Silly Frugality?

[shortstop14]

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Originally Posted by Meadbh Food banks love to receive such donations. https://www.epa.gov/sustainable-mana...-hungry-people

Great stuff. Our local food bank has an organized program to routinely pick up food close to the end of its shelf life from the local grocery stores for redistribution to where it is really needed. There is an astonishingly high level of food insecurity in the US.

Close to a third of food produced never makes it to the fork in developed countries. The energy waste from food loss (including production, transportation, and methane from spoilage) is massive and a leading contributor to atmospheric CO2.

Yeah, avoiding food waste is far from silly frugality.

Now always coasting my car down the hill we live on might cross the line into silly territory. Along with hanging on to bent paper clips and used nuts and bolts and wood scraps. And I counted four patches on the bicycle tube I finally tossed today.

[kcowan]

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Originally Posted by ikubak Of course not, you bring them into the theatre in the arm holes of your jacket.

No Nemo does not buy popcorn or soda anywhere! It is considered a waste of money (and a ripoff at the movies).

[kcowan]

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Originally Posted by shortstop14 And I counted four patches on the bicycle tube I finally tossed today.

So is four patches the new rule?

[GrayHare]

In January I return my Christmas tree for refund since it is dead. (No, I do not do that.)

[athena53]

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Originally Posted by InTheSticks I don't buy popcorn or soda at the movies.

I don't go to the movies!

[shortstop14]

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Originally Posted by kcowan So is four patches the new rule?

A complex calculation keeping the ratio of laziness over cheapness high enough. Or maybe the ratio of original rubber to patch - hey, those patches cost money too.

[imoldernu]

Reading this thread has made me rethink my own silly frugalness. Listed here:
post#124

http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...ml#post1372574

I now realize that my thrift has been overdone, and accordingly will visit the local tatoo parlor... There ARE limits.

[Sunset]

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Originally Posted by athena53 I don't go to the movies!

I literally typed that in yesterday, then went on to explaining the real reasons rather than frugality.

After that I decided not to post it, which I do sometimes.

[aja8888]

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Originally Posted by athena53 I don't go to the movies!

I don't either. Haven't been to an indoor movie in 25 years.

[travelover]

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Originally Posted by aja8888 I don't either. Haven't been to an indoor movie in 25 years.

So you still go to the drive in? Do you sneak people in by putting them in the trunk?

[aja8888]

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Originally Posted by travelover So you still go to the drive in? Do you sneak people in by putting them in the trunk?

If there was a drive in movie around here, I would take DW and go. That would be like a run back in time when, as a youth, GF and I would go and steam up the car windows.

[Walt34]

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Originally Posted by travelover So you still go to the drive in? Do you sneak people in by putting them in the trunk?

Where we went the theaters didn't charge per person. They actually got logical about it and charged per car since a car with one person in it took up the same space as one with six or more in it.

One place I remember was $1 per car. With five of us in the family that one got most of our movie-going business.

[Walt34]

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Originally Posted by aja8888 If there was a drive in movie around here, I would take DW and go. That would be like a run back in time when, as a youth, GF and I would go and steam up the car windows.

I remember asking my parents why all the cars in the back row had steamed-up windows. They always changed the subject.

[GravitySucks]

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Originally Posted by aja8888 If there was a drive in movie around here, I would take DW and go. That would be like a run back in time when, as a youth, GF and I would go and steam up the car windows.

Darn bucket seats.

[brett]

Trying to combat frugality.

We have a 17.5 hr. flight tomorrow to Singapore. Just upgraded our seats to business class.

DW thinks I may have had a little too much of the grape!

My fear now is that she will think that this is a bottomless pit.

[aja8888]

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Originally Posted by GravitySucks Darn bucket seats.

1948 Plymouth 4 door....

[karen1972]

i can't stand to throw out food. If I have soft apples, i make applesauce, if I have soft veggies, I throw them in a refrigerator brine and now I have pickled vegetables, I cut out blemishes, etc etc. If its spoiled, it gets thrown out, but there is a lot of food that can be salvaged without ruining the taste, especially if used in stews and hot dishes.

I don't do this because I'm frugal, I do this because I know how much food waste there is, how much pollution is created to ship it to me, how there are people out there that could use it, so my throwing it out would just make me feel guilty.

To me silly frugality is wearing socks with holes in them when you don't need to. Sure go ahead and use the sock for a dust cloth, but stop wearing them.

[GravitySucks]

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Originally Posted by aja8888 1948 Plymouth 4 door....

68 Plymouth Sport Suburban Wagon. Could get 14 kids into drive in on $5 car load night.
It's the new cars are all buckets.

[skipro33]

I wear the same wardrobe I wore in highschool;
levi 501 shrink-to-fit (same size too! 34 waist 36 length)
white crew neck T-shirt
white tube socks
Bates Floaters (suede)

I've discovered I can sell the worn out jeans for as much as new ones cost me, on eBay.

I snitch eggs from the neighbor's hens next door.
I recycle my halloween pumpkin into pie. If I don't cut a face in it, but rather paint one on, I'll toss some yeast and water into the hollowed out thing and make some pumpkin jack.
I stopped my trash pick up service. I get up before dawn on trash day and find room in neighbors cans and put mine in with theirs.
No matter what meat I have for left over, I add a packet of stroganoff seasoning to it in a cast iron skillet and cook up some rice, then slather it over the rice. It's always good.
I always clothes line dry my laundry. I like how stiff the towels are.
If I'm out and about around dinner time, I'll check out the complimentary grub at the nearest hotel. Most, if not all, offer some sort of delectable; pizza, hamburgers grilled by the pool, hot dogs, wings. Soft drinks are often included. Rarely am I up for breakfast but the breakfasts are pretty easy to poach too. I learned this while on the road for work; no one ever checks to see if you are a guest or signed up for what ever conference or other event is taking place.
I'm scamming my neighbor's wifi right now as I'm replying to this thread.
I let my dog lick my dishes clean and save on the dishwashing. (just checking to see if you are still reading this...)

[audreyh1]

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Originally Posted by athena53 I don't go to the movies!

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