10 Frugal Trends That Will Impact You in 2025

[@ElAgustin]

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[@iamjane9628]

Yes, people in the U.S. are going to be forced to be frugal and give up a lot of things in the next few years. Companies lowering their prices and giving up their huge profits is not going to happen here. The phenomenon of people voting against their own best interests has pretty much guaranteed that, here in the "greatest country on Earth."

[@plappin]

Unfortunately given the way campaigns are funded, nobody running has anything but their donors' interests at heart, regardless of what they might say to get (or not get as the case may be) elected.

[@iamjane9628]

@@plappin That statement is a small grain of truth wrapped in hyperbole.

[@KittyKat-vb1nd]

People finally forced to live within their means. At last

[@plappin]

We've stopped eating out altogether and not only for financial reasons. It's easier to control portion size at home, eat mindfully (i.e., not gulping down your food), and know exactly what you're eating and how it has been prepared. Excellent video as always and eager to see your new place, when you get there!

[@pamelamonteiro9601]

We also don't eat out or do take out either. We also make sure we use everything in our fridge every week, Sunday is suprise dinner day, it's surprising how odd food items go together & some even end up being a fav.

[@ElAgustin]

Plus food is not that great in restaurants. Most restaurants just serve frozen food.

[@lizzie8320]

So true! I actually ate at moes the other day it was first meal out in a while and it was so gross I had to throw it away, which is so unlike me as a former moes/chipotle lover. Not to mention it somehow costed $40 for my hubs and I lolll

[@KittyKat-vb1nd]

Americans eat out way too much. It was so odd to me when I first moved there. No one knows how to cook or won't. And the food is unhealthy

[@KittyKat-vb1nd]

​@@ElAgustinExactly. It's shocking the cost as well

[@nathalieherrera8005]

Cooking at home is way healthier, satisfying and cheaper. There's nothing better than brewing your own coffee as well. It saves tons of money ❤

[@ElAgustin]

The ritual of making a coffee in the morning is almost more enjoyable than the coffee. My mom said when we were kids she would force us to stay in our room and she would just sit next to the coffee pot to hear it brew. And that was what kept her sane while raising us!

[@josephineesan8703]

I'll be waiting for your " no spend video". Let's start 2025, right. Thanks for your videos😊

[@Hasan-SP]

The no going out point is so real 😭, I started to cook more food at home, it’s way to expensive to eat out rn, if you go and eat out at least twice a week with your partner it can be 200$ easy, it’s crazy.

[@ElAgustin]

I've had to eat out more since my place flooded and I've been moving around. It is so expensive and restaurant food isn't even that good. Most of it is frozen!

[@reviewsbygen5591]

So true!! We went to Olive Garden (yes that place haha) and it was ridiculously expensive for basically noodles. It was like $180 for 3 adults and 4 kids meals. We only eat out to very mediocre places (Olive Garden, Golden Corral, etc) for special occasions. The times of going to fancy places are done for me.

[@martinh8784]

STOP! ... you forgot to mention paper towels 🤣🤣🤣Anyway ... great video.

[@LorettaNance]

2025 will be a no spend year for me. I did one in 2022 and it was so freeing not to accumulate so much stuff.

[@VC-de4jo]

Love all your advice from Ireland 🇮🇪

[@princessdumbarton9877]

What a concept, hold onto your things until they break. If people did this, we wouldn't have overflowing landfills. If you can afford it, buy the best quality so you don't have to replace things every 6 weeks. Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without. Everyone should memorize that.

[@reviewsbygen5591]

True! I have worn my Birkenstocks sandals for the third year now, wear my winter jacket from Walmart that’s 4 yrs old, etc. I never upgrade or buy unless it’s to replace an item that is broken beyond repair.

[@peppermintpeggy658]

Thanks Sweetheart!!! FYI last January I did a No Spend/No Alcohol/No Meat month...it was much easier than I thought it would be, and turned out to be an amazing New Year's 'Reset". Since then, I generally do some sort of monthly challenge...it's actually fun.

[@taranomics]

Groceries are insane. Even for one person I can't seem to shop for less than $150-300 here in Canada. It's all about dried beans, lentils, and low cost staples you can batch cook and freeze. I agree when it comes to spending on snacks. But I think all they will do is increase shrinkflation 😆

[@stscc2009]

I have already started doing all the things you mentioned. I choose to vote with where I spend my money. I’m tired of the corporate greed. I can do without. I doubt things will ever go back to pre pandemic prices. Maybe this is our reset because consumerism has gotten way out of hand. The thing that bothers me the most is the rising cost of food. Because we all have to eat for survival. I can without the new car or the new iPhone but I can’t do without food.

