Your 2026 Money Problems, Solved: A Full Q&A Episode
Frugal Friends Podcast
Jen Smith & Jill Sirianni | Backyard Ventures
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Happy 600th episode! We hear you and we are here for you. Today we’re celebrating by doing what we love most—talking through real money problems. We’re answering listener questions and sharing fresh perspectives, practical ideas, and the values that have guided us throughout this journey.
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| 0:30.0 | Your 2026 money problem solved, a full Q&A episode. |
| 0:39.4 | Welcome to the Frugal Friends podcast, where you'll learn to save money, |
| 0:44.5 | embrace simplicity, and live a rich life. |
| 0:49.1 | Here are your host, Jen and Jill. |
| 0:57.0 | Welcome, Frugal friends. I'm Jen. I'm Jill. And this is our 600th episode. If you've been with us for a while, |
| 1:07.4 | I used to say the number of the episode before each episode, and then it |
| 1:13.5 | just got to be too high for me. It's too many episodes. Too many numbers. Too many numbers. |
| 1:20.1 | So I haven't been doing that, but if you've been counting along, this is our 600 episode. And so we always like to do something special |
| 1:30.6 | for our milestones, which, you know, 400, 500, 600. And we also have our anniversary episode, |
| 1:39.0 | which is mid to late April. And I can never remember when in April it is. I just know it's like mid to |
| 1:46.5 | late. So this is one of those milestone episodes and we are going to read some of the questions |
| 1:53.6 | that you sent us in the Frugal Friends mega survey earlier this year. And we're very excited. Yeah, this means we've been doing this for |
| 2:03.6 | eight years now. And if you have been with us for those full eight years, we 100% want to hear |
| 2:12.8 | from you. Drop it in the comments on YouTube. Also subscribe because, listen, if you've been around for that long, |
| 2:19.5 | you really should be a subscriber. We'll continue the episode in the comments. So if you have a |
| 2:24.5 | question that you asked that wasn't answered in this episode, leave it in the comments for us. |
| 2:30.5 | And yes, the meal prepping episode is coming. It was the most requested thing in the |
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