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Things I Stopped Buying — And What I Do Instead — Transcript

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  1. 0:00I've recently realized that there were
  2. 0:01quite a few things that I used to spend
  3. 0:03money on and that I no longer do. And
  4. 0:06they were things that I liked, things
  5. 0:07that I enjoyed spending money on because
  6. 0:09I enjoyed the results they gave me, but
  7. 0:12with time I either consciously stopped
  8. 0:14spending money on them because I wanted
  9. 0:15to save money and I wanted to hit my
  10. 0:17financial goals. Some of them I kind of
  11. 0:19naturally stopped with time as time
  12. 0:21passed. These things used to make me
  13. 0:23feel a little bit more put together and
  14. 0:25they felt like a part of my routine and
  15. 0:27for a long time I didn't really question
  16. 0:29it. It's was something that I was paying
  17. 0:31for regularly without even thinking
  18. 0:33about it and at some point I've realized
  19. 0:35that I just stopped. Not all at once and
  20. 0:38not because anything dramatic happened,
  21. 0:41but I just started noticing that I don't
  22. 0:44actually want to keep paying for certain
  23. 0:46things anymore and that surprised me a
  24. 0:47little bit because it's not that I
  25. 0:49suddenly stopped liking those things or
  26. 0:51because I stopped liking the effect that
  27. 0:53I got out of these things or the way
  28. 0:55that these things made me feel because
  29. 0:57in some cases I still do. I can still
  30. 0:58enjoy those things,
  31. 1:00but something shifted in how I see those
  32. 1:03choices now and how I'm prioritizing the
  33. 1:05effect that I get out of them. What's
  34. 1:08worth it, what actually adds something
  35. 1:10to my life and what doesn't. So, when I
  36. 1:12really looked at it, I realized there
  37. 1:14are quite a few things I just don't
  38. 1:16spend money on anymore and more
  39. 1:18importantly I've replaced them with
  40. 1:20things that feel better, that feel
  41. 1:21simpler or just more like me. So, I want
  42. 1:24to go through those things and also
  43. 1:25share what I do instead now because
  44. 1:28that's really where the shift is
  45. 1:29happening. So, the first thing I've
  46. 1:31stopped spending money on and this is
  47. 1:33fairly recently are nails. I used to do
  48. 1:35my nails professionally like a nail
  49. 1:37technician and I've quit doing that for
  50. 1:39two reasons. Number one, I wanted to
  51. 1:40save the money because I have financial
  52. 1:43goals that I've touched on a little bit
  53. 1:44in previous videos, but I have financial
  54. 1:46goals I would like to hit and sooner the
  55. 1:48better.
  56. 1:49Um nothing pressing, nothing, you know,
  57. 1:51dramatic is happening. It's just that I
  58. 1:53have goals and I want to reach them and
  59. 1:55I'm committed to my goals and so, I
  60. 1:57wanted to save money in different areas
  61. 2:00of my life and one of the things that I
  62. 2:02wanted to stop paying for are my nails.
  63. 2:04And the second thing that made me stop
  64. 2:06is that
  65. 2:07personality-wise, I am a little bit of a
  66. 2:10perfectionist. Meaning, every single
  67. 2:12time that I was at my nail tech, and
  68. 2:14I've been doing this for months, right?
  69. 2:16I've been doing my nails for months and
  70. 2:17I can share some pictures in here. So,
  71. 2:19you'll see how it looked like and what I
  72. 2:21used to go for.
  73. 2:22Every single time
  74. 2:24that I went and did my nails at the nail
  75. 2:26tech,
  76. 2:27there was something about it that truly
  77. 2:29bothered me and there were there were
  78. 2:31different things, right? Sometimes the
  79. 2:33the shade was not exactly what I wanted.
  80. 2:35It was sometimes the shape. Sometimes it
  81. 2:38wasn't really aligned. Something's
  82. 2:40always bothering me and once you go, you
  83. 2:42are kind of stuck with that thing for 3
  84. 2:45weeks. And that doesn't work for a
  85. 2:48person like me who likes control and who
  86. 2:50likes things to be neat and who likes to
  87. 2:52have things the way they like it to be.
