@@JasonW. Never had the 'pleasure'. From your comment one of my few good decisions. However, I did grow up down wind from the Saganaw River back when the pulp mills were still using it for a garbage dump. Even carp couldn't live in it.
@@Timman57 I had a roommate who would drink a whole bottle in a night and morning once in a while when she was feeling exceptionally trashy. She was hilarious on it, she would say Carlo Rossi in a thick Italian accent and describe its notes and how delicious and affordable it is...shes not Italian.
My best definition of Midwest is getting a compliment on an article of clothing, then proceed to tell them exactly where you got it and at what discounted price.
I’m not from midwest but I like doing it too, there is some type of a pride that I didn’t spent too much money on nice piece of clothing. like when once I randomly received a coupon and bought fancy dutch oven for less then a half of original price, that felt really good
I worked in a very posh restaurant in Sheboygan. One of the waitresses was saving the expensive brand empty wine bottles, to refill with cheap box wine at her upcoming wedding. True.
As someone from the south, I can say that we do the same thing with not just mason jars but pretty much any kind of glass jar, including Prego jars. Props to you Midwesterners for getting it.
@@Blech-h9z Wisconsinite here. Bacon grease makes fuckin amazing cookies. I make mine with oatmeal, nuts, dark chocolate chips, cocoa powder, and dry coffee grounds. Might sound nuts but if you get the proportions right they'll blow your mind.
Get yourself some Goodyear welted boots or shoes. They usually don’t cost much more then the glued kind, but you can get them resoled when they wear down for like half the price of new shoes usually. Your dad will love hearing that.
I know a good many Finns immigrated to northern MN. UMD had a sauna for us students to use. It was great being so hot in a bathing suit and cooling off by going and rolling in a snow bank.
I live in Northern Michigan and people pronounce "sauna" the Finnish way because of all the immigrants. We have a couple Finnish restaurants and until a couple months ago, we had a university called Finlandia (ran out of money). My town was also home to a lot of Italian immigrants. So it must've been hell for the Finnish-Americans with Italian-Americans constantly breaking into their personal bubble 😂
It's shockingly empty too! I have Ramen packets, every taco bell sauce(even the breakfast salsa), ketchup from at least 5 different places, panda soy sauce kuz you kno they use Kikkoman, spicy chili sauces taco time green sauce, you want it? I got it.
Patricia Lynn Moore, ohh dontcha kno. Musta been somewhere round a couple two tree weeks ago I tossed out some da taco bell Diablo sauce packets while tryina finda packet of da French mustard. Ya just Can't have da French toast wit da Heinz mustard.
A shocking amount of this happened at home growing up and at mine still, which suggests that immigrant cheap and Midwest cheap might actually be the same thing Lmaooo
Exactly what I was going to say. Only so many ways to be cheap. And honestly the world works be a lot better off of everyone lived this way. Except the economy relies on people spending money like water, so they encourage wastefulness.
We were having dinner and my wife’s phone binged a notification she looked down and told my son to take off that shirt because I just sold it on eBay... True story
My parents grew up Catholic, from Ohio; they didn't use birth control and had 6 daughters. I was born in Illinois & lived there til age 12. Charlie's videos are so relatable! My older sister made a homemade slip-n-slide with old shower curtain liners and the hose jimmied up on the clothesline. My little sis and I put on garbage bags (to go faster down the slide, of course!) 😂 great memories growing up in the Midwest
My brother actually did that calendar thing with monthly planners from 1973. He is a cheapskate extraordinaire! But, so was our mother. She came up in the depression, dontcha know?
Every midwesterner I know uses the depression excuse. The depression happened all over the country. It wasn't exclusive to the midwest. Also, it was close to 100 years ago.
My grandparents grew up in the depression as well. My grandmother canned up into her 60's and her linen closet was like a neutron star it was so densely packed with every conceivable thing you could ever want or need.
@@Rianna_B Alex Wehrley is his spouse and sometimes makes guests appearances like in this video. Calling her “da Wehrley” is my way of trying to give her a nickname with a Charlie style sounding midwestern spin. Also, I’m a big fan of da Wehrley. She’s very funny and talented in her own right. That she’s only in the rare Charlie video makes her appearances all the more “oomph” and high celebrity voltage. 😁😜 Actually I think she has her own social media brand or something - I haven’t checked but she’s written a book on how to make viral videos so she works in media/social media somehow. My social media is pretty limited to RUclips and I try to keep to only a few channels so I haven’t seen what they have on Facebook, insta or Tik Tok. Sorry for the book length comment! What am I doing?! Gotta get on with my day here! 😫😜😁
At my house we have a drawer for new straws that we get at mcdonalds. when I'm washing the dishes, if the straw was used for something like juice, they get tossed in the sink and I wash them with soap to reuse them. If it was used for coffee or there's food stuck in the inside the straw becomes dirty, and a new straw emerges fresh from the drawer.😂
Yes, they keep the real Tupperware nice so other people will be impressed by the food storage containers. I have all of those in my cupboard right now, lol.
