You know you're cheap when you...
 

I was just thinking about some of the crazy things I've seen or heard people with money do that I thought was (for lack of a better word) CHEAP :)

You know you're cheap when you:
1. Go to restaurants and tell people its your birthday so you can get something free.

2. Plan to spend 6 hours or more at the movie theatres watching more than one movie so you can get your "money's worth."

3. Order a pizza eat some of it and then call the pizza place back and tell them they got the order wrong just so you can get another pizza for free.

4. Scope out luncheons on campus and pretend to be invited in order to get a free meal.

Let's keep it going..

My roommate in college did this. . .
 

Buy TUSSIN and not ROBITUSSIN when you are sick. . . TUSSIN gave her really bad stomach cramps. LMAO @ the memory.

Beating the System
 

Interesting. My friends tell me I'm "always devising ways of beating the system." LOL

I call and get my returned check fee waived EVERYTIME. I usually just sweettalk the associate. They can really do it if they want to. If it doesn't work the first time, I'll call back to see if I can catch a "brotha" or a "sista"

I haven't paid retail for clothing in yeeeears, don't plan on paying it, and I still look good.

Aiight aiight. A few times, I've packed a blonde hair (blonde so they don't think I did it) in my bag and planted it in my food as I was halfway through my meal to get it free. I learned this from my father. He used to catch a roach, kill it, put it in a medicine bottle, and bring it to the restaurant.

There was a murder in the apartment complex I'm moving in. It wasn't random or anything and it wasnt a break in. The guy who was killed was a parole officer and one of his parolees did it. I already knew this a long time ago, but I called the leasing office "distraught" ;) and said the whole situation didn't sit well with me and I was considering not moving in. How bout I get the first 3 months 1/2 off in addition to a discounted rate for the whole year. That's whats up!

My father
 

I was gonna go to bed, but I have to tell y'all about my crazy Daddy who is ridiculous when it comes to this. Two things he did that I still can't believe:

1. He claimed we were taking care of a sick "Uncle Grady" in another state to get a tax break. Y'all, we ain't got no Uncle Grady. ROTFL!!! He was audited not long after and had to pay Uncle Sam back for Uncle Grady.

2. A long time ago (I guess before most ATMs had cameras), my Daddy went IN the bank and withdrew money from his account THEN went outside (before the teller could process the withdrawal) and withdrew the same amount from the ATM. He got a letter in the mail a week or so later about it and had to put money back but he said he only did it cuz he needed money and it 'bought him some time'

Crazy, y'all, my Daddy is crazy

Re: My roommate in college did this. . .
 

I guess I'm cheap. I bought Wal-Tussin (Walgreen's) on Monday. :o

Re: Beating the System
 

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeell NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWW!!!!


LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO. . . could you have not slid me the blonde hair @ the Cheesecake Factory.

LMAO LMAO LMAO.

Re: Beating the System
 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by NOWorNEVER

Aiight aiight. A few times, I've packed a blonde hair (blonde so they don't think I did it) in my bag and planted it in my food as I was halfway through my meal to get it free. I learned this from my father. He used to catch a roach, kill it, put it in a medicine bottle, and bring it to the restaurant.


LLLLLLLLMMMMMMMMAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOO, thanks for the idea..........LMAO:D ;) :)

I will hold on to the wrappers with the UPC label part of things like pillsbury biscuits and cookie dough call the customer service line a few months later wondering if it safe to eat ( I had already ate it and enjoyed it months ago) and they send me coupons for free and half off any of their goods.

I'll call a fast food joint after I have ate there ask to see the manager and tell them how dissatisfied I am with the service. They usually give me free lunch or dinner.

Re: You know you're cheap when you...
 

i've done 1,2,4. that isn't cheap.....that's being a smart student.

Re: Re: You know you're cheap when you...
 

All in good fun starang21....I myself have committed number 4 before....I didn't say that being ch--p wasn't smart:)

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oh yeah, i knew...can't really laugh and ish over the net, huh?

Birtha what you know about Chesapeake lol... We used to go to the one in New Carrolton and I was six for a looong time until the waiters started to catch on.

As far as being cheap I used to have a press pass for the school newspaper and would go to restaurants and say I was writing an article about restaurants in the area and they would give me either free food or a nice discount

Going to other people's luncheon's on campus is DEFINITELY the way to go as a student. I mean, think about it, they prolly not gonna eat all that food anyway, why have it go to waste?

Anybody else jack utensils (metal or plastic) from the cafeteria? As well as napkins and other items? (Trays, plates, assorted condiments, etc.)

Now I haven't done it
 

But I have heard of people who separate two ply bathroom tissue to get more wear and also taking condiments out of fast food restaurants and filling their bottles at home

i still got the utensils from my dorm, lol...and that was like 5 years ago.

