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11-05-2007, 01:57 PM
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What is the most frugal (or cheap) thing you have either done yourself or known someone else to do?
I knew someone who would wash out those plastic sandwich bags and reuse them! I always wondered if the water and soap costs more than the bag - not to mention their time spent washing it and opening it up so it would air dry.
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11-05-2007, 02:15 PM
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Originally Posted by David1961
I knew someone who would wash out those plastic sandwich bags and reuse them!
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Doesn't everybody?
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11-05-2007, 02:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Khan
Doesn't everybody?
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I know I do!
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11-05-2007, 02:21 PM
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This is one hall that I'm not going to make it into. 
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11-05-2007, 02:20 PM
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If you think that's cheap you must be a newcomer to the board !
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11-05-2007, 02:22 PM
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Who had the story about the peanut butter jar with the broken glass? That was a good one!
My own most frugal story is the year I convinced DH to chop up a tree that a neighbor who was clearing his lot had felled, split the wood, and give it away as Christmas gifts to my sister and brother along with a little basket full of pine cones and a bundle of matches.
They thought it was weird, DH thought it was exhausting, and I thought it was frugal!
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11-05-2007, 02:31 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sarah in SC
Who had the story about the peanut butter jar with the broken glass? That was a good one!
My own most frugal story is the year I convinced DH to chop up a tree that a neighbor who was clearing his lot had felled, split the wood, and give it away as Christmas gifts to my sister and brother along with a little basket full of pine cones and a bundle of matches.
They thought it was weird, DH thought it was exhausting, and I thought it was frugal!
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I gave five trees of firewood as a wedding present (their new house had a fireplace). At the reception gift table there was a small stick with a white bow around it and a card attached.
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11-05-2007, 03:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Khan
I gave five trees of firewood as a wedding present (their new house had a fireplace). At the reception gift table there was a small stick with a white bow around it and a card attached.
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Do you mean you cut, split, delivered and stacked a bunch of firewood at their house? That's actually a pretty nice gift!
Or do you mean (and I suspect you do ) that you pointed to some down trees on your property you needed to have removed and gave them permission to cut, split and take home the wood? That would be pretty frugal........ 
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11-05-2007, 04:41 PM
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Originally Posted by youbet
Do you mean you cut, split, delivered and stacked a bunch of firewood at their house? That's actually a pretty nice gift!
Or do you mean (and I suspect you do ) that you pointed to some down trees on your property you needed to have removed and gave them permission to cut, split and take home the wood? That would be pretty frugal........ |
In between.
I paid to have some trees cut, I had the cutters leave the wood in firewood size. The newlyweds to be had mentioned that their new house would have a fireplace and they were looking for firewood. I talked to them and we agreed that a mutual friend would come pick it up.
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11-06-2007, 09:33 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Khan
I gave five trees of firewood as a wedding present (their new house had a fireplace). At the reception gift table there was a small stick with a white bow around it and a card attached.
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And two tickets to "Wrestle Mania"...
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11-05-2007, 03:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Sarah in SC
Who had the story about the peanut butter jar with the broken glass? That was a good one!
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Trombone Al tracked that one down:
http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...1&postcount=16
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11-05-2007, 07:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Nords
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scary .. I thought it was a joke...
he/she wins ... I am officially a spendthrift.
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11-05-2007, 02:23 PM
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I knew someone who would wash out those plastic sandwich bags and reuse them! I always wondered if the water and soap costs more than the bag
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Sure, good idea, dry cleaning is way too expensive.
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11-05-2007, 02:26 PM
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Yeah, I'm totally not going to win this, I'm not very frugal at all.
I once turned our Netflix down to 3 at a time instead of 5 because we weren't using it as much? I did turn it up again later when we kept running out..
hmmm
Oh, I bought around $80 in Lime/Lemon trees so we could grow our own limes & lemons. It later became apparent that since we never bought lemons, and only rarely limes (for Coronas & home made pico), it would take approximately 785 years before our money was made back. So I'm filing that purchase under "entertainment" rather than groceries.
Yeah, I'm totally losing this one.
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11-05-2007, 02:29 PM
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Yeah what was with the dryer sheets?!?!
I was accused of recycling dryer sheets when I first joined this board, but I never used dryer sheets in my life!
Audrey
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11-05-2007, 02:33 PM
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Originally Posted by audreyh1
Yeah what was with the dryer sheets?!?!
I was accused of recycling dryer sheets when I first joined this board, but I never used dryer sheets in my life!
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I've lived in the same house for 29 years and I've never had a dryer here and I HATE the stench of dryer sheets at the laudromat.
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11-05-2007, 02:38 PM
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Hmm..well, we never use the dryer, only hang dry stuff in the house (which is great for the humidity levels since we live in a dry climate), wear clothing till it shreds (except for work clothes, I am required to look professional), and I don't own a car since its much cheaper to take mass transit and then rent a car on the weekends when I need or want one. Course, I have a lot of other habits that aren't remotely frugal but we all have to have something we like to spend on.
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11-05-2007, 03:01 PM
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One of my favorite frugality posts is from Justin:
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Never bought a watch. I found one on the ground 10 years ago. I ripped what was left of the band off and now I keep it in my pocket. I don't like things hanging on my wrist. On occasion when I have a borrowed cellphone with me, I will leave the watch at home since the cell phone has a clock on it.
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11-05-2007, 05:27 PM
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Whenever I think of doing something frugal I ask myself it I could hurt myself in someway and then costing myself more money. It helps to keep the balance in.
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11-05-2007, 07:18 PM
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Originally Posted by dex
Whenever I think of doing something frugal I ask myself it I could hurt myself in someway and then costing myself more money. It helps to keep the balance in.
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Excellent point. I drywalled the ceiling in my basement myself. Ended up costing $4K in physical therapy (adhesive capsulitis), though covered by my insurance, at the time. 
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