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Maximalist Life
This is Maximalist Life, with Brianna Gamble and Tamika Stringfellow. This unfiltered podcast is your permission slip to chase after everything you damn well desire.
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Maximalist Life
Ep 40 - Bougie on a Budget
Episode Summary:
We’re spilling all our secrets on how to look expensive without maxing out your credit card — our fave tips for living that luxe life on a champagne budget.
💅 Press-on nails that look salon fresh for two weeks — $12–15 and zero small talk with the nail tech.
🥂 Using gorgeous glassware for everyday drinks — yes, even water — because why not feel fancy 24/7?
💡 DIY upgrades like LED lighting and spray-painted furniture that scream designer without the price tag.
🛋 Scrolling Facebook Marketplace for hidden gems that are basically brand new but 80% off.
👗 Clothing rental services (Nuuly is our fave) for designer outfits without the commitment.
👜 Splurging strategically on leather bags, quality shoes, and great outerwear — and saving on those trendy “here today, gone tomorrow” pieces.
🍽 Plating your takeout on nice dishes so it feels like date night at home.
🧠 Tapping into the psychology of feeling bougie without draining your bank account.
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Welcome to maximalist life. I'm your host, brianna, and I'm Tamika, and today we are talking how to be bougie on a budget.
Speaker 2:Yeah, cuz we're not rich bitches yet Nope, not yet, just medium On our way. Yeah, hopefully, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yep, yep, ooh. But first of all, well, like when we start episodes, when we have like a silly question, okay, well, okay, I especially like when it's like if you were something yeah, if you were a bug, what would you be? Oh no, not a bug. Would you be a ladybug?
Speaker 2:oh, that's hella cute. That's hella cute. I'd be like the primantis, primantis primantis, primantis.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know they like eat, the husbands like after they have sex or something scary damn, I didn't know that yeah I think something like that yeah, you're scary as fuck. Yeah, I don't want to be a spider. I actually don't want to be a spider. I actually don't want to be a bug. I would probably be a slug. A slug, I'll be a caterpillar. Then they turn into butterflies and they get to take a nap for a long time and they turn into something beautiful.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's great. Yeah, I love those. Yeah, yeah, well, my question I really wanted to know if you were a cocktail, a cock, a cocktail, what would you be when I uh, write cocktail.
Speaker 2:I want to do cock in all caps so that they say cock naturally yeah fun, uh-huh, um, which I had to write a couple times because of our dinner party and I wanted to put on the little invites to your family. Yeah, cocktail, oh good yeah, yeah, um what kind of cocktail, would you be?
Speaker 1:I wish I had a cocktail right now. I don't have a drink today.
Speaker 2:I know you messed up I know, I know fucked it up yeah, you changed up your routine so you kind of don't really know what to do. Yet I was a little off, yeah, yeah, um, you know, I don't know what cocktail I think that I think I'm probably like one of those like crazy ones like sex on the beach or something, yeah, Because it's like everything's in there, uh-huh, and it's going to get you fucked up. You're a.
Speaker 1:Long Island.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, one of those. But I just want to be like a Memo, like you can have them early, you're fun, like you know mimosas all day, kind of thing. So like that's the one I would want to be. But yeah, I'm probably more of like a Long Island, a little bit of this, a little bit of that, no measurements, you're just kind of throwing it in.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I can see that it's just like crazy Might hurt your belly.
Speaker 2:you're just kind of throwing it in and just like crazy might hurt your belly. You might not wake up tomorrow yeah, I can see that yeah, that's probably me what about you?
Speaker 1:I was kind of struggling on this one. I I feel like well, you don't really drink cocktails, I don't drink. Well, I usually only drink palomas that's like my go-to, that's's it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I love me a good Paloma. I love.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm. Yeah, I wish, okay. So I wish I was like a Paloma or like a spritz, Like something just like so light and like refreshing.
Speaker 2:It feels like sexy Summery Fun. Yeah, just carefree. Yeah, no, you're not, but that's not me. You got to be something heavy Like.
Speaker 1:I'm like an espresso martini. Okay Too, okay yeah, because I feel like I'm like bold.
Speaker 2:A little dramatic Because there's coffee in it. Mm-hmm, yeah, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:But yeah, and I'll just. I mean, I don't know, though, because those ones like, but also espresso martinis like. They fucking keep you up all night.
Speaker 2:And that's not me. What's your like? Worst drink where you like, drank it too much?
Speaker 1:when you were younger and then now you're just like you'll be, like I'll throw up if I have that Anything with vodka.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we used to do these lemon drops or like.
Speaker 1:Cosmo shots and.
Speaker 2:I drank so many of those before and I'm like lemon drop'm like lemon drop shots, lemon drop shots, and I swear to god I'll fucking throw up if I have any.
Speaker 1:Ew.
Speaker 2:Or like fireball Fuck that Ew.
Speaker 1:I'll die. Yeah, I do love me a good pickleback. That's my favorite. I'll fucking come.
Speaker 2:I just love those. Those are literally some Jameson, and with a pickleback I will. That's it for me. I just love those. Those are literally some Jameson, with a pickle back I will.
Speaker 1:That's it. I'm having that today, you know, and I'm surprised that I like that. It doesn't seem like something I would like. You like pickles though? Yeah, I love pickles.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know it's such a weird thing. It's either people love them or they hate pickles. There's not a lot of people that say, yeah, like I mean they're fine, like I get them on my sandwich sometimes and not sometimes. It's always like ew, they're disgusting, don't even put them next to me, or like I love them.
