Speaker 1: Episode one oh six is episode one Frugality one oh one.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Frugal Friends podcast, where you'll learn to
Speaker 1: save money, embrace simplicity rights, and live with your life.
Speaker 1: Here your host Jen and Jill. Mm hmmmmmmmm, Welcome to
Speaker 1: the Frugal Friends podcast. My name is Jen, my name
Speaker 1: is Jill, and this has been something we've been wanting
Speaker 1: to do for a really long time. Two years. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so we have a lot of really good episodes
Speaker 1: in the archives. Everyone says, nobody listens to your first episode,
Speaker 1: nobody watches your first video. But for us, consistently, our
Speaker 1: number one listen to episode is our first episode, which
Speaker 1: is kind of unfortunate, kind of sad. Yeah, Frugality one
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Speaker 1: to give all of our new listeners the essence of
Speaker 1: what Frugal Friends is. We have not changed that at all.
Speaker 1: We feel even more strongly about the things we said
Speaker 1: in that episode. But we are re recording the intro
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Speaker 1: for GMAC and Reality one and one? Did you catch
Speaker 1: up canned green Beans? Hey guys, I'm Jen and I'm Jill,
Speaker 1: and we are so excited to welcome you to the
Speaker 1: inaugural Frugal Friends podcast and Frugal Friends Friday because alliterations.
Speaker 1: So we're so excited to finally be sharing this. How
Speaker 1: are you feeling, Jill, I'm feeling really excited because we've
Speaker 1: been doing this for a couple of months now, and
Speaker 1: so to finally get to share it with other people
Speaker 1: is just so exciting. Yes, Um, I am super stoked
Speaker 1: to share with you what Jill and I have been
Speaker 1: like talking about and dreaming about for the Frugal Friends podcast,
Speaker 1: and you're going to get a lot of that in
Speaker 1: this first episode. We're going to go through what we
Speaker 1: believe frugality is. We're going to go through what are
Speaker 1: different segments will be and introduce you to those and
Speaker 1: then also introduce you to us because you can't have
Speaker 1: friends if you don't know them and don't know who
Speaker 1: they are. Good point, Jen, Thank you, Thank you. I'll
Speaker 1: be sharing more wisdom and insight like that for the
Speaker 1: rest of the duration of the podcast. I look forward
Speaker 1: to that. Cool. Um. Jill and I got started on
Speaker 1: this journey because we are friends who met and bonded
Speaker 1: over frugality. And it was a funny story how we met, Jill,
Speaker 1: would you like to tell it? Yeah? Sure, Eric and
Speaker 1: I were living in our motor home at the time
Speaker 1: because that was one of the frugal decisions that we've
Speaker 1: made in our lifetime. And we went on a road
Speaker 1: trip and Eric put out when we were in the St.
Speaker 1: Pete area on Facebook, like anybody in the St. Pete
Speaker 1: are you want to hang out tonight? And you Jen
Speaker 1: went out on a limb and happened to say, yeah,
Speaker 1: we are going to watch the sunset at this bar
Speaker 1: on the beach. Come hang out. Um. And you had
Speaker 1: met Eric like years ago through band stuff, and uh,
Speaker 1: neither one of you really remembered who each other was,
Speaker 1: but you were Facebook friends. That's kind of how that goes. Um.
Speaker 1: Then we were both like, sure, we'll be in a
Speaker 1: public space so if anything happens, you know that's weird,
Speaker 1: we can just leave. Yeah. Um, But turns out we
Speaker 1: shared French fries and conversation and yeah, and really bonded
Speaker 1: a lot over like our desire to be debt free
Speaker 1: and to live a more simplified life, um and and
Speaker 1: other things. Obviously, we just like each other. I like
Speaker 1: you at least, and I like your husband also. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like both of you. Uh. Yeah. I had met
Speaker 1: Eric one time, maybe eight years ago, and I was
Speaker 1: not sure how I met him. I knew it was
Speaker 1: in San Diego, but I could not tell you how
Speaker 1: we met and to this day. But but you were
Speaker 1: friends on Facebook. Yeah, we were run on Facebook. So
Speaker 1: I'm glad I went out on a limb because this
Speaker 1: has such been This has been such a great like friendship.
Speaker 1: And I feel like I tell people when I'm talking
Speaker 1: about like you and Eric, that you guys are like
Speaker 1: our soul couple, were like soul mates couple. So yeah,
Speaker 1: we're just interested in so many of the same things, um,
Speaker 1: including recording this podcast. But yeah, like we went out
Speaker 1: to yard sales and thrift stores and hung out at
Speaker 1: all kinds of free places, and it's just blossomed blossomed
Speaker 1: from there. Yeah. So then when you guys like moved
Speaker 1: back to Pennsylvania and out of your RV, we visited
Speaker 1: you guys, and seriously, a podcast was not on my
Speaker 1: radar at all. I am a writer and definitely not
Speaker 1: a public speaker. But Eric was just adamant that we
Speaker 1: should start a podcast about frugality and saving money. So
Speaker 1: we kind of just like went with it, and we've
Speaker 1: we've really come up with something that I think will
Speaker 1: be really useful to people, not just fun for us,
Speaker 1: which we do have a lot of fun like just
Speaker 1: hanging out and talking and Google hangouts, but we think
Speaker 1: that it's really going to be useful to a lot
Speaker 1: of people. There's not really a podcast out there that
Speaker 1: is about just different areas where you can save money
Speaker 1: on or just optimize you're spending and being more conscious consumer.
