Did anyone see that Cheapskate show ??

[Pennstater]

The man eating food off other's plates in the restaurant was BEYOND Gross!

Filling the ketchup bottle with packets, uggh! Imagine the bacteria at the bottom of the bottle and how long it's been in there! Why not just use the packets one at a time?

The last young man was neat, bartering, a bit corny, but gives you some ideas.

[cpaige]

I knew someone was going to post about that show!! I saw a hot second of it ( I was switching channels) and saw about the woman who was so cheap that she wouldn't even buy toilet paper. Showed her kid folding, just out of the wash, white towels w/ um....stains on them. ....that was enough for me!

[aimeebee]

I didn't watch the show, but I did hear some things about it. There is a frugal board I used to go to where many promote the idea of the family cloths (basically reusable cloth TP) and the reusable female products. Keeping a bucket of that in my bathroom and then washing it in the same machine that washes our clothes, towels, bedding, etc. is definitely not for me. Especially not after I figured out how to use coupons, extra bucks, cats and overage to pay for things like toilet paper and feminine products.

[OneHotMomma]

Wait, I missed it. Is it called the cheapskate show? What channel?

[aimeebee]

Wait, I missed it. Is it called the cheapskate show? What channel?

Extreme Cheapskates on TLC, of course.

[OneHotMomma]

Thank you, sounds interesting.

[JulieDB]

Yes. Sickening. Using pieces of fabric instead of toilet paper and then saying there is no risk of bacteria? Riiiiiiiiiiight.

Eating goat's heads? Traveling 40 miles round trip to buy them plus digging everywhere you can find for coins to buy them?

Taking leftover food from strangers in restaurants? Picking dead flowers from the trash for your wife?

Nope. No, no, no.

[OneHotMomma]

WOW. Just WOW. That's all I can say.

[clippyclippy]

Once again, they have the opportunity to make a show that is educational and might actually help people who need to learn how to be more frugal.
Instead it has to be EXTREME... as in, unbalanced. People with possible diagnosis of some sort.

I did catch the end of it, the bartering dude. There wasn't anything I'd want to use IRL.

[Doglover8180]

WOW. Just WOW. That's all I can say.

That about sums it up.

Its very unsanitary to eat after all those strangers - just gross....

And the woman feeding 11 people food from the park that was filthy....geez

The washing machine can only do so much and it can't clean that stuff.....

I just wonder what the smell is like in that woman's bathroom when those buckets are full of their reusable butt wipes....