“Breaking Bad" GASTADERA Habits

H&C dish on all the ways they checked their "mindless spending" and ended up saving DINERO  + they give you real professional tips on how curb your money mal gastadera. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
I'm Honey German. My parents are Dominican. I was born
and raised in New York City. I love sneakers and
I'm a body positive advocate. I'm Carolina Bermudez, but i
was born and raised in Ohio. I'm a wife, a mama,
and a worker. Bee. This is life in spanglish, Honey.
That direct deposit hit, and I'm gonna let you know

(00:25):
it is very slim. It is not enough for me anymore.
Who are you telling? Girl? First of all, I lose
half my bread in Texas, so yes, I'm already in
the red the day I get paid. It is so absurd.
And I know, and this is something that I told,
honey that I really wanted to discuss because, no matter what,

(00:46):
I know, so many people who are trying to cut
back on expenses. They are trying to trim that wallet
a little bit. They're trying to figure out ways to
like make their money last longer. Because when I tell you,
I was in the city the other day and I
had to go to Sweet Green. Do you know what
sweet Green is? Yeah, the salad shop and ill It's

(01:07):
like you know what, I very rarely. I always always
bring food from home. Whenever I come into the city
because for this very reason, and I'm going to explain
it to you. So I said, forget it, I'm just
going to go to Sweet Green. I want to treat
myself to a salad, fully knowing that it's going to
be about fifteen bucks. Right of course, for the salad,
I go to Sweet Green. Oh, but I wanted to

(01:29):
add some chickpeas because you know those are filling all right.
So then, um, but I you know I love a
good cucumber, so I'll put a cucumber in there. All
things told, this damn salad was near twenty three dollars. Okay,
at the end of meat ordering it, now wait for it.
So then at the end, the guy goes, do you
want your dressing on it or do you want it

(01:51):
on the side. I'm an on the side girl most
of the time, okay, but on this day, I said,
I'm gonna eat it right now. I said, go ahead,
you can just put it on, honey. I was so
furious this guy made it a salad soup. I was like,
that's disgusting. I hate when that happens. The lettuce was
literally swimming. I was honestly, I was so upset. It

(02:12):
made me like you know when you get angry, and
maybe I was like pmssing. It made me like legit
want to cry. I'm like, I spent twenty three dollars
on this bumbass salad that I can't even eat right now,
and it hurt me because I'm thinking to myself, twenty
three dollars, like that's a lot of money. It has
a lot of bread, especially when you look at the
ingredients and you're like, this is probably two dollars worth

(02:34):
of ingredients. I was gonna say that they didn't even
give me bread. The bread was not included. So I
just said to myself, I'm like, there's gotta be a
better way. So I've been looking up these articles and
I've been trying to figure out ways that I can
curb my spending. Now. It's very challenging in a household
with four different people. But I do think some of

(02:55):
these tips are great. And I do think that some
of these tips are so extreme and they're just not okay.
I'm not willing to do them because then we're not living,
you know. So like for example, in your house, you
it's just you and noony. You guys just bought a home.
How are you cutting back? Like, what are you doing
to save money? Because I think everybody you never know
what people know. Some people may roll their eyes and

(03:15):
be like, oh, I know all these things, but you
may not know some of these. Two my main thing.
I made a commitment to not shop for clothing, and Carolina,
it was just an addiction. It was just clothes and
bags and boxes of unopened stuff, and I had to
check myself. I'm like, listen, bitch, go shopping in your
own damn closet. And I just stopped. I'm not saying

(03:37):
that addiction is not going to return, but I was
able to tweak that problem that I had, and I've
saved so much money. Carolyna, I'm telling you I was
spending about four hundred dollars on just random clothes that
I didn't need monthly. Well now, wait a minute, can
I ask you and please be honest, like be transparent.
Oh even Amazon, even Amazon, you haven't gotten like a shirt,

(03:57):
because that's that's the issue for me. Don't go, Carolyn,
I don't buy no clothes on Amazon. I'm sorry. I'm
being one hundred percent transparent. I think I'm still stuck
on the fact that I used to be fat, and
you know, fat girl's got to be very careful with
the quality of the clothes. Oh yo, your polka dot
draws is showing through your tights. You know. Oh your

