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Frugal is one thing but this???

posted 12 years ago by kelliemurray
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I was completely and utterly left with my jaw on the floor several times throughout this show.

The first guy with his nasty habit of taking food off of strangers plates...he will end up with a communicable disease like Hepatitis C. His 25th anniversary gifts...wtf?? Dead flowers he got out of a dumpster as well as a teapot he got out of the dumpster too (when she asked if it was new he didn't confirm or deny and it seemed as if she thought it was new), cheap stale animal crackers, a reused card that she had already received from another friend when she was ill...he just took scrap paper and covered a few of the words and wrote his own, a weird 99 cent squeeze toy that even a dog would walk away from yet she actually liked it, a 15 cent bottle of water, and did I say DEAD flowers?! I mean come on...it was their 25th anniversary for Pete's sake!!! At least he did take her out for dinner...but after promising her he wouldn't take food from strangers plates he did it anyway. He claims to save $70 a year by using ketchup packets to refill his ketchup bottle...who the heck uses $70 a year in ketchup???? To top it all off he admitted to only marrying his wife for her dental insurance so he could have a procedure done because he was unemployed and uninsured.

Then there is the lady who bathes all 6 of her kids in the same bath water...gross!! She also babysits I think it was 5 other children and feeds them what amounts to grass clippings that she acquired from a field down the street from her home...and the grass she cut was next to dog poop...are you kidding me? She also fed them pizza that she made from expired food such as cheese and pizza sauce...yuck. And if that isn't bad enough then she has everyone use cloth toilet paper...the look on the other mom's face when she said that to her was funny and expected lol. I would have grabbed my kids and ran screaming from that house. How could these moms allow their children to eat that disgusting 'food' and wipe with cloth that had already been used as toilet paper...even if it has been washed that is gross. I won't even use socks that other people have worn...using other people's cloth toilet paper is unsanitary at best.

The guy who collected spare change from couches and phone booths wasn't too terribly bad...that is until he brought home 2 goat heads to cook for his wife. OMG NOOOOO. I was gagging when he was talking about eating the tongue...and when he got to the eyeballs and said what a delicacy they are I lost it and had to look away. Do you really think his wife was fooled by the pour the boxed wine into the pretty wine bottle trick? Yeah me neither. I actually like the idea of a financial fast...that gave me a good idea to do for myself....guess I did get something from this show lol....but I won't be buying goat heads or entrails to eat LOL. The guy could have gotten a pack of wieners and some hotdog buns for much less than the $7.50 he spent on the goat heads....of course he wouldn't have had the shock value needed for the show if he did that lol.

The bartering guy wasn't bad at all. He was willing to do some manual labor to get things and that is almost a lost art these days. He said he 'invented' it...ummmm no...bartering has been around for centuries. I love that he gave his wife such a beautiful wedding with his practice of bartering....that was awesome.

These people could benefit greatly if they would just watch the extreme coupon shows lol. I would much rather use coupons than to dive in a nasty dumpster. Just sayin'.

There is always too much month and not enough money.

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[–] kelliemurray 12 years ago

OMGosh I know...when I saw that child handling the towel with stains I literally gagged. That is just repulsive. I find it truly hard to believe that any of the parents in the babysitters club would allow their children to stay in that house. Yuck. One other think that got me was when she said she makes her own cleaning products and claimed it is free....well she had to buy whatever she uses to make the products therefore it isn't free...granted much cheaper but not free. I dare not even ask what she makes the cleaning products from. I might get an answer of....the dirty bath water or something else horrid lol.

There is always too much month and not enough money.

[–] shadaif 12 years ago

I don't get how a $7.5 goat head saved that man any money. He might be able to get three meals out of it, but you can eat hot dogs for three days for less money. You can get about 8lb of beans for $7.5 that has as much protien as a goat head and last about a month, maybe longer (although they wouldn't be very popular).

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[–] kelliemurray 12 years ago

His wife was just disgusted as we are...if not even more so...she had to look at it. Yuck!!

There always too much month and not enough money.

[–] kelliemurray 12 years ago

(although they wouldn't be very popular).

P-U LOLOL

There is always too much month and not enough money.

[–] jspattison 11 years ago

I can make a lasagna for under $5 that will be dinner for two nights for a family of four (62.5c/person/meal), or would feed a couple for 4-5 nights (50c/person/meal).

$7.50 for two goats heads to make three meals for 2 people = $1.25/meal = not cheap.

[–] paxtonaddleman 10 years ago

How do you make lasagne so cheaply? By the time I buy all of the ingredients (lasagne noodles, ground meat, spinach/other veggies, sauce, cheeses...) it adds up to easily $15-20.

(I still don't find it expensive, as it is at least 10 servings, but I'd love to get it down under $1/serving!)

[–] Sixxlet 12 years ago

Despite what she said about the machine sanitizing them, that's bs. It does contaminate the machine with her daily washings of them! Poop from a family of 8!!!

