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tightwads biggest "find" here!! spill it! - 7/12/2007 8:14:47 AM

pahunkboy

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ok- im a tightwadf. lemme hear about you or your buddies biggest score on the tighwad front!!!

ill start- when i moved- i installed burned out lightbulbs and took the good ones. oopsy.

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RE: tightwads biggest "find" here!! spill it! - 7/12/2007 8:30:23 AM

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ill start- when i moved- i installed burned out lightbulbs and took the good ones. oopsy

OMG that is too funny!!

I use www.freecycle.org a lot, you can get almost anything free. I just picked up a bunch of gorgeous ceramic pots from someone. Just sign up for your local area and you're good to go. It's also a good way to get rid of stuff you don't want to advertise or throw out.

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RE: tightwads biggest "find" here!! spill it! - 7/12/2007 8:43:11 AM

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...as it turns out- i have switched to the new energy green bulbs. 100 watts for 23 watts....and so forth. so the old bulbs are pretty much hazzardous waste at this point.

i HATE giving teh utility company MY MONEY!!!

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RE: tightwads biggest "find" here!! spill it! - 7/12/2007 8:51:11 AM

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i wanted harley boots really really bad but not 100.00 bad. held out for years. 2 years ago i found a brand new pair in a style i've never seen in the stores, ( way cooler) for 2 bucks. in my size .

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RE: tightwads biggest "find" here!! spill it! - 7/12/2007 8:56:06 AM

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For year's my mother called me cheap. I doubt I've ever paid retail for anything.
Although my biggest score was my first house. Paid 18 grand for it...sold it a year
later after remodeling it for 89....20 years ago now...but it was a lot of money back then.

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RE: tightwads biggest "find" here!! spill it! - 7/12/2007 9:01:54 AM

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ORIGINAL: favesclava

i wanted harley boots really really bad but not 100.00 bad. held out for years. 2 years ago i found a brand new pair in a style i've never seen in the stores, ( way cooler) for 2 bucks. in my size .

i traded a broken antique cedar chest- for a pair of snake skin clompers shoes. i figured i would use them. my brother turns red and is highly embarrassed when i wear them!! [he wants to be in style-in vogue] lol

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RE: tightwads biggest "find" here!! spill it! - 7/12/2007 9:04:01 AM

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ORIGINAL: sub4hire

For year's my mother called me cheap. I doubt I've ever paid retail for anything.
Although my biggest score was my first house. Paid 18 grand for it...sold it a year
later after remodeling it for 89....20 years ago now...but it was a lot of money back then.

me too! ild say 95% of everything i own is 2nd hand, scrath and dent, i have even dumpster dived! in an alley in Chicago- i found a 4k painting- you can bet- i fit that into my car. i did not even want to walk down that alley-but my back hurt....

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RE: tightwads biggest "find" here!! spill it! - 7/12/2007 12:00:16 PM

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Okay.... here's mine.

I live a couple of streets away from the New Covent Garden Market near Vauxhall in South West London. This is a very large wholesale fruit and vegetable market which serves London. It covers a couple of square miles and is open 24/7 except for Sundays when it closes at 2pm.

After busy trading periods, noticeably in the early morning when the retail trade has ended, the late afternoon when the restaurant business is finished and later when the caterers and hauliers are done fruit and vegetables are left in skips and bins throughout the market. This is because many traders buy say ten boxes of tomatoes, take the best eight and leave the rest.

The result? Virtually a 24/7 supply of free fruit and vegetables for anyone who turns up with a big bag or even a car. I get to eat healthily and I save so much on food bills.

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RE: tightwads biggest "find" here!! spill it! - 7/12/2007 12:16:31 PM

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I start shopping for the holidays in the summer and stock up on clearance items, one year I spent less than $5 a person on my female friends getting them each a purse for a dollar and stuffing little things like tissues in them that are useful. I also hit the remants up at Wal-Mart and Joanne's to make stuffed animals and pillows and such for gifts.

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RE: tightwads biggest "find" here!! spill it! - 7/12/2007 4:08:36 PM

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Let's see...
If i go to a gas station that has a pump for each grade, instead of one pump and a selector switch, i'll drain the extra ounce out of the nozzles i'm not using into my tank (only really works on the bikes since the filler caps are dead level)
i grab pallets whenever i see them (building a walkway out to the water in our yard), also good for mock-ups and other temporary projects... no good hardood stuff here
Whenever i take my trash to the dump i swing by the metal/white goods dumpster to see if there's anything good there, have grabbed a few things that i figured would be useful
Whenever i have to get rid of a dead electrical device, i grab switches and some of the other more useful components out of it... i've got bins in the garage full of wiring, motors, sockets, magnets, and misc hardware. The project bedroom has bins of leather, foam, fur, rubber, buckles... i make a lot of my own bondage gear, and a lot of it is made out of reclaimed stuff
i stripped the old server cases at work for sheet metal, and used quite a bit of it on my chopper (seat, side panels, battery box, tank mounts, tail section)
i just bought eight pairs of shorts at Goodwill for $27 this summer... the only suit i own cost $20 there
i take water bottles to work and refill them with tapwater there, because our tap water requires heavy filtering to drink and filters are expensive
i got tired of buying overpriced filters for the little air freshener in our cats bathroom, so i started cutting my own out of big, cheap air conditioning main filters

The funny thing is that we make pretty good money, and it seems like we live within our means, but there never seems to be enough to go around, even with all the corner-cutting...

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RE: tightwads biggest "find" here!! spill it! - 7/13/2007 10:41:36 AM

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Not me, but a buddy of mine does pretty well sometimes.

A few years ago, a Compaq REAL P3 933 with 256MB RAM and a burner. All it needed was a harddrive. That's almost three times as good as my PC.

An HP 1100+ laser printer. He gave that to me. It worked for years and didn't even have that problem of grabbing more than one sheet of paper. Lately it has been shutting down from standby though, I have to unplug it and reboot it to print, but then it still works fine.

And last but not least, his most prized possesion, a totally petrified squirrel he found in a chmney. I bet noone else has one of those on the hutch in their diningroom.

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