Speaking of coupons, I remember when I was living at home with my single mom and five kids including me, the only reason why she subscribed to the Sunday paper was for the coupons. I was the oldest and knowing how much my mom hated to cut them out, I actually thought it was fun because while I was cutting them, she let me watch my cartoons, even the ones that she didn't want me watching.
If not for dumpster divers, the baby boy that Alexis Avila gave birth to and threw in a dumpster, would not be alive. They heard something inside the dumpster they thought was a kitten or puppy but upon inspection they found a newborn baby boy in a trash bag with towels, discarded like garbage. Baby Saul was in a dumpster for 6 hours and was cold to the touch when found. And to think, had he not cried at exactly the time the dumpster divers were nearby, he'd have gone to a landfill with only one person, his homicidal birth-giver, aware of his existence.
I can fully agree with you about that. Stuff in dumpsters can be reusable and can fetch you a few dollars if needed. And, yes, you can save lives as well.👍👍👍
I can’t help but wonder how their frugality affects their relationships- especially the guy who just orders a side at restaurants and then eats everyone’s leftovers. I’m happy to spot a friend when they’re low on cash, and will even offer to pay so they will join, but doing that on an ongoing basis would be kind of uncomfortable. Who would want to date someone who won’t even go out to eat like a normal person?
The timer on the freezer is wasting money. Freezers don’t run all the time, if you leave it off for 12 hours it has to work far harder to get back down to temperature that if it were allowed to cycle on and off normally.
I'm in no way an expert (so take this with a grain of salt), but she really reminds me of a few situations I've heard about involving severe OCD. Especially the 'peeing in bottle' aspect, as it's completely unnecessary but she's somehow convinced herself it's normal or 'not a big deal'. Very sad.
People are so estranged from life. I bet your great grandfathers century and further in past didn't have toilet and had their business done between veggy rows not to waste nutrients.
I just stopped caring. Kids did that to me. If I worried about what was going on at other peoples houses I would go insane. Best not to think about it and just hope no one gets sick. On a side note. There were some of my kids friends houses I would not let them go to. I also wouldn’t eat at certain houses unless it was something catered.
Hillbilly cheapskate is actually losing money. Instead of filling the bathtub with 40 gallons of water, they could easily rig up a shower, each person use a gallon or two to get all wet, soap up and then use three or 4 gallons to completely rinse off. Maybe 24 gallons total at most and no one has to soak in the previous people’s gross bathwater.
All channels did this but it wasn't by accident it was by design. I remember when the history channel actually taught history. MTV used to play music videos. Etc etc. Everything has been dumbed down so much in a successful attempt to dumb down the common man and don't even get me started on our school system.
Ewe dryer lint ? It'd fall apart . The scraping the plate back into the pasta sauce jar is disgusting . I used to watch that show , it'd make me so mad sometimes .
The reason companies are so against dumpster diving is because some how, they can still be sued if someone get sick eating stuff out of the dumpster or if they get hurt in the dumpster because this is America and people would rather sue instead of taking responsibility for their actions.
I got a recipe card decades ago from a woman at my church who’s job (or maybe it was just a side gig) was selling stuff kind of like Avon but I think it was recipe books and cooking stuff. Anyway, the recipe was for lasagna cooked in your dishwasher, but they instructed that you do it on just the drying cycle.
Dumpster diving should NOT be illegal. So much perfectly good food and items go to waste all to the benefit of the corporations who put profits above all else.
I can see the dumping of food - especially expired food. There’s too much risk for the business if someone gets sick as a result. Goods, though … Yeah. Businesses intentionally destroy things that are otherwise useable.
So, there are a few reasons it's illegal: 1: it's a liability for the business. If someone gets hurt while dumpster diving, they can open litigation against the company who owns/rents the dumpster. After all "you did nothing to stop me from doing a dangerous thing." 2: as for goods and food. The food is kept in a nonsanitary place after being tossed. It carries with it the distinct possibility of sickness which is not only a liability for the company, but also a burden on the local Healthcare system, paid for by tax payers (if you didn't know, public hospitals *must* treat anyone, and can only go so far in getting payment out of said person if the person doesn't pay. Being federally funded, it's a legal obligation). The goods issue is a bit different. While it carries with it the liability issue, it also has another. If a product isn't destroyed completely, someone could salvage it and attempt to return it at a store location. Even if they don't get money back, they could get store credit. This costs the company money. "Look, it happening once won't bankrupt..." No, but over and over again, it does have an effect. Moreover, it prevents theft. An employee could surreptitiously toss a valued item into the garbage, then alert a friend waiting outside. That person grabs it from the garbage, and now a high ticket item has been lost, and depending on local laws, there may be no way of prosecuting. After all "it was an accident it was tossed boss," and "the guy at the garbage didn't know it wasn't supposed to be there." So, by locking the dumpster, fully destroying items, and making diving illegal, any issues that may come up can be stopped before they happen.