I'm on the fence with this one. Some people still use cloth diapers. However, you usually rinse most of the poop off in the toilet and then immediately put them in a diaper bin full of bleach water. With the swatches this lady was using, there is no way to rinse the swatches first. And why was there no bleach water to put them in? My god, I can only imagine how bad that bathroom smelled (or smells, I should say). I say spring for the toilet paper and save money elsewhere.

"The first time I saw you, I knew that I wanted to eat candy bricks out of your neck hole."

[–] kelliemurray 12 years ago

I'm guessing they don't get a lot of company lol. I think the babysitting club was for tv. I can't see any parents allowing their children to use cloth toilet paper or eat expired food.

There is always too much month and not enough money.

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[–] Sixxlet 12 years ago

Darwin, I agree with you. As I said, they weren't rinsing them first and not even using a bleach water bucket. Gross. I would spend the money for the toilet paper and save $20 a month elsewhere.

"The first time I saw you, I knew that I wanted to eat candy bricks out of your neck hole."

[–] Sixxlet 12 years ago

I won't even use socks that other people have worn..

I take it you don't go bowling, and if you do, you must have your own shoes? My husband and son both have the same large feet, so I just wash all their socks together and they share. No biggie.

"The first time I saw you, I knew that I wanted to eat candy bricks out of your neck hole."

[–] kelliemurray 12 years ago

I used to go bowling when I was a teenager...many years ago. I dunno, I just have a thing about feet lol. Yuck.

There is always too much month and not enough money.

[–] jeff-1076 10 years ago

Well unless you don't wear socks the bowling shoes aren't touching the skin of your feet anyway.

[–] jbwphoto1 12 years ago

Nasty, nasty nasty!

Thanks for all the posters for watching this show and reviewing it for me. Now I don't have to watch this disgusting show at all.

[–] psi-ops87 12 years ago

Ug, the "bartering" was the worst part. When he did the thing in the doughnut shop, all I could do is feel bad for the customers having to wait and the workers standing there feeling awkward and then having to give the guy a doughnut to make him go away. And the haircut? Have your wife do it, you can spend $10-15 on tools and be set for years.

[–] kelliemurray 12 years ago

The entire show was just disgusting. I can't imagine doing those things and I am broke. Yuck.

There is always too much month and not enough money.

[–] lynda618 11 years ago

Here's a tip for the parents of 6 kids: invest in birth control and you can save lots of money over time, maybe even enough to buy TP.

Being bathed in used bath water is the sort of thing abused foster children report. And I hope none of her kids gets sick from some plant she plucks from the dog park for their dinner.

[–] kelliemurray 11 years ago

You can purchase tp at Walmart 6 rolls for a dollar!! There is no reason for anyone not to buy it!!!

"Eat some makeup because you are so ugly inside" - Olivia Blois Sharpe

[–] a1_andy_11 11 years ago

Good point! Estimates to raise a baby to 18 = ~$250,000. Having only 2 kids would save them tens of thousands a year. That way the kids wouldn't have to eat expired junk food and spend playtime cutting up turd rags.

[–] Sixxlet 11 years ago

That way the kids wouldn't have to eat expired junk food and spend playtime cutting up turd rags.

That' hilarious! I just got my first laugh of the morning when I read "spend playtime cutting up turd rags"!!!

"The first time I saw you, I knew that I wanted to eat candy bricks out of your neck hole."

[–] jefgg 11 years ago

I'm cheap, but these people blow me away. I never jeopardize my health or hygiene to save money.

[–] kelliemurray 11 years ago

I couldn't agree more. There are some nasty people in this world....I'm just glad that I don't know them personally.

"Eat some makeup because you are so ugly inside" - Olivia Blois Sharpe

[–] IvyTempleton 11 years ago

, a reused card that she had already received from another friend when she was ill

Has he heard of the dollar store??

Ill have a vanilla....one of the vanilla bullsh!t things.

[–] desrozenko 9 years ago

I get angry at the narcissistic attitude of these people, and the complete lack of common respect for the general public. All the rest of us have to abide by certain rules, and practical behaviors, why are these people the exception? They act like the world should bend down to them just to save a buck.

Like the woman who goes to the sporting goods store to workout. I don't prefer buying used workout equipment that's been covered in sweat by someone who is too cheap to pay for a gym membership, or too stupid to create a workout to do at home. Why does the store continuously allow this person to visit the store, and use merchandise for free, while the rest of the population is required to purchase the equipment?

Let me breathe, Let me see if my therapist is on speed dial.

[–] kelliemurray 9 years ago

I agree wholeheartedly with everything you said. Apparently they fail to realize how foolish they look...or they just don't care...probably the latter. As far as the gym equipment, I have to assume that the store allows people to test the display equipment therefore they don't stop her from using it, although it's obvious that she isn't just testing it and has zero desire to purchase it.

Eat some makeup because you are so ugly inside - Olivia Blois Sharpe