  88. 2:54And so, personality-wise, that wasn't a
  89. 2:57good fit for me. But, also I really
  90. 2:59wanted to save the money. So, what I've
  91. 3:00been doing now is just that I went back
  92. 3:02to wearing natural nails, just my
  93. 3:04natural nails. I have a little bit of a
  94. 3:06nail strengthener on and if I want
  95. 3:10I still have some polishes that I can
  96. 3:13use and I can do my nails at home. That
  97. 3:15way I don't have to set an appointment
  98. 3:17anywhere. I don't have to spend any more
  99. 3:19money because I'm not buying any more
  100. 3:20nail polishes. I have plenty. I have
  101. 3:22enough like to last me for 2 years now.
  102. 3:25And I've been actually loving the look
  103. 3:28of natural
  104. 3:30neutral nails so much. I think they're
  105. 3:32so
  106. 3:34I don't know. I think they're so classy.
  107. 3:36I think they're something simple and
  108. 3:37classy and elegant about them.
  109. 3:40And I surprisingly like them a little
  110. 3:42bit more than done nails and I don't
  111. 3:45know if it's a phase that I'm going
  112. 3:46through.
  113. 3:47Um I have to say I have a lot of very
  114. 3:49elegant women in my job. And you know
  115. 3:52what I've noticed what's common to all
  116. 3:54of the very elegant women that I have,
  117. 3:56you know, it's it's ranging different
  118. 3:59type of of women, the way they dress,
  119. 4:00the way they act.
  120. 4:03The wealthy, elegant women at my job,
  121. 4:06they don't do their nails. They keep
  122. 4:07their nails natural.
  123. 4:10I don't know what the deal is. And I
  124. 4:11feel like they still manage to look
  125. 4:13classy and put together. And in my head,
  126. 4:15I remember going and having my nails
  127. 4:17done because in my head, this was an act
  128. 4:21of
  129. 4:22being put together.
  130. 4:23You if you have enough funds for doing
  131. 4:26your nails, if you have enough time to
  132. 4:28invest in yourself, then you you kind of
  133. 4:30made it and you always looked put
  134. 4:32together and you always looked arranged
  135. 4:35and and and taken care of. More and more
  136. 4:37money I'm putting every single month to
  137. 4:40my security, my safety net fund that I
  138. 4:42have and I'm actually more than halfway
  139. 4:44to where I want to be in the grand
  140. 4:46scheme of things. So, I'm very proud
  141. 4:47about that and I'm going to keep on
  142. 4:49pushing working on that until I achieve
  143. 4:51my goals. Next thing that I no longer
  144. 4:53pay for is to get blonde highlights. My
  145. 4:55natural hair color is rather like a deep
  146. 4:58brown,
  147. 4:59>> [snorts]
  148. 4:59>> a deep cool tone brown. And I used to
  149. 5:01get blonde highlights and that thing is
  150. 5:04expensive. I mean, I don't know where
  151. 5:06it's depending on where you live in your
  152. 5:07country and the currency that you're
  153. 5:09using and whatever. But to me, for my
  154. 5:11hair and where I live, that could cost
  155. 5:14between $150 to $200 doing your hair.
  156. 5:17Obviously, it grows and you have to redo
  157. 5:19it every like I don't know, 6 months, 5
  158. 5:21months.
  159. 5:22And I've stopped doing that altogether.
  160. 5:24And this is something that happened kind
  161. 5:26of half naturally, like half I took
  162. 5:29half I was just kind of tired of it. And
  163. 5:32also I wanted to save the money. So, one
  164. 5:34day I would just woke up and I was like,
  165. 5:35this is this a lot of money to be
  166. 5:37spending every few months on hair, on
  167. 5:39something that you cut off. And I'm not
  168. 5:41saying that hair is not important. Hair
  169. 5:43is very important. It's part of the main
  170. 5:45accessory that we have on our looks.
