When Being Frugal Goes Too Far
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I don’t care how broke I get I’m buying the good toilet paper
Just so you know, good toilet paper is bad for the plumbing.
@@genxx2724 Regardless of good or bad toilet paper I never throw it in the toilet. Have a thrash can to throw it in. Plumbing cost too much.
@@victorgomez6942 What country do you live in?
@@genxx2724 USA. State of California and you?
Using the newspaper and junk mail suggestion is absolutely bad on your plumbing. I am not sure it will flush
This isn't frugality. Buy quality that is within your budget.
“Quality that is within your budget” 👌
Yup, this isn’t being frugal, it’s being cheap - spending at little as possible at the expense of your time and health and dignity
use coupons bih or food stamps
Being frugal isn’t bad, being cheap is very bad
It depends on how much of your time it takes and if it endangers health.
When you figure whether something is frugal or not it is individual. Sure, you might be able to get a side hustle but if you are a single mom who doesn't have access to childcare beyond school and Pre-K? Maybe it isn't worth it.
Yeah, this is all cheap. Frugality is prioritizing the things that matter.
Bingo. My Dad was always as frugal as they get...but never cheap when life happened.
@@islandhopper100 Frugal is not buying more than the the bare minimum to be able to provide for certain priorities. Being cheap is going out of your way and doing things wrong because its “technically” is the same thing and tends to be more expensive that just doing it right the first time
Don't live in a HOA, that will save a lot of money.
Not necessarily. Pooling money with all of your neighbors to share the cost of lawn care gets you bulk discounts. Living in an HOA can be less expensive than paying for everything on your own.
@@tscoff A lot of people who have lived with an HOA will never do it again. Obviously there are happy people in developments with HOAs, but we surely hear about the disastified ones!
I love how much fun Christina is having 😂😂
I am with George on them. Some are just over the line or more trouble than they are worth. Some people just see it as a badge to save a penny.
A penny saved is a dollar lost in these cases.
And that is before you factor in dignity.
@@zoeevans543 🎯
There’s a difference between frugal and cheap
Bingo. These are examples of cheap, not frugal
My great-grandparents had their basement carpeted in shag carpet squares that were originally samples. It was very colorful and as a child I LOVED it. It was essentially a family room for larger gatherings, not in the main part of their house.
My dad did that for my brother's room when he was a kid, it actually looked good, like a quilt! My brother liked it.
“What are you looking for in someone’s trash?!”
Deodorant butts and unused sections of toilet paper.
These were decidedly being cheap, not being frugal. Being frugal is being wise with your money, but not compromising your time, health, dignity or quality of life in doing so. Being cheap is spending as little as possible at all cost without regard for your time, health etc. The only one I do from this list is cut my own hair, I work outdoors in the trades and wear a hat a lot anyway, and can do a pretty decent job myself with hair clippers and it takes me just a few min once a month. If I go to a wedding or something fancy I’ll gladly pay for a haircut though
Don’t trip over a dollar to save a penny.
George would be a good comedian. Hes really good with quit wit responses lol.
Confession:
We moved into our new house a few years back and just months after being here, a flashlight fell out of an over toilet cabinet and broke the tank lid.
It was like $60+ to replace it but it was in the master so no one was going to see it, so I let it go. Finally recently, it was bulk trash day and a neighbor had their toilet in bulk trash. Same toilet as mine… w a perfectly good tank lid.
I told my husband “STOP THE TRUCK!” And I jumped out without explaining hoping no neighbors would see me taking a toilet tank lid… just then, a couple of walkers came around the corner just in time to see me jumping in the truck w the toilet tank lid LOL
That's awesome! Good for you!
That's fair because $60 is quite a lot of money!
Some of these "frugal" people have serious psychological issues.
Cheap, not frugal. Frugal means being wise with money, but being ok spending it when it provides value. Cheap is when you spend as little as possible no matter the consequences to your time, health, dignity or quality of life in the long run. These are all being cheap.
@@nodsib I agree with you.
Hence the show Hoarders!
Love this segment. It's hilarious. Cristina and George should do more of these. Love watching George's face when she told him some of these frugal things. George's reaction was the best on these. LOL
Use washable cloth & dish towels, instead of buying paper towels.
Almost every example she gave was shown on TLC's Extreme Cheapskates. I remember the family who went and got those carpet samples bc they were trying to sell their house!
I remember a guy on that show who would refill water bottles from the sink and then to fool his kids would super glue the lids so that is would make the snap noise when the opened the water bottle.
