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Nov 30, 2021
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ChadFromCougarTown
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One of 8 kids, regular dishes in the dinner rotation included:
1. Spam and Rice
2. Campbell’s Cream of Tuna soup on toast
3. String bean casserole
On vacation we’d roll through McDonald’s and get 16 hamburgers, 4 fries, 4 drinks and 4 spare cups.
We were not poor by the way.
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Cheapest things your parents did while you were growing up to save money?
wannnacruise
11/30/21 9:30am
Powdered milk. Barf.
Blueto
11/30/21 9:31am
Ya, that was a traumatizing money saver. It was like dirty water.
Marc Spector
11/30/21 9:33am
I distinctly remember going to a friend's house and trying real milk for the
Blueto
11/30/21 9:35am
When my mother mixed imitation milk and powdered milk 1/2 and 1/2...
lbmango
11/30/21 9:35am
My parents did something like that but wasn’t Hawaii. “It tastes the same.”
Jay_L
11/30/21 9:37am
Yep. One of the daily evening chores was mixing the milk. Or, warm milk on the morning cereal. Oh, and no “sugared”
valcorger
11/30/21 9:44am
and cloth diapers
RockyBalboa
11/30/21 9:45am
Yuk. Those are soooooo nasty. Blech.
Marc Spector
11/30/21 9:48am
That stuff was the worst.
justAnotherCoug
11/30/21 9:54am
I'm still not a big milk fan, and I wonder if that is why.
ochobeeguy
11/30/21 10:24am
My Dad would get us to bring powdered milk from home when we went to IHOP so he
irmocoug
11/30/21 10:59am
Kept the heat at 62 in the winter, no air conditioning.
sortsol
11/30/21 9:31am
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Buffalo
11/30/21 9:32am
Didn't start us in private school until kindergarten age
Non-mo Coug
11/30/21 9:32am
My mom never let us get a drink other than water at fast food restaurants.
markis_cougarfan
11/30/21 9:33am
Ouch. That would make for a less fun childhood.
TNT
11/30/21 9:33am
You got to go to fast food restaurants?
No touching
11/30/21 9:36am
Only on special occasions if we got a gift card from someone.
markis_cougarfan
11/30/21 9:37am
We went about twice a year. We thought McDonalds was the most special, magical place.
KingDave
11/30/21 9:40am
Growing up we got to pick where to eat out on our birthday. We'd all choose
markis_cougarfan
11/30/21 9:43am
Same with us
Doctor Rosenrosen
11/30/21 9:45am
Its right up there with Disney World in July.
Pangare
11/30/21 9:57am
We normally don't buy drinks...but with fast food combos there really is no diff
Fdnman
11/30/21 9:49am
I don't do that for health reasons ... I don't want my kids growing up thinking
runnincoug
11/30/21 9:52am
Oh I totally agree, and my wife and I do the same thing with our kids.
markis_cougarfan
11/30/21 9:58am
Ha, yes, the promise of future rewards for current abstinence is hard for kids
runnincoug
11/30/21 11:29am
I still do that.
ochobeeguy
11/30/21 10:24am
Fired the butler so they wouldn't have to pay a Christmas bonus.
Faceman
11/30/21 9:33am
My best friends dad loved getting toilet papered because he would reuse it.
fiberpost
11/30/21 9:33am
AC and Heat. Their net worth is 10 mil + and they still won't turn on
Chefcurry
11/30/21 9:34am
Well now that frugality will eventually accrue to you.
Coach's Dad
11/30/21 9:53am
So you are on Cougarboard, aren't you Dad?
Chefcurry
11/30/21 9:59am
If I was, I certainly wouldn't pay to be a subscriber.
Coach's Dad
11/30/21 10:24am
I was the last child, my parents were over bring frugal and spent money like crazy
JOPE
11/30/21 9:34am
Follow up to my own post - I remember several times going to Five Guys
wannnacruise
11/30/21 9:35am
One of 8 kids, regular dishes in the dinner rotation included:
ChadFromCougarTown
11/30/21 9:36am
You win. That sounds horrible.
fulano
11/30/21 9:46am
Our eating out was 8 whoppers and 8 waters (only when whoppers were .$99)
Pangare
11/30/21 10:00am
Sleeping bags on the hotel floor
stealth
11/30/21 9:36am
You stayed in hotels? We only camped and stayed with relatives.
