How Big A Cheapskate Are Ya?

[Quagmire]

I carry my own jar of coffee and a french press in my book bag.

This way all I have to pay for is the hot water: 11 cents at the campus snack shop.

Saves me between $60 and $120 a month.

edit: before I scored the french press (which I got for free. ) I carried around a home made drip system made out of the cut-off top of a 1&1/2 liter water bottle. Just used paper towels (also free) for the filter.

 

[Penumbra]

I'm a cheapskate so that I don't have to be a cheapskate.

Over the last four years, I've avoided spending and saved and invested most of my income. Way more than most people ever do. I don't care about cars (depreciating assets), decorations, don't spend much on clothes or entertainment, etc.

Fun can be found at the beach, or exercising, or writing, or the library, or sex. All free stuff.

But when I do spend money on something I want, I don't think twice about it. Because there's a ton of money that hasn't been spent and won't be spent, so when I really do want something, I just get it. If I see a pair of cute sandals that I really want, I just get them. Or this nice bracelet- done (I've got a thing for bracelets, dunno why). Or like there was one semester where my work couldn't pay for my continuing education, so I just paid for that semester out of pocket, wasn't a big deal.

For most my co-workers, I don't know where all of their money goes. They live paycheck to paycheck. They're constantly like, "Oh I want to get that, or go there, but I need to save money first." And I'm thinking, "What have you been doing with your income for the past several years? Where did it all go?"

 

[Thana]

Where did it all go?"

Debt, I imagine.
I've yet to meet anyone beside myself who has not been in debt

 

[ZooGirl02]

Well, I don't tend to reuse things such as in the original post. However, I always buy the cheapest generic brands of both medicine and household supplies. The reason for this is because I am on a very limited budget being on disability and so I have to save as much money as possible. However, even with doing that I still end up with being very low on money at the end of each month. It really sucks. This is not to mention that I am on SSI, Medicaid, Food Stamps, and live in subsidized housing.

 

[oldbadger]

For my working day lunch I buy a child's 'Happy-Meal' from McDonalds .... for half the price of an ordinary meal. The sales assistant will often suggest that I don't need the toy but I always tell 'em it's for my little granddaughter. It's not. I play with 'em, and then extract their micro batteries or clockwork motors for model-making projects.

Oh God....... I'm a sad sod......

 

[Revoltingest]

While picking up a bungee cord & glove along the road yesterday, I thought that next time I should carry my
trash bag & & pick-up stick. To complete the ensemble I want an orange vest that says PRISON TRUSTEE.

 

[MysticSang'ha]

After I salvaged a tv for my apartment in NYC (it still worked, was just an old model), I found I couldn't get reception. I didn't have tin foil, so I went out and got two aluminum Pepsi cans from the dump and placed them on the antennae.

Problem fixed! Not only did I have reception, but it was a great conversation starter for my guests.

 

[Revoltingest]

After I salvaged a tv for my apartment in NYC (it still worked, was just an old model), I found I couldn't get reception. I didn't have tin foil....

I could'a lent you me hat!

 

[Iti oj]

I regrow food like leeks, green onions and lettuse. I don't go out to eat and learned to cook anything/everything. My apartment consist of things found at garage sales, some of which I have been saving for years. I go to the libary for many things. Don't have cable. Etc

 

[oldbadger]

I have always cut my own hair. A haircut costs £6. The last time I paid for a haircut was on Thursday 15th December 2005. The barber expected a tip!! It cost me £8! I will remember the date for the rest of my life, that was such a traumatic incident. Mrs Badger had demanded that after 13 years of my being her general slave, that I had to marry her, and she also insisted on that costly haircut before the wedding. She dragged me to the registry office (with that haircut) on the following Sunday 18th December.

 

[Reverend Rick]

I have no electric or water bill

 

[The Sum of Awe]

I'm using a smelly deodorant soap as an airfreshener in my truck.

I'll do this only if I'm lazy and out of bandaids: Instead of running to the store 3 miles away to buy bandaids, I'll center a folded napkin in a piece of tape (electrical tape works best) and use that until I get more.

To save on gas, I'll park my truck very far away from the store and keep it ridiculously close to the exit of the parking lot.

I collect any piece of money that I find on the ground, including pennies. I'd say I'd average about making 2 dollars each week doing this.

Instead of buying bottled water, I drink from water fountains for free. If that doesn't seem outrageous, it truly is. You'd be surprised at how many people actually do buy bottled water.

Since at my school you can only leave the classroom once each class period for a potty break and you're expected to get a drink before class starts, I like to fill up water bottles to be prepared for any thirstiness in class. If I lack a bottle to fill with water, I always have a spare, empty mountain dew can in my locker and have done this twice already.

Finally; I save receipts to use the back of them as note paper.

 

[dyanaprajna2011]

It's not cheap, it's frugal.

 

[ScottySatan]

I'm the opposite of cheap, but my cats eat their own vomit.

 

[Revoltingest]

Last week I found a filthy right hand jersey glove in the ditch on my walk to work.
This week I found the left one on the other side of the road.
After washing I'll have a complete pair. Saved me a buck or two.....woo hoo!

 

[DreadFish]

My cheap skates are about size 11, so they are pretty big.

 

[GoodbyeDave]

A haircut costs £6. The last time I paid for a haircut was on Thursday 15th December 2005. The barber expected a tip!! It cost me £8! I will remember the date for the rest of my life, that was such a traumatic incident.

If £6 was traumatic, don't ever go for another one: you might not survive the shock.