Just how cheap are you?

I'm not cheap I'm frugal. A cup of coffee I can afford but I save gas plus wear and tear on the car and use my Keurig coffee maker. I've thrown away so many bad cups of coffee from dunkin donuts I can afford the k cups. Every cup of coffee is a great cup of coffee.

Isn't it "Paul Newman's own" coffee at McDonald's? Remember he didn't like guns? He said no one should own a gun. I don't support his products. Jane Fonda will never be forgiven too. She's a traitor.
 
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If you are drinking Micky D's coffee it doesn't matter. That's the Mad Dog 20-20 of coffee. I hope you aren't sleeping in your car and using their WiFi to post here..
 
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CajunBass said:
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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A typical school bus shift can run 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 hours, way beyond the capacity of my bladder. A lot of times there will be a few minutes to run into a local Stop 'n Rob to use the facilities, but not always. But I am too cheap to buy an external catheter system, and I'll be danged if I am gonna let anybody see me with hoses dangling from me, even if it is just a few inches sticking out beyond my pants cuff.

That's where those cardboard coffee cups come in handy for me, too. It only takes a minute to pull the bus over, fill the cup, and toss the contents out the service door. Needless to say, I never reuse my cups for coffee.
 
BigBill said:
Well I purchased two craftsman chain saws cut 20 cords of firewood and wore them out. Returned them for a full refund, sold the firewood and purchased two husqvarna saws.
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As the old Baptist preacher said when one of his flock stood up and started confessing during services, "I don't believe Ida tole dat!!"
 
Which one of you cheapskates was it?

I can appreciate rwsmith's reference to women sticking chickens in their purses at an all you can eat buffet. I had a similar experience.

Back in college a bunch of buddies and I would go to the local Holiday Inn for Friday night happy hour to play trivia against other bars, have a few beers, and eat some good "appetizers" that they only had one day a week. In reality, if you went there and bought drinks, you got a free meal. They had all the usual happy hour foods like chips, nachos, little smokies, cheese, soups, etc. etc. etc., but what brought us was the smoked BBQ ribs. They were simply outstanding.

One Friday night, we were having a good time, drinking beers, playing trivia, and making trips to the food bar. However, for some reason on this night, we could never seem to get many ribs anytime one of us would go up "graze". So, we were a little unhappy, to say the least.

We then started watching for ribs to be brought to the bar. When we saw the server bring up a batch we watched to see what would happen as there really wasn't very many people there that evening and we could not figure out who was eating all the ribs. About 2 tables over from us, there was a single man dressed in a 3 piece suit (no kidding). He was sitting at one of those raised round tables that has 3 bar stools around it. As soon as the server walked away from the bar, he got up, took a plate from the food bar, and loaded it up with a pile of ribs. He then walked back to his table, sat down, and ate a rib or two while sipping on a glass of beer that was about 3/4 full. We then noticed a very nice looking leather briefcase sitting on the bar stool right next to him. We couldn't believe it when we saw him open the briefcase just wide enough to dump the entire plate of steaming hot ribs into it. Over the next hour or so, we watched him do the same thing 3 more times. He finally finished his one beer, paid the server and left with his briefcase full of ribs.

So, who on the Forum wants to own up to this one?
 
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lonejacklarry said:
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.
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I thought I heard someone call my name. :p

The wife (my cohort in crime) smuggles sodas and snacks into the theatre with her dumpster sized purse.

Irritate the wife? Life would be dull otherwise. We brought soda cans one time. Those things can be real noisy to open if you do it just right, particularly during a quiet moment in the movie :D. Wife gives me an elbow to the ribs. I can hear a guy in the row in front of us tell his wife I told you we should have brought our own. His wife tells him to shut up. I snicker. Best part of the movie for me.
 
Exiled Cheesehead,
So, who on the Forum wants to own up to this one?
I think that may be a Judge I know...
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I'm so tight I pick up spent .22 RL cases to sell as scrap even though it kills my bad back to bend over.

And about Hanoi jane, prison or worse? I vote worse!

Before I'd eat or drink anything from that nasty McDonalds I'd drink lake water & eat broom straw.

I had a great uncle that was so tight he had .03 of the first nickel he made when he died. He was loaded when he died & his nephews fought over his money for years.
 
I go to the Grocery Store at Noon so I can have lunch with the free samples.
 
Lee's Landing Billy said:
As the old Baptist preacher said when one of his flock stood up and started confessing during services, "I don't believe Ida tole dat!!"
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I didn't plan on doing it. They were clearing for a new highway. There was trees down all over the place I installed a new woodstove. One saw wouldn't start no compression. The other one cooked the bar and chain from not getting oil. I lost so much free wood I returned the saws. Then I thought about selling some wood and buying better saws. It worked. I didn't plan on it.
If the craftsmanship was good on the sears saws I'd still have them.

I have problems with every sears purchase anyway
 
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LostintheOzone said:
If you are drinking Micky D's coffee it doesn't matter. That's the Mad Dog 20-20 of coffee. I hope you aren't sleeping in your car and using their WiFi to post here..
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Busted. I dont have a car to sleep in BUT--I am using McDonalds wifi as I post now. ;):rolleyes:
 
ErnieDeBord said:
When the gas out of the Bic lighters runs out, I bum them off my friends, take the flint out, use em in my old zippo............Do it quite often
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My pops taught me that one.... Brilliant if you ask me. Most people don't realize how long those suckers are!
 
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