Hello lovely.
I'm Maria and my name is Rory and we are the hosts of the IELTS Speaking for Success podcast, the podcast that aims to help you improve your speaking skills as well as your listening skills.
Along the way, we've started this podcast to give you gorgeous grammar and super vocabulary for your high IELts color.
Rory, you do need to buy a new phone and earbuds and probably a new microphone.
Oh my God.
Jesus.
I'm not made of money, woman.
Oh yeah, let's talk about money.
Do you spend a lot of money?
Well, I think that depends on what you mean by a lot, to be honest with you.
I mean, for example, things like yoga and the gym have pretty fixed prices, so it's not really something you spend a lot of money on.
Of course, the fact that I go there when the average person does not means that I probably do spend a lot of money on it.
So what I'm saying is it's all relative really.
How do you save money?
Well, right now I don't save money because I've just bought a house and I'm paying to have it renovated and making all the various repairs to it over the course of time.
So that's proving to be a bit of a money pit right now.
However, usually when I save money I have different accounts with different purposes.
For example, I have an investment savings account or an ISA, and once the money is in that account, it just stays there and doesn't move.
It's kind of like a psychological barrier for me.
There's nothing to stop me from doing it apart from the thought of this, money is there for saving.