this episode, look
Speaker 1: on Facebook Marketplace. Look at the thrift store because they're
Speaker 1: still going to have some left goodwill. Their Halloween costumes
Speaker 1: are basically brand new and full price. I don't love it.
Speaker 1: Facebook Marketplace is where it is at for costumes. That's
Speaker 1: where the really good costumes are going to be, the
Speaker 1: good quality where they don't want to just give it
Speaker 1: to goodwill, they want to sell it, get some money
Speaker 1: back for it. That's where you're going to find the
Speaker 1: good ones. If you love dressing up for Halloween, it
Speaker 1: is your thing, and if you're going to do it homemade,
Speaker 1: you're going to spend more money than if you just
Speaker 1: bought it. I would say go to Facebook Marketplace. I
Speaker 1: seriously was looking in August at Halloween costumes kind of
Speaker 1: for myself, but also to prep for this episode. And
Speaker 1: there was a it was Beetlejuice, the couple and their demon,
Speaker 1: you know, weird form. Somebody had made this couple's costume
Speaker 1: had won a and I'm pretty sure I know which.
Speaker 1: Pretty sure it was the old Northeast Halloween competition. Oh cool,
Speaker 1: this house won. But this listing said that they won
Speaker 1: a costume contest with this costume duo. So this was
Speaker 1: an award winning duo costume duo you could find for
Speaker 1: like half the price, no like work needed to assemble.
Speaker 1: It was already ready to go and you can and
Speaker 1: it was just on Facebook Marketplace.
Speaker 3: Oh that's fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so like you're going to get some good things.
Speaker 1: So if Halloween really is your holiday, you don't have
Speaker 1: to you don't have to like spend all your money
Speaker 1: doing it, at least not every year. Maybe every other
Speaker 1: year you really do go all out and you do
Speaker 1: the thing, right, but then every other year you're looking
Speaker 1: on Facebook marketplace to find those hidden gems.
Speaker 4: Yeah, or you really hone in on what is the
Speaker 4: thing that is most valuable to you in the season.
Speaker 4: Doesn't think they have to go all out on the
Speaker 4: costume and the decor and the candy, Like, right, what's
Speaker 4: most important?
Speaker 1: Yeah, if the costume is yours, then you're doing You're
Speaker 1: doing that, and maybe next year you invest in some
Speaker 1: decor and you don't do as much of the costume.
Speaker 1: Just pick and choose what's most important.
Speaker 4: The final one in this category of saving on costumes
Speaker 4: is doing a costume swap. I would imagine this would
Speaker 4: be really good, especially for kids costumes, Like similar to
Speaker 4: uh yeah, if you've got a lot of mom friends,
Speaker 4: get together and swap your various costumes. That's also good
Speaker 4: for hand me downs. It's also something that you can
Speaker 4: find on Facebook, marketplace and at the thrift store. But
Speaker 4: swapping is free, and we love free, so maybe consider
Speaker 4: arranging a swap with the neighborhood or other kids from
Speaker 4: school and their moms. And it's also a hangout and
Speaker 4: that's fun.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it might be a little late to do
Speaker 1: that now, but you could organize a costume swap like
Speaker 1: with other moms and dads where everybody brings in old
Speaker 1: costumes and the kids get to go around and look
Speaker 1: for a costume that they might want, and if two
Speaker 1: of them want the same costume, then they can like
Speaker 1: throw down make Yeah. So this would be a really
Speaker 1: great way to increase your relationships and community. This is
Speaker 1: a way we can get together and solve our problems
Speaker 1: and build relationships without spending money like double two for two.
Speaker 4: Speaking of increasing relationships and community, we're moving on to candy.
Speaker 1: Well, I did want to add something to this article. Okay,
Speaker 1: so this is not in here, but this is a
Speaker 1: gen addition for costumes love that don't wear one. Maybe
Speaker 1: that's an option for you too. You have the freedom
Speaker 1: to not wear a costume if you you don't want to. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: you can attend a party without a costume unless that
Speaker 1: party says you don't get in the door without a costume.
