March 4, 2025 • 31 mins
Online shopping regrets? Not anymore. This week on Nothing To Wear, we’re cracking the code on scoring the best deals with the ultimate bargain-hunting duo, Two Broke Chicks! From sneaky promo codes to cash-back hacks, Sally McMullen and Alex Hourigan spill their secrets.
Plus, the inside scoop on their legendary Cheat Sheet. Don’t check out without listening!
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
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Speaker 3 (00:27):
To do it.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
You live for fashion.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Hello, and welcome to Nothing to Wear, the podcast that
solves fashion problems and levels up your wardrobe. I'm Lee
Campbell and every week I chat to an expert who
helps us work out how to get more out of
the clothes we already own and tells us exactly what
is and what isn't worth adding to our wardrobes. Let's
talk about the most frustrating part of online shopping. So
(00:53):
you finally decided to make a purchase, You've done, so,
you close that tab, and then of course a discount
code a lands in room box which would have been
really handy before. Or maybe you've just splurged on that
perfect artem you've been considering and then it goes on sale.
It's so annoying. And if it sounds familiar, don't worry,
because we've got some tips. Online shopping is a bit
of a game, and if you can tell by my voice.
(01:15):
I'm very, very excited and a bit nervous to have
two absolute pros here to help us all win. So
Sally and Alex aka the two Broke Chicks or salin
Al as they go by, have built a huge brand
and audience around finding the best deals, saving money, and
making fashion budgeting actually fun and accessible. And they're joining
(01:37):
me today to spill their best online shopping hacks, some
budgeting tips and tricks, and of course they'll explain their
legendary cheat sheet which is the ultimate guide to scoring
discounts and freebies. So let's get into it. Hi h
trying very hard not to fan girls. So I'm going
to jump straight in. I ask first time guests the
(01:57):
same questions. So Sal you're going to go first, describe
your style in three words?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Oh, Mary, Kate and Ashley.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Oh that is so good and it's so true.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Al follow that up?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Ah, pinterest, rock, vintage love, Yeah you did it.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Okay. So the theory that we think is pretty true
that most women wear ten percent of their wardrobe nine
percent of the time. So there's stuff they reached for,
and then there's the other stuff they love but don't
reach for.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
As much.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
What's in your ten percent?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
So?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Oh so the things that I always reach for? Answer?
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Yeah, Honestly, I feel like Alex and I both have
very strong uniforms that we stick to. So in terms
of the core pieces, it's always a leather jacket of
some kind, a graphic vintage bandshirt, and then a silk
slip skirt.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Are you the same similar? I would add cowboy boots okay, yep.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
And a standard pair of blue jeans that fit perfect.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Okay. Do you share wardrobes?
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Oh? So jealous in a way that like sour lends
me stuff and if I really like it, I just
like keep it for as long as I can.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Hil she wear it around her and You're like, damn
it this dress, and I'm like, oh yeah, sure it's
mine house. Yeah. Now, listen, Two Broke Chicks has become
such a brand that people look to you for information
and for deals. How did this all happen? How did
you build the identity? What inspired you to start? It's
(03:32):
all about saving money? Where did this come from?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
So we met at old place of work where Sale
was a financing credit cards editor and I was a
shopping journalist. Oh my god, so we kind of have
this background of like money and shopping, and we started
it at our old jobs and then long story short,
we left those jobs and started Two Broke Chicks. And
how long have we been doing it by ourselves now,
(03:56):
do you?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yeah? Two years?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
We started Two Broke Chicks in October twenty twenty one,
so during lockdown was when we launched the first season
of the podcast. And then yeah, we went out on
our own almost two years ago.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yeah, and since then, Like, you're a household name, it's crazy.
Oh my god, I shouldn't say household. You're a phone.
I don't know that. It sounds like you're a scrubbing brush,
but you know what I mean, that's what I look
like when I wake up.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Sure, Why so we're going to talk online shopping hacks,
sales strategies, all the good stuff, basically what you do
for a living, bread and butter, bread and butter, yum.
What are your best tried and tested hacks for saving
money when it comes to online shopping? I mean, I
feel like I just said, how long's a piece of string? Right?
But give me some?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
There's so many, Like there's obviously the ones of being
like you know, use a promo code, and.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
But where do you get it? Like give us the
nitty gritty, Oh we will, don't you worry.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
But I think what I want to start with is,
like the best way to save money is obviously not
spending it. So figuring out whether or not you actually
want a purchase. And this is something that was a
very lovely journey for me. It's an ongoing it's an
ongoing battle, but I kind of centered it around the
question that I asked myself of do I need it
(05:15):
or do I just need a dopamine hit? Whereas like
that's the whole thing. I was reading this story the
other day about a woman who got addicted to buying bunnies.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
At the market.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Realize, yeah, she was like this elderly lady that would
go to the markets every week and buy a bunny
and she got like addicted to it. And that's where
like the online shopping addiction comes from, because you get
a dopamine here.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
What did she do with all the bunnies?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
It was It was a wild story and got very upset.
You bunny that was actually sour. She's the old woman
buying bunny.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
But it's this thing that the more you repeat her behavior,
you get like a release of dopamine, but the quality
of it lessons.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
So that's why you shot more and more and more.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I am aware you did say this might be my
therapy session and a shopping addiction. I understand exactly.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
We're on the same page, and so I kind of
have a little list of questions that I asked myself
of being like do I need it or do I
just need a dopamine hit? So it sings like sitting
on the purchase for more than twenty four hours. Two
weeks even better, one month even better, I know. And
if you keep coming up being like, oh damn it,
I do need a new white shirt, like you're getting
dressed and your other one has a past to stain
(06:21):
on it from two weeks ago that you didn't wash
straight away, and you're like, true.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Sorry, sorry, can I swear yes? And so if you're
that thing that's coming up with, yes, I do need it.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
The other thing we love doing is digital window shopping,
So just go scrolling on Pinterest, me too.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
And then my third is I just do my washing
and I'm like, I don't need anymore. I've recently discovered
that with underwear. That is, if I just stopped going
and came up to buy more underwear and do my
washing more frequently, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
You get more underwear.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Yeah, well I didn't have to go buy anymore like magic. Okay.
So that's the way to save money.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
When you're not shopping. Yeah, but if you're going to
be shopping, which like, of course we're shopping. Yeah, we
love shopping.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
She's a gorgeous little girly, but.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Do it around sale events like this is the number
one way to be saving money because you should never, ever,
ever ever pay full price.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Like.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Since doing this job, we have realized how often sale
events are. And when we were looking into the sale
event calendar this year, which we just released, we where
can people get it? Yes, so we went on our
ig okay three, yes, yes, it's free free wait for the.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Chick thank for buck for the chickies. Yeah okay, but.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
There is no more than two months between sale events.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
And so there's so you're talking like mid season sale, Yeah,
what's that in the middle of independent to pay day?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
In Let's see if I can get this off the
top of my head.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
I just edited the TikTok of it this morning We've
got after pay Day in March, then we've got click
Frenzy Mayhem in May. Then June we have end of
financial use sales. July we have winter sales. August we
have after Payday again. Then November there's click Frenzy Mayhem
the main event, and then Black Friday and then Buyer Monday.
