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What "frugal" tricks have you found to just not be worth it, either in time or money? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've noticed sometimes that there's some half-baked videos or blogs or whatever that purport this or that frugal trick, but if you look at the time or math, it's not actually frugal for you.

What are some examples of that you've come across? The things that "aren't worth it"?

For me it's couponing. (Although I haven't heard people talk about it recently--has it fallen out of "style", or have businesses caught up to the loopholes folks used to exploit?)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Using things outside of their intended purposes. I live in a gated community with my folks. Our house borders an apartment complex community, the border is a fence followed by a hedge in our backyard. We have several fruit trees in our backyard including avocados and mangoes. During fruiting season, avocados will drop and fall over the fence. My mom uses a pvc pipe with a kitchen knife taped to one end to use as a spear to retrieve avocados over the fence on the other community's side. 5+ kitchen knives have been broken by doing this. I recently bought a 30ft fruit picker to collect fruit before they drop, so hopefully that helps to alleviate the problem.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

frugal

> cant ask neighbors to come in and pick their avocados
> uses spears instead

no, that's not frugality, those are signs of mental ineptitude

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I should have clarified. She wants to retrieve her avocados that have fallen over the other community's side.

Here's a picture of the fence and hedge.

Here's a picture of our tree.