Some of these were jokes, but I feel like a lot of it was just good financial sense. If you introduce your wine to the party late no one knows what it costs
My brother in law put cheap wine in a high dollar bottle and gave it to my snooty bro in law the ole fart kept bragging all night about how good it was 😄😄😄
There's a place called wine kitz here where I live & if you put on a batch of wine (30 bottles) it comes down to like $2-4 a bottle, keep in mind the cheapest wine you can buy at our local liquor store is $8 +tax. So my parents just make a batch whenever they want to & they always have wine to bring places. Because it's 'homemade' people think it's fancy even though it's not
Where was the cheap part, this isn't how everybody lives? Added 3 months later, we all joke about this but I actually love the way I live and wouldn't change even if I were rich, it's in my DNA. 🙂
When I was a kid my mom would buy jelly that came in a reusable water glass Fancy, my little brother broke one, mom screams we can’t have any thing nice around here !
All you need was a cupboard full of empty plastic tubs left over from sour cream, cool wip, and the Chinese food restaurant tub that had fish fry that still smells of fish but your mom holds on to because she might make fish fry at home, (she's never gonna do it)
What has ybunnygurl been doing going through my cabinets? Listed every item to a T. Only thing missing is the Blue Bonnet containers, perfect for stacking in da fridge.
In the microwave I bet. Around here they show up for food and a camp fire with broken X-Mas lights to burn because the plastic and copper puts off pretty colors and no one, but me, backs up wind.
On snow days, we wore plastic bread bags over our socks as waterproof liners inside our boots. It was embarrassing when I'd go to a friend's house after playing outside and take off my boots and bread bags.
In one of those tiny kitchen drawers I've got old General Foods International coffee tins full of old Twisties (and new leftover ties from Baggies), and one tin for rubber bands, many that came off of the rolled up newspapers I got from a subscription I had three years ago.
Wendy's does have the best plastic cutlery. But I like to splurge and buy my silverware at Goodwill and St Vinnys. It doesn't match, but who cares? Plus you can lose a spoon or lend a guy your extra fork at lunchtime and never worry about it.
Tip for eating the heels of the loaf: use a knife to slice a very thin layer of crust off, then just toast it like normal. Either way, if you're making a sandwich, put the "crust" side facing into the sandwich, and you don't even notice, apart from the slice being a little thinner.
Or just save them for the next gift you give. Best boxes are the ones that has it own design on them, so you don't have to waste money on wrapping paper.
@@twistypinky6530 Just let the person know before they open it that it doesn't contain what the box indicates it does. I had an awkward Christmas gift-opening experience once where I thought my sister had gotten me expensive headphones... Good thing I only said, "(Sister)! No!"
My dad would wrap all the kids Christmas stuff in post office boxes. You only pay for them if they get shipped. I just let the dog destroy all my boxes.
Damn...i'm blanking here but what was the company that would give you 11 free CDs back in the 90's for opening a new account? This was my fraternity's playlist for the upcoming year's parties.
From Missouri, this is me. I still have fire logs I cut from a Christmas tree in 2012 in the garage. I keep forgetting to take them camping. They will get used one day, mark my words.
I'm surprised I didn't see mention of asking for extra napkins at the drive thru window. Especially when you have that one restaurant you like that has the BEST napkins 😩❤
While visiting any folks, drinking from a jar (except a large mayo jar, which is like drinking from the pitcher) is fine by me, but if i go to a bar or restaurant and they try that, i will ask for a bowl. Gotta have standards. Oh, and don’t forget thread spools for cupboard knobs..
As a Michigander, I resemble this! 😁 In the next version of this add all of the true things my parents did; ripping napkins in half, washing ziploc bags to reuse them, saving left overs in cool whip containers, and adding water to juice to make it last longer! Keep up the good work
@@Sam19509 shampoo is detergent. It strips your hair completely of it's oils, making you rely on conditioner to soften it, which makes you use more shampoo, which makes you use more conditioner...so on and so forth. I do better just to dilute the shampoo and wash twice a week but you do you..
😂😂😂 When pouring Rossi into a Yellowtail bottle is "classing it up." 😂😂😂 Tbh, I do get the last of the peanut butter... after I scrape out my sandwich, I put my wet ingredients for peanut sauce in and shake until it dissolves. Isn't that normal? I also go to the cable store every year to get the introductory rate... and I have a ziplock full of soy sauce packets.
From KS, live in AK and a local subway mailed out BOGO sheets for foot longs. I dug through that recycling bin at the post office, people were like WTF, and I got free foot longs for months.
@@mattschmitt9924 At my college apartment I was amazed at how many people threw away all their coupons. I would go through the trash in the mailroom for coupons, especially fast food but occasionally some from Meijer or other stores.
Unless you're so cheap that you buy one of their shirts, and return it right before their "No BS" warranty expires after one year to exchange it for a new one.
@@evanlambrecht7510 geez louise Evan! There is Pur-nerd another sandwich There in the peanut butter jar. Also you should take off the paper raper before you put it into the dishwasher. Now you are going to get paper over the other dishes... Rant over.