Speaker 1:Or like you, just, you just take a whole pickle in your hand and just be like chewing it. Yeah, you're just like chomping on it. You saw my little pickle zipper like bag that.
Speaker 2:I had I put on my thing. I saw it and I was like, oh my god, this little pickle bag, it's so cute, that's hella cute. Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love pickles. This is so random.
Speaker 2:Okay, what I just?
Speaker 1:made me think of it, because we're talking about pickles, but there's a. Have you done like the pickle and the Christmas tree? No, is it okay? So it's a thing, okay, so I don't know. Now I'm going to say this and people are going to be like no, it isn't. I don't know if it's a German tradition, because my ex-husband is German. His mom's literally like from Germany.
Speaker 1:Okay, and it was like a tradition they always would do at Christmas and it's like a little pickle and sometimes it's like it's not a real pickle. I mean people used to finds it gets a prize or what. That is how we did it, but I don't know if that's how you're supposed to do it, do you like cucumbers. I love you. Okay, I was, I mean, when I was a kid, that was just like that was a cucumber.
Speaker 2:You know what I'll have? Cucumbers ranch dip. Oh that you put in sour cream, just fucking dip it, yeah, yeah, I just love it. What a fatty I am. I'll just fucking eat that shit all day.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's so good yeah it's like refreshing it is, and it's like a little crunch. Yeah, oh god, it's so good. I love pickles and cucumbers.
Speaker 2:Let's go have that for lunch just pickles and cucumber, nothing else yeah, I mean you probably could, yeah, yeah, cucumbers gross oh god, yeah, I mean so.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I feel like that's the kind of stuff that you eat when you're poor too, like we would just be.
Speaker 2:I mean, okay, wait which cucumbers do you buy? Do you buy the english cucumbers or the regular regular. Oh, I buy english cucumbers every time you won't catch you won't catch a regular cucumber at my house. Oh my, I'll buy two english cucumbers.
Speaker 1:Wow, I love to just stock up on them.
Speaker 2:The cucumbers are disgusting when they get mushy, though.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I don't like their skin at all. Oh me, neither, I'll throw up.
Speaker 2:Well, because some Okay. So I have had it where there is skin and it tasted fine, but you know, most of the time it just tastes waxy. Yeah, it's like rubber.
Speaker 1:Yeah, get out of here.
Speaker 2:That's why I like the English cucumbers too, because it never tastes like that. That's what's better.
Speaker 1:Hmm, yeah, my favorite kind of pickle are the gherkin pickles. They're like the baby ones that you put on charcuterie and they're like sweet. Oh, me too.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, because I like the butter chip ones. Oh yeah, oh Better. That's just like a bunch of corn syrup or something inside.
Speaker 1:You're just fucking eating it Any way. We can make this unhealthy. That's what we want. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's yeah Delicious.
Speaker 2:I don't know if I like a spicy pickle.
Speaker 1:Well, you don't really like spicy anyway.
Speaker 2:But I like hot Cheetos and I don't really like spicy either. Like I enjoy the spicy flavor, I don't enjoy what it does to my body, Right?
Speaker 1:Like the hurting of the mouth or my tummy or anything like that, but I like the flavor of spice, like if I could just have that without all the reaction I would be fine, not me. Oh, your tongue's going, yeah, it's like dying and I'm like it's not that fun, yeah, yeah, I like to have fun when I'm eating. Do you ever, ever have the pickles at disneyland? No, actually I never did.
Speaker 2:Oh, people say they're delicious, really yeah, I just want a big old butter chip pickle, Because you know they only come little. If you get the pickle one, you're just sucking on it like a cock.
Speaker 1:I got a pickle, yeah, I got a pickle. I got a pickle. Hey, hey, hey.
Speaker 2:All right, I guess we're on pickle talk, All right, Okay, wait, yeah, I'm pickle talk. I did see this girl on TikTok and she went to one of those, like you know, they have, like the garlic festivals. Oh yeah, she went to a pickle one and she ate hella pickle shit.
Speaker 2:And she got home and she had full-blown allergic reaction to having too much pickle and her whole fucking face blew up. And she never was allergic to pickles before, she loved them, but she never had that many. And then she just fucking, she had to go to the hospital, uh-uh, for allergic reactions to her pickles. That sucks, that's so sad.
Speaker 1:Oh no, oh God, yeah, damn, and then anytime she goes to eat a pickle, she's going to have PTSD.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you got to take antihistamine. Great, yeah, perfect. Well, I hope you guys like pickles too, because that's what this episode is about Damn, yeah, a lot of pickle talk.
Speaker 1:Oh boy, yeah. So I mean bougie on a budget. Yeah, I like that. I like bougie on a budget because I feel like of course everyone likes nice things and you like to, you know, feel kind of fancy.
Speaker 2:But sometimes you don't really have the money for it, yeah, and it's kind of like whatever makes you feel good is fine, like people don't need to know, like I always thought too. Like if people have fake purses or they shop at dh gate or wherever they get it from, I'm like who cares? Who cares? I don't give a fuck. If your dior isn't really a dior, like that's fine, do whatever you want like if it makes you feel good and and all that.
Speaker 2:Who cares like? So that specific thing when I think of bougie, bougie on a budget, I think of that. Sometimes I kept people having like fake things, like how about the laboo booth like craze right now? I can't. First of all, I just got my laboo back, I sent it to the nail salon and it has nails on it. I cannot believe that she has long bougie-ass nails with jewels and gems and everything what the hell she looks crazy.
Speaker 1:I fucking love her.
