Can we get a frugal living thread going? B, 1103x709
>Get a gym membership. Saves healthcare costs in the long term, allows you to be more effective at work, and have more energy. Never shower at home. >Only live off of fruit, vegetables, water, and occasional fish/meat. Cheap and healthy. >Get into the habit of eating 'low end' frozen food. A bag of frozen spinach can easily cost $1 and it will feed you for an entire day. >Learn basic carpentry and design. Ask furniture stores for spare parts they are going to throw out. Use them to build your own furniture >Meditation is the best and cheapest way to spend your time for a good life. >Don't get a TV
>Get a power up rewards membership. Saves vidya costs in the long term, allows you to be more effective at work, and have more energy. Never shower. >Only live off of curry and pasta, and occasional fish/meat. Cheap. >Get into the habit of eating 'low end' noodles. A bag of ramen can easily cost $0.01 and it will feed you for an entire day. >Learn basic memes and shitposting. Ask alpha males for spare parts they are going to throw out. Use them to build your own memes >anime is the best and cheapest way to spend your time for a good life. >Don't leave home
Jacob White
Now that that is out of the way I'll detail what I do myself instead of the generic advice I gave in the OP pulled off desuarchive. >getting a cheaper phone plan I will move from unlimited for $60 a month to 500mb cap for $12 a month >stick with the phone you have Don't buy a smartphone upgrade. If anything sell your current one if its expensive and buy a $100 Xiaomi phone which is on par with current models. >dont pay for a wired internet connection you can just turn your phone into a portable hotspot. It's what I was doing when I had unlimited. Just connect to your phones internet from your laptop >use a low power thinkpad you can buy thinkpads for less than $150 or $100. Again you can sell your expensive one and sell that power hog desktop.
Jose Ross
>go to malls and take the change out of the fountains
Joseph Green
I lel'd
Lucas Martin
I currently have no electricity at home. All I have is a hotplate that gets paid by the landlord. I use candles and torch to see at night. I use the hotplate to boil water and cook food. I charge my phone at work or in the basement for free and its good for another 24 hours.
Anthony Thomas
roll up your coupon magazines to beat your fat wife and kids. saves money on baseball bats and no bruising
Ryan Thompson
a gym membership? That'd set me back 1k per year where I live. Home gym + running outdoors is what's frugal
Colton Ramirez
>take the food that was delivered to the school
Noah Brown
apologies I pulled it off desu archive. I just don't exercise apart from walking to work to save the money for the bus.
Gavin King
I rinse out my condoms after using them and I save roughly $500 a year
Jack Nelson
>go to your parents house and and take food, gasoline, motor oil, and clothing
Daniel Jenkins
This sounds like expensive living to me.
Frugal living: -Eat from dumpsters. Find a good produce dumpster and a couple food production factory spots and you're set
-Steal toliet paper from cafes and public bathrooms
-Hack your neighbors wifi and get good signal with a cantenna (antenna made from a can)
-Instead of smoking weed, smoke crack. Rock is much stronger and can go a lot longer
-Drive your car into a lake and take a bike or public transit instead
Gavin Sanders
im a master mechanic so any foreign cars, bikes, or other toys i buy i get free maint. and i can find cheapo parts, saves thousands
Cameron Gomez
Roll your own smokes. A bag of baccy will be good for 100 smokes.
Levi Wilson
im a master pimp so any foreign whores, dykes, or other boys i buy i get free maint. and i can find cheapo heroin, saves thousands
Joshua Lee
Its easier to take it while its being delivered. Wait for the person handling delivery to bring in the first set of boxes, then pull the rest from his truck and get out of there before he comes back.
Adam Lee
>500MB cap >costs fucking 12 bucks poor americucks
Luis Howard
I cook all my food in the sunlight, saves me a ton in cook costs
Luke Smith
>during cold months never buy tisues. Go to mcdonalds and fill your pockets with napkins >don't shower, let your body grow sweat eating bacteria and never stink again >don't turn up the heat, put your legs in hot water instead >don't have friends or socialize >play free to play games
Jayden Rivera
I live in Chicago and it costs me $33.78 a month for 500mb cap on 3g internet. Also, someone shot out the windows and two of the tires from my car last night and stole my radio and everything from my glove box, including the owners manual, so now I don't how to replace the broken windows.
Noah Green
What about housing?
Julian Johnson
>move from unlimited for $60 a month to 500mb cap for $12 a month >500mb a month >500mb a month >500mb a month
>dont pay for a wired internet connection, you can just turn your phone into a portable hotspot >500mb a month >500mb a month >500mb a month
please explain
Aaron Ramirez
>instead of spending money in gas just walk everywhere >instead of buying expensive alcohol from the store, just buy alcohol from your local drug store, normally the alcohol content is higher >instead of spending all your money on school, just spend it getting a certificate that you know how to code from codeacademy
Juan Taylor
Dumpster diving is unironically becoming not feasible. It was in the 90s and 00s, but sec cameras are everywhere, and I see more and more locks on them as the years go by.
