Speaker 1: Welcome to How the Money. I'm Joel and I and
Speaker 1: Matt and today we're discussing missing stimulus checks, d I,
Speaker 1: y home projects, and flights to nowhere. Welcome to our
Speaker 1: Friday flight episode. Man. Every week, you and I Joel,
Speaker 1: we pick a few headlines that catch our attention. We
Speaker 1: talked about how those bits of news, how they affect
Speaker 1: our money, our personal finances. So I'm excited to get
Speaker 1: to the few of the stories that you mentioned, as
Speaker 1: well as several others. Buddy, Yeah, you know one thing
Speaker 1: I saw actually that had to do with something we
Speaker 1: talked about a couple of months ago. We talked about
Speaker 1: the ARII campus that they built. It's like the super
Speaker 1: fancy theme out on the West coast. This is less money,
Speaker 1: this is more just like something we found interesting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but are I was like, oh, man, with because of
Speaker 1: the pandemic, we're not going to move in to this building.
Speaker 1: The kind of like a summer camp building for like adults.
Speaker 1: Because of how well it was designed, you know, and
Speaker 1: how well it integrated to the outdoors. Makes sense for
Speaker 1: a company like ARII. Yeah, the renderings looked super cool,
Speaker 1: Like I wanted to go to work there, Man, I
Speaker 1: was looking looking to see if they have any job postings,
Speaker 1: you know. But yeah, they ended up selling the campus
Speaker 1: to Facebook because apparently has a couple of buildings like
Speaker 1: around the area. Um, and yeah, it sounds like ari
Speaker 1: I actually turned a profit on this one. So way
Speaker 1: to go. Are nice? Are you a member of ari E? I?
Speaker 1: I am. I have been for a number of years. Nice,
Speaker 1: So I We've never done that. But in order to
Speaker 1: get the discount when I got my bike earlier this year,
Speaker 1: back in the spring, you know, and I was looking
Speaker 1: to spend some of my stimulus money, you got a
Speaker 1: discount if you were a member as well. So I
Speaker 1: went ahead and joined. And so while that's great, I'm
Speaker 1: actually looking forward to the tim percent back because at
Speaker 1: the end of the year they do like a profit
Speaker 1: sharing thing where their members get ten percent of what
Speaker 1: you spent. Is that right, right? Yeah, Yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: co op and so yeah ari I, I mean I
Speaker 1: love their model. Their model is all about serving their
Speaker 1: customer well. And yeah that that co op model just
Speaker 1: is a business model. It's not often used, but it
Speaker 1: serves the customers well, and I think it creates a
Speaker 1: lot of customer loyalty to Yeah, totally. Man, I'll be
Speaker 1: interested to see if we maybe overspend now at Aria,
Speaker 1: because you know, because once you do have a membership somewhere,
Speaker 1: you tend to think about it more. And so hopefully
Speaker 1: that doesn't change my behavior, you know, and how we
Speaker 1: actually do spend our money. It's kind of what Costco
Speaker 1: banks on, right. People pay the sixty bucks or the
Speaker 1: one twenty and then you're you're a member now, so
Speaker 1: you want to get your money's worth, um, and Costco
Speaker 1: does pretty well with with that sort of membership model too, exactly. Man,
Speaker 1: all right, so let's get to our Friday Flight. This
Speaker 1: is our quick sampling of stories that you know that
Speaker 1: you and I found interesting this week. And Man, one
Speaker 1: of the reasons we call it the Friday Flight is
Speaker 1: it's a little nod to our love of craft beer.
Speaker 1: So we had a quick story here on Beer News, Man,
Speaker 1: we saw that Yengling is expanding their distribution out West.
