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Something we all wish we had more of is time and money. But all of my other videos are about that. So today I'm sharing my list of 13 time saving items that will give you hours of your life back. Not just so you can cram more into your day, but so you can spend more time on what actually matters to you. But first, let's spend a few precious seconds to say thank you to Deleteme for sponsoring this channel. By the way, before we start Quick disclaimer. Let me save you some comments. None of these products are sponsored. They don't pay me to talk about them. They didn't send me free products. I am not the influencer you're looking for and I'll be sure to drop links in the description to these products if you want to check them out for yourself. If you don't want to, don't care. Again, I'm not getting paid for this. Let's start with something that probably doesn't immediately come to mind as a time saver, but it definitely is. And that's number one. Apple AirTags just think about how much time you spend looking for your keys, your wallet, your dog, your kid's favorite stuffed animal. Well, if you slapped an airtag on it, you could instantly find it with your phone. Now if you lose your phone, you've got bigger fish to fry. But that's what the Find my app is for, which I usually use to help my wife find her phone, which is somehow constantly missing in action on our house now, four pack of AirTags will cost you between 63 and 99 bucks depending on which generation you get. Now personally I use the most basic version. Works just fine. You can also buy a Single AirTag for $23 to use on your most misplaced item. Because think about it, five minutes here, 10 minutes there. It adds up fast. And the cost to replace that item if you do lose it, well, that'll cost you. That's time and money saved and that's why I love these things. In fact, let me test this out right now. I've got one in my backpack and it shows that it is with me at the Ramsey headquarters and I can't even play the sound. Let's see. There she is. And I can even find it here nearby. Far 3ft. 2ft. Bazinga. What a nerd. Nerd alert. I like it. Pretty neat. That is actually the best function is that it tells you what direction to go and how many feet. Little Marco Polo, if you will. The kids still doing that are they doing Marco Polo? Well, the air tags lead me to the next item on the list. At number two, we've got duplicate essentials. How much time do you spend packing toiletries for travel? Or moving your charger from room to room realizing you left your toothbrush in your gym bag? If you're a gym rat like me, constant problem in my life. Well, one way to avoid the daily frustration and time wasting scavenger hunt is to just buy duplicates of the things you use every day and put them where you actually need them. I'm talking chargers, water bottles, toiletries, chapsticks, back scratchers, twin line flossers. If you know, you know, one for your bathroom, one for your bag, one for the office. You're not being wasteful here. You're just being efficient. And besides, most of the items in this category are just a few bucks. We're not talking hundreds of dollars. And when you don't have those duplicates, here's what happens. You'll end up spending more money you weren't planning on to get it last. All right, these next several things are all kitchen related. We begin with item number three, an electric kettle. If you're a tea person, oatmeal person, a pour over coffee person, basically anything involving hot water. This one's a no brainer. Waiting on water to boil like a peasant. No, thank you. It's giving. Waiting for your toddler to put on their shoes by themselves because they're in their I have to do everything myself phase. You can't do the Velcro, you're not good at it yet. My daughter's going to watch this one day and bring it up in her therapy. She'll be a multimillionaire by then, thanks to me. So boo hoo. But really, an electric kettle heats up your water in a couple of minutes max. Get one of these bad boys and boom, you just sped up your entire morning routine. I have the Bonavita one myself. I like a little gooseneck. They're the same picture. Gooseneck kettle for me for the pour overs. I like a very intentional pour. I don't need one of those little just like wild, you know, I'm not working at a Denny's now. I didn't know this, but they're a lot cheaper than when I bought one. Right now it's on sale at target for like 50 bucks. And what I love about these is on top of the speed it takes to boil the water, you can set the exact temperature, you can hold it there. So when I walk Away. It'll stay there for 12 minutes at 212 degrees. But if you're not feeling as spendy, you can get a Hamilton beach kettle for just 35 bucks. And speaking of morning routines, at number four, we've got a quality coffee maker. Which means your Keurig needs to go in the trash because I said quality. Now many of you watching have a Keurig. You enjoy the Keurig. There's nothing wrong with the Keurig. Let me tell you. The reason I'm angry is because I'm jealous. I'm jealous of your life. Because I've. I've realized that Keurig people are happier people because they have low standards. Ouch. You could go to a Hampton Inn and use the in room coffee maker and be happy as a clam. But me, I gotta find the nearest Third Wave coffee shop to get my single origin cold brew. That's not good. That's terrible. I have a terrible life because I have such high