  171. 5:48But I feel that what I do right now,
  172. 5:50like my natural hair color, I went I
  173. 5:52went back to my natural hair color. I
  174. 5:54feel it looks so much more elegant. I
  175. 5:56just dye my hair in this Garnier box
  176. 5:58that I buy that last me for two times.
  177. 6:01That Garnier box is $7 or $8, and it
  178. 6:05last me for two times. So, $4 for each
  179. 6:08month and a half and between, you know,
  180. 6:11dyeing my my [clears throat] roots,
  181. 6:12doing my hair. I don't have much gray
  182. 6:14hairs, but I do have a couple. And so
  183. 6:16every month and a half or so I'll redo
  184. 6:18I'll retouch my roots. And I went back
  185. 6:21to my natural hair color, and
  186. 6:24I love it. I truly love it. It's not
  187. 6:26something that I miss. With my nails, I
  188. 6:29sometimes feel like maybe in the future
  189. 6:30I'll miss them, you know? I don't know.
  190. 6:32I kind of like it right now, but maybe
  191. 6:33in the future
  192. 6:35I I have a sense that in the fall and
  193. 6:37winter I want to go back to red. I used
  194. 6:39to get red nail polish all the time as
  195. 6:41my nail technician.
  196. 6:42But so that's maybe something that I'll
  197. 6:45be missing and going back to.
  198. 6:48But my highlights, I really I really
  199. 6:51don't feel the need to go back to them.
  200. 6:54I have been loving wearing my natural
  201. 6:56hair color, and it suits me. And I just
  202. 6:58don't want to be spending that money
  203. 7:00anymore on something that you have to
  204. 7:01repetitively do. It's not one one and
  205. 7:04done, right? If it was an investment
  206. 7:06like buying a closet, you know, you're
  207. 7:08going to you know, yes, it's a big
  208. 7:10expense, but it's going to last for such
  209. 7:12a long time.
  210. 7:13And you get so much um value out of it.
  211. 7:17So, it's okay to invest in something
  212. 7:18like that. But a hair that you cut off
  213. 7:22and nails that you cut off every a
  214. 7:24certain amount of time, then you have to
  215. 7:26pay for it again. It's not something
  216. 7:28that I like to subscribe to. And I truly
  217. 7:31enjoy so far the results of having
  218. 7:33natural nails and natural hair.
  219. 7:35Semi-natural hair because I do touch up
  220. 7:37my roots. Next [clears throat] thing
  221. 7:38that I've stopped completely spending
  222. 7:40money on, and this happened naturally.
  223. 7:42It's not that I've stopped and said
  224. 7:44like, "Okay, I want to save money." This
  225. 7:46happened naturally. I no longer spend
  226. 7:48money on facials and face mask. I think
  227. 7:52the things that are when it comes to
  228. 7:54skin,
  229. 7:55and [snorts] this is my opinion, right?
  230. 7:56I'm not a dermatologist, I'm not like an
  231. 7:59expert in skin care or something, but
  232. 8:00I'm I'm sharing as a woman what has been
  233. 8:02working so well for me and what has not.
  234. 8:05I felt like when I did those one-time
  235. 8:08solutions, like either if it's a facials
  236. 8:11that you have to again do every every 3
  237. 8:13months or whatever you do, or getting a
  238. 8:15face mask, I've never seen much good
  239. 8:18coming out of those. What I much prefer
  240. 8:21is having my fixed skin care routine
  241. 8:24that I really love with products that
  242. 8:26truly work for me, and you you have seen
  243. 8:28those in previous videos, but having a
  244. 8:31skin care routine that I truly love with
  245. 8:33effective ingredients that make me feel
  246. 8:36good, that I can see results and
  247. 8:38actually can see how well my skin is
  248. 8:40reacting to them. This is an action that
  249. 8:43I repetitively do twice a day, and so
  250. 8:46obviously the result from that is going
  251. 8:48to be a cheaper because I'm using my
  252. 8:50stuff completely. I've built my my skin
  253. 8:53care routine to the level that I'm so
  254. 8:54incredibly satisfied from it, so I don't
  255. 8:57keep on experimenting with different
  256. 8:58products and I'm trying new ones and I'm
  257. 9:01playing around and I'm stopping and I
  258. 9:03don't know, like Sephora style of of a
  259. 9:05shop and then spending my money on the
  260. 9:07new merch. I don't do that. I found the
  261. 9:10products with active ingredients that
  262. 9:12I've studied that are good for me, good
  263. 9:14for my skin,
  264. 9:16and then I just double down on that. I
  265. 9:18bought them, I use them up, I buy them
  266. 9:20again.
