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almost everyone feels like they need
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more money it seems like everybody is
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upset about inflation everybody is
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underpaid but the truth is we all waste
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a lot of money people aren't great at
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spending their money wisely let alone
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saving it this video is about popular
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purchases that are actually a huge waste
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of money by the way don't feel bad if
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you've bought some of this stuff we're
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all irrational when it comes to money
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and spending is subjective I buy things
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that most people would consider a huge
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waste of money like watches no one needs
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a watch people are irrational also huge
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the number one biggest waste of money
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supplements the vast majority of
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supplements don't work that is simply
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the truth centuries ago we had traveling
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salesmen tricking people into buying
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snake oil and it worked nowadays we have
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web-savvy business Bros slinging CBD oil
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and it's still working that is the
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marketing tactics are working the oil is
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not working the truth is there's no hard
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data to support most supplement Brands
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claims that's why in every supplement
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bottle you'll always see V language like
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supports healthy immune defense or
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enhances mental agility of course you'll
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also see much more specific disclaimers
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like this product is not intended to
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treat cure or prevent any disease so
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it's like well which is it does it do
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anything or not cuz you're kind of
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saying both on the bottle it's not
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supplements are expensive too this is a$
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100 billion doll industry billion with a
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be but other than a handful of time-
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tested scientifically validated
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supplements like creatine or vitamin D
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they're pretty much all worthless and
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even the ones that do work aren't for
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everybody after all these are
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supplements meaning that they can fill a
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deficiency if needed my advice is to not
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waste any money on supplements unless
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you're 100% sure that you need them
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based on advice from your doctor or lab
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tests or very strong personal anecdotal
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allnatural beauty industry is booming
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right now people don't want chemicals on
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and feel better well first off the terms
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natural doesn't necessarily mean safe
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naturally derived ingredients can be bad
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knife sets too many people buy these
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huge 20 plus piece knife sets you know
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the kind that come in those blocks with
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all the slots you see these on wedding
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Registries all the time and it's a great
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way to buy 37 lowquality knives the
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truth is you only need like three or
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four different types of knives and a
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good knife is pretty expensive it's not
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that a set is a bad idea I mean those
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blocks are actually a really good way to
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store your knives I'm just saying buy a
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smaller one focus on the basics a high
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quality chef's knife pairing knife maybe
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a serrated knife or slicing bread go for
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a respectable brand like woff maso or
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Mercer get them sharpened when they seem
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dull you can usually find a knife
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sharpener at your local farmers market
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then let your kids fight over them when
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you're dead generic Box Store art yes
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you can buy art from places like Target
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or Ikea or World Market but these are
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the empty calories of Home Decor this
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art doesn't mean anything to anyone it
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was mass-produced in some Chinese
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Factory thousands of other people have
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the exact same print hanging on their
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wall personally I'd rather have nothing
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on my wall than these generic Mass
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Market prints now if you see a piece
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that you genuinely love and really
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connect with in one of these big box
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stores by all means buy it but let's be
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honest most people are only buying
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daycor from these big box stores to fill
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the empty space on their wall or on
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their mantle or in their heart instead
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just be patient you know go thrifting go
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to local art and craft Markets buy
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something made by a real human being
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maybe even someone who lives in your
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town pay a little more for something
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that really speaks to you if you're at a
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loss you can never go wrong with photos
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of friends and family lottery tickets
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every year people spend hundreds of
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billions of dollars on lottery tickets
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Americans alone spend over a hundred
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billion dollars a year playing the
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lottery and we all know our chance of
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winning big is virtually zero it's
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completely irrational just like playing
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the slot machines in Vegas or yelling at
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an inanimate object after you stub your
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toe on the sofa now I'm not one of those
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people not because I'm smart or anything
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I'm just too risk averse with my money
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I've never been drawn to playing the
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lottery I like index funds I'm practical
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with my money to the point of being
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boring some might argue now the
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uncomfortable truth truth is most people
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like me educated wealthier and white
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aren't spending a lot of money on
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lottery tickets it's mostly lower income
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less educated and non-white people who
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are spending money that they don't have
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on lotteries they won't win in other
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words it's kind of a predatory industry
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personally I think the lotteries should
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just be a legal I think this is one area
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where the free market has clearly failed
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us and the government should just step
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in and regulate but that'll never happen
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so the only solution is to opt out and
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save your hard-earned money bottled
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water bottled water has to be one of the
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biggest consumer scams of all time some
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brilliant capitalists was like let's
