Extreme Cheapskates - Would you try any of these money saving techniques? - Page 3

I suppose i could go without electricity because there once wasnt any, but that doesn't mean i want to by choice unless of course i suddenly became Amish. I would find something flushable if it came down to that, there's just no way i could use cloth toiletpaper or feminine napkins. TMI,,,,,,,,but the clots i'm dropping each month it wouldn't be pretty!

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Originally Posted by Kim 

My daughter DVRed a new show, Extreme Cheapskates. Some of the the things they did on the show were definitely extreme.

Roy Self-Proclaimed "Cheapest Guy in the World"
Pulled two-ply toilet paper apart to use single ply
Took ketchup packets from restaurants to squeeze into ketchup bottle at home
Asked strangers at a restaurant for their leftovers
Gave his wife dead flowers he fished out of a dumpster, along with animal crackers and a recycled greeting card for their 25th anniversary
Donated his favorite shirt to Goodwill so they could dry clean it and then bought it back for $1
Washed and reused his paper towels
Picked up the rice thrown at weddings so he could bring it home and cook it

Angela, Mom of Six from Kansas
Makes own cleaning supplies
Kids share bath water
Use fabric squares for toilet paper and reuses them
Bought expired groceries at a thrift store
Foraged for salad greens at a local park

Jeff & Denise
Does a week-long "fiscal fast" where they spend no money
Throw soap slivers in panty hose instead of throwing it away
Goes through vacuum bags to look for loose change
Checks coin returns at laundromats for loose change as well as takes lint from lint traps to start fires
Checks booth visions at restaurants for loose change

Have you done any of these money saving techniques? Have you known anyone who has?

That Roy guy is just nuts.

I've done the things Angela does, and I've saved slivers of soap, but I don't put them in stockings - I put them in pump bottles with a bit of water. We used dryer lint wrapped in paper as fire starters for Girl Scout campouts.
 

The first guy...had he been MY husband on our anniversary...he would now be my EX. 

Otherwise, I don't go out of the way to get EXTRA ketchup, napkins, etc, but if we HAVE spare, I don't just toss it.  We have a basket that it goes in and it gets USED.  Heck, it is FANTASTIC for when you pack a lunch to have a packet of ketchup, salt, pepper, or taco sauce right there on hand! 

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Originally Posted by team-edward 

I don't think I would do any of those LOL! I will admit that my husband loads up on napkins and so does his dad. One time he did it at wendy's and this older lady was staring at him so being the smarty pants that he is, he went up and got more! and the old lady was like telling her husband LOOK he's getting more! LOL So then he turns around and tells the lady's husband, She's pretty darn nosy isn't she???!!! OMG I was so embarrassed

hahahahahahahhahahahaha!!!  I can see my husband doing the same!!!

Most of those things are just too extreme for me, I agree the first guy sounds crazy!  Can you imagine what your reaction would be if someone came up to you at a restaurant and asked you for your left overs?  I don't know how I would react to that, I think I would think it was a joke!  You'd think the guy could have found something better in the dumpster than dead flowers!  I think donating the shirt to Goodwill was kind of risky, how did he know he would get it back? 

Angela didn't sound quite as extreme as the first guy, but I don't think I would do most of the things she does except make my own cleaning products.  Cloth toilet paper just sounds gross to me, guess I am glad I was born AT too!  Love that!  I give my kids baths together, but they are 3 & 1, and I do it more to save time than to be frugal. 

We don't really use bar soap here, but I do like the idea of saving the soap slivers.  Now if you were asking friends and neighbors for their soap slivers then that would be a different story.  Once in a while I will check coin returns for a lost coin, but not really often.

 I don't fill that a 1 week financial fast is all that extreme either. We will do a no spend (fast) month once or twice a year. We use what we have in our stockpile and pantry and save the money that would have been used for something else.

 I do make my own cleaning products; laundry detergent, kitchen disinfectant, glass cleaner and such but its all from easily attainable items and simply seems to save us money. I don't think that is all that extreme either.

A few other things I do to save are: using wash clothes and old hand towels for cleaning instead of paper towels, wash our clothes in cold water, and make most every meal from scratch. It saves us 100's of dollars a year but still not extreme :)

I am suprised and shocked that Roy has been married for 25 years!!!! With anniversary gifts like that I am suprised he made it to the first anniversary!!!

I dont think I could do cloth TP ....We have 7 people in the house and I dont think it would ever happen!!!

Can you imagine how long it would take for him to pick up enough rice!!!! Thats just NUTS!!!!

Are you kidding? I would NEVER in a million years use cloth squares for toilet paper, and then wash them! I would be committed to the psych-ward! Really, who does that?? I suggest go to the dollar store and purchase some healthy hygenic plain toilet paper.

sincerely,

 Yourkiding

Clothing toilet paper is too weird for me. Roy wouldn't have been my husband long either, I doubt I would have married him if he had done any of that.

My husband and I are happy when we go an entire day without spending - but we're both 22 years old and I can't say we're all the way there when it comes to maturity.