I used to work in a deli that donated leftover food for several years in a row to shelters, rather than tossing it all. Alas, they quit doing that after one person sued for food poisoning (the food was fine but they wanted to get money). Now, for their own liability protection, the food gets thrown away. No good deed goes unpunished, one bad apple spoiled the bunch, etc… 🤷♀️💔
A lot of frugal hacks came from people who lived through the Great Depression. My grandparents were like that. We even reused gift wrap and bows. I'm not quite as bad but I still reuse certain things. Also we used to make casseroles out of leftovers.
I've done dumpster diving a few times throughout my life. Once, when I was a young teen, my mom sent me over into one so we could have 'new' carpet; what we ended up with was way better than the carpet we'd literally had since before I was born, lol, and it was only for like one or two rooms in our small house, so it was easy enough to get the amount of carpet we needed so that we didn't have to pay a dime!
I actually hate how penny pinching retail is because we're instructed to destroy anything before putting it into the dumpster to avoid dumpster divers. I get avoiding the subhumans (not all are subhuman, just the animals that throw everything on the ground outside the dumpster), but I wish I could have at least taken the stuff to appropriate places to donate.
We could solve world hunger but the powers that be want to de populate the planet by manufacturing crisis. There's a pastor who invites all the homeless people into his church and feeds them and the government stepped in threatening him and telling him to stop, I don't remember his name I just know it's happening now or very recently.
Dumpster Diving is great. I once got a buttload of good vinyls from a work colleague he found in random dumpster. Good places to dive is of course where they dump fresh food, cakes, bread etc.
Intercepting them while they're throwing it out is another good idea, you pretty much get free food or treats. Cake can be frozen for a later party or special occasion and thawed the day before.
@@rootbrian4815 It was pretty common a few years ago to go the bakery shops etc at closing time and grab a big bag of "goodies" for next too nothing. Now they are not allowed to sell leftovers. Yes you read that right. My local grocery store sometimes gives a way a few leftover small cakes and bread if you're there when they close.
24:02 the mystery casserole thing is similar to something my mother did. It wasn't strictly to save money it was to make sure things weren't wasted. She would take tinned meats, veggies and stews in her cupboard that were near their dates and then combine them into a casserole. It tasted good and meant things weren't thrown out
I don't know if I can finish this video. I haven't even finished hearing about this first woman and I don't think I can handle it. Edit: I couldn't handle it. Didn't even finish the first one. Don't @ me with details about what I missed. I don't want to know.
I had a friend that would split 2-ply toilet paper by hand. This has got to be the most idiotic way to save money. After all, when you need to wipe, you're going to need more sheets, probably double at single-ply, defeating any cost savings. Just one less trip to Taco Bell each year would've saved him more money than dealing with this ridiculous idea!
76 °C inside a dishwasher is nowhere near the temperature to properly cook a lasagna. If lasagna is fresh, you'll need to cook it for at least one hour inside the oven between 170 °C and 180 °C. She's eating that lasagna raw
No its actually fairly cheaper she’s right on that but it’s not worth cooking food in it doesn’t get that hot 170 is nowhere near enough that’s why she runs it for so long lmao she’s gross
15:37 Try fitting 2 of your friends(me included), in the trunk, their girlfriends under a blanket in the backseat, while the 2 boyfriends’ in the front seats paid $8 for each ticket. Thank God in was one of those SUVs that was way too big. I miss you SO MUCH tiny town drive-thru theatre. Teens and 2lyr olds, like myself drove you out of business. That and you’re $1 hamburgers and hot dogs. Maybe. Unless you dumpster dived them from the lady before. Good on you if so.
@@neuroisis85 In the winter, our oven can cost up to ten dollars per use; closer to $5 in summer. Our stove is old and in not very good shape (landlord not interested in getting a newer one), so we got an air fryer and use that instead of an oven.
I have plastic 12oz bottles from Coca-Cola 8 packs that I have been reusing for almost 10 years. I buy 2 liter bottles and pour them into the smaller bottles and use them as necessary. The caps seal them tight and keep the soda carbonated. There are about 5.5 12oz sodas per 2 liter. The top of the 2 liter bottles, when cut, make a perfect funnel for my 32oz pitcher, which is a 32oz cranberry juice bottle. I regularly use this to make lemonade from water, sugar and 'lemon juice' that I pour into 20oz bottles from sports drinks. They make 3 20oz drinks when diluted to 'sports drink' level.
Yeah, making funnels out of the smaller ones, you can heat and crimp the mouths of the bottle to narrow it. Though, not as durable as what you can get in a store, they do serve a purpose. I made a camera rain shield out of a gutted 2 liter soda bottle and poked holes for drawstrings (to tighten it) and put cut sponge at the top to prevent it from hitting the zoom lever and not to cover the microphone.