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take something that people already have
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a virtually free unlimited supply of in
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their house and let's bottle it up and
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make them drive to the store to get less
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of it oh and we're going to charge like
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30 times more than they'd normally pay
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one last thing let's use single-use
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plastic containers they won't mind now
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obviously I'm talking about developed
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countries with clean drinking water here
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but that's a lot of the world which is
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why the bottled water industry raked in
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$342 billion last year that's despite
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the fact that many countries like here
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in the US we have tap water that's
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totally safe to drink some people
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complain about the taste personally I've
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never been bothered by it but if you
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really don't like the taste there are
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all sorts of filtration devices that you
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can buy many of which cost less than a
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pack of bottled water food delivery
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services getting food that's ready to
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eat delivered to your front door used to
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be a luxury I remember growing up in the
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'90s we would occasionally get pizza or
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Chinese food delivered to the house
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those were your only two choices back
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then and it was a special occasion this
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is not something we were doing every
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night or even every week now people are
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using GrubHub and door Dash to get
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whatever they want delivered on a
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regular basis and they're paying for it
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on average an extra $2 to5 plus tip it's
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funny because before app delivery was a
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thing you would just give this $2 to5
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directly to the delivery person in cash
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now these ethically dubious tech
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companies are raking in billions acting
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as the Shady middleman of dinner the
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crazy thing is you don't need your food
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delivered you can just go pick it up but
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even in hyper walkable cities like New
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York people are still using App delivery
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because they just won't leave their
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apartment it's always seems so crazy to
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me like just save your $5 get off the
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couch go grab your takeout or this is
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kind of radical cook alcohol people
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spend so much money on booze I said
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booze the worst offenders are single men
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with high-paying jobs I think that kind
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of makes sense because they have both
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time and cash to burn but most people
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regardless of income or marital status
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spend money on alcohol each month the
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average Millennial spends $110 per month
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on alcohol that's like a week's worth of
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groceries or three tanks of gas or a
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subscription to every streaming service
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and not only is it totally unnecessary
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it actually leads to all sorts of health
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problems I'm no tea total I spend money
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on alcohol too but I've cut back on my
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drinking as I've gotten older and you
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know what I'm healthier and wealthier
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for it new phones before the iPhone came
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out mobile device manufacturers like
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Nokia and blackberry didn't release new
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models every year they launched new
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products when they had new products
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ready to launch incremental updates
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didn't get much attention we didn't
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watch annual Keynotes we were just wowed
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every few years when some new tech came
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out like the first flip phone or camera
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phone or touchcreen then the first
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iPhone came out and it was incredible
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but every year Apple would make a huge
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deal about the new version some of these
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updates were impressive but especially
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recently A lot of them just felt forced
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like is the iPhone 16 really that much
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different or better than the 15 or 14 no
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do our ,000 phones stop working after
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just one year of course not my iPhone 13
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mini is still going strong and I don't
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plan on replacing it until I have to the
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thing is tech companies have done such a
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good job at making us feel like we need
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the latest model and the tricky thing is
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our phones don't feel expensive because
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most of us are on payment plans through
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our carrier like T-Mobile or Verizon but
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don't be fooled you're still paying that
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full $1,000 one way or another so I say
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ignore the hype if your phone is still
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working there's no need to upgrade
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storage units isn't it crazy that we
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have so much stuff we have to buy extra
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space outside of our house just to hold
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on to it all self storage is a $44
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billion industry there are entire blogs
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dedicated to teaching people how to make
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money in the Self Storage industry there
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are obnoxious startup Bros bragging
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about their storage business profits on
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Twitter the crazy thing is every year
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150,000 storage units are auctioned off
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this means that whoever purchased those
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units and put their stuff in it either
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died or just abandoned it I guess it
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turns out that whatever they were
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keeping in there wasn't very important
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to them after all if you find yourself
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wanting extra space to keep your things
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ask yourself do you really want to hold
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on to that stuff like could you sell it
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or donate it instead of paying $150 a
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month to hoard it away in a dark
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concrete box I bet that if you let this
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stuff go you'd never think about it
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again and you'd feel like a weight was
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lifted off your shoulders extravagant
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weddings the wedding industry is like
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Las Vegas it's been perfectly optimized
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over many decades to separate people
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from their money for example a regular
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hair and makeup job from a salon might
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run you $75 to $100 but you tell them
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it's for a wedding and all of a sudden
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it's 300 plus tip same goes for florists
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bakeries venues photographers that's why
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in 2023 the average cost for a wedding
