Speaker 1: I'm Honey German. My parents are Dominican. I was born
Speaker 1: and raised in New York City. I love sneakers and
Speaker 1: I'm a body positive advocate. I'm Carolina Bermudez, but i
Speaker 1: was born and raised in Ohio. I'm a wife, a mama,
Speaker 1: and a worker. Bee. This is life in spanglish, Honey.
Speaker 1: That direct deposit hit, and I'm gonna let you know
Speaker 1: it is very slim. It is not enough for me anymore.
Speaker 1: Who are you telling? Girl? First of all, I lose
Speaker 1: half my bread in Texas, so yes, I'm already in
Speaker 1: the red the day I get paid. It is so absurd.
Speaker 1: And I know, and this is something that I told,
Speaker 1: honey that I really wanted to discuss because, no matter what,
Speaker 1: I know, so many people who are trying to cut
Speaker 1: back on expenses. They are trying to trim that wallet
Speaker 1: a little bit. They're trying to figure out ways to
Speaker 1: like make their money last longer. Because when I tell you,
Speaker 1: I was in the city the other day and I
Speaker 1: had to go to Sweet Green. Do you know what
Speaker 1: sweet Green is? Yeah, the salad shop and ill It's
Speaker 1: like you know what, I very rarely. I always always
Speaker 1: bring food from home. Whenever I come into the city
Speaker 1: because for this very reason, and I'm going to explain
Speaker 1: it to you. So I said, forget it, I'm just
Speaker 1: going to go to Sweet Green. I want to treat
Speaker 1: myself to a salad, fully knowing that it's going to
Speaker 1: be about fifteen bucks. Right of course, for the salad,
Speaker 1: I go to Sweet Green. Oh, but I wanted to
Speaker 1: add some chickpeas because you know those are filling all right.
Speaker 1: So then, um, but I you know I love a
Speaker 1: good cucumber, so I'll put a cucumber in there. All
Speaker 1: things told, this damn salad was near twenty three dollars. Okay,
Speaker 1: at the end of meat ordering it, now wait for it.
Speaker 1: So then at the end, the guy goes, do you
Speaker 1: want your dressing on it or do you want it
Speaker 1: on the side. I'm an on the side girl most
Speaker 1: of the time, okay, but on this day, I said,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna eat it right now. I said, go ahead,
Speaker 1: you can just put it on, honey. I was so
Speaker 1: furious this guy made it a salad soup. I was like,
Speaker 1: that's disgusting. I hate when that happens. The lettuce was
Speaker 1: literally swimming. I was honestly, I was so upset. It
Speaker 1: made me like you know when you get angry, and
Speaker 1: maybe I was like pmssing. It made me like legit
Speaker 1: want to cry. I'm like, I spent twenty three dollars
Speaker 1: on this bumbass salad that I can't even eat right now,
Speaker 1: and it hurt me because I'm thinking to myself, twenty
Speaker 1: three dollars, like that's a lot of money. It has
Speaker 1: a lot of bread, especially when you look at the
Speaker 1: ingredients and you're like, this is probably two dollars worth
Speaker 1: of ingredients. I was gonna say that they didn't even
Speaker 1: give me bread. The bread was not included. So I
Speaker 1: just said to myself, I'm like, there's gotta be a
Speaker 1: better way. So I've been looking up these articles and
Speaker 1: I've been trying to figure out ways that I can
Speaker 1: curb my spending. Now. It's very challenging in a household
Speaker 1: with four different people. But I do think some of
Speaker 1: these tips are great. And I do think that some
Speaker 1: of these tips are so extreme and they're just not okay.
Speaker 1: I'm not willing to do them because then we're not living,
Speaker 1: you know. So like for example, in your house, you
Speaker 1: it's just you and noony. You guys just bought a home.
Speaker 1: How are you cutting back? Like, what are you doing
Speaker 1: to save money? Because I think everybody you never know
Speaker 1: what people know. Some people may roll their eyes and
Speaker 1: be like, oh, I know all these things, but you
Speaker 1: may not know some of these. Two my main thing.
Speaker 1: I made a commitment to not shop for clothing, and Carolina,
Speaker 1: it was just an addiction. It was just clothes and
Speaker 1: bags and boxes of unopened stuff, and I had to
Speaker 1: check myself. I'm like, listen, bitch, go shopping in your
Speaker 1: own damn closet. And I just stopped. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that addiction is not going to return, but I was
Speaker 1: able to tweak that problem that I had, and I've
Speaker 1: saved so much money. Carolyna, I'm telling you I was
Speaker 1: spending about four hundred dollars on just random clothes that
Speaker 1: I didn't need monthly. Well now, wait a minute, can
Speaker 1: I ask you and please be honest, like be transparent.
