November 25, 2025 • 9 mins
Mike tried to save a little bit of money by getting a cheap hotel room and says he will NEVER do it again. Wait until you hear what happpend. What is something you will always spend a little extra money on?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the b Naty three Morning Show. I'm Ali Mack.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If there is one sure thing about the universe is
that we'll keep giving you the same lesson until you
learn it.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
It feels like a conversation that I've already had with
all three of my children, and now I know where
they're stubbornness comes from.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
Now I know where they're.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
It's like a moment I'm now having, like a full
circle moment. I am a big deal finder. I will
try to find a deal on everything. Some people say frugal,
some people say a little not cheap, not cheap on everything.
But if I can find a deal, if I can
save a buck, if I can rationalize it, I will
(00:46):
do that until I am dead wrong. So I especially
when it comes to rooms, if we're traveling and we're
not going to stay at that hotel, I usually just
try to find like the cheapest hotel I can find.
I've done this with Airbnb. I do this with hotels.
We were driving to Tennessee and we were gonna stop
(01:07):
halfway and then on the same on the way back,
we're gonna do same thing. Cuts out half the time,
so you're only driving four hours at a time. So
I found hotels. I'll even tell you the price because
I want to see your initial reaction when I tell
the price.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Fifty six dollars, ooh for the for the night. Now,
this is a chain.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
I'm not gonna say the name of it, but I
assumed that this chain is franchised.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
It was okay, it was fine.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I usually do airbnbs, and I've only ever had one
bad Airbnb.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
But with this, I was like, it's a chain, We'll
just stop what We'll be fine. Now. I want you
to guess how many stars it had.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Two hush, so not even too.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Some of it was took it too. We get there,
the hotel seems fine. It's like eleven, twelve o'clock, like midnight.
By the time we get there again, I'm assuming we're
just gonna sleep there and we're gonna get up the
next morning and we're gonna go. Yeah, we're tired, so
we've already we've already put in our credit card, we've
already got got to the room.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
There's a bug on the floor.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
No, not in the bed. We searched the bed, but
there's a bug on the floor. We spent probably another
hour googling what type of bug. This was to determine
are we going to stay here or not, and my
wife going, we are never saving money again. I am
picking the hotel from now on. You we are never
(02:35):
doing this again, because.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
You also ran into a similar situation.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I think there were bugs involved in like the Florida
One Night hotel too.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Wasn't there, like this was not too long ago?
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Bugs? No, this was that was the walls were appealing.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah, but there were pictures of the reviews people.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, yeah, there were pictures. But
when we got there, there were no bugs. All right,
So there were there were no bugs. Butler situation in
the sense that like we should have I should have
looked at the reviews and kind of gone off of that,
because then we went and looked at the review again.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
I picked the hotel. My wife didn't do it. I
didn't look at the reviews for this hotel. It very
much said.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I can't believe she let you pick another one after
the Florida one.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Well, yeah, it's her fault.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
No it's not.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
No, it's a d percent. It's my fault. I am.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I just that's the one thing I will no longer
pinch pennies on. I will no longer try to save
money on. It is time to just you know what,
even if we're staying at night, you're gonna get what
you pay for.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Yeah, because we had to determine whether or not it
was at least.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
One hundred dollars for a hotel, even if it's just
for one night.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Like yeah, yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Fifty six dollars.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Is in that territory where it's like ooh, and why
is this so cheap?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Yeah, we had to determine whether it was a cockroach
or baby cockroach or some other tide of beetle.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
So what do you what's the one.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Thing I'd sleep in the car?
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
It was a conversation, what's the one thing you won't
save or you're always willing to spend extra? On?
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Good Morning, Welcome to the.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Ninety three Morning Show. What's his name? Or what's your name?
And where are you from?
Speaker 5 (04:16):
This is Sherry from Coentwood, Sherry.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
What's the one?
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Silly one?
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Okay? What's yours?
