I viewed half of the new TLC program, Extreme Cheapskate last night. I caught the part where the guy has no spend weeks throughout the year and he and his wife eat what they have. On the last day he scrounged up change to go buy some meat. The man had over $7 in change after riding his bike here and there to pick up pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters. His idea of a good meal? Two goat heads.
Now, I think I like to save money, but I am not brave enough to try boiling and then roasting a goat's head. He said the eye was a delicacy. Ick. Actually double ick on my part. His wife said she would let him enjoy his "meat" and ate whatever else they had.
The next part was a kid who bartered for things. We just saw on the news where a town in Maine is doing a lot of bartering because so few have money. But this guy on the TLC program was almost, in my opinion, greedy.
I imagine some of the stuff on these programs is for the glitz of television, but geeze, to me a no spend day doesn't mean rounding up change and then going to buy something. Perhaps I'm too literal.
As my husband would say, this guy gives cheap a bad name.
TLC's Extreme Cheapskate
December 29th, 2011 at 03:56 pm
December 29th, 2011 at 07:04 pm 1325185481
Too bad i don't have cable. I'll check to see if it's on Hulu.
December 29th, 2011 at 07:22 pm 1325186544
December 29th, 2011 at 10:08 pm 1325196531
January 3rd, 2012 at 04:35 am 1325565358
I am also with you on the no spending week. If the point is not to spend money for an entire week, and he went digging for change to buy food, that is still spending, even if you are using loose change.
I did love the guy who got his wife's anniversary gifts out of the dumpster and picked the rice off the ground on his wedding day to cook for dinner. Not my thing, but highly entertaining.