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[@annettegustafson1435]

For the kids at Outback....I would have yelled out to the diners, "Hey, get this. This cheapskate invited us kids to dinner and expects us to pay for it. What do you think of that?"

[@thomasguglielmo1509]

For the first story, Downtown New Haven doesn't put garlic on the tables because college kids always take it for their dorm room just salt and pepper on the table

[@traybern]

The RICH kids from Yale??

[@cg0825]

Probably.

[@genreboy3802]

The fact that you have Grunkle Stan of all people in the thumbnail is just a chef's kiss

[@wayIess]

As a cashier I caught a woman at checkout with a swapped clearance sticker. The item was $2 and she made it $1. Not cleverly either as the sticker barely held. They were decorative toothpicks for cupcakes. She was a real pill over the small difference.

[@CatsOverBrats]

Mt brother and his wife got a text from a friends couple who asked them if they would like to come over that night for red wine and cheese. They went and had a good time. Next day they got a text telling them how much they owed. They were invited. There was never a mention in the invite about sharing the cost of a cozy night at their friends' place.

[@greendragonfly4831]

Sleepover kid encountering upcycled cereal milk will always win this contest. Lives in my head rent free for a decade now.

[@Icalasari]

Story #21 - OK, OP needs to get that recipe because apparently that stuff makes for emergency rations. Like wtf

[@cg0825]

My mom told me this story. Growing up my mother went to a sleepover at a friend's place. In the morning they did not have breakfast. Each of them had a cup of hot water. The friend's mother came out with one used tea bag, dipped it once in each cup then put it away. Needless to say my mother never stayed at her house ever again.

[@sixinarow1]

As a kid my grandmother told me a story about a very poor family that lived in India. His parents saved all year to buy him the most magical gift. Then she went on to tell me that I was getting that very same magical gift. Well Christmas comes along and I with great expectations open my gift from my grandmother. I was three sheets of carbon paper!

[@codyprine9200]

Story 12, is exactly why I hate having to work with my In-laws when repairing anything for them because they will risk their lives to save 15 cents!

[@TheAdrift]

3:33 oh god… “used to peel bananas before he bought them” I’ve only ever heard of one other person doing this, and said person was a woman, but this commenter used he/him pronouns. That means not only is there someone out there unhinged enough to do something like that, there are MULTIPLE someones out there doin’ this. Y’all NASTY 😫

[@marcinnawrocki1437]

Freezing old meat as cat food. Years later, finding it frozen, and making goulash for family. :D

[@aniE1869]

A couple times a year my father in law drives to the next state to buy all the shelf stable items he's going to need for the the next 6 months. Just to save the sales tax.

[@errantwinds-up8uu]

I could actually get behind that lol, as long as he's not paying more for gas than he would save. If that's the case, that's silly.

[@aniE1869]

@@errantwinds-up8uu it's only about an hour round trip. And he buys the big things like tires and appliances if he thinks he's going to need them.

[@memeboi6942]

@@aniE1869 Nah, that's actually kind of valid reasoning.

[@oldwoman5942]

My ex friend takes the leaves off and cuts the stems off broccoli before she takes it to the register. She and her 5 kids showed, uninvited and gift less, to my son’s 6th birthday where she and her kids stuffed their faces and then loaded up all the “leftovers “ and left. Also several of my son’s birthday gifts disappeared. I was a single mother while she and her husband had good paying jobs.

[@ninomitchell2039]

3:01 you said it was a birthday. If you it's just you and one of the birthday persons friends PAY THE FING TAB IS 13 FING DOLLARS. Not like it's $50 dollars a plate

[@RegisVasa]

Story $5: things like that became far more common after food prices skyrocketed over the past few years.

[@Whammytap]

So the pork shoulder thing...my hubby and I do this, too. 😅 He's a hunter, so disassembling a pork shoulder is no biggie for him. We do it legit, though--he cuts chops, stew/stir fry bits, and the rest we grind. Some of it becomes sausage (with real store-bought spices!) and some plain ground pork for burgers, etc. because he can't digest beef. It all gets vacuum sealed, labeled and dated, and frozen. Pork shoulder is about half the cost of ground pork even after you take out the bones and remove the fat, and by grinding it ourselves we know it's fresh and it all came from one animal, reducing the risk of foodborne illness. And we can make the sausages low-sodium, which is good for my blood pressure. We know exactly what's in our sausages.

