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The most FRUGAL thing you've done/did in your day?
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<blockquote data-quote="GoingNorth" data-source="post: 737360" data-attributes="member: 1963"><p>This isn't frugal for the sake of being frugal (or cheap); this is just plain very poor.</p><p></p><p>Dumpster diving. Mostly my husband, who luckily, due to his certifications, knew what food was safe and what wasn't. </p><p></p><p>I used to go with to help load stuff and keep a lookout for the cops and store personnel. </p><p></p><p>I still remember the cold, sleeting December day he came home with a ham...and a 4 week old kitten. The ham I was thrilled about. The kitten not so much.</p><p></p><p>She grew up to be the first cat we raised together. He found her, in a bag with 4 siblings dead of exposure/starvation, in a plastic bag in the same dumpster in which he found the ham. The kittens were Manx-type with varying lengths of tails (our baby had about 2/3 of a tail). The ham had been discarded because some hapless butcher clerk had cut it on a slant instead of straight across, and in addition it was a bit raggedy.</p><p></p><p>We ate like royalty, and courtesy of freezer, had yummy legume soups for weeks off of that ham and its bone.</p><p></p><p>That was when I became aware of how much perfectly good food gets thrown out because it isn't perfect.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoingNorth, post: 737360, member: 1963"] This isn't frugal for the sake of being frugal (or cheap); this is just plain very poor. Dumpster diving. Mostly my husband, who luckily, due to his certifications, knew what food was safe and what wasn't. I used to go with to help load stuff and keep a lookout for the cops and store personnel. I still remember the cold, sleeting December day he came home with a ham...and a 4 week old kitten. The ham I was thrilled about. The kitten not so much. She grew up to be the first cat we raised together. He found her, in a bag with 4 siblings dead of exposure/starvation, in a plastic bag in the same dumpster in which he found the ham. The kittens were Manx-type with varying lengths of tails (our baby had about 2/3 of a tail). The ham had been discarded because some hapless butcher clerk had cut it on a slant instead of straight across, and in addition it was a bit raggedy. We ate like royalty, and courtesy of freezer, had yummy legume soups for weeks off of that ham and its bone. That was when I became aware of how much perfectly good food gets thrown out because it isn't perfect. [/QUOTE]
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