June 5, 2025 • 12 mins
Fred asks the crew what frugal habits they do to save money!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
They're calling it out I like the world. They're calling it.
The Internet's calling it poor people habits.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Now I don't like.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
I don't like to see it that way, because there
are very wealthy people who are doing some of these things.
Let's call it frugality. Let's call it frugal. Okay, maybe
you have money and you still do this stuff. But
what is something that you do? Maybe maybe you came
from humble beginnings and now you're wildly wealthy. Maybe you
came from humble beginning to now you can just afford
to pay your bills.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Maybe not.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
You could be very rich and do this, you could
still not have a lot of money. Eight five five
five three five. What is something that you realize that
you do cheap?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I go with cheap. INSTALL think the word cheap is
better to me than poor.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yeah, for example, but my house plastic container and then
this is not my house, my mom. Plastic containers from
almost anywhere tend to get washed and reused yea on
a regular basis, So you don't have to buy tumperware.
I wouldn't say that. I wouldn't say it's poor. I
mean maybe, but cheap, like it's you. You could go
(01:03):
and you get on Amazon. If we're not very much money,
get yourself a couple of containers.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Right. No, not in our house.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
There was a time when when cups that some might
believe should have been thrown away disposable cups were being
washed and reused.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
There was a time. There was a time.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Now I would have thought that it was a kind
of solo cup that just sort of that you had
in college.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
It just kind of goes away.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
But no, it was viewed by some in our home
growing up as something that could be washed and reused.
There's nothing wrong with that at all. Can you guys
think of anything that you do, and it's probably probably
from your parents, it's probably from childhood.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
I own a dishwasher, and like most people do in
their home, and I never use it. I never like,
it never comes to me to do it. My body
like rejects turning to put it in the.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Dishwashing because you think it's too expensive to run it
or something I.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
Just never used when growing up.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
So I think it's more efficient than washing it yourself.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
It is.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
I should be using it, like that's what it's there for.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
And I just don't like to load it and then
and maybe I'm a little lazy, but I like to
load it unloaded all that.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
But so I'm like, no, like put the dishes in
the sink.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
I'm gonna get my little sponge, the sponge that I
have to use until it like fall apart, and I'll
just grub things myself.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
I can't use a dishwasher.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
It's so hard for me. It's a trauma thing.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
We had one in our house growing up, but we
were not allowed to touch it.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
I know some people use it as like another cabinet, yeah,
like and some people would seek the storage. Yeah, this
is another place of store pots and pans, but we
don't actually turn it off.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
People did that. You did never use.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
It, and it was a money thing in her mind.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
I think it was, But I also think she just
wanted us to do some work around the house because
the one time I did sneak and try to use it,
I use dish detergent and it was.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Bubbles all over the house.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
Yes, so ever since that moment, I don't use my
dishwasher either.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
It's I'm like scared of it. It's weird scared, but
sheep stuff.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
I mean, you just got to take some napkins wherever
I need extra naposhere I am for the car, I
do not.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Yeah, that's why Subway gives you the napkins. They don't
leave They don't leave it out there for you. Imagine
how much they save. I'm sure someone's done the math
on this, because everybody grabs five times more napkins than
they need, and most of the time that stuff winds
up in the trash. But at Subway, no, they give
you like a little You can use your receipt if
you want to wipe your face off, that's what that's
what you got. And then but then there's not a
(03:16):
bunch of wasted napkins. I bet they get ten times
more out of their napkins supply than everybody any other
fast food chain does, oh for sure, for this reason. Okay,
so some examples were to use every single drop from products,
squeezing the life out of toothpaste. Here's how I do that,
mainly because I usually don't have a backup, and I'm
(03:37):
a little too lazy to go get one. But I'll
tell you something, when my brain tells me I need
a backup, it's amazing how I can get two more
weeks out of that little thing by just contorting it
into different positions.
