March 12, 2026 • 14 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Murphy Salmon Jody After the Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
We touched on this today and three Things to Know,
but it deserves more attention. How to stop buying things
you don't need? We all do it, and one of
the best pieces of advice was like whoa, and that
is pause and give it twenty four hours before you purchase.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Now we're not talking about a bag of mon show's
at the store.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Yeah, although it's good for me to pause and wait
twenty four hours, considering that I'm waiting to or losing weight.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
You are, But we're talking about whatever.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Another flashlight, Sam, is that what you Is that one
of the things that you buy most?
Speaker 4 (00:37):
I just bought another one recently.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Did you really have you done account at your house
of how many flashlights you have?
Speaker 4 (00:43):
I have a drawer that's full of all my flashlights.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
So how often do you use a flat?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Couple dozens, a couple dozen really flashlights?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Hey? Though?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Are they all variety different types?
Speaker 4 (00:55):
That's my problem. I got little square ones that are
really bright you can hang on your backpack or a chain.
I got some with magnets you can put under the
car while you're working on it.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
How often do you use a flashlight?
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Do you once every two or three weeks?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
That's more than I use them.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
That's not the correct Crest question, though Murphy can back
me up on this.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Yeah, I mean so, I mean the it doesn't it's
it's there when you need it. Yes, But you know,
I actually have curtailed my purchase of flashlights. I have
them in different areas. I like the ones with the
side option or the front option because those are the
most helpful. I have one little headlamp with a strap.
That's the one that I use for anything and uh
and anything, I mean anything that I need. You know,
(01:38):
if you've got a if you got a drill in
your hand and you need light on whatever it is,
that's why you use that. But I don't think I
have more than maybe I probably have nine flashlights maybe.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Which is excessive to me too, do you think so?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yes, they're all in the right they're all in the
rooms they need to be in.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
I have this one light this.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Is becoming the Flashlight Podcast.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
It's called an O light and it's a it's a
globe and it's got a you know button on the bottom.
You can turn it on, making any color you wanted
different flashes and strobes.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Or it's got like rainbow, so that's just for fun.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Is no purpose for this light except except for fun?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Is it soothing?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
No?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
I mean for ambyonce?
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Yeah, So do you sit in a dark room play
with that light?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Now?
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Sometimes I'll have the lights off in my room, like
if I'm listening to music or something, I'll put that
on because it's more of the moon booty thing.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Okay, it's technically not a flashlight though, right, that's really
just a it's an ambient light light.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
I'm not really trying to pick on you.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I thought of that when you when when I said
how to stop buying things you don't need in the
show today and three things, your face was like, oh
I need to know this information, and I thought, flashlight.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
I do I know? You saying because by the way,
the new flashlight I bought, you're gonna love this one, Murphy.
I bought it. Well, I can't say who I bought
it for. It's a gift for birthday coming up. It's
about two or three feet long, and says it's flexible.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Oh, Jenny gave me one of those. Oh what, yeah,
didn't you? You gave me a flight when.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
That wraps around your arm. Yeah, the snake light, ye.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Yeah, the whole light is flexible and I don't know
how it works, but I can't wait to see it.
I may not give it as a gift if it
really is cool, because I need another flashlight.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Of course, twenty five you haven't filled every draweery yet,
so what you're describing, Jody just sounds like basic impulse buying.
It's the reason that marketing works so well for the
emotional component, because once you're emotionally connected to something and
excited about it, your rational mind starts to leave and
you're going to tend to gravitate towards You're going to
(03:31):
you're going to figure out all the reasons to justify
the purchase.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Correct and you know, you buy what you want. But
they do say at the end of the year, if
you were to sit down with someone an accountant or
whoever and look at things like that, it's thousands of
dollars that we spend on things we don't really need.
Now there's the opposite of that spectrum, you know, like
(03:55):
my grandparents would not buy anything extra. You know, I
just wouldn't do it. My grandmother and grandfather and rightly so.
