The Official BITOG Cheapskate Thread

Originally Posted By: GROUCHO MARX
Originally Posted By: moribundman
I saw someone picking field mushrooms in Golden Gate Park.


It beats paying to see a movie.


I wasn't watching the picking process -- I merely noticed it. Or do you mean picking mushrooms (that have been peed on by dogs) beats watching a movie?
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Originally Posted By: moribundman
Originally Posted By: GROUCHO MARX
Originally Posted By: moribundman
I saw someone picking field mushrooms in Golden Gate Park.


It beats paying to see a movie.


I wasn't watching the picking process -- I merely noticed it. Or do you mean picking mushrooms (that have been peed on by dogs) beats watching a movie?
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Absolutely!
 
Wife and I just booked 2 round trip airline tickets to Phoenix, AZ for $0.00 using our visa points.... Going to visit #3 son. Also planning a weekend trip to Las Vegas while there.
 
Originally Posted By: moribundman
I saw someone picking field mushrooms in Golden Gate Park.


I wonder if the herbicide the park crew sprays add to the hallucinogenic power of the shrooms?
 
Cut my own hair. (Nose hair too!) With practice I've gotten better! Babies no longer cry when I walk past.

Hit the local supermarket at 8PM sharp - just in time to snog on the day's surplus deli chicken that is placed in the free sample dish. 8pm is also the time the meat department puts out the short-dated stuff. Massive moo score the other night! BOGO sirloin steaks, each with a 3$ off sticker. Although charging me for only one package, the cashier subtracts both discount tickets, yieldings 4+ pounds of Sirloin steaks for about 5 bucks!

Orowheat Store Outlet! 5 bucks and a weekly BOGO coupon gets a month's bread supply.

Oil filled electric bedroom heater only. The main forced air heat doesn't go on unless the pipes are in danger of freezing or I've got a lot to do around the house. (Living in Az, this doesn't exactly make me a [censored]!
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Big Lots can be your friend ($1.50 Penz. Syn last year) or it can be a complete waste of time.

I rent a space in an nice mobile home park. When feeling REAL cheap, I sneak over to the shower area in the (largely seasonal)
RV section and have a good long soak.

I never wash my bath towels. I figure I'm as clean as I'm ever going to get when I step out of the shower.

Just kidding about that one, although I did know a lady that bragged about her perpetual towels. Eeeeewww!

Very seldom eat out. I'd much rather 'waste' an hour cooking than $20 at a restaurant.

Costco for lunch! Despite being an expired member, I'll sneak in every so often to snog on the dozen or so free samples they have out from noon to ~4. When feeling flush, I'll even buy a 53 cent soda. You've got to admit, that's Living large!!
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I bow to geonerd.

I probably already mentioned in this thread that I used to in college grab a big handful of liquid hand soap from one end of the dorm bathroom then carefully walk over to the other end where the showers were... all ready to go in.

Once was out of TP so I took the empty carboard tube to a public restroom and "reloaded" it.
 
I have two efficient Jøtul burning wood stoves in my home to supplement my oil heat. I refuse to pay for wood. Shortly after ice storms I go around and pick up quality found hardwood pieces.

I did hit the jackpot recently. Nearly hit a load of fallen cut wood in the road driving. Instead of leaving it I loaded my WRX wagon rear to the hilt doing my civic duty of cleaning up the road. The wood is about twice the energy of oak and clean burning. The person delivering it showed up, I believe I had at least $100+ in wood in my car I refused to give up.
 
My wife works at Petco, and she typically gets her hair cut about once every year or three. Instead of paying for a hair cut, she decided to have it trimmed for free by the dog groomers where she works.

I couldn't tell the difference
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Originally Posted By: Anduril
My wife works at Petco, and she typically gets her hair cut about once every year or three. Instead of paying for a hair cut, she decided to have it trimmed for free by the dog groomers where she works.

I couldn't tell the difference
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ouch dude!
 
Originally Posted By: Anduril
My wife works at Petco, and she typically gets her hair cut about once every year or three. Instead of paying for a hair cut, she decided to have it trimmed for free by the dog groomers where she works.

I couldn't tell the difference
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your profile says your into hot chicks and fast cars? I bet your wife hopes you're only into one hot chick
 
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I have a connection that got me these unclassified potatoes for 1/2 the price of Grade A!

A disclaimer on the back says
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These potatoes are ungraded and may be affected by various blemishes and/or defects which may be peeled away prior to consumption



I have three laying chickens so if I hard boil some eggs I can make a huge potato salad for pennies!!
 
i have used magicjack. We actually sent a few to relatives overrseas- now they can bug us as if it was a local call. What a headache. Service seems to work well.
 
Wow, when I have more time I'll have to read this whole thread. Alot of good ideas here.
I guess our best "cheapskate" idea is to grow alot of our own food, or pick our own. Picking the low hanging fruit is a good way to spend a few hours and save lots of cash.
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We also raise and butcher our own goats and chickens, and this summer we are going to raise a couple tamworth pigs. So I guess we eat very well for how much we spend on food.
Wood heat with our own or free wood is good deal too. Also we have our own trees milled for things like sheds and stalls, and trim for the house.
I do try to get quality tools for things that will save money or labour, I've got a pro level chainsaw which makes firewood fun and saves alot of time compared to anything found in a big box store.
Ian
 
Two of the big things that I do which saves me hundreds of dollars per year:

Number one: instead of spending $80 a week going out to dinner, we get together with friends once a week and have "meat night" where we'll cook up a bunch of steaks or chicken or a roast, and by rotating it between three different families the cost is considerably less (it ends up only costing about $40 every third week) The only time I do go out for dinner now is when I redeem my air miles for The Keg Steakhouse gift cards.

Number two: I don't shop at one store for food or household supplies, but instead I go to 5 or 6 different places. Every Friday I check the latest flyers online and stock up on all the things that are on sale at those different places. It might sound like I'm spending more gas money driving to all those different stores, but as an example: if I'm saving $2 on a box of cereal and am stocking up by buying 4 of them, then that $8 savings more than pays for the gas.
 
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