I’m cheap, I like to save money because I want to spend it all on beer. All of it, every single dime I make wants to land at the beer store. I find that my cheapness often leads me down a dangerous path.
Car repairs. Sure, anyone can do brakes in their back yard, why pay full price for brakes? Actually, no, not everyone can do brakes. Apparently, some mechanics can’t even do brakes. Save five hundred on brakes, pay seven hundred in repairs to fix it… Guess what? You still need new brakes.
Tires. Sure, buy cheap tires, tires aren’t an important safety feature of your car. Any ole tires will do. Bonus points if you find them in a field. Free!!!
Clothing. Sure, you can buy cheap clothing and pull your underwear up every five minutes. Your boobs fall out of your bra and the seam is coming out of your shirt. Now your boobs are falling out of both your bra and your shirt. (Free drinks!!!)
Furniture. Why spend money on a decent sofa or mattress when you can break your back on a cheap one for the rest of your life. Chiropractor waiting rooms are a fun way to meet other broken-down people. Just think of the pain killers you can get hooked on!!!
Food. Sure ramen is 25 cents. It’s filling. What’s high blood pressure? Who cares? High blood pressure pills are two dollars each. Or you can drop dead, dropping dead is cheap.
Cosmetics and hair products. Sure, who cares? Five years of cheap cosmetics and hair products and you’ll look 150 years old, or older. Don’t worry, you’re about to drop dead from high blood pressure anyways, so what’s the difference?
It’s only money, spend it. Buy all the things. ALL THE THINGS.
Yeah I have started doing my own plane repairs because they are so damn expensive who care I can’t even fix a car planes ✈️ are probably easier right ?
Just kidding but brakes are very simple now a days and my car is 1200$ versus 120 self so I do my own but I started doing car stuff when I was 14 and had instruction from a very angry man and everyone knows angry 😡 people make the best teachers 🤔😬
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I should think that anyone could unscrew a bolt. Anyone at all. I was wrong.
So very wrong.
And ya, planes are easy
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Yeah… I am a dolt with bolts.
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LOL
Beer – volume or connoisseur?
For my brother it was volume.
For me, it is maybe two or three a year if I have someone to share one bottle with, and that beer will be dark and bitter or one brand brewed by Trappist monks at the Abbey of Orval, a 885-year-old monastery nestled in a valley in the Ardennes mountain range in the Gaume region of Belgium.
Have you sampled a bottle of St. Bernardus Abt12?
I don’t drink beer to get drunk. Gave that up in 1982 and haven’t had even a buzz since.
Why care about brake jobs and tires if you want to check out early?
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I’ve always been one to care if I run someone over on the street. I know, I’m weird bahaha.
Beer, volume, cheap and plentiful. 🙂
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Would it be cheaper to buy by the keg and have it on tap in your own home?
Here’s someone that did the research
http://www.cleverdude.com/content/which-is-cheaper-keg-or-canned-beer/
And here’s a company that sells a Kegerator making their case that buying by the keg is cheaper than buying by the can.
“Kegerator Economics
“When you buy a kegerator for your home, you’re not only able to conveniently store large amounts of cold draft beer, but you can also save approximately 40-60% in costs, compared to buying the same volume of beer in cans or bottles.”
https://learn.kegerator.com/kegerator-economics/
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I’d like that in my house. That’s a good idea 😀
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Reblogged this on cabbagesandkings524 and commented:
The Skinny One has a few things to say on the subject of how expensive it can be to save money.
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Haha thanks for sharing 🙂
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But ramen is sooooo tasty! 😀
Is it really $25 where you live? Or is that just for the really nasty flavored ones? The good Japanese ones were always more than a pound in London.
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25 cents lolol. That’s about 50 cents in the U.K.
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Oops! I meant 25c!! lol I just used the wrong sign!
$25 would be crazily pricey!
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Haha I checked to make sure I didn’t write that 🙂
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My step-son was recently stuck here for a month and a half with a broken old car (a ’93). nearly half that time was spent trying to fix it himself, studying YouTube vids about the ignition system, fuel injection system, computer, and running back an forth to the parts store (Me driving a rental because my car was down too, a 40 mile round trip.) and getting it almost working. Finally, when it just got worse, it was towed to the mechanic who had to consult with a transmission specialist (sounds like doctors, doesn’t it) who advised that it would cost more to just diagnose the tranny than the car was worth. Finally, he let the old beast go to junk and bought one younger and got on his way.
