Speaker 1: She's on the Money. She's on the Money.
Speaker 2: Hello and welcome. She's on the Money, the podcast for
Speaker 2: millennials who want financial freedom. Welcome to another one of
Speaker 2: our Friday Drinks episodes where we celebrate the money wins
Speaker 2: and confessions from our Shees on the Money community, because
Speaker 2: there are always so many great money wins and confessions
Speaker 2: that are shared every single week in our Facebook group,
Speaker 2: and the team and I, even though we are in
Speaker 2: lockdown from home, spend a very big part of our
Speaker 2: days and weeks talking about the things that you guys
Speaker 2: share in our group slack chat, not the office because
Speaker 2: we're not there. But this episode is all about celebrating
Speaker 2: you guys and the successes that you have and having
Speaker 2: more positive and constructive conversations around money. So let's jump
Speaker 2: straight into it, Tony, what happened in it this week's
Speaker 2: Money Diary.
Speaker 1: So this week's Money Diary, we took to a lovely
Speaker 1: young lady who has had a pretty rough goal of it.
Speaker 1: She had pretty rough upbringing. Her mum introduced her to
Speaker 1: credit and credit cards quite early in her life, and
Speaker 1: now is actually has come through all of that and
Speaker 1: is now killing it. And she said, oh, I'm a
Speaker 1: waitress and I do all this stuff and we're like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: where do you work? And then she rattled off the
Speaker 1: cost per hour for her to work topless or in
Speaker 1: a bathing suit, and we realized that she's actually a
Speaker 1: stripper and she totally owns it. She fully backs her career.
Speaker 1: It was well, we loved it.
Speaker 2: We just didn't see it coming here. I am thinking
Speaker 2: she's going to be like, yeah, so I work at
Speaker 2: La Palketta and I was like, that is not La Porketta, And.
Speaker 1: She didn't mention it in her email at all. So
Speaker 1: it was really really cool to get a perspective from
Speaker 1: a job that people don't talk about a lot, and
Speaker 1: I mean definitely has a stigma attached to if you
Speaker 1: do that job, it's because of desperation, it's not a choice.
Speaker 1: But Diis this week actually expressed over and over that
Speaker 1: she actually loves what she does and she makes bank
Speaker 1: while she's doing it as well.
Speaker 2: But also she was so smart and so delightful and
Speaker 2: just one of those people that Tony and I walked
Speaker 2: away from that interview being like, oh my god, I
Speaker 2: want to be her friend. She was so nice. But
Speaker 2: I think it's important to really just point out that,
Speaker 2: you know, these roles exist, and there are lots of
Speaker 2: women in now She's on the money community, lots of
Speaker 2: people actually in the community that have roles in the
Speaker 2: sex work industry. And I even have lots of clients
Speaker 2: that work in the sex work industry. And they are
Speaker 2: genuinely some of the nicest people you will ever meet,
Speaker 2: because I think they've always been faced with such adversity
Speaker 2: and so many stereotypes that they are the last people
Speaker 2: to ever judge you. They like so wholesome, and I
Speaker 2: literally love them for that because I just feel like
Speaker 2: they're the type of people that you just want to
Speaker 2: be good friends with and feel like you could tell
Speaker 2: anything to.
Speaker 3: And VI some of the stories that you have about
Speaker 3: clients and how successful they are, it's so easy for
Speaker 3: us to go, oh, you know, what are they doing,
Speaker 3: and then you're like, well, I'll tell you what they're
Speaker 3: doing very well for themselves.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, And I love it.
Speaker 1: I think as well. It's just about opening up the
Speaker 1: conversations around those jobs that people don't really know enough
Speaker 1: about and just have this you know, disillusioned idea from assumptions.
Speaker 1: What yeah, assumptions Watching TV and our money diarists actually said,
Speaker 1: you know, when I tell people what I do, they
Speaker 1: just assume I'm a drug addict. But I'm not that person.