Speaker 2:I cannot, I refuse to allow myself to get into this and you're going to put it on your purse and you're going to be like, oh my God, it's so cute.
Speaker 1:You know I thought like I even thought about.
Speaker 2:I was like we should get little team ones and they have like little pink door, hats and stuff, and then I was like don't, don't start, Don't fucking start with that Well, even my idea was for a content day was like, do a La Boo Boo boudoir session. Oh yeah, yeah, true, I mean the the here's the thing. Yeah, it's just a silly thing. But getting creative, like, like, making it their own is just so fucking cute to me. Like they're tattooing them and they're like making outfits for them and they're, you know, putting grills on them and they have little babies, yeah, the baby laboomers, or like they're putting lashes on them or whatever. I've seen the other one the other day. I see one where they were giving them bbls. That's crazy. They're cutting them open and giving them bbls. That's crazy. They're cutting them open and giving them bbls. Or I even saw one the other day they just put more stuffing in its ass.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they cut it right, they slid it right down the back.
Speaker 2:And then they yeah, and they put a little bit and they sewed it, and then they showed a picture of like the profile before and after oh my god and then I've seen people that do clip piercings for their lefufu. That's so far.
Speaker 1:I was like oh my God, that is going so far, inappropriate.
Speaker 2:And people just have a hell of them. It's hella cute, it's like something so stupid I mean, the world sucks a lot and it's like something so lighthearted, so silly, just to have. And you're just like, eh, whatever, and I even like getting okay. So, for example, I call them lafufus, some people call them la babies, like the fake ones. You know well the guys they shouldn't. Over here around the corner they got a bunch, right, I know they're fake because you know how you know they're fake. If they're cheaper than the, than when you buy them at the actual store, like the real pop mart, they can't be real, right?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I bought one and they I just, it was a little one, you know, because they don't really sell like these tiny ones, you know, and so I got it for Rihanna and she just loved it and she just carries her little LeFouFou and she had. I bought her a real LeFouFou too, and it's funny, though. The kids wear them, they put them, they put them on their belt hoops oh my god, that's cute, like carrying around their little baby. You know that's pretty, um, but yeah, whatever, if you want a lefufu, it's funny the little lefufus when they like um come fake and people's reactions to them, because some of them have like these huge foreheads, oh, like they're huge or like so they're just like fucked up in some way and people are always laughing and stuff and it's just so like stupid, but fun, funny, yeah that's fun.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I like that how you're saying just getting so creative with it and just like it's just for fun people are doing like lip.
Speaker 2:They're pretending they're doing like lip filler. So then they like draw them on and it's got these big old lip like I mean.
Speaker 1:It's unbelievable the things that people are doing.
Speaker 2:It's crazy, crazy and I'm just like, yeah, it's a little fun thing we all can just like talk about and we see each other and we're like oh, it's cute, or whatever.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah. So if you have a little lafufu, or a lababy, whatever you call it.
Speaker 2:That's fine. Who cares? Who cares? Yeah, yeah. Then you feel like on the crowd too, what does it matter? Yeah, and if people are going oh my god, you're a little foo-foo, go fuck yourselves what?
Speaker 1:yeah, don't talk to those people. Yeah, I can't believe that my, uh, my favorite way to be bougie on a budget is my press on nails.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I love my press on nails because, let me tell you, some people get them to me.
Speaker 1:I get some for a dollar on sheen yeah, I didn't know that they were on there, so she told me yeah because I was buying. So I mean, my favorite brand of press on nails is glamnetic, and they have so many different colors and I like them online or they're in store they're at ulta, okay, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I mean, I don't know if they're any, I'm sure they're somewhere else, like target or something. Yeah, I mean, they have them at Ulta for sure, but then you could order them even on Amazon, okay, yeah. And I wanna say they're like, depending on which ones you get, they're between like 12 to like $15 or something a set. And then how long does it last, you?
Speaker 2:I mean mine will last me two full weeks. That's pretty good, I think to me is about a week. But she likes to switch it out and then sometimes I mean she gets compliments all the time with her nails, like people say it all the time like, oh my god, I love your nails, blah, blah, um. And yeah, I mean maybe if I didn't, I don't know, I, I you, I couldn't you you too rough with your nails, I'm rough with my nails. Uh, I mean not purposely rough, but yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't know what it is that I just feel like I don't know. I am kind of rough and I just can't be bothered if, like it comes off, it's so annoying.
Speaker 1:It's really annoying.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I would literally want to die. But also if it's just quick and you just put it back on who gives a shit like I would be able to like quickly.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like, okay, I will say the thing that sucks is like if it comes off, like if you just go and like because I used to just like try and glue it right back on. No, it'll come right back off. Yeah, you have to like like file off the glue and then do it again so it's like when I put them on though, I mean when it lasts me two weeks, it's because I'll take some time. I mean it takes me like 30 minutes.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It's not like yeah, a hell of a long, yeah, it's still shorter than a nail appointment. Yeah, and my nail appointments are two hours. Fuck, yeah, yeah, I want to die and I just take the time and get it and do it right and find my nails, did it Whatever. And I did order. I ordered a bunch on Shein. I haven't tried them yet, but I might just use my Glamnetic glue with them and see yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:So yeah, I mean, if I didn't Get my nails done, I would definitely like if I didn't have a girl.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I wanted to have like crazy nails like I do. I would probably do that, and I mean, I feel like I kind of already know how to do nails because I guess technically I can do nails, yeah, so I feel like it would be so easy for me it would be easy. Yeah, pretty quick.
