frayne
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Dryer sheets ! Need I say more ?
Wash dishes, pots, pans, knives, silverware, cups, etc., by hand. Only exercise the dishwasher about once a year.
I would say we are the MOST likely to bellyache about the cost of streaming and cable.+1. The second chapter of The Millionaire Next Door is called, "Frugal Frugal Frugal". For all the neighbors who can't figure out how we retired early in a HCOL area, I can tell they never read this book. Housing is expensive where we are, but other than that a lot of the other expenses are simply lifestyle choices, like shopping at ethnic markets instead of Whole Foods. Rich Roll had a cute video on what you can buy for $25 at stores like Whole Foods for $25 vs. going to an ethnic market (two fancy juice bottles at WF vs. several bags of fresh produce or ~25 pounds of dried rice and beans at the ethnic markets).
Check out the water/energy used by a dishwasher vs. by hand.
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-much-water-do-dishwashers-use/
I'm with you here. I can't imagine paying literally thousands of dollars to see Hamilton when I saw it twice for $7.50. I'm sure it was better live, but ...............Eta, you won’t find us paying big bucks for entertainment in general though. I’ve been to maybe three professional sports games in my life and all but one was through work.
I save the extra napkins from my take out orders, Depending on the quality, they can be used in place of paper towels as cleaning wipes, for floor spills, as tissues, and for cleaning kids sticky faces.
I make my own yogurt using a half gallon of milk and my crock pot. Super easy and good. I got tired of the cost and the waste of the plastic yogurt cups.
I camp! and sometimes camp on a road trip instead of a hotel, even for just a night, throw the tent up and sleep or I've even slept in the back seat of my car.
I am kindly ridiculed in my family for making anything out of paper bags. I entered a Christmas Wreath contest with a wreath I made out of the Sunday paper. And why would anyone "buy" a costume -made more than I can recall.
We don't have alot of storage space so when I travel and need a larger suitcase, I buy one at a thrift store or garage sale, then I donate it when I get back.
There was some comedian--can't remember who--who claimed he would donate his dress shirts to the thrift store, they would laundry them and put them on the racks for sale and the comedian would buy them back. The comedian claimed he could buy them back for less than it would cost him to laundry the dress shirts.
I'm with you here. I can't imagine paying literally thousands of dollars to see Hamilton when I saw it twice for $7.50. I'm sure it was better live, but .....
And the prices for major league sports seats are insane. Even the food / beer prices are insane.
Huh? I don’t even varnish my own nails anymore. I don’t think the polish or remover is good for you. I simply trim my nails as needed. They stay pretty short as I play instruments.I thought everybody did that!
Also: serious question, when did nail salon visits become so common, even required? A bottle of nail polish costs $3.49. What does it mean if I don't visit them? Am I unkempt? Slovenly?
But that would not work for me because I have to wash every thing I buy at the thrift store before I wear them.
It's worth the trade-off *for me* to pack and port half as much clothing to "waste" some time in a laundry room.
We have stayed at Air B&B apartments that had small washers/dryers. Very easy to do laundry when the machines are inside the unit.
We've done this for years. Then we come home and just put a majority of stuff away. Anything dirty (?) goes int one suitcase and it goes to the laundry room when we walk in the door.
Pancakes fried up on bacon grease have the lovely crisp edge that they used to have when my mother made them. She used butter or lard.
Didn't everyone's grandma used to save bread wrappers and twisties ? The bread wrappers went over your socks in the winter time before you put on your boots.
I eat my road kill, but I never swerve on purpose to get it.
One day Mom brought home a dead ring-necked pheasant she had hit on the road while coming home from work. Damn right we ate and enjoyed it.