All The Free Things Libraries Have to Offer & How to Optimize Your Library Usage

Published Nov 2, 2018, 6:00 AM

Libraries aren't just for 6-inch voices and frail librarians anymore! Upon closer inspection, there is quite a lot to be gained from these community establishments. Beyond lending books, most libraries have a plethora of additional (FREE!!) resources and events just waiting to be discovered. Join Jill in being shocked by all libraries have to offer!

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Episode getting the Most from your local Library. Welcome to the Frugal Friends podcast, where you'll learn to save money, embrace simplicity, rights, and live with your life. Here your host Jen and Jill Get It, Get It, Get that prayer. Hello again, Welcome to another episode of the Frugal Friends podcast. I am Jen, this is Jill, and we are coming at you. First week of November. Year is almost over. The holidays are just around the corner, as they say, get ready, yes, uh so, but we're absolutely not going to talk about anything holiday related. You're welcome, thank us later. Yeah nothing, and now you can thank us no to yeah yeah yeah. But before we get started talking about one of our favorite frugal topics. This is like the second in a two part series. Like last week was pawn shops, this week is libraries. I just decided just now it's a two part series. The connection being there's a lot of stuff available. Yeah, they're both frugal gems. 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Do you have a glass bottle that you want to throw in the trash, resist the urge, instead, recycle it or even better, use it as a garden decoration. Your neighborers will love it. Or do you have an old T shirt? Don't throw it out, recycle it, turn it into a cleaning rag. It's better for the environment, It fosters creativity, and it creates sustainability. Europe does this far better than US American, but give it a try. Recycling is this inspired by your trip to Ireland you just come from, Yeah, and which it's in the UK. Northern Ireland is like considered the UK, But yes, they do it so much better there. There's like five different recycling things you there. There's the regular trash, which you really try to avoid, like nothing should ever go in the trash. Really, there's composting, there's like all kinds of different types of recycling. It's amazing. You have to be very aware of what you're doing with the things that you don't want anymore. That's that's intense. I can I can barely manage figuring out what thing goes in the one recycling bin that I so yeah. Better if you can't figure it out like me, you just reuse it, yeah exactly. Recycling also includes using it for different purposes within your own home, not just putting it in the recycling bin. So true, true, mind blown preach. Well, let's get into talking about the library. There's literally no segue from recycling to the library. But I think libraries push recycling libraries, love love recycling programs, loves recycling libraries. There is We found it. And most people think of libraries, they think of just books, and they don't realize the vast like array of options that the library offers. And so I didn't. I know it's and even some of these things I always learned something when I'm researching for a show. But there are so many things, and not all of these things are offered at every single library, So you have to do your own research for yours. But we want to open up the world of libraries to you so that you can use them to your highest frugal potential. Are you ready? I think I'm ready. I've got to admit Jen that when you told me that we were going to do this episode on libraries, I was a little bit like, what is there to talk about? Everyone knows that's where you can rent books from. And also I have a little bit of that perspective that Parks and Rec has of libraries. I don't know if you've ever seen Parks and I don't think I've seen that episode, but like the Parks and Rec Department hates the library and they're always opposed to them. They think that they're awful people who run the library, like librarians are from the pit of hell. Um. But after having researched about the library, my mind is blown. My world is opened. I have already utilized some things at my local library today and as a result of researching. Yes, I can share that later because I'm so excited. Oh yeah, Well, Steve into the first article. It's called teen weird things you can Borrow from your local library. So um, and this is from book riot dot com because we're better to find information on libraries than a website about book nerds. Right, that's it, good thinking, Yeah, you have to go there. So, Jill, what was your favorite thing on this list? Okay, so I thought that the oddest thing. I know that's not your question, but that's where I'm going with it. The oddest thing from here was that some libraries will rent out to you or loan you tools or cake pans, board games, which I think I kind of knew that. And of course, like we said, this depends on your library, but there's a variety of things that you could loan from your local library, including technology. It really opened up the world to me to think, Oh, my word, when we talk about borrowing, and we normally talk about neighbors, like go to your neighbor to borrow something if you need it, don't just buy it. This is kind of like the library is offering to be your neighbor and lend you a cake pan. If you don't happen to have that in your home, you get that in the library. That was really odd to me, but I thought that was really cool. Right, So some of these aren't at the like actual public library, and some of them will just set up separate kind of quote unquote libraries. UM. So I know there's one like in Portland that's just like a kitchen library and they will rent out different like kitchen tools and like pans and all this stuff. Um. And then there's like