26 Frugal Habits to Save Money in 2026 (We LIVE by these!)
Frugal Friends Podcast
Jen Smith & Jill Sirianni | Backyard Ventures
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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The secret to frugal living that truly sticks is frugal habits put into practice. In today’s episode, Jen and Jill share 26 frugal living habits that actually move the needle toward your financial goals and are easy enough to stick with long enough to truly make a difference.
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| 0:00.0 | 26 frugal habits to save money in 2026. |
| 0:08.1 | Welcome to the frugal friends podcast, where you'll learn to save money, embrace simplicity, |
| 0:14.6 | and live a rich in your life. |
| 0:17.9 | Here are your host, Jen and Jill. |
| 0:21.8 | Habits are the key to sustainable frugal living. |
| 0:24.8 | And sure, we all want the sexy extreme frugality, the sexy extreme saving tips to get there faster. |
| 0:32.9 | But the reality is extremes don't work. |
| 0:36.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:36.3 | So today we are going to give you 26 frugal habits that both move the needle and are easy |
| 0:42.5 | enough for you to incorporate into your life so that you can actually reach your financial |
| 0:47.9 | goals. |
| 0:49.0 | Welcome, frugal friends. |
| 0:50.3 | I'm Jen. |
| 0:51.2 | I'm Jill. |
| 0:52.0 | And we wanted to start this episode out with an important disclaimer. |
| 0:57.4 | I see here, making a goal does not get you to your goal. I don't know if that was not clear. |
| 1:05.8 | But in January, I think a lot of the content and the rhetoric and what we're seeing is all about goal setting. |
| 1:13.7 | Like we make these really lofty goals. We want to change all these things. But that's not the |
| 1:22.6 | point of having a fresh start, having a reset. We love that January gives us a fresh start for all |
| 1:29.9 | these things. And we think goals are just like the tiniest part of it. It is truly the habits |
| 1:37.1 | that will get you anywhere you want to go. And your goals can and will change. And so that's why |
| 1:43.1 | we think it's so important to focus on |
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