  267. 9:21My skin has never been looking better,
  268. 9:23so much better than me getting the
  269. 9:25facials or the face mask. It's just it
  270. 9:28wasn't worth it to me, and I've seen
  271. 9:31some different, you know,
  272. 9:33on the day of doing the face mask or the
  273. 9:35face treatment, I have seen some change,
  274. 9:38but that change never lasted. I think
  275. 9:40what truly matters is your day-to-day
  276. 9:42routine and if you're putting something
  277. 9:44on your skin twice a day,
  278. 9:46and this is how you live your life and
  279. 9:47you're very deliberate deliberate with
  280. 9:50it, and you're very committed to it.
  281. 9:52Like I never go with a face full of
  282. 9:54makeup. I never go to sleep like that. I
  283. 9:56always might wash my face and I always
  284. 9:58put on my products. And again, my skin
  285. 10:01has never looked better. And so, I've
  286. 10:03completely stopped spending money on
  287. 10:05facials and face masks. Next thing that
  288. 10:07I no longer spend money on is makeup.
  289. 10:10And I'm talking about new makeup. I've
  290. 10:13recently found, and if you want I can
  291. 10:15share that with you, my perfect formula
  292. 10:17of makeup routine. And I again, I'm not
  293. 10:21looking to experiment anymore and I I
  294. 10:23think that until now, I felt the need to
  295. 10:26buy more. Like I felt the need to buy
  296. 10:28more lipsticks. For example, this is
  297. 10:29something that I really liked and
  298. 10:31enjoyed. And I still from time to time
  299. 10:33will get the urge to get a new lipstick,
  300. 10:36but I've been become I've been becoming
  301. 10:38I've been becoming is that what you say?
  302. 10:40I have become. I have become so good in
  303. 10:43kind of focusing my attention back to
  304. 10:45the lipstick that I do love and have.
  305. 10:48And every single time that I have a new
  306. 10:49lipstick, I ask myself, like a new
  307. 10:51lipstick idea, something that I want to
  308. 10:53purchase. For me it's lipstick, for you
  309. 10:54it can be new eyeshadows, okay?
  310. 10:57If there's a new lipstick that I want,
  311. 10:58that the thought process that I have
  312. 11:00around it,
  313. 11:02will I prefer that lipstick more than
  314. 11:03ones that I already have? Because in
  315. 11:05here,
  316. 11:06I have in my little lipstick collection,
  317. 11:09I have so many lipstick that when I wear
  318. 11:12them, I truly feel very very beautiful.
  319. 11:15So, why would I want anything to compete
  320. 11:18with those
  321. 11:20if I found my favorites? And so, same
  322. 11:23goes for eyeshadows and same goes for,
  323. 11:25you know, blushes and highlighters. I
  324. 11:28only have one. I don't need more than
  325. 11:29one. So, the only exception of me
  326. 11:31repurchasing makeup is when I use
  327. 11:34something up. Yes, I only have one face
  328. 11:36powder.
  329. 11:37So, when I'll use it up, of course, I'll
  330. 11:40very gladly give myself the permission
  331. 11:42to go and get it again.
  332. 11:44Um I have one mascara. If I'll use it
  333. 11:46up, I'll go and grab a new another one.
  334. 11:48There's no problem in that. I completely
  335. 11:50give myself the freedom to do that and
  336. 11:52repurchase things that I've used up if
  337. 11:54they are the only one in their category.