tool libraries, Like some of them you can get at public eers, but others they're just a tool library. So it's also worth like, even if you know of the public libraries in your area, to search for your city plus library and see if there's any like private libraries in the area, because that's something I didn't know and one thing on this list that I thought was really interesting. I will also go odd. Since you started that, I will give you my oddest thing, thank you. So people you can check out people, including nurses and social workers. So it's called the living library, and it says it's one of the newest and most exciting offerings libraries now have, which it's I mean, seems new. I don't know how exciting it sounds, but at least for the nurses and the social workers. But you can kind of quote unquote check out an individual who's willing to talk to you about their personal experience on a specific topic. So I don't know, it's just like a one on one thing or or what. But like I know, people like this do like public talkic libraries for free. So yeah, I thought that was kind of the oddest. I found that so interesting and really cool for those who are more into maybe the more anthropology side of things to hear from somebody's personal experience. But also connected with this living library idea is the fact that there are often also resources attached to libraries. So sometimes libraries can be a place where homeless people gather because it's a warm area that people can hang out and have access to internet. When shelters are shut down, like a lot of times, shelters will only provide resources through the night, and then you have to leave in the morning and you can't come back until a certain time. So a lot of times homeless people will go to libraries, And so it sounds like there's also libraries acknowledging this and pulling on other local resources to provide the homeless population with access to resources, utilizing I think social workers in that way, but also allowing the Internet to be used for job searches and different things like that. So kind of like rather than pushing out the homeless population, just acknowledging that this is a place for them and um providing resources. So I thought that was cool, and not all libraries are that intentional, but that was part of the reading that I found there, which I thought was really cool. And I know they have a lot of training on how to deal with that stuff, so there never a nuisance when I'm there. The people that are there and like no kind of how to be you know, the best library patrons, they can eat, So definitely embrace it. It's a really it's a really great thing for the community. And I will say one more thing. I'm looking at this cake pans picture and this woman is at the library, like public Library with them, and it says on the top cake pans and underneath reference. So it's just like bags of cake pans, like on a row. Just so. And I love that these aren't just big libraries, like they're not just so, you know New York City and San Francisco and these are smaller libraries like these are libraries, You're bound to have something special at the library where you live. I know we have at least one of these things that I've looked into, and it's museum passes. So we have um about we have kind of four major museums in the area, and we have access to three of them for free. You get a a four person family pass to the museum and you have seven days to use it from the time you check it out. And when I last checked, there was no wait for these passes. And they're like great museums. So definitely, when we get a free chance, I'm gonna take out some of those museum passes. Yes, So that was my exciting thing that I took advantage of. So my library actually is within walking distance, like it's it's almost even within a stone's throat distance, depending on how like athletic you are. But I couldn't believe this when I read that that you could get museum passes. And I still don't. I still am having a hard time believing that this is a real thing. But I went on my library's website and they have a whole list of museums. You can look it up by available dates or by museum. So I found that one of the lists on my local library is the Children's museum, and so I can I can rent a children's museum past. It's good for six people, so adults and children, good for six people. I pick it up the day before we go, and then I return it. And so I checked it out. My sister's coming in town um in a couple of weeks, like over Thanksgiving, and that date was available. So all I had to do was type in my library card number and it's reserved for me for the date that I wanted. And now I'm able to take my sister and her three kids for free to the children's museum, which would normally be eight dollars a person, and we're going to take six people for right. I think it's free. I don't believe it. I like, I'll tell you if it's not that way, but I can't believe it, And like, what a cool thing for when people come in town and you want to even explore your own area. It's free. But through the library. Yeah, we are the same thing over here. We have a children's museum, we have a glass flowing museum, and then the Museum of Fine Arts UM and then yeah, so each museum website has a different way to get them. Ours is basically you search just like you're searching for a book. You just search museum pass in the book library and and then you can reserve it online. So it's amazing. I am. I'm still I'm still experiencing the high of this that I am getting six passes just for having a library card. Yes, and I can go do this with my family, I know, Yes, when your family coming in town for the holidays, even though we're not talking about holidays right now. You can't trust me, but you can take them somewhere for free. Like it's and it's not a catch. It's the library. Yes, they're not an awful place. Yeah, it says there's UM only lists too, but