Just seeing Culvers was enough for me! I can't WAIT to get back home in two weeks to Northern Illinois to grab some. Maybe I'll add on to my ketchup packet collection and bring it back to TN in the fall. I SWEAR my friends down here think that's strange I collect condiment packets for future use! Charlie, you have vindicated me! 😁😁😁
So much of this is my mom and her side of the family. They always pull the "Depression era" card and "Child of Depression era parents" cards respectively in order to defend it and then say why "they can't help it". When it doesn't work, they resort to saying "I just don't want to be wasteful! Look at all this perfectly good food/insert things/object(s) here" commentary, and it is almost always something like that peanut butter jar or the bags, trash bags, ziplocks, milk jugs, doesn't matter. "It feels better when you work for it and aren't so wasteful" is a phrase I will never be able to live without someone saying to me haha. My mom's side of the fam is in fact midwestern scandihoovian, so it fits the bill for sure.
Telling on myself: I will keep glass jars for drinking (not big jars but decorative jelly jars), save all extra condiment packets and use them, coupons for just about everything, I have millions of these "cheap" ways. 😆 🤣 😂
I'm from WI and currently live in Pike County PA(tri-state area). There are similarities. But without the amazing cheese and wonderful brats from our favorite meat market(Miesfeld's Sheboygan,WI)
@@joesphschramm3754 Pike County checking in. Actually reading a book right now that basically says most of PA (Pike included) & the Midwest are culturally the same. It's called American nations.
My Midwest grandparents got a spice rack as a gift when they built their home. All the original spices are still in it. The year was 1977
If they pass the smell test, they're still good. Come to think on it, that can be said for a lot of the Midwest.
@@graceskerp ever driven across Cedar Rapids with the windows down?
@@JasonW. Never had the 'pleasure'. From your comment one of my few good decisions. However, I did grow up down wind from the Saganaw River back when the pulp mills were still using it for a garbage dump. Even carp couldn't live in it.
@@graceskerp The City of Five Smells
@@JasonW. I assume none of them Chanel? What's cooking there that gives it its unique ambiance?
This was funny. I watched it twice to get my money’s worth.
Best comment ever!
I watch'd it two tree times heh, and laughed all dem times.
Good one 😂
Lmao
Nice
Love how he’s putting 4 dollar wine in 6 dollar wine
That makes it seem 50 percent more expensive ;)
And 6 dollars for yellowtail is too expensive even in Aussie dollars.
I drank one of those 4 liter Carlo Rossi Sangria jugs in 6 hours at a party once. Jesus that sucked lol
@@Timman57 I had a roommate who would drink a whole bottle in a night and morning once in a while when she was feeling exceptionally trashy. She was hilarious on it, she would say Carlo Rossi in a thick Italian accent and describe its notes and how delicious and affordable it is...shes not Italian.
@@celebrityrog classy broad 👌😂
My best definition of Midwest is getting a compliment on an article of clothing, then proceed to tell them exactly where you got it and at what discounted price.
Oh yeah that? Kohl's, the 80% off rack. No yeah I used the Kohl's cash so they prettymuch paid me for the shirt.
I do that in NH
@@penguins.227 ikr
@@lorettascott5477 unrelated I've heard NH is beautiful, always wanted to visit up there and Vermont.
I’m not from midwest but I like doing it too, there is some type of a pride that I didn’t spent too much money on nice piece of clothing. like when once I randomly received a coupon and bought fancy dutch oven for less then a half of original price, that felt really good
the sound of the butter knife scraping against the jar evoked emotions in me that I haven't felt in a very long time
🤣😂
Yeah, too bad the jars aren't glass anymore. Crappy plastic!
Done it myself. Just getting my money's worth.
I worked in a very posh restaurant in Sheboygan. One of the waitresses was saving the expensive brand empty wine bottles, to refill with cheap box wine at her upcoming wedding. True.
Nice!
sad
If I ever have to host family I don't like, their getting the trojan horse treatment.
Sheboygan... Ah. Cozy small city with tasty food and great beer from "3 Sheeps" :)
Good for her
Came for the comments, left with ideas.
😂🤣
yo you're my twin
Same 😂
Bwhaha
Amen
Rubber spatulas are a LIFESAVER for scraping the last little bit of peanut butter out of the jar. And then onto the butt end of the bread loaf.
Yup,been there-done that...
Takuro Spirit Omg I thought I was the only one who called it the butt!
Even as a child I requested the outer bread slices because no one else enjoyed them. I just didn't want them to be wasted lol
Thanks for the tip. I'll remember that next time. I been using a spoon all these damn years...SMH
Sarah Marrufo Awww I think that's sweet. Shows you care about the world.
As someone from the south, I can say that we do the same thing with not just mason jars but pretty much any kind of glass jar, including Prego jars. Props to you Midwesterners for getting it.
We have SIX jars of my grandma's homemade ketchup in Prego jars. We also have jellies, relishes, jams...all the grandma essentials.
Prego jars ARE my drinking glasses!! It reminds me of summers in Kentucky!
@@patriciaecampbell372 I'm from Kentucky too. We use mason jars, prego jars, and pretty much any other glass jar that is washable.
One is for bacon grease (makes darn fine cookies, no kiddin) all the rest are for drinking. Oh, wait the big mason is for cooking utensils.