16:13 honestly I would love that. Nice little secluded place for yourself and you get to travel, kind of like a safe space I guess lol but I would definitely do that
I lived in a mini van with my younger brother and cat for half a year. (The cat very early on got left with a friend tho) It wasn’t the worse thing in the world but the circumstances surrounding the event made it more difficult that it would have been. We ended up using truck-stops for showers and one night sleeps, relied on free food from church events and gas stations. (If neither opportunity presented itself we’d only eat at a restaurant once every 24-36 hours) The whole event came to an end tho when we ran into trouble with both a Missouri and Arkansas church retreated to Illinois/Missouri border and got a flat tire plus a ticket shortly after. Overall, it was definitely a fun experience. I will never forget and I’ll never forget my former Mini van Gearbreaker who got us thur that.
My husband was not used to my cheap ways in the beginning. Here are two tips: Before you go to a flea market, go to the supermarket and take about five bundles of plastic bags from the recycle bin. A lot of sellers run out of bags and will make a trade happily . That’s five extra bucks. Second trick is getting very hot water into the pay laundry machine. Our building puts out lukewarm water and never gets hot enough. I take clear jugs and paint or tape the back half black . Put it by the window Clear part toward the sun. It heats up fast. Then just put it in with the wash.
Hell yeah ive dumpster dived. You would be surprised how much stuff that is new thrown out. I needed a new stovetop and wanted some pudgy pie makers. Not all in the same year but found them in the dumpster with all the instructions never used. I'm guessing packing up didn't go as planned and they had to lighten the load.
Is he normally liberal with money? Spendthrift is a synonym of cheapskate. With a touch of class however, because they're 'thrifty' instead of 'cheap'!
When I was 20 my roommate and I would get our toilet paper from public bathrooms (go fill our pockets and bring it home). Our sugar was from the gas station down the road (go buy a coffee and fill pockets with sugar packets). The legs on my futon bent outward once due to enthusiastic adult activities, but instead of paying for a new frame I simply bent them back, and used rope to tie the problem legs to the ones on the other side to prevent the metal from just bending again. Also, there were a few times I used an extension cord as a leash for the dog and a ton of other cheapskate ideas I am forgetting, lol.
Extension cords (even coaxial cable) can be used to tie down mattresses or other furniture when transporting. Personally have seen this done in my west-central neighbourhood part of toronto. Also, coaxial can hold up to 30 kg, and I have hung soaked bed sheets and large towels after washing over it before to dry in the sun when the dryers were being replaced in the laundry room.
Honestly, a $60 savings to use a single lightbulb seems genius, especially if you have electric heat like I do lol 😆. Still, my lights are on the ceiling, so it wouldn't be very practical 😂
My grandpa used to buy large quantities of orange juice when on discount, and kept drinking it way beyond the expiry date. If you wait too long before consuming it, the juice gets carbonated. He told us he liked this soda-like taste.
*The following are the musings of a Salty SEAGULL named EARL who just shows up in my posts whenever he feels like it!* [EARL the Salty SEAGULL:] 3:59 - "You humans throw out way too much stuff that is still usable! So nice to know your a fellow dumpster diver!" 9:50 - "Now this is my kinda a guy! Turns a dumpster into a home!" 11:07 - "Ah, I see they use the same method as the Son Family in Dragon Ball Z (Goku's house lacks a bath, so they take baths like this in an oil barrel which can be seen in DBZ film The World's Strongest and a couple of episodes one occurs after the Kid Buu Saga in which Goku, Goten, & Trunks use the barrel which leads to the boys who fuse into Gotenks and Goku destroying it while roughhousing)!"
My mum was cheap. Every time we received either a birthday or a Christmas present, or any present for any reason, we were not allowed to just rip the paper off of the presents. We had to take the paper off carefully, without ripping it, so that way the paper could be used for the next time a present needed to be given.
4:10 it's legit places many stores and bussiness do this they throw perfectly good stuff that wasn't even out of date all because they kept getting new inventory and had to make space. I've gotten trail mix, a 12-pack of canned soda just because that box was slightly damaged, candy, cookies, one time there was a box of 60 different flavored water packet boxes, all sorts of goodies. But the reason they throw stuff out instead of donating it is because if someone gets sick from eating something expired or out of date. They can sue for food poisoning and stuff in fact I remember hearing a story about some donut company donating to homeless shelters, and one of the people sued them so they stopped all together because of one person. Granted you have to be really careful about dumpster diving to, because you still can get charged with soliciting on people's property.
My cheapest thing ive seen is when i was traveling down south. Abandoned schools not abandoned i found out. Trailer home expansion no problem. Semi trailer take the wheels off and shove up against a trailer home. New addition completed.
This is funny. My grandma used to wash styrofoam plates instead of throwing them away after some one is done with them. She had tons of money but would skimp on everything.
My parents sometimes bring home perfectly good furniture from the dumpster Of course, most of the time they are broken or teared at some places,but my father fixes them
I worked with a guy whose brother went to prison for forging checks, and it messed him up. He was so cheap if his socks got holes in the toes, he'd tie a knot in the end of them. He was supposed to be a manager, but people would get rid of him by throwing pennies because he would chase them down. He had tons of money in his bank account, and this was what he was living like.
Sucks when there are people out there that prolly indeed do things similar to this to afford paying rent. Also, with dumpster diving, there are actually places that give permits out for it.