[@hannahhammond1993]

On the story where people mention about working in a casino/bar and people rummaging ashtrays etc. In my local town i have seen people walking to rubbish bins ashtray and they will empty the ashtray into a bag and walk away with said bag. They even did it during the covid 19 pandemic it makes me physically sick when i see people reaching into the bins for cigarette butts 🤮🤮🤮🤮

[@mztweety1374]

I don’t think anybody beats the Keith Lee food truck lady. She was cheap, greedy and completely insufferable. She got dragged so hard she had to change the name of her business….and it didn’t work.

[@rainbowpegacornstudios]

I swear I've seen clips of people washing & reusing toilet paper

[@tylerbartlett28]

How do you wash toilet paper?

[@rainbowpegacornstudios]

@@tylerbartlett28 I have no idea with their logic. It was a disgusting way of being a cheapskate

[@jasonellis4330]

I mean, there's supposedly "reusable" toilet paper but... Still gross

[@rainbowpegacornstudios]

@@jasonellis4330 Apparently the expression "single use" doesn't exist in their world when it comes to TP and/or ass wipes

[@user-xy7ge3un1v]

😱

[@overcastfriday81]

A family of 14 sharing a two bedroom home

[@adamb89]

My own. I grew up on welfare to a single mother so we didn't have much of anything. I was well into my 30's and still hoarding every sour cream container I ever acquired. I had literally hundreds of cheap plastic containers saved up over the years, because I had been raised to never throw anything away. Dish water would sit for 2-3 days until the suds were exhausted. Just scoop it into a pot and re-heat it on the stove. No point in letting good soap go to waste, if it can still dissolve some grease. The same was true of paper towels, I'd rinse, dry, and reuse them until they physically disintegrated in my hand. Clothes get repaired again and again until they're so threadbare you can literally see through the cloth. And on and on. The thing is I have enough money I could go out and buy a house in cash. Just up front, whip out a briefcase full of money and be like "This is mine now, bye." And I'm still one of the cheapest, most frugal people I know.

[@F-Bomb313]

I've witnessed my sister washing used sandwich bags and plastic utensils, she also uses old containers for bowls & fountain drink cups for glasses. I'm pretty sure she'd wash paper plates if she could

[@co-jt6gd]

The family dynamics in these stories, if they’re real, are very worthy of a CPS response or a call to the police.

[@TheVillageIdiot829]

10:39 thays not a gluten free diet, that's a free gluten diet

[@dryduck]

That's not getting the wordplay joke.

[@zeke7100]

I think it's actually a little funny that a person would go to a restaurant, spend way more money on food than if it was just homemade and then think that taking a 1$ pen is going to make up for the visit.

[@s--h1584]

Once I was in a charity store and had brought a whole pile of dresses into the change room. The change room was next to the counter, and while going through my pile I heard two women loudly complaining about a martial arts uniform that was something like $25 when she wanted it for $10. When the person at the counter said they couldn't change the prices, they got her manager's details to report her. While they were waiting for the counter person to discuss the situation with their manager, the two women were saying to each other stuff like "all of this should be cheaper, they get it for free" (you know, like all charity stores, because they're CHARITY STORES). Finally, the manager agreed to sell it for something like $15. All of that for a $10 discount on an item that already should have been worth more, except it was sold cheaply FOR CHARITY. By the time I came out of the change room, they'd left, so I never actually saw them. That was possibly the angriest I've ever felt toward a nameless stranger.

[@JamesTDG]

3:41 Here's the thing though, the weight difference from the stems is so minuscule, that it does nothing for you.

[@angrynoodletwentyfive6463]

In terms of cheapness that actually ends up costing you more money I once was driven by a lady who regularly drove 30 minutes out of the way and probably spent 2 extra dollars in gas to save .50 cents in tolls and get to the "cheaper" toll booth. The lady was very sweet but not the sharpest tool in the shed.

[@cg0825]

Same with groceries. If you are going to stock up it is worth driving a bit further but for a few items you just spend it in gas anyway

[@fractalgem]

I find it better to mostly load up primarily on stuff like lentils, beans, rice, and potatoes than to worry much about which store has the best prices for which foods.