Speaker 1: US beer sales they fell last year according to the
Speaker 1: Brewers Association, So it seems that this is an interesting
Speaker 1: move for America's oldest brewery to reclaim some of that
Speaker 1: decline in their and their fans and their customers. But
Speaker 1: I mean Yeling is so interesting because I feel like
Speaker 1: a lot of people talk about Yengling. I mean, they
Speaker 1: are the oldest brewery in our country, right, but like
Speaker 1: we've even got family out west, and if they go
Speaker 1: out of state, because I guess they don't sell it
Speaker 1: where they live, but if they go out state and
Speaker 1: they can get their hands on some England, they buy
Speaker 1: tons of it and they bring it back home because
Speaker 1: they love it, which is funny because it's not really
Speaker 1: a craft beer. It's it's it's not really it's like
Speaker 1: a standard beer. Like I mean, if I were to
Speaker 1: someone were to say, like describe Bengling, I would say beer. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just normal beer. I think it's better than like
Speaker 1: the other macros, but there's nothing really special about it. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, America's oldest brewery. That's they're claimed to fame. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then actually one of our local breweries, Creature Comforts,
Speaker 1: that are out in Athens, Georgia, they just announced that
Speaker 1: they are opening up another location in Los Angeles. Speaking
Speaker 1: of yeah, expanding out west, which is just another just
Speaker 1: massive craft beer town. Lots of great breweries out there.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so for all of our l A listeners
Speaker 1: who want to try some good Georgia beer. Well, pretty
Speaker 1: soon you're gonna be able to to try some Tropicalia
Speaker 1: or some Athena. So yeah, there are some favorites Athena Paradiso,
Speaker 1: the one with cherries cranberries so good, so it so yeah,
Speaker 1: l A l A listeners start stalking Creature Comforts on
Speaker 1: Instagram and follow how you know, their their builds going. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's something to look forward to for sure. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Engling pretty good but not too special. Creature Comforts very special. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's something else I found really interesting. This week. There
Speaker 1: were a few stories about different airlines starting to sell
Speaker 1: tickets for flights to nowhere, and uh, that's just feels
Speaker 1: like so uh so weird that it's happening. There was
Speaker 1: Does it feel like two thousand, you know, like back
Speaker 1: when gas costs nothing and you would just kind of
Speaker 1: go cruising and go driving around in your car for
Speaker 1: a ride. Yeah, maybe a little bit like both, but
Speaker 1: it it just, you know, everything in twenties so freaking
Speaker 1: weird that the idea of getting on a flight and
Speaker 1: not actually going to another place, because you know, a
Speaker 1: lot of these airlines are doing it because you can't
Speaker 1: go anywhere like, uh, the Quantis in Australia. Actually they
Speaker 1: sold out a flight in ten minutes that takes off
Speaker 1: from the Sydney Airport and then lands back at the
Speaker 1: Sydney Airport seven hours, so ridiculous. And they're they're saying that,
Speaker 1: you know, you'll get some low flying views of the
Speaker 1: Great Barrier Reef, which is which is cool, but overall,
Speaker 1: it's still pretty odd that you would buy a flight
Speaker 1: and you top on and you're not really going anywhere, man,
Speaker 1: You're just kind of like going for a little tour
Speaker 1: of you know, part of your own country. Yeah, except that, like,
Speaker 1: planes aren't made for sight seeing, right, Yeah, I saw
Speaker 1: that the windows are kind of small. I saw it's
Speaker 1: gonna be on the Boeing seven eighties seven And I
Speaker 1: don't know when the last time you've been on a
Speaker 1: seven eight seven, But those are really wide planes where
Speaker 1: a lot of the people sit in the middle. There's
Speaker 1: only one seat that has an actual window seat like
Speaker 1: on normal planes, right on each side. Don't matter how
Speaker 1: long you get if you're sitting the plane, it's a
Speaker 1: folks are just gonna get on this plane, cruise around
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be such a disappointing flight. It would
Speaker 1: be a disappointing flight in my opinion, because it's all
Speaker 1: about going somewhere and so then land back at the
Speaker 1: same airport that you took off from Man, I would
Speaker 1: be so bummed. I'm not doing it all right. So
Speaker 1: that's a little bit of news or the weird. But
Speaker 1: there's something else that's a little strange to man. Over
Speaker 1: nine million Americans who may qualify for a stimulus check.
Speaker 1: Remember those back in the spring, um they still haven't
Speaker 1: registered to receive their money. And the thing is, most
Speaker 1: individuals they didn't need to register because we filed our
Speaker 1: taxes in nineteen. But for those who aren't required to
Speaker 1: file a tax return, they had to actually go online
Speaker 1: and register in order to receive that money. And so
Speaker 1: the I R S they're gonna be sending out notifications
Speaker 1: next week to those individuals um as they now only
Speaker 1: have until October fifteen to register UH in order to
Speaker 1: claim that money. And so if that's you, if you've
Speaker 1: been maybe living under a rock, UH, you can go
Speaker 1: and do that on the I R S websites. That's
Speaker 1: where you can go where non filers can register and
Speaker 1: will make sure to link to that page in our
Speaker 1: show notes and at different times on the show, Matt,
Speaker 1: we've talked about kind of an increase in scams during COVID.
