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Last night I got done painting the bathroom and I washed out the 70 cents paint tray liner. I don’t rememeber every NOT washing one out for reuse. Why do I do this???
I squeeze the nickel so hard the Indian’s ridin’ the buffalo!!!
My wife always tells me, “The stingy man pays the most” I’m beginning to think that’s true!!
Anyone else as cheap as me (Heck, I even recycle jokes!!!)
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Maybe cheaper.
I send my wife into the garden with a buffalo nickel and a pair of vice grips to fertilize the plants!
How about resharpening $5 7-1/4 carbide blades?
*You're frugal until you start trying to reuse toilet paper, then you're cheap.How's that for a picture in your head?
*bobl,Been there....THought about doing it....then thought about NOT doing it!!!
*See Doug, you're frugal, not cheap.
*You know you`re cheap when you wear your shorts for a week then turn them inside out for another week to save on detergent.
*Dick,thats not cheap i turn mine around and get a extra 4 weeks outta them.
*Ron I think I like you.... no not THAT way!!!!i likes the way youse thinks (even if you have a "shorts" hang up)
*Used to be that way....Got cured......Observed a great many "cheap, frugal" guys go into the ground.......yep, dead cheap guys.....Life is too short.
*My mother reused milk cartons, sandwich bags, and tin foil. We weren't poor, she was just cheap.If I ever start exhibiting these signs of erratic behavior, I hope that Michael recognizes it as a sickness and finds me the proper help.The only thing that I am adamant about is clipping coupons. I have saved hundreds with these little pieces of paper, that is, if I can remember to actually take them to the store...I was going to add that Michael is very cheap, but it is Christmas and my birthday, so this statement is left best for another time of the year. :-)
*Hey Doug, I get 2 weeks outta a t shirt also turning inside out ....
*Ron, after you turn the tshirt inside out, you could turn it upside down and wear it as shorts. Dangling through the neck hole is an obvious drawback, but nothing that a sock and a safety pin wouldn`t fix. You could even turn the sock inside out when neccesary.
*Seems to me that if a cheap person took all the time and energy they expend on saving $ they could get a second (or first) job and be alot farther ahead! MHO Mr. T.
*My wife and her father are so cheap they invented copper wire by having a tug of war with a penny that fell on the floor.Thomas
*That's greedy not cheap. I used to work for a guy who would bring his thermos of coffee to work everyday. And if he didn't have time to drink it all before we went home, I would have to sit and wait for him to finish it before we went back to the shop. His reason was if he came back with coffee in his thermos his wife would put that much less in the next day so he wouldn't waste it. He couldn't stand to waste it,so he would sit there and drink it instead of dumping it out.
*I'm not cheap. At least, I don't spend a lot of time bargain hunting. I simply never buy anything.Now, frugality is a virtue. Cheapness is not. Where do you draw the line?Andy
*I have a buddy (no names, but he used to work with me, and some of the old timers may be able to guess)....his father in law (great guy, apparently, but cheap), was too cheap to get the septic tank pumped....couple of hundred bucks here. So he did it himself, by hand, with five gallon pails. Dragged it all up in the woods. I'm not kidding.
*That's on the cheap side of the line, Adrian.
*Ok Adrian, I think you win....
*My wife made the kids pick up all the drywall nails & screws the boarders dropped -- got a coffee can full of each. Now I'll have to build something so I can use them.
*I'm penny wise and pound foolish to the point of stupidity. I know when it's happening to me, but I still do the debate anyways. I hate to "waste" things and would rather give it away.I always finish my thermos. I've tried just refilling it in the morning but then it tastes a little stale. I now pour it out if there's some left. I suppose I'm on the road to recovery...I'm kinda like Andy. I just don't buy anything. Just yesterday, I bought my first brief case ($40). Remember, I've been doing business for more than 20 years....I'd rip trim moulds out of 2x4.....blue
*I save everything. Can't see wasting good stuff, and you never know when you're going to need it. Biggest thing is that my kids can't stand it that I won't buy them the crap that all the other parents buy for their kids. I grew up relatively poor, and believe it builds character for children to earn what they have. Today, they are all overindulged and think they're entitled to everything, and they want it NOW! SHG
*If being cheap means not wasting, that's me. Just the other day, I picked up over 100 wall ties the masons scattered on the ground and gave them back to the masons. And I always pick up spilled nails around the boxes and put them back in the box. Always take leftover usable material to the next job.I'm a firm believer in recycling where possible. Could anyone tell me what is the squeaking sound I hear when I walk? John
*Doug, I'd rinse it out if that were easier/cheaper than throwing it out. So, it depends.Like Andy and Blue, I try not to buy stuff, because, like SGH, I have saved a lot of stuff. Now, my job is to get rid of all but what I really need! As my bro would say, "dematerializing."
*Hi, I'm a lurker here: I really don't belong but I'm spying on my Dad. This isn't cheap. What it is is responsible. I'm not going to go off on a recycling rant, 'cause nobody needs that, but being careful with the resources we use is the best way to continue to have them.
*Tish, I've been recycling since a tot. If it takes longer and costs more to walk the pan to a water source . . . well, sometimes you have to weigh things. Personally, I have very little trash; I recycle and donate a LOT, yet have a long way to go.Oh, and don't be a stranger :-)
*1) Having been raised in a Funeral Home family, I have never seen a casket with drawers in it, and no funeral director I ever met would let one go into the ground with money in it. I may be the only one, but I throw everything away. I am the opposite of frugal, I clean my leftover nails in my toolbelt over the trash can. If the 8's and 12's get mixed I'll trash them rather than seperate. 1/2 sheets go into the dumpster. I am wasteful, and lazy and I admit it. I do admit to a problem with 5 gallon buckets, I clean them out and take them from every job, I have at least 200 in the barn. Everyone in shiny new condition.
*Keith, is there anywhere you can donate all that stuff you toss? I'll bet there are plenty of folks who could use it.
*To lazy to take the time.
*Besides, I look at it as though I'm helping the economy...driving it actually. I'm doing my part to keep others employed making more. Plus the added benefit of someday strip mining the landfills for all the recycleble junk I've trashed in the last 1/2 century.
*I recycle shorts
*I take all the nails that get mixed together in my pouch, pour them all into a big can, and make my kids sort them out! They need to learn to work, especially the boring, trivial stuff because somewhere along the line that's what they'll be doing.The first time my daughter washed my work truck to earn some money, she slopped it up. I gave her $5 and told her, "I was going to give you $20 if you'd done it right." "Well, if I'd known that I'd have done it better" she said. Big mistake. She had to do it over, and still only got the $5.
*I save lots of stuff, and always throw it out a week and a half before some job comes up where I could have used it. ;-)-- J.S.
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Last night I got done painting the bathroom and I washed out the 70 cents paint tray liner. I don't rememeber every NOT washing one out for reuse. Why do I do this???
I squeeze the nickel so hard the Indian's ridin' the buffalo!!!
My wife always tells me, "The stingy man pays the most" I'm beginning to think that's true!!
Anyone else as cheap as me (Heck, I even recycle jokes!!!)