As I said yesterday, my cheapness is random and often inexplicable. Designer jeans? Yes. Venus razors? No.
In an attempt for you to save money for your jeans, or those hookers, or that nose job, here are some websites you may find useful:
The Culinary Review: It’s not the prettiest site out there, but what it lacks in looks it makes up in practicality. Recipes on here are broken down by cost and by calorie count, two things I greatly appreciate. General cost saving tips are also included; a great resource.
Google Recipes: This is a fantastic tool for figuring out what to make with the odds and ends in your kitchen. You enter ingredients and it pulls up a recipe that can be made with the components. As an example, I just looked in my fridge and found some bean sprouts, green onions and a few eggs. Egg Foo Young, Hot and Sour Soup and a mixed vegetable omelette were just a few of the suggestions listed.
All Recipes: All Recipes is a fairly run of the mill recipe site, but they have a few great sections including a whole section dedicated to cooking on a budget. Not quite as obvious, but just as cost effective: the section on cooking “dinner in a hurry”. Fast dinners generally mean limited ingredients, hence cheap. Plus, it has the added bonus of being a quick meal.
There are a ton more sites out there that give cost saving tips, but a lot of them are run by kooky fundamentalist Christian families with 17 children. Which, though I am sure they know how to save some money, they are also contributing to overpopulation, the depletion of our resources, a generation of undereducated children, and their fashion sense kills me. If savings come with a side dish of the Lord, I don’t want them. Find those sites on your own.
10:07 am on May 6th, 2008
thank you…cause i was stressed bout having to skimp on hookers this month!
xoxo
One should never have to skimp on hookers, dear…
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10:15 am on May 6th, 2008
A nice razor is a must. Luckily, I only shave my legs twice per year, so I don’t break the bank in defuzzing supplies.
Sometimes I splurge, but other days I just feel miserly. BJ and I were at Target recently and I bitched about the price of razors and then spent $$ on ANOTHER flat iron. I make no sense.
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10:20 am on May 6th, 2008
Yup, you can’t afford 5 diamonds with pocket change.
This google recipes thing doesn’t give me many options for ostrich.
Is this a song lyric, this 5 diamond saying? I am woefully unhip when it comes to the musical stylings of kids today.
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10:34 am on May 6th, 2008
So you don’t shave your legs at ALL? What do you do with that hair, braid it? Or are just not naturally hairy (for some reason I assumed you were italian-ish).
As for the religious nuts with all their kids, yeah, they are wacko and the last thing we should be doing is giving them TV shows and visiting their websites. It’s like buying guns for a crackhead…okay, maybe not exactly like that but you get my point…if I have one.
No, no I SHAVE. Every day. Just cheap razors. I am half French-half Polish, but have dark features. Yet, I am oddly kinda hairless…the hair on my arms is really light.
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10:53 am on May 6th, 2008
I’m gonna out my geekiness once again here, but the Google recipes is like the Sims! You look in the fridge and it tells you what you can cook based on ingredients! That’s so cool, thanks!
I am a geek inside too. Isn’t it fun!
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10:53 am on May 6th, 2008
Oh and I-66, ostrich is DELICIOUS. It’s like a low-fat steak.
I always eye the ostrich burger at Fuddrucker’s…
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10:59 am on May 6th, 2008
The side dish of the lord is the biggest deterrent to me saving. Yes, the lord is why I’m broke and can rarely afford the hookers I love so much . . . how fitting is that?! He gets you coming and going!
Haha! I have so much I could say, but should probably keep it to myself. Suffice it to say: I am burning in Hell.
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11:32 am on May 6th, 2008
How you going to talk about hookers and not know about the “Diamond rating Scale” (If you’re not joking around)
It’s from the whole Eliot Spitzer (former NY gov) Escort (Call girl) thing. The rating the call girl agency used to rate their hookers was a 1 diamond to 7. The girl he got busted for was only a three…….
now that’s just beeing a stingy, 3 diamond doesn’t even get you anal…. OR SO I’ve heard
Yeah, I know the diamond rating scale. If I was “Guv Luv” I would be asking for a 7, no doubt. Who asks for a 3?
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11:50 am on May 6th, 2008
Yeah, that was my reference. Who knew that eventually diamonds would become a man’s best friend?
Diamonds are everyone’s best friends…except mine workers.
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12:51 pm on May 6th, 2008
Phew, I really was wondering “What Would Jesus Cook?”
Seriously, I also like http://foodblogsearch.com/ because when you find a recipe on a blog, usually you get a little more than just the recipe.
Oh, wow. Thanks for this…this is new to me.
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2:03 pm on May 6th, 2008
A few weeks back, I managed to cook dinner for a dozen people (with beer and wine) for less that $100. I don’t know whether that means I’m cheap or I dislike my friends.
Damn, I am impressed. Especially the beer and wine part? Was it 2 buck chuck and tuna from a can?
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2:25 pm on May 6th, 2008
There’s a Google recipes now? I’m telling you, they’re aiming for global domination.
Google will soon own your soul.
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2:27 pm on May 6th, 2008
Nope! Pulled pork (one pork shoulder feeds a crowd for $12), cheap-o buns, homemade slaw, etc. Beer was Yuengling and I let other people bring the wine. My biggest expenditure was paper plates and plastic forks. Classy.
The environment weeps, but I applaud you. Well done.
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2:20 am on May 7th, 2008
You can get your designer jeans, etc., at Arundel Mills or online at YOOX.com. They’re the same thing as you’d get elsewhere, but cost a lot less.
That leaves more money for good food, which is something you can’t get at an insanely lower price, so it’s better to splurge on that.
Have you tried igourmet.com, btw? I’ve been looking it over but haven’t heard anything about it pro or con.
igourmet kind of scares me; there is always stuff in those baskets you don’t want. And do I need a new oil every month? Probably not.
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