Speaker 1: So we feel like it's unique in that sense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: which is one of the things, Jen, that you and
Speaker 1: I had talked about when we were like conceptualizing what
Speaker 1: this podcast was going to be like. And so I
Speaker 1: went on this whole like podcast tour. I am not
Speaker 1: one to listen to many podcasts, but I get it. Um,
Speaker 1: I get the draw for people. So I started to
Speaker 1: engage more in specifically financial podcasts. And first of all,
Speaker 1: I found that there are not many female lead podcasts
Speaker 1: just across the board, and if they if there are,
Speaker 1: there about like celebrities and like what was on TV
Speaker 1: the night before, like and nails and makeup, and that's
Speaker 1: just not my cup of tea. But the ones that
Speaker 1: were about um, like financial independence and that kind of
Speaker 1: a thing, I liked it and I felt like I
Speaker 1: could learn from it. But at the same time, I
Speaker 1: also found that so it was almost like they were
Speaker 1: talking to that specific audience of financial bloggers, those who
Speaker 1: are in the financial realm who understand everything about the
Speaker 1: stock market and this and that, and I'm and while
Speaker 1: I enjoyed it and I could learn from it, I'm
Speaker 1: like I felt like an outsider listening in. They would
Speaker 1: use all this different kind of lingo, like talking about
Speaker 1: finn Con and and all these other things that I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is cool, but I'm not your audience, Like you're
Speaker 1: not speaking to me. I'm just kind of like listening
Speaker 1: in on your little club that you have going on.
Speaker 1: And so what I thought was neat about what you
Speaker 1: and I want to do, jen is is make this
Speaker 1: something that's attainable for everybody. That like, frugality is something
Speaker 1: that we can all enter into at different levels to
Speaker 1: reach various financial goals, and that you and I bring
Speaker 1: different things to the table to help people at the
Speaker 1: and points in their journey and to hear from others
Speaker 1: that in the places that we don't know yet or
Speaker 1: haven't attained yet. Um. So that that's part of what
Speaker 1: I'm excited about what this podcast. Yeah, and we want
Speaker 1: to be a place where people can learn together. We
Speaker 1: Jill and I are very frugal and we are considered
Speaker 1: I would consider us kind of like experts in frugality,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't mean that we know everything and far
Speaker 1: be it. And we feel like the hive mind is
Speaker 1: definitely more powerful because you're talking about making your life
Speaker 1: run more efficiently, and everybody's life is so different, and
Speaker 1: so we want to hear from other people how they
Speaker 1: are being frugal and how it's working for them and
Speaker 1: what's not working for them. That's another thing that we
Speaker 1: want to talk about is the things that you hear
Speaker 1: on the internet and you read. We want to know
Speaker 1: and we want to share what is fluff and what
Speaker 1: can just be like read past, and there's a lot
Speaker 1: of frugal guilt when people want to be frugal, but
Speaker 1: they also want to like not uh have to unplug
Speaker 1: their appliances or they want to buy another car, And
Speaker 1: so I have personally felt that. So we want to
Speaker 1: just like wade through that and we wanna get to
Speaker 1: a place where we're like living in confident frugality. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And speaking of getting people involved and hearing from others,
Speaker 1: that's something that I'm really excited about what this podcast.
Speaker 1: All the different ways that people can get plugged into
Speaker 1: what we're doing and have that um hive mind mentality
Speaker 1: where we are sharing, but we're also creating a platform
Speaker 1: for other people to share and learn together. So, Jen,
Speaker 1: You've come up with some like really creative ways that
Speaker 1: I'm just excited to see what comes out of it.
Speaker 1: But that includes having like a Facebook group where we
Speaker 1: can all be sharing as we go on a variety
Speaker 1: of topics. Um. One of my favorites that I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to is our ninety day Frugalizer, So like a
Speaker 1: challenge that people can get involved with and frugalize their
Speaker 1: lives and like step by step ninety day kind of
Speaker 1: plan um and just other resources that can help us
Speaker 1: be more intentional consumers, help us to live the frugal lifestyle,
Speaker 1: live more simply. Um. So there'll be a lot of
Speaker 1: really tangible resources and challenges as well as just creating
Speaker 1: a place where we can talk about this topic and
Speaker 1: learn from one another and put them into practice and
Speaker 1: share our triumphs and our failures. Oh yeah, we have
Speaker 1: a lot of trams and we have a lot of
Speaker 1: failures and they're funny though, So just get ready. But
Speaker 1: we're going to cover a lot of different topics and
Speaker 1: hopefully the podcast will go on for a long enough
Speaker 1: amount of time where we can cover every single topic
Speaker 1: in the world and make it frugalized. So every topic
Speaker 1: in the world pretty much. That's my plans. I don't
Speaker 1: know if we discussed that. We didn't, but I'm along
Speaker 1: for the ride. Awesome. But we're starting out with kind
Speaker 1: of what we're referring to is the four pillars, uh,
Speaker 1: like clothing and shopping, your home, your bills, and your transportation,
Speaker 1: so like the things that are that you cannot do without.