Speaker 1: In that case, home, d I Wyatt. No, who's gonna
Speaker 1: tell you you don't look like Freddie Mercury on a
Speaker 1: Tuesday night, right right? Like who knew what he looked
Speaker 1: like on a Tuesday at home, right when no one
Speaker 1: was going.
Speaker 3: Or you could just show up as you and be
Speaker 3: a curmudgeon.
Speaker 4: I am a curmudgeon because I did not dress up
Speaker 4: for how we like everyone else.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this, so this is also an option. You can
Speaker 1: also throw a party which is an anti costume party
Speaker 1: for people who don't like wearing costumes, which.
Speaker 3: Is just a regular party.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so true, so true for people who love
Speaker 1: pumpkin stuff, who don't really love Thanksgiving food but love
Speaker 1: spooky season. And there you go. You can wear skull shirts,
Speaker 1: you can wear your spooky stuff that you already have
Speaker 1: in your closet exactly. That's that's the thing. You don't
Speaker 1: have to wear a costume to take your kids trick
Speaker 1: or treating. You don't have to be this cute family
Speaker 1: curated theme, like, you don't have to do that.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 1: You let your kids be whatever they want and it
Speaker 1: can be all different, and you can just wear shorts.
Speaker 3: Yep, I love that. Okay, back to my set.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3: I kind of community.
Speaker 1: Throw that because that's what I'm going to be doing
Speaker 1: because I actually hate costumes. I hate them so much.
Speaker 1: They're one where I hate them.
Speaker 4: Hold on, now, I'm getting on a rabbit trail with you.
Speaker 4: Is it because you only wear them once? Or you
Speaker 4: just don't like dressing up because you could you could
Speaker 4: be something from your closet. Do you just not like
Speaker 4: themed requirements for what you wear?
Speaker 1: I don't love themed requirements, but I truly hate the
Speaker 1: oneness of the costume. There is one setting I can
Speaker 1: wear this. I do have a wears Waldo glasses and
Speaker 1: Beanie set that I will occasionally bring out or like
Speaker 1: cat ears, and I will wear those every couple of years.
Speaker 1: But I really do detest the single useness of it.
Speaker 3: And then I don't have to be single, right, But
Speaker 3: I have to.
Speaker 1: Put the work in to find it used and then
Speaker 1: I wear it, and then I have to wear the
Speaker 1: already have.
Speaker 4: Is it just the work to think about something you
Speaker 4: already have?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: And I do.
Speaker 1: If I have to wear a costume, which I will
Speaker 1: attend costume parties and dress up for trick or treating,
Speaker 1: and I will always wear things I already have, and
Speaker 1: it will always be very odd references Like when I
Speaker 1: was pregnant with Atlas, I wore what I would normally
Speaker 1: wear to run a half marathon, but I was like
Speaker 1: a pregnant runner, you know I should I well, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't have been running a half marathon in that state,
Speaker 1: but other people do. So it's like not even really
Speaker 1: great costumes. So I will do it if I have.
Speaker 3: To, but I don't like to, and that's okay.
Speaker 1: So I love all the other I love the skulls
Speaker 1: and the skeletons, and I love death. Honestly, I think
Speaker 1: if we're being if, if we're digging into it, as
Speaker 1: I'm saying it out loud, I land to lean into
Speaker 1: the Okay, wow, Okay, moving on to candy.
Speaker 4: Candy, Okay, split costs with a neighbor now, hear me out.
