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The Rachel Cruze Show

Reacting to Your Wildest “Mom Spending” Confessions

The Rachel Cruze Show

Ramsey Network

Education, Investing, Business, Self-improvement

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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📚 Check out my Kids Book Bundle!   Sometimes as a parent, you spend money on some crazy things. In this episode, I’m sharing a boundary I had to put in place in our house, plus reacting to 12 of your wildest “mom spending” confessions.    Next Steps: 🎥 Watch my video My Go-To Parenting Strategy for Avoiding Entitled Kids. 💵 The simplest way to budget. Download the EveryDollar app for free! 📈 Are you on track with the Baby Steps? Get a free personalized plan.   Connect With Our Sponsors:   Learn more about Christian Healthcare Ministries. Get 20% off when you join DeleteMe.   Explore More From Ramsey Network: 🍸 Smart Money Happy Hour 🎙️ The Ramsey Show 💸 The Ramsey Show Highlights 🧠 The Dr. John Delony Show 💰 George Kamel 🪑 Front Row Seat with Ken Coleman 📈 EntreLeadership   Ramsey Solutions Privacy Policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right, in certain seasons of parenting, it's literally about survival.

0:09.3

And sometimes in a pinch, the chaos can cause you to spend money and sometimes on really

0:14.3

funny things.

0:15.2

So today, I'm going to be reading your wildest mom spending confessions because we've all been

0:20.3

there.

0:20.6

So drop your comments down below if you haveessions because we've all been there. So drop your comments down below

0:22.4

if you have more because we could all use the laugh. All right, I'm going to go first. So my kids

0:29.4

are obsessed with bath bombs. I'm convinced not because like it's cool and it makes the water

0:34.1

like a different color. No, it's because there's a stupid little toy

0:37.9

in the middle of it.

0:38.8

And once it dissolves, they get this little trinket and they're just like, I mean, you would think they hit the jackpot. And so a big box of these on Amazon, I don't know, they're probably 25 bucks, but my kids will go through them. They were literally used like three a day. I'm like, stop, one a day, one a day, you guys.

0:36.2

And then they're done, and all I hear are like, stop, one a day, one a day, you guys. And then they're done.

0:55.3

And all I hear are like, can we have bath bombs? Can we have bath bombs? So I have now made it a rule. It's like once a quarter, we get the box of bath bombs because they would literally use an entire box like in a week. And I'm like, y'all. But sometimes they just wear me down. they wear me down and I'm like, fine, just I'll Amazon some and you can have some so I don't

0:53.8

have to hear about this anymore, but it is, it is. Sometimes you just got to buy the thing. It's wild, though. The lives we live, you guys, the lives we live. Okay. So now I asked you guys on social media, like, what were some of the things that you spent money on as a mom?

1:28.5

May have been in polls, may have regretted it, maybe not, but like, what are these things?

1:32.8

So the first one was $500 for a sleep consultant for our five-month-old, worth every penny.

1:40.6

And you know what?

1:41.3

I'm going to say amen to that.

1:43.2

Amen.

1:44.0

Especially people that are having babies later in life. I'm like, the older you are, the more you should have someone helping you when it comes to sleep and all of it. I read a book. I was like so militant with my babies of like sleeping through the night because I know I need sleep. And it worked, but I was so passionate about it

2:01.7

that for so long. I always said, if this job ended for me, I would be a travel agent and a sleep

2:06.7

trainer for babies because I believe in it so much. So amen. Worth every penny, because I totally

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