Speaker 1: And I really hope that people listened to that and
Speaker 1: that that changed maybe an idea that they had in
Speaker 1: their head around someone that works in sex work or
Speaker 1: stripping or exotic dancing, because it's so much more than
Speaker 1: what it seems.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. And we were talking about it offline after
Speaker 2: with our money Diris and I likened it to the
Speaker 2: financial services industry and that yeah, there are some pretty
Speaker 2: bad stereotypes about our industry, and you're right, there are
Speaker 2: some really bad eggs, but not everybody in the industry
Speaker 2: is a bad egg and it's really mean to then
Speaker 2: stereotype them based on that experience or that assumption, which
Speaker 2: is not true. So yeah, we'll move away from here.
Speaker 2: We're really passionate about it, but it summarized this sex
Speaker 2: work is real work, and we respect it to the
Speaker 2: end of the earth.
Speaker 4: And so the this week's deep dive, how we go?
Speaker 2: So this week's deep dive was a good one. We
Speaker 2: have tackled the topic before, but you can never tackle
Speaker 2: navigating finances as a couple enough times because there is
Speaker 2: no one size fits all approach. So talking about it
Speaker 2: this week was just really interesting because there's always different
Speaker 2: perspectives on how you should manage money with your partner.
Speaker 2: And I think that the outcome of that was there
Speaker 2: isn't actually a right or a role. I spoke about
Speaker 2: how I manage money with my partner and how Georgia
Speaker 2: might not manage money in the same way. And usually
Speaker 2: with us Georgia, you know what happened on the deep Dive,
Speaker 2: but this week five people on a zoom would have
Speaker 2: just been far, far too much. So Tony and Ryan,
Speaker 2: well done. You made the cut.
Speaker 3: The is it fair to say when you say there's
Speaker 3: no right or wrong answer, would your answer also change
Speaker 3: over time, Like as your relationship changes, you would have
Speaker 3: to update how you do it. So it's not even
Speaker 3: finding the right one for you, but more finding the
Speaker 3: right one for you now and then reconsidering every twelve
Speaker 3: eighteen months or so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely everything changes, right, And I think that that's
Speaker 2: a really important point that you bring up, because you know,
Speaker 2: I use myself as an example here, but you know,
Speaker 2: Steve and I never shared finances until we had a
Speaker 2: mortgage and now we have a mortgage that was kind
Speaker 2: of a catalyst for us to change that and make
Speaker 2: a decision based on what was going on there. So
Speaker 2: you know, it might be a trigger, like having kids
Speaker 2: or changing something. But in saying that doesn't mean you
Speaker 2: need shared finances. You just might find it easy. You
Speaker 2: might love doing that, and that's okay. But I think
Speaker 2: there's nothing wrong with never sharing your finances with your
Speaker 2: partner as long as you're open and honest about what
Speaker 2: is in your bank accounts and you're not actually hiding
Speaker 2: anything or hiding debt or your spending habits from them,
Speaker 2: because that's then completely negative.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, there's a couple of hundred comments on the post
Speaker 3: in the Facebook group that you posted v and it
Speaker 3: feels like there's a couple of hundred different ways to
Speaker 3: go about it that all work well for them. So
Speaker 3: that's actually interesting reading through going oh that this works
Speaker 3: well for us, it's completely different for you guys. Oh,
Speaker 3: we do the complete opposite, and we're found this works
Speaker 3: well for us because of this situation and whatever. So
Speaker 3: just reading through that thread and seeing all the different
Speaker 3: ways you can get still a really great result was
Speaker 3: actually fascinating to see all the different ones in it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But what I learned from all of that, and
Speaker 2: I guess the best summary of that is is the
Speaker 2: key to navigating couples finances is actually communication and talking
Speaker 2: to your partner about how you feel and talking to
Speaker 2: your partner about what you want to do versus what
Speaker 2: they want to do, and deeply understanding why they make
Speaker 2: decisions around money and how they do that. And I
Speaker 2: think that that's where we should all start. Not oh hey,
Speaker 2: I read in the Facebook group that someone does it
Speaker 2: this way and they say it works, and because we're
Speaker 2: the same age, we should do that. Like, that's absolutely
Speaker 2: not the case. Talk to your partner, what are they
Speaker 2: comfortable with? What are you comfortable with? It's actually nobody
Speaker 2: else's business how you manage money with your partner.
Speaker 1: I'm asking Ryan.
Speaker 2: All right, Ryan, I think it is time to get
Speaker 2: into your Ryan's community money wins.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a slight twist on the money wins this week.
