Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2: Christian O'Connell's show.
Speaker 3: After the show Friday, I was catching up with Sue,
Speaker 3: our boss, and she was telling us about her mum,
Speaker 3: who was a cheap o pairent. I've never had anything
Speaker 3: like this, Yeah, her mum, you don't like the paper
Speaker 3: towels you buy them? They are dirt cheap, aren't they?
Speaker 2: I mean, what are they?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 3: Three cents? If that probably zero point three cents?
Speaker 2: You be gon per towel?
Speaker 3: She would when they'd use paper towels when she was
Speaker 3: a kid, she would her mum would drive them out
Speaker 3: with hair drice.
Speaker 2: They could be reused. Wow, I'd never heard of that.
Speaker 3: That's a new level of cheap o' perrington. So this morning,
Speaker 3: I want to know if you had it's one thing
Speaker 3: to mix. Remember the cordial drinks. We had a soda stream,
Speaker 3: so mum would go, you don't need to go out
Speaker 3: to the milk. We get a can of coke or
Speaker 3: can of pop or anything. You can make it at
Speaker 3: home with that awful kind of sugary syrup. Mix in
Speaker 3: with like carbonated water and then hey, presto, you've got
Speaker 3: your own Dr Pepper right here. Why don't you invite
Speaker 3: your friends over? And they's a party after school Friday
Speaker 3: will come around for some weekounts Dr Pepper. So it's
Speaker 3: morning on nine four one four one four three. We're
Speaker 3: the confused stories about having a cheap O parent rio.
Speaker 4: My dad is the king of the chief O parents.
Speaker 4: Back home, we used to have a pool, like a
Speaker 4: completely full, normal backyard pool. Since all the kids have
Speaker 4: moved out, he got lazy with it and it's just
Speaker 4: become empty, completely dry pool. He then got a letter
Speaker 4: maybe at that last year from the council saying we
Speaker 4: need to come over and do a routine pool gate inspection.
Speaker 4: It's going to come, of course, yeah, to make sure
Speaker 4: you know, obviously, like for safety reasons one hundred and
Speaker 4: fifty dollars, but you have it's mandatory. And Dad's like, well,
Speaker 4: there's no water in the pool. So he calls up
Speaker 4: the council and says, don't buy the coming over. I'm
Speaker 4: not paying one hundred and fifty dollars, like the pool's
Speaker 4: completely empty, and she said, well, if you're not using
Speaker 4: the pool for anything else, even if it's empty, we
Speaker 4: still have to come and inspect it you're kidd it,
Speaker 4: and that goes we are, and we're not. She's oh,
Speaker 4: what are you using it for? And then just off
Speaker 4: the top of his head, he goes, oh, it's a
Speaker 4: it's a rock garden. Now, he's like a rock garden.
Speaker 4: It's like, so if we came over and just just
Speaker 4: checked it, it was a rock garden and you wouldn't have
Speaker 4: to pay the one hundred fifty dollars. He goes, yeah,
Speaker 4: that's fine, come over. So he then spent the next
Speaker 4: like probably ten days scouring, collecting, collecting rocks and just
Speaker 4: literally like going down to the tip, Like we live
Speaker 4: near a beach. He was pulling back these He's seventy seven.
Speaker 4: What's he going to find at the tip?
Speaker 2: People who've thrown their rocks away.
Speaker 4: He's got discarded pool like blocks, like tiles that he's
Speaker 4: just like chucked in the bottom of the pool.
Speaker 2: Now it just sounds like he's.
Speaker 4: Got It's honest, Mum hates it so ugly. So now
Speaker 4: in our pool where it's just like a nice empty
Speaker 4: pool before, now it's just full of random junk rocks
Speaker 4: and stuff. And it took him so long.
Speaker 3: Basically he's got a skip there skip and everyone just.
Speaker 2: Like it's free for all. It's a pilo.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just hard rubbish, just so he wouldn't have
Speaker 4: to pay one hundred and fifty dollars at the council.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's stick it to the man, all right. Nine
Speaker 2: one four one O four three. If you've got cheap
Speaker 2: O parents, The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 3: Christian O'Connell Show talking about cheap O parents, Good morning question.
Speaker 3: My mum used to use soap powder, you know the
Speaker 3: stuff you washed your close in.
Speaker 2: To also wash the dishes.
Speaker 3: Wow, it's so fine, and this sort of fuzzes up
Speaker 3: soapy plates and cut ning strange taste to my Tagli telly.
Speaker 3: So you have to buy any washing liquid. Also, my
Speaker 3: dad used to draw this is sad. This isn't cheaper,
Speaker 3: this is just sad. My dad used to draw a
Speaker 3: line on his coat bottle every night so he would
Speaker 3: know if anyone else would seizes screwed you had.
