The cheap bastards thread!

["couldbecousin"]

  Today I could have spent $10 on cab fare to work, $30 on the new magazines and
  tabloids at the store, then $10 more for cab fare home.  Instead, I took the bus to work
  ( $1.50 ), bought no magazines, and walked home.  I saved $48.50 in just one day. 
  Now I am drinking free  tap water instead of $4-a-bottle juice.  Cheapness rules. 

[ZEGH8578]

Fun thread!
The other day I was out with my aspie friend, he wanted to look for something for his game-console, while I was broke and bored. He offered me 100 krones (20 bucks) to buy something, which I politely turned down, cus I found it a bit uncomfortable to just take money from a friend
Then I realized, I need pens... So, I checked back on that offer, then picked out two pens, each one close to 40 krones, totalling to 80-some.

So, I go to the cashier, and she goes "its two for the price of one!" so I thought "neato!" and picked one more! Thats three pens, 40-ish each, totally to 80-some.
I give her the money.
She gives me back 82 krones.
What?
I just smiiiiled, tuuurned around, my friend said somethingorother to me, and all I said was "come, come, come, let's go, let's go!"

Three pens for 18 krones. Not bad at all!

["couldbecousin"]

  You're totally going to hell. 


  I am still drinking some Dunkin' Donuts coffee that I brought home from work the other day.  FREE.   

[ZEGH8578]

  You're totally going to hell. 


  I am still drinking some Dunkin' Donuts coffee that I brought home from work the other day.  FREE.   

There was this artsy-fartsy cafe in town long ago. It's a small town, and Norway is super-wealthy, so... cheap artsy intellectual cafes aren't really our cup of tea. We want things posh and expensive, so once it was gone, it stayed gone
But it was my favorite place, and I often knew the staff working there.

One time, the son of the owner, a childhood friend of mine worked there, and casually asked if I wanted something.
As a sortof blunt joke, I said "I want a complete kebab-plate, I want it for free, and I want it now!"
And I got it.


Same cafeteria I also was given a warm glass of honey-milk once I told them I wasn't feeling good

["couldbecousin"]

  I can see why you miss that place, they made you feel at home there. 


  I can eat for free at work, so I will stop buying junk food and live on what I can get for free! 

[ZEGH8578]

  I can see why you miss that place, they made you feel at home there. 

It was a fun lil place with lots of personality we used to sneak down to the bathrooms there, and roll joints. The staff would ask us what we were up to, but we wouldn't reveal We'd then sneak out behind, and puff it up. Later we were told a McDonalds worker right across the alley would regularily watch us, and sigh with longing to join in

Ah! At the same cafeteria I also did my first (and only) pickpocket attempt Just a test of the theory! I did it the easy way, and snuck the wallet from the jacket of a friend of mine, but it was indeed remarkable how tunnel-visioned he was, once engaged in conversation
You are so alert of yourself, and you then project that onto others "I'm alert, so they're alert" but countless experiments show that when people focus, you can _litterally_ walk elephants past them and they won't notice. Distraction is so deceptively easy! Also - clothes don't have nerves! You may think they're absolutely gonna notice cus it's "their body", and whenever you rumage around your own pockets - you are totally aware - and again, project "I can feel my hand in my own pocket. Surely someone else would feel my hand in their pocket." but they won't, cus THEIR hand, and their mind, is elsewhere!
It is... dangerously easy.. in reality.. to pickpocket someone

So, took his wallet, relaxed, we left (here it's common to pay at the counter, not wait for the check), an hour later he suddenly stopped, and begun to frantically pat his pockets
I feigned worry, and dragged it out, we ran back to the cafe, we harassed the staff, and we checked every corner :'D
After we got outside, and his hope was lost, I returned the wallet to him :] He was not amused :] I was :]

["couldbecousin"]

  Stealing from friends = wholesome fun that doesn't cost a cent! 

[renaeden]

When I go out, instead of paying money for a drink from the train station kiosk, I fill an old Coke Zero bottle with cans of Coke Zero at home and put it in the fridge for a while before I leave. Saves me a bit of money I think.

[Icequeen]

2 wire framed light up deer...1 I will use for parts for the other 4 I am bound to pick up, 1 fully working that will go in the yard...on a timer of course (that a neighbor gave me ).


Trash picked on the way to WalMart for milk and groceries.


The Cuisinart coffee maker I picked up last week was beyond help, but the pot will sell for $9-12 and the filter holder $5-7 + shipping of course.

[Parts]

I will admit I am cheep  but recently I saw this show  Extreme Cheapskates and a lot of what they do is nuts and some of it revolting  

['andersom']

I will admit I am cheep i  but recently I saw this show  Extreme Cheapskates and a lot of what they do is nut and some of it revolting

Saw a bit of that too.  About a lady telling her BF to pee in bottles and empty those in the woods, to save on water in the toilet. Totally nuts. She had more revolting ideas.

Yesterday I got offered a free bush of carrots. The green had gone bad. Autumn damage, fallen leaves of trees amongst it. The carrots them self were very fresh, with enough turgor pressure to kinda jump when cutting them.
They made for a perfect side dish for a meal with vegetables not loved by all.

[Icequeen]

I will admit I am cheep i  but recently I saw this show  Extreme Cheapskates and a lot of what they do is nut and some of it revolting

Yuck. I'm definitely not that cheap.

Neighbor always told me I was the Martha Stewart of trash picking. Everything I pick up is inspected, cleaned, fixed and then sorted to be sold, gifted, used, or not deemed worthy before it even enters the house.

[renaeden]

Is there junk out all year round where you live, Icequeen?

Here we have a couple of weeks each year that I call Junk out the Front time. It looks pretty bad with piles of junk everywhere. Last time I put my old futon mattress out and the next day it was gone, someone must have picked it up. Once we got a reasonable computer chair, however, two years later it became part of the junk pile.

[Parts]

Is there junk out all year round where you live, Icequeen?

Here we have a couple of weeks each year that I call Junk out the Front time. It looks pretty bad with piles of junk everywhere. Last time I put my old futon mattress out and the next day it was gone, someone must have picked it up. Once we got a reasonable computer chair, however, two years later it became part of the junk pile.

I can't answer for her but this is how things are where I live.  Each town has it's own rules mine they have bulky waste pick up twice a year, one town over you just put it out with your normal trash and they take it, other towns want you to call if your going to put out a lot.  I have found that in general the towns where you put it out with your regular garbage pick up look a lot better, in my town people save up tons of stuff for the two times they pick it up a year and the piles can be enormous and they can sit out there awhile before they are gotten to, on the other hand the town next door rarely has giant piles and they are all gone usually by noon on garbage day because you don't have to save it up just getting rid of the stuff a little at a time.

[renaeden]

I didn't know towns could differ so much from each other over there. Here it is the same for everyone within the Perth metro area. Our big rubbish gets collected once a year, in the meantime it goes into our bins if it fits and is collected every week by automated trucks. Our bins look like this:


That is our recycling bin, the general ones have green lids.