Depression era.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Yeah, they were the depression era, you know, where things
were scarce and you didn't squander a penny because there
wasn't an extra penny to be made. Fortunately, we're in
a different environmental we are.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
We're in a consumer society.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
But everybody's always trying to watch the budgets and it
does in our economy.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
It adds up.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
To thousands of dollars every year if you were really
to look at it. So the biggest piece of advice
was wait, give yourself twenty four hours to decide if
this is a need or a want.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
So I think that's smart if it's a big purchase.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
I think when you said that in three things to
now it's like ding, yeah four. I want to start
doing that because with me, and I don't want to
blame technology for it, because I'm the one to blame.
I'm the one hitting the buttons. But technologies made it
so much easier because it used to be I got
to get up and go get my credit card and
(04:55):
that now touch with cart purchase. You use this a
card yet yes boom yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Not just that it's targeting you. It knows you like
flash lights.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
So is there a threshold in your head though all
these things that you're in by, is there a financial threshold?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
So the reason I'm asking that question is because sometimes
the smallest things add up to the biggest cost long term,
and we don't think long term. It's really funny to
me that, you know, the it took me a while
to learn that that mindset. Because we have we have
we have really good what's the word I'm looking for
a complicated relationship? I think with money because there are
(05:37):
dollar figures in benchmarks in our head that we think
are too much, yet we don't pay any attention to those,
and we're buying small stuff and they add up. It's
really funny, how you know, you'll you will look at
something and go three hundred bucks. I don't know it's
three hundred bucks all it takes ten thirty dollars things
that you buy and you've spent You spent three hundred dollars.
You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Why it really pays to look at what you've spent
on what like, what do you have to show for it?
Speaker 3 (06:02):
When you've spent so much money?
Speaker 4 (06:04):
And me having two dozen flashlights multiply that times ten
or fifteen bucks. Ten bucks for a flashlight that does
cool things. Yeah, no problem. Well now I have three
four hundred dollars worth of flashlights.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
No one's saying it's wrong or right. It's up to you,
but it is something. If you know that you need
to curtail that kind of spending. I know what I'll
spend on. I know what my impulse by stuff is
me too. What's yours, Murphy? Would you say?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
I would say it's mostly electronics period, Yes.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Not a lot. But Murphy, you don't strike me as
the impulse. Oh look get it. You strike me as
they Oh yeah, I could use that. Let me do
my homework and make sure that's the right one.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
That's exactly what I do.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Because he does do that.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
He does do the research, but there is almost an
obsessive thing about it. He won't forget it until he's
had a decision and it's made and it's usually purchased.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Like you, you take your time, your caution. You're impulsive
with caution.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Yeah, well, I mean, because you've got a lot of
things that you're considering it. You know, it's it depends
on what you're choosing. I'm not going to stress over
something that's thirty dollars if I really need it, you know,
And I don't excuse me. I guess I do a
little more deep diving today because on Amazon, even on Amazon,
there's junk and then there's good stuff and the reviews
(07:28):
and you have to make sure, okay, where these did
or did the reviews come from people who actually sampled
and were given these for free before.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
There are some of those.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
And it goes back to what my parents taught me
a long time ago. And they were very hard working,
you know, and there was not a lot of extra
money lying around. But when they bought something, they did
not buy the cheapest thing they could find, nor did
they stray from something just because you know, they thought
(07:58):
it was too expensive. Because they wanted to invest in
something that would last.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
They thought their purchases through.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
They did that with their cars, they did that with
you know. My dad, you know, had a great stereo system.
