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Hey Mountain Family! So today I did a money saving collab with other channels. Make sure to check out the playlist below! I share 5 ways Devin and I save money. I hope you enjoyed this video and don't forget to SUBSCRIBE for more fun videos!
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Hey Mountain Family
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So today I am doing a money saving collab. I'm going to share with you guys ways that Dev and I have found to pinch pennies
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And if you want to watch other videos like this, there will be a playlist down below
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in the description bar so make sure to check that out. I am still sick you guys, so I apologize for the way that I sound today
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If you are new to my channel and this is the first video you're watching of mine, my name
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is Kristen. I am a vlogger from West Virginia and my husband and I have three little girls
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Carly will be three in June, Kinley will be two in August, and Andy just turned two months
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Without further ado, I'm going to go ahead and get into this video. The first way that Dev and I save money is buying in bulk
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We recently just got a Sam's Club card like a month and a half ago, something like that
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And we don't buy everything in bulk. Our family isn't that big that that's necessary
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But we do buy things like wipes, cleaning stuff, garbage bags, dishwasher liquid, basically
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just stuff like that. We buy that in bulk. And it really does save us money in the long run
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The second way that we save money, and I haven't been doing this lately because we've moved
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and doing this on top of moving, it was just too much
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But I'm going to start cloth diapering Andy. It's just so much cheaper to spend like $200 on a stash and do cloth diaper laundry every
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other day, rather than to keep paying for disposables. Cloth diapering really isn't a dirty job as most people think
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It's really not that bad. If you buy the toilet attachment and just spray everything down the toilet, it's really
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not bad. But today I'm going to unpack our cloth diapers and I'm going to start that with Andy
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If they fit her, I hope that they do. And that is how we're going to save money on diapers
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The third way that we save money, I kind of borrowed this idea from CoSci
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We went last year. They had like this going green exhibit. And in the exhibit they suggested that you unplug all appliances that run a clock, like
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a microwave for instance, because that is constantly using energy. Now granted, I don't unplug everything that uses a clock, like my stove
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I don't do that. To me that's going just a little bit too far and I don't find it necessary
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But if I'm not using something, it comes out of the wall. And I do unplug my microwave because the clock on it just really isn't necessary
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And in a society where we have cell phones that constantly keep time for us, I don't
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need my microwave. It's not going to save you a bunch of money on your electric bill, but any little bit
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counts and I just don't see the necessity for the clock on my microwave
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I just realized that number 4 kind of ties into number 3 in a way, but oh well
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I turn off my lights when I'm not in the room. Actually, just to take it a step further, on beautiful sunny days like this where I
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have lots of light coming through my windows, I don't turn on my lights at all
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It's light in here. What is the need for my light to be on if it's already light in here
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So I don't do that. We really only use our lights for when it gets dark outside
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I'm so excited for it to be summer very soon because it means it's going to be nice and
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sunny the majority of the time and my electric bill is going to go really down
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I am so excited. And the fifth and last thing that Dev and I do to save money, if we can, we buy generic
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brand everything. I mean, you name it. The pharmacy, food, I even go cheap on makeup
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Not that I wear much anyway as you can clearly see. I just don't have the time nowadays, so forget it
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But anytime I can buy something generic that is just as good as the name brand stuff, I
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buy it. So that is how Dev and I save money. I hope you guys enjoyed this video
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If you want to follow me on social media, my links are down below. And if you're new to my channel, hit that subscribe button
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I have changed my vlogging schedule. I now vlog Monday through Friday
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So I will see you guys tomorrow. Bye guys. Fun little side note
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I just noticed that you guys were able to see my hand during this video. Carly decided to get into my food coloring
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So I've had to clean that up off my floor today. So my hand is stained
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I'm sorry guys. Didn't know that you all could see that until I started watching
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And I was like, oh yeah, I'm going to explain that. I'm sorry
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