(08:08):
So like, there's so many and that's not even including
end of season.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Sales happen at the end.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
And I feel like even when it's branded like n
aughter pay whereby to use that branding. If you are
a business, you meant to pay. But everyone just goes
on sale anyways, otherwise they miss out exactly. Okay, so
we're shopping at sale time, but I want even more discounts.
So are their browser extensions? Are their apps? Are there plugins?
I mean obviously besides coming to you guys to find
(08:34):
the best deals, cash back, you know, discount codes, sail alerts.
How do we get all those cool little things that
all our friends seem to know about.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Yeah, honestly, the Google shopping carousel is your best friend.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
What's that thing?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Google? And then hit shopping?
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Yeah, so even just up the top, so you don't
even need to go into the shopping toab but when
you say you're searching Chuck Taylor, Converse, Sneakers, and the
Google carousel with all the retailers that stocks that up the.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Top, but not all of them have to pay to
be in Google Shopping. Because I have an online icon
brand and we didn't used to pay to be in
Google Shopping. We never came up, and now we pay
to come up in that carousel. But still get if
you're looking for quite a common item, you'll get enough
options with prices.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Yeah, it's a good place to start, and that's a
great way to compare things without having to, you know,
really do the search. It's kind of there for you.
And then of course the shopping tab as well. I
also think, like the good old go onto your favorite
brand's Instagram page and look in their tagged photos and
that's where you'll see a lot of the creators that
(09:39):
they work with and have discount codes with.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Yeah, you also go into brands ads managers and see
what do you mean so this was recent?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
This sounds very technical, like on Facebook.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Yeah, so if you go into ads manager and search
a brand, all of their ads that they have running
on Facebook and meta will pop up, so you know
how sometimes it is all based on your cookies.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
So I love cookies.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
People don't want cookies to follow them on the internet.
I love cookies following me because it knows I want, yeah,
and it gives it to me. I just wish cookies
was not enough to go She's bought a couch now, yeah,
no more couch, she's moved on. Yeah, why don't you
know this already? Okay, So I go on to Facebook,
for example, and I'm interested in Witchery for pluck to that,
and then I go to where.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
So the way that I would do it is because
I was just playing around with it the other day,
and you just search ads Manager and then you go
in there and there's like a little search tab and
you just hype in witchery and you can click on
that brand and you can go through and just scroll
through all of their often time fixed, and sometimes there's Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Particularly smaller brands might have a welcome code.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Yeah, or like a social media exclusive code like you
see brands all the time doing things for TikTok or
for Instagram only.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Yes, yeah, so that's where you can post too. Smart. See,
I'm always googling such and such discount code and then
a website comes up, but it wants me to pay
for the website to get the code to do that.
I just want free code.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
And then cash back.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Of course, I'm not a cashback person, can you really? Well?
I want to be, but it sounds hard.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
It's actually so easy.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
So what do I do?
Speaker 4 (11:13):
So there are a lot of different cash back services available.
Alex and I have used shot Back though for years
and years, so that's the one that we're most familiar with.
But with shot Back, for example, you download the Chrome
extension or you get the app Okay, and then if
you go on the Iconic for example, you'll get a
(11:34):
notification and a pop up that says that you can
get x percent cash back. Then you just activate that
then it automatically applies it, and then when you check out,
you'll get cash back.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
So how it works basically is.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
That shot Back is partnered with these specific brands and
then they'll get a commission from the sale that they
send through shot Back, and then they pass on a
percentage of that to you and that's how you get
your cash back.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
And then a cashback goes into that account kind of
like a bit of a PayPal and withdraw bank account.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
And so that's why it might be pending for a
certain period of time because that stops people from being like, Okay,
I'm gonna get cash back, and then they return their
item and they get free money. So it'll sit in
like the shop back account for maybe thirty days outside
of that return period that you can return an item,
or like you can do it with travel for example,
so you'll have to go and stay at the hotel.
Once you've stayed at the hotel, you can get your
(12:26):
cash back for that. But yeah, it's really good. I
think I've saved about seventeen hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Whoa, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
And you can also use like for shopbacks specifically, you
can use it in store at some places as well.
So I get cash back on my coffee every single
morning stop.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Yeah. Yeah. So there's lots of restaurants and cafes that
do it too.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
It's that's silly old analogy, like stop buying coffee. You
can buy some new shoes.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
It's like, no, I want both, yeah, exactly, And that's
how I do it cash back.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Now, I'll just ask a general question. There's a million
other plugins. I think I used to have one called Honey.
There's a little tweety bird one thing that's still floating
around on my phone. So there's a lot out there, right, there's.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
A lot, and you know what, They're all competing with
each other, so check all of them, like price match everywhere.
So many brands price match nowadays, like David Jones just updated,
there's the iconic does it maya Chemist warehouse price matches.
So honestly, just there is so many ways at your
fingertips that.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
If you think I wonder if I could save any money.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
This way, just look into it. Yeah, because I was like, yeah,
it's so simple. With all of that said, do you
ever shop in real life?
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Yeah, all the time.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
But we're mainly vintage shoppers in real life. Yeah, we
love a thrift me too.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Do you want to go together one?
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Yeah, let's go Newtown date.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Yes, okay, so thrifting irl. But then will you go
to the store maybe try something on, particularly like for me, sneakers.
I'm always different sides of it and then go home
and look online.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Yes, yes, every time I try something on in person,
I'm always in the change room googling it before I
get out to make sure that I can't get it
on sale, because if it's something.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
That I really need right then and there, then I'll
buy it.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
But if it's not, like I'm always checking if I
can get it at a cheaper price online first.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
It's also good to go in and bet it because
when you're putting it on something, you know how you're
putting it on, You're like, yeah, I don't actually like
it that much.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Yeah, and will you return it had you brought it
online or it might not be yeah, okay, So that's
benefits to both. Do you have any underrated brands or
retailers that always have good sales or discounts that don't
get talked about enough.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Yeah. So one that's popping off at the moment lately,
especially for home weares, is the Reject Shop. They have
been dropping these like little collections of homewares that have
been so cute. So last year they dropped this like
lemon Cello euro in summer inspired collection with like the
(14:46):
little olive oil bottles and like these lemon shakers, and
I was like, okay, you can come home with me.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Was that in real life? Are they online?
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Yeah? They have catalogs online, but I've actually never bought
anything online before.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Yeah, me neither, but I think you can, but we
always shop in store.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
And then they did like these Strawberry ones, and recently
they did like a Cottage Call collection which was like
like farmhouse cottage Call home wors and they're so cute.