Speaker 7 (03:47):
Oh, I cut it and stick my toothbrush like literally
every inch.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
What we don't want you doing that.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Nice times are tougher out here, but they're not that tough.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
No, I need less drop. I can't wait.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
But it goes to show that normally when I would say, okay,
I need a new toothpaste thing. Maybe I should get
an Amazon or go to Target or whatever. I can throw
this away now, No, two weeks later, I'm still using
it somehow. I mean every I don't know why miss
I got this thing. I've rolled it one way, I've
rolled it the other. At some point the I pushed
the toothpaste container through the I don't know. It has
(04:21):
nothing to do with frugality. It's because I'm lazy and
I never have a backup. It seems like, I mean,
this is always checking the clearance section of clothing stories.
That's not I don't think that's frugal or cheap. I
think that people are looking for a deal. Oh yeah,
sometimes you go to the clearance eyele and you wind
up spending money that you didn't intend to spend. Yeah,
because well it was such a good deal.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Yeah, Target had to figure it out.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Yeah, keeping leftover screws, nuts and bolts from furniture kits
and old broken appliances. Mm hmm. Except when do you
ever wind up using? Very rarely? But it's like, I
can't throw this away. It's still Allen wrench. It gave
me an Allen wrench. It's a tool. I can't throw
this away. Well, how many of those do you have
to have before? It's like, I have never used this
thing twice because everything comes with a new Allen wrench.
(05:08):
Never wasting food again. This is like this is a
list from the internet like that people have put together
from all of the comments. Okay, using grocery bags as
trash bags, Oh yes.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Oh yeah I do that. Yeah you have to.
Speaker 7 (05:20):
And I also use them to like pack my shoes,
Like I'll keep plastic bags and then if I pack,
I'll put my shoes in them and I'll use them
over and over again.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Okay. Checking restaurant prices before looking at the menu. I mean, well,
you would like go online and yeah, like there's someone's like, hey,
we're going to outback this weekend, and you're like, okay,
so you go to the to see how much you're
going to have to spend.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I've done that before.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Usually if there's an accent mark in the restaurant or
for seeing a different language, and someone invites me, that's
when I will usually go on the internet and go
how much is it going to send?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
How many money?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Signs?
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Right?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Exact?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Exactly? Right, one, two, three exactly.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
If it's like I'm away, I'm on a you know,
some kind of like or it's called like heads, you know,
or like if it's a one word restaurant, then I
know that some dude who has a James Beard Award
opened the thing up and he's you know, he's serving
mushrooms that it tastes like oranges somehow, and you're like,
this is eighty seven dollars. Let me see here collecting
(06:17):
all the complimentary soaps and products at hotels, Well, that
used to be a thing, but now they just have
that little communal thing, which scares me because it's supposed
to be locked in a way that only the housekeepers
can access. But most of the time I can lift
that thing right up, which means you could do you
could some nasty person could just do anything to this soap.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Is that it's grosser.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Let me see what else here? Fixing things to yourself.
I wish I could fix things myself. Turning off lights
and leaving a room. Yes, yeah, walking everywhere. Hand washing
zip blocked Yeah, this is what I'm talking about. Hand
washing ziplocked bags.
Speaker 8 (06:57):
Mike's mom does this, And when I first saw for
the first time, I was like, what are you doing?
