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Thanks for your great video. Re buying coffees. I just love having my early morning coffee I purchase at our favourite coffee shop by the river. I like to think of it as a non essential but rather essential for starting your day on a happy vibe! However, coffees here in Aus range from $5.50 upwards for a mug!! Depending obviously where you purchase them, so I am not sure how long we will he able to do this particularly if the prices increase. It will soon become a non essential. 😟

Watching this tonight from a deep freeze -15C with the wind chill it feels like -23C Many schools are cancelled for tomorrow as it’s supposed to be even colder. So watching you walking in shorts was helping me wish for summer. My no spend is going ok. One slip up. A plant but somehow I feel like they should be in the grey area. Or green area. Especially in winter. And I convinced myself that it’s more frugal than flowers. lol. Did I hear you say no plant milk? Maybe I miss heard. But what will you put in your coffee at home?

I love you two! I am also doing a financial makeover this year after making some poor money decisions last year by spending too much money creating a new website and that led me to debt for the first time in a long time. Now I hate it and need to incredibly streamline my finances to pay off the debt. I'm inspired by you! Sticking to that budget so fat and even finding a little extra to put toward the debt so far this month.

Budgets are a bad word to many. My stepmother taught me in my teens about basic budgeting. I used to get R5 for pocket money (in the late 70s) It afforded me a movie every Saturday, including saving 50c most months. Looking back it sounds crazy to have had so little money and get to see a movie every week. Granted, no sweets or luxuries though. When I tell the youth of today about this, they wonder just how old I am... bwahahahaa

Good morning/evening my friends.. I hope you both are well. We had snow today in western Massachusetts over night and now we have to shovel it. Good exercise but I’m looking at you guys in this video and I’m jealous of your warm weather. 😂 I give myself a little bit of money for fun , like a coffee ☕️ date or lunch with a friend or if someone wants to go out for a shopping trip. I’ve already had some money put way so I’m not going to spend it. On the coffee ☕️ spending, I ask for a money card like when it’s my birthday or a gift., that way if I’m invited to go out for a coffee, I’ll have the opportunity to go without spending my money. Have a wonderful day ❤

aww you two are super sweet. I'm glad I found your channel.

📌 Thanks for joining us on our suburban money-saving adventure! What's your biggest challenge when it comes to handling unexpected expenses? Drop a comment below - we'd love to hear your thoughts and tips! And if you're new here, don't forget to check out Parts 1 & 2 of our Mindful Money series - we share why we’re embarking on a no-spend year as well as how we’re preparing. 🌿 Part 1 - Two 60-Year-Olds Get Real: th-cam.com/video/jZdQIDXzKrE/w-d-xo.html Part 2 - How We're Preparing for Our No-Spend Year: th-cam.com/video/iZFaU3B1gzs/w-d-xo.html

🏳‍🌈New subscriber here.🏳‍🌈 Enjoyable and interesting video. Do You really need to buy sunscreen if shade is on your face from your hat visor? Also, how much did you spend on your walking shoes? I recently spent $13.00 for a floor mop that has a very thick, detachable, head, I can wash, instead of buying replacement mop heads more often. Lastly, how the heck do you two stay so thin?

What a lovely walking route! How did you earn those free coffees?? 😃

i am now 48 and was a minimalist at age 15 when i abandoned nearly all my possessions. this was due to some personal things i went through as a kid and it was NOT easy doing the purge but without question, minimalism has made my life so much simpler easier and ZERO financial burden because i don't buy stuff! i repair what i have and only shop at supermarkets and go out and bring my own food to parks or outdoors (i live in new york city where most activities are pretty much free anyway). the important FACT to remember here is: you as an old person are closer to death than a young kid. REDUCE what you own. your time on this planet is running out and you aren't gonna take anything like the egyptian pharaohs did (they were geniuses of course, trying to take literally their objects with them to some afterlife, pathetic!). be mindful of your time and focus on health both mental and physical.

It was very enjoyable to join you on your walk today. Although it's rare, we do have occasional sightings of Egyptian geese in Michigan. Take care!

Happy New Year. Wonderful video. Thank you for being so transparent about Anxiety. I understand the feelings and selfishly happy I’m not alone. Have a great year ladies. #catmommytoo

awesome video. We have Egyptian Geese here in South Texas. They are Very beautiful.

Ok, you've encouraged me to finally give budgets a try. And when I set up the budget, I immediately notice how I become more careful with my spending. That's interesting. Your content and your no-spend year are very authentic, thank you very much! Finally, not always the same boring standard sentences that don't help me at all.

