How cheap are you?

Originally posted by: Roger
jumpr, old age buddy, 92.

Geez, I wonder if ingesting all that poop from under her fingernails actually improved her immune system!

I kid, I kid!

 

You die now.

 

[djheater]

hmmm.

Never shop for anything without checking "the sites"

Always research your purchase, (amazon reviews, epinions.com, google search). Not only do you gain insight into the performance of the item, you also allow yourself plenty of time to reconsider. That way
it's not an impulse buy.

Before buying something expensive, work it out as monthly payments, also before buying go to your banks website and look at your balance, next check the balance of all of your credit cards. It reminds you of just how little you really have.

Don't cheap yourself on things like toilet paper. If you are frugal to the point of discomfort, the lifestyle becomes untenable. The best thing is to feel like you did the work and got a REALLY GOOD DEAL, that way you can look on being cheap as an accomplishment rather than a burden.

Check out fatwallets grocery coupon forum. Those ladies are incredible.

That's my main regret, I haven't leveraged grocery coupons to the extent I could. I NEVER use them truth be told, and that's stupid. {{sigh}}

 

[EarthwormJim]

I reuse paper that I wrote on with pencil. Just erase the work or notes (it's usually notes) and write away.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: djheater
hmmm.

Never shop for anything without checking "the sites"

Always research your purchase, (amazon reviews, epinions.com, google search). Not only do you gain insight into the performance of the item, you also allow yourself plenty of time to reconsider. That way
it's not an impulse buy.

Before buying something expensive, work it out as monthly payments, also before buying go to your banks website and look at your balance, next check the balance of all of your credit cards. It reminds you of just how little you really have.

Don't cheap yourself on things like toilet paper. If you are frugal to the point of discomfort, the lifestyle becomes untenable. The best thing is to feel like you did the work and got a REALLY GOOD DEAL, that way you can look on being cheap as an accomplishment rather than a burden.

Check out fatwallets grocery coupon forum. Those ladies are incredible.

That's my main regret, I haven't leveraged grocery coupons to the extent I could. I NEVER use them truth be told, and that's stupid. {{sigh}}

Good advice here. I also need to learn to be better with coupons for groceries and the like. It all adds up.

 

[IamElectro]

The local movie theater gives free refills on large popcorn. I can get 2-3 films out of the same large bag.

 

[cronos]

i rarely paid retail. only buy things when: 1. I needed them badly, 2. they're on sale

oh, and i buy groceries at the cheapest grocery store in the city, with coupons

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: IamElectro
The local movie theater gives free refills on large popcorn. I can get 2-3 films out of the same large bag.

Real cheapwads smuggle in food...not that I would know anything about that.

 

[Schadenfroh]

its cheaper to buy the cheap toilet paper + vaseline than buy the expensive toilet paper that does not feel like sandpaper

 

[Elbryn]

1) using hot deals here and at fw to the utmost advantage
2) using credit card as much as possible for the 1% back which can be doubled for gc to places. pay off every month
3) buy food in bulk from sams/costco.. same goes for beer, kegerator in basement
4) double coupon buying/ad only buying
5) set budget and sticking to it
6) not alot of eating out
7) have a gf thats equally cheap as i am
8) downloading entertainment(movies/games)
9) have roomates that pay me 4/5 of my mortgage

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: Elbryn
1) using hot deals here and at fw to the utmost advantage
2) using credit card as much as possible for the 1% back which can be doubled for gc to places. pay off every month
3) buy food in bulk from sams/costco.. same goes for beer, kegerator in basement
4) double coupon buying/ad only buying
5) set budget and sticking to it
6) not alot of eating out
7) have a gf thats equally cheap as i am
8) downloading entertainment(movies/games)
9) have roomates that pay me 4/5 of my mortgage

i can see ways you can improve

elimnate the gf (collect life insurance)
dong post number 8 here, they will say something

 

[PunDogg]

Originally posted by: Ness
I got a job as a bus boy so I could eat what people leave behind. It's awesome knowing that you're getting paid to eat food that someone else paid for!

i used to work as a bus boy, and oddly enough i saw people actually do that, they would eat some of the bread or whatnot that was left behind, NASTY STUFF

Dogg

 

[RossMAN]

Cheap enough

 

[Gurck]

:heart: p2p :heart:

I have an aunt who's cheap to the point of it being a sickness and even backfiring on her. She's not rich, but she's rather well-off, which gives her extreme cheapness an ironic twist. She reuses saran wrap, tin foil, paper plates.. She'll literally spend more money on gas driving up to 50 miles away to various supermarkets to save like 2-3 cents on a can of beans. Her coupon book is more of a library, and she often brags about hitting up a product with 2-3 or more coupons simultaneously.

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: Roger
I did not get that from a movie, my grandmother told me that back in the early seventies.

I would have paid to see her go into a salon for a manicure!

 

LOL Perk

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

Originally posted by: Roger
You silly, you do not reuse toilet paper, when ready you snip just one sheet of TP, then poke a hole in the middle (save the Little piece), now stick you finger through the hole and wipe away, now crush the remaining TP around your finger and draw it off, use that little piece you saved to clean your finger nail(s).

I was told that by my 8th grade English teacher (football coach as well). That was about 9 years ago.