Youngeyes Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 Let's see: Tube of toothpaste $4.00( good stuff) Silly gift(with shipping) $31.00 If you get 10% more out of each tube of toothpaste you save .40 per tube. 31.00/.40= 77.5 tubes of toothpaste to equal the silly gift. Award for the most effort to save money( and the whitest teeth) go to Brian Enos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ima45dv8 Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 That's a contender, but let's not present that award just yet... Someone on here posted a story about their dad a few years ago. Seems the old gent bought a second refrigerator to keep in the garage, with explicit instructions that any sodas brought into the home had to go there first. That way, once they were cooled, they would not cause the fridge in the house to work as hard to bring them down below room temperature, thus cycling less and saving energy costs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin c Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 I put five quarts of Mobil 1 into my car and let the drippings out of each container go into another container. I have enough now to oil my guns for the next five years. I save the plastic mesh bags on fruits/nuts/veggies for segregating diiferent calibers of brass when tumbling. When we have vegetables planted, dishwater gets dumped into a bucket to water the plants. I have no problem throwing paper plates away after a big party, but the plastic utensils are another story. Paper towels used to dry my hands will end up in my basement shop when I clean my guns, and we all know what happens to used dryer cloths. And yes, my wife and I still take showers together Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve RA Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 There is something missing in the "fridge" story but I can't quite put my finger on it !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Round_Gun_Shooter Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 There is something missing in the "fridge" story but I can't quite put my finger on it !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youngeyes Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 There is something missing in the "fridge" story but I can't quite put my finger on it !!! Now that's cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benos Posted March 8, 2013 Author Share Posted March 8, 2013 Let's see: Tube of toothpaste $4.00( good stuff) Silly gift(with shipping) $31.00 If you get 10% more out of each tube of toothpaste you save .40 per tube. 31.00/.40= 77.5 tubes of toothpaste to equal the silly gift. Award for the most effort to save money( and the whitest teeth) go to Brian Enos. I knew that was coming! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerryShoots Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 When I was a kid my gramma saved the jelly on the sides of the jars by putting in some water and shaking the jar. Then she poured the mix into trays and made really really good popsicles. I save my wasted powder from the floor or bench and put it on my lawn for fertilizer We make our laundry detergent with a recipe we got online that gets the clothes really clean, smells awesome and does about 1000 loads for the price of a jug of detergent that does about 50 loads! (I will ask my wife and post it if anyone wants it) My best friend is into that extreme coupon thing. I go with her to help haul everything and I let her do most of our shopping too. Our grocery bill is hilarious. Best one yet... 400 bucks worth of groceries for a grand total of 35 bucks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ima45dv8 Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 Peanuts Two Ways Early one morning a man compiling stories of the life experiences of people from the WWII era visits an elderly woman in her assisted-living apartment to do an interview. She offers him food and drink, but being polite and professional, he declines. A couple of hours later she excuses herself for a bio break, and he eyes the peanuts in the candy dish hungrily as he's well past his missed breakfast. Finally, the urges get the better of him and he helps himself to a few. Then a few more. And then even more. Before he knows it, they're gone. When she returns he ashamedly admits helping himself to the tasty morsels and offers to replace then as soon as possible. "Don't worry yourself", she says. "I was done with those after I sucked the chocolate off of them." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KentG Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 Quit watching porn flicks to conserve sperm cells ! :roflol: that's a good one I been fixed since I was 40. There are so many ways I could take that conversation but I wont Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benos Posted March 13, 2013 Author Share Posted March 13, 2013 We make our laundry detergent with a recipe we got online that gets the clothes really clean, smells awesome and does about 1000 loads for the price of a jug of detergent that does about 50 loads! (I will ask my wife and post it if anyone wants it) I'd love to see that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motosapiens Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 Some of y'all are serious cheapskates. I'm like brian in that i get pretty serious about getting every gram of toothpaste out of the tube. That's pretty much the only way I'm like him tho, since I suck at shooting. Other ways I conserve: 1. I do 30 rounds of warmup with my carry gun (10 rds at 1-shot/2sec, 10 rds at 1 shot/sec, 10 rds at 1 shot/half-second) because I carry 9mm and have plenty of 9mm bullets, so i can stretch my supply of 40 and 45)/ 2. On long singletrack downhills in the mountains, I kill the motor on my dirtbike and coast down, saving tablespoons of gas at a time. 3. I cut the a-zone out of my cardboard targets when they get too full of tape, and duct-tape another piece of cardboard from a wine-box or shipping box or whatever cardboard would otherwise be getting recycled. 