I'll just have water

[Jstpssng]

I save money by buying used toilet paper at less than 1/3 the price of new.


Just kidding!

Amazon.com

www.amazon.com

I can help feeling bad for the poor sap who has to collect it for reuse.

 

[Gmallory]

I hoard/save paper towel. Always have a couple in my pocket. Dry and save ones I’ve used to wash my hands. The only ones that get disposed are nose blowers and grease picker uppers.

 

[ultrarunner]

I oversee the dumpsters and cost is the same empty or full.

The only caution is materials placed have to be allowed.

 

[NoTrespassing]

A friend of mine who is very well off financially used to be addicted to Starbucks. He moved to South Carolina a few years ago so I don't know whether or not he kicked the habit. He was spending a minimum of $12 per day on that crap I'm sure it would be over $20 per day now. That's between 4 and 7 grand per year. Even he admitted it was stupid, but he kept on doing it.

I try to find cheaper ways to make myself happy.

 

[gsganzer]

I hang my laundry on the line. Drives me nuts that my wife and kids always use the dryer.

 

[WinterDeere]

A friend of mine who is very well off financially used to be addicted to Starbucks. He moved to South Carolina a few years ago so I don't know whether or not he kicked the habit. He was spending a minimum of $12 per day on that crap I'm sure it would be over $20 per day now. That's between 4 and 7 grand per year. Even he admitted it was stupid, but he kept on doing it.

My wife and kids order from either Starbucks or one of our other even-more expensive boutique cafe's, probably 5 days per week. As an extra kick in my financial pants, she door-dashes it at least 3x per week.

I have no idea what that all costs, but assume it can't be cheap. And it's not that we can't afford it, but it does bother me when I'm busting my hump to save money by heating this huge old castle with wood, and many other small things I do to save money.

Then again, she has a career in which she makes very good money, and she easily does the larger half of the total child care routine. So it's not my place to be telling her how to spend it, that's not the hill I'm going to die on. The only real good argument I have against it is not setting our kids up to acclimate to things that aren't sound financial behavior, when they're out on their own, as I see too many young adults kept poor by such luxuries.

 

[NoTrespassing]

My wife and kids order from either Starbucks or one of our other even-more expensive boutique cafe's, probably 5 days per week. As an extra kick in my financial pants, she door-dashes it at least 3x per week.

I have no idea what that all costs, but assume it can't be cheap. And it's not that we can't afford it, but it does bother me when I'm busting my hump to save money by heating this huge old castle with wood, and many other small things I do to save money.

Then again, she has a career in which she makes very good money, and she easily does the larger half of the total child care routine. So it's not my place to be telling her how to spend it, that's not the hill I'm going to die on. The only real good argument I have against it is not setting our kids up to acclimate to things that aren't sound financial behavior, when they're out on their own, as I see too many young adults kept poor by such luxuries.

Luckily for me, my wife is as frugal as I am, so we get along well when it comes to spending. Our 13-year-old has taken notice of our spending habits and has really started watching what things cost. I took him out for lunch last week and he's looking at the menu and says, "Dad, I'm not going to order it because it's too expensive, but how big is a 1-pound burger?" I said, well, it's pretty big son, but if you think you can eat it, I'll buy it for you, especially since you've been training cross country and burning calories like crazy.

He's a skinny kid, about 5'5, 115 lbs. He orders the burger with fries, and the waitress says, there's no way you're going to finish that. He ate every crumb but admitted he was VERY FULL.

 

[Oaktree]

A friend of mine who is very well off financially used to be addicted to Starbucks. He moved to South Carolina a few years ago so I don't know whether or not he kicked the habit. He was spending a minimum of $12 per day on that crap I'm sure it would be over $20 per day now. That's between 4 and 7 grand per year.

Here it's Dunkin' Donuts. Always a long line at the drive-thru, and not much shorter inside.

I hang my laundry on the line. Drives me nuts that my wife and kids always use the dryer.

We don't even have a dryer. It's either clothesline in good weather or a wood rack in the same room as the woodstove in the winter.

 

[NoTrespassing]

I hang my laundry on the line. Drives me nuts that my wife and kids always use the dryer.