Speaker 1: They're they're just a lot of people trying to take
Speaker 1: advantage of people's concerns about health and finances. Right now, well,
Speaker 1: there's also been a rising scams related to those economic
Speaker 1: impact payments. So the i r S has issued a
Speaker 1: statement clarifying that they will not reach out to you
Speaker 1: via email, phone calls, or texts. So if you get
Speaker 1: anything electronic in nature in i r S communication, it's
Speaker 1: not the actual i r S. It's a scam artist.
Speaker 1: So the only place to go is i RS dot
Speaker 1: gov in order to register for that stimulus check payment.
Speaker 1: And man, I just can't believe nine million people. That
Speaker 1: that a lot of people that are missing out on
Speaker 1: their money. Yeah, and I'm sure they're they're probably still
Speaker 1: wondering where it is. Yea. So maybe this hits you
Speaker 1: and you were supposed to get one, you haven't gotten one,
Speaker 1: and now you can go and register to get that money.
Speaker 1: Or or maybe you know somebody who doesn't file a
Speaker 1: tax return and you think they probably qualify. Well, it's
Speaker 1: best to to let them know about this so that
Speaker 1: they can receive that money too. Yeah. Well, speaking of
Speaker 1: simulus checks, let's talk about how Americans who actually got
Speaker 1: their money, how they use that money. According to a
Speaker 1: new study, less than half of the money was actually spent,
Speaker 1: and then one third of that money was used for
Speaker 1: rainy day fund. That is certainly in line with other
Speaker 1: news that we've seen about the increased cash on hand
Speaker 1: due to the first round of stimulus checks, and then
Speaker 1: in addition to that to another chunk of money was
Speaker 1: used to pay off debt. And so it's awesome to
Speaker 1: see that, you know, Americans are using this influx of
Speaker 1: cash wisely in most cases, you know, even if it
Speaker 1: didn't necessarily accomplish the goal of maybe stimulating the economy
Speaker 1: through more consumer spending. But that also did happen to
Speaker 1: you know, And so I don't know, I feel like
Speaker 1: there's a certain level where folks are putting themselves in
Speaker 1: a better financial position, and that gives them the confidence
Speaker 1: maybe to go out and buy a new bike like
Speaker 1: I did. Yeah, I think Americans as a whole needed
Speaker 1: up their savings right right. There seems to be a
Speaker 1: special emphasis on hoarding cash at the moment and we
Speaker 1: think that's great. We think people should be considering their
Speaker 1: own personal financial situation. That's crucial because we don't know
Speaker 1: exactly how long or how difficult this storm, the COVID storm,
Speaker 1: is going to be, and most folks planned to stick
Speaker 1: to that trajectory of saving actually based on a recent survey,
Speaker 1: until there's a COVID vaccine. And I can't blame them, man,
Speaker 1: I mean, having that solid six months of living expenses
Speaker 1: in your emergency fund. That's always been an important thing
Speaker 1: to have going on when it comes to your personal finances.
Speaker 1: But but it's even more important to shore up those
Speaker 1: savings now. Right even though rates on savings are pretty bismal,
Speaker 1: it's important to keep those savings intact. And I know
Speaker 1: that's something that a lot of our listeners struggle with, Matt.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they're like, Man, my my same use accounts paying
Speaker 1: point four or five now, and it's a bummer, and
Speaker 1: I just think I can do better, And I understand
Speaker 1: that desire. But at the same time, it's so crucial
Speaker 1: to have those liquid funds in a bank account that
Speaker 1: you could draw on it any time, because you never
Speaker 1: know what a worst case scenario could look like. That's
Speaker 1: why it's so important. Yeah, man, you can't beat that
Speaker 1: piece of mind. And speaking of cash, we've talked about
Speaker 1: this before, but the coin shortage that has continued. There
Speaker 1: are fewer coins in circulation as a lot of folks
Speaker 1: don't typically use them, but also too as businesses, uh
Speaker 1: sometimes have stopped accepting cash. But we saw that coin star.
