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"Hey, lookie here, I saved $3 from a $12 dollar purchase!"

No, you lost $9.

Now, lost might be too strong of a word, but one that definitely stresses the idea of necessity. Do you really need it? And when you start asking yourself that, you might fall into a backward spiral and frugality might turn into just plain ol' cheapskate.

And there's a myriad of ways how that can manifest. Take this Reddit thread for example. Someone there asked when does "frugal" cross the line to "cheapskate"? and folks kept on going with the various methods, tactics and straight up rooster moves people can pull just to avoid paying... well, anything, really.

Scroll down to check out the best and most spot-on answers, and while you're at it, share some of your experiences, thoughts, or just straight up social commentary in the comment section below!

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30 Cheapskates So Cheap, Calling Them Frugal Would Be A Compliment, As Shared Online My step-dad is the biggest, most embarrassing cheapskate I know so here are a couple examples of the most extreme things he does:
-reuses paper towels by hanging them out to dry in my mom's front yard
-uses free tires off of totaled cars whenever one of ours needs replacing (which, if you think this is a good idea, I've had two near death experiences to prove otherwise)
-rewashes my siblings disposable swim diapers, again hanging them out to dry in the front yard
-uses wash clothes as toilet paper and only flushes for #2
-puts bricks in the toilet tank so it uses less water, leaving the toilet constantly smelling like p**s
-refuses to use A.C. at anytime while living in South Florida and counts down from 3 when anyone opens the fridge
-refuses to purchase gifts for anyone unless they were procured at a garage sale (meaning he often leaves my mom and his kids high and dry for birthdays/holidays/anniversaries)
-constantly pulls over on the side of the road to dumpster dive: his favorite finds are a pair of temperpedic slippers (ew!) and a wooden futon which I'm afraid to be in the same room with
-when a door hinge broke in one of my siblings rooms 5 years ago, he refused to pay for a replacement and instead hung up a shower curtain (still there to this day)
-tries to sneak home food from buffets, after paying for his meal with a coupon

And my personal favorite...
-asking patrons at a restaurant if they're finished with their food mid-meal so he can take home the leftovers

Basically, if your frugal actions are making the people in your life embarrassed or uncomfortable, you've gone too far.

modestlymousie , Carol Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Bricks in the toilet tank is now outdated because standard toilets are already designed for water efficiency. Back in the day, this was a valid way to save water.

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30 Cheapskates So Cheap, Calling Them Frugal Would Be A Compliment, As Shared Online Being frugal is about taking more control over your money. Being a cheapskate is your money taking more control over you.

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30 Cheapskates So Cheap, Calling Them Frugal Would Be A Compliment, As Shared Online Frugal is doing a year's worth of research to buy the best priced, longest lasting air conditioning unit available to the average consumer.

Cheapskate is not letting anyone actually use it. In Texas. In the summer.

Dad please I don't want to die of heatstroke at 20 years old.

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30 Cheapskates So Cheap, Calling Them Frugal Would Be A Compliment, As Shared Online So you know how when you have a get-together where people will be drinking, most people bring a few drinks to share, right? Or contribute in one way or another? Bring some beers, or a bottle of booze, or mixers, whatever?

I buy a huge bottle of vodka, my friend brings ice, and we ask our notoriously cheap friend to bring some orange juice so we can all enjoy some screwdrivers.

Upon arrival this m**********r pulls out an 8 oz recycled Poland Spring plastic bottle that he filled like halfway with some orange juice.

And it should be noted that this friend of ours is by FAR the most wealthy of ALL of us.

Yeah, cheapskate.

SkinnyTestaverde , Jeremy Keit Report

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30 Cheapskates So Cheap, Calling Them Frugal Would Be A Compliment, As Shared Online When they won’t chip in for a birthday cake but demand a piece.

Warning long rant incoming!

In a previous job I organized cakes for people’s birthdays. Voluntary to have a cake on your birthday, some people did opt out, that’s cool. Also voluntary to donate for cake.

What wasn’t cool was everyone chipping in $2 for said cake and this one b***h. Who I shall call Big B****y Bertha - BBB for short.

