Extreme Cheapskates on TLC- Page 2

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 1/11/12 at 9:34pm

And some sauce that expired 3 years ago...

I'm sure when the parents whose kids they were watching watched this show and saw they fed their children three year old spaghetti sauce and expired cheese, their little babysitting circle came to an abrupt end.

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 1/11/12 at 9:41pm

Really-I'm also wondering if Child Protection will be stopping by.

Oh and I found out from a friend who works in grocery. It is illegal to sell foods that say "Use By" or "Expires" however you can sell foods that say "Best By", "For Best Taste Use By", "Guaranteed Fresh Until"...you get the idea. If there is not a terminal end date, second hand retailers can sell them.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 1/11/12 at 10:34pm

Nothing makes me more uncomfortable than someone standing in front of me and singing at me. I'd have given him a cake to shut him up, too.

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 1/12/12 at 5:28pm

Actually if someone was smart, they could really challenge the bartering cheapskate. I'd say, "come in back, take off your pants and f@#k the donut you want to eat. Whichever one you screw, you eat. Sound like a plan?"

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 1/12/12 at 5:30pm

Yeah, make him glaze it himself!

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 1/12/12 at 5:36pm

Also, his intro lines were so cheesy, "Do you like poems?" I'd say "No, but I like desperate straight boys with tight bodies."

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 1/12/12 at 5:37pm

Ask him if he wants to glaze your donut hole.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 10/17/12 at 12:36pm

Did you guys know this was back? There were two new ones on last night (they repeated this first one, too). I only watched one, and while I want to believe this can't be on the level, I was really really icked out by the woman called Kate who lives in New York. She had people over for dinner and served them food she got in a dumpster.

[AC126748]

Posted: 10/17/12 at 12:48pm

I haven't watched the show personally because the very premise makes my skin crawl. But I read an article about it and the lengths to which some people will go to save a buck truly horrifies me. A woman urinates into a jar instead of using her toilet because it saves her $2 a month (TWO BUCKS!) on her water bill. The guy who, on the rare occasion that he takes his family out to eat, goes to a Chinese buffet and then makes his kids share plates. The guy who (as previously mentioned) uses Goodwill as his dry cleaning service (talk about something that just seems so blatantly unethical). Gah.....what a freak show.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 10/17/12 at 12:55pm

Yeah, the lady on the new one last night uses reused paper towels (when she washes her hands in a public restroom she takes the towel with her, because all she did was rub her clean hands on it) to wipe up her pee and and soap and water to clean up her poo!

[Marianne2]

Posted: 10/17/12 at 1:32pm

I didn't know it was back. Will try to watch it when it's on again. Anderson Cooper had some of these people on his afternoon show. The one guy from there washes his clothing in the shower. Not hand washing. He wore them in the shower and rubbed soap all of them and I guess took a shower at the same time. Then he would be gross and return this stuff to the stores because he would leave the tags on them. Eww!

[californiasnow]

Posted: 10/17/12 at 3:04pm

I saw that segment on Anderson as well. When I worked at Target in college, we used to get people returning clothes that they had bought weeks earlier and had obviously worn. I'm talking about people returning pants where they had clearly had um, an "accident" or two. It was pretty nasty.