40 Unsexy Frugal Living Tips That Actually Work

Frugal Friends Podcast

Jen Smith & Jill Sirianni | Backyard Ventures

Leisure, Home & Garden, Business, Investing

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Let’s be honest, the internet is full of “frugal living tips” that sound great until you try them and realize they either save you thirty-seven cents or feel like a part-time job. These are not those tips. They may be the unsexy ones but they are the ones that actually helped us pay off over $100,000 of debt.

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0:00.0	Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.co.
0:05.5	That's audible.co.uk slash wondery.
0:11.3	40 unsexy frugal living tips that actually work.
0:19.6	Welcome to the frugal friends podcast where you'll learn to save money, embrace simplicity, and live a rich life.
0:29.4	Here are your host, Jen and Jill.
0:36.3	Let's be honest, the internet is full of frugal living tips that sound great until you try them
0:43.2	and realize they either save you like 35 cents or feel like a part-time job.
0:49.3	These are not those tips.
0:52.3	These are the unsexy ones.
0:57.5	The ones that actually helped us pay off over $100,000 of debt between the two of us. And between the two of us, we have lived every version of
1:03.6	frugal, from broke to burnt out to extreme no spend months. And finally, we found a version that
1:10.4	actually works without making you
1:13.0	miserable. Welcome, frugal friends. I'm Jen. I'm Jill. And let's get into these 40 tips. And you know,
1:20.6	we're going to start with our absolute favorite one. It's the one we start off our book,
1:25.8	Buy What You Love, Without Going Broke with.
1:27.9	It is doing a 90-day transaction inventory.
1:32.5	And so what you're going to do is skim the last three months of transactions.
1:38.4	Circle those repeat buys.
1:40.0	Circle those purchases that you don't remember or don't feel good about right now.
1:46.0	And we want to cut the lowest joy items. And this is something no matter how long you've
1:52.1	been frugal or how long you've been on top of your personal finances, we're always gaining
1:58.1	new habits and losing old ones, losing good ones, if we're not being
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