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carolt

I must admit I'm very tempted to copy pickledpink's across to Money Saving Old Style so the wrath of righteous anger from the hundreds of people who post on there can wash over her.

Wouldn't know what had hit her. :rotfl:

Not quite clear what she's doing on a money saving site, though?

Isn't it just a bit too frugal for you dear? :rotfl:

Can't have that - people might think you were mean. :rotfl:

carolt

lostinrates wrote: »

I know a man who 'does the season' every year, very ostentaciously (seriously, we never hear the end of it), who lives off road kill in the offseason for his protein source. He takes people a brace or two of game birds as gifts (ostentaciously) and (frugally) gets them courtesy of the highways too. I'd say living off roadkill is frugal in the extreme and that gifting game when you do not shoot is ostentatious.

I know another, supposed, (I wouldn't know) millionaire who boasts abut saving money by washing only the top surface of his plates (the side people eat off) because if you washed the underneath it would use twice the amount of washing up liquid. To be both frugal and unostentatious I submit he would have china not porcelain tableware.;)

But if you did that, wouldn't you keep losing plates through breakages as the bottoms were so slippery and you'd keep dropping them?

Far more frugal to just eat out of the pan. Think how much washing up liquid you'd save then!

lostinrates

carolt wrote: »

Far more frugal to just eat out of the pan. Think how much washing up liquid you'd save then!

Frugal yes, but then you'd lose the ostentation! That's why I particularly shared the anecdote, its a wonderful example of the two combined!;)

Maisie11

My view is that money is to enjoy - make your life more comfortable, keep your heating on during the winter to stay warm. If I had a million pounds and I was 65+ I would be enjoying it. After all you cannot take it with you. What are you saving all that money for after all........

pickledpink

carolt wrote: »

But if you did that, wouldn't you keep losing plates through breakages as the bottoms were so slippery and you'd keep dropping them?

Far more frugal to just eat out of the pan. Think how much washing up liquid you'd save then!

Do they still sell washing up liquid then?

I thought everyone had dishwashers these days?!

dudleyboy

pickledpink wrote: »

Do they still sell washing up liquid then?

I thought everyone had dishwashers these days?!

Only the lazy ones who don't care about the environment.

As for only washing one side of a plate, what a ridiculous suggestion. Not only is it unhygienic (people do still stack plates don't they?) but how does it use any more water or liquid to wipe a cloth around the underside of a plate as well as the topside?

It's just a lazy excuse from someone who thinks that they're funny.

More to the point, why are we discussing this on a house price board?

pickledpink

Maisie11 wrote: »

My view is that money is to enjoy - make your life more comfortable, keep your heating on during the winter to stay warm. If I had a million pounds and I was 65+ I would be enjoying it. After all you cannot take it with you. What are you saving all that money for after all........

Agree totally!!:beer:

I like my comforts - and I ain't gonna enjoy 'em when I'm dead!

All these people who work their knuckles bare, scrimp and scrape and go without........and for what? A groovy headstone?!

I just can't see the mentallity of these misers who seem to get huge satisfaction out of making themselves suffer unecessarily just to save a few pennies!

These frugal misers miss out on life. How can you live a decent life when you're constanctly calculating the cost of essentials - let alone pleasures!

I know of one woman whose waiting until she's 60 before she has a face-lift (she's absolutely loaded - but mean) just cos she wants to get her moneysworth out of the one God gave her!!!!!!:eek: How mad is that?

I hate meanies.

I bet Carolt's the type who pinches her lips into a knot while scrutinising her bill in a restaurant. And that would be at about 5 pm in a Happy Harvester on a Get One Meal Free Voucher.:p

Pobby

We are frugal. It`s great.If I need a new telly I pay cash. If the gas bill comes in I pay with no worries. my tax bill is paid on time. Learning to save is great, takes a lot of worry away. Now, for me, I get no kicks from a 52 inch wide screen hd ready thingy. No kicks from buying a brand new car. The depreciation would kill me. I get kicks from looking at the sea, being in the Welsh mountains, having a beer with friends. Simple but great.

Kez100

I'm with you Pobby. A lot of Landed Gentry live a frugal lifestyle too. The may live in a large stately home but often only in part, drive an old battered Landrover, and eat the game they kill. The children may attend an expensive school - probably due to some past trust settlement and they may have cleaners etc but chances are their actual furniture, carpets etc have seen far, far better days.

It tends to eb new money that rides the circuit and one never knows if that is supported by realised or unrealised assets;)

I was so lucky as both my husband and I were born with genes that hate shopping. In today's society I consider it a gift!

lostinrates

dudleyboy wrote: »

Only the lazy ones who don't care about the environment.

As for only washing one side of a plate, what a ridiculous suggestion. Not only is it unhygienic (people do still stack plates don't they?) but how does it use any more water or liquid to wipe a cloth around the underside of a plate as well as the topside?

It's just a lazy excuse from someone who thinks that they're funny.

More to the point, why are we discussing this on a house price board?

He doesn't stack the plates (partly because they are very old porcelain and irreplacable and partly not to dirty the backs). He's deadly serious. But he does think he's funny too. This really is the tip of this guy's frugality iceberg.

As to why we are discussing this, its got to be at least as relevant as, and less unpleasant than who posts under which name and making unsubstantiatable remarks about each other.