10 things I REFUSE to buy to save money (not worth it) + better alternatives — Transcript

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1. 0:00Hey girls. So, in today's video, I'm
2. 0:02going to talk about 10 things that are
3. 0:05not worth your money and also things
4. 0:08that I just, you know, just refuse to
5. 0:10spend money on. Like, we're not doing
6. 0:12that. Okay. So, I'm going to start with
7. 0:16this. You're going to ask me how does an
8. 0:19eye drop, what does that have to do with
9. 0:21makeup? But let me tell you, when you do
10. 0:24your makeup and your eyes are not bright
11. 0:26and white, it doesn't give that oomph,
12. 0:29that effect. So, I always use this
13. 0:31Lumifi eye drop and it lasts for hours.
14. 0:35Once I used this for the day, I don't
15. 0:37ever have to use it again. It leaves my
16. 0:39eyes white and bright. So, yeah, I
17. 0:42already used that before I came on
18. 0:44camera. Now, I'm just going to go in and
19. 0:47start with my brows. And I'm doing a
20. 0:49natural
21. 0:50just natural makeup. I'm not going
22. 0:52anywhere. I'm just doing something super
23. 0:55natural. Okay. Yeah. So, the first thing
24. 0:58I refuse to spend money on,
25. 1:03guys, fake jewelry. And when I say fake,
26. 1:07I mean jewelry that won't last. So, for
27. 1:11example, sterling silver. I remember
28. 1:14there was a time when I bought sterling
29. 1:18silver jewelry from a popular place that
30. 1:21starts with P that everyone's going
31. 1:23crazy about. If you know, you know. It
32. 1:27was sterling silver. And it didn't last
33. 1:30me for 3 months. It didn't like I like
34. 1:33jewelry that I can just put on and I
35. 1:36don't ever have to like think about it.
36. 1:38like I don't have to think about taking
37. 1:40it off and on every few minutes, you
38. 1:44know, and as a girl with two kids, like
39. 1:49ain't nobody got time for that. So yeah,
40. 1:51I prefer things that are solid gold and
41. 1:56or platinum. And if I'm not doing that,
42. 1:58let's say I'm on a budget, I would much
43. 2:01rather get something that is gold filled
44. 2:04so it will last at least a little bit.
45. 2:07Yeah. So, that's my two cents on that.
46. 2:11Solid gold jewelry. All right. So, the
47. 2:14next thing I refuse to spend money on is
48. 2:18Botox. Girl, I already got enough face
49. 2:22fat. Do you see this? I don't need
50. 2:24anything else in my face. Okay, I got a
51. 2:27round chubby face. So, um, for me, I
52. 2:30know I'm already going to look a little
53. 2:32bit younger as I age because I won't
54. 2:35have that volume loss that most people
55. 2:38have. And in addition to that, putting
56. 2:41on Botox or getting your fa face
57. 2:44fillers, Botox, whatever, getting that,
58. 2:47you're setting up yourself to be
59. 2:50highmaintenance. Botox is not cheap. It
60. 2:53is expensive. So, constantly having to
61. 2:56schedule an appointment every few months
62. 2:59to get Botox, especially when you're
63. 3:02very frugal like me, it's not a good
64. 3:05look. You're just setting up yourself to
65. 3:06be high maintenance and spend a lot of
66. 3:09unnecessary money. Like, if you don't
67. 3:11look like an alien and people aren't
68. 3:13walking and looking at you every two
69. 3:15seconds because of how you look, you
70. 3:18don't need Botox. Okay? we can age
71. 3:21gracefully and we can embrace that. Um,
72. 3:24honestly, I hope I don't change my mind
73. 3:26in the future, but for right now, I've
74. 3:30never had Botox and I don't plan to
75. 3:32anytime soon, but we'll see where the
76. 3:35future goes. You know, it's just not
77. 3:37worth it for me right now. Especially
78. 3:39the fact that Botox is just temporary. I
79. 3:43just I just can't get over that. Maybe
80. 3:45if it were permanent, then I would be
81. 3:47like, "Okay, I'll consider it." But it's
82. 3:50not. So, no. The next thing on the list
83. 3:53that I refuse to spend money on is
84. 3:55expensive skin care. Okay, so here's the
85. 3:58thing. From middle school, I had a
86. 4:01terrible breakout. My skin was a hot
87. 4:04mess. And that carried on throughout my
88. 4:0720s and my 30s. Yeah, I'm in my early
89. 4:1230s now. So, I literally just got my
90. 4:16skin issues resolved around 2 3 years
91. 4:19ago. And all this time, I thought that
92. 4:21if I bought expensive skin care, that
93. 4:24would do the trick.
