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    Default Are you a tightwad or just thrifty

    At sea there was only two infinitely available items, the sea and the sky. Everything else was finite, food was available in plenty, always assuming the chief steward was decent and ordered correctly, overtime depended on the chief officer and the companies policy, soap was given out weekly, clothing was what you good pack and lasted as long as required depending upon how you treated it, for wet shavers razor blades and shaving soap had to last until the blade almost cut you more than shaved you, bathing soap you collected all the remaining slivers and squashed them together to make a useable bar. The only recourse was the slop chest on board where, if whoever ran it, was sensible to stock such basic items as shampoo, shaving gear etc.
    This attitude of never wasting anything became ingrained very quickly as the next port where replacement may be available may be weeks or even months away, always assuming that you could get up the road to restock.
    Now you're retired, are you still in that frame of mind, do you for instance turn any squeezed sauce bottles or liquid soap bottles upsilon down to get every last drop of it's contents out, still use the same razor blade until it's shaving is like dragging sandpaper across your face, wear jeans, t shirts etc untill they are virtually falling apart even your stitched repairs no longer work.
    The store is just around the corner so when anything starts wearing out ot bottles start getting nearly empty, just pop to the store and get a replacement .
    So if you still practice what you did when at sea are you considered to be a tightwad or just thrifty.
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    P.s I'm definitely in the tightwad bracket.

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    Default Re: Are you a tightwad or just thrifty

    Quote Originally Posted by John Arton View Post
    At sea there was only two infinitely available items, the sea and the sky. Everything else was finite, food was available in plenty, always assuming the chief steward was decent and ordered correctly, overtime depended on the chief officer and the companies policy, soap was given out weekly, clothing was what you good pack and lasted as long as required depending upon how you treated it, for wet shavers razor blades and shaving soap had to last until the blade almost cut you more than shaved you, bathing soap you collected all the remaining slivers and squashed them together to make a useable bar. The only recourse was the slop chest on board where, if whoever ran it, was sensible to stock such basic items as shampoo, shaving gear etc.
    This attitude of never wasting anything became ingrained very quickly as the next port where replacement may be available may be weeks or even months away, always assuming that you could get up the road to restock.
    Now you're retired, are you still in that frame of mind, do you for instance turn any squeezed sauce bottles or liquid soap bottles upsilon down to get every last drop of it's contents out, still use the same razor blade until it's shaving is like dragging sandpaper across your face, wear jeans, t shirts etc untill they are virtually falling apart even your stitched repairs no longer work.
    The store is just around the corner so when anything starts wearing out ot bottles start getting nearly empty, just pop to the store and get a replacement .
    So if you still practice what you did when at sea are you considered to be a tightwad or just thrifty.
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    P.s I'm definitely in the tightwad bracket.
    No John, you are a thrfty tightwad. I must admit I dont ditch anything before taking a good look at it and weighing up whether it could be useful in the future because sure as sh-t if you ditch you will find you need it in the next week or too.
    I just cut a Primula cheese tube and scooped out the remants of cheese, there was at least a teaspoon full left jnside.
    I even kept some plastic milk cartons and used them to weld patches to repair damage to my reycling box just recently.

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    Default Re: Are you a tightwad or just thrifty

    Well when at Sea and a ways after so was i, but changed my ways a lot over the Years, now no more worried about trying to scrape the Bottom of the Barrel so to speak, but just live within my means.
    However do not skimp on anything at all.
    Just Enjoy what we have and live accordingly
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    Have been thinking that this year might be time to purchase some clothing. Did get a couple pairs of shorts two years ago. Mind you still have the same clothes from the eighties and they are still good. Yes thrifty and a tight wad. Anyone recall using sailing twine to repair their flip flops when the button would pop out. Not to mention that one could tell if a zac was heads or tails just by standing on it in those flip flops. Cut the dungarees down to shorts and make a couple of hats out of the leggings. Certainly taught us to be frugal except for money. Took the sheriff years to convert me in that matter.
    That's the way the mop flops.

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    Won’t be too long Les when money represented by cash will be a thing of the past if certain institutions have their way. Hope such rarities as cash sees us out to the end. A piece of plastic doesn’t feel the same. JS
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    We are not frugal, more careful. My wife just sent me back up the shop as I bought the only type of cheese available half fat, I asked do you want any other she said no, so I had the money $10 put back into our bank, that is the third time in two weeks I have had to take things back. One thing I couldn't, she got me to stop off at a cake shop on the way home from the Club, and buy her an Apple turn over with no cream, I bought one for myself with cream. When we got inside she asked where is my cake, I said I must have left it in the car, when I went outside there was her apple turnover squashed into the driveway, Ops I must have dropped it LoL.
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    Some could call me a tightwad when shopping. Yes I discard anything that I consider I do not want like? Stalks on mushrooms or the tail ends of parsnips. Also if they are selling packaged goods in a bag and charging by the kilo then I will open said bag and just take what I need. Just like I will seperate garlic to what I want. Quite a few other goods as being on my pat malone now my needs are well catered for. Recall the other day a woman was concerned that the yams where to large for her needs. I picked up the pre packaged bag of yams that contained small ones and broke it open so she could have a small one. The large ones where to hard to break othewise would have done that. Just gets to me the way that they package foods up to boost sales. Simple rule is? If it is sold by the kilo that one is entitled to only purchase what one needs and no more.
    That's the way the mop flops.

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    I have found since I took over the cooking that buying packaged carrots is a no goer , they are obviously taken from a deep freezer and on opening go off within the week. I buy them now loose ,peel,them myself and freeze them as necessary in my own freezer and don’t keep for months and sometimes years like the big super stores.
    It is obviously taken from judging by the lack of shoppers that people are getting wise to culinary prices and the shortage of money present day. JS.
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    John
    Down here in Cooma it is only about five minutes from any street to Three big stores, Woolworth Coles or Aldies, yet in Woolworth's they have around ten or so girls going around with trolleys with plastic boxes on collecting people's groceries, using a mobile phone with the orders on, the people then pick their boxes up when they are ready, I know that many work in Canberra but jees the shops are open all weekend until 7or 9pm.
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    Some of my shoes are are showing wear on the heels. I walk with a limp so there is a bias on the back edges. My wife says the shape of my legs I would not stop a pig in a jigger.
    Thing is there is nothing wrong with the uppers. I found an old fashioned Cobblers and took a pair to see if he could do anything withh them.
    No problem come back in an hour, job done. I said I had a couple of other pairs I will drop them in the next week. £12 for the first pair and £20 for the others I brought in a week later. Happy days.
    I over heard my Mrs talking to her cousin when she called for a coffee. She was telling her I got my shoes repaired at the Cobblers and he did a good job. Cousin ,says not daft is he ? no offence but perhaps he thinks he would not get the wear out of new shoes!!!!Not sure what she ment by that, but the wife burst out laughing. She said he told me the same thing himself.
    So am I being a tightwad or being thrifty

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