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26 money traps everyone is falling for. Have you noticed them?

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

and live a rich life.

Here are your host, Jen and Jill.

Welcome, Frugal Friends. I'm Jen. And I'm Jill. Welcome frugal friends. I'm Jen and I'm Jill. And I have over the last year so stopped eating out at restaurants as frequently because I feel like yes, the prices are more, but the quality of food is less, the amount of food is less, even the service at places is less. And there are so many things involved in the experience.

And I have gone out time and time again and just felt like this experience was not worth the money I paid for it.

And the amount of time it takes me to earn that money because I'm like, you know, I'm not earning a thousand dollars an hour, right?

So like for what I'm taking in.

And it's just felt like it's,

it's across the board at a lot of different places. Yeah, it's not just restaurants. I feel

like services and entertainment, kind of across the board feel like they're relying on the

reputation that they built in our youth, but now continuing to provide like subpar experiences. And unfortunately, a lot of us

aren't noticing. Yeah. And so we wonder if you listening or watching have experienced the same thing.

And so I took to the internet to see where else is this happening? Is it in my mind? And it's not. We found that

time and time again, there's a lot of places where this is happening in our last episode,

or maybe not last, but last week, we talked about skimpflation, which is the declining quality and so of like consumer products.

And so today we're focusing more on kind of services and things of that nature. So definitely

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