WEBVTT - Christmas On A Budget with Eliza Reid 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:05.240 Welcome to a Very Outspoken Christmas. It's that time of 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:07.800 year to crank Mariah Carey in the car and begin 0:00:07.840 --> 0:00:11.680 your Christmas shopping. Our names are Amy Kate and Sophie Torba. 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:14.880 We're identical triplets and during the festive season, we have 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:18.319 an identical opinion. Christmas is the most wonderful time of 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:22.119 the year. In this special series, we're discussing all things 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:25.200 Christmas with help from some influential Australians. 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:28.720 Fo for your Clan, Call for your clan cl clue 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:32.040 and with Santas wiz strat white ass down there, Jimmy Day, 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:32.879 He's going to. 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:35.479 Find a jobbiest bunch of assholes this side of the nuthouse. 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:39.600 Hello and welcome to episode three of a Very Outspoken Christmas. 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:42.479 Today we are joined by Eliza Reid, who runs popular 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:45.520 Instagram account bargain Homews. She is going to be sharing 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:48.280 her Christmas shopping tips and tricks from where to shop 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:50.640 and what sales to take advantage of. And some of 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:52.640 you may recognize her name because she is in our 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:54.960 Facebook community and we love having a part of it. Oh, 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:57.040 she's a legend and there her comments crack me up 0:00:57.120 --> 0:00:59.680 sometimes before we get into the interview. Kay, You've got 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:02.800 to tell everybody about your massive shopping wind that you 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:05.000 had a few years ago. Well, I was in Bed 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:07.679 Bath and Table and I saw this amazing twig winter 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:10.280 style Christmas tree with gold lights, and it was so 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:13.080 beautiful and I'd never really seen one before, and it 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:15.720 was fifty percent off, so I think I saved around 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:18.600 two hundred dollars on it. And the funniest thing was 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:21.240 because I'd bought it right then, it was like mid December, 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:23.560 when it was so packed in the store we had 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:26.000 to get a trolley to wheel it out. And to 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:28.040 say I look like a dickhead is an understated It 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:30.880 was the funniest thing because this tree is massive, Like 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:34.039 it's not that it's hugely tall, but it's very wide. 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:36.560 The thing was, though, that made it look even more ridiculous, 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:38.600 was they decided to put a bed Bath and Table 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:41.679 shopping bag on top of the tree, so you looked 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:43.959 like even more of a wainker walking around the shop 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:45.600 with it. Well, at least it didn't look like I'd 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:47.919 stolen it. Do you know what I loved? It seemed 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:50.120 like you got such value out of that tree because 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:52.760 it wasn't just up at Christmas time. When we lived together, 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:55.440 it turned into an Easter tree at Easter time, a 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:59.120 birthday tree, everything, everyday tree. Really, it's a very good 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:03.000 investment there. Well, we'll talking about trees. Has anyone been 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:05.280 seeing that a lot of influencers are starting to put 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:07.680 their Christmas trees up? Yeah? I have. I've been so 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:10.680 disappointed by the very pitiful displays of these Christmas trees. 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:13.480 They just look cheap and tacky, and I feel like saying, 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:15.320 don't these people have money? 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:15.880 Yeah? 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:18.080 And the fact that they're rushing to put the trees up. 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:19.720 I mean, I'm not trying to tree shame, but they 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:22.680 look very cheap and taki tree. I've got to say. 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:25.280 I saw Courtney Mangnan put up her Christmas tree and 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:29.280 that was looking as Saffron Barker would say, bang in. Well, 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:32.240 Saffron Barker put her tree up and hers was also amazing. 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:34.680 I'm wondering if it was about some hill tree. Oh, 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:36.359 i'd have to be. That being said, I feel like 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:38.880 Courtney and Saffron's trees would be rather expensive. And we 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:41.519 are talking about bargains today, So Eliza's going to be 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:44.079 talking us through where you can find the best bargain 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:46.560 Christmas trees because you can still make them look really 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:48.840 nice even on a budget. Yeah, we were ragging on 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:51.320 Taki Christmas trees, but this is a tip to actually 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:53.800 have your Christmas tree look good on a budget. Can 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:55.560 I just say though, like, here's my tip. I'm not 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:59.000 a professional, but fill your tree with bables. Like you've 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:02.560 got an ugly, lie looking tree, put beautiful bubbles all 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:05.639 over it. Hide the ugly tree. Yeah, exactly right. There's 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:08.440 nothing worse than a tree that looks like it's missing ornaments. 