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The "How Cheap Are You?" Thread

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I know I'm "frugal".........OK Cheap..... What do you all do that's cheap??


I use a utility knife to cut open the bottle of lotion when they get down to the bottom to get every last little bit out.....

I add water to shampoo bottles/dish soap bottles to get every last little bit out.....
 
i know a guy that is the cheapest of the cheap. honestly, if you could live by snorting shit, he'd do it, no problem. his portfolio of cheap bastardness includes:

-buying a new (secondhand) car, and inviting his mates (inc. me) for a test drive...then asking you for $5 petrol money (from 4 of us...which would be enough fuel to drive for 6 hours, not the 1 hour he drove for) and then, while we were picking up our jaws, he jumps in with this slammer - "and no aircon".

-constantly 'forgetting that it was his round

-taking his own waterbottle into clubs, which he would refill from the tap...which dispense warm water only

-going to clubs 3 hours early to save $5 entry fee

-walking home (2 hours) rahter than take a cab, or the bus

-borrowing your lawnmower and full can of fuel, to bring both back empty

-using sms messages only, or borrowing a friends phone to use even though his is in his pocket.

needless to say, i told this guy to take a hike a loooooooooooong time ago :mad:

mofo :mad:
 
GoldenDelicious said:
i know a guy that is the cheapest of the cheap. honestly, if you could live by snorting shit, he'd do it, no problem. his portfolio of cheap bastardness includes:

-buying a new (secondhand) car, and inviting his mates (inc. me) for a test drive...then asking you for $5 petrol money (from 4 of us...which would be enough fuel to drive for 6 hours, not the 1 hour he drove for) and then, while we were picking up our jaws, he jumps in with this slammer - "and no aircon".

-constantly 'forgetting that it was his round

-taking his own waterbottle into clubs, which he would refill from the tap...which dispense warm water only

-going to clubs 3 hours early to save $5 entry fee

-walking home (2 hours) rahter than take a cab, or the bus

-borrowing your lawnmower and full can of fuel, to bring both back empty

-using sms messages only, or borrowing a friends phone to use even though his is in his pocket.

needless to say, i told this guy to take a hike a loooooooooooong time ago :mad:

mofo :mad:
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He seems more of an A-hole than cheap...LOL
 
I don't really think I am cheap. I think I am a pretty smart shopper and pretty good at managing my day-to-day spending. I re-use toilet paper. But that's not cheap, right? right???
 
I wish i could be more frugal with my money..

I buy so many lipglosses and creams etc it's not even funny
 
You want cheap? When I was living on my own at 20 and strapped for cash, I would cut band-aids length-wise in 1/2 with scissors so I'd have twice as many (I was a bartender - sliced hangnails daily)...

Now that is cheap.


Bluesman
 
jenscats5 said:
He seems more of an A-hole than cheap...LOL
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oh hell yes

the last time i spoke to him was because this fat tub of petri dish slime (a chick....female rather) was sort of seeing him (yuk. OH YUK) anyway, she asked me about him, and me, being the well meaning doofus i can be sometimes, said yeah, he's a cheap bastard etc, and brought her up to spec. anyway, the useless ho goes straight up to him and says everything i said (:rolleyes: fuckenhell, geez im dumb) and he came up to me in a club, when i had gone onto a balcony to catch my breath from all my mad womanising ;) (ok ok fine, madly slapping away all the fat chicks hands that were trying to grab my bum ;) ) and said "who the f do you think you are etc etc" ...basically had a bit of a rant, and like you do. anyway, i told him to ....lol well yeah, you guys can imagine what i told this guy :D and no less than 10 minutes later im on the dancefloor boogying with this girl i had met the week before, things were heating up etc etc... and she says to me "do you know that guy over there in the white? he is giving you dagger eyes bigtime" and i cracked up laughing that this guy had been there to witness me doing a 15 minute flyby getting with this girl, while having his own dryspell (apart from the fat squid he was about to get with, who had gone and ratted me out :mad: mofos)

ah that made my night :D i enjoyed that better than her company :D
 
i dont even buy CDs
rip em from some one else or dl em
i even dl songs of the week from iTunes that I don't like just cause they are free
 