Speaker 1: Oh even Amazon, even Amazon, you haven't gotten like a shirt,
Speaker 1: because that's that's the issue for me. Don't go, Carolyn,
Speaker 1: I don't buy no clothes on Amazon. I'm sorry. I'm
Speaker 1: being one hundred percent transparent. I think I'm still stuck
Speaker 1: on the fact that I used to be fat, and
Speaker 1: you know, fat girl's got to be very careful with
Speaker 1: the quality of the clothes. Oh yo, your polka dot
Speaker 1: draws is showing through your tights. You know. Oh your
Speaker 1: rolls is popping. Knock girl dress falls apart. You know.
Speaker 1: I'm very ichy about buying clothing from Amazon. I think
Speaker 1: it's an old trauma from when I was two hundred pounds. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so yeah, but no, nothing, I'm talking nothing. I do
Speaker 1: have an item saved that I'm gonna buy one side
Speaker 1: to side to just go for it. It's a pair
Speaker 1: of spanks leather tights that I want. They're like a
Speaker 1: fun fifty and I'm gonna buy them when I'm done
Speaker 1: not being good. But can I say something, When you
Speaker 1: spend money on quality products, then you don't need to
Speaker 1: buy the things from Amazon. That's why I'm doing that, Carly.
Speaker 1: I just want one good pair of black tights that
Speaker 1: I can run down to the ground get my money's worth. Okay,
Speaker 1: So I'm going to go through this list quickly, and
Speaker 1: then I want you to do coment with me because
Speaker 1: I want you to tell me what you're doing. So
Speaker 1: the first thing that they recommended. And this is from
Speaker 1: a BuzzFeed article that said, these are the fourteen ways
Speaker 1: that people are saving money. Okay, so the first one
Speaker 1: is cancel any and all automatic payments for everything. I
Speaker 1: will not do this, and I'll tell you why that's weird.
Speaker 1: I'm not doing that because I'll forget everything. Exactly. I
Speaker 1: have too many things. The mental toll that I that
Speaker 1: I would go through to remember when is the light
Speaker 1: bill going to go? When it is? You know, when
Speaker 1: is my automatic When is my payment for capital one? When?
Speaker 1: You know? Like all of that stuff. I would not
Speaker 1: be able to do it. But the suggestion was to
Speaker 1: cancel any and all automatic payments so that you know
Speaker 1: what you're paying for, so I see what they're saying
Speaker 1: with it. You have to know what money is going
Speaker 1: in and money is going out. But most of the
Speaker 1: things that I have on automatic payment, like I have
Speaker 1: no choice. We got to pay for the light, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Like, all right, I'm not willing
Speaker 1: to do that either. Girl, I won't sleep at night.
Speaker 1: Did the water get paid? Did the gas get Hell? No,
Speaker 1: I'm not doing that. But what I do agree with
Speaker 1: is going over subscriptions like Peacock, Netflix, Stars. I spend
Speaker 1: about eighty dollars a month on subscriptions. Carolyn. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna lie to you because I gotta watch all types
Speaker 1: of shows on all different platforms. But maybe I should
Speaker 1: cancel a couple of those and put out a message.
Speaker 1: But hey, who's trying to share in stars logging? Okay,
Speaker 1: you you just took the words out of my mouth. See,
Speaker 1: I don't have Stars, but I do have Disney because
Speaker 1: of the kids. Okay, so I use I use my
Speaker 1: friends Netflix, and I said, I was like, you can
Speaker 1: use my Disney like Netflix. Yeah, until Netflix comes and
Speaker 1: locks me down, babe, like we Carl Well, we had
Speaker 1: drafts snitching on ourselves. Hello, Andrew, you're gonna delete that.
Speaker 1: I ain't trying to do no time for no Netflix subscription. No,
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, everybody doesn't. But I don't feel guilty
Speaker 1: because I feel like we're just bartering. We're exchanging. Like
Speaker 1: I'm not just taking your logging and not giving you
Speaker 1: anything for Yeah, they'll be okay. So that's using a
Speaker 1: credit card that gives you rewards. Now I've shared this
Speaker 1: with you guys in the past. I only have two
Speaker 1: credit cards, and I pay them in full every month.
Speaker 1: One is a personal credit card, the other is a
Speaker 1: joint credit card. So for things like you know, my
Speaker 1: son's tennis lessons, like Mark and I will both put
Speaker 1: in that goes out of the joint account, right, But
Speaker 1: the rewards are real, and I'll tell you I have
Speaker 1: saved a lot of my points in order to get
Speaker 1: an airline ticket whenever we're going, you know, on vacation.