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:10.440 I mean, they don't cost much from Kmart. You can 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:12.519 get a whole box of them for I don't know, 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:14.840 twenty dollars a cheap tip here as well. Put some 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:17.960 lights on your Christmas tree. They always look more beautiful 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:19.480 when they're lit up. Do you know I'm seeing a 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:20.800 lot of it at the moment. I'm seeing a lot 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:23.079 of those flowers. Oh yeah, it kind of made me 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:25.799 want to get some. Yeah. Well, Victoria Devine who was 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:28.600 on our podcast last week, she had a gorgeous looking 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:31.200 tree that she shared in our Facebook community and that 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:34.000 really did inspire me to, yeah, potentially add some big 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:36.520 white flowers to mine. Can I be honest, I don't 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:39.040 really like the flowers, Like I could never see myself 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:41.200 putting flowers on a Christmas tree because it's just not me. 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:44.360 Mine's more of the sort of tacky Christmas tree. Well 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:46.080 it's not. No, I'm not gonna let you say that 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:48.160 your tree is tacky. So it's not tacky. It has 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:51.600 the sentimental ornaments on it, and it's like a bright, colorful, 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:54.560 fun tree. Yeah. With lots of theme. Yeah, with lots 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:57.320 of Penguin decorations. That's a thing. It's all about having 0:03:57.400 --> 0:03:59.800 a theme. I don't care if people have cheap baubles 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.160 or a cheap tree. It's about the effort you put in, 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:04.560 because you can make some really cool decorations as well. 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:07.040 I feel like Target has some of the best baubles. 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:09.160 And also if you don't have heats of money to spend, 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:12.200 wal Wells and Coals also have a great selection. Well. 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:14.480 I don't want to start giving too many tips out 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:16.840 because I know Eliza covers some amazing things. But I 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:21.479 was watching a Netflix show called Holiday Homemakers with Mister Christmas, 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:24.760 and he was being very extravagant, like there were things 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:26.480 that you could never afford, but one thing that I 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:29.800 thought looked really cool was he was putting pine cones 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:31.600 on the tree and he said, it's a really good 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:33.720 tip to put those on a fake tree because it 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:36.200 kind of looks makes it look more realistic. Can I 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:38.560 just say I love how you casually drop mister Christmas. 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:40.680 Who is mister Christmas? I've not seen this show. Well, 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:42.680 it's on Netflix. I don't actually know what his real 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:44.760 name is, but that's his name he goes by on 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:47.839 the show. So he's a designer. Yeah, he's this fabulous 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:51.200 guy and he goes around people's houses and he does 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:53.320 them up for Christmas. So there was a family that 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:56.360 had never hosted Christmas before and yeah, he helped them 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:59.599 with their decorations. It's really cool just talking about TV shows. I' 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:03.080 a Christmas recommendation out there. It's the Worst Week of 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:06.000 My Life Christmas Special, which is an English TV series 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:08.160 and it is bloody hilarious. Oh my god, this is 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:10.120 the best. I really want to watch this now. I 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:11.800 know I'm trying to work out which one of us 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:13.960 has the DVD because I was tempted to go down 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:15.920 to one of the op shops to see if they 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:17.800 had it. I believe I may have stole it in 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:19.760 our first move, so I'll have to have a look through. 