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Frugality shouldn't be confused with not flushing toilets, washing your clothes by showering while wearing them, and dumpster-diving when company's coming for dinner.
No one loves a bargain more than I do, but there's frugal and there's mad.
Commute cost in my experience is the number one issue where people are stupid when they try to be frugal. They rent/buy a home 50 miles from where they work because it's cheap but don't take into consideration $4 gas and wear on their automobile.
Commute cost in my experience is the number one issue where people are stupid when they try to be frugal. They rent/buy a home 50 miles from where they work because it's cheap but don't take into consideration $4 gas and wear on their automobile.
Sometimes it is not always easy to buy an affordable home close to where one works. The houses around my office park go for about $400k or so and up. When I used to live in DC / Baltimore area, houses all around my office there were far above that. Also, not everyone can just pick up and move (especially if they own) just because they decide to change jobs.
I do think buying items for a car in a junkyard are stupid.
We are talking safety,not to mention if the part doesn't work,you have to buy another part,when you could have just sepnt a little more and brought the new part in the first place.
My mechanic husband would have a heart attack over that part of your post. The pick-a-part place is his favorite "store." It's like hunting for treasure in a thrift store would be for me.
Where do you draw the line between frugal and stupid?
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Gross, lol. Ranks up there with cloth diapers... actually, I think it might be worse. Not as bad as using reusable toilet paper cloths though.
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Gross.
That's why I have dogs. They're smarter than most kids. Both of mine were pound dogs and came house broken. I did have to train them not to crap in the border garden around the lawn or pee on the patio, but that took a few weeks which is much less time than to train a kid to stop crapping on itself. =D
How about using coupons just because there's a couple cents off...and that brand costs you more anyway, and maybe it's something you didn't need or want in the first place.
I think frugal / stupid also is not doing maintenance on houses because it's expensive...but then down the road the house is flooding from the big leak that started out as a drip, or the little leak in the roof ended up costing you a whole ceiling drywall repair.
Cheaper insurance...maybe it doesn't cover what you need it to.
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Where do you draw the line between frugal and stupid?
Where do you draw the line between frugal and stupid?
