2023 was a challenging year, but I managed to make $332,000 before taxes as the sole breadwinner and head of household. It's a good starting point, but I'm always looking ahead on how to improve.

How about people paying over $100 for a pink Stanley cup and getting into fights over it.

I also bought a cassette tape a couple weeks ago...and now I can finally listen to music in my 2001 Opel Astra. Great purchase.

Dude, your KZfaq channel is fun. It has quickly become one of my faves

That cotton candy machine was so worth it , There are different perspectives on recessions and depressions; we cannot always expect significant rewards; and taking risks is preferable to doing nothing. The bottom line is that by diversifying your portfolio and making sensible judgments, you will accomplish exceptional outcomes. In just 5 months, my portfolio's raw earnings increased by $608k.

My wedding was at a restaurant on a Sunday afternoon after they closed from their lunch rush. It had a beautiful fireplace that we stood in front of. Our family didn't have to move between the ceremony and the reception. After the ceremony, we had photos taken while the waitress took everyone's order. then we had our First Dance, and then the meals were served. We had budgeted $500 for the restaurant cost, and it was only $235. We gave them the entire $500 and we heard later that the waitress split the tip with the cook and the runner. Great wedding! My new husband had debt that we tackled after the honeymoon.

1:50 Growing up the neighbors dressed their baby in Armani baby clothes. Who knew they even made such things? 😂

I've seen people buy tickets to ride inside a small submersible that was controlled by a $10 Bluetooth controller.

Remember when people were putting $5,000 spinner wheels on their $1,000 hooptie? Some people were even renting these spinner wheels for their hoopties. 1 year later, the craze was over.

I sometimes have buyers remorse on the $600 litter robot. Then I remember I haven't scooped poop the past couple of years and I'm fine.

The drunken Googley eyes had me dying 😂😂😂

In 2013, I spent $2,000 on healthcare supplements to buy myself into “advisor” status with an MLM. Stupid, stupid, stupid. By the time I sold all the products, I was so burned out on the “business” that I dropped out of it!

5:30 I live in Sheboygan, thanks for the shoutout! Wish we had a Tower Records, but I do have your audiobook and will blast it on the roads when I travel for ya ;)

Beloved aunt was away for a business trip and beloved uncle got sloppy drunk one night. They were both surprised by the Amazon delivery of chicks and ducklings shortly after. 🐥 While the cutesy waddlers weren’t cheap (cheep? Ha!) the emergency shopping for suitable accommodations to keep them alive was a wallet flattener.

University of Phoenix is accredited. Hubby got his BSBA and with that got to the next level in his career almost immediately. Love your channel, just wanted to make that little correction😊

My 17 year old granddaughter got a loan for a $21,000.00 car loan. That scares me. She also has has three accidents in 7 months. That’s even scarier.

First thing that came to mind after reading the title..a $40-$50 CUP! Yes a cup 🤦‍♀️😂

Oh and another, brand name clothes for my kid. You feel awful when they get it dirty and worse when they outgrow it. Which for babies happens every 3 months.

I absolutely love this video! Please make another one like it. Thank you.

Love your KZfaq channel and can't wait to read your book !!! Love your KZfaq channel. Love love love!!!!

One thing that I’ve seen is expensive baby brand clothes like Gucci baby clothesline. Jordans and stuff .

As someone that is currently planning a wedding, I can tell you the reception is the expensive part of the wedding, not as much the ceremony, so having a reception later probably won't save as much as you might hope. I tried to find a venue outside of my church, but that was really expensive. Then I thought I'd have the ceremony at the church and go elsewhere for the reception, that was going to be just as expensive and way more hassle. So I just decided to have it all at my church because it was significantly cheaper, but it's still going to be more expensive than I had hoped for. Neither of us want an expensive wedding. The cost at this point is all on me and I recently paid off debt and am rebuilding my emergency fund. When we get married I will inherit her debt. So we don't have a lot of cash to work with and I need at minimum to pay for the wedding, honeymoon, and a new larger bed when we get married. It all adds up. And of course we need to then start working on knocking down her debt.