Speaker 4: I do like this for the sense of if you
Speaker 4: do live in a neighborhood, potentially considering having a house
Speaker 4: or two houses or three, whatever you want to do,
Speaker 4: kind of go in and you all hang out on
Speaker 4: that person's porch, coming together, bringing candy, and then more
Speaker 4: is more when you're together and you're all hanging out
Speaker 4: and you're passing out candy, and then you didn't have
Speaker 4: to buy as much candy. You could also do this
Speaker 4: because not everybody lives in a house where people are
Speaker 4: going to come trick or treating you. If you do
Speaker 4: have one of those houses, just inviting other friends over
Speaker 4: not just not necessarily a neighborhood thing, but have people
Speaker 4: just come to your house, bring candy, and you all
Speaker 4: sit out front together and that way, or you just
Speaker 4: tell everybody to provide the candy. You just provide some
Speaker 4: warm apple cider for everyone and you just sit out
Speaker 4: and you give candy two people. So or if your
Speaker 4: friend has a spot, then you could be the one
Speaker 4: to join in. So I love that idea because it's
Speaker 4: another like doubleing up situation where you don't have to
Speaker 4: spend as much, you get more community and hanging out times.
Speaker 1: Yes, I love that hanging out with your neighbors on
Speaker 1: the front porch. I am very into that. And we
Speaker 1: all know, like for you know which neighborhoods kids go
Speaker 1: trick or treating in. If you live in one of
Speaker 1: those neighborhoods, you're gonna buy candy and sometimes you're gonna
Speaker 1: buy a lot of it, Like old northeast snell a'le
Speaker 1: short acres like those are the neighborhoods kids trick or
Speaker 1: treat in here and then everywhere else. It's just like
Speaker 1: if I buy a bag of candy, two kids are
Speaker 1: gonna come by and I'm gonna be eaten the whole
Speaker 1: bag of candy. Let's not do that to ourselves. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's let's not do.
Speaker 3: That to our bodies exactly.
Speaker 1: Let's be like strategic and maybe you don't have to
Speaker 1: buy candy. Maybe you don't have.
Speaker 4: To, which is similar to the next two that you
Speaker 4: can take over. I think they're kind of a combination to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, limit candy output and or set boundaries around the time.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna say, I'm a grown adult and I
Speaker 1: love the houses that get full candy bars. We go
Speaker 1: to the neighborhoods that give out full candy bars, drinks,
Speaker 1: light shows, dance parties. It's such a good time. And
Speaker 1: if you can't, I mean, if you don't have a
Speaker 1: neighborhood that where kids go to to trick or treat,
Speaker 1: I mean, you don't have to be that extravagant, right,
Speaker 1: But like don't kid yourself and don't buy candy, saying
Speaker 1: that you're going to give it out even though.
Speaker 3: You know you're not.
Speaker 1: Say so, limit limit the candy. I guess input honestly,
Speaker 1: it's the candy like incoming to your house versus output.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, how much? How much you buy?
Speaker 1: Because I don't see how you could limit the output,
Speaker 1: like are you gonna just give?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 1: What are you gonna do?
Speaker 4: Well, I think they're saying, like you limit the amount
Speaker 4: that you give, like it is possible to say just
Speaker 4: every every kid gets one piece of candy. But they're
Speaker 4: also saying you can set time limitations around it, that
Speaker 4: you don't have to offer trick or treating at your
Speaker 4: house the entire night long. You set your own limits
Speaker 4: of you're gonna be out there for an hour or
Speaker 4: two and once that time is up, then you're coming
Speaker 4: in the house, or or just once the candy is gone. Right,
Speaker 4: It doesn't mean that you have to buy fifty dollars
Speaker 4: worth of candy. It could mean you buy one bag,
Speaker 4: you engage for an hour. When it's gone, it's gone.
Speaker 4: So I think that there's just permission for some of
Speaker 4: these limitations if you do want to participate, but you
Speaker 4: can't be the house with the light show in the
Speaker 4: full candy bars. Then this is an option.
