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All right folks another edition of the survivalist podcast living life through being more prepared and this is I think our
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Third 12th or 13th episode I think so I know we’ve been on a little vacation here
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Haven’t really done one of these in quite a while, but we’re back in the saddle again a
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lot of things going on folks
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Not gonna get too much into the news and stuff like that
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But today folks I’m gonna go over with you
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25
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Cost-efficient ways to prepare to save money
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folks when it comes to being when it comes to the survivalist podcast roll about living life better than being more prepared and
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Sometimes being more prepared is just having
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You know more savings and stuff like that one thing you’ve learned about doing this pot one thing
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I’ve learned about doing this podcast and talking to you guys for quite a while is
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Everything in this podcast isn’t always about when you know stuff hits the fan. It’s not always about that sometimes. It’s just about people
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being more prepared and
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You know improving their lives by certain things and one of the ways we can all improve our lives is by having a little extra
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Money in the savings account for when things break around the house
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or for when
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You know we got to do you know look at that big purchase like a car or maybe a bigger home or?
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Something else you want to do may build yourself a garage something like that and having a little extra money
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In that savings account can always help you have either less of a mortgage less of a debt or something like that so
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Like I said very important to worry about savings so today on the show folks. I’m going to go over
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25
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You know cost saving things you can do little things
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We can all do to help go ahead and save ourselves a little money
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So we can have a little more money in our bank account
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As always folks you can find all of our old shows at survivalist podcast.org
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And like I said folks we have we haven’t really been posting as many of these as I would like like say my wife and
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I have been pretty busy
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We got a lot going on, but I’m going to try to get back into a regular posting schedule with this podcast
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Like I said the podcast is something I really enjoy doing it’s very near and dear to me
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You know always being into you know business and and outdoors and survival and some of that
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This podcast is something I really like want to kind of get more in a regular routine of posting so
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But like I said 25 things we could do
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Like I said to cost saving these we could all do I kind of save ourselves a little money
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Like I said folks one thing you one thing to do when you’re talking about saving money
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I’m not telling you that you got to live like paupers
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I’m not you know you gotta have you know next to no money
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Well, I’m trying to say is you know you can all we can all do a little something just to save ourselves
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You know have a little extra money in the bank. You never hurt to have a little extra savings
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They I know a lot of times you look a lot of these financial advisors and stuff like that who we say you should
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You know have you know six months of bills you know bills and expenses in a savings account
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I mean, I think that’s great if you can do it, but a lot of us can’t I
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Know a lot of people that say to me all the time
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You know that you know the you know paytage paytech, and I think that’s the case for most middle-class Americans
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You know we all have a little savings, but it’s kind of tough sometimes to stock away that kind of money
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You know in a savings account so
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Because we all run into those things and you know we all try not to use our credit cards and stuff like that so
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Sometimes we keep paying for stuff in a pocket like that
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You know it could be a little bit tough to
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Try to keep putting you know it’s hard to you know say okay
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I to spend you know you know a couple thousand this month to fix something around the house been oh
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I’m supposed to put you know a couple thousand a month into my savings is some of your paychecks only go so far so
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Sometimes we have to dip into that money or savings or sometimes we have to use the credit card so it
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I know people say all time
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It’s important to keep you know six months of bills and expenses in a savings account somewhere
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But I know realistically that’s hard for most most you know most most middle-class Americans to do anyway, so
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But what this is these are some cost saving tips and some of the stuff folks you might have thought of some of this stuff
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You may not have thought of these are just some cost saving tips that you can do
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To go ahead and save yourself some money and to be able to put some extra money in your savings account
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Like I said folks you do that
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You should have a savings account or at least a Roth IRA account I’ve talked about this on previous shows
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And you know just put $50 a month away in there
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You know $50 a month times you know 12 months a year. You know that that’s about
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$600 so
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You definitely should start doing that what I found just some tips that I found if you’re gonna have to keep reminding yourself to put
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It away
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Generally you won’t what I have what I found the easiest way to do it is I have
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Just you know I have it just taken right out on a certain day of the month
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Takes $50 out of my account just right in my savings account
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And I think everybody should do that and like I said it’s easy enough if it’s automatically pulled out you more forget to do it
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Or anything like that and this way to you put it away in your savings and you hang on to it
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For safekeeping for you know rainy day, and like I said, it’s one of the things that that if you have it electronically done
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It’ll be easier because every month you because I know myself personally. I’ve been that way you know
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Oh, yeah tells a month. I had a lot of extras. Maybe I won’t do it this month if it’s automatically pulled out
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It’s gonna do it no matter what so that’s all table
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I and then you know even if you don’t do $25 a month
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You know any anything just to keep make sure every month you put some money away
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So we have a little savings a little nest egg for yourself if you when you come up to those big bills very important
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And to folks by the way when you do have all that money
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You know stocked away like that very very important for you
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To go ahead and you know
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If you and your husband or use yourself
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You know make sure before you take that money out you say do we really need this should we really spend the money?