I lost $15.00 in a slot machine in Vegas and almost threw up! I could have purchased a delicious burrito or ANYTHING and just threw that $15.00 in the trash/casino. Gambling is not for me! Cheers!

$20k for a car is actually pretty reasonable for a good used car. New car average transaction prices are $48k. Student loans are only a bad deal for those of us who never had them and now have to pay for them thanks to a certain senior citizen.

Got hooked on one of those lose weight exercise programs back in the nineties. Already regretted it when it arrived. Stuffed it in my closet in embarrassment. Threw in in the trash a couple years later without ever opening it!

I donated $2 to one of those Wal-Mart "charity" scams they pull when you pull up on a checkout line. I thought I could claim it on my income tax, but the taxman said donating to those "charity" isn't recognized by the tax guys😒

Thank you George ❤

Mr. Kamel is the goat. Leading this finance scene one great video after another.

Baby photo shoot...so weird!!

I've always been very intentional about my money. I don't think i have a dumb purchase. But, my worst purchase was my first house. It was all bad timing. I bought into an area that didn't seem to be affected by the 2008 crash. Really, they were just 2 years behind. So I bought right before they crashed. Which would have been fine. My initial plan was to buy & hold for at least 8-10 years. Pay it off in that time. Then rent it because it was a great location for college students or a small family wanting ties to the college. Work had other things in mind. My company got bought out. The product line I was working on got canceled. I didn't lose my job, but it was really close. I ended up having to move immediately. And it was at litterly the lowest point in the market. I lost 40k on the sale. Plus it was a fixer. So everything I put into it was gone too. Idk how much anymore but it had to be a 60k+ loss by the time you account for everything. Had I been able to make my plan work. I would have a pretty sweet rental. I'd have probably 1.5k extra of rental income. And the house is worth 3x now of what I originally paid. I probably would have sold it soon if not already to pay off my existing house and add some to my investments. But none of that happened. Really the whole thing set me back by about 10 years. Little less. Yeah.. agai, it was the worst purchase ever but had a lot of potential. I absolutely hate mergers & acquisition. The only people who benefit are stick holders. The employees are always treated like garbage. Just... if you manage a company... stop pretending it's a good thing. Nobody buys it. We knowyou'rer lying. Stop lying. It's not good.

New cars to enjoy significant depreciation as you drive out the car showroom.

@1:25 - The new meaning of a wedding IS to spend a lot of money to flex on your friends & family. And once you’ve got your fix, you now have the know how to spend even more money on your next wedding, and next, and so on.

Fun video. Thanks!

Seeing "Twitter" on the thumbnail killed me 😂

Lottery tickets. Full stop.

I bought a $700 dollars mailbox 15 years ago 🤣😭 in my defense it wasn't a regular mailbox, it was a mailbox that when mail was placed in, the weight of the mail would make the bottom tilt, and the mail would fall and collect on the locked mailbox's back container. I bought it after witnessing some people stealing from the neighborhood mailboxes. Funny thing though, the mailbox was hit by a car a couple of days later damaging the box's mechanism and ended up in the crawling space under our house 🤣

LOVE the SMART acrostic. Put it in more videos!!

Someone who bought a $300 dollar pair of Jordans, and ruined them the next day playing basketball in the rain.

I also bet $20 on blackjack about 3 years ago. Lost it in less than 30 seconds. I have not played blackjack since. I work too hard for my money to lose it like that.

Former knife collector turned watch collector/fan/nerd here… you don’t want to know the amount of money I’ve spent on shiny pieces of metal. We are Debt free save the mortgage though, going into debt for a watch is criminally stupid

I love your videos!

$700 on a litter bot... would you pay 75 cents a day to not have to clean a litter box with 3 cats over 3 years? Otherwise totally agree

Remember the Ab Energizer belts of 2001? I was young and dumb at that time, and I'm guilty as charged. After I bought one for $70, I was too embarrassed to use it, and decided to never use it and tossed it in the trash when I heard the human test dummies were getting electric shocks.

Whomever edits for George is masterful. George is generally kinda dry (less so with Rachel) but the editor gives his channel the comedic touch. Great job editors!!