But then also things like your household items. They're so
much cheaper from the reject shop versus like big brand
grocery stores. So if you do want to save money
on your groceries, going and getting like your cleaning items
(15:23):
or even like deodorants. They had Bondi sans Fake ten
there for five dollars.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
The other day.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I was in there recently getting contact from my son's books,
who he started KINDI, but it was just because everywhere
was else was sold out, and I just went and
got the contact and left. I didn't even look.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Around a little stroll through.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
And I love it. And then my second one is Uniclo.
They're so good for capsure wardrobes.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
They've just dropped this collection of tracksuits and sweats and
we posted about it and had.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Like a million views.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
It popped off, and they're amazing for basics and I
just love them.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Agreed.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
I also think that some of the brands like Kmart,
Big w and Target are really coming through in the
fashion department at the moment. Think Kmart, you know, for
the last few years with home Weares has really popped off.
But I think those are great options if you want
to buy something that is more affordable but also size
inclusive too, which I think is great about all of
(16:22):
those brands, and you can invest in you know, some
timeless pieces from there, but they are also always on trend,
which I think is fabulous and maybe not something that
we would have associated with Kmart when I was a
teenager at least, which is really cool to see. But
I also would say that eBay is my unsung hero
tell yeah, so because Alex and I do love vintage
(16:45):
shopping and secondhand shopping. I think that eBay is such
a good resource and I'm always getting really good deals
just by putting things in my wish list and leaving
it there, and nine out of ten times I get
an offer for a discount.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Right so that person that's selling that pair of shoes
will go, oh, you know what, I'm going to cut
fifty bucks off of Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Usually it's like twenty percent off, which is really and.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Then you just keep watching until you like, actually I
want to pay that yea.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Yeah, also deeper I love the like feature on Deep
Up where you like make an offer.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
I feel like I'm on Shark Tank.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Yeah, I'm like fifty dollars and they're like seventy.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
I'm like sixty seventy. I'm like sixty five and they're
like deal. I'm like great, I do that.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
I do that on Bestier Collective and then I offer
and then they like accept it. I'm like, oh no,
I still can't afford that.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I just want to yea.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Would you ever negotiate in real life in a store?
Like my husband does it at the Good Guys and
I know you meant to, but I leave because I'm
so awkward.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Yeah I would.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Yeah, it depends where like I'm not going to walk
into dish and be twenty bucks lest they're like get out.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Now, I've got fifty bucks. What can I get?
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Yeah? Yeah, But like I grew up with like my
Italian mother that like, you know, she found something and
it had to make up staying on it and she
was like I get that out.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
She was like, do you want to give me that
for twenty bucks less and a half. The time, I'll
be like, yeah, sure, why not.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
My husband's great, so I must be yeah that thing, yeah, ed,
he always gets it.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Yeah, but tech place is one hundred percent like JB
High five good guys. Absolutely, I did it with David
Jones with my Smeg coffee machine.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
I got it like six hundred dollars off it by
doing that.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
All right, So we've talked about budgeting and smart spending.
Because you called two broke chicks and you're all about
saving money. You've given some really good top line filters
to think. Is this an impulse por chess? Am I
using my emotions? I mean? And it's also okay to
buy something because you want it, but you don't want
to go into crazy credit card debt or realize you
have ten thousand of them already, which is my problem.
Costperwear is that something you consider.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Yes, thousand percent and it's really unique to everyone, Like
we say this all the time. Like I bought a
pair of green Cowboy boots the other day and there
was spenny like they were over two hundred dollars, but
I was like, I I'm gonna wear this shit out
of these and it's the rule of thirty that when
you look at an item and if you think, okay,
would I wear this thirty times and the answer is yes,
(19:18):
well finger thirty scenarios, then you divide that number. We
all know how costperwar works, but two hundred dollars by
thirty I'm not doing masks, don't anyone else. But then
it kind of you can see that that cost per
wear is actually a lot cheaper. But if I'm like
I'm buying these for one festival that I am, probably
I've never worn cowboy boots any other day for the
(19:40):
rest of my life or in the past, It's probably
not a good investment for that girly. But me, I
wear them all the day because I hate wearing heels,
and like cowboy boots and my party shoe.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
I love that you think you can wear well, that
you will wear green thirty times.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
I've already worn them, I think about six times, I think.
And I bought them like three weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
That's also a really good filter for quality, not so
much price. But will that item last thirty time exactly?
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Yeah, Like I remember I used to and be like, oh, well,
I'll invest in an expensive white t shirt because that
is a staple item that I will wear thirty times.
But the reality is like, will a white T shirt
for me as somebody who wears makeup almost every single
day and faked hands, will that actually last thirty wears?
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Can you bleach it that many times before it just
integrate exactly?
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Whereas a pair of leather boots or a suede jacket, Yes,
that will probably last me ten years plus.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Yeah, Yeah, very good filter. I want to ask your
opinion on I mean, there's a million different services. I
won't name one specifically, but you can get the item
now and pay for it later in installments.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Yeah, thoughts, So buy now, pay later tools, I think
they're super popular, especially with people that sit in the
demographic of two broach chicks, and I think that they
can be a useful tool, especially during really busy spending
periods like Christmas for example, and if you're trying to
(21:07):
free up cash flow during that time. But you really
need to know yourself and know your spending habits, and
if you are going to use a buy now, pay
later service, you still need to have a budget in place.
Still map that out and look at your pay cycle
and how that lines up with when the installment's adue,
(21:27):
because just like a credit card or just like a
buying now pay later service, the second that you were
charged any sort of fee or any sort of interest,
it is no longer worth it.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
You've immediately lost money.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
And I don't even know if it affects your credit,
but that scares me.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
I think there's a lot more regulations coming out around it.
We do know that it does affect your chances of
getting a home loan, So it's definitely a tensative thing
we're very conscious of. You know, we're in a cost
of living crisis, and we understand that people you know,
sometimes have to rely on these things just to you know,
buy their groceries. But I do think it's the notion
of even if you're payingful price, if you can't buy
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it twice, you can't afford it. It's like a very
popular rule of thumb from some financial advice and so yeah,
we kind of encourage people to save up for items
and purchase them rather than you know, using a buy
now payloads.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Yeah, exactly, or at least having a strategy in place
and not just going in like you know, ignorance is
bliss because oh, no, I remember it.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
I lay by a pair of sassin By jeans and
I drove from Castle Hill to Chatswood to put money
on it because that's how you did it. Oh, those
were the days. A few more questions before we get
into boogie in budget. What do you think about individual
retailers sort of loyalty programs like, for example, Price Signed
Sister Club. I love because I get so much stuff
and then I end up getting five dollars ten dollars
(22:50):
H and M. I love, but then they go, you've
got three dollars, like amazing, and then I buy one
hundred and twenty dollars something to use my three dollars.
So do you think there's some that do it?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Well?