@@Blech-h9z Wisconsinite here. Bacon grease makes fuckin amazing cookies. I make mine with oatmeal, nuts, dark chocolate chips, cocoa powder, and dry coffee grounds. Might sound nuts but if you get the proportions right they'll blow your mind.
My dad emigrated from Japan to Wisconsin. So now I basically have to be able to feel asphalt through my soles before I'll shell out for new shoes.
I have never bought a pair of regular use shoes. I just wear my mom’s old shoes that she doesn’t want anymore
In Wisconsin of all places? 🤔🤔
@@ranjanbiswas3233 yeah. The boots get less use so they have less holes in em so your feet only almost freeze off ya know?
Get yourself some Goodyear welted boots or shoes. They usually don’t cost much more then the glued kind, but you can get them resoled when they wear down for like half the price of new shoes usually. Your dad will love hearing that.
If your shoes aren't held together by duct tape, they still got some life in em
The two George Washington’s was.... kinda genius.
Makes me wonder why he didn’t just give him two quarters.
@@lonelygirltravels5961 the longer set up was worth it
Even better with abraham lincolns
@@lonelygirltravels5961 Yeah, was that used funnel even worth a buck?--let alone two.
The nerve! That must have been a Chicago garage sale.
I am cheap, but I generally don’t haggle too much at garage sales. I suppose that is because I want people to keep having garage sales.
C'mon Charlie, everybody knows that the condiment packets go in the butter compartment in the fridge!
I feel... so understood.
Until it gets too big and then you move it all to one of the veggie crisper drawers.
@@crazypiratesquirrel3038 hahahahahahaha
lol so true my friend
Yup
You forgot keeping the plastic containers from restaurants like KFC and using them for virtually everything
Take out container's Galore in my house 😂
You can wash out the plastic container for the sweet and sour sauce from the Chinese restaurant, too.
I'm eating baby carrots and ranch using one of those plastic containers for my ranch. -___-
my dad is the worst at this lmao, we have containers to last the next 20 winters :P
butter and cool whip bowls
I was raised in the South and have been in Boston for 32 years. I thought Yankees were cheap, now I'm learning about the Midwest. Love it!
I'm from Finland and I feel like the midwest is spiritually connecting with me 😂
I know a good many Finns immigrated to northern MN. UMD had a sauna for us students to use. It was great being so hot in a bathing suit and cooling off by going and rolling in a snow bank.
Wisconsin is literally just a spare Finland we have in the back in case something happens to you guys.
I live in Northern Michigan and people pronounce "sauna" the Finnish way because of all the immigrants. We have a couple Finnish restaurants and until a couple months ago, we had a university called Finlandia (ran out of money).
My town was also home to a lot of Italian immigrants. So it must've been hell for the Finnish-Americans with Italian-Americans constantly breaking into their personal bubble 😂
nah, she's just really hot. give it a few days and you will realize it was just a boner. Easy to get that confused sometimes.
Midwesterners migrated from the old country. Probably how they got this way.
The subtle, underrated move was just cracking open the fridge and peeking in to save the cold air
Magnificent
Your “random leftover sauce packets” drawer is shockingly well organized😂
Becca G ; shush! 😁
It's shockingly empty too! I have Ramen packets, every taco bell sauce(even the breakfast salsa), ketchup from at least 5 different places, panda soy sauce kuz you kno they use Kikkoman, spicy chili sauces taco time green sauce, you want it? I got it.
@@TheRealMikeWilly ya know der, dem packets has a, a die date on it, yep, it will give ya dem runs. Yah, you don't want dem runs.
Patricia Lynn Moore, ohh dontcha kno. Musta been somewhere round a couple two tree weeks ago I tossed out some da taco bell Diablo sauce packets while tryina finda packet of da French mustard. Ya just Can't have da French toast wit da Heinz mustard.
Jeepers cripes I forgot about da Roasted Fire sauce packet dat I found in da backa da drawer. Oh my gosh!
You forgot the main, midwest, money saver! Reusing empty country crock tubs as midwest tupperware!
Margarine is illegal in WI doncha know
@@josded that's wonderful!
Butter freezes :)
Always referred to them as bachelor Tupperware.
Still to this day at my grandparents farm you’ve gotta open the shed spread tubs to see what leftovers you’ve got for lunch Michigan
Those were handy and such a grrrreat size for da hotdish
I’m from Appalachia and my grandpa’s favorite “drinking glass” was an oversized plastic jug that cocktail nuts were sold in.
A shocking amount of this happened at home growing up and at mine still, which suggests that immigrant cheap and Midwest cheap might actually be the same thing Lmaooo
Cheap is cheap is saving money
Exactly what I was going to say. Only so many ways to be cheap. And honestly the world works be a lot better off of everyone lived this way. Except the economy relies on people spending money like water, so they encourage wastefulness.
Being cheap is a universal concept. I recently visited Northern Ireland, and saw way too many people do things in this video.
The Midwest was settled and populated by immigrants, so that would make sense :)
That's bc Minnesota is a Sanctuary state
You forgot about hand washing ziplocks baggies then putting them back inside the box like new.
Yes! My family isn't the only one that does that! 🍻
I thought my mom was crazy for doing that...until I had to buy the second box of Ziplock 🙄
You can also never have enough i cant believe its not butter and/or Betty crocker tubs.
