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Thread of CHEAP Alight, since the economy is pretty shits still and our city is getting raped up the ass in living expenses, lets hear of the ways you guys save money aka BE CHEAP. I'm not talking about riding the skytrain for free obviously but legal ways to do things for less. Here's my trick i learned from a friend: if you live near a food asian food court, ie. richmond public market, and dont mind eating chinese food everyday, you can get those lunch specials for $5 to take out. Usually its either 2 or 3 items + rice, but some places if you tell them you dont want rice, they give you an extra item, but almost all places pack way more meat/vegies when you tell them you dont want rice. Then when you get home, cook your own rice and that $5 take out of 2/3 items will last you both lunch AND dinner. Make some seaweed or canned soup and your set for the meal. $5 + $2 for soup + rice = $7 a day for food (if you dont each breakfast) anyone else? :D |
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if you do shopping at costco and live with a room mate or two your meals are almost under 5$ a day and its all huge meals. if you can actually cook eating is extremely cheap |
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^^ once again you can freeze things like meat which are the main thing in all meals and they will keep in the freezer for your food for the whole month, only things you need to go to the store again are for small cheaper things such as milk or vegtables. |
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my mind is too quick for my fingers =P |
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dude just cross the border and shop at the walmart in bellingham |
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wow i've never tried to squeeze so much out of a 5 dollar RPM lunch but this cooking rice at home idea is definitely worth trying... altho i don't trust RPM that much... bad parking and hella dirty, i usually go yaohan |
My family (my twin brother and myself-HS students, single parent), tends to buy shit in bulk. For lunches, we eat basically those pizza pockets or the burger patties you can easily cook in the morning. We cook a lot for dinner so that way we can repeat the meal we had last night for breakfast. I've recently decided to buy more canned meat so I can fry it up and eat it with rice for cheap. We can't eat out often unless my mom is feeling lazy and doesn't want to cook. |
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I don't know about you guys, but I would rather eat healthy than save like $2/meal. I think a big saver is making your own coffee, or watching hockey games at a friends house instead of the bar. |
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turn down your furnace turn off your tv get rid of tv subscriptions turn ur backyard into a greenhouse/farm raise sows/chickens .slaughter and freeze ride a bike and take the bus dont buy insurance(life.car.dental as examples) don't go to the gym,restaurants,shopping centers instead go to the park, ur friends house, and the library |
I'm a university student, so I basically need a constant flow of caffeine running through my system. The best way that I've found to cheap out for coffee is to get a starbucks card, register it, then use your own mug to get a TALL coffee. After your first coffee all subsequent refills FOR THE DAY AT THE SAME STARBUCKS will be free. Plus, using your own mug at starbucks saves you $0.15. Using this method, around exam times I've been able to squeeze out 5 mugs of coffee for under $2. Not bad if you ask me..:) |
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