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Post by rosyred45 on Nov 19, 2004 11:48:27 GMT -5
Alright, so I don't take over Linda's thread about dining out, I'd like to share with you how cheap I really am. We can call it thrifty too, BUT I prefer cheap: Our washer came from Mom-mom Dryer-Mom-mom's friend Kitchen table-Aunt Dining room set-BIL's deceased Mom Kitchen Hutch-Uncle Microwave-In-laws---it was a christmas present so it was new Fridge-Friend of the Family Stand Up Freezer-Another Friend Computer-Guy down the street Couchs-His grandpop adn Mom-mom Coffee Table--Same guy we got the Fridge from Encyclopedias-Neighbor lady that passed Water bed-friends that were moving, although we don't have the water in it cause of the weight of it. Let's see, Oh wait we did pay for our 55 gallon fishtank  We had to consoladate 2 other tanks though. So who's as cheap as I am, I know there are more of us out there  |
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Post by tridlette on Nov 19, 2004 13:19:08 GMT -5
Dining room table, my mom (1975)
It replaced the old dining room table from his mom.
Buffet, his gramma
Desk, his Grampie
Coffee table, his Grampie
TV stand, his Grampie
Shaun's bed, my mom
Michael's bed, was ours after my sister gave it to us
Patrick's bed, inherited from a friend in a nasty divorce
My dresser, my aunt
His dresser, his grampie
Bed stand, his grampie
The sofa, his Great Auntie Blanche (dead before I met him in 1985!)
The carpeting, green shag, blue shag, red shag, pink shag... it came with the house, but I think it is 1970's!)
The pool table, my dad
The kids dressers are all from MIL, leftovers from her 7 kids (DH is the baby of the family, last to leave, got stuck with the crap!)
Book cases, 7 from MIL.
DISHES, wedding presents... Correlle!
Silver, K-Mart special before we married.
Drinking cups... Salvation Army Specials
Quilts... made by My GRAM (THE QUEEN!)
Winter coat... made by my mom when I was in HS!
Computers... built piece by piece by BIL from left over parts!
Welcome mat... previous owners! (I asked them to leave it! REALLY CHEAP!) I mean thrifty~
Mini fridge... stolen from college roommate
Upright freezer... elderly couple at Sears took pity on me pushing baby stroller with 3 kids crying and offered it to me if I could get someone to carry it up the stairs.
Dishwasher... Avacodo Green... need I say more?
Washer/dryer and Window A/C ...left by previous owner!
Porch swing... previous owner
Drum sets... hand me down from cousins
Bicycles... acquired from town dump
Other coffee table... DH's deceased Best Friend
BUT we bought a new smoke detector for every single room in the house, and a fire extinguisher to go with each one! And we have a new stove and a new furnace!
I have an avacado green rotary dial telephone... is that CHEAP?
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Post by Sorka on Nov 19, 2004 13:47:26 GMT -5
AAAK!!! hehhee.. When we were in college my hubby and i found some pretty cool stuff in the dumpster behind the college president's house!! heheh still have the nice carved wooden tray..
Most of our items are second hand .. it has to be with 4 kids!!!
But I do try to get them each something new just for them!
Have you all signed up for your local Freecycle group on ?Yahoo???
It's good!
Denise
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Post by camismom on Nov 19, 2004 14:29:00 GMT -5
Kaiti, Laurie.... you two crack me up!!!
I'm not touching this one!
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Post by rosyred45 on Nov 19, 2004 17:04:52 GMT -5
Wait, I knew I forgot something. Mikey's dresser-neighbors that were moving My dresser--people I used to babysit for when I wasgrowing up Mike's dresser-----  ??we don't know Tara's dresser- same people that gave me mine towel dresser in our bathroom---found on the siode of the road with FREE on it, and it fit just right in hte back of our truck ;D Beautiful early 19th century we believe--WITH A MIRROR. Dressmaker sewing Machine-friends MIL was getting rid of it. 2 book shelves---guys looking for directions to the dump and we helped them not take as much  Our favorite bookshelves? Dressers we got rid of but not the drawers---take off the hardware and stand it upright---perfect book shelf ;D Christy, how come you don't want to touch this one? (not trying to be offensive to anyone, all in good clean fun, because Lord KNOWS we don't have the money to buy all this crap new  ) Oh and to update you all, I had to buy heating oil.... 150 gallons for $289.50 :oWe are NOT heating a barn though, oh wait, the kids think we do  |
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Post by ohmama on Nov 20, 2004 13:31:35 GMT -5
When I was first getting started on my own I went to the rich neighborhoods on garbage day with my boyfriend who had a pick up truck. Back in those days people would put old furniture out on the curb to be picked up. This was in the L. A. and Hollywood area. Now everything goes in a large flip top green plastic garbage container so you couldn't do it these days.
It was great, I furnished my whole appartment and never spent a dime! You wouldn't believe what rich people would throw away.
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Post by camismom on Nov 20, 2004 20:50:10 GMT -5
I'm not touching it because I could in no way compete. hehe No offense taken.
Glad to hear you got some heating oil... even though it was so expensive.
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Post by tridlette on Nov 21, 2004 10:44:07 GMT -5
Christy, no harm in being thrifty!
I have a really great talent for falling into thrift.
For my wedding... I had my BF, the florist, make the bouquets for a wedding gift. I bought the silks, and she arranged them all. She couldn't afford any other gift, and being that I got married the day before mother's day, she couldn't take the day off to be in the wedding.
The wedding cake, I swindled my sisters BIL the pastry chef into giving as a gift!
