Craziest Thing(s) You've Done To Save Money (1 Viewer)

[Gianni Verscotchie]

I'm selling one of my 3 Benzes. Not the AMG though.

 

[johnnycakes]

7) In college my roomate (also cheap) and I went for it with how long we could wait to turn on the heat. The apartment opened up into a common area that was heated. we routinely left our door open (while we were there) and put a fan in the common area (ran by the complex's electricity) blowing into our apartment to get extra heat. Skipped out on at least 6 weeks of heat payments thanks to this.

8) Screen once went out on my laptop and was unrepairable. But the CPU still ran. so i took the screen off the laptop, plugged in an external monitor and continued to use it as a desktop for another year until the CPU went bust. It was a pretty ghetto setup... the lapdesktop my friends called it.

9) My buddies and I were in Memphis and Icon hooked us up with some free passes to the local strip joint. it was a BYO alcohol place. But they charged you for mixers (but not cups). So, we spefiically bought Skyy vodka (dark blue bottle), poured 1/2 into a different bottle, then filled the rest with our mixer (OJ) and carried the bottles in (chilled) so that we could spend 100% of our money on lap dances and 0% on drinks.

10) At a club in Vegas my buddies and I got bottle service and tipped the bartenders to send us some ladies over. But we didn't want those ladies drinking our Vodka. With the price of the table you also got these fancy bottled "VOSS" waters. So before the club got full we ran an elaborate process where we funneled the expensive vodka into the Voss Bottle, and the water into the Vodka bottles. Now any chicks were just drinking our water + OJ whilst we were enjoying the booze. If any ladies actually looked like they were not just mooching and potentially in play.. we bought them drinks from the bar. But to the rest we were giving them water "cut" OJ/cran/red bull

I like #10. Good stuff.ETA: Good use if the word "whilst".

 

[jamny]

4) Once I watched someone the row in front of me take 2 bites of some ballpark nachos.. then something came up and they had to leave. It was very clear they were exiting for good.. not for a break. They left the nachos. I ate them.

:X

 

[Sarnoff]

4) Once I watched someone the row in front of me take 2 bites of some ballpark nachos.. then something came up and they had to leave. It was very clear they were exiting for good.. not for a break. They left the nachos. I ate them.

:X

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[Gianni Verscotchie]

4) Once I watched someone the row in front of me take 2 bites of some ballpark nachos.. then something came up and they had to leave. It was very clear they were exiting for good.. not for a break. They left the nachos. I ate them.

:X

The guy was probably late for his hepatitis treatment

 

[17seconds]

Instead of going to a tire shop and getting a leak fixed for $20 I filled a tire every other day for about 2 mos. I even calculated psi lost per hour but it kept increasing.

I think I mentioned it in one of the auto repair threads.

 

[CurlyNight]

Called DirecTV 4 times in 2 weeks threatening to cancel.

I call Comcast as soon as they raise the bill. When they say there's nothing they can do, I threaten to cancel the service and walk in Best Buy or some other retail store where they have those new customer booths to sign up as a new customer.

 

[shadyridr]

Instead of going to a tire shop and getting a leak fixed for $20 I filled a tire every other day for about 2 mos. I even calculated psi lost per hour but it kept increasing.

I think I mentioned it in one of the auto repair threads.

winner so far

 

[McGarnicle]

One night I was driving around in a stolen armored car and spotted a hooker. I picked her up and she gave me a handy. I paid her, she got out and started walking away. I followed her, and beat her with a baseball bat until my money flew out and landed on the sidewalk. I picked it up, then went bowling with my cousin Roman.

 

[Buck Bradcanon]

I also took toilet paper for years. I was inspired by a Jeopardy! contestant who talked about it in her interview... "Considering what it's used for, I hate spending money on it. If you're enterprising enough, you can find it for free." I used to leave work on Fridays with a couple rolls taken from the men's room or the janitor's closet.

Good idea if you're single or married with no children..

I have four daughters.. I'd have to spend 8 hours a day running to different locations to steal enough toilet paper to cover what they use...

I have an Amazon monthly subscription for toilet paper....seriously.

I have a wife and 2 daughters and I would estimate I use about 1/100th the TP they collectively do. Maybe less.

 

[Buck Bradcanon]

Vasectomy.

 

[CurlyNight]

Anyone watch Extreme Cheapskate show last year?? I remember seeing dumpster diving, waiting outside restaurants to snag left over food thrown out, not using a toilet/paper... When they say extreme, it was extreme! And many folks were not considered so poor to have to do this stuff.

 

[Mr. Cross]

Scammed a bunch of message board people by making up a fake story and accepting donations.

 

[Brony]

I just want to thank all you ####heads that steal toilet paper so that now we're stuck with the cheapest possible paper in public restrooms.

