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Posted: 7/27/2015 1:14:51 AM EDT
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I wouldn't care. Better than letting it go to waste.
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Posted: 7/27/2015 1:17:17 AM EDT
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Why do you think they're loaded? Because they're cheap!
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Posted: 7/27/2015 1:18:31 AM EDT
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Man, I wish people had brought ziplocks to my wedding. It was 105 degrees that day and most people hardly ate any of the pig I roasted. I had to eat pig for weeks.
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Posted: 7/27/2015 1:18:57 AM EDT
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There's a time and place for everything.
Taking leftovers from a wedding is tacky as shit I've known people who give super cheap presents Like they give a $12 polyester blanket they got for $5 in the discount bin at walmart I've had people give me cheesy $3 movie DVDs wow, thanks for this awesome movie, aunt Gladys 
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Posted: 7/27/2015 1:19:55 AM EDT
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Good eats
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Posted: 7/27/2015 1:20:14 AM EDT
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I wouldn't care. Better than letting it go to waste. Who said it was going to waste? The point is they showed up prepared to do this, probably the only reason they came. Reminds me of a story I heard here I believe. Guy would figure out how much it cost him in gas to get to wedding/funeral/misc family gathering and convert that into food and beer and wouldn't leave until he got an equal amount to what he spent in gas |
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Posted: 7/27/2015 1:20:18 AM EDT
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Cheap asses.
 But that is how they get to be rich/loaded.
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Posted: 7/27/2015 1:21:01 AM EDT
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Why do you think they're loaded? Because they're cheap! My thought. Were they generic 'zip locks'? 
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Posted: 7/27/2015 1:21:36 AM EDT
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I've got a friend that comes out to dinner/ drinks ect. with our group of friends, and either stiffs the waiter/waitress or ends up putting in way less than he owes because "he's trying to save money".
Needless to say I'm phasing him out of plans that include money. |
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Posted: 7/27/2015 1:22:18 AM EDT
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in before the $24 bigshots ask you why you're too cheap to buy a membership
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Posted: 7/27/2015 1:22:55 AM EDT
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Save where you can so you can splurge where you want.
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Posted: 7/27/2015 1:24:44 AM EDT
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in before the $24 bigshots ask you why you're too cheap to buy a membership If $24 makes you a bigshot I am a real big bigshot! 
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Posted: 7/27/2015 1:25:00 AM EDT
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in before the $24 bigshots ask you why you're too cheap to buy a membership lol, why are YOU? |
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Posted: 7/27/2015 1:25:09 AM EDT
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Save where you can so you can splurge where you want. except when it makes people cringe in disgust |
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Posted: 7/27/2015 1:27:10 AM EDT
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When I was in high school, the agriculture packing company that my uncle worked for hired my dad to take a trailer load of conveyor rails up to Stockton, CA. We lived in the Imperial Valley back then. It took us most of the day to drive the 560 miles, since we stopped somewhere in L.A. to eat and refuel. The company gave my dad enough money for gas, a hotel, and probably some extra cash but he never told me. When we got to Stockton it was dark and the people in Stockton were not expecting us til the following morning. The place we were going to was near a body of water (San Joaquin River I think). Instead of going to a hotel like normal people would, he kept the hotel money and we stayed in the truck near that body of water and the business where we were gonna deliver the rails. There was all kinds of shady people walking around all night, and I hardly slept.
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Posted: 7/27/2015 1:27:57 AM EDT
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Who said it was going to waste? The point is they showed up prepared to do this, probably the only reason they came. Reminds me of a story I heard here I believe. Guy would figure out how much it cost him in gas to get to wedding/funeral/misc family gathering and convert that into food and beer and wouldn't leave until he got an equal amount to what he spent in gas Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I wouldn't care. Better than letting it go to waste. Who said it was going to waste? The point is they showed up prepared to do this, probably the only reason they came. Reminds me of a story I heard here I believe. Guy would figure out how much it cost him in gas to get to wedding/funeral/misc family gathering and convert that into food and beer and wouldn't leave until he got an equal amount to what he spent in gas 
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Posted: 7/27/2015 1:28:52 AM EDT
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in before the $24 bigshots ask you why you're too cheap to buy a membership log out and log back in |
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Posted: 7/27/2015 1:29:07 AM EDT
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Reminds me of the old Las Vegas buffets!