It's kind of ironic that some of the cheapest people I know are the ones who have earn high incomes while the ones who are in biggest dept are the ones who spend the most. But I do now some awefully cheap people that it's embarassing being around them. Myself I am not that cheap with money, but still look for the best deals possible.
 
i dont see anything terribly cheap in the above (apart from the clever bandaid snipping :D lol youre a nut :D ) and killahbees being too cheap to by Rogaine ;)

ok from my uni days the habits i have developed are: not buying brand name products without very good reason (ie because most of the stuff, especially things like laundry powder, bleach etc etc) is just the same crap from the same vat in the same factory but with a different package/color...yah i did a lot of economics before pharmacy :) ) and i buy in bulk according to what is on special.

also, i make a lot of my own food eg marinated cheeses/olives/roasted capsicum/alcohol, but truthfully half the reason is because i make stuff that i like better than the commercial products - most people that eat at my place ask where i bought the food, and are usually surprised when i say "uh, i made it last week"

my family thinks im cheap, but i give the most expensive presents and am first to whip out cash to buy rounds etc. its about getting more for your money, imo

who buys cds anymore anyway? :D internet radio rips of dj mixes are teh way to go, imo
 
GD -- you are just mad delicious, that's all I've got to say....
 
i wouldnt say im cheap but i just dont care to spend money, although me and wifey make good money together.

here are things where i seem cheap.
1. i dont get haircuts, and when it gets too long i just cut it myself. right now its getting pretty shaggy.
2. i buy only 1 pair of sneakers about every 2 years, and thats basically all i wear is those sneakers. thier usually real raggay looking.
3. i buy about 2 pairs of cheap Lee Jeans once a year, there about 20$ a piece. then i usually work in them and get em looking bad. and again thats about all i wear is jeans. i have jeans in my drawer that have holes in the crotch or on the back pockets on my butt.
4. shirts? maybe 2 or 3 a year, thats decent shirts.
5. i drive a 8 year old beat up nissan truck that i wrecked.
6. i have a 1/2 acre lot and i still push mow it, no riding lawnmower here. takes me 2 hours just for mowing.
7. my glasses that i wear are over ten years old. even though my eyesight has worsened. and one side is held together with a piece of wire because the screw broke.
8. when me and wifey got married 12 years ago all we had money for was gold bands. we still have em, no diamonds here.
9. even when we started making money we still lived in an old ass small(900sqft) two bedroom(we have 2 kids) one bath house with no central air and heat. in fact there was no heat at all except for space heaters. and i had window units for cold air. we just recently moved uptown to a very nice home, i felt i owed it to the family. lol. and i like it too i guess.
10. basically i look like a bum most of the time.

money has never been important to me nor what people think of me. in fact im becoming more anti-money and at times dream of dropping out of society for the most part and living in the backwoods somewhere.

now my wife and kids, thats a different story.
 
jenscats5 said:
GD -- you are just mad delicious, that's all I've got to say....
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ok youre allowed to hang out with me anytime now, jen ;)




...you know the olives/capsicum will spoil before they get to the US, dont you? ;)
 
GoldenDelicious said:
ok youre allowed to hang out with me anytime now, jen ;)

Kewl!!



...you know the olives/capsicum will spoil before they get to the US, dont you? ;)
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Aw, hell......
 
jenscats5 said:
I know I'm "frugal".........OK Cheap..... What do you all do that's cheap??


I use a utility knife to cut open the bottle of lotion when they get down to the bottom to get every last little bit out.....

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I do the same shit!!! LOL!
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spongebob said:
i wouldnt say im cheap but i just dont care to spend money, although me and wifey make good money together.

