Why You Keep Self-Sabotaging Your Budget (& How to Stop!)
Frugal Friends Podcast
Jen Smith & Jill Sirianni | Backyard Ventures
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Budgeting needs some tender, loving care. If you ignore it and don’t check in, it’ll turn its back on you and that’s when self-sabotage sneaks in and everything starts to fall apart. Take a deep breath, because in this episode, we’re diving into the reasons you might find yourself stuck in that cycle and sharing simple, powerful tips to help you break free for good.
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| 0:00.0 | Why you keep self-sabotaging your budget and how to stop. |
| 0:08.1 | Welcome to the Frugal Friends podcast, where you'll learn to save money, embrace simplicity, and live a rich of your life. |
| 0:17.8 | Here are your host, Jen and Jill. |
| 0:24.0 | Welcome to the Frugal Friends podcast. My name is Jen. My name is Jill. And today we are sharing a rerun of episode 273. So if you have not been with us since then, it's going to be new to you. And if you have, well, then this might be helpful information |
| 0:40.2 | if you found yourself self-sabotaging. If not, then just turn it off. What we've learned is |
| 0:47.7 | nobody scrolls back into the archive. Nope. Ours or others. So curating the episodes that you need to hear from two plus years ago. |
| 0:58.8 | So you don't ever have to scroll back more than two years. |
| 1:02.1 | We're going to curate the best ups for you. |
| 1:04.5 | And this is one of them. |
| 1:06.3 | First, this episode is brought to you by the perfect sweatshirt. |
| 1:12.6 | It's got everything you need. It's got the hoodie. |
| 1:13.6 | It's got the zips. |
| 1:15.6 | It's oversized and comfy. |
| 1:17.6 | We're not trying to be more than we are, |
| 1:20.6 | but we are trying to get exactly what we need. |
| 1:23.6 | And that's kind of like our budget spreadsheet. Keep going. Keep going. You've got it. |
| 1:33.7 | We've got a mobile optimized spending planner spreadsheet that can be all yours, frugal friendspodcast.com |
| 1:42.8 | slash planner. And it's just like the perfect sweatshirt, |
| 1:47.6 | right? It's no more. It's no less. We're not trying to be super fancy. Where are we actually going? |
| 1:53.9 | Probably just the grocery store. And yet, it has everything we need from debt payment tracking |
| 2:00.7 | to being able to just see your spending |
| 2:04.3 | at a glance it's got a cost benefit analysis opportunity cost calculate uh-huh yeah yeah that's another |
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