Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire What’s your most ridiculous cheapskate story ?

Haha. I like Valsdad. It's kinda scary there's other people in this world that think like me? Aint nothing wrong with not spending money to accomplish the same thing.

My Pop and his buddy went to the movies about once a month. Both cut from the same stuff. On the way to the movies they drove past a pile of cut up pine boards at the cub on garbage day, needless to say they stopped and threw all of it into the car.

Damn. That's it, stop this thread with this one.

I love this thread, lots of good ideas

I don't think anyone is saving money on lawnmower gas like Valsdad is.

Son of a......I was so enamored with his dual purpose clothesline I never even noticed that. That boy there got it going on. Doesn't even have to mow.

When I was a CPT in the Army in the early 1970’s we’d go TDY to Fort Meade MD to shoot in the First Army Rifle Matches. The OIC of our team was a LTC who was the most frugal person I ever met. Back then officers had to pay for their meals and breakfast cost about $2.00. Fort Meade had excellent mess halls because it had a lot of high ranking officers with NSA and First Army HQ were both there. This LTC would go to breakfast with two full sized thermoses, one he’d fill with coffee and the other with orange juice. He’d fill his pockets with several apples and oranges and a couple of hard boiled eggs. Guess what he had for lunch? Apples, oranges, eggs and coffee and OJ to drink. He threw nickles around like they were manhole covers.

Sad part is, he has tons of money. Didn’t have much when I was a kid but he invested wisely and saved. He grew up dirt poor so I can understand it to a degree. Lord knows I’ve tried NOT to emulate him in cheapness.

But I am frugal. LOL


Clyde

Nasty. Disgusting. Has your cheapskate dad ever heard of hepatitis? Yes, even innocent looking 10 year old boys can come down with it, and your nasty disgusting father would spread it to the entire family.

Working on a way to upcycle last years Christmas wreath too...thrifty.

Well this was about 15 or so years ago So I guess the incubation period is over.?🥹 I’ve never known a single person who had hepatitis.

You’ve led a sheltered life if this rings your bell so hard. LOL

Never said it wasn’t, shall I say, healthy but I’ve eaten worse.


Clyde

Mom visited a cousin in Germany, while there she found some cylindrical paste tomatoes her host used to make sauce. She really liked them, so she dried a hatch of seeds in a paper towel.
She stashed them in her bra to avoid issues with customs.

Mom, The International Smuggler!



I don't do the water in ketchup.
Do it with steak sauce, it gets thick in the bottom.

My wife can squeeze the toothpast out of the pores of a tube.

Her Grandma used to drink half a 2 liter of generic root beer, then fill it with water. And repeat. First time I accepted a drink from her was the last. That root beer was clearer than weak iced tea.

I used to watch my grandma wash mold off of lunch meat and then make my grandpa's sandwiches. That old man never got sick either.

Back in the 90's I was with a group from work at a Hardees. This was when fast foods first started giving free refills. There were four of us. when we were leaving another guy and myself threw our cups away. The two ladies we were with went and god refills. The next thing I know the other guy is digging his cup out of the garbage. He got his refill. That afternoon I waited until he went to the restroom and took his cup and carved an "X" in the wax on the bottom of the cup. The ladies asked me what I was doing. I told them how he went back and dug his cup out of the trash. When he came back I waited until he took a drink out of his cup and asked him about the X on the bottom. He looked at the bottom and then said. "Oh yeah, I did that." Then I told him I did it too to my cup. I was hoping he would think that when he went back and got a cup out of the trash he grabbed my cup and not his.

I forgot about this but what about the guys who try to reload 22LR ammo

Mowed it once, in the springtime. A lot of that area right near the clothesline is bunchgrass, a perennial that lives through our drought periods. Over the 7 years we've lived here I've allowed it to go to seed before I cut it in late spring, early summer, and I've established more of it and fewer weeds.

We're on a well, and I don't like to waste water, or the electricity to get it out of the ground. There's a small "lawn" of sorts further from that area, if you look hard you can make out a piece past the right edge of the towel. Might be 50'x50' total area? Enough for the wife to do some agility stuff with the whippet boys.

I'm no fan of big lawns, having to mow 2-3 times a week like back east. Dumb. Get some sheep, or a goat or two instead of mowing all that stuff. Only real use I have for grass is the clippings help light off the chicken litter straw and shavings for compost.

And no gas in the mower, battery operated. No noise, no fumes.

I knew a guy that blew his pickup engine so he rented an appropriate Uhaul and swapped the engines.

I know a fellow that only had one license plate for all his trailers which were all painted the same colour.

One of my all time favorite customers here at the gun shop passed away last Thanksgiving day at 87. He was one of the best men I ever knew and he had forgotten more about reloading than most guys will ever know. We accumulate a lot of defective/screwed up ammo on the range; misfires, dented/smashed cases, crooked bullets, etc. We saved them up and gave them to Mr. Bill. He would pull every single bullet and salvage the bullets and primers. He'd even save the bullets from misfired .22s and melt them down, same for shot in shotgun shells. He would even salvage Berdan primed steel cases and convert them to Boxer. He just came from that time period where they wasted nothing, plus he was a retired widower with nothing much to do besides shoot and reload. I'd save him any 7.62x54R brass that I found and he'd convert them to 8x50R for an old Siamese Mauser he had. I got him PLENTY of decent brass cases, but even wanted the Russian steel ones. I miss him.