[@petuniasevan]

Husband says his mother would make them Kool-Aid as follows: Add powder to twice as much water as directed Add half as much sugar as directed Serve resulting colored water to kids

[@fractalgem]

I get diluting Gatorade or koolaid down because of how sugary it is(i personally mix Gatorade to half strength out of preference) but then adding sugar back in? Whyyyyyyy

[@petuniasevan]

@@fractalgem The Kool Aid packets that don't come with sugar in them.

[@tiggy9568]

at prom we were given 3 tickets for drinks when we entered,when the prom ended one of my good friends went around asking people for and scrounging around for spare drink tickets that he then used to get a bunch of free water. Was upset and embarrassed with him then and to this day I think that is probably to worst thing I've seen him do

[@captainjellicoe1701e]

a store has to buy the bananas with the skin on so the customers have to buy like that also but now the guy who would pick the Cherry stems off that was kind of funny

[@ValC-vn5vl]

A woman I know brought 2 bottles of wine to Xmas dinner and took them home again because she didn’t drink them. She drank the hostesses wine to excess of course.

[@JIorsmth]

8:18 galvanized steel

[@JessFirefox]

My mom's friend took her out for her birthday dinner to subway because he had a coupon

[@JamesTDG]

20:26 Honestly, it can be easy if you just pay attention. My college posts weekly newsletters, which I closely scour and have gotten away with bringing home about $50 worth of pizza last term due to leftovers from events.

[@whatgamesweplay]

My dad, a self made millionaire, tried to claim I was 6 when I was 12 in order to not have to pay for a ticket to a zoo in the UK

[@shadowstrider42]

I mean... is keeping something frozen for 15 years _really_ saving money, considering the electricity used?

[@davidtitus3276]

I think you actually meant to say “free gluten diet “

[@ZionKraze]

Here's something I have done, and I got super lucky for it. I can't remember what year it was, but I went into a charity shop and found a super rare game for a cheap price. And the price I paid for it was shocking. Someone must've donated some old games and they were with some other common football titles, all for 50p; and then I saw that game for a very bargain price that I couldn't refuse. I paid for it and I still have the label on there to this day. I keep on searching charity shops around town to see if I could get lucky again, but so far no such luck. And the game itself? It was Tombi 2, aka Tomba 2 for the PlayStation 1. It's not only one of the rarest games that I own, but I don't know if I will ever sell it off.

[@Ahem-nc2nt]

Gluten free diet ❌ Free gluten diet ✅

[@Ahem-nc2nt]

Saving on food is a big part like if you can then save on food

[@weatherwolf335]

I refuse to elaborate on this my bio father.

[@Ahem-nc2nt]

Damn people invites others and without telling them that they have to pay I have a good story : Me and my friends with our school teacher went to another city for a chess tournament and i was asked to bring money for my own food but our teacher paid for all of us

[@annasstorybox7906]

I mean... Yes, temperatures below or above a certain threshold aren't comfortable but I also get not warming up the house so one can walk around in shorts and tanktop in winter and at the same time having the AC turn your home severely cooler than the summer outside... And yes... The old boomer dad ruling about the thermostat is right. It is preserving energy. And that way he's a a good bit ahead of the teenagers criticizing him while complaining about the excessive consumption of modern people. smh

[@johansmith4764]

I am a twin and me and my brother went off to Stockholm so some researchers could do some research on us. (Live in Sweden) The travel to and from Stockholm was paid by them. The hotel stay was paid by them. Breakfast and lunch was paid by them. We also got paid for loss of income. But I had so much overtime to take out so I got paid for that to. Plus we got like 200 USD in gift certificates. I needed a new mattress so I had my gift certificate for that. I found one that would cost 450 USD but it was on sale so it was down to 220 USD. I gave the certificates and just paid 20 USD. From that money I got from the researchers. Beat that!

[@phoenixspirit9530]

I consider that being smart, not cheap 🙂.

[@denippon]

story 3 is freaking ugly... what a sorry excuse of a human being that one father is... embarrassing....

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[@VEXEDRI0T]

My mom. Her or ACDC (reference to dirty deeds done dirt cheap)

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