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You know it’s it’s very important to do something like that you want to make sure that money doesn’t get used for vacations
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stuff like that that money is strictly for
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Savings and it may be an emergency if you both your husband or wife can agree on it so
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Very important make sure you put at least $25 a month away in a savings account
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And you’d be surprised how quickly it builds up and how much you can you know how happy you’ll be
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And not just for those big important things you know you have kids they need to go to school
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You know college all that kind of stuff so very very important to you know put that money away, but there are 25
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costs saving tips you can do
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The first thing I’m gonna first thing I’m gonna put on the list number one buy food smarter now what that means
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Buy it buy food smarter. I’ll tell you exactly what that means so what it is is when you have
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You know if you’re if you have I don’t know how big your family is my wife myself
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You know my daughter only a family of three so it’s a little bit easier for us
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But you know if you have me know maybe four or five kids
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You know an easy way to save money
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Okay, give you example if you decide one morning you want to go out for a bagel or something like that in the morning
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Okay, instead of going out and buying four bottled buttered bagels which would probably be two three dollars apiece
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Okay, buy a dozen bagels buy a stick of butter
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ask them to cut the book ask them to cut the
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Bagels for you, and when you get in the car all four or five of you butter your bagels boom done nine bucks for
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You know a dozen bagels. You know was it a dollar for a stick of butter for ten bucks everybody can have two bagels
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Okay for ten bucks you all have breakfast rather than two three four five four dollars for a ham egg and cheese
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Stuff like that little thing something like that. I know it sounds nuts, but you make a big difference
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No, I think – you guys are going to the beach for the day
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Okay, so instead of going out to the hoagie store all buying you know buy four or five hoagies spending twenty thirty dollars
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Okay, it’s very simple you go to the deli get a pound of bologna pound of
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Cheese loaf of bread okay for ten ten twelve bucks you got
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Sandwiches for everybody okay. I know it sounds kind of nuts
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But you’d be surprised how quickly that’ll add up so see if your family of four or five
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That can add up rather quickly
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So nothing to folks instead of buying four or five bottles of soda
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Buy one two liter and get a thing get a thing of cheap cups okay three four bucks
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Instead of two fifty three dollars a bottle of soda
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Little things like that buying food smarter can make a world of difference when you’re trying to put money away every month, okay?
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Seriously big big cost savings can come out of that very easily just by
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Buying food even if you want to buy food out buying food out smarter
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All right next thing folks another cost saving thing you could do cut back on your cable now
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I know that’s gonna sound crazy, but when I was growing up. I’m not old I was growing up
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We only had channels one or two was a two to twenty one because higher cable stations were more expensive
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I’m not saying you got a ditch cable not saying you can’t have just cut back
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You may be able to cut back just surprisingly enough on just by stuff
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You know you know just sit around and say hey what you know it’s not enough to be you know family meeting
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Just sit around say hey what chance do you watch what chance do us what chance do you watch if you find out that?
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You know you got a you know son that just watches Netflix and now a daughter that you know only watches CW
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And your wife doesn’t really watch TV and all you want is you know?
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Fox there’s no need to have channel zero to 200 so
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You know just something little like that can actually help you put away. You know a couple of awesome month in savings
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It’s a very basic thing just something just look into and see
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Another thing folks do now. I’m not myself
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I’m not a big one to go out, but I’ve or somebody go out instead of always
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You know friends going out going out going out invite them in for a change okay?