 

[TheAristocrat]

Her name was Jessica.

 

[Dentist]

Instead of going to a tire shop and getting a leak fixed for $20 I filled a tire every other day for about 2 mos. I even calculated psi lost per hour but it kept increasing.

I think I mentioned it in one of the auto repair threads.

winner so far

oh com'on.. i offered up some real solid stuff... this classifies as moronic, not savvy

 

[17seconds]

Instead of going to a tire shop and getting a leak fixed for $20 I filled a tire every other day for about 2 mos. I even calculated psi lost per hour but it kept increasing.

I think I mentioned it in one of the auto repair threads.

winner so far

oh com'on.. i offered up some real solid stuff... this classifies as moronic, not savvy

that not why were here. make a new thread for the best things

 

[Zow]

A stripper once dropped her tips while giving me a dance.

I picked the tips up... to use as tips for more dances.

 

[sbonomo]

Instead of going to a tire shop and getting a leak fixed for $20 I filled a tire every other day for about 2 mos. I even calculated psi lost per hour but it kept increasing.

I think I mentioned it in one of the auto repair threads.

winner so far

oh com'on.. i offered up some real solid stuff... this classifies as moronic, not savvy

 

[Ignoramus]

I just want to thank all you ####heads that steal toilet paper so that now we're stuck with the cheapest possible paper in public restrooms.

My chapped anoos and I join you in giving thanks.

 

[Dentist]

Crazy things I've seen people do to save money at dental visits.. SERIOUSLY:

1) a guy had gum disease SO bad that his tooth got loose and came clean out .. BUT he put it back into the non-bleeding socket with... you guessed it.. SUPER GLUE. He glued his own damn dead rotten tooth into his body. This was an overall very unclean man... and this is the sickest thing i've ever seen. Result: Dentures

2) Dude had a filling come out.. but sat on it for months and filled it himself with... TILE GROUT. Result: split tooth, extraction

3) Dude had an abscess infection bubble on his gum and would DRAIN IT HIMSELF with a heated safety pin instead of coming in for an extraction/antibiotics.

These weren't people doing these things out of fear from coming in... strictly culture of poor behavior

 

[shadyridr]

Instead of going to a tire shop and getting a leak fixed for $20 I filled a tire every other day for about 2 mos. I even calculated psi lost per hour but it kept increasing.

I think I mentioned it in one of the auto repair threads.

winner so far

oh com'on.. i offered up some real solid stuff... this classifies as moronic, not savvy

thread title says craziest. Driving around with a flat tire to save a few bucks is not only moronic but crazy and dangerous.

 

[johnnycakes]

Crazy things I've seen people do to save money at dental visits.. SERIOUSLY:

1) a guy had gum disease SO bad that his tooth got loose and came clean out .. BUT he put it back into the non-bleeding socket with... you guessed it.. SUPER GLUE. He glued his own damn dead rotten tooth into his body. This was an overall very unclean man... and this is the sickest thing i've ever seen. Result: Dentures

2) Dude had a filling come out.. but sat on it for months and filled it himself with... TILE GROUT. Result: split tooth, extraction

3) Dude had an abscess infection bubble on his gum and would DRAIN IT HIMSELF with a heated safety pin instead of coming in for an extraction/antibiotics.

These weren't people doing these things out of fear from coming in... strictly culture of poor behavior

Good stuff, there, Dentist... you should be ruling this thread, without a doubt.

Ever see much meth mouth coming through your office? Not that it has anything to do with saving money... just wondering what's been some of the worst sets of choppers you've seen plant their butt in your chair... and was it a gold mine for you?

 

[Dentist]

Crazy things I've seen people do to save money at dental visits.. SERIOUSLY:

1) a guy had gum disease SO bad that his tooth got loose and came clean out .. BUT he put it back into the non-bleeding socket with... you guessed it.. SUPER GLUE. He glued his own damn dead rotten tooth into his body. This was an overall very unclean man... and this is the sickest thing i've ever seen. Result: Dentures

2) Dude had a filling come out.. but sat on it for months and filled it himself with... TILE GROUT. Result: split tooth, extraction

3) Dude had an abscess infection bubble on his gum and would DRAIN IT HIMSELF with a heated safety pin instead of coming in for an extraction/antibiotics.

These weren't people doing these things out of fear from coming in... strictly culture of poor behavior

Good stuff, there, Dentist... you should be ruling this thread, without a doubt.

Ever see much meth mouth coming through your office? Not that it has anything to do with saving money... just wondering what's been some of the worst sets of choppers you've seen plant their butt in your chair... and was it a gold mine for you?

it's very rare that someone comes in with an extremely poor mouth and the dough to fix it up in a really premium way.

