Things you do which may be sensible but might just mean you're a skinflint

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Are there any you can think of?

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 16 January 2005 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

For example, when I buy dolmades or olives or other food in jars which come in vegetable oil, I always save the oil and use it for frying.

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 16 January 2005 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Dashing out of work in order to catch the (infrequent) express bus home from Holborn, instead of ambling down there to catch whatever comes first and changing in Elephant, Brixton or Tulse Hill. Saves me 80p every night. (And then I pick up Thai food on the way home cos I can't be arsed cooking and waste a tenner - perhaps this should be another thread).

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Sunday, 16 January 2005 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

yes Mike, we need a profligate waste thread too!

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 16 January 2005 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

when I buy dolmades or olives or other food in jars which come in vegetable oil, I always save the oil and use it for frying

But surely that's just to lend a tasty olive flavour to your fried food!

I used to save and re-use cooking fat after frying. After a while, my jar of oil-for-reuse was ... well ... rather minging. My flatmates persuaded me to stop.

― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 16 January 2005 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a desk drawer full of fast-food ketchup packets.

― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 16 January 2005 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

If I have a glass of H2o that isn't finished, I pour it into the dog's water dish.

― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 17 January 2005 05:20 (twenty-one years ago)

paying my bills on-time. this is beyond the capabilities of a shockingly large % of persons who CAN afford to do so, i've recently found out.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 17 January 2005 05:34 (twenty-one years ago)

not taking the subway, and walking the 4 blocks or so to work. saves me $15-$21/week.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 17 January 2005 05:37 (twenty-one years ago)

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