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:21.720 I thought I might have one too well. I want 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:23.680 to watch it because it follows the life of a 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:27.320 married couple, Howard Steele and his wife mel and just 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:30.080 the most embarrassing things happened to this guy in front 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:32.520 of his mother and father in law. So I definitely 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:35.400 recommend it now. I was excited about this one. The 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:38.599 Vicar of Dibley is bringing out a special Lockdown mini 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:40.920 series and this is, of course a show that started 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:43.159 in the nineties, is one that we grew up watching, 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:46.839 and it's going to be showing them basically experiencing Christmas 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:49.440 in Lockdown. So the Vicar of Dibley, Geraldine, she is 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:51.760 going to be giving her sermons via zoom. It's going 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:54.360 to be really interesting to watch. Sadly, a lot of 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:56.920 the actors have died who appeared in the original series, 0:05:57.000 --> 0:06:00.280 so I'm really interested to see how if they place 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:03.160 those actors with new actors. Yeah, it should be interesting 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:04.400 to see. It does give it a bit of a 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:06.680 downer the fact that a lot of the actors have died, 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:09.960 but I am looking forward to watching that. Talking about 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:12.600 the UK. Has anyone seen Boris Johnson's new rules that 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:15.760 he's applying around Christmas? Well, i've heard that the pubs 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:18.520 weren't open anymore. Well, there's a tiered system and it's 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:20.960 basically like Tier one, Tier two, tier three, and it's 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:23.200 really dependent on which tier that you're in, and a 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:24.920 lot of the tiers allow the pub to be open 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:28.279 till ten pm. However, the thing that peaked my interest 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:31.200 was the fact that between December twenty fourth and December 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:34.040 twenty eighth, they're just going, oh whatever with the restrictions 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:36.800 just for Christmas. Isn't it that you you're in a 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:39.800 Christmas bubble, so you have to choose who the four 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:41.760 families are that you want to spend Christmas with, which 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:44.000 I'm assuming would cause quite a lot of argument. Yes, 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:46.200 but the tiered system, even it doesn't matter what tier 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:48.719 you're in, you can still spend Christmas with those four 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:51.680 families during that period. Like I say, four families is 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:53.839 a lot of people. You think about the potential spread 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:56.040 through four families, and it sounds like there's no rules 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:58.560 in place about how big a family is. We've seen 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:01.600 the damage that's been caused by one family getting in Adelaide, 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:04.720 So it's pretty scary. I feel like they've almost gone whatever. 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:07.600 Let's just wait for the vaccine to come and you know, 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:10.440 let it do it. Christ's miracle. The scariest thing though, 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:13.200 is that they're obviously entering winter. You know, we're quite 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:15.080 lucky here that we're going into summer, because this is 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:17.360 just going to be catastrophic over winter. I feel so 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:19.560 sorry for everyone over there at the moment. Can I 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:22.160 just say, though, for people's mental health? Can you imagine 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:24.720 everyone's had the worst year ever? We all need a 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:27.200 little bit of Christmas cheer. I can kind of see 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:29.720 why they've lifted it, because, to be honest, it could 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:31.800 have been anarchy if they hadn't, because people probably would 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:33.080 have just gone off. Fuck it, I'm going to break 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:35.680 the rules. Well, it's quite ironic that you've recommended the 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:37.680 TV show The Worst Christmas of My Life, because I 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:39.400 feel like there's a few Brits out there that would 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:42.040 be having it a lot tougher than Howard Stern had it. Oh, 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:44.480 I don't know about that. If you guys do watch it, 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:47.400 please post in our Facebook community your thoughts, because I 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:49.440 feel like everyone's gonna love it. I think we should 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:52.240 start a thread in our community for Christmas TV specials. 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:55.000 I'm all for movies, but I have a soft spot 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:57.200 for TV series because you can watch multiple ones and 0:07:57.280 --> 0:07:59.520 really binge on them. Yeah, it's easier to watch within 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:02.240 your normal rotation of TV shows rather than committing to 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:04.920 a movie. Because last night I started watching Holiday even 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:07.480 though everyone said it was shit, it wasn't as bad 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:09.960 as I thought because I had low expectations. But it's 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:12.040 literally gone for two hours and they haven't even got 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:15.000 to Christmas yet. Yes, I'm trying to find a troubleman 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:20.840 door witto. Do you have any moneer back? Alasa, you 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:24.840 run an incredibly popular bargain hunter's page called Bargain Homewares. 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:26.600 It's really seemed to have struck a chord with so 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:29.160 many people. You're now sitting at over one hundred thousand 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:32.240 followers on Instagram. What was it that motivated you to 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:33.400 start the page to begin with? 