Speaker 1: Hey, frugal Friends, this is Eric Sirianni, producer of this podcast,
Speaker 1: and I'm here to let you know that we have
Speaker 1: four bonus episodes that will be releasing over the next
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Speaker 1: or by clicking the link in the show notes Where's
Speaker 1: that beat? Welcome to the Frugal Friends podcast, where you'll
Speaker 1: learn to save money, embrace simplicity, rights, and liver with
Speaker 1: your life. Here your host Jen and Jill. Welcome to
Speaker 1: another episode of Behind two Mikes with your Frugal Friends.
Speaker 1: I'm Jen, I'm Joe, and our Frugality one on one
Speaker 1: episode is our most popular episode. Yes, it is our
Speaker 1: first episod, which is sad that so many of you
Speaker 1: got us at our worst. But now that we're much
Speaker 1: more articulate, we thought let's make a video about it.
Speaker 1: Yes it is. I'm glad that so many people are
Speaker 1: interested in frugality one on one, but it is interesting
Speaker 1: to hear from people. Your first episode YouTube podcasting whatever
Speaker 1: is always your worst. So thanks for sticking around everybody.
Speaker 1: If you did, and if you didn't, I'm sorry, then
Speaker 1: you're probably not watching this so worries. But let's do
Speaker 1: a recap, yes, of what frugality is and an introduction
Speaker 1: to frugality while people can see our faces, all of
Speaker 1: the faces we make when it comes to frugality. So
Speaker 1: first we identify that frugality is not being cheap. So essentially,
Speaker 1: if something makes your life more inconvenient or ends up
Speaker 1: costume more in the long run, that's not being frue all.
Speaker 1: That's being cheap. So if you have to go out
Speaker 1: of your way twenty minutes to save two dollars on
Speaker 1: the metro where you could just take an uber, that's
Speaker 1: taking the metro would be cheap. And yeah, so it's
Speaker 1: spending money, even if it's a little bit more, uh,
Speaker 1: to just have a normal quality of life and then
Speaker 1: saving money in other places. Yeah. I would also say
Speaker 1: that being cheap is taking advantage of people. I think
Speaker 1: that's a really good way of judging am I being
Speaker 1: frugal or am I being cheap? Because frugality will never
Speaker 1: take advantage of people. Within frugality, there is room to
Speaker 1: pay people for services. Yeah, to do it yourself too,
Speaker 1: but never to have somebody do something for you just
Speaker 1: because you want to save a penny and yet it
Speaker 1: hurts the other person. So that for me is a
Speaker 1: really pivotal thing within the world of frugality. Yes, and
Speaker 1: our key pillar of frugality for us would definitely be
Speaker 1: a minimalist lifestyle. So you don't save money by buying
Speaker 1: something on sale on Black Friday. You save money by
Speaker 1: just not buying it and only having things in your
Speaker 1: life that you love, that our quality that will last longer,
Speaker 1: even if you may pay a little bit more for it.
Speaker 1: But leading a minimalist life that doesn't consume, consume, consume frugality,
Speaker 1: you will not hoard. I think that there are some
Speaker 1: pieces where it could cross over into that, and I
Speaker 1: think that's where you and I really talk about not
Speaker 1: doing that. I think it's where part of the reason
Speaker 1: why we don't coupon is because that can lead too hoarding,
Speaker 1: which ultimately for me is not being frugal, not being
Speaker 1: an animalist. But I think the intersection in between minimalism
Speaker 1: and frugality they never contradict each other. There are some
Speaker 1: pieces where frugality can intersect with certain concepts. Sometimes they contradict,
Speaker 1: sometimes they don't. But I've realized that frugality and minimalism
Speaker 1: really never do. So that's been a really fantastic thing
Speaker 1: for us to talk about on the show is and
Speaker 1: going go into even more depth about what that looks like. Yeah. Uh.
Speaker 1: We also believe that frugality is environmentally friendly, so we
Speaker 1: love buying second hand, reusing things, buying quality so that
Speaker 1: you buy something less often so you can use it longer. Um.
Speaker 1: And all these things you think about being frugal, but
Speaker 1: they're also really really good for the environment and they're sustainable. Yeah, recycling,
Speaker 1: planting a garden, reusing things, d I y ng things,
Speaker 1: these are always that. Again, frugality intersects with environmentally friendly
Speaker 1: eco friendly, taking care of really being good stewards of
Speaker 1: everything that we own, making sure that we are using
Speaker 1: it to its fullest potential, and buying things that will last. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And in environmentally friendly spending intersects with minimalism. Like the
Speaker 1: first reduced reuse recycle. The first word is reduced, so
Speaker 1: reduce the amount of things you're consuming, um, reuse things
Speaker 1: that you already have. And then as a last resort
Speaker 1: recycle things that you can no longer. And then, lastly,
Speaker 1: we believe that frugality is essentially values based spending. So
Speaker 1: it's not buying nothing, though that can be really helpful
Speaker 1: at times to find out what you value, but it's
Speaker 1: spending on things that you love and cherish and that
Speaker 1: you value. Um. Yeah, I think that's the biggest down
Speaker 1: the biggest trap that we can have within frugality is
Speaker 1: thinking I need to spend as little as possible on everything.
Speaker 1: And so we hear this this idea of don't just
Speaker 1: stop buying coffees every morning at your local coffee shop.
Speaker 1: And maybe that's the case for you, but if that's
Speaker 1: something that's really important, it's something that's valuable to you,
Speaker 1: something that brings you joy, maybe cut spending on cable,
Speaker 1: cut cable altogether so that you can go get that
Speaker 1: specialty coffee that you enjoy. It doesn't mean that it
Speaker 1: needs to look like how it looks for everybody else,
Speaker 1: that you need to save in the same way that
Speaker 1: everybody else saves. There's so much freedom in frugality. If
Speaker 1: I can add a fifth tenant to what this is,
Speaker 1: it really creates a lot of freedom yeah, And a
Speaker 1: lot of people feel guilt and shame for the things
Speaker 1: that they're spending on, and there's no room for guilt
Speaker 1: or shame in frugality. It really does give you freedom
Speaker 1: from those negative feelings. When you know what you value
Speaker 1: and you're spending wisely, then you can spend freely on
Speaker 1: the things that you love. And so that's why we
Speaker 1: love frugality and we're we're just sharing it with as
Speaker 1: many people as possible. Boom, Mike drop behind two, Mike's
Speaker 1: dropping them. Probably not, I don't know how much these
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Speaker 1: your favorite tenant about frugality is, which one you feel
Speaker 1: you connect with most, Why you like frugality. We'd love
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Speaker 1: about different ways to save money, spend less, live a
Speaker 1: more minimalist and environmentally friendly life. And uh will see
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