Speaker 2: Is half who has been doing lie lie lie uh Christian.
Speaker 3: My mom used to make us whenever used to go
Speaker 3: around to relative's house or on to a friend's birthday party.
Speaker 3: And they used to have those little sticks that you
Speaker 3: would have little tiny sausages, chippolatas on or cheese and
Speaker 3: pineapple to keep the little sticks and take them home
Speaker 3: with us to clean them up.
Speaker 2: And news again, they're less than a bark, aren't they?
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, they're two bigs. Christian.
Speaker 3: My mom hasn't brought Oh, she's gonna love you for
Speaker 3: saying this, Nick and rock Bank Christian. My mom hasn't
Speaker 3: brought new underwear in years. She uses my brother and
Speaker 3: eyes old briefs.
Speaker 2: No, your poor dad. I mean that is a form
Speaker 2: of contraception. That is a passion killer, isn't it? Are
Speaker 2: those the lads?
Speaker 3: Oh my actually no, I'm got aheadache coming on.
Speaker 2: Actually that is all kinds of those trading.
Speaker 3: Christian, My mom, these are amazing, Rick Thomas, my mom
Speaker 3: used to put in the in the milk bottle half water.
Speaker 2: Feel sick? What half milk? I've never heard of that. Christian.
Speaker 3: Up until I was eleven, my dad used to say
Speaker 3: it was under six to save five bucks at the footy.
Speaker 3: He's got a deep voice, though, Tim, that's great. Let's
Speaker 3: go to lines now we're talking about cheap cheap o
Speaker 3: parents On nine four one four one four three Andrew yes,
Speaker 3: good morning everyone on the show. So tell us about
Speaker 3: cheap o mom.
Speaker 1: And dad, My dear old Aris grandmother.
Speaker 5: She was always watching her pennies.
Speaker 1: When we were unwrapping our Christmas present, she used the
Speaker 1: Super bowlers to make sure we didn't rip it too much.
Speaker 2: And then she would take the wrapping paper, iron it and.
Speaker 3: Reuse it again the next year. Wow, that is how
Speaker 3: many years could she get out of one pace.
Speaker 5: I'm not too short, but she was.
Speaker 2: She was very good at it. Yeah, that's incredible, Andrew,
Speaker 2: thank you very much. She killed me. I have a
Speaker 2: good day, thanks guys.
Speaker 3: Tana, good morning heat Hello Tanya. So cheap her parents?
Speaker 5: Yeah, my parents used to make us say that our
Speaker 5: glad wrap and take it home and reuse it.
Speaker 3: How that stuff is so hard to use? It just
Speaker 3: sort of like a spider's web. It just sort of
Speaker 3: collapses in on itself.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it can be, but we used to have to
Speaker 5: once we took our sandwich out, we'd have to fold
Speaker 5: it back up and place it neatly in our.
Speaker 2: Lunch fot like it's a napkin.
Speaker 1: It's similar.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how it's hard to use, even on first year alone,
Speaker 3: it's already sticking to it, even just getting out of
Speaker 3: that really aggressive box that it comes in with that
Speaker 3: overly serrated edge, which is like sharper than anything in
Speaker 3: the world, isn't it. It's so dangerous. I get I get
Speaker 3: nervous using that stuff, trying to tear it off.
Speaker 5: Yeah. No, we'd reuse it for two three days and
Speaker 5: then we get a fresh piece on the next team.
Speaker 3: Change it off Thursday, Tanya, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: All okay, bye bye, Carl, welcome to the show.
Speaker 1: How are you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm good. So you had a cheap O parents?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, my mom four and twenty piles used to
Speaker 1: come in a little plastic bag. Yeah, and brother than
Speaker 1: hate up the whole avender hat up one little pie
Speaker 1: for me for lunch. Mom used to boil it in
Speaker 1: a pot of water.
Speaker 2: That is disgusting.
Speaker 1: Now you grow up with it and they're okay, then.
Speaker 2: It's not crispy, more sweaty.
Speaker 1: Sweaty and foggy water.
Speaker 2: And no, Carl, that sucks, all right, can't thank you
Speaker 2: very much? Called can't say any better than that.
Speaker 3: Let's time new feature called that sucks. Come on him,
Speaker 3: Morning Gods, Morning Anasta and tell us about cheap O parents.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well man, he he drinks a lot of.
Speaker 2: Coffe, and his whole thing was boiling a kettle in
Speaker 2: the morning, and whatever excess water was left over he
Speaker 2: put into a thervice just so.
Speaker 1: He didn't have to spend the electricity to bore the
Speaker 1: kettle again for his next cup of coffee.
Speaker 2: Wow much is that? How much is that? Breakdown?
Speaker 1: About three cents but.
Speaker 2: Four months every year, Alisa, thank you very much.
Speaker 5: Carl.
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