Aiden Brooks
>Meditation Proven to be a meme >Don't get a TV Don't get cable/satellite. Degenerate garabge that fills up 25% of your viewing time with commercials. Having a tv hooked up to your computer is alright though
Nicholas Richardson
>use rags instead of toilet paper. Hand wash them and reuse over and over >never buy bottled water. Collect rain water or lake etc and boil for free unlimited water >the pump hoses at gas stations have some gas left in them after each use. Use a container to collect unlimited free gas
Tyler Morales
>Proven to be a meme Wtf are you talking about? Meditation is proven to be super beneficial for the brain and other organs of the body.
Colton Russell
>>use rags instead of toilet paper just use your hand and wash them afterwards, youll save the costs you spent buying rags
Leo Wood
>Wtf are you talking about? Meditation is proven to be super beneficial for the brain and other organs of the body.
Easton Robinson
Checked
Joshua Lopez
Rekt
Camden Mitchell
>portable hotspot you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Noah Roberts
Kung Henry
Dylan White
No one is actively watching those cameras, though. They use them as evidence in theft cases. You think there is some dedicated security guard in the grocery store back room who sits and watches cameras all day like a Mission Impossible movie or something?
>and I see more and more locks on them as the years go by muh bolt cutter
Zachary Parker
Dude low end frozen food isn't much cheaper than average quality fresh food. More importantly, you'd be better off gardening anyway. Some things like tomatoes, lettuce, spinach, potatoes, and eggs don't require much effort to cultivate and can save you a lot of money in the long run. It also gives you the benefit of having a hobby to get you outside (and away from this cesspool) which helps with confidence, motivation, and mental health in general. Dollar for dollar, protein powder goes further than any natural source of protein. For a while I was living off of oatmeal, peanut butter, whole milk, and ON whey protein mixed into a 2k calorie paste and eaten throughout the day.
I also save cash by using google fi for my cell service. It only works with google phones but you only pay for the data you use, so if you get a 3 gb plan and only use 1.2 in a month, you only pay $12 for data that month. Without data it's $20 for unlimited talk and text. I usually only spend $30-40 per month and haven't had any issues with signal.
Solar panels can save money in the long run if you have the space, but it could take years to break even and by then new and better panels will have come out. You're better off just conserving energy by using less.
Hell, one extreme that I'm considering is living off of that protein paste in a van and showering at the gym while I save up a good nest egg.
Chase Carter
realistically if they start noticing the locks have been cut they'll start watching the cameras
Adam Hall
Meditation hasn't been proven to be a meme. There are heaps of literature proving its effectiveness.
Gavin Williams
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Jose Gomez
>growing eggs
Samuel Lee
>Build own furniture Your time must be very cheap
Ryder Adams
You know when you go to the river/pond/sea and you see some swans/ducks/seagulls ?
Grab a rock and crack those flying niggers over the head with it.
Boil it up with some homegrown eggs and wash it down with some bin juice from the back of your nearest McDonalds.
Chase Torres
KEK
Cooper Mitchell
Kung Henry quads!
Cooper King
Usually they'll just put a new lock on, but after its been cut a few times in a short time span, they just give up and leave it unlocked. Don't be afraid of cameras for small shit like that.
Jaxon Sanders
Eat your own shit, you can recycle turds 2-3 times before all the nutritients are gone. All this single-pass eating is for reddit pussies. Imagine how much that'll cut down your food cost!
Carter Martin
>Live in Boston on green E line >Train has option to either tap your charlie card or manually insert cash >whenever I get on the train I start shaking violently and take an extra amount of time to insert the dollar bill >Train conductor usually thinks I am retarded and tells me to just put $1 in instead of the $2.75 needed to ride.
Matthew Williams
so what do you do for fun
Christopher Jenkins
The hospital bills from E. coli infection will outweigh any saving.
Ian Collins
Second harvest
Luis Miller
fucking kek
Anthony Gomez
>grab fruit and veggies from neighbors’ gardens at night >sneak into movies, theater hop >walk into McDonalds with old cup and get free refills >grab out of tip jars while cashiers aren’t looking >pocket small items from Walmart aisles without cameras >get free stuff off craigslist and re-sell them >take people’s pets and return them when they start posting ‘Have You Seen This Dog?’ rewards
feels good to be frugal bros, fucking wagecucks lol
I mean, it ain't bad for you, and might be good as a practise of patience, but it's not a super buff skill
Samuel Ramirez
>gym membership >frugal I got a used dumbbel off ebay and job regularly costs me nothing >of fruit, vegetables >cheap lol what barely any calories for lots of money, I like them but they are not frugal at all
Nolan Jenkins
jog*
>>take people’s pets and return them when they start posting ‘Have You Seen This Dog?’ rewards lmao
Isaac Jones
(You)'ve earned this
John Rivera
roll cigarettes to save hundreds a month if you're a smoker don't ever buy a car vacation in cheap third world countries instead of expensive places like miami and cali a jar of peanut butter and bread can keep you alive for days
Aaron Sanchez
lmao
Xavier Scott
>checking tickets manually of every person who gets on a train how the fuck would this even work?
Leo Jenkins
Have you ever been on a fucking train?
Zachary Lewis
they don't
probably just a funny larp but it's super easy to just sneak in behind someone else during rush hour
Samuel Brown
After all these years, we've finally become Seven Psychopaths...
Colton Martinez
>he doesn't have an egg tree in his backyard
Julian Jones
>Buying condoms ever. A rubber glove costs less and can be cut into buy condoms.
Christian Miller
Shit my €20 plan comes with 60GB 4G... Da fuck muricaan ?