My mother did that.
Mom?
Listen here pal, I never want to see you disrespect a Duluth Co shirt again. Alright? Tell your folks I says hi.
Charlie should I quit youtube my friends keep making fun of me for it
I love that store.
We were having dinner and my wife’s phone binged a notification she looked down and told my son to take off that shirt because I just sold it on eBay... True story
LOL! Perfect!
Maybe it was Charlie buying that shirt for the video!
Awesome 👌
🤢🤢🤮🤮
What a lovely lady
My parents grew up Catholic, from Ohio; they didn't use birth control and had 6 daughters. I was born in Illinois & lived there til age 12. Charlie's videos are so relatable! My older sister made a homemade slip-n-slide with old shower curtain liners and the hose jimmied up on the clothesline. My little sis and I put on garbage bags (to go faster down the slide, of course!) 😂 great memories growing up in the Midwest
My brother actually did that calendar thing with monthly planners from 1973. He is a cheapskate extraordinaire! But, so was our mother. She came up in the depression, dontcha know?
Every midwesterner I know uses the depression excuse. The depression happened all over the country. It wasn't exclusive to the midwest. Also, it was close to 100 years ago.
I've done the same. I used to keep a few under the bed until they could be reused, sometimes for just part of the year if there was a leap year issue.
@@ruggv6217 And?
the original facebook memories "oh, looks like I had soccer practice at 4pm"
My grandparents grew up in the depression as well. My grandmother canned up into her 60's and her linen closet was like a neutron star it was so densely packed with every conceivable thing you could ever want or need.
Is this a comedy or a documentary?
Both?
Both!
Depends, if you live anywhere but the Midwest comedy
Haha just new what I was thinkin
It's a parody/satire.
Just when I didn't think this channel could get any better, he adds da wife.
Yes, she's great!
Poor da Wehrley!
Nice touch
@@thealbanianlorg6542 what's a wehrley lol?
@@Rianna_B Alex Wehrley is his spouse and sometimes makes guests appearances like in this video. Calling her “da Wehrley” is my way of trying to give her a nickname with a Charlie style sounding midwestern spin. Also, I’m a big fan of da Wehrley. She’s very funny and talented in her own right. That she’s only in the rare Charlie video makes her appearances all the more “oomph” and high celebrity voltage. 😁😜 Actually I think she has her own social media brand or something - I haven’t checked but she’s written a book on how to make viral videos so she works in media/social media somehow. My social media is pretty limited to RUclips and I try to keep to only a few channels so I haven’t seen what they have on Facebook, insta or Tik Tok. Sorry for the book length comment! What am I doing?! Gotta get on with my day here! 😫😜😁
i hate how freaking accurate this is
Embrace it.
At my house we have a drawer for new straws that we get at mcdonalds. when I'm washing the dishes, if the straw was used for something like juice, they get tossed in the sink and I wash them with soap to reuse them. If it was used for coffee or there's food stuck in the inside the straw becomes dirty, and a new straw emerges fresh from the drawer.😂
@@ktpreciouscolors4118 Trouble is, what do you really need plastic straws for? Like bro just sip
These videos make me proud to be a midwesterner
The hyperventilating from the thought of paying a bill is exactly what my dad does.
He forgot to save the cool whip containers, better than Tupperware !
Or the yogurt and Cottage cheese containers 😅
Plus the butter(margarine), containers, lol.
Yes, they keep the real Tupperware nice so other people will be impressed by the food storage containers. I have all of those in my cupboard right now, lol.
@@jennyknopps1291 no
@@jennyknopps1291 not yogurt just sour cream
Some of these were jokes, but I feel like a lot of it was just good financial sense. If you introduce your wine to the party late no one knows what it costs
Good idea!
Exactly bathtub vintage circa 2017 in a Dom Perignon bottle and you’re golden 😘🤫
My brother in law put cheap wine in a high dollar bottle and gave it to my snooty bro in law the ole fart kept bragging all night about how good it was 😄😄😄
There's a place called wine kitz here where I live & if you put on a batch of wine (30 bottles) it comes down to like $2-4 a bottle, keep in mind the cheapest wine you can buy at our local liquor store is $8 +tax. So my parents just make a batch whenever they want to & they always have wine to bring places. Because it's 'homemade' people think it's fancy even though it's not
Jesus said, serve the best wine first
My dad is from the Midwest. He duct tapes, glues & repairs items he bought at Dollar Tree.
Same here in Pa. Dollar tree Duct tape and crazy glue to Fix Dollar tree Solar light's.
@@bansheemania1692 😂👍
Waste not, want not. When the zombies come, (or the next pandemic hits), you'll be glad you've got these random items. Think like MacGyver.
@@rhodawatkins4516 Great point. 😑👌 In a pinch, ketchup packets can be used as floatation devices. (And fake blood. To lure zombies into traps ;)
@@droolbunnyxo9565 I think I'm gonna need a bigger flotation device...or a whole lot more ketchup packets. I can't swim.
I would rip out the used pages of notebooks at the end of the school year. Perfectly good notebook for next year! No shame in not wasting:)
I have a cabinet full of gift bags that my kids got birthday/Christmas gifts in, Haven’t had to purchase a new one for years!
