Speaker 1: That's say, good morning now to the host of how
Speaker 1: to Money on KFI. It's our very own Joel Larscard Joel.
Speaker 2: Uh. Yes, you know how they.
Speaker 1: Say one person's trash is another person's treasure.
Speaker 2: Uh huh.
Speaker 1: Okay, So you say that this has been driven home
Speaker 1: for you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, so I have found this to be true
Speaker 2: in my life of different periods in the past. But
Speaker 2: this article in Indie Week caught my attention, and this
Speaker 2: the author said, Hey, you know what I did. I
Speaker 2: went around to you know, a bunch of college college
Speaker 2: students are graduating right now, and she went to her
Speaker 2: local university and found the kind of things being just
Speaker 2: tossed aside, thrown away. We're quite nice that these college
Speaker 2: students were saying, I got to get out of here,
Speaker 2: got my degree, and they just left a bunch of
Speaker 2: stuff in the dumpster around the dumpster on the curb.
Speaker 2: And so she was able to score almost seven thousand
Speaker 2: dollars worth of free goods because yeah, people are piecing
Speaker 2: and they're getting rid of their stuff. And I've just
Speaker 2: found this to be true in my own life too,
Speaker 2: that sometimes people are done with something. My wife's got
Speaker 2: rid of some perfectly nice tennis shoes the other day.
Speaker 2: She was like, they're just that they don't fit me
Speaker 2: right anymore, and so someone's totally going to score if
Speaker 2: we give those to good will, which we probably will.
Speaker 2: So I think it's just just a good reminder to say,
Speaker 2: one person's trash is another person's treasure, and if you're
Speaker 2: the thoughtful kind of person who's on the lookout, you
Speaker 2: might be able to score a deal and score something
Speaker 2: essentially free.
Speaker 1: I think gently used as a lovely thing. Yeah, one
Speaker 1: of my best friends and I have the same sized shoe.
Speaker 1: Most of most of my best friends don't have the
Speaker 1: same size shoe, but we swap shoes back and forth
Speaker 1: all the time. It's like, I don't want to wear
Speaker 1: these anymore. Will don't look at me that way. They're
Speaker 1: still clean all right anyway, So yes, I agree with you.
Speaker 1: Well let's move on, because you will still give me
Speaker 1: the stink eye.
Speaker 2: I'm just going to say I've had friends legit start
Speaker 2: businesses from this where they're like, wait, they see like
Speaker 2: an inefficiency where the nice stuff gets donated to a
Speaker 2: certain place, or they're grad at like curb pickups and
Speaker 2: stuff like that. I'm just saying keep your eyes open,
Speaker 2: keep your mind open to the possibility that somebody else
Speaker 2: a's this card might be something that you can pull
Speaker 2: into your life and use.
Speaker 1: Well, look at like the real real They've made a
Speaker 1: fortune off of this one.
Speaker 2: Hundred percent, and there's like all sorts of Peloton just
Speaker 2: launched a used store, right, so they're they're trying to
Speaker 2: recycle goods for their customers. The truth is, though, in
Speaker 2: so many instances, you're going to do better by cutting
Speaker 2: out the middle van, going straight to Facebook marketplace and
Speaker 2: buying that used Peloton yourself directly from somebody who doesn't
Speaker 2: want it anymore, instead of paying Peloton twice as much
Speaker 2: for the privilege of buying the use Peloton from them.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. Okay, So Campbell's came out with a study saying
Speaker 1: that more people are eating at home, and they're home,
Speaker 1: their soup sales are up and that kind of stuff
Speaker 1: because people are worried about the economy. But you're saying
Speaker 1: that your numbers don't jive with that.
Speaker 2: Well, no, I'm not saying my numbers don't drive with that.