4. I shoot production instead of limited or open. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin c Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 For shooting: Given the current tight ammo supply, I limit my use of centerfire ammo by using my .22 conversion, and even the .22 I limit to 200 rounds per practice. An advantage here is that I have to pick what I am going to work on and just do that, rather than use a few mags each on a dozen drills and not really develop or learn anything new. Unless shooting groups (and I try to every practice) I tape only non-A hits on the paper. Saves time and tape both. Sometimes I'll just shoot the .22, on steel set not to fall. Saves the paper targets, the tape and the time resetting/taping. I always end with shooting the competition gun with PF appropriate ammo, to reacclimate to the gun's different weight and recoil impulse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merlin Orr Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 I conserve my rimfire metallic silhouette targets by only hitting them 3/4 of the time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youngeyes Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 I save targets by putting all my shots in one hole. Makes shot calling easier as well. Same hole,same hole........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benos Posted March 13, 2013 Author Share Posted March 13, 2013 Noticed this one last night. I don't have a dishwasher. So it's not uncommon for a few dishes to be soaking in dishsoap/water in the sink. Which I dab my hands into if I need to wash my hands (instead of wasting hand soap). be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlamoShooter Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 (edited) If you shake a can of Beans before you open it the thick sauce will not stay in the bottom of the can. If you have short hair the shampo last longer and you can just put some water in the bottle to get and extra week of use out of it. Liquid body soap does not wash away in the shower from the water dripping on it, and last 10x as long as bar soap. If you peal a Grapefrut to eat it, very little falls to the waste left behind by the spoon dig way. and if you eat it over the sink you dont have to wash a Knife , a plate and a spoon. If you get married on Valinties day you bundle the selibration dinner each year. Edited March 14, 2013 by AlamoShooter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve RA Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 Is "buddle" a noun or a verb ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlamoShooter Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 Is "buddle" a noun or a verb ??? Its Both I save on letters that way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reichebrown Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 We are in the process of building a new home. We are having a geothermal system installed rather than a heat pump or oil furnace. The eventual goal will be to install enough solar pannals to cover the cost of running the geothermal pump. The solar is not in the budget right now. I would also love to be able to have an electric vehicle since both me an my wife live less than 10 miles from work. We have a garden and chickens for eggs. We also keep trout in one of our ponds and have a healthy population of small mouth bass in another. I switched to eating Palio back in December and saved a bunch not buying 4 sodas from the machine at work each day. For some reason I have lost about 25 pounds... I have started dry fire practice and running every day and I lift twice a week. My plan is to make ESP master before my first child is born in September. Talk about life changes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobS761 Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 I'm a single dad, and way too indulgent, so to save I never take my boys grocery shopping. Also do the homemade laundry soap. We cast our bullets from free or cheap lead. And I've found that if the outside cats don't get fed, there are never any mice around, and they are still fat.. B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sudden Death Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 (edited) A guy I work with at lunch he will bring bologna , and after he pulls the red skin ring off, he will take his finger nail and scrape off the excess bologna that is stuck to it, and eat it ???? Edited March 20, 2013 by Sudden Death Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpyOne Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Ask IM45DV8 I save on punctuation of my sentences saving my fingers and keys from excessive strokes and added wear and tear on the keyboard I also have a job that sends me out of town for months on end so that saves me time for not loading ammo and saves me components for reloading it also saves on my electric bill as the shop light is not on if im not there reloading Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ima45dv8 Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 :roflol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpyOne Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Save water. If it's brown, flush it down, if it's yellow, let it mellow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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