Speaker 1: You know the machines like at the grocery store, you
Speaker 1: can dump the change in there. Uh, they will pay
Speaker 1: you more for your coins. Right now, there's never a
Speaker 1: fee to trade your coins in for an Amazon gift card.
Speaker 1: But now you can get a thirty five dollar gift
Speaker 1: card for thirty dollars and change, which is really sweet.
Speaker 1: And so if you know that you have a recurring
Speaker 1: expense or something that you may be always purchased via Amazon,
Speaker 1: this is a great way to optim eyes and to
Speaker 1: to maybe unload some coins that you have laying around
Speaker 1: the house. We've seen here to in Atlanta that some
Speaker 1: Chick fil A locations are offering or we're offering a
Speaker 1: free sandwich. If you traded in ten dollars and change
Speaker 1: for a ten dollar bill, you get a free sandwich,
Speaker 1: which is pretty sweet. And so you know keeping out
Speaker 1: for that. Some of your favorite local businesses might be
Speaker 1: offering coin payment specials as well. Keep an eye out
Speaker 1: for those deals. Yeah. I'm not one of those people
Speaker 1: that has a giant coin jar, but I know a
Speaker 1: lot of people do. Man. They just like take the
Speaker 1: extra pennies and nickels out of their out of their
Speaker 1: pocket every day, stick them in that jar, and they're
Speaker 1: saving for something big. And right now it might be
Speaker 1: a good time to trade those in because coins are
Speaker 1: super valuable to a lot of businesses who are struggling
Speaker 1: to find the coins they need in order to make change.
Speaker 1: That's right, all right, man, Well we're gonna take a
Speaker 1: quick break, but after the break, we're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: saving money by d I Y work that you can
Speaker 1: do it around your home, and we're gonna talk with
Speaker 1: our friend Tim Harmon with the U Can Man podcast,
Speaker 1: and we'll get to that right after the break. All right,
Speaker 1: we're back in the break and let's jump into some
Speaker 1: do it yourself talk d I Y d I Y.
Speaker 1: And due to the pandemic, we're all in our homes
Speaker 1: more right, and we're deciding to spruce them up, make
Speaker 1: some changes. Make you feel a little more livable in
Speaker 1: home depots and lows. They've actually reported really strong earnings
Speaker 1: because of the d I Y craze. It's happening. So
Speaker 1: in that vein, We've brought our friend Tim Harmon from
Speaker 1: the U can Man podcast on to discuss all things
Speaker 1: d I Y on this episode with us. So, Tim,
Speaker 1: thanks for joining us on the show today. Man, Hey, Hey,
Speaker 1: good to be here. Yeah, Joel, you've known Tim for
Speaker 1: quite a while longer than I have, actually Tim. I
Speaker 1: met you maybe like a decade ago when it came
Speaker 1: to like within the photography industry, which is something that
Speaker 1: neither you or I are doing necessarily full time at
Speaker 1: this point. Right sitting here with you guys at this table,
Speaker 1: it's just a culmination of a very long time when
Speaker 1: I found out that Joel new Matt. Matt new Joel,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, whoa, what has happened? World's collide, World's
Speaker 1: collide here. I'm like, Joe, how in the world did
Speaker 1: you meet Matt? And so I got the whole story.
Speaker 1: That's a weirdo. So none none these jokers for quite
Speaker 1: some time now, and so glad to be sitting here
Speaker 1: at the table talking about some do it yourself stuff.
Speaker 1: That's great. Well that's yeah, that is what we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about. We're not going to dive into our histories,
Speaker 1: into our past. Uh it's and we're all about the
Speaker 1: ying it around the house to save money. But for
Speaker 1: you know, others out there, can you make a quick case,
Speaker 1: like a quick argument for why folks should be doing
Speaker 1: more projects themselves instead of hiring someone else you know
Speaker 1: for that job. So we are all about doing things yourself,
Speaker 1: but it's not always about saving money. What we say
Speaker 1: is what one man can do, you can do as
Speaker 1: well with a little help from your friends and the
Speaker 1: proper know how nice. So I will say to not
Speaker 1: what you can man like. Also, there's ladies out there
Speaker 1: who are very handy or even aren't handy that or
Speaker 1: you can pick up a tool and figure out how
Speaker 1: to do something. We actually have a really active Facebook
Speaker 1: group that's steadily growing and we've got tons of ladies
Speaker 1: in the two So yeah, so doing things you're elf. Um,
Speaker 1: it's not always about the money. Like I mentioned, we
Speaker 1: like to think that tackling d I y projects gives
Speaker 1: you confidence in every area of life. So tackling something
Speaker 1: that I may never have dreamed that I could do myself.