Speaker 1: No no twist, no twist.
Speaker 3: Jasmine posted in the group what are your best savings hacks?
Speaker 3: Which I guess a good saving hack is a money win?
Speaker 4: Still right? That still count?
Speaker 2: Right? That might be better? So you get your favorite from
Speaker 2: that thread instead this week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I have, and there's a little side game to
Speaker 3: play as we go through.
Speaker 4: I want to know if.
Speaker 3: I want to know if any of us feel attacked
Speaker 3: with any of the specific hacks, and you'll know what
Speaker 3: I mean when we get to them, all right. Number one,
Speaker 3: this is from NOMSA. She says, just because something is
Speaker 3: on special doesn't mean you are saving.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Man, that's a I definitely agree with that one.
Speaker 2: It's a way that I convince myself I need things
Speaker 2: so I feel attacked. You're not not that attack though.
Speaker 1: I definitely do that because I go like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: this thing that's normally two thousand dollars is fifteen hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: And my boyfriend Torbs goes, yeah, but do you want
Speaker 1: to spend fifteen hundred dollars anyway? I'm like, you're so smart. No,
Speaker 1: I don't real.
Speaker 2: Sure him finances a genius.
Speaker 4: Jessica says.
Speaker 3: My savings hack is the never step foot inside a
Speaker 3: kmart and they got.
Speaker 4: A lot of fun.
Speaker 2: That's a very good but good hack.
Speaker 1: I've actually recently started, and I don't know if this
Speaker 1: is a good or bad thing, but I've had to
Speaker 1: start muting an unfollowing brand Instagram pages that I really
Speaker 1: like because whenever they post, I really like their aesthetic
Speaker 1: and their vibe and things like that. And I just
Speaker 1: find that I buy so much stuff and I can't
Speaker 1: even blame it on sponsored advertising because I'm putting it
Speaker 1: into my own feed. So I'm like, Okay, I've got
Speaker 1: to take it out. I'm doing this to myself. I'm
Speaker 1: zucking myself because I'm literally and putting it into my
Speaker 1: own eyelines. So I've had to out I'm following and
Speaker 1: meeting all these accounts. That's my hack.
Speaker 2: Oh good hack, Tony.
Speaker 4: Maddie's hack, and this is straight at me.
Speaker 3: Eat the food you have in your own house before
Speaker 3: you go and buy takeaway food.
Speaker 2: Okay, Maddie. Nobody asks that specific tip, but my uber
Speaker 2: eats orders. Especially over the last week, I would say
Speaker 2: that I don't have food at home, when that is
Speaker 2: not true.
Speaker 1: Yeah, aren't you having provodor tonight for dinner?
Speaker 2: I am actually having provodor for dinner tonight. I felt like,
Speaker 2: for a little bit of context, our whole She's on
Speaker 2: the Money team is based in Melbourne and all of
Speaker 2: us are in lockdown right now, and this week's been
Speaker 2: a bit challenging for me, and so yesterday I decided
Speaker 2: that I would order a fancy dinner on provod Or
Speaker 2: for my partner and I And after this recording, guys,
Speaker 2: we are having date night yourself. It's just I guess
Speaker 2: it doesn't even matter that we're having provod Or for
Speaker 2: dinner like that is quite fan. I think it's like
Speaker 2: one hundred dollars And I guess that's my money confession
Speaker 2: this week. Just jumping ahead for a second, but I
Speaker 2: think it is actually really important while we're in lockdown
Speaker 2: to just you know, appreciate food and use that as
Speaker 2: kind of an event. And if you've got a partner
Speaker 2: and you're at home or you've got some housemates, instead
Speaker 2: of just eating dinner, like go and sit at the
Speaker 2: table and have a conversation and get a deck of
Speaker 2: cards out or get a board game out and kind
Speaker 2: of make an evening of it, because you know, lockdown
Speaker 2: is really hard on us and you might not feel
Speaker 2: like doing it, but I guarantee you'll feel a lot
Speaker 2: better having done something instead of just another night eating
Speaker 2: dinner in front of the TV on the couch. And
Speaker 2: I just think that, you know, regardless of what you're eating,
Speaker 2: even if you're having like honey sandwiches for dinner, Like
Speaker 2: just get up and eat it somewhere different in your
Speaker 2: house and just kind of make it, make a vibe
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 1: That's a really good idea.