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Have them over for drinks have them over for dinner
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Something like that it actually could be a lot cheaper
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You know buying a bottle of wine and staying home
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Could be much cheaper than going out and buying a couple glasses of wine just a little cost saving thing to try
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When you go shopping folks
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Try don’t you know try not to buy name brands and that goes with anything whether it’s food
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Clothing anything you know I’m not saying everything there’s some stuff you may want to buy a name brand
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I know myself
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I you know I always buy a certain type of boot because they fit my foot well
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And I don’t have any you know my arches and all that so there are certain thing you may want to buy a name brand
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There are certain things you may not need name brand
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You know maybe those Levi’s jeans are just as good as the Walmart brand jeans
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Maybe you can find knockoff jeans online
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You know you go in there
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You know say you’re some say you’re a family that and it doesn’t have to be everything you like it could be something minor
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You know say you’re a family that doesn’t really eat a lot of cereal
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But you do have it because every so often somebody wants a bowl of cereal
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Maybe you don’t need you know for us to flakes
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Maybe you can buy the no name brand save yourself two dollars there
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So little things like that if you try not to buy name brand can actually save you quite a bit of money
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Another thing folks to cut back on not only cut back and going out, but cut back on the amount of going out to eat
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Now you notice I said cut back. I did not say don’t
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Okay, because there’s a difference
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You know if you’re somebody that’s doing out to eat you know three times a week
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Maybe you want to go down two nights a week say you’re somebody that maybe likes to go out to eat
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But say instead of again buying smarter. Maybe instead of buying you know a bunch of dinners. Maybe you buy two pizzas
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Okay, so instead of buying four or five me dinners you buy two pizzas
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Baseball night or on soccer practice night know that okay, so again
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Maybe you want to cut back on either either by either if you don’t want to cut back and going at the eat
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Maybe just buy smarter. Maybe you might want to say well. I don’t want to buy smarter
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Maybe we’ll just go out two nights a week instead of three okay
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There are a lot of ways you can adjust these rules to fit your own personal
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You know your own personal needs
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nothing folks
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Refill your water bottles. I know it’s gonna sound kind of nuts, but if you know you’re gonna need water bottles
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Okay, try to refill them so say you buy a not you know bottle aquafina out today
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You go home fill it up with your filter
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You know you’re you know go through it make sure your water is filtered very important
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Fill the you know fill the bowl the bottle up with refillable close it up
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Put it in the fridge next morning when you go to leave for work leave for practice leave or something
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Grab that water bottle out of the fridge
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And there you go
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Okay, makes life a lot more easier, okay?
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Rather than spending you know two or three dollars for a bottle of water
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Okay, you can save yourself two three bucks that day. Okay refill the water bottles
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Well make sure you’re filtering your water to you never know. It’s in it waters minerals. You never know toxins
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What’s in the water always always filter your water?
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Okay
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Another thing very very basic easy thing to do put a timer on your lights
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Not hard to do dust till dawn sensor. Let me tell if you want the light time
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I know myself. I like the lights on at night so I can see what’s going on. Okay?
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light goes on at
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You know at dusk come back on at dawn. Okay, very easy anyway. You don’t look the lights run all day
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Okay, nothing to time on your lights
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Make sure you have a timer on them in other words. Maybe you want motion send maybe those lights by the
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You know by the shed, maybe you don’t need them on all night long
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Maybe you just need them on a motion sensor, okay?