I'll never forget the woman who baked lasagna in her dishwasher or the guy who either did his dishes or his laundry or both in his hot tub.
Umm... major thrift stores DON'T launder donated clothes, people. You have to wash everything you take home! I mean, it would be great if you knew everyone was donating stuff after it comes out of the dryer - but odds are, there are folks who take stuff off after wearing it and throw it in the donate pile rather than washing it. I work one day a week at a thrift store as a side hustle and get that question from time to time. HARD NO.
So George, what would you do to save money? Especially if you're not working and having to make do? You don't seem to understand what other people are willing to do to get ahead.
Come on! Deodorant is $1.25 at Dollar Tree.
that's too much
@@rnt45t1 Even if you make minimum wage at 25 hours a week isn't too much.
What deodorant is that? I only buy axe and old spice
I buy deodorant, bar soap, lotion & baby oil, nail polish, coffee/tea mugs, plates, bowls, drink glasses, candles, etc at the Dollar Tree for $1.25 each.
@@SomeOne-yv8jf yeah I wouldn’t buy cheap stuff like that to put on my body
I'm amish and I don't make my own soap either, George! 😆 ~Lillian
You'd be shocked what gets thrown away. Things you can use, things you can fix and use, things you can fix and sell or just clean up and sell.
There's also the environmental angle. Don't boost the landfill inputs more than necessary. I'm not extreme in that regard, but unnecessary waste is no different from overspending.
Our neighbor put out their Barbie Jeep ticked that it "didn't work", they replaced it, we took it into our garage where we had the same charger for our sons... the charging cord was bad. We told them and they were like "Nah, you figured it out, you keep it." Sold it for $60, for the cost of charging it. 🤣
These two are my favorite combination...besides Dave of course!
Being frugel has saved me financially a few times, like long job layoff , or waiting till being declared disabled took over a year , no income
Locally, we have something called "junk day".. extra furniture and storage bins are set on the curb. Picking up "junk day" items doesn't count as dumpster diving
Same here. Neighbours tossed out a freezer - so we got a new freezer. They thought it was too small. We thought for $0, it was perfect.
This is like the TV thing, it is not the same as digging through a persons trash.
Eat your cereal with a fork so you can recycle the milk
😂
Just use water instead of milk...
Bah haha!!! Love it.
Some of these are just NASTY. i know someone who almost died of a flesh eating disease going through someone's trash
YUCK!!!
2:02 That line has me HOWLING 🤣🤣🤣💀
It's very accessible.
Get a job. Live within your means. Don’t buy junk you don’t need. Spend your time improving your life. No shame.
Cheap way to get your haircut is go to your local vocational school! Haircuts are usually way cheaper than the salon! And you get to help kids learn how to do their job!
I have been cutting my own for probably over 20 years because I hate the “tipping your barber” custom.
Same here; I'm getting pretty good at it, no more than 10 minutes biweekly. Invest in a clipper with curve blade
I hate tipping too. You already paid
i hate waiting and tipping
I have severe allergies and am not able to go inside hair salon. So I cut my own hair.
‘ that’s gotta be against HOA rules” my bet is people trying to be frugal, and save money, aren’t living in a HOA
You'd be surprised.
The thing you have to consider is the value of what you are doing compared to the time spent doing it. For example, taking ten extra minutes and saving $1-2 by taking the public roads rather than the toll roads can be worth it. Spending dozens or hundreds of hours getting carpet samples to install in your house is not worth it.
I've seen lots of carpet stores with tons of Dollar carpet samples. I doubt it would take too long to toss them down on the floor and glue them in place. I personally wouldn't care to do it but it's not going to be hundreds of hours.
There is a difference between being cheap and being frugal! I have picked up the neighbor’s beautiful planters they got rid of! I brought them home! No carpet samples! I buy all my clothes at Salvation Army! I get really beautiful clothes!! ❤
George.I grew up amish we didn't make our soap
I cut my own hair. :)
The people who lived in our house before did the fake flowers. They faded and shredded in no time and when they fell apart I spent **two years** picking pieces of plastic leaves and flowers out of the yard where they had been blown or scattered. *No*.
Not sure why someone wouldn't just plant perennials.
Oh, no! Ugh.
There's a house around the corner that has done that, & it reminds me of a cemetery. Definitely pass on that hack.
This was hilarious. It reminded me of George and Rachel’s happy hour podcasts.