Speaker 3: Speaking of feeling attacked, Victoria saying to eat dinner at
Speaker 3: the actual table is one of the most aggressive things.
Speaker 4: I've ever hed.
Speaker 1: I know. That's like your mum yelling at you to
Speaker 1: clean your room because dinner is ready, Like like we're
Speaker 1: coming out and you were eating dinner as a family, Like.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll do it.
Speaker 2: Your mum always called you out for dinner before it
Speaker 2: was actually ready. She's like me out of the room
Speaker 2: and be like hey, Victoria, dinner's ready, and you'd like
Speaker 2: run down thinking dinner was ready in the actual faction
Speaker 2: wanted you to set the table. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Maybe that was just you, Victoria, because you knew you're
Speaker 4: always late.
Speaker 1: Oh today I'm attacking Victoria. Wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, So let's put it on an attack some
Speaker 3: other people instead. Hey, Barbara said, this is actually really impressive.
Speaker 3: Barbara said, my goal in twenty twenty one was to
Speaker 3: not buy work lunches, and so far five months in,
Speaker 3: I haven't bought a single lunch. I've food prepped, and
Speaker 3: I've planned a head and I've had leftovers from last
Speaker 3: night's dinner. Not a single lunch this year, Barbara. What
Speaker 3: a savingsack that is?
Speaker 2: Barbara's Oh, I see you. But do you know what?
Speaker 2: You know how we were attacking people on this episode?
Speaker 2: Hey Ryan, remember how you said you weren't going to
Speaker 2: buy a takeaway coffee?
Speaker 3: So coming up next, we've got a money Actually you
Speaker 3: can see me on the screen. Now what am I holding?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I take a coffee.
Speaker 4: Coffee yep, yep, guilty.
Speaker 1: Investing your five dollars a day or whatever I am.
Speaker 3: It goes into spaceship steel. So it's well done, thank you,
Speaker 3: I'll take I agree.
Speaker 1: So you're buying a coffee and saving the money.
Speaker 4: Gosh, doing pretty good.
Speaker 3: Moira says. Every few months, I go with my mum.
Speaker 3: It's a costco and that has saved us a fortune
Speaker 3: since we've started doing it. It's we put it in
Speaker 3: the calendar, so it's like yep, once we go, yep,
Speaker 3: in five weeks we'll go again. On a Sunday, we
Speaker 3: get one of those big trolleys and she gets like
Speaker 3: big chickens for the family, and big because it's Costco.
Speaker 3: Is all kind of bulk by, right, And she said
Speaker 3: the amount of money we've saved is awesome. But she
Speaker 3: said it's also even though it's a big day, the
Speaker 3: one day we do it, then it's done for the month.
Speaker 3: It's all in the freezer, good to go. We've saved
Speaker 3: a heap of time and a heap of money.
Speaker 1: I've got a question. Earlier, we said, should we just
Speaker 1: buy things because they're cheap? No, that's what I would do.
Speaker 1: If I went to Costco. I don't need a coffin,
Speaker 1: but they sell them there, so I would buy one.
Speaker 1: Like I'd be like, oh, I just in case, Like
Speaker 1: I just if I went to Costco, I'm gonna buy
Speaker 1: a hundred of those dollar hot dogs out the front.
Speaker 1: And I don't need those hot dogs.
Speaker 2: I am that person, Tony. Last time I went, I
Speaker 2: ended up buying a one kilo tub of peanut butter
Speaker 2: filled pretzels. Like I didn't need that, but I saw
Speaker 2: it and I needed it.
Speaker 1: And you're like, wow, it's such good value. It'd be
Speaker 1: rude not to And then you end up with a
Speaker 1: kilo's worth of pretzels, a coffin, and ten dog kennels.
Speaker 4: I don't need all money not to buy it.
Speaker 1: I also have.
Speaker 2: Really good socks, so I always buy the socks, but
Speaker 2: I don't need those.
Speaker 1: I've saved so much money. I've basically made money. And
Speaker 1: that's just not how.
