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A friend of mine who prides herself on her appearance has an 8 year old son. He is underweight and very small for his age, and his pediatrician suggested she give him certain vitamins (I forgot the name, but they weren't the ones you normally would think of for kids).

When she found out the vitamins weren't covered by insurance, she decided that his being small and underweight wasn't that big of a deal. She wouldn't spend the $40 a month it would be for him to have them, but has no trouble going to a hairdresser and spending $120 in a shot, or buying 5 shades of lipstick at $30 each.

The day she was supposed to get the vitamins but found out they weren't covered, she literally went to a shoe store and spent $350 on herself for shoes that were a "must have".

i hate people like this

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07-17-2010 , 08:15 PM

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Originally Posted by JHolsinger88

This story was told to me by a good friend of mine.

I currently live in Grand Blanc, MI and up until now The Buick Open has been hosted here every summer. My friends lady friend was a waitress at a somewhat upscale restaurant in town. When she arrived at work she was told that a group of golfers, more importantly Tiger Woods had reservations for the night, and she was assigned to the section where they would be dining. Naturally she was excited to meet such a well known super athlete, and im assuming she thought she was going to get "paid". The night went as planned and there were no major problems as I have been told. She collects payment (assuming credit card) and goes to process and looks to see that Tiger Woods himself has left her a $10 tip on an $85 dinner. I can only imagine how disappointed she must have been. My friend told me she cried over it lol We all got a laugh from it though.

That may seem like somewhat of a standard tip, but seems quite frugal when you are one of the wealthiest global athletes ever. This was long before anyone knew how much of a tool he was.

Wow, this post made me like Tiger again.

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07-17-2010 , 08:56 PM

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Originally Posted by RacersEdge

this is prolly more dumb than stingy, but some people actually take the time to roll up their coins in those paper rolls and then take them to the bank instead of just pouring them in the "coinstar" at the grocery store. Well worth the 7% they charge there to avoid all the manual labor.

Most (all?) banks have a counter just like coinstar, without the fee/having to buy a giftcard.

My old bank had one right in the lobby, you poured your coins in and it printed a receipt to bring to the cashier.

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07-17-2010 , 09:04 PM

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Originally Posted by punkass

Just saw on CNN that some font (forget which one) uses 30% less ink than Ariel.

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07-17-2010 , 10:00 PM

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Originally Posted by sards

I have a friend who lives with his girlfriend. She insists on hand-washing the dishes despite having a perfectly good dishwasher in order to save on energy costs. She even refuses to let her boyfriend use the dishwasher when it's his turn to do the dishes.

My lady does this, but I think she generally enjoys doing dishes after eating, like its therapeutic or something. We only use the dishwasher on large holiday meals.

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07-17-2010 , 11:48 PM

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Originally Posted by DonkeyKongSr

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...ryId=125639616

This article says the University of Wisconsin decided Century Gothic over Arial was the way to go. ~30% less ink and at $10,000/gallon, that can save a lot of money at a university or some business. Maybe a bit stingy as an individual, but a whole organization making the change can save tens of thousands a year potentially. According to the article, U of W spends $100K on ink a year, so there's lots of room for saving. Hell, if they could figure out how to go paperless, they could save most of the $100K+paper costs, but someone would likely call the university stingy for not wanting to print stuff.

that is not the university of wisconsin fyi. that is uw-gb. i would imagine UW would use a lot more ink and paper than that seeing as it is ~6x bigger.

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07-18-2010 , 01:40 AM

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Originally Posted by sards

I agree with the first part. Not only does it use less water but it also takes less time for the dishes to go from dirty to put away. I can deal with the twenty minutes of labor.

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07-18-2010 , 01:41 AM

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I agree with the first part. Not only does it use less water but it also takes less time for the dishes to go from dirty to put away. I can deal with the twenty minutes of labor.

Why did you need the dishes to be done instantly? Seems like a wasted 20 minutes to me.

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07-18-2010 , 02:09 AM

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Originally Posted by ImsaKidd

Why did you need the dishes to be done instantly? Seems like a wasted 20 minutes to me.

Dirty sinks make me chew my nails and tap my fingers until both bleed. I'd have to spend the 20 minutes at some point.