standards. Rant over. Now some of you think you're saving time by hitting Starbucks every day instead of just making coffee at home. You're not. You're just questioning your life choices while sitting in a drive thru behind a car with a decal of her four kids, two dogs and one rescue chinchilla. Why go rescue? Go full retail, okay? I want one fresh off the line. I don't need one with baggage. I don't know what happened to that chinchilla. Are people still doing that? Who's buying chinchillas? John Deloney just bought a snake, if that tells you anything about him. Rather fitting. Hey John, what caused the fall of man in Genesis? Oh, that's right. Your snake. I digress. Instead, make your coffee at home exactly how you like it. Then just throw it in a to go cup and you are out the door now for a long time. I've used the OXO Brew 12 cup coffee maker and I've recently upgraded to the fellow Aiden once again because my standards are unusually high and exhausting. And it makes great coffee is very aesthetically pleasing as well. But that's not the coffee maker most people should get. A good budget option is this Ninja 12 cup brewer for 65 bucks that you can set to start brewing before you get up. Because mornings are hard enough without your coffee. That should be Folgers new tagline. Best part of waking up. Mornings are hard enough. Make it easier with folgers. Anyways, that 65 bucks would get you about 10 drinks at Starbucks, which is probably two weeks of drinks for most of you. So it's gonna pay for itself pretty fast. Of course, you gotta buy some coffee. I think you should grind your beans yourself if you want it to be real fresh and taste delicious. And the grinders aren't that expensive these days. Item number five, a food chopper or food processor. As a lot of you know, I'm a huge fan of meal prepping. But what I don't love is chopping vegetables for 45 minutes like I'm auditioning for MasterChef Junior. Shout out to Bryson for hanging on even after that first degree burn. Bryson, you okay? I burned myself. You're a hero, and Gordon Ramsay and I both know it. I have to push through and help my team out. And that's why I love a food chopper. It cuts down on the prep time, and it lets you take out your frustration on a zucchini. And it deserves it. Now, a name brand slap chop costs around 25 bucks. Or for around the same price, you can get a vegetable chopper that also comes with a mandolin slicer and other blade options for whenever the recipe tells you to julienne an onion. Get your French out of here. Why is everything gotta be French? It's like they invented cooking. We have a very nice flint enpant creme de plum julienne. I think that just means really thinly sliced. But there's not a word for that apparently in America. Cause we like a thick sliced America. Now, if you're making sauces or mixing a lot of ingredients, a food processor is the way to go. There's this Cuisinart one for 65 bucks, you can use to whip up your famous homemade pesto. Or in my house, it's mama camel's hummus recipe in description. Just kidding. You'll never get it. You will get the KFC recipe before you get mama camel's hummus recipe. All right, we're really taking it up a notch with this next item. At number six, we've got a deep freezer. Now, some of you are like, George, why would I ever need this thing? Just ask John Deloney, who's got enough deer meat to survive the apocalypse twice, plus a snake. Who knows what he's going to do with that? But really, having one of these giant chest freezers is super helpful. For one thing, you won't have to go to the grocery store as often. And you can save money by buying in bulk or when your favorite gluten free Sabotaso's pizzas go on sale at Costco. Plus, if you prep meals ahead of time and you freeze them. You can skip having to cook every single night and just heat something up when you. And this is great for crock pot meals. You just bag it up, get the ingredients all layered in there, put a label on it, and you can just throw it in the crock pot before you go to work. And when you get home, dinner is served. And that label part's very important. All right, Nobody wants to play freezer roulette with some mystery container from 2007. Now, you can choose whatever size freezer works for you and your family and the space you have. I bought this one from Magic Chef from Home Depot for less than 200 bucks. But there's also a cheaper one, about the same size at Sam's club for 150 bucks. No need to get fancy here. All right, if it can freeze, I'm appeased. It's a loose rhyme I think is what they call it. Dr. Seuss. And while we're on the topic of meal prep, item number seven, a rice cooker. This one saves you so much time when you're cooking your rice and beans. Beans and rice, you literally just set it and forget it. No stirring, no checking, no burning your rice because you got distracted watching Wheel of Fortune Lolita. Oh, self potato. Sorry, no. And this aroma 16 cup rice cooker from Target is only about 37 bucks and it has a pop up steam tray for more cooking space dumplings. Perhaps a soggy zucchini, my good sir. And think about it. I eat a lot of rice. That's the carb of choice at the camel house. And honestly, most of your door dash chipotle bowl for $19 was just rice anyways. So just squeeze your own limes, slap chop your own cilantro. Boom. You got chipotle at home. Bam. Go slap chop your own cilantro. Now, number eight will save you not just time, but also a lot of frustration. And that is a password manager. This