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Are they worth just signing up? They're free a lot
of these stores loyalty programs and just seeing what they're like.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Yeah, one thousand sent.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
I am a nerd and I love Flybys because I've.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Recently got an to Points.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Oh that's the whole other points queen.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Because I realized how many places that I was shopping
that you can get flybys with, and I've just realized
that I've turned it into my dad.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I just had an out of body experience and I
was like, oh my god.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
But so places like Kmart you get flybys, you can
turn it into points, go to Europe and have a
hot girl summer. But also one that we love is Adaes.
They've been a really good one, yes, and they have
their linen Lovers sale. I think we've saved like six
hundred dollars before and I was like absolutely.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Yeah, because that's an example of one where there is
a fee to join up. But if you know that
you really need new bedding or you're moving into a
new apartment and you're going to have to buy new
towels and new homewares, you will save money because the
discounts are really really impressive with that.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
So I think it's the forward.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Planning and yeah, thinking about the year and where are
you going to be spending the most of your money
and where it makes sense.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
So they have cut hit.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Honestly asked year, how dare you? Well?
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Do you know? Spotlight? So since becoming a mum, I've
gone there for craft. Think their homeworareres have had to
go up and I think it was free to sign up.
I don't know, but their homeworers have had to go
up and then I bought some jeans at one of
the big gene retailers the other day. I won't say
in case I get this guy in trouble, but he's like, oh,
they're on sale. And then if you become a member,
you get a birthday discount. I'm like, well, my birthday's
not too much. He's like, I thought your birthday was
(24:32):
tomorrow week week he gave me, Yeah, the birthday discounts.
So there's always ways.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
All the time when I would sign up to something
and I would say that my birthday was like in
the next week.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
However, the birthday discount.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
See, I'm an idiot. I've told them all my real
birthday and I get a thousand and five dollars off
in the one week. And I'm like, well, I'm probably
getting presents, Okay, I feel like you could be here
for years. Anything else you want to tell them? Nothing
To our listeners. Before we do Bougie and Budget.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
I will say so al mentioned of course all of
the sale events which are coming up throughout the year.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
But for every single sale.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Event, we release a cheat sheet where we compile hundreds
of deals across fashion, beauty, lifestyle, travel, and more, and
you can shop all of the discounts in one place,
and the chicks absolutely love it. So just follow us
on Instagram or TikTok.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
How long does that take you?
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Right?
Speaker 2 (25:25):
You need to charge a membership?
Speaker 3 (25:27):
No, because I feel like that goes against like where
we started doing it from. And you know, like we
are so lucky to have this audience that like brands
can pay us, we'll.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Get from the brands.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Yes, you get this for free, just like the sponsored
posts and we're all good.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
You love it. But also with our cheat sheets this year.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
We did this with Black Friday last year in Boxing
Day and we really felt passionate about doing it that
we're going to do it all year this year that
any affiliate revenue that we make from the cheat sheets
and from sale events we donate to charity. And so
last year we donated to Sydney Dogs and Cats Home,
the People of Palestine and victims of domestic violence and
raised over five thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
That is just so happy.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Honestly, I don't know. I just got tears as my
cats are from Citney Dogs and Cats Home, Oh my god,
Alex and all the other very worthy causes. Honestly, I
could not love you too more. I feel like I
want to go shopping with you. It's very expensive, I wondre.
(26:44):
So I'm not going to do boogie budget this week
because I have to bring on every week and it's
made me buy too manythings. So you're both going to
bring something expensive, more expensive than your budget, that you're
either got your eye on waiting for it to go
on sale, or that you've just bought.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
We'll start with bougie.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Yeah, okay, So my bougie purchase is actually a vintage
purchase that I got from a vintage store in Newtown,
and it's a Swede Fringe chocolate brown jacket. Yeah, and
it was expensive. It was around two hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
However, it was.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
From like a French leather store and it was in
amazing condition. And while Swayede and Fringe is having a
huge moment this year, for me, that is a staple
because I love like a boho chic biker moment. That's
kind of like a constant source of inspiration for me.
And because it is Swayed, it's going to be very
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durable and last me a long time.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
And you saved something from landfill and you didn't buy
something new.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
And if you bought a swede jacket brand new, it
would probably be over one thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Particularly equality like that.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Yeah, jealous exactly.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
All right, bougie for you.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Okay, I think my bougie has to be my green
cowboy boots.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
We're going to show you for those that are watching
on YouTube and Spotify, we're going to flash it on
the screen. I think.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
So. They're the Rock Garland Cowboy boots and they were
two hundred and seventy nine dollars and ninety five cents.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
This is them. Oh wow, I'm obsessed with them.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
And I found a promo code when I was shopping
for them, which was like staff thirty and I was.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Like not sure, but I'm I use it.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
You found it and I did. And they're my babies.
They're not swayed. I thought they were swayed from far away.
They're fabulous. They're very I'm a green cowboy boot.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Yeah, and it's my favorite color. And that's the thing
that we always say that.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
I'm like, that's my capsule wardrobe, like green cowboy boots.
I'm like, I'm gonna wear those always. Yeah, their households
doc yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Did you do that?
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Yes, every size, budget good.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
Okay, budget purchase was actually a recent one. So Catch
is having a huge closing down sale at the moment.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
So sad.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Yeah, I know it's the end of an error.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
It's only I would take my son to treshoes on
and then I go on Catch and get them for
thirty dollars salts.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
So speaking of I got a new pair of Converse
high Top platforms for seventy one dollars, so I saved
sixty nine dollars off the RP.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Yeah okay.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
And apparently Converse is coming back. I saw an article
on Who What Where that was saying that they're back.
But again, it's a staple for me. She's been wearing
Converse since she came out of the womb pretty much.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
But they're very cool again. Yeah yeah, wow was Catch? Yeah,
And speaking of Catch, I mean they are disappearing, but
you know what else they quickly love that I've got
to say is one pass so you pay a fee,
but you get free delivery from Kmart office works price sig.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Also five times your fly bys if you got.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
I've got to get into the fly by. You need to.
It's crazy, but the barcode pill just get the car.
I don't know how because I don't have the barcode
on the back of my car, and just log in. Oh,
I'm one hundred. We'll help you. Thank you budget.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Okay, I'm going to go along the same lines with
this catch sale. And it was a glasshouse candle, full
size for twenty five bars.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Stop. Yeah, oh my god, I don't know if I
even need this.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
I was like, sure, you can go in the bathroom
do your mother's day shopping.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Now, so many candles to be born.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
If you don't have a cupboard of random candles for
last minute presents, you're not doing that right, Oh my god,
so true. Sol and Ol. I want to come and
work with you. No, I'm not a corner. Are you
from my house?
Speaker 4 (30:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Okay, you go home and we're going to be on
the couch being like, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
Come on, I'll be contacting your son's school books.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Well, our new couches on the way that I got
in the boxing day sales. So wait for that to
come over. Wait, no, show us. I want to say,
Oh it's freedom. I'll show you. I'll show you. Thank
you for your service. I love hearing that you put
out all this great content for free for your audience,
and that so much goes to charity. It's such a legend.
