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Anonymous12/12/25, 21:02No.2964244Frugal thread
I'll start - pissing in the parking lot is free.
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Anon12/12/25, 22:14No.2964256
i steal all consumables from hotel rooms.
i'm not even poor anymore but i still do it.i haven't bought toilet paper or bars of soap in 6 years.
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Anon12/13/25, 09:53No.2964332
I usually take home a few extra sauce packets from Taco Bell. About every third time I go, someone will talk in, take a fistful of packets and walk out without buying anything. None of the workers care.
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Anon12/14/25, 14:04No.2964610
I use worn out undies to wash the car. I collect the initial water when taking a shower to later mop the floors
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Anon12/14/25, 17:54No.2964656
I change out my bath towel every couple weeks. Amazingly that's about how often I also mop my bathroom floor. Take shower. Get out walk wet and dripping over floor. Dry off with towel, throw soggy towel on the floor and proceed to "mop" with towel now. If you want to, you can also clean your mirror and wipe your sink down before throwing the towel on the floor to mop with. Then it goes in the dirty laundry and I grab a fresh towel for the bathroom.All my shirts eventually end up being rags for the garage and shop.
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Anon12/14/25, 20:49No.2964719
I made a motorized toilet paper un-roller for the public bathrooms that lock it up. It unwinds the shit tickets from their roll onto my empty roll, takes 45 seconds or so and just sounds like I'm blasting something nasty. No one is the wiser.
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Anon12/14/25, 21:51No.2964732
As a former detailer, I know how to carpet clean without a carpet cleaner. All you need is a shop vac, cleaner, and warm water.I also know how to make a good all-purpose cleaner from scratch.
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Anon12/15/25, 00:38No.2964774
Honestly, id rather pay for a clean bathroom than sharing it with hobos.
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Anon12/15/25, 14:16No.2964881
Are there places in developed modern society where people still carry coins? I honestly can't remember the last time I held physical money of any kind. I'd imagine it's been maybe 8 years or more.
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Anon12/15/25, 23:10No.2964990
I find it hilarious that in Europe everything is a human right.
Except for using the restroom.
You have to pay for that.
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Anon12/16/25, 01:54No.2965023
I used to be a security guard at a car parts plant. Saturday and Sunday nights were great because you could pilfer so much shit since the shift coming in Monday morning wasn't the shift that left Saturday morning. So if anything was 'missing' day shift would just blame night shift then vice versa.
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Anon12/16/25, 04:03No.2965060
I've fallen down a rabbit hole about shop vac carpet heads. And I found picrel. Do people really use the fire hydrant to clean their car?
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Anon12/17/25, 14:14No.2965371
I save fast food napkins and keep them in my glove box. I always have tissues or stuff to clean up a spill or something because my glovebox is absolutely crammed with brown napkins. My dad did this
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Anon12/18/25, 04:38No.2965573
Every time I walk past Burger king or a McDonalds I go inside and take a handfull of pepper, salt and ketchup packets
I haven't bought spices or ketchup in years
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Anon12/18/25, 18:51No.2965689
Maybe I sound lame but I do the following:
Automatically deduct the bigger chunk of my paycheck into ETF/ savings account. Can't spend what isn't there.
Switched jobs to a place within 4 miles of home. Bike to work. Make probably 15k less than inna city but save 2h/ day in driving.
Repair anything. Car, socks, wife's kneading machine ( 40 cents for a new 37 Mikrohenry induction coil and 25 min of swearing and 2 mins soldering)
Have no credit card.
Buy all stuff second hand except some tools.
Wanna retire in 7 years. At the moment it looks doable. I have one of the worst 5 cars in the company lot by age and appearance, but I work only 4 days a week so there is that.
I enjoy cheap hobbies, I bought the worst house in the best neighborhood we could afford. Been renovating it for the last 5ish years.
That is finished now so I'm looking for a rental property to work on now.
Thanks for reading my blog fellow scrooges
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Anon12/20/25, 08:29No.2965942
>sell your toilet
>shit and piss out the window
>never wipe so no toilet paper costs
>sell your bathtub to save water costs
>set out pigeon traps for free food
>lick condensation or squeeze out mold if thirsty
>eat everything raw so no cooking costs
>get your laptop from a scrap pile
>hook up your power to a lamp post
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Anon12/20/25, 20:26No.2966018
three meals a day is a capitalist scam. not only is food expensive, but so is eating so much in the long term. eating becomes an activity instead of a task. eating that much in general will lead to future health problems. there is also lots of time being wasted on acquiring this food, making it, eating it, and cleaning up.money is essentially what fuels the economy, but money mostly comes from people, who primarily use food as fuel. so by eating more food, we have the energy to make more money. Having more money makes one more inclined to spend it on useless things. having the mindset of "i need to eat 3 meals a day or else" is not a frugal mindset. Combine that with ones money making ability and the result is wasteful, unnecessary spending.
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Anon12/20/25, 21:43No.2966033
I rub a small amount of wd40 on my tyres to reduce the friction between them and the road so they don't degrade as quickly.
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Anon12/21/25, 10:22No.2966120
literally all furniture can be gotten for free because furniture is annoying to move and people just give it away on craigslist and fb and offerup
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Anon12/21/25, 17:32No.2966173
I've never actually done it, but you could in theory buy a coffee from the gas station, or even better bring back a cup for a cheap refill, and fill it 100% full with a coffee creamer of your choice. Then take it home and use it to put creamer in your own coffee. It would be way cheaper than buying actual creamer at the store.