Why because he loved music and he wasn't done cheap out,
you know on something like that, and he saved his
money and that's what, you know, what he bought. So
I guess that's why when I'm doing the research, Sam,
that you're talking about. I'm looking for the value, the equality,
(08:25):
all those things together bundled into the price. If I've
saved up enough, you know, for it, you just kind
of have to know going you know, into it, this
is what it costs. And if you really really want
it and it's really that good and you know you're
going to get ten years out of it or whatever,
and you saved and you're not going to put your
family in some sort of a financial crisis, then it's
a personal choice. People absolutely get to spend their money
(08:47):
on what they you know, want to spend it on,
and their credit honestly in many cases on what they
want to spend it on.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Yeah, this information is you know from financial experts, like
the impulse of buying gets you in trouble before you
realize it. So that's why the advice about the twenty
four hours and the impulse. So you definitely are electronics.
I'm glad that you know and recognize that you is
our flashlights your only thing, Sam.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
No, there's just like that weed burner I bought recently,
you know, the torch.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Yeah, it's gadgets, cool stuff that you think it's cool.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Yeah, Okay, and by the way, I'll admit right here
publicly that was a waste of money. Oh I've tried it.
It does what it says, but you would not believe
how loud this thing is. Oh really, Oh my god.
It's like I turned it on and it's like, okay,
that's not really burning the weeds. So it's like, oh,
I can crank it up. And when you crank it
up and it's like, I'm not doing this in this
(09:47):
neighborhood because it's that loud. People or right across the
fence and it's like, what is he doing over there? Yeah? Wow? Yeah,
so that's a wood and learn.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Yeah, that's an impulse by that you if you had known.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
By the way, is anybody looking for a uh I'm
looking towards.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
You know what you're saying the how much did you
pay for that thing? I'm just curious you can resell it.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
If it's itty five it.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Maybe somebody maybe Facebook marketplace.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
But the other thing that you're saying, Jodi, about the
impulse buying really goes for anything else. If you have
if you're in a situation that upsets you and you're
tempted to fire off an email or call and give
somebody a piece of your mind. They say it's good
to wait twenty four hours before you do that too.
The advice really, any anything that makes you emotionally a
charge before you make some sort of a life changing
(10:39):
decision of some sort, they just say, wait, get let
the emotion part, you know, clear. But it's tough to do,
and when the purchase thing, especially when you're in the
moment and then you have that whole Amazon's another perfect example,
Lightning deals. Yeah, well, of course you can't avoid.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Those Amazon days Prime Day.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
We only got three dollars, three hours and twenty seconds,
let to make this decision. But they again, it's all
the same psychological the same tools.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Just so.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
The other one that they use on Amazon is, hey,
we can deliver this this afternoon as long as you
reach twenty five dollars. Now, I don't know, you only
bought six dollars worth of stuff, but if you get
it up to twenty five, we'll sit in a hall
over this afternoon. And it's like, well, I can find
something else.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
You need to keep your hat about you.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
The other advice is recognize your emotional triggers. Are you
doing are you shopping emotionally? Are you doing retail therapy
like I do? Yeah, you know recognize that. And why
are you buying this to feel better? Do you need
another black dress?
Speaker 4 (11:39):
You know?
Speaker 3 (11:39):
I ask myself those questions when shopping things like that.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
I've held off on the bath bombs as much lately
because bath bombs are not cheap, no.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
And they're gone and then you use them and they're gone,
you use.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Them in Yeah. So I mean Walmart says an expensive one,
So if I need it, if the urge hits me,
I might go over there and get it. But I've
been laying off on those because it's like, I want it,
but it is a retail therapy purchase for me.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Yeah, Okay.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
The thing is if it though, it brings you joy
and peace and that kind of stuff, then you know,
I mean, again, none of us are on the planet.
None of us are on the planet forever. Yeah, And
so if we're really holding off on everything in life
until some mysterious end that none of us have any
idea when it's actually going to occur, then you know
it's you also shouldn't deny yourself, I guess, is what
(12:26):
I'm saying. If it's within your budget means, and it
brings you joy. That's what you're working for. Why do
you come to work every single day? If you're not
going to do some things agree, then you know that
enhance your life if you've got the ability, you know
to to do it. I guess is what I'm saying.