Speaker 1: Yeah maybe, yeah, maybe you do live in one of
Speaker 1: those neighborhoods where kids come trigger treat and the house
Speaker 1: next to you does full candy bars. You don't have
Speaker 1: to do that because they're already getting full candy bars
Speaker 1: next door. You don't have to up them. Just do
Speaker 1: your small candy bars. Don't be stingy. Yeah, don't do
Speaker 1: weird flavored tutsi rolls and gross bubble coum like, don't
Speaker 1: don't give away cable. Come, you know, but you're the
Speaker 1: only person. Don't give away candy that's just that's gonna
Speaker 1: get thrown away the trash, just because you know you're
Speaker 1: trying to be cheap and save a dollar. Wow, I
Speaker 1: have opinion now that I have trigger treated with children
Speaker 1: for several years. Now, I have opinions on the candy.
Speaker 1: Before it was just opinions on skulls.
Speaker 3: You're no longer one issue voter on this matter.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad this is not dictated by our legislation.
Speaker 3: Okay, so now we're moving on to decor.
Speaker 4: We're going to keep it pretty simple here because it's
Speaker 4: very similar to what we've just talked about with costumes
Speaker 4: and candy.
Speaker 3: But di, I why this thing all the way?
Speaker 4: Recognize that you can be crafty and creative if Halloween
Speaker 4: decor is even important to you. There are plenty of
Speaker 4: things you can do to get yourself into the season
Speaker 4: without really buying anything or hardly buying anything. I love
Speaker 4: giving myself a nice challenge of how can I decorate
Speaker 4: and lean into the season with the things that I
Speaker 4: already have on hand or minimal purchases. It can be
Speaker 4: really and the Internet, yet again, is really helpful with
Speaker 4: this kind of thing, from making you know, cutting out
Speaker 4: little ghosts or whatever, bat shapes, whatever you're into from
Speaker 4: the paper that you already have on hand or the
Speaker 4: bags that you have, or using spare pieces of fabric
Speaker 4: to flap around in the wind or cotton balls you
Speaker 4: already have on hand to be spider webs, which unpopular
Speaker 4: opinion just for me, I just feel like spider webs
Speaker 4: are not decoration.
Speaker 3: Oh, but I get it that people are in a contraire.
Speaker 1: I would like to propose a frugal cobweb de core hack.
Speaker 1: So Disney World does this for its Haunted Mansion, and
Speaker 1: they have I can't remember what the spray is, but
Speaker 1: it's just like a sticky spray and they just right
Speaker 1: between like you got a candelabra and you spray between
Speaker 1: the candles and then it collects natural dust and skin
Speaker 1: flakes and stuff and starts to look like cobwebs. And
Speaker 1: so all the cobwebs at Disney Haunted Mansion is not
Speaker 1: actually like cobwebs. It's like real dust and like skin flakes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's so gross, but it's like, you don't have to buy.
Speaker 4: Cops or you could just use cotton cotton balls pulled apart.
Speaker 1: Okay, you could do that too.
Speaker 4: I don't have to decorate with skin flakes and dust.
Speaker 1: I don't know. If you're like me, you can decorate
Speaker 1: that way. I actually don't use I don't use it though.
Speaker 1: Another tip is to reuse, reuse and like get it
Speaker 1: secondhand and all of that jazz. So again, Facebook Markplace
Speaker 1: is good, but I would say the thrift store is
Speaker 1: where I would go for decor. It's got everybody you know,
Speaker 1: brings in their holiday stuff and they wait until the
Speaker 1: holiday to put it out on the floor. And if
Speaker 1: you are going this weekend. I'm sure there's still some
Speaker 1: good stuff. The closer you get, the last chance you have.
Speaker 1: But I think you might still find some stuff out
Speaker 1: there this weekend.
Speaker 4: And of course you can think ahead and just be
Speaker 4: planning to buy Halloween decorations after Halloween for next year.
Speaker 4: The prices drop significantly even just the day after Halloween.
Speaker 4: So if you can hold off this year, do all
Speaker 4: of your DIY and plan to have maybe a few
Speaker 4: additional things added to your decor repertoire, then you can
Speaker 4: purchase it afterwards. But you can also try my trick,
Speaker 4: which is the final tip on here, skip.