Speaker 1: Like one thing that really got me started down this
Speaker 1: road years ago was taking out a large load bearing
Speaker 1: wall in my house. And before that I thought, I
Speaker 1: can never do this. It's only for the experts, only
Speaker 1: for the experts. I'm my house is going to fall down,
Speaker 1: for sure. If I tried to do this, it's going
Speaker 1: to fall down. But I had a really good friend
Speaker 1: and he had done it before, and so he showed
Speaker 1: me the ropes and was like, look man. And he's
Speaker 1: actually the reason why I call it you can man,
Speaker 1: because he would always say, what one main man can do,
Speaker 1: you can do as well, and that's right, right, right,
Speaker 1: And so that's what really got me started, and that
Speaker 1: gave me a lot of confidence to then start tons
Speaker 1: of other d I Y projects. So I love teaching
Speaker 1: people that, hey, you can do this. You know you
Speaker 1: need the right know how, you need some help, but
Speaker 1: you can do this yourself. I think that's so true.
Speaker 1: And that's something that Matt and I kind of talked
Speaker 1: about with money. There's something about the behavior that you
Speaker 1: do over a period of time turns you into the
Speaker 1: person that you're becoming, Like a self fulfilling prophecy like
Speaker 1: the more you do it, the better you get at it,
Speaker 1: and it just fulfills itself. You start to save. Now
Speaker 1: I'm a saver and um, and then you can label
Speaker 1: yourself that and then you kind of continue to do
Speaker 1: that in a ramped up way. And and I think
Speaker 1: the same thing I think you're right is is true
Speaker 1: with the I Y. The more you tackle, the more
Speaker 1: you're like, oh yeah, that's I can get into more
Speaker 1: areas of that. Uh So, so, Tim, what are what
Speaker 1: are some of the most expensive things maybe that people
Speaker 1: typically pay for when it comes to D I Y
Speaker 1: or or home renovation and they should actually be doing
Speaker 1: themselves instead to save money. Okay, I'm gonna say one
Speaker 1: thing that really just adds up. And you guys have
Speaker 1: talked about it. In fact, I think you had an
Speaker 1: entire show about this. I'm not mistaken. Maybe earlier on,
Speaker 1: I'm not quite sure. Do it yourself. Past control, yes, Okay, Now, look,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be spending so much money every single quarter
Speaker 1: paying the past control guy. And if you'll like me,
Speaker 1: years ago, same kind of thing that I was talking
Speaker 1: about with the load bearing wall removal, I thought I
Speaker 1: can't do this myself. Don't you need a license to
Speaker 1: get all these chemicals. I'm not qualified to handle that
Speaker 1: kind of material. No, there's this there's this website. It's
Speaker 1: called Amazon, and you can actually get all of these
Speaker 1: chemicals yourself, the ones that the pet control pros actually
Speaker 1: the exact ones. Yeah. And actually I had a friend
Speaker 1: of mine um that had hired somebody to come to
Speaker 1: do mosquito control, and I said, hey, I want you
Speaker 1: to ask the guy the exact chemical that he's using.
Speaker 1: Sure enough by finthrine. You can buy that on Amazon.
Speaker 1: And it's such an easy thing, and it's just something
Speaker 1: that adds up really really quickly. I would say do
Speaker 1: it yourself. Past control another thing. Now, I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: a lot of flak for this, but I love changing
Speaker 1: my own oil car now as a test, I never
Speaker 1: have anybody to do my own oil. So today, before
Speaker 1: I came on the show, a little show prep, I
Speaker 1: called up Jiffy Loup. But I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: two thousand twelve Toyota see and it's a V six.
Speaker 1: I know I need six point four quarts of oil.