Dang, I guess I'm not cheap at all because I've never done any of that stuff!!!! My great uncle is SO cheap. He lives in Mississippi and he recycles his paper towels! Let's just say, my tail don't use any of those napkins!!
:eek:

Free bottled water and parking
 

I work in a small office and we have those water coolers that are kinda expensive. Well, I take an empty water bottle from home and fill it up from the water cooler and take it home. No one really drinks the water anyway except for guests when they come in.

I also get out of parking garages for free by waiting for someone else to leave and following closely behind them. This only works at the kind that are automated and unattended. We have quite a few like that downtown.

Re: Free bottled water and parking
 

OMG, I do that too! I have a big 1.5L bottle that I fill up every day and take home. I never buy water any more.

Man everytime I go to a restarant I get a STACK of napkins, sometimes I even leave the napkin holder empty. Whenever someone opens my glove compartment, napkins come flowing out. You may never know when you need them.



What about this? Do you ever go to fast food restaurant and order something petty? There's a Popeye's a block away from my school, I luuuuv their biscuits...sometimes I just over there to order ONE biscuit at the drive thru. :D

i promise, that's everyday i get the extra handful of napkins. still got some in my car from BW3's.

Not cheap, but broke

I put in a time off request form for Thursday because I have a little bit of gas in the car and no money. (don't get paid till friday)
Don't think I have enough gas to get me to and from work till I get paid. Plus, I have Fridays and Saturdays off so i'd have a 3 day weekend:o

ttt...2006
 

My cousin is so cheap...she refuses to pay the extra .50 cents for the honey chicken wings meal from chinese restaurants. Instead she orders the regular chicken wings meal and drives to Popeyes chicken pretends that she just ordered and asks them for "extra" honey packets. I laugh everytime we order together...

You know you're cheap when you... steal straws. I can't imagine paying for a straw or pack of straws, so I pick up as many as I can from the restaurant or cafeteria. :o

Oh my gosh...are you my mother??? :p She has a drawer in her kitchen right now filled with about 200 individually wrapped straws from Wendys.

LAWD! I'm taking notes from your posts!

Lemme ask you a querstion? How do you not pay retail? Do you "borrow" the clothing?

Yall, lemme think some...

When you put holes/dents in the wall you use white out instead of paint to fix it up.

You sneak in TO GO boxes at buffets. Talkin' about "Alll you can eat!".

I gets change from everywhere. I go into everyone's coat pockets in my house and at my friends' and extended family's houses. Of course I don't take it all, that would be dumb, they never notice. The last time I sent the coins to coinstar, I made $22.75!

This is my favorite method of petty theft. You need two people for this technique. We take a paper shopping bag, place it next to a spinning display of earrings and necklaces. You spin the display and then tell your peep to suddenly stop it. When it stops, some of the jewelry drops right into your shopping bag! Even if you get caught it's no big deal, just pretend that it happened on accident. You can either keep the jewelry, sell it on ebay, or give it to someone as a gift.

Before I got saved, I used to get drunk off of Scope. That's THE cheapest buzz. 1. You don't have to buy alcohol at clubs 2. If I went to a party, I didn't have to spend money BYOBing. 3. It's even cheaper than a flask, you have to buy the alcohol for the flask.

Dude, cheap is one thing, but stealing other people's money and shoplifting? Not something I'd brag about. I hope those people aren't really your friends...

Someone mentioned taking straws from fast food places, in college I'd take plasticware and condiments from the food court. I hated doing dishes so I had a ton of free disposable utensils.

I almost never buy the product brand. I buy the "off Brand" product.
ex. Equate or Great Value.

I haven't bought trash bags, paper cups or paper towels in over a year. I get them from work.:p

Scope?

4. You will always have fresh, minty breath AND innards! LMAO

If I have to mail something to a friend in the same city or close by I will reverse are names and just drop it in the mail without postage. It gets stamped "Return to Sender" because it is without postage and they get the letter free. I was so bad, I even did this one year with invites to my childs B-day party.

LOL

Thanks for the tip. :p

Not cheap,but resourceful...
 

The one thing I used to do when I had credit card debt...I would call the number on the back of the card and ask them could they lower or eliminate my intrest rate. Many of them will lower it for six months, or eliminate it for six months at a time.:D

I also had an addiction to those POLO overnight bags. When I used to go to a major department store they would always have the bags as a free gift with the purchase of cologne. I would buy the cologne and get the bag, and then a couple of days later go back to the store and return the cologne either saying I got an allergic rash, or I got it as a gift and I hate it. I accumulated about six bags doing this!:o

LMAO! That's a good one!