  338. 11:56So, for example, if I'll use up one of
  339. 11:58my favorite lipsticks,
  340. 12:00then I will not automatically go out
  341. 12:03and buy a new lipstick. Why? Because I
  342. 12:06still have other lipsticks. So, they're
  343. 12:07not the only one in the category. Maybe
  344. 12:10I would want to direct my money more
  345. 12:13into savings and then direct my
  346. 12:15attention into using the lipstick the
  347. 12:18rest of the lipsticks that I have um
  348. 12:20until I use them up so they don't go
  349. 12:22bad. So, that's a little bit different.
  350. 12:24But, if I only have one of something, I
  351. 12:26only I only have one concealer here.
  352. 12:30So, no problem. When I'll use this up,
  353. 12:33I'll grant myself the permission of
  354. 12:35getting a new one. So, makeup is
  355. 12:37something that I technically stop
  356. 12:39spending money on because I've become so
  357. 12:40good at identify the desire and then
  358. 12:45stopping myself before paying the money
  359. 12:47on it and redirecting my attention back
  360. 12:49to what I already have. Next thing, and
  361. 12:51this is very exciting. Next thing that I
  362. 12:53want to talk about is perfume. Until
  363. 12:56now, I've spent money on perfume. And
  364. 12:58from now on, I and I'll share that with
  365. 13:00you in a separate but I kind of found I
  366. 13:03recently purchased like a month ago, I
  367. 13:06purchased two small size of perfume. I
  368. 13:09didn't go all out. I didn't went crazy.
  369. 13:12I had the waiting period of 30 days and
  370. 13:14then after 30 days, I bought one perfume
  371. 13:17that is 25 ml and one is 30. I just
  372. 13:20didn't want to spend the money on the
  373. 13:22bigger bottle because
  374. 13:24I I
  375. 13:25I don't feel comfortable with that. So,
  376. 13:27those two perfumes that I added to my
  377. 13:28collection
  378. 13:30made me realize so many things.
  379. 13:33And I'm actually right now and I'm also
  380. 13:35decluttering two perfumes that I'll show
  381. 13:36you in that video, but I've I'm
  382. 13:38realizing right now how satisfied I am
  383. 13:41with the perfume collection that I did
  384. 13:43build and with what I do have. And in
  385. 13:46the last week, I completely realized
  386. 13:48that I am no longer desiring
  387. 13:51perfume so much because I'm so happy
  388. 13:53with the collection that I have. So, I
  389. 13:54think it for the next few months or
  390. 13:56until the end of the year,
  391. 13:58I will not be buying perfume. This is
  392. 13:59not a declaration. If I'll see something
  393. 14:01that I'll completely fall in love with
  394. 14:03it,
  395. 14:04then I'll consider. For example, I've
  396. 14:06noticed that in my perfume collection, I
  397. 14:08don't really have a rose perfume. And
  398. 14:10rose is a is a note that I really love.
  399. 14:13And so, maybe down the road if I'll come
  400. 14:16across a perfume that has rose notes in
  401. 14:18it that I'll absolutely head over heels
  402. 14:21will fall in love with, then I'll of
  403. 14:23course I'll implement my my 30-days
  404. 14:26rule. I'll think about it. And then if
  405. 14:28I'll still want it, I I might get a
  406. 14:30small bottle the same way that I did
  407. 14:31right now, but I no longer have this
  408. 14:34burning desire of having more perfume
  409. 14:37and get them into my house. It's I feel
  410. 14:39like it's pretty much cured in a way. I
  411. 14:42have the I have the feeling that my
  412. 14:44desire for that is going [snorts] down
  413. 14:46drastically and that I can manage it so
  414. 14:48much better because I'm truly satisfied
  415. 14:51with the collection that I've built and
  416. 14:53with the perfume that I have. And I'm no
  417. 14:55longer looking for expanding that
  418. 14:57collection. The next thing that I've
  419. 14:59stopped spending money on is people
  420. 15:01pleasing. And this can be a little bit
  421. 15:03more challenging than the rest of the
  422. 15:05categories and a little bit different
  423. 15:06than what I've been mentioning so far
  424. 15:08because we all want to be liked. We all
  425. 15:11want to be respected by other people. We
  426. 15:13all want to show respect to other
  427. 15:15people. We don't want to hurt anybody's
  428. 15:17feelings. But when you have built a
  429. 15:19strong awareness to how you feel and how
  430. 15:21you react to the situation, it's going
  431. 15:23to be so much easier for you to control
  432. 15:26how you react in situations when you are
  433. 15:29asked or when you are used
  434. 15:31to pay for something. For example, I go
  435. 15:34to a dance class since December last
  436. 15:36year, I believe. So, I go to this dance
  437. 15:38class four times a month, um once a
  438. 15:41week. And in the dance class, we work on
  439. 15:43a show together. We are working on a
  440. 15:45show that's called Chicago, as you know.