Speaker 1:I mean, the reason I started doing them too is because you know I'm like allergic to acrylic nails. Which fucking sucks.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So then, like I feel like I can't really do cute ones, I only could do like the dip, which is fine, but I just don't like it as much. And then I feel like I only could do boring stuff, and then I don't want to pay extra to do all the designs and whatever, and so then it's just so much cheaper.
Speaker 2:And I think during COVID, a lot of people started doing their own nails and like people started doing like their own gel X and people got really good at like doing their own nails and like doing all these designs and you know and learning all that. And so now people do just do like full nails by themselves. And I think that's what I would do too if it was me and I was going into it, like, oh okay, I'm gonna start doing like a press-ons. I would do too, if it was me and I was going into it, like, oh okay, I'm going to start doing like a press ons, I would probably because I'm crazy like start designing my own nails like painting them, putting the jewels on gems, all that kind of stuff, and then just having like my own Right, and then I would just put them on myself.
Speaker 2:But that way I wouldn't have to like I of doing like Gel-X, like on my own hands and stuff. I wouldn't do that I just design all these press-on nails and then just put them on my fingers, yeah, yeah, and I think that looks cool and people can't tell. And the thing with press-on nails you can switch them out all the time if you want for different events, like you know, within the week if you wanted to.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and they're pretty easy to take off, but so I don't know I really like it. Um one thing that I saw I've seen lately um, I was just talking to my lash tech about this. Um, so you know, people always have done like people do the lash extensions, yes, and then people do, uh, the cluster lashes right where it goes underneath. And then you know, and it's just like maybe like three lashes put together and they put them on underneath and then they stay for like a week and then you know they redo it.
Speaker 2:Well, on TikTok I've seen people do there are cluster lash techs, what so? People are going in just like extensions and doing cluster lashes, Hmm, and they're saying it lasts two weeks and they're saying they pay $50. Interesting, which isn't. I don't feel like $50 is that much cheaper than individual, Than lash extensions, yeah, than doing lash extensions. It's not that much cheaper. Yeah, I guess it depends how. Like then doing lash extend it's not that much cheaper, yeah, I guess it depends. Like for your fills, like $50 really isn't to me, Like you know, for another $50 or $40 or $30. I mean, I know some people charge $70 for their fills.
Speaker 2:You know so it's like that's not that much cheaper and but so the lash texts are making a lot of money. She was talking about it specifically, and it was the lash techs are making a lot of money.
Speaker 2:She was talking about it specifically and it was the last check that posted it she was like, um, every appointment's 30 minutes, she makes 50, and then maybe tip, maybe not, and then they come in every two weeks. And then on top of that she sells the glue. And then like you're looking at this tiktok, so then you might buy the glue because you're just going to try this at home. Because she's saying like, oh, her lash retention is two to three weeks, and so then you're like, oh, I could do this at home. So now she's making money off the glue. And then also like good business model, but also like you just are there someone just putting like six lashes on you and you paid fifty dollars for that? No, fuck, that that's crazy to me.
Speaker 2:I couldn't believe it I asked my lash girl and she was like, yeah, it's kind of like a newer thing where these women are doing this, and I'm like damn. But I did notice that maybe a lot of those because some people were like, oh, do you have to have a license to do this? And in a lot of the comments they were like depends on the state. So like yeah, I guess maybe in some places you don't even have to have your cosmo or stuff, and then you're just doing that you're just putting glue near people's eyes, perfect.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't think I'm gonna do that.
Speaker 2:I think I'm gonna stick with my lash lady but I can see like that's like bougie on a budget, you're doing your cluster lashes and yeah for I mean the cluster lashes at home for sure.
Speaker 2:I mean, you could just change those out every week, have a fresh, you know look every week paying for extensions yeah, I mean, I've thought about that, like if, whenever I like stop doing lashes or whatever, I would go the cluster lashes, I think, just to have them on there, and then I pay practically nothing. I'll never stop. It's the appointment time for me, like it's just having it and being there for an hour with your eyes closed with your eyes doing anything at least in my nail appointment I could do stuff. I've taken meetings, blah blah, but it's the eyes closed thing that kills me yeah, it fucking sucks.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, um. So yeah, for I don't know for me like doing stuff okay. So like we're talking bougie on a budget, like okay, it could mean like you're getting kind of like you said knock off stuff or whatever, but also it could just be doing things to like make you feel bougie, yeah. And so like I like to do stuff, like I think I had mentioned it maybe on one of our earlier episodes, but like I always put regular drinks in like fancy cups or I'll just drink stuff out of like wine glasses or like little cocktail glasses.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:When it's just fucking sparkling water or something.
Speaker 2:It just makes you feel different, Like ooh yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. And a lot of times too, like even if I like I'll door dash food to my house and stuff. I just feel so much better. I take all the food out, I put it on a plate and then I dump my drink in like a glass. So it's just like it feels more like it's not like I'm just eating fast food or whatever, or whatever I had ordered.
Speaker 2:you know like tricking yourself yeah, I'm sure you might like. Oh, look at my fancy dinner.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I love to do that. Yeah, that's good. That's how I like to do, bougie, uh-huh, my house prepared meals instead of uh door dashing yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, you know, and I have talked about my hella fresh stuff before and even that because you know I'm not a cook and I don't really enjoy like looking up recipes and like or like testing out recipes.
Speaker 1:I'm like I don't, I don't want to do all that yeah and so having it just delivered to my door where it's like here's the recipe, everything's already measured, all you gotta do is fucking follow the directions and then, but then I feel like, oh look, I'm cooking this like little fancy meal but, really like I didn't do anything, right. Yeah, yeah, that's kind of nice.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah those are kind of like things where it's like just makes your life feel like oh.