(04:18):
rolls is popping. Knock girl dress falls apart. You know.
I'm very ichy about buying clothing from Amazon. I think
it's an old trauma from when I was two hundred pounds. Yeah,
so yeah, but no, nothing, I'm talking nothing. I do
have an item saved that I'm gonna buy one side
to side to just go for it. It's a pair
of spanks leather tights that I want. They're like a

(04:42):
fun fifty and I'm gonna buy them when I'm done
not being good. But can I say something, When you
spend money on quality products, then you don't need to
buy the things from Amazon. That's why I'm doing that, Carly.
I just want one good pair of black tights that
I can run down to the ground get my money's worth. Okay,
So I'm going to go through this list quickly, and

(05:03):
then I want you to do coment with me because
I want you to tell me what you're doing. So
the first thing that they recommended. And this is from
a BuzzFeed article that said, these are the fourteen ways
that people are saving money. Okay, so the first one
is cancel any and all automatic payments for everything. I
will not do this, and I'll tell you why that's weird.
I'm not doing that because I'll forget everything. Exactly. I

(05:24):
have too many things. The mental toll that I that
I would go through to remember when is the light
bill going to go? When it is? You know, when
is my automatic When is my payment for capital one? When?
You know? Like all of that stuff. I would not
be able to do it. But the suggestion was to
cancel any and all automatic payments so that you know
what you're paying for, so I see what they're saying

(05:46):
with it. You have to know what money is going
in and money is going out. But most of the
things that I have on automatic payment, like I have
no choice. We got to pay for the light, you
know what I mean? Like, all right, I'm not willing
to do that either. Girl, I won't sleep at night.
Did the water get paid? Did the gas get Hell? No,
I'm not doing that. But what I do agree with

(06:06):
is going over subscriptions like Peacock, Netflix, Stars. I spend
about eighty dollars a month on subscriptions. Carolyn. I'm not
gonna lie to you because I gotta watch all types
of shows on all different platforms. But maybe I should
cancel a couple of those and put out a message.
But hey, who's trying to share in stars logging? Okay,

(06:26):
you you just took the words out of my mouth. See,
I don't have Stars, but I do have Disney because
of the kids. Okay, so I use I use my
friends Netflix, and I said, I was like, you can
use my Disney like Netflix. Yeah, until Netflix comes and
locks me down, babe, like we Carl Well, we had
drafts snitching on ourselves. Hello, Andrew, you're gonna delete that.

(06:48):
I ain't trying to do no time for no Netflix subscription. No,
I mean, listen, everybody doesn't. But I don't feel guilty
because I feel like we're just bartering. We're exchanging. Like
I'm not just taking your logging and not giving you
anything for Yeah, they'll be okay. So that's using a
credit card that gives you rewards. Now I've shared this

(07:09):
with you guys in the past. I only have two
credit cards, and I pay them in full every month.
One is a personal credit card, the other is a
joint credit card. So for things like you know, my
son's tennis lessons, like Mark and I will both put
in that goes out of the joint account, right, But
the rewards are real, and I'll tell you I have

(07:33):
saved a lot of my points in order to get
an airline ticket whenever we're going, you know, on vacation.
We can pay for like the family's airline tickets. So
you know, the important thing with a credit card is
to just make sure that you're paying off the full balance,
you know, So I think that everybody knows that. But
using credit cards that give you rewards, it's a real thing.
And if you're not getting anything from using your credit card,

(07:54):
you should go back to the drawing board and get
one that will give you something. All you're doing is
paying interest. But for sure, credit cards that give rewards amazing,
Like let's say American Express Platinum. They give you two
hundred dollars credit for whatever airline you choose, to give
your money back for a hotel. So there are a
little perks like I use it the other day to