Speaker 1: We can pay for like the family's airline tickets. So
Speaker 1: you know, the important thing with a credit card is
Speaker 1: to just make sure that you're paying off the full balance,
Speaker 1: you know, So I think that everybody knows that. But
Speaker 1: using credit cards that give you rewards, it's a real thing.
Speaker 1: And if you're not getting anything from using your credit card,
Speaker 1: you should go back to the drawing board and get
Speaker 1: one that will give you something. All you're doing is
Speaker 1: paying interest. But for sure, credit cards that give rewards amazing,
Speaker 1: Like let's say American Express Platinum. They give you two
Speaker 1: hundred dollars credit for whatever airline you choose, to give
Speaker 1: your money back for a hotel. So there are a
Speaker 1: little perks like I use it the other day to
Speaker 1: buy something from Laroche. Puss spend seventy five dollars, get
Speaker 1: fifteen dollars back. Yes, and Honey, you know what I do.
Speaker 1: I use Racketson. Oh my gosh, you just took it.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what I was going to tell people. So
Speaker 1: for Amex Platinum, if you go and you view their offers, right,
Speaker 1: so they'll say, like you said, spend seventy five dollars
Speaker 1: they give me on scrolland scrolland scrolling. Well, but here's
Speaker 1: the thing. It's like, you have to This is the
Speaker 1: problem too. You have to be strategic. So that offer,
Speaker 1: I am going to do it whenever it expires. I'm
Speaker 1: going to do it like literally the day that it expires,
Speaker 1: because I have to buy my kids sunscreen. I like
Speaker 1: their sunscreen. I think it's quality. Like I'll use that,
Speaker 1: but I'll go to racketson and get that five percent
Speaker 1: cash back. You double dipping here all over it. You know.
Speaker 1: You know the chrome plugin called Honey, and I use
Speaker 1: that all. I will use all of the rewards. So
Speaker 1: then it ends up being you get what seventy five
Speaker 1: dollars worth of product for maybe fifty dollars at the
Speaker 1: end of the day. You know, So you've got to
Speaker 1: be really strategic. With like how you're going to be
Speaker 1: spending your money? You quit your shopping addiction. I do
Speaker 1: want to let people know. You know, I've been working
Speaker 1: on E News and I've been doing my reports and
Speaker 1: my reporting and stuff and like coming into the city
Speaker 1: and everything I do, like the clothing subscription services. Just
Speaker 1: for my situation, I was going to ask you, Okay,
Speaker 1: can I say a quick story, real quick? Please? Please see.
Speaker 1: We had an international women's event at our offices a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks back, and I'm sitting there with Randy.
Speaker 1: I love her, one of our sales. I love Randy.
Speaker 1: And I'm sitting there and I see somebody walk in.
Speaker 1: I see a suit. I say, what the fuck is
Speaker 1: in the suit? Randy? Who what is that? I see waves?
Speaker 1: I see here all the hole, this fucking Carolina. I'm like,
Speaker 1: that's gotta be some type of celebrity. Who didn't we book?
Speaker 1: Oh stop it, you're c I sweaty. You look so good.
Speaker 1: You were floating. She had on like a cream colored suit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: with the sea through body suit with the tis nice
Speaker 1: and perky. That bitch making me look like shit today?
Speaker 1: Well no, that suit is mine. But you know, you
Speaker 1: know what, like the thank you. That is so sweet
Speaker 1: of you. You're making me blush. God, Carolyn, I wish
Speaker 1: somebody would have recorded because I was losing my mind.
Speaker 1: I said, you know who this bitches that's ow here
Speaker 1: making me look so basic today? Oh stop it, you're
Speaker 1: you talk to Carolina Clothing Subscription. Basically like I, I
Speaker 1: go and do these shoots for E News and it's
Speaker 1: like you can't be wearing the same thing all the time. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: that's a part of our industry. People will clown you
Speaker 1: on social media, be like, oh what that that dress
Speaker 1: is crusty? You wore that dress for you know, people
Speaker 1: have fus savages, not that dresses crust Get the fuck
Speaker 1: I washed it right? No, I know, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, because I have beautiful black dresses
Speaker 1: that I could rewear repurpose, I really don't like to,
Speaker 1: you know, use fast fashion. We talked about that last season.
Speaker 1: So what I've found is that there are a lot
Speaker 1: of different like clothing services that are out there. Now.
Speaker 1: You know, I've always loved Rent the Runway for those
Speaker 1: one off pieces, like you're going to a wedding, Like
Speaker 1: I don't want to spend a whole three hundred dollars
Speaker 1: on a new dress. Personally, I don't. I don't have
Speaker 1: the money to do that, you know. So because of
Speaker 1: the frequency of me going out and doing all of
Speaker 1: these things, I just figured like, I'm going to use
Speaker 1: a subscription service and basically, like every month you get
Speaker 1: new clothing, and there's a lot of them out there.
