For a bit of fun, let's play a game

[charlsie]

After going through a recent thread i started, I noticed that there was a bit of a theme running through the post. It seems that as well as a common interest in shares, several of us are reasonably frugal with a dollar. One person who responded to my question said that those types of threads ended up being a dick measuring contest and they didn't like that. So I'm proposing, FOR SOME LIGHTHEARTED FUN, a competition to find who is the most frugal amongst us.
I don't particularly care if what you write is true or not, I'm just looking for some fun.
Please start your contribution with, or words to the effect "I'm so tight/frugal that..............."
Hopefully we'll have a laugh and might even learn something along the way, and I'll go 1st

 

[charlsie]

I'm so tight, I use the same teabag for 3 cups of tea

 

[SirRumpole]

I usually buy things on lower purchase..

 

[wayneL]

My wife buys things when on sale even, if we don't need it.

 

[moXJO]

I'm so tight, I use the same teabag for 3 cups of tea

Pfffft, you buy teabags. I go to the neighbours to have a cup of tea.

 

[charlsie]

I recycle the plastic sauce bottles with the twist top into milk containers for when I'm milling or splitting wood in the bush
(my side hustle).
The look on my 12yo boys face when I started squirting milk into my cuppa.........priceless

I still use the lounge suite my mother bought when i was 2 years old, I'm now nearly 54

 

[macca]

I am currently wearing a freebie T shirt I was given at Bathurst car races in 1978, almost worn in, good for another 10 years yet.

 

[moXJO]

I recycle the plastic sauce bottles with the twist top into milk containers for when I'm milling or splitting wood in the bush
(my side hustle).
The look on my 12yo boys face when I started squirting milk into my cuppa.........priceless

I still use the lounge suite my mother bought when i was 2 years old, I'm now nearly 54

I hope you're recycling that milk from your morning cereal bowl. From the milk you borrowed from your neighbour.

And you have the hide to call yourself a "cheapskate".

True story.
I had a customer that owned half the buildings in my hometown. Worth probably in the hundred million $. This guy would call me up to fix his buildings with rubbish he would find by the side of the road.
He was Scottish. Take from that what you will.
Dude was tighter then a fishes are$hole.

 

[StockyGuy]

So frugal it annoys me that supermarkets show cost per 100g, or kilogram or item, as they case maybe - yet for foodstuffs they exclude the more pertinent measure of price per kilojoule.

 

[Craton]

Penny wise eh?
Interesting thread.

My old man, rest his soul, was a cheap skate. Was always on the look out for a "bargain".
Thought that buying el cheapo tools e.g. a tap reseating tool was a smart buy.

When the time came to change the tap washers (jumper valves) on the kitchen sink, the cheap and nasty tool didn't sit into the tap body correctly. Dad didn't notice this and so, as the tool didn't sit square he reseated the seat face at an angle.
He couldn't work out why both the taps were now leaking/dripping worse than before. Again he tried and only succeeded in making matters worse.

The plumbers bill to remove and replace the stuffed up breeching piece and subsequent tiling repair work were well and truly many, many, many times greater than the price of one good quality reseating tool.

 

[moXJO]

Got another story from a few years back.
Mate of mine comes round after visiting an Italian family we knew. Tells me how the old man passed away and how he was insistent on being buried with certain items. His pillow being one of the main ones.

Apparently it was some big heavy bulky one. Flash forword a couple months and I hear how they have to dig the old man up again. Tight bugger stashed all his cash in his pillow and then was buried with it.

 

[frugal.rock]

I found a semi rotten nectarine in our kitchen bin a week ago or so.
Fingered out the rotten bits under running water and cut the bottom half off, and ate it.
The remains and seed went to the chooks.
I later enquired of the family about who had thrown it away.
I don't remember any admissions made...?

 

[wayneL]

Opinions sought:

1/ a pair of machine made horse shoes costs around $11. Buy them, heat them up and shape them and nail the bloody things on.

2/ buy $2 of steel, spend $1 in gas and 20 min time to make them to the hoof

 

[Dona Ferentes]

I'll pick up coins if I see them lying around. (Usually give a kick first, since the advent of superglue).

Two dollar coins were common because they're small and only make a nonmetallic thud when hitting the ground. Not so good pickings since Covid.

 

[charlsie]

A close family relative who is known to bury their money was extremely excited when paper notes changed to plastic, I asked why and the reply was "because plastic doesn't rot"
At a guess, I reckon they dug a tin up to find it had rusted and the paper notes ruined

 

[macca]

A close family relative who is known to bury their money was extremely excited when paper notes changed to plastic, I asked why and the reply was "because plastic doesn't rot"
At a guess, I reckon they dug a tin up to find it had rusted and the paper notes ruined

Most of us will be able to remember when they changed to plastic notes and that meant that all the grey nurses buried and hidden had to be exchanged into green plastics cucumbers

At that time, I had a business with good cash flow so there was usually some new greenies in the till in the PM.

We had few regulars who would call in to quietly swap a few over on a regular basis, I suggested they go to the bank as it was quite OK to just swap them over.

The look of shock on some of their faces was funny, no no no......... you never know who is watching !

 

[frugal.rock]

Opinions sought:

1/ a pair of machine made horse shoes costs around $11. Buy them, heat them up and shape them and nail the bloody things on.

2/ buy $2 of steel, spend $1 in gas and 20 min time to make them to the hoof

Insufficient information & data found.
Can't compute opinion. ?

I remember finding a $5 note in a shopping centre bin. It was plastered to the inside near the top with what would have been at least months of bin juice and slop. Really camouflaged.
Swapped it at the bank for a "clean un" ?

 

[frugal.rock]

I'll pick up coins if I see them lying around. (Usually give a kick first, since the advent of superglue).

Two dollar coins were common because they're small and only make a nonmetallic thud when hitting the ground. Not so good pickings since Covid.

I've got a 10 cent epoxy glued to the kitchen floor near the bin....?

A few years ago, a supermarket opened near me. One of them that wants a coin to get the trolley.
Anyway, next to the trolley bay is a 1.5 foot drop off into a pine bark mulched garden bed.
I've been checking there every shop for around 3 years for a dropped trolley coin.
Finally scored a $2 dollary there around 2 months ago... Just a quick 2 or 3 second scan whenever there...?

 

[moXJO]

I've got a 10 cent epoxy glued to the kitchen floor near the bin....?

As a kid me and some locals glued a bunch of coins out the front of the corner store. Much laughs were had till some guy comes back with a hammer and cold chisel.

 

[frugal.rock]

Kids have lost creativity these days
Back in the day, seen a city kid putting chewy onto the end of a broom handle, then into a grated drain to retrieve a spotted coin...