Speaker 1: So those are the things that we want to help
Speaker 1: you save money with and then we'll just kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, spider out from there. I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's the correct term, but we'll just go out from
Speaker 1: there and kind of get smaller areas, but we want
Speaker 1: them to be as relevant as possible and so that
Speaker 1: you can pick and choose which episode you want to
Speaker 1: listen to depending on what you need, the time you
Speaker 1: need it. Uh, if you are jumping into this podcast
Speaker 1: in one or two years and you're listening to this
Speaker 1: episode now, that you could. We hope that you can
Speaker 1: go to any episode and it is a standalone episode.
Speaker 1: You don't have to go you don't have to start
Speaker 1: here and go all the way through. So that's a
Speaker 1: that's our hope for this, and we're our first few
Speaker 1: episodes are going to be kind of like a bird's
Speaker 1: eye view of those four pillars, and then from there
Speaker 1: we'll just get more specific, more and more detailed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and and weed through what questions people are asking too
Speaker 1: about these different topics, so that it's really relevant to
Speaker 1: what people want to know, what you're curious about. Mm hmm. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's another part of that. Like Facebook group and crowdsourcing,
Speaker 1: the more involvement we get, the more specific we can
Speaker 1: be with the information that we are giving nice well, Jen,
Speaker 1: I imagine people want to know who is talking to them.
Speaker 1: Tell us a little bit about yourself. How old are you,
Speaker 1: where are you from? Give us just you know, a
Speaker 1: brief life history, as you like to call it. I'll
Speaker 1: give you my brief life history. I was born in
Speaker 1: nineteen nine in St. Petersburg, Florida, so that currently makes
Speaker 1: me almost twenty nine, uh, and I still live in St. Petersburg, Florida,
Speaker 1: because why would you ever leave a place that is
Speaker 1: always sunny and warm. It's it's beautiful. I can't lie.
Speaker 1: I love it here. But yeah, So my husband Travis
Speaker 1: and I live in St. Pete And I am a
Speaker 1: writer uh for The Penny Hoarder, which is a personal
Speaker 1: finance website, and I also have my own personal finance blog.
Speaker 1: It's called Saving with Spunk and I started that when
Speaker 1: Travis and I were paying off our student loans. So
Speaker 1: we got engaged in two thousand fifteen, and we had
Speaker 1: a combined um over eighty thousand dollars of debt um
Speaker 1: and then by the time we got married, we had
Speaker 1: just under seventy eight thousand. So we spent the first
Speaker 1: two years of our marriage paying all that off, and
Speaker 1: we did it, and we have been debt free for
Speaker 1: gosh a few months now. That was so exciting. Uh.
Speaker 1: So I was a like a frugal convert. I've been
Speaker 1: frugal most of my life, but what I thought was, uh,
Speaker 1: what I would call frugality back then, now I would
Speaker 1: call just being cheap. I well, that is a distinction
Speaker 1: that I definitely want to make and go over that
Speaker 1: more later. But I always thought I was broke, and
Speaker 1: so I always lived in the mindset that I was broke,
Speaker 1: and so I was cheap, and I wasn't budgeting or
Speaker 1: any of the things that you do when you're being
Speaker 1: a conscious consumer. And so it wasn't until we paid
Speaker 1: off our debt that I learned how to value my
Speaker 1: purchases and see opportunity costs and all these things that
Speaker 1: happen when you pay attention to your finances. So I
Speaker 1: was definitely reluctant to pay off our debt at first,
Speaker 1: but once I got on board, it was just like
Speaker 1: a runaway train. And we paid off seventy eight thousand
Speaker 1: dollars in twenty three months and we've never looked back.
Speaker 1: And so now we really value the frugal lessons that
Speaker 1: we learned during those twenty three months, and so I
Speaker 1: wanted to continue to share them and learn and grow.
Speaker 1: And this podcast is a great way to keep me accountable.
Speaker 1: Nice Uh, Jill, I'd like to ask the same question
Speaker 1: to you. Tell me about yourself and give me a
Speaker 1: brief life history. Yeah, so I am also twenty eight
Speaker 1: was a fantastic year for the frugal friends. Very good. Um.
Speaker 1: Not so great for our moms who were laboring us. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah so. And I live outside of Philly for
Speaker 1: those who aren't from the area. For those who are
Speaker 1: from the area, they're gonna be like, you're nowhere near Philly.
Speaker 1: But and my frugal journey, let's see, it's a combination
Speaker 1: of frugality running in my veins and frugality born out
Speaker 1: of necessity, which in some ways may have intersected with
Speaker 1: being cheap at some points in my life. Um. My
Speaker 1: husband Eric and I have been married for six years
Speaker 1: and we own our own business together. It's like a
Speaker 1: construction general general construction business. We primarily do remodeling UM
Speaker 1: and one of the things that we focus on is
Speaker 1: just helping people update their homes rather than needing to
Speaker 1: do a total gut of a room, we try to
Speaker 1: come in and work with what's existing and and bring
Speaker 1: that frugal mentality like to our customers as well. Um.
Speaker 1: And then I am also a social worker, so I
Speaker 1: am this week getting my Masters in social work graduated,
Speaker 1: which feels great. Um. And also no, no post graduate
Speaker 1: debt um for for that at least I got undergraduate debt.
