Are you a cheap bastard?

[MarPar]

In a word, YES

 

[jmk77379]

So I don’t look like the cheap bastard that I am, I never ask for the cheapest product just the most economical.

 

[Richard Cranium]

Just your Scottish side coming out RC !

 

[Hey-O]

I'm so cheap that I'll always peal off unstamped stamps on incoming mail and reuse them on outgoing mail.

If they don't postmark them as used, It's fair game to reuse them!! I NEVER walk past a coin on the ground, NEVER. My father told me, save your penny's and the dollars will take care of themselves. I use a coupon when I have them and if It's for a restaurant, if the service is good, I add the savings to the 20 percent tip I give. I'm so cheap that when my daughter was going to get married I refused to pay for it. Instead I wrote a check and slid it across the table and said, this is not for your wedding, do something smart with it. She did, she bought a house. I was so cheap for the first 20 years of our marriage we didn't go out to eat unless it was a special occasion, now I can afford to buy a restaurant and go out several times a week. Being cheap early on made my life what it is now, a blessing. Some habits die hard, no regrets for being frugal.

 

[Bb70charger500]

So I'm cheap but not a idiot!
I learned long ago cheap isn't always best I save a buck and end up replacing it in a month for the more expensive one anyway

 

[#41]

Don't blame me. Blame the post office for not stamping their mail.

So if I steal your car, but I get away with it because you were not watching it closely enough.... that's ok?

Got it.

 

[snakeyes]

I'm so cheap that I'll always peal off unstamped stamps on incoming mail and reuse them on outgoing mail.

did not no there are still stamps in use

 

[Sahara]

I dilute liquid hand soap and washing detergent....and stick the bar soap together when the one that's in use gets too thin to use anymore. The list is long and have always been that way and got that way even more once I moved away from home. Always had food on the table and a roof to sleep under but mom used to sew patches on the knees of my play clothes and sometimes wore them to school. I remember seeing that I wasn't the only one at school like that either. I do remember never getting an allowance and mom and dad fighting about the money. Being frugal is serving me pretty well again....

Growing up in the sixties and seventies with parents that survived the depression taught me a few things about being thrifty, which I didn’t really value at the time.
My dad was hard core abused as a child in the thirties and forties, so he left home to work on the railroad at age 12. Somewhere we have a photo of him with his crew. At an age when he should have been playing with his friends and going to school he is with a crew of men, smoking a cigarette and earning a living. When I was young he used to darn my socks by weaving new thread into the sock. He usually used a contrasting colour and the weaving was indistinguishable from the original fabric. Perfectly done. They were a work of art, and I regret not saving one sock for posterity.
My mom was extremely gifted at sewing. As we wore out our blue jeans she would undo the stitches at the seams and sew a good back part of the legs onto where the worn front was on another pair, turning two worn out pairs into one new pair. You had to look hard and know what to look for to notice what she had done. In the mid seventies, as I was growing faster then grass, she sewed a band of rawhide onto the bottom of my jeans, making them longer and more durable. Everyone that saw them wanted a pair, she probably could have sold millions of them.
My parents both worked their entire lives, dad in the trades, mom at various clerical jobs. We were far from rich but lived a good, middle class life. Dad died at age 67 twenty years ago. Mom died last January. They had saved enough money that each of us four children were left a small fortune. I learned a lot from them but feel guilty that I never got to thank them for the life lessons.

 

[themechanic]

One way to find out. Ask how much they tip and what beer they drink.

 

[Richard Cranium]

So if I steal your car, but I get away with it because you were not watching it closely enough.... that's ok?

Got it.

 

[slimt]

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Couple of years Ill look like the one on the left.

 

[Jerry Hall]

I'll buy store brand products and use coupons, but have a lifetime supply of NOS Mopar contact points.

Damn, me too.

 

[themechanic]

Shop at Everything's a Dollar and Dollar Tree and ask for veteran's and senior discount.

 

[alfaitalia]

One way to find out. Ask how much they tip and what beer they drink.

I don't drink expensive beer....but i don't drink the cheapest either. And I dont tip bar staff....its not a thing over here...we just try to pay them right in the first place!
I would say i'm frugal rather than cheap (or tight as we say here!) Having next to no money and living in the middle of nowhere when i was young with no shops to buy stuff taught me how to mend stuff, weld and generally find a way to fix stuff that others would throw away and replace! I could rebuild a motorcycle engine when i was 16 and rebuilt my first car engine when i was 18 (1.3 four cylinder Ford Escort Mk2!) when I broke a ring on number 3 (funny how you remember details like that!!) due to thrashing it hard!!!

 

[Kern Dog]

Cheap....
Who uses both sides of the toilet paper?

 

[themechanic]

Check coin return slots in vending machine.

 

[themechanic]

Reuse tea bag as seen in the movie The Fastest Indian.

 

[Kern Dog]

Sometimes the term "cheap" is relative.
I have 2 stages of clothing. The pants and shirts that I wear when at work or doing car stuff started out as nice stuff for use when out with the wife or for doing non dirty activities. Once something gets a stain or visible wear, it becomes "work clothes".
I save old socks for dipstick rags and polishing towels. House towels become shop towels.
I won't eat leftover food after a couple of days.

 

[Jerry Hall]

did not no there are still stamps in use

My wife was paying her bills the other day and told me "this is going to be late", I told her you call them and make the payment on the phone. She did and then said "I guess I will just shred this". I looked and there was the envelope with the check inside, stamped and ready to mail. I told her no way. I took my knife and cut the envelope open neatly on the end, removed the check and payment page and told her shred that and use that envelope next month, just tape the end when you stuff it. I can't talk her into getting her banks app on her phone and paying bills that way, but I saved her a stamp.

 

[chtampa]

Cheap enough to reuse condoms?