Ypu two are just good humans!

Loved the video! Back to the basics with shared passions and goals are so great for relationships!

Lynn here love your walking area.😉sorry about no mop 😟

Forgive me but id prefer to simply watch the original format, i wouldnt last a minute with this first thing in morning, im surprised that you chose to include this, forgive the bad feedback but its cringy blah blah blah, i love you guys and have loved every video i watched but this one is a little off , 😮

Snacks are our splurge too!😂

It can be interesting to work out how much one can waste! It is mindful spending that makes one frugal. Not buying nothing but buying the best afordable - so that it lasts. The thing about planning a treat - say every Friday - is that it gives you something to look forward to! Alongside a big thing that you are aiming for- an item or paying off debt. I'll be watching your progress with interest!

I have many friends that are vegan and vegetarians… 🌱 they have given me some wonderful recipes and information on this topic. ❤☺️🙏✨

I would love to do this, even with two little dogs and two cats. My husband, on the other hand, isn't so keen on the idea.

Well, I was filled with deep sadness watching your video... Because until now I thought I was an extreme minimalist, but now it turns out that I'm not! Because you said that an extreme minimalist can only have 15...150 things. Well, I have much more.... I don't know how many, but it's around 400. But I was really convinced until now that I was one of the truest extreme minimalists, and have been for years! Because I live on only 14 square meters, including the bathroom. I don't have a bed, a TV, a closet, a table and a chair. Almost all my belongings fit into 3 backpacks: a 100-liter, a 52-liter and a 22-liter. There are a total of 213 things in these backpacks (if I'm not mistaken). The number of things that no longer fit in these backpacks is slightly less, but at the same time I don't consider them important, if I lost them I wouldn't consider them a big loss, I wouldn't grieve over them. My opinion is that ONLY those things are REALLY mine - my property - that fit in these 3 backpacks, because I can take them with me everywhere at once, even if it's difficult. So I see the rest of the things as being only temporarily with me, as if they were "on loan". But even if I don't count the stuff that doesn't fit in the backpack, I still have more than 150 things, more than two hundred, oh how sad and deeply depressed I'm now, since I'm not an extreme minimalist...Yes, I am a minimalist, but seemingly not an extreme one... Even though my apartment is much smaller than yours and I don't even have a bed... What a disappointment... Oh my... I have to cry... I don't even have a kitchen, the only thing I have is a hotplate, but I hardly use it either, because I follow the carnivore diet, and even the raw version of it, meaning I almost always eat raw meat and raw offal. Live insects too. Because my hobby is bushcrafting, and even "survival in extreme conditions". This is also why I need so much stuff, because I need a lot of things that an “ordinary” extreme minimalist would never need: things like a tent, a survival knife, a machete, a hatchet, a saw, a ferrocerium rod for starting a fire, a tarp, a metal drinking bottle, a metal cup, a sharpening stone, a parka that is also good for the Arctic and also “Arctic” cargo overalls, etc. My goal is to be as independent as possible... I also have snare wire traps, I know how to use them, so I would feel quite comfortable even in a temperate jungle. In fact, I don’t mind eating only live earthworms for days. I’ve done it more than once, on numerous occasions, without batting an eye. And I have eaten living mice, rats, spiders, cicadas, locusts, grashoppers, etc. This is really the minimum that can be expected from a professional survivalist! But I'm not a real extreme minimalist, because I have more than 150 things, I'm not able to follow this sacred rule, oh, now a world has collapsed inside me, what a shame... And yet, how proudly and haughtily I've proclaimed myself to be an extreme minimalist, that I've freed myself from the temptations of the consumer society, that I resist the siren songs encouraging me to buy, that I've recovered from consumer idiocy... and lo and behold, it turns out that I still suffer from an excess of stuff, I'm just a miserable hoarder, addicted to objects... By the way, I'm an almost 60-year-old man, and I've been following this lifestyle for about 6 years. Yeah: I didn't write the above seriously! I mean, of course, everything I wrote about myself is true, correct, down to the last word, the only thing that's not true is that I'm sad about it because I'm not an extreme minimalist. I most definitely DO consider myself to be one, even though I do have more stuff than 150. But as you can see, it's not that much more... Besides, those who have less than 150 things are very dependent on large distribution networks. They have to live in civilization. NOT for me! I am really able to survive in the jungle, alone. I'm far more independent than they (the common extreme minimalists) are! I'm already preparing to stop working in a few years and live off-grid, without electricity, far from civilization, like a kind of "mundane hermit". I collect not stuffs, but skills, for example I learned how to whistle melodies, I learned the mongolian throathsinging, how to make bone tools and stone tools, how to practice Tummo meditation to make my "inner fire" awakened in order that I don't freeze in the extreme cold, etc.

