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Re: How Cheap And How Smart of a Shopper Are You? [Re: pcplease]
#19147922 - 11/16/13 11:56 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I buy security screwdrivers off ebay (if needed) and follow youtube video tutorials to fix my electronics.
I use a 'stable' version of Gnu/Linux so i don't wast my internet data on updates which take data, and cost money.
I water down orange juice, (healthily, and dollar saving)
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Re: How Cheap And How Smart of a Shopper Are You? [Re: Magenta]
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Re: How Cheap And How Smart of a Shopper Are You? [Re: Johnny Depp]
#19147950 - 11/17/13 12:05 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Johnny Depp said: I went to walmart 3 times last week to get 40lbs of boneless skinless chicken breasts for $0.99 per lb.
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Re: How Cheap And How Smart of a Shopper Are You? [Re: pcplease]
#19148134 - 11/17/13 01:11 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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pcplease said: Keeping the yard and garden nice is really rewarding, too though. Most of the year it isn't much work at all, and when you do have to work a little, I mean- it's nice being outside in the spring/fall and most of it isn't strenuous.
That's pretty subjective. Of all the neighbors on my street I've only ever seen one neighbor ever to her own garden, and she's an old Asian lady.
Also, people with huge houses tend to have extravagant bushes and trees and water fountains and things that you don't necessarily NEED professional help for, but are harder to maintain on your own. If all you have is a yard of grass and a couple plants in the soil then yea it's not much maintenance. Larger houses tend to have pools too, and most ordinary people don't have the slightest idea what pH their pool is supposed to be, or how much chlorine or what other chemicals to use to sanitize their pool.
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I wouldn't want to clean a huge house, but keeping the house nice isn't too bad. It's a lot worse with pets, but then again it's just nice to have pets, so 
I would like a nice house too. But it doesn't have to be huge. I obviously don't want to live in rat's nest in the ghetto with stains on the walls and cockroaches running among. I would like a small, quaint house that looks beautiful and has a modern look to its furniture. I also don't want to live in a McMansion because I grew up in one and IMO the architectural work is TERRIBLE. Cheap carpeting, and the walls are so thin the entire house echoes from the other side of the house. The materials used to make this house was really shitty and it's really not a well-built house.
I could get a half acre McMansion in a posh suburban county for close to a million dollars. Or with that money I could buy an entire 4 acres of well-built home in Temecula (which is 40 minutes away and has more outdoorsy stuff and horses and polo clubs and everything I could ever want). I don't need 4 acres, but a small 2 or 3 bedroom home would be perfect, and I can design and modify the furniture to make it as modern-artsy as I like.
When I get my my own home, I would plan to throw a lot of adult parties, and so I would like to invest in a "party room" that is decorated like a casino, complete with a blackjack table and open bar and pool table, and casino/gambling-themed rugs placed on the floor, so that way if anybody spills something (which is bound to happen) it can easily be replaced without having to replace the whole carpet. And you can bet that I would do it in a way that would make it cheap for me, such as buying used material and getting the material for rugs from scratch and having the prints made myself.
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IMO what's much more important is the quality of the house itself. Even if you can do the fixing up/repairs yourself, it's still money.
I'm pretty sure "ordinary people" think about these things too 
Exactly. And no, Now I live in a place where a lot of people care more about status than quality. People here believe that Louis Vuitton is obviously better than Coach because it costs 5 times more. Or that Cristal champagne is really better than any other champagne because it costs a thousand dollars. Or that caviar actually tastes like the best food simply because it's expensive, even though it's basically oversalted fish eggs.
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Re: How Cheap And How Smart of a Shopper Are You? [Re: Crystal G]
#19148157 - 11/17/13 01:28 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Fountains are less maintenance than a fish tank though You could easily have the casino room, all you need is an extra room. Don't forget the pool table I hope to hear you finish it! Home improvement is IMO the most rewarding and satisfying thing you can do.
Don't think of the other people, but if you find a quality product worth a few extra bucks and you can afford it, treat yourself. Balance/sustainability is key.
I'm one of the people who chose to live 45 minutes away from the city to own a couple acres, a nice house, privacy and safety (nowhere near the crime-rate of the suburbs)
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Re: How Cheap And How Smart of a Shopper Are You? [Re: pcplease]
#19148186 - 11/17/13 01:41 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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pcplease said: Don't think of the other people, but if you find a quality product worth a few extra bucks and you can afford it, treat yourself. Balance/sustainability is key.
