What do you do that would be considered cheap?

[CajunBass]

I buy and shave with super cheap Walmart brand Equate double blade disposable razors. You get a bag of 12 razors for about $2. They do a good job and I get a bunch of shaves out one razor. A couple of bags will get me through a year or more for $4.

I use those too, but I go one better. I save scraps of bar soap, toss it in a cup and use a shaving brush. Worked for my dad so I just followed his example.

 

[Empe]

I've been known to take the left over fast food ketchup packets and squeezed them into the ketchup bottle at home.

Now thats cheap !!
So far I'd say you are winning but this thread is likely not done yet

 

[Empe]

Now what's the difference between being cheap and being thrifty ?

 

[gjgalligan]

Paper plates get recycled as targets.

 

[ImprovedModel56Fan]

I couldn't even begin to list the stuff that my wife and I do. We are cheap, and proud of it! I'll spend money on things that return real value, but otherwise I can pinch a penny hard enough to make Lincoln squeal!

It used to be said in the Philippines that an Ilocano will pinch a nickel until the buffalo turns green.

 

[smithman 10]

I've got one Red Solo Cup

I wash it out and use it over and over. It's lighter than a glass and if I drop it on the floor it doesn't shatter.

Hasn't cracked yet either. Don't remember where I came by it. Too cheap to buy a bunch at the store!

Wife thinks I'm crazy but then some things never change.

 

[cherrypointmarine]

Of course this was long ago , was young and as a newly minted Marine , didn't make much money . As it got close to payday , and if we were thirsty , we'd head to the PX and head to the coolers . There in a white can , with letters in black , was BEER , generic BEER . Don't know who made , didn't want to know . But when you're young and thirsty , sometimes you just have to suck it up , pun intended .

 

[GypsmJim]

Me wanting to stay at a Motel 6 and my wife wanting to stay at a Holiday Inn

I USED to be cheap. But then I read the "11 Rules of Retirement". Changed my life.

One rule is "Stop Saving Money....You saved your whole life for a good retirement, now spend it...."

We used to vacation in a tent at a park for $4 a night. Motel Six was too expensive. On business my boss insisted that a Holiday Inn was more than he would pay for.

NOW, we stay in a Marriott Bonvoy or a Hilton that is no less than 4-Stars.

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

1. Take scrap 8 1/2 x 11 paper from work to print targets on.
2. Do 95% of my clothes shopping at thrift shops. Just bought 2 pairs of Italian made shoes, paid $7.49 and $9.99. As I type, wearing a Pendleton shirt-jac, $40 at a local thrift.
3. Repair my own shoes, when the soles separate, use Shoe Goo.
4. Single guy, do as much grocery shopping as I can at the bargain basement food stores-Aldi, Lidl, Sav-a-Lot.

 

[Oldengineer]

Last semester at college I was really broke and used to dilute my milk with water….50/50 mix.

 

[YeshuaIsa53]

I wear t-shirts bought on sale all the time. Some are years old. I can wear a different Bass Pro t-shirt every day of the week and neighbors might think they are dirty. Love my cheap, though very comfortable, t-shirts.

Never thought of it as being cheap until I moved.

 

[mtgianni]

I rarely reuse paper plates. Once the bullet holes have gone through them they get tossed as used targets. I neither pull off the green 1" square of painters tape I put on them.

We do however, reuse cool whip containers and 1 lb peanut butter jars as storage devices. We also wash and reuse gallon and quart zip locks that didn't have meat in them.

I was a gas serviceman in the 80's and we lit all pilots with matches and roack clip extendible match holders. A landlord watched me one time as I lit a match and lit two top pilots on a range. I then blew the match out and reversed it in the clip, relit it from the top pilot and lit the oven. He watched with awe and told me that anybody cheap enough to do that with someone else buying the matches could work for him any time.
When we were changing out meters it wasn't uncommon to go through more than a box of matches a week and I could see doing it any other way.

 

[pantannojack]

I prefer the take out window for Mexican Food so I won't feel obliged to tip.

 

[TX-Dennis]

I thought I was cheap until I saw the extremes some of ya'll go to.

I'll admit to saving ketchup packets, and I started cutting my own hair during COVID and some how never stopped.

 

[DWalt]

Of course this was long ago , was young and as a newly minted Marine , didn't make much money . As it got close to payday , and if we were thirsty , we'd head to the PX and head to the coolers . There in a white can , with letters in black , was BEER , generic BEER . Don't know who made , didn't want to know . But when you're young and thirsty , sometimes you just have to suck it up , pun intended .

I remember back in the late 80s, many supermarkets had an area with pure generic unbranded products in plain white containers with black lettering that said things like “PEANUT BUTTER”, “CORN FLAKES”, “SUGAR”, “PEAS”, and even “CIGARETTES” and “BEER.” I don’t think that lasted too long.

 

[glenwolde]

My wife rinses and reuses little plastic sandwich baggies. Sometimes I do too.

I do, but they go in my range bag for brass.

 

[glenwolde]

I've noticed a disturbing trend with Broccoli "Crowns". There used to be Crowns and I guess "Regular"? "Stalked" maybe? There were "Crowns" with no more than an inch of stalk, then the regular broccoli that has maybe a 5" or 6" stalk. Well the long stalk variety has disappeared from many stores and they just have "Crowns", but now they have a 3"-4" stalk. They don't look like the pictures on the self-checkout.

I whip out my EDC Boker Automatic and trim them off right there in the produce department. Mostly I get approving looks. But not from the produce guys.

 

[glenwolde]

I prefer the take out window for Mexican Food so I won't feel obliged to tip.

I do that with pizza. Plus it's way faster. Pizza Hut is less than a mile from my house. If I order a pizza on the app it's ready before I can get there. Delivery seems to take forever. A lot of them have farmed out delivery to Door Dash. I hate that.

 

[Skeet 028]

Man some of you people really put me to shame...I'm proud that some don't...but going and buying beer in cans just marked BEER....is way past every one here...but I must admit...I would not drink pop skull Carling Black Label...even from Mabel

 

[Rustyt1953]