Teehee! People who are already cheap, are taking their tightwad ways to the next level, according to the Associated Press. I believe it.
About one woman, Amy VanDeventer, in the article:
Before the economy tanked, she was still wearing maternity clothes from her last pregnancy, clipping coupons and using hand-me-downs to dress her daughters, ages 2 and 3. Now, she's salvaging bagel scraps left on their plates for pizza toppings and cutting lotion bottles in half so she can scrape out the last drops.
Gracious. That chica is not playing! I have no plans to salvage bagel scraps, but I know I've gotten a bit more, ahem, frugal in my ways. I can't remember the last time that I've bought lipstick. I rely on what I already have in my make-up stash.
Are you becoming an extreme cheapie? C'mon. Let Nat Nat know. Tell me your recession-infused cheapness!
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I’ve been cutting lotion bottles in half since college. And a lipstick isn’t done until you’ve cleaned it out with a lip brush – there’s just as much in that tube as there is outside of it!
It’s funny that things I was doing before that people would call cheap and now cool because they are seen as frugal. Like I was plastic cups and reuse them until they break/get thin. I’m talking the red disposable plastic cups. And I was out ziplock bags and reuse them. I refill water bottles instead of discarding and buying new ones. But a lot of these things I did not because I was being cheap or frugal, I did them because I’m big on recycling. Given that I’m in an industry that is heavy on paper I am a stickler about recycling as much as I can. I’m not a complete green freak BUT I am a freak about recycling.
I can’t type this morning was=wash
Still wearing her maternity clothes?!
Even octo-mom is not that crazy.
-Katy