I can't believe like that. It's not a very common thing. But Chicago Public Library gives passes to seventeen different museums. So even if you are going somewhere and you have a friend that lives there, calling them up or texting them because two and asking them if they can get passes through their library card, they're helping you. It doesn't cost them money and you guys can hang out together. I think we have like fifteen different places on my libraries website and includes it includes like gardens um these like elaborate gardens that you can go tour. It's a variety of different places. I'm so excited. I was feeling excited three and now I feel cheated. That is exciting, Jen, you do have some cool places we do what we do anything else on this thing that you liked seeds, So and this might go along with some of the other like what we were talking about as far as libraries go in different definitions. But and I think even some public libraries might do this too, where you can loan seeds, use them, grow a garden, and then I guess return seeds from your own harvest back into the seed or gardening bank, which I thought was really cool for those people who are into gardening to explore your library for options like that. Yeah, but do you have to give back a seed once your produce has grown? I don't know that's what this article aimed to allude to, but I don't know. Yeah, Bring, I'm sure I am easy enough to do that, but I hope that you can just like accumulate different seeds, because I don't know if I can accomplish growing something that was probably not the library for me. That in loaning it out, you are agreeing that you're going to have to develop a green thumb. Yeah, I can't promise that, you know, I can't promise no promises. Maybe that's not for you, Jen. Yeah, another thing that I like so I now in colleges you can rent out sports recreation equipment, but then you get out of college and you're like, oh god, I don't want to buy a kayak, But some libraries will let you rent like fishing poles, tackle boxes, hiking gear, um and other like smaller sports equipments for sports and hashtag sports hashtags and then you don't have to buy them when you realize that you're not good at sports and then it just goes to waste, or that you're not as into paddle boarding as you thought you might be. Is that a job? Because it was? It's fun that one time. We use it twice? Okay, it's a great deal. Some other notable things on this before we move on, because there's just so many great things, like I want to just read them all. I had no idea. Yeah, but dogs, So apparently you can rent out dogs, um for child to dog reading programs or just for stressed out students. Can you take them home with you? I wasn't clear on that, or just while you're at the library you can have access to a dog. Gosh, that's a really great question that I don't know. But if you're looking for a dog, um that you can take home but not keep for its entire life, you can always foster dogs. That's a yeah. So there's there's an option for short term and long term dogging. I don't think that's a word, but you made it. You made it one, okay. And then also home improvement and maintenance tools like if you were me in our home improvement episode and you only have the yeah you need a power drill, there are you know, like you were mentioning the tool lending library initially, but um, there's one in Oakland, New Orleans. And other places that just have all these home improvement things that you don't need to buy. You can borrow them, save your money, be frugal. Yeah, we should start a podcast about frugality. We have a lot of good things to say. Oh, this is the one I was looking for Santa suits. Oh you are briefing our promise we're gonna have. It's just on the list. Okay, Okay, that's it. I'm done done with this one. All right, let's move on. All right. But I do have to admit our next article is also from book Riot because I just feel like, I mean, I don't want to go to other frugal people. I want to go to the book people. I want to learn about libraries. They seem to know what they're talking about. Yeah, it's uh. The article six ways to become a power user of the public library. I want to be a power user pretty much everything power user. Yeah. So yeah, then if you know what you can get, let's get it and use it effectively. All right. So this first one that I liked from this article is actually when I did really recently, and it's taking advantage of um like inter library holds so or like interlibrary requests our inner library loans, I think is the technical term. So I have a I wanted to read a book. It was a self published book, and so don't think the library only has traditionally published books, and they definitely do have self published as well. But my library did not have the book that I wanted, but it was still in the system, so I requested it and it ended up coming from this library in Kentucky, and I can't extend my loan, but I couldn't have it for a month and then I just give it back to the library. So yeah, and then the library gets to benefit from pleasing me without spending the money on this book. Yeah, I utilized this is a great tip for students. I utilized inner library loans as a undergrad and graduate program through my programs because sometimes you can have access to even your xbooks through the inner library loan, either at your university's library or through your local public library. You could even request sometimes textbooks if they have access to larger universities or cities libraries. So it has been a money saver for me utilizing that as well. You have to think ahead, you have to be proactive and planning, which is also you know A big underlying component of being frugal is being future thinking, which isn't always a strong suit of students. But if you can think ahead and wait a couple of weeks for that book to come in and then quick read it fast before it has to be