Oct 20 2008
extreme living
If you think being thrifty is difficult, let me introduce you to some REALLY extreme ideas others are using. It will help you redefine your idea of thrifty.
- Using newspaper or cloth rags as toilet paper
- Garbage hunting for food (taking furniture or books located near the trash doesn’t sound that extreme to me)
- Limiting toilet flushing
- Saving cooking oil in the fridge and reusing it
- Eating dog and cat food (I read a story of a woman who fed cat food to her kids for days at a time when she had nothing else)
- Taking condiment packs from the local fast food restaurant
- Using pine needles as deodorant (I don’t really want to explore how this would work)
- Taking things from the Lost and Found bin at libraries or other public spaces (I’m not sure this is even legal)
- Using newspaper between blankets so you can lower the thermostat a couple more degrees at night. Apparently, newspaper is a much better insulator than clothing material.
While I certainly admire thriftiness, there has got to be a line somewhere. I’m willing to sacrifice in order to save some money, but at this extreme? What about you? What things you would NOT do in order to save a few extra pennies?
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Using newspaper as toilet paper and limiting flushing is just, for lack of a better word -gross. Eating dog and cat food comes in second. If you’re that hungry and don’t have the $$$ go to your local store and buy a package of Ramen noodles for 39cents. Really these are extreme and for what? Just to save a couple of dollars, it’s really not worth it.
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