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Are you cheap?

Geo-TH,In

Geo-TH,In

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You can tell I'm cheap
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I cut open a tube of arthritis cream and got the last drop.

Are you cheap too?
 
Yes i am cheap but not quite that cheap.only time I cut open a tube of something was cause the stores were closed so I couldnt buy more of it. Payed off the other day when I welded up my broken 3 pt lift arm though,saved me 90 bucks
 
I don't call that cheap.I call it normal.Why waste anything when you can spend 30 seconds getting more use out of something? I think marketing counts on us buying waste product.Have you ever seen a can of never-seize,pipe dope,glue,or anything else with a brush in the cap that actually reaches the bottom?When I open a new can of anything like that I take the last inch of the stuff in the bottom of the old can,and put it in the top of the new one.There is always plenty of room,it seems like the air space in the tops of the cans is getting bigger all the time.I've been working on tractors and equipment since 1975,and I am still using the same lead tube of Filko point cam lube I bought back then.A tiny dab on the finger is all it takes.
 
My wife is like that.She calls it being Scotch.Got from her father who almost starved during the great depression.
 
Yep, I am FRUGAL, and CHEAP.
I try not to waste anything.
The only thing I am not worried about wasting is water.
We have a good well and I will use all the water I want when I want it.
I like to take a good long hot shower at the end of each day and enjoy every minute of it.
Richard in COLD, SOGGY, WINDY NW SC
 
One of my former employees is at the pinnacle of cheap. While he was working for me he needed just a little alcohol to clean a spot before glueing something. So he walked into Kmart (remember the blue light specials) opened a bottle of alcohol and dabbed a little on he rag and cleaned the spot in the parking lot. In 1988 a bottle of rubbing alcohol cost about $0.89 and I would have paid for it.
 
Yes, I am very cheap. I pulled a set of nearly new (yes, nearly new) field cultivator teeth off of a scrap metal pile at a salvage yard. I am pulling a seat assembly out of an 1H 1460 combine to put in a tractor. I am looking for a donor disc chisel to provide parts for mine. I buy generic glyphosate (Roundup). But that is not to say I run a junkyard. My farm does not run a wide profit margin so I have to make things fit my budget. But in the house I do put the ketchup container upside down to get every last bit out. If left to the wife when it stops squirting at full stream it is time to pitch it into the trash.
 
I knew a guy at work that used the same paper bag for lunch until it fell apart. He also washed and reused the plastic baggie for his sandwich. To top it off he ate d@mn near the same thing every day. He made a very good salary too.
 
My tooth Paste tube looks like it was used to plug a hole in a interstellar space ship by sticking the open cap end in the hole. Jim
 
Yeah, Ill cut the plastic bottle of Gold Bond lotion because the pickup tube is so short it leaves almost 3/4in. In the bottom.
 
I smooch bars of soap together to keep from pitching slivers.

Vertical, overhead, flat, underwater certified soap welder. Never took a class, home-schooled.
 
Cheap is buying a lesser product, and expecting it to perform like a more expensive product.

Frugal is using a product to the very end, getting 100% out of your investment.

You are frugal.
 
Frugal is spending your money wisely. Cheap is not spending it when you should.
I cut open tubes to get it all. I bought it, why waste any of it.
After pouring oil into the engine, I set the containers on their edge and get another tbsp or two out that I use for lubing other stuff. Less pollution that way also.
 
Erick, I do the same thing!

When the bar is about 2/3 gone I stack it on top of the new bar.

I like the Irish Spring with grit. I usually have to order it because the store doesn't stock it. The grit makes it easier to hold on to!
 
I don't cut them open, but I do rake the contents to the end with the hair brush handle.

Probably gets 99% of it out.

Wife and daughter though, toothpaste tubes, give it a squeeze in the middle and trash it!

I've retrieved many tubes from the trash and get weeks of use out of them!

Also known to cut open silicone and caulk tubes when they get dry and won't come out.

Try to represurize aerosol cans, rarely works...
 
I also reuse paper towels. I use a new one to absorb oil from the french fries and then use it to wipe out the non stick pan after breakfast.
I will put water in a pan to make it easier to clean. Then I put other dishes in that pan to soak. I use a brush to clean dishes by dipping it into that pan of water. I don't use the 20 gallons of water that they say is used in the advertisement on TV. Which might be true or maybe they are misrepresenting something that can't be proved to be incorrect.
 
No, but I'm reasonable.

Couldn't resist it. It reminded me of a story a public school Superintendent told me once.

He wanted to call a special meeting of the school board, and one of the board members was a strikingly good looking lady. He called her and asked, 'Are you free tonight?'

She replied, 'No, but I'm reasonable'.

He told her, 'Don't do that to me!' He was kind of a prude, anyway.
 
George, screw on the cap, then slam the tube (cap end first) into a hard surface several times. That will force the cream into the opening.

I make quite a lot of noise when I get close to the end of a tube.

With toothpaste, I have a small wood roller that does a great job of working every bit of cream to the opening. When I get to where my hands cannot work out any more toothpaste, that little roller will work out enough for another week or two!
 
Sounds like a guy I know. His whole life he had neck tie salary jobs (retired now). Been well off his entire adult life. He might not be quit as bad as the paper sack and sandwich bag thing, but close to it. He's very tight. He was raised that way, and is not going to change. When he was a kid, his mother would save, wash, store, and reuse tin cans for gardening. She would let him use one to put fishing worms in, but only if he returned it so she could wash, store, and reuse it again in the garden. He came by this naturally. But you'd a thought he'd of changed somewhat after decades of no money issues.
 
I've got a Walmart spray bottle, and I dump all sorts of left-over oils / lubes / greases / etc. into, add PB Blaster after I punch a hole in it, WD-40 after I punch a hole, alcohol. Shake it all up, great lube, for all sorts of things.
 
My guy was a likable chap. Mostly kept to himself but was always pleasant. He lived inside the DC area beltway and told me he had never driven more than a few miles beyond it. Paid a guy to drive him to Baltimore once and he took a bus to Atlantic City once or twice a year for vacation.
 
Dave H, reminds me of the time I was in a struggling lake side, seasonal business, restaurant late one night.

I was the only one in there, possibly the owner didn't know I was there...

But I watched him dig rolls out of the trash, wipe the ketchup and whatever off of them, return them to the kitchen, all the while announcing to the waitress:

'I've told ya'll too many times! No reason to throw perfectly good rolls in the trash! If I see this again you're all fired!!!'
 
I going to say as long as you are careful not to get a bad laceration that requires medical attention have at it.

Vito
 
I take a good size cotter pin open it a little then slide it on the bottom of permatex gasket maker and other tubes and use a small phillips screw driver to turn the cotter pin as i use it.my oldest daughter and husband are tightwads her sister told her they were so stingy they got out of bed at night to turn over so they didn't wear the sheets out.
 
My sisters says I'm cheap. Must be true. At least at Christmas time.

I don't cut tubes open to get the last bit out. I hate messing with katsup bottles that I have to shake. My katsup bottles are not completely empty when I toss them. I toss spray paint cans when the paint lever gets low enough the can has a faulty spray.
 
These machines all becoming more popular everyday here in Iowa--I am thinking of getting a franchise!!!---Tee

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