Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Lesson 465. The title of today's lesson is the difference
between splurge, indulge, and squander. Yeah. This is one recently where students have had
a difficulty sometimes seeing the difference between these words. They all have to do with
spending a lot of money, but there is a little bit of crossover. But there's some clear differences
between these as well. Anyway if somebody wants a screenshot of the board do it now. Okay. Let's get
right to it. If someone splurges or splurges on something, he or she spends a lot more money than
usual or eats a lot more of something than usual. Even though splurge seems similar to indulge
we tend to use it in a way that is usually an exception. Like we don't do this all the time.
There tends to be a good reason right now why you think it's okay to spend more money , but
regularly you don't do this. So it's an exception or just for short-lived behavior. So you may do
it for just a one-off this time or you may do it for a couple of days, but usually that's it.
On an everyday basis you usually won't splurge, but you make an exception for a holiday.
Maybe because it's a holiday. Maybe you'll spend more money, someone's birthday, a whim
Or treating oneself etc. where if you did splurge every day,
then splurge would probably start to turn more into like squander.
Splurge usually you stop. You just do it for this short-lived time and you just feel that you know,
it's okay for this little short period or for these except... few exceptions. Then soon after
you may return to your more conservative behavior. Okay. Let's continue. All right.
So we have a few examples here now. How you might hear splurge i decided to splurge because it was
such a good sale. So this could be a good reason why you might splurge. Normally you don't do it,
but maybe the sale was too tempting. Even though this item probably cost more money than you would
usually spend on something , but you know, it was just such a good sale you couldn't turn it up so
you know, you just made an exception for now. Number two. It was his birthday. So I
splurged on you know, a gift for him or maybe an expensive gift for him more expensive than usual.
So again you had a good reason for doing it. Why you would spend this more money than usual. Okay.
When I visited that country , everything was so cheap. I splurged on souvenirs so this may be just
on your vacation. Maybe you went someplace where your your dollar or your currency went further.
And you said well Hey I'm here. It's a limited time I should get this. You know, While I'm here.
So again you had a good reason for doing and and it's usually more limited. Just for vacation. When
you go back home you'll go back to your normal spending habits. Or maybe even eating habits.
Yeah. When I was in that dessert shop I splurged on Haagen-Dazs. You know, we always know
Haagen-Dazs is usually like the most expensive ice cream. So maybe this time I don't know you say
well let me treat myself I really like this one you won't do it every day, but maybe you know for
whatever reason you did it this day. All right. Let's continue. All right. Now the next one
we're looking at is indulge. If one indulges on something he or she allows oneself. That's the
idea that you allow yourself to have something one enjoys. Often something you should not have
or enjoy to excess. So when you enjoy it you really enjoy it to a far degree. Like whoa
you let yourself have it until you're completely satisfied. It satisfies desires that's the idea of
indulge. You have these desires and you're satisfying these desires. You know. So you're
really letting yourself go at this time. Okay good. Sometimes it is often used about
allowing yourself to do something that others may disapprove of. You know, they may think that's not
really good behavior , but still you have this desire to do this. So you're indulging yourself.
All right. So let's look at the first one here. The first example. At the buffet, I indulged
myself on the dessert bar. So maybe you really pigged out. Maybe you had every single dessert
that was there or several of every dessert. So you really indulged. You enjoyed it and now you know,
it's all you can eat for the same price. So you really allowed yourself to eat to excess.
You know you went much further than usual. So you indulged yourself. You allowed all those
desires to be satisfied. All right. Let's look at the next one. Jessica complains that her husband
indulges himself on porn websites. Yes. So this is one where it would probably be a behavior
that you disapprove of. We do hear about this unfortunately. You know, some women say that their
husband might be addicted to porn or pornography on the Internet. They probably wouldn't like that.
But you know maybe he still does it. Maybe he can't help himself. He allows himself
to indulge in this behavior that you know, most people might think is maybe not too good. All
right. Let's continue. If one squanders something. Okay. So oh no we got one more for indulge.
She allows herself to indulge in hours of gossip with neighbors. Maybe she just likes to gossip.
She likes the gossip a lot and you know she just allows herself to do this. You know
she gets some some kick or enjoyment out of it. So she allows herself to go to excess on this.
Okay. Now we get up to squander. If one squanders something he or she usually wastes or uses
foolishly one's time, money or opportunities. All right. So we got several things here. One
squander always has the feeling of waste or you know , using foolishly. Like you didn't use it well.
You didn't make the most of it. And we especially use it on the three things that are mentioned.
We might use it on time. You might squander away your time. Definitely money or opportunity and
when it's money, it doesn't sound like ... it doesn't sound like splurge like it's a one-off
thing. It sounds like you make you're more of a regular habit of doing this and the money is just
you know, going away or is being wasted a lot. It's not like just a single time it would be
many many times or a bad habit so squander is more like a really bad habit that you keep doing.
All right. Let's, let's take a look at what we have here. Okay. So here this is probably
a parent saying this . You had the whole long um vacation to do your homework and you squandered
away your time playing video games. So meaning ... so here you're squandering your time. So from the
parents point of view, they think that the child squandered away their time. They were supposed to
do something more constructive or at least get the homework done before they return to school.
All right. Let's look at the next one. In the TV show "Sex in the City " we found out in
one episode that Carrie you know, the main character. The main girl character, Carrie
had squandered around fifty thousand dollars on designer shoes. Yeah. This is at one point where
she was not thinking about getting a house and she's wondering she says Hey I make such great
money how come I never saved anything ?Until you know, one of her lawyer, friends pointed out well
you only have about three or four hundred pairs of shoes in the closet and she didn't buy the cheap
shoes. She didn't buy the five dollar shoes or ten dollars. She bought shoes that were 300 hundred,
400 hundred 500 hundred dollars apiece. So she really kind of and that that's another thing about
squander, it feels like you're spending money on things that's not really completely necessary. So
she kind of squandered away you know a lot of her thing a lot of money that she could have saved and
you know had bought a house with but she kind of really just spent it you know on those shoes. All
right. And here's the last one that's a once in a lifetime chance. Don't squander that opportunity.
Yeah. We do use it with opportunities sometime. We say squander like you know you've got a really
good opportunity that comes around and you know you foolishly don't take it or don't accept it. So
you know, especially if it's one that may not come around again. That's what we say like a once in a
lifetime one. You squandered it . It was there for the taking and you let it go. You squandered it.
You didn't use it well. Okay. Anyway, I hope you got it. I hope you got a better feel of how
to use this. It is true they're all about usually either spending more money some are related to
time some are related to food but i think i kind of clarify when you might use one more than the
other hope you got a better feel. Thank you for your time. I hope it was very informative. Bye-bye.