Old folks would come in and the old lady would havev a plastic lined purse. Can't imagine how much Prime Rib and shrimp ended up in a handbag. |
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Posted: 7/27/2015 1:33:33 AM EDT
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Coworker is so cheap he waits till he gets to work to take a shit so he can save on TP
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Posted: 7/27/2015 1:35:17 AM EDT
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Reminds me of the old Las Vegas buffets! Old folks would come in and the old lady would havev a plastic lined purse. Can't imagine how much Prime Rib and shrimp ended up in a handbag. Mmmmmm, handbag shrimp. |
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Posted: 7/27/2015 1:36:38 AM EDT
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Why do you think they're loaded? Because they're cheap! This. Some of the best advice I have ever heard was from a formerly rich man that was cleaned out by a divorce. He said something along the lines of: "You can't tell no difference between a rich man and a poor man. Both will fuck you over for a nickel." He also said: "How the hell do you think they got so rich? You can't have money if you spend it all." He was right. |
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Posted: 7/27/2015 1:38:19 AM EDT
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Coworker is so cheap he waits till he gets to work to take a shit so he can save on TP Heh heh I have no words 
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Posted: 7/27/2015 1:42:02 AM EDT
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Coworker is so cheap he waits till he gets to work to take a shit so he can save on TP Damn that is bad. I've known people who won't use AC in cars to get better gas mileage. |
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Posted: 7/27/2015 1:42:04 AM EDT
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My BIL's BIL is a cheap person.
He's a contract Lawyer for a big gas company. Made over $700k in 2012 without bonuses. His wife, is a 4th grade teacher in a well known private school in Houston. He wanted a Land Rover. But $50k + is too much to spend on a Land Rover he thinks. So he bought a well used old Land Rover for $7k with many many miles. Hell probably spend $50k fixing it. It is a Land Rover.. |
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Posted: 7/27/2015 1:42:53 AM EDT
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in before the $24 bigshots ask you why you're too cheap to buy a membership Bigshot starts at platinum level. |
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Posted: 7/27/2015 1:45:04 AM EDT
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My grandparents lived through the great depression. I remember they used to bring home plastic utensils from fast food restaurants and run them through the dishwasher and use them again. They weren't rich but they had enough money for trips to Hawaii several times and lots of tour bus trips to casinos and things like that.
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Posted: 7/27/2015 1:48:40 AM EDT
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Just go to the Chick Fil A in Westlake (Austin).
