 Free and Fruger What's up money geeksmas v here welcome to another video guys into this video I wanted to show you guys how living free and fruger really looks like Christmas edition This is a video that was actually kind of recommended to me by my really good friend over at sensible living with money mom Money mom you're awesome. Thanks for the recommendation and I hope you guys enjoy it You guys know we are very very smart with the way we spend our money We don't spend it if we if it's not important So a lot of people take Christmas as an opportunity to kind of flourish and you know do stuff Some people spend money on like gifts and a ton of money on gifts some people spend a ton of money on maybe Decorating the house and doing all that all the other things to me Consider Christmas more of an experience as opposed to a material thing. So yes, you want to give gifts That's cool But most often than not people move away from your gifts better than they get more away from an experience when you give somebody an Experience it stays with them a lifetime. So I here with our kids Our goal is not to kind of just buy them toys and toys and bunch of toys Our goal is to give them experiences that they will remember when they grow up because I've never seen anybody that grew up And it was so excited about the toys that they had when they were kids when you grew up You grew up those toys don't mean anything, but if you grew up in an experience you sit there and people were talking about Experiences how they grew up with your parents and what they did, you know That kind of really makes you feel special makes you really know your parents cared about you. That's the way we see it Maybe you you're out there. You do it differently. You think that buying material things is What the experience is I'm not fought for that, but that's how we do it. So I'm gonna show you guys around the house right now We have our Christmas decoration up I'm gonna show you guys what we have from our Christmas tree to some of the other decorations that we have and what we spend on all the decorations and We'll go from there. So let's go around the house and check out the house. So first stop Let's go to a living room here So this is our this is our main living room. I'm just gonna set over here This is my wife's one of my wife's favorite decorations She got these at Salvation I mean I think she spent like four bucks or so for that whole thing I mean we've had it for three years now and every Christmas Once we're done with Christmas we take them down and put them we have like these tote containers We'll just take everything put in that tote container Use duct tape and make sure it's secure and then we put it we have like an attic in the house We just put it there Until next December, which is awesome and that we when we take it out It's it looks clean and ready to go and nobody has ever complained that we Reusing our decorations from to say three years ago And then just moving over this way There were sort of stockings for the family So From there from left to to right or right to left whichever one So we got those stockings still a salvation amy and if you can see if I can zoom in here See the the names that you have on there Those names are actually I did the names because we have the tools here at home to actually decorate Stuff like it. So we just cut them out and and he'd press them on the stockings, which is kind of cool So those are I think this were a dollar piece and then it probably cost me like 50 cents for the vinyl to do the decoration So if you say those would be a dollar 50 a piece and we will have them for ever They're gonna be they're gonna be here forever cuz they're not we don't it's just you take them out during Christmas and put them away secure after Christmas. So that's it So I'm gonna show you guys one one thing here So if you look at that in attainment set right there, you see that for the whole big entertainment set We got this for free. You're probably looking like that's expensive. No So the story behind is that we had a friend that was like whose mom bought a new house And so she was gonna like demo near the entire house or the inside and redesign it and this In the 10 minutes that was there and she didn't want it and she was gonna pay people to come get it out So I'm like, hey, you don't need to pay me. I'll come get it for free So we when they're out there with my wife, we you know took it down brought it here and fixed it up and Repainted it and today that's what it looks like. It looks expensive, but that's absolutely Well, we probably spend like three or four bucks on paint. That's about it so Definitely not free, but you spend some money on paint and now let's move over to our Christmas tree We've had this Christmas tree now for six years and counting and this is our You know what people call our an artificial Christmas tree I don't think that buying or chopping down trees ever Christmas is a smart idea first It's expensive, you know you spend on a 60 70 dollars on a tree And then after Christmas you throw it away. So I don't think that works So we bought this for things like 15 bucks on sale after Christmas Because hey, if you're shopping for Christmas stuff, the best time to buy is after Christmas That's where you get the best deals. So we went out and got these things like 15 bucks and so we've had enough for six plus years We take it out every Christmas again. Like I said, we have these storage containers we just put it in the storage containers and and Use dark tape secure it and it stays in till December. We pull them out And the good thing about this one is like it's got lights that are built in so if I can get no get closer If you can see right here, there's all this this lights are actually built-in lights. So Right there. So you don't have to do anything. All you have to do is just take your tree out Just stand it up and plug it in and it's ready to go and then all the ornaments The ornaments my wife has just been like over the years Collecting and buying them on sale when she sees them. And so that's what you see As far as the ornaments on the on on the Christmas tree. So there is our Christmas tree Again, I believe in experience is more so than spending money on stuff So so when I move over to the other room and I'm gonna show you guys what we have over there. So this is kind of like our Is there like our dining table area? I want to show you guys this real quick So this is a this is a bench that we actually built and so if you see it goes all the way back that way So we have issues with the number of chairs that we can actually put on our on our table here And so we decided to build a bench We two little boys running around and trying to do a construction project guys I would not advise you to try to do that It's a really really difficult task. So our The project that would have taken us maybe two or three hours And I've taken us like a whole week because I have our little boys running up and down and you don't want him to get hurt We do it Then our table here if you can see the top here, there's a good table. The top is granite We got this table for a hundred dollars There was a couple that were moving from their town home and they didn't need the table So they posted it on Craigslist and we saw it. I think it's like seven years ago We saw it and when and picked it up for four hundred bucks That thing is not going anywhere anytime soon. I mean, like I said, it's granite, which is which is awesome So moving over here This is still some of my wife's decorations. So like I said, she she just buys this stuff over the years and And so like a picture like this she would print out all these different Different decoration or different pictures of different signs or saying every Christmas and put something new in there Just to kind of make it look nice nice and neat. So It's still part of the decorations That's her piano. She got on Craigslist as well. She's now teaching the boys and how to play that And then just along this along the stairs here This way we have some some Christmas Christmas lights and see some of the decorations Again, all this stuff is we've had them for like five or six years at least And so we just keep you we just keep reusing them and we're not spending any money And then if you look at it by the door there's a riff hanging out outside the same concept Buy after Christmas and you can reuse it for as long as you as long as you you leave because I mean We don't spend money on actual stuff and then This is some of the some of the other stuff that my wife got I think she got this as a gift So we just put it here and I'm surprised that these things have been sitting out here for like two weeks And none of none of these decorations like none of it is broken yet because The boys didn't know how to break stuff and so far and not a single one Has been touched which is awesome. So that's about it for a Christmas decoration I know this is not enough But I mean for some people they want to put a ton of stuff as far as decorations in the house We don't I mean hanging on to all that stuff Something that I don't enjoy. So we have the minimum that we need And we just reuse it over the years. So there you go guys. That's us. That's our Christmas decoration That's a you know living free and fruger Christmas edition. That's the way we decorate our house again Like I said, I know it's not a whole lot of decoration, but it works for us We can we want to do more experiences as opposed to Material things hanging around like share subscribe and as always Stay motivated