I will use it, wash it, and then leave it
on the disc track like upside down to dry.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
And I'm like, wow, okay, Like I'm.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Confused about this because some of this is just being responsible,
like walking when you don't have to uber or or
looking for deals on stuff or whatever, eating all your
food like that. I think most people should be less wasteful, right,
But washing a zip lock bag that's intended to be
disposed of, now that's another level. Yes.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I was like, wow, that's like Kaylin and the soup pass.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Well, yeah, what about Like, so.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
I do it all.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
My mom has a cabinet in her house that's like
any any wrapping paper or usually it's tissue paper that
was like in a bag.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Yeah, so it wasn't ripped or anything.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
There's a little stack of flattened tissue paper and re
and gift bags, which I mean, wait.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Yeah, I do that too.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
So yeah. Sometimes I'll get the gift back bag that
I put something in, all I'll be like, oh this,
I bought this, so that's cool. I mean, but it's
gift bags you ten box or eight bucks or whatever,
and I guess cheap. Maybe they see here licking yogurt
tops to maximize value.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Oh that's say I'm hungry.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Yeah, that's because I'm a fan of That has nothing
to do with it.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Yeah, everything clean, my play.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
A bunch of texture.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
I watched plastic baggies and reuse dilute or dilute shampoo
and dish detergent, make my own jams, and grow my
own veggies.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I only watch free TV.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I never eat out, go to free summer concerts, thrift
shop for everything, or go to the buy nothing groups
on Facebook. And this person will probably die with eight
million dollars too. This is going to be that librarian
that you read about that was a librarian for fifty
years and then graduate or then dies after retirement and
gives eight million dollars to the college because they did
(08:49):
all of this. But then you have to ask yourself,
so you save a ton of money. What do you
do with the money? Because sometimes I feel like for
some people, I feel like the flex is to say
the money, but then you die. I'm not saying this
person is gonna die, but you know what I mean,
Like it's balance, right, Like maybe I maybe I don't
wash the baggies sometimes, and maybe I go out to
(09:10):
eat sometimes and I let somebody else cut my veggies,
and then sometimes I eat the veggies from the yard.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
Some do it with airplane miles.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Okay, you know that's a different that's a different conversation.
You want to start something with me today? No, are
you coming from me? A lot of people agree with
me on the airline mouth.
Speaker 7 (09:28):
I just had a conver Yeah, but you're gonna die
with your airplane.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
You're right, I am, But I'm not gonna go coach
to the Zimbabwe for a million miles.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
I refuse. Okay, that's a whole different time. No, no, no,
you done did it? Now?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
My grandpa tried to rewash paper plates, paper plates. My
aunt washes aluminum foil.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Oh no, no, my god.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Someone said that they like they're there? Who says their
grandma there? Somebody?
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Grandfather? A friend of mine washes, the styrofoam trays that
meat comes in. Oh, that cannot be sanitary. There's got
to be something like just seeps into that that you
can never possibly get out.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
No, and you know what I just remembered. I also do.
Speaker 7 (10:16):
I freeze a lot of food if I don't want
to eat it right away, Like I'll freeze my Jet's
pizza and like eat it later.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
That's why you're able to pay off them student loans.
We need to learn from.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
It's like, hey, Jets pizza. We have Jets pizza at home.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
It's just a little off from the original, but it's
still good.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
I don't know you could do.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I know you could freeze already made pizza my aunt.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
That's gross.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
It's not bad.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
I mean, I guess in a pinch or whatever. And
sounds like why are you paying ten bucks for a
gift bag? Like what you ever heard of a dollar tree?
Someone say, I'm like yeah, except like that's that's when
you stock up on stuff, like, oh, I have it. Oh,
I'm gonna need gift bags some days, so I get them.
That's never how it goes. It's like I'm on my
way to something, I'm like, oh my God, I got
to bring a gift yep, And I'm running to Walgreens
(11:05):
or CBS or Target, and they're, you know, there it
is on the you know, glowing from the you know,
from the rich people section, you.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Know, eleven dollars or whatever.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
And it's like, ah, same with cards, you know, it
never never fails that the cards are all corny. And
then there's the one that's like fourteen dollars that like
lights up and fireworks come out of it and whatever.
Like that's the one I wind up with because it's
the only one that doesn't say anything stupid on it. Yes,
and then before long I spent more on the on
the car than and the and the bag. I should
(11:33):
have just handed you fifty bucks instead of a twenty
five dollars gift card and twenty five dollars worth of wrapping.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
But yeah, see, some people like they.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
They would go to the dollar store and say, Okay,
I know that coming up, I'm going in my life,
I'm going to need paper, and I'm going to need pencils,
and I'm gonna need this and that and so that
you stock up on it. That's not I'm a bachelor.
