September 23, 2025 • 10 mins
Katie is tightening the purse strings in an attempt to encourage her girls to save and she's discovered a great app that shuts down the wifi on individual devices!
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Apogee Production. Welcome back to another episode of Mama Dad
Mum podcast. We are at school holidays, School Holidays again.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
School holidays.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
School's out for nearly the summer, but we've got one
more term to go.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
And so Rach, this is going to blow your mind.
But this next term, term four, is technically the girls'
first term of year twelve. I don't know why they.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Are at maybe because like term four in Lakes and
then they don't really do the last term do they
grade twelve?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
They don't do the last term next year.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
So I don't know why you wouldn't just call it
term four for year eleven and then just year it's
only three terms?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yeah, who cares?
Speaker 1 (01:03):
But also who cares? But yeah, over complicated things again. Yes,
so that was their last term of year eleven done?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yeah, crazy, You've got like they're in their last year
of school.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I'm actually so excited about.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Oh my gosh, you can start counting down the dollars
and also next year counting up the dollars.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
It'll be driving. So technically one last term of the
bust a lot anyway, but lifts anywhere. Happy days, my god.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Oh my gosh, your life is about to change. What's
you're on?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Peas picking up drunk parents from places.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Not are loud? Not allowed? Really?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Yeah, well, they've got certain times, they've got certain like well,
pea plates, sorry you said pea plates. Learner's absolutely not
pea plates. I think it's like play on. But at
the same time, don't they have on the first early
pea plates. They've got like times that they have to
be driving or something like that.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Yeah, I think it might not be after eleven.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
We'll just get all your drinks in early. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Yeah, it's Katie. Pick her up now, six thirty pm. Yeah,
she's already done. Cinderella's kind to change into a pumpkin
if you don't pick her up now.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Am I bad mum for shutting the purse strings?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Kind happy about it? I'm alright with this. It's a
great subject.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Yeah, so, I know I've spoken a little bit about it.
But both the girls have jobs at Macas. They've been
there a year now, wonderful. Yeah, they've stuck at it.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
How much have they saved in a year?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
So, and that leads me to where I am today,
of shutting the purse strings.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
So yesterday racis okay? They have got seven concerts coming
up seven. Oh my gosh, that's a lot of driving
from you. Well, I probably don't need to do it
late night because oh next year they next year December
and then next year they are obsessed with music.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
It's totally okay with that, yeah, apart.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
From the spending money the minute they have it. So yesterday, Rache,
they say to me, okay, mom, we really want to
go to lane Way Festival.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Oh yeah, when's that? I saw that yesterday maybe February. Yeah,
it's on the Gold Coast. Yeah. I was like, and
I didn't think it's here, so last night, rage.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
No, they wanted to put money towards the accommodation, yeah,
so that they can then the minute the dates announced.
I mean it was quite smart thinking about it. They
wanted to make sure the accommodation was booked before the
announcement of what it was. And then obviously everything be
super expensive around there.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
But Rach, they wanted to pay. It was sixty dollars
each and then two friends going with them, so two
hundred and forty dollars. And Jay is reading through where
this accommodation is. This accommodation is a shared apartment where
they get the one room. I was like, absolutely not.
You can't do k is horrible.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
He was sounding horrible there. Oh my gosh, I would
never I would never even stay there.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
No, No, you don't even know who's in that nextual bedroom.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
No you don't know. And so then I'm also, and
this is like a side note of concerns. I was like,
this is only in four months time. Am I okay
with them going to the Gold Coast by themselves?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah, this is what I mean, because really.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
In my head, I was thinking they're going to be
wandering around on the Gold Coast at midnight and getting
insert this accommodation I don't know, probably, and this is
only in four months time. And they were like, yeah,
but mum will be seventeen. I was like, it's actually
not about age. Sorry, I went on, I was on
a girl's holiday overseas when I.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Was seventeen, when my gosh, don't tell them that.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
No, but I was a very different seventeen ye.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Old Yeah, I was gonna say.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
But also I think, yeah, that is a very very
big But even then at seventeen me I wouldn't have
put myself in a share accommodation with anyone that I
hate sleeping in, Like what are those things like backpackers?
