Message 380 of 1296

You might be a cheapskate if...

… your spouse hides things in the house because he or she is afraid you’re going to sell them on eBay to raise money for your emergency fund.

... you plan meals like your 8th grade Home Economics teacher (if only she could see you now).

... the checker tells you that she has never in her 10 years of working in a grocery store sold a bar of Fels-Naptha soap.

... you call your credit card company’s 800 number just to hear your balance going down.

... you use more envelopes to hold your money than you use to mail your bills.

... your ceramic piggy bank has a spotlight over it.

... you go online to check your savings account balance first thing in the morning on the first day of the month even if it means you have to get up early ... then you sit there and giggle with glee.

... you get $60 cash from the bank and it lasts longer than $100 cash used to last.

... you buy something with your credit card and immediately go online to transfer the exact amount from your checking account to pay it early, just so you will never show a balance.

... every month you take your saved change to the bank, deposit it, then head straight to the nearest computer to transfer that amount to your credit-card balance!

... friends ask you to go out to eat Mexican food and you say you’re making tacos at the house if they’d like to come by and join you.

... you’re faced with losing your job and you don’t lose any sleep at night because you have six months of living expenses in your emergency fund and no credit-card debt!

... you hear about a good book and rush online to put it on hold ... at the library!

... you discuss your finances with your spouse and you are both SMILING because you know the balance of three bank accounts—to the penny!

Do you have any to add??
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You outed me! LOL

Linda
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3 months ago
Come on, Linda...add one of yours! Here is one from me..

...you coast on hills to save gas.
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3 months ago
you have more coupos in your wallet/purse than you do cash !
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3 months ago
Good one about the coupons...

You change your purse to carry water, candy, and chips into the matinee movies.
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3 months ago
sorry guys, i cant agree with you on this one. that doesnot make you cheapskate, it makes you smart.

all the money we have been saving is worth 1/2 what it was when we started. but what is paid off is worth gold.

and the bag for the movies, who doesnt do that?

my mother-in-law had one for the restaurant. every roll, sugar packet etc. went into there. we could eat from her bag for a week.. fyi, we never took her to buffets!!!!!!!!

my dad has this immense collection of equal packets from the restaurants at lunch. we will never run out. nuclear war doesnot scare me.
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3 months ago
...when you save your left boot after wearing out your right boot to wear with the last left boot you saved, so you can wear two left boots.

...when it takes five acres to rust a nail on your farm.

...when some comes over for breakfast and you half an egg with them.

...when your dog goes to the neighbor to eat.

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3 months ago