Who here cheap as fuck?
>tfw only eat ramen noodles, rice eggs and potatoes
>tfw walk everywhere because bike costs too much
>tfw live in 1 bedroom ghetto apartment
>tfw buy clothes from secondhand stores
anyone else here live the cheap lifestyle?
>>712301942
Fuck yeah. I actually make 75k a year, but I spend exactly none of it on myself (and by exactly none, I mean about 700$ a month on living expenses).
>>712302130
You make way more than I do I make 1300 a month and my rent is 800 but I've just always been cheap as fuck
I used to eat only spaghetti noodles with spaghetti sauce and that's it because it was only 4 dollars for a week of food
>>712302321
400$ rent, 150$ on utilaties, gas, misc, 50$ on food.
I'm a master at making ramen noodles interesting. Spices and flavors are cheap. Plus I got this local organization that collects the "almost expired so we won't sell it" stuff from local grocery stores and restaraunts and stuff, then they sell big boxes of it for cheap. Can get 50$ worth of food for 10 or 15 bucks a month.
The rest of my money goes to savings or family. Got a dad with cancer, two diabetic siblings, and a too-old-to-live grandma. I pay for them all.
>>712302658
Oh yeah man I add spices and eggs to my ramen noodles it's delicious
>>712302817
Yup.
Favorite ramen recipe as of late has been fried ramen with eggs or tofu, flavored with soy sauce and chili powder.
>>712301942
My friends call me cheap all the time because I refuse to go out and spend 100 a night at a bar or spend money on brand name clothes etc
I don't think I'm cheap I'm just not a money blowing retard who tries to live like a flashy rich faggot
>>712302902
If tofu isn't too expensive I might buy some and try that out
>>712303037
Same here man and the fact that I refuse to buy a car or even a bicycle because it's way too expensive, they're retarded and go out to mcdonalds and shit like every week and spend 10$ on just 1 meal when 10$ could do me for more than a week
>>712303148
I get it almost free because one of my room mates works at a health food store, and they're always having to throw away goods because they're past the sell by date, but not actually expired, so I just buy it off him for cheap.
It's pretty good stuff once prepared. It's flavorless and full of protien. You basically use it like you'd use egg. It's more to add some protien and calories to another food or be a carrier for spices than it is to be a dish on it's own.
>>712303611
Nice bro I'll check out tofu next time I'm at the grocery store, I work out at home so that extra cheap protein might be nice
>>712301942
That's not being cheap.
It's being Frugal.
What are you saving up for?
$1250 a month in bills and i live with my fucking parents...
>>712303890
Nothing, I just don't like working all the time and spending my hard earned money on anything other than absolute necessities
>>712304126
U wot? That's almost my whole months pay for fuck sakes
>>712303876
Another one of my big investments as far as good goes is tea.
Tea is expensive initially, (like 50-80$ a tin for the stuff I buy), but when it lasts you four or five months of steady drinking, you end up spending less than people who drink pop and stuff. It's a surprisingly cheap luxury.
>>712304226
$1000 in property
$250 is car insurance, cell phone, internet
Thats before i but an ounce of food
>>712304396
Yeah that sounds good
>>712304661
That's a joke, you need to move immediately
>wasting a whole months pay just on bills
>>712304661
Get some room mates, man. I've got three room mates, and between the three of us we've got a pretty nice apartment in a pretty nice location, and none of us spend more than 400$ a month.
>>712305273
Dude that G a month is for property with NO HOUSE
>>712301942
I'm so cheap I faked that I had no job so I could get free food from the food bank
They give me a box of food every 2 weeks full of ramen, kraft dinner and other canned goods along with bread and eggs and milk
>>712305605
Sell it then.
>>712305763
Nice man, I spend about 10 dollars a week on food so I haven't had to go that route
>tfw my friends are so retarded that they spend more than 10 dollars a day on just food
>>712305987
>mfw people post on Facebook about being at a fancy restaurant
>mfw laugh because I know they're wasting at least 50 dollars on one meal
>mfw they're spending a months cost of food on one fucking meal
The stupidity of some people is mind boggling
>>712306256
Well that's where I kinda disagree with you. I choose to live cheap because I want to be frugal and because I need the money for family, but at the same time, if someone has the expendable income to be able to eat more luxurious food, what's the problem? It's their money, and if they can take the hit, it's their prerogative.