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Anon12/27/25, 16:29No.2967374
I did phone-to-phone data transfer using a data transfer cable off the shelf at a big box store while I shopped, then put the cable back on the shelf when complete. 45 minutes of walking around with them in my basket. avoided: 25 carrier transfer cost, 52 charger/cable cost @ carrier, 10 cost for "borrowed" cable sold at big box store.Bluetooth & wireless charging ceased working on my Galaxy Note 20 over a year ago. I finally caved and upgraded to Galaxy S-25 Ultra. even after spending nearly 1400 on a flagship model phone, overnight shipping and 10 year customer, my carrier couldn't be arsed to do a free data transfer in-store.
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Anon12/27/25, 22:55No.2967468
Uncle always grabs disposable napkins at restaurants and keeps them as tissues or cuts them up as toilet paper
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Anon12/27/25, 23:25No.2967475
Steal stuff from work. This year I stole 2 office chairs (and returned one that broke that I stole years ago so they wont get too suspicious). Also
>last year office christmas party
>almost no one took left overs home
>got a big tin of potatoes and chicken
>this year office christmas party
>everyone took stuff home
>only got 1 container of rice and fish
Damn people are learning. Also doesn't help that they fired over 1/3 of the staff and everyone is on edge.
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Anon12/31/25, 15:02No.2968238
It is way way WAY cheaper to keep your body warm than warm you entire house. Throw on a few layers and save $2-300 a month
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Anon01/16/26, 02:43No.2971062
I’m not rich so o buy the best of everything I can, snap-on tools, prusa 3d printers, DJI drones and goggles/VTX because I can’t afford to buy twice or “learn” by buying the cheap stuff, then slowly buying betterTakes too much time, space and money
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Anon01/17/26, 17:09No.2971354
Went to italy some 20years ago; old lady sitting in chair at highway toilets entry expecting tip/whatever. Wut? Weird and anachronic as fuck.
Tbh in germoney you also have to pay
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Anon02/03/26, 18:33No.2974442
why is building a scrap metal lathe more appealing than contributing to open sores your time needs to be free for both
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Anon02/04/26, 12:30No.2974614
>opportunity costs (fixed your spelling for you, homie)
When you find out that some people simply don't understand what opportunity cost is it can be an enlightening moment.My Eureka moment was when I was in college and a roommate got stoned and ate a bunch of my food. He apologized, said he would pay for it, and offered me some cash. I said you go and buy it and bring it back or pay me double its worth. He was dumbfounded. I had to get the fucking crayons out and explain that, basically, he was treating me like a free delivery boy. The cost of the food was only part of it. I have to drive to the store, collect the shit, wait in line, pay for it, drive it home, put it away, and then get home from work a few days later to find he had eaten a bunch of it and it was not available for me to eat. Meanwhile, he was only paying for the actual cost of the food. So, either he physically replace the food or pay me to do it on top of the food cost.Eventually, I made a roommate contract that all new roommates had to agree to. Again, a bunch of people couldn't wrap their heads around the rule in it about replacing other peoples food if they ate it. If they didn't understand, "Thank you but no thank you, move along" and I'd interview someone else.
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Anon02/08/26, 03:48No.2975233
>have slow leaking pipe from my humidifier
>put bin under it
>empty bin in the washing machine to save some water
I also heard some people melt snow inside their homes to use as laundry/toilet water. Doubt you are saving a real amount of money doing this so it's more for people who rely on well water.
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Anon02/10/26, 10:51No.2975674
Live in a city and ebike everywhere, no traffic holdups, parking fees and stop right outside every place I need to go to and then take the scenic route home because I can.
I don't need much more than a backpack for my weekly shop so even go grocery shopping.
Not used my car more than twice a month since going ebike in about 2020 and seriously thinking of getting rid of it and saving the inconvenience of it parked up not doing anything.
The ebike it's self is a cast off project I got for less than $100 and fixed up so got going for the cost of a scrap bike.
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Anon02/15/26, 09:38No.2976602
i have 100's of pairs of safety glasses from wearing them on my head when I go home from work and I just forget to bring them back. it really isn't intentional but i'm barely functional in the mornings, it's amazing i even manage to open the door and "bring glasses back to work" isn't handled by the reptile brain, unfortunately
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Anon02/20/26, 17:45No.2977592
I like buying good quality used stuff at auction or 2nd hand stores when possible. Bad thing is I sometimes end up with a ton of "extra" stuff besides what I really wanted due to it being in a lot when bought. But I've saved a shit ton of money over the years doing this, and a lot of times the "extras" end up coming in quite handy as well...
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Anon03/06/26, 03:53No.2979774
I rarely use deodorant anymore. I'll just get to work and slop a bunch of hand sanitizer under my armpits and repeat 3-4x a day
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Anon03/06/26, 05:10No.2979779
Always shit at work.
Free toilet paper and you are getting paid to shit.
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Anon03/07/26, 02:16No.2979911
>I don't use deodorant anymore
>random people gift my cologne often
Anon, i....
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Anon03/07/26, 19:23No.2979962
charge your phone at work.
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Anon03/07/26, 19:29No.2979963
I shit and charge my phone at work... Unfortunately I am self-employed.
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Anon03/08/26, 02:40No.2980028
I took my old toaster oven to work after I got an airfryer and when the grocery store has clearance hot dogs I'll get a bunch and toaster oven 3-4 for lunch in the breakroom. It's not quite as pungent as microwaving fish but it wafts through the whole building lol
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Anon03/08/26, 07:04No.2980064
I live alone in a 3 bedroom house and my desktop PC has saved me quite a bit on heating this winter. I just keep the door closed. If I'm gaming, forget about it. The heat is intense. Of course the flip side is the air conditioner has to work harder in the summer...