Chapter 1: What is the 'F*ck You' fund and why is it important?
This podcast is recorded on Gadigal land. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land. Hey chicks, I'm Elle. And I'm Sal. And this is Two Broke Chicks, a show that shares life lessons and tips that will make you rich in life. Sorry, I got distracted because we fell down the side of the couch and you went... I started like fingering the couch and I was like, oh, I didn't mean to. I'm so sorry.
Anyway, how are you? I'm good. Been a good week? Yeah. This week was a short week, like it was long weekend week, but I'm not going to lie, I didn't get that vibe from this week. No. I'm not sitting here going... Time flies. No, it felt like a full week. Yeah, it felt like a full week, which scares me because when we go into May and we're going back to a five-day, I'm going to be a husk.
Yeah. But it's because you're trying to jam five days of work into four days, so maybe it'll actually be all right. Yeah, exactly, exactly.
Chapter 2: How can a 'F*ck You' fund help in toxic situations?
But today we have a very, very fun, if you've got kids in the car, 10-year.
Little ones in the car. Little ones in the car. You might want to close your ear holes for this one.
Close your ear holes for this one because we're talking. Fuck you funds. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you fund. Fuck you mom. No. Maybe. I haven't seen your mom. Maybe I would.
Exactly.
I reckon, objectively, there are way more hotter mums in the world than there are hotter dads.
Definitely.
Women are like... objectively better looking than men. Yeah, I think so. I don't know if that's just the bisexual in me, but I'm like I could list off like 10 hot mums like right now.
Fully. Whereas like hot dads? Half of them are cartoons.
Yeah. And animals. Yeah. Cartoon animals.
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Chapter 3: What are the first steps to building a 'F*ck You' fund?
Everyone thought of Mufasa immediately. Like Zeus. Yeah. You know. King Triton. Tarzan's dad. Tarzan's dad could get it.
He is fine. His mum was really beautiful too. Yeah, I get that. I would like to. I'd like to watch. Yeah.
I was going to be, I was in it. I would like to be included. Yeah. Oh, I was going to say something but that was a little bit too far. Fuck. Sal. Who else are some hot Disney dads? I like Fasa. Yep. Zeus. Tarzan's dad. King Triton.
Oh, how could we forget that? Daddy.
Yeah. Who else? What else is there?
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Chapter 4: What are the different tiers or types of 'F*ck You' money?
That's enough.
But also all of the mum's babes. Like Sleeping Beauty's mum. Smash. Yep. Sarabi. Sarabi. Could get it. Could get it. Sarabi would make me her bitch. Like, Sarabi is like a dominatrix mummy. She'd be like, get down on your knees. I'd be like, yes, Sarabi. Sarabi is the hottest of the Disney daddies. Sarabi fucking whipped Mufasa into shape, okay? Mufasa was literally crawling for Sarabi. Anyway.
Anyway, the fuck you fund. So today we are going to be getting into the fuck you fund. And lots of fun, literally. Mm-hmm. But before we do that, we have to talk about our obsessions of the week. Tell me. Tell me. Tell me.
Love my life. Love my life. My obsession of the week is a joint obsession and it is Love on the Spectrum season four. Oh, my God. I love this show so freaking much. It is maybe the best show on Netflix. This show could heal the world. It really, really could, especially in like pretty dark times. It honestly gives me so much hope for humanity. It is the most beautiful, beautiful show.
Speaking of hot dads. Who? James's dad.
Oh, and he's British. Wait, no.
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Chapter 5: How does salary sacrificing work for building savings?
Oh, wait, no. Sorry, I'm thinking of Connor. Yes, I saw a TikTok last night being like he could get it. Is that the TikTok? Did you make it? It's my burner right here. I did see that and I hadn't actually caught the energy in the show. Oh. And then I saw the TikTok and I was like.
Yes, would be weird.
But, yeah, seriously, love him.
Love that show though. It's just so beautiful and I think it's like a really beautiful reminder of like how everyone is just human and just wants to like love and be loved.
Yeah, honestly.
And that, you know, as like two very, very privileged women, like I sit here and I go, fuck, like the things that I'm whinging about in the grand scheme of things – You got a pretty good deal.
Yeah, exactly. And there's so much to learn from them too and like just how earnest a lot of the cast members are and they're just all so sweet and beautiful. And it's also incredible because a few of the cast members have been on the show like the whole for every single season. And when you think back of like where they began and how much they've grown, it's just fucking incredible.
And how they're all like friends and stuff. Yeah. Did you see that Connor isn't going to be on the next season though? He's passing the baton on to somebody else to find their love.
I think that makes sense though because as well, even when you think about dating, like you go through ebbs and flows with dating, right? I thought it actually just was very reflective of just life, of like even Tanner, how at the end he was like, oh, I'm not on the show because I don't want a girlfriend right now. Yeah.