>>712302658
Jesus 400 for rent is so cheap. Where do you live?
>>712306395
I posted that I'm not the OP but even if people do have extra money they shouldn't be spending it on fancy meals they should be saving it. It's irresponsible to eat out at restaurants and buy things you don't need
>mfw a pack of pasta is 1 dollar and a bottle of ketchup or bbq sauce to put on the noodles is 2 dollars on sale and that's more than a days worth of food
>>712303427
How can you spend only 10 for a week of food? That is my daily budget, which i thought was cheap.
>>712306602
Chicago, but I've got three room mates, so that's only a little under a third of the rent. The montly on the apartment is about $1350
>>712306721
>It's irresponsible to eat out at restaurants and buy things you don't need
I disagree. Unless you've got some kind of moral obligation to spend your money elsewhere (as I do for family), what's the issue with spending money on yourself?
I guess what I'm asking is why is it irresponsible to indulge? It may not be frugal, sure, but that doesn't make it inherently immoral in my eyes.
>>712306721
>pasta and ketchup
That is what homeless people eat.
>>712306780
I spend 3 dollars a week on spaghetti noodles and buy 3 cans of cheap spaghetti sauce and that's enough food for the whole week
I also buy rice and eggs and I can get a 10lb bag of rice for 4$ and buy 2 cartons of eggs for 4$ and add the eggs to the rice and its delicious and filling
>>712307075
It's cheap and filling so what's the problem?
>>712307089
Are you poor or just cheap?
>>712307266
I'm the OP I make 1300 a month and have an apartment for 800 a month I'm just cheap. I've got over 30k saved in the bank from working a minimum wage factory job
>>712306677
>>712306999
magic
>>712307414
How the fuck? I make 1600 a month also at a factory and I'm broke every paycheck and my rent is only 700 a month....... do you not buy anything other than food and rent? Never go out and do things?
>>712307414
Cant you get food stamps for making that little? My friend gets 200 a month where i live
>>712307711
>that little
My income is more than enough if you aren't a money blowing idiot and ive never heard of food stamps here in ontario
>>712307664
It's called self control
>>712307821
its call wasting away your limited time on this rock
do something. if you aren't going to enjoy yourself why live?
I get around 900€ per month in benefits, it's not much but I don't feel poor either, but yeah I'm really cheap so I actually manage to save money
>>712307664
You're just very bad with money you should be saving like 7 or 800 every month and no I only go to work and the grocery store pretty much because going out costs money
>>712307919
This exactly.
Its okay to spend some money and enjoy yourself.
>>712307919
You don't have to spend the money to live you fucking millennial
>>712308179
Yeah but at the same time there's no reason you CAN'T spend any money either.
Spending money is not some great moral evil, are you from 1550, or just super religious?
>>712308302
Hes autistic
>>712308479
Well maybe, but at the same time so am I (literally, this isn't a joke), but he seems really, strangely conservative (in the practical sense, not the political sense).
>>712307414
Don't take this the wrong way, but why? Are you saving for something? Why not get a higher paying job?
I make fairy good money, ~65k, wife makes a little less. We have a house which is crazy expensive here (2200 a month), and I'm broke half the time. Life is expensive, but we live well, have fairly new reliable paid off cars, take vacations, eat out rarely etc. We keep 20k around for emergencies and contribute ~25k a year to retirement, but the money just doesn't seem to last. It's always something going wrong of popping up.
Maybe it's just different views. I consider myself frugal but not cheap. For example I get off brand sauces because its half the price. I buy cloths at walmart, I buy generic almost everything, do lots of my own car work, do all my own house repairs and yard work, brew my own beer and wine, almost never drink alcohol at restaurants, rarely go to movies, etc.
What I'm saying is everyone only gets one life. Why not spend enough money to enjoy it as much as you can?