94. 4:27Girl, let me tell you something. Save
95. 4:28your coins, okay? Save your freaking
96. 4:31coins because, like I said, I thought
97. 4:34buying the expensive is going to
98. 4:36help me to get rid of my skin. I spent
99. 4:40thousands on expensive skin care that
100. 4:43these beauty gurus are promoting. Did it
101. 4:46work for me? Absolutely not. So, I went
102. 4:50to see a dermatologist and they
103. 4:53prescribed me retinoid and azelleic acid
104. 4:58and those are the only things I've ever
105. 5:00used in my entire life that worked for
106. 5:03me in literally 2 months. I'm not even
107. 5:07joking. Now, my skin has little texture.
108. 5:11Um, I'm still getting rid of
109. 5:13hyperpigmentation as you can see, but I
110. 5:16just started this journey and I've seen
111. 5:18a lot of results. So, yeah, it's working
112. 5:21for me so far. But again, um, I'm going
113. 5:24to stick to that that my dermatologist
114. 5:28prescribed me. I am definitely not going
115. 5:30to be spending that much money on random
116. 5:33skincare products because someone said
117. 5:35so. My dermatologist told me that if I'm
118. 5:39unable to fill my prescription, which is
119. 5:42this, you can use the one that I have
120. 5:47linked in the description box below.
121. 5:48That's the one that she recommended I
122. 5:50use if I ever run out and I'm unable to
123. 5:53get my prescription. Um, I have done
124. 5:56that before. I went to New York, didn't
125. 5:59pick up my prescription on time cuz I
126. 6:01was missing my freaking fright. So, I
127. 6:03ran off to the airport and I just
128. 6:05ordered it on Amazon. It's the same
129. 6:07thing. I promise you it's the same
130. 6:09thing. At least that's what she said.
131. 6:11I've used it. It's called different.
132. 6:14I'll link it below. It's the same thing.
133. 6:16It's literally a prescription
134. 6:19grade medication for your skin without
135. 6:22the prescription. It even says that on
136. 6:24the ad. So, check it out if you're
137. 6:26interested. So, I use the different or
138. 6:29this same thing. And I also use azelleic
139. 6:34acid 15%.
140. 6:36There is one [clears throat]
141. 6:38from Paula's Choice. I will also link
142. 6:41that. That's the one I started off with
143. 6:43as well, but it's 10%. It's literally
144. 6:46the same thing. Okay. So, I would 10 out
145. 6:48of 10 recommend that if you want smooth,
146. 6:52no texture skin. And currently, my
147. 6:55hyperpigmentation is slowly going away.
148. 6:57So, girl, give me three more months,
149. 7:00okay? Just give me three more months,
150. 7:03okay? I I'll be turning on this camera
151. 7:06and you're not even going to recognize
152. 7:07me. No need for expensive skin care. Get
153. 7:11the little $20 tubes that I'm showing
154. 7:14you because it's worth it. And they last
155. 7:17freaking months. Like months. Okay? Like
156. 7:21when I get my tubes, I only spend like
157. 7:2420 plus dollars on the tube. And it
158. 7:27lasts me quite a while, up to three
159. 7:29months, sometimes four if I'm being if
160. 7:32I'm not using too much at a time. You
161. 7:35only need a PS size amount, too. A P
162. 7:38size of a P for your entire face. So,
163. 7:40um, and I keep it very minimal. skin
164. 7:43care, the skincare products that I
165. 7:46showed you, and moisturizer, sunscreen,
166. 7:50and that's pretty much it. Okay, so the
167. 7:52next thing I refuse to spend money on is
168. 7:57plastic meal containers. Why should I go
169. 8:00ahead and buy plastic meal containers?
