Refillable water and 8 more crazy ways to save money

1. Army shower

Steph washes the children herself. But her husband washes under the control of a baby monitor. The system is as follows: turned on the water, got wet, turned off the water. Lather – turned on the water and washed off the foam. It just shouldn’t take longer for the water to pour. Otherwise Stephanie will hear and there will be a scandal. The maximum time per person when you can pour water is 2 minutes.

2. Refillable water

It’s disgusting, but where to go. Stephanie cooks side dishes – pasta, potatoes, etc. – from day to day in the same water. That is, it drains the pasta water not into the sink, but into a bowl. He puts it in the refrigerator and takes it out the next time he cooks something. “This is how I save water,” she explains.

3. Leftovers are edible

If suddenly someone has ketchup or mayonnaise on their plate, the sauces are sent back to the jars. “It will come in handy next time,” the woman says. She is not joking: for the guests whom her husband called, she prepared lasagna with these scraps. By the way, unfinished juice will also not go down the sink, but back into the package.

4. Gasoline in a measuring cup

Stephanie has a huge family jeep. And instead of changing the car for a small car, it saves gasoline by using accurate counting: it calculates how much gasoline is needed for a trip, and pours exactly as much fuel into the tank with a measuring cup as needed for this distance. In the car, Stephanie does not hold anything extra to make it easier.

5. Bananas without skins

It is unknown how she manages to pull off such tricks in the supermarket, but Stephanie only buys edible portions of the groceries. For example, she picks the grapes from the tassels in order to pay only for the berries. And he peels bananas before weighing them.

6. One lamp for the whole house

When it gets dark, the light can only be turned on in one room. Because there is only one light bulb. If Stephanie moves from room to room, she drags the lamp with her and twists it into the desired lamp.

7. Measuring syringe

“The manufacturers of detergents are deceiving us,” Stephanie is sure. To protect herself from deception, she measures the amount of detergent required for washing with a syringe. And pours these pitiful drops into the machine.

8. Cotton wool from the dryer

Stephanie does not save on the dryer, although the laundry could dry on the street. But after drying the laundry, the pressed fibers of the fabric remain inside the unit. Stephanie uses them instead of cotton wool – removes makeup, nail polish. Saving!

9. Don’t watch ads

If you are watching a movie and it is suddenly interrupted by a commercial, the TV should be turned off. Yes, even if you are watching football, not movies, and not alone, but with friends. “I was on my knees begging Stephanie to let me invite guests. She hates it when someone comes to us. Then I regretted it. I was ashamed in front of my friends, ”explains Patrick.

10. Used oil

Yes, you got it right. If something was fried, then the oil should not be poured out. You need to carefully pour it back into the bottle: so that the carbon deposits and sediment remain at the bottom, and the relatively clean oil will work the next time. It’s better not to imagine what Stephanie’s cooking smells like.

Bonus: Stephanie’s Lasagna Recipe

First you need to find an ancient piece of ground beef in the freezer. It won’t be enough for lasagna, so you need to buy another kilogram of beef fat. If you mix the fat with the minced meat, you get the filling for the lasagna. Spice it up with tomato sauce left over from family dinners, wrap it well in foil and put it in the dishwasher. Yes, Stephanie doesn’t use the oven, but cooks while the dishwasher is running. “The lasagna will be ready in an hour and a half,” Steph assures us. And thank God that her guests did not know about it.

By the way, this is not the only insanely frugal mother of a family in the world. You can read about how a woman who spends 900 rubles a month on food lives here.