Speaker 2: It isn't how it works. But I think that maybe
Speaker 2: costco is for people who have a little more self
Speaker 2: restraint than we do. Totally.
Speaker 3: The final savings hack is from Carmela, who, like a
Speaker 3: lot of us, lockdown is helping her save and she said,
Speaker 3: because now I don't get white girl wasted every single
Speaker 3: weekend and waste money on designer shies that I like
Speaker 3: to wear to the clubs. So the drinks and the
Speaker 3: clothes is saving me a fortune.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm very proud.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a great hack that.
Speaker 2: Required a lot of saving, but also arguably a lot
Speaker 2: of self reflections. All right, now we are back, But
Speaker 2: before we get into money wins and confessions, Tony, there
Speaker 2: was a very interesting post in our Facebook group recently
Speaker 2: about no spend May. What was going on with that?
Speaker 1: So someone in our community posted about the idea of
Speaker 1: doing a no spend May. And before you say Oh
Speaker 1: my god, So how are you going to live and
Speaker 1: pay rent and eat and all those things. I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure that what it boiled down to is that your
Speaker 1: bills and your rent and your utilities and all of
Speaker 1: those things can be paid for, but no auxiliary spending
Speaker 1: like buying your lunch for at work, like by hid.
Speaker 2: That's an interesting way of putting it. Oh, I don't
Speaker 2: think I've never term it. Sounds fancy. Let's continue using that, yeh?
Speaker 1: Should we say that? Should that be the buzz word.
Speaker 2: Of the day? Well, Hillary spending this week, Tony.
Speaker 3: I think that should be the title of the episode,
Speaker 3: purely because I'd click on it to be like, what
Speaker 3: the hell is that?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: Hang on? Should I google it and make sure it
Speaker 1: actually means what I think it means?
Speaker 2: Not, because it's actually better if you're wrong, Okay, great.
Speaker 1: Well that's fine, we'll leave it. We'll leave it in basically, yeah,
Speaker 1: so it doesn't include any of your bills or anything.
Speaker 1: It's just everything else, like not going out and buying coffee,
Speaker 1: not buying clothes or makeup or sports equipment that you
Speaker 1: don't need or whatever. And I looked at it, and
Speaker 1: I thought that would be easy right, because you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: I could not buy clothes for a month, it's not so.
Speaker 1: As we're recording this May's just finished. Halfway through May,
Speaker 1: one of the girls that was participating in No Spend
Speaker 1: May inside of our group. So a few hundred people
Speaker 1: ended up joining our original poster and taking on this
Speaker 1: No Spend May halfway through the so cool?
Speaker 2: How awesome is that that they all get together and
Speaker 2: have their little challenges And it makes me feel bad
Speaker 2: because I'm like, oh, maybe we should have done something
Speaker 2: for that. And if you guys have any ideas on
Speaker 2: what challenges that she's on the Money team could put
Speaker 2: together for you or things you want created, like we
Speaker 2: are all is sliding too our dms with your ideas
Speaker 2: because Tony and I want to do more interesting stuff.
Speaker 1: Well, I reckon we could maybe get an idea out
Speaker 1: of this. But so halfway through, on the fifteenth of May,
Speaker 1: Bridget posted how is it going with their No Spend May?
Speaker 1: And so she was halfway through and I can't believe this.
Speaker 1: So inside up bank, it categorizes your spending into good life,
Speaker 1: which is your auxiliary spending, and house which is rant,
Speaker 1: and then it comes down to bills which is like
Speaker 1: all your utilities and stuff. It breaks everything down into
Speaker 1: four categories. Her good life spending the month before was
Speaker 1: one eight hundred and thirty six dollars, which includes like
Speaker 1: dinners out and going out for drinks and all of
Speaker 1: those things. Halfway through May in her no spend May
Speaker 1: in her good life account one hundred and six dollars.
Speaker 2: WHOA isn't that like seventeen hundred dollars in advance and
Speaker 2: that potentially does that mean she's saving that much?
Speaker 1: Well, I hope, so, I hope it means that she's
Speaker 1: put that money away.