Plenty of people live in their cars. Especially with the insanity of rental prices globally. I'm lucky in that i live with my mother in her house. One of my friends, who was unable to continue living in his share house, now lives in his car. He is setting up his car to be similar to that medical guy in the video, and has a gym membership and showers there. In my city, there are "tent cities" of people who live in tents, or cars, and they are people with good paying jobs too. Pre covid, a one bedroom unit would cost you between $200-350 per week. Now they START at 600 per week. And landlords just say "oh the market price just caught up because it was so low for so long" BS.
0:32 I'm reminded of that episode of Phil of The Future where Pim mistook their dishwasher for an oven. Her excuse? They were from the future, used food from spray cans, and didn't know what an oven even was! (Side note: I doubt the school would have known the difference.)
The closest I got to this once was at a job. I had to write single-line numbers down on post-it notes all the time and cart them with me. We weren't allowed to have our celphones because it was a secure faqcility. So I'd tear off just enough of the post-it note to fit the number. One post-it note could handle 5 or 6 while other people were using just one. When our financial assessments came around, I got a raise
I made a camera rain shield out of a gutted 2 liter soda bottle and poked holes for drawstrings (to tighten it) and put cut sponge at the top to prevent it from hitting the zoom lever and not to cover the microphone. It actually works quite well, and my equipment has never been damaged by rain (though, if it's real windy, that can be a risky challenge).
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#1: Mr. Krabs
exactly what I was thinking
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Facts, I ate a rotten lasagna yesterday 😋
lol he NEVER spends it
Speaking of coupons, I remember when I was living at home with my single mom and five kids including me, the only reason why she subscribed to the Sunday paper was for the coupons. I was the oldest and knowing how much my mom hated to cut them out, I actually thought it was fun because while I was cutting them, she let me watch my cartoons, even the ones that she didn't want me watching.
As a Canadian, I wish we could use coupons like ppl in the States. Our coupon system is horrible
Really. Should let me know. I live there too
If not for dumpster divers, the baby boy that Alexis Avila gave birth to and threw in a dumpster, would not be alive. They heard something inside the dumpster they thought was a kitten or puppy but upon inspection they found a newborn baby boy in a trash bag with towels, discarded like garbage. Baby Saul was in a dumpster for 6 hours and was cold to the touch when found. And to think, had he not cried at exactly the time the dumpster divers were nearby, he'd have gone to a landfill with only one person, his homicidal birth-giver, aware of his existence.
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Im working as a garbage truck operator, and i can say, that is true... Sometimes in trash landing quite good stuff.
I can fully agree with you about that. Stuff in dumpsters can be reusable and can fetch you a few dollars if needed. And, yes, you can save lives as well.👍👍👍
WOW!😢
@@lcoq19 Is she in jail?
This is not trying to save money.This is just being stupid
They are just stingy to themselves
and prob a ton of mental illness.
This is being so stingy about spending money on things you need in life.
They’re often stupid strategies to save money in their eyes
They are stupid if you ask me
I can’t help but wonder how their frugality affects their relationships- especially the guy who just orders a side at restaurants and then eats everyone’s leftovers.
I’m happy to spot a friend when they’re low on cash, and will even offer to pay so they will join, but doing that on an ongoing basis would be kind of uncomfortable. Who would want to date someone who won’t even go out to eat like a normal person?
The millionaire who pees in a jar has more than just money saving problems. Her elevator is short a few floors.
The timer on the freezer is wasting money. Freezers don’t run all the time, if you leave it off for 12 hours it has to work far harder to get back down to temperature that if it were allowed to cycle on and off normally.
I'm in no way an expert (so take this with a grain of salt), but she really reminds me of a few situations I've heard about involving severe OCD. Especially the 'peeing in bottle' aspect, as it's completely unnecessary but she's somehow convinced herself it's normal or 'not a big deal'. Very sad.
Unhygienic and psychotic 😢
Pretty sure she's the one that fed her ex-husband a cat food tuna sandwich after he did some *free* handyman work for her.
People are so estranged from life. I bet your great grandfathers century and further in past didn't have toilet and had their business done between veggy rows not to waste nutrients.
This video is why i entertain guests and why i don't go to eat at anyone's house unless i know you thoroughly.
😢 I'm sorry 😞
Oh, same here.
I just stopped caring. Kids did that to me. If I worried about what was going on at other peoples houses I would go insane. Best not to think about it and just hope no one gets sick.
On a side note. There were some of my kids friends houses I would not let them go to. I also wouldn’t eat at certain houses unless it was something catered.
A lot of these would end up costing people more money in the long run (when things eventually go wrong)
💯💯💯this
agreed!
Hillbilly cheapskate is actually losing money. Instead of filling the bathtub with 40 gallons of water, they could easily rig up a shower, each person use a gallon or two to get all wet, soap up and then use three or 4 gallons to completely rinse off. Maybe 24 gallons total at most and no one has to soak in the previous people’s gross bathwater.
