I would quibble some. I buy eggs from a co-worker and they look and taste far better than the costco brand.
What's Your "Cheap" ?
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I would quibble some. I buy eggs from a co-worker and they look and taste far better than the costco brand.
Same with spouses. Just marry the ugly ones because who really cares.
This leaves the following questions to be answered... Were they chicken eggs? What did you do with the eggs? Did you take them? Did you leave them? If you took them, have you eaten them? If you ate them, how did you cook them? Were they delicious?
I'm a cereal person....and I basically walk the isle as I have several kinds I want...and I won't pay more than like $2 a box/bag....usually there is always one at that price point I like.
I am totally the same way. My roomates in college thought I was crazy that I could tell a difference between Q-tips and the crappy bendable plastic store brand knock offs. Q-tips are the one item in my life that I will never cheap out on.
Beer. Will buy a case of Busch Light, Coors Light, etc. versus a six pack of some craft beer. But maybe it's just because I don't understand the craft beer craze.
I know I'll get blasted over that one.
I know I'll get blasted over that one.
I usually only hit up HyVee for their big sales. Today is day 2 of a 3 day sale. Half gallons of milk are .77 with a limit of 2. That's a total of 1.54 for the "gallon" of milk.
Like many i go knock off whenever possible. Don't need name brand things.
Funny, I bought the off brand at Walmart about 2 months ago. They looked pretty good in the box, but the sticks were like wet noodles. My wife told me to never do that again, so now I have 400 cleaning swabs for the shop.
ive made this mistake more than once. Spend more time in the shower than on the bed. #neveragain
plumber told me do not buy expensive toilet paper...i live in a 100 year old house.
This is actually a really tough question for me. I started letting my SO buy groceries and stuff because I'd just go in and pick whatever I want. It was nothing to go in and spend 300 on a cart full of groceries. I have a hard time not buying name brand for everything and I go out to eat a ton. It's hard not to working 100ish hours a week some months. I live within the budget I've set for myself but know I could do way better with everything.
I guess the only thing I save money on is house projects and our house in general. I know we could have spent way more than we did if I roped in our spending but I didn't want to be house poor or even on the brink of it. There are things like her picking out hard wood floors when I'm leaning toward engineered and stuff. Things like that. I grew up with very little money so it's hard not spending that extra cash on things that I want now that I can afford it.
I know the CF crowd won't dig my spending habits but the only things I have a loan out on at this point are my student loans, my house and she has her car. I paid off my CC and will never have one again.
I guess the only thing I save money on is house projects and our house in general. I know we could have spent way more than we did if I roped in our spending but I didn't want to be house poor or even on the brink of it. There are things like her picking out hard wood floors when I'm leaning toward engineered and stuff. Things like that. I grew up with very little money so it's hard not spending that extra cash on things that I want now that I can afford it.
I know the CF crowd won't dig my spending habits but the only things I have a loan out on at this point are my student loans, my house and she has her car. I paid off my CC and will never have one again.
I'm basically cheap on everything but toilet paper. My wife is near polar opposite. I don't care if I drive a beater and give the appearance of hovering above poverty. My wife is wanting to keep up with the Joneses. She has a suburaban we bought brand new, the pickup I drive most is a 1998 that is rusted out and im concerned it could just fall apart some day. She won't wear clothes outside the house more than once every couple of weeks. She just got on me today about throwing away work jeans that have some slight (what I call them) rips in them. I always figure I can wear them one last time.
She doesn't hold any shoes longer than a year. I haven't bought a pair (excluding work boots) in around four to five years. Our basic plates are mine from college, early 90s. I could go on but I will stop.
She doesn't hold any shoes longer than a year. I haven't bought a pair (excluding work boots) in around four to five years. Our basic plates are mine from college, early 90s. I could go on but I will stop.
Live a little, a $150 gets you a crap load of decent plates/bowls/glasses and will last you another 20 years before you break most of them.
My car is about the only thing I have that's cheap, 01 Jeep Grand Cheerokee with 160,000 miles and is about to fall apart. I want to get about 1 more year out of it, but fear it's going to be tough without putting some coin and/or shade tree mechanic-ing into it.
Everything else that I have is pretty nice, because I haven't had a car payment in 11 years and can buy the things I want. The hotel discussion is funny. Around the time I hit 30, I finally had enough money to stop staying at "meth dens", which has been nice.
Everything else that I have is pretty nice, because I haven't had a car payment in 11 years and can buy the things I want. The hotel discussion is funny. Around the time I hit 30, I finally had enough money to stop staying at "meth dens", which has been nice.
