All Hail Cheap Bastards!

[Sachita]

Originally Posted by roy g biv

My mother used to take us on the bus to Salvation Army for clothes shopping, a tradition for which I am grateful.

If I can pay $10 or $20 for an overcoat or a suit that someone else paid $400 for last year, I'd have to be nuts not to. Even if you add $20 for a tailor to make adjustments, it's still cheap.

It does seem lately, however, that those who donate must be more reluctant to part with nice things because the racks have more threadbare clothing than they used to.

I was raise poor. We made the same haul. I went through a phase I call "N Rich" making money and living the high life. I finally came back down to earth and realized I was giving 30 fucking percent of my money to the government.

Frugal and cheap became my middle fucking name.