(08:15):
buy something from Laroche. Puss spend seventy five dollars, get
fifteen dollars back. Yes, and Honey, you know what I do.
I use Racketson. Oh my gosh, you just took it.
That's exactly what I was going to tell people. So
for Amex Platinum, if you go and you view their offers, right,
so they'll say, like you said, spend seventy five dollars
they give me on scrolland scrolland scrolling. Well, but here's

(08:37):
the thing. It's like, you have to This is the
problem too. You have to be strategic. So that offer,
I am going to do it whenever it expires. I'm
going to do it like literally the day that it expires,
because I have to buy my kids sunscreen. I like
their sunscreen. I think it's quality. Like I'll use that,
but I'll go to racketson and get that five percent

(08:57):
cash back. You double dipping here all over it. You know.
You know the chrome plugin called Honey, and I use
that all. I will use all of the rewards. So
then it ends up being you get what seventy five
dollars worth of product for maybe fifty dollars at the
end of the day. You know, So you've got to

(09:18):
be really strategic. With like how you're going to be
spending your money? You quit your shopping addiction. I do
want to let people know. You know, I've been working
on E News and I've been doing my reports and
my reporting and stuff and like coming into the city
and everything I do, like the clothing subscription services. Just
for my situation, I was going to ask you, Okay,

(09:38):
can I say a quick story, real quick? Please? Please see.
We had an international women's event at our offices a
couple of weeks back, and I'm sitting there with Randy.
I love her, one of our sales. I love Randy.
And I'm sitting there and I see somebody walk in.
I see a suit. I say, what the fuck is
in the suit? Randy? Who what is that? I see waves?

(09:58):
I see here all the hole, this fucking Carolina. I'm like,
that's gotta be some type of celebrity. Who didn't we book?
Oh stop it, you're c I sweaty. You look so good.
You were floating. She had on like a cream colored suit. Yeah,
with the sea through body suit with the tis nice
and perky. That bitch making me look like shit today?

(10:22):
Well no, that suit is mine. But you know, you
know what, like the thank you. That is so sweet
of you. You're making me blush. God, Carolyn, I wish
somebody would have recorded because I was losing my mind.
I said, you know who this bitches that's ow here
making me look so basic today? Oh stop it, you're
you talk to Carolina Clothing Subscription. Basically like I, I

(10:47):
go and do these shoots for E News and it's
like you can't be wearing the same thing all the time. Unfortunately,
that's a part of our industry. People will clown you
on social media, be like, oh what that that dress
is crusty? You wore that dress for you know, people
have fus savages, not that dresses crust Get the fuck
I washed it right? No, I know, that's what I'm saying.
It's like, you know, because I have beautiful black dresses

(11:09):
that I could rewear repurpose, I really don't like to,
you know, use fast fashion. We talked about that last season.
So what I've found is that there are a lot
of different like clothing services that are out there. Now.
You know, I've always loved Rent the Runway for those
one off pieces, like you're going to a wedding, Like
I don't want to spend a whole three hundred dollars
on a new dress. Personally, I don't. I don't have

(11:31):
the money to do that, you know. So because of
the frequency of me going out and doing all of
these things, I just figured like, I'm going to use
a subscription service and basically, like every month you get
new clothing, and there's a lot of them out there.
There's thread up, there's um oh gosh, what's the other
one that's escaping me right now? Stitch fix. So I

(11:53):
do think that you should be more open if you're
a person who likes variety and you're trying to save
that money. Some of these subscriptions costs like seventy dollars
a month, one hundred dollars a month, So think about it.
You'd been going to the store and spending one hundred
dollars anyway, but now you have that variety of clothing
and you don't have to like stay with it, you know,
especially if you're an influencer or your content creator. I

(12:17):
think that is an amazing idea. You create content and
you send that clothing right back to rent them Runway
hat Thun, thanks for the jacket, Yeah, thanks for the dress,
and they have all kinds of things. They have little blazers,
they have different pants, they have dresses. So and it
runs like from casual clothing to to like you know,
gowns and stuff like that. So I really would suggest that,