BBB had worked there for years, same role, same daily tasks, you know the type. BBB believed that her “seniority” afforded her perks. She never paid for a damn cake!!! BBB would be first in-line for a slice tho, a big slice, aka twice the size of everyone else.

So I monitored for 4 cakes, BBB didn’t give me a cent. I discreetly asked around if this was normal for her, was she experiencing hardship? Nope, BBB had always been like this.

So I waited, next cake I sent the usual email but also included “to ensure everyone who contributes receives a piece of cake I will be noting who donates. You are still welcome to come sing happy birthday but if money isn’t received by x date you will be unable to have cake.

Then the glorious day came! BBB made a beeline for me (swear that b***h could smell cake from the carpark).

We sang happy birthday, then I started cutting, I had my list, those people get the first pieces. Birthday person get to decide what was done with the leftovers, because there would be leftovers!!!

BBB pushed into the front of the line.

Me: BBB you didn’t donate so no cake for you sorry (sickly sweet smile on my face).

BBB: I need my cake now, I have important things to do. I’ll give you money later.

Me: that’s not going to work, I brought this cake with the budget of donated money (side note I would chip in my own cash if donations were low)

BBB: this is not appropriate, this is discrimination! I’m reporting you to my manager.

Me: ok, do what you need to do. Please move aside or get back to your important work.

BBB: storms off hollering about cake and discrimination.

Cut to 4 hours later, I’m called into a meeting with BBBs boss, my boss and the boss for the entire site.

To summarize BBB accused me of discrimination based on her weight. I shamed her by not giving her cake.

It was then I produced my email (which they were all on), the spreadsheet where I had noted who paid and when and the cake receipt.

Those 4 cakes I monitored, I’d done the same thing.

I’d love to say the bosses collectively tore BBB a new one and she was on thin ice. They didn’t and she wasn’t.

There was however an email sent to everyone advising that from now on when people gave me a donation for cake they also needed to sign next to it. Then once the due date had passed I was to scan and email it to management.

I did this for 3 glorious years, it was a pain in the a*s for everyone concerned but BBB never ate free cake on my watch!

No one gave her a piece from their leftovers, it became an unwritten part of induction.

I’ve been out of that company for over 10 years, BBB is still there, so are some of my friends. B***h still doesn’t get free cake!

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#6

30 Cheapskates So Cheap, Calling Them Frugal Would Be A Compliment, As Shared Online When you avoid your share of the Bill. When you inconvenience others to save money. When you go to even moderate lengths to justify either one of these behaviors.

Frugal folks make PERSONAL consumer decisions that have Long term money saving benefits. Cheapskates pass their bill on to others.

I_assed_you_a_Q , Bill Smith Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Reminds me of the family member who orders 3 courses including the most expensive steak, 2 bottles of wine then wants to split the bill equally with the designated driver who just had a gastric bypass!

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30 Cheapskates So Cheap, Calling Them Frugal Would Be A Compliment, As Shared Online Frugal: not eating out at a restaurant

Cheapskate: eating out at a restaurant, but leaving $0 tip because "sorry I can't afford to tip"

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30 Cheapskates So Cheap, Calling Them Frugal Would Be A Compliment, As Shared Online I had a roommate who was very practical. She picked up *any* change she found, even just pennies. She opted for cheaper options on anything where it didn't significantly diminish the quality. She even built a tiny house because she didn't believe that she really needed to spend much on a place to live. It worked well for her.

Then, there was my *other* roommate- conveniently, at the same time, all three of us were living together. Aside from thieving, getting actual furniture from the literal dumpster, and a whole bunch of other goodies, the story of *how* I came to live with him is probably the best story to showcase his nature.

There was him and two other guys living in the apartment before I moved in. There was another friend of theirs staying on the couch while he was looking for a job and a place to live. He was staying there for free, no biggie.

I was homeless at this point and had been sleeping in my car in the middle of winter (below freezing at night), so I jumped at the opportunity to sleep indoors, even if it meant having to sleep in an uninsulated garage. I could just toss on a few extra blankets.

My future roommate comes up to me after a week and he proceeds to tell me I owe him $200 for rent to stay in the garage. I ask him why I'm paying more than he does (per week) to sleep in a room without heating/air, a bathroom, and filled with cigarette smoke fairly often. He says that he and the other roommates talked about it and they decided I couldn't freeload, and I needed to get that money to him ASAP.

