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?)

  • Dym Sohin@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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

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      1 year 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.