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your biweekly paycheck and eat at home four days a week at a minimum.

“If you really want to save money, make it six days [a week] and splurge only one night a week,” he advises.

(When O’Leary himself was younger, he even cooked at home on his second date with his now-wife Linda. “I went to the grocery store and bought a bunch of stuff that would be really hard to chop up so we could do it together in the kitchen,” O’Leary previously told CNBC Make It. “We had a great time and we got to know each other a little bit.”)

But one area that he says people should not go cheap on is grocery shopping — everyone should invest in buying good quality food no matter how much you make, he says.

“Food is the engine of the body. You should think about what you’re putting into your mouth every day.”

In fact, if O’Leary were to start a business today, it would likely revolve around healthy food, he recently told CNBC Make It.

“I love this space,” he says. “And I’ll tell you one thing right now, people want to eat healthy food all of a sudden. Even people that have dogs, they want to feed them healthy foods too. Something in healthy foods is a great place to make money [today].”