Speaker 5 (04:22):
A tistant buyer? And so we get to test from
food out and my husband laughs at me. I grow
grocery shopping. I will almost always buy name brand food.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Oh just for the taste or the quality.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
The quality because I know.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yeah, I'm that way with meat specifically everything else. I yea,
I'll kind of cut it, like maybe cut a few
corners on but meat and produce specifically.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
I gotta have the good stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Well, my mom used to bring home stuff and be like,
try this, try this, try this, and so yeah, so.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
I know I love it. That's a great one. Thanks
for calling in.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Yeah, bye.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
What is the thing you are always willing to spend
a little bit more on, Whether it's like a couple
bucks or I don't know, maybe like fifty to one
hundred extra dollars.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I learned a valuable lesson, and it took me two
times to learn it, but I learned it. You cannot
spend fifty dollars on a hotel room because doesn't matter
if you're gonna stay just to sleep there, because you
are getting what you pay for.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
The b dowety three morning show.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I'm Ali Mac, and I'm like, what are the things
that you are always willing If you learned the hard
way to pay a few.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
More dollars for, you don't have to direct that right
at me now.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I am my whole life I've been like this, and
I've gotten better as I've gotten older, but I like
have to like somebody could tell me, hey, this is
the way you should do it. And as I get older,
I'm better about usually listening to some warnings and trying
to but I always have those moments where I'm like, no, no,
trust me, it was just this one time, Let's try
it again. And like, insanity is like doing the same
(06:02):
thing and then respecting different results. So I when it
comes to traveling and penny pinching and that kind of stuff,
I like to find deals. So I don't like to
be cheap, but I like to find deals. So if
we're staying at a hotel, we're just sleeping there, fifty
dollars for a room.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Seems like it seems way too low.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
You're not wrong.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
And when we were driving to Tennessee the other weekend,
we decided to stop halfway through, and I thought this
chain of hotels would be just fine.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
It's not an Airbnb.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I didn't look at anything outside of like is it
available and fifty bucks?
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Yes? Please.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
We searched that night, probably an hour and a half
spent searching what this dead bug was on the floor
it was a baby cockroach if you were wondering. Eh,
So it wasn't like a full size but like it was,
it was a baby.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Where there is one baby, Yeah, yeah, there's lots, there's.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Lots in there is a mother somewhere.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
My wife was furious and we will never the way back.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
We definitely tripled the amount we spent because there was
no way I was even risking doing that again.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
But then from now on.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
But besides, this is a wild sentence, besides the baby cockroach.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Yes, uh, it was fine. It was it was fine.
It was fine.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
You did it. You survived right, right.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
But that's something you do in like maybe college, like
on a spring break, and you just need a place,
like you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
It's not like I'm a grown up.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
I'm an adult who pays taxes and mortgages and I
know what a four oh one k is and I
have kids, and I should not ever be in that
situation unless there is nothing else I can do.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
They are tempting, though, I mean, fifty bucks for a hotel.
It feels like you're getting away with something and it
turns out what you pay for.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
I feel itchy just talking about it, though, Ye get it.
So I'm no longer allowed to do that.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
We are spending money extra if we have to in
a hotel room.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
What is something that you will always pay the extra
money for? Good Morning b ninety three? Who's this?
Speaker 1 (08:11):
And where you from?
Speaker 5 (08:13):
From?
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Constat Park?
Speaker 1 (08:14):
What's up? Melissa?
Speaker 5 (08:15):
So the two things that you have to spend money
on and you can't go cheap on? According to my husband, yeah,
is cheese, toilet paper and post it.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Tell you what the toilet paper, it might be the
best one you have on that list.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
They're all good, They're all correct.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
I love that He's like, you can't cheap out on.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
The cheese the toilet paper.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Listen, skipping out on toilet paper will hurt everybody in
the long run.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Good morning, Welcome to the ninety three Morning Show. What's
your name? Where you from? Kevin from Kentwood? All right,
Kevin from Kentwood.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
What's one thing you will always spend a little bit
extra on? My mechanic?
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Oh, you got a good mechanic. I have a good mechanic.
I have been doing different with this guy since January
twenty nineteen. I have never once thought of going anywhere else.
Have you accidentally gone.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Maybe not accidentally, Maybe you had to go somewhere else
and had a bad situation.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Not since working with this guy.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
That's a good worth it, so worth it.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
Yeah, Hey, city girl, what's a been a while?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
How you been? Oh?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Hey, how are you? I'm good?
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Long time, no talk, no kidding.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Right, yeah, but yeah I heard that one.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
I'm like, yeah, I will absolutely spend what I'm spending
on my mechanic and I'll recommend him to anyone who asked.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Yeah, it's a good one. All right.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Well, a little free promo today on BE ninety three.