is our first digital item on the list. How exciting. Because how much time have you wasted? Clicking forgot password, waiting on the email to come through, Resetting your password only to be told your last password can't be used in your new password lane to the free. Huh? Oh, one exclamation point more was a bridge too far for you. But really, this is enough to make anyone renounce technology and go full Little House on the prairie. So what do you do instead? Save the brain calories and use a password manager. It stores all of your logins, fills them in instantly, and instead of jumping through hoops every time you're just logged in. And as a bonus, it actually protects your accounts with stronger unique passwords. So you're not using password 1, 2, 3 for everything. Shout out to the boomers for keeping that one alive. And you know, you just know. It's handwritten on a little yellow sketchpad. It says passwords and then it's scribbled out cause they wrote in the new password and if you're my mother in law watching, I'm sorry. I love you Jay. My top password manager pick is called one password. That's the number one followed by the word password. One word. The plans start at just under 50 bucks a year for an individual plan and go up if you want the family plan. And if you want a solid free option, Bitwarden gets the job done. And while you're leveling up your password game, you might as well level up the rest of your digital security with Delete Me, the first actual sponsor of today's episode. And I can't think of a better sponsor for this video. When your personal info gets sold to data brokers, it leads to spam calls and texts that interrupt your day. But Deleteme will go in and remove your info from hundreds of data broker sites, which saves you a ton of time that it would have taken for you to go find all of that, fill out the forms, track it, make sure it's removed. In fact, Deleteme has saved me 136 hours according to my latest report. So save your time and protect your digital footprint with Deleteme. Right now, you can get 20% off their annual plans@joindeleteme.com George and now that we've talked about saving time, let's talk about saving money. With Boost Mobile, you can save up to $600 a year compared to the big name carriers. Their unlimited plan is just 25 bucks a month. Forever. No contracts, no hidden fees, and it takes minutes to switch. You set it up and move on with your life. And you can even keep your same phone and number so you don't have to waste time texting your entire contact list. Make the switch today and start saving. Go to boostmobile.com Ramsey based on average annual single line payment of AT&T Verizon T Mobile customers compared to 12 months on the Boost Mobile Unlimited plan as of January 2026. See website for details. All right, let's do a quick lightning round of honorable mentions for time saving products that didn't make our official list. Fake plants. You don't have to water them Big win. Velcro shoes. Laces take time and they can trip you. Plus, you can match your toddler. Clip on ties. Who's checking that collar? Plus you can match your toddler. It's a clip. You sure? And finally, going bald. No more haircuts for the rest of your life. The ultimate time and money saving hack. Which I refuse to do, because when God gives you this, you don't squander it. Take my breath away. Now God will smite me and I will be bald. One day there will be bald featuring me. Make that a movie poster. Okay, back to the real list. At number nine, we've got a robot vacuum. If you've got a decent sized house, you're probably spending a good 30 minutes to an hour vacuuming several times a week, dragging a cord around like you're roping cattle at your local rodeo. And while we may not be living like the Jetsons quite yet, you can get your own little Rosie the robot to handle the vacuuming for you. And here's the beauty of it. It's cleaning while you're doing literally anything else. Working, relaxing, not thinking about vacuuming. That's the goal. Brands like Roomba or Shark will run you around 200 bucks, depending on how fancy you want to get. Now, I've got an older Roomba model. It's the 675, but unfortunately, true story, we can't even use it because my French bulldog Blue thinks it's a home invader and chooses violence every time. But if you don't have pets or your pets are emotionally stable, a self sentient vacuum can be a total game changer. Just don't go super cheap on this, because if you're constantly rescuing your robot from under the couch couch, you're not saving time. You've just created a new little game called let's sprain our arm trying to reach under that thing. And while we're talking about my dogs, item number 10, an automatic pet feeder. Because your pets somehow know exactly when it's feeding time. Down to the millisecond. And they will remind you loudly. They hear that little food shake. Ooh, they come running, baby. An automated feeder makes sure they get fed on schedule so you're not having to play the did you already feed them Game with your spouse? Or be constantly interrupted by the sound of your pet's nails scratching the bowl like they've never eaten a day in their lives. It also keeps the portions consistent to avoid overfeeding, which again, if you got French bulldogs. Major problem. Love my little Chunk, but she a chunk. Now, most options here land between 50 to 100 bucks. This one from Amazon is about 70 bucks. And you can control it from your phone. So your dogs are just sitting there