Like we have to share a room and sleep It's
my worst nightmare.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Funny story. I used to go to Ibtha because I
lived in London in England and so going to Abitha
was like a real cheap party holiday. And the first
time I went reached, I stayed in a one star hotel.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
One I just go straight to putting your feet on
the ground in the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Did you have to wear thongs?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
One star? Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Honestly, did you catch anything?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
I was so poor. We were going to nightclubs and
spending all on my own drinking. And I remember going
to the shop and I'd buy a box of Pringles
and then some baby Bell cheese. And I do like
Pringle baby Bell sandwiches. I mean quite nice tastyies for dinner.
(06:14):
So anyway, very different seventeen year olds like I just
am like, oh, it's not just an age thing, it's
a life experience, life experience, yeah, street wise all that
kind of stuff. So anyway, and I said, okay, say
that this accommodation was suitable, which is not. And then
the tickets for lame weight come out. Do you have
(06:36):
enough money for the tickets? How much are the tickets?
About two hundred dollars? Okay, so I've googled its two
hundred to two hundred and fifty usually, I went okay, cool,
So who's got two hundred and fifty dollars? And amere
goes I have great? What about Holly? Yeah no I don't,
but Amelia is gonna lend it to me. Okay, so
that's five hundred dollars. So how much have you got? Well,
(06:58):
I've got four hundred, and I've gone, all, you're one
hundred shor what about the rest? And then she's got no, No,
I've actually got more than that. I said, have you
She's like, yeah, I've got more than that because I've
got three shifts coming up. I was like, so you
haven't got more than that? Have you been paid for
those three shifts in advance? Macs pay you in advance? No? Okay,
(07:19):
So this math is not working for me. It's literally
going from scent to scent, like it's literally going okay,
well I've got this right now, I'll pay for that,
and the next week i'll have this. I pay for that.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah, yeah, because I've got nothing else to pay for us?
They can Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
I remember when I went to I went to UNI
for a year and then I dropped out. I was
probably the richest I've ever been at Unie. Yeah, because
student loan. I was buying design of clothes and so
I have put a stop to it. And I was like,
absolutely not. Holly's turned around, she's angry with me. She's
turned around and gone, I just don't have anything to
(07:54):
look forward to. I went, excuse me, we're going on
holiday next week and you got seven concerts books? What
about seven concerts?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Yeah? Yeah, how about you get some extra shifts?
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Yeah, macaus is great. The problem is that they have
like millions of kids.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Yeah yeah, and they've got restrictive hours of work. Yeah,
so that's going to make it harder in itself. So
those three hour, three hour, three hour where's me? When
I was their age, I was banking up seven till
seven on a Sunday, Yeah, Sunday rates seven am till
seven pm at the cheesecake shop.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Happy days. That was my whole week's worth wage.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I don't understand why they don't give the kids who
are on the lower hourly rate the public holiday days.
And the Sundays, I.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Think they Oh yeah, true.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Gracie says to me, you know what, I'm going to
get a job. Mum, I said, I love that. When
he's starting, she goes, I'm going to get a job.
And I said, well, it's good because we've got a
few friends that have got businesses like locally.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
So yep, you get a job, like if you just
put your name down.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
And I mean you're only twelve, so you probably won't
be on the books.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
I said, but I'm sure you'd get a few hourly shifts.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
She goes, well, when I get this job, she said,
I'm going to save up my money. And I said, yeah,
you can save up and then and then I'm going
to buy a phone because you can't do anything about
it because that's my money and that'll be my phone.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I said.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
You can save up all your money, I said, but
every time you buy the phone, I'm going to take
it away from you.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
What about what about the phone bill?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
It's this power trip of like Mom says, no, so
I'm going to now go and earn it and buy
it myself.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Yeah, but then it's not just the bill. Then it's
the Wi Fi. Then how are you gonna get on
the Wi fi. Rach, I've got this amazing new app. Yes,
what's it called? So turn off the Wi Fi to
the whole house. No, but you can do individual devices
on there.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Oh yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
It's called eero ero Yeah. And then on it like
I'm start watching TV last night, right yeah, and it's
ten pm and I was like, oh, it's got my
phone out, kids laptops paused, Amelia's laptop, Holly's laptop up. Pause,
And you can like set it so like it's set
(10:08):
at the moment Monday to Thursday. It's set till six am.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
So that they can't have WiFi. No WiFi. Oh yeah,
it's Have they ever tried just hot spotting off your device?
Speaker 1 (10:20):
No, because they can't just do it without a password.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yeah. Well sometimes you can if you've done it before
without a password.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
They hold spot off their own phones. But that's why
we've got the rule about bringing your phones down. Yeah yeah,
at a certain time. I love it downstairs. They're upstairs
on their laptops.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
I'm just get my phone out, canceled, cancel, thanks for coming,
see you later.