I've seen women in there who I know for sure are worth many, many millions of $$$$ stuffing their purses and pockets full of ketchups, salt and pepper packets, napkins, straws, hot sauce packets... anything they can take. At least one I've seen in there doing that is worth more than $2 billion. Others I know are close to that. Yet they do this. |
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Posted: 7/27/2015 1:50:46 AM EDT
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in before the $24 bigshots ask you why you're too cheap to buy a membership log out and log back in Nice. |
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Posted: 7/27/2015 1:52:55 AM EDT
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Coworker is so cheap he waits till he gets to work to take a shit so he can save on TP I wait to shit at work so I get paid for it. 15-20mins a day means up to 1.5hrs a week of paid shitter time (plus savings on TP )
Anyways...I have a friend who is on the edge of being an extreme cheapskate. Mainly with his tools/vehicles/shop. He will fix and repair a $30 item over and over again....to the point that it takes him an hour to fix it, just to use it for 10 minutes. Many times over... |
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Posted: 7/27/2015 1:54:10 AM EDT
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Damn that is bad. I've known people who won't use AC in cars to get better gas mileage. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Coworker is so cheap he waits till he gets to work to take a shit so he can save on TP Damn that is bad. I've known people who won't use AC in cars to get better gas mileage. My dad used to do that. I'm sure some of the stories here will remind me of the stuff he used to do. He had a 71 LTD when I was a kid. We would take trips up to L.A. (about a 4 hour drive) to visit my aunts and he would never turn on the AC. One time I asked him why he wouldn't turn it on and he said "it damages the engine". |
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Posted: 7/27/2015 1:57:04 AM EDT
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I wait to shit at work so I get paid for it. 15-20mins a day means up to 1.5hrs a week of paid shitter time (plus savings on TP )
Anyways...I have a friend who is on the edge of being an extreme cheapskate. Mainly with his tools/vehicles/shop. He will fix and repair a $30 item over and over again....to the point that it takes him an hour to fix it, just to use it for 10 minutes. Many times over... Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Coworker is so cheap he waits till he gets to work to take a shit so he can save on TP I wait to shit at work so I get paid for it. 15-20mins a day means up to 1.5hrs a week of paid shitter time (plus savings on TP )
Anyways...I have a friend who is on the edge of being an extreme cheapskate. Mainly with his tools/vehicles/shop. He will fix and repair a $30 item over and over again....to the point that it takes him an hour to fix it, just to use it for 10 minutes. Many times over... Yup, never shit or sweat on your own time! |
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Posted: 7/27/2015 1:57:18 AM EDT
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Everyone survived college somehow.
I've been to so many weird socials for the food. I've realized looking back it wasn't worth it.  But shrimp tasting like purse is too much for me and I used to water down milk. |
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Posted: 7/27/2015 1:58:24 AM EDT
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A buddy of mine will put about 2 gallons of gas in his pickup every day to go to work and back. He burned up the fuel pump on his truck twice in 3 years. His mney saving plan has him in the hole about $1400 because of that and the fact he doesn't work on his own shit
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Posted: 7/27/2015 2:00:26 AM EDT
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I know of one old couple that go to local funerals of people they don't even know just for the free food.
No shit. |
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Posted: 7/27/2015 2:03:15 AM EDT
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I know of one old couple that go to local funerals of people they don't even know just for the free food. No shit. I've heard people in mexico (probably my mom's family) refer to funerals as "free coffee and pan (sweet bread)" |
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Posted: 7/27/2015 2:15:17 AM EDT
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I have an uncle who sold a chain of stores,over 240 of them ,he will go on and on about a slice of cheese costing .45 cents extra on a cheeseburger
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Posted: 7/27/2015 2:37:56 AM EDT
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I'm cheap.
96 chevy truck with various issues, and has needed new tires for several years now. I keep putting that off. E rated tires are expensive. 89 firebird DD with a shitload of issues. As of last week I now have to open the hood and lift the headlights up into place and lock them there. Tires are good though. 00 neon with 145k (that should say it all right there). Transmission is messed up, other issues, but it was free. I have the money to buy a new car with cash, or at least get one of my dream cars (98-02 trans am), but I can't bring myself to spend the coin (no more than 10% of what I have in the bank anyway). I need new computer and mountain bike too. Took me a year just to finally spend a couple hundred on a new camera. |
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Posted: 7/27/2015 6:41:46 AM EDT
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FPNI.
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Posted: 7/27/2015 6:50:22 AM EDT
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Rich people don't become rich by spending their money.
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Posted: 7/27/2015 7:03:19 AM EDT
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I don't use the AC in my truck.