Speaker 1: But that's another story. Um. And so my background is
Speaker 1: understanding the difficulty in budgeting, especially when you own your
Speaker 1: own business and not necessarily being able to know how
Speaker 1: much money you have coming in and living on a
Speaker 1: social work salary. So like, that struggle is real and
Speaker 1: I can bring that perspective and help all of you
Speaker 1: who are just like, yeah, no, I get budgeting, but like,
Speaker 1: what do you do when you only make ten dollars
Speaker 1: a week? Um? And I got you, I got your back. Um.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm excited because I can learn more. But
Speaker 1: also I'm excited about Jen like you and I the
Speaker 1: different perspectives that we bring to the table, Like you
Speaker 1: are very good at being creative, being um, determined and
Speaker 1: just working hard with your research and knowing what's out there.
Speaker 1: And ways to save money. And I'm more of like
Speaker 1: a d I wire um thrift store shopper and and
Speaker 1: I bring my frugality in that way. So I love that.
Speaker 1: And yeah, the last time we went to a thrift
Speaker 1: store together, you were all over the place and found
Speaker 1: all these great fines and I I walked around for
Speaker 1: five minutes and then sat down at the magazines and
Speaker 1: just like read magazines. And I'm waiting for you and
Speaker 1: Travis mostly. Yes, So I understand Travis's like need to
Speaker 1: just dig through everything, um, because yeah, there's buried treasure there.
Speaker 1: But that's what's so cool about this is that if
Speaker 1: you're not a digger and you feel like everything at
Speaker 1: the thrift stores junk, that's okay because Jen's on your side. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just I can't find the treasures. I know that
Speaker 1: there are treasures there because Travis finds them and I can't.
Speaker 1: So frugality is for everyone, not just the people that
Speaker 1: stop on the side of the road to pick up
Speaker 1: free furniture. Um, there's more than one path. Yes, there's
Speaker 1: more than one path to frugality and uh so, but
Speaker 1: when people are looking for frugality and ways to save money,
Speaker 1: we know that the first place that you go is
Speaker 1: the Internet. And so one of our our main recurring
Speaker 1: segment that we want to do on the podcast is
Speaker 1: to go to Google and see what the Internet has
Speaker 1: to say about the topics that we're covering, because we
Speaker 1: want to see, you know, what the first few things
Speaker 1: are up there, what people are going to be getting
Speaker 1: when they go, and we want to cover that, Like
Speaker 1: we don't need to reinvent the wheel. We just need
Speaker 1: to wade through what's already out there to glean the
Speaker 1: diamonds and just sweep off all of the whatever else
Speaker 1: is out there that say, yeah, take the meat, spit
Speaker 1: out the bones. That's exactly what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 1: I'm a vegetarian, so right, you wouldn't know what that's like.
Speaker 1: That's why I couldn't word it. Okay, chop off the
Speaker 1: heads of the broccoli and throw away the stem although
Speaker 1: there could be some nutrients in the stems, so you
Speaker 1: should keep the stems. To chop off the stems and
Speaker 1: also cook those. That's a trail anyways, So why not
Speaker 1: start it right now? Um, since we're just talking about frugality.
Speaker 1: One oh one, I wanted to see what the Internet
Speaker 1: had to say about frugality, and I came upon two
Speaker 1: articles that I absolutely love and we always will link
Speaker 1: to these articles in our show notes. They'll be accessible
Speaker 1: in the Apple Podcast show notes and on our website
Speaker 1: Frugal Friends podcast dot com. So don't worry if you're driving,
Speaker 1: you'll always be able to access them, just at the
Speaker 1: touch of your finger on your smartphone, assuming you have
Speaker 1: a smartphone, unless you've made a frugal decision to not
Speaker 1: have a smartphone. That's so true, although you can have
Speaker 1: a smartphone and be frugal. Let's be honest, we both
Speaker 1: have good full disclosure. Uh So. The first one is
Speaker 1: from um mother frugal herself, Liz over at frugal Woods
Speaker 1: dot com. And you might hear me reference her uh
Speaker 1: many times in the future on this podcast. She's fantastic.
Speaker 1: I got to meet her and sit down with her
Speaker 1: for gosh over an hour and just pick her brain
Speaker 1: and she is lovely. I forgot you did that, yes,
Speaker 1: and so I love her. She is like the mother
Speaker 1: of frugality in my eyes, even though that could be
Speaker 1: debatable to the larger public. I was wondering, like, are
Speaker 1: you naming her mother frugal or did she name herself that? Okay,
Speaker 1: that's better because she named herself that, I'd be like,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe that's a fault. Maybe I think we'll link
Speaker 1: it in our show notes. But you can decide for yourself.
Speaker 1: So the article that comes up first when you google
Speaker 1: frugality is her nineteen reasons why Frugality is the best
Speaker 1: thing That's ever happened to Me. And she has a
Speaker 1: new book out, uh new at the time of this recording,
Speaker 1: called Meet the Frugal Woods. And you can kind of
Speaker 1: get this article on steroids if you buy her book
Speaker 1: or take it out from the library, which I did.