Speaker 1: How much is that gonna cost me? Full synthetic dudes like, well,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be eight nine and then it's ten dollars
Speaker 1: for every corp over that, so you know, and then
Speaker 1: you got the point four so it's gonna be fourteen
Speaker 1: more dollars. Okay, So basically I'm out the door there
Speaker 1: like a hundred and five bucks now an oil change
Speaker 1: for an oil change within with the filter, with the filter,
Speaker 1: but now Kirkland Costco brand Kirkland. Now you're talking about language. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: it's aldimic oil because I would buy it if they do,
Speaker 1: they probably will. But so a year or so ago,
Speaker 1: Amazon came out with their own oils. It was like sweet,
Speaker 1: so I started to use them that. But then Man
Speaker 1: Costco came in and just blew Amazon out of the water.
Speaker 1: And so does it cost you? Now? So now I
Speaker 1: can get that done myself for about twenty three dollars
Speaker 1: three dollars so, and a lot of people are like, hey,
Speaker 1: it's not worth it, it's messy, you know, But to me,
Speaker 1: I would rather do that myself. It gives me a
Speaker 1: chance to get up underneath the car see if there's
Speaker 1: any other things going on. So it's not always about
Speaker 1: the money. It's about you know, checking in on things
Speaker 1: that are happening in my car. But yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: you think about it. If you're the type of person
Speaker 1: that really values especially a full synthetic oil change, do
Speaker 1: it yourself. Save a lot of money. That's why I
Speaker 1: drive electric at all. Well, so you're talking about cars,
Speaker 1: let's let's sing it back towards houses. You know, when
Speaker 1: it comes to small home projects like a bathroom, you know,
Speaker 1: renovation or remodel, if we hire others to do the job,
Speaker 1: we're not necessarily going to see the return on our investment,
Speaker 1: you know, at least from a money standpoint, right, and
Speaker 1: so what like d I Y jobs will will have
Speaker 1: the best r o I for us when it's time
Speaker 1: for us to sell the house. You know, there's certain
Speaker 1: things that we can do and that we justify sometimes
Speaker 1: when we say that, oh, this is gonna be great
Speaker 1: for resale, when in reality is that's not going to
Speaker 1: be the case. So what projects would you recommend that
Speaker 1: do have a financial monetary reward down the road? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so no big surprise here, it's gonna be kitchens and bathrooms.
Speaker 1: I mean, and your listeners probably know that, they probably
Speaker 1: heard you say that before. But when you're breaking those
Speaker 1: kind of projects down and thinking about saving money. Uh,
Speaker 1: the one thing that came to mind is, look, you're
Speaker 1: you're probably gonna want to have like an expert to
Speaker 1: to lay the new tile in the bathroom. However, you
Speaker 1: probably don't need an expert to take a sledgehammer to
Speaker 1: the old tile. That's a good point. So you know,
Speaker 1: maybe get some quotes and part of that quote is
Speaker 1: going to be demo, and then when you're in the
Speaker 1: negotiation phase with that contractor say, okay, how about if
Speaker 1: we x off demo from here, how much would you
Speaker 1: take off for that? And then do that yourself. You know,
Speaker 1: get you a bagster and do it yourself, you know, Baxter,
Speaker 1: and that's like that. You can buy that at Lows
Speaker 1: and filled up with trash. It's like a small sister basically,
Speaker 1: and you could fit most you know, average sized bathrooms.
Speaker 1: I would I would think in a bagster. So that
Speaker 1: would be a really really easy thing to do, would
Speaker 1: be demo demoing yourself. Now, there there are considerations you
Speaker 1: gotta turn off the water and all kinds of stuff
Speaker 1: like that. So yeah, you need to do your research,
Speaker 1: but then you don't have to go may have learned
Speaker 1: the hard Maybe we'll share this on the show, but
Speaker 1: disaster seeing it was gonna link it out onto the floor,
Speaker 1: you had to cut it off at the main. Hey,
Speaker 1: you figured it out though, you got that water key.
Speaker 1: That's all we did. A we did a little serious
Speaker 1: on our podcast called new House Nohow, and one of
Speaker 1: our big things was always always always know where your
Speaker 1: main water shops are, where the circuit breaker is, right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I was helping a friend and he was he
Speaker 1: was about to demo some stuff in his kitchen, and
Speaker 1: sure enough, he broke a pipe while he was doing.
Speaker 1: I'm like, and it was a new house, where's your
Speaker 1: where's your water? Shut up? And I'm running around frantic,
Speaker 1: and he's trying to, you know, stop the stop the bleeding,
Speaker 1: if you will. And then I'm down to staying serious,
Speaker 1: and I just hear him, you know it's hot, it's
Speaker 1: hot water. So then I knew, Okay, well I knew.
