Unhinged Baby Showers + Gender Reveals = Broke Parents
Frugal Friends Podcast
Jen Smith & Jill Sirianni | Backyard Ventures
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
The baby isn’t born yet, and somehow the spending has already surpassed what could have gone toward years of their upbringing. Today, we're talking about how welcoming a baby has turned into a full-blown financial event. From over-the-top gender reveals and extravagant baby showers to outrageously expensive baby shower gifts, we're diving into some of the wildest examples social media has to offer.
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| 0:30.4 | Unhinged baby showers and gender reveals equal broke parents. |
| 0:41.5 | Welcome to the frugal friends podcast where you'll learn to save money |
| 0:43.9 | embrace simplicity |
| 0:46.0 | and live a rich in your life |
| 0:47.8 | Here are your host Jen and Jill |
| 0:51.6 | I hope it's a girl just because, look at this place, a bunch of men and boys. |
| 1:04.9 | Hey, frugal friends, I'm Jen. |
| 1:07.4 | I'm Jill. |
| 1:08.6 | And today we are diving into setting off cannons, setting off 47,000-acre wildfires. Yep, we are talking about babies. |
| 1:22.6 | Not war. Not war, but both are expensive. And the internet, if it can be trusted for anything, |
| 1:30.4 | can be trusted to make anything expensive, more expensive. And if you thought babies were |
| 1:37.7 | expensive after they're born, try before they're born. Having a baby has turned into a full-blown financial event, and we are going to |
| 1:47.7 | talk about some of the unhinged ways that people are celebrating babies from baby showers, |
| 1:54.1 | gender reveals, even baby gifts, but we're also going to talk about how people are doing it |
| 1:59.5 | sustainably and affordably. |
| 2:01.5 | But first, this episode is brought to you by Smoke. Many of you wanted to bring back sponsors |
| 2:08.4 | into the show. You thought you said, there are not enough. And we agreed. So this episode is |
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