Extreme Cheapskates

[proud2BlibKansan]

Extreme Cheapskates gives you an insider's look at the most outrageous penny-pinching people around. From making their own reusable cloth toilet paper to singing for their supper, you won't believe their extreme and inventive ways to save money.
http://tlc.discovery.com/tv-schedules/special.html?paid=2.13700.56647.0.0

These people are insane.

They reuse paper towels by rinsing them out and hanging them up to dry.

One guy went dumpster diving for an anniversary gift for his wife. He found a dead rose. And yes, gave it to his wife. For a card, he took one she had already received and taped 'Happy Anniversary' over the previous greeting.

Another lady refuses to buy toilet paper and uses washcloths instead.

Another man uses one ply of two ply toilet paper.

One guy steals ketchup packets from restaurants and fills his bottles at home.

He picked up rice from in front of the town hall (from being thrown at weddings) and took it home and cooked it.

In restaurants, he asks people if he can have the food on their plates they don't eat.

[Suich]

1. I think there is some type of personality disorder

with most of those people. The one who doesn't buy tp is NUTS! If I was to pick up rice it would take me 30 mins. to get even a handful. Plus you're picking up whatever else is on the sidewalk!

The show makes me nauseous!

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Did you see how they made the salad?

Went to the park, picked weeds and voila! a salad.

[Javaman]

8. You know you can eat dandeloins. I do it all the time.

free food as far as I'm concerned. I mix them in with the lettuce I grow.

on edit: here's some info...

http://www.wildmanstevebrill.com/Plants.Folder/Dandelion.html

but frankly, I wouldn't eat the dandelions in a partk. Chemicals.

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. If you grow your own, great.

But from a park, no thanks.

[Javaman]

10. Yeah, parks, besides the chems, there's also...dillo dirt (used here in Texas) and you really don't

want to know what that is.

[TheCruces]

6. I had a roommate who didn't use toilet paper

I was totally unaware of this, since I had the master suite in the apartment and therefore my own bathroom. However, the other two shared the hall bath. One day, the girl roommate said she asked the guy to chip in on TP, since they were out and shared a bathroom. He refused to saying he didn't use toilet paper.

So I bring this up to one of my friends and she points out that there was always a muddy looking washcloth on the edge of the tub. I had never seen it, since I didn't use that bathroom...and up until we found out he didn't use TP, we figured he was using it to wipe off mud from soccer practice. Sure enough, he was using it, in lieu of TP.

A couple months after this, we threw him out for stealing our food, breaking stuff, and (the final straw) getting caught hitting my dog. His response was to steal all the furniture.

Good times.

[shanti]

4. i just saw this show

washcloths (none too clean) for tp? uh, no. the husband who recycled, no, asked for, ketchup packets? his wife must be a saint to put up with that behavior. if i was on a date with someone who asked people for their leftovers, that would be our last date! btw, did they have children?

[47of74]

5. I thought my aunt who would tap the bottom of milk jugs...

...to get every last drop out of milk out of the jug was weird. But that's nothing compared to these people.

[distantearlywarning]

7. Saw one episode of this and was kind of horrified.

This kind of thriftiness is not a virtue, at least not to me.

My time is more valuable than my money. Life is too damn short to be putting ketchup packets into bottles and separating 2-ply toilet paper. On my deathbed, I don't want to review my life and find out that 50% of it consisted of doing menial labor to save pennies.

YMMV.