Speaker 1: Uh It's it's really good. So out of the nineteen,
Speaker 1: we won't go through all nineteen of them, but we
Speaker 1: want to share our favorites or what we don't like
Speaker 1: about each and then kind of let you decide for
Speaker 1: yourself on the rest. So my ultimate favorite and something
Speaker 1: that I will refer to like a lot in the future,
Speaker 1: is number one. And that's that frugality helps you identify
Speaker 1: your true priorities. And uh, I always think of it
Speaker 1: like the when you're having an allergic reaction to a
Speaker 1: food and your doctor takes you off all of these
Speaker 1: foods that are prone to allergens and then you add
Speaker 1: them back gradually. And that is what uh Liz and
Speaker 1: her family did. They took away everything UH and just
Speaker 1: lived off of as little as possible. Like they didn't
Speaker 1: even count transportation and utilities as like fixed costs. They
Speaker 1: just did everything to avoid spending money that they could
Speaker 1: and so, and she calls it the uber Frugal Month
Speaker 1: challenge she offers out to her readers, And it's what
Speaker 1: they did. So it really allowed them to discover what
Speaker 1: their true priorities were by stripping off everything else that
Speaker 1: they considered priorities, but after giving them up, discovered they weren't.
Speaker 1: And I find that a lot of my frivolous spending.
Speaker 1: While it gives me pleasure in the moment, I forget
Speaker 1: about it like hours later. And so can I really
Speaker 1: count that as something that's a priority or something that
Speaker 1: gives me joy? And so I always like to put
Speaker 1: it through that filter. How about you, Jill? Yeah, Number
Speaker 1: four on this one stood out to me where she
Speaker 1: talks about frugality ensuring that you'll never be bored. Uh.
Speaker 1: This is an unexpected one, I think for most people.
Speaker 1: But when you're thinking frugal and considering the opportunity costs
Speaker 1: of your choice is whether that's time and energy or money,
Speaker 1: whatever it is. Um yeah, it's speaking to this idea
Speaker 1: of like problem solving and finding creative ways of getting
Speaker 1: the things that you need or that you want. Um So,
Speaker 1: whether that's maybe doing a project yourself, that's that that's doable,
Speaker 1: not like oh, you're you're teaching yourself to become an
Speaker 1: electrician or something. But Okay, I want shelves, but what
Speaker 1: if I could build the shelves out of this thing
Speaker 1: that I have on the side over here, or or
Speaker 1: I mean just everything's on YouTube these days, like you
Speaker 1: don't have to take something to a specialist or a professional.
Speaker 1: It can mean you learning something new or problem solving
Speaker 1: something out um and and filling your time that way
Speaker 1: rather than I don't know, sitting in front of the
Speaker 1: computer or watching TV or something like that. Um. I
Speaker 1: think it does. It gets us more active, and then
Speaker 1: it also like expands our wheelhouse of things we know
Speaker 1: things were capable of, which then builds confidence. And there's
Speaker 1: just like a plethora of um secondary things that come
Speaker 1: along with it that that are just really great mm hmm. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And there was there's full disclosure. Nothing on this article
Speaker 1: that I don't like. I think all nineteen are just
Speaker 1: very well thought out and carefully written, like yeah so um.
Speaker 1: Another one that I really liked was the um Fruit
Speaker 1: Galley builds community and I think it's definitely relevant two
Speaker 1: right now with our very social media oriented community. And
Speaker 1: some people will complain about that, but there it makes
Speaker 1: like things like buying nothing groups and buying between from
Speaker 1: like person to person makes it a lot easier. Like
Speaker 1: my friends where I work out, they said they were
Speaker 1: selling their couch on Facebook marketplace and this couple came
Speaker 1: over to buy it and they were like, you guys
Speaker 1: just seem really cool and like literally the next day
Speaker 1: they were hanging out. So and that would have never
Speaker 1: happened if that couple had just gone to American Signature
Speaker 1: Furniture and bought a house. Uh So in one way,
Speaker 1: in that way, it really like Foster's community, and then
Speaker 1: in the other way, like its strengthens relationships you already
Speaker 1: have when you're going to your friends to borrow something
Speaker 1: before buying it. Um not to like impose, like our
Speaker 1: friends have a double kayak and there's a really great
Speaker 1: kayaking spot um near our house. And so on a
Speaker 1: weekday that my friend and I had off for some
Speaker 1: holiday but they were working, we asked to borrow the
Speaker 1: kayak instead of renting one and just doing stuff like that.
Speaker 1: And then we were able to share, like you know
Speaker 1: what we did with their kayak and and all the
Speaker 1: stuff it and and then now they can like borrow
Speaker 1: something from us if they want it. Just it fosters
Speaker 1: this community that um that we're losing in some manner.
Speaker 1: Uh So, yeah, I love that. I agree, and Eric
Speaker 1: and I have talked about this quite a bit. I Mean,
Speaker 1: the thing that comes to my mind is just with tools.
Speaker 1: It's so funny to me to be driving through a
Speaker 1: small neighborhood and see every single person owning a leafblower
Speaker 1: and a lawnmower and of this and of that, when
Speaker 1: it's like you're literally right next to each other. Like
Speaker 1: what would that be like if you know a couple
Speaker 1: of people went in on owning a lawnmower together, or
Speaker 1: that one tool that you're only going to need one time,
Speaker 1: Like you do not need to go out and buy it,
Speaker 1: but you can go across the street and ask so
Speaker 1: and so, or ask your friend who lives down the
Speaker 1: road to use that thing rather than spending money on
Speaker 1: something that you're only going to use a couple of times.