here are things where i seem cheap.
1. i dont get haircuts, and when it gets too long i just cut it myself. right now its getting pretty shaggy.
2. i buy only 1 pair of sneakers about every 2 years, and thats basically all i wear is those sneakers. thier usually real raggay looking.
3. i buy about 2 pairs of cheap Lee Jeans once a year, there about 20$ a piece. then i usually work in them and get em looking bad. and again thats about all i wear is jeans. i have jeans in my drawer that have holes in the crotch or on the back pockets on my butt.
4. shirts? maybe 2 or 3 a year, thats decent shirts.
5. i drive a 8 year old beat up nissan truck that i wrecked.
6. i have a 1/2 acre lot and i still push mow it, no riding lawnmower here. takes me 2 hours just for mowing.
7. my glasses that i wear are over ten years old. even though my eyesight has worsened. and one side is held together with a piece of wire because the screw broke.
8. when me and wifey got married 12 years ago all we had money for was gold bands. we still have em, no diamonds here.
9. even when we started making money we still lived in an old ass small(900sqft) two bedroom(we have 2 kids) one bath house with no central air and heat. in fact there was no heat at all except for space heaters. and i had window units for cold air. we just recently moved uptown to a very nice home, i felt i owed it to the family. lol. and i like it too i guess.
10. basically i look like a bum most of the time.

money has never been important to me nor what people think of me. in fact im becoming more anti-money and at times dream of dropping out of society for the most part and living in the backwoods somewhere.

now my wife and kids, thats a different story.
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You win! LOL!!!

I have a pair of backup glasses that are that old.
 
Well, i dont know if its cheap or poor but i buy store brands of stuff unless its very needful.
Oh and i shop at walmart
Oh i do also try to find a 2 pack of deodorant or toothpaste when i buy it. dang i try to find a 2pack of tampons too, usually if u buy a 2 pack, its usually cheaper than buying one single thingy
 
Ineed to learn to be cheap.. the only real sacrifice i ever did money wise was stop bleaching my hair when i realized that my every 4 week slaon viist was costing me close to 3000 a yr for colour alone
 
SoKlueles said:
Well, i dont know if its cheap or poor but i buy store brands of stuff unless its very needful.
Oh and i shop at walmart
Oh i do also try to find a 2 pack of deodorant or toothpaste when i buy it. dang i try to find a 2pack of tampons too, usually if u buy a 2 pack, its usually cheaper than buying one single thingy
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I buy stuff at the grocery store when it's on sale & I have a coupon....so if it's on sale for 2 for $4 then you have a .50 off coupon it + 2 for $3, etc etc


And El Dandy -- Copycat!! ;)
 
SoKlueles said:
Well, i dont know if its cheap or poor but i buy store brands of stuff unless its very needful.
Oh and i shop at walmart
Oh i do also try to find a 2 pack of deodorant or toothpaste when i buy it. dang i try to find a 2pack of tampons too, usually if u buy a 2 pack, its usually cheaper than buying one single thingy
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i shop at costco, screw the two pack, the year supply baby!
 
I dont understand how people can shop at the grocery store with a handfull of coupons. If its on sale then just drop the price. Dont make people bring coupons. I feel bad for these people.
 
There's a big difference between cheap and frugal........

My ol' man will buy box seats to the Tribe games at $75/piece but absolutely REFUSE to buy a bag of peanuts at $2.00 a bag when he could have gotten them from one of the outside vendors at 2 for $3.............
 
spongebob said:
i wouldnt say im cheap but i just dont care to spend money, although me and wifey make good money together.

here are things where i seem cheap.
1. i dont get haircuts, and when it gets too long i just cut it myself. right now its getting pretty shaggy.
2. i buy only 1 pair of sneakers about every 2 years, and thats basically all i wear is those sneakers. thier usually real raggay looking.
3. i buy about 2 pairs of cheap Lee Jeans once a year, there about 20$ a piece. then i usually work in them and get em looking bad. and again thats about all i wear is jeans. i have jeans in my drawer that have holes in the crotch or on the back pockets on my butt.
4. shirts? maybe 2 or 3 a year, thats decent shirts.
5. i drive a 8 year old beat up nissan truck that i wrecked.
6. i have a 1/2 acre lot and i still push mow it, no riding lawnmower here. takes me 2 hours just for mowing.
7. my glasses that i wear are over ten years old. even though my eyesight has worsened. and one side is held together with a piece of wire because the screw broke.
8. when me and wifey got married 12 years ago all we had money for was gold bands. we still have em, no diamonds here.
9. even when we started making money we still lived in an old ass small(900sqft) two bedroom(we have 2 kids) one bath house with no central air and heat. in fact there was no heat at all except for space heaters. and i had window units for cold air. we just recently moved uptown to a very nice home, i felt i owed it to the family. lol. and i like it too i guess.
10. basically i look like a bum most of the time.

money has never been important to me nor what people think of me. in fact im becoming more anti-money and at times dream of dropping out of society for the most part and living in the backwoods somewhere.

now my wife and kids, thats a different story.
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This is awesome. Not for what you do, but for WHY you do it. You live your own life and could'nt care less about what others have to say about it. Respect. k worthy.

