I save the plastic ziplock sandwich bags I take in my lunch every day.
I reuse water bottles, and any drink container from outside. Sometimes so long- it's not cheap, but disgusting lol
One had milk in it and... yeah long story short: mold.
Those bottles do expire and need to be completely dry for longer uses ofc. It's more me being lazy and wanting personalized, than being cheap lol
After my showers, I'll use a tissue or kleenex to wipe any stray hair after my conditioning, clear up my glasses, and sometimes blow my nose, so instead of using three types of tissues, I'll wipe my glasses and use the other side to blow my nose, or blow my nose in one and the other one clean my glasses (of dust), and then the other side to gather the strands and toss it to the trash. I don't know I felt better being able to cut down on my generous use of T. P. and kleenex :]
I'm trying to think if I can use one for all three, but I don't know.. may be too much for me lmao
I suppose any hot drink made at home and put into any thermos/ or mugs with Starbucks logos LOL (hot cocoa/ coffee/ tea).
I tried reusing water that was used to boil a pound of spaghetti... yeah- DON'T save that lol
BUT
you can reuse that boiled water for other cooking tasks, that same day.
Don't drink that water though... lol- don't save it. God, it smelled horrible. I'm lucky I am alive for 20 years here lmao
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I get a lot of things from Dollar Tree and other dollar stores.
It's funny, when people come into my apartment, they really like the way it's decorated. Little do they know it's decorated by Dollar Tree 🤭
I have a wood burning stove so I save the brown paper bags you get when you get food to go or at the drive through
Also im a scrapper I collect all types of metal to sell or recycle even though I dont need the money now back when I started the money I got was the difference between making it or breaking eating or going hungry, and I just kept doing it, example I will save metal cans soup, spaghetti Os pork and beans etc. than ill crush them down and put in a pail well whens its full its 100 lbs at one time scrap metal was 280 per ton do the math it all adds up
Nothing i/we do makes us look cheap. We are smart, saving money helped us buying a house, a 2020 model car, vacations, clothes and a lot of farming tools. Being smart is not cheap. Saving plastic ziplocks with all this plastic bonanza out there is good. It means we got our shit together, what's the point of looking like a million bucks and being broke?
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My extreme couponing makes me look cheap all the time
I used to just dress like shit and not buy much of anything because I felt like shit but not anymore.. now I look nice and I blow money because I am making my own money... so it comes and it goes and I never spend more than I have... its stupid to live out of your own means...
I have memorized this poem:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/hGNHPjtj3WgAs if I don't even have paper to write it on or a pen to write with.
I always buy junky old cars from 1960s-1980s and drive them.
I will never ever buy a newer vehicle, I don't like cars with computers.
Like yesterday I just bought a 1975 Chevy Impala Station Wagon for 900 bucks. It runs and drives, but looks like total piece of shit
I'll fix some of the biggest problems and drive it for a daily driver.
That's not being cheap. I also do this. Especially the large thick ones. Totally reusable. It feels wrong to chuck them especially before they get all crinkly.
You can use them for the bathroom with makeup and other stuff that messes up the drawer.
I resuse spice containers. So I have salt in a plastic thyme shaker.
i don't wear jewelry or make up or anything to change how i look whenever i go out (because i don't want to or forget) so i guess that makes me look cheap- but i have a lot of jewelry that i never use lol
I add water to my almost empty shampoo bottles, conditioner bottles, hand soap, etc. so I can get every last drop.
My mom and I get regular needle shots for medical reasons so I always look through our shopping bags for odd and tiny shaped bags that are not big enough to be used as garbage bags and then I hide them in my room so I can use them for future medical appointments cause I know my parents do not care about the environment and will throw out the odd shaped small bags.
I put my food in a tubberwear…too cheap to buy ziplocks. 😛
we are trying to move away from ziplocks and use containers. So we don’t keep buying ziplocks.
I generally prefer hot food so it’s in a glass container.
I reused old water bottles, fill from the tap then add some crystal light to it. Stick them in the fridge and when people come visit and want water I let them think its real bottled water with the flavoring added.
I keep some old coins in case I can sell them dearly to a collector years later.
This may be a more common trait nowadays, but I abhor wastefulness and continuously strive to eliminate it. I think it comes from parents who's parents lived through the Great Depression, but also environmental concerns. I don't live in a million dollar home, because I don't need it. If I make too much soup, I freeze half of it. I recharge a portable solar battery just to recharge my electronics because why pull 5W of power when the sun can do it. Maybe others can relate, I don't know.
At Starbucks I always get extra straws and put it at my bag since they are wrapped.. in case I’ll use it for any other beverage I might buy outside 🥹
Last time me and my friend we bought sparkling can water and I gave her one of my free straws 🥹tear paper towels in half, even if they are already halfs.
unplug devices at night...
Wearing pjs ro walmart.
Using wolf ammo in my semi auto ak47. Lol
I forage. I love all the free food that grows in the wild. I pick fruit from trees that overhang the foot path when I’m out walking.
As long as a phone or TV or other appliance works, I keep it. I don't care about having the newest stuff.
I even bought a used i8 phone recently to replace by old i6s.Drink out of restaurant cups until they wear out.
Picking stuff out of gutters and trawling heaps of rubbish for scrap cables, free money is free money in any language
Saving broken things because I think there may be a use for them. I’m getting better at tossing them now.
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