>>712308759
The job I have has no responsibility and its easy as fuck, I like it and I make way more than I need to live
>>712302658
respect for that
>>712308179
>autist detected
Go try and live without money. Go for it, Ill wait. no food, house, car, power, heating, air, cloths, shoes, knives, phone, internet, etc. only what you can make out of free resources. Fucking retard, you have to make money to live at all, let alone to live well.
>>712301942
I'm so cheap I only work part time because I only need to pay rent and food which costs me 600 a month in total and I make 700 a month so I'm saving about 100 bucks a month
>>712308975
You didn't answer the question though. Do you not think your life would be better / more satisfying / more exciting etc if you spent more money on luxuries, things you like to do, places to travel, hobbies etc?
Certainly someone can live off minimum wage, if they're not putting spinners on their new caddy and paying child support for 4 kids. That doesn't mean they can live life to it's fullest.
>>712308759
If everyone could get a higher paying job they would
>tfw stuck making minimum wage and broke all the time
>>712309280
I don't really enjoy going out and doing things I just browse the Internet on my phone for fun and go to work 4 days a week
>>712309428
Do you even drink nigger? I spend 100 a week on alcohol easily and I don't even leave the house. I live just like you with the cheap food etc but I drink otherwise I'd lose my mind from boredom
>>712309322
>>712309428
Apparently not, as OP said, he could, he just doesn't want to.
If you want a better, higher paying job figure out what you want to do and go do it. Read about it, see what skills employers want, then get those skills. I started out flipping burgers to, I just keep moving up though and now I do software stuff.
>>712306721
That's not a meal. Who the fuck lives like that?
I'm all for being careful with money but that's unhealthy.
You'll be spending all the money you've saved on medical bills soon enough.
>>712309652
>Do you even drink nigger? I spend 100 a week on alcohol easily
Alcohol is highly over rated.
>>712309769
I live in canada my taxes from my pay goes to my health care
>>712309652
Not really I don't get bored because there's unlimited sites I can browse and shit on my phone
>>712301942
The guy who took this pic is dead.
He was my friend
>>712309769
This. I spend 50 bucks on food a month, and half that food gets eaten by other people, and I still eat reasonably healthy.
Canned and Frozen veggies and fruit are cheap, especially if you get them on sale. If you're only eating carbs and salt you're going to die young dude. If that's all you got money for, I get it, but you really should try to eat better.
>>712301942
I feel this anon. I'm a big fan of making fried rice, just add sugar and soy sauce in a frying pan. If you really wanna splurge you can add some kind of protein
>>712309769
You'd actually be surprised how many people I know who eat like him . It very hard to live in canada because its so expensive and the jobs pay 13 dollars a hour tops
>>712310014
How can you eat that cheap? I budget 20 bucks a day but thats for 2 people
>>712310107
It's very hard to live in canada because they're socialist fucks and steal all the peoples money, just to be clear.
>>712310191
>20 a day
are you rich or live with parents? Even 20 a week is mind blowing to spend on food
>>712310191
>work for 2 hours just for 1 day of food
Britfag Here. I'll give you /b/tards my monthly breakdown
900 Pounds paycheck
-400 Pounds rent
500
-100 Pounds Council Tax
400
-200 Pounds food
200
-50 Pounds fuel/50 pounds gas
100
-50 Pounds Tobacco/Alcohol
40k Saved up. Thankyou Grandma
P.S Work part time and have own flat/car.
>>712306721
Sounds like you get a lot of pleasure out of life.
I don't spend a lot on food by any means, but I think there's a difference between living within your means and being uncomfortable. Pasta and ketchup sounds absolutely revolting.
>>712310384
OP here I'd never get a car that's wayyy to expensive it's like 5 bucks a day just to drive the damn thing
>>712310260
>>712310353
Not rich. My fiance and i total about 70k together so 600 a month on food isnt much.
>>712310433
It doesn't taste that bad and it's good for my bank account, if you don't like ketchup put bbq sauce on it
>>712310473
Tbh I have a parking spot payed for and I live about 15 seconds from work. I need a car to get to band practice which is a good 30 minutes away once a week, which is the only time it's used apart from going 3 minutes down the road to the gym (20 minutes to walk)
>>712307943
Sounds fucking bleak
>>712310191
>Buy staples
5$ for a 10lb bag of rice, a couple boxes of pasta, or a couple cartons of eggs.
