Hey, I'm Shawna Compton Game. This is Millennial Money, and today we're talking how to HDTV, your house, for less.

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All right, raise your hand if you are as addicted to HGTV as I am.

I mean, I swear, I think like every Saturday and Sunday I could probably just sit on the couch for hours and hours and watch a combination of the new show, hometown, which is actually

one of my favorites.

If you've not checked that one out, definitely check that one out.

Fixer-upper, I mean, who doesn't love fixer-upper? Seriously, property brothers. I mean,

this is big business. Like, they've created a whole entire channel with multiple shows that are all

making a lot of money just on strategies to renovate your house, whether it is, you know,

buying a fixer up or renovating a house you already have or whether you're deciding whether

to buy a new house or to renovate your house. I mean, there are so many different show plot

lines. It's crazy out there. But it is so addictive. I mean, in just,

you know, what, like a half hour or an hour to see this dump of a house, really, because that's

really what they show you on TV, just completely renovated into something that is awe-inspiring.

I mean, a lot of times I'm like, wait a minute, there's no way that they spent

the budget that they spent. They had to have spent so much more money because it just doesn't,

like, it just doesn't feasibly look like it can cost, you know, what they estimate on the shows.

But I know, you know, when you're on one of those shows,

you get some freebies, you get some things thrown in. That's part of the perks of being on those

shows, even though I know that they try and kind of con us into thinking that, you know, no,

the homeowner paid for all of this by themselves. I'm like, right, exactly. But, you know,

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