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Welcome to How To Money. I'm Joel and I'm Matt and today we're discussing what you need to do before your next online purchase.

Yeah, Joel, you know, with a prime day, it's coming up. Man, it's right around the corner. It's quite timely that we're talking about online shopping.

We're going to talk about where we think it falls short. We're going to talk about the obvious downsides to online shopping. But as well, we're going to wrap things up with how to be better at shopping online and saving money.

So I'm looking forward to leaving our listeners with some good tips. Yeah, this should be a fun one in prime day. I know some people get carried away with it. They buy like eight instant pots because those are always on sale. They used to be what's going to be this year.

Well, it's been instant pots a lot of years, but then there's a ton of other gadgets as well. Like little toys. Yeah, time of Gucci's in that like a little electronic toy. I just made up a word and added Gucci to the end of the year. I think those were from the 90s. And I'm pretty sure they were pronounced differently. Yamaguchi.

Tomagachi. That's what I got you. Yeah, there we go. I'm my little sister. I had one of those totally remember that speaking of my little sister. I wanted to quickly mentioned Matt that I've got her on board riding her bike to work. So she just moved kind of closer to her work, which coincidentally is also where I work. Oh, yeah, we work together. So that's kind of fun. It's kind of fun that I get to work with my little sister every day. And now that she's only eight or nine blocks away from the building. Oh, it's so close. It's so close. It's been kind of nice. I hop on my bike. I ride.

My bike I ride most of the way, but I peel a little bit off my route and I go pick her up. And then we've been riding in. And it's been really fun. It's been fun to just to get to see her realize that hopping in that car for even just the eight blocks. I know most people don't live that close to work. That's pretty exceptionally rare. But really cool that she's seeing the value of biking to work, man. Oh, absolutely. And literally the only two bikes in the parking deck are the freaking large guard bikes. It's just me and my sister. That's right. Well, you said you pick her up as well. It's not like she's actually jumping on the handlebars like little sister style.

Yeah, I mean, she has her own bike. Like you said, she rides up to the building. Yeah, that's super cool, man. You know, she rides eight or nine blocks. How far is your house from work? Like eight or nine miles? Yeah, almost eight miles. Okay. Yeah, I didn't know what the actual mileage was. But I mean, I think that's amazing for her to actually start doing that. Yeah, and even though she's blood, right? Like she's your actual family. She's not super uber cheap like we are, right? She doesn't opt for the free haircuts like you do or she doesn't buy all of her eyeglasses from Zinny like I do. That she works. She doesn't wear glasses. I mean, I'm not sure if she's going to be able to do that. I'm not sure if she's going to do that. I'm not sure if she's going to do that. I'm not sure if she's going to do that. I'm not

sure if she's going to do that. She doesn't get the free ones. And that's okay. And totally okay. She doesn't have to do everything the way I do it. But it is fun that especially just me driving a car eight blocks seems silly for the most part. She can even walk that right eight blocks. That's like New York living right there. Totally. Yeah. She totally could. Although the bikes just so much easier. It really is. That's fun. Yeah. So it's been glad you're able to do that. Yeah. It's been fun. It's been kind of this nice little bonding experience. I think it's been good for her confidence living in the city. It's been good for us as brothers.

Sister man. It's just yeah. It's all around good times. People stare at you all see like the tall Norwegian couple. They think like riding in like well, they look a lot alike. And married and they brother sister. It's kind of fun too. Just to see the faces like as we walk in holding our helmets or whatever of the our co-workers and they're like all right, maybe a little revolutionist starting or where we are probably not. It's probably just going to be the two of them. Is there music playing as you walk in with your helmets in like slow motion like that one scene from Garden State, you know, when they're like walking into the hotel room in my mind. There is hotel lobby. Does that count?

That's all that matters. Yeah. All right, Matt. Let's mention the beer that we're having on the show today. We're drinking a beer called Fort by dogfish head brewery and dogfish head dude crazy cool name. And they've been making beers for a long time up there in Delaware. Yeah, dogfish head man. They were one of the original craft beer craft breweries. What was that guy's name? The head breweries when it's Sam Sam Calcione, I think is it really? Yeah, yeah, with your craft beer trivia. You're a better beer drinker than I am, I guess. But I'm excited to have this one because this is one that we can't actually purchase in Georgia because

of the ABV on it. And this is another one that our buddy Tyler donated to the show man. And in particular, I think this is a beer that you're going to really enjoy because guess what's in it? Raspberry. We keep getting raspberry beers and you typically don't like raspberry beers. So dang it, people. Stop sending me the raspberries. But you did enjoy the last raspberry beer that we had. And I can tell you already dig in this one too. Yeah, we've already had a couple of sips on this one. And the reason why I do like this one. Well, I'll just tell you at the end of the episode. There we go. All right. That's called a tease in the radio biz. You'll everyone's on the edge of their seats. Right.

Now they can't wait to hear. All right, Matt, let's get on to the subject of hand. What you need to do before you're next online purchase. And you were talking about online shopping and Amazon Prime Day just about to happen. Whether you're an Amazon Prime member or not, chances are you do a good bit of purchasing online. Man, I know you and I both do. Although the way we have viewed online shopping has changed over the years. Obviously, we love getting a great deal. We love the convenience. But we think there are other considerations that should be taken into account at the same time. Just because we're

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