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:37.559 So it was actually just after I'd moved out of 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:41.160 my university sharehouse and into an apartment where I wanted 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:43.840 to buy a nice furniture and deco, but I still 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:46.439 had the budget of a Unie student who was working 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:50.120 in my first full time job. So I was constantly 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:53.520 scaring Kmart Target Big w to see where I could 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:56.120 get the most of my dollars. And this was about 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:59.400 the time when Kmart had just started to boom, So 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:01.360 I don't know. Do you guys remember when they had 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:04.880 like all the marble and rose gold stuff. Yeah, yeah, 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:09.280 it was five years ago, but that was when I 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:12.760 finished decorating my flat and then I had everything I needed. 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:15.079 I just missed going into the store and seeing what 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:18.319 was new, so I created the page to share bargains 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:21.600 with anyone else who may need them, and it man. 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:23.320 I got to keep going window shopping. 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:27.000 Have you always been this thrifty and if so, what 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:29.480 would be the most thriftiest thing you've ever done? Like, 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:33.360 is there any furniture you've recycled or upscaled something? 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:35.199 Yes, definitely. 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:38.600 I've always been one of those people who shots shops 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:41.480 and I get excited over council pickup when people put 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:43.760 their furniture out onto the side of the roads that 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:47.200 they don't want anymore. So I'm glad that now there's 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:49.640 a platform like Facebook Marketplace, so you don't have to 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:52.120 go around in your car at night looking at what 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:55.640 people throw at That's probably the most drastic thing that 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:59.920 I've done is upcycled furniture that people have put out 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:01.040 on the side of the road. 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:04.360 Definitely, but I still am thrifty. Now. 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:06.640 I have a rule that if I want to buy 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:09.760 something in store that's full price, I have to wait 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:12.480 until I've looked at it at least three times before 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:13.679 I decide if I really need it. 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:17.120 And even then, I don't really ever buy anything full price. 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:20.040 I wait until it goes on sale or I'll try 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:22.160 to find a discount code before I purchase it. 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:24.600 Gosh, those are some good tips I think Sophie needs 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:28.040 to implement that well. Christmas is probably is obviously one 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:30.400 of the most expensive times of the year. Just how 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:32.240 important is it to come up with a bit of 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:35.040 a game plan when it comes to budgeting over the 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:35.920 festive season. 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:39.959 Yeah, so Christmas is definitely the most expensive time of 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:43.600 the year for most people, and I think it's something 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:46.520 that you need to budget for all year round. 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:49.480 You can't just get to December and then try to budget. 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:52.480 So for me, I work out how much I'm going 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:55.360 to spend on each person's presence as well as other 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:59.280 spending like social activities over the silly season, how much 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:02.400 money I need for holidays if you're going away, and 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:04.600 then I start saving from the start of the year, 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:07.560 So each week I just put X amount of dollars 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:11.760 into a savings account that's specifically for Christmas. And you know, 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:14.199 if you need two thousand dollars, then each week you 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:18.160 would put forty dollars aside. I also don't touch any 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:21.240 of my Woolworths and Flybys points as well as cash 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:24.480 back money from cash rewards and shot back throughout the year, 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:26.720 and then I claim them at Christmas time. 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:28.000 I do think it's funny. 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:29.599 I get a lot of people on my page that 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:33.000 message me saying, but you know, doesn't make a difference 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:36.079 because it's such a small percentage. Or Flybys points, you 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:39.760 only get ten dollars every two thousand dollars you spend. 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:42.880 But if you're getting the points or cash backs just 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:45.440 for doing normal shopping that you would be doing anyway, 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:49.640 like groceries and petrol, then why not take advantage of it. 