Apogee Production. Welcome back to another episode of Mama Dad
Mum podcast. We are at school holidays, School Holidays again.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
School holidays.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
School's out for nearly the summer, but we've got one
more term to go.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
And so Rach, this is going to blow your mind.
But this next term, term four, is technically the girls'
first term of year twelve. I don't know why they.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Are at maybe because like term four in Lakes and
then they don't really do the last term do they
grade twelve?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
They don't do the last term next year.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
So I don't know why you wouldn't just call it
term four for year eleven and then just year it's
only three terms?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yeah, who cares?
Speaker 1 (01:03):
But also who cares? But yeah, over complicated things again. Yes,
so that was their last term of year eleven done?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yeah, crazy, You've got like they're in their last year
of school.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I'm actually so excited about.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Oh my gosh, you can start counting down the dollars
and also next year counting up the dollars.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
It'll be driving. So technically one last term of the
bust a lot anyway, but lifts anywhere. Happy days, my god.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Oh my gosh, your life is about to change. What's
you're on?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Peas picking up drunk parents from places.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Not are loud? Not allowed? Really?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Yeah, well, they've got certain times, they've got certain like well,
pea plates, sorry you said pea plates. Learner's absolutely not
pea plates. I think it's like play on. But at
the same time, don't they have on the first early
pea plates. They've got like times that they have to
be driving or something like that.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Yeah, I think it might not be after eleven.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
We'll just get all your drinks in early. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Yeah, it's Katie. Pick her up now, six thirty pm. Yeah,
she's already done. Cinderella's kind to change into a pumpkin
if you don't pick her up now.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Am I bad mum for shutting the purse strings?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Kind happy about it? I'm alright with this. It's a
great subject.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Yeah, so, I know I've spoken a little bit about it.
But both the girls have jobs at Macas. They've been
there a year now, wonderful. Yeah, they've stuck at it.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
How much have they saved in a year?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
So, and that leads me to where I am today,
of shutting the purse strings.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
So yesterday racis okay? They have got seven concerts coming
up seven. Oh my gosh, that's a lot of driving
from you. Well, I probably don't need to do it
late night because oh next year they next year December
and then next year they are obsessed with music.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
It's totally okay with that, yeah, apart.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
From the spending money the minute they have it. So yesterday, Rache,
they say to me, okay, mom, we really want to
go to lane Way Festival.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Oh yeah, when's that? I saw that yesterday maybe February. Yeah,
it's on the Gold Coast. Yeah. I was like, and
I didn't think it's here, so last night, rage.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
No, they wanted to put money towards the accommodation, yeah,
so that they can then the minute the dates announced.
I mean it was quite smart thinking about it. They
wanted to make sure the accommodation was booked before the
announcement of what it was. And then obviously everything be
super expensive around there.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
But Rach, they wanted to pay. It was sixty dollars
each and then two friends going with them, so two
hundred and forty dollars. And Jay is reading through where
this accommodation is. This accommodation is a shared apartment where
they get the one room. I was like, absolutely not.
You can't do k is horrible.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
He was sounding horrible there. Oh my gosh, I would
never I would never even stay there.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
No, No, you don't even know who's in that nextual bedroom.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
No you don't know. And so then I'm also, and
this is like a side note of concerns. I was like,
this is only in four months time. Am I okay
with them going to the Gold Coast by themselves?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah, this is what I mean, because really.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
In my head, I was thinking they're going to be
wandering around on the Gold Coast at midnight and getting
insert this accommodation I don't know, probably, and this is
only in four months time. And they were like, yeah,
but mum will be seventeen. I was like, it's actually
not about age. Sorry, I went on, I was on
a girl's holiday overseas when I.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Was seventeen, when my gosh, don't tell them that.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
No, but I was a very different seventeen ye.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Old Yeah, I was gonna say.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
But also I think, yeah, that is a very very
big But even then at seventeen me I wouldn't have
put myself in a share accommodation with anyone that I
hate sleeping in, Like what are those things like backpackers?
Like we have to share a room and sleep It's
my worst nightmare.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Funny story. I used to go to Ibtha because I
lived in London in England and so going to Abitha
was like a real cheap party holiday. And the first
time I went reached, I stayed in a one star hotel.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
One I just go straight to putting your feet on
the ground in the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Did you have to wear thongs?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
One star? Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Honestly, did you catch anything?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
I was so poor. We were going to nightclubs and
spending all on my own drinking. And I remember going
to the shop and I'd buy a box of Pringles
and then some baby Bell cheese. And I do like
Pringle baby Bell sandwiches. I mean quite nice tastyies for dinner.
