OMG... Did anyone watch this? It was like watching a train wreck. Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse, it did.
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oh man, E. coli city!! That was gross!
I reread what I posted earlier. A poster wanted to know what it was about because of no TV in the home. No way was I making fun of any of those people. But I did cringe when the lady picked greens in that park. But yet, my Mom did this in the spring, & in our yard & we all ate it. (with bacon & all the grease!) And we always had a dog & she would fry the bloom, too. It didn't kill me... Using cloth TP wouldn't be any worse than using cloth diapers. I used cloth diapers on all 3 dau's. I used bleach in the water, but all the other whites went in it, too. Yep, some diapers were stained just like her TP. Never gave it a thought... The guy who picked up coins--he has retired early because of the no-spend weeks thru out their marriage. How great is that?!! I would be weary of putting my hands down in the back of diner seats because of needles, sharp objects, etc. But apparently all these years, he's never encountered any problems. And he was polite to ask the laundrymat owner if he could look for coins between machines. And using lint is a good firestarter.
So I guess what I am trying to say, like I posted before...interesting.
So I guess what I am trying to say, like I posted before...interesting.
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I was soooo uncomfortable watching the first guy asking for other restaurant patron's leftovers... I do appreciate the "fiscal fast" and all that. We do what we can.. but we do it without embarassing ourselves. We do little things.. return bottles, re-purpose... never in a million years would I allow my husband to approach strangers in a restaurant and ask for their leftovers!
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I can't imagine the restaurant management would allow that on a regular basis. I have to wonder if that was a 'made for TV' moment. That's no different than panhandling, in fact it's worse, and no restaurant manager is going to let people go around inside the restaurant begging for money from their patrons.
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I think she's probably trying
Her tip didn't even make sense. If she hadn't cut the hole out of the piece of toilet paper, her fingernail wouldn't have gotten dirty in the first place.
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I took that video to be a joke. She probably put it on there as a dare or something.
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About the restaurant thing... not too too long ago (maybe 2 years ago) I was having dinner with a friend (the table was outside on the sidewalk) and we had obviously finished our entrees and were getting ready to order dessert. A woman asked if she could have the food we hadn't finished, as she was hungry. She wasn't a customer, she was begging. I was getting ready to give it to her when the waiter basically swatted her off the sidewalk and she ran away. I felt really bad about it. He probably thought he was doing his job / preventing customers getting hassled, but the food was headed STRAIGHT for the garbage and she would have eaten it. She didn't ask for money. She disappeared but I haven't forgotten her and I still feel guilty about it.
So if someone asked me for my leftovers (provided I wasn't planning to take them home with me - because I probably would do that under most circumstances), I would happily give them to them. I don't believe that most people would do that unless they were truly hungry. I certainly wouldn't be rude. I think it's a good thing for people who can afford to eat in restaurants to periodically see people who can't afford to eat at all.
So if someone asked me for my leftovers (provided I wasn't planning to take them home with me - because I probably would do that under most circumstances), I would happily give them to them. I don't believe that most people would do that unless they were truly hungry. I certainly wouldn't be rude. I think it's a good thing for people who can afford to eat in restaurants to periodically see people who can't afford to eat at all.
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Gross Gross gross. ok
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Just think---the one lady had spaghetti....you use your fork to wind the spaghetti around and put it in your mouth...you then put the fork back into the spaghetti on your plate and wind somemore and back to your mouth....and he WANTS the leftovers??? Yuck is right...Not for me....If someone is hungry and asked me for my leftover food, I would order them a plate or give them money to purchase their own food......Many restaurants won't even donate their leftovers from the kitchen for fear of being sued. Everone to their own I guess..
Ugh!! If their money situation is that tight, why didn't he make her a homemade card, go to the store spend 99 cents on a bag of pasta, 99 cents on spaghetti sauce, loaf of garlic bread (cheap/homemade), caesar salad and make her a nice meal at home. It would have cost him a fraction of the price and he could have afforded to buy her flowers (grocery stores have little beautiful bouquets for $3 or so) and save her the embarrasement of asking for others left overs. If they truly needed others left overs they shouldn't have been in the restaurant anyways!! No matter how much he went around and saved etc - that money should have been saved for 'real food'. DH and I rarely have money to celebrate our anniversary - we always do homemade cards and stuff. It's very special to us!! I never seen the show btw - don't get those extra channels.
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I think TLC went for Kooky instead of frugal. And how much time this person has to engage in these behaviors? Is he the house parent? Does he work? Or is he just OCD and this is his compulsion?
I wish they would do a true frugal show, but I guess that may not get the ratings as what was described above would get .. will be interesting to see how long that show lasts. A true show on how to be frugal would be very interesting for me - always looking for more ideas. I don't get that channel, but could have a family member record it for us.
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A truly frugal show would be interesting, but you know media, they just want the "shock" value and are not really interested in helping folks -neither the people on the show nor the folks watching. I doubt it will make it as a true show.
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Not only that but they were bathing all the kids (6 I think?) in the same bathwater. **puke**
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I feel sorry for the kids....they are probably glad to go to school and use real tt!!!!!
Yeah. My Grandpa made the same joke several years ago. I laughed, and I still recommend it to people occasionally.
Up until I was in 5th grade, we bathed in a round tub, in the kitchen, by the coal stove. One kid after the other-5 kids. Mom would just add more hot h20 after each kid. In the summer we showered in the milk house.... And when my 3 dau's were little, I bathed them in the tub together. Saved my back...
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