[@Jacquie_Kirk_111]

You mentioned data breaches...I just checked my Microsoft login history, I was shocked to find out that for the last month, each day there were 5 login attempts, mostly from China, but also Syria, Brazil and US. It was scary.

[@ElAgustin]

You have to make this your password: mcdodweui3984u32n2323$@#hsdbfuwer3nibf843nrfeifer! lol

[@charleslevington-albright8951]

Austin, it costs my wife and I £50.00 sterling to go out for lunch at our local garden centre restaurant. This includes burger and chips (French fries), a dessert and 1 coffee. It's crazy. As you can guess, we hardly ever eat out now.

[@ElAgustin]

Everything is too expensive!!!!

[@OdetteStankewich]

I noticed that coupons they offer are all on junk food , ultra processed foods and chemicals that are not safe for households .

[@MrsUnderwriter]

Thank your government and corporate greed

[@andreabellini6796]

Instead of buying cookies or cakes I just bake them myself! So much cheaper and there’s plenty to share

[@princessdumbarton9877]

Same here. I grind up oats for half the flour, add lots of walnuts, use healthy ingredients. I only need one piece of homemade cake and I don't feel I have to eat 20 pieces. Processed food is really unhealthy and addictive. I also save lots of money and I know what's in it.

[@SpeakTruthBeKind]

@@princessdumbarton9877are you grinding up whole oats to make flour or the processed ones. Asking as I don’t own a grinder or blender.

[@heatherh1109]

They taste so much better, too. I also freeze half of the batter whenever I bake cookies. Gotta look out for future me lol

[@princessdumbarton9877]

@@SpeakTruthBeKind I mean I blend them in the blender. I just have a little blender, like for making smoothies. I use any kind of regular oatmeal, quick or old fashioned, doesn't matter. In less than a minute it turns into oat flour.

[@lucieciepka1031]

I started making biscuits at home for my daughter’s afternoon meal. Before I was buying in bulk trying everything to lower the cost as everything is getting more expensive. Then I noticed that the taste started changing (lower quality ingredients) and then I saw that it’s 80-90% carbohydrates and fat 45% sugars 😮 I’m not paying 12€/ kg for sugar and palm oil. And it’s so easy to make at home. My biscuits are made with the best butter from gras feed caws from Normandie and it’s still only 6€/ kg.

[@AmandaOwen-n9r]

Having the mindset of I do not have it on my list, and i do not have room for it. Makes not buying things so much easier. You will save money.

[@MNSkolGirl]

I know myself and I know I'd fail a no-buy year, so I'm opting for a low-buy year in 2025. I NEED to save more money..

[@ricardoesco8146]

You always have great tips and you're a guapo hombre 😊

[@Truthtoat]

Great job Man, love your channel

[@ElAgustin]

Thank you!

[@kemi1486]

Grocery prices are crushing! Can’t waste any food at all.

[@SpeakTruthBeKind]

Agree with your post. 100% Thank you for sharing.

[@ElAgustin]

Thanks for watching!

[@reviewsbygen5591]

I have to watch your videos in multiple steps because I have 4 loud little kids making circles around me. In other words, I think 1 trend (unsure if you have mentioned it in this video) will be that people are also just quitting traveling. People say they need it for mental health but debt for travel will put them in worse mental health than before their trip. My family of 6 hasn’t been anywhere for the last 2 yrs because everywhere is too expensive. We go to very cheap local and free things to us because a trip would be $5k for just a week. And the “Europe” vacation everyone seems to do all the time would be over $10k for just for tickets.

[@lizhernandez3857]

Great Video

[@ElAgustin]

Thanks, Liz!

[@Repent44]

Will we ever get a video about giving, helping the less fortunate?

[@Luncheon23]

I love these year-end prediction lists! You do have great financial insight Agustin 😊

[@ElAgustin]

I did them last year and they were fun, so I thought I'd do them again with different subject matter!!

[@tamihill4229]

Hope you get your apartment back soon

[@TonyMoze]

This KZbin guy….when he puts out content his voice is generally so soothing. I’m going to bed now 🛌 😴

[@ElAgustin]

I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing, but thanks!!

[@TonyMoze]

@ lol it’s good my friend 😎

[@michellesteinbeiss-bryan7366]

Yet again ANOTHER awesome video!! Love this channel!!! 👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️

[@ElAgustin]

Thank you, Michelle!!!!! I'm glad you're enjoying my videos!

[@sharonhart3735]

Totally agree !

[@mrwillwgp]

I love boiled potatoes. They're cheap and healthy and all you really need to survive.

[@valimartheashen8184]

great video

[@ElAgustin]

Thanks!

[@genyldosena]

I agree 👍

[@marshamagic8551]

I’ve been going to free church dinners. Imho.

