Extreme Cheapskates

[pokerfan]

On the TLC.

Anyone see this tonight? Using pantyhose to use every scrap of soap is one thing but reusable toilet paper?

One of the cheapskates talks about his experience:

http://blog.aarp.org/2012/01/09/extreme-cheapskates-behind-the-scenes/

[Xipe Totec]

1. Try digital toilet paper

Consumes no paper at all, only water and a little soap...

[my2sense]

2. Watching the repeat now.

This is my first time seeing the show and I'm not sure I can make it. I'm frugal myself.....but dang.....

[pokerfan]

3. Going to a restaurant

and then walking from table to table with a Styrofoam to-go box begging the other customers for their scraps? His wife must be so proud.

[Duer 157099]

4. I might see the cloth TP if only for, um,

numero uno.

I wonder how much of this is "penny wise and pound foolish" though.

And feeding little kids the greens from the field? A field that clearly has dog poop in it? Not cool.

[pokerfan]

6. I guess it's not too much different from cloth diapers but still...

Then there was the guy who separated his double ply toilet paper to make it last longer. Umm, OK. How much do you really save when you factor in bleach and detergent to clean the things.

The guy that cuts open the "empty" tube toothpaste to get another week's use. I see nothing wrong with that. You can't really ever get every last bit out.

The goat's head didn't really bother me (meat is meat to a point) except when he started rooting around in the brain cavity. Doesn't he know about prions? And some of those proteins aren't necessarily broken down by cooking.

Nothing wrong with wild greens. It's good to at least know what they look like. Got to wash them though. Don't know about using the dog park except that that's probably where they grown the best. I go down to the river in late spring and pick wild asparagus all the time.

[Populist_Prole]

5. Know what I can't stand?

People who work ( at their own jobs ) only as much as it takes not to get canned, yet demand top-dollar and will count every nickel -- BUT -- When they hire someone ( a contractor to work on their home, mechanic to fix their vehicle, landscaper, whatever ) they demand absolute perfection, for absolute rockiest of rock-bottom dollar.....and yet....can NOT see the irony. What's up wit 'dat?

[Kali]

7. they did a show about me without telling me?

how cheap is that? <<=== saves broom and mop fibers