This is not saving money, its being mentally disturbed
I agree
Having gradient of different behaviours and creative solutions in life is why we are called humans not robots.
@@marsilt this makes a lot of sense when you read the OPs comment. Robots (I forget-)
Agreed
Yea and people saying me buying value food was bad there making me look good
It’s funny that TLC once was The Learning Channel… Like in my lifetime it was a place we would tune into for educational purposes…
It should be renamed the brain dead channel.
Right! I thought the same thing.
Yeah. Might as well be called the “reality” network or The Lame Channel
For real!
All channels did this but it wasn't by accident it was by design. I remember when the history channel actually taught history. MTV used to play music videos. Etc etc. Everything has been dumbed down so much in a successful attempt to dumb down the common man and don't even get me started on our school system.
Ewe dryer lint ? It'd fall apart . The scraping the plate back into the pasta sauce jar is disgusting . I used to watch that show , it'd make me so mad sometimes .
Yeah, being sanitary definitely wasn't on any of these people's bingo cards. 😅🤐
Omg I loved this, I hope to see more compilations of cheapskates, maybe one with most ingenious/innovative cheapskate ideas?
The reason companies are so against dumpster diving is because some how, they can still be sued if someone get sick eating stuff out of the dumpster or if they get hurt in the dumpster because this is America and people would rather sue instead of taking responsibility for their actions.
2:32 These people don’t seem to care about quality of life.
Exactly! Most extreme money-saving techniques cost time/comfort, which these people don’t seem to care about at all😂
@@BeAmazedand you could get sick if you eat spoiled meat then you would pay more
I got a recipe card decades ago from a woman at my church who’s job (or maybe it was just a side gig) was selling stuff kind of like Avon but I think it was recipe books and cooking stuff. Anyway, the recipe was for lasagna cooked in your dishwasher, but they instructed that you do it on just the drying cycle.
You can actually cook it on wash it just has to be air tight plastic, prisoners cook pizza the same way
Watching Be Amazed is just pure perfection/gold
thank you very much! 😇
That's nice 🥰🥰
Dumpster diving should NOT be illegal. So much perfectly good food and items go to waste all to the benefit of the corporations who put profits above all else.
Dumping perfectly good food should be illegal!!
I can see the dumping of food - especially expired food. There’s too much risk for the business if someone gets sick as a result.
Goods, though … Yeah. Businesses intentionally destroy things that are otherwise useable.
So, there are a few reasons it's illegal:
1: it's a liability for the business. If someone gets hurt while dumpster diving, they can open litigation against the company who owns/rents the dumpster. After all "you did nothing to stop me from doing a dangerous thing."
2: as for goods and food. The food is kept in a nonsanitary place after being tossed. It carries with it the distinct possibility of sickness which is not only a liability for the company, but also a burden on the local Healthcare system, paid for by tax payers (if you didn't know, public hospitals *must* treat anyone, and can only go so far in getting payment out of said person if the person doesn't pay. Being federally funded, it's a legal obligation).
The goods issue is a bit different. While it carries with it the liability issue, it also has another. If a product isn't destroyed completely, someone could salvage it and attempt to return it at a store location. Even if they don't get money back, they could get store credit. This costs the company money. "Look, it happening once won't bankrupt..." No, but over and over again, it does have an effect. Moreover, it prevents theft. An employee could surreptitiously toss a valued item into the garbage, then alert a friend waiting outside. That person grabs it from the garbage, and now a high ticket item has been lost, and depending on local laws, there may be no way of prosecuting. After all "it was an accident it was tossed boss," and "the guy at the garbage didn't know it wasn't supposed to be there."
So, by locking the dumpster, fully destroying items, and making diving illegal, any issues that may come up can be stopped before they happen.
I used to work in a deli that donated leftover food for several years in a row to shelters, rather than tossing it all. Alas, they quit doing that after one person sued for food poisoning (the food was fine but they wanted to get money). Now, for their own liability protection, the food gets thrown away. No good deed goes unpunished, one bad apple spoiled the bunch, etc… 🤷♀️💔
@@GenXfrom75 People need to stop being trigger happy for lawsuits.
A lot of frugal hacks came from people who lived through the Great Depression. My grandparents were like that. We even reused gift wrap and bows. I'm not quite as bad but I still reuse certain things. Also we used to make casseroles out of leftovers.
I've done dumpster diving a few times throughout my life. Once, when I was a young teen, my mom sent me over into one so we could have 'new' carpet; what we ended up with was way better than the carpet we'd literally had since before I was born, lol, and it was only for like one or two rooms in our small house, so it was easy enough to get the amount of carpet we needed so that we didn't have to pay a dime!
And the question "What's wrong with people?" is brought up multiple times by this video.
I actually hate how penny pinching retail is because we're instructed to destroy anything before putting it into the dumpster to avoid dumpster divers. I get avoiding the subhumans (not all are subhuman, just the animals that throw everything on the ground outside the dumpster), but I wish I could have at least taken the stuff to appropriate places to donate.