Speaker 3: It all together.
Speaker 4: If Jen's going to skip the costumes, I'm gonna skip
Speaker 4: the decor I just it's not that it's not tempting
Speaker 4: to me. I do go to these stores. I see
Speaker 4: the cute things. Oh how great would that be? But
Speaker 4: then I realize, in order for my home to look
Speaker 4: so festive, I'm going to need so much more than
Speaker 4: this one thing that I purchase. So then it's just
Speaker 4: going to look awkward in my space that I've got
Speaker 4: this one thing. And then when the floors go over,
Speaker 4: where am I going to put it? I do not
Speaker 4: care about storing decor for every single season. I'm just
Speaker 4: not doing it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's yeah, So actually I don't do much, if
Speaker 1: at all, any decor either. Mine is much more in
Speaker 1: the food. We'll talk about that later. But yeah, that's
Speaker 1: that's the way. And we're not saying you skip everything
Speaker 1: all together. We're saying, pick one or two things that
Speaker 1: you can skip and then also see if you can
Speaker 1: reduce your consumption on the other things. Because it is
Speaker 1: not that everyone is celebrating Halloween to the extreme, and
Speaker 1: we can say that with any holiday, Thanksgiving, Christmas, whatever.
Speaker 4: It's not looking how it looks in the magazine, Instagram,
Speaker 4: not everyone.
Speaker 1: It's not real life. So choose what's most important to
Speaker 1: you about this holiday and really embrace that. Do that,
Speaker 1: and then forget about the other stuff.
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you know what I don't forget about.
Speaker 1: Oh it's it's not spooky or macabre, but I love
Speaker 1: it all the same.
Speaker 6: The bill of the week, Right, it's time for the
Speaker 6: best minute of your entire week.
Speaker 1: Maybe a baby was born and his name is Williams.
Speaker 6: Maybe you've paid off your mortgage.
Speaker 1: Maybe your car died and you're happy to not have
Speaker 1: to pay that bill.
Speaker 2: Anymore duck bills, buffalo bills, Bill Clinton, This is the
Speaker 2: bill of the.
Speaker 5: Week, Pagan and Jill, This is Beionny Hill. First and
Speaker 5: foremost love you guys. I've been listening for about three
Speaker 5: years now, and I just have to say before I forget,
Speaker 5: I love the sound effects from the.
Speaker 3: Pew pew to the.
Speaker 5: Well. Anyway, my bill of the week is actually a
Speaker 5: website that I wanted to share with y'all that has
Speaker 5: really brought down my grocery bill. It is called supercook
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Speaker 5: on it, and what you do is you check off
Speaker 5: all the items you currently have at home, anything from
Speaker 5: round beef to any seasonings or spices or anything at
Speaker 5: all in your pantry, and it gives you a list
Speaker 5: of all the recipes you can do with those items,
Speaker 5: and it starts tapering down to what recipes you can
Speaker 5: use with everything you have minus one item that you're
Speaker 5: missing or two items that you're missing, so your groceries
Speaker 5: are absolutely minimal, So instead of trying to find an
Speaker 5: entire recipe, you just go buy one or two items
Speaker 5: that you're missing.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 5: And that is my bill of the week again. Thank
Speaker 5: you so much for everything you guys do for all
Speaker 5: of us and truly unsung heroes. Really bye y'all.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, I was not expecting that, Beanni.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, that's amazing. Thanks for all of your compliments.
Speaker 3: That's so kind of you. Happy for You're all. That's
Speaker 3: for you for Beanni.
Speaker 4: And this is a great tip. I love stuff like this.
Speaker 1: This thing looks great supercook dot com. It looks I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: this looks awesome.
Speaker 4: That'll definitely help save on your grocery bill. And as
Speaker 4: you were saying this, it made me think, how great
Speaker 4: would this be? And really I should I should trademark
Speaker 4: this before I tell the world about my genius idea
Speaker 4: that I just had based.
