"Awa' n bile your head!"
Posted on 03/09/2021 9:36:05 PM PST by nickcarraway
A MAN goes to such extreme lengths to save money he even reuses his own mouthwash, with his wife branding him a total ‘cheapskate’.
Kristina and Mason Roberts, from the US, live on a strict budget, with Mason watching every single penny - which includes keeping tabs on his wife’s spending.
The pair appeared on TLC’s Extreme Cheapskates, with Mason revealing the shocking lengths he goes to to save 11p (15 cents).
He shows off a giant bottle of mouthwash to the camera, and after taking a swig he spits it into another bottle to save for later.
After doing the calculations, Mason said: “It just seemed like such a waste to only use mouthwash once when it’s antiseptic anyways.
“There’s 30 uses in that big mouthwash, and about 30 cents (22p) a use, but if I reuse it a second time that gets it down to 15 cents a use because I’ll have 60 uses.
“I just keep two bottles, one with the brand new stuff one with the once-used stuff.
“She doesn’t like to do what I do, but I think it’s great.”
He points out Kristina’s bottle of single-use mouthwash, as she said her husband ‘drives her crazy’ with his thrifty ways.
After popping out for a drink in town, Kristina gets a call from Mason, asking her why she’d just bought an iced tea at Coffee Time for £2.89 ($4).
He explained: “I have alerts that tell me whenever money is being spent on the credit or debit cards, so I can make sure Kristina’s not spending on on things that don’t really need to be bought."
Slamming her purchase, he tells her: “You could have bought a whole box of iced tea and it would have lasted the month for $4. We’ve talked about this frivolous spending.”
He claims they’re nearly out of money for the month, saying: “Kristina still has some lessons to learn about sticking to the budget.
“We’re almost maxed out on the budget for the month.”
But bizarrely Kristina reveals the pair aren’t hard-up, as they have a small fortune squirreled away, and blames Mason’s tight ways on his family.
She reveals: “The irony of the whole situation is that we don’t need to be this extreme. We have a good savings account.
“He’s very tight with the budget, the budget is the budget and that’s it.
“When it comes to anything regarding money he has tunnel vision and all he can see is the savings, and it’s maddening.”
Mason echoes that, saying if Kristina left to her own devices with spending, it would be an ‘ugly picture’.
He added: “I believe a budget is the budget, and when you get to the end of it you have to stop spending until your budget starts over, that’s how it works.”
But his cheapness was beginning to worry Kristina, after she revealed she couldn’t drive her car over safety fears.
“I don’t want to die because my husband is too cheap to fix my car”, she said.
When quizzed over why she was getting rides everywhere, Kristina fumed: “He knows why I won’t drive my car.
“When we went to pick it up after the oil change, and the guy said you need to fix the car, he said it was a safety issue.
“The mechanic said the car has issues and he won’t address them, he won't take it seriously, so it’s highly annoying. It's more than annoying, it's scary.”
Mason claims he knows ‘what needs to be done and what they’re trying to sell you’, but agrees to have his cousin Joe ‘come and look at it for free’.
As well as general spending, Mason saves money by on groceries too, after being given a shopping list from Kristina for chilli.
He says it ‘makes no sense’ and ‘expensive ingredients is a waste of money', as he ditches her list for cheaper alternatives, including discounted cheese.
While he even tries to buy some expired yoghurts, which the staff member tells him he’s ‘not allowed’ to sell him over health and safety issues.
Mason says rather than buying Kristina’s ingredients to make a ‘$100 pot of chilli’, he’s managed to spend only around $8 - and that involves ditching supermarket meat for cuts he’s hunted or fished himself.
He proudly said: “By hunting and fishing I estimate we save $600 to $700 a year in the cost of meat.”
But it doesn’t go down well with Kristina, who says: “I wish you could stop being so cheap and buy beef at the grocery store like everyone else.
“I’ve eaten so much venison, I’m sick of it.”
And this woman revealed she buys second-hand crusty thong from the thrift store to seduce her man.
While this woman who can’t afford a pair of Louboutin’s reveals her sneaky hack to recreate a pair on a budget.
Plus this man reveals he heats his food in the jacuzzi to save money - and even eats off meat.
Guy should marry Sheryl Crow. Tell her she’s being wasteful only using one square of toilet paper at a time. Tell her she should turn it over and use the other side next time.
What’s the policy on toilet paper, I wonder.
agree-he could rinse with water-add a little hydrogen peroxide if was being concerned about money-just sounds like a a control freak
What are they putting in the $100 pot of chili?
I bet he wouldn’t spare a square.
I use Smart Mouth mouthwash. And spit it in the sink. It’s expensive but lasts 12 hours and black coffee gives you garbage breath
Not sure about TP, but I’m guessing he is on his same roll of dental floss for the last 2 years.
Poor writing.
I know it an aussie who routinely crapped at work just to save a little money on toilet paper.
And they scrape the sludge out of beer vats, process it, can it, and convinced people it is a wonderful spread for their morning toast and tea.
“(I have my thermos filled with Folgers.)”
‘nuff said... you could start a coffee snob thread with that tidbit of info.
Oh, no, I thought they carefully, “reprocess”, the yeast extract...actually...if you check out the ingredients in many processed foods you will find yeast extract as an ingredient..it has that “umami” characteristic thingee.
Same frugal food usage as sausage...hot dogs..head cheese...tripe, chitlins, pig ears, ham hocks, fried brain, insects,birds nest soup, balut, fermented(almost rotten) dairy products...fermented grape juice, fish sauce, haggis, etc...
Why not dilute the mouthwash with a little water or use less of it. Can also use diluted hydrogen peroxide as a cheap alternative too. Reusing mouthwash is just disgusting and gross. Neurotic in miserliness.
Who reuses tea bags? Come on now...
At my place used tea bags are put in a container of water for use as a hair rinse post shampoo and then winds up in the compost pail. Seems to work well getting rid of shampoo scalp residue and free of chemicals found in commercial conditioners.
“By hunting and fishing I estimate we save $600 to $700 a year in the cost of meat.”
I’ve never dared to figure out what venison actually costs me per pound.
I dont spend a penny either that I dont have to, but what I consider necessary is way different than him.
He should just use hydrogen peroxide. Much cheaper.
Kristina gets a call from Mason, asking her why she’d just bought an iced tea at Coffee Time for £2.89 ($4).
That is a waste. That man needs to be put in charge of government purchasing
Now if you soaked the gum in the mouthwash overnight, you’d restore the flavor and get another full day out of it.
C’mon man, you gotta learn to be really cheap.
Not this guy.
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