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Little things like that. I’m not saying don’t have lights on I’m just saying look at the way you’re using them
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Maybe you don’t need the light out all time at that one portion
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Maybe you don’t want it when an animal or a person walks by put it on a motion sensor
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And it light only coming on once maybe a night would be cheaper than it running all night
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No little thing you can do okay watch your lights another thing folks another thing on the list you can do
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Okay, cut back in your subscription services. Okay now. I say this. I’m not telling you got to cut back on all of them
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I’m not saying cut your Netflix account okay. All I’m saying is cut back on them. I didn’t say no
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Subscription services I said cut back you know and that’s it this could be a very easy thing to do
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You know if you like HBO shows okay, say you like HBO shows, but say you like the older ones
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Okay, and you have Amazon Prime
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Okay, you can get those services
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You know on Amazon Prime
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Okay, so you know you may be able to cut back your HBO
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May be able to cut back your HBO now subscription also to if you have Hulu
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I believe they offer Showtime so if you have a Showtime subscription say you already have Hulu
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Maybe you maybe you can cancel Showtime and just use your Hulu subscription
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Okay, very easy very basic not saying you have to get rid of all of them
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Just cut back you know and then it’s easy to do too
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Maybe you know if you find that you’re getting you know a magazine every month, and you’re just not reading it stop getting it
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Okay, very easy. It’s not just not just not just Netflix
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Not just you know Hulu not just HBO, and you know you go for anything
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You know say you’re one of those people that are getting you know Lootcrate
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Maybe you don’t need everything you get in your Lootcrate box, so maybe you can cancel that maybe you have a podcast
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You know that you subscribe to there. You know maybe it’s like behind a paywall
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And maybe you’re listening to us more now, and you don’t want to listen to that other show anymore
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Cancel the subscription not telling you to do that and just saying it’s an option
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And if you are listening to this show more than their show I want to thank you for that
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So another thing folks you can do
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To you know is go to the library now. Why do I say that?
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it’s a very basic very easy thing to do and
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Instead of constantly going on the Kindle and buying books and all that or instead of going on Amazon.com and buying books
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You can go to library get the book for free. They usually do have all the new bestsellers
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Again, not a big thing just an option save yourself a few dollars or well actually Kindle books only like nine bucks
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if you get the paperbacks or the hardcovers you’re spending like 20 bucks, but
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You know nine nine nine on Kindle isn’t that bad?
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But again if you want to save yourself ten bucks go get the book from the library read it old-school paperback
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hardcover
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Some other things folks you can do as well
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If you want to if the ideal thing for health reasons we obviously quit smoking
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But if you can’t maybe roll your own cigarettes, okay smoking
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I find is a rather huge expense for people that they don’t seem to ever want to get rid of it despite
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How much it cost them maybe you don’t I’m not saying you got to quit smoking even though it’d be healthier for you
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But I am telling you maybe you might want to roll your own cigarettes look into you know what it cost you and
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Way the cost difference you find you know hey
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It’s cheaper for me to get you know tobacco, and you know roll my own cigarettes, and you know I save myself ten bucks a month
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Maybe that’s what you do. Maybe you’ve raised up a couple packs of cigarettes every few days
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I don’t know whatever is whatever is better for you, but that’s something you can look at as well to go ahead and save money
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I’m not saying you have to quit smoking even though it’d be healthier for you
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But you can go actually go ahead and roll your own cigarettes, or maybe you want to try vaping
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There’s a lot of options you could you could actually do so
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Go ahead, and you know look at that, and it might be something you want to do it depends
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Another thing folks you can do to save money as your light bulbs go getting the energy-efficient bulbs now again
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Not something you have to do, but it is a way
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I know some of those energy-efficient bulbs the the light sometimes it’s not as as good so maybe you
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It’s up to you. Maybe you might want to maybe you won’t but it is an option for you can save money that way
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Couponing when you can now I’m not saying you have to do everything
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But what I am saying is if you know there are a lot of coupon apps a lot of you know coupon emails and stuff of that
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I know myself just the other day my wife, and I we got it. You know we have a
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Homestead we’re working on and we’ve been buying a lot of stuff from from Home Depot and stuff like that because we’ve been fixing up
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The you know we’ve been fixing up the house
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we’ve been you know work you know we’re gonna work in a garden this summer and stuff like that and
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You know I
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Noticed that there’s been $300 you get $50 in additional
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Spending or you can use that $50 and take it off your bill, so
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You know I can either spend $50 you know I can do it so I need $350 worth of stuff
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Or I can save $50 when I go so little things like that use coupons when you can I know myself
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I pay attention I get the Home Depot emails every couple days
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I like I said my wife, and I we did you know just purchase a new home recently
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And we are working on you know fixing it up. It’s an older home
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So we’re working on fixing it up, and you know working on you know chicken coops
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And and doing a garden and stuff of that so I know I’ve been keeping an eye on the Home Depot stuff and on the low
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Stuff too because we’ve been making quite a few purchases from there, so you know go ahead
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You know get on the coupon emails there are coupon apps
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With technology nowadays, it’s very easy to get coupons so keep an eye on that stuff. We use them when you can
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Know that you can do folks stop buying lunch out
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You went out
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I do want to point this out to if a lot of people depends on who you are some people will buy breakfast out
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some people will buy
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You know lunch out if you’re buying two meals a day out. That’s a lot you may if you’re buying two meals a day
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Maybe you just want to buy one out maybe bring your you know make your breakfast at home and get your lunch out
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I recommend not bringing lunch because lunch is can be you know seven eight nine bucks a day which
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Times five days in a week if you’re spending ten bucks on lunch is $50 times that by four to two hundred dollars
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so
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I’m not recommending. Maybe you know I’m recommending or even if you want to keep buying your lunch out
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Maybe you’ll it maybe you Brown bag at two days a week, okay?
