26 Things to STOP BUYING to Save Money in 2026
Frugal Friends Podcast
Jen Smith & Jill Sirianni | Backyard Ventures
4.8 โข 1.1K Ratings
๐๏ธ 30 December 2025
โฑ๏ธ 47 minutes
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As we welcome 2026, itโs time to leave behind spending habits that quietly cost us more than we realize. In this episode, weโre breaking down 26 sneaky money habits weโve cut from our lives to save in the new year. Some may be familiar, some might sting a little, but all are meant to help you on your financial journey.
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| 0:00.0 | 26 things to stop buying to save money. |
| 0:07.2 | Welcome to the Frugal Friends podcast, where you'll learn to save money, |
| 0:12.4 | embrace simplicity, and live a rich in your life. |
| 0:17.0 | Here are your host, Jen and Jill. |
| 0:23.3 | You clicked on this episode 26 things to stop buying in 2026 because you probably have something in your card on Amazon that you're wondering, is it on this list? |
| 0:34.4 | But don't worry, we know this year has been expensive. Like, why is a strawberry |
| 0:39.7 | $20? So we are going to talk about the things we are not buying in 2026 to help you save some cash. |
| 0:50.1 | We're going through 26 sneaky little money vampires that we've cut from our budgets. Some of them you might |
| 0:55.5 | expect. Some of them might make you a little angry, but we do hope that this ultimately helps you on |
| 1:01.4 | your own financial journey. Welcome, frugal friends. I'm Jen. I'm Jill. And today we are giving |
| 1:07.8 | you permission to stop buying some of these viral products. |
| 1:13.7 | Some are new and some have been around for so long. |
| 1:16.8 | We don't even question why we buy them anymore. |
| 1:21.5 | And if you're here, if you're curious about this list because you want to pay off debt, |
| 1:25.3 | we have got the solution for you. We're doing a 90-day |
| 1:29.3 | debt freedom fast track where our goal is to help you all pay off $100,000 worth of debt as a |
| 1:38.3 | community. It's our dream. It's our vision for 2026. What it's going to include is three |
| 1:43.5 | money challenges meant to help you kind of |
| 1:46.8 | fine-tune some of those habits, find some extra cash that you can put towards your debt, |
| 1:53.1 | and each one is going to be 30 days each. So it's going to be a side hustle challenge and a |
| 1:58.8 | no-spend challenge and a meal prep challenge that we're going to be doing with you. So there'll be four calls that you have with myself and Jen. And we're going to walk you through how to utilize these challenges, how to find some extra money within your budget. And again, look at some of those habits. So if that sounds really intriguing to you and you |
| 2:18.3 | want to be part of this goal of paying off $100,000 of debt as a community, you want to go to |
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