Just how cheap are you?

I am so cheep. I am tryin to bum "Snubbie Fan" out of a REAL honest to goodness real live, injun necklace, regards Ernie
 
walter o said:
I can remember going to the local grocery store and getting the soft paper that the apples were wrapped in and taking the paper home for toilet paper when we had guests at home.
That has been some years ago
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Putting on "airs" for the guest won't we?;)
 
I'm so cheap that I can stand on a dime while wearing a pair of combat boots and tell you if it's heads or tails.

I've got a friend who carried around a McDonalds coffee cup and stop for free refills. Every time I get in his car I'll find it and use it to put my used Klenex in, then throw it out.
 
ChattanoogaPhil said:
So I'm riding around yesterday and get a hankering for a cup of coffee. Oh good, there's a McDs styrofoam coffee cup still in the cup holder from a couple days ago... free refill. :rolleyes: yeah I know...
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A couple of days ago the missus and I were sitting down at an indoor movie. This place pitches the large soft drink and a big sack of popcorn for an astromonical amount but includes free refills on the popcorn.

Anyhow, right before the movie started a guy and a woman came in and sat down. The guy promptly whipped out his popcorn sack from a previous visit and headed off to the concession stand.

When he came back, I hollered "Hey, Phil" but he did not turn around. My wife would have been really irate if I had pulled something like that. I thought she was going to unload on the big spender a couple rows from us.
 
Frank237 said:
I have MAYBE 20 years left. Maybe 10 or 15 GOOD years where I can get around and enjoy life. I do not worry about money anymore. I don't waste it but I do NOT fret over a few dollars. Life is too short.
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I may have five, total probably not more. I have very little income, but life is definitely too short for cheap toilet paper. Or margarine. :)

I've set foot in Starbucks once. My daughter was in town briefly and asked to meet me there. I won't be back. I'll make my coffee at home and use the money saved for good toilet paper. And butter. :D
 
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I don't know about me, but I think that my last fundamentalist boss made his wife wash and reuse toilet paper twice before he let her flush it ...
 
This is a true story:

My best fried from high school made pretty good money as an accountant and always budgeted what his family lived on for the week. One day his wife said we have no money and are totally out of groceries and there is nothing I can make for dinner. She asked, "can we take some money out of savings to get some groceries and to get us by until tomorrow when you get your paycheck"? He didn't answer but she left to run an errand and when she came back he was cooking a stew. She said "what did you make that stew out of"? She then finds out he shot a squirrel out of the front yard with his pellet rifle. This guy has over 1.3 million in the bank.
 
If you are poor, that is one thing.
If you think that you can take it with you, that is another thing.
My mother & father in law were cheap---they had an excuse---the great depression.
I am not one to throw big money around but one day she said that she was afraid that I would spend their money foolishly when they died. I told her that I did not want or need their money and if she was afraid, if she could figger out the day the last one of them would die, I would supply the gasoline and they could take all their money and I would burn it---otherwise--they had no control of what we did with it.
NOW--That IS a true story.
My M-I-L and I did NOT have a good relationship.
Course most would say she was pretty smart.
You make your money--it is yours to do with as you please, but don't throw it up in my face that that makes you better than me.
I hate skinflints---they, as a wide and generous rule of thumb--have no happiness in life and are miserable people.
Blessings
 
There was a place in town...

M29since14 said:
We have a local slop-house that on weekends serves a buffet breakfast and then makes the fatal mistake of following that a bit too early (10:45, I believe) with a buffet lunch. Of course certain people (not me!) will time their arrival for breakfast so that they can do both - for one fee. :rolleyes: I guess the restaurant kind of asks for it. I don't know... maybe they are laughing all the way to the bank?

I kind of marvel at that phenomenon, but when I see the general shape of these characters as they waddle in and out, I am glad I am not so inclined. I don't have the metabolism for that kind of behavior! :D
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There was a buffet in town (American food) and when I looked around I noticed how many people were HUGE. One time a guy in front of me sat down and his pants dropped so low I could see daylight coming through. Women were stuffing chicken in their purses before they left. A great place to lose your appetite.
 
I hate a commercial travel mug. It's either in the house when I'm out, or when I'm in the house getting ready, it's in the back seat with petrified coffee in it.

So I save my McDonalds coffee cups and lids and resuse them. They are in my opinion the perfect coffee cup. I usually end up picking up at least two new ones a day between my wife and I. I just take them in and rinse them out. We use them in the house too. There is a full one on my desk right now.
 
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