like, wow, this bowl is magic. That's me, if I was a human version of a dog. Obviously, dogs can't talk or play basketball. Looking at you, air bud. Changing gears here a little bit. Item number 11, a garment steamer. I think we need to bring the word garment back. We're not talking about garments. Enough. Nothing says you don't have your life together like showing up to work in a wrinkled shirt or a blouse. And let's be real. Ironing is a whole process. And I don't think a generation from now we're going to know what that even means. You got to set up an ironing board, wait on it to heat up, fill it with water, flip the clothes over, repeat, don't burn it. No, thank you. Skip the hassle and a trip to the dry cleaners and get you something like this Conair steamer, which costs about 60 bucks on Amazon. You can also get a bonus travel steamer like this one from butyural. It's about 25 bucks for one of those. And when I travel, which I'm on the road a lot, you better believe I'm bringing that travel steamer to keep it crispy. Either way, a steamer's gonna have you looking fresh in half the time it takes you to iron your clothes. And I have a distrust of any hotel iron. Don't know where that's been. Or at the very least, get some wrinkle release spray, you filthy animal. That was mostly for the guys. Now these next ones have to do with outsourcing your time to someone else. So they're not quite items. They're more of a service, like number 12, a grocery delivery membership. Grocery shopping is rarely a quick trip, especially if you've got kids having a meltdown in Trader Joe's because you won't let her push the little cart because she keeps running into people because she can't see over the cart. It's adorable, but exhausting. But with a grocery delivery service, you can order everything in minutes and have it show up at your door. And that saves you the drive there, the impulse spending on the end caps and the temptation to buy the latest Us Weekly to find out what $10 skin tightening cream Meghan Markle uses. You want to know, don't you? You have to buy Us Weekly to find out. Can we not? Plus, think about the time it takes to shop Waiting in the checkout line to drive back, which can easily eat up a couple hours of your day. And I love this part, when you order online, you see your total before you check out, so you stay within budget and only get the things you actually needed. Now, most grocery delivery memberships cost about 8 to 12 bucks a month or 100 bucks a year. I've got Instacart as well as Shipt, mainly for target deliveries. I'm bougie like that. What can I say? I like a little variety in my life, a little spice. Now, of course, you still have to pay fees on top of that, a tip for the service and for the driver, which can be around 5 to 20 bucks per order. And remember, unless it says in store prices, there's a markup on every item you buy. So it's going to be more expensive to do this. And ultimately, you've got to decide how much your time and your sanity are worth. Now, at number 13, we've got another service that I think has saved my marriage, and that is lawn care and house cleaning. Now I get it. Some of you love your lawn. This is your thing, your outlet, your zen. Because the buzz of a lawnmower is still better than the screams of your child. It's like the original sound machine for boomers. That's what dad was doing out there. He was just trying to get away. Just a little moment of silence, peace and quiet. But for the rest of us, spending your entire Saturday mowing, weed, eating, scrubbing, folding all the stuff you didn't get to do during the week, it gets old real fast. And before you know it, it's Sunday night and you're wondering where your weekend went while singing It's a Hard Knock Life. So every now and then it might be worth paying someone else to handle it. Now, I fully understand these are luxuries that most people can't afford, but if it can comfortably fit in your budget, you're debt free. You've got the emergency fund, you've got some extra margin. It's time to delegate the things you don't want to do. And I think that is, that's worth the time saving. Now, lawn care usually runs about 45 to 95 bucks per visit, depending on where you live, how big your yard is. And house cleaning will likely run you 100 to 300 bucks per clean. Again, depending on where you live and how big your house is. It's going to be more if you live in a McMansion. And again, you don't have to do this every week, but buying back even one Saturday a month to do what you want. That sounds nice. Now for all of these items, I do research. All right, I'm going to look for sales. I'm going to hunt down discount codes to get the cost down. For all of these, I'm going to vet different vendors to see who's got the best price for the service. Another thing I do is always check Facebook Marketplace or my local Buy Nothing group before I impulsively buy something at retail price. And again, all the links to the products I mentioned are in the description below. If you want to check them out for yourself, I and while you're down there, let me know in the comments what your favorite time saving item is. If you want to know what else I think is worth the money, click here to watch this next video where I share 12 items even frugal people should buy or use the link in the description. Don't forget to hit like subscribe to the channel and share this with a friend who's always losing their keys. That's it for this episode. We'll see you next time.