How Cheap Are You!

It's A Discounted Life!

Now that you've been insulted beyond blue (by the title of this post), I just want you to get to the bottom of your 'cheapness' in this post! *lol* Yes you heard me right, I did say Cheapness. :) This post is about being cheap...it's about confessing to us the max cheapness level you could ever reach...the cheapest thing(s) you have done JUST TO SAVE MONEY! Yeah I'm sure though we all dream of living luxurious, 'branded' lives *Manolo Blahniks, Giorgio Armani et al*, we all don't get to live like that. Well sometimes we do end up buying something quite 'haute courture' *still don't know how to pronounce it properly!*, it probably is once in few years that we could afford to spend like that or indulge in splashing money on what we desire. So, in our day to day non-celebrity lives, we do things that save us money *whether we like it or not!*...cos we just have to. I mean we are not Paris Hilton with a rich daddy or Posh Spice with alot of dosh in her pockets, are we now? Neither are we Pamela Andersen to spend all our money on getting a FF cup just to run around the beach to kill men right in their couches from around the world! We really have better things to spend the very little money that we earn so hard on *sad music follows...*. It's ok don't look so sad now *turns off the sad music!*...atleast there's a whole lot of us that belong to that latter category. That kind of gives us some relief *boy o boy who wants to spend endless holidays in Hawaii, eat brekky in Hyatt, wear Alex Perry to a family BBQ with probably 3 guests, give your sister a $20,000 boob-job as her 19th bday pressie, live in a mansion that needs 50 cleaners per day, shop at Tiffany's for wedding pressies?* Not me! I'd rather live the non-celebrity life in my dingy shack! *now that I have to...sigh*.


So, we all have our unique *maybe wierd too* ways of saving money. Here are some real examples of the wierdest/funny things that some people I know have done/do, yes JUST to save money :)


*Eat at a friend's place on a daily basis or go to a soup kitchen even though you have a good job that pays you well *yes I know such people who thrive on free food :)*

*Shower etc at a family/friend's place on a regular basis to cut down electricity and gas bills *pretty smart ay? gotta try that some time...so can I use your shower tonight?*

*Shop at $2 Discount/Reject stores *not that it's a bad thing but some discounted products can be faulty or of poor quality...one of my friends proved that by getting electrocuted!*

*Grow vegies in the backyard *this is a good one. But please don't start a farm in your backyard so that you can get your own meat!*

*Buy fake versions of expensive perfume, shoes and bags that smell and look like the original ones *this is something I simply cannot do but I wish I could...cos it somehow won't feel the same*

*Don't have showers for days just to save on the Water bill *ewww yes I know such people too...their whole suburb stinks HAHA!*

*Don't own a car cos public transport is cheaper than having a car *I don't know how people can do that, cos I can't live w.o. my car...it's a ticket to freedom. But I do use public transport too*

*Take your GF/BF to Maccas or a toilet on a date!

*Eat left-overs for days and days, even if they have expired and gone to Food heaven! *yuk!*

*Skip coffee every now and then *I'm forced to do this now that I have a mortgage but that also means No Diego chats every morning :*(*

*When on a lunch/dinner Date (with a friend or a partner), get the other person to pay always telling them you lost your wallet for the 900th time! *that is way too cheap! I know alot of people like that*


So tell me...do you or anyone else take crazy measures to save money? Share with us and make it funny too! I need some valuable tips here cos some people think I spend a tad too much ;-) Thanks guys!



Cheapskate Alert!
Btw I'm about to break some heart-breaking BREAKING news about Diego that had me broken during breakfast! *my achy breaky heart is broken beyond plastic surgery now!* He's engaged!!!! Not to me, ofcourse! *rolling eyes* Thanks to all the Blogville men who prayed Diego to be engaged...it worked! And don't ask me how I found out, I just did. Hence this song. I'm sulking here, in my T and shorts, freezing my ass off on a cold winters day having forgotten to wear warm clothes...thinking of Diego and a love that got lost in a coffee machine *bloody cheapo, why did ya flirt with me cheapskate? Hence I dedicate this Cheap post to ya! Savings brand and all.* As most Romantic tales end in my life, this ended pretty soon too. But I know I will find my one true love...some day, in the next century or so!

*Keshi drafts out a new plan to check out a shirtless John-Abraham lookalike in her neighborhood, now that she's so over Diego. yeah it took just 5mins to get over him btw ;-)*


Current Music: Unbreak My Heart (Regresa a mi) by Il Divo