I'll just have water

[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.