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Mines a 2013. Never ever cheap out
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My old one went to junk too (terminal rust). it was an ’04. The kid (he’s 48, but still a kid to me) got an ’03 for cash because he refused to get an auto loan. I now have a ’13 also (Kia Soul) and eventually I will own it instead of the bank.
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I also drive a Kia!!!!
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‘I’m cheap, because I want to spend it all on beer’, definitely my kinda lady!
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Haha 🙂 “lady” is a bit of a stretch but I’ll take it lolol
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AND 😉 I’d buy you free drinks all evening if you……. btw all women are ladies to me ❤
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Lolol 🙂
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“High blood pressure pills are two dollars each. Or you can drop dead, dropping dead is cheap.” – Yolo because we all die eventually.
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Yolo!!!!
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Hahaha, I think you perfectly described my super cheap aunt there (minus the beer – don’t want to get too expensive there if you can just drink tap water or roam around town prying on other people’s coffee). Joke’s on her, though. After she dies her kids will just laugh all her hoarded money away.
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Aw that’s sad. Although my mom spent all hers, so can we find a happy medium in there? 🙂
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I wish, now that’d be good for all parties, haha.
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For real. But it’s a good lesson for us. 🙂
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True that.
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I spent a fortune keeping my ’98 Durango running, year after year, because I was too cheap to want a car payment. I finally broke down and got a 2017 (Star Wars Edition) Nissan Rogue, in May. 69 days later a 16 yo driving a stick took a corner too wide and plowed into the front of my investment.
Now I have a car payment and a rental.
Sometime in September I’m to get my Rogue back, good as new. I hope so, since hundreds of dollars worth of beer money was auto-deducted from my bank account today, to pay for the car I do not have.
The moral of the story is don’t let your 16 yo child drive a stick. Or don’t fall in love with a new car, because that’s asking for trouble. Or keep your old car and save your money for beer.
I don’t know what the moral was. Is it 5 o’clock yet?
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Hahahaha, never fall in love with your car. I was told that the day I bought my first car.
That’s funny. And fucked. That’s fuckny. (Made up a word, nice right?)
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It’s fucking awesome. Like, fukawsom.
I think you’re better at this than me. 😉
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Takes practice. And you have to have the name Webster for five minutes.
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Lol! That sounds like a good story in and of itself. 😂
In the meantime, it’s probably best I stick to real words, like !&?@#!#%&! 😏
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Ha my married name was Webster and that is NOT a good story lolol
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Ah, well, we all never liked him, anyway. 😉
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He sure didn’t like me bahahah
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😂😂😂😂😂
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mmmm beer I’ll comment later
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This counts as a comment.
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good then I don’t have to be coherently sober later
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No one does lolol
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Frugal good, cheap not so good.
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Truth!
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I’m literally in tears over this post. It’s hysterical! Thank you for the laugh.
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That’s awesome, thank you 🙂
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Love it. 🤣😂
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Thanks!!!
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HAHAHA! You had me at beer. Your brain is amazing, and so is this post. Hilarious!
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Lol that’s awesome, thank you 🙂
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You could give a course on Best Post Titles. Scrolling down my reader, your titles leap out at me and I hit the brakes, every time 🙂
And in case you’re wondering, yes, as you can tell from the brakes metaphor, I did read the whole post 🙂
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Haha that’s awesome. Thank you.
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See, this is why I shop lift.
https://damngirlgetyourshittogether.com/
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Lolol
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Using this in every disagreement ever from now on. My new point of reference.
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I’m going to get shot by the wife, aren’t I? Hahaha
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Most likely, but getting the win is the bigger picture here.
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Good luck!! Some valid shit though, you’ll do great haaa
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Love the sarcasm!
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😁
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Great list! Also, shampoo. Why spend a ton on fancy stuff? I get the $1 bottle of conditioner/shampoo combo. Hell, you can even use it as mouthwash in a pinch.
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Sudsy kisses goodnight are my favorite 😀
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Good thing I don’t have a beer problem but I have a coffee problem. I am frugal and you’d probably hate my life or cry if you walked in my shoes. I buy “cheap” shampoo and cheap chocolate bars. No shame. My life is still the same and the Earth didn’t stop rotating.
Spoiler alert: I didn’t die from the knock-off chocolate bars that actually taste amazing. There’s forums about these questionable Turkish imports, so I know I haven’t gone crazy.
Thanks Dollarama for your delicious 2 for $1 Meteor “Mars” bars. And Aussie shampoo is the best. Mark Anthony can’t even compete with Aussie. 😉
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