If I had all the money I ever spent on lottery tickets… oh wait, I do. You can get better odds in Las Vegas, and that city was built on odds. You want 2 to 1 odds? Go to the racetrack, and you won’t get it there either. [More below the break.]
Category: Money Saving Hints
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Campus Bookstore Fail
There are exactly two books that I’m gonna pre-purchase with cash. Before I take them off the shelf they will have increased in value and I’ll sell them back at double what I paid for them.
Then I’ll do it again.
[Found here.]
Cool Crafts: AK47 Paper Model Kit
“Each AK-47 Paper Model Kit comes with all the materials and instructions to construct this amazingly life-like paper model of an AK-47.
PLEASE NOTE: This is a very detailed project, requiring some attention to detail and time.”
Paint it flat black and it’ll get you arrested in the daytime. At night, unarmed intruders will soil their chonies when they see the business end pointed in their direction. As for armed intruders, it’s kind of a death sentence… for you. It’s still cool, though, cuz u kn poze n stuf wit ur blng.
[Found here.]
Great Gift Ideas: Chess on a Budget
Kit includes (1) Sharpie Pen and (1) Deck of cards. Provides hours of head-scratching fun.
[Found in here.]
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Once a Babe Magnet, always a Babe Magnet.
What to do when your Babe Magnet bites the dust? Rent it out! Face it, there’s value in everything, and in this case, the upholstery still works.
Tattoo Mullet Ricky (as he’s known to locals) has made several economical improvements to his efficiency unit, adding solar screening to reduce the heat gain, and a semi-recessed composter for waste recycling.
His night job breaking down pallets for firewood gave him the idea to upgrade his living space. Now he can get a decent day’s sleep without being shooed from bus benches and dumpster enclosures. At night, he rents out the room to those less fortunate than he in exchange for something that kinda makes our skin crawl just to think about it.
No. Just because. It’s not right. No.
Bunk’s Money Saving Tips: ORIGAMI
Make your US Dollars worth much more than a Euro with these simple patterns. (Clicky on each image for more bigossifyingness.)
I don’t know the original source for these. They were emailed to me by friend Dan S, a civil engineer who had a lemon-sized tumor taken out of his noggin after he went under the knife for surgery a coupla years ago for a late-blooming congenital heart defect. True story, and he’s okay now.
Bunk’s Money Saving Tips: Toothpaste!
Some frugal folks simply amaze me with their ingenuity. What a money saver this is!
In order to make sure that no toothpaste is wasted, just freeze it, cut away the tube, dice it into individual servings. Put the single-serving cubes in a plastic bag and store them in the freezer until needed. When you’re ready to brush, just take one out, thaw it, and brush away! No wasted toothpaste EVER.
Finished product looks like this:
Colors may vary depending on what brand of toothpaste you freeze. For more efficiency you can number them. The ones below are scheduled for use during the month of June.
Send us photos of your toothpaste cubes and let us know how much money YOU saved by being frugal with toothpaste, and we’ll include them in a future post.
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