Speaker 2: I'm saying it's one small little data point, and so
Speaker 2: it's interest saying how that Campbell's coming out and saying, hey,
Speaker 2: people are buying more not just of their can soups,
Speaker 2: but of like pasta sauce and crackers and stuff like
Speaker 2: that too. They're basically saying definitively, people are cooking at
Speaker 2: home more. And that's kind of sort of true. Maybe
Speaker 2: right now a small trend back towards cooking at home,
Speaker 2: but when you look at the overall trend over the
Speaker 2: past decade, it's been a significant trend of people eating
Speaker 2: out more than they cook at home. That's really never
Speaker 2: been the case until really recent history. And when you
Speaker 2: look at the price discrepancy of cooking at home versus
Speaker 2: eating out, it's massive. We're talking average meal in of
Speaker 2: four dollars per person average eating. The average cost of
Speaker 2: eating out is seventeen dollars per person per meal. So
Speaker 2: if you're taking a family five out to eat, you're
Speaker 2: dropping a hundred bucks. If you're eating in as a family,
Speaker 2: you're talking about twenty bucks. And that adds up significantly.
Speaker 2: And so we've seen a greater discrepancy in the cost
Speaker 2: of eating out and cook me at home, and so, yeah,
Speaker 2: growth we talk about how expensive groceries are, but the
Speaker 2: truth is it's so much cheaper to buy the groceries
Speaker 2: and to cook at home. It's important to have a
Speaker 2: plan to actually use this up that you buy, and
Speaker 2: to not just say on a whim, now we're gonna
Speaker 2: go out to eat tonight, because and I get that
Speaker 2: I've fallen. I have fallen into that cycle at times
Speaker 2: in the past where you just don't feel like it
Speaker 2: that night. That's why it's so important a meal plan
Speaker 2: ahead of time and maybe even bash cooked on the weekend.
Speaker 2: That can help a lot of people actually stick to
Speaker 2: the plan of eating at home instead of eating out,
Speaker 2: because that can be such a backbreaking cost.
Speaker 1: You're making me feel bad. I did that yesterday. I
Speaker 1: was like, I don't feel like cooking. I'm going to
Speaker 1: the to my little ginger grass in my neighborhood and
Speaker 1: it was lovely and I have leftovers, so I got
Speaker 1: two meals in one.
Speaker 2: There you go, two meals in one. And I don't
Speaker 2: want to guilt people into saying like you can't eat out,
Speaker 2: you shut pan and should like just budget for it
Speaker 2: and make sure you're not doing it like thoughtlessly. And
Speaker 2: another thing that helps me with that is just having
Speaker 2: a few different frozen foods that we know are reason
Speaker 2: healthy and then we could pop in in a pinch.
Speaker 2: So like when we weren't planning on eating out, we
Speaker 2: don't eat out. We kind of keep the eating at
Speaker 2: home and eating out budget impact that way.
Speaker 1: Here's my recommendation, and Bill Handle would be happy about
Speaker 1: this because it's from Costco. It's the salmon burgers. They're
Speaker 1: frozen and they make a lovely little meal. You can
Speaker 1: put them on a burger, just eat them as a
Speaker 1: patty and they're kind of last second if you forget
Speaker 1: and you want to eat healthy still and the.
Speaker 2: Creator Josie Costco both do a great job with like frozen,
Speaker 2: pre made meal. So I think, you know, people have
Speaker 2: a lot of options for that, but definitely look towards
Speaker 2: some of those some of those frozen options that can
Speaker 2: be healthy and tasty.
Speaker 1: Okay, So like everything that Joel tells us, we just
Speaker 1: need to plan for it, make sure that we've got
Speaker 1: a plan so we don't overspend, and then go and
Speaker 1: enjoy a good meal. Joel Larsguard, host of how to
Speaker 1: Money on KFI every Sunday from noon to two. You
Speaker 1: can also follow him at how to Money. Joel. Thank
Speaker 1: you Joel Larsgard. Thanks Amy, all right, we'll talk to
Speaker 1: you next week.