“False Frugalities”: 45 Examples Of People Trying To Save But Actually Losing Money

I spent about $100 once on soil, plants, lumber for a raised bed, etc. to wind up with about $10 worth of a few veges. No green thumb here.

It's healthier if you're in a region that has contaminated water, or parasites, like in Mexico, * for example, and other regions in countries around the world that are otherwise developed around the world.

lol, i love the last line

Yeah I might rent, but I know I'll never have to replace a roof for $20,000 or pay any maintenance. Notwithstanding, investors screwed way too many people out of affording a home. It truly is the American dream now because you have to be dreaming to think you can afford one.

And you generally end up with a middle finger in your bum after it pokes through the cheap paper

Actually, I've always wondered about that, but had no way of testing it out!

This is a hobby for some elderly folks. Perhaps reliving an old past time joy of finding coins on the ground. I once found a $20 bill on the sidewalk. I was just walking, going about my day. I wasn't straining to meet quotas and multi-tasking. A minimum wage job, for the amount of work that you end up doing with little downtime, other than your required breaks, does not lead a great quality of life and the pay does not equal the time and efforts. IF I could make the same amount just walking and looking at the ground as I do at my current job I'd choose coin hunting. And the coins aren't taxed.

When it’s done right, it’ll usually cost a lot less in the long term than when it’s done cheap.

It's really hard to keep up with self-care when you are deeply depressed.

I don't know where ur staying. I work at quality inn and we can't even match those sites nevermind beat them.

Or in my case, doing the dishes by hand vs. not doing them at all (no dishwasher, and no space to install one).

I'm disabled and sometimes I have really bad flares and the last thing I want is a week's worth of dishes powder be my kitchen sink because I haven't been able to do anything.

Why are people who hand wash their dishes so self-righteous about it? You do you, but there is no virtue in hand-washing versus using the dishwasher.

Having seen the way some people wash up, under hot running water and a ton of soap, running a dishwasher probably is more economic. However, part fill a bowl (tub) in the sink, with a minimal amount of soap, it's possible to wash up for two people in a couple of minutes. The only time I use my dishwasher is after a party meal.

Depends on your living arrangement. Four or more people - sure. But just me and my roommate and bowls for cereal? I don't have enough bowls to be able to wait around until I have enough dirty dishes to make a full load!

I done both. I like the convenience of a dishwasher, but when I had to wash by hand they end bring cleaner than using a dishwasher.

I live alone and it's so much easier to just wash up after each meal than to accumulate enough dirty dishes to run the dishwasher. That and pots and pans and knives can't go in the dishwasher so I'm still going to be hand washing things anyways.

How does a dishwasher use less energy then using no electricity at all? ;) (yes, I know what was meant)

In some countries it's not an automatic thing, to have a dishwasher. I've never had one, and I only know one family that does. Everybody here does their dishes by hand.

Unless you have a c**p dishwasher and have to basically prewash everything before you put it in there.

I'm not sure about time. My dishwasher cycle is about an hour long. I could wash and dry the dishes in 10mins! As for energy, My energy or the Electric bill?

I live alone and don't create a lot of dishes. It takes maybe ten minutes to put the clean dishes away and wash the dirty ones. The only time I use the dishwasher is when I do a major cooking/baking thing.

Yet my daughters brand new dishwasher still doesn't get stuck on food as advertised. So yes we still rinse dishes first.

I have an old house, no dishwasher, no room for one, so I am the dishwasher. That reminds me, I need to go do the dishes.

This depends on how many dishes you have, how dirty or difficult to remove the dirt is, what you're going to do with the time saved, and a bunch of other things that make it a stupidly specific suggestion.

I'd never even seen a dishwasher until a bit over a year ago, when my family and I moved into our current apartment. I still have no idea how to use it.

Unless someone is washing the dishes before putting it there. My ex had a grandma like that and it was so pointless

I was brought up doing dishes by hand. We never had a dishwasher, mom never had one growing up either and I really don't want one. My friend has one but doesn't get the dishes very clean.

Japan homes don't normal have dish washers so i don't really have that option

Depends on the dishwasher. And if you are using one sink to wash and one sink to rinse. Not running the water constantly to rinse, by hand is actually less water used. I know because we have a cistern to hold our drinking water. It holds 4200 litres of water and we refill it by trucked in water every 7-8 weeks. If we use the dishwasher on a daily basis for all of our dishes,, we lose a week's worth of water, than if we do the dishes by hand.

how do you wish the dishes? dishwasher also requires electricity

Never thought about it before, but wouldn’t washing them by hand take less water? We can do a full dinner’s worth of dishes in 20-25 minutes and even if the faucet of on the whole time, a dishwasher’s cycles are longer than that, yes?

I’ve been having a heck of a time with my dishwasher, for a couple years. Thought it was a piece of c**p! Wouldn’t get my dishes clean at all. Changed soaps, etc. Saw a Facebook video by a female technician who said to always put the soap in the dispenser. I scoffed! I had been told by the male technician it didn’t matter and to just throw it in the bottom. I’d been doing that. SHE said, all the soap goes down the drain when you do that. So I put it in the dispenser. 😮so pissed off. My dishes were clean, my dishwasher was clean!

I don't understand that"time part". You have to rinse dishes before you put them into the washer. It takes just a fraction more to wash them with the sponge. Water consumption? Well, it depends on how you wash the dishes, it can vary a lot. That is also connected with energy consumption. If you don't waste hot water, it's probably the same. On top of that, dishwasher pods are soo expensive. In my country, for a 2 months supply of pods, I can buy a year's worth of soap.

Idk, my dishwasher ranked my bill up.

With our monthly utility bills, we realised that our dishwasher has paid itself off in a year. Water consumption has dropped dramatically

After a large family feast, I'll often but not always use the machine. Otherwise, when it's just the 2 of us, I prefer to hand-wash and use the machine as a drying rack. Using the machine after a simply dinner for 2 is, to me, not much different from using Alexa to turn the lights on.

Why are hand dish washers SO pious? I don’t care how you wash your dishes but I hate how condescending some hand washers are. Get over it!