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in the United States was $35,000 this is
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up 5 grand from the previous year and
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you still see everybody complaining
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about the job market and inflation like
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hey maybe don't spend the price of a
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brand new car or a down payment on a
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house on one freaking day it's actually
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insane if you think about it my wife and
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I had a small family the only wedding at
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a friend's house our reception was at a
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small Brewery nearby we probably spent a
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few thousand total including on a pretty
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nice honeymoon outside of Cabo and yeah
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I got some flak about doing it this way
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people are brainwashed by this industry
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but you don't have to buy into the
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wedding Madness if you want to get
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married at the courthouse and spend your
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money on a nice honeymoon I say go for
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it speaking of wedding industry Madness
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diamonds diamonds are one of the longest
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running consumer scams and even though
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everybody kind of knows this diamond
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sales continue to rise most people kind
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of know that diamonds aren't as scarce
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or precious as the diamond industry
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would have us believe I mean we now have
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access to conflict free lab grown
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diamonds yet still the diamond industry
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will generate over a hundred billion
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dollar this year this is largely due to
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people spending on average $5,500 on
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diamond engagement rings why you could
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use that money to pay off credit card
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debt or student loans or go on a once-
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in a-lifetime vacation or you could put
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that money in an index fund do literally
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nothing and in 10 years you'll have
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$113,000 now I get that there's a ton of
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social pressure to buy an expensive
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diamond engagement ring in the same way
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that there's a pressure to have an
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extravagant wedding you've probably
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heard that old addage that men should
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spend two to three month salary on an
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engagement ring so this ridiculous
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guideline was invented by De Beers the
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world's largest diamond producer that's
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got to be one of the best marketing
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campaigns of all time never mind the
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fact that it was dreamed up by a sketchy
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monopolistic company with a history of
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price fixing and mistreatment of
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indigenous people let's not argue about
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who killed who my point is Diamonds Are
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a huge scam with very little inherent
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value outside of industrial use they're
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not an investment natural diamonds are
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not better than lab grown diamonds we
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all need to stop wasting our money on
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these dumb rocks home fitness equipment
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some people use their pelons every day
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and that's great but most home gym
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equipment ends up collecting dust in the
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garage of the basement just go to
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Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace and
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see how many treadmills and exercise
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bikes are listed for sale about 40% of
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Americans own home gym equipment oddly
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40% of Americans are obese something
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doesn't add up and this gear is
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expensive like a high quality exercise
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bike or weightlifting setup is going to
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run you over $11,000 for that same
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amount of money you could get yourself a
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fancy gym membership for a whole year
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new workout clo and even a few sessions
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with a personal trainer I think home gym
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equipment makes sense for people who
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already have an exercise habit like if
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you've been strength training four times
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a week for the last few years and you're
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ready for the convenience of being able
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to lift at home yeah invest in a squat
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rack but if you don't work out regularly
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and you think that buying a new
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treadmill or a kettle bell set will
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transform your relationship to Fitness
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it probably won't after all if you
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really wanted to go for a jog you could
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just walk outside and start running I'm
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just saying be honest with yourself be
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realistic if you do want to invest in
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your health I think the best thing you
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can buy is a coach find somebody local
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who can hold you accountable to actually
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show up to the gym and get a workout in
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that is money well spent luxury cars
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isn't it funny that we assume people who
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are driving expensive cars are wealthy
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because when you see somebody driving a
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$70,000 Mercedes it only means one thing
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they have $70,000 less dollar than they
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used to or more likely they now owe
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somebody $70,000 that's like $1,300 a
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month for 5 years and now the true cost
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of that car is over $80,000 so that
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person is literally less wealthy for
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owning that car not more wealthy and
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while that bendz might come with some
00:14:15
fun bells and whistles it doesn't get
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them from point A to point B any faster
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or safer than a cheaper car would in
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fact luxury cars are often less reliable
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and much more expensive to maintain I
00:14:25
get it they're probably the most
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recognizable status symbol in modern
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society like most people probably could
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spot the difference between a $200 off
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the rack suit and a $2,000 bespoke suit
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but everyone inherently understands the
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price gap between a BMW and a Honda I'm
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not immune to this desire in my 20s when
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I was driving an old Buick Las saber
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best car I ever owned and after that a
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used Nissan Altima not so great I really
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wanted Alexus IS250 I just loved that
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car I test drove it a few times and not
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going to lie I almost bought one but
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instead I stuck with my Ultima until it
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died then I shared my wife's old Sentra
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before inheriting a 2000 Honda Accord
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which ran way better than it looked then
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after we had our first kid I bought the
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only new car I've ever purchased a Honda
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CRV and honestly it's fantastic so I say
