I'm gonna get this over and done with really quickly - this is everything we spent today.
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And then you'd think that that was enough except we didn't because I got some free burgers
from my dad.
It was very kind of him but we need something to put them in so it's back to the...
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So that's everything we spent today and I'm now into week three of this experiment
It's Monday and I've been editing I've been editing the first few I've managed to get
up to day four and oh man they are taking forever to cut but I want to put as little
of me into these videos as possible just to make them as quick as possible and today I'm
going to do the exact opposite.
So I have no idea how this is going to go but I'm three weeks in and I think I want
to take this to the end of the month and usually I write things down so this all started on
the 1st of January when I had broken my toe in the soft play centre.
I'll put a link in the description to to that whole story about how tightwad dad started
but I also videoed my journey to the hospital and I actually taped the exact moment when
I wanted to start this Look, I don't know if you can see this but
it's bent the wrong way.
Okay, my long-suffering wife is parking the car
Obviously as a tightwad dad I'm now thinking about hospital car park charges rather than
the fact my toe is bent the wrong way around and I'm gonna get free treatment to get it
fixed This is the true test of being a tightwad
dad So I've had the X-ray, and it's given me the
chance to think.
I can't be putting money above my health, this way.
I was doing it without thinking so I thought what if I start to record everything that
we spend - that we do spend - and recording it wouldn't make any sense without sharing
it publicly because then that puts me on the hook
And there's all kinds of problems with that that I'll probably record as I've got a list
of reasons why this could go horribly wrong and I'll save that for another video but what's
going right for me at the moment is that by recording what we're spending on every day
means that I've become more appreciative of the spending.
I've become more grateful and then I started to measure that and that's what the joy out
of ten marks are for.
It all started when I did a trip to London and I recorded all of the all of the money
that I spent there I think there's a clip of it running now and I've found that process
gave me joy but also it helped me to to share what we're all thinking which is that none
of us wants to talk about what we're spending none of us want to talk about what we're owning
and yet it's probably the biggest thing that guides all of our decisions in life.
So I thought what if I did actually and start giving it a score and that's gone quite well.
Last month I started working away from home for a month so probably in this flabby safe
comfort zone I thought well maybe I can now start recording on video what we're spending
and share that on the internet forever online with everyone.
Weird things happen in the last two weeks I've been recording it daily and putting it
on NeilMossey.com everyday but what's happening now is because I have to get a camera out
to physically shoot and record and video what we're spending - I think we're spending less
That wasn't the aim the aim of these videos was to just be a bit more grateful for what
we are spending.
I want to keep going with this and I hope by putting this on video it helps you to be
more mindful and more grateful for the things that you get to spend on instead of comparing
it to me and comparing our nonsense spending - what what is your nonsense spending what
um what is your level of joy with that spending I think that's a good experiment - so I hope
you get something from this project.
And I will get a load of videos of bags of shopping from the German chain supermarket
that's around the corner where we seem to spend all of our money every day.
So anyway that's it that's what the Tightwad Dad vlog is
I feel desperately uncomfortable talking to camera for 7 minutes now and I know I'm going
to spend about a day trying to edit that down to two minutes maybe I should just leave it
long?
Anyway thanks for for watching this Now I know I say this every video but I really
truly believe no one will get to this point in the video so if you have thank you for
sticking with it and click a thumbs up to let me know that someone did make it this
far And if you haven't already there's a little
subscribe button in the corner of the video think it's no it's that corner and I guess
we'll show up for day 16 tomorrow Can you please help my daddy get 1000 subscribers
just click on his face thanks bye - how's that?