We were doing the clothesline thing until my wife brought wasps into the house not once, not twice, but three times inside the laundry. That was the end of the clothesline. I know, I should have found the wasps nests and fixed the problem, but my wife also prefers the clothes out of the dryer.

 

[grsthegreat]

A friend of mine who is very well off financially used to be addicted to Starbucks. He moved to South Carolina a few years ago so I don't know whether or not he kicked the habit. He was spending a minimum of $12 per day on that crap I'm sure it would be over $20 per day now. That's between 4 and 7 grand per year. Even he admitted it was stupid, but he kept on doing it.

I try to find cheaper ways to make myself happy.

I dont drink coffee, never visited a starbucks. But i get amazed when people ***** about $4/ gallon gas, but are spending the equivalent of $192.00/gal (based on 8 oz cup) for coffee. Mind you, im not sure the $12 per day was for 8 oz or if they are larger.

 

[Jstpssng]

I dont drink coffee, never visited a starbucks. But i get amazed when people ***** about $4/ gallon gas, but are spending the equivalent of $192.00/gal (based on 8 oz cup) for coffee. Mind you, im not sure the $12 per day was for 8 oz or if they are larger.

I will take this one step further. It amazes me that people ***** about the price of gas, yet go out and buy the biggest gas guzzler they can find.

 

[MossRoad]

I love my Speed Queen washer and dryer!!!

About the only thing we hang to dry is swimsuits and pool towels, and that's because they haven't been washed.

Of course, delicate items get line dried. We've had a single clothes line in the laundry room for 30+ years.

 

[WinterDeere]

Luckily for me, my wife is as frugal as I am, so we get along well when it comes to spending.

Oh, we get along just fine. We just have very different spending habits.

Then again, she was the one who told me to just buy the 3046R when I was debating between that and the 2038R. I compromised and bought the 3033R.

She also told me to just go buy a new 385A backhoe, when I mentioned having to drive hours to pick up a used one... so there's that. I'm definitely the cheapskate, in this releationship.

25 years ago, she's the one who also told me to go buy a new boat, knowing I was missing having one. In that regard, she's a keeper!

 

[not2old]

I hoard/save paper towel. Always have a couple in my pocket. Dry and save ones I’ve used to wash my hands. The only ones that get disposed are nose blowers and grease picker uppers.

I do the same. I always have a cloth-like paper shop towel in my pocket and when drying my hands in the shop,or garage put the blue shop towel out to dry.

 

[2manyrocks]

Sometimes end up in the dryer and that's not good.

 

[bigtiller]

This is our clothes line. I am the only one that uses it so I finally put it on an out of the way tabletop.

It's a good place for drying sweaty hats and oily rags.

 

[BravoXray]

I will take this one step further. It amazes me that people ***** about the price of gas, yet go out and buy the biggest gas guzzler they can find.

And they drive like their running in the Indy 500.
Jack rabbit starts, run way over the speed limit, and slam on the brakes to get stopped just in time.

 

[BnRidge]

And they drive like their running in the Indy 500.
Jack rabbit starts, run way over the speed limit, and slam on the brakes to get stopped just in time.

Cuts 30-40% off the gas milage too. Same as adding a buck or two to the price of fuel. Life gets so complicated sometimes.

 

[NoTrespassing]

Cuts 30-40% off the gas milage too. Same as adding a buck or two to the price of fuel. Life gets so complicated sometimes.

Yes, I always get about 20% better mileage than my cars are rated.

Every time I drive my wife's SUV the mpg calculator goes up and dare I say, put way less wear on the brakes. I can fill her tank, drive home and the calculator will say something like 28mpg. The next time I get in it, the calculator will be down to about 23mpg.

 

[BnRidge]

One jobsite I was going to had 23 stoplights between here and there. At first I spent the whole commute punching it at every light, until I realized milage had gone from 28mpg to 15. After I calmed down a little I could hit just about every timed light, and I was back up to 28. Like having the boss come by and saying I'll give you a nice raise, just get your foot off the pedal, but few seem to think that way. There must be a frog in hot water analogy somehow, because in 2004 fuel prices here doubled almost overnight. Everybody noticed and all traffic crept around trying to save a buck. Otherwise costs creep in, no one notices, no one cares. Until it's plainly obvious.