I’ve noticed sometimes that there’s some half-baked videos or blogs or whatever that purport this or that frugal trick, but if you look at the time or math, it’s not actually frugal for you.

What are some examples of that you’ve come across? The things that “aren’t worth it”?

For me it’s couponing. (Although I haven’t heard people talk about it recently–has it fallen out of “style”, or have businesses caught up to the loopholes folks used to exploit?)

  • Captain AggravatedEnglish
    11•1 year ago

    I still buy the vast majority of my own food, but:

    I’ve been eating the same $0.99 bell pepper going on three years now.

    A $3 packet of jalapeno seeds has made a year’s worth of taco tuesdays.

    I’ll never buy Mint again; I couldn’t get rid of my patch of peppermint if I wanted to.

    I can grow much better tomatoes than what you’ll find at the local mega mart.

    A $3 packet of okra seeds will thicken a year’s worth of gumbo.

    My little vegetable garden, which is smaller than my living room, yields somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 pounds of produce every year.

    • @[email protected]English
      7•1 year ago

      Respect for that - I was mostly trying to be funny with my post, I have to admit. If you have a good patch of garden, with good soil and conditions, I guess that can pay financially, and for sure psychologically. But if you have none of that… I have eaten too many shitty tomatoes grown on friends’ and neighbors’ balconies to be kind towards that anymore.