Speaker 1: I knew where is hot water or where's water heater
Speaker 1: was so there's a valve at the at the water heater,
Speaker 1: so I wouldn't turn it off there. Well, we always
Speaker 1: know where that is. I will say, the next thing
Speaker 1: about doing reno yourself too, is you don't have to
Speaker 1: go see a psychologist for for a few weeks at least,
Speaker 1: because it takes out all your aggression. It's a beautiful
Speaker 1: way to to kind of, you know, unleash that aggression
Speaker 1: in a way that you normally don't get to and
Speaker 1: handle that. Demolition people pay for that now exactly. People
Speaker 1: go to break rooms where they pay I don't know
Speaker 1: how much money you can get break stuff office space
Speaker 1: style exactly. When you can do that in your own
Speaker 1: home and save money, yeah, yeah, And you might even
Speaker 1: be able to sell some of your old fixtures. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you've got an old exactly forties, fifties, sixties house,
Speaker 1: when we renovated those old sinks and stuff, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean we we have a bathroom where we have these
Speaker 1: We had a lavender toilet and and tub and sink.
Speaker 1: So man, some people want those pictures. That's two. That's true,
Speaker 1: all right. And to like, it's not always about resale,
Speaker 1: it's not always about money oftentimes, Tim, we're we're doing
Speaker 1: reno jobs just to enjoy our home more now, right,
Speaker 1: And and it's not always about dollars and cents. So
Speaker 1: you've done some loft beds for your kids and that's
Speaker 1: kind of been one of those things that you did yourself.
Speaker 1: Instead of buying something pre made, you created something. And yeah, so, um,
Speaker 1: tell us about how the loftbeds are working out for you,
Speaker 1: and then, you know, are there any other things that
Speaker 1: we should think about when we're doing things just purely
Speaker 1: for enjoyment in our home? Yeah, you cannot beat the
Speaker 1: space savings in a kid's room with nothing else but
Speaker 1: a loft bed. I mean, it frees up so much
Speaker 1: room when you go walk in your kid's room right now, Uh,
Speaker 1: look at the floor space it's taken up by beds,
Speaker 1: especially if you've got kids that are sharing a room.
Speaker 1: And what if you have three of those single beds
Speaker 1: in a single room. Exact, man, we need to we
Speaker 1: need to go check out your check out your room,
Speaker 1: and get you some loft beds. Well. So, I mean
Speaker 1: the reason we wanted to ask you about this is specifically, like,
Speaker 1: I mean, if you can reclaim some floor space in
Speaker 1: the room, I think that could kind of keep you
Speaker 1: from maybe doing a more costly renovation down the road
Speaker 1: where you feel like you have to add multiple bedrooms,
Speaker 1: right uh, and so like that's where the cost savings
Speaker 1: would would come in. But I know, like your son,
Speaker 1: he has been in the loft bed that you made
Speaker 1: for him for a few years now. My concern is
Speaker 1: is he tired of it? Right? Because if you're gonna
Speaker 1: go through all this effort, all this time and some
Speaker 1: money as well in creating this thing and then have
Speaker 1: the kids change their mind to where it's not something
Speaker 1: they're enjoying anymore, So how are you specifically approaching that.