We could solve world hunger but the powers that be want to de populate the planet by manufacturing crisis. There's a pastor who invites all the homeless people into his church and feeds them and the government stepped in threatening him and telling him to stop, I don't remember his name I just know it's happening now or very recently.
Dumpster Diving is great. I once got a buttload of good vinyls from a work colleague he found in random dumpster.
Good places to dive is of course where they dump fresh food, cakes, bread etc.
Intercepting them while they're throwing it out is another good idea, you pretty much get free food or treats. Cake can be frozen for a later party or special occasion and thawed the day before.
@@rootbrian4815 It was pretty common a few years ago to go the bakery shops etc at closing time and grab a big bag of "goodies" for next too nothing. Now they are not allowed to sell leftovers. Yes you read that right.
My local grocery store sometimes gives a way a few leftover small cakes and bread if you're there when they close.
I notice the word "force" is repeated in the Melody Rose segment, like it is not something her family goes along with volunterily.
I noticed that too. She sounds like a cheapskate and a bully.
Anyone in 2097-oh shit I blew my cover
Uh well might as well tell you GTA6 still Isn’t out but we got the earth update 2.0 so unicorns
8:50 How about "disgusting"?
24:02 the mystery casserole thing is similar to something my mother did. It wasn't strictly to save money it was to make sure things weren't wasted.
She would take tinned meats, veggies and stews in her cupboard that were near their dates and then combine them into a casserole. It tasted good and meant things weren't thrown out
Tbf, though, those things usually go into a casserole to begin with. I've seen cheapskate put all kinds of odd things into them
that is how ALL casseroles / Stews was invented.
@@JoriDiculous this^ thats kinda the whole point of casseroles /stews just throw w/e you have in there lol
I don't know if I can finish this video. I haven't even finished hearing about this first woman and I don't think I can handle it.
Edit: I couldn't handle it. Didn't even finish the first one. Don't @ me with details about what I missed. I don't want to know.
Nah, when you get to the woman who uses newspaper for toilet, you will bail 😢😢 I'm not kidding
@ I didn't make it. You've made me glad that I didn't get that far but I do hate you for letting me know.
😂😂😂
There is a millionaire who hasn't ever token s showerst her house and never uses the toilet she pees in s jar
@@GabrielLopez-v4p Gross! I'm rethinking whether I want to watch this video.
4:00 bad example. You don't want to take a mattress you find in the dump as it might be infested with bedbugs.
I had a friend that would split 2-ply toilet paper by hand. This has got to be the most idiotic way to save money. After all, when you need to wipe, you're going to need more sheets, probably double at single-ply, defeating any cost savings. Just one less trip to Taco Bell each year would've saved him more money than dealing with this ridiculous idea!
2:18 This was a sketch used in M.A.S.H. once, except they were low on supplies!
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I am always torn between being frugal and impulsively buying an online gadget that thrills me.
76 °C inside a dishwasher is nowhere near the temperature to properly cook a lasagna. If lasagna is fresh, you'll need to cook it for at least one hour inside the oven between 170 °C and 180 °C. She's eating that lasagna raw
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She is the reason you can't eat at everyone's house! That leftover spaghetti sauce back in the jar is a recipe for germs!
Thank you Be amazed!! I remember asking for this video!
And I thought uncle Scrooge and Mr. Krabs are just fictional characters, lol...
2:56 Pretty sure it costs more money to heat up the water and run the dishwasher than it would to run the stove
No its actually fairly cheaper she’s right on that but it’s not worth cooking food in it doesn’t get that hot 170 is nowhere near enough that’s why she runs it for so long lmao she’s gross
I’ve tried it. It works. And using an oven is hella expensive in summer.
15:37 Try fitting 2 of your friends(me included), in the trunk, their girlfriends under a blanket in the backseat, while the 2 boyfriends’ in the front seats paid $8 for each ticket. Thank God in was one of those SUVs that was way too big. I miss you SO MUCH tiny town drive-thru theatre. Teens and 2lyr olds, like myself drove you out of business. That and you’re $1 hamburgers and hot dogs. Maybe.
Unless you dumpster dived them from the lady before. Good on you if so.
@@neuroisis85 In the winter, our oven can cost up to ten dollars per use; closer to $5 in summer. Our stove is old and in not very good shape (landlord not interested in getting a newer one), so we got an air fryer and use that instead of an oven.
I love your voice and your stuff is so interesting. Thank you.
I have plastic 12oz bottles from Coca-Cola 8 packs that I have been reusing for almost 10 years. I buy 2 liter bottles and pour them into the smaller bottles and use them as necessary. The caps seal them tight and keep the soda carbonated. There are about 5.5 12oz sodas per 2 liter. The top of the 2 liter bottles, when cut, make a perfect funnel for my 32oz pitcher, which is a 32oz cranberry juice bottle. I regularly use this to make lemonade from water, sugar and 'lemon juice' that I pour into 20oz bottles from sports drinks. They make 3 20oz drinks when diluted to 'sports drink' level.