So thank you for.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Your time, Thanks for having us fun.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
I've got to keep me apping the whole time. You'll
be back, trust me, Yeah, can't wait.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:21):
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Speaker 1 (00:23):
Disturbed laurels for spraying groundbreaking?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Oh my god, you have.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
To do it.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
You live for fashion.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Hello, and welcome to Nothing to Wear, the podcast that
solves fashion problems and levels up your wardrobe. I'm Lee
Campbell and every week I chat to an expert who
helps us work out how to get more out of
the clothes we already own and tells us exactly what
is and what isn't worth adding to our wardrobes. Let's
talk about the most frustrating part of online shopping. So
(00:53):
you finally decided to make a purchase, You've done, so,
you close that tab, and then of course a discount
code a lands in room box which would have been
really handy before. Or maybe you've just splurged on that
perfect artem you've been considering and then it goes on sale.
It's so annoying. And if it sounds familiar, don't worry,
because we've got some tips. Online shopping is a bit
of a game, and if you can tell by my voice.
(01:15):
I'm very, very excited and a bit nervous to have
two absolute pros here to help us all win. So
Sally and Alex aka the two Broke Chicks or salin
Al as they go by, have built a huge brand
and audience around finding the best deals, saving money, and
making fashion budgeting actually fun and accessible. And they're joining
(01:37):
me today to spill their best online shopping hacks, some
budgeting tips and tricks, and of course they'll explain their
legendary cheat sheet which is the ultimate guide to scoring
discounts and freebies. So let's get into it. Hi h
trying very hard not to fan girls. So I'm going
to jump straight in. I ask first time guests the
(01:57):
same questions. So Sal you're going to go first, describe
your style in three words?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Oh, Mary, Kate and Ashley.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Oh that is so good and it's so true.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Al follow that up?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Ah, pinterest, rock, vintage love, Yeah you did it.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Okay. So the theory that we think is pretty true
that most women wear ten percent of their wardrobe nine
percent of the time. So there's stuff they reached for,
and then there's the other stuff they love but don't
reach for.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
As much.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
What's in your ten percent?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
So?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Oh so the things that I always reach for? Answer?
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Yeah, Honestly, I feel like Alex and I both have
very strong uniforms that we stick to. So in terms
of the core pieces, it's always a leather jacket of
some kind, a graphic vintage bandshirt, and then a silk
slip skirt.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Are you the same similar? I would add cowboy boots okay, yep.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
And a standard pair of blue jeans that fit perfect.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Okay. Do you share wardrobes?
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Oh? So jealous in a way that like sour lends
me stuff and if I really like it, I just
like keep it for as long as I can.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Hil she wear it around her and You're like, damn
it this dress, and I'm like, oh yeah, sure it's
mine house. Yeah. Now, listen, Two Broke Chicks has become
such a brand that people look to you for information
and for deals. How did this all happen? How did
you build the identity? What inspired you to start? It's
(03:32):
all about saving money? Where did this come from?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
So we met at old place of work where Sale
was a financing credit cards editor and I was a
shopping journalist. Oh my god, so we kind of have
this background of like money and shopping, and we started
it at our old jobs and then long story short,
we left those jobs and started Two Broke Chicks. And
how long have we been doing it by ourselves now,
(03:56):
do you?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yeah? Two years?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
We started Two Broke Chicks in October twenty twenty one,
so during lockdown was when we launched the first season
of the podcast. And then yeah, we went out on
our own almost two years ago.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yeah, and since then, Like, you're a household name, it's crazy.
Oh my god, I shouldn't say household. You're a phone.
I don't know that. It sounds like you're a scrubbing brush,
but you know what I mean, that's what I look
like when I wake up.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Sure, Why so we're going to talk online shopping hacks,
sales strategies, all the good stuff, basically what you do
for a living, bread and butter, bread and butter, yum.
What are your best tried and tested hacks for saving
money when it comes to online shopping? I mean, I
feel like I just said, how long's a piece of string? Right?
But give me some?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
There's so many, Like there's obviously the ones of being
like you know, use a promo code, and.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
But where do you get it? Like give us the
nitty gritty, Oh we will, don't you worry.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
But I think what I want to start with is,
like the best way to save money is obviously not
spending it. So figuring out whether or not you actually
want a purchase. And this is something that was a
very lovely journey for me. It's an ongoing it's an
ongoing battle, but I kind of centered it around the
question that I asked myself of do I need it
(05:15):
or do I just need a dopamine hit? Whereas like
that's the whole thing. I was reading this story the
other day about a woman who got addicted to buying bunnies.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
At the market.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Realize, yeah, she was like this elderly lady that would
go to the markets every week and buy a bunny
and she got like addicted to it. And that's where
like the online shopping addiction comes from, because you get
a dopamine here.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
What did she do with all the bunnies?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
It was It was a wild story and got very upset.
You bunny that was actually sour. She's the old woman
buying bunny.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
But it's this thing that the more you repeat her behavior,
you get like a release of dopamine, but the quality
of it lessons.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
So that's why you shot more and more and more.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I am aware you did say this might be my
therapy session and a shopping addiction. I understand exactly.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
We're on the same page, and so I kind of
have a little list of questions that I asked myself
of being like do I need it or do I
just need a dopamine hit? So it sings like sitting
on the purchase for more than twenty four hours. Two
weeks even better, one month even better, I know. And
if you keep coming up being like, oh damn it,
I do need a new white shirt, like you're getting
dressed and your other one has a past to stain
(06:21):
on it from two weeks ago that you didn't wash
straight away, and you're like, true.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Sorry, sorry, can I swear yes? And so if you're
that thing that's coming up with, yes, I do need it.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
The other thing we love doing is digital window shopping,
So just go scrolling on Pinterest, me too.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
And then my third is I just do my washing
and I'm like, I don't need anymore. I've recently discovered
that with underwear. That is, if I just stopped going
and came up to buy more underwear and do my
washing more frequently, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
You get more underwear.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Yeah, well I didn't have to go buy anymore like magic. Okay.
So that's the way to save money.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
When you're not shopping. Yeah, but if you're going to
be shopping, which like, of course we're shopping. Yeah, we
love shopping.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
She's a gorgeous little girly, but.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Do it around sale events like this is the number
one way to be saving money because you should never, ever,
ever ever pay full price.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Like.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Since doing this job, we have realized how often sale
events are. And when we were looking into the sale
event calendar this year, which we just released, we where
can people get it? Yes, so we went on our
ig okay three, yes, yes, it's free free wait for the.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Chick thank for buck for the chickies. Yeah okay, but.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
There is no more than two months between sale events.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
And so there's so you're talking like mid season sale, Yeah,
what's that in the middle of independent to pay day?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
In Let's see if I can get this off the
top of my head.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
I just edited the TikTok of it this morning We've
got after pay Day in March, then we've got click
Frenzy Mayhem in May. Then June we have end of
financial use sales. July we have winter sales. August we
have after Payday again. Then November there's click Frenzy Mayhem
the main event, and then Black Friday and then Buyer Monday.