I am frugal, but not cheap. I enjoy my money but am very mindful how I'm spending it.
All of this! ❤
My wife ( funeral director) cuts my hair. She has gotten better at doing the back of my head, since I am upright. I have had my daughters cut my hair, after they learned how to fit cattle. Was easier for them, I don't kick!🤣🤣🤣
LoL
Been shaving my head for years hair cuts are way too pricy and don't really care about my hair.
For TP reduce, just get a bidet in the toilet! Way less TP usage, you are welcome!!
I’ve made my own laundry soap and LOVE IT!!
Like my grandmother, use $4 of gas to save .50 cents on paper towels. 🤦🏿♀️
Why are you paying HOA? Waste of money.
My aunt made a big ball of soap out of all the soap bits left over from the bars of soap.. I was impressed. It was a big ball of colorful soap that smelled amazing..
The toilet thing is good and plumber approved but instead of a brick fill a plastic bottle with water. Brick and ceramic is dangerous.
My mom would buy one ply and you just have to use more of it. It's not money saving.
I'm frugal and most of the questions aren't something a frugal person would do. This is something a cheapskate would do at the extreme level.
Free toilet paper is everywhere. At work. At fast food. At Starbucks. Just roll it up and fill your pockets. Next thing you know you can have a mountain of toilet paper at home.
That's not frugal, it's theft.
Fresh out of college, I actually did this! Lmbo
That's theft!
@@annescholten9313 Not really. It's there for public use. Theft would be taking it out of a locked cupboard or closet.
These people have no idea what frugality is.. These either require way too much time or are just bizzare
If you are a stay at home mom, some of these tips are the only choices you have. You can do them while keeping your kids whereas paying for childcare makes working much more difficult.
One way to be frugal is don’t live in an HOA
HOAs = bad.
No spend January, Frugal February and next comes Miser March!
The hair off the barbers floor had me laughing. I had to pause it & laugh, taking it all in😂
I am sure that George and Cristina would go grey if he knew what some of us frugal people did LOL.
I once patchwork carpeted a room with carpet samples stuck down with double sided tape. It was beautiful. Of course that was in the early 80s when things like that were "cool" and I was young lol.
Big difference between frugal and cheap. That said, the reaction to things like cutting your own hair make me think that George may have never been truly poor, broke, and in debt maybe, but not truly dirt poor.
Here is how frugal i am. I had my wedding catered by the "Jubilee" soup kitchen out of Uniontown, Pa for .65 a person.
Hair clippings are for putting in the mole runs in your yard as a repellent. I prefer trapping.
No on the newspaper!! “The Times are tough.” ;)
I cut my own hair. I'm retired military and learned how to do it myself.
It is not about the act of saving deodorant being a good return on investment in isolation, but as a system a frugal protestant mindset got a great ROI and is also better for the environment than just half-faking it and throwing out perfectly good deodorant. We do the same in hour house, we use up all consumables fully. No exceptions. We also repair items instead of buying new ones even if the repair is more expensive. Georger comes out as a bit of a snob after this episode, he seems like a very nice guy, but he was not the right host for this episode. I guess he must wonder why people keep newspapers in the bathroom 😀
@@MidwestFarmToys another alternative is to simply use water for cleaning.
Yeah on the fake flowers!!
Using TP in itself is gross. Use water. If your clothes get mud smeared on them, you don’t wipe then with paper, you wash them! 😅
Actually you do both...
The problem with a lot of these kinds of hacks is they waste a ton of time and energy, and they don't work correctly half the time.
To the trash one, I hope they're just talking about furniture/bulk items outside the bin lol
Newspaper and sales ad isn't frugal for tp, its broke. I did that when I was too broke to afford it at one point.
Here's the thing, I've been behind the scenes of op shops, they don't have the funds to sends clothes to get washed.
They don't wash the donations--I asked.
The toilet tank is an interesting one. Lots of low flush toilet's, this is a semi DIY low flush toilet.
I cut my own hair, which is easy because a buzz is easy and easy to take care of
You would be shocked at what people throw away.
I don't have a fancy haircut like George so it's easy to trim my hair myself. Saves me about $200 a month
200a month?
No guard on clippers. Works great.
A month? Holy smokes
Are you a dude?..$200..how? Lol
Nah 700
Frugal advice: use leftovers to make into something else, don't waste any food at all.
I heard a story that a dad came home and announced that his family had just become Jehovas Witnesses. He didn’t need to buy Christmas or Birthday presents!
