You can usually tell who cuts their own hair, so I don't cut my own.
I do my own haircut. How about you?
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Using scissors and a trimmer, which a monkey can do, is the same complexity as a KNEE REPLACEMENT surgery which takes 8 years of education. Got it!
My wife has been cutting my hair since we met in the '70s.
But what you didn’t get was the joke apparently.
I'm ugly enough without adding a bad hair cut to the deal.
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Been wearing a high and tight since I was 18 and I go to the barber shop every two weeks. The cut only costs $12 but I give the barber $15. I'm generally in and out of there in 10 minutes. When the barber shops were closed due to the pandemic, I tried cutting my own hair. I can't do a fade and it looked horrible.
gathermewool
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Anyone here cut their own hair??? jk @Escape08 and @dishdude 
What do you do to save money that others consider you a cheapskate for or that you know for a fact that even you consider yourself a tightwad for doing?
What do you do that is more prudent and frugal and/or takes some skill or discipline?
We already have an energy saving thread and my own What’s your thermostat set to thread, so please refrain from making fun of me for my cold house. I’m not a cheapskate, I’m frugal, dang it!
What do you do to save money that others consider you a cheapskate for or that you know for a fact that even you consider yourself a tightwad for doing?
What do you do that is more prudent and frugal and/or takes some skill or discipline?
We already have an energy saving thread and my own What’s your thermostat set to thread, so please refrain from making fun of me for my cold house. I’m not a cheapskate, I’m frugal, dang it!
I've been known to wash paper plates and use paper towels multiple times for less demanding jobs, such as drying the dogs food bowl.
Many others.
Many others.
Um... I change my own oil??
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Yeah, people call me cheap for doing my own car work
Anyone here cut their own hair??? jk @Escape08 and @dishdude
What do you do to save money that others consider you a cheapskate for or that you know for a fact that even you consider yourself a tightwad for doing?
What do you do that is more prudent and frugal and/or takes some skill or discipline?
We already have an energy saving thread and my own What’s your thermostat set to thread, so please refrain from making fun of me for my cold house. I’m not a cheapskate, I’m frugal, dang it!
How did I get pulled into this? lol
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Too much for me to list haha!
Hermann
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I shop at Dollar Tree, nuf said?
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I treat thrift and frugality as a virtue and not a vice. I tend to live in the style once stated by a famous English philosopher - "I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them." quote from John Stuart Mills
I am a fiscal conservative, aka cheapskate. For years I drove Toyota strippie pickups, invested and worked to pay off my house. No vacations, no nothing. Then I worked on minimizing recurring costs, especially on our primary home.
You can save pennies or you can save big bucks. I targeted the big bucks.
You can save pennies or you can save big bucks. I targeted the big bucks.
we rinse out and re-use "ziplock" bags
we re-use plastic grocery sacks and paper sacks all the time
of course most generic (store) brands work just fine
change my own oil, and do 99+% of my own maintenance - to the point of full engine rebuilds and transmission rebuilds (pretty much only take them in for tires or alignments)
eat leftovers from homecooked meals almost every day for breakfast and lunch (I usually prefer real dinner food for breakfast)
buy bulk meat and divide and store in freezer
almost all our clothes come from garage sales or thrift stores (which I just realized is now a fad, and reducing my choices)
most major purchases are used
...just a few. My wife and I while we have been blessed later in life with our occupations and income, both grew up in poverty. She - living in a school bus, and me in a trailer park. We now have no worries of most of the things we would ever need to purchase, but are proud of our past, and the frugal traits we still hold on to.
we re-use plastic grocery sacks and paper sacks all the time
of course most generic (store) brands work just fine
change my own oil, and do 99+% of my own maintenance - to the point of full engine rebuilds and transmission rebuilds (pretty much only take them in for tires or alignments)
eat leftovers from homecooked meals almost every day for breakfast and lunch (I usually prefer real dinner food for breakfast)
buy bulk meat and divide and store in freezer
almost all our clothes come from garage sales or thrift stores (which I just realized is now a fad, and reducing my choices)
most major purchases are used
...just a few. My wife and I while we have been blessed later in life with our occupations and income, both grew up in poverty. She - living in a school bus, and me in a trailer park. We now have no worries of most of the things we would ever need to purchase, but are proud of our past, and the frugal traits we still hold on to.
Same here, but I do it and my owner assist annuals because I enjoy it......
I grew up in a household of extreme frugality by necessity, but not to the extreme we did, and while it certainly gave me an appreciation for careful and thoughtful spending and minimizing waste, it also gave me a distaste for the extreme. I focus on the big or long term items (utilities, large, durable purchases, etc.) but not the pennies lest the effort in chasing them become more costly than the savings.