Speaker 2: Seventeen hundred dollars in a month. That's so long.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not sustainable every month because we have
Speaker 1: to because you know, we have to enjoy ourselves and
Speaker 1: treat ourselves. And it's like, if you're on a really
Speaker 1: restrictive diet, you like really want an ice cream, you
Speaker 1: can't not eat ice cream forever because why would you.
Speaker 2: You end up binging. So like, if you stick to
Speaker 2: something like this for the long term, you'll end up
Speaker 2: blowing out and having like a massive blowout of spending
Speaker 2: and it's just not fun or nice. But I think
Speaker 2: these challenges where it's short term and you're just achieving
Speaker 2: a short term goal that makes you feel really good,
Speaker 2: Like why can't we do that every couple of months
Speaker 2: and go, you know what this month and being really
Speaker 2: restrictive because I'm going to make.
Speaker 1: Bank yeah, or you know that's like a really good
Speaker 1: bit of little cash for if you're saving for something,
Speaker 1: or so you really really want to buy a Gucci handbag,
Speaker 1: you're like, oh my god, I want to say for that,
Speaker 1: so I'm not going to go out to eat all months,
Speaker 1: like pretty amazing. Catherine said, I adopted a puppy, so
Speaker 1: not going very well, with lots of photos of a
Speaker 1: miniature Dushions, which is quite cute. So cute. And Amelia
Speaker 1: posted a screenshot of her bank account as well and
Speaker 1: said not great, but better than last month. Her cash
Speaker 1: out for the whole of April was five ninety six
Speaker 1: dollars and her cash out for the first half of
Speaker 1: May was one thousand, six hundred and ninety four dollars.
Speaker 4: That's so huge, Yeah.
Speaker 2: So pretty esot, but like those are big numbers, Like
Speaker 2: I thought you were going to have example of people
Speaker 2: being like yep, she spent like, you know, six hundred
Speaker 2: dollars on going out and you know, discretionary spending and
Speaker 2: then she spent fifty Like those are massive. Thank you
Speaker 2: so much to our community for sharing stuff like that too,
Speaker 2: because you know, it's special that they're going to share
Speaker 2: literal numbers with our community about what they're spending and
Speaker 2: what they're saving. But how motivating is it when people
Speaker 2: aren't just like, yeah, I'm doing well on my challenge,
Speaker 2: but they're actually like, check out this screenshot of how
Speaker 2: much I've saved. You're like, oh my god, that's amazing.
Speaker 2: I'm going to try and do the same thing. Like
Speaker 2: it's the numbers that really make it tangible and really.
Speaker 4: Motivating, and you're like, oh, here we go. I'm so
Speaker 4: pumped for this. Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: It's kind of the retrospective like opposite of sitting down
Speaker 1: with your with a highlighter looking at your bank accounts
Speaker 1: like you say to DOOV. It's kind of like, oh,
Speaker 1: I didn't spend that money. It's actually in my account
Speaker 1: and I can see it and it makes you feel
Speaker 1: really good. And there was heaps of people commenting saying
Speaker 1: that they'd saved money or it wasn't going really well,
Speaker 1: but they made a bit of a difference. And that's
Speaker 1: all that.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: These things are just like little challenges that you can do.
Speaker 1: But I think it would be really fun if we
Speaker 1: could do one like and everybody could join in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so too. So if anybody's got any ideas,
Speaker 2: please tag us or slide into our DNS and let
Speaker 2: us know.
Speaker 4: I think I've got an idea.
Speaker 2: What is it.
Speaker 3: Let's do no save September where we all just blow
Speaker 3: all of our account.
Speaker 2: No, we'll no do that because two years ago in
Speaker 2: the read this one, you've completely misread this. I don't
Speaker 2: think you've met the brief. Go back to the drawing board.
Speaker 2: In twenty nineteen, I actually did a challenge with the
Speaker 2: community when you guys definitely weren't nearly as big. But
Speaker 2: I did savings September and I had a really cute
Speaker 2: like chart that you could.
Speaker 4: I do remember this. Yeah that was great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're trying to suggest the exact opposite.