You all gave me a good laugh. Side hustle makes the best sense.
Want to save on toilet paper? Get a bidet attachment. Yeah there's an upfront cost but you won't use near as much paper.
I don’t have a bidet per se but I I use a hose set up in my bathtub to do the thing. Also you can use a decent size bowl filled with warm water. You got to be ingenious, practical.
Using a newspaper instead of toilet paper will destroy your plumbing.
Who buys newspapers these days anyway? Not very many.
You can use a newspaper but please, please never flush it down the toilet. Put it in the trash. I do that with my toilet paper. I learned that from being in third world countries. I hate the American way in some situations.
@vernon cooke I don't flush tp either--it goes in the trash. Prevents plumbing clogs.
@@Elizabeth-yg2mg if you have a septic system, putting your toilet paper in the trash will reduce the chance of septic system problems and expensive repairs.
Coming from a frugal person, the list that Christina read , for the most part, is CHEAP, not frugal... There is a huge difference... Lists like this puts frugal people in a bad light...
Exactly. Most of these four examples of extreme cheapskates.
I agreed 100% with George this time.
For some people, the cut their own hair thing really works. I'm a guy with zero caring about fashion, my style is 3/8" buzz, and when my hair is long enough that I have to do anything with it at all after getting out of the shower, I chop it off again. I don't even know what barbers charge for haircuts, but I'm sure my $30 clippers have paid for themselves hundreds of times over.
Don’t be frugal with your “money” be frugal with your time. Money is just how we humans communicate time.
Whoa!!! This is probably the realest best advice I have heard!!! Can I get a AMEN!!! ❤
For some, time is of little consequence, it's all about being as cheap as they possibly can.
I cut my own hair and have been for years. No problem at all lol. Just took some time to learn starting out. Save great money doing it!
The charity will NOT clean the clothes.
"Leave the country to buy gifts after Christmas so you can get it on sale"
Or just buy gifts a year in advance on sale???
I make my own soap and love it 🙂
Most of these are hilarious!
I do find two of the best ways to be frugal are to buy used (cars, furniture, household goods, kid clothes, etc) and have reusable items instead of disposable (using rags instead of paper towels, reusable water bottles, I even cloth diapered my four kids. But I draw the line toilet paper. "Family cloth" never appealed to me 😂)
Instead of a family cloth I have a bidet, which means I don't need to use as much TP.
Do use TP ....get spray nozzle or a bidet.
Unless you're pooping footballs or chocolate squirrels generally your toilet can flush with less water.
My Grandma filled a half gallon jug with water, sealed it and put it in her toliet tank to save money on each flush and that was in 2000.
My parents does the same, their house is paid off and a paid off duplex rental, SS money not even spent, 200k in cash……..I ask mom why? She told me you have never been dirt poor before.
There was a show on tlc. And I still remember some of those people cheap/cost cutting ways. I would love to see a inflation episode of that show
me too
Extreme cheapskates
@@TrollHunterxXx Thank-you. I couldn't remember the name
My frugality is to tear paper towels in half because I don’t need to use the entire sheet.
If I don't get toilet paper I would definitely be using a bidet
That’s not frugal, that’s being cheap
My dad cut my hair while I was a kid. Dumpster diving is something we did as a kid.
I don’t do either, but dumpster diving at like a commercial business dumpster is one thing, but going through people personal garbage cans at the end of the driveways is just way over the line
Mom cut our hair. Dad brought home some really great wood furniture off the curb.
these two have great chemistry
If you want to save on TP just get a bidet
But wouldn't they complain about the extra water?
Some people spend their lives pinching pennies not realising the whole point of money is to improve the quality of your life
Buying your donated clothes back just for dry cleaning seems borderline villain to me 😂
George's hair could be easily done with a 30$ hair clipper. You won't just save money but also time. Don't be such a diva...
In contrast, I agree with the rest.
About the only one I personally agree with on this list is cutting my own hair (since I already do it and it turns out pretty good) the only other one I would consider is marrying someone frugal IF we're on the same page. If we agree about what to be frugal on, and agree being each other's accountability partner, then sure. But if my partner to be wants to do stuff like using newspaper as TP and using my hair as pillow stuffing, then HARD PASS!!!
Edit: After re-listening, I will say: I have found stuff on the side of the road in nice neighborhoods that I've picked up (but looking IN someone's trash can? HECK NO! And instead of fake flowers, just get creative with what you already have to put in your yard)