Speaker 1: There's thread up, there's um oh gosh, what's the other
Speaker 1: one that's escaping me right now? Stitch fix. So I
Speaker 1: do think that you should be more open if you're
Speaker 1: a person who likes variety and you're trying to save
Speaker 1: that money. Some of these subscriptions costs like seventy dollars
Speaker 1: a month, one hundred dollars a month, So think about it.
Speaker 1: You'd been going to the store and spending one hundred
Speaker 1: dollars anyway, but now you have that variety of clothing
Speaker 1: and you don't have to like stay with it, you know,
Speaker 1: especially if you're an influencer or your content creator. I
Speaker 1: think that is an amazing idea. You create content and
Speaker 1: you send that clothing right back to rent them Runway
Speaker 1: hat Thun, thanks for the jacket, Yeah, thanks for the dress,
Speaker 1: and they have all kinds of things. They have little blazers,
Speaker 1: they have different pants, they have dresses. So and it
Speaker 1: runs like from casual clothing to to like you know,
Speaker 1: gowns and stuff like that. So I really would suggest that,
Speaker 1: like and people think about they're like, well, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to spend one hundred dollars on a subscription. You
Speaker 1: would spend one hundred dollars at H and M Easy.
Speaker 1: Even Target they have like the yoga pants. You grab
Speaker 1: like four or five things in Target. You're thinking, you
Speaker 1: it's cheap. It's not cheap even oh naby you four
Speaker 1: little workout things. It's one hundred and something dollars. Well,
Speaker 1: that's why I'm saying in these and some of these
Speaker 1: subscription services even have that stuff now, the yoga pants,
Speaker 1: and like, you know, I don't know how you feel
Speaker 1: about it, but like they're they clean them. There's and
Speaker 1: I also, the coochie juice is gone. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 1: I Am not trying to savor anybody else's juice. Baby,
Speaker 1: I'm not laminating in that, but no, I just think that,
Speaker 1: like this is such a great resource for people who
Speaker 1: want to help the environment. You want to help your pocketbook,
Speaker 1: and you want to help yourself because I do think
Speaker 1: that clothing does lift you up sometimes if you pick
Speaker 1: the right things, you know. And like you were mentioning
Speaker 1: the suit that I wore, I got so many compliments
Speaker 1: and it did make me feel wonderful, you know. But
Speaker 1: it's like, now I have that suit in my closet,
Speaker 1: how am I going to repurpose it? What am I?
Speaker 1: You know? So this is just you give it to me.
Speaker 1: That's how you're going to And you always are welcome
Speaker 1: to anything in my closet, you know. It's something that
Speaker 1: my friend suggested to me, Scottie. Scottie loves using circulars.
Speaker 1: Have you ever talked to Scottie be over at zero
Speaker 1: one hundred. I know who he is. I've spoken to him,
Speaker 1: but I don't know him, know him, babe. He's like,
Speaker 1: he's like the coupon king. Really, I swear to you,
Speaker 1: he says, And I will admit I never do it.
Speaker 1: Like on Saturdays or Sundays, you know, when you get
Speaker 1: that bunch of like newspaper stuff in the mail, I
Speaker 1: never look at him. I always throw it away. He's like, no,
Speaker 1: you need to go through the circular. Really, I always
Speaker 1: say or kick it to the side and be like
Speaker 1: these motherfucker right. He said that that's where you're going
Speaker 1: to find out, like what meat is on sale that week,
Speaker 1: so then you can stock up, or like if strawberries
Speaker 1: are going to be two for one at a particular store,
Speaker 1: then you get them at that store. So there are
Speaker 1: really like different ways where you you know what it is.
Speaker 1: I think that you have to be aware. Listen, we're
Speaker 1: talking about an era that we're in that we order
Speaker 1: Uber eats carolina instead of actually cooking dinner. So it's
Speaker 1: we have to pivot. I hate the word, but we
Speaker 1: have to. Yeah, let's look at the circulars. Let's see
Speaker 1: what's I'll saale like key food this week, and let's
Speaker 1: go pick up pivot to save them coins. And then
Speaker 1: I mentioned it at the beginning of this. You know,
Speaker 1: I told you anytime I go into the city, I
Speaker 1: bring my own meals. I do meal plan and I
Speaker 1: think you know this about me. And if you've been
Speaker 1: listening to Life in Spanglish, you do know that I
Speaker 1: am a meal planner. And I will tell you it
Speaker 1: extends your groceries more than you could ever know. It
Speaker 1: gets boring I'm not gonna lie. You know, you're eating
Speaker 1: the same you know, I like, I'll do salmon, I'll
Speaker 1: do salmon for like Monday Wednesday, and then I'll do
Speaker 1: like chicken breast Tuesday Thursday. So I could see how
Speaker 1: that could get bored. I've seen people and maybe having
Speaker 1: like twenty tough of ways with the same meal. I'm like, wait,
Speaker 1: hold on, so you're just don't eat the same shit
Speaker 1: every day. I need a variety. But I could see
Speaker 1: how it saves money. I know. Well, that's why it's
Speaker 1: like my mom always says, no, you know, liked like you,
Speaker 1: You've got to like very like have a variety, like,
Speaker 1: don't just go with the same. Like I made a
Speaker 1: pot of chili. I Am not going to be having
Speaker 1: chili every day because that is just not fair for anyone.
