Black Friday 2025 is OFFICIALLY A SCAM (Can you call these deals?)
Frugal Friends Podcast
Jen Smith & Jill Sirianni | Backyard Ventures
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
NOT EVERYTHING IS ON SALE THIS BLACK FRIDAY. It's dopamine. Sales are through the roof but what we don’t see are the recycled discounts, fake price drops, and psychological traps designed to make you spend more. And we’re talking all about it on today’s episode.
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| 0:00.0 | We've talked about HelloFresh a bunch on the pod. |
| 0:02.3 | They're the number one meal kit in America, and I love ordering from them, especially during busy seasons. |
| 0:08.0 | Like right now, they make cooking at home easier with chef-crafted recipes and fresh ingredients delivered straight to your door. |
| 0:15.1 | And this fall, they're serving up even more to love. |
| 0:17.6 | HelloFresh is stepping up their game with even bigger, healthier, and |
| 0:20.9 | tastier meals. They've doubled their menu allowing you to choose from 100 options each week |
| 0:26.0 | and are giving bigger portions. We've never been disappointed with a Hello Fresh meal and love how |
| 0:31.2 | easy they make it to enjoy healthy, delicious meals at home. My favorite part is discovering |
| 0:36.2 | new seasonal produce like Leaks, an Italian |
| 0:39.0 | eggplant. It's such a nice change of pace to my typical meal plans. The best way to cook just got better. |
| 0:44.9 | Go to hellofresh.com slash frugal 10 FM now to get 10 free meals and free breakfast for life. |
| 0:51.2 | One box with active subscription, free meals applied as discount on first box, |
| 0:55.0 | new subscribers only varies by plan. That's hellofresh.com slash frugal 10 FM to get 10 free meals |
| 1:00.7 | plus free breakfast for life. Black Friday 2025 is officially a scam. Can you even call these deals? |
| 1:13.1 | Welcome to the Frugal Friends podcast, where you'll learn to save money, embrace simplicity, and live a richer life. |
| 1:22.9 | Here are your host, Jen and Jill. |
| 1:29.6 | Black Friday. |
| 1:31.1 | Used to mean deals so good you'd wake up at 4 a.m. to fistfight for a TV. |
| 1:35.4 | Now you're losing sleep just to save six bucks on a blender that's been marked up all month. |
| 1:42.1 | We've been tracking these so-called door busters and deals for a while. And |
| 1:47.3 | spoiler, most of them aren't really deals at all. Instead, there's some sort of recycled discount |
| 1:54.6 | or a fake price drop and psychological traps designed to get you to actually spend more. So we're covering all of this |
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