I've seen meth mouth, i've seen other drug mouths. Multiple times with people having every single tooth rotted to the gum line. they have nothing but black roots in their mouth, it's sick.

but rarely do those cases get off the ground.. they got there due to being poor and i'm not a low cost provider.

The cases where i make a ton of money are the medium bad cases... because those people aren't avoiding dentistry because they are poor and stupid.. they are avoiding it due to fear, or they are the "a" type people that are "too busy" to come in and "too busy" to brush/floss.. but they have money.

So they choose the premium way of getting fixed up, and that pays. I've done 2 cases this year where the total bill was north of 15K... and really compared to some better marketed mega-dentists, that's nothing.. but for little me with a microscopic advertising budget it was a big deal.

 

[drummer]

Avoid dentists.

 

[Dentist]

Avoid dentists.

it ain't crazy if it's half the population

 

[The Big Guy]

I once talked my way into a discount at the 4 hour short stay motel that I was taking my future wife to. Told the guy that I never paid that much here before and he lowered the price by $10 and said -oh, I thought you wanted the bubble bath included with the room. (room had jacuzzi)

 

[Tiger Fan]

Ice Bags

 

[eoMMan]

Instead of going to a tire shop and getting a leak fixed for $20 I filled a tire every other day for about 2 mos. I even calculated psi lost per hour but it kept increasing.

I think I mentioned it in one of the auto repair threads.

winner so far

oh com'on.. i offered up some real solid stuff... this classifies as moronic, not savvy

thread title says craziest. Driving around with a flat tire to save a few bucks is not only moronic but crazy and dangerous.

But it doesn't even make sense. He's spending more than $20 at the air machine for those two months filling it up.

 

[Brony]

Used a used mattress from the dumpster as my bed for a year in college. Sprayed it with Lysol first of course

 

[Tiger Fan]

Used a used mattress from the dumpster as my bed for a year in college. Sprayed it with Lysol first of course

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qx751dNw7Q

 

[the moops]

4) Once I watched someone the row in front of me take 2 bites of some ballpark nachos.. then something came up and they had to leave. It was very clear they were exiting for good.. not for a break. They left the nachos. I ate them.

:X

It was nachos. Not like it was half a hot dog or something.

 

[Dentist]

4) Once I watched someone the row in front of me take 2 bites of some ballpark nachos.. then something came up and they had to leave. It was very clear they were exiting for good.. not for a break. They left the nachos. I ate them.

:X

It was nachos. Not like it was half a hot dog or something.

exactly.. like you've never eaten a chip and dip at someone's party that someone else had their hands in?

now maybe the guy double dipped... maybe... whatev

 

[SteevieG]

When I go to the gas station I'll put the nozzle in the tank, raise the hose and drain what little gas is leftover from the person who was there before me before I pay and fill up. There is always a little left in the hose. I do the same thing when I'm done. The #### costs so much I want every drop.

 

[gmbacm]

When I go to the gas station I'll put the nozzle in the tank, raise the hose and drain what little gas is leftover from the person who was there before me before I pay and fill up. There is always a little left in the hose. I do the same thing when I'm done. The #### costs so much I want every drop.

Doesn't the meter kick in once the gas reaches the hose? I can see you might get a couple free drops after pumping, not sure about before as that gas is going in regardless of hose lifting technique.

 

[SteevieG]

When I go to the gas station I'll put the nozzle in the tank, raise the hose and drain what little gas is leftover from the person who was there before me before I pay and fill up. There is always a little left in the hose. I do the same thing when I'm done. The #### costs so much I want every drop.

Doesn't the meter kick in once the gas reaches the hose? I can see you might get a couple free drops after pumping, not sure about before as that gas is going in regardless of hose lifting technique.

I found out about doing this when filling a gas can for my mower. When I put the nozzle in I hit the handle and maybe a quarter cup came out. I can't really tell how much comes out when I do it with my car, but I can feel a difference in the weight of the hose.

It's not much, but it doesn't take any time to do so I'll take whatever comes out.

 

[gianmarco]

This one is bad because it just recently happened and it's not as if I couldn't remotely afford it but just made both my wife and I so mad, so here goes:

We just took a trip with our 2 kids, age 8 and 8 months. We flew to our destination, arriving ~7:30pm, where we were staying for 5 days and had rented a car. The car rental included an infant car sear in the reservation but when we went to get the rental car, after already having paid for the reservation, they said the car seat wasn't included in the price and I had to pay an additional $12/day for the seat ($60). Did I pay that? Oh no, of course not.....

The wife and baby sat at the rental car place while I left with my son, went to a Target a couple miles away, bought a car seat, then drove back to the airport rental car area, installed it, and left. Of course the idea was that we'd end up just keeping the car seat (got a convertible as she's getting bigger and would need it anyway). Of course, we ended up not liking the one we picked up, so on the day of departure, I dropped them back off, went back to Target, returned the car seat, then back to the airport to drop off the car.