  441. 15:47Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Oh, yes, the both. I'm
  442. 15:49sure you know.
  443. 15:50All that jazz.
  444. 15:52Anyway, um so, we are um performing,
  445. 15:54right? We are group of performers. I am
  446. 15:56in the dance cast, but we also have
  447. 15:59singers and we also have actors and we
  448. 16:01are running a show.
  449. 16:03And in the past few months, I've been
  450. 16:05feeling like I no longer enjoy going to
  451. 16:08that dance and I no longer enjoy
  452. 16:10practicing the show and I'm not excited
  453. 16:12for the show actually that comes up in
  454. 16:14July. And I kept going and what This is
  455. 16:17what I realized that I kept going
  456. 16:18because I didn't want to disappoint
  457. 16:20the people that I work with. I didn't
  458. 16:22want to disappoint the girls in the cast
  459. 16:24because
  460. 16:25now what they're going to be doing and
  461. 16:27like
  462. 16:28you know, I have solo parts and I have
  463. 16:30uh I'm in front row in many
  464. 16:33in in many numbers and I didn't want to
  465. 16:35disappoint the girls that dance with me.
  466. 16:38And I felt also guilty in front of the
  467. 16:40choreographer and the woman who runs the
  468. 16:42show
  469. 16:43because I didn't want to hurt their
  470. 16:45feeling too and tell them like listen, I
  471. 16:47no longer enjoy coming here. But, I kept
  472. 16:50paying for that. So, I was paying on
  473. 16:52something that I don't enjoy just not to
  474. 16:55hurt other people. This was the reason.
  475. 16:57So, to cut long story short, I am still
  476. 16:59going to that class, but only because I
  477. 17:02was willing to stop. Because I was
  478. 17:04willing to stop and I called them and I
  479. 17:06said, you know, I'm so sorry. But, I no
  480. 17:08longer enjoy this and I don't want to
  481. 17:10pay for this anymore and I don't want to
  482. 17:11pay with this not only with my money,
  483. 17:13but also with my time. And so, I have to
  484. 17:15pull back and um
  485. 17:18please remove me from the cast. And once
  486. 17:22I did that, they And I'm sorry that I
  487. 17:24haven't done that sooner. Like I'm
  488. 17:26regret regretting that because once I
  489. 17:28did that, they told me, "Wait, like what
  490. 17:30we don't understand the problem. You are
  491. 17:32front row, you have solo parts. Like
  492. 17:34what's going on? You You're one of our,
  493. 17:36you know, lead dancers. What's
  494. 17:37happening?" And I told them like I don't
  495. 17:40like this, I don't like that, I don't
  496. 17:41feel good when this happen with that
  497. 17:43happens during the class. And to my
  498. 17:46surprise, they fixed they they said,
  499. 17:48"Thank you for letting us know." And
  500. 17:50they fixed things. And from that class
  501. 17:52and on, things look completely different
  502. 17:55and I truly thoroughly enjoy the class
  503. 17:57now. So this was my example, but for you
  504. 17:59it can be anything else. And also
  505. 18:01something that I think that we we can
  506. 18:03all agree on is that sometimes we say
  507. 18:05yes to gatherings or to going out to a
  508. 18:08restaurant or to go into a celebration
  509. 18:10of any sort when other people are
  510. 18:12initiating that, but you have to pay for
  511. 18:15being there. Like maybe you have to put
  512. 18:17a certain sum of money to be there or if
  513. 18:20you want to go to or everybody are going
  514. 18:22to a restaurant, but you are in a little
  515. 18:24bit of a tighter month financially and
  516. 18:26you have to save money. And so for me,
  517. 18:29when my girls are saying like, "Hey, you
  518. 18:31want to go out?"