Now, he wasn't the one who paid the bills. I asked the 'head roommate' about it later that day, and he told me there was no discussion about 'freeloading' involving me and that I could basically pay him $50 for the month *if I felt like it.* I did pay him gladly, and that was that.

Tl;dr- I had a roommate who picked up pennies and lived very practically, and in constrast a roommate who tried to take advantage of my situation while I was homeless.

Empty_Insight , Jernej Furman Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

*secretly putting chocolate flavored Exlax into all of greedy roommate’s food and drinks*

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30 Cheapskates So Cheap, Calling Them Frugal Would Be A Compliment, As Shared Online My grandpa will buy a roll of paper towels (like the cheapest single roll you can get) and then have my grandma rip off each sheet and cut that into fourths for "napkins"

Napkins that are already napkins cost like.... 5 cents more than the roll of paper towels.

It takes her like 2 hours because she's becoming arthritic.

Nobody else sees why this is stupid.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Honestly, just make cloth napkins!! use an old shirt or find some in a thrift store!! you might even have the materials to make them at home already! you can wash them in the sink! or throw them in a washing machine!

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30 Cheapskates So Cheap, Calling Them Frugal Would Be A Compliment, As Shared Online I knew a guy once who'd buy a package of lightbulbs or batteries, take the fresh ones out, replace them with the dead ones then return them to the store claiming they didn't work and get his money back.

That guy hadn't legitimately bought lightbulbs or batteries in years.

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30 Cheapskates So Cheap, Calling Them Frugal Would Be A Compliment, As Shared Online My wife refused for years to buy a Costco membership, while simultaneously forbidding me from buying things like bread and milk from anywhere but Costco. She'd insist that I ask a friend with a membership every time we needed the smallest things. Her mom started gifting her a membership every year for Christmas so she'd stop demanding her to take her to Costco twice a week.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Costco isn’t necessarily cheaper than regular grocery stores, you just get a lot more stuff at one time XD

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30 Cheapskates So Cheap, Calling Them Frugal Would Be A Compliment, As Shared Online My grandma once bought me and my sister USED UNDERWEAR from a garage sale for Christmas. The worst part? She has a LOT of money. My dad was pissed.

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#13

30 Cheapskates So Cheap, Calling Them Frugal Would Be A Compliment, As Shared Online When you own a restaurant and refuse to buy a knife sharpener or working air conditioner and your employees pass out from heat stroke and almost cut their fingers off cutting raw fish.

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30 Cheapskates So Cheap, Calling Them Frugal Would Be A Compliment, As Shared Online When the time you waste or the quality of life you lose are worth more than you save in money.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes, a basic cost benefit analysis is needed. My Aunt didn't think she was the kind of person who would hire landscapers or a maid service but when she remarried and combined incomes, she and my uncle agreed those things weren't worth their time and physical health to do themselves anymore

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30 Cheapskates So Cheap, Calling Them Frugal Would Be A Compliment, As Shared Online I have a relative who is too cheap to pay for trash service or to buy a dryer so she takes all of her trash and wet clothes over to her father's house. This is a woman with a family and a house, not a starving student or something.

So yeah, that.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We did this! But my grandparents lived next door and it was the country so trash was a year long thing and the laundry was usually just an issue in the dead of winter

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30 Cheapskates So Cheap, Calling Them Frugal Would Be A Compliment, As Shared Online My grandpa after he served up ice cream he bought, would smooth it out the best he could and care his initials into the top of it to make sure none of his kids took more than he thought necessary. He also would fill almost empty jam jars with water shake it up and drink the mixture just so he wasn't throwing away any food.

He did a lot of stingy stuff, but these two stories stand out the most to me.

Edit: I forgot another good one, my mom as a kid got a nasty gash on her knee and my grandpa after examining it determined it needed stitches. Instead of doing what a normal person would do and take her to the hospital, he turned on the stove and heated up a sewing needle, and was going to stitch my moms knee back together with sewing equipment before his wife intervened and made him take my mom to the hospital. This I don't think was because he was cheap (which he definitely was), but he also has this attitude that if you can do probably do something yourself there is no reason to pay for someone else to do it.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The jam thing makes sense amd isn't bad, but the other stuff is awful

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30 Cheapskates So Cheap, Calling Them Frugal Would Be A Compliment, As Shared Online Frugal: Saving the three ketchup packets that the restaurant had put into your carry-out bag but that you didn't need for that specific meal.