(08:08):
So like, there's so many and that's not even including
end of season.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Sales happen at the end.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
And I feel like even when it's branded like n
aughter pay whereby to use that branding. If you are
a business, you meant to pay. But everyone just goes
on sale anyways, otherwise they miss out exactly. Okay, so
we're shopping at sale time, but I want even more discounts.
So are their browser extensions? Are their apps? Are there plugins?
I mean obviously besides coming to you guys to find
(08:34):
the best deals, cash back, you know, discount codes, sail alerts.
How do we get all those cool little things that
all our friends seem to know about.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Yeah, honestly, the Google shopping carousel is your best friend.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
What's that thing?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Google? And then hit shopping?
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Yeah, so even just up the top, so you don't
even need to go into the shopping toab but when
you say you're searching Chuck Taylor, Converse, Sneakers, and the
Google carousel with all the retailers that stocks that up the.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Top, but not all of them have to pay to
be in Google Shopping. Because I have an online icon
brand and we didn't used to pay to be in
Google Shopping. We never came up, and now we pay
to come up in that carousel. But still get if
you're looking for quite a common item, you'll get enough
options with prices.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Yeah, it's a good place to start, and that's a
great way to compare things without having to, you know,
really do the search. It's kind of there for you.
And then of course the shopping tab as well. I
also think, like the good old go onto your favorite
brand's Instagram page and look in their tagged photos and
that's where you'll see a lot of the creators that
(09:39):
they work with and have discount codes with.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Yeah, you also go into brands ads managers and see
what do you mean so this was recent?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
This sounds very technical, like on Facebook.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Yeah, so if you go into ads manager and search
a brand, all of their ads that they have running
on Facebook and meta will pop up, so you know
how sometimes it is all based on your cookies.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
So I love cookies.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
People don't want cookies to follow them on the internet.
I love cookies following me because it knows I want, yeah,
and it gives it to me. I just wish cookies
was not enough to go She's bought a couch now, yeah,
no more couch, she's moved on. Yeah, why don't you
know this already? Okay, So I go on to Facebook,
for example, and I'm interested in Witchery for pluck to that,
and then I go to where.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
So the way that I would do it is because
I was just playing around with it the other day,
and you just search ads Manager and then you go
in there and there's like a little search tab and
you just hype in witchery and you can click on
that brand and you can go through and just scroll
through all of their often time fixed, and sometimes there's Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Particularly smaller brands might have a welcome code.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Yeah, or like a social media exclusive code like you
see brands all the time doing things for TikTok or
for Instagram only.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Yes, yeah, so that's where you can post too. Smart. See,
I'm always googling such and such discount code and then
a website comes up, but it wants me to pay
for the website to get the code to do that.
I just want free code.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
And then cash back.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Of course, I'm not a cashback person, can you really? Well?
I want to be, but it sounds hard.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
It's actually so easy.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
So what do I do?
Speaker 4 (11:13):
So there are a lot of different cash back services available.
Alex and I have used shot Back though for years
and years, so that's the one that we're most familiar with.
But with shot Back, for example, you download the Chrome
extension or you get the app Okay, and then if
you go on the Iconic for example, you'll get a
(11:34):
notification and a pop up that says that you can
get x percent cash back. Then you just activate that
then it automatically applies it, and then when you check out,
you'll get cash back.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
So how it works basically is.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
That shot Back is partnered with these specific brands and
then they'll get a commission from the sale that they
send through shot Back, and then they pass on a
percentage of that to you and that's how you get
your cash back.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
And then a cashback goes into that account kind of
like a bit of a PayPal and withdraw bank account.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
And so that's why it might be pending for a
certain period of time because that stops people from being like, Okay,
I'm gonna get cash back, and then they return their
item and they get free money. So it'll sit in
like the shop back account for maybe thirty days outside
of that return period that you can return an item,
or like you can do it with travel for example,
so you'll have to go and stay at the hotel.
Once you've stayed at the hotel, you can get your
(12:26):
cash back for that. But yeah, it's really good. I
think I've saved about seventeen hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Whoa, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
And you can also use like for shopbacks specifically, you
can use it in store at some places as well.
So I get cash back on my coffee every single
morning stop.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Yeah. Yeah. So there's lots of restaurants and cafes that
do it too.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
It's that's silly old analogy, like stop buying coffee. You
can buy some new shoes.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
It's like, no, I want both, yeah, exactly, And that's
how I do it cash back.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Now, I'll just ask a general question. There's a million
other plugins. I think I used to have one called Honey.
There's a little tweety bird one thing that's still floating
around on my phone. So there's a lot out there, right, there's.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
A lot, and you know what, They're all competing with
each other, so check all of them, like price match everywhere.
So many brands price match nowadays, like David Jones just updated,
there's the iconic does it maya Chemist warehouse price matches.
So honestly, just there is so many ways at your
fingertips that.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
If you think I wonder if I could save any money.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
This way, just look into it. Yeah, because I was like, yeah,
it's so simple. With all of that said, do you
ever shop in real life?
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Yeah, all the time.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
But we're mainly vintage shoppers in real life. Yeah, we
love a thrift me too.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Do you want to go together one?
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Yeah, let's go Newtown date.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Yes, okay, so thrifting irl. But then will you go
to the store maybe try something on, particularly like for me, sneakers.
I'm always different sides of it and then go home
and look online.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Yes, yes, every time I try something on in person,
I'm always in the change room googling it before I
get out to make sure that I can't get it
on sale, because if it's something.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
That I really need right then and there, then I'll
buy it.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
But if it's not, like I'm always checking if I
can get it at a cheaper price online first.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
It's also good to go in and bet it because
when you're putting it on something, you know how you're
putting it on, You're like, yeah, I don't actually like
it that much.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Yeah, and will you return it had you brought it
online or it might not be yeah, okay, So that's
benefits to both. Do you have any underrated brands or
retailers that always have good sales or discounts that don't
get talked about enough.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Yeah. So one that's popping off at the moment lately,
especially for home weares, is the Reject Shop. They have
been dropping these like little collections of homewares that have
been so cute. So last year they dropped this like
lemon Cello euro in summer inspired collection with like the
(14:46):
little olive oil bottles and like these lemon shakers, and
I was like, okay, you can come home with me.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Was that in real life? Are they online?
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Yeah? They have catalogs online, but I've actually never bought
anything online before.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Yeah, me neither, but I think you can, but we
always shop in store.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
And then they did like these Strawberry ones, and recently
they did like a Cottage Call collection which was like
like farmhouse cottage Call home wors and they're so cute.
But then also things like your household items. They're so
much cheaper from the reject shop versus like big brand
grocery stores. So if you do want to save money
on your groceries, going and getting like your cleaning items
(15:23):
or even like deodorants. They had Bondi sans Fake ten
there for five dollars.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
The other day.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I was in there recently getting contact from my son's books,
who he started KINDI, but it was just because everywhere
was else was sold out, and I just went and
got the contact and left. I didn't even look.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Around a little stroll through.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
And I love it. And then my second one is Uniclo.