Speaker 3: On Beanni's bill of the week.
Speaker 4: Wow, how great would that be to have an app
Speaker 4: similar to that for Halloween costumes? You could type in
Speaker 4: what you already have on hand and they could tell
Speaker 4: you the types of Halloween costumes you can.
Speaker 3: Make with it. Wow?
Speaker 4: Right, You're like, I have a white T shirt and
Speaker 4: these pants and here's my accessories.
Speaker 3: And what could I be?
Speaker 4: Oh wow, I know I might need to have them
Speaker 4: cut this out so I can go off and become
Speaker 4: a million there with this idea.
Speaker 1: Wow, oh my gosh, and your income could be affiliate
Speaker 1: income from stores saying like, oh, but you're missing this
Speaker 1: one piece here it is at Target.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: It's our idea now, Jill, Oh.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, I'm sure wants in on this too.
Speaker 3: We can split the million dollars three ways.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 4: And if we've got any developers out there, then we'll
Speaker 4: split We'll split it four ways with you to actually
Speaker 4: help us supplement on this idea.
Speaker 1: And we are broke again, and that's how we don't
Speaker 1: make money, Jill, because we share so many Wow.
Speaker 4: Well, Vianni, thanks for this tip that is just launching
Speaker 4: us into million dollar ideas. If you all listening have
Speaker 4: a bill that you want to submit, if it's about
Speaker 4: how you save money in the kitchen, save money on Halloween,
Speaker 4: or your your bill, you our bill, you and body bill,
Speaker 4: Frugal Friends podcast dot com slash bill to leave us
Speaker 4: your bill.
Speaker 3: We're ready for it. And now it's time for the
Speaker 3: light Roam show.
Speaker 1: All right, So for today's lightning round, your Halloween plans
Speaker 1: for this year?
Speaker 4: Jill, Well, I will just be getting back from Europe,
Speaker 4: so it won't be much, but I do have a
Speaker 4: hope this year to watch.
Speaker 3: You did reference it already and I have not seen it.
Speaker 4: Beetlejuice is on mine and Era you have no no,
Speaker 4: I know, I know.
Speaker 3: That you want to slap me. I don't want to
Speaker 3: spap don't. It's not the best.
Speaker 1: It's honestly not my favorite Halloween movie. What is I
Speaker 1: don't I don't know if it's an actual Halloween movie,
Speaker 1: but it feels Halloween for me. Edward scissor Hands, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's mine. Yeah, I really like it.
Speaker 3: I like it.
Speaker 1: I like a Tim Burton moment. Okay, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: i'mna lie about it, but yeah, I'm a I'm an
Speaker 1: Edward Scissorhands girl.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so that's on that's on my list. There's also
Speaker 4: a movie that my friend was in and now I
Speaker 4: need to look it up to make sure that I
Speaker 4: get the name of it right. It's like Vampire Diaries
Speaker 4: or something like that, and.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen it yet.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so that's not what it's called is It's about
Speaker 4: vampires Alice.
Speaker 3: And the vampire Queen. Oh wow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like a film that was put out last
Speaker 4: year and I've been wanting to watch it but I'm.
Speaker 3: Like, I should watch it around Halloween. She says.
Speaker 4: She's like, oh, it's low budget, it's not that good,
Speaker 4: but she plays the vampire in it, and I just
Speaker 4: want to support her and see what it's all about.
Speaker 3: So that one's on my list too.
Speaker 4: So I got two movies. Wow, that'll probably be how
Speaker 4: I observe Halloween. We don't get a ton of trigg
Speaker 4: or treaters on our road. We get a few, so
Speaker 4: I usually just put out. Honestly, dumb dumb lollipops are
Speaker 4: my go to. Sorry if that's not your favorite, Jen,
Speaker 4: but they are inexpensive and they last for a while,
Speaker 4: so if I end up having leftovers, then they can
Speaker 4: continue to be treats for the kids in the neighborhood
Speaker 4: throughout the year. I like a good dumb dumb lollipop
Speaker 4: okoy for you out, so I put that out by
Speaker 4: the door. I may or may not be home. Well
Speaker 4: we'll be what that looks like?