170. 8:03That crap is toxic for your body. I
171. 8:07don't think it's good. If I'm you
172. 8:09putting plastic in the microwave, how is
173. 8:12that helping me to stay healthy? That's
174. 8:14a lot of toxins coming from that heated
175. 8:18plastic container. So, I prefer to use
176. 8:21glass. I use glass that I can freeze.
177. 8:24So, I throw it in the freezer and then
178. 8:27I'm good to go. Ditch the plastic
179. 8:29containers. That's what I started meal
180. 8:31prepping with. And one time I was
181. 8:33heating up my food that was frozen and
182. 8:36the freaking container started melting
183. 8:38in the microwave.
184. 8:42No. And then I had to throw away all
185. 8:44that food cuz I'm not putting that in my
186. 8:46body. No way, Jose. Next on the list is
187. 8:50highend makeup. Like this is probably
188. 8:53the most expensive thing that I use in
189. 8:57my entire skin care routine. This is
190. 9:00just a tinted like a CC cream, color
191. 9:04correcting cream. It h it says here full
192. 9:07coverage cream, anti-aging and hydrating
193. 9:11serum. It has SPF 50. The only reason I
194. 9:15buy this for I think it's $40 plus
195. 9:18dollars with taxes that I paid for it on
196. 9:21Amazon. But to be honest with you, it's
197. 9:23worth it because now that I'm getting
198. 9:26older, I like my makeup or my skin to my
199. 9:30my face to look like skin. So, this is
200. 9:33the only thing I use so far that has
201. 9:36really helped that. I'm going to show
202. 9:38you what I'm coming from. I used to use
203. 9:40this Nars right here. However, I had to
204. 9:44ditch this because it does look cakey
205. 9:47after a while. So, I'm not currently
206. 9:50loving foundation. I'm loving CC cream,
207. 9:54which is a lot better and natural
208. 9:57looking. It's from It Cosmetics. It's
209. 9:59what you just saw me applied. And
210. 10:01[snorts]
211. 10:02I'm not going to Sephora to buy a
212. 10:04freaking mascara for 50 bucks, though. I
213. 10:07can tell you that for sure. I walked up
214. 10:09in Sephora and I had to run out because
215. 10:12I am a foundation might get a bl or a CC
216. 10:17cream, but just not a freaking mascara.
217. 10:20It's not going to magically grow my
218. 10:22lashes overnight. So, why spend that
219. 10:26money on a freaking mascara that's going
220. 10:27to dry out in 2 days? Please, girl, make
221. 10:31it make sense. Yeah, I'm trying to do
222. 10:34things a lot more affordable because I
223. 10:37prefer to put my money in other places
224. 10:40where it can actually work for me
225. 10:42instead of me having to constantly work
226. 10:44for it. And please don't come for my
227. 10:47makeup. This is not a makeup tutorial.
228. 10:49I'm just literally doing a very light
229. 10:53natural face. I want it to look like I
230. 10:56I'm not I don't have anything on. So, I
231. 10:59might not even look much different at
232. 11:00the end of this video. So,
233. 11:03and I just put a tiny tiny bit of
234. 11:06concealer under my eyes. All right. So,
235. 11:10the next thing I refuse to spend money
236. 11:12on is a manicure. Now, if you watch my
237. 11:16previous video, you already know that I
238. 11:20just got a whole kit. Okay? I got a
239. 11:23whole kit that I can use at home to do
240. 11:27my my manicures. All right. I do
241. 11:31everything myself, including the cuticle
242. 11:33work when I feel like it. And once I'm
243. 11:36done with the cuticle work, I just go in
244. 11:39with the kit. Um, I'll link it below if
245. 11:42you're interested. And I just do my
246. 11:44nails. The kit is super affordable. You
247. 11:46can use it up to, I think, 12 times
248. 11:49before you have to purchase it again.