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:53.079 There's so many places that do them now that really, 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:55.400 once you roll them all into each other and bundle 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:58.319 it up, I personally always get to blot about six 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:00.880 hundred dollars every year on Christmas time. 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:03.280 Wow, it's so good that you say that, because Amy 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:05.000 pays me out so much. When I bring out my 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:07.880 loyalty cards, like I get shamed in front of the cat. 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:10.240 I'm glad it's because I've been boosting all of my 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:12.440 Woolworth points and it really makes a difference. I keep 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:14.240 getting heaps of these ten dollars out just but I 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:16.320 haven't been saving them, which I probably need to do now. 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:18.640 Yeah, I think it's just a good idea. 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:22.959 It obviously takes a bit of self control, but it 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:26.400 pays off when you know that most expensive time of 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:27.400 the year does come. 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:30.920 What about when it comes to decorations, because I feel 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:33.319 like that's probably a lot of people's favorite part of 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:36.520 Christmas is decorating their home. What are the best stores 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:38.760 to go to to get some bargain decorations. 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:44.520 So I've recently been going everywhere to check out the 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:48.160 Christmas stock and the biggest range and cheap ass options 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:51.000 that I have seen so far is definitely at Kama. 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:54.839 That is your one step shop for decorations, gift giving, 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:58.679 and they've also got a great entertaining and tableware range. 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:02.520 They've got a big range of tree decorations, so you 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:05.960 can get bulk packs where ornaments start at just fifteen cents, 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:10.920 to individual ornaments ranging from one to three dollars, outdoor light, 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:14.320 Santa Sax, costumes, everything like you name it, came up 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:16.280 or have it. I'm also not sure if people know this, 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:20.280 but Christmas stores are literally in every major city that 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:23.200 are open all year round. So because I'm an event manager, 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:26.439 i would run a lot of themed Christmas events and 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:29.920 sometimes people want to do those in July and you 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:31.839 kind of like, oh, well, way do you get bombonds? 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:36.520 So there's actually these things called Christmas Warehouses and they 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:41.120 are all over like Sydney and Melbourne and Brisbane, and 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:46.000 they do large decorations but made with cost effective materials, 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:49.800 so felt snowflakes or Hessian table runners and things like 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:52.559 that that are really cheap. And if you're buying like 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:55.120 a whole family and you need thirty bon bonds, they're 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:57.040 the places that do the really bulk things. So it's 0:13:57.040 --> 0:14:00.960 pretty much like the costco of Christmas Day recreation store. 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:02.800 Oh my gosh, it sounds like heaven. 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:03.400 Now. 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:06.480 Now we've we've been having a debate on the podcast 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:09.760 about real verse fake Christmas trees. I gotta ask do 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:11.600 you have a real tree or a fake one? 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:17.000 So we normally do a real tree in my family. Yes, 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:21.280 because you can get them so readily available now. And 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:23.400 this is something that you guys talked about on a 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:26.400 previous podcast episode and I thought it was funny that 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:29.000 people didn't know that you can get real trees in 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:32.280 Australia because you can get them at Bunnings, you can 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:35.400 get them at Woolworths is actually somewhere that I saw 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:39.360 them last year for seventy dollars, or if you can 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:43.960 go through your local like Footy club or the Lions 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:46.840 Club because those places donate the money to charity and 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:49.360 they sell real trees as well for around one hundred 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:49.920 dollar mark. 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:52.320 Yeah, as a bargain hunter, do you think it's too 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:54.800 extreme to be paying one thousand dollars for Christmas tree? 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:56.560 So if you wanted to get or is that what 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:58.600 you like to eight hundred dollars now? 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:02.360 Yeah, I mean I could never do that. 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:07.200 I think there's definitely like, if you're wanting a tree 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:10.440 to last and you're investing in it, I think go 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:14.720 for like a mid middle of the range tree. But yeah, 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:17.120 there's some of the ones like Balsam Hill, you know, 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:20.400 fifteen hundred dollars. I could personally never spend that. 