Speaker 3: How about you?
Speaker 1: I am planning another event for the night. Last year,
Speaker 1: I had to take the kids out alone because Travis
Speaker 1: was sick, so I planned to you know, do him
Speaker 1: up with Elderberry for the week prior and so that
Speaker 1: he cannot abandon me again because this isn't his favorite.
Speaker 1: But I love those, Okay. So I love Old Northeast.
Speaker 1: It has a home decorating contest every year and it's
Speaker 1: three streets, maybe nine blocks of homes decorated like you
Speaker 1: would think Christmas decorations, but think times ten. And for
Speaker 1: Halloween there are hobbit holes, beetlejuice, alien flying saucers like
Speaker 1: life size. Every single movie you can think of, toy story,
Speaker 1: just so many themes and they are so fun.
Speaker 3: Who cool?
Speaker 1: So I like to go earlier in the day when
Speaker 1: it's still light out, it's less crowded. I mean earlier
Speaker 1: in the day, I mean like five o'clock. So do
Speaker 1: that and then go down to Shore Acres where they
Speaker 1: give out the free you know, the full candy bars,
Speaker 1: and it's it's a joy.
Speaker 3: Do you know what your kids will be yet?
Speaker 1: So, as of now, we are recording this a month
Speaker 1: before it comes out, and also that's a month before Halloween, right.
Speaker 1: So Kai wants to be he wants to wear this
Speaker 1: is judge me as you will. I hate costumes. I
Speaker 1: had him two years ago. I bought he wanted to
Speaker 1: be Zuoma from paw patrol. So I bought him a Hey,
Speaker 1: they don't make Zooma costumes, but I bought him a
Speaker 1: Zooma sweatshirt. The costume the sweatshirt looked it had a
Speaker 1: big Zuma face on it. Cool, so it wasn't just
Speaker 1: a picture of Zuma.
Speaker 3: It was zoom Uh.
Speaker 1: So he wore that as his Halloween costume and then
Speaker 1: probably throughout the year too, and throughout the year we
Speaker 1: wore it. He wore that thing out. Last year he
Speaker 1: wore the home Depot apron that they give kids for
Speaker 1: free at the DIY events that they do, and he
Speaker 1: was a home Deepo employee. He had his little toolbox cute.
Speaker 1: So again spent nothing on that. And then this year
Speaker 1: he actually wants to wear his Spider Man's hoodie and
Speaker 1: like it goes up over your head and it goes
Speaker 1: like over your eyes. Oh so you kind of like
Speaker 1: look like Spider Man. Atlas actually has Kai's Spider Man
Speaker 1: costume from when he was little. We got his secondhand,
Speaker 1: and I think he's still going to fit into it.
Speaker 1: So Kai wants him to be Spider Man two, so
Speaker 1: we might have two Spider Man's. Yeah, again, it's early
Speaker 1: and you can't always.
Speaker 3: Protict right with the waves.
Speaker 1: Right, So but we still have that home depot apron.
Speaker 1: We still we have a chef's hat and apron which
Speaker 1: he also wear. He wore that last year as well,
Speaker 1: so two different events. Yeah, he wanted to be two
Speaker 1: different things. We have a blippy like ensemble, so we're
Speaker 1: using things that other people bought for us just for
Speaker 1: play for Halloween. Yeah, that's great, and that's also an option.
Speaker 3: So we'll see.
Speaker 1: We'll see if maybe we see something that's available on
Speaker 1: marketplace or when I go to the thrift store next week.
