“The White Lotus”' Patrick Schwarzenegger and Aimee Lou Wood Reveal What They Bought with First Big Paychecks (Exclusive)

Patrick Schwarzenegger and Aimee Lou Wood put their money wherever their rima is — literally.

In a caller question and reply pinch PEOPLE, The White Lotus stars, some 31, reminisced connected immoderate of their biggest purchases while promoting their partnership pinch Venmo. Despite being massively successful actors, nan erstwhile costars revealed they seldom walk nan large bucks connected worldly items.

“[Aimee] conscionable took Abby [Champion] and I retired for a very bully meal erstwhile we were retired successful London, and she bought it,” Schwarzenegger shares of a nighttime he and his fiancée spent pinch Wood. “She did nan old, ‘I'm going to nan bathroom’ trick, and paid for nan bill. She ever offers to get meals, and that’s, I would say, thing that I for illustration to do arsenic well.”

“I'm not a large point person, but I do emotion experiences, and I do emotion going retired to awesome meals,” he continues. “I emotion going pinch people, truthful I always, that's wherever I splurge, is just, I for illustration to prime up nan measure and return group retired to dinners aliases to activity experiences.”

Wood agrees, reflecting connected nan measure she raked up connected caller coconuts, which she antecedently told PEOPLE she became “addicted” to while filming The White Lotus in Thailand past year.

“It was chronic. I could not extremity pinch nan coconuts,” she laughs. “I conscionable perfectly loved them. But Patrick's right, it's ever food. Whenever I cheque what I've spent, it's ever meals retired pinch friends — aliases coconuts — and that's awesome because experiences are everything. That is what life is about."

She past jokes: "But besides you don't really person that overmuch to show for it successful nan end, particularly not nan coconuts. I couldn't bring immoderate of those location pinch me.”

Still, nan Sex Education alum confesses that she does person her blameworthy pleasures. For example, she says she tin ne'er defy “silly, novelty household” knick knacks.

“It's ever tiny things,” she insists. “I walk truthful overmuch money connected tiny things that are conscionable rather pointless. Like, I won't bargain a caller laptop moreover if it's surgery and not working, but I will spell and walk loads of money connected my mini miniature artifact mice that I deliberation are sweet.”

In fact, that barely-functioning laptop was what she splurged connected aft receiving her first large paycheck years ago, on pinch an Apple Music subscription. While getting a caller 1 is still connected nan backburner, Wood says she has considered upgrading her wardrobe recently.

“I'm really trying to get amended astatine that because I deliberation I request to spell and dainty myself more,” she admits. “My supplier said this to maine nan different day. She was like, ‘Why are you wearing these clothes?’ I came successful and I looked truthful scruffy, and she was like, ‘Maybe you should conscionable spell and person a shopping spree?’ And it will astir apt consciousness really nosy and good.”

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