due back, Uh, that has been Yeah, like I said, a money saver. That's awesome. Anything else you used on this listen? I liked the tip for audio books and we probably most of us do know this, but if we don't have long podcasts that we want to be listening to, like when we're traveling, um, we will we'll use audio books from the library. And that's also a nice way, like a concise way to see what audio books are there, rather than just like scrolling through the internet um and purchasing an audio book. I like to get them from the library before I go on long road trips. So I thought that one was a good tip too. Yeah, and they even have um a new app called Libby Libby so that's where you can get like your e books and your audio books from And this app actually tells you what place in line you are for an audiobook or e book, so you can tell how long the weight is going to be So I've like gotten to like right before a trip, and I want to take it, but like, you can only have a certain number of holds, so I'll hold it like for a week or two before I know that I'm going on my trip, and then by the time I get there, I've got it, and you know, then it just works out perfectly. So but Libby is such a good app. You have a public library, you should definitely have that app on your phone. It's a way you can get e books and audio books like right from your phone. So good. Yeah. I also this one also listed that you can get technology like Roku's or cameras or game consoles at the library, which I thought would be a great idea for kids sleepovers, like parents having a bunch of kids over for a weekend. Rather than buying a new game or a new game console or what you know, spending a lot of money on entertainment, go to your library and see what they have as far as even old movies that you know might just spark some interest for you and for the kids. Or yeah, like like I said, these game consoles and you can rent games and that kind of thing, so you don't always have to spend money to entertain your children. Oh my word, imagine that. What? So these next to actually the first two on the list, I've also have done these. Um. The first one is get to the top of the hold list for hot titles. So most of the time they will put like books that they know are going to be popular on the website before it actually launches, And so you can pre request, which I have done. I actually did with Meet the Frugal Woods. I prerequested it before it was even out, and it wasn't even the first one on the list, and I got it very quickly after it was released. Yeah. And then the next one goes hand in hand with that. It's to request titles for purchase. So maybe the book you want is not going to be a New York Times bestseller, so you can request um. If it's a traditionally published book at at our Light Library, you can request it immediately. If it's a self published book, you have to wait for it to be published for one year before you can request it. I don't know why they do that, that's kind of the rule. So, and I've also requested titles for purchase. I did that with Kate Flanders book the more blessed, so two books that I've done those things with and meant so thankful that I did not have to buy the books. I really great tips. Like I said, I had no idea. This is amazing. Yes. And then the last one on here is just know your special collections, which is what we just talked about. So oh, actually the last one is get book recommendations from your librarian. Yes, you don't have to be afraid of the librarian. She's approachable, he's approachable. Ask them their opinion, what do they like? Yeah, find them and ask them. I'm looking at my Libby app right now because I was just thinking about how far away I am forgetting the book Girl Wash your Face. Do you know that book? I've heard of it, but that's about the extent of it. So I've placed the hold on September and currently I am thirty three in place. I have an approximate wait time of eight weeks for the book, and I'm up from seventy seven. My word, so patients again, a virtue of frugality. Patients. Yes, there are eleven people waiting per copy, and our library has acquired one additional copy since this hold was placed. So and that's all on the libby app, so you need to know all of that. Wow. Yeah, we've hardly mentioned the fact that you can just go to the library and get books to read for self entertainment. More to offer than just what you would normally think of. Yeah, Like the other day I got a calligraphy book out because I took a calligraphy class and I really wanted to, um like brush up on some skills. And the girl recommended this book. But it was really expensive and I really suck, so I didn't want to invest, but I wanted to get better. Hence library, What a cool idea. Yeah, for people wanting to d I y. You always see that too in those apocalyptic movies when everything crashes and there's no internet. Now you have to live off the land. Again. People are always than scouring the library because that's where you would first learn about things, is from books. So to be savvy at the library can prepare you for that zombie apocalypse. Yes, Oh that's that's encouraging. And on that note, well that's transition. Can you tell it's Halloween? Anyways, let's get into something better, something almost as good as the library, something excellent, something, So it's so time for the bill of the week. That's right, it's time for the best minute of your entire week. Maybe a baby was born and his name is William. Maybe you paid off your Morgan, Maybe your car died and you're happy to not have to pay that bill anymore. That's built buffalo bills. Bill Clinton, this is the bill of the week. Hi, Jenn and Jill. This is Susan and I'm calling with a bill of the week, which is my Internet services bill. It was a twelve dollars a month, but I recently called to see how I could maybe get it lowered, and it is now seventy two dollars a month, but slightly