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11-16-2008, 01:15 PM
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Re: How to Save Money
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11-16-2008, 01:34 PM
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Re: How to Save Money
White vinegar is a great for getting your hair tangle free. Rinse well, and no you will not smell like vinegar. It makes your hair soft too.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
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11-16-2008, 02:45 PM
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Re: How to Save Money
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Well, I didn't do too well on the tightwad test, but I had a few.
I DID go to the grocery store this week (and Eddie came along). I warned him on the way that I had a bunch of coupons; he doesn't like to mess with taking time for all that. Anyway, when I checked out, my bill was originally $94+ and after the coupons, it was $66+. He was convinced at that point that coupons were a good deal and worth the hassle!
If I made a million dollars a year, I would still get coupons and use them. I love to feel like I'm winning!
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Me too! I love coupons, but I try to be very careful not to spend more than generic with brand name + coupon which can easily happen. Sometimes, if the price is the same, I will buy the brand name. And, sometimes, contrary to true tightwaddery, I buy things with coupons for the sheer convenience of the product. But, hey, I do try to have a balance in my life. I do work outside the home and want some time to just plain enjoy life! If things got truly bad, I know how to forego the convenience.
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11-16-2008, 03:33 PM
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Re: How to Save Money
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5. A pair of pantyhose minus the bad leg. NO (What in the world??)
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In one of the tightwad gazette books, she tells about having pantyhose with runs in one of the legs on each pair. So in true tightwad style, she cuts off the bad leg just below the panty part on each pair. Then she wears BOTH of the parts that had a good leg left on them.  (Yes, I've read the books. NO- I don't have half pairs of hose to wear together to make one good pair.) LOL
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11-16-2008, 03:57 PM
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Re: How to Save Money
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In one of the tightwad gazette books, she tells about having pantyhose with runs in one of the legs on each pair. So in true tightwad style, she cuts off the bad leg just below the panty part on each pair. Then she wears BOTH of the parts that had a good leg left on them. (Yes, I've read the books. NO- I don't have half pairs of hose to wear together to make one good pair.) LOL |
LOL! I would just not do this unless I was really, really destitute. 
Some of the ideas...I think we need to remember that time is money too. She had six kids at home and stayed home, so she was spending her time finding good ways to save money (not to mention making money finding ways to save money!) I think many ideas have to be adaptable to the situation.
I've never read the Tightwad Gazette until now. I have requested it as a Christmas gift. (I have a library copy right now.)
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11-16-2008, 03:58 PM
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Re: How to Save Money
Don't run the dishwasher or washing machine unless it's full.
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11-16-2008, 04:07 PM
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Re: How to Save Money
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LOL! I would just not do this unless I was really, really destitute.
Some of the ideas...I think we need to remember that time is money too. She had six kids at home and stayed home, so she was spending her time finding good ways to save money (not to mention making money finding ways to save money!) I think many ideas have to be adaptable to the situation.
I've never read the Tightwad Gazette until now. I have requested it as a Christmas gift. (I have a library copy right now.) |
I have one of them on my desk. I loaned the first edition to someone who never returned it, or I'd have them both. There are some interesting ideas... but some off the wall crazy stuff that I'd never do.
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11-16-2008, 04:14 PM
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Re: How to Save Money
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You have
1. A scrubber made from a mesh onion bag. YES.
2.A squirt bottle made of homemade window cleaner. NO. (a friend bought me window cleaner when I moved in....otherwise that'd be a yes)
3. A new soap bar with a sliver adhered. YES
4. A bundle of old socks in the workshop to be used as a grease rag. YES. Not necessarily for grease...but I always save old socks.
5. A pair of pantyhose minus the bad leg. No....but I do have SOCKS like this. If I wore pantyhose I'd have this...but I don't. Do the socks then count as a yes? lol
6. A jug of vegetable broth in the refrigerator. Frozen chicken broth in the freezer. I'm going to vote yes here.
7. A 20 quart box of powdered milk. YES
8. A roll of paper towels cut in half. No, but I do have a stack of cheap washclothes. No papertowels anywhere in our house.
9. Any overturned bottle in the process of draining the last bit out. YES.
10. A pencil less than three inches long. YES.
11. A marked-down crushed box of cold cereal. Not right now, no.
12. Any item repaired with a twist-tie, paper clip or hanger. Yes.
13. A shower curtain repaired with duct tape. Not duct tape.....but repaired, yes.
14. An impressive stash of one of the following items: No. I just made my oldest throw away all the toilet paper tubes he was saving for his teacher's guinea pig. They never managed to get to school and I was tired of looking at them.
15. A screwdriver with a tip that has been reground several times. NO...all new tools a friend bought me when I moved in.
16. A started shopping list on the back of a utility bill envelope. Yes.
17. A stockpile of .44 per can tuna. No, NO icky tuna! (don't ask me about my mac and cheese stash though....)
18. A started container of "refrigerator stew" in the freezer. Nope, just ate it 2 nights ago as....leftover stew. lol
19. An indoor clothesline or wooden drying rack. NO....but I wish I had the money to get one right now.
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I think if you take my yes answers...and add in my conditional yes answers....I qualify. 
But...I already know I qualify. Time is money...but when I was a stay at home mom...we didn't buy toilet paper, diapers, wipes, paper towels. I just did a lot of laundry. Y'all will be happy to know we have toilet paper in the house now that no one wears diapers and I work full time. lol
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11-16-2008, 04:28 PM
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Re: How to Save Money
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Originally Posted by Tina
In one of the tightwad gazette books, she tells about having pantyhose with runs in one of the legs on each pair. So in true tightwad style, she cuts off the bad leg just below the panty part on each pair. Then she wears BOTH of the parts that had a good leg left on them. (Yes, I've read the books. NO- I don't have half pairs of hose to wear together to make one good pair.) LOL |
I have done this before! It just seems to be a waste of a good leg of the panty hose. I have not done in recently, though. I have also used my ruined panty hose to tie up my tomato plants.
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11-16-2008, 04:49 PM
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Re: How to Save Money
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I think if you take my yes answers...and add in my conditional yes answers....I qualify.
But...I already know I qualify. Time is money...but when I was a stay at home mom...we didn't buy toilet paper, diapers, wipes, paper towels. I just did a lot of laundry. Y'all will be happy to know we have toilet paper in the house now that no one wears diapers and I work full time. lol |
Yeah, I know I qualify too. I am not a tightwad legalist!
You didn't buy toilet paper? Uh. I won't ask about that.
My kids were both cloth diaper and breast fed raised.
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