249. 11:52And it was only 15 bucks. Okay, it was
250. 11:55really affordable. So, I'm not going to
251. 11:58go into the nail salon to get my nails
252. 12:01done if it's not like for a special
253. 12:03occasion and then they're going to
254. 12:04charge me an arm and a leg. They're
255. 12:06going to charge me as if I'm there to
256. 12:08buy gold. I'm just here to get my nails
257. 12:11done. I'm not buying gold, but yet the
258. 12:13price is gold prices. I don't get it.
259. 12:16Not in this economy. And the thing about
260. 12:19it is I have to do my nails every two
261. 12:22weeks in order to feel groomed and put
262. 12:24together. If I don't do it every two
263. 12:26weeks, it's it's not going to come out
264. 12:28great. It's I feel very uncomfortable.
265. 12:31Think about it. If I'm going to spend
266. 12:33$150 every 2 weeks, that's $300 a month.
267. 12:37Multiply that 300 by 12 and that's how
268. 12:41much money I'm saving every single
269. 12:43month.
270. 12:45Yeah, I rather save my coins. So, I
271. 12:48won't be doing much manicures unless
272. 12:51it's a special occasion. Like I said, I
273. 12:53use the kit. This is what my nail looks
274. 12:56like. And this is old old. Okay, this is
275. 13:00old old. So, I'm talking about it's
276. 13:04ready to come off. So, yeah. I go to the
277. 13:07nail salon. I need a little French tip.
278. 13:09Oh, it's $15 extra just to put a line on
279. 13:14my tips.
280. 13:16Girl, please.
281. 13:19Girl, please.
282. 13:22Comment below if you have that same
283. 13:23issue where you go to the nail salon and
284. 13:25you just want to run the heck out
285. 13:28because they're just they're overdoing
286. 13:31it. Okay? And I know everyone needs to
287. 13:33survive. Everyone has bills to pay, but
288. 13:37we got bills to pay, too. We can't keep
289. 13:40up. Okay? Somebody needs to do something
290. 13:42about it. We cannot keep up. We can't.
291. 13:47The next thing I refuse to spend money
292. 13:49on is Oh god.
293. 13:53I'm so hesitant to say this, but it's a
294. 13:55freaking gym membership. I said it.
295. 13:58Okay. A gym membership is not really
296. 14:03worth my money. Maybe it's worth yours,
297. 14:06but here's why it's not worth it for me.
298. 14:08First of all, I'm a mom of two kids.
299. 14:10Okay, cool. We got that out the way.
300. 14:12Second of all, I will if I don't go to
301. 14:16the gym at least four times per week,
302. 14:19there's no reason for me to have a whole
303. 14:22membership, okay? Which I don't. I work
304. 14:25out like three times or two times per
305. 14:28week, okay? Just to keep my body active.
306. 14:30So, what I did, I invested in a
307. 14:34treadmill and a walking an an adjustable
308. 14:37desk. So, that way I can actually stand
309. 14:41up and walk on the treadmill as I'm
310. 14:43doing my work. So, as I'm working from
311. 14:46home, I just walk on the treadmill and
312. 14:48I'm getting my steps in. It's hard
313. 14:50sometimes to find that extra time when
314. 14:53you're working from home. It's It's just
315. 14:56hard to find that extra time when you're
316. 14:58trying to Oh my god, girl. What are you
317. 15:01saying? What are you saying?
