Speaker 1: Hey, Frugal Friends. This is Eric Sirianni, producer of this podcast,
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Speaker 1: your life. Here your host Jen and Jill. Welcome to
Speaker 1: another episode of In Front of two Mike's with your
Speaker 1: Frugal Friends. I'm Jen, I'm Jill, and on this episode
Speaker 1: we're talking about spending money so tricky you're going to
Speaker 1: spend money on things that you don't need to send scandalous.
Speaker 1: I think I spend money, do you? I love spending
Speaker 1: money on the things I love. That's what I love
Speaker 1: spending money on. I do have to admit I don't.
Speaker 1: I talked about this with Eric because they actually had
Speaker 1: at somebody had asked this question at finn Con, like
Speaker 1: what do you spend money on? And it's something we
Speaker 1: don't often talk about. So I do like the concept,
Speaker 1: but I realized that I no matter even if it
Speaker 1: is something that I love, I don't love the act
Speaker 1: of spending money. I do think that there are things
Speaker 1: that I am that I do value and I'm okay
Speaker 1: with it that I think is worth spending money on.
Speaker 1: But to say I love the act of money leaving
Speaker 1: my wallet, I don't know if I can get that
Speaker 1: on there with it. But more so the angle of
Speaker 1: what's what's worth it to you? Where do you want
Speaker 1: to in asked and spend your money? For me, that's
Speaker 1: the angle I'm coming yea, yeah, so what is that
Speaker 1: for you? So for me, I love spending money on travel,
Speaker 1: but not just traveling for traveling sake, like I'm not
Speaker 1: a backpacker or anything. I like cruises, all inclusive resorts
Speaker 1: like things where I can go and then I don't
Speaker 1: have to spend any more money on vacation. So I
Speaker 1: will pay a premium to have one of these experiences
Speaker 1: instead of doing just really super frugal travel, like to
Speaker 1: not have to pull your wallet out of your purse
Speaker 1: wall on vacation because it's already paid for. That does
Speaker 1: feel really good. Yeah, and so I will pay a
Speaker 1: premium at home to have that experience. Sean vacation, Who
Speaker 1: do you like going on vacation with? I like going
Speaker 1: vacation with Travis sometimes my husband, why the Sometimes if
Speaker 1: it comes down to pulling our wallets out on vacation,
Speaker 1: we have differing opinions on how we should be spending
Speaker 1: money on vacation. So part of part of that vacation
Speaker 1: for you is not needing to even engage in conversation
Speaker 1: with him about how you're going to spend You just
Speaker 1: have to learn how to vacation with your spouse, and
Speaker 1: that is how we vacation well together. Otherwise I get
Speaker 1: home and I need a vacation from my vacation. Sure,
Speaker 1: and some marriage counseling. Yeah. I like spending money. No,
Speaker 1: it is worth it for me to spend money. So
Speaker 1: I will say I really enjoy when I'm able to
Speaker 1: give good gifts to people or special things. I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to make myself seem like she makes good. I
Speaker 1: mean sometimes they're really frugal gifts. I'm trying to bootstrap
Speaker 1: my way to a point of being able to give
Speaker 1: good gifts or paying for people when we go out
Speaker 1: to eat, or yeah, being able to spend in that
Speaker 1: way and not be stingy when with other people. I
Speaker 1: think it places a lot of value on others that
Speaker 1: I have experienced from other people that I really enjoy
Speaker 1: and appreciate that I want to be able to give back.
Speaker 1: I think that's probably this question is a little bit
Speaker 1: tied into your why right, like why why be frugal?
Speaker 1: Why payoff debt? A lot of it is like what
Speaker 1: do you want to spend money on? So I think
Speaker 1: it does get to that. Other stupid things for me
Speaker 1: would be gum, Like I want to be able to
Speaker 1: buy my gum shame free. And I am at that
Speaker 1: point where I can just buy packs and packs and
Speaker 1: no shame about in it because apparently it's saving me
Speaker 1: on my dentist bills. So I went to the dentist.
Speaker 1: I should I told you earlier. I went to the
Speaker 1: dentist like a year ago after not having been for
Speaker 1: five years, and they were like, you have no cavities,
Speaker 1: your gums look great. Uh, there's not a whole lot
Speaker 1: of plaque builds up. Wow, you haven't been here in
Speaker 1: five years. Don't tell anybody that this is the case.
Speaker 1: And here I am telling everybody that I know. But
Speaker 1: I do think this is a theory. There's no proof,
Speaker 1: but I I can't help. But wonder if it's all
Speaker 1: the gum that I choose. If you had quadruple the
Speaker 1: amount of money, would you buy quadruple the amount of
Speaker 1: gum or nicer gum quadruple the amount of gum? Would
Speaker 1: you just have more gum throughout the week, or would
Speaker 1: you put all the gum in your mouth at once? No,
Speaker 1: I realized I don't like it when I have too
Speaker 1: much gum in my mouth. Sometimes I will do half
Speaker 1: a stick of gum if in a real bind. I
Speaker 1: used to double up, but at this point it's too
Speaker 1: hard to talk, like the law of diminishing return, and
Speaker 1: I know what kind of gum I like, So I
Speaker 1: think it would just be I would stockpile and there
Speaker 1: would never be a fear of running. App I'd have
Speaker 1: gone everywhere. I'd have it in my car, in my pocket,
Speaker 1: down my shirt, in my shoes, in my backpack, purse.
Speaker 1: Where else are their little kobies? I don't know. You
Speaker 1: have a lot, You're minimalists. We have a lot of spaces.
Speaker 1: I have a minimalist, but I would stack that gum.
Speaker 1: Let's be real. Yeah, well, thank you for tuning into
Speaker 1: another episode of Behind two Mike's in front of two
Speaker 1: Mikes or I think it's behind two behind two mikes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just I'm Jen, I'm Jill. Check us out Frugal Friends
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Speaker 1: worth it to spend money on. What you love spending
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