Speaker 3: Opposite Yeah, okay, mist full Well, what if we if
Speaker 3: we did like a no spend month, which could be
Speaker 3: September or otherwise. But if v I'm sure with your
Speaker 3: exl or someone's skills, everyone entered the amount of money
Speaker 3: they saved. So then as a community we could be
Speaker 3: at the end of the month like we have saved
Speaker 3: collectively one million dollars or something as a group like that.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, yes, we can totally do that. I
Speaker 2: can set up a Google spreadsheet where you guys can
Speaker 2: just add your number to a form and it will
Speaker 2: automatically update the spreadsheet. Oh. I'm going to work on this.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I'm so excited.
Speaker 3: I shouldn't have mentioned it with distracted v We won't
Speaker 3: see it for another few weeks because you'd be working
Speaker 3: on the spreadsheet the back end.
Speaker 1: I'm so excited about this. Can we end the podcast
Speaker 1: here or do we have to do our wins and confessions?
Speaker 1: Because I really want to talk.
Speaker 2: About to do your wins and confessions?
Speaker 3: Tony's are so pumped to talk about the savings of
Speaker 3: a million dollars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to say a million dollars Before we go, Tony,
Speaker 2: we do want to go through our money wins or confessions,
Speaker 2: so let's fly through those before I jump back into
Speaker 2: Google spreadsheets. Tony, what was your money win or confession
Speaker 2: this week?
Speaker 1: I've got a confession.
Speaker 2: Oh no, but also, what is it?
Speaker 1: So like we said at the beginning of our podcast,
Speaker 1: we're in lockdown at the moment here in Melbourne, which
Speaker 1: has made everything feel really hard, and you know, the
Speaker 1: emotions compound and it just, you know, you want to
Speaker 1: buy yourself nice things. So I've done the opposite of
Speaker 1: no spend May and I've just been buying lots of
Speaker 1: dumb things that make me feel good that it's not real,
Speaker 1: that it's just nice, and I'm just I don't want
Speaker 1: anybody else to feel bad that's doing this. But I've
Speaker 1: definitely been dipping in to the old account to buy
Speaker 1: makeup that I can't wear at the moment because very
Speaker 1: in lockdown.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but if you've got if it makes you feel good.
Speaker 2: I think that just take down is genuinely so mentally
Speaker 2: taxing and so hard. And you know, if you're in
Speaker 2: a state that hasn't experienced this, you are so lucky.
Speaker 2: But it is such a drainer. And Tony, you and
Speaker 2: I were actually talking about this yesterday and I said, oh,
Speaker 2: the afternoons are worse. It's as though you can get
Speaker 2: up in the morning and start their morning off and
Speaker 2: then the afternoons just feel really flat and yeah, not
Speaker 2: so nice. Yeah, So it's just it's a hard place
Speaker 2: to be, and you know, we are so lucky that
Speaker 2: we are in a position where, you know, we're clearly
Speaker 2: still working. But you know, I guess our hearts go
Speaker 2: out to you because it is so challenging and so hard.
Speaker 2: But staying home is putting everybody else in a better situation,
Speaker 2: and I guess that's something that's been really helpful to
Speaker 2: me over the past couple of days. And that's just
Speaker 2: you know, knowing that if my part to play in
Speaker 2: this whole global pandemic is staying home as much as
Speaker 2: possible in the comfort of my own home, then I
Speaker 2: am literally an indecently lucky person who owes literally everything
Speaker 2: to all of the people that are working on the
Speaker 2: front lines of this. And you know, I think that's
Speaker 2: the least we can do, as much as it is
Speaker 2: really challenging.
Speaker 3: And just to add to what you're both saying, So
Speaker 3: I work at the radio station KISS, right, and we're
Speaker 3: doing a thing at the moment where we're like paying
Speaker 3: people's debts and stuff like that, and yeah, I reckon
Speaker 3: ninety percent of the people I've spoken to this week
Speaker 3: in the station's only in Melbourne. Everyone said the same thing. Oh,
Speaker 3: I've just been buying stuff online. It makes me feel
Speaker 3: a bit better. I just don't know. It just gives
Speaker 3: me something to look forward to because this thing's going
Speaker 3: to arrive. And every single person sounds a little bit
Speaker 3: sheepish and that they feel like they're the only one
Speaker 3: doing this silly thing.
Speaker 4: And I tell all of them, no, the people I
Speaker 4: speak to much same thing.