reduced speed that my family didn't even notice, and I saved a bunch of money. Thinks that's amazing. Susan, Um, we love calling and asking for lower bills. What a great bill, especially internet. That's forty dollars a month that she's saving. Hold on, let's do some quick math. Four hundred eighty dollars a year back in her pocket, just because she called, and just because she was like, Hey, give me a deal. Your family doesn't even know. You could pocket that for eighty Susan and you could do whatever you want with it. Four hundred eighty dollars. What are you going to do with that at the end of the year, what could that be? That's a week. That's that's a spa week right there. Yeah, that's or a spa day with friends. If you're wanting to be generous, that's I mean, that's all their Christmas presents, and by theirs, I mean all your Christmas presents to yourself, Susan. That is, even though we're not talking about holidays yet, we just a big old lie everybody. I have it it. Thank you so much, Susan. If you want to tell us about your bill of the week, please please please head to Frugal Friends podcast dot com slash bill and you can record your bill right on your phone and tell us. Tell us what's up, tell us who your favorite bill is, what your favorite bill is. Impress us I want to be impressed. Yes, Jill is hard to impress, and they're easy to impress. Though you'll win one of us over at least. Yeah, I mean, actually, no, you were. You were so impressed by that duck bill one. Uh you well, exactly, I'm hard to impress and that impressed me. So sometimes you get me with the cute Warren Off duck Bill. Who didn't love that? Nobody didn't love that? Nobody. I don't know. That's a double negative what you're actually saying, what's actually being said here, I'm saying we should talk about some of our favorite library offerings from our libraries. Um, good transition. Yes, I know I already spoke the praises of Libby because I forgot I added it to the end of the show notes. But who cares. I'll talk about it again. It's a great app. But there are other things. So my library also offers digital music and art lessons what like how does Yes, So it's in a partnership with artist works dot com. So our library does like digital. The lessons are digital, but it's lessons on music and art. So and then also has language lessons but yeah, it's through pronunciator. That's the It's like the library wants people to learn or something I know, And those are all like remote, you could do those from anywhere. Um. And then a big thing in our library is the access to ancestry dot com, so you can find out all you like genealogy files, can find out all of the ancestry dot com database. Um, but that's only accessible in the library. What does that mean because I can go on ancestry dot com. Is it like a heightened access? It's like the version? What man? People are so into that, I know, I know, I yeah, I knew someone and she would hang out at the library and just study genealogy. I think that's it. Oh, that's really cool. So what some of the stuff at our library? How about you? Jill? Some tips that I have found at my own library is that there's a lot happening for families, like a lot of community events my library puts on, so they'll have weakly story time for um, parents and kids to come and listen to more. I don't know. I guess professional storyteller, which is fun, or reading different books, new books, new children's stories that have come in. They'll also do movie nights at my library, and then lots of other community events like and then even some of their fundraisers will be like wine tasting or beer and beef festivals that were put on at the library. Yeah, and then also a lot of free community events. My library also has a community garden, so I think, yeah, I don't know exactly how you would get involved with it. But again there's just a lot of community events that they're constantly doing. And then I know that I will also when I'm babysitting somebody's kid, I'll take them to the library because they have a lot of really fun toys like train sets and little reading nooks, and so I'll just go and spend hours with either like my niece and nephew or friends kids playing on the toys that are there or reading books. But also sometimes there's special exhibits, and I know, depending on the city. So when I visited my sister who used to live in Chicago, they had a beautiful library and every weekend they would have like a different exhibit. They had to be exhibit like live bees. That doesn't sound safe, I'm realizing that as I'm saying it. They were like they were inclosed, but you could watch the bees through this like glass thing. And then they had um face painting where you could get like little bumblebees face painted and and so come to your friend on your face and hives. You could get hives all over as part of the face painting that you get stung, and then it would be like like three D face painting, no, but yeah, they had fun exhibits for learning and then also utilizing the computers and internet there. This occurred to me that as an alternative to going to a coffee shop and spending money on coffee, you could go to your local library for that more workspace environment, but you know, access to internet and not needing to pay for your coffee, bring your own coffee right um, and utilize the computers and internet there. So just a lot of really cool things. And libraries are open late. They're open till like nine o'clock at night, which I didn't realize either. Ours ours are not open that late at night, but I'm sure some of them are. And they have private rooms so if you need like an office, it's usually a first come, first serve like office space. And they're just so cool. I didn't think about that thing with the kids because I would never babysit because I'm just am horrible with kids. I can't figure out what to do with them. But taking them to the library sounds like