And I don't mean spending fortunes. That's not what I'm
talking about at all.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Yeah, buying yourself flowers, whatever it is. Yes, Yeah, they're
just saying for people who this is a real problem.
If you are dropping a lot of money on design
or coffee, have you looked at it at the end
of the month, how much that's a good one. That
was always an good indication for me when all of
that arrived in our lives and was on every corner.
(13:06):
I used to drink it almost every day until we
together looked at it and you didn't say you need
to stop doing this, Jodie. I saw it, and I
was like, I'm going to stop doing this. And so
now it's only every once in a while, and it's fine,
but I would We were drinking designer coffee a lot,
and we were drinking money. Yeah, and I love it,
(13:27):
but I just you know, just paying more attention to it.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
You know, I just think about so when I think
of you, Sam, and I think about relaxation, there are
two things that I think of, your bath and your
beat and your patio because they're the things that you
talk about, you know, the most. So I'm almost surprised
to hear you curtail something that's part of your relaxation.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Well, you know, you got to understand, I've weaned myself
off of expensive bath bombs, but they're still bubble bath
is not expensive, right, Candles. I have tons of candles. Okay,
you know, I may not have the bomb in the water,
but I got bubbles and I got a candle burning behind,
so you still have the ambiance. Zip it, Jody. And
you know outside I have like a strings of Edison
(14:09):
strings of Edison lights on my patio. Yeah, got our
color change, so I like to have blue or purple. Yeah.
And I go out there and I chill with that
smart Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah, you can change your game a little bit that way,
you take a break from the bath bombs. When they
come back, you can appreciate them.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
And I got a couple of Amazon speakers on the
patio and got that going for me. Got a pizza
oven out there. That's not really an impulse vibe, but close.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Yeah it is. It's good though, you use it.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Yeah, and if any of those things get lost, you've
got a flashlight to find it.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
You're right about that. And there's a flashlight outside too
for emergencies.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
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Welcome to the Murphy Salmon Jody After the Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
We touched on this today and three Things to Know,
but it deserves more attention. How to stop buying things
you don't need? We all do it, and one of
the best pieces of advice was like whoa, and that
is pause and give it twenty four hours before you purchase.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Now we're not talking about a bag of mon show's
at the store.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Yeah, although it's good for me to pause and wait
twenty four hours, considering that I'm waiting to or losing weight.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
You are, But we're talking about whatever.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Another flashlight, Sam, is that what you Is that one
of the things that you buy most?
Speaker 4 (00:37):
I just bought another one recently.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Did you really have you done account at your house
of how many flashlights you have?
Speaker 4 (00:43):
I have a drawer that's full of all my flashlights.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
So how often do you use a flat?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Couple dozens, a couple dozen really flashlights?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Hey? Though?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Are they all variety different types?
Speaker 4 (00:55):
That's my problem. I got little square ones that are
really bright you can hang on your backpack or a chain.
I got some with magnets you can put under the
car while you're working on it.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
How often do you use a flashlight?
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Do you once every two or three weeks?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
That's more than I use them.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
That's not the correct Crest question, though Murphy can back
me up on this.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Yeah, I mean so, I mean the it doesn't it's
it's there when you need it. Yes, But you know,
I actually have curtailed my purchase of flashlights. I have
them in different areas. I like the ones with the
side option or the front option because those are the
most helpful. I have one little headlamp with a strap.
That's the one that I use for anything and uh
and anything, I mean anything that I need. You know,
(01:38):
if you've got a if you got a drill in
your hand and you need light on whatever it is,
that's why you use that. But I don't think I
have more than maybe I probably have nine flashlights maybe.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Which is excessive to me too, do you think so?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yes, they're all in the right they're all in the
rooms they need to be in.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
I have this one light this.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Is becoming the Flashlight Podcast.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
It's called an O light and it's a it's a
globe and it's got a you know button on the bottom.