Speaker 3: So if you're feeling a bit guilty for some online
Speaker 3: purchases at home in Melbourne, the one thing you get
Speaker 3: to do each day is go to the front door
Speaker 3: and get something that arives, just know that you're not
Speaker 3: the only one. In fact, you're in the huge majority there.
Speaker 3: So if that makes you feel a bit better about it,
Speaker 3: just know that.
Speaker 1: Thank you. And I hope that that makes other people
Speaker 1: feel better as well, because it's a really hard time.
Speaker 1: So anyway, Ryan, do you have a money win or confession?
Speaker 3: I don't know if this is a win or confession.
Speaker 3: I thought it was a win, but after we did
Speaker 3: those savings hacks earlier where a few people mentioned just
Speaker 3: because it's on special doesn't mean you're winning.
Speaker 4: I don't know where.
Speaker 2: I look My money win or confession is going to
Speaker 2: be similar. So what's yours.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, just overall, I've spent a little bit less money.
Speaker 3: But I got a notification from Uber eats during the
Speaker 3: week and it was like this double payday, double double.
Speaker 1: Day day, double day day Armor.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that came through and it's essentially whatever, it's
Speaker 3: like two for the prices wine essentially. And I got
Speaker 3: home and I was like, hey, Bridge, have a look
Speaker 3: at this, and she's like, what, so we have to
Speaker 3: I'm like.
Speaker 4: Oh, it's a saving We're saving money. Be cost us
Speaker 4: money not to get takeaway.
Speaker 1: And supporting small business. You ordered from a local business.
Speaker 4: I did order from a local business. I am you know.
Speaker 3: It is a win for Ryan. I'm going back to
Speaker 3: being a winner. I'm just supporting business, a hero. Thank you,
Speaker 3: appreciate it. Here I am for society, all right, the
Speaker 3: take us home?
Speaker 4: What do we go?
Speaker 2: So I have made a purchase this week that was
Speaker 2: kind of impulse. Working from home, my house is quite
Speaker 2: cold and I really wanted a new pair of ug boots.
Speaker 2: So I bought ug boots. And they're not the cheapest
Speaker 2: thing in the world, like good ug boots are a
Speaker 2: little bit spano, And I was willing to do it.
Speaker 1: They are.
Speaker 3: You can feel the difference though right the quality of
Speaker 3: the real original art.
Speaker 2: Absolutely can and they are arguably the most Victorian mine
Speaker 2: you've seen in your life.
Speaker 1: For anybody that can't see Victoria, which is every single
Speaker 1: person in the world except Brian and I, they are
Speaker 1: a pink, fluffy ug boot with a pink bow on
Speaker 1: the back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they are the most Victoria divine pair of mug
Speaker 2: boots I've ever scene.
Speaker 4: But that's going to say.
Speaker 3: I was like a pair of ug boots in your
Speaker 3: shoe cupboard that I have walked into. I was like,
Speaker 3: I don't know if they would look the part, but
Speaker 3: now that I've seen them, they actually suit the rest
Speaker 3: of your shoe cupboard, so.
Speaker 4: Your shoe thank you.
Speaker 2: I'm here all day. But I did end up saving
Speaker 2: like eighty dollars on them because it turns out I'm
Speaker 2: probably the only person who does want pink ug boots
Speaker 2: to the other normal colors they were on sale, which
Speaker 2: is money win for me. Guys.
Speaker 1: I believe. I can't believe no one else wanted to
Speaker 1: purchase those pink ug boots with a pink so weird,
Speaker 1: but you know what they're going to sell out now
Speaker 1: now that.
Speaker 2: We've they are really cute, guys.
Speaker 3: Of all the brands I've worked with, this is going
Speaker 3: to be the one we're like, oh my god, Victoria,
Speaker 3: she's the pink ugboot girl.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're not even working with them, like well we
Speaker 2: should in Australia. If you want to reach out.
Speaker 1: We'll put a picture of the ug Boots up on
Speaker 1: our Instagram because they're just they're very Victoria divine. I
Speaker 1: love it life. Not consistent to your brand?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't say I'm not consistent, guys. I'm committed
Speaker 2: to the course and very committed. All right, I think
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