318. 15:05Yes. As a mom, it's hard to get that
319. 15:08extra time to always be at the gym. And
320. 15:11I don't want anything to hinder me or
321. 15:13interfere with that. Like I'm the type
322. 15:16of girl where if I'm going to the gym,
323. 15:20right, and I say I need to work out
324. 15:22three to four times per week and I can't
325. 15:25do that because, you know, maybe I have
326. 15:27my kids in the way, I'm just going to
327. 15:30lose motivation because I'm going to see
328. 15:32that it's not sustainable. It's not I
329. 15:34can't be consistent. So, I have to do
330. 15:36what works for me and what will make me
331. 15:39consistent. And that's investing in a
332. 15:41home gym. So, I get dumbbells from
333. 15:44Amazon. I also purchased like like I
334. 15:48said the standing adjustable desk so I
335. 15:50can work from home and also walk on the
336. 15:53treadmill at the same time. And I have
337. 15:56purchased the bench resistance band and
338. 16:00it's working great for me. I love it so
339. 16:03far. I love being in my little home gym.
340. 16:06No one else's germs is on there.
341. 16:10[laughter and gasps]
342. 16:11Yeah. no one else's germs but mine. And
343. 16:15as a little germaphobe, I prefer that.
344. 16:18Okay. Yeah, I definitely prefer my home
345. 16:21gym. I can go in the middle of the night
346. 16:24without worrying about it being closed.
347. 16:26So, currently at this point in my life,
348. 16:29a home gym is so not worth it for me. It
349. 16:33may be it might be worth it for you, but
350. 16:35right now it's not worth it for me. And
351. 16:37I might change my mind in the future.
352. 16:39Yeah, that's just where I stand on that.
353. 16:41And I much rather just do outdoor
354. 16:44activities, too. I will bring my kids in
355. 16:47the little stroller. I'll walk with
356. 16:49them, too. So, we'll go to the zoo and
357. 16:52I'll walk as I get my steps in, and
358. 16:54they're out as well. So, you know, as a
359. 16:57mom, you just got to you just got to do
360. 16:59what you got to do to make it work. Now,
361. 17:01I'm using this Fenty Heat
362. 17:04by Rihanna. Love it. It lasts really
363. 17:07long. Ooh, what's that on my lip gloss?
364. 17:10It lasts really long. Looks very
365. 17:12natural. And
366. 17:15next is lashes. I don't know if you can
367. 17:18see, but my lashes,
368. 17:21it's pretty much done. I purchased a kit
369. 17:25online from Amazon. I'm an Amazon girly.
370. 17:28I'm a diehard Amazon girl. Okay, say ah
371. 17:32and I'm there. Okay, I love Amazon. I
372. 17:36purchased almost everything on Amazon.
373. 17:37Saves me a ton of time. Love it. So, I
374. 17:41purchased a lash kit on Amazon. 15
375. 17:43bucks. I'll also link that if you're
376. 17:45interested. And I just do my lashes. I
377. 17:49have a video on with me doing my lashes
378. 17:52and showing you how I use that $15 lash
379. 17:55kit to do my lashes instead of going to
380. 17:58a lash technician that's going to charge
381. 18:00me an arm and a leg.
382. 18:03Yeah, we're not doing that. Not, as I
383. 18:06love to say, not in this economy. So,
384. 18:10check out that video. I'll link it right
385. 18:12here for you if you're interested in
386. 18:13seeing how I do my lashes. And it's
387. 18:17still intact. Okay? Do you see that?
388. 18:20It's still intact. And I've done this
389. 18:23almost two weeks now.
390. 18:26Yes, sis. Yes, sis. I'm saving you all
391. 18:29that money, okay? It's easy to do. I'm
392. 18:32not a beauty guru. I barely know how to
393. 18:35do my makeup. I barely know how to do
394. 18:39things like,
395. 18:41you know, maintenance stuff to look
396. 18:44completely flawless. I'm literally a
397. 18:46beginner. I'm just trying. I used to pay
398. 18:48everyone to do everything for me. But
399. 18:50since now, my priorities have shifted to
400. 18:53investing and early retirement cuz I
401. 18:56don't want to work forever. Who wants
402. 18:58to? So, I'm looking for to, you know,
403. 19:01put my money in places where it's worth
404. 19:04it. All right. So, let me put on this
405. 19:09spray. This is the L'Oreal 36-hour.