They're so good for capsure wardrobes.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
They've just dropped this collection of tracksuits and sweats and
we posted about it and had.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Like a million views.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
It popped off, and they're amazing for basics and I
just love them.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Agreed.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
I also think that some of the brands like Kmart,
Big w and Target are really coming through in the
fashion department at the moment. Think Kmart, you know, for
the last few years with home Weares has really popped off.
But I think those are great options if you want
to buy something that is more affordable but also size
inclusive too, which I think is great about all of
(16:22):
those brands, and you can invest in you know, some
timeless pieces from there, but they are also always on trend,
which I think is fabulous and maybe not something that
we would have associated with Kmart when I was a
teenager at least, which is really cool to see. But
I also would say that eBay is my unsung hero
tell yeah, so because Alex and I do love vintage
(16:45):
shopping and secondhand shopping. I think that eBay is such
a good resource and I'm always getting really good deals
just by putting things in my wish list and leaving
it there, and nine out of ten times I get
an offer for a discount.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Right so that person that's selling that pair of shoes
will go, oh, you know what, I'm going to cut
fifty bucks off of Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Usually it's like twenty percent off, which is really and.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Then you just keep watching until you like, actually I
want to pay that yea.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Yeah, also deeper I love the like feature on Deep
Up where you like make an offer.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
I feel like I'm on Shark Tank.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Yeah, I'm like fifty dollars and they're like seventy.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
I'm like sixty seventy. I'm like sixty five and they're
like deal. I'm like great, I do that.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
I do that on Bestier Collective and then I offer
and then they like accept it. I'm like, oh no,
I still can't afford that.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I just want to yea.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Would you ever negotiate in real life in a store?
Like my husband does it at the Good Guys and
I know you meant to, but I leave because I'm
so awkward.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Yeah I would.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Yeah, it depends where like I'm not going to walk
into dish and be twenty bucks lest they're like get out.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Now, I've got fifty bucks. What can I get?
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Yeah? Yeah, But like I grew up with like my
Italian mother that like, you know, she found something and
it had to make up staying on it and she
was like I get that out.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
She was like, do you want to give me that
for twenty bucks less and a half. The time, I'll
be like, yeah, sure, why not.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
My husband's great, so I must be yeah that thing, yeah, ed,
he always gets it.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Yeah, but tech place is one hundred percent like JB
High five good guys. Absolutely, I did it with David
Jones with my Smeg coffee machine.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
I got it like six hundred dollars off it by
doing that.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
All right, So we've talked about budgeting and smart spending.
Because you called two broke chicks and you're all about
saving money. You've given some really good top line filters
to think. Is this an impulse por chess? Am I
using my emotions? I mean? And it's also okay to
buy something because you want it, but you don't want
to go into crazy credit card debt or realize you
have ten thousand of them already, which is my problem.
Costperwear is that something you consider.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Yes, thousand percent and it's really unique to everyone, Like
we say this all the time. Like I bought a
pair of green Cowboy boots the other day and there
was spenny like they were over two hundred dollars, but
I was like, I I'm gonna wear this shit out
of these and it's the rule of thirty that when
you look at an item and if you think, okay,
would I wear this thirty times and the answer is yes,
(19:18):
well finger thirty scenarios, then you divide that number. We
all know how costperwar works, but two hundred dollars by
thirty I'm not doing masks, don't anyone else. But then
it kind of you can see that that cost per
wear is actually a lot cheaper. But if I'm like
I'm buying these for one festival that I am, probably
I've never worn cowboy boots any other day for the
(19:40):
rest of my life or in the past, It's probably
not a good investment for that girly. But me, I
wear them all the day because I hate wearing heels,
and like cowboy boots and my party shoe.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
I love that you think you can wear well, that
you will wear green thirty times.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
I've already worn them, I think about six times, I think.
And I bought them like three weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
That's also a really good filter for quality, not so
much price. But will that item last thirty time exactly?
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Yeah, Like I remember I used to and be like, oh, well,
I'll invest in an expensive white t shirt because that
is a staple item that I will wear thirty times.
But the reality is like, will a white T shirt
for me as somebody who wears makeup almost every single
day and faked hands, will that actually last thirty wears?
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Can you bleach it that many times before it just
integrate exactly?
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Whereas a pair of leather boots or a suede jacket, Yes,
that will probably last me ten years plus.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Yeah, Yeah, very good filter. I want to ask your
opinion on I mean, there's a million different services. I
won't name one specifically, but you can get the item
now and pay for it later in installments.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Yeah, thoughts, So buy now, pay later tools, I think
they're super popular, especially with people that sit in the
demographic of two broach chicks, and I think that they
can be a useful tool, especially during really busy spending
periods like Christmas for example, and if you're trying to
(21:07):
free up cash flow during that time. But you really
need to know yourself and know your spending habits, and
if you are going to use a buy now, pay
later service, you still need to have a budget in place.
Still map that out and look at your pay cycle
and how that lines up with when the installment's adue,
(21:27):
because just like a credit card or just like a
buying now pay later service, the second that you were
charged any sort of fee or any sort of interest,
it is no longer worth it.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
You've immediately lost money.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
And I don't even know if it affects your credit,
but that scares me.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
I think there's a lot more regulations coming out around it.
We do know that it does affect your chances of
getting a home loan, So it's definitely a tensative thing
we're very conscious of. You know, we're in a cost
of living crisis, and we understand that people you know,
sometimes have to rely on these things just to you know,
buy their groceries. But I do think it's the notion
of even if you're payingful price, if you can't buy
(22:04):
it twice, you can't afford it. It's like a very
popular rule of thumb from some financial advice and so yeah,
we kind of encourage people to save up for items
and purchase them rather than you know, using a buy
now payloads.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Yeah, exactly, or at least having a strategy in place
and not just going in like you know, ignorance is
bliss because oh, no, I remember it.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
I lay by a pair of sassin By jeans and
I drove from Castle Hill to Chatswood to put money
on it because that's how you did it. Oh, those
were the days. A few more questions before we get
into boogie in budget. What do you think about individual
retailers sort of loyalty programs like, for example, Price Signed
Sister Club. I love because I get so much stuff
and then I end up getting five dollars ten dollars
(22:50):
H and M. I love, but then they go, you've
got three dollars, like amazing, and then I buy one
hundred and twenty dollars something to use my three dollars.
So do you think there's some that do it?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Well?
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Are they worth just signing up? They're free a lot
of these stores loyalty programs and just seeing what they're like.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Yeah, one thousand sent.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
I am a nerd and I love Flybys because I've.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Recently got an to Points.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Oh that's the whole other points queen.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Because I realized how many places that I was shopping
that you can get flybys with, and I've just realized
that I've turned it into my dad.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I just had an out of body experience and I
was like, oh my god.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
But so places like Kmart you get flybys, you can
turn it into points, go to Europe and have a
hot girl summer. But also one that we love is Adaes.