Speaker 1: And I realized, like for some people, that's like going
Speaker 1: out on a limb and you're afraid you're going to
Speaker 1: break it, and and am I imposing on them? But
Speaker 1: I think you know, when that door is opened, there
Speaker 1: is a given it take, so like for people that
Speaker 1: we have offered, you know, for them to borrow things
Speaker 1: of ours like then vice versa, Like there's a little
Speaker 1: bit more of like this shared sense of things and
Speaker 1: and then that community, that interaction that you're going to
Speaker 1: have because of it, and you save money along the way.
Speaker 1: Yeah you do, Jill, did you have any other favorites
Speaker 1: you wanted to cover? Um? Like you said, I think
Speaker 1: that there's a lot of good reasons in this article
Speaker 1: to pursue a frugal lifestyle, but I think gratitude and joy.
Speaker 1: She talks about a lot, like there's a lot of
Speaker 1: themes through it and how frugality can lead to that,
Speaker 1: like when you are more intentional about what you're buying
Speaker 1: on the things that you're buying bring you joy or
Speaker 1: have function to them for your life, like there's a
Speaker 1: lot more gratitude to that thing that you're using. Like, yes,
Speaker 1: I spent hard earned money on this thing because I
Speaker 1: knew I liked it, I knew I was going to
Speaker 1: use it, and I'm still thankful for that thing. Wow,
Speaker 1: what a good purchase this was. Like I don't know,
Speaker 1: it can sound a little bit hippie dippy, but like
Speaker 1: there is a reality to like I'm living more simply therefore,
Speaker 1: like I'm also more aware of what I have and
Speaker 1: how I use it, which then I'm grateful for. And
Speaker 1: I'm also really grateful for the time and energy and
Speaker 1: resource that fruality frees up for me. Like there's just
Speaker 1: a lot there's a lot more emotional space, just hands
Speaker 1: down in this kind of lifestyle. So I would agree
Speaker 1: with her on that. Yeah, And one more thing about
Speaker 1: emotional space there. I always think about decision fatigue and
Speaker 1: how I personally get decision fatigue very easily, and frugality
Speaker 1: almost eliminates decision fatigue by either only giving you choices
Speaker 1: that are used or that are on Craigslist or Facebook,
Speaker 1: marketplace at the time, um or you know, for various
Speaker 1: other reasons. So Yeah, and there's there's always something to
Speaker 1: be grateful for with frugality. It's wonderful, good word. So yeah,
Speaker 1: definitely check out Mrs frugal Wood's article and if you
Speaker 1: love it, then you can read your book. It's just
Speaker 1: this article on steroids. As I've said before, and hopefully, uh,
Speaker 1: we'll be doing some book of a ways in the future. Um,
Speaker 1: and I would love for this to be one of
Speaker 1: those books. So h stay tuned with us. Um all right,
Speaker 1: moving on, one more article that I really love is
Speaker 1: from Millennial money dot com. And you may have heard
Speaker 1: of Grant Sabatier from uh one of the news syndications
Speaker 1: or he's just everywhere, but um, he's been C and C, NBC, NPR,
Speaker 1: and uh he built up this empire. I don't even
Speaker 1: know how. He's just a go getter and uh just
Speaker 1: from day one built up this empire. And he was
Speaker 1: a millionaire. He was able to retire early and at
Speaker 1: one point he had spent over two hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 1: in one year. And so he went from this frugal
Speaker 1: guy who had massed a million dollars to just flippantly
Speaker 1: spending over two hundred thousand. And the premise of the
Speaker 1: articles that it didn't make him feel better. Um, Like
Speaker 1: he felt worse and he wanted to like spend more
Speaker 1: wisely by the end of it. M m um, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just feel like there's such a tangible life lessons
Speaker 1: in here, Like it almost feels like the adult version
Speaker 1: of some kids cartoon that's like money doesn't make you happy, Like,
Speaker 1: oh my word, we still need to learn that. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was so I really I didn't. I didn't necessarily
Speaker 1: enjoy that he had this experience, but to some degree,
Speaker 1: I was very glad to see that somebody else has
Speaker 1: been there and now they're reporting back, like hey, guys,
Speaker 1: like I went to the other side and here's what
Speaker 1: it's like, and and now we can all learn from
Speaker 1: from that. Um. But I think, yeah, what's key to
Speaker 1: that is like he forgot how he amassed his money,
Speaker 1: which was by frugal living, so it was really like
Speaker 1: an abandonment of himself and and the things that he valued.
Speaker 1: And then yeah, clearly that's not gonna bring you satisfaction. Um.
Speaker 1: Although he did say that more expensive wine, he did
Speaker 1: notice the difference, which was interesting to read because I
Speaker 1: don't know, we'll see, we'll see about that one. But
Speaker 1: I'm happy to live an ignorant bliss on that one
Speaker 1: because I drink a lot of wine. And on the
Speaker 1: other side, you don't want to know how a hundred
Speaker 1: bottle of wine days and I don't want to know
Speaker 1: if I like it. Yeah, but that you know. One
Speaker 1: of the things that stood out to me was nothing
Speaker 1: was a treat anymore because he's so indulging himself now
Speaker 1: on just every single thing that looks pleasing to his eye.