(12:39):
like and people think about they're like, well, I'm not
going to spend one hundred dollars on a subscription. You
would spend one hundred dollars at H and M Easy.
Even Target they have like the yoga pants. You grab
like four or five things in Target. You're thinking, you
it's cheap. It's not cheap even oh naby you four
little workout things. It's one hundred and something dollars. Well,

(12:59):
that's why I'm saying in these and some of these
subscription services even have that stuff now, the yoga pants,
and like, you know, I don't know how you feel
about it, but like they're they clean them. There's and
I also, the coochie juice is gone. Don't worry about it.
I Am not trying to savor anybody else's juice. Baby,
I'm not laminating in that, but no, I just think that,
like this is such a great resource for people who

(13:22):
want to help the environment. You want to help your pocketbook,
and you want to help yourself because I do think
that clothing does lift you up sometimes if you pick
the right things, you know. And like you were mentioning
the suit that I wore, I got so many compliments
and it did make me feel wonderful, you know. But
it's like, now I have that suit in my closet,
how am I going to repurpose it? What am I?

(13:42):
You know? So this is just you give it to me.
That's how you're going to And you always are welcome
to anything in my closet, you know. It's something that
my friend suggested to me, Scottie. Scottie loves using circulars.
Have you ever talked to Scottie be over at zero
one hundred. I know who he is. I've spoken to him,
but I don't know him, know him, babe. He's like,
he's like the coupon king. Really, I swear to you,

(14:05):
he says, And I will admit I never do it.
Like on Saturdays or Sundays, you know, when you get
that bunch of like newspaper stuff in the mail, I
never look at him. I always throw it away. He's like, no,
you need to go through the circular. Really, I always
say or kick it to the side and be like
these motherfucker right. He said that that's where you're going
to find out, like what meat is on sale that week,

(14:28):
so then you can stock up, or like if strawberries
are going to be two for one at a particular store,
then you get them at that store. So there are
really like different ways where you you know what it is.
I think that you have to be aware. Listen, we're
talking about an era that we're in that we order
Uber eats carolina instead of actually cooking dinner. So it's

(14:48):
we have to pivot. I hate the word, but we
have to. Yeah, let's look at the circulars. Let's see
what's I'll saale like key food this week, and let's
go pick up pivot to save them coins. And then
I mentioned it at the beginning of this. You know,
I told you anytime I go into the city, I
bring my own meals. I do meal plan and I
think you know this about me. And if you've been

(15:09):
listening to Life in Spanglish, you do know that I
am a meal planner. And I will tell you it
extends your groceries more than you could ever know. It
gets boring I'm not gonna lie. You know, you're eating
the same you know, I like, I'll do salmon, I'll
do salmon for like Monday Wednesday, and then I'll do
like chicken breast Tuesday Thursday. So I could see how

(15:32):
that could get bored. I've seen people and maybe having
like twenty tough of ways with the same meal. I'm like, wait,
hold on, so you're just don't eat the same shit
every day. I need a variety. But I could see
how it saves money. I know. Well, that's why it's
like my mom always says, no, you know, liked like you,
You've got to like very like have a variety, like,
don't just go with the same. Like I made a

(15:52):
pot of chili. I Am not going to be having
chili every day because that is just not fair for anyone.
It's like you no way, but I love me some chili.
I ain't even gonna lie to you. No, I gotta
make you something now. Some of these on the what
did you like on the list? Because there was one
that I had a particular problem with, but go ahead.
Sephora quitting the Sephora addiction. Carolina. I spend so much

(16:17):
money in Sephora. And you know what I started to do.
I started to go through my makeup. I had like
brand new lipsticks, brand new palettes. I'm like, why do
I just keep buying more eyeshadow? I can probably be
an eighty year old woman before I go through all
the eyeshadow palettes and lipsticks that I have. So this
one person said that they quit their Sephora addiction. You know,

(16:40):
they finally realized that they barely used any of the
products that they buy. And that's me. That's me. I'm
not gonna have five Messcaras at the same time. I
had like y sel do your show this and that girl.
I ran through them and now I have one Messcara
at a time, and trust me, I am saving a
lot of money. Sorry, Spoor, I love you, but I

