re: Poor things you still do

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I travel a lot for work so I’m constantly staying in hotels ranging from cheap motels to 5 star resorts and everything in between. No matter the stay, I’ll snag wash cloths, hand towels, bath towels, bar soaps, body wash, shampoos, conditioners, etc. My bathroom is stocked with a plethora of said assorted items.

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So you are a thief. Got it.

use, wash and reuse aluminum foil.

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Solo Cups / Plastic forks definitely get reused after washed. I still love Hamburger Helper, Vienna sausage, and hot fries.

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When my son was about 11 or so he came home from summer camp madder than hell. Seems the camp had fed them Hamburger Helper Stroganoff at least a couple of times during the week and it was beneath him, wasn't suitable for his sophisticated palate. When I told him we had it at home at least a couple of times a month he said that was the point....we made waaaaaayyyyyyy too much money to be eating poor people food. When I pointed out to him that, at 11 and just starting out in life, he himself was among the poor - that myself and his mother, having worked hard and been lucky, had acquired some wealth but he had neither a place to piss nor a window to throw it out of. He wasn't happy about this but had sense enough not to continue giving me reasons to poinit out the fallacies in his logic.

Fast forward about 9 years and I am talking to him on the phone. He is in Denver, sophomore year of college. I ask him what he is doing. He says he is cooking dinner for himself and his 3 roommates. I ask him what he is cooking....and it was Hamburger Helper Stroganoff. He said it was cheap and, being counted among the poor and barely having a place to piss or a window to throw it out of it was a pretty good, if not overly healthy, way to make dinner for 4. I agreed wholeheartedly and did not mention his summer camp tirade but I can say I have rarely been prouder of him than I was in that moment....

Go to work everyday

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Also, try to conserve food. Such as by forcing myself to eat fruit that is probably poisonously rotten because I don't want to waste it.

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I will definitely cook and eat the gray ground meat.

I like the Dawn Platinum Foam dish soap. I learned that foaming soaps are just regular liquid soap mixed 1 to 1 with water and put into a container with the pump nozzle, so now I make my own foaming soaps.

The last four and a half years ive been doing all sorts of poor things


ramen noodles, frozen pizza
ugly hookers

My wife doesn’t throw away stale hot dog buns. If making spaghetti, she coats the buns with butter, sprinkles them with Parmesan cheese, and then puts them in the oven. Much better than garlic bread.

I don’t order food when I go eat with the wife and kids. Plenty food leftover that they don’t finish.