>stop eating meat
Meat is great, but it's almost always got a low calorie to cost ratio, that is to say you're paying a lot for a comparatively small amount of food. Eggs, tofu, cheese, all cheaper ways to get protein than meat. Steak should be a treat, not an every day thing.
>Look for opportunities.
I got this local organization that collects the "almost expired so we won't sell it" stuff from local grocery stores and restaraunts and stuff, then they sell big boxes of it for cheap. Can get 50$ worth of food for 10 or 15 bucks a month. Hell, there are a lot of places that will do this kind of thing for FREE, and they don't even ask to see your income or anything, you just show up, sign up, and they give you a big box of food. Plus, sales. Sales sales sales. Keep your eyes open, you can get shit for 50%-25% off their usual price.
I eat hearty, healthy food pretty much every day. I spend 50$ a month on food and I've got a comfortable gut. Just gotta spend a little time on it.
>>712310571
Kek. BBQ sauce sounds even worse
>>712310571
That aint healthy man. All you're eating is carbs and salt.
>>712310628
My walk is almost an hour and a half to get to work and the same back, around 3 hrs of walking each work day
back in my college days I would do about 100 a month for food, mostly pasta, rice, ramen, some eggs, some cheap fruits (bananas) but mostly that. Now I spend about 400 a month on food between the gf and I. Well worth it.
Lifes too short to eat the same crappy stuff daily. If it works for you that's great, but it sounds horrible to me.
>>712310972
I do take a multivitamin and sometimes buy milk or juice if I want to splurge
>>712310980
Jesus man, buy a bike. You can get one for $25-$50 bucks on a garage sale. You'll save money on shoes in the long run.
>>712311079
You eat to live not live to eat
>>712311092
>I do take a multivitamin
Well that's something. Better than nothing I suppose. Still wouldn't kill you to eat a vegetable.
>>712311161
I don't really mind the walking except for when January hits and its like -20 Celsius and 50 kmh winds, that's when it sucks lol I have to walk in a snow suit with a snowmobile helmet on or I'll get frost bite
>>712311176
It's not about the food, its about quality of life. What you eat is part of that.
>>712310980
So you work 8 hours, walk 3 hours, eat pasta, then sleep? What do you do on the weekend?
>>712311397
Fatass detected
>muh 15 dollar fancy steaks and taters
>>712311453
Just browse the internet on my phone and go for walks along the river sometimes
>>712311092
Milk or juice is not splurging. That shit costs 3 bucks. Are you fucking with all of us? Trolling? Serious question.
>>712311176
YOU eat to live. Some people love food. Hell, I love food and if I had more money I'd eat like a king.
My grandma taught me to cook at a pretty young age, so I've been cooking forever. For me, cooking is an exercise of skill, discipline, and sometimes even love. I love food. Love the smell, love the taste, love to cook it, and I get paid a lot of money to cook it.
Yeah, I'm kind of a cheap bastard on my own, but if I'm cooking for other people...
It may sound cheesy or corny, but cooking can have greater significance than just a simple necessity. Cook for your family sometime, put some extra effort into it, and see if it doesn't make you reconsider.
>>712311595
Milk is 5 dollars here in ontario and no I'm not joking
>>712311397
This.
>>712311492
I'm six foot three and a hundred and sixty five pounds. I'm a fucking bean pole, and I love food and cooking. It aint just fat people.
>>712311652
You're probably a fatass who spends more than 100 a week just on food lmao
>>712311793
I spend about 50$ a month on food, and I'm six foot three and 165lbs. I'm a fucking scarecrow.
>>712311595
Not him but it is splurging when you make 12 bucks an hour. I'm not doing back breaking labor for 15 minutes just to buy milk
>>712311793
In all reality a diet of pasta and rice will probably make you fat. It is not a healthy diet.
>>712312085
My job is hard labor it's kinda impossible for me to gain weight when I'm carrying slabs of cement 10 hours a day
I spend $120~ on food, per month.
