We Tried 100 Side Hustles. These are Our Favorites.
Frugal Friends Podcast
Jen Smith & Jill Sirianni | Backyard Ventures
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
There are countless side hustles out there, but not all of them are worth your time. We've tried enough of them to know which ones deliver and which ones don't. In this episode, we're breaking down the side hustles we'd actually do again—and the ones we'd gladly leave behind.
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| 0:29.7 | We tried 100 side hustles. These are our favorites. |
| 0:38.5 | Welcome to the Frugal friends podcast where you'll learn to save money, embrace simplicity, |
| 0:44.9 | and live a rich in your life. |
| 0:48.2 | Here are your host, Jen and Jill. |
| 0:55.0 | Welcome frugal friends. I'm Jen. I'm Jill. And we've always said that we've collectively |
| 1:01.3 | done every side hustle. So we wanted to see really how many have we done? And collectively |
| 1:10.1 | it's been, it's about, we were able to get to 100 side |
| 1:14.2 | hustles between the two of us. Some of them are, like some of yours, I also did, but yes, |
| 1:21.1 | we also have done 50. Yeah. And so we are going to go through each of our five favorites today that we think are still relevant. |
| 1:30.6 | And then also at the end, we're going to share our least favorite ones from our list. |
| 1:35.3 | And we're going to show you all the ones we did. |
| 1:38.8 | We're not keeping anything from you, baby, girl. |
| 1:41.7 | But first, Jen's running a marathon. |
| 1:44.8 | I am. Take a look. |
| 1:46.5 | Hey, frugal friends. |
| 1:47.6 | I know you are conscious consumers and values-driven spenders, and I would like to appeal to you today on that. |
| 1:56.6 | I have the opportunity with a few friends to run the Disney World Marathon in January, and we are doing |
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