I am so cheap that......

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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(Okay, I’m a Yankee, so make that frugal)
Right now the day-by-day watch I wear cost a big $5. It’s not even a Timex. Maybe it’s a knockoff of a Timex. It’s original price was $20, but I picked it up on clearance. Hey, it’s got a stretchy wristband, two hands, numbers on the dial, and it keeps accurate time – What else do you need? Heck, all by itself it probably keeps me from being mugged. :cool:

The watch actually ran long enough for the battery to die, so I got a replace battery for $3.15 at Radio Shack.

(Cheap, yes, that’s not the spectacularly cheap part, wait for it.)

Within two days of getting the new battery, the little knobbie thing that let you adjust the time came unsoldered from the internal stem. Normally not a big problem since the watch keeps good time, but this was just a few weeks before the end of daylight savings time. Dang.

So, did I buy a new watch? Hell, no. That would mean I wasted a whole $3 buying the new battery. Instead, on the day you change the clock – here it comes –

** I took the battery out of the watch, waited for 11 hours, and put it back.**

:smiley: So, tell me of the weirdest expression of cheap-assedness, er, frugality you ever committed.

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And…

since the watch was still running when Fall came around, I did it again! (Only needed to have the battery out for one hour, that time.)
And if it’s still running come April…

:smiley:

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Well, I tried to cut my dog’s hair myself once because I didn’t want to spend the $50 to have it done.

Then I realized I would have to deal with his blocked butt glands myself and the $50 seemed very reasonable.

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I’ll go you one better. When my watch of 10 years finally died a year and a half ago… I didn’t even replace it. I do not own a functional watch.

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I once had a “genuine Rolox” that cost me $5 in bali.

I love their misspellings.

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I’ll go you one better than that. I haven’t had a functional watch* for over 5 years now. When I want to see the time, I look at the time on my cell phone.

And btw, I think the OP’s work-around for daylight saving time is ingenious.

*last functional watch cost $20

hmm, maybe this is all a little TMI