I don't have that same. I don't get, We'll say
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They're calling it out I like the world. They're calling it.
The Internet's calling it poor people habits.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Now I don't like.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
I don't like to see it that way, because there
are very wealthy people who are doing some of these things.
Let's call it frugality. Let's call it frugal. Okay, maybe
you have money and you still do this stuff. But
what is something that you do? Maybe maybe you came
from humble beginnings and now you're wildly wealthy. Maybe you
came from humble beginning to now you can just afford
to pay your bills.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Maybe not.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
You could be very rich and do this, you could
still not have a lot of money. Eight five five
five three five. What is something that you realize that
you do cheap?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I go with cheap. INSTALL think the word cheap is
better to me than poor.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yeah, for example, but my house plastic container and then
this is not my house, my mom. Plastic containers from
almost anywhere tend to get washed and reused yea on
a regular basis, So you don't have to buy tumperware.
I wouldn't say that. I wouldn't say it's poor. I
mean maybe, but cheap, like it's you. You could go
(01:03):
and you get on Amazon. If we're not very much money,
get yourself a couple of containers.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Right. No, not in our house.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
There was a time when when cups that some might
believe should have been thrown away disposable cups were being
washed and reused.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
There was a time. There was a time.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Now I would have thought that it was a kind
of solo cup that just sort of that you had
in college.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
It just kind of goes away.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
But no, it was viewed by some in our home
growing up as something that could be washed and reused.
There's nothing wrong with that at all. Can you guys
think of anything that you do, and it's probably probably
from your parents, it's probably from childhood.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
I own a dishwasher, and like most people do in
their home, and I never use it. I never like,
it never comes to me to do it. My body
like rejects turning to put it in the.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Dishwashing because you think it's too expensive to run it
or something I.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
Just never used when growing up.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
So I think it's more efficient than washing it yourself.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
It is.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
I should be using it, like that's what it's there for.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
And I just don't like to load it and then
and maybe I'm a little lazy, but I like to
load it unloaded all that.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
But so I'm like, no, like put the dishes in
the sink.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
I'm gonna get my little sponge, the sponge that I
have to use until it like fall apart, and I'll
just grub things myself.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
I can't use a dishwasher.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
It's so hard for me. It's a trauma thing.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
We had one in our house growing up, but we
were not allowed to touch it.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
I know some people use it as like another cabinet, yeah,
like and some people would seek the storage. Yeah, this
is another place of store pots and pans, but we
don't actually turn it off.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
People did that. You did never use.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
It, and it was a money thing in her mind.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
I think it was, But I also think she just
wanted us to do some work around the house because
the one time I did sneak and try to use it,
I use dish detergent and it was.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Bubbles all over the house.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
Yes, so ever since that moment, I don't use my
dishwasher either.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
It's I'm like scared of it. It's weird scared, but
sheep stuff.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
I mean, you just got to take some napkins wherever
I need extra naposhere I am for the car, I
do not.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Yeah, that's why Subway gives you the napkins. They don't
leave They don't leave it out there for you. Imagine
how much they save. I'm sure someone's done the math
on this, because everybody grabs five times more napkins than
they need, and most of the time that stuff winds
up in the trash. But at Subway, no, they give
you like a little You can use your receipt if
you want to wipe your face off, that's what that's
what you got. And then but then there's not a
(03:16):
bunch of wasted napkins. I bet they get ten times
more out of their napkins supply than everybody any other
fast food chain does, oh for sure, for this reason. Okay,
so some examples were to use every single drop from products,
squeezing the life out of toothpaste. Here's how I do that,
mainly because I usually don't have a backup, and I'm
(03:37):
a little too lazy to go get one. But I'll
tell you something, when my brain tells me I need
a backup, it's amazing how I can get two more
weeks out of that little thing by just contorting it
into different positions.