Cheapskate: Grabbing five dozen ketchup packets from the condiments counter at a restaurant, and taking them home so that you won't have to buy a bottle of ketchup for a few weeks.

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30 Cheapskates So Cheap, Calling Them Frugal Would Be A Compliment, As Shared Online Frugal is compromising and cutting out extra things in your life. Cheapskate is squeezing pennies on things you actually need.

For example washing all of your clothes at once, maybe once or twice a week and using a dollar store detergent is frugal. Wearing your clothes into the shower to wash them and you at the same time is cheapskate.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

lol, i do wash all my clothing unsorted, use a colorcatsher sheet so I don't have to worry about colors. Towels and underewear go separate.But I do this because we live in the middle of nowhere and it's just the two of us. waiting for lights and darks to wash seperately would mean more water use and we are never garanteed water if the sun doesn't shine due to everythinig here works on solarpower.

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30 Cheapskates So Cheap, Calling Them Frugal Would Be A Compliment, As Shared Online Frugal: Ordering cheap items on the menu

Cheapskate: Ordering anything on the menu, then purpotedly claim you forgot your wallet, you'll pay me tomorrow, your credit card doesn't work, your puppy ate your money...

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sometimes people like this only learn their lesson if they are dropped off in the middle of a GIANT desert with no food or water.

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30 Cheapskates So Cheap, Calling Them Frugal Would Be A Compliment, As Shared Online When you waste significant amounts of time to save money. I'm thinking of those people who drive across town and wait in a long line to save five cents a litre on gas.

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30 Cheapskates So Cheap, Calling Them Frugal Would Be A Compliment, As Shared Online Frugal is taking half your meal home from a restaurant to eat for lunch tomorrow. Cheapskate is taking half your date’s meal home from a restaurant to eat for lunch tomorrow.

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For me, purposely getting yourself destitute so you can live off others.

My cousin's ex-husband was a social worker. He would tell stories of how he would have his clients (families he was case workers for) that were on the cusp financially sign up for the highest cable/satellite package available. He would then lump that in to their monthly expenses to push their outgoing to incoming money ratio high enough to qualify for all sorts of government programs (welfare, Section 8, etc.).

He also made a comment about how he couldn't wait to knock up my cousin and get her to quit working so he could get her on WIC.

He was a obese, lazy, pervy piece of scum and I was never happier than when that marriage fell apart (thankfully w/no children).

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Tbf, The gap between govt funds and ability to actual pay for basic necessities is quite wide. A lot of families ride that line since if they make a tiny bit too much, they lose their food stamps and medical insurance. Get a $30 bonus for doing good at work, lose your $100 of food stamps. You can reapply the following month and it takes another month to kick in

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Then you have crappy social workers who tell you to have more babies to get more aid. Please report them if you hear that. It's unfortunate the amount of people who follow that advice

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Please be careful believing stories like this one. I can't speak for every single jurisdiction in North America, but in the majority (maybe all), that's not how it works. People don't get free money based on bills (medical ones sometimes being the exception). If your income is low enough, you get subsidies, welfare, etc. Your bills have nothing to do with it. This kind of example is designed to turn people against the poor for supposedly gaming the system.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thank you for saying this. Many people demonize people on assistance and this is NOT how it works!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That isn't how most welfare programs calculate need. Your actual expenses generally aren't factored into it most of the time.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And even if it was, it's the kind of thing companies and Uber rich and called clever for doing.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Back in the day your cable/satellite bills weren't even a part of your considered bills... That was MN, so I wonder where this was. Something smells fishy here, for sure...