What about going camping? You can't take all your stuff in a bus or on your bike

the haircut is spot-on!! (1) I have a budget for coffee! hehe (2) even though we do meal planning, we still do a pantry stock take every 3 months, so as to find any items which are expiring within the next 3 months which I place in a basket at the front of the cupboard so that we can use them, because out of sight is out of mind. (3) having a monthly 'treat' allows you to know that it is coming up and you will not need to buy most of the unnecessary snacks ;)

Great video! I have cut my husband’s hair during Covid. I buy a package of 6-8 haircuts once a year at a very reduced price from my salon. I am doing no spend January. Excluding clothing and activities for my granddaughter. So far it’s going well.

At what age you can have your pension.?

My snowball is caffeine. If I have a cup, I would dive into a half pack of crisps or half a bar of big chocolate. I do not drink at all.

Can you show a more detail of your budget columns. I am in the process of redoing a more simplified budget

Welcome to Part 2 of our No-Spend Year journey! ✨ If you missed Part 1, you can find it here: th-cam.com/video/jZdQIDXzKrE/w-d-xo.html 💭 What's your biggest challenge when it comes to spending? Let us know below! 👇

Great video! Glad to hear you are getting the tech under control. Unfortunately my wife's screen addiction was a huge factor in the breakdown of our marriage and I would hate to see that happen to you lovely women. There is nothing lonelier than being next to someone who is constantly glued to their phone on the couch or in bed! Louie.xx

I agree that living a frugal life is a learning process. We learn from our mistakes and do better next time. It forces us to keep our minds open to the inevitable challenges. But that's part of the fun, especially when we see good $ results. Great haircut! Sporty is hired!

Blowing your tight budget on chicken, as a vegan, is a great kindness! ❤ Money well spent. My mother always says: if your hand is closed for giving, G*d can't put anything in there either. Open hands are best.

So far January has just been a warm up month! Starting really hard in February! When I tell myself I’m not spending money on this or that, it makes it sound like an order! I get my rebellious side up and say , don’t tell me I can’t have something! Definitely snacks are the hardest! I hate to cook, but love to eat!😂😂

The biggest construction site in the past was deciding which things I needed in my apartment: What kitchen stuff, what furniture, etc.. Oh what a disaster, I spent a lot of pointless money. Then I saw the idea of furniture-free living from you, among others. The best furniture is no furniture. The best kitchenware is not kitchenware. If I can cut something with a knife, I don't need a machine. Minimalism is not enough for me. I try moderate extreme minimalism. For me, moderate means: no competition and furniture only when it's difficult and complicated to do without it.

Good Haar cut. I cut my Haar to

Over the last couple months, I realized I need to get better control of my Amazon shopping and junk food problems. The latter is for health reasons mostly, but it does impact the budget, too. So far, I'm about 75% on track in January. The junk food is harder to control than the shopping. No surprise there! 🤪

It'll be interesting to hear your rules. Have a great week!

My hardest category is thrift shopping for clothing. I want to develop a minimal capsule wardrobe with the clothes I already own and downsize the rest. Paired with that will be replacing shopping with other activities. Love your special walk and picnic each week and coffee reward!

Welcome back! Loved the tour!

Beautiful haircut! Excellent. You may be able to continue without going to the salon. Wahl's clipper with comb attachments can do layers, but so can scissors! Lots of TH-cam videos on this subject! Bravo!

I’ve been cutting my own hair also. 😊Lynn. Love you both..

Glad to see you back 😍

This video freaked me out! (in a good way😄) I feel like we, and maybe many people right now, are on this same wavelength of wanting to move past the limits of screen and social media and tap into richer experiences more often. I am trying to navigate that and I like the tip of only going online with a specific intention, otherwise for me it often ends up feeling like a waste of my time. Walks are one of my favorite activities (especially if there is a cafe at the end where there will be almond croissants, good conversation, and lovely day playing in the background!🥰) I haven’t finished this video yet but had to stop because I actually gasped when you guys mentioned the Camino de Santiago. I just told my husband YESTERDAY it’s my dream to walk that someday. Maybe this is a sign from the universe to encourage that dream/goal. Anyway, back to your video. Please stop freaking me out lol