You can turn it on, making any color you wanted
different flashes and strobes.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Or it's got like rainbow, so that's just for fun.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Is no purpose for this light except except for fun?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Is it soothing?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
No?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
I mean for ambyonce?
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Yeah, So do you sit in a dark room play
with that light?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Now?
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Sometimes I'll have the lights off in my room, like
if I'm listening to music or something, I'll put that
on because it's more of the moon booty thing.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Okay, it's technically not a flashlight though, right, that's really
just a it's an ambient light light.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
I'm not really trying to pick on you.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I thought of that when you when when I said
how to stop buying things you don't need in the
show today and three things, your face was like, oh
I need to know this information, and I thought, flashlight.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
I do I know? You saying because by the way,
the new flashlight I bought, you're gonna love this one, Murphy.
I bought it. Well, I can't say who I bought
it for. It's a gift for birthday coming up. It's
about two or three feet long, and says it's flexible.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Oh, Jenny gave me one of those. Oh what, yeah,
didn't you? You gave me a flight when.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
That wraps around your arm. Yeah, the snake light, ye.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Yeah, the whole light is flexible and I don't know
how it works, but I can't wait to see it.
I may not give it as a gift if it
really is cool, because I need another flashlight.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Of course, twenty five you haven't filled every draweery yet,
so what you're describing, Jody just sounds like basic impulse buying.
It's the reason that marketing works so well for the
emotional component, because once you're emotionally connected to something and
excited about it, your rational mind starts to leave and
you're going to tend to gravitate towards You're going to
(03:31):
you're going to figure out all the reasons to justify
the purchase.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Correct and you know, you buy what you want. But
they do say at the end of the year, if
you were to sit down with someone an accountant or
whoever and look at things like that, it's thousands of
dollars that we spend on things we don't really need.
Now there's the opposite of that spectrum, you know, like
(03:55):
my grandparents would not buy anything extra. You know, I
just wouldn't do it. My grandmother and grandfather and rightly so.
Depression era.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Yeah, they were the depression era, you know, where things
were scarce and you didn't squander a penny because there
wasn't an extra penny to be made. Fortunately, we're in
a different environmental we are.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
We're in a consumer society.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
But everybody's always trying to watch the budgets and it
does in our economy.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
It adds up.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
To thousands of dollars every year if you were really
to look at it. So the biggest piece of advice
was wait, give yourself twenty four hours to decide if
this is a need or a want.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
So I think that's smart if it's a big purchase.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
I think when you said that in three things to
now it's like ding, yeah four. I want to start
doing that because with me, and I don't want to
blame technology for it, because I'm the one to blame.
I'm the one hitting the buttons. But technologies made it
so much easier because it used to be I got
to get up and go get my credit card and
(04:55):
that now touch with cart purchase. You use this a
card yet yes boom yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Not just that it's targeting you. It knows you like
flash lights.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
So is there a threshold in your head though all
these things that you're in by, is there a financial threshold?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
So the reason I'm asking that question is because sometimes
the smallest things add up to the biggest cost long term,
and we don't think long term. It's really funny to
me that, you know, the it took me a while
to learn that that mindset. Because we have we have
we have really good what's the word I'm looking for
a complicated relationship? I think with money because there are
(05:37):
dollar figures in benchmarks in our head that we think
are too much, yet we don't pay any attention to those,
and we're buying small stuff and they add up. It's
really funny, how you know, you'll you will look at
something and go three hundred bucks. I don't know it's
three hundred bucks all it takes ten thirty dollars things
that you buy and you've spent You spent three hundred dollars.
You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Why it really pays to look at what you've spent
on what like, what do you have to show for it?
Speaker 3 (06:02):
When you've spent so much money?