(17:03):
gotta fall back off of you right now. Yes, So
Forre is no joke. And you know who I've been following.
I mean I've been following her forever, Bethany Frankel. Have
you seen what she's been doing with like the drug
Store Beauty. Have you noticed like that she's doing these
these commentary videos like like drug Store fines. I love
for her humanitarian work, but no, I have not been
seeing the videos. I gotta go people. So she's basically

(17:25):
calling a lot of these like cosmetic companies out and
saying like look for less basically but for makeup. So
she'll say like, was it worth the money? She did
drunk Elephant the other day and everything surprisingly, which, by
the way, I've heard drunk Elephant is amazing. I've never
used their process, but I've heard, yeah, I've heard it's
really quality and stuff. And so she tried it for

(17:46):
the first time with her daughter and she said, she's like, listen,
if you're wanting to spend the money on skincare, like
this one's legit. But then she tried like a different
brand that I won't say because I don't want to
trash them, and she was just like this is overpriced.
You're paying for the packaging and you're paying for the
look of this. But she's like, I got the same
effect using drug store makeup, So it's your choice whether

(18:10):
or not you want to pay for like the box
and the aesthetic of this. I gotta go find this
video because I am all about saving money this year.
I'm not gonna buying a house. Put me in a
whole different headspace. I'm like, oh no, I want to
get landscapers here for the spring. Let me not go
to Sephora, let me not shop online, let me save
my coins because now I'm prioritizing differently. Carolina, as a homeowner,

(18:34):
well as I'll tell you that landscaping bill is gonna
come in, it's gonna blow your money. I'm like, I'm
at privacy trees. I want trees that are circles. Honey,
Oh my goodness, I want to swirl trees. I wanted
works now and I look out at my backyard and
sometimes I look at my husband. I'm just like, all
that money that we spent because you know it's seasonal,
and then they're gonna get you again because you've got

(18:56):
to clean up after the winter. That's a yearly bill.
Don't don't shout of my jeeves, Carolina, Babe, Babe, I
would tell you just budget the landscapers. I'm telling you
right now, because they will literally come and what it is,
it's just like mowing the lawn, putting in those trees,
the labor, all of that stuff. That's why I said
to mark the number one thing that we spent money

(19:17):
on when we first moved in. I said to him,
when they're out there, they need to build a garden
for me, because I want a garden, and that's another
way to save money during the spring. That's why I'm
at Carolina. So you're trying to say, maybe I should
build my own garden. One hundred percent, babe. It is
one of the most gratifying, wonderful I look forward to

(19:37):
my time with the earthworms. Okay, they don't talk back.
They are They're out there just doing their job, helping
me grow my produce so I don't have to go
to Whole Foods and spend all kinds of money on
tomatoes and cucumbers and zucchini. I really do. I have
a great garden, and it's taken years for me to
get there, but I love it. Did you just tell

(19:59):
me you have your own vegetables. That's a different girl.
When you say guarded, I'm thinking flowers. I'm not thinking
strawberries and corn and tomatoes. That's real different, Carolina, Honey.
I can my own peppers. What I know, had a
candle barbers. Yes, I am the Latina Martha Stewart. Baby,
I'm like not even kidding you. I went into this

(20:20):
whole mode when I came into my home and like
I just said to Mark, I grow my own eggplant.
I'll make my kids fresh like I plant farm like
currently Carolina or no. Well, when you were a young mom,
no every year, because you know new moms, they'd be like, oh,
I'll make my own baby food. I've heard dad. Oh
hell no, no, no, no, no no no. I was not
one of those. No. But like every I normally wait

(20:43):
until mid May. I need footage of this carolina. You
don't have to post on social media because I'm gonna
have to see this farming you call gardening. You call
it gardening. I call it farming, garbing. It's like you
can you getting vegetables out of your crops. That's farming, girl.
It's it's like the size of a baby pool. No,
there's my dad and I got you have to, but

(21:07):
that's another way to save money. There you go absolutely
and you have the space grow your own veget For me,
it's more of the meditative aspect. I put on music,
I go out there, I weed. I like tend to
my garden. I make sure that everything is growing. I
do my own herbs, I have my own basil, my

