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Don't go out to eat at invites from friends or coworkers or any other time
Own two sets of sheets
Save all my change to help buy groceries (convert to cash in the stores)
Sell possessions when in an unexpected jam (car repairs, etc.,)
Shop at discount stores
DH and I clean and maintain our home without assistance from house cleaners or lawn care guys.
We tend to wear clothes and shoes for years.
However, I don’t think DH and I really do poverty. Neither of us came from money, and we tend to be conservative in our wants and needs. We have enough. We don’t skimp too much. We had years of tight finances, but now things are more comfortable.
I make a lot of things that most people just go out and buy, like tools, mouse traps, wasp traps, etc.
I'm constantly repairing things that break, like toasters, pencil sharpeners, even the vinyl blinds in my living room got so brittle that they began cracking in half, so I used Scotch tape to hold them together.
I was so used to not having money when I was growing up that I have become excruciatingly cheap. When I come home after spending money in a store I have to lie down for a while until the pain subsides. I was the only one of us kids that inherited this cheapness from our parents. I used to brown-bag my lunch at school everyday and my mom reminded me every morning to bring back the empty bag so I could use it the next day. That was my lunch box. All the other kids had Bonanza or Get Smart lunch boxes, I had Rexall Drugstore.
I save the shavings I get out of the pencil sharpener and sift out all the gray powder. I use it for graphite to loosen up locks, hinges and various other mechanisms. I have a bucket full of old rusty bent nails that I save and when I get bored I sand them down and straighten them out. There must be a dozen mustard and ketchup bottles in my icebox that are almost empty, I will add a little water to them and pour them into two other bottles so I won't have to buy mustard or ketchup for a while.
I'm still trying to think of a use for all those bread crumbs in that tray at the bottom of my toaster.
Buy a rotisserie chicken and make 3 meals for 2 out of it: chicken and veggies, tacos, chicken salad.
Don't turn on the air conditioner.
Buy everything I want for my grandson used of the online marketplace.
Oh my gosh, me too!!! Only I give the dark meat to the dogs (over their dry food), take the breast and with a big frying pan saute brocolli, mushrooms, water chestnuts, onions & peppers & brown rice & get about 5 meals out of it.
I make a lot of things that most people just go out and buy, like tools, mouse traps, wasp traps, etc.
I'm constantly repairing things that break, like toasters, pencil sharpeners, even the vinyl blinds in my living room got so brittle that they began cracking in half, so I used Scotch tape to hold them together.
I was so used to not having money when I was growing up that I have become excruciatingly cheap. When I come home after spending money in a store I have to lie down for a while until the pain subsides. I was the only one of us kids that inherited this cheapness from our parents. I used to brown-bag my lunch at school everyday and my mom reminded me every morning to bring back the empty bag so I could use it the next day. That was my lunch box. All the other kids had Bonanza or Get Smart lunch boxes, I had Rexall Drugstore.
I save the shavings I get out of the pencil sharpener and sift out all the gray powder. I use it for graphite to loosen up locks, hinges and various other mechanisms. I have a bucket full of old rusty bent nails that I save and when I get bored I sand them down and straighten them out. There must be a dozen mustard and ketchup bottles in my icebox that are almost empty, I will add a little water to them and pour them into two other bottles so I won't have to buy mustard or ketchup for a while.
I'm still trying to think of a use for all those bread crumbs in that tray at the bottom of my toaster.
You must be getting something out if this behavior. Do you have a nice nest egg? And, if you did not do all the things you do to save money, do you think you might have a hobby?
You must be getting something out if this behavior. Do you have a nice nest egg? And, if you did not do all the things you do to save money, do you think you might have a hobby?
I guess you could call them hobbies, I collect stuff, build stuff and sell them.
I make a lot of things that most people just go out and buy, like tools, mouse traps, wasp traps, etc.
I'm constantly repairing things that break, like toasters, pencil sharpeners, even the vinyl blinds in my living room got so brittle that they began cracking in half, so I used Scotch tape to hold them together.
I was so used to not having money when I was growing up that I have become excruciatingly cheap. When I come home after spending money in a store I have to lie down for a while until the pain subsides. I was the only one of us kids that inherited this cheapness from our parents. I used to brown-bag my lunch at school everyday and my mom reminded me every morning to bring back the empty bag so I could use it the next day. That was my lunch box. All the other kids had Bonanza or Get Smart lunch boxes, I had Rexall Drugstore.
I save the shavings I get out of the pencil sharpener and sift out all the gray powder. I use it for graphite to loosen up locks, hinges and various other mechanisms. I have a bucket full of old rusty bent nails that I save and when I get bored I sand them down and straighten them out. There must be a dozen mustard and ketchup bottles in my icebox that are almost empty, I will add a little water to them and pour them into two other bottles so I won't have to buy mustard or ketchup for a while.
I'm still trying to think of a use for all those bread crumbs in that tray at the bottom of my toaster.
ding ding ding! We have a winner! lol
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