Top 100 Signs That You Are On A Budget

[was]

...With holiday expenses coming up, this might be a fun question.

1. You wear clothes longer betwen washes.

2. You recycle grocery bags as garbage bags.

3. You count every square of toilet paper that you use.

 

[delericho]

4. You dress the help in off-the-rack clothes rather than bespoke.

 

[Dioltach]

2. You recycle grocery bags as garbage bags.

I do this all the time: paper bags for separating paper, plastic bags for separating plastic. It makes sense.

 

[Janx]

5. Ketchup = spaghetti sauce

 

[was]

5. Ketchup = spaghetti sauce

...Collecting those ketchup packets is a must. It's also not bad on frozen burritos. If you mix in a little horseradish, you get a cheap cocktail sauce that's good on fishsticks.

 

[Eltab]

3. You count every square of toilet paper that you use.

eewwwwwwwwwww ...

6. You look in the 'Discount' racks, not the 'Just Arrived'

7. On a budget for time: you give a lot of gift cards because finding 'just the right thing' takes so long.

8. You ask everybody to give you cash for your birthday - and use THAT to Christmas shop.

9. Somebody got a gift worth $3.72

9b. No dollar bills were used in the purchase of this gift.

10 Nobody got a gift worth more than $20

11. Your "to buy" list never has anything get crossed off.

12. It took two years before "Santa" could get you the D&D Starter Set.

13. Your gift list this year looks like the bottom half of last year's gift list.

14. Most of your receipts are from Family Dollar, Dollar Tree, and Below Five.