The best things I bought were my commercial vitamix and my cutco knives. Expensive but I use my vitamix everyday to blend my salad. I hate eating salad so I blend it and drink it. My cutco knives have never failed me in 12 years and counting.

The top correct answer is Starbucks

Probably a decade ago, I bought a $100 work from home scam. Why did I pay $100 for them to employ me? 😂

I've been known to spend $30/month on the digital collectible card game(CCG) Animation Throwdown. Now, to be fair, there are regular competitions in the game, and $30 is a small price to get a little edge in your card collection. Especially when the total offers on any given day would run a person north of $2k - I've done the math.

My first car was an AMC Spirit. Cost $800. Back in 1990, I think....

I would like to know where I can get a cardboard cutout of Dave, for my shop next to my wake boat.

Fake nails are expensive and cost a ton over the years. And why? Vanity?

Another thing I bought… $10 for 2 bottles of water at an event. Should have found a sink instead. The water quality is the same.

Look I love trucks. But, I really really wish people, usually teen boys, would stop buying only the front lift kit for their trucks leaving the rear stock! Oh my gosh that is so stupid looking going down the road!

I would avoid using the word NEVER. Life is too complicated to claim absolutes. Student loans became popular because they did work when college was still affordable. The run away prices made them not worth it based on what salaries are available.

A Sunday-go-to-meeting pistol, aka BBQ gun… a shiny, often engraved with exotic material grips, in a hand tooled holster, specifically for special occasions

I paid $16 for a hotdog at AT&T stadium

I only know Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Dior and Hermes that sell $7,000 bags

It wasn’t expensive per se, but definitely impulsive. I spent $50 on a dead sea face scrub That was probably only an ounce and a half because the man talking to me was so beautiful that he lured me in. 🤦‍♀️ I don’t think I used it more than five times. Also I was like 18 and I would never spend that now.

My friend died a little while after getting married and her husband still was paying the loan for their wedding. 😭😭😭 So sad.

That cotton candy machine was soooo worth it!

Hey that Jack LaLanne juicer on top of my fridge that I bought in the 90s and while watching a late night infomercial was NOT $2,000 😂

Crazy

I want one of the robot litter boxes but the price is crazy

I had a dream last night that I bought a broken ice cream machine from my local McDonald's.

Litter robots cost that much. I have one. There are flaws and I don't think there should be to pay that much for automatic litter box

The Rainbow vacuum for $3000 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Stupid thing I bought… a $400 Dyson vacuum that after 5 years requires a lithium battery replacement that cost $40.

I spend my $50 allowance on Pokémon cards when I was 11-12 yrs old.

I bought digital land for 50 bucks and made 185 from it lol

I once spent $70 in airport and on plane🙄😒...moral of story don't go to airport hungry 😅

Like someone who spends money on a tesla.

6:14 Funny how people are so willing to believe in money that doesn't exist while denying a God that does.

A timeshare

Was the adult baby photoshoot a joke? Cuz ngl, that could be really funny for like a single guy's Christmas card or to gift people stickers/magnets/buttons of

This world needs more randomly placed googly eyes

How about theme park pictures? Anyone?

College. The dumb person was me.

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Hahahaha!! 😂😂😂

University of phoenix is accredited well at least 13 years ago it was. I am an educated person who makes 100k plus just saying 😊.

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Do you have a connection to Sheboygan? You mention it a lot.

Tattoos

NFTs

What has happened to society?

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I think Bitcoin and Ethereum could have a future so I put a little money in them but I'm not betting the life savings on it. But all these alt coins, hype coins and rug pulls that are hyped up by the crypto youtubers pretty much always just go to zero.

George kemel > Dave Ramsay

Botox

1. Bottled Water. 2. Take away coffee. 3. Marinara Sauce (you can't mix tomato, onion and garlic?). 4. Jewellery. 5. Only Fans

I always wondered how the Son of Man could afford to pay it all… it’s because Jesus save 😉

At least the brother put his money on the line also.

I will NEVER make fun of Elon for buying Twitter. He liberated our many censored voices!

Too many trivial words, please keep videos short.

This video gives off very judgmental vibes. Not a fan of it.