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Re: The cheap bastards thread!
« Reply #75 on: January 02, 2014, 05:55:36 PM »

I haven't seen them in action for a while.

Maybe because they're being avoided.
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Re: The cheap bastards thread!
« Reply #76 on: January 02, 2014, 08:29:10 PM »
Jack rarely lols, so when she does, it's significant. :M

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Re: The cheap bastards thread!
« Reply #77 on: January 02, 2014, 09:05:26 PM »
I dropped off 2 bags of items at the thrift store.  I picked up an unused pencil, a large jingle bell and 14 flat glass pebbles that were outside the drop off site. 
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Re: The cheap bastards thread!
« Reply #78 on: January 03, 2014, 01:25:59 AM »

I haven't seen them in action for a while.

Maybe because they're being avoided.

Surely not. ;D
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Re: The cheap bastards thread!
« Reply #79 on: March 06, 2016, 09:04:30 AM »
  I'm still drinking nice cheap tap water, but I take way too many cabs.  I must resume walking!  :headbang:
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Re: The cheap bastards thread!
« Reply #80 on: March 06, 2016, 01:35:19 PM »
If you get a bottle of mineral supplement, you can make your water taste like dasani or any of those others - it only takes a few drops, and a four dollar bottle of the mineral supplement lasts about 6 months.

After having lived in Northampton, I no longer drink tap water. Northampton would send annual reviews of the water quality in which they admitted the the number of nasty things in the water exceeded regulations. They followed that paragraph with another that stated that no adverse effects had been found for the past so many years in people who were consuming the water.

Now I filter everything. Price for a filter pitcher: $15 CDN. I am still spending a heck of a lot less than if I bought a $2.59CDN bottle of dasani. I used to drink dasani by the case until I discovered that the minerals are the same as in the supplement.
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Re: The cheap bastards thread!
« Reply #81 on: March 24, 2016, 09:56:31 AM »
  I'm not as cheap as I used to be but I still live cheaply in some ways because I neglect my appearance!  :witch:
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Re: The cheap bastards thread!
« Reply #82 on: March 24, 2016, 09:59:48 AM »
  I'm not as cheap as I used to be but I still live cheaply in some ways because I neglect my appearance!  :witch:

Time to go nifty thriftshop shopping. Cheapskates can look stunning and sophisticated too.
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Re: The cheap bastards thread!
« Reply #83 on: March 25, 2016, 12:18:36 AM »
  I'm not as cheap as I used to be but I still live cheaply in some ways because I neglect my appearance!  :witch:

Time to go nifty thriftshop shopping. Cheapskates can look stunning and sophisticated too.
Here they have Value Village which is the same as Savers in MA. I got wonderful things from Savers. But here everything is worn and well used nonetheless the prices are what you'd pay for something new. Used and shrunken t-shirt: $5.00 and if it has any kind of brand name on it the price doubles. T-shirts from sports events like road races go for $10 and up. In FL I could get a good t-shirt for 64 cents on a sale day.
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Re: The cheap bastards thread!
« Reply #84 on: March 26, 2016, 09:39:45 PM »
I donated blood this weekend to get a coupon for a free pizza.
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Re: The cheap bastards thread!
« Reply #85 on: March 26, 2016, 11:15:35 PM »
I donated blood this weekend to get a coupon for a free pizza.

  But that's a good thing.  :pizza:


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Re: The cheap bastards thread!
« Reply #86 on: August 12, 2016, 03:33:18 PM »
The last time I donated I got a tshirt and a coupon for a Baskin-Robbins quart of ice cream.
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Re: The cheap bastards thread!
« Reply #87 on: August 12, 2016, 06:02:09 PM »
Bought a new filter for my shop vac because I needed to use it in my house,  the old one which was filthy I cleaned with compressed air and looks good for another month or two when I finish with the vac in my house the old one will go back on and the new one will go in the closet till  I really need it
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Re: The cheap bastards thread!
« Reply #88 on: August 12, 2016, 07:48:29 PM »
My girlfriend is out of town for the weekend and I'm doing a major backlog of laundry at her house.
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Re: The cheap bastards thread!
« Reply #89 on: August 12, 2016, 07:53:43 PM »
  I saved $.25 on a bus ride yesterday.  I was short a quarter for the fare and the driver let me stay on.  8)
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