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What is the most penny pinching thing you ever did?
#1
During college I was so poor I'd take the extra toilet paper rolls from restrooms at my university. When I was working serving shifts in my mid 20's I *definitely* took home people's leftovers. I mean, yeah, you can argue it's "unhygienic" or that you could get sick, but the risk to benefit ratio skewed highly in my favour, especially considering how good the food was. I wouldn't take scraps, but you'd be shocked at how many people will order entire plates of food and barely touch it. I ate like a king every work day, and often had leftovers for lunch. No regrets. Never got sick. Just had to avoid the manager seeing.



#2
With the current pandemic, I'm syphoning face masks from my office like nobody's business. It's supposed to be 1 mask per staff per day, but since office capacity has been reduced to 30%, and a lot of people are using their own, I took the most logical move and kept all the spare masks I could for my own.



#3
Refusing to buy drinks or snacks at a convenience store when i have both of those things at home.



#4
Back in hs I was on a verry difficult situation. I used to buy a single piece of bread for cents on the dolar, share it with a friend, and fill myself with water from the school water fountain.



#5
walking instead or riding the bus



#6
Not the biggest deal, but eating nothing but soup for a month. Saved so much moneu



#7
Fast and not eat to save enough money for school and investments