(21:29):
own cilantro. Cilantro is hard though it gets burned in
the sun, like when it's really really hot in New York.
So I'm thinking of doing something different this year. But no,
this is like, this is a real thing. Like I
have different types of tomatoes. Um, yeah, I have different
types of peppers. Like I'm down for a good garden.
I like that. Look at that here given ideas. Now

(21:51):
I want to make a garden. No need to get ready,
I want to. I want to plat on a tree
from the back. You may not have the right environment
for it, I know you can always try. I love
the idea of no spend weeks. This is a really
cool idea. And honey, I think you're kind of on
it now with like the no buying like clothes, stuff.

(22:14):
But like there's this whole movement where people are having
a no spend week. I know a friend who basically said,
I'm allocating one hundred dollars for emergencies for this week.
My goal is to not spend any money. Now gas
that's a whole different animal I'm talking about, Like, if

(22:36):
you need something, you buy it with that cash. And
people are saying that they're finding a lot of success
and they're saving money by doing these no spend weeks
where it's like you are not even buying a pack
of gum unless you need it. Giving yourself you're making
yourself be disciplined when it comes to your money, and
I'm here for it. The one thing that I'm very

(22:56):
curious about is the imperfect food thing. Like a lot
of people have tried me about these imperfect foods. Have
you seen these ads, I've seen the commercial. I just
I don't know why I'm worried about what's going to
come in the box, but I need to get over
that fear. I guess. Yeah. It's basically like peppers that
may not have the shape, but they're still good. They
just won't put them out on the floor because they

(23:17):
know nobody will buy them. And this company basically will
send you a box of these imperfect foods and you
can use them for recipes and things like at the
end of the day, you're cutting them up for real.
That's a fact. Yeah, And so it's like, I don't
even care what they look like, but I've been curious
to try. Let's produce. I'm guessing yeah, I think it is.
It's produced. But now the thing that I have an

(23:38):
issue with is there are little things in life that
give us joy. Okay, I'm not talking about your Starbucks
addiction where you're getting two lattes a day, or where
you're going to get as smoothie or an OUTSI evil
every day, but I do think it becomes a little

(23:59):
extremely I do want to enjoy life. Like if I
want to pop off to a Dunkin Donuts and you know,
grab myself a coffee, I feel like I should still
be able to. I think everything in moderation. That's just fat.
But do it once a week. Like our old building, Carolina,
we had a Starbucks as a lobby, and I would

(24:20):
go down there for and when I got there, and
then i'd go down there in the afternoon. And I
was spending two hundred dollars a week on Starbucks, Carolina drinks, pastries,
rotine box. That's a box. I was just gonna say
that that was a problem. And I had to quit that.
And and I was gaining all this week because I
I want a caramel frappucchio and put some of this.
No no, no no, no no. It was killing me. Actually,

(24:43):
So a treat once a week, it's not gonna break
the bank. And it's also not gonna you know, have
your hips out here spreading wide the way minds were
not the spread hip. No, don't do it, honey, don't
talk about it. No, because it's true. You know, you've
got the caramel Maqui autos and that has a lot
of sugar that it's gonna pack on the pounds. Now
the one that I absolutely love, and I feel like

(25:05):
I've talked about this before. Is it a drink? No? Oh,
I'm gonna say which one. Girl. Tell me, honey, you're
in a new neighborhood. You're we've mentioned that you have
a new home. Will you please please get to know
your library? Mm? Interesting? Oh god, I don't know why.
I just thought about Joe Goldberg from you, and it

(25:26):
kind of scared me. But I'll try it. I'm not
a new person. Does he like Does it take place
in the library? He loves books, He owns a bookstore,
He works at a bookstore. They go to the library.
But yeah, go ahead, tell me all about the library.
I'll put Joe to the back of my mind. So
I was spending hundreds of dollars a month on books.
I love to read. I read in my spare time.

