http://www.stopbuyingcrap.com/misc/cheap-vs-frugal/ Over Five Years of Personal Finance, Consumer Spending, Crazy Products and Boring Blog Posts. Good grief. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:32:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.stopbuyingcrap.com/misc/cheap-vs-frugal/comment-page-1/#comment-8038 WW Tue, 22 Aug 2006 19:22:50 +0000 http://www.stopbuyingcrap.com/?p=78#comment-8038 When I take Hubby and children to the beach I always bring a cooler with ice from home that has water, juice boxes, fruit, candy etc. We may get something at the consession but not everything at the consession. I save at least $20.00 each time we go. This is frugal. Cheap is when you refuse to even get an ice cream for the kiddies. Who wants to be told on a ninety five degree day that you won't have your ice ream until you are home, back in your airconditioning when you no longer need ice cream to cool off. When I take Hubby and children to the beach I always bring a cooler with ice from home that has water, juice boxes, fruit, candy etc. We may get something at the consession but not everything at the consession. I save at least $20.00 each time we go. This is frugal. Cheap is when you refuse to even get an ice cream for the kiddies. Who wants to be told on a ninety five degree day that you won’t have your ice ream until you are home, back in your airconditioning when you no longer need ice cream to cool off.

]]> http://www.stopbuyingcrap.com/misc/cheap-vs-frugal/comment-page-1/#comment-119 mbhunter Tue, 27 Sep 2005 18:21:06 +0000 http://www.stopbuyingcrap.com/?p=78#comment-119 Oops, I meant getting water in a restaurant isn't _being_ cheap. Oops, I meant getting water in a restaurant isn’t _being_ cheap.

]]> http://www.stopbuyingcrap.com/misc/cheap-vs-frugal/comment-page-1/#comment-118 mbhunter Tue, 27 Sep 2005 18:20:19 +0000 http://www.stopbuyingcrap.com/?p=78#comment-118 Getting water in a restaurant isn't cheap at all. Not in the slightest. Beverages are a profit center for the restaurants -- they charge $1.50 for a soda that costs them a few cents. If you get three refills, whoop-dee-doo, it cost them a dime. They still make out like bandits! Getting water in a restaurant isn’t cheap at all. Not in the slightest. Beverages are a profit center for the restaurants — they charge $1.50 for a soda that costs them a few cents. If you get three refills, whoop-dee-doo, it cost them a dime. They still make out like bandits!

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