Speaker 7 (03:47):
Oh, I cut it and stick my toothbrush like literally
every inch.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
What we don't want you doing that.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Nice times are tougher out here, but they're not that tough.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
No, I need less drop. I can't wait.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
But it goes to show that normally when I would say, okay,
I need a new toothpaste thing. Maybe I should get
an Amazon or go to Target or whatever. I can throw
this away now, No, two weeks later, I'm still using
it somehow. I mean every I don't know why miss
I got this thing. I've rolled it one way, I've
rolled it the other. At some point the I pushed
the toothpaste container through the I don't know. It has
(04:21):
nothing to do with frugality. It's because I'm lazy and
I never have a backup. It seems like, I mean,
this is always checking the clearance section of clothing stories.
That's not I don't think that's frugal or cheap. I
think that people are looking for a deal. Oh yeah,
sometimes you go to the clearance eyele and you wind
up spending money that you didn't intend to spend. Yeah,
because well it was such a good deal.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Yeah, Target had to figure it out.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Yeah, keeping leftover screws, nuts and bolts from furniture kits
and old broken appliances. Mm hmm. Except when do you
ever wind up using? Very rarely? But it's like, I
can't throw this away. It's still Allen wrench. It gave
me an Allen wrench. It's a tool. I can't throw
this away. Well, how many of those do you have
to have before? It's like, I have never used this
thing twice because everything comes with a new Allen wrench.
(05:08):
Never wasting food again. This is like this is a
list from the internet like that people have put together
from all of the comments. Okay, using grocery bags as
trash bags, Oh yes.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Oh yeah I do that. Yeah you have to.
Speaker 7 (05:20):
And I also use them to like pack my shoes,
Like I'll keep plastic bags and then if I pack,
I'll put my shoes in them and I'll use them
over and over again.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Okay. Checking restaurant prices before looking at the menu. I mean, well,
you would like go online and yeah, like there's someone's like, hey,
we're going to outback this weekend, and you're like, okay,
so you go to the to see how much you're
going to have to spend.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I've done that before.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Usually if there's an accent mark in the restaurant or
for seeing a different language, and someone invites me, that's
when I will usually go on the internet and go
how much is it going to send?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
How many money?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Signs?
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Right?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Exact?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Exactly? Right, one, two, three exactly.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
If it's like I'm away, I'm on a you know,
some kind of like or it's called like heads, you know,
or like if it's a one word restaurant, then I
know that some dude who has a James Beard Award
opened the thing up and he's you know, he's serving
mushrooms that it tastes like oranges somehow, and you're like,
this is eighty seven dollars. Let me see here collecting
(06:17):
all the complimentary soaps and products at hotels, Well, that
used to be a thing, but now they just have
that little communal thing, which scares me because it's supposed
to be locked in a way that only the housekeepers
can access. But most of the time I can lift
that thing right up, which means you could do you
could some nasty person could just do anything to this soap.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Is that it's grosser.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Let me see what else here? Fixing things to yourself.
I wish I could fix things myself. Turning off lights
and leaving a room. Yes, yeah, walking everywhere. Hand washing
zip blocked Yeah, this is what I'm talking about. Hand
washing ziplocked bags.
Speaker 8 (06:57):
Mike's mom does this, And when I first saw for
the first time, I was like, what are you doing?