[@tamihill4229]

Hope you get your back soon

[@ElAgustin]

Hopefully this weekend!

[@violetagira5128]

You're absolutely right about holding on to a phone until it breaks. I have a Samsung Galaxy S8 I bought it either at the end of 2017 or beginning of 2018 (cant remember the exact time). It's been acting up for the last 3 years but I completely refuse to get another one. It does everything I need. I am not on social media, therefore I am not on my phone that much. Certain apps are not compatible with my phone anymore, like Homebase app for my restaurant job. But I was able to log in from my laptop and I do not need to buy a new phone just so I can have this app.

[@SpeakTruthBeKind]

Agree, my husband and I both have a Samsung S9 and won’t replace them until they break and might not even replace them with a new phone.

[@pensacola321]

Ever since COVID, inflation has been a worldwide issue. And people all over have been looking for ways to cut costs and save money. In reality these pull push dynamics have been going on forever.

[@paddymurphy-oconnor8255]

Any time now your buddies will chime in with their recommendations for a financial advisor… 🙄

[@bessieoriotis5104]

You mean freedom.

[@SouLoveReal]

Don Augustín: I've been doing this (exactly AND a bit more) for the past FOUR YEARS← "hint-hint," and I've saved lots of money. Thank you for putting it in a better perspective and better order for me. Cuídate, Señor Williams.

[@alexanevin7917]

I agree on most of these except for eating out. People do not want to cook. And they dont know how 😅. Eating out will increase in my opinion...

[@amill1563]

Yeah, just got an Iphone 11 because my 10sMax broke.

[@flohough1870]

I think eating out has been on a decline for several years now. I can remember when you'd try to go to a popular place and have to wait for 30-45 minutes to get a table. Now we rarely have to wait more than a couple minutes. I honestly think that eating out was much more popular for boomers and as that generation is dying off, it just doesn't have the importance it used to with younger generations. Then with the pandemic, a lot of people learned to cook because they had to and now due to the economy, they are continuing to.

[@SpeakTruthBeKind]

As a Boomer I chose to not spend hard earned/saved $$$ on eating out…maybe for a Special Occassion but sadly have found the food isn’t any better than what I can prepare at home. 😉

[@flohough1870]

Perhaps that's a big part of the problem too. Prices have gone up and quality has gone down. So much of what you get now, especially at chains, is already prepared and in a portion control plastic bag when it gets to the restaurant. And not very good. All they do is heat it up.

[@avenj4659]

❤❤❤

[@lizzie8320]

Austin the tips youve shared have been lifechanging for me as someone who wants to be financially free enough to stay at home and raise my kids. I really appreciate your focus on helping us buy our freedom!

[@ElAgustin]

Thanks, Lizzie! Always nice to hear as I never get to see any of the views in person and how my ideas could influence people.

[@antaeusguy]

you know what's interesting, it seems, history often repeat itself. how many people forecasted that a pandemic would happen again 100 years later since the Spanish Flu around 1918. and in the 1920s, the great depression happened where most people are poor and unable to afford food, clothes and housing. think about it, even though we were better off than 100 year ago (medical & technology advances), but, if you compare today's standards, we're kind of starting to live like in the great depression. when prices increase, people would stop spending. almost everyone is tightening their belts. people fear that in the future they have to cope for higher expenses and stopped spending today and save more. with lesser spending, business suffer due to less income and with high cost, more business had to close their shop. more closure means lesser jobs, and this would lead to economic downturn. i do think a great depression would come, albeit not suffering like 100 years ago but in a modern sense of time.

[@ElAgustin]

There's a book sort of about this called, "The Fourth Turning," by William Strauss and Neil Howe. It's about generational theory and how humanity can be classified in four different phases (or turnings). Humanity goes through this constant cycle of building, taking things for granted, destroying, and fighting to rebuild. You should check the book out, it might be of interest to you!

[@ninjal7588]

KZbin premium just announced price hikes... I already earlier decided to unsubscribe from audible. But for youtube I had been eyeing on getting premium for my boyfriend as the individual plan was 11.99€ and family plan 16.99€ if I remember correctly, but now the family plan is more than double the individual? So yep, my temporarily broke boyfriend shall not enjoy youtube on his phone with these prices...

[@paddymurphy-oconnor8255]

Have you not heard of the Brave browser which blocks all ads in KZbin? Its insane to be paying the multi-billion dollar corporation so you don’t have to see ads when you can take a simple step to do it yourself for free.

[@reviewsbygen5591]

Unsure if you can have the Libby app but I use this and get all my audiobooks free. It’s like an online library.

[@carlienvandernet7902]

I hope you are right but I’m afraid you are too optimistic.