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Usually luxuries like cable and phone can't be counted as monthly expenses for gov't assistance.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Phones aren't considered a luxury and are usually counted. That's why there are government programs that provide discounts for phone service.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Years ago, a person in the Reagan admin realised how weird the system was with a hard line for benefits. Make one dollar over, you lose everything. It disincentivises people. So he suggested a sliding scale. He calculated benefits amounted to about $18000. So if you made $10000, you got $8000, if you made $15000, you got $3000. It would save millions. People could move forward without fear of losing everything.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My dad was a welfare fraud investigator for a while. Paid his salary multiple times over because entire households were on welfare, food stamps, and other assistance, and every family member except the kids had jobs paid in cash. They had newer furniture, TVs, clothes, etc., than our family had, and stacks of cash in the freezer. So many scammers out there it skews what is really needed by people (Like a Mercedes-driving lady with a Dior bag getting the free food handouts in the post office parking lot)…but you can’t call people out on their “frugal” scams!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is this a real post? Because the hair just stood up on the back of my neck. How can this guy still have a job? I'm already skeptical of the system and this just makes it worse. I've seen both sides of this issue. I've found that people who need temp help either can't get it or if they do get help, they have to pay it back. Help is not based on what bills you have to pay (except your rent and utilities) I THINK assistance is based on your income, versus what assets you have. I just can't imagine an actual govt worker could get away with this type of thing.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You'd be surprised. For me doctors and social workers are in the same category now: they don't all suck, but it's pretty close...

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh hey! That's my ex husband and 2 of my siblings in the description! Did u get a bingo or what!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The part about inflation expenses is a lie. Only phone and internet are counted as utilities and you can only claim one phone line per household. Until recently you couldn't even claim internet as an expense. WIC doesn't even cover the full cost of formula.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Women and Infant children food program. Families that qualify get a monthly benefit card for food, the amount you get depends on number of kids and income.

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30 Cheapskates So Cheap, Calling Them Frugal Would Be A Compliment, As Shared Online I knew a guy that, while ordering in line at Chipotle, would ask for "extra chicken but just enough where it's not considered a serving of double chicken". Come on, man.

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30 Cheapskates So Cheap, Calling Them Frugal Would Be A Compliment, As Shared Online “I know it’s 90 F outside, but the air conditioner cost money to run” says my roommate/landlord who makes six figures living in a ranch house

Edit: we have A/C in the house but he has the thermostat locked up and the only key and added some clarification

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30 Cheapskates So Cheap, Calling Them Frugal Would Be A Compliment, As Shared Online when you ignore a cost/benefit analysis and always opt for the "cheaper" option.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mom did this so often. Could have paid $400 more for a minivan with working AC. "Nah, we'll just roll the windows down on the highway." Then all but one handle and the reverse stopped working. "We'll just climb through the sliding door and pull through parking spaces and park further away. If you can't, the van is pretty light. You can push it back with your foot." TBF, my sister and I still talk about thst cheap POS van

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30 Cheapskates So Cheap, Calling Them Frugal Would Be A Compliment, As Shared Online Frugal people go above and beyond saving money, they logically limit expenditures and try and maximize income.

Cheapskates illogically limit expenditures and try to maximize income, and probably 75% of the time they are doing this to subsidize a personal expense.

Limiting your monthly expenditures to save up for a trip, college, or a slush fund for some unknown expense down the line is frugal.

Rationing an entire family's worth of electricity, water, and single use products so you can blow $450 on a part for your hobby car is a cheapskate.

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30 Cheapskates So Cheap, Calling Them Frugal Would Be A Compliment, As Shared Online I know a wealthy lawyer who refuses to take showers at home because he doesn't want to use hot water - he goes to his local YMCA instead.

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30 Cheapskates So Cheap, Calling Them Frugal Would Be A Compliment, As Shared Online Friend of my mom's who had money and was in no way struggling at all would rinse off and reuse coffee filters, you know, the common ones that cost like $1 or so for a 200 count box.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Buying, or even sowing, a reusable cloth one can be good to reduce the amount of trash you produce. But reusing single usage paper filters is just madness

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30 Cheapskates So Cheap, Calling Them Frugal Would Be A Compliment, As Shared Online Frugal - buying your clothes at secondhand stores and looking for gently used and well taken care of items.


Cheapskate - wearing hand me downs with stains and rips in them because "they still cover you."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm all for people staying covered up, don't want to consider the alternative.

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