How cheap are you?

I REALLY want to ride my bike to work... I just have so much crap to carry... I wonder if I could make it work...

FWIW, we purposefully have bought only 4 cylinder cars, for the gas mileage :-)

Triathlete Tommy wrote:

I put grapes, apples, oranges, etc. From other bags into mine at the grocery store. Use the same coffee filter 2-4 days in a row. Coast and drive under speed limit as much as possible. Re-use semi clean dishes so I pay less for soap. Wash my hair once a week ( use bar soap everyday ). Take the toilet paper from the bathrooms at school. I'm sure there's other things I do that I've accepted as normal that others view as cheap.

Bike to work ( only 4.5 miles round trip ). Take the pop / beer cans left over ( when working at the golf course ). Take left over day old bread ( when working at Jimmy John's ).

Bdndnndj wrote:

For a while I used a headlamp in my apartment instead of turning on any lights.

Also, used to study at panera and wait until they closed to take home all the baked goods they they would throw away as spoilage.

Ahh, good times. During parties in college, around midnight, someone would head out to the local dunkin donuts and return with a garbage bag full of donuts/bagels that had been thrown out when the store closed.

thejeff wrote:

312Runner wrote:

Correct, you would go on Pintrest or watch a YouTube Video (using your neighbor's open wifi) and learn how to make your own tape and save 8 cents.

touché to you both.

Alas, preventing bloody nipples is worth the opportunity cost :-)

If you are a runner and even when training for a marathon your nipples should already be as tuff as nails if you trained enough. Band-aids and tape = hobby jogger.

Boston wrote:

thejeff wrote:

touché to you both.

Alas, preventing bloody nipples is worth the opportunity cost :-)

If you are a runner and even when training for a marathon your nipples should already be as tuff as nails if you trained enough. Band-aids and tape = hobby jogger.

Unless you have ALWAYS used band aids, and your nips never got acclimated. (Doesn't matter, I am a HJ by LR standards, regardless)

I'm so cheap that I pay up to 30% more for something if it's convenient and I want it right now instead of going elsewhere. This weekend I bought a $6 loaf of bread because I didn't wanna go to another store.

Money comes and goes but time is limited...

I am so cheap I run outside instead of paying for a gym membership to use a treadmill.

I am so cheap I drink water from a water fountain that I come across during my run instead of carrying bottled water with me.

I am so cheap I took 20 bananas home from a local 5k (they were leftover and the race organizers were going to throw them out). The bananas only lasted me about a day though. . .

Im so cheap that I refuse to use condoms... things are pricey

I find that runners and more notoriously coaches and teachers are some of the stingiest people in all of humanity. Expect everything to be done for them but aren't willing to flick even a quarter for anyone else's efforts.

I wonder if he's for sale....

truth is a gateway wrote:

I find that runners and more notoriously coaches and teachers are some of the stingiest people in all of humanity. Expect everything to be done for them but aren't willing to flick even a quarter for anyone else's efforts.

Dad?

I wrote a check for my first and only car in 1996; a used 1992 Honda accord. I am still driving it.

My goal is to be like Ron:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/02/04/vermont-frugal-man-bequaeths-millions/22880041/

cheap Scot wrote:

not an answer wrote:

...And?

...and a wee bit of German.

POD

I'm so cheap I buy unsalted nuts and add my own table salt.

I'm so cheap I used a coupon at McDonald's when I bought my lunch today. Their app gives you all sorts of free food.

swaggyp wrote:

Im so cheap that I refuse to use condoms... things are pricey

Dad, is that you? Please send mom the child support you owe her/me. Do I need to get Flagpole to talk to you about being a real man?

I've got short arms and deep pockets. I've also been known to straighten out bent nails. I go to the local dump, salvage and fix broken appliances then give them away as gifts.

WAMN wrote:

I'm so cheap I buy unsalted nuts and add my own table salt.

I'm so cheap I buy salt and add my own nuts.

I just let the bloody nipples scab over. They get toughened over time.