Speaker 1: It's like you no way, but I love me some chili.
Speaker 1: I ain't even gonna lie to you. No, I gotta
Speaker 1: make you something now. Some of these on the what
Speaker 1: did you like on the list? Because there was one
Speaker 1: that I had a particular problem with, but go ahead.
Speaker 1: Sephora quitting the Sephora addiction. Carolina. I spend so much
Speaker 1: money in Sephora. And you know what I started to do.
Speaker 1: I started to go through my makeup. I had like
Speaker 1: brand new lipsticks, brand new palettes. I'm like, why do
Speaker 1: I just keep buying more eyeshadow? I can probably be
Speaker 1: an eighty year old woman before I go through all
Speaker 1: the eyeshadow palettes and lipsticks that I have. So this
Speaker 1: one person said that they quit their Sephora addiction. You know,
Speaker 1: they finally realized that they barely used any of the
Speaker 1: products that they buy. And that's me. That's me. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna have five Messcaras at the same time. I
Speaker 1: had like y sel do your show this and that girl.
Speaker 1: I ran through them and now I have one Messcara
Speaker 1: at a time, and trust me, I am saving a
Speaker 1: lot of money. Sorry, Spoor, I love you, but I
Speaker 1: gotta fall back off of you right now. Yes, So
Speaker 1: Forre is no joke. And you know who I've been following.
Speaker 1: I mean I've been following her forever, Bethany Frankel. Have
Speaker 1: you seen what she's been doing with like the drug
Speaker 1: Store Beauty. Have you noticed like that she's doing these
Speaker 1: these commentary videos like like drug Store fines. I love
Speaker 1: for her humanitarian work, but no, I have not been
Speaker 1: seeing the videos. I gotta go people. So she's basically
Speaker 1: calling a lot of these like cosmetic companies out and
Speaker 1: saying like look for less basically but for makeup. So
Speaker 1: she'll say like, was it worth the money? She did
Speaker 1: drunk Elephant the other day and everything surprisingly, which, by
Speaker 1: the way, I've heard drunk Elephant is amazing. I've never
Speaker 1: used their process, but I've heard, yeah, I've heard it's
Speaker 1: really quality and stuff. And so she tried it for
Speaker 1: the first time with her daughter and she said, she's like, listen,
Speaker 1: if you're wanting to spend the money on skincare, like
Speaker 1: this one's legit. But then she tried like a different
Speaker 1: brand that I won't say because I don't want to
Speaker 1: trash them, and she was just like this is overpriced.
Speaker 1: You're paying for the packaging and you're paying for the
Speaker 1: look of this. But she's like, I got the same
Speaker 1: effect using drug store makeup, So it's your choice whether
Speaker 1: or not you want to pay for like the box
Speaker 1: and the aesthetic of this. I gotta go find this
Speaker 1: video because I am all about saving money this year.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna buying a house. Put me in a
Speaker 1: whole different headspace. I'm like, oh no, I want to
Speaker 1: get landscapers here for the spring. Let me not go
Speaker 1: to Sephora, let me not shop online, let me save
Speaker 1: my coins because now I'm prioritizing differently. Carolina, as a homeowner,
Speaker 1: well as I'll tell you that landscaping bill is gonna
Speaker 1: come in, it's gonna blow your money. I'm like, I'm
Speaker 1: at privacy trees. I want trees that are circles. Honey,
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, I want to swirl trees. I wanted
Speaker 1: works now and I look out at my backyard and
Speaker 1: sometimes I look at my husband. I'm just like, all
Speaker 1: that money that we spent because you know it's seasonal,
Speaker 1: and then they're gonna get you again because you've got
Speaker 1: to clean up after the winter. That's a yearly bill.
