I Quit Buying These 5 'Normal' Things & Saved $50K in 12 Months!
The Table with Anthony ONeal
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🗓️ 5 November 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In this eye-opening episode, I'm revealing the six purchases that are silently draining your bank account—and how cutting them out saved me $50,000 in just 18 months. If you're tired of living paycheck to paycheck while everyone around you seems to be winning, this video is your wake-up call. I'm breaking down the exact math, the consumer traps that companies don't want you to know about, and the strategic moves that transformed my finances without making me feel deprived. Some of these might make you uncomfortable, and you might even get mad at me, but the results speak for themselves. Whether you're trying to save $5,000 or $50,000, these principles will change how you think about money forever. Stay until the end to see the full breakdown and discover what to do with the money once you save it.
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| 0:00.0 | How's the business going? |
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| 0:25.9 | business.gov.com.ukes. Eligibility criteria apply. What's going to family? Y'all listen, I need to |
| 0:32.1 | tell you all something that might make a little, I would say make you a little uncomfortable. |
| 0:37.0 | You see, over the last 12 to 18 months, |
| 0:38.7 | I have stopped buying six particular things that people call normal. People would say you need these |
| 0:45.4 | things. And you know what happened? Over the last 12 to 18 months, I've saved about $50,000. |
| 0:53.0 | I'm not exaggerating. $50,000. Now, some of you all are going to honestly get mad |
| 0:58.8 | at me. I'm going to be honest with you. Some of you're going to say, Anthony, you're being |
| 1:02.9 | extreme, bro. But here's the truth. Here is a 100% truth. These six purchases are keeping people |
| 1:10.6 | broke. And the company selling them are counting |
| 1:13.8 | you to never wake up. I'm not I'm not here to tell you what to do with your money. No, I'm simply |
| 1:20.6 | here to show you what I did with my money, what I'm doing with my money and the results will |
| 1:26.5 | speak for itself. So if you're tired of |
| 1:29.7 | living paycheck to paycheck, if you're ready to build real wealth instead of the fake status, |
| 1:35.2 | I need you to stay with me throughout today's episode because when I'm about to share, |
| 1:39.5 | could change some of you all's financial life forever. We're going through all six things. The exact math |
| 1:47.1 | on how I saved $50,000 and what you need to do with the money once you save it. So I want to get |
| 1:55.1 | straight into it. But before we get into it, let me give you some context. I used to think I needed all this stuff. |
| 2:03.2 | A new car every two years, the latest and greatest iPhone, door dashed whenever I didn't feel |
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