The lowest I set my AC in my house is 83. I live in Tucson, where it's hot as bawls. I HATE paying for gas or AC. |
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Posted: 7/27/2015 7:28:10 AM EDT
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00 neon with 145k (that should say it all right there). Transmission is messed up, other issues, but it was free. My 00 has 290k on it....Runs great. Oldest still has it in FL. |
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Posted: 7/27/2015 7:33:49 AM EDT
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There's a time and place for everything. Taking leftovers from a wedding is tacky as shit I've known people who give super cheap presents Like they give a $12 polyester blanket they got for $5 in the discount bin at walmart I've had people give me cheesy $3 movie DVDs wow, thanks for this awesome movie, aunt Gladys http://i5.walmartimages.com/dfw/dce07b8c-e842/k2-_19509bf0-a1b7-478d-bdcb-25dc15319ba3.v1.jpg sort of like giving the Queen of England a collection of your "speeches".................. |
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Posted: 7/27/2015 7:36:54 AM EDT
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My buddy got married and told me that his aunt and uncle, who are loaded by the way, brought zip lock bags with them to the wedding and filled them up with as much left overs as they could. Folks with money often economize in what might be seen as odd ways My father re-uses garbage bags and zip lock bags, things I would never consider doing. |
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Posted: 7/27/2015 7:43:15 AM EDT
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There used to be a guy in my squadron that would dig through the box lunches that passengers threw away looking for food to eat while crew resting. While the rest of us would go out and eat, see the sights, and have a good time, he'd sit in his room eating other peoples trash.
He may have been cheap, but by the time he retired, he owned several apartment buildings. |
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Posted: 7/27/2015 7:55:07 AM EDT
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Why do you think they're loaded? Because they're cheap! My grandfather and grandmother did this. They were old money and were determined to not spend a dime more than necessary. Ketchup packets in the fridge, no air conditioning, and lived in the same 1,200 square foot house they bought when they got married in 1950. My parents have broken that cycle 
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Posted: 7/27/2015 7:59:44 AM EDT
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My buddy got married and told me that his aunt and uncle, who are loaded by the way, brought zip lock bags with them to the wedding and filled them up with as much left overs as they could. Reminded me of a guy my dad worked with. The guy's daughter was turning 15 or 16 and all she wanted was a pink cake. Guy comes into the office on Monday bragging about how he went to the cake shop and found a pink cake with a mistake, misspelled word or something, and got it for half off. Wtf if wrong with these people? How can they not be embarrassed to be filling up zip lock bags at a wedding? Anybody else have any good stories? says the guy who isn't even a bronze member |
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Posted: 7/27/2015 8:05:58 AM EDT
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My mom buys all of my kids birthday and Christmas presents at the Goodwill, which is pathetic.
Last year she gave me a birthday card that had someone else's name on it, so she white outed it and wrote my name on top of it. How can you not be embarrassed by this shit!
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Posted: 7/27/2015 8:13:34 AM EDT
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I hear ya OP.
Have the same types in my family. Have one brother who is a damn disgrace. He wanted to borrow a fly fishing rod/reel once. He smashed the reel and broke the rod tip off. When I asked if he was going to replace the rig his reply was,"Why? You have other fishing rods." 
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Posted: 7/27/2015 8:16:20 AM EDT
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My sister-in-law once sent me a birthday card that contained a five-dollar rebate coupon from Duracell batteries, along with the five UPC codes that were needed to get the rebate.
Basically, "I want you to have five dollars for your birthday, but not out of my pocket." |
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Posted: 7/27/2015 8:20:33 AM EDT
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My grandfather and grandmother did this. They were old money and were determined to not spend a dime more than necessary. Ketchup packets in the fridge, no air conditioning, and lived in the same 1,200 square foot house they bought when they got married in 1950. My parents have broken that cycle Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Why do you think they're loaded? Because they're cheap! My grandfather and grandmother did this. They were old money and were determined to not spend a dime more than necessary. Ketchup packets in the fridge, no air conditioning, and lived in the same 1,200 square foot house they bought when they got married in 1950. My parents have broken that cycle Yep same here... my grandparents earned and saved every penny. Kind of funny how people nowadays throw away their butter/margarine/Cool Whip etc tubs, then turn around and buy some Rubbermaid storage containers for $20 or more to store their leftovers. My grandmother would even save the twine from the tops of dog food bags, in case she needed to tie up a package. |
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