Yeah, making funnels out of the smaller ones, you can heat and crimp the mouths of the bottle to narrow it. Though, not as durable as what you can get in a store, they do serve a purpose.
I made a camera rain shield out of a gutted 2 liter soda bottle and poked holes for drawstrings (to tighten it) and put cut sponge at the top to prevent it from hitting the zoom lever and not to cover the microphone.
8:18 first thing came in my mind is "it's sniper jarate, i wonder who is she going to throw at"
This is the best place for history facts and there’s a new video every 2 days it’s amazing
It feels illegal to be this early in a BE AMAZED video🎉
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The fist lady also shuts the football game off during commercials 😂
I mute the sound when commercials air and look away from the screen.
I love all of your videos and cannot wait to see more everyday I search for you
Actually, you had me right from the start from using dryer lint as cotton balls!!!😝
It actually can be used as filling for a jacket or coat, among other things.
16:13 honestly I would love that. Nice little secluded place for yourself and you get to travel, kind of like a safe space I guess lol but I would definitely do that
Yay another video of BE AMAZED!
Didn't the extra foil to cook lasagna on the dishwasher cost more than just using the oven?
I lived in a mini van with my younger brother and cat for half a year. (The cat very early on got left with a friend tho)
It wasn’t the worse thing in the world but the circumstances surrounding the event made it more difficult that it would have been. We ended up using truck-stops for showers and one night sleeps, relied on free food from church events and gas stations. (If neither opportunity presented itself we’d only eat at a restaurant once every 24-36 hours)
The whole event came to an end tho when we ran into trouble with both a Missouri and Arkansas church retreated to Illinois/Missouri border and got a flat tire plus a ticket shortly after.
Overall, it was definitely a fun experience. I will never forget and I’ll never forget my former Mini van Gearbreaker who got us thur that.
18:00 oh man, I loved watching Extreme Couponing!😂
My husband was not used to my cheap ways in the beginning.
Here are two tips:
Before you go to a flea market, go to the supermarket and take about five bundles of plastic bags from the recycle bin. A lot of sellers run out of bags and will make a trade happily . That’s five extra bucks.
Second trick is getting very hot water into the pay laundry machine.
Our building puts out lukewarm water and never gets hot enough. I take clear jugs and paint or tape the back half black . Put it by the window
Clear part toward the sun. It heats up fast. Then just put it in with the wash.
Except you would spend that in gas on average unless the supermarket was in the same parking lot as the flea market or very close to it.
Hell yeah ive dumpster dived. You would be surprised how much stuff that is new thrown out. I needed a new stovetop and wanted some pudgy pie makers. Not all in the same year but found them in the dumpster with all the instructions never used. I'm guessing packing up didn't go as planned and they had to lighten the load.
Man scraping pasta sauce off the plate back into the jar is diabolical 😂😂😂😂😂
They make mister krab look like a spendthrift
😂for real
Is he normally liberal with money? Spendthrift is a synonym of cheapskate. With a touch of class however, because they're 'thrifty' instead of 'cheap'!
Happy new year!
Time is moving so fast 2020 was 5 years ago
2015 was 10 years ago
Best of luck to you all 2025
I've certainly lost my hunger 🤢 because of this video
When I was 20 my roommate and I would get our toilet paper from public bathrooms (go fill our pockets and bring it home). Our sugar was from the gas station down the road (go buy a coffee and fill pockets with sugar packets). The legs on my futon bent outward once due to enthusiastic adult activities, but instead of paying for a new frame I simply bent them back, and used rope to tie the problem legs to the ones on the other side to prevent the metal from just bending again. Also, there were a few times I used an extension cord as a leash for the dog and a ton of other cheapskate ideas I am forgetting, lol.
Extension cords (even coaxial cable) can be used to tie down mattresses or other furniture when transporting. Personally have seen this done in my west-central neighbourhood part of toronto. Also, coaxial can hold up to 30 kg, and I have hung soaked bed sheets and large towels after washing over it before to dry in the sun when the dryers were being replaced in the laundry room.
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No washing machine spaghetti, but you can do dryer steak. Ask Mat Pat and food theory about how to cook in the laundry room.
Can do heat/air gun stake in minutes. ;)
I still have all my old computers- better than spending thousands for a new one
Honestly, a $60 savings to use a single lightbulb seems genius, especially if you have electric heat like I do lol 😆. Still, my lights are on the ceiling, so it wouldn't be very practical 😂
15:20 Why do they keep inviting him then?
Mr krabs would love this show...knowing he's found his people 😂😂😂
Gahhhh…so much for any appetite today.
That Victoria…😑
Melody…😖
And these people are proud of it all….unbelievable….and thanks to producers…🙄
Neglect poor children😢
12:19 we know very well what he's talking about 😂😂😂😂
22:35 but it's just so cheeeaap😂😂
Happy New Year everyone
My grandpa used to buy large quantities of orange juice when on discount, and kept drinking it way beyond the expiry date. If you wait too long before consuming it, the juice gets carbonated. He told us he liked this soda-like taste.
