What is the most cheapskate thing you have done?

[Anonymous]

See here: http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/339709.page

[Anonymous]

I haven’t bought napkins in years....I just take a big bunch whenever I got out to eat.

[Anonymous]

Slept in the airport because I got in late and had a 7am flight.

Slept under a bridge in Paris.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Theres a line between stealing (refills are usually just for that visit, not returning visits, for example) and being cheapskate.

Regifting, passing off gift bags, buying a kids' meal for yourself is cheapskate.

I often buy a kids' meal for myself because that is the portion size I prefer. Adult portion sizes, particularly of pastas and burgers, can be grotesquely large.

+1 Full sizes are just too much food, and I'm not always in a position to take the rest home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Theres a line between stealing (refills are usually just for that visit, not returning visits, for example) and being cheapskate.

Regifting, passing off gift bags, buying a kids' meal for yourself is cheapskate.

I often buy a kids' meal for myself because that is the portion size I prefer. Adult portion sizes, particularly of pastas and burgers, can be grotesquely large.

+1 Full sizes are just too much food, and I'm not always in a position to take the rest home.

I agree but I do get annoyed when a restaurant says I can’t order from the kid’s menu even though I’m paying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Theres a line between stealing (refills are usually just for that visit, not returning visits, for example) and being cheapskate.

Regifting, passing off gift bags, buying a kids' meal for yourself is cheapskate.

I agree with you PP. A lot of these examples are just plain stealing. But buying a kids meal for yourself is also on the stealing category

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Theres a line between stealing (refills are usually just for that visit, not returning visits, for example) and being cheapskate.

Regifting, passing off gift bags, buying a kids' meal for yourself is cheapskate.

I often buy a kids' meal for myself because that is the portion size I prefer. Adult portion sizes, particularly of pastas and burgers, can be grotesquely large.

+1 Full sizes are just too much food, and I'm not always in a position to take the rest home.

Just go somewhere else. There is nothing in the menu for you

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I haven’t bought napkins in years....I just take a big bunch whenever I got out to eat.

My husband does this and I cannot stand it. I cannot stand seeing a big wad of mismatched, different sizes, different colored cheap, thin restaurant napkins he shoved in our napkin holder on the kitchen table. Keep them in your car? Fine. Doing the above? No, we need to have SOME standards. Please.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Took my kid to the ER in an Uber - and used UberPool instead of Uber X. We shared a ride with a young couple heading out to a restaurant on a date. The woman was rather concerned and offered to have the driver drop us off first.

Not as bad as it sounds: He needed stitches but wasn't in any pain; I knew we'd be waiting hours at the ER, so the extra few minutes didn't matter.

WOW. That is an all time low.

No this is fine bc PP isn't stealing and out really a true time sensitive emergency

[Anonymous]

Other than reusing gift bags, I haven’t done anything close to some of the things I’m reading. I abhor wastage in general.. specially when it comes to food, clothing and basic necessities. I consciously avoid wastage or buying in excess of what I need.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Virtually all of my pens have hotel names on them. And most of my note pads.

Ha, I "gift" those to my kids. They love them.

I'm a nurse and am obsessed with pens. I only do my charting from my vast collection of hotel pens. They're always medium point and "fast" rolling...

I often get "free" address labels from various charities that are essentially junk mail. I recycle everything but the labels, then use these to label --wait for it--my beloved hotel pens and just about anything that goes into my DC school.

[Anonymous]

I YouTubed the he’ll out of home improvement, gutted my kitchen and cut a hole in my exterior wall in January to put my window over my new sink so I didn’t have to pay a contractor $40k to renovate my 10x10 kitchen for me.

Sweat equity.

[Anonymous]

-ask for a cup for water at Starbucks instead of buying a bottle
-mapping out the the guy comes to the parking meters so I don’t needlessly pay
-refusing to pay for garage parking on Sundays when street parking be is free. I’ll sit in my car at the end of the block and wait for someone to pull out.
-Taking home the food people bring to the office to share (bags of open chips leftover from the office party, opened 2L sodas etc).
-taking everyone’s cash contribution at dinner and putting the whole tab on my card so I get the points/miles
-not rounding up for the sitter (3 hours gets her $45, not $50)
-Made a challenge to myself to not buy kid clothes until elementary school. Every item is a hand me down except shoes.
-same with toys- all gifts or hand me downs or if I have store credit somewhere
-knowing the cheapest place to get gas (without having to drive far and waste gas)

[Anonymous]

I cut my own hair recently following a YouTube tutorial. It actually went well so i did my daughters too.

[Anonymous]

I ask "do you have a military discount" wherever I go (military spouse). Home depot, Michael's, party city, everywhere.