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I read in the car while I'm waiting for a
pickup a target. I read in the car while I'm
waiting for my kids to come out of basketball practice
or religion. I have books everywhere. My husband said that
he loves that about me, like I will curl up
with a book sooner than I will like turn on
a TV show. Okay, So when I realized how much
money I was spending on these books, and then what

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do I do. I end up donating them. That's like
thousands of dollars a year, which I think it's great
you donate then other people can use it. But I
went to the library when Noah was like two years old,
and we have a great library where I live on
Long Island. Girl. They have programs like you can learn
how to play chess. They have like yoga on Saturdays.

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They also have books that you can check out, like
the new book by Oh Gosh, it's not new anymore.
But Rick Rubin the art of being creative like Rick
Rubin for those of you who don't know, he started
like basically def jam. He's a pioneer. He's one of
the legends. Yeah, total boss. But I was curious, like,
what is his book about. It's it's a little trippy,

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but it was so good. But like anyway, that book
would have cost me thirty dollars, boom, went to my library.
Done the Harry book. Got that from my library. Get
out of you for I never thought about it. I
was always a book lover. But when me and when
he moved in together, he said I could not bring
my book collection, and I don't know, it just put
such a like little hole in my heart that I

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never bought books again. Carolina, No, your heart is about
to be full, because when I tell you I love
my library, they all know me. There they I'm gonna go.
I'm gonna go see what I got. Bring. I gotta
bring one of my utility bills and playing Yes, yeah, bring.
But you know what this is also for people who like,
maybe you're you know, you're working in the city and
you're commuting on the train and you don't want to

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be scrolling on your phone all the time. Go to
your library, get a book, like get back into the Game.
They have games, honey, like my kids love the Switch.
I told them I'm not buying you Pokemon maybe because like,
well know what they have is like they have the
actual games. So my kids one week are into Pokemon,
the next week they hate Pokemon. Oh my gosh, that

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is like so five years ago, even though it was
like last week. I will I won't spend the money
on buying them a switch game, because I'll go to
the library check it out for a week. They get there,
you know, the yeah, and then I take it back.
It's unbelievable. It's a great resource. And it's not even
just for books. Like I said, they have programs there,

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like there are a lot of people who listen to
this podcast who maybe want to learn how to do
something new or you know, they have finance seminars sometimes,
like there's so much that I know there is you know, no, no, no, no, no,
non't worry about it. I just went on the public
library for the town I moved into girl. They got
karate for kids. Yes, that's what I'm telling you. They

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have all different kinds of programs. Um. I was cute.
This is really really cute. I like it. They have
a team library club, they have crafts for kids. They
have a writer's circle if you want to be a writer.
This is really cool. Carolyne and it's all free. I'm
assuming and they all I pay nobody, no, no, as
long as you are a member of that town, or

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if you're a resident of that town, you are you
have a right to any of those programs. And so
you know, that's really kind of like what I want
to leave it on, because like, if we don't help
each other with these tips, and like I said, some
of these, you guys probably already know and we get it,
but you know what you may not have known about,
like meal planning or you know, quitting your shopping and
diction the circulars. They know, No, Kylie, we're doing a

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good service here. I'm about to go to the library.
They're having a book talk with an author. Okay, yes,
shout out Sharine Clark. I'm gonna pull up. It's true.
And you know what, over the summer because like that's
the time when most kids, like they're obviously not in
any kind of educational programs. I signed my boys up
for book club over the summer, and I was like, no,

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you're gonna read and you're gonna discuss it. And I
feel like it's just like it helps them with their
public speaking, It helps keep their brain active and you know,
I just think it's like super beneficial for everybody. So,
you know, those are just some of the things that
we found. But what are you doing that is helping
you save that money? Share it with all of our community,
you know, Like I said, we're all putting us here.

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We can all help each other out. And if you're
doing something that you think is so cool, let us know.
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You can find us anywhere. And also make sure that
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the little notification from your podcast subscriber. Yeah, and we
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next week and make sure that you guys let us
know because we're all trying to save that money over here, girl,
will you Ellen, I'm out of here. I'm going to
the library. I gotta go see I gotta go see
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