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Not saying you have to but you know and some of the other things folks you do too if you want a long car rip
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car trip bring you know bring food with you
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You know you’re gonna do it
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You know you’re gonna be going to shore Jersey Shore or something like that you know four five six hour ride
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Pack some drinks in a cooler pack some sandwiches in a cool show to keep stopping and spending money
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Okay, and by the way I want to put out the same thing goes for you guys you guys that are hardcore coffee drinkers like me
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I mostly bring my coffee every day cuz I’m you know home mostly but
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You know I make a pot and I drink the pot all day cuz it’s cheaper
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I mean you know, but you know if you’re somebody that goes out for Dunkin Donuts every day
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Maybe you want to cut back me want to get the Dunkin Donuts
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You know maybe the the bag and maybe make yourself a pot and fill yourself up with thermos before you leave
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That could be a cough saver for you
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Even if you’re somebody that’s in a rush all time
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You know get a cake if you have a cake cup machine
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You know get yourself a little cake ups now. I know some people gonna say okay cups aren’t cheaper
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Well, you’re right, so if you get a cake if you get cake ups for 11 11 bucks you get what 18 in the back
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So when you still look at it, you’re still spending a buck 10 buck 20
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For a large cup of coffee rather than what almost three dollars four dollars depending on where you go Starbucks five sometimes
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So it can be cheaper a cake up even can be cheaper depending on what coffee you’re drinking
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You got you got look at how much you’re spending versus
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You know how you know what you you got to look at the cost savings
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But I would say it’s usually always cheaper to bring your coffee for the most, but even if you use a cake up
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For a lot of other people some other cost savings stuff that I really think you should try
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Okay
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One of the things I’ve been telling people if you’re a mom and you have people you trust swap babysitting with them
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Okay, childcare can be a major expense
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Okay, if I know some depends on the step of daycare you have I know my wife and I don’t really have daycare
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We rely on her family or my family to watch our daughter
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she’s getting a little older now, so but
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You know we do rely well, so we’re kind of we kind of get away from having to spend stuff on childcare
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But I know that for a fact that some child care you pay by the day
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So I have made a suggestion to call friends of mine. They’ve done it. You know if you have say a friend of yours
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You know maybe that’s off on you know you try make sure people you trust you I mean obviously
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I don’t leave your children to me don’t trust this to save a buck, but this is a place where sometimes
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Sometimes you may not want to skimp personally. I wouldn’t myself but
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You know if you you know if you have you know somebody you really really trust to watch your daughter
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You may want to say you know Eric your son you want to say hey
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You know you’re off on Thursdays you watch my kids on Thursdays, and then I’m off on Friday
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I’ll watch your kids on Friday now. I know it sounds kind of nuts, but you’re saving a whole day of childcare
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That could be you know
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50 60 70 hundred dollars
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Depending on where you’re going okay, so it’s very very important make sure you know
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But if you’re gonna skimp if you’re gonna try to save a little money on
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Child care make sure it’s somebody trust make sure
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If you’re going to to do this make sure you trust the people don’t skimp
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On this one if you’re not too sure the people spend the money on daycare, okay, I would
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Hey, but if it’s a good friend of yours you see even if it could be like your sister or
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Or you know a sister-in-law something like that or a friend or your mom
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You know if they’re doing their home say hey, would you watch you know even even your mom just say hey?