Me and my mum (who is disabled, and I care for) eat very comfortably, one reason why so money gets spent on food is because we used to be dirt poor, I'm speaking glass of water and pasta and ketchup for dinner poor, while my mum left the room to "eat" aka smoke some cigs.
This was before she got ill, and things gradually got better in terms of quality of life, I have $400~ a month after my living expenses and the room I rent from her.
I've always been minimalist and careful with my money, I save most of my "disposable income" and my clothes last for years because I buy high quality, durable used for outdoors work stuff.
I'd rather kill myself than go back to the ketchup and pasta lifestyle.
>>712306721
MFW life is for living and you'll save all that money to... Be buried with?
Saving is one thing. Cheap for the sake of being cheap is another.
>>712305763
fuck you
>>712312222
I love looking at a bank account with numbers in it and if I ate normal I'd have no money
>>712312511
Are you saving for anything?
>>712311793
>>712311492
>hur hur you must be fat if you disagree with me!
Such brilliant arguments from this one.
>>712312692
Not really I just like having money and if an unexpected expense comes up I'll be alright
Holy fuck when I was poor I was eating pasta and spaghetti sauce but now that I have money I'd never go back to that shit
>>712312855
I don't mind it it's cheap and filling
>>712313055
You can eat dirt, it is FREE and filling.
>>712313266
Top kek
>>712312511
Neato! You're a miser. You'll die with a little money in the bank.
I'll have memories of a life well lived, and people and friends around me who were touched by me living a life full of experiences benefit too.
A shut-in who eats ketchup pasta and scoffs at other people spending their money in ways that please them is a subhuman. (You)
>>712312222
Checked.
>>712313688
Money waster detected
>>712313688
This.
Not the way I'd have said it, but this.
if there is an animal in your care don't be a dick and give it generic low quality Home Brand food to save some extra cash.
>>712301942
I'm cheap but because I'm poor, my rent is 1100 and I make 1400 a month, I have no choice but to eat and live very cheap
If I had money id actually enjoy living but instead I'm just waiting to die because being poor and not being able to do anything is a living hell
>>712313886
You can't spend it after you die you fucking autistic cretin.
I'd say maybe you want to leave a legacy for your fam-AHAHAHAHAHA
YOULL NEVER HAVE KIDS OR A FAMILY IR A WOMAN/FAGGOT that will love you.
Have fun living on free ketchup packets from Wendy's you ignoramus.
>>712314225
I don't have pets they cost money
I don't even turn on the heat in the winter because I have to pay for the gas heat and I don't pay for electricity so I just keep my electric oven going to heat the apartment
>>712314281
Kids and women are so expensive it's ridiculous to even think about either one
>>712314394
This is quality b8. Nobody is this autistic
>>712314234
Iktf bro I'm sick of being poor. I'm not like OP and these other cheap fuckers ITT I actually like going out and living life but I can't because I can't afford to go out with friends
>>712314338
What pleasure do you even get out of life? You just exist.
>>712314617
I'm actually not joking, women make you pay for everything which I will not pay for anything for someone else because I earn my money
>>712314676
I like relaxing and browsing on my phone and going on nature walks
>>712314631
Are you me? The only enjoyment I get out of life since I've lived on my own is getting blackout drunk by myself because it's all I can afford
I literally live for getting so drunk I forget the day
>>712314713
Yes, women make you pay for things. Women like a man who can provide for them. This is not rocket science. If you want a warm pussy to fuck, you're probably going to have to spend some money to do it. In your case, buying and microwaving a potato to fuck, but even that will cost you a bit.
>>712314617
Pretty sure the whole thread is b8 m8
>tfw money has ruined my life because I don't have enough of it
When I was young and naive I didn't realize money is happiness and when you don't have any life is brutal
>>712315035
I'm not providing shit for anyone I work for my shit and so should they
>>712315035
I've had plenty of gfs and sex isn't worth spending all your money every paycheck man. I'm not cheap like these retards but I got sick of being legit broke every paycheck because girls want you to spend it all on them. I've saved tons of money since being single
>>712315219
Okay, you tipped your hand here. I'd believed you up to this point, but you baited too hard now. Good run though, you had me going.