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07-18-2010 , 02:42 AM

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Originally Posted by jeromy

Dirty sinks make me chew my nails and tap my fingers until both bleed. I'd have to spend the 20 minutes at some point.

I prefer to just handwrinse dishes directly after use. There are no germs unless you just ate the germs and it saves time and energy. Just trying to teach all the kids to do it it sucks.

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07-18-2010 , 05:45 AM

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wow at the above post.

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07-18-2010 , 05:50 AM

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Originally Posted by jeromy

I agree with the first part. Not only does it use less water but it also takes less time for the dishes to go from dirty to put away. I can deal with the twenty minutes of labor.

WTF is wrong with you people?

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07-18-2010 , 11:46 AM

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dishes do not take 20 minutes unless you just fed a 4 course meal to a 30 person family

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07-18-2010 , 01:21 PM

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Originally Posted by clout

dishes do not take 20 minutes unless you just fed a 4 course meal to a 30 person family

Its still stupid to handwash when you can put them right in the dishwasher.

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07-18-2010 , 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by TIEdup14

wow at the above post.

why "wow" at my post?

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07-18-2010 , 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by ImsaKidd

Its still stupid to handwash when you can put them right in the dishwasher.

unless your stingy and dont want to up yout energy and water bill

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07-18-2010 , 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by kcaw

Wow, this post made me like Tiger again.

you can tell from the way its phrased that she'd still be pissed if she got $20 even though it clocks in at ~25%

its entitlement like this that is so annoying, its really bad with poker dealers

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07-18-2010 , 03:31 PM

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Originally Posted by AcTiOnJaCsOn

unless your stingy and dont want to up yout energy and water bill

Dishwashers are usually more efficient than hand washing
Another link talking about cost savings of a dishwasher

So, assuming a fairly modern dishwasher, choosing handwashing over dishwasher is quite possibly costing stingy people extra money.

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07-18-2010 , 04:12 PM

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i know a guy who i saw buying 3-4 different bottles of wine in the shop than at the cashier he started staring at his girlfriend, the girl didnt had enough money so the guy went and put back a few bottle to the shelfs. small shop, every eyes one them obv, probably everyone just felt deeply sorry for that girl =D
also just asked me for a cig with the explaination like "i dont want to crack up that full pack i had with me".
having ton of different stories with him such as we asked him for rolling paper once and he told us he would only give if we let him smoke too...

at the end he rightfully earned the nickname of "the parasite [his name]". having 0 friends obv.

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07-18-2010 , 07:38 PM

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I take unused paper napkins from restaurants to later use them as tissues. Even if I have tissues with me.

My parents used to drive to a different gas station if they knew that gas is 0.01 less there. The savings can only amount to maybe 0.50 minus the extra gas used for the detour and it might take up to an extra 15 minutes.

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07-18-2010 , 08:07 PM

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re: kcaw. The fact that you think germs are the only reason to use soap when washing dishes is pretty dumb.

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07-18-2010 , 08:08 PM

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Also, your logic behind 'no germs on dishes bc your food was just on it!!!' makes no sense. What about cups, silverware, things your mouth directly contacts?

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07-18-2010 , 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by TIEdup14

Also, your logic behind 'no germs on dishes bc your food was just on it!!!' makes no sense. What about cups, silverware, things your mouth directly contacts?

You misunderstood me. My meaning is this, at the moment you take your last bite of food, how many germs do you think are on the plate? How infected do you think it is that it needs a hotwater and soap scrubbing? Whatever food that remains will eventually become contaminated,but certainly is not at that moment.

Show me that you need more than a good rinsing to get rid of whatever you can come into contact with your mouth.

I used to put a dab of dishsoap on a sponge and "wash" them but I know how how horrible that is.

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07-18-2010 , 08:47 PM

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Originally Posted by JHolsinger88

The tip used to be $20 but now that he is getting divorced, now its only $10

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07-18-2010 , 11:41 PM

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One of my non-drinking ex-friends tried to charge me and two others $70 to designated drive us to a club and back. After I told him to go **** himself he oh-so-generously lowered his offer to $20.

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