The cheap bastards thread!

[WolFish]

I get "discounts" on convenience store items by picking up change from the floor.

[Lestat]

Gah I STILL haven't got around to watching breaking bad. I keep getting distracted and haring off to the lab haha. That kind of thing always reminds me of something project-wise on the metaphorical (or literal) burner. (although I use a blowtorch rather than a bunsen, for compactness's sake)

Or something i COULD be doing, or SHOULD be doing. Generally gets the grey cells 'a tickin' over. Been satisfying myself with working tonight (plus a little something to keep me awake and wide-eyed, its been a LONG day, working, with a hike break taken for a few hours since 11am yesterday. STILL not done.

Popping next door every so often to chain smoke rollups haha, whilst blasting out disturbed and drowning pool for atmosphere. THATs what I call music to do lab work to, love it

["couldbecousin"]

Gah I STILL haven't got around to watching breaking bad. I keep getting distracted and haring off to the lab haha. That kind of thing always reminds me of something project-wise on the metaphorical (or literal) burner. (although I use a blowtorch rather than a bunsen, for compactness's sake)

Or something i COULD be doing, or SHOULD be doing. Generally gets the grey cells 'a tickin' over. Been satisfying myself with working tonight (plus a little something to keep me awake and wide-eyed, its been a LONG day, working, with a hike break taken for a few hours since 11am yesterday. STILL not done.

Popping next door every so often to chain smoke rollups haha, whilst blasting out disturbed and drowning pool for atmosphere. THATs what I call music to do lab work to, love it

  Watch the show.  Apply yourself! 

[Queen Victoria]

Rather than spend money this weekend, I decided to do some organizing and clearing about the house.  Found one or two items I was looking for.  No need to buy them again.

[Icequeen]

Someone I know told me to come pick up their old mower to scrap...they bought a new one.

Huge 6 hp Craftsman self-propelled high wheeler with bagger. Their yard is the size of a postage stamp. Carb is leaking gas, and I think I have a set of spare front wheels with more tread on them hanging around here.

It might be 5 years old if that.

[Parts]

I use a lot of real heavy duty garbage bags at work but if there is a dumpster where I am working I empty them out and use them again

["couldbecousin"]

  I recently got two bottles of L-Lysine (100 caplets, 1000 mg each) for the price of one. 

[Grey Area]

The built in DVD drive in my laptop died last year. It would have cost £45 for the guy at the repair shop to even look at it, so I bought an external drive for £25.

["couldbecousin"]

The built in DVD drive in my laptop died last year. It would have cost £45 for the guy at the repair shop to even look at it, so I bought an external drive for £25.

  Basic geek skills to the rescue! 

[Grey Area]

Hardly geek skills. You just plug it into a USB port and it just works. It's USB powered too, so it doesn't even need a mains adaptor. What a time to be alive.

["couldbecousin"]

Hardly geek skills. You just plug it into a USB port and it just works. It's USB powered too, so it doesn't even need a mains adaptor. What a time to be alive.

  That's good to know.  It seems geeky to me because I didn't know. 

[Grey Area]

Having to do anything geeky with a computer just makes me want to toss the stupid thing out of the nearest window. Apart from old microcomputers from the 80s. They're always fun to take apart and clean and see if I can get them working, but the technology is much simpler and you're not at the mercy of some godawful operating system because most of them don't even have operating systems. They just work.