“Girl Math”😀😉🫶🏼🤩

Girl Math: TheWholistic Approach to Doing the Real Math on Purchases with Logic and Math:

I first stumbled across “Girl Math” randomly—someone showed me this funny TikTok. It turned out to be from a podcast based in New Zealand that also posts on TikTok; part of their being the best Girl Mathers out there is the whole team: one person who talks with the other 2 guys and 2 Female producers who participate in their girl math TikToks. To get their flavor, I recently saw them guess a caller’s grandmother’s name within certain rules.

The Girl Math concept seems simple: someone calls in to talk about a purchase they’ve made (or are thinking of making), and the hosts help break down the cost and value. It’s not just, “Oh, you deserve it, just buy it!” Instead, they ask questions like: “How much did this cost? What occasion will you wear it to?” Sometimes, they even factor in lending it to friends or selling it later. By the end, they’ve managed to calculate that the person could actually be making money off the purchase in terms of its long-term value or resale potential.

It’s a bit of creative accounting, sure, but it’s grounded in logic, like looking at what other items cost in comparison or how much use you’ll get from it. It’s similar to when I go to Barnes & Noble for the $5 book of the month. If the book costs $15 and I only pay $5, I’ve already “saved” $10. And if I consider the subway fare I’ve avoided by staying in to read, that’s another $3. Boom—I’ve just made $13 by buying that book! You can even break it down by page count and get the cost per page if you’re really into the details.

One time the show which is also a podcast, had an economist who was actually impressed by the thought process. He said something about how the item could be seen as “appreciating” in value, especially if you sell it later. So, in a way, Girl Math is not as ridiculous as it sounds—it’s about maximizing value.

The term, “girl”, as an adjective, has been reappropriated to have a double entendre, embellishing the definition to mean you think girl means weaker or lesser like girl pushups, which are actually modified pushups. The twist obviously is that doing something the “girl” way is actually clever, creative and wholistic. Girl Math takes in the value of an object with a context of economics involving all real world facts, not simply a price tag. Next post I will do the real girl math on an item I “need”, which in girl math translates to, if we only bought what we need, all coffee shops, most clothing stores, restaurants, companies like Apple and Amazon would be out of business. And therefore, when you look at most purchases, including ones at the grocery store, are “extra” on different levels.

Girl Math focuses on purchases that tend to be “guilty pleasures.” Meaning in many cases, you might not tell certain people you purchased the item.

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