Are you frugal in everyday life: perspective?

You may not come out alive Or worse, you will be stranded at sea...

 

Yes I know what you mean, many years ago I used to walk into book shops and could just be there for hours and hours, usually my young kids would need to pull me out of there!

 

What I loved about the physical books was the covers the pictures the smell, being able even just to browse!

 

Love libraries! Like a free Lollie shop. So many choices and formats on offer. Comfy couches, peace and quiet. An introvert's happy place.

 

I must share an experience. Many years ago I was in a supermarket and picked up an investment magazine and started reading. That was a time most magazines weren't shrink-wrapped, except the really sizzling ones .

A security guard approached me and asked me to get lost, thinking I was planning to steal the magazine. I think the shopkeepers at the book shop must be thinking the same when I was there for the whole day. Sometimes they even asked if they could check my bag Of course they saw a notepad with a lot of summaries scribbled during my book-reading feast...

 

No luck!

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When I was a Tafe student, I would sometimes spend the day in the UQ library, accessed with my student ID card. Heaven.

 

That's not very nice bringing your own sweets into the cinema . I want you to buys lots & lots of profitable sweets so my poor tenant EVT Home - EVENT Hospitality & Entertainment can pay the rent.

 

1. Always use a discounted eGiftCard when buying from ColesWorth. Saving at least 5%
2. Plan shopping around the catalogue
3. Use Cashrewards/Shopback whenever possible
4. Homebrand goods can be as good as branded ones -- Oats, Milk, Sugar, Laundry detergent, other staples
5. Bring lunch to work (better enforced during lockdown)
6. Every cent counts, everything adds up
7. Don't own pets ever

 

Not even Chickens?

 

You may save money but it won’t be a rich life IMO. Each to their own I guess

 

Frugality is probably a light way of putting my trait... I think my partner prefers the term Scrooge.
*Our rentals where we live are picked based on proximity to Aldi (currently directly opposite one )
*Sold the car and now we walk/train everywhere (plus saving the environment, right?)
*I'm the person that'll call service providers once a year to negotiate our rates down

We still have fun and travel and he gets my thinking -- what's a few hard years now if we can get out of the rat race soon enough? We just don't get new phones and keep our fixed costs low.

 

So funny you should say this.

My wife and I travelled across Canada and the USA for about 4 months a few years ago.

We were on a budget and took Greyhounds everywhere, mostly overnighters to save on accommodation too. We got them from areas that don’t come even close to existing in Australia.

We met some very interesting people. A lot of people who fell on hard times (probably not for the first time), grabbed a cheap ticket and were making a fresh start somewhere else.

Anyway, ended up in Houston Texas Bus Terminal one morning. Saw a lot of guys dressed in white vests, shorts, knee-high socks and pumps, holding parcels of books and a Greyhound ticket. They were all queuing up to use their one free phone call. The wife got a bit nervous, I played it down but knew full well what was happening. To her despair, they all jumped on our bus. The driver knew the drill. Many of them would sporadically approach the driver at any point and tell him “we’ll just get off here” and two or three ex-cons would jump off and seemingly set upon their new lives.

Great memories although ended up in some seriously dangerous predicaments

 

Hahaha. I was at the Greyhound Houston bus terminal.... bus was due to leave like 2am in the morning or something. Really sketchy.

Picture me, middle aged Asian Australian lone female traveller waiting there by myself in the middle of the night!

Anyway, people leave you alone, but it was all quite an experience.

 

I just remembered from some spam from the cinemas.

One of my pet frugal stubborn tightness is not buying at the candybar at the cinemas
I remember and still do stuffing my pants full of bottles of coke and chips and creeping into the cinema,
Saved me a good $15 each time

 

I get my wife to take a big handbag, that she rarely uses, when we go to the cinema!