Sharna Burgess
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113 appearances
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1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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What you keep. You said that and it never left me. It never left me. It stuck with me. And honestly, chatting with you, it stuck with me. And that very simple line of not what you make, it's what you keep. I get and have been so focused on make more, make more, make more money driven, make more instead of keep more, keep more, keep more.
Yeah.
It was Bri that said, what was it? Who was it that said it? I think he said it was he was listening to something about Kevin Hart or whatever and how he spends his money, whatever. Some other celebrity with a hell of a lot more money than us. But he would cut it into three sections. Half of it gone. Don't even consider it money, which I absolutely do.
He said, and then what you've got left, halve it again. Put half of that away. And then what you've got left is what you can spend. on your life, on your expenses, on your luxuries. It made so much sense to Brian. It made so much sense to me. And so we really do try and do that a lot of the time.
Every now and then when you're looking at your account and you're like, oh, but we could spend it all on this one thing, or we could go big, or we could refurnish the whole house. It's like, well, let me think about that for a second. So we try and be as sensible as we can, save some, live a within to under our means. It's hard.
Excellent. So it's the basics. 101 of money saving.
Yeah.
Yes. And it imprinted on me and I don't want that to happen to them. And they're also very good at saving their money. They've been given the gift cards and the cash from the grandparents, whatever. Our 12 year old has a thousand dollars. And I'm like, hold on. So why, wait, what? A thousand is so good at saving. Our younger journey, he's even got probably like $600.
They've all just saved up over the years of Christmas money and gift cards. And admittedly, some of the sums that they get given for the tooth fairy are well beyond what the tooth fairy delivered for me.
Girl, I don't even know. Listen, I got a $2 coin when it was the tooth fairy for me in Australia with those little gold coins. But when they lost their first tooth, I wasn't present for this. It was a $100 note. A hundred dollars.
All of them. Let's go do it. We'll get veneers afterwards. Like it was, but, and I, we had a conversation about that. I was like, baby, it cannot be this. This is crazy. The expectation on that. And he was like, no, it's just the first one. Cause it's such a magical thing. And then it's $5 a tooth after that. I'm like, oh, okay.
I know. But yeah, so they actually are very good at saving money and not spending theirs and getting us to spend ours. How did that happen? I think because the lesson has not been taught yet of, all right, if you want this, then you get to spend your own money for it. And I don't think either of us actually realized how much money they had saved up. So it would just... They took it seriously.
So now we do, if we go to Target, we go to anywhere, if anyone wants anything special that is outside the realm of what you need... then that has to come out of their money. And it changes very, very quickly when they realize how much it was. We were in a store with one of my kids the other day. They picked up like three to four things, got to the counter.
And when the bill came through for $200, they were like, huh? And they're like, no, we'll just put three of those things away. Yeah. So they only spent like $50.
Like a thousand dollars. You're like, yeah, sort of.
A weighted based on what we're earning that month. We make sure that there is obviously more than enough to cover what our monthly expenses are between house expenses, kid expenses, insurances and cars, life expenses like that. You share all of it. Actually cars is individual, but like home bills and also kids stuff is all in there. We share that. And so we just make sure there's enough in there.
Certainly if someone hasn't brought in enough that month, she scales it down. If the other one can pick up the slack on it, but it's a case by case basis because of the way that we work and the industry that we're in. One minute it's flowing and it's massive and it's amazing. And the next minute you're like, I've got to buckle down for six months and it's a little bit tighter.
So it's really not a set thing every month in the way that it works. We have a conversation if we need to and adjust from there.
We're thankfully not in that position and thankfully we've had amazing careers that have set us up pretty well. But certainly when, and the way the industry has been recently, when you go for long enough without, those massive checks coming in, you think, oh, how long is this going to last for? Let me look at what we've got. Let me see how long until we start freaking out.
And I've certainly had those moments. Like when I first said no to Dancing with the Stars and then that second year came around where they didn't bring me
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