"Unfortunately, my Kohls cash don't work at Target" haha
Where was the cheap part, this isn't how everybody lives?
Added 3 months later, we all joke about this but I actually love the way I live and wouldn't change even if I were rich, it's in my DNA. 🙂
Hahaha 😂
Honestly my thoughts rn
I am probably cheaper than that. My parents were raised in families with 5 kids in the depression, and both were in the military. I save everything.
There are people that don’t do any of these things. These are called rich people. We don’t know them.
Hee heee ... it is in Ohio!
I get it...I was raised by my grandma. It was 15 years before I had my first brand name anything. Bless that woman.
My mom recently threw away all our sauce packets on a cleaning binge and it was a real moment of emotional turmoil for the family.
Born and raised in Missouri, live here pretty much my entire life. This is so accurate it physically hurts.
When I was a kid my mom would buy jelly that came in a reusable water glass Fancy, my little brother broke one, mom screams we can’t have any thing nice around here !
Omg dead 🤣
I laughed so hard at this one
I can relate. My hubs an kids broke all my ceramic dishes. I bought stainless steel. They'll never die.
Welch's dinosaur jelly jars were awesome..
Poor kid!!!
All you need was a cupboard full of empty plastic tubs left over from sour cream, cool wip, and the Chinese food restaurant tub that had fish fry that still smells of fish but your mom holds on to because she might make fish fry at home, (she's never gonna do it)
I tried to throw those Chinese food ones out Because of that reason. "Nope , I Can Use That when" 😂....
There's a two foot stack of quart yogurt containers for tupperware at my parents house.
@@claytonfs We died Easter eggs in a batch of individual yogurt cups many an Easter. They're just right for that.
What has ybunnygurl been doing going through my cabinets? Listed every item to a T. Only thing missing is the Blue Bonnet containers, perfect for stacking in da fridge.
In the microwave I bet. Around here they show up for food and a camp fire with broken X-Mas lights to burn because the plastic and copper puts off pretty colors and no one, but me, backs up wind.
The trash bag rain poncho was a flashback to my childhood that I wasn’t ready for😂
On snow days, we wore plastic bread bags over our socks as waterproof liners inside our boots. It was embarrassing when I'd go to a friend's house after playing outside and take off my boots and bread bags.
If my husband brought me a weed in a beer bottle, that would actually melt me. So cute!
Well yeah but that's kind of a random day present. An anniversary gift should show more effort.
You will know your husband watched this video when you get it. 😇
I just discovered this channel. Hilarious stuff. No weak-funny content. Absolutely solid. Funny comments from viewers to boot.
Where is the cabinet full of plastic bags and leftover liquor brown bags?
the plastic bags are in the drawer next to the lifetimes worth of twisty ties.
In one of those tiny kitchen drawers I've got old General Foods International coffee tins full of old Twisties (and new leftover ties from Baggies), and one tin for rubber bands, many that came off of the rolled up newspapers I got from a subscription I had three years ago.
Does anyone else just shove all the plastic bags under the sink haphazardly or is that just me..? Lol
Might need to ripen some fruit in the liquor bags!
@@Sweetnessinatube My OCD makes me fold them all into football triangles, sigh :I
Highly accurate. Never experienced the two Washington trick before.
"How much is this?" "That's recycling." 🧐🤪
Wayside Wade Me either, but I’m definitely going to incorporate it into my repertoire!
Honestly I was expecting two bits, he over paid!
Jason Flay Hahaha! So true. I kept thinking that funnel should've only been 25¢. It was super thin.
@@MountainGirl420 Be careful. 🤔🌞
Don't forget setting the dinner table with the good plastic silverware from Wendy's
Nothing but the best
Wendy has the best plastic cutlery
My Gamma is convinced that dominos makes the best paper napkins. She saves them for guests hahaha
Hey, I do that! No washing dishes for me. No sir-ree! And the plastic wrap on them is reusable too if you open it carefully.
@@patricialynnmoore
That's really bad for the environment.
Washing dishes is not a lot of work.
Wendy's does have the best plastic cutlery. But I like to splurge and buy my silverware at Goodwill and St Vinnys. It doesn't match, but who cares? Plus you can lose a spoon or lend a guy your extra fork at lunchtime and never worry about it.
Tip for eating the heels of the loaf: use a knife to slice a very thin layer of crust off, then just toast it like normal. Either way, if you're making a sandwich, put the "crust" side facing into the sandwich, and you don't even notice, apart from the slice being a little thinner.
i actually like the toasted heel piece of bread.
Single momma 101😂
2:19 the spotify ad killed me
Also saving boxes from any electronics/amazon orders/gifts just in case you need them to move or give someone else a gift
Guilty!
Uncoated cardboard makes good garden mulch too
Or just save them for the next gift you give. Best boxes are the ones that has it own design on them, so you don't have to waste money on wrapping paper.
@@twistypinky6530 Just let the person know before they open it that it doesn't contain what the box indicates it does. I had an awkward Christmas gift-opening experience once where I thought my sister had gotten me expensive headphones... Good thing I only said, "(Sister)! No!"
