August 19, 2017
Do you enjoy saving a buck more than most people? Do you have a black belt in frugality? Around here, most of us consider “cheapskate” to be a positive word!
Here are 20 surefire signs that you are embracing your cheap side. How many things on this list apply to you?
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- You take it as a personal challenge to see how long you can go without spending money. The game is even better if you have a spouse or friend with whom you can compete.
- You don’t let food go to waste. You have an ice cream tub in your freezer nearly full of odd bits of leftovers, awaiting their reincarnation into “leftover casserole” or “leftover soup”.
- It’s physically impossible for you to drive past an interesting-looking garbage pile at the curb during somebody else’s spring cleaning frenzy, much to the dismay of your children. (Although there’s always that one kid who’s excited to dig through the pile with you!)
- Your first stop at the grocery store is the “last day of sale” rack in each department. When you get home with your stash, you immediately set to freezing, dehydrating, or canning
your inexpensive score.
- Your kid looks at a necklace or pair of earrings at the “cool” store and scoffs, “We could make this.” Then she puts it back and asks you to take her to the thrift store for items to disassemble for the supplies to make her own accessories.
- You don’t have cable. Your viewing, if you watch television at all, is done via an internet subscription service or even a rabbit ear antenna
on top of the TV.
- A day of yard-saling is planned…