a great idea because they do. Ours has like little nooks, and they actually have like a teenager nook. It's like separate from the kidnookum, which like sounds like a good and bad idea. I'm not sure about it, but they have all these kids stuff that would be a great idea. And depending on the library, but I know mine and a lot of others that I've been to, there's playgrounds like right outside or nearby, so you've got kind of the best of both worlds. If it starts to get rainy or two called go inside and read a book and go back outside and run around and just spend your whole day at the library. That's so funny because our library, instead of having a playground in front of it, actually has workout equipment, like it's outside. Yes, so it's workout equipment that's designed to be outdoors. We have a lot of it in our area because for like this Get Fit Healthy initiative, but it's in a lot of bigger cities. And yeah, it's like a full outdoor gym outside basically like an adult playground. Yes, oh that's cool. Yes, Jen, When I come out to visit you next, we're going to go to the library. Very it's close enough for us to walk there. I mean I could never throw a stone that far, but it is close enough to walk and you could do like a little warm up run down to the gym and all right, let's not go overboard now, okay, well we'll go next time you're here. Do you have any other tips for your local library? So, not my local library, but I did find this out in my research, um that in California, if you are a California resident, you can request a virtual library card um to get e books from any library in California. So if you live in a very populous county and you want like a more popular book, like a Girl Wash Your Face, you can apply for a virtual card at another library, thus possibly cutting eight time for said book. So I thought that was a cool thing that California offered. That is cool, alright California. Yeah, it's sensitive lived there, but I guess that's cool. That parts nice. Yeah, all right. I think that's that's all we have to say about libraries. I think said. I think we've said enough. I know you thought this was going to be a five minutes I literally and doll, just doll. You thought this was going to be an episode of popcorn Finance. I thought we were going to have to use our inside voices and have our hair and buns. No, no, we can talk. I mean, if you didn't know this about us, we can talk. So but I think we we don't want to beat a dead horse. Just no library is great. Search out what yours has to offer, and then come back and tell us about it in our Frugal Friends Facebook group because we want to know all of the cool things your library has to offer, so we can be jealous. I bet there's even more out there. I bet. Well, we'll wrap it up. It's November and so we are finally reading The More of Less by Joshua Becker and I'm is so excited to read this. Um, and you are going to love, love, love one of our future guests if you like reading this book, because I'm bad at keeping secrets, so I'm just gonna say it. I'm so excited. Um. But our next book for December is The Millionaire next Door by Thomas Stanley, and the book is basically a compilation of research he did on millionaires that found that they don't necessarily show up where you think or by the things you assume. So it's a must read in a frugal book club because you will be inspired to become a millionaire because spoiler alert, they are all frugal and you'll find out the frugal things that they do nice and like we've done in all of these past months. If you want a free copy of The Millionaire next Door, we are giving away one for every five reviews we get this month, and again, as always, there's no limit to that, so everyone give us your review to enter. Leave us a review on your podcast listening device, not just iTunes, anywhere you're listening. Screenshot that review and send it to us at Frugal Friends Podcast at gmail dot com, and we will select the winners for this book at the end of the month. And if you want to know what a great review looks like a winning review, rather, we are actually going to pick our winner for drum roll for the More of right now, Jill pick a number one through five. Two. It's Brittany. It's Brittany, and Brittany says love it. Brand new to this podcast and I'm absolutely loving it. Great tips for maximizing your Money's so awesome. Thank you so much, Brittany for your sweet review, and you will be getting a copy of Joshua Becker's More of Less so you can amaze Brittany awesome. Yeah, you can be a winner to just just follow our guidelines. Thank you so much, you guys for hanging out with us today. Hit the subscribe button wherever you're listening to this episode, and we will keep coming at you every Friday. It doesn't have to end here with some more frugality tips. You can expect more like our library episode. You know who would have who would have expected? Probably not talk about the holidays, which might be another wife, because apparently that's all we do. So we are that shrouded with lies and deceit here So until next week, bye y'all. See uh. Frugal Friends is produced, edited and mixed by Eric Syria. I had no idea, Jen, You blew my mind with this whole library talk. Isn't it great? Wow? Why why have we not been to the library together? That's a good question. Yeah, did we even go to a pawn shop together? Clearly, if your memories of a pawn shop were like foggy and sweaty, we did not go together. Was so slut um. No, we We've got so much ground to cover when we see each other next which I'll start making a list. Yeah, what were we doing? We were too concerned with happy hours? We really were happy hours in the beach, which again, then then there's nothing wrong with that, But pawn shops and libraries are in our rest. I don't know, maybe we should just stick with happy hours in the beach. Good point,

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