Embarassing Things You Do To Save Money

[Anonymous]

Let's find out the embarrassing things you do to save money:
1. State your HHI.
2. List some things you do to save money.
3. List some ways how you waste money (not a waste to you, but to most people)
Then we can make fun of each other. Or maybe we can learn new ways to save money.

I'll start.
1. HHI = $500,000
2. I am embarassed about using lots of dining coupons (not enough to stop though). I love the Entertainment Book and restaurant.com. I almost never return to the same restaurant unless I get another discount. I am very conservative with paper products. i.e. Napkins, tissues, toilet paper, writing paper. One shampoo bottle can last nearly a year.
I like to walk instead of drive. I shop online but always through a portal that gives me 1-10% cash back.
3. One year, I bought about 10 timeshare weeks. Some I love, some I now regret. I have a $2.5 million house. My DS had about 6 private tutors each week in a variety of areas.

[Anonymous]

this is not fun.

[Anonymous]

I buy almost every bit of my clothing, except socks and bras, at thrift stores.

[Anonymous]

OP, I have 5 times less the HHI but I spend my money on educational activities for my kids and travel to see family abroad, living on 2 different continents.
In my opinion you are choosing, correctly, to save on unimportant consumables like restaurants, but to invest in what really matters.

[Anonymous]

i wear my silver wedding shoes to work as my main shoes no matter what i wear (from 3 yrs ago).

i tell the garage guys at work sometimes i have no $$$ to pay them that day (to park).

I ask coworkers for change to buy a bag of chips from the vending machine. And I ask for k-cups.

HHI $155

[Anonymous]

OP's douchey first post ruined this whole concept. Keep it simple, OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I buy almost every bit of my clothing, except socks and bras, at thrift stores.

which ones

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i wear my silver wedding shoes to work as my main shoes no matter what i wear (from 3 yrs ago).

i tell the garage guys at work sometimes i have no $$$ to pay them that day (to park).

I ask coworkers for change to buy a bag of chips from the vending machine. And I ask for k-cups.

HHI $155

You sound like a very strange lady.

[Anonymous]

1. Roughly $450K from salary, set for life from an inheritance DH recently received.
2. I guess restaurant.com? Before DH made it big and I was putting myself through nursing school (this was before we got married), I used to buy a Kindle book from Amazon and since I am a speed reader, I would cancel the purchase and still have time to read it before it was erased from my Kindle. Stopped doing that when spending $13 on a book wasn't a luxury
3. I don't think we waste money on anything people would judge us for. I think most people understand education, travel experience, and all of that is important. Hell, we only have 1 car because DH and I both prefer to walk everywhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP's douchey first post ruined this whole concept. Keep it simple, OP.

Totally agree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1. Roughly $450K from salary, set for life from an inheritance DH recently received.
2. I guess restaurant.com? Before DH made it big and I was putting myself through nursing school (this was before we got married), I used to buy a Kindle book from Amazon and since I am a speed reader, I would cancel the purchase and still have time to read it before it was erased from my Kindle. Stopped doing that when spending $13 on a book wasn't a luxury
3. I don't think we waste money on anything people would judge us for. I think most people understand education, travel experience, and all of that is important. Hell, we only have 1 car because DH and I both prefer to walk everywhere.

How much was the inheritance?

[Anonymous]

*I used to make $90k. Now collecting unemployment.
*Dropped about half of the kids activities and sold my car.
*Organic foods.

[Anonymous]

1. HHI ~140,000
2. To save money we shop at Food Lion. Prices are SOOO much cheaper, though we do splurge at Wegman's for special occasions and entertaining. Our cars are 8 and 11 years old, run fine and have no immediate plans to replace them. Drove to Richmond to save hundreds of dollars on our dog's dental work. Buy generic dish soap and dishwashing detergent. Haircuts=Hair Cuttery. Pay as you go cell phones, mine is a 6 year old Nokia!
3. Splurge-vacations, travel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One shampoo bottle can last nearly a year.

Is it a 3-gallon bottle or are you bold?

[Anonymous]

$290
Have one bra that I wear everyday and old underwear. Sometimes buy cheap pasta sauce and keep grocery bill really low. Put off dry cleaning to save money.
Belong to a country club and send kids to private school.