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You know she’s home one day a week to say would you mind watching your grandchild one day a week?
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It’d save you a fortune one day a week times four days could be a lot of money
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So building you can do there with your kids save yourself a couple of little money
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No other thing folks you can do try to fix stuff yourself. I know it sounds if you’re not handy
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I know it could be tough not everybody’s like me and can is very handy
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If you’re not very handy you’re not gonna be able to do this
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But if it is something minor you can fix yourself fix it yourself save yourself the money one of the things that
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Cost you a fortune is always getting the guy in to do things
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I know my friend he gets somebody to plow you get somebody into shovel
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He gets somebody in to cut his lawn he gets somebody in for this
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You know if you keep getting the guy and keep questioning see where you can you know see where you can cut you know?
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If you can you know if you can you know get a snowblower and snow blow and save yourself
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cup-thrones laws of season on
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You know snow won’t let me be worth it. You know if you want to cut your lawn
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Yourself so getting somebody to do it for you. Those are all things that can save you money I
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Know they can do save money start a garden now at the beginning
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This isn’t gonna be a big cost savings
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But if you keep it going if you’re you know all year long you actually in the long run will save money
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But it will be some time you have to invest in it obviously if your crop doesn’t make it
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You could lose my system one of the ones you can save and you could lose too
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But normally if you long as you’re growing as long as you know how to grow stuff. You should be in good shape
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Another thing folks you can do take public transportation or carpool
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Probably carpooling we better than public cuz public transportation can cost you
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Maybe everyone vehicle sometimes. It’s yeah, maybe sometimes actually cheaper to take your own vehicle than it is to commute
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Those you know by the way folks
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I don’t know if you know that some people I thought that’s and I’m like oh spending $200
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$250 a month to take the train and I’m like
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Yeah, but yeah getting up to your saving wear and tear and miles in your car
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So yeah, you are saving there for just the cost is up to $25 a month –
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You know three it’s messy. You know some places. You know it’s
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Sometimes if you calculate parking in it, so that’s easy to take public transportation so in that case yes, it is cheaper
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But yet the way that the cost savings there also to folks if you carpool with a couple people you work with that can be a
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huge cost savings save and again you know your
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That can be a big cost seems
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I strongly recommend if you can when you if you work at a place you all get on and off at the same time carpool
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very important
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Okay, the other things folks to cut back in your cell phone bill
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Notice I didn’t say turn off your cell phones
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Let’s day and age everybody needs your cell phone
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But I can’t say cut back what I mean by cut back
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If you have a 10 minute, you know if you have a 10 gig plan every month
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You know usually using maybe five of it
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Maybe one might cut back see if you can cut back a couple gigs. Maybe you can save yourself some money, okay?
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Nothing folks to be a check your phone bill
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You maybe you never know I I have one time was going through my phone bill
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I found out I had an extra line that I was paying for that it wasn’t even using
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So you know very important go through your phone your cell phone bill go through all your bills in the comb
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I know they do your credit cards go through make sure you’re not
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You know don’t have any extra charges that you don’t want on there all the little stuff with X saving money
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Another thing folks you do save money consolidate your student loans
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You know you have AES you have a lot of student loan consolidation companies out there consolidate your loans
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You can save yourself a ton of money that way. I know it’ll look like a reconsolidation in your credit report, but that’s okay
00:25:51.940 –> 00:25:55.740
You know a student loan reconsolidation in a credit report won’t really hurt you
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So if you’re looking if you wanted to go ahead you know making one monthly payment for 15 years rather than four monthly
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payments you know a student loan usually
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loan
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Percentages usually can be lower to if you’re reconsolidate
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So you can’t save yourself a couple percent over the course of a bunch of years so look at that. That’s an option for you
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guys
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Now this one’s easy for me cuz I don’t really shave
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You know I’m kind of doing I kind of do the whole beard thing, but guys you know some of you guys shave all time
00:26:25.380 –> 00:26:30.960
You know one thing you can do switch from Gillette razors to like generic razors. I know myself
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I switched I cuz I do shave once a while
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Especially if I have to you know drive in for a client or something like that
