10 Things We Have Cut From our Budget

Published: Dec. 25, 2018, 8 p.m.

b'ARVE Error: Mode: lazyload not available (ARVE Pro not active?), switching to normal mode\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n{"@context":"http:\\\\/\\\\/schema.org\\\\/","@id":"https:\\\\/\\\\/onproperty.com.au\\\\/10-things-we-have-cut-from-our-budget\\\\/#arve-youtube-ex5dosrfjn4659a0b2cabe0e645689868","type":"VideoObject","embedURL":"https:\\\\/\\\\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\\\\/embed\\\\/eX5DoSRFjN4?feature=oembed&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&autohide=1&playsinline=0&autoplay=0"}\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nFor the last couple of years we haven\'t been super diligent on not spending money. Now we are focusing on saving money and here\'s 10 things we are cutting from our budgets.\\n\\n0:00 - Our mindset about spending less\\n2:12 - #1: Groceries\\n3:27 - #2: Phone plans\\n5:42 - #3: Smashed Avocado\\n7:40 - #4: Insurance\\n9:24- #5: Alcohol\\n10:40 - #6: Power Bills (by Installing Solar Panels)\\n12:23 - #7: Daily Coffee\'s + Energy Drinks\\n14:02 - #8: Mortgage Interest\\n16:26 - #9: Rent Savings\\n17:15 - #10: Tax Savings\\n\\nBONUSES\\n19:29 - #11: Living a Minimalist Life\\n20:017 - #12: Not Eating Meat\\n\\nRecommended Videos\\nHow We Feel About Credit Cards - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnM7YvcG7oE\\nTranscription:\\nFor the last couple of years, myself and Ben have kind of not really been super diligent on not spending money. We\'ve been spraying Kashmir, let\'s face it, we just sold a couch the other day and my son, grandson, he gets the money and he\'s just like. It was hilarious. But yeah, we haven\'t been super diligent on lowering the expenses in our life. We\'ve been mainly focused on growing our income, which were both definitely done, but now we\'re at a point where it\'s come time to focus again on saving money in our lives, both in our personal lives and in our business. And so today we want to talk about 10 things that we\'ve cut from our budget. I\'ll do five Ben, we\'ll do five as well and hopefully you guys can get some help. Some tips out of this as well. Yeah, for sure. Because there\'s been some money that, you know, I didn\'t even realize I was spending probably like you guys right now and you know, hopefully this video will let a lot of cleanup those costs.\\n\\nYep. So it is, it does feel really liberating to really start to focus on this and work out how can I still live a really good life, but how can I spend less money at the same time? So this isn\'t about living off baked beans for the next three years, hating your life, driving your health into the ground because you\'re not eating properly or living in a complete dump. This is about areas of your life that you can cut expenses, but you can still live a really happy life and a really fulfilling life and have some of those little luxuries as well. The thought of taking something away that\'s not the reason why I\'ve been cutting costs in my life. Like it\'s just been because I just like saving money and I don\'t like overspending on things where I can say to hate the money.\\n\\nSo the things that I\'ve cut haven\'t been for a particular raising it, it\'s more just because I enjoy doing that as a, as something to do. So it\'s less about just, I don\'t know, it\'s less about just living super frugally, but it\'s more about, yeah, saving that extra money that you can then use to invest that you can then use to achieve financial freedom faster. Definitely. So this might be to save a deposit. This might be to buy a property or this might be to pay off debt if you\'ve got those foundational properties to pay them off faster. Absolutely. So what\'s your number one? Okay, so number one is groceries. Now I\'ve got two kids who are dairy and gluten intolerant and so naturally a lot of the groceries that we were buying can get quite expensive when you\'re looking at those sorts of dietary requirements.\\n\\nBut there were a lot of stuff in the groceries that were just. We didn\'t need to spend as much on even things like milk because we drink soy and almond milk. Buying that from Audi. Instead of buying that from Woolworth, you\'re paying a dollar 80 instead of $3 and Addi...'