Speaker 1: That's funny you should say that, because I so I
Speaker 1: have my son's loft bed that I did and he's
Speaker 1: had it for I don't know, like two years. And
Speaker 1: then I just built these like just epic loftbeds for
Speaker 1: my girls, and I had a friend say, so, what
Speaker 1: are you gonna what are you gonna do when you
Speaker 1: have to take those down to two years? I was like, bro,
Speaker 1: these are grandkid beds. They're they're not going anywhere. And
Speaker 1: so yeah, we did think through them being teenagers and
Speaker 1: the US, and I kind of, especially with my girls beds,
Speaker 1: built them in such a way that they have they're
Speaker 1: gonna have some privacy, So we're gonna put up curtains
Speaker 1: and that sort of thing. But as far as I'm
Speaker 1: getting tired of it. I don't know, we'll just have
Speaker 1: to cross that bridge when we get there. But I
Speaker 1: could take the thing off the wall. I mean, especially
Speaker 1: my sons, and I'm a girl's man. It's like custom
Speaker 1: built in that it is not going anywhere anytime at least. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And in fact, one of the walls that I kind
Speaker 1: of built in addition to the loft beds is kind
Speaker 1: of like a load bearing wall. Now it's crazy. I
Speaker 1: don't have any after pictures up yet because I just
Speaker 1: kind of recently finished it, So I'm gonna have to
Speaker 1: have to get those up, get that posted before this
Speaker 1: comes out. Yeah, for sure. Hey, Tim, I want to
Speaker 1: ask you to about like resources where you go when
Speaker 1: you're kind of stuck on a project, Like do you
Speaker 1: have any places like when you're in the middle of
Speaker 1: something and things are falling apart or you're not sure
Speaker 1: where to go next, Where where you go in order
Speaker 1: to learn how to proceed? Um? Or are you just
Speaker 1: like hitting up YouTube like the rest of us pretty
Speaker 1: much build things out of Lincoln logs and like like, okay,
Speaker 1: well this work with my connects with my kids, get eggs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm a huge YouTube guy. I mean, I, yeah,
Speaker 1: I definitely go to YouTube for sure. But I would
Speaker 1: also say that having good friends that know things that
Speaker 1: you don't is super valuable. So I'll have a ton
Speaker 1: of friends that will call me up and just say, hey,
Speaker 1: my car is doing this, or this is happening on
Speaker 1: my house. And so a part of one of the
Speaker 1: things that that we're really big on with you can
Speaker 1: man is sharing what you know, and so having those
Speaker 1: friends and reaching out to them that know things that
Speaker 1: you don't, don't be afraid to do that you know,
Speaker 1: reach out and then when you have an expertise, be
Speaker 1: free to share that with others. But I have to
Speaker 1: remind myself that not everybody has that friend. And so
Speaker 1: when you don't, YouTube is your friend. YouTube? Maybe some
Speaker 1: message boards too. There's some good message boards out, oh,
Speaker 1: I mean all over the place. Read it. Everything. My
Speaker 1: go too is if there's something I don't know how
Speaker 1: to do, and chances are I'm like Jill, probably doesn't
Speaker 1: know what I'm less d y s happy than you are.
Speaker 1: Next time, I'll reach out of YouTube. But in the
Speaker 1: past I've yeah, I do a little YouTube search and
Speaker 1: I watched three about three videos, and you know, you
Speaker 1: kind of get three different kind of views on it,
Speaker 1: and I feel pretty confident after that typically, But Tim Man,
Speaker 1: this has been a fun conversation. Is going to kind
Speaker 1: of have you over and if anything, this is just
Speaker 1: a good excuse to hang out in person. But Man,
Speaker 1: where can folks learn more about the different projects you
Speaker 1: guys are tackling? Where can they learn more about your podcast? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can go to U can Man dot com and
Speaker 1: check out all the information there. I did want to
Speaker 1: mention that we're not just about d I Y stuff.
Speaker 1: So we've done a series on, you know, how to
Speaker 1: become a Chick fil a owner operator. I had always
Speaker 1: wondered that myself and I've got a good friend who's
Speaker 1: an owner operator, and so we did a little series
Speaker 1: on that. We recently did a show on a guy
Speaker 1: that beat the world record for the cannonball run. It's
Speaker 1: like a coast to coast car race. Interesting. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: we've got all kinds of different stuff besides just d
Speaker 1: I Y stuff. So if you're interested in those sorts
Speaker 1: of things as well, check us out you can Man
Speaker 1: dot com. Perfect. All right, Well, Tim, this has been great.
Speaker 1: Thanks for coming to hang out with us today. Man
Speaker 1: and I really enjoyed getting to talk about d I Y.
Speaker 1: It's a subject that a lot of people are thinking
Speaker 1: a lot about right now. Yeah, this is a great
Speaker 1: topic for us to cover, man, as folks are looking
Speaker 1: for more ways to save money, as we are all
Speaker 1: spending more time around the house. We'll put our show
Speaker 1: notes up on the website at how to money dot com,
Speaker 1: and we'll make sure to link to some of those
Speaker 1: articles and episodes that Tim mentioned during this interview. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and today's Friday. It's the weekend coming up. Perfect time
Speaker 1: to try tous out your d I Y skills. So
Speaker 1: get going, all right, Matt. Until next time, Best friends Out,
Speaker 1: Best Friends Out.