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Chapter 6: What mindset shifts are necessary for saving effectively?
And it was... At what age do you stop fake tanning? I saw this this morning too. This is an investigative piece now. So I was like, well, fuck. Am I going to be like, when do you just go, eh, I'm done? So I figured we could maybe discuss and we could investigate in the comments. Yeah, okay. Shall we?
Yeah, because – One thing, I'm like, do you just get over it? Yeah. At some point are you just like, fuck, like is this going to be every Thursday for the rest of my life?
Well, I think you would get, especially when you have kids, when you have young children, I couldn't imagine like, you know, it's so tiring being fucking asked to exfoliate my body.
Also, from like a physics level, chemistry perhaps, I'm like, does it settle into your wrinkles? Yeah. Because even I would notice that, say, like on my hands, for example, like the wrinkles on your knuckles and stuff. I'm like, would that be kind of like across your whole body? Yeah. Like I would love to know who is like the –
The most mature slash oldest person the chicks know in their life that still fakes tans.
Fakes tans? Does your mum fake tan ever? Surely Kris Jenner's out there getting spray tans. Surely.
Surely. But what age, like, do we, like, I don't care about what age we stop having sex. I care about what age we stop fake tanning.
Apparently people are, like, getting dicked down in nursing homes. Yeah. So...
Love that for them.
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Chapter 7: What creative strategies can help in building a 'F*ck You' fund?
Yeah, I've seen this.
But then. That's because a lot of women get divorced in their 40s.
And they go, I'm going to go fuck. A fuck. And speaking of dwarves, I think that's a lovely segue into our episode. Yep. The fuck you fun. So. What is the Fuck You Fund? So it's a collection of savings to essentially give you financial independence and you get to be able to walk away from anything that you're like, fuck you.
So whether it's you want to leave an unhealthy situation or relationship, whether you want to walk away from a job that you hate or It just allows you to say, fuck this and start fresh. And it can also be called an escape or revenge fund. Love that. Do you ever watch that show?
Revenge fund?
Revenge. No, what is it? What? You've never even heard of the show Revenge? No. Okay, well, let's put a pin in that. We'll discuss that later. Oh. What is it? Oh, my God, there's this chick and her dad gets like done but framed by this like rich family.
So then she grows up and grows up hot and sexy and then she starts fucking the mum's son and like goes after the family and is like the daughter-in-law but she's really here for revenge. Wow. Yeah, so you could use your revenge fund for that too if you wanted. Yeah, true. If you wanted because she bought a house in the Hamptons. So, you know, it's how you want to do it.
We endorse using your powers for good, but if you want to use your fucking fund for evil, go for it. Who are we to judge? It got a bit weird toward the end of the season. I can imagine. Yeah, I was like, come on, we're stretching this out. When's she going to actually have her revenge?
All right.
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Chapter 8: How do you maintain motivation while building your 'F*ck You' fund?
So this is not the same as an emergency fund. Emergency funds are typically kept away for when something goes wrong or is like unforeseen. So it's more like you don't actually have control over that situation. So it's like if your car goes kaput. Bye-bye. Yeah. Sorry, my lady. We out here. Yeah. Or like you lose your job or something.
Yeah. Like your essential expenses.
You get like a parking fine and you're like, damn, man, I read that sign wrong. But honestly, who can read the sign right? No, please. Yeah. And what I loved about this is, and you would love this, is that Lucy Liu helped make the term more popular. So Lucy Liu, if you're unfamiliar, she was one of the queens in Charlie's Angels. Alex. Yes.
Me. Yeah. It is I. Lucy Liu. It is I. Yeah. Iconic queen, actress. Seriously. Oh, she's so hot in that movie. It's not even funny. Yeah. Gorge.
10 out of 10. So she kind of made the term more popular when she talked about fuck you money in an interview and said, if you have it and something's not working out and they say you have to take this job or you're fired, you can be like, fuck you.
It's basically about having flexibility and the freedom to leave situations that you don't want to be in anymore.
100%. And that is so often, especially for women, like a corner that you get boxed into because you're like, oh, I have to go because, you know, I can't afford not to get paid. Or, you know, I have to stay in this relationship because I haven't been working and I've been raising children and I don't have any money or whatever that looks like for you.
And according to a UK psychotherapist, Catherine Cavallo, these savings are all about having the flexibility and autonomy to be both emotionally and financially free, especially for millennials and Gen Z.
I also want to acknowledge that a lot of people would find the idea of a fuck you fund as like a really far off concept, right? Because it's really hard to save money in general. But that's the point and that's why we wanted to talk about it because 43% of Australians have less than $1,000 in their savings. So if you're listening to this episode and you're like,
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