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Frugal Friends Podcast

17 Things That Are a TOTAL Waste of Money for Women

Frugal Friends Podcast

Jen Smith & Jill Sirianni | Backyard Ventures

Leisure, Home & Garden, Business, Investing

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Even the things we think will be worth it can be wasted, and that’s sad but that’s the truth. In this episode, we’re calling out the things women are told to spend on that actually drain our wallets with zero return. Jen and Jill break down 17 money wasters that just aren’t worth it.


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0:00.0

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0:29.9

17 things that are a total waste of money for women.

0:38.4

Welcome to the Frugal Friends podcast, where you'll learn to save money, embrace simplicity,

0:44.9

and live a rich in your life.

0:48.1

Here are your host, Jen and Jill.

1:00.4

Welcome, Frugal Friends. I'm Jen. I'm Jill. I'm Jill. Welcome frugal friends. I'm Jen. I'm Jill. And we're in a new setting today, if you're watching on YouTube, because we had quite the ride at our office. And now we're at Jill's apartment.

1:06.9

Got kicked out. And the emergency signal went off and we left, but we brought some of our recording

1:13.0

equipment with us. And we are out of the office the rest of the week. And so this had to be

1:18.6

recorded today. And so we're going to record it. We're going to talk about the total waste of money things that as women, we are marketed to and told we need

1:34.5

to spend money on, but they're actually draining our wallets with zero return. So as two millennial

1:41.0

women ourselves, we've totally made our fair share of, why did I just buy that

1:47.1

purchases? And so we know that the pressure to keep up can be really real, but we also know how

1:52.9

freeing it is to say no to some of these things. And so stick with us because we're not just

2:00.1

talking about overpriced beauty trends or other

2:04.0

viral things that you see on social media. We are talking about legitimate money wasters that

2:09.2

combined together out up to $14,000 per year per person. And especially, I think by the end, you will be convinced that these are

2:21.5

wastes of money. I don't think you'll need to get to the end. I think by like number six,

2:26.3

you will have a fresh perspective on what's actually worth your money. You'll be bought in by

2:31.6

then. But first, this episode is brought to you by

2:34.2

Worth It. You know, like staying up till 1 a.m. to finish just one more episode,

2:41.1

carrying 17 bags of groceries into the house just to avoid more than one trip. Or driving

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