406. 19:17And as y'all can see, everything just
407. 19:19looks it looks like I'm not even wearing
408. 19:22anything. That's kind of how I like my
409. 19:24little my little natural beat makeup to
410. 19:27look like. I'm like I'm just glowing
411. 19:30from the inside out [laughter]
412. 19:33and I'm not wearing anything. Even when
413. 19:35I'm going out at night, I still don't go
414. 19:38too heavy with makeup. Okay, so next is
415. 19:42this is actually number nine. It's cheap
416. 19:45perfume. I refuse to spend money on
417. 19:50cheap perfume for so many reasons. If
418. 19:52you buy a perfume
419. 19:54that's cheap, first of all, when you
420. 19:56spray it, it's going to smell okay,
421. 19:59maybe bad, okay? So, don't even waste
422. 20:01your money on that. The second thing is
423. 20:03when you do buy good quality oilbased
424. 20:06perfume, they last longer. They last the
425. 20:10whole day. currently my two favorites.
426. 20:13It is the I'll insert a picture for you
427. 20:16guys, but it's it's it is the YSL
428. 20:19uh Black Opium, which I'll put right
429. 20:22here, the YSL Black Opium, and I also
430. 20:25like the Dior, this one right here.
431. 20:28Honestly, I went into a store one day,
432. 20:32set an appointment at a jewelry store. I
433. 20:35walked in and the guy was like, "What
434. 20:37are you wearing?" [laughter]
435. 20:40And he was he was really loud about it.
436. 20:43And I felt good because he's like, "You
437. 20:45smell so good." And then we had a whole
438. 20:48conversation about perfumes and stuff.
439. 20:50So, girl, invest in a good perfume
440. 20:53because people might see you and judge
441. 20:55you based on how you look, but I'm sure
442. 20:58they're judging you by the way you
443. 21:00smell, too. Okay? If you go somewhere
444. 21:03and you smell disgusting, people are
445. 21:06going to talk about it. People are not
446. 21:08going to treat you the same way that the
447. 21:10way that you actually deserve to be
448. 21:12treated because they're going to think
449. 21:14you're nasty, you have bad hygiene,
450. 21:17stuff like that. So, I always recommend
451. 21:20buy one good perfume, even if it cost a
452. 21:24little bit extra, because that one good
453. 21:26perfume only needs about two sprays or
454. 21:30three max to for you to smell good and
455. 21:33for you to last all day. But when you
456. 21:35buy the cheap $20 perfume, you need 10
457. 21:38sprays for that to last. And it's still
458. 21:40not giving what it's supposed to give.
459. 21:42Those are my two top perfumes. I'll also
460. 21:45link them as well. And number 10, we
461. 21:50need a drum roll for this.
462. 21:53Hopefully I can edit an audio. I can
463. 21:55throw a real drum roll in there. We'll
464. 21:58see how my editing skills are. Why are
465. 22:00we still wearing geets?
466. 22:05Yeah, you heard me. Why are we still
467. 22:09wearing the IMG assets,
468. 22:13as millennials,
469. 22:15as 40 year olds, as 30 year olds?
470. 22:19Are we still in middle school? Like, I
471. 22:22get it. Some girls look nice in it and
472. 22:26can pull it off, but every time I see
473. 22:28the IMG sets, I feel like I'm going back
474. 22:32to that middle school era, that time
475. 22:34when I was in middle school. They look
476. 22:35like a freaking middle schooler.
477. 22:38The quality isn't even the best for the
478. 22:40price. You know, if you're too lazy
479. 22:43about, you know, putting outfits
480. 22:45together, just wear neutral, solid
481. 22:48clothing. That way, you anything that
482. 22:51you pick up from your closet
483. 22:53automatically matches. So, there's no
484. 22:56reason for a big I am Gia set with the
485. 22:58Gia written on the front.
486. 23:02So, yeah, guys, that's all I have for
487. 23:04you today. I really hope you enjoyed
488. 23:07this video. Those are the 10 things I
489. 23:10refuse to spend money on and things that
490. 23:12are not really worth your money. Let me
491. 23:14know your thoughts in the comments below
492. 23:16and I'll see you next time.