Kilgore Trout
11/30/21 9:38am
Scout cots work well for this also 🙂
Fdnman
11/30/21 9:42am
Haha we do this now. I don't consider myself poor.
pinolero
11/30/21 10:13am
Hotels? What a humblebrag.
ochobeeguy
11/30/21 10:26am
My dad would bring a slice of cheese to Carl's Jr. to turn a hamburger
Rhubarb
11/30/21 9:40am
Big brain thinking right there
wannnacruise
11/30/21 9:41am
I’ve done it too. I ain’t paying a buck for a cheese slice that costs 5 cents
Bovine University
11/30/21 9:52am
Parents would let us theater hop ie drop us off at theater we would pay for 1
brick oven
11/30/21 9:42am
They encouraged their kids to steal movies to save money? That is odd
fulano
11/30/21 9:43am
didn't say they encouraged only allowed us as kids to do it
brick oven
11/30/21 9:45am
so the kids paid for the first movie themselves?
fulano
11/30/21 9:47am
yes I would pay for my movie and then see 2 movies(matinee price was $3)
brick oven
11/30/21 9:52am
Margarine instead of butter. I ate about 46 rolls at my grandma's house once and
fulano
11/30/21 9:42am
We almost never stayed in a hotel. It was either camping or sleeping at a distance acquaintance’s house on their floor.
KingDave
11/30/21 9:43am
We built our own runway on our properties to avoid the outrageous airport fees.
Zaphod
11/30/21 9:43am
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seacougar
11/30/21 11:05am
Single ply toilet paper
SausageKing
11/30/21 9:45am
This is a scam. You end up using just as much. Unless you only go 1 square…
ochobeeguy
11/30/21 10:28am
not at my house. my family pulls until the roll reaches the ground.
Pangare
11/30/21 10:35am
We rarely ate out and when we did it was a cheap burger spot. Each of us would get our own burger, we’d share fries and
Zach Morris
11/30/21 9:46am
My parents took us to drive by Disneyland just so we could see what it was like. At least we had the beach
Odysseus
11/30/21 9:47am
My mom washed and reused Ziploc bags LOL
BYU Grounds
11/30/21 9:54am
Beat me to it by seconds!
CougaRR4L
11/30/21 9:55am
My mom washed and saved bread bags too.
fulano
11/30/21 9:56am
we used those in our boots in the winter to keep our feet dry LOL
BYU Grounds
11/30/21 10:01am
same. That was her main reason for saving them! I would tell her...those make my
fulano
11/30/21 10:04am
You guys had store bought bread?
ochobeeguy
11/30/21 10:32am
Store bought bread was cheap except for Wonder Bread. Moms home made bread was
BYU Grounds
11/30/21 10:36am
I still do that.
JuicyJam
11/30/21 10:00am
Yup. I washed a lot of ziploc bags growing up
justAnotherCoug
11/30/21 11:17am
My wife still does that today
Fdnman
12/1/21 5:17am
Reused ziplock bags, including those stained by spaghetti sauce etc.
CougaRR4L
11/30/21 9:54am
Went on vacation, Ate $1 Burger King whoppers for about every single meal.
Fly'n Cougar
11/30/21 10:00am
I remember mom adding water to the milk to make it 'stretch' till payday
Pangare
11/30/21 10:03am
Kept all the condiments packets
Samsonite
11/30/21 10:03am
Mixed milk with the eggnog and added extra can of H2O to frozen OJ concentrate.
ReyOso
11/30/21 10:13am
All of our bowl were margarine containers
bubbastats
11/30/21 10:14am
My mom saved the Kraft cheese glass containers as shot glasses for OJ
BYU Grounds
11/30/21 10:15am
This thread is very enlightening and entertaining.. For better or worse I can't
cougfanz
11/30/21 10:14am
Oh man, I currently do a lot of these things. Not sure if I should feel proud or
pinolero
11/30/21 10:15am
Nobody seems to be presenting this as worst childhood ever, so it's probably ok.
ochobeeguy
11/30/21 10:30am
Unless you are mixing powered and real milk-- then you are a monster.
CougaRR4L
11/30/21 11:04am
LOL that is what my parents did, until my older brothers kept drinking the whole
BYU Grounds
11/30/21 12:10pm
To my parents defense or credit, they were children of the Depression. My dad..
BYU Grounds
11/30/21 10:24am
My grandparents were just like this so many of those habits passed
CougaRR4L
11/30/21 11:18am
When we got McDonald’s, we had a choice between the double cheeseburger and spicy chicken because they were each a
vegasnative
11/30/21 10:41am
Many of the above practices were do to what our mothers and wives learned
calblue
11/30/21 10:43am
Just thought of one, my parents would make some hamburger out of deer or elk
pinolero
12/1/21 7:26am
Oh, 100% this happened at my house
justAnotherCoug
12/1/21 10:34am
I must admit, the best goulash I ever had was made with moose meat
Fdnman
12/1/21 10:48am
I learned this morning that my wife's parents made their six children share
Cachanilla83
12/1/21 8:44am
We used already used advent calendars... no chocolate to be had.
justAnotherCoug
12/1/21 10:35am
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