buying only what I need, not want

PunkMistress said:

I was forced to do that a couple of months ago myself. Can't honestly say that I miss it either. If I want to see HBO, I go to my mom's house.

buy lots and lots of booze

everywhere i can ..

ZombieKitten said:

Do you want a girl...? I know you have 3 boys...

peacenlovealways said:

I would have liked one, if I'd had one of each I would have stopped at 2 kids.
BUT I don't want 4 boys, so I stopped trying.

This might be especially appealing to Kitten
http://www.etsy.com/view_...d=39020387

johnart said:

actually I think deja would LOVE that!

1. Make your own coffee
2. Hang dry your clothes
3. Use public transportation (this of course depends on your city)
4. Eat less. Seriously. Most of us are too fat anyway. Eat less.
5. If your destination is within 2 kilometers, walk if it's safe to do so.
6. Try to cook your own meals as much as possible. Eating out will destroy a budget.
7. You don't need to get your groove on ever other night. Don't go to the bars as much. You can easily drop several hundred bucks a month on going out. And who have you picked up at a bar, or what kind of divine time have you had, that you can honestly say has been of any benefit to you?
8. If you're an avid book reader like me, try the library--it's free. (I rarely check books out though--I like to own them ). If you must own a book, by used or paperbacks.
9. After wiping with toilet paper, you can crumble it up and use it to polish mirrors and windows. Don't polish windows and mirrors first (Especially if you use WIndex) then wipe your butt with it, because that itches.

Go to Thailand for a Korean haircut.

COnvince your mother-in-law you want one of those trendy fashion-snuggies for Christmas! Why buy it when she can do it for you?

TheVoid said:

2 stars.

Save on spelling. A letter here and a punctuation mark there really add up.
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2the9s said:

johnart said:

TheVoid said:

I think you just saved me a bundle on hair product.

missfee said:

my eyes read re-use condoms oh yuck imagine rinsing it out

utopia7 said:

No I didn't say reuse condoms I said USE condoms. That's mean buy new condoms and use them because condoms are cheaper than kids.

johnart said:

now I remember I had to do something....

ernestsewell said:

I'm getting unemployment compensation now. A friend of mine told me to apply for food stamps, but I just can't do it. I live alone, so I don't have to feed a family. I don't eat a whole lot, and I figure a family worse off than me can use my share.

ZombieKitten said:

Who can afford condoms? Shit, wrap that billy up in some plastic wrap and keep on humpin!

ZombieKitten said:

Recipe?

ZombieKitten said:

I make all our sauces, dressings, even condiments. When you realize that you made a kickass barbecue sauce with stuff that was already in the pantry, it becomes harder to spend four bucks on a bottle of mostly corn syrup, ketchup and smoke flavoring.

I invest in good ingredients. A bottle of good balsamic vinegar might be 15 bucks, but it stays in the pantry for months. A little olive oil, garlic and herbs, and you have a divine salad dressing better than any bottled shit. Poured into a pan that you've seared chicken (or ribeye steak!) in, stirred with the drippings and reduced, you have an amazing glaze/sauce in less than five minutes.

Only thing that's changed is the awful exchange rate these days. Otherwise, same old story, just trying to put away something every month, get the best savings rates we can, not touch our interest and generally check every so often that we're not spending money on things we don't really need.

PunkMistress said:

Sounds like you know how to throw down in the kitchen!

Shyra said:

You know it!

missfee said:

I do miss the boxing on HBO, and their series like Entourage and Curb Your Enthusiasm, but we manage.

1. Steal your entertainment from the internet.
2. Steal your drinks from other people's tables when going out. After 2AM everyone at those places is so drunk they won't even notice.
3. No high-maintenance gfs or hanging out with friends who make considerably more money than you do.
4. No Macs.

That's my contribution to this thread!

go to (a free food) happy hour.

buy a glass of tonic water with a lime (usually less than 2 bucks).

eat until full.

i've been known to do that during my lunch hour when i worked the early evening shift at a job in the past.

a'course that was before these current and econimically tough times. i'd jokingly call this practice "how i survived the depression during happy hour."

lafleurdove said:

This is actually a great idea! My friend and I used to have what we called our "cheap date night" where we'd go to this one place that had a happy hour buffet (that was quite good, and you could get a full, well-balanced meal) and on Thursdays they had $2 pints of beer. So we'd get one pint each and have a full meal through the buffet. Then we'd go to this second-run movie theatre where tickets were only $2. So the entire evening would only cost $5 each (with tip for the beer).

Now I see cheap date night deals all over. There's one in Uptown where you get a bottle of wine, an appetizer and a dessert to share and 2 tickets to the indie movie house next door for $30 total. That's not bad at all!