Speaker 1:I have a like. It gives you a little like level up a little upgrade.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I like that yeah, and I like to do it with. The other thing I have is like in my kitchen, like living room area, I have like all the lights, you know those like little LED strip lights that you can put and people put them behind their TVs and whatever. I just have them on my cabinets and stuff in the kitchen and then I like it because I like to keep my lights pretty low most of the time. I hate overhead lights. It just like gives me a headache and so then I have those. It's kind of like glowy, yeah, and then there's always like like a little light on in the kitchen at all times and I feel like it seems fancier, yeah, but really they're just from amazon oh yeah, they're so fucking cheap yeah, yeah, yeah, super easy, and I mean I want to put them.
Speaker 2:You know, people put them everywhere, like I said, yeah, I've seen that they like line the bottom of their cap, the bottom of the cabinets, the bottom. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:I want to do that, but I haven't done that yet. Yeah, but yeah, they're so cheap.
Speaker 2:There's a little strip lights yeah, they're probably like 12 dollars. You literally just have like sticky on the back.
Speaker 1:You just pull it off and then just stick it wherever you want. It's so.
Speaker 2:I love it yeah yeah, it just looks fancy but it's really not. I know I see so many videos, like on tiktok, where like, oh, it shows like this fancy thing, but they're like, okay, you just get this from amazon. Like, uh, the drapes that like open up and close, like automatic ones, where you're like, oh god, I have to get the blinds guy out here to install them. It's going to be thousands of dollars, but really you could just order them on amazon and then just have your little remote and just like opens and closes, and it's amazing, that's fucking.
Speaker 1:I need that. Yeah, me too.
Speaker 2:I want that in my room, but I just, I don't know, I don't have time for that oh, you know, I just thought of, uh.
Speaker 1:So when I moved into my new house I was trying to do my decor and whatever and I had worked with Catherine, you know, a designer. So she was like and I had done kind of a DIY thing with her that she does where it's like. She comes in she like helps you figure out your space and then she makes, like gives you links for all the stuff that you want, and but then you just buy the stuff and put it together yourself or whatever. So I had done that with her and one of the things I really wanted was this like it was kind of like a maroon or like it was more more like a little more brown than maroon, but anyway like a coffee table and it was kind of funky and she had found one I want to say it was like $400 or something, which I was like meh, and then I mean $400 isn't a lot, but I still was like you know.
Speaker 2:I'm just trying to get everything cheap, like limit, like when you know they're like budgeting stuff like that because I was trying to get hell of shit for this house, right.
Speaker 1:I was like come on, and then it was sold out, sold. I kept like trying to order, it kept being sold out and then it was like on back order for like six months or something ridiculous. I'm like are you kidding? So I was trying to look and find other ones and I only found another similar one. It was like $1,200 and I was like, okay, what if I did so? Then I just went on Amazon and I just looked for a similar shaped table. It's like a abstract shaped table or whatever and it only comes in white, but it was only like a hundred and twenty dollars, so I just got that. And then I went and got some like maroon and brown spray paint at Ace Hardware and spray painted it. Perfect, and it was so cheap and I fucking love that table.
Speaker 2:Yeah, love it, and people always comment on it.
Speaker 1:They're always like oh my God, this is so cute. I'm like thanks, I just spray painted it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it's like it looks like the $1,200 table, but like I'm not spending that, I know I'm on a coffee table Furniture is so expensive and furniture to me is like shoes, where, like, it's just wear and tear. Yeah, and you get tired of it and you wanna swap it out.
Speaker 2:It's hard for me to spend money, also because for us, like it needs to be like useful, yes, like I would love just this beautiful couch in my house and all this stuff and small little like open. But I'm like things that that would never function well in our house, and so I have to have like a whole different thing and I'm just like, yeah, I hate it, but it is what works so well for us and that's.
Speaker 2:It's just like sucks fuck yeah, it does I know I just like, love it and I want to buy like nice stuff, but it's just like it's not worth it for me. I know, yeah, I know, yeah, I got.
Speaker 1:Honestly, I got most of my stuff on amazon and a lot of the stuff for the studio I get on amazon and people are always like oh my god, that's so cute.
Speaker 2:I know literally on amazon. They always ask us and I'm like it's on Amazon for less than $100. Just buy it, it's not a big deal.
Speaker 1:You have to like Google or look on Amazon for like specific things, mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like going to Ross. You've got to kind of search and like compare.
Speaker 1:And like it's, like you're digging through shit yeah it's like you're thrift store box.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Just find all your dupes, and then you'll find some shit in there, yeah, yeah, or you just have to DIY it, yeah, and then like, with stuff like that, I mean you could go on the Facebook market, yes, yeah, I buy hella shit from.
Speaker 1:Facebook market. You do, you get some good stuff yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean, that's where find anything anywhere. And even I had another friend she asked me about. She's like where can I get these little boobas legit? And I have one girl that I buy it from. Oh, yeah, yeah, andrew's like you're paying all that bitch's bills. Yep, buying all her.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly, I go, that's fine, I don't care I know that they're real from her and I want them to look a certain way, so let me just get them from her. Okay, just leave me alone, because what I'm not doing is standing in line for from 10 pm no to the next morning at 5 am. I'm not fucking doing. That that's crazy. That's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1:No, ever I would never do that. Yeah, fuck that for anything.