Speaker 1: Nothing was a treat. So there wasn't that gratitude anymore.
Speaker 1: There wasn't that simple living. It was just like I'm
Speaker 1: going to say yes to everything and get fat off
Speaker 1: and then and then he just felt bloated and disgusting
Speaker 1: and like what am I even doing? This isn't me. However,
Speaker 1: another good life lesson from this was his ability to
Speaker 1: course correct and I love that he stopped and was like,
Speaker 1: wait a second, what's happening here? This is not what
Speaker 1: I want? Like, this isn't how I want to be
Speaker 1: spending money, This isn't how I want to advise others
Speaker 1: to spend their money, And and that reality of we
Speaker 1: can always be checking in with ourselves and it's like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I made a stupid purchase, like I just shouldn't have
Speaker 1: bought that thing. I wasted way too much money and
Speaker 1: move on, Like you don't have to beat yourself up
Speaker 1: over like that stupid thing that you did. Like he paused,
Speaker 1: he said, this is not how I want to be
Speaker 1: living my life and course corrected. So there, there's just yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of good things in this article for us
Speaker 1: to learn from. And that's like, hey, if you've gone
Speaker 1: way far over the other the other end, and you
Speaker 1: are so far in debt, there's still time. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: I love that Grant shared his story because his story
Speaker 1: is probably more exact graduated then what most of us
Speaker 1: will experience. But I think that course correction is the key.
Speaker 1: It's even if you have a season or a year
Speaker 1: or a few years where you have forgotten frugality, it's
Speaker 1: there's always time to come back. It's never too late.
Speaker 1: You've never let lifestyle inflation creep in too far to
Speaker 1: start being frugal or to return to frugality, like granted
Speaker 1: and so yeah, I think it's just it's a necessary
Speaker 1: reminder that this is a journey and it's not a destination.
Speaker 1: You don't like unlock frugality and achieve it like a
Speaker 1: like a video game, and then you always have it.
Speaker 1: It's a journey that we're all going down and hopefully
Speaker 1: we'll be going down it together now. Yeah, and even
Speaker 1: if you are a millionaire, there's there's frugal decisions that
Speaker 1: you can make then, um, to spend your money wisely,
Speaker 1: to spend on the things that matter, that kind of
Speaker 1: a thing. So, yeah, this is a lifestyle that isn't
Speaker 1: just for the poor like this is. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: would say it's it's definitely frugality cannot it cannot cure
Speaker 1: like poverty. It's not going to We don't think it's
Speaker 1: a solution to that, and we wouldn't say that it is, um,
Speaker 1: but it can help solve a lot of surface problems.
Speaker 1: And sometimes when problems on the surface are solved, it
Speaker 1: makes dealing with deeper issues easier. So uh, like we
Speaker 1: do think that frugality is for everyone. No matter what
Speaker 1: your income is, you can always be um more conscious
Speaker 1: of what you're spending your money on. Yeah, because the
Speaker 1: frugality is not being cheap. And I know we're gonna
Speaker 1: up on that a lot, but oh my gosh, before
Speaker 1: we do that, I want to hype you up for
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Speaker 1: people that can't remember those numbers. So yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: excited me too. I think it's a good segment. I
Speaker 1: think it's one of the best things we've come up with.
Speaker 1: And it might have been Eric's idea, but that's okay.
Speaker 1: This is a collaboration, crowdsource, that's what they're calling it
Speaker 1: these days. All right, So two finish off this episode
Speaker 1: of Frugality one oh one. We wanted to define our
Speaker 1: tenets of frugality, what we believe about frugality just use
Speaker 1: as a lens going forward. And so if you agree
Speaker 1: with it, you can hit the subscribe button. If you
Speaker 1: don't agree with it, then you can move on. That's
Speaker 1: totally fine, but we still hit the subscribe button. But
Speaker 1: still hit subscribe. Just don't listen or comment or leave
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Speaker 1: your bill of the week and subscribe and then and
Speaker 1: and then become a fan. Yeah. Anyways, we uh, we
Speaker 1: have just a few things that we believe about frugality
Speaker 1: that we wanted to share with you. So the first
Speaker 1: one I'll cover, it's a it's called the law of
Speaker 1: diminishing returns, and most people will be familiar with it
Speaker 1: because it's, uh, it's a rule in economics and gosh,
Speaker 1: I don't know what the actual rule says on paper,
Speaker 1: but in my mind I view frugality through the law
Speaker 1: of diminishing returns all the time. So what I think
Speaker 1: is that there is a difference between being frugal and cheap,
Speaker 1: and so the law of diminishing returns is what defines that.
Speaker 1: And you can do somebody who is like super frugal
Speaker 1: or super cheap. You can do all of these like
Speaker 1: great things to opt miz you're spending and be a
Speaker 1: more conscious consumer. And then it gets to the point
Speaker 1: where you've done all these things and if you go further,
Speaker 1: anything else will just be a suck of your time
Speaker 1: and energy. Like there there are things that are really
Speaker 1: good for you, and then you kind of get to
Speaker 1: the top of that bell curve and then everything else
Speaker 1: is just kind of superfluous um filler. In these articles,
Speaker 1: people are writing for websites just so that they can
Speaker 1: have a hundred and one ways to save money when
Speaker 1: you don't need a hundred and one ways you need. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you needed five of them and they're going to be
Speaker 1: different for everyone, and gosh, that's why we have long lists.
