Extreme Frugality
What’s the most extremely frugal thing you do? A man I know lives on a corner and he parks his car on the street and backs the car around the corner instead of going straight because it wears his tires out just slightly less than pulling a U-turn and then taking a right handed turn. I am insanely anal about turning off lights and computer monitors around our house (we have two). I also like to keep “fart fans” on as short as possible in the bathroom (and wish I simply had windows upstairs, though the basement doesn’t need one in the bathroom).
Tonight we bought 30 bags of goldfish crackers at the grocery store because they were on special and that was the limit. They cost us fifty cents each and so we spent fifteen dollars on enough goldfish crackers to last quite a bit of time. Our daughters like them and the big containers can’t compete with that per-bag price.
So… what is the most extreme frugal behavior you practice? Have you done anything above normal like buy thirty bags of goldfish crackers?
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April 14th, 2008 at 4:58 am
I bought one of these switches to control our bathroom fan. Set it to run for about 30 mins after switching it off. Perfect.
April 14th, 2008 at 6:30 am
We’ve been becoming less frugal lately because we’ve had less need to pinch pennies. That being said, I also am very meticulous in turning out lights. But our most frugal behavior is probably that we hardly buy our kids anything. They’re still young (both 2 and under), and they get so much clothes, toys, etc from grandparents that there’s really no need to buy them things ourselves. And the few things that we do buy our kids almost always come from yard sales.
April 15th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Apparently I buy 11 pounds of ham for two people. Praise God for freezers.
April 24th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
I’ll post it here, but you already know. The 800 bottles of water for $10.71. It took many car loads in the Honda to get it home, but lasted forever.
And I have a case of paper from a certain company you know of that was dissolved that Miss N now uses to color on. Then it goes in the recycle bin. I am doomed when she realizes that their are characters out there with coloring books. HA HA.