Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm Megan. We're two moms with eight kids between us from

little to grown. We're in different areas of the country and in different stages

of life, but we both know that motherhood's a lot easier when real moms share

tips and encouragement. And remind you that it's really all gonna be okay. We're

not experts. We're parents who've been there. We're not perfect. We're real.

Welcome to the Mom Hour. Hey everyone and welcome to episode 351 of the Mom Hour.

I am Sarah Powers with Megan Francis. Hey Megan. Hi Sarah. So we are sort of

continuing a conversation that we started last week where last week we went

loosely room by room in in our houses or like in in the typical house and we

talked about little ways to save money room by room but we left out a very

important room and that is well we got to the kitchen and then we stopped. We're

like we don't have time for this. I mean the kitchen is its whole I would say it's

like the place where maybe you don't spend the most money on any given item but

definitely the most consumables right like the most things are coming in and

going out and being literally digested by your family and so you have a lot of

control in that room. It like sensibly but it's hard to keep it under control.

Well that and in addition I would I'm thinking about the things we talked about

in the other rooms we talked about things like streaming services and decor and

clothes and kids toys and office supplies and not to be like super negative but

if a financial crisis happens to one of our families many of those things could

be slashed from the budget for as a stopgap while you know while a family got

back on their feet whereas the things that we consume in the kitchen of course

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