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I will clean up a little bit
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But one of the things folks you have to do if you’re gonna go ahead cut you can cut back on your razors
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Instead of using Gillette’s or one of the name brands which dollar shave Club for like six bucks a month
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You get four blades a month
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They also to have the not so hairy that I make up the name the not so hairy thing
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Or if you’re somebody who maybe a shaves every so often like me for six bucks every other month you get four blades
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So six bucks a month rather than twenty or thirty dollars for Gillette razors can be a huge cost savings
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So guys go ahead and use generic razors
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You can also get generic ones on Amazon and and so that you can get you know Bix pretty cheap
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So that’s so look into what you’re using shave. You can save some money ladies same thing with you guys
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So the only thing folks you can do is save some money something little don’t speed
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Speeding tickets can be an extra expense every month that you money you could have saved
00:27:25.500 –> 00:27:29.320
So try not to speed that could be a big cost saver right there
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None of these folks to cut back in your trash. Okay, if you have two big garbage cans outside
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Maybe you can cut back to smaller cans save yourself five maybe ten bucks a month
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Okay, how you can cut back in your garbage very simple. You could either you can start composting
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You could start taking loads to the you know, you can start, you know, scrap meddling
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There’s a lot of things you can do to reduce back on your trash. You can start recycling
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Usually recycling is free and that would actually cover and if you can recycle, you know
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I know it sounds like a lot but you get two bins ones
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This is trash is recycling if you can cut back on your garbage and maybe go down to one can
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I know we did that here for a while where we we actually recycling was free, but garbage was not so we actually went ahead
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And we’re had one can for recycling and one can for garbage and we cut back to one can and that’s what we’ve done ever since
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So folks to some other things first I do want to point out if you are somebody who is on medication
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You may want to find out if you and if you have insurance, it’s not that big of a deal
00:28:33.960 –> 00:28:36.880
But if you’re somebody who has to pay out of pocket a lot of your medications
00:28:36.880 –> 00:28:39.400
You may want to actually go ahead and look and see if you can take the generics
00:28:39.400 –> 00:28:42.640
Not something if you have insurance, maybe you don’t worry about this
00:28:42.640 –> 00:28:45.040
But you’re somebody that that does have to pay out of pocket
00:28:45.040 –> 00:28:48.220
You may want to look into your generics that might be a way to save you a couple of dollars
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also folks to
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Manage your heat and air situation now when I say by managing heat and air situation
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What I mean is if it’s a summertime
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Maybe you don’t need it 60 degrees in the house when it’s 100 degrees outside
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Okay, maybe we want to leave something comfortable like 72 74
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They I think the ideal 72 they say most systems you can save yourself some money there
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As far as the heat situation as long as the heat on 80 if you keep it we keep it about
00:29:11.780 –> 00:29:16.720
About six now. I’ve said we haven’t we have our new heating system. We’re still working on the new house, but
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Heating situation here in our old house
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We keep it about 68 70 and we usually do pretty good with the heat night. We turn it down to about
00:29:25.820 –> 00:29:32.040
5560 somewhere in there and usually we stay pretty decent on the heat. We don’t really have that big of a heat bill
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So that’s something you can do as well
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Some other things folks you do as far as your expenses for your household
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Obviously your water bill I see the the water bills kind of a tough thing to cut package
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You can’t come back in showers. You can’t come back on that and recycling water sometimes to be really disgusting
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So, you know something, you know, as far as your water bills not whole like you can do about that
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Just make sure you’re not
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You know, you’re not running the water for no reason
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You know, you still you know, you’d be surprised how much water you actually go through
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Also –
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When it comes to cutting back, let’s say your electric bill turning off lights and rooms and stuff of that obviously is really basic stuff
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Something told me – if you’re if you have a fridge or freezer
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You’re not using you can turn it off but and how we accept fridge and freezer we go there
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We’ll use I know so you can turn down the freezer temperature turn down the other temperature saves money
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But I don’t like the idea of my food risking my food and my meat getting spoiled
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So I’m not sure if I would actually do that
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But that is something that I’ve heard people say you can do I’ve never done it and I wouldn’t recommend it
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But something you could do
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And also to folks, you know as far as your home loads insurance stuff of that that’s other bills you can save
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All I said, I don’t recommend you cutting back in your home owners insurance obviously now make sure you ensure your house for
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You know what it’s worth and what your contents worth a lot
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But you may want to look at you doing a price comparison for that
