Tightwad Kings & Queens

Came across a very interesting (hilarious in some places, and downright nasty in some) article in Red Eye, one of Chicago's commuter news sources.

The article was on some of the penny pinching techniques used by some people here in the US.

The Classics:

• Buy two-ply toilet paper and separate the plies byhand into two rolls.
• Driving 3 miles out of your way to save 5 cents per gallon on gasoline. (Either you dont make a difference, or you lose more, depending on the consumption of your car!)

The Hilarious:

• Use same coffee filter for a week.
• Place a spent tube of toothpaste between the bathroom door, and shut the door. Squeeze the last bit of paste onto your toothbrush.
• Cut up used rubber dishwashing glove to use as rubber bands.
  

The Ugh:

• Reuse toothpicks/dental floss. Some misers have indeed claimed to wash off and hang up used dental floss in the bathroom for reuse.

And we thought America was the country that generated the world's largest amount of garbage.
Where would this country be, if not for the Tightwad Kings & Queens, I wonder !

Long Live the Tightwads !!!

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This is such an awesome smart ass/witty/double entendre joke, that I had to share.

A man visits his doc.

Man: "Doc, my wife and I already have 9 kids. And she's pregnant again. What do I do to stop the stork?"

Doc: "Shoot it in the air !!!"