Speaker 1: Don't don't shout of my jeeves, Carolina, Babe, Babe, I
Speaker 1: would tell you just budget the landscapers. I'm telling you
Speaker 1: right now, because they will literally come and what it is,
Speaker 1: it's just like mowing the lawn, putting in those trees,
Speaker 1: the labor, all of that stuff. That's why I said
Speaker 1: to mark the number one thing that we spent money
Speaker 1: on when we first moved in. I said to him,
Speaker 1: when they're out there, they need to build a garden
Speaker 1: for me, because I want a garden, and that's another
Speaker 1: way to save money during the spring. That's why I'm
Speaker 1: at Carolina. So you're trying to say, maybe I should
Speaker 1: build my own garden. One hundred percent, babe. It is
Speaker 1: one of the most gratifying, wonderful I look forward to
Speaker 1: my time with the earthworms. Okay, they don't talk back.
Speaker 1: They are They're out there just doing their job, helping
Speaker 1: me grow my produce so I don't have to go
Speaker 1: to Whole Foods and spend all kinds of money on
Speaker 1: tomatoes and cucumbers and zucchini. I really do. I have
Speaker 1: a great garden, and it's taken years for me to
Speaker 1: get there, but I love it. Did you just tell
Speaker 1: me you have your own vegetables. That's a different girl.
Speaker 1: When you say guarded, I'm thinking flowers. I'm not thinking
Speaker 1: strawberries and corn and tomatoes. That's real different, Carolina, Honey.
Speaker 1: I can my own peppers. What I know, had a
Speaker 1: candle barbers. Yes, I am the Latina Martha Stewart. Baby,
Speaker 1: I'm like not even kidding you. I went into this
Speaker 1: whole mode when I came into my home and like
Speaker 1: I just said to Mark, I grow my own eggplant.
Speaker 1: I'll make my kids fresh like I plant farm like
Speaker 1: currently Carolina or no. Well, when you were a young mom,
Speaker 1: no every year, because you know new moms, they'd be like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'll make my own baby food. I've heard dad. Oh
Speaker 1: hell no, no, no, no, no no no. I was not
Speaker 1: one of those. No. But like every I normally wait
Speaker 1: until mid May. I need footage of this carolina. You
Speaker 1: don't have to post on social media because I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have to see this farming you call gardening. You call
Speaker 1: it gardening. I call it farming, garbing. It's like you
Speaker 1: can you getting vegetables out of your crops. That's farming, girl.
Speaker 1: It's it's like the size of a baby pool. No,
Speaker 1: there's my dad and I got you have to, but
Speaker 1: that's another way to save money. There you go absolutely
Speaker 1: and you have the space grow your own veget For me,
Speaker 1: it's more of the meditative aspect. I put on music,
Speaker 1: I go out there, I weed. I like tend to
Speaker 1: my garden. I make sure that everything is growing. I
Speaker 1: do my own herbs, I have my own basil, my
Speaker 1: own cilantro. Cilantro is hard though it gets burned in
Speaker 1: the sun, like when it's really really hot in New York.
Speaker 1: So I'm thinking of doing something different this year. But no,
Speaker 1: this is like, this is a real thing. Like I
Speaker 1: have different types of tomatoes. Um, yeah, I have different
Speaker 1: types of peppers. Like I'm down for a good garden.
Speaker 1: I like that. Look at that here given ideas. Now
Speaker 1: I want to make a garden. No need to get ready,
Speaker 1: I want to. I want to plat on a tree
Speaker 1: from the back. You may not have the right environment
Speaker 1: for it, I know you can always try. I love
Speaker 1: the idea of no spend weeks. This is a really
Speaker 1: cool idea. And honey, I think you're kind of on
Speaker 1: it now with like the no buying like clothes, stuff.
Speaker 1: But like there's this whole movement where people are having
Speaker 1: a no spend week. I know a friend who basically said,
Speaker 1: I'm allocating one hundred dollars for emergencies for this week.
Speaker 1: My goal is to not spend any money. Now gas
Speaker 1: that's a whole different animal I'm talking about, Like, if
Speaker 1: you need something, you buy it with that cash. And
Speaker 1: people are saying that they're finding a lot of success
Speaker 1: and they're saving money by doing these no spend weeks
Speaker 1: where it's like you are not even buying a pack
Speaker 1: of gum unless you need it. Giving yourself you're making
Speaker 1: yourself be disciplined when it comes to your money, and
Speaker 1: I'm here for it. The one thing that I'm very
Speaker 1: curious about is the imperfect food thing. Like a lot
Speaker 1: of people have tried me about these imperfect foods. Have
Speaker 1: you seen these ads, I've seen the commercial. I just
Speaker 1: I don't know why I'm worried about what's going to
Speaker 1: come in the box, but I need to get over
Speaker 1: that fear. I guess. Yeah. It's basically like peppers that
Speaker 1: may not have the shape, but they're still good. They
Speaker 1: just won't put them out on the floor because they
Speaker 1: know nobody will buy them. And this company basically will
Speaker 1: send you a box of these imperfect foods and you
Speaker 1: can use them for recipes and things like at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, you're cutting them up for real.