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forget status and reputation buy a car
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that you can afford preferably in cash
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unless you can get a really low interest
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rate then drive it into the ground
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Sports and political paraphernalia
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licensed sports merchandise is a $33
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billion market and at $130 for a water
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down version of your favorite NFL
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players Jersey kind of makes sense I
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mean that's a lot of money for an
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oversiz polyester t-shirt you're going
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to wear five times a year people spend a
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ton of money on Sports and political
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paraphernalia and memorabilia now I can
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understand paying to go see a game or to
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watch sports at home although it's not
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how I choose to spend my time buying all
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the merch I just don't get it right now
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the average American has
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$867 of credit card debt how is anyone
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affording $130 jerseys the answer of
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course is they're not that Jersey is
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just getting them deeper into debt you
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can still be a good fan without all the
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trappings you know trust me your players
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and coaches and managers and stadiums
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they're making enough money and same
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goes for political merch which honestly
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is even worse because at least sports
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are fun monthly subscription boxes
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there's a subscription box for literally
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everything if you're prepping for the
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nuclear apocalypse there's a box for
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that are you a quirky old cat lady
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there's a box for that too as if we all
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didn't have enough stuff in our lives
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already in my opinion the only
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subscriptions that make sense are for
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perishable items like razors or meal
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kits but even then it's often cheaper to
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just buy the exact thing you want in the
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right amount from a store or online and
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if you're thinking that these Niche
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subscription boxes might make for good
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holiday gifts I'd urge you to think a
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little harder about what your special
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somebody might really want something
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that's not just going to clutter up
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their house and end up in a storage unit
00:16:41
energy drinks if you want caffeine just
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drink a cup of coffee energy drinks are
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loaded with a bunch of chemicals that
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don't actually do anything even worse
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many of them have loads of sugar
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sometimes an entire day's worth of sugar
00:16:53
in one can and the sugar-free options
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have lots of artificial sweeteners like
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aspartame which are addictive and
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possibly harmful in other ways I can see
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using energy drinks in very specific
00:17:02
situations like for a pre-workout boost
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but to stay up late gaming come on plus
00:17:06
if you do need a pre-workout boost
00:17:08
coffee works just as well for that it's
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also safe cheap low calorie even if you
00:17:12
put some cream in it energy drinks are a
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big business that's why there are so
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many different brands they're so
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aggressive with their marketing always
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Shilling these dubious health benefits
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now they're even targeting kids which is
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crazy save your money just make a cup of
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coffee at home or just stop drinking
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caffeine entirely designer clothes and
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accessories paying a crazy markup for
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brand name clothing and accessories is
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totally irrational don't get me wrong
00:17:34
you often get what you pay for when it
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comes to clothing like a $40 pumac
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cotton t-shirt is going to be way better
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than the $5 synthetic blend that you
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find on teu but there's a point of
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diminishing returns and most designer
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luxury Brands exist way beyond that
00:17:47
point think about like Supreme hoodies
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or Gucci handbags or Golden Goose
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sneakers sure they're probably made with
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high quality materials but that's really
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not what people are paying for these
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goods are marked up Way Beyond industry
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standards simply because of the hype see
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these designer brands are Masters at
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creating false scarcity dropping limited
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numbers of special edition products and
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then using endorsement marketing like
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paying celebrities and influencers to be
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seen wearing the brand to create desire
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for these products and it works us
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humans are simple creatures were easily
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duped but the truth is paying $200 for a
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supreme hoodie or $1,000 for a Gucci
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handbag is just dumb these are
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depreciating assets Mass manufactured in
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the same factories that regular brands
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are using and despite the clever
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marketing they're really just thinly
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veiled status symbols I say spend money
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on quality but try to be agnostic to
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Brands and logos disposable Fashion on
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the other end of the spectrum we have
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fast disposable fashion this is even
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worse than designer fashion because
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despite the crazy markups luxury
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products will probably last a long time
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if you treat them well in contrast the
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clothes that you buy from teu and shine
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and Forever 21 are only going to last
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one or two years before needing to be
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replaced it's helpful to think about
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clothing and accessories in terms of
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cost per wear or cost per use like if
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you buy a $20 genuine leather belt and
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it starts cracking after say 50 Wares
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that belt actually cost you 40 cents per
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wear but if you buy a $100 full grain
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leather belt and it lasts you for 10
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years or 1,500 Wares that belt actually
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cost you6 cents per wear plus you'll
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enjoy it more it's just a better belt
00:19:16
it'll look better and feel better and it
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was probably produced in a more ethical
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way buy less buy better so that's my
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list I want to thank geology again for
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links Below in the description I love
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I'd love to hear from you do you agree
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or disagree with my list what are some
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other things that people waste money on
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let me know in the comments thank you as
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always for watching and until next time
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stay stylish
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