Speaker 1: But you don't need a hundred and one ways to
Speaker 1: save money. Yeah. Actually, you really hit the nail on
Speaker 1: the head with that law of diminishing returns. While you
Speaker 1: were saying it, I googled it and um, your spot on,
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you. Do you want to read the
Speaker 1: next one? Yah? Yeah? Yes. The next tenant is talking
Speaker 1: about how frugality allows you to discover what you really value.
Speaker 1: That means that if you are really spending on the
Speaker 1: things that you want to be buying, like things that
Speaker 1: matter to you, things that bring you joy, things that
Speaker 1: are functional, um, then you'll realize what you're true priorities
Speaker 1: are and where you want to be spending your money. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And if like quote unquote, frugality is keeping you from
Speaker 1: what you love. It's not frugality, it's it's cheapness. It's
Speaker 1: being cheap, so um. Our next tenant is frugality is
Speaker 1: good for the environment. And while we don't explicitly do
Speaker 1: it for the environment, you can't buy your way to green.
Speaker 1: And the more you consumed, whether it's used or recycled
Speaker 1: or not, it's the more you're perpetuating the production of goods.
Speaker 1: So the more you consume overall and like you can
Speaker 1: consume smarter. But knowing that regardless, the more you consume UM,
Speaker 1: the more you're perpetuating that cycle. So the more conscious
Speaker 1: you can be in the more frugal um is better
Speaker 1: for the environment. Mm hmm. Yeah. Another tenant is that
Speaker 1: frugality refines your taste in style. You'll start to see
Speaker 1: what you like what you don't like. Um, you can
Speaker 1: have better things, even buying used or saving your money
Speaker 1: for that thing that you really want, and eventually stop
Speaker 1: buying all your souvenir t shirts and key chains unless
Speaker 1: that's what you love, unless that is your refined taste
Speaker 1: and style. UM, but you know, really having that like
Speaker 1: one jacket that works that you know is functional and
Speaker 1: beautiful rather than ten and they for various reasons don't
Speaker 1: work and have rips in them. And I might be
Speaker 1: speaking from personal experience. We don't have jackets in Florida,
Speaker 1: so I know, I don't know why I don't live there.
Speaker 1: That would actually help me in my frugal lifestyle not
Speaker 1: need to have like ten different seasons worth of clothing.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm. Uh. Frugality also allows you more time to
Speaker 1: increase your income. So I've always said the best way
Speaker 1: to not spend money is to spend time making it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so we also believe in, uh, increasing your wealth. It's
Speaker 1: not just about like spending less. While spending less does
Speaker 1: allow you to work less. Uh, that's a great thing.
Speaker 1: And yeah, who I mean, who wouldn't want to work less?
Speaker 1: And you can you are more capable of taking your
Speaker 1: dream job if you're spending Like, if your monthly spending
Speaker 1: is lower, you can afford to take a job that
Speaker 1: you love that pays less. Um. But if you're not
Speaker 1: going out to events that cost money, if you're not
Speaker 1: going out and like waiting for a table at a restaurant,
Speaker 1: you'll find that a lot of time freese up and
Speaker 1: the resourcefulness that you'll gain through being frugal can also
Speaker 1: lead to ideas that can help you make money. So
Speaker 1: that's another thing that we love, um because Jill and
Speaker 1: I are both entrepreneurs at heart, and so we think
Speaker 1: that that really ties in nicely with frugality. And our
Speaker 1: final tenant is that frugality will not make you rich.
Speaker 1: Want sorry. Uh. While you can be rich like you
Speaker 1: you might become rich because you make a lot of money.
Speaker 1: Good for you, um, but that's not the end game here.
Speaker 1: Frugality is about living some making wiser decisions with your money,
Speaker 1: with your time, um, spending money on things that are
Speaker 1: important to you, prioritizing all of those things. UM. But
Speaker 1: it's not about being rich and buying bottles of wine.
Speaker 1: You can do that, that's on you. Um, but that's
Speaker 1: not but like, don't we're going to touch yourself with
Speaker 1: that because we buy We saw what happens when you're
Speaker 1: used for regality to get rich just so you can
Speaker 1: spend it all. It's not a good ending. You guys,
Speaker 1: just keep buying your wine at all day and you
Speaker 1: can buy a lot more of it. We also can't
Speaker 1: buy wine at all. They in Pennsylvania. Again, I don't
Speaker 1: know why we live here. We can do that Florida.
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. Yeah, I know, I know. You borrow
Speaker 1: kayaks in Florida. You don't need jackets in Florida. You
Speaker 1: never have to deal with cold weather, and you can
Speaker 1: buy wine there. Meanwhile, I'm up here in it's April
Speaker 1: and it's snowing, and I need multiple jackets, and I
Speaker 1: don't live near a lake where I can kayak, and um,
Speaker 1: I can't buy wine. So this is the only fun
Speaker 1: I have right now is recording a podcast where I'm
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