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What I found sometimes if you if you shop around you can get a better price for the same coverage you’re getting
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Also, that might be something and the same thing goes with your car insurance stuff like that
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Only thing to folks you can also do folks you have credit card bills
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and I think mostly everybody has some credit card debt, but
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Folks if you have credit card bills if you call the company and see if you can negotiate down the rates
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Sometimes that’s something else you can do as well to save yourself a little money every month
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That’s an option as well
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And my two folks may have credit card bills you always pay more than what they asking to try to get it paid off much much
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quicker
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You saw as your mortgage payment goes of that a lot of people say all refinance your finance
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You got to be careful when you refinance
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You sometimes can cut back the what you’re paying
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But you know if you’re gonna spend four or five thousand in closing costs, and you’re gonna save yourself
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You know ten twenty dollars a month may not be worth it if you can drop your your interest rate
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Maybe two or three percent you may save yourself some money in the long run
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But if you’re gonna spend thousands and thousands dollars in closing costs it may not be worth it
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Especially if you’re not looking to stay there forever
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I like this house my wife, and I own here
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You know eventually we’re gonna look to rent this out when we move to our new home when that’s
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All done being when we’re done remodeling that and folks I want to point that out, too
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That’s something to you might you know a lot of people’s a time
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But you you know you know you guys are moving to a to a homestead and stuff of that
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I mean we’re not fully operational homestead
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You know residential electric is that but we’re looking at solar power and stuff in that
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But I do want to point out folks one of the ways you can actually go ahead and save money
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If you’re looking to do some that is to actually do most of the work yourself
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You know my wife, and I are able to afford move to a bigger home because we got it really really cheap
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And you know I’ve been doing most of the work myself on you know
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Whenever I can get over there, so that’s one of the reasons why I mean you guys been hearing about this house
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for about a year now
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And that’s one of the reasons why I taking so long because I’ve been working on it when I can so that’s you know if you
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Want to you know that’s one of the reason ways you can actually buy a bigger home is you know if you’re willing to get
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Handyman you have somebody who is pretty handy
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Doing a lot of the work yourself can seriously seriously save you a lot of money, and you can actually get you know
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You know if you do the work yourself
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You know you can get your money out of it
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And that’s some two books you can do by the way you know if you are looking to you know to purchase property
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You know look look at it
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Make sure you know it’s what you like and if you get it for a cheap price as long as you’re willing to fix it
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Up put the time into it
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You always get your money back as but real estate is one of the very few things as long as you
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You put the time and the labor into it usually always get your money back
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And that’s what we’re doing with this house. You know I put a lot of time a lot of money into it
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You know we’re working on like I said putting we’re gonna put some solar panels on there to save a little money
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Or you know we’re looking at general. You know we’re putting in generators
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Some of that so we’re you know we’re still using residential electric and so that but we have our own septic our own well and all
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That and we do a backup power and stuff of that so that’s the important thing
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But you know folks like I said you know if it comes to
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To you know getting getting plate getting a home and stuff of that you know if you if you’re renting right now
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I should recommend to look at purchasing
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One thing about renting I have to tell you folks when you rent you are paying somebody else’s mortgage
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So go ahead, and you know
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You should really look to purchase if you can and hopefully you know
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You know everybody you know hopefully I said to you
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Do if you if you’re willing to put the time into it you can get a lot of cheap deals on
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Homes and stuff of that you know sometimes you know if you’re renting
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You know spend a five six hundred a month you might want to look at something buy something
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That’s a fixer-upper, and you know fix it up
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You know may not be exactly what you want at the beginning, but at the end you’ll have what you want
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And you know then you’ll be have something that’s yours rather than somebody else’s
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So that’s my advice about that, so you know folks like I said that thousand to 25 tips
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For cost saving stuff to save yourself money
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