What's Your "Cheap" ?

[tim_redd]

$5.50 for a dozen eggs?

I can go to Kwik Star and get them for $.50 per dozen right now. Not joking.

I found a whole case of eggs under a bridge last week - perfect condition. None of them missing. None of them cracked. I mean, who in their right mind throws away a perfectly good case of eggs this day and age?

 

[CtownCyclone]

That's crazy. Regular eggs have been $.50-$1.00/doz

"But those poor chickens! Shoved in cages! Forced to lay eggs!"

 

[VeloClone]

I found a whole case of eggs under a bridge last week - perfect condition. None of them missing. None of them cracked. I mean, who in their right mind throws away a perfectly good case of eggs this day and age?

I assume you mean a carton of eggs, not one of these:

 

[Colorado]

I grew up poor and I find myself easily paying a little more for things that I eat and drink. We do try to be more frugal on the big ticket items like vehicles. We try to only have one car payment at a time so we end up keeping cars for around 10 years. That being said, I'm a big-time bike snob and won't skimp when it comes to the bikes I buy and the parts I put on them. That's not to say that I'm extravagant, just that I will pay more for the quality stuff.

 

[CyCloned]

Cereal.

I don't eat cereal because I think it's disgusting but my wife and children practically live on it. I do all the grocery shopping so they have to make do with Malt-O-Meal brand. They ***** constantly about it because they want the "good stuff". It tastes exactly the same, IMO!

Malt-O-Meal at Menards, they had the big bags for $2.50 last week.

 

[ZB4CY]

Women.

 

[CyCloned]

Weird thing that I have noticed: I live in the Cedar Rapids area and the NE Walmart has milk and eggs very cheap, much cheaper than the Marion Walmart. The Great Value chocolate milk is $1.60 to $2.20 a gallon. White milk is even cheaper, lot $1.20 for skim. Just seems weird, but my kids go through a lot of milk.

 

[Al_4_State]

I found a whole case of eggs under a bridge last week - perfect condition. None of them missing. None of them cracked. I mean, who in their right mind throws away a perfectly good case of eggs this day and age?

I love eggs, Charlie. And I love boilin' denims and bangin' whooores, and if someone doesn't like that about me, then they can get out.

 

[nwiafan]

I assume you mean a carton of eggs, not one of these:

Actually 30 dozen is considered a case, 360 eggs = case.

Semantics I know...

Yeah those $.41 and $.50 cent eggs are killing the industry right now...glad we have contracted price on liquid

 

[VeloClone]

Actually 30 dozen is considered a case, 360 eggs = case.

Semantics I know...

Yeah those $.41 and $.50 cent eggs are killing the industry right now...glad we have contracted price on liquid

That's why I was clarifying what tim redd said. He said he found a case of eggs under a bridge. I was doubting that was what he meant.

 

[srjclone]

I will say my opposite of "cheap" is when I buy Vinyl. The recent increase in popularity of Vinyl has caused a lot of prices to rise where I usually purchase my records. But if I have a record I want, I rarely look at the price tag. It's surprised me when I get to the counter a couple of times, but I never back out for some reason haha

 

[dmclone]

I buy cheap cable from Monoprice

I buy two year old cars that are not probably considered cheap but they are 1/2 the price of new.

I'm pretty cheap when it comes to vacations but I think this just comes down to research. I don't limit the city by price but I may stay 5 miles outside of city center and pay $10 to have Uber get me there.

I have friends that constantly say I'm cheap but I just look for deals. It's also what your cheap about. They have a 10 year old car with over 200K miles but don't blink an eye at spending $500/night for a hotel room in NYC.

 

[CtownCyclone]

I love eggs, Charlie. And I love boilin' denims and bangin' whooores, and if someone doesn't like that about me, then they can get out.

 

[ZB4CY]

Live on farm. Don't buy hamburger, steaks, bacon, pork chops, chicken. Don't buy eggs or veggies. Don't buy salsa or spaghetti sauce.

 

[cowgirl836]

We've lived in our house for almost 2 years now and have a folding table and bag chairs in the dining room (and no eat-in kitchen). We always eat dinner in the living room while watching TV so I don't see the point in spending hundreds of dollars on a nice kitchen table yet. I keep hoping a relative will be getting rid of one that we can inherit. We also have an empty spare bedroom with no bed.

two spare bedrooms for us. No beds. I think some family probably find it annoying because it precludes attempts to stay over but we have no reason to drop the $$$ on it. Kids probably going in there in the future, no need for adult sized furniture.

 

[cowgirl836]

How big a meal did you cook?

monstrous

 

[Incyte]

We can 300+ pints of food a year from garden and raise our own stupid eggs. Anybody want to buy a chicken?

 

[SpokaneCY]

A lot of things I don't need name brand crap.

NEVER skimp on Q-tips. Accept NO substitutes for the official Q-Tip brand.

 

[SpokaneCY]

I'll spend money on most anything with a focus on quality. Will gladly spend more for many things - custom hiking boots and Q-tips for example. I easily dropped $800 for custom boots after I lined up the other 10+ pairs of hiking boots collected each of which caused some sort of foot pain and limited my hiking enjoyment.

But furniture - GAWD I can't bring myself to buy furniture of any sort, new or used, in style or out.

If you have to buy something, buy something that has a good chance of lasting. And no, $$$s don't always equate to quality.

 

[SpokaneCY]

I also don't care much about the cheap versions of napkins, paper towels, TP. You just throw them away 3 seconds after using them. What difference does it make?

1 tissue breakthrough trauma is far too many. I'd buy 30 ply if they made it. And it was soft.