Speaker 4 (06:04):
And me having two dozen flashlights multiply that times ten
or fifteen bucks. Ten bucks for a flashlight that does
cool things. Yeah, no problem. Well now I have three
four hundred dollars worth of flashlights.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
No one's saying it's wrong or right. It's up to you,
but it is something. If you know that you need
to curtail that kind of spending. I know what I'll
spend on. I know what my impulse by stuff is
me too. What's yours, Murphy? Would you say?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
I would say it's mostly electronics period, Yes.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Not a lot. But Murphy, you don't strike me as
the impulse. Oh look get it. You strike me as
they Oh yeah, I could use that. Let me do
my homework and make sure that's the right one.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
That's exactly what I do.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Because he does do that.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
He does do the research, but there is almost an
obsessive thing about it. He won't forget it until he's
had a decision and it's made and it's usually purchased.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Like you, you take your time, your caution. You're impulsive
with caution.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Yeah, well, I mean, because you've got a lot of
things that you're considering it. You know, it's it depends
on what you're choosing. I'm not going to stress over
something that's thirty dollars if I really need it, you know,
And I don't excuse me. I guess I do a
little more deep diving today because on Amazon, even on Amazon,
there's junk and then there's good stuff and the reviews
(07:28):
and you have to make sure, okay, where these did
or did the reviews come from people who actually sampled
and were given these for free before.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
There are some of those.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
And it goes back to what my parents taught me
a long time ago. And they were very hard working,
you know, and there was not a lot of extra
money lying around. But when they bought something, they did
not buy the cheapest thing they could find, nor did
they stray from something just because you know, they thought
(07:58):
it was too expensive. Because they wanted to invest in
something that would last.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
They thought their purchases through.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
They did that with their cars, they did that with
you know. My dad, you know, had a great stereo system.
Why because he loved music and he wasn't done cheap out,
you know on something like that, and he saved his
money and that's what, you know, what he bought. So
I guess that's why when I'm doing the research, Sam,
that you're talking about. I'm looking for the value, the equality,
(08:25):
all those things together bundled into the price. If I've
saved up enough, you know, for it, you just kind
of have to know going you know, into it, this
is what it costs. And if you really really want
it and it's really that good and you know you're
going to get ten years out of it or whatever,
and you saved and you're not going to put your
family in some sort of a financial crisis, then it's
a personal choice. People absolutely get to spend their money
(08:47):
on what they you know, want to spend it on,
and their credit honestly in many cases on what they
want to spend it on.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Yeah, this information is you know from financial experts, like
the impulse of buying gets you in trouble before you
realize it. So that's why the advice about the twenty
four hours and the impulse. So you definitely are electronics.
I'm glad that you know and recognize that you is
our flashlights your only thing, Sam.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
No, there's just like that weed burner I bought recently,
you know, the torch.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Yeah, it's gadgets, cool stuff that you think it's cool.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Yeah, Okay, and by the way, I'll admit right here
publicly that was a waste of money. Oh I've tried it.
It does what it says, but you would not believe
how loud this thing is. Oh really, Oh my god.
It's like I turned it on and it's like, okay,
that's not really burning the weeds. So it's like, oh,
I can crank it up. And when you crank it
up and it's like, I'm not doing this in this
(09:47):
neighborhood because it's that loud. People or right across the
fence and it's like, what is he doing over there? Yeah? Wow? Yeah,
so that's a wood and learn.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Yeah, that's an impulse by that you if you had known.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
By the way, is anybody looking for a uh I'm
looking towards.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
You know what you're saying the how much did you
pay for that thing? I'm just curious you can resell it.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
If it's itty five it.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Maybe somebody maybe Facebook marketplace.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
But the other thing that you're saying, Jodi, about the
impulse buying really goes for anything else. If you have
if you're in a situation that upsets you and you're
tempted to fire off an email or call and give
somebody a piece of your mind. They say it's good
to wait twenty four hours before you do that too.
