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Do not try to test them for yourself: save your wallet and nerves!
When finances sing romances, we all have to sacrifice something. Some cut the budget for recreation and entertainment, others buy a bike hoping to stop spending on gasoline for cars, others go on an unplanned diet … However, there are also unique people who simply go crazy and come up with “amazing” ways to save. And it turns out as the saying goes – the miser pays twice.
General means no one
The most dubious way to save money is to take someone else’s. We are talking about such options as unwinding toilet paper in the office and shopping centers, pouring liquid soap from the same places into your bottle, taking air fresheners, taking home shared corporate tea / coffee / sugar. Such savings can lead to fines, scandals and simply a damaged reputation. Anyway, it’s a shame.
DIY fix
A loose heel or a burst lining on a jacket can, of course, be repaired by yourself. Provided that you have certain skills in this matter. Otherwise, these savings will cost you even more money. After all, the master will not only have to repair the thing, but also eliminate the consequences of your inept interference.
Low cost repair
When you start renovating a house, there is always a temptation to do with a little blood. There, to buy tiles cheaper, simplify the technology there, so that it would be faster and not so expensive, not to invite a designer, but to throw a plan by eye, not to call a master, but to master the skills of a painter-plasterer. However, there are things to be repaired that cannot be saved on. Otherwise, you will have to redo everything. Or start another repair much faster than we would like.
Promotional products
Sometimes this is justified – when a promotion is announced for long-term storage products, besides, what you really need. And products with a 50 percent discount and a “Pay attention to expiration date” sticker are a lottery. Much depends on the storage conditions: if everything was right, then the product remains fresh even after the period indicated on the package. But, as practice shows, these very conditions are often violated. And having brought home milk “at a discount”, you can find that it sour even before the announcement of the action. And the expiration date has not yet been formally released. Not to mention such cases when the stock price is also overpriced.
Lunch at the supermarket
It seems wild, but some people practice this: tasting food in stores. There you can drag a candy, there is a cookie – consider that you already have something to drink tea with at work. No wonder, after all, in supermarkets you can often find ads asking you not to try products before you pay for them at the checkout. They did not appear from scratch, namely because of such cases – some even manage to bite apples.
Was disposable – now reusable
Our mothers washed and dried plastic bags, and it is customary to laugh at this habit of people not spoiled by the good life. But now all kinds of things are not being reused! Paper towels, cotton pads – you can turn the other side! – napkins in rolls, even cloth face masks. Questionable savings in terms of hygiene.
Scandalous savings
Getting a favor and making a scandal in order not to pay is one of the most terrible and stupid ways to save money. Imitating finding a hair in a bowl of soup in a restaurant, throwing a tantrum that a haircut is ugly and you didn’t ask so briefly – all this is a saving technique for those who are not afraid of the law of the return of the boomerang! And, in fact, how much can you save on this? Walking and making trouble in restaurants three times a day is difficult even for the most mentally tough nut to crack.
On hygiene products
“Our mothers and grandmothers had no Olweiss or Tampaxes!” – this is what the girls are guided by, who, instead of purchased funds, use sheets, gauze with cotton wool, rags of fabric these days. They overlook the fact that this is inconvenient, unhygienic and ridiculous.
You can also use a disposable razor until it gets rusty, change your toothbrush once a year, buy one bottle of gel “for everything”, get a haircut in an indistinct hairdresser in the basement on the corner, and buy beauty products in the “All for 49,90” stores. … It seems that it is not even necessary to clarify why this is stupid.
To health
Wait in line for a free ultrasound scan for a month, and then discover that during this time the disease has progressed at a considerable pace, delay the visit to the dentist and lose teeth, buy a cheaper analogue at the pharmacy, which will give you such side effects that you want to die – you need to very much not love yourself to use such saving methods. But you value yourself, don’t you?