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:24.080 Actually, we were talking to a client before and she 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:27.280 said that she spent three thousand dollars on her Christmas tree, 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:30.440 so that was including the decorations, and she just whipped 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:31.960 out her phone and showed me a photo. It was 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:35.400 very impressive. But Hill, no, it was actually one from 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:38.359 David Jones, So yeah, it was Hugge. 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:41.720 Heard that to happen like place work in retail, so 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:45.760 people would say that they'd get customers come in that 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:49.400 were time poor but obviously had money, and they just 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:51.480 point at a tree and say, can I buy the 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:51.920 whole thing? 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:55.200 Oh, we decorated and yeah, some of. 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:58.080 Those decorations in like my own David Jones, you know, 0:15:58.400 --> 0:15:59.480 twenty dollars a piece. 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:03.840 Wow, I did hear. I think I read around Christmas 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:05.880 time last year that there is a job going and 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:09.000 you just decorate people's trees. I thought, how amazing would that? 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:11.760 Because I decorated my own tree like three times last 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:13.920 year to try and make it look perfect and it 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:17.200 still lost our podcast poll for the worst. 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:21.880 That would be a really good job. Well, there's people 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:25.280 doing that. It's pantries now. And you know, my sisters 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:27.600 think I should make my page a job and starting 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:28.720 home organization. 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:29.680 You should. 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:33.800 I love being an event manager, so that's great running 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:34.360 the pages. 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:37.880 Well, back to Christmas trees. Is it a good time 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:41.800 to actually buy a fake Christmas tree after Christmas? In 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:44.240 the post Christmas sales or is that? Is it? You 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:47.160 know other decorations too, like is that the best time to. 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:49.400 Buy or yeah? 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:53.360 So it really depends on what level you're going for. 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:57.080 If you're just one in the cheap, you know, kind 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:01.480 of cost effective options from Kmart, tug, big w they're 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:03.640 not going to go on and sale before Christmas, so 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:07.000 you can go now, and it's actually probably better to 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:11.360 go now because things will sell out, especially this year 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:15.080 with coronavirus. There's been delayed to shipping, so I know 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:19.080 some stores are already having trouble getting stock and they're 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:22.640 doing another big drop in November. So yeah, I wouldn't 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:26.000 wait if you're wanting that. But if you are buying 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:29.320 like for example, bus and hill tree or some of 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:32.800 the nicer ornaments from bed Bath and Table or Maya, 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:36.919 then I would either wait for the boxing day sales 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:42.280 or we now also have these new days like after Payday, 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:46.440 Amazon Prime Day, and Black Friday, so they'll fall in 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:49.080 the second half of the year and you can definitely 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:51.320 pick your tree up then if you don't want to 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:54.680 wait until after Christmas. Black Friday actually falls on the 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:57.879 twenty seventh of November for anyone wondering, and that's a 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:01.520 perfect time to get those big ticket items, even presents 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:05.320 as well. If you're buying like electronics, they're all majorly 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:07.560 marked down in the Black Friday sales. 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:10.400 I was going to say, when you mentioned that there'd 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:12.440 be a shortage of Christmas trees, I could literally just 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:15.320 imagine Kate and so Panic buying Christmas decorations right now 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:17.119 in Kama. I wonder if that's going to happen, if 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:19.760 people are just going to be walking around trolley's promote panic. 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:21.920 Yeah noo, yeah. 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:25.560 I think it has been happening. And also, like, because 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:29.320 I'm in Victoria, people you know Melbourne can't go to 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:32.080 the store, so they're just buying things crazily online. And 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:36.600 then regionally, we're only supposed to go, you know, when 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:39.840 we need to. So I definitely have been doing bigger 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:42.400 shops because I used to go to cam Up three 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:45.240