Speaker 2:I wouldn't do that for anything, nothing I'm trying to think what I ever, what things that that I've stood in line for. We stood in line for Britney Spears one time Hell or early in the morning. Okay, worth it. That's really it. I mean I used to do the shopping thing when it was open yeah, when it used to open up at 5 am, not when it was at midnight.
Speaker 1:Yeah, fuck off, it's still Thanksgiving. Yeah, I used to do it too. Macy's would open like 5 am, not when it was like at midnight, like like 15 years ago, thanksgiving.
Speaker 2:Yeah, um, yeah, I used to open at 5 am, like macy's would open at 5 am, and so I would do that, but you know what?
Speaker 1:I never did it, because there was anything I actually wanted to buy for fun. I was like I just, I everyone's out here at four to five in the morning. Yeah, let's go. We're always like drinking hot chocolate. Yeah, we're so excited.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I just I did the midnight thing, I think, one time, where I went out with joellen she loves that and then I was like I don't need anything. The thing is, I end up buying more stuff for myself than like christmas presents, so I didn't really need to do any of that. So I was like I'm gonna buy everything online. Yeah, I mean, I buy most of my christmas present, christmas presents, online. You, I can't be digging for shit.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:Like I'm not going to the store to find this one thing that I need to have. I'll just look for it online and buy it online.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I rarely go to stores.
Speaker 2:in general, I don't even grocery shop, I just Instacart everything.
Speaker 1:Yeah, hellofresh.
Speaker 2:DoorDash. I really hate Instacarting food though. Like I know it's convenient, but like I need to go there and get the things for myself.
Speaker 1:I don't like it, I don't even care.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's because you're not a cook, right? I mean I'm not a cook, but it's because you don't really cook. I don't care about it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, i'm're like, oh, they didn't have, it was out of this.
Speaker 2:I'm like, meh, I'm all right and the way that we cook which is really bad, is like we plan the meal and then so if they don't have that and then you like they didn't have that meat, then I'm like now I have all these groceries and I don't have the meat to like cook this food. That is really annoying so it sucks.
Speaker 1:But then, like yesterday, Drew was like three grocery stores and I'm like, no, not doing that either, just to have nachos that's what we had yesterday, and we had to go to three fucking grocery stores.
Speaker 2:I'm so good right now but it was fucking delicious, yeah, I bet, yeah, I hope so.
Speaker 1:Three stores worth of chocolate, yeah it was so good.
Speaker 2:It's like why you need to go three stores for some nachos. Yeah, well, it's because he went to the mayan market. Which man? They have the best fucking food. It's hella good mexican food. Uh-huh, it's so good, like they have, and you just can bring it home and then you can put on your damn white plates or whatever and have it and pretend like you cooked it. It's so good, yeah, yeah I love doing that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, also even um Bentley and I like, even, just like how we plate our meals whenever we do cook like he likes to do some fancy plating, because you know we watch cooking shows yeah, yeah, yeah and so he loves to like, try some fancy plating stuff, yeah.
Speaker 1:And then also he likes to go like he gets it all ready, plates it up. And then he likes to go like he gets it all ready, plates it up, and then he likes to bring like he doesn't want me to get up and go, he wants to, like bring it to me at the table or the couch, and then he wants to tell me what it is, what I have here for you today is, and then he wants to tell me all this stuff and then he makes it feel like we're at a restaurant.
Speaker 2:Yeah, cute, and it's like so much, make a plate for dinner. I don't sit down, I barely make a plate. I really oh yeah, I don't. I can't be bothered. I don't want to like sit down and do this whole thing. I want to. All the time they're like, did mommy, did mommy even make a plate? And I was like nope, or sometimes I'll go like yep, I say just try to eat really fast. I'm like over it.
Speaker 1:Hmm, yeah, it's not like a thing for me, which is so weird, because you like cook and spend all this time doing this and then just to not even like sit and enjoy it.
Speaker 2:I mean, I enjoyed it, it was delicious On the go, but you have like a weird thing with your food. Well, yeah, yeah, I mean, you like have to have the fork and you're such a slow eater and you like pick at it, and it's almost like what's happening here me and Gabby were talking about this like there's times where I'm like if I can't just be at home and like have my all my stuff, I'd rather just not eat at all I'm just like nope okay sometimes I'm just like I can't, I know, and sometimes I have to have like specific drinks for like?
Speaker 1:yeah, no, I just need to like eat my food. But the thing is like, yeah, I do like to specific drinks for like what I'm eating?
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, I just need to like eat my food. But the thing is like yeah, I do like to cook, but like day-to-day. Typically we just eat like a meat, a vegetable, and like they have rice or whatever. I never eat the carbs or whatever. So it's like oh, I'll just, I do.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you do, I like that. Yeah, I want to have a whole situation. Yeah, I don't want to do that.
Speaker 2:And like I don't really want to like talk at dinner and just like do all these things Like it's like, come on, I'll sit on the couch while everyone else is eating and then we'll just like, but my stuff is pretty close to each other.
Speaker 1:So if talking, if you're on the couch, right, yeah, so it's like we're still like all talking or whatever. We usually sit on a couch for dinner. Yeah, I mean, we are watching TV, like we always watch Modern Family. We're like talking throughout it and say like there might be something on, but we're still talking, yeah. I'm not like I don't feel bad, like I see you so guilty, like we should be sitting at the table.
Speaker 2:I mean that's fine if people want, I get that too. I think it's different when you have really small children too, like we're all adults, we can just say and talk and whatever, and we all kind of eat. I mean we eat at the same time-ish, but within five or 10 minutes after or before each other.