My dad would wrap all the kids Christmas stuff in post office boxes. You only pay for them if they get shipped. I just let the dog destroy all my boxes.
See now, I WANT to send this to my husband, but it'll just give him ideas.
My friend makes a new Spotify account every couple months so he can get the free trial again
Modern problems require modern solutions
Likewise
So he also gets a new credit card every couple months then?
@@claytonfs prolly a Visa giftcard from Walmart 😂
Damn...i'm blanking here but what was the company that would give you 11 free CDs back in the 90's for opening a new account? This was my fraternity's playlist for the upcoming year's parties.
I love how he said the bud light bottle was a water bottel
Do you carefully take home paper napkins from restaurants so you never have to buy any? 😂😂
From Missouri, this is me. I still have fire logs I cut from a Christmas tree in 2012 in the garage. I keep forgetting to take them camping. They will get used one day, mark my words.
I'm surprised I didn't see mention of asking for extra napkins at the drive thru window. Especially when you have that one restaurant you like that has the BEST napkins 😩❤
My grandpa is a fast food napkin hoarder lmao. So accurate
Very True....You could go to any Vehicle in my driveway, and find those napkins in the door cubby...for those unexpected "Gesundheit" moments....
he stole your idea for part 2. :)
Coming from a VERY Norwegian family in Minnesota... I can’t believe how accurate this is...
I hear you. My Dad's dad was from Sweden and my mom's dad was from Norway. Live near GB Wis. Love his videos, so funny.
I was supposed to do something three hours ago; then, I found this channel.
I experienced the same outcome.
Having lived in Indiana for 3 years, I can't stop laughing about how true and hilarious this is!
I grew up in Western, NY but this seems normal to me. Maybe we resemble the mid-westerners.
Drinking from jars is just plain classy.
Especially since eco millennials are making it a thing 😉
While visiting any folks, drinking from a jar (except a large mayo jar, which is like drinking from the pitcher) is fine by me, but if i go to a bar or restaurant and they try that, i will ask for a bowl. Gotta have standards. Oh, and don’t forget thread spools for cupboard knobs..
And it holds so much more then most cups
its actually really common in the south to even the most well off people doing that
Reduce reuse and recycle
I remember saving packets of ketchup.
"Do you do it with relish?"
"No, I'm not proud of it at all..."
Fast food employee had a great story to tell later :)
LMFAO
Taco Bell gives us three fistsful every time. I've got a qt. size Ziploc in the fridge of those.
@@hymmj147 Can of beans and some hot water you've got poor man's chili LOL
@@hymmj147 What the TB here in Manitowoc does when I ask for a "shit ton". 🤣
As a Michigander, I resemble this! 😁 In the next version of this add all of the true things my parents did; ripping napkins in half, washing ziploc bags to reuse them, saving left overs in cool whip containers, and adding water to juice to make it last longer! Keep up the good work
Napkins? Use paper towels, they are less expensive, unless you're using the saved napkins from restaurants or convenience stores.
I'm surprised to see Deerfield on the internet considering they probably just got dialup working out there.
Omg I feel called out lol
Zip-loc bags arent meant to be single use..
California, Central Valley originally, wash ziplocs and use Tupperware we get from anywhere else too.
They forgot to do the cutting the empty toothpaste tube in half to use up every bit of the paste we paid for.😂
I do that, my toothpaste is $6 a tube, u have to😂
oh wow...great idea!! i never thought of that before 💕
Saving the old shampoo bottle to fill with new shampoo and water. 🌊 🧴
@@SK-rs1hu that doesn’t work as well as using new shampoo. The scent alone won’t be as active.
@@Sam19509 shampoo is detergent. It strips your hair completely of it's oils, making you rely on conditioner to soften it, which makes you use more shampoo, which makes you use more conditioner...so on and so forth. I do better just to dilute the shampoo and wash twice a week but you do you..
I’m from the Midwest. I use my calendars as artwork when I’m done. Also every bag gets saved 😂😂😂
I’m from the south and I think this is an American thing I’m positive
Broke American thing.
@@HosCreates nope a rural thing. This guy I know rich as fuck does this.
It's international, we do it in Europe too.
😂😂😂 When pouring Rossi into a Yellowtail bottle is "classing it up." 😂😂😂
Tbh, I do get the last of the peanut butter... after I scrape out my sandwich, I put my wet ingredients for peanut sauce in and shake until it dissolves. Isn't that normal? I also go to the cable store every year to get the introductory rate... and I have a ziplock full of soy sauce packets.
I did not even get that one about the peanut butter sandwich. I just thought everyone does that.
You shudda had Charlie diggin' tru da Culver's trash for the free Scoopie coupons. Then get the custard free with da ketchup packs.
People throw away a scoopie coupons? I'm grabbing some gloves and going to culvers.
From KS, live in AK and a local subway mailed out BOGO sheets for foot longs. I dug through that recycling bin at the post office, people were like WTF, and I got free foot longs for months.
My piano teacher would keep those scoopie tokens for scoopie merchandise in her wallet
@@mattschmitt9924 At my college apartment I was amazed at how many people threw away all their coupons. I would go through the trash in the mailroom for coupons, especially fast food but occasionally some from Meijer or other stores.