Who is this guy?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Christian Brothers Automotive. All right, okay, yeah, well shout out
to them. They're going to be real busy after this.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Maybe
It's the b Naty three Morning Show. I'm Ali Mack.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If there is one sure thing about the universe is
that we'll keep giving you the same lesson until you
learn it.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
It feels like a conversation that I've already had with
all three of my children, and now I know where
they're stubbornness comes from.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
Now I know where they're.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
It's like a moment I'm now having, like a full
circle moment. I am a big deal finder. I will
try to find a deal on everything. Some people say frugal,
some people say a little not cheap, not cheap on everything.
But if I can find a deal, if I can
save a buck, if I can rationalize it, I will
(00:46):
do that until I am dead wrong. So I especially
when it comes to rooms, if we're traveling and we're
not going to stay at that hotel, I usually just
try to find like the cheapest hotel I can find.
I've done this with Airbnb. I do this with hotels.
We were driving to Tennessee and we were gonna stop
(01:07):
halfway and then on the same on the way back,
we're gonna do same thing. Cuts out half the time,
so you're only driving four hours at a time. So
I found hotels. I'll even tell you the price because
I want to see your initial reaction when I tell
the price.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Fifty six dollars, ooh for the for the night. Now,
this is a chain.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
I'm not gonna say the name of it, but I
assumed that this chain is franchised.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
It was okay, it was fine.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I usually do airbnbs, and I've only ever had one
bad Airbnb.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
But with this, I was like, it's a chain, We'll
just stop what We'll be fine. Now. I want you
to guess how many stars it had.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Two hush, so not even too.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Some of it was took it too. We get there,
the hotel seems fine. It's like eleven, twelve o'clock, like midnight.
By the time we get there again, I'm assuming we're
just gonna sleep there and we're gonna get up the
next morning and we're gonna go. Yeah, we're tired, so
we've already we've already put in our credit card, we've
already got got to the room.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
There's a bug on the floor.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
No, not in the bed. We searched the bed, but
there's a bug on the floor. We spent probably another
hour googling what type of bug. This was to determine
are we going to stay here or not, and my
wife going, we are never saving money again. I am
picking the hotel from now on. You we are never
(02:35):
doing this again, because.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
You also ran into a similar situation.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I think there were bugs involved in like the Florida
One Night hotel too.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Wasn't there, like this was not too long ago?
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Bugs? No, this was that was the walls were appealing.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah, but there were pictures of the reviews people.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, yeah, there were pictures. But
when we got there, there were no bugs. All right,
So there were there were no bugs. Butler situation in
the sense that like we should have I should have
looked at the reviews and kind of gone off of that,
because then we went and looked at the review again.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
I picked the hotel. My wife didn't do it. I
didn't look at the reviews for this hotel. It very
much said.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I can't believe she let you pick another one after
the Florida one.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Well, yeah, it's her fault.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
No it's not.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
No, it's a d percent. It's my fault. I am.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I just that's the one thing I will no longer
pinch pennies on. I will no longer try to save
money on. It is time to just you know what,
even if we're staying at night, you're gonna get what
you pay for.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Yeah, because we had to determine whether or not it
was at least.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
One hundred dollars for a hotel, even if it's just
for one night.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Like yeah, yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Fifty six dollars.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Is in that territory where it's like ooh, and why
is this so cheap?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Yeah, we had to determine whether it was a cockroach
or baby cockroach or some other tide of beetle.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
So what do you what's the one.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Thing I'd sleep in the car?
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
It was a conversation, what's the one thing you won't
save or you're always willing to spend extra? On?
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Good Morning, Welcome to the.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Ninety three Morning Show. What's his name? Or what's your name?
And where are you from?
Speaker 5 (04:16):
This is Sherry from Coentwood, Sherry.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
What's the one?
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Silly one?
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Okay? What's yours?