The video, I bought DH a fancy camera, and talked his BIL into using it (he was a photographer before he got married!) BIL was career Military, so I got him to wear his uniform, save the price of renting the suit. My Dad wouldn't hire a limo... he went to Enterprise and rented a dark Lincoln Sedan.
My sister ran the Community Center in town. She was my maid of honor. Since she was soooo "stressed" about the wedding, she took the week off, so she closed the building for her vacation... She couldn't charge a room rental fee if the building was closed, so we got the Ballroom for free! Another of her BIL's ran a liquor store... we got cheap kegs of beer.
Since she ran the building with the ballroom, she called all the local caterers and offered them a deal... you cut my sister a good deal, and I'll steer renters to your catering business. I got a Roast Beef dinner for $8/plate!
Our priest got removed 2 weeks before the wedding, so the church tried to double the fee to have a substitute come in... but we found a co-worker of DH that was ordained as a Catholic Deacon. We had a ceremony in the church... no mass... and we didn't have to pay the "customary fee"... the guy just requested an invitation for his wife and asked us to pay for their babysitter... it was a cheap date for them!
And my favorite cheap wedding trick... I bought a pair of pretty Nurse Mate shoes, and broke them in at work for two weeks before the wedding, then wore them for another 3 years, until my pregnant feet got to big and puffy to fit in them anymore!
When my sister got married a year later, she used my veil... not one of those things that the snobs in town would bother to check out as a hand me down. She also wore my great grandmother's shoes (they were the only two people who would fit a size 4 shoes)
It isn't cheap, it's THRIFTY!
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Post by rosyred45 on Nov 21, 2004 19:23:58 GMT -5
SIZE 4 I aint seen a size 4 in I don't know how long Heck we planned our wedding in 2 weeks..... Total $125 including the fees for the blood tests, my "gown" and 2 12 packs of Coors light and Budweiser |
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Post by tridlette on Nov 21, 2004 19:46:44 GMT -5
Heck we planned our wedding in 2 weeks..... Total $125 including the fees for the blood tests, my "gown" and 2 12 packs of Coors light and Budweiser I married a full blooded Irish Catholic from Boston... 2 KEGS of Budweiser wouldn't have begun to cover the first HOURS! |
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Post by mothercat on Nov 21, 2004 20:25:59 GMT -5
We done it the easy way..I only spent 65$ on the dress. We got married in a meadow and actually made family and friends walk three blocks into the field to the exact spot we had chosen...(yeah they were so thrilled) Then we slipped out of the reception..(my lil sis made the cake for a grade in her cake decorating classs..it was free) I changed out of my dress into jeans in the car going down the highway. We spent a weekend at a hotel( in a town where bobo had played a gig once) where I made friends with a couple of doberman guard dogs and pissed of the stablishment. (back when I drank) Enough champaigne and dobies do really resemble poodles to me. (I no longer drink.)
A nice couple at the hotel celebrating their 25th paid for our room as a wedding gift. Yeah I am cheap.
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Post by StrugglingAgain on Nov 21, 2004 20:36:52 GMT -5
BOY, do I need all of you. I just sat through an hour of American Dream and cried all the way through it because one of the stars came home from VietNam. I cried an hour LAST Sunday because he WENT. Now I read this thread and laugh...thanks! BUT, all of you HAVE TO BE KIDDING!!!! !!! WOW! Are you all telling the truth or am I a sucker for believing all you've said? |
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Post by tridlette on Nov 22, 2004 9:25:32 GMT -5
BUT, all of you HAVE TO BE KIDDING!!!! !!! WOW! Are you all telling the truth or am I a sucker for believing all you've said? Sorry, but TRUTH is stranger than fiction! And more fun too! I once got stopped for running a red light... the cop asked me why, so I told him... I started to sneeze and I couldn't keep my eyes open when I sneezed, so by the time the sneeze was done, the light had turned yellow and I was too close to stop safely. He laughed and told me that no one could make up such a stupid story, so he let me go with just a warning! |
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Post by camismom on Nov 22, 2004 10:36:53 GMT -5
Well, when it comes to weddings, I guess I can compete some in thriftyness. Andy and I got married in my daddy's yard. I did buy my dress but found it on sale at Gayfers and got a good deal. My stepmom has a good friend that's good at making cakes so she got her to make it as a gift for us and favor for her. I had gotten this gift certificate thing in the mail from a florist that just openend giving you $100.00 towards arrangements. Since it was such a small wedding, and a second for each of us, we didn't go all out in flowers, so I was able to get my and my moh's bouquet as well as dh's and bestman's boutineere and my mom and stepmom's corsage for just over the $100.00. Then of course my stepmom, aunts, and sister made all the food for the reception. We rented a few chairs and an archway from a rental place and placed a ficus tree daddy had behind the archway along with a couple of my sm's pretty ferns beside it. For our honeymoon we got two nights free of charge in a log cabin in nearby Pine Mountain in trade for dh putting a billboard up for the man that owns the log cabin.
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Post by vickilyn32 on Nov 22, 2004 15:51:28 GMT -5
Here is our wedding, Minister $20 donation, Elks club free (dad was the head elk or whatever it was called) Organist= wedding present, cake= wedding present, band=wedding present, rings=dad fixed jewelers car/jeweler gave dad gift cert to thank him/dad gave gift cert to us, car w/driver=wedding present, tape=friend, flowers=wedding present, dress last years rack at dress store 70% off. DH and I lived together for 2 years before we got married, so we did not need anything for the house, everyone had something they could do for the wedding instead. We did have to pay for the food and drinks. Also DH has a knack for finding things people are getting rid of. We have an extra couch and dresser in our garage that we dont have room for in the house. If he keeps bringing home stuff, we wont have room for us. ;D |
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