 Today I'm going to show you how our Vitamix is worth $134,129.50 to our family. Quick rules, we're not going to count any time saved, we're not going to factor in opportunity costs, savings from like our health insurance or life insurance plan that we get and whatever it's worth to us over the year, we're going to multiply that by 10 because the machine comes with a 10 year warranty. Anything goes wrong, free shipping both ways. They take care of it to make it as good as new as we're just doing like make versus buy here. Juice, fruit, green seeds, lemon, ginger, ice on top. I calculated it about $4.20 but you know what, I'm going to use the principles of conservatism that was beaten into my head and my training to become a CPA something like 15 years ago. We're going to round it up to five bucks. It makes 64 ounces so that's $2.50 per 32 ounce per mason jar and we're just going to pretend that you can get a green juice, a whole food green juice that big for 10 bucks. We'll just pretend it's not possible. Something like that would probably be $14. We're going to give ourselves one day off so six out of seven days a week, 52.14 weeks a year. Just from the green juice alone, our Vitamix is worth $2,346.30. That's over $23,000 over the decade over the life of the machine. It's really well between the Acai packet, the frozen strawberries, frozen blueberries, a little bit of liquid, all milk, whatever, the 20 cent banana, some seeds, and then the toppings. Fresh berries, peanut butter, seeds, granola, coconut. I got $4.70 but we're going to round it up to $5 and again that's for a batch for an entire family. If we were out to get smoothie balls, we're getting three, our little guy can't have one yet. 12 bucks each, $36, that's $31 a week over the year, $16.16.34 sounds like a novel. That's over $16,000 over the decade in smoothie balls. Next detox salad, this is our coarse chopped salad, aka mama salad we make once a week. It's $3 worth of cauliflower, a buck worth of carrots, a buck 50 worth of kale, buck 50 worth of cabbage, some toppings for 20 cents, that's about $7.30. Round that up to $8 for a giant batch, 8 bucks, a lot of money for a giant batch. You get that at Whole Foods, about three pounds of detox salad, aka mama salad, that's 30 bucks. That's a savings of $22 a week over the course of the year, $1,147.08 over the decade, $11,470.80. Let's talk about the queso we make every week. A single batch of queso makes about four 8 ounce jars, little 8 ounce packs of specialty sauce like this, aka I don't know if this is a swear word, B-I-T-C-H-E-N sauce, about five bucks each. Our batch of queso is a buck for a bell pepper, $2.50 worth of nuts, $0.50 worth of spices, about $4. If we bought that much cashew queso in the store, it'd be about 20 bucks. That's a saving of $16 a week, $52.14 a year, $834.24 over the decade is $8,342.40. Broccoli cheese soup, this is just one of the soups we make, fills you up, so delicious. It's basically our queso with some tofu and some extra spices. So if the queso is four bucks, tofu is two bucks. Let's make it a whole meal and add a baguette, maybe some apple slices. $8 to feed the whole family, instead of going out to dinner and spending 50 bucks, that's a $42 savings, over the year $2,189.88, move the decimal place over and that's $2,898.80. On the weekends we like to make special breakfast, aka blueberry pancakes, sometimes pumpkin pancakes, pancakes. A double batch of our oatmeal pancakes, oats, aquafaba, banana, baking powder, a tiny bit of peanut butter. How about fresh hot coffee for the both of us, it's like $5.50, we're going to round up to six. Going out to special breakfast, tipping generously, party of three and a half, that's 60 bucks easy. So do it at home for six bucks, $54 savings over the year, $2,815 and over the life of the Vitamix machine, which usually, oh by the way, lasts longer than its guaranteed warranty, 10 years, $28,155.60. Moving on, protein shakes, protein shakes cost like three bucks to make, a giant batch. Two 20 ounce protein shakes at the store, $14, that's a savings of $11, we've been using these as a bribe for a three year old to stay in bed till his okay to wake light turns on and you know after our runs and everything, my runs, four days a week we make these. So make versus buy, 44 bucks a week over the course of the year, $2,294.16 over the decade. I gotta say, I'm really excited about this math and how much like our Vitamix is actually worth to us. If you're feeling good about this too, you hit that like button, it really helps us. Thanks. Hit it. Smash it. Ding. Wild rice soup, this is our most popular recipe. Now a perfect comparison for this would be going to a specialty chef, getting soup to go or even like an emerald agasi special organic fancy plant-based soup. I'm going to compare this to just canned progresso chicken rice soup. That's a more relatable comparison. For that, there isn't a huge savings, but even though our wild rice soup is not an inexpensive recipe to make, the wild rice costs a fair amount of money, but compared to three cans of progresso at three bucks each, it's still $2 less to make every time. And even if you make it every other week for six months a year, you still save like $260 over the decade. Not a ton. But for our most expensive, fancy recipe, it's still cheaper dressings. We make caesar, ranch, and our balsamic vinaigrette either a sort of regular one or our bright blue balsamic vinaigrette. You get those in the store. Those are five bucks a bottle. The ingredients for these are not cheap, but still even being conservative, they're under $3 each. If you get one a week, harden $43.39 over the year, slide over that decimal point. That's a ton of dough. Real talk about hummus. We still buy our own hummus. It is a habit and quite frankly, laziness thing. We could save a lot of money by making our own hummus. Hummus is very expensive relative to what is actually in it and what it would take for you to make it. Peanut butter, we outsource peanut butter too. We could make our own peanut butter, but the value there is intangible, it is priceless. You're not going to have cost savings for making your own peanut butter or even your own almond butter for that matter. It's the flavors and the aromas and just like the freshness of it. So sometimes we make our own, sometimes we don't. Just from those handful of Vitamix recipes that we make on the regular, at a minimum $134,129.50. That's like college, that's undergraduate, that's a four year education. 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Hey, if you're still here, funny story, sort of, way back in the day when Shalva and I were just kind of getting started doing this together, she had this idea that she wanted to have a smoothie truck and sell smoothies for what are, $78 and on the side of the truck write out the cost of what the smoothie is to us and like taunt you into the fact that we're charging you $7 but what's really in here is worth like $1.50 and do the math for you to show you you really should get your own Vitamix and then sell Vitamix machines out of the back of the truck. We never did this, we kind of just stayed behind our computers but she wanted me to remind you of that story. Okay, thanks again guys, life is no yoke.