We Tracked EVERYTHING We Spent for 30 Days (Here's What Happened)
Frugal Friends Podcast
Jen Smith & Jill Sirianni | Backyard Ventures
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
It’s time to show you the truth about us. Behind being frugal, the reality is we still fall into spending traps. Doing a 30-day transaction inventory revealed a lot that they hadn’t noticed in the eight years of doing this. Today, we’ll share what we spent on, what we learned, and why we’re finally opening up about it.
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| 0:29.9 | We tracked everything we spent for 30 days, and here's what happened. |
| 0:38.8 | Welcome to the Frugal Friends podcast, where you'll learn to save money, embrace simplicity, and live a rich life. |
| 0:48.5 | Here are your host, Jen and Jill. |
| 0:55.1 | Welcome, frugal friends. I'm Jen. I'm Jill. I'm Jill. Welcome, frugal friends. I'm Jen. |
| 0:57.6 | I'm Jill. |
| 0:58.5 | And we tracked every dollar we spent for 30 days. |
| 1:03.9 | But it wasn't super hard. |
| 1:06.3 | It is something you can replicate. |
| 1:09.0 | And it exposed some things, even though we've been doing this for a while, |
| 1:12.7 | it always exposes some things that maybe we were unaware of or aware of, but like put it into |
| 1:21.5 | perspective. Yeah. So we're going to share with you what we noticed, if there's any changes that |
| 1:26.9 | we made as a result. If it's worth it |
| 1:28.9 | to track your spending for 30 days, I'm going to give you all the deets. But first, I, for some |
| 1:34.8 | reason, am running a marathon. I decided that it would be worth my time to train and run 26.2 miles this January at Walt Disney World. If you know me, |
| 1:48.1 | that's my, you know that's my favorite place to run, but I'm not giving all my money to Disney. |
| 1:55.2 | Take a look at this video. Hey, frugal friends. I know you are conscious consumers and values-driven spenders, and I would like to |
| 2:04.4 | appeal to you today on that. I have the opportunity with a few friends to run the Disney World |
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