The Deirdre O’Shaughnessy Podcast: What is frugaltok, and should you try it?

The Irish Examiner’s Jess Casey has given frugaltok a go, and tells Deirdre about it on the podcast.

We’ve all been feeling the squeeze over the past couple of years as covid and then Russia’s invasion of Ukraine saw a massive rise in the cost of living.

Prices of everyday goods have soared, and it doesn’t appear that next week’s budget will give much relief to hard-pressed consumers.

While you may have learned some cost-saving tricks from a frugal granny, Gen Z learn these things online, so every penny-pinching trick conceivable is now part of a TikTok trend called frugaltok.

Some of them are pretty mundane, some very extreme. The Irish Examiner’s Jess Casey has given it a go, and tells Deirdre about it on the podcast.