They've been a really good one, yes, and they have
their linen Lovers sale. I think we've saved like six
hundred dollars before and I was like absolutely.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Yeah, because that's an example of one where there is
a fee to join up. But if you know that
you really need new bedding or you're moving into a
new apartment and you're going to have to buy new
towels and new homewares, you will save money because the
discounts are really really impressive with that.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
So I think it's the forward.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Planning and yeah, thinking about the year and where are
you going to be spending the most of your money
and where it makes sense.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
So they have cut hit.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Honestly asked year, how dare you? Well?
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Do you know? Spotlight? So since becoming a mum, I've
gone there for craft. Think their homeworareres have had to
go up and I think it was free to sign up.
I don't know, but their homeworers have had to go
up and then I bought some jeans at one of
the big gene retailers the other day. I won't say
in case I get this guy in trouble, but he's like, oh,
they're on sale. And then if you become a member,
you get a birthday discount. I'm like, well, my birthday's
not too much. He's like, I thought your birthday was
(24:32):
tomorrow week week he gave me, Yeah, the birthday discounts.
So there's always ways.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
All the time when I would sign up to something
and I would say that my birthday was like in
the next week.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
However, the birthday discount.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
See, I'm an idiot. I've told them all my real
birthday and I get a thousand and five dollars off
in the one week. And I'm like, well, I'm probably
getting presents, Okay, I feel like you could be here
for years. Anything else you want to tell them? Nothing
To our listeners. Before we do Bougie and Budget.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
I will say so al mentioned of course all of
the sale events which are coming up throughout the year.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
But for every single sale.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Event, we release a cheat sheet where we compile hundreds
of deals across fashion, beauty, lifestyle, travel, and more, and
you can shop all of the discounts in one place,
and the chicks absolutely love it. So just follow us
on Instagram or TikTok.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
How long does that take you?
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Right?
Speaker 2 (25:25):
You need to charge a membership?
Speaker 3 (25:27):
No, because I feel like that goes against like where
we started doing it from. And you know, like we
are so lucky to have this audience that like brands
can pay us, we'll.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Get from the brands.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Yes, you get this for free, just like the sponsored
posts and we're all good.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
You love it. But also with our cheat sheets this year.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
We did this with Black Friday last year in Boxing
Day and we really felt passionate about doing it that
we're going to do it all year this year that
any affiliate revenue that we make from the cheat sheets
and from sale events we donate to charity. And so
last year we donated to Sydney Dogs and Cats Home,
the People of Palestine and victims of domestic violence and
raised over five thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
That is just so happy.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Honestly, I don't know. I just got tears as my
cats are from Citney Dogs and Cats Home, Oh my god,
Alex and all the other very worthy causes. Honestly, I
could not love you too more. I feel like I
want to go shopping with you. It's very expensive, I wondre.
(26:44):
So I'm not going to do boogie budget this week
because I have to bring on every week and it's
made me buy too manythings. So you're both going to
bring something expensive, more expensive than your budget, that you're
either got your eye on waiting for it to go
on sale, or that you've just bought.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
We'll start with bougie.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Yeah, okay, So my bougie purchase is actually a vintage
purchase that I got from a vintage store in Newtown,
and it's a Swede Fringe chocolate brown jacket. Yeah, and
it was expensive. It was around two hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
However, it was.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
From like a French leather store and it was in
amazing condition. And while Swayede and Fringe is having a
huge moment this year, for me, that is a staple
because I love like a boho chic biker moment. That's
kind of like a constant source of inspiration for me.
And because it is Swayed, it's going to be very
(27:43):
durable and last me a long time.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
And you saved something from landfill and you didn't buy
something new.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
And if you bought a swede jacket brand new, it
would probably be over one thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Particularly equality like that.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Yeah, jealous exactly.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
All right, bougie for you.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Okay, I think my bougie has to be my green
cowboy boots.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
We're going to show you for those that are watching
on YouTube and Spotify, we're going to flash it on
the screen. I think.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
So. They're the Rock Garland Cowboy boots and they were
two hundred and seventy nine dollars and ninety five cents.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
This is them. Oh wow, I'm obsessed with them.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
And I found a promo code when I was shopping
for them, which was like staff thirty and I was.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Like not sure, but I'm I use it.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
You found it and I did. And they're my babies.
They're not swayed. I thought they were swayed from far away.
They're fabulous. They're very I'm a green cowboy boot.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Yeah, and it's my favorite color. And that's the thing
that we always say that.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
I'm like, that's my capsule wardrobe, like green cowboy boots.
I'm like, I'm gonna wear those always. Yeah, their households
doc yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Did you do that?
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Yes, every size, budget good.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
Okay, budget purchase was actually a recent one. So Catch
is having a huge closing down sale at the moment.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
So sad.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Yeah, I know it's the end of an error.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
It's only I would take my son to treshoes on
and then I go on Catch and get them for
thirty dollars salts.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
So speaking of I got a new pair of Converse
high Top platforms for seventy one dollars, so I saved
sixty nine dollars off the RP.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Yeah okay.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
And apparently Converse is coming back. I saw an article
on Who What Where that was saying that they're back.
But again, it's a staple for me. She's been wearing
Converse since she came out of the womb pretty much.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
But they're very cool again. Yeah yeah, wow was Catch? Yeah,
And speaking of Catch, I mean they are disappearing, but
you know what else they quickly love that I've got
to say is one pass so you pay a fee,
but you get free delivery from Kmart office works price sig.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Also five times your fly bys if you got.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
I've got to get into the fly by. You need to.
It's crazy, but the barcode pill just get the car.
I don't know how because I don't have the barcode
on the back of my car, and just log in. Oh,
I'm one hundred. We'll help you. Thank you budget.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Okay, I'm going to go along the same lines with
this catch sale. And it was a glasshouse candle, full
size for twenty five bars.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Stop. Yeah, oh my god, I don't know if I
even need this.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
I was like, sure, you can go in the bathroom
do your mother's day shopping.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Now, so many candles to be born.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
If you don't have a cupboard of random candles for
last minute presents, you're not doing that right, Oh my god,
so true. Sol and Ol. I want to come and
work with you. No, I'm not a corner. Are you
from my house?
Speaker 4 (30:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Okay, you go home and we're going to be on
the couch being like, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
Come on, I'll be contacting your son's school books.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Well, our new couches on the way that I got
in the boxing day sales. So wait for that to
come over. Wait, no, show us. I want to say,
Oh it's freedom. I'll show you. I'll show you. Thank
you for your service. I love hearing that you put
out all this great content for free for your audience,
and that so much goes to charity. It's such a legend.
So thank you for.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Your time, Thanks for having us fun.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
I've got to keep me apping the whole time. You'll
be back, trust me, Yeah, can't wait.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Thank you for listening to Nothing to Wear and don't Forget.
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