(06:14):
So anyway, very different seventeen year olds like I just
am like, oh, it's not just an age thing, it's
a life experience, life experience, yeah, street wise all that
kind of stuff. So anyway, and I said, okay, say
that this accommodation was suitable, which is not. And then
the tickets for lame weight come out. Do you have
(06:36):
enough money for the tickets? How much are the tickets?
About two hundred dollars? Okay, so I've googled its two
hundred to two hundred and fifty usually, I went okay, cool,
So who's got two hundred and fifty dollars? And amere
goes I have great? What about Holly? Yeah no I don't,
but Amelia is gonna lend it to me. Okay, so
that's five hundred dollars. So how much have you got? Well,
(06:58):
I've got four hundred, and I've gone, all, you're one
hundred shor what about the rest? And then she's got no, No,
I've actually got more than that. I said, have you
She's like, yeah, I've got more than that because I've
got three shifts coming up. I was like, so you
haven't got more than that? Have you been paid for
those three shifts in advance? Macs pay you in advance? No? Okay,
(07:19):
So this math is not working for me. It's literally
going from scent to scent, like it's literally going okay,
well I've got this right now, I'll pay for that,
and the next week i'll have this. I pay for that.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah, yeah, because I've got nothing else to pay for us?
They can Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
I remember when I went to I went to UNI
for a year and then I dropped out. I was
probably the richest I've ever been at Unie. Yeah, because
student loan. I was buying design of clothes and so
I have put a stop to it. And I was like,
absolutely not. Holly's turned around, she's angry with me. She's
turned around and gone, I just don't have anything to
(07:54):
look forward to. I went, excuse me, we're going on
holiday next week and you got seven concerts books? What
about seven concerts?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Yeah? Yeah, how about you get some extra shifts?
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Yeah, macaus is great. The problem is that they have
like millions of kids.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Yeah yeah, and they've got restrictive hours of work. Yeah,
so that's going to make it harder in itself. So
those three hour, three hour, three hour where's me? When
I was their age, I was banking up seven till
seven on a Sunday, Yeah, Sunday rates seven am till
seven pm at the cheesecake shop.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Happy days. That was my whole week's worth wage.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I don't understand why they don't give the kids who
are on the lower hourly rate the public holiday days.
And the Sundays, I.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Think they Oh yeah, true.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Gracie says to me, you know what, I'm going to
get a job. Mum, I said, I love that. When
he's starting, she goes, I'm going to get a job.
And I said, well, it's good because we've got a
few friends that have got businesses like locally.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
So yep, you get a job, like if you just
put your name down.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
And I mean you're only twelve, so you probably won't
be on the books.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
I said, but I'm sure you'd get a few hourly shifts.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
She goes, well, when I get this job, she said,
I'm going to save up my money. And I said, yeah,
you can save up and then and then I'm going
to buy a phone because you can't do anything about
it because that's my money and that'll be my phone.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I said.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
You can save up all your money, I said, but
every time you buy the phone, I'm going to take
it away from you.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
What about what about the phone bill?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
It's this power trip of like Mom says, no, so
I'm going to now go and earn it and buy
it myself.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Yeah, but then it's not just the bill. Then it's
the Wi Fi. Then how are you gonna get on
the Wi fi. Rach, I've got this amazing new app. Yes,
what's it called? So turn off the Wi Fi to
the whole house. No, but you can do individual devices
on there.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Oh yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
It's called eero ero Yeah. And then on it like
I'm start watching TV last night, right yeah, and it's
ten pm and I was like, oh, it's got my
phone out, kids laptops paused, Amelia's laptop, Holly's laptop up. Pause,
And you can like set it so like it's set
(10:08):
at the moment Monday to Thursday. It's set till six am.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
So that they can't have WiFi. No WiFi. Oh yeah,
it's Have they ever tried just hot spotting off your device?
Speaker 1 (10:20):
No, because they can't just do it without a password.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yeah. Well sometimes you can if you've done it before
without a password.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
They hold spot off their own phones. But that's why
we've got the rule about bringing your phones down. Yeah yeah,
at a certain time. I love it downstairs. They're upstairs
on their laptops.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
I'm just get my phone out, canceled, cancel, thanks for coming,
see you later.
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