Speaker 1: We'll see. But we're gonna go. We're gonna trick or
Speaker 1: treat and we're gonna buy pumpkin treats to have it
Speaker 1: home because I would much rather have those versus candy.
Speaker 3: So yeah, that's well. Thanks everyone for listening.
Speaker 4: We hope that you have a love fall season and
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Speaker 4: Okay, Jen I've been waiting all morning for the after
Speaker 4: show that you said, Okay, I have to wait for
Speaker 4: all right.
Speaker 1: Well, so you had a great story for us this morning,
Speaker 1: but I I don't want to say I have a
Speaker 1: better one. But I found this this morning. I woke
Speaker 1: up a little early to have my coffee in silence
Speaker 1: and darkness, and I looked on our city's website to
Speaker 1: see when the trash pickup would be. Yesterday was Labor Day,
Speaker 1: and so I was like, did I miss trash Day?
Speaker 3: And I did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the trash pickup was not affected. So that's another story.
Speaker 1: But I found the Gulfport Community Update page. Okay, on
Speaker 1: our city's website.
Speaker 3: I'm locked in.
Speaker 1: So I was like, oh, community updates, I should know
Speaker 1: about these, and they start off like yeah, and this
Speaker 1: is where I got my information. You know, sanitation schedule
Speaker 1: will not be affected. This is what I should have
Speaker 1: been reading all along hurricane season, fertilizer restrictions, free smoke
Speaker 1: detectors for the elderly and low income, upcoming special events.
Speaker 1: And then we go down to police department. We have
Speaker 1: our own tiny little police department, and there is a
Speaker 1: list for the week of every dispatch call for service incidents, arrests,
Speaker 1: traffic stops, parking violations, ordnance violations, residents tracks, and then
Speaker 1: examples of arrests and significant incidents and calls of the
Speaker 1: week with real first and last names of people like
Speaker 1: Jamie X was arrested for domestic battery on August twenty second,
Speaker 1: and in detailed like just you know, and then I
Speaker 1: got down to this my favorite one of the list.
Speaker 1: Robert was arrested for exposure of I'll let you guess
Speaker 1: on August twenty fifth, after he decided to go skinny
Speaker 1: dipping in above ground pool on a common area of
Speaker 1: a multi unit dwelling.
Speaker 3: WHOA like he lives there?
Speaker 1: I don't. It doesn't give any like peripheral information. All
Speaker 1: I know is that Robert was arrested.
Speaker 3: For skinny dipping.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for not just the dipping, but you know, the
Speaker 1: getting is seemingly getting in and out right, but I
Speaker 1: mean essentially in a common area of the multi unit
Speaker 1: dwelling that.
Speaker 4: I mean that probably is like a condo with a pool.
Speaker 4: You know, you get comfortable, you think it's you think
Speaker 4: it's yours, and then you and then you go skinny dipping,
Speaker 4: and that's where you cross the line Robert.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that is what I was reading all morning. Wow,
Speaker 1: it's just the different things.
Speaker 3: This is going to become your new music. And you
Speaker 3: know what I'm thinking.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking it exists because like, our city is a
Speaker 1: lot of like retireired people, Like it is predominantly retirees. Okay,
Speaker 1: and wouldn't it be lovely if they this just was
Speaker 1: for like retirees, Like that's why this exists.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it may have happened in a retirement community. Maybe
Speaker 4: Robert might be out here in his fifty five plus.
Speaker 1: Above but above ground pool. It makes me think it
Speaker 1: was like a duplex and Robert just put in a
Speaker 1: pool so he could skinny dip, and then the other
Speaker 1: tenants were like, no, Robert, no, Robert, you can't.
Speaker 4: So sorry Robert, but there are other people around.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I'm envisioning.
Speaker 3: Yeah, do that on your own time, on your bathtub.
Speaker 3: Yeah mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Well, so that's what I'm going to be check back
Speaker 1: next week for this edition.
Speaker 3: Of Well, What's Happening in Florida?
Speaker 1: What's Happening in Florida