A friend of ours used to TAKE quarters from the bars when we left em for tips. We'd catch him every so often and yell at the bastard. He kept doing it though. Not cool.

No we did'nt only tip quarters.


There are some things I refuse to pay for, and others I'll splurge on. Depends on my beliefs. I'll shop around a bit in the grocery store, compare prices, figure shit out in my head for a while just to see what's the better "deal" meanwhile probably saving 20cents or whatever, but then on my way out the store I'd give $5 to a charity that's usually out at the exit door.

Whenever I buy something (usually big ticket items/electronics), I have to research it AND get the best price online before I buy it. This can get pretty laborious but I save a few hundred dollars sometimes and it's worth it.

I'm definately not cheap, but I don't like to be taken advantage of. That's my fear if I don't "shop around".
 
I'll use generic brands because I'm not a primadonna who needs top of the line for everything. The cereal in the plastic bag tastes the same as the stuff in the box.

I'll tip well though. I'm not cheap, but I appreciate my money. I work hard for it, and use it accordingly. No joke, when I was a kid used a rubbermaid trashcan for a swimming pool. If you can even call it that. We'd clean the hell out of the trash can, fill it up with water, and just chill in our own trashcan.

I definatly hate feeling like I'm being bamboozled out of my money. I hate car salesmen. I throw all ethics out the window when dealing with them. I'll tell them anything they want to hear, then walk out and tell the next guy what dealer A said, and go until I get my desired price.
 
i gave a brand spanking new ($1500) sofa to my 18 year old cousin for her new pad. My uncle (her father) came to pick it up in his work van but claimed it was a rental and charged me a whole days rental and fuel.

some people simply have no shame!
 
When I was broke in college......I would pull the cologne inserts out of GC and other magazines and save them for going out.

I would throw a shirt in the dryer to get the wrinkles out and toss an insert in with it
 
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The last cheap thing I did was grab a TON of free samples at a Fitness Fair so I wouldn't have to buy stuff..
 
my dad was/is a cheap motherfucker so I unfortunately went to the other extreme and am an irresponsible shopper.
 
When does being frugal become stealing?

Let's say you run out of PP and it will be a few days before you get to Vitaminshoppe. Is filling baggies up with someone elses protein powder when you are spending the weekend at their house, being frugal or stealing?

God, It's going to suck having to buy my own Protein Powder now.
 
OHHHHHHHHH im so cheap, i dont buy draino when the bathtub or sink is stopped up with hair etc etc
I just get a toilet plunger.....works better AND faster:)
 
I work with a guy who is beyond cheap. He asked a guy if his wife got discounts at her job [Pizza Hut]. Guy says yes. Cheapo thinks it's free, and is disappointed when he learns it isn't that he doesn't even want the pizza. Yet he'll buy $700 sunglasses. Priorities for him are crazy. Get him drunk though and he'll buy pitchers all night.
 
Jay Cartwright said:
i gave a brand spanking new ($1500) sofa to my 18 year old cousin for her new pad. My uncle (her father) came to pick it up in his work van but claimed it was a rental and charged me a whole days rental and fuel.

some people simply have no shame!
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omg i would have said forget it
im keeping it
and leave it onur front porch or even in the back yard to get rained on:)
 
SoKlueles said:
omg i would have said forget it
im keeping it
and leave it onur front porch or even in the back yard to get rained on:)
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Exactly! Awesome answer. I can't believe they did that to you. Damn...
 
Gl, I'm so bad with car dealers that I'll get everything worked out until the actual sales contract in the office of the sales manager. Won't sign it, then I'll leave.
 
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