Speaker 2:Like Drew, I don't know if this happens with you, but when you cook, you're like I don't want to eat anything, oh. When cook, you're like I don't want to eat anything, oh. When it's like stressful, or it's just like you finish cooking, you're just like I don't even want to look at all this food. Yeah, so that happened like. That is like a thing every time. So it's like you, just if you cooked all the food or whatever, you just like sit down, you're like I don't you.
Speaker 2:Typically, I mean when they say the chef eats last so you're typically like the last person to eat, or whatever and then I just come in and storm it and just eat a little bit Storm in. Yeah, cause they try to have the food ready for me as soon as I walk through the door from work. That's so nice. Yeah, cause I'm like where's the food? I'm hungry, yeah, and they're like okay. So they try to text me throughout the day Like okay, how's your day going? Like how long till you get home?
Speaker 1:You know all this stuff, or else I'm like freaking out. Yeah, I know. The only thing that happens when I cook is like if bentley is not available to eat immediately when it's done. I'm pissed, oh, because I'll tell him exactly what time, like it's gonna be exactly it'll be ready at 6 pm on the dot. So don't get into a match, don't go play your video games.
Speaker 1:And then you're like, oh, I'm in the middle of the match and lol, I don't give a shit, I'll unplug your computer right now. Oh, I'm not going to wait, I'm not going to sit here and let this food get cold and then, nope, I just cooked you dinner Like get your ass down here yeah. So that's my thing when.
Speaker 2:I cook where.
Speaker 1:I go nope, we're eating, right fucking now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, for us. And they come with, like I said, within five, ten minutes, and then Monette's always like did you eat already? She already knows that I'm like yep, I ate, I'm sitting here, I'm like, yeah, I ate, that's so funny.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know, just like little things. Like little stuff around the house that kind of feel like fancier about, or just yeah, like the type of like I got new silverware because I had kind of like this I had regular like silver silverware and I really wanted gold. I wanted them to be like gold stuff. And then also I had kind of, like you know, over time you have some like mismatched silverware and I was like you know, I'm like getting rid of all this shit.
Speaker 1:So I got rid of all my silverware, I got all new set, everything's matching and gold and it matches my plates and stuff and I just feel like this is fancy as fuck you know when I I okay.
Speaker 2:So when I had my birthday dinner, yes, and you know, usually at my parties and stuff we just everything's like convenient, like as a before I would like do all these things and but now it's just like whatever's convenient for like cleanup or whatever. So you know, usually you come over you might have a red cup or whatever you know. So I was like I really want to do like wine glasses. And then I thought like, okay, I'll just do plastic wine glasses, that, because the thing also is like I'm not trying to store hella shit, right. So then I was like, okay, I'll rent them.
Speaker 2:And so then I looked up renting them and they were like I don't know like maybe almost two dollars a glass or something to rent them. And then I was like, fuck, how I don't want to spend two dollars a glass on these, right to rent. Yeah. So I mean I was only I only had to get like 30, but that was just like. But then they were like, okay, you, just one of the things after was like okay, I mean you have to put them back and make sure they're not broken too, right, like all that.
Speaker 2:So then I just looked on the facebook market and someone was selling them for like half the price for all 30 damn so I just like picked them up and I was like I guess I'm gonna fucking store these but, yeah, but I was like half the price and then like we all had real wine glasses, because here's the thing too. What I was looking at is plastic wine glasses are more expensive than to rent. Oh, they were like it was going to be like 85 for like 30.
Speaker 1:What, yeah, for like the pack that you would have to get on amazon I didn't have the research and because it's like if you get the cheaper ones, those are the ones that have the stems that are in half, yeah, and then they always the bottom falls off.
Speaker 2:yeah, so I was like no, and then I was like, okay, I'll rent them. And then I finally just bought them. It was was so much cheaper on Facebook Market and then I felt like it was so much better, like I don't know about so much better, but to me I liked it at the party.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think so. We just had regular glasses and stuff. Yeah, it feels so much nicer and we just have it, but yeah now you have to wash them all.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but I think you have to do stuff like that, like you have to research stuff, you have to see, because sometimes things seem cheaper, but then you're like is it cheaper? Right, do it that way, because now you not only got those cheaper, uh, than like renting, but then also now you have them, so every party you can use them and so you're getting so much more use one of the things my brother-in-law told me a long time ago was either it's cheap and it's hard, or it's expensive and it's so easy.
Speaker 2:So you just like have to think about it like that. It can't be fucking expensive and hard, absolutely not, right you can't, you can't have that.
Speaker 1:What I heard is everything is can is either cheap, fast or quick. You can pick two. It can never be all three.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's never going to be all three I don't want to pay hella money, and then it's like so overwhelming. Yeah, I hate that. Yeah, yeah, please don't do that for me.
Speaker 1:Yeah well, and that's why. That is why, like, you invest in things that to make shit easier yeah, yeah, whatever yeah, so even, like you know, I mean even clients who come to us like and they spend like, maybe they spend a lot of money on their branding photos or whatever, but it's because, like, we're helping them plan the whole thing, we're doing their makeup and hair, we're helping them with the outfit yeah, they don't have to think about it not to do anything, yeah, whereas if you just like, diy your branding photos or you go to a photographer who's just going to take the photos, it's cheaper, but it's a lot of work, so you have to pick.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, it kind of sucks Sorry.
Speaker 1:Also, you know, renting clothes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, rent the runways.
Speaker 1:Rent the runways.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:Like we rent the runway. Yeah, because like on Newly, it's like we can rent stuff from free people and all these anthropology. Yeah, and so it's like you can wear nice clothes and you're not spending money.
