And the teacher becomes the student...

**Luv2BeFrugal** · 02-24-2010, 04:19 AM

I just had to share this...

So...Dh and I were out and about all day today. Him at work, me at school.

In the evening we're home and as the day is winding to a close he suddenly says, "GUESS WHAT?!".

I'm thinking "uh-oh"...

(I should insert here that his work has a LOT of free food for the employees...great company!)

He proceeds to say, "Well, I ate instant oatmeal for breakfast, fruit snacks, a cup of ramen for lunch, and then pizza at the social for dinner. I just ate a boiled egg for a snack and that's the only thing from our food I ate today!! That was only 17 cents!".

Can I just say how PROUD I am?

And here I was, proud of myself for taking my pb&j to school for lunch along with my nalgene bottle for water!

Ever hit that point where they just GET IT? And you're SO excited!

Ah...years of effort...and now...his 17 cent meal day!

WAY TO GO DH!!!

**TheRootedNomad** · 02-24-2010, 06:46 AM

Too cute! Can't wait for mine to "get it" that well.

**Grainlady** · 02-24-2010, 07:02 AM

Good one!!! Yes you CAN teach old dogs new tricks. While downtown on errands the other day, we stopped by the library to get a movie for the evening (free). As we approached True Value, hubby pulled into the parking lot and said lets go in and get a bag of their complementary popcorn to go along with that free movie. We also had a $5/off coupon and purchased something we'd been needing that was just over $5 and paid less than 50-cents for the purchase. So if nothing else, I'm an awfully cheap date!

"It isn't about what you do without. It's about what you DO instead".

**leighcat** · 02-24-2010, 07:02 AM

That is so cool! I wish my boyfriend would get more frugal.

**NewLeaf** · 02-24-2010, 07:41 AM

My dh is getting it!!! He now takes coupons to the store, checks the reduced section and brags to his friends about his ultra-frugal wife!!! Gotta love it.

**AmyBoz** · 02-24-2010, 07:44 AM

VERY nice!

The other day, I told dh that I had bought a slice of pizza at school because I had forgotten my lunch and had found some change in the bottom of my purse.

He said, 'This is just a one time thing, right? We're trying to save money!'

Too cute!

**Rhayne** · 02-25-2010, 09:04 AM

My boyfriend is getting more into it everyday. For over the last year he brings his breakfast/lunch into work so he no longer has to buy it. We were at the mall last weekend and we had brought two cans of soda with us. We stopped at the McDonalds and got 2 fish sandwichs, a dollar cheeseburger and a cup of ice. He had one fish sandwich and i had the cheeseburger and we shared the other fish sandwich. And we used the cup of ice for our sodas we already had.

**Samigirl** · 02-25-2010, 09:36 AM

Yay...that's great! I have to brag about my DH too. I've always been the one who's paid the bills....robbed Peter to pay Paul....etc... Since 1/08, I've tried to get DH on board with the Dave Ramsey plan. He's always been good about not being a big spender. He just thought payments were normal....no need to kill ourselves trying to pay off debt early. Plus, he wanted to focus on getting more $ into savings. Well, I spent all of '08 making sure we lived within our means, and we saved a pile of cash. In '09, I started Dave's plan (albeit, with a bigger savings account than Dave recommends). DH was fine with it...actually, indifferent to it...but since we'd put money into savings, he didn't object. I rarely discussed the specifics, I just paid the bills and the debt down too. I made sure there was still room in the budget for fun things. In January of '10, I showed him the numbers of what we had accomplished in the past year. He was amazed! I think this opened his eyes to a new way of living. Just last month, he agreed to buy a beater, and sell my vehicle to pay off his car. PLUS...this is what I'm very excited about...he took the initiative to find cheaper insurance. It hadn't even crossed my mind that maybe we were paying too much. He got us a yearly savings of $900...whoo...hoo! I am soooo proud of him!

**miss_thrifty** · 02-25-2010, 09:41 AM

Love to hear those wonderful stories about your partners.

**Debbie-cat** · 02-25-2010, 10:13 AM

Ahhh, that is just too cute! You have trained him well.

**druthb00** · 02-25-2010, 06:44 PM

My BF shocked me when we went grocery shopping today. I seriously thought that he didn't really pay attention to/care about/etc. the price of an item. Well today, while we were stocking up on yogurt for lunches (he gets blended, I get fat free light, and they are usually the same price, 10 for 4.) Well today he started looking at the 32 oz. containers of store brand yogurt and said to me, "You know, I really only care about the cherry yogurt, if they have a 32 oz. container of it, it would be cheaper to get a couple of those instead of 10 little ones." Obviously, I had noticed this before, but thought he preferred the variety (I really don't think I could eat the same flavor every day of the week...) And if that weren't strange enough, when I went to the frozen fruit section to get strawberries for smoothies, he actually pointed out something I had not noticed (I get all our produce at the Produce Market instead); they had fresh 1 lb. containers of strawberries for ridiculously (1.67) cheap. I'm sorry, but it was like being in a Twilight Zone at Publix today. He kinda impressed me