>>712315035
>women want a man who can provide for them
This is exactly why I don't date or anything....... it's 2016 be your own provider for fuck sakes
>>712315511
Ikr, OP is a retard.
>>712315511
OP here that's not me talking about the girls costing money because I'm too ugly to get girls
>>712315219
ALPHA AS FUCK
I'm the same way, you want it you earn it yourself
>>712306721
If you have children they should be taken away immediately.
>>712315219
I know people throw autism around as an insult a lot, but I genuinely wonder about this guy's mental health.
>You hear that, little 35 pound child? Get to work you lazy fucker! When I was your age I was killing bears with my flacid cock, WHAT'S YOU EXCUSE?!
>>712315916
How could someone like that have kids? He eats pasta and ketchup lmao girls would be disgusted
>>712316051
Go ahead and be a beta cuck and pay for your woman's shit even though she should have her own job and money to buy her own things
>>712304396
I bet you can get cheap tofu from an Asian grocer. Also cheap rice(by the 25lb bag)
>>712311793
$100 a week is like, a good week for me. No, not a fatass, just have priorities.
>>712316536
Yeah foods a priority but just get pasta and ketchup and you've got a cheap filling meal for like 2 bucks. That's a hell of alot better than paying like 10 a meal for fancy food
>>712316209
My girlfriend makes 75k a year. She supports herself just fine.
I still buy her shit though. Know why? Because I'm a fucking man, that's why. What kind of little pussy bitch is so insecure that he's afraid to spend some money on his girl because he doesn't want to look like a "weak beta cuck"? A man should be able to provide for his family. Yeah, a woman should still work too, but that doesn't mean you can't spend money on people. And it's not just women. Spend money on your family, spend money on your friends. If you've got enough money, why NOT spread it around? Hell, I've dropped almost four thousand dollars on holiday gift shopping, and I'm not even done yet.
Being generous doesn't mean being weak. It means you're a good provider.
>>712310781
I dunno, I think chicken soup is fairly cost effective. Buy chicken thighs(under 2$/lb) add some celery, noodles if desired. It fills you up fast, lasts days, nutritious. You can add basically anything to fortify it.
>>712316209
My woman does make her own money and pay for her own things. Just because you think all women are uneducated skanks doesn't make it true.
>>712316738
Why not spread it around? Maybe so you can save it you dumb fuck
>>712316738
Also, it comes back around. You go out drinking with your friends or whatever, pick up the tab, next time someone else gets it, everyone looks good in the process.
>>712316992
>pick up the tab
like anyone has that kind of money. I'm lucky if I can go out for a cheap 12 dollar pitcher once a week without breaking the bank
>>712316929
I got plenty of money in the bank dude. Between my fiance and myself we've got almost 100k in savings.
We're good. We've got money.
NOW is it okay if we spend our money?
>>712317335
Nobody except the elite has that kind of money, that would take me like 60 years to save and I'd have to eat pasta and ketchup the entire time
>>712310530
What do you eat
I eat shit off the sides of the road during the summer, no rent to pay, use rainwater and I earn 30k a year, I pretty much spend it on Pokémon cards and drink
>>712317439
>Nobody except the elite has that kind of money
Not really.
I make anywhere from 50k to 125k a year (the nature of my job means that my income is quite variable), my fiance made about 60k a year (recently promoted, but that doesn't matter for the purpose of this explanation).
Neither of us are really the type to spend lots of money, and I got about 10k inheretence when my grandpa kicked it, and since highschool I've been saving. So we take 100k, minus the 10k from papa, divided over four years. That averages $22.5k a year into savings, between two people, so that's $11.25k each of us, per year.
Round it up to 12.
12k a year is not a ton of money for an educated person to make.
>>712318458
I make 17k a year busting my ass full time 45 hr weeks
>>712318207
>30k a year
What do you do man? I'd love to make that kind of money
>>712318645
>>712318906
How the fuck do you make that little? At literally the first job I ever had I made 15k a year, and that was fucking part time during highschool and college. Are you from Somalia or something?
>>712319251
I make 11.65 an hour and work at a factory and I'm 31
