What's the strangest thing your spouse has ever done to save money.
@beautyqueen26 (16030)
United States
June 14, 2007 4:09pm CST
One time my husband got upset that I'd used toilet paper to clean up a small spill on the kitchen floor, so the next morning he hid all of the toilet paper.
He said I was wasting money! Can you believe that? I asked him why he wouldn't simply buy more sponges for me, so clean up jobs would be easier.
Now all of my cleaning rags are cut up old t-shirts that can be bleached and reused! I can get three cloths from one big shirt, and reuse them until they fall apart.
Cloth baby diapers make good cleaning rags and well.
So, what's the funniest or craziest thing your spouse has ever done (or made you do) to save money?
Think frugal!
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@lilttownmommie (1473)
• United States
17 Jun 07
my hubby refuses to buy or use paper plates or plastic cups because he says its wasting money, I try to point out to him that it costs almost the same to buy a bottle of dish soap & use the water, but he's strange, whenever I buy them he refuses to use them. (I don't buy them to waste money, I buy them because I have a 5 yr old, 11 month old, & Im 9 months pregnant with #3, it's kinda hard to find time to wash a double sink full of dishes every day) He also refuses to buy me sponges or Mr Clean Magic Erasers, he calls them as waste of money as well.
@beautyqueen26 (16030)
• United States
19 Jun 07
Oh, my goodness! Please, go sit down! Don't listen to him. I could barely walk when I was 9 months pregnant, much less stand 20 minutes to wash dishes. Let him rant. Let him rave. Then go do what's best for you and your baby.
How does he think that he's going to get it any cheaper than one cent! Paper plates are one cent each locally (pack of 100 for $1.00).
Do what I do when my husband does acts silly like that and puts unreasonable demands on me. Put his dish into the fridge after every meal, and serve his food on it every time without washing it off. And, if he complains, give him the option to wash his own plate.
You are in a special situation, so he should understand that you are thinking more about your health and your baby's health, than saving a penny or two.
We can't leave the thinking to the guys, or they will have us doing even stranger things than use plastic plates.
@ahgong (10064)
• Singapore
6 Jul 07
ha ha ha... I cannot help but laugh at the response.
That is one heck of an innovative way to put a point across!
If he is able to take the hint, that is fine.
But if he thinks you are trying to be mean to him, it will really blow a top or two.
I rather sit my spouse down and explain my difficulty in the situation rather than invoke a fight to put a point across.
@monicathinks407 (311)
• United States
15 Jun 07
The strangest thing I watched my spouse do was take a shirt off the rack in a store to blow his nose...it was too expensive to just buy a box of tissue (99 cents). He is my ex now, trust me there are many more tacky stories as the one I just told you that made me decide to make him my ex. ... The jerk just recently put a pair of his girlfriends underwear on my daughter because he had no way to go to the laundry mat...Thank God I left that jerk...I am just sorry he is the father of my kids. lol
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@lillake (1630)
• United States
15 Jun 07
Mine has never done anything strange, its usually me making the weird changes to save us money and help the environment. Like I made us switch from toliet paper to family cloth. He still thinks that is the oddest thing ever, though among most of my friends i was one of the last to try it.