Speaker 5 (04:22):
A tistant buyer? And so we get to test from
food out and my husband laughs at me. I grow
grocery shopping. I will almost always buy name brand food.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Oh just for the taste or the quality.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
The quality because I know.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yeah, I'm that way with meat specifically everything else. I yea,
I'll kind of cut it, like maybe cut a few
corners on but meat and produce specifically.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
I gotta have the good stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Well, my mom used to bring home stuff and be like,
try this, try this, try this, and so yeah, so.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
I know I love it. That's a great one. Thanks
for calling in.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Yeah, bye.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
What is the thing you are always willing to spend
a little bit more on, Whether it's like a couple
bucks or I don't know, maybe like fifty to one
hundred extra dollars.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I learned a valuable lesson, and it took me two
times to learn it, but I learned it. You cannot
spend fifty dollars on a hotel room because doesn't matter
if you're gonna stay just to sleep there, because you
are getting what you pay for.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
The b dowety three morning show.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I'm Ali Mac, and I'm like, what are the things
that you are always willing If you learned the hard
way to pay a few.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
More dollars for, you don't have to direct that right
at me now.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I am my whole life I've been like this, and
I've gotten better as I've gotten older, but I like
have to like somebody could tell me, hey, this is
the way you should do it. And as I get older,
I'm better about usually listening to some warnings and trying
to but I always have those moments where I'm like, no, no,
trust me, it was just this one time, Let's try
it again. And like, insanity is like doing the same
(06:02):
thing and then respecting different results. So I when it
comes to traveling and penny pinching and that kind of stuff,
I like to find deals. So I don't like to
be cheap, but I like to find deals. So if
we're staying at a hotel, we're just sleeping there, fifty
dollars for a room.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Seems like it seems way too low.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
You're not wrong.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
And when we were driving to Tennessee the other weekend,
we decided to stop halfway through, and I thought this
chain of hotels would be just fine.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
It's not an Airbnb.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I didn't look at anything outside of like is it
available and fifty bucks?
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Yes? Please.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
We searched that night, probably an hour and a half
spent searching what this dead bug was on the floor
it was a baby cockroach if you were wondering. Eh,
So it wasn't like a full size but like it was,
it was a baby.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Where there is one baby, Yeah, yeah, there's lots, there's.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Lots in there is a mother somewhere.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
My wife was furious and we will never the way back.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
We definitely tripled the amount we spent because there was
no way I was even risking doing that again.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
But then from now on.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
But besides, this is a wild sentence, besides the baby cockroach.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Yes, uh, it was fine. It was it was fine.
It was fine.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
You did it. You survived right, right.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
But that's something you do in like maybe college, like
on a spring break, and you just need a place,
like you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
It's not like I'm a grown up.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
I'm an adult who pays taxes and mortgages and I
know what a four oh one k is and I
have kids, and I should not ever be in that
situation unless there is nothing else I can do.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
They are tempting, though, I mean, fifty bucks for a hotel.
It feels like you're getting away with something and it
turns out what you pay for.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
I feel itchy just talking about it, though, Ye get it.
So I'm no longer allowed to do that.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
We are spending money extra if we have to in
a hotel room.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
What is something that you will always pay the extra
money for? Good Morning b ninety three? Who's this?
Speaker 1 (08:11):
And where you from?
Speaker 5 (08:13):
From?
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Constat Park?
Speaker 1 (08:14):
What's up? Melissa?
Speaker 5 (08:15):
So the two things that you have to spend money
on and you can't go cheap on? According to my husband, yeah,
is cheese, toilet paper and post it.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Tell you what the toilet paper, it might be the
best one you have on that list.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
They're all good, They're all correct.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
I love that He's like, you can't cheap out on.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
The cheese the toilet paper.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Listen, skipping out on toilet paper will hurt everybody in
the long run.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Good morning, Welcome to the ninety three Morning Show. What's
your name? Where you from? Kevin from Kentwood? All right,
Kevin from Kentwood.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
What's one thing you will always spend a little bit
extra on? My mechanic?
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Oh, you got a good mechanic. I have a good mechanic.
I have been doing different with this guy since January
twenty nineteen. I have never once thought of going anywhere else.
Have you accidentally gone.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Maybe not accidentally, Maybe you had to go somewhere else
and had a bad situation.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Not since working with this guy.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
That's a good worth it, so worth it.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
Yeah, Hey, city girl, what's a been a while?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
How you been? Oh?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Hey, how are you? I'm good?
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Long time, no talk, no kidding.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Right, yeah, but yeah I heard that one.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
I'm like, yeah, I will absolutely spend what I'm spending
on my mechanic and I'll recommend him to anyone who asked.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Yeah, it's a good one. All right.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Well, a little free promo today on BE ninety three.
Who is this guy?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Christian Brothers Automotive. All right, okay, yeah, well shout out
to them. They're going to be real busy after this.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Maybe
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