The advice really, any anything that makes you emotionally a
charge before you make some sort of a life changing
(10:39):
decision of some sort, they just say, wait, get let
the emotion part, you know, clear. But it's tough to do,
and when the purchase thing, especially when you're in the
moment and then you have that whole Amazon's another perfect example,
Lightning deals. Yeah, well, of course you can't avoid.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Those Amazon days Prime Day.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
We only got three dollars, three hours and twenty seconds,
let to make this decision. But they again, it's all
the same psychological the same tools.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Just so.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
The other one that they use on Amazon is, hey,
we can deliver this this afternoon as long as you
reach twenty five dollars. Now, I don't know, you only
bought six dollars worth of stuff, but if you get
it up to twenty five, we'll sit in a hall
over this afternoon. And it's like, well, I can find
something else.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
You need to keep your hat about you.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
The other advice is recognize your emotional triggers. Are you
doing are you shopping emotionally? Are you doing retail therapy
like I do? Yeah, you know recognize that. And why
are you buying this to feel better? Do you need
another black dress?
Speaker 4 (11:39):
You know?
Speaker 3 (11:39):
I ask myself those questions when shopping things like that.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
I've held off on the bath bombs as much lately
because bath bombs are not cheap, no.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
And they're gone and then you use them and they're gone,
you use.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Them in Yeah. So I mean Walmart says an expensive one,
So if I need it, if the urge hits me,
I might go over there and get it. But I've
been laying off on those because it's like, I want it,
but it is a retail therapy purchase for me.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Yeah, Okay.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
The thing is if it though, it brings you joy
and peace and that kind of stuff, then you know,
I mean, again, none of us are on the planet.
None of us are on the planet forever. Yeah, And
so if we're really holding off on everything in life
until some mysterious end that none of us have any
idea when it's actually going to occur, then you know
it's you also shouldn't deny yourself, I guess, is what
(12:26):
I'm saying. If it's within your budget means, and it
brings you joy. That's what you're working for. Why do
you come to work every single day? If you're not
going to do some things agree, then you know that
enhance your life if you've got the ability, you know
to to do it. I guess is what I'm saying.
And I don't mean spending fortunes. That's not what I'm
talking about at all.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Yeah, buying yourself flowers, whatever it is. Yes, Yeah, they're
just saying for people who this is a real problem.
If you are dropping a lot of money on design
or coffee, have you looked at it at the end
of the month, how much that's a good one. That
was always an good indication for me when all of
that arrived in our lives and was on every corner.
(13:06):
I used to drink it almost every day until we
together looked at it and you didn't say you need
to stop doing this, Jodie. I saw it, and I
was like, I'm going to stop doing this. And so
now it's only every once in a while, and it's fine,
but I would We were drinking designer coffee a lot,
and we were drinking money. Yeah, and I love it,
(13:27):
but I just you know, just paying more attention to it.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
You know, I just think about so when I think
of you, Sam, and I think about relaxation, there are
two things that I think of, your bath and your
beat and your patio because they're the things that you
talk about, you know, the most. So I'm almost surprised
to hear you curtail something that's part of your relaxation.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Well, you know, you got to understand, I've weaned myself
off of expensive bath bombs, but they're still bubble bath
is not expensive, right, Candles. I have tons of candles. Okay,
you know, I may not have the bomb in the water,
but I got bubbles and I got a candle burning behind,
so you still have the ambiance. Zip it, Jody. And
you know outside I have like a strings of Edison
(14:09):
strings of Edison lights on my patio. Yeah, got our
color change, so I like to have blue or purple. Yeah.
And I go out there and I chill with that
smart Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah, you can change your game a little bit that way,
you take a break from the bath bombs. When they
come back, you can appreciate them.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
And I got a couple of Amazon speakers on the
patio and got that going for me. Got a pizza
oven out there. That's not really an impulse vibe, but close.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Yeah it is. It's good though, you use it.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Yeah, and if any of those things get lost, you've
got a flashlight to find it.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
You're right about that. And there's a flashlight outside too
for emergencies.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
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