Speaker 1: That's a fact. Yeah, And so it's like, I don't
Speaker 1: even care what they look like, but I've been curious
Speaker 1: to try. Let's produce. I'm guessing yeah, I think it is.
Speaker 1: It's produced. But now the thing that I have an
Speaker 1: issue with is there are little things in life that
Speaker 1: give us joy. Okay, I'm not talking about your Starbucks
Speaker 1: addiction where you're getting two lattes a day, or where
Speaker 1: you're going to get as smoothie or an OUTSI evil
Speaker 1: every day, but I do think it becomes a little
Speaker 1: extremely I do want to enjoy life. Like if I
Speaker 1: want to pop off to a Dunkin Donuts and you know,
Speaker 1: grab myself a coffee, I feel like I should still
Speaker 1: be able to. I think everything in moderation. That's just fat.
Speaker 1: But do it once a week. Like our old building, Carolina,
Speaker 1: we had a Starbucks as a lobby, and I would
Speaker 1: go down there for and when I got there, and
Speaker 1: then i'd go down there in the afternoon. And I
Speaker 1: was spending two hundred dollars a week on Starbucks, Carolina drinks, pastries,
Speaker 1: rotine box. That's a box. I was just gonna say
Speaker 1: that that was a problem. And I had to quit that.
Speaker 1: And and I was gaining all this week because I
Speaker 1: I want a caramel frappucchio and put some of this.
Speaker 1: No no, no no, no no. It was killing me. Actually,
Speaker 1: So a treat once a week, it's not gonna break
Speaker 1: the bank. And it's also not gonna you know, have
Speaker 1: your hips out here spreading wide the way minds were
Speaker 1: not the spread hip. No, don't do it, honey, don't
Speaker 1: talk about it. No, because it's true. You know, you've
Speaker 1: got the caramel Maqui autos and that has a lot
Speaker 1: of sugar that it's gonna pack on the pounds. Now
Speaker 1: the one that I absolutely love, and I feel like
Speaker 1: I've talked about this before. Is it a drink? No? Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say which one. Girl. Tell me, honey, you're
Speaker 1: in a new neighborhood. You're we've mentioned that you have
Speaker 1: a new home. Will you please please get to know
Speaker 1: your library? Mm? Interesting? Oh god, I don't know why.
Speaker 1: I just thought about Joe Goldberg from you, and it
Speaker 1: kind of scared me. But I'll try it. I'm not
Speaker 1: a new person. Does he like Does it take place
Speaker 1: in the library? He loves books, He owns a bookstore,
Speaker 1: He works at a bookstore. They go to the library.
Speaker 1: But yeah, go ahead, tell me all about the library.
Speaker 1: I'll put Joe to the back of my mind. So
Speaker 1: I was spending hundreds of dollars a month on books.
Speaker 1: I love to read. I read in my spare time.
Speaker 1: I read in the car while I'm waiting for a
Speaker 1: pickup a target. I read in the car while I'm
Speaker 1: waiting for my kids to come out of basketball practice
Speaker 1: or religion. I have books everywhere. My husband said that
Speaker 1: he loves that about me, like I will curl up
Speaker 1: with a book sooner than I will like turn on
Speaker 1: a TV show. Okay, So when I realized how much
Speaker 1: money I was spending on these books, and then what
Speaker 1: do I do. I end up donating them. That's like
Speaker 1: thousands of dollars a year, which I think it's great
Speaker 1: you donate then other people can use it. But I
Speaker 1: went to the library when Noah was like two years old,
Speaker 1: and we have a great library where I live on
Speaker 1: Long Island. Girl. They have programs like you can learn
Speaker 1: how to play chess. They have like yoga on Saturdays.
Speaker 1: They also have books that you can check out, like
Speaker 1: the new book by Oh Gosh, it's not new anymore.
Speaker 1: But Rick Rubin the art of being creative like Rick
Speaker 1: Rubin for those of you who don't know, he started
Speaker 1: like basically def jam. He's a pioneer. He's one of
Speaker 1: the legends. Yeah, total boss. But I was curious, like,
Speaker 1: what is his book about. It's it's a little trippy,
Speaker 1: but it was so good. But like anyway, that book
Speaker 1: would have cost me thirty dollars, boom, went to my library.