It was turning to alcohol
Homemade orange juice wine.
Edit, actually more like hard cider, only with oranges instead of apples.
*The following are the musings of a Salty SEAGULL named EARL who just shows up in my posts whenever he feels like it!*
[EARL the Salty SEAGULL:] 3:59 - "You humans throw out way too much stuff that is still usable! So nice to know your a fellow dumpster diver!" 9:50 - "Now this is my kinda a guy! Turns a dumpster into a home!" 11:07 - "Ah, I see they use the same method as the Son Family in Dragon Ball Z (Goku's house lacks a bath, so they take baths like this in an oil barrel which can be seen in DBZ film The World's Strongest and a couple of episodes one occurs after the Kid Buu Saga in which Goku, Goten, & Trunks use the barrel which leads to the boys who fuse into Gotenks and Goku destroying it while roughhousing)!"
New fear unlocked:
*Dishwasher Lasagna*
2:21 that bf needs to run for the hills
AGREED!!!
17:57 the lady's face on the right says it all😂
My mum was cheap. Every time we received either a birthday or a Christmas present, or any present for any reason, we were not allowed to just rip the paper off of the presents. We had to take the paper off carefully, without ripping it, so that way the paper could be used for the next time a present needed to be given.
4:10 it's legit places many stores and bussiness do this they throw perfectly good stuff that wasn't even out of date all because they kept getting new inventory and had to make space. I've gotten trail mix, a 12-pack of canned soda just because that box was slightly damaged, candy, cookies, one time there was a box of 60 different flavored water packet boxes, all sorts of goodies. But the reason they throw stuff out instead of donating it is because if someone gets sick from eating something expired or out of date. They can sue for food poisoning and stuff in fact I remember hearing a story about some donut company donating to homeless shelters, and one of the people sued them so they stopped all together because of one person. Granted you have to be really careful about dumpster diving to, because you still can get charged with soliciting on people's property.
My cheapest thing ive seen is when i was traveling down south. Abandoned schools not abandoned i found out. Trailer home expansion no problem. Semi trailer take the wheels off and shove up against a trailer home. New addition completed.
Happy new year 🎊🎆🎈
This is funny. My grandma used to wash styrofoam plates instead of throwing them away after some one is done with them. She had tons of money but would skimp on everything.
Maybe that is why she had tons of money?
Every last one of these folks need therapy to say the least, they are crazy the most surprising thing is the loved ones who go along with this BS.
My parents sometimes bring home perfectly good furniture from the dumpster
Of course, most of the time they are broken or teared at some places,but my father fixes them
I worked with a guy whose brother went to prison for forging checks, and it messed him up. He was so cheap if his socks got holes in the toes, he'd tie a knot in the end of them. He was supposed to be a manager, but people would get rid of him by throwing pennies because he would chase them down. He had tons of money in his bank account, and this was what he was living like.
Sucks when there are people out there that prolly indeed do things similar to this to afford paying rent. Also, with dumpster diving, there are actually places that give permits out for it.
Love your video Be Amazed and keep up the great work you are awesome
Plenty of people live in their cars. Especially with the insanity of rental prices globally. I'm lucky in that i live with my mother in her house.
One of my friends, who was unable to continue living in his share house, now lives in his car. He is setting up his car to be similar to that medical guy in the video, and has a gym membership and showers there. In my city, there are "tent cities" of people who live in tents, or cars, and they are people with good paying jobs too. Pre covid, a one bedroom unit would cost you between $200-350 per week. Now they START at 600 per week. And landlords just say "oh the market price just caught up because it was so low for so long" BS.
Congratulations on 13M🥳
00:00 I see dead people
-Kendrick Lamar
A Darwin Award mention and a good video all in one
0:32 I'm reminded of that episode of Phil of The Future where Pim mistook their dishwasher for an oven. Her excuse? They were from the future, used food from spray cans, and didn't know what an oven even was! (Side note: I doubt the school would have known the difference.)
Thank you for good videos
This is a great video, keep up the good work
Daaamn, they cooking😂😂
That candle idea is darned clever. Not that safe lol but would save a lot in gas bills 😂
The closest I got to this once was at a job. I had to write single-line numbers down on post-it notes all the time and cart them with me. We weren't allowed to have our celphones because it was a secure faqcility. So I'd tear off just enough of the post-it note to fit the number. One post-it note could handle 5 or 6 while other people were using just one. When our financial assessments came around, I got a raise
Always amazed by these crazy stories!
Take paper towels from public washroom.
I made a camera rain shield out of a gutted 2 liter soda bottle and poked holes for drawstrings (to tighten it) and put cut sponge at the top to prevent it from hitting the zoom lever and not to cover the microphone.
It actually works quite well, and my equipment has never been damaged by rain (though, if it's real windy, that can be a risky challenge).
Banana skins are actually really tasty if you chop them up in a stir fry. They turn translucent like onions, but have a sweet banana flavour.
Tightwad is an understatement in these circumstances