I do blank to save money. And I don't mean I unplug an appliance for my electric bill. I want penny pinching stuff. Like unlimited text messages. Like the like the easy go to is I make coffee at home so I don't buy any while I'm out. That one's boring. But I get that. I get that. That's not that extreme. A lot of people do that. Okay. I cut open tubes to get the last little bit of toothpaste out. That is more extreme. Okay. Now we're at penny pitching. Yes. You do that? Are you serious? Oh my God. No, no. Kristen, there's a difference to rolling it or sliding it down on the side of the counter to get everything to get everything to the end. Yeah. Cutting it open is. Oh, I don't do that. Oh, okay. I roll, but I use my nail and I push it so like it's really flat. Right. Until you can't get anymore out and you push it through the tops. Yeah. Oh, they got pinched through. Yeah. Everybody does that. Mike doesn't. He's just like, oh, look, it's empty. Tosses. I'm like, uh-uh. You know how much is still in there? I'd be so angry. But don't you do the counter where you run it along the counter to get every little bit out? Oh, that's a good idea. I do that. I hope my family is not listening, but sometimes I'll stick my tongue into the toothpaste. Cause you got just that little bit. You're like, that is what I can use. Yeah. It's enough. That's nasty. I had dental hygienists once telling me you don't even really need toothpaste. It's just a matter of like brushing the teeth. Right. The toothpaste may over time help you. Right. You're just trying to get debris out of the spaces between your teeth and you're not going to floss. Uh, you can just put a toothbrush in there. So if I can get my tongue in there and just get a little dab on the end, I got enough. But we all agree. None of us have ever cut it open to scrape out the inside. Pretty good though. That's aggressive. Like that's aggressive. Cause I bet there's a lot in those sides that you just can't move to the top. You gave me an idea. You could cut the top and then cut down the side cause then you open it and then you could even take your toothbrush and just swipe it through. Yes. I think I'll do that. Now I did read one that I do adjacent. Okay. And I'll explain it. Oh, by the way, if I'm where my penny pinchers 866 to Elliot 866-235-5468. I'm reading a friend of mine told me her mother didn't want to pay for the stems on fresh cherry since they were in, um, in edible. So she would take them off before weighing and buying fresh cherries. Whoa. Now I will tell you a chef friend of mine. Uh-huh. I had to go to the store once to buy, um, not mozzarella mushrooms, portobello mushrooms. Um, the stems, rip them off. Oh, that was a tip from him? Yeah. He's like, you ain't using that part. No, you're not. Rip them out of there. Why pay for it if they're charging you for it? I've never pulled stems off of cherries, but I have pulled, I mean, I guess that's a stem off of a, um, off of a mushroom. It's not adjacent. That's in the same bucket. The, but I don't feel like that's penny pinching. Why did he give you the tip? He's like, you're not going to, you're not going to use that. Don't pay for it. Oh, is that it? Thought it was something else. I do feel like a jackass though, because you'll take like the stems and just throw them back in like where the bucket is. Yeah, I feel guilty. Why? I don't know. It's garbage. You're not going to use it. No, and they're expensive. Yes. I'm going to do that from now on. Yeah. Don't tell anyone. Do you want another one? Yes. Do you ever buy, do you ever buy shellfish? Yes. The, like will you buy like oysters and stuff like that? Yeah. Right. And they come in that little net? Yeah. Right. And you got to weigh them. Yes. Right. And you're going to put them in the ground to knock all of the extra dirt and moots out of there. No. And I'm not a real, like I'm not a penny pincher. Oh, so this is yours again. Well, I learned it from Steve. But you're doing it. Yes. This isn't something you read. No, I do that with those two, the mushrooms and like shellfish I'll do because of Steve. Wow. Yeah. So I guess I am a penny pincher in that way, but I'm not, I'm not cutting open toothpaste and using that. You have your time and places to do it. I'm not going to pay for what I'm not using. You, I wouldn't say you're a penny pincher across the board. No, not at all. Not even close. No, I'll still go out and spend $30 on a cup of coffee. But you also don't, like you don't return clothes. It's, it's, we just have it sit in your closet. It doesn't fit. I guess I'm out that money. That's, that's weird. But you'll take the stems off Portabella's. I'll take the stems off and I'll bang oysters around on the ground just to get all the dirt and soot off of them. Yeah, I do. Man. Okay. I can only think of one that you have because it's top of mind yesterday Tupperware came up. Right. I keep all of the like Chinese food restaurant containers and that is our everyday resealable vessel. By the way, if you're not doing that, there's something wrong. Some people throw that stuff away. You mean like the sturdier plastic, the black bottle, the clear top, that's smart. You know how many containers I have at my house? Yes, but not everybody does that. Oh, you should. You should. Why would you go spend money on that? They come with food. But I'm like, and I will, we have stuff. I'll even, you know what, when we also have in there that's a seen better days or a stack of the lunch meat that's not, it's fresh, but it's not freshly the ziplocks. No, not it's, it's in like the red top flat. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you can use that. Those are not as durable as the Chinese food container. No, but they're still good. Oh, we run them through the dishwasher. Yeah, that's totally fine. Yeah. No, to go containers like listen, I ordered in from Ruthies all day last night. They have a beautiful, beautiful container that in its three slotted. So I could, I use that, that I kept. So you bring in a bento box this morning? No, but I love a bento box. I love a bento. Actually, one of my biggest complaints about some Asian restaurants is they'll only do bento boxes for lunch and not