Speaker 1: Done the Harry book. Got that from my library. Get
Speaker 1: out of you for I never thought about it. I
Speaker 1: was always a book lover. But when me and when
Speaker 1: he moved in together, he said I could not bring
Speaker 1: my book collection, and I don't know, it just put
Speaker 1: such a like little hole in my heart that I
Speaker 1: never bought books again. Carolina, No, your heart is about
Speaker 1: to be full, because when I tell you I love
Speaker 1: my library, they all know me. There they I'm gonna go.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go see what I got. Bring. I gotta
Speaker 1: bring one of my utility bills and playing Yes, yeah, bring.
Speaker 1: But you know what this is also for people who like,
Speaker 1: maybe you're you know, you're working in the city and
Speaker 1: you're commuting on the train and you don't want to
Speaker 1: be scrolling on your phone all the time. Go to
Speaker 1: your library, get a book, like get back into the Game.
Speaker 1: They have games, honey, like my kids love the Switch.
Speaker 1: I told them I'm not buying you Pokemon maybe because like,
Speaker 1: well know what they have is like they have the
Speaker 1: actual games. So my kids one week are into Pokemon,
Speaker 1: the next week they hate Pokemon. Oh my gosh, that
Speaker 1: is like so five years ago, even though it was
Speaker 1: like last week. I will I won't spend the money
Speaker 1: on buying them a switch game, because I'll go to
Speaker 1: the library check it out for a week. They get there,
Speaker 1: you know, the yeah, and then I take it back.
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. It's a great resource. And it's not even
Speaker 1: just for books. Like I said, they have programs there,
Speaker 1: like there are a lot of people who listen to
Speaker 1: this podcast who maybe want to learn how to do
Speaker 1: something new or you know, they have finance seminars sometimes,
Speaker 1: like there's so much that I know there is you know, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: non't worry about it. I just went on the public
Speaker 1: library for the town I moved into girl. They got
Speaker 1: karate for kids. Yes, that's what I'm telling you. They
Speaker 1: have all different kinds of programs. Um. I was cute.
Speaker 1: This is really really cute. I like it. They have
Speaker 1: a team library club, they have crafts for kids. They
Speaker 1: have a writer's circle if you want to be a writer.
Speaker 1: This is really cool. Carolyne and it's all free. I'm
Speaker 1: assuming and they all I pay nobody, no, no, as
Speaker 1: long as you are a member of that town, or
Speaker 1: if you're a resident of that town, you are you
Speaker 1: have a right to any of those programs. And so
Speaker 1: you know, that's really kind of like what I want
Speaker 1: to leave it on, because like, if we don't help
Speaker 1: each other with these tips, and like I said, some
Speaker 1: of these, you guys probably already know and we get it,
Speaker 1: but you know what you may not have known about,
Speaker 1: like meal planning or you know, quitting your shopping and
Speaker 1: diction the circulars. They know, No, Kylie, we're doing a
Speaker 1: good service here. I'm about to go to the library.
Speaker 1: They're having a book talk with an author. Okay, yes,
Speaker 1: shout out Sharine Clark. I'm gonna pull up. It's true.
Speaker 1: And you know what, over the summer because like that's
Speaker 1: the time when most kids, like they're obviously not in
Speaker 1: any kind of educational programs. I signed my boys up
Speaker 1: for book club over the summer, and I was like, no,
Speaker 1: you're gonna read and you're gonna discuss it. And I
Speaker 1: feel like it's just like it helps them with their
Speaker 1: public speaking, It helps keep their brain active and you know,
Speaker 1: I just think it's like super beneficial for everybody. So,
Speaker 1: you know, those are just some of the things that
Speaker 1: we found. But what are you doing that is helping
Speaker 1: you save that money? Share it with all of our community,
Speaker 1: you know, Like I said, we're all putting us here.
Speaker 1: We can all help each other out. And if you're
Speaker 1: doing something that you think is so cool, let us know.
Speaker 1: Hit us up at ELI Spanglish, l Spanglish, on Instagram,
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Speaker 1: You can find us anywhere. And also make sure that
Speaker 1: you guys like and subscribe, because somebody actually DMed me
Speaker 1: the other day. I'm at the Real Carolina and they said,
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that you guys were back. I had
Speaker 1: subscribed last season. It was my first season listening to
Speaker 1: you guys, and I got like the biggest treat in
Speaker 1: my inbox. I love that. And that's a fact. You
Speaker 1: don't got to go looking by the way, every single
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Speaker 1: we love talking with you, so hopefully you'll be back
Speaker 1: next week and make sure that you guys let us
Speaker 1: know because we're all trying to save that money over here, girl,
Speaker 1: will you Ellen, I'm out of here. I'm going to
Speaker 1: the library. I gotta go see I gotta go see
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