I do. That's why I take polo lessons, even though they are very expensive (around $625 a month for a once a week lesson, and that's not including any equipment you may want to buy). But I really need a hobby otherwise I'm just going to keep wasting my time doing drugs, and I love horses. I also am really big into cooking, so every now and then I splurge and will buy some expensive ingredients (such as prosciutto or filet mignon or live sea urchin), especially when I am cooking for guests.
I went shopping today and got another great bargain!!! Ugg boots, pleather (fake leather) jacket with leopard print, a Hello Kitty pajama set, and 4 pairs of underwear for less than $40!!!! I am the best shopper in the world. Again I bought the $2 underwear that I always do.
The stuff that I buy is quite fashionable too, it's definitely not old lady clothes, and keeps up with current trends.
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I'm one of the people who chose to live 45 minutes away from the city to own a couple acres, a nice house, privacy and safety (nowhere near the crime-rate of the suburbs)
Suburbs have crime? That's news to me. You must be thinking of urban places. Crime is so low, there is literally less than 1 murder a year here out of a population of 500,000+.
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Fountains are less maintenance than a fish tank though You could easily have the casino room, all you need is an extra room. Don't forget the pool table I hope to hear you finish it! Home improvement is IMO the most rewarding and satisfying thing you can do.
So what do you recommend? I've never owned a home so I've never been involved in any type of remodeling project. I don't know the first thing about construction so I'm not planning on building anything. But I would like a pool table, a blackjack table, and an open bar in my room. I bet I could hire a couple day laborers to build me a pool table and blackjack table for very cheap. Like $200 for 3 day work. The blackjack table I could even decorate myself with the placemat, all I would need is that curved table outline.
An open bar would be easy to make myself with some open shelves. I could easily find that type of stuff for cheap buying used furniture from other people. Alternatively, I know a suuuuuuper cheap Mexican furniture store in Long Beach off Nebraska Ave & 6th or 7th st. You can get a 7 piece dining set for only $350, and that's BRAND NEW not even used! I love that place better than Ikea.
As for carpeting, I think I would get a sequence of black and red long rugs, and place them side by side each other to give it that casino "feel." And also paint the room with mostly red (though not sure how that would turn out, might be TOO vibrant). But I want the color theme to have black, red, and gold in the room.
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Re: How Cheap And How Smart of a Shopper Are You? [Re: Crystal G] 2
#19148340 - 11/17/13 03:25 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Never pay full price for anything, ever. Period.
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Re: How Cheap And How Smart of a Shopper Are You? [Re: tyrannicalrex]
#19150745 - 11/17/13 05:05 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Forgot to check my threads this morning oops
@crystal I'm trying to figure out how I want my bar too. It's certainly going to be built, as I am going to need room for a few pony kegs. And I still have a while to decide, but I don't know if I'm going all wood, granite or marble tops, etc. So yea I still have a lot to figure out 
I recommend building the pool table if you can, especially if you have a friend good with wood-working to do some neat inlays and etches. If you find a solid one for ~$300, and as long as it's still level of course, I would consider that too.
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Re: How Cheap And How Smart of a Shopper Are You? [Re: pcplease]
#19150757 - 11/17/13 05:07 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Honestly I don't really look at price tags.
if I need something I go get it, from the closest store to my house.
i don't waste money on junk though
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Re: How Cheap And How Smart of a Shopper Are You? [Re: NWlight]
#19152898 - 11/18/13 05:32 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Well, im not cheap because i want to, i'm cheap because im broke 
So every other day, me and some others do our dumpster run to cook food at the university. This saves me from 2 to 5 lunches in the week. I sometime go alone, which saves me the money from the vegetables that i gather. At my job i can find some alcohol that i trade for food or weed with my friends.
if i'm lucky, ill also find some tofu which saves me more food.
All my clothes were taken from second hand drift stores. Its time consuming but sometime you get lucky. I found a merino wool shirt for 5$, a really good winter coat for 30$, jeans for 5$ and so on.
For my furnitures, i wait for the 1st of july, which is the date that most leases end in Québec, This is the time that me and my friend go along the streets to find furnitures that we like or are more adapted to our needs. Also, at the university, there is a warehouse where they pile the outdated stuff, so once in a while me and my Gf wander there to see if we need something.
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Re: How Cheap And How Smart of a Shopper Are You? [Re: NWlight]
#19152901 - 11/18/13 05:36 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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NWlight said: Honestly I don't really look at price tags.
if I need something I go get it, from the closest store to my house.
i don't waste money on junk though
Pretty much this
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