All for $60.

I will say, though, that the wife was actually completely on board with it. In fact, when I told the lady at the counter that for $60 I can just pick up my own car seat (not seriously, but was just pointing out how absurd it was), my wife says "yeah, we'll just do that. I'll wait here". And that was that.

 

[comfortably numb]

I also took toilet paper for years. I was inspired by a Jeopardy! contestant who talked about it in her interview... "Considering what it's used for, I hate spending money on it. If you're enterprising enough, you can find it for free." I used to leave work on Fridays with a couple rolls taken from the men's room or the janitor's closet.

LOL at "if you're enterprising enough you can find it for free"

 

[comfortably numb]

Bought used tires. 10 bucks each from some guy that had a buttload in his barn. picked out 4 that were the right size and looked ok. Car would make a left hand turn without even moving the wheel. Paid to have them put on and balanced, then had to pay for new ones and obviously had them put on and balanced. Didn't work out as planned.

lol

I always have bought used tires, albeit from a place that sells used tires. So no issue at all.

 

[jamny]

Bought used tires. 10 bucks each from some guy that had a buttload in his barn. picked out 4 that were the right size and looked ok. Car would make a left hand turn without even moving the wheel. Paid to have them put on and balanced, then had to pay for new ones and obviously had them put on and balanced. Didn't work out as planned.

lol

I always have bought used tires, albeit from a place that sells used tires. So no issue at all.

Used to buy them all the time on Atlantic Ave. I had severe front end issues on this '68 Cougar that I had and would go through tires like crazy

 

[jamny]

4) Once I watched someone the row in front of me take 2 bites of some ballpark nachos.. then something came up and they had to leave. It was very clear they were exiting for good.. not for a break. They left the nachos. I ate them.

:X

It was nachos. Not like it was half a hot dog or something.

exactly.. like you've never eaten a chip and dip at someone's party that someone else had their hands in?

now maybe the guy double dipped... maybe... whatev

Pass

I'll buy my own.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

I just want to thank all you ####heads that steal toilet paper so that now we're stuck with the cheapest possible paper in public restrooms.

The public restrooms in the supermarkets near me still use the good stuff off their shelves, not the industrial grade sandpaper some places use.

 

[McGarnicle]

4) Once I watched someone the row in front of me take 2 bites of some ballpark nachos.. then something came up and they had to leave. It was very clear they were exiting for good.. not for a break. They left the nachos. I ate them.

:X

It was nachos. Not like it was half a hot dog or something.

exactly.. like you've never eaten a chip and dip at someone's party that someone else had their hands in?

now maybe the guy double dipped... maybe... whatev

Pass

I'll buy my own.

Yeah. That's pretty disgusting.

 

[Treynwreck3]

Mowed my own yard one summer.

 

[johnnycakes]

Mowed my own yard one summer.

Doesn't that suck?

 

[fruity pebbles]

My brother used to go outside and record the numbers on his electric meter several times a day and keep a logbook

 

[Treynwreck3]

Mowed my own yard one summer.

Doesn't that suck?

Yes. It does.

 

[The Noid]

I get 3 wipes on a flushable wipe.

Wipe. Fold in half. Wipe. Fold in half again. Wipe.

It's like getting 66% off everytime I buy a pack.

 

[17seconds]

Instead of going to a tire shop and getting a leak fixed for $20 I filled a tire every other day for about 2 mos. I even calculated psi lost per hour but it kept increasing.

I think I mentioned it in one of the auto repair threads.

winner so far

oh com'on.. i offered up some real solid stuff... this classifies as moronic, not savvy

thread title says craziest. Driving around with a flat tire to save a few bucks is not only moronic but crazy and dangerous.

It wasn't flat. When TPMS went off I'd fill it. Never got below 25psi. It was moronic to spend the effort though, not disputing that.

 

[Cliff Clavin]

Instead of going to a tire shop and getting a leak fixed for $20 I filled a tire every other day for about 2 mos. I even calculated psi lost per hour but it kept increasing.

I think I mentioned it in one of the auto repair threads.

winner so far

oh com'on.. i offered up some real solid stuff... this classifies as moronic, not savvy

thread title says craziest. Driving around with a flat tire to save a few bucks is not only moronic but crazy and dangerous.

It wasn't flat. When TPMS went off I'd fill it. Never got below 25psi. It was moronic to spend the effort though, not disputing that.

Did this as well to a degree. Two tires kept going near flat towards the end of last summer and it was time to replace all 4. Held off for over a month since I had to buy winters tires and didn't want to buy new summer tires and pay to get them put on for a month, then take them off and buy a new set of winter tires and pay to get them put on.

First stop pretty much every time I left the house was a gas station to fill them up (free air).