I will use it, wash it, and then leave it
on the disc track like upside down to dry.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
And I'm like, wow, okay, Like I'm.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Confused about this because some of this is just being responsible,
like walking when you don't have to uber or or
looking for deals on stuff or whatever, eating all your
food like that. I think most people should be less wasteful, right,
But washing a zip lock bag that's intended to be
disposed of, now that's another level. Yes.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I was like, wow, that's like Kaylin and the soup pass.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Well, yeah, what about Like, so.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
I do it all.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
My mom has a cabinet in her house that's like
any any wrapping paper or usually it's tissue paper that
was like in a bag.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Yeah, so it wasn't ripped or anything.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
There's a little stack of flattened tissue paper and re
and gift bags, which I mean, wait.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Yeah, I do that too.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
So yeah. Sometimes I'll get the gift back bag that
I put something in, all I'll be like, oh this,
I bought this, so that's cool. I mean, but it's
gift bags you ten box or eight bucks or whatever,
and I guess cheap. Maybe they see here licking yogurt
tops to maximize value.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Oh that's say I'm hungry.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Yeah, that's because I'm a fan of That has nothing
to do with it.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Yeah, everything clean, my play.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
A bunch of texture.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
I watched plastic baggies and reuse dilute or dilute shampoo
and dish detergent, make my own jams, and grow my
own veggies.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I only watch free TV.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I never eat out, go to free summer concerts, thrift
shop for everything, or go to the buy nothing groups
on Facebook. And this person will probably die with eight
million dollars too. This is going to be that librarian
that you read about that was a librarian for fifty
years and then graduate or then dies after retirement and
gives eight million dollars to the college because they did
(08:49):
all of this. But then you have to ask yourself,
so you save a ton of money. What do you
do with the money? Because sometimes I feel like for
some people, I feel like the flex is to say
the money, but then you die. I'm not saying this
person is gonna die, but you know what I mean,
Like it's balance, right, Like maybe I maybe I don't
wash the baggies sometimes, and maybe I go out to
(09:10):
eat sometimes and I let somebody else cut my veggies,
and then sometimes I eat the veggies from the yard.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
Some do it with airplane miles.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Okay, you know that's a different that's a different conversation.
You want to start something with me today? No, are
you coming from me? A lot of people agree with
me on the airline mouth.
Speaker 7 (09:28):
I just had a conver Yeah, but you're gonna die
with your airplane.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
You're right, I am, But I'm not gonna go coach
to the Zimbabwe for a million miles.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
I refuse. Okay, that's a whole different time. No, no, no,
you done did it? Now?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
My grandpa tried to rewash paper plates, paper plates. My
aunt washes aluminum foil.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Oh no, no, my god.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Someone said that they like they're there? Who says their
grandma there? Somebody?
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Grandfather? A friend of mine washes, the styrofoam trays that
meat comes in. Oh, that cannot be sanitary. There's got
to be something like just seeps into that that you
can never possibly get out.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
No, and you know what I just remembered. I also do.
Speaker 7 (10:16):
I freeze a lot of food if I don't want
to eat it right away, Like I'll freeze my Jet's
pizza and like eat it later.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
That's why you're able to pay off them student loans.
We need to learn from.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
It's like, hey, Jets pizza. We have Jets pizza at home.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
It's just a little off from the original, but it's
still good.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
I don't know you could do.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I know you could freeze already made pizza my aunt.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
That's gross.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
It's not bad.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
I mean, I guess in a pinch or whatever. And
sounds like why are you paying ten bucks for a
gift bag? Like what you ever heard of a dollar tree?
Someone say, I'm like yeah, except like that's that's when
you stock up on stuff, like, oh, I have it. Oh,
I'm gonna need gift bags some days, so I get them.
That's never how it goes. It's like I'm on my
way to something, I'm like, oh my God, I got
to bring a gift yep, And I'm running to Walgreens
(11:05):
or CBS or Target, and they're, you know, there it
is on the you know, glowing from the you know,
from the rich people section, you.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Know, eleven dollars or whatever.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
And it's like, ah, same with cards, you know, it
never never fails that the cards are all corny. And
then there's the one that's like fourteen dollars that like
lights up and fireworks come out of it and whatever.
Like that's the one I wind up with because it's
the only one that doesn't say anything stupid on it. Yes,
and then before long I spent more on the on
the car than and the and the bag. I should
(11:33):
have just handed you fifty bucks instead of a twenty
five dollars gift card and twenty five dollars worth of wrapping.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
But yeah, see, some people like they.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
They would go to the dollar store and say, Okay,
I know that coming up, I'm going in my life,
I'm going to need paper, and I'm going to need pencils,
and I'm gonna need this and that and so that
you stock up on it. That's not I'm a bachelor.
I don't have that same. I don't get, We'll say
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