YOU'RE SLEEPING ON THE LIBRARY: 21 Ways to Use the Library
Frugal Friends Podcast
Jen Smith & Jill Sirianni | Backyard Ventures
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๐๏ธ 27 March 2026
โฑ๏ธ 50 minutes
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Libraries are a whole new universe for how much things you can get and do in it. More than just books, more than just a bunch of research, who knew there could so much more?! Today, Jen and Jill are unlocking all the hidden gems you probably didnโt even know your library had.
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| 0:00.0 | You are sleeping on the library. |
| 0:03.1 | 21 ways to use the library. |
| 0:09.6 | Welcome to the frugal friends podcast, where you'll learn to save money, |
| 0:14.8 | embrace simplicity, and live a rich in your life. |
| 0:19.3 | Here are your host, Jen and Jill. |
| 0:21.6 | Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. |
| 0:24.6 | Hey, frugal friends, I'm Jen. |
| 0:26.6 | I'm Jill. |
| 0:27.6 | And today is all about my favorite thing in my, in the world, |
| 0:33.6 | my one-issue voter stance, local libraries. How to use them? Why to use them? We're going through |
| 0:43.5 | all kinds of things. So if you don't think your library offers it, stay tuned because I assure you |
| 0:49.6 | they're going to offer at least five of the things on this list. I love libraries. I cannot stress this enough. |
| 0:57.8 | You're going to get yelled at, mostly by Jen, sometimes by me throughout this episode, because we |
| 1:02.9 | love library, and we think there's no problem you have that library can't solve. No, |
| 1:09.0 | we've said this before, we said this last week. No problem |
| 1:12.4 | that you have. And you let us know in the comments that there's a problem you have. No, |
| 1:18.0 | no problem library cannot solve. Yeah. And I am here just standing on that business. I haven't thought |
| 1:25.1 | through it that much, but at face value, it feels like we're going to |
| 1:30.7 | spend the next 45 minutes flushing that out. And we are so excited. I literally went, I go to the |
| 1:38.4 | library at least once a week, and I brought this from my local library. We will be referencing it. |
| 1:45.6 | And yeah, I'm just, I'm so excited to, this is really a response to the episode we did last |
| 1:54.8 | week about the subscription crisis. |
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