Speaker 2:Yeah because I mean you go on Anthro and you're spending at least $250.
Speaker 1:For like a dress.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, just anything.
Speaker 2:Yeah, even if you buy like two shirts. Yeah it, anything, yeah, even if you buy like two shirts. Yeah, it's like what the fuck? When I first started buying from Anthro a while ago, I would, because it was expensive. I allotted myself $2.50 a season.
Speaker 2:I would buy one like one item that was like $2.50. And so I would have like something kind of nicer in my closet that was like a staple. And so every season I would do that and I would kind of like look through everything and just take my time to buy one thing, because I was like, of course I want to buy five things, you know but, I, was like I'm allowing myself, like a 250 budget, to buy something from like anthro or wherever it was like that was just like one staple piece that I could have in my closet.
Speaker 2:But now, now that I have Nuuly, I don't have to do that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so you just pay. How much do I pay? I think it's like $100.
Speaker 2:It's $100 and.
Speaker 1:I get six pieces, yeah, and then you can add extras for $20. $20 each.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's pretty cheap.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I like it, you're not buying a shirt or anything.
Speaker 2:I mean.
Speaker 1:That's what's nice too is then you're like constantly having you have new stuff all the time in your wardrobe. Yeah, if you're renting, yeah, you're not just like spending money and then wearing the same shit all the time, right, yeah, so it's a lot better. Um, yeah, I don't. I.
Speaker 1:Um, as far as clothes go, I mean I do typically spend really nothing, like I just like to buy cheap stuff. Yeah, because I get sick of it also, so off, like so quickly, I get sick of things and so I understand. It's like you know you should invest more in like the staple pieces for your wardrobe, but right now I'm not at that point. Yeah, also, too, because I've been losing weight and I don't want to buy stuff.
Speaker 2:And then if I lose weight or I don't know, so I think there's stuff that you could spend like shoes. There's like expensive shoes that I like to like. I like to buy more quality. Like boots, typically yeah, Because I know like that's something that's important. Like those are going to be like more of the all-weather stuff that I need to buy in boots and stuff and they'll last long yeah, it'll last a long time, uh. Or like coats, I think that you know spending a little bit more money on coats so that they're like good quality coats. If you want, like if you have a leather jacket that you think you're going to like, okay, this is going to be like I'm going to have this for a long time, Having like a real leather jacket and spending the money instead of one that just looks chewed up after like a year.
Speaker 2:Chewed up and you're like I really like this style, but it looks fucked up. Yeah, fucked up, yeah, you know, one of the things I want to buy is a suede jacket, but man I want to buy one for drew so bad, but they're like a thousand dollars, holy shit.
Speaker 2:yeah, like a really nice suede one and I'm just like well, but sometimes, like you know, I mean I just bought him 300 sweats for father's day. That's so ridiculous. So you know that and I think those are kind of things that I feel like makes. I mean, $300 sweats are expensive, but like he'll have those for years, he better Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, yeah. And they're like sweats to go out, Like he's not lounging at home in those sweats, Gotcha.
Speaker 2:They're like sweats that he needs to like go Like a leisure kind of he needs to be somewhere. You're not going to be home with your wine spilling on your sweats and shit like he does, but it's like sometimes you can't buy him anything nice to lounge in. He'll just like spill on him. Jesus, I know and I don't know why he makes a mess all the time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like you got to pick and choose. Yeah, like pick a couple things Unless you're rich and you can have yeah, fuck it yeah. But, for the rest of us peasants just pick one or two things that you want to spend money on and then the rest like who cares?
Speaker 2:Just so cheap. Yeah, like I think some people where they feel like bougie or whatever, they spend a lot of money on their car payments and cause they want to have really nice cars, cause it just feels like, especially with someone that might spend a lot of time in their car, you know whatever and they're just like, yeah, I feel hella, bougie every time I get my car and it feels good for me and I'm willing to spend you know eight hundred or a thousand dollars on.
Speaker 2:You know a car payment and that's okay for me, you know. Um, it's funny because we like kind of deal in a family like that likes cars a lot and spends a lot, and I'm always like I can't believe you guys spend this much money on cars and where drew and I are like we never want to have more than like a 500 car payment no and these fuckers are spending like top dollars on their car payment I'm like you guys are fucking nuts I can't believe that but they love it, they love their cars, they like, you know, the thing is, is drew's not really into cars?
Speaker 2:I think that's why, too, you know, drew's pretty low, low maintenance, um, so he's not really into cars or anything. So I think that's why he's like, oh, my god, like, yeah, I like nice cars, or whatever, obviously. But yeah, I mean, do what makes you feel good too, like you know, if that's what makes you feel good and you're okay spending that 800 a month, then do it. Who cares?
Speaker 1:yeah, you just have to, you're okay spending that $800 a month, then do it. Who cares? Yeah, you just have to prioritize whatever the things that you value, and then everything else doesn't need to be. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel like there's so many things like there's so many things you could do to like, feel kind of bougie, feel fancier, and not spend a lot of money.
Speaker 1:Uh, and there's so many ideas out there now, especially with TikTok, pinterest, like you could find so many ideas on this stuff yeah, so yeah, just check them out, and then I want to know, like I want to know, what people are choosing to splurge on and nowadays, because everything's so fucking expensive, like what.
Speaker 2:What are we doing?
Speaker 1:yeah, tell us, I want to know it's hard, yeah, tell us what things you splurge on and what things you choose to save on. I'm interested to know yeah, um, yeah, hit us up on our instagram at maximalist life podcast and we'll see you guys next time. Hope you're having fun. Tits up, dicks out.