  519. 18:32I say, "You know what? Let's just keep
  520. 18:34it a little bit more casual. Let's meet
  521. 18:36at my place or in yours and have pizza
  522. 18:38together." And this is something that is
  523. 18:40very cost-effective and we're still
  524. 18:43having such a great time together. And
  525. 18:45we don't have to go out and have an
  526. 18:47expensive outing. I can buy us a whole
  527. 18:49bottle of wine to share between all of
  528. 18:52us that will cost very similarly to one
  529. 18:55glass of wine that you'll get in a
  530. 18:56restaurant. And we can still enjoy that
  531. 18:58wine and we can still enjoy cheese and
  532. 19:00we can still enjoy beautiful things or
  533. 19:02good pizza while spending time in a
  534. 19:05little bit more modest surroundings. So
  535. 19:08don't be afraid to redirect people to
  536. 19:11say like, "This is not exactly what I
  537. 19:14want or not exactly what I have in mind
  538. 19:16and I would rather that we'll do this or
  539. 19:18I would rather that this will happen.
  540. 19:20So, this is why I mean that I no longer
  541. 19:22pay for people pleasing. So, there are
  542. 19:24many other things that I no longer spend
  543. 19:26money on. I don't know if in the future
  544. 19:28I'll miss and want to spend money on
  545. 19:30some of them like on my nails or perfume
  546. 19:33maybe, I don't know. But right now I
  547. 19:35feel so content and so satisfied with
  548. 19:38the routines that I have that I don't
  549. 19:40feel the need to spend money on those
  550. 19:43things anymore. If you have something
  551. 19:45similar that you've kind of realized
  552. 19:46over time that you stopped paying for
  553. 19:48either naturally or either you choose to
  554. 19:51stop spending money on it, then please
  555. 19:54let me know. I'd love to hear those kind
  556. 19:55of things and maybe it will make me
  557. 19:57realize and remember in more things that
  558. 20:00I have stopped spending money on. For
  559. 20:01example, I can just on top of my head, I
  560. 20:04can tell you that I no longer buy
  561. 20:05candles. I have enough candles and to my
  562. 20:08surprise I don't go through them all
  563. 20:11that often as I thought I would and many
  564. 20:13years ago what you know what I used to
  565. 20:14do? I used to get Bath & Body Works
  566. 20:16candles. I no longer do that. I mean
  567. 20:18they take for me they take forever to go
  568. 20:21through because I kind of most of the
  569. 20:22time light them when I have people over.
  570. 20:25Nail polishes as I mentioned are another
  571. 20:27example. Stationery products I used to
  572. 20:29get so many notebooks and little
  573. 20:31notepads and greeting cards and washi
  574. 20:34tapes and stuff like that. I I don't
  575. 20:37spend money on that anymore not even on
  576. 20:39pens. If I get if I can get free pens
  577. 20:42for my job, I'll get them at my job. If
  578. 20:44I can get free notebooks at my job, I'll
  579. 20:46get them at my job. I don't want to be
  580. 20:48spending money on any of those things.
  581. 20:50So, these are just couple of examples
  582. 20:51that I thought that will be fun to
  583. 20:53mention.
  584. 20:54Also, I don't spend any more money on
  585. 20:56dog toys because he only uses this one.
  586. 20:59I have I have a basket full of dog toys.
  587. 21:02He doesn't use them.
  588. 21:04He'll go with this one which is filthy
  589. 21:06and I'm trying to take this away from
  590. 21:07him to wash it, but
  591. 21:08>> [snorts]
  592. 21:08>> he'll break the house. Anyway, hopefully
  593. 21:10you enjoyed this video and I'll see you
  594. 21:12in the next one. Bye for now.

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