4 years later I watched this for the first time and I feel exposed
He lost me with the Bud Light product placement.😂
Every. Single. Frame. Is. Spot. On.
It's horrible but funny.
When he said “got us a new glass” and put the jar in the dishwasher I felt that
Who else remembers margarine containers being used for cereal bowls?😂
Yes!
I was searching for this comment specifically
When I was young
Always the best cus they are huge lol 😂
Back in the 70s one margarine co. put out very nice stylish bowls! Someone is probably still using them.
I love that he's filling a cheap wine bottle with cheaper wine.
I have lived in the Midwest all my life and I can say yes, we are that cheap!
Can't be cheap and be wearing a Duluth Trading shirt.
Unless it was bought at a garage sale.
Unless you're so cheap that you buy one of their shirts, and return it right before their "No BS" warranty expires after one year to exchange it for a new one.
@denise baber ooooo my kinda girl.....tell me more...lol
@@craigbielsky115 HAHA
Goodwill at the 50% off day.
@@Visplight Value Village on their 75% day for seniors (take your grandma to thrift day)
My mom keeps all the extra wrapped plastic utensils from takeout in a drawer...next to the drawer of condiment packets
Next time you might consider using a rubber spatula on that peanut butter jar.
For Pete's sake! You left way too much peanut butter in there.
Karen!
@@evanlambrecht7510 geez louise Evan!
There is Pur-nerd another sandwich There in the peanut butter jar.
Also you should take off the paper raper before you put it into the dishwasher. Now you are going to get paper over the other dishes...
Rant over.
@@troyhaese8005 what?
@@evanlambrecht7510 I'm just messing with you. 😂 that's 👌
@@troyhaese8005 next time do it in English plz!😄😄😄😝😝😝😄😄😄
That "new glass" bit is accurate. I have a cookie dough container that has been acting as Tupperware for years.
I like that you can hear her laugh when he overflows the wine.
"Winner winner cheese curd dinner"
Two George Washington’s !!! You’re killin me
The funny part is, he could have bought the funnels new for that much...
Or did 2 quarters.
Revamped Outdoors that’s what I thought was gonna happen...
Just seeing Culvers was enough for me! I can't WAIT to get back home in two weeks to Northern Illinois to grab some. Maybe I'll add on to my ketchup packet collection and bring it back to TN in the fall. I SWEAR my friends down here think that's strange I collect condiment packets for future use! Charlie, you have vindicated me! 😁😁😁
Culver's is in FL now, we're closer to ya!!
Charlie, you make me laugh so easily. I have to work at it to make people laugh. Thanks, Dude.
I learn so much from you, like how to reduce expenses & put a spin on old tired sayings. Thanks for the tips Charlie!!!
So much of this is my mom and her side of the family. They always pull the "Depression era" card and "Child of Depression era parents" cards respectively in order to defend it and then say why "they can't help it". When it doesn't work, they resort to saying "I just don't want to be wasteful! Look at all this perfectly good food/insert things/object(s) here" commentary, and it is almost always something like that peanut butter jar or the bags, trash bags, ziplocks, milk jugs, doesn't matter. "It feels better when you work for it and aren't so wasteful" is a phrase I will never be able to live without someone saying to me haha. My mom's side of the fam is in fact midwestern scandihoovian, so it fits the bill for sure.
Don't skimp on the wife. 👏🏻
Whoa, no. Ketchup on a brat? No. Mustard and kraut.
Telling on myself: I will keep glass jars for drinking (not big jars but decorative jelly jars), save all extra condiment packets and use them, coupons for just about everything, I have millions of these "cheap" ways. 😆 🤣 😂
I can feel this on a couple of levels. Also awesome, Culvers!
Don’t throw out the aluminum foil. Wash, rinse, reuse.
So...I live in Pennsylvania and this is accurate for the area I live in. Like all of my family is like this. lol!
Same here. Northeast pa, we even have Our own Accent..
It sounds like you guys are claiming being midwesterners! 😂
@Christopher B. hey yinzer
I'm from WI and currently live in Pike County PA(tri-state area). There are similarities. But without the amazing cheese and wonderful brats from our favorite meat market(Miesfeld's Sheboygan,WI)
@@joesphschramm3754 Pike County checking in. Actually reading a book right now that basically says most of PA (Pike included) & the Midwest are culturally the same. It's called American nations.
Wait so you're telling me that only people in the Midwest do these things? I thought these were universal 😂
Don't forget to take a few Cool Whip containers to that dinner you were invited to and grab some leftovers. 😉👍
this is one of my new favorite RUclips channels
My dad uses left over bacon grease to grease pans instead of butter because it’s “too expensive”.
My mom would save the bacon grease and when she got enough she would bake a "Poor Man's Cake" with it, instead of butter.
It's yummy for frying zucchini!
I live in Texas but I find you very relatable
Growing up, in our fridge we had one of those containers meant for cheese slices that was always filled with ketchup/mayo/mustard/mild sauce packets.
Also saving the plastic silverware and napkins from fast food places to keep in the glove box of your car 🤣
The Car Cell ph holder😂🤣😂