{"id":161,"date":"2009-03-11T18:16:56","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T02:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.budgex.net\/blog\/?p=161"},"modified":"2011-05-14T10:23:49","modified_gmt":"2011-05-14T18:23:49","slug":"the-cheapskate-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.budgex.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/the-cheapskate-factory\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cheapskate Factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have all done something in the past that might be viewed as being very frugal.\u00a0 One <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/blog\/outgoing\/frugal.families.com\/blog\/more-extreme-frugality');\" title=\"Extreme Frugality\"  href=\"http:\/\/frugal.families.com\/blog\/more-extreme-frugality\" target=\"_blank\">blog post on extreme frugality<\/a> documented several accounts of this, including these interesting few:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bring your own cheese when eating hamburgers out so you won&#8217;t be charged for a cheeseburger<\/li>\n<li>Writing on post it notes in pencil so you can reuse them<\/li>\n<li>Shutting off water when people visit so they will be forced to use the bathroom multiple times and not waste a flush<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Crazy, right?\u00a0 I know if you searched deep down inside yourself, you could come up with a few things that you have done, so let&#8217;s hear them!<strong> Post your most extreme cutback&#8211; temporary or permanent&#8211; that you made to save money in the comments section.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll start: I haven&#8217;t purchased a T-shirt in over 10 years.\u00a0 Every T-shirt in my wardrobe was either given to me by my school, earned from an athletic team, won from some contest, or something similar.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see how long I can keep my streak up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Your BudgeX Bargain: <\/strong><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/blog\/outgoing\/www.emergenc.com\/bubbles\/');\" title=\"Free Emergen-C Sample\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.emergenc.com\/bubbles\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Free Sample of Emergen-C<\/a>.\u00a0 Gotta stay healthy to save.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;margin: 12px;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-8699601415085750\";\r\n\/* Blog Ad 468x60 *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"7288488553\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have all done something in the past that might be viewed as being very frugal.\u00a0 One blog post on extreme frugality documented several accounts of this, including these interesting few: Bring your own cheese when eating hamburgers out so you won&#8217;t be charged for a cheeseburger Writing on post it notes in pencil so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[38,37],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-cutbacks","tag-frugality"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.budgex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.budgex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.budgex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.budgex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.budgex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.budgex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/www.budgex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.budgex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.budgex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.budgex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}