You cheap bastard!

[JoshGod]

were not called cheap were called tight. and i dont see how you can be 'cheap' for not throwing away your own food etc? if i came into your house and got rid of all your food would you call me wasteful yes?

Sure, but we're talking about getting rid of your own food.

i thought thats exactly what he said. he hated that people dont throw out their nearly empty things.

Yes, but your example if i came into your house and got rid of all your food would you call me wasteful yes? was about you throwing away my food.

he emplied that because of his hatred of things being totally used up he would like to throw out others stuff. i wonder how he would feel if others tried to throw out his stuff.

 

[Queen Michael]

Who pays for these products?, I can stretch out a bottle of hair gel for about six months since having to pay for everything myself now.

Only in America folks!

Couldnt have put it better myself.

I'd rather not agree with awful generalisations.

No ones forcing you too.

Just like no ones forcing those fat, lazy, homophobic, christian americans.

That, sir, was a Crowning Moment of Funny. [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfFunny?from=Main.CrowningMomentOfFunny]

That was a crowning moment of sarcasm.

I guess.

No, I was serious! It was hilarious! (I guess I should have used a smiley...)

 

[Thedayrecker]

My parents are exactly like this. We have a refridgerator full of nearly empty salad dressing bottles. Sure if you leave it upside down for three days, and sacrafice a goat to the appropriate gods, we might get a little bit out, but can't we just go get a new bottle?

 

[Booze Zombie]

So my question to you - are you cheap or are you wasteful? Do you try to coax out that last drop of tobasco sauce or shower gel? Do cheap people annoy you? Likewise for wasteful people?

Your thoughts!

I would rather use all of the product I pay for and buy a new one/have a spare just as it's getting low, rather than end up wasting something.

It's not exactly hard to use all of a product, I drink whole bottles of water all the time, for instance.

 

[ExileNZ]

I'm cheap, so wasteful people annoy me.
'Nuff said.

 

[Brandon237]

I'm cheap, but I live in a third world country, so it is good. Besides, money doesn't fall from the sky and I know when I won't get more out of something.

 

[rex922]

make a compromise
relatively depleted where u strain a little but get the most out of your product before it becomes cheaper to just buy a new one

 

[Erja_Perttu]

Its not cheap, its called "getting your moneys worth". Which I am so guilty of...

Exactly. You pay for it, so why throw stuff out before yo need to. Penny pinching, well, I don't know, I'll buy another one eventually, but hell, I'm not going to spend money on stuff I don't need right away.

I can spend that money on VIDEO GAMES!!!

I fail to see why fully utilizing the product which you paid for is somehow cheap.

Let me put it this way. Do you throw away the candy bar wrapper when you buy a Snickers bar? Why? Aren't you going to save it and get your money's worth?

That's not getting your moneys worth, because that wrapper can't be used for all that much, unless you've got a bizarre sweet wrapper collection, or making some sort of shiny suit from the insides of them. Those aren't really things people do on a daily basis.

But if there's still toothpaste left in that tube, why the hell would you throw it away? It still has stuff that can be used inside of it so why buy another one just yet.

You know, when you can spend the money on other, more fun things.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

The way I see it, the companies don't expect you to use the very last part of the toothpaste, ketchup etc. They just put it in there because otherwise they'd get accused of being stingy. To me, using the very last drop of toothpaste so I'll get my money's worth is like reading the copyright page in a novel just not to be wasteful. It's nobody's intention that you should make use of everything, they just haven't found a way to make oackages and tubes that don't let anything go to waste.

Im a student Im not 'cheap' I just cant afford to buy a new bottle of ketchup or toothpaste every week. Try paying £290 a month in rent and then put utilities and food on top of that, when you have a yearly loan of £4000 and see how much you use out of a ketchup bottle before you throw it out.

I would probably skip an unnecessary luxury item like ketchup.

When you're buying your food on a student budget, ketchup becomes a necessity, you just hope some days you can make your dinner taste enough like ketchup to pass.

I'm not gonna cut open toothpaste tubes to get the last out, but I'll roll em up pretty tight from the end.

It's not a 'cheap' thing, but I try to recycle all I can too, I have a bag in the kitchen for plastic bottles, one for cans, then a small bin for glass, one for paper, and a small bag for plastic bottle caps and another for batteries, as I figure why just pile anyone on the landfill if it can be reused somehow.

However I AM guilty of chucking out stale soda, there's something about a half empty bottle of pepsi, even tightly closed, that after a two day gap, just doesn't taste the same even tho it's still fizzy. I tend to pour it down the toilet however as I hear it's good for eating away at limescale (acid vs alkali and all that).

 

[Cody211282]

I fail to see why fully utilizing the product which you paid for is somehow cheap.

It's not, just some people get annoyed over anything it seems like.

 

[omega_peaches]

Uh...I like to call it this thing called "saving."

 

[newfiegirl 110]

I don't have a problem tossing something that's outdated, but I'm on a budget, and hate to waste anything that's still of use. Don't think of it as cheap...it's frugal

 

[superbatranger]

When I'm unable to get anything out of the old bottle or container, that's when I open the new one. But, it's not like I'm digging around for that last molecule of shampoo or anything.

 

[lizards]

i spend money on food by the laundry basket

im the opposite of cheap

 

[Xeros]

You wouldn't throw away a bottle of soda when it started to get low would you? Why should it be different for anything else?

 

[SPCF]

I usually would just throw them away.
But if it's like some sort of ketchup bottle, I open a new one, turn the old one upside down and come back to the old one in __ hours and see if it's still worth getting :/

 

[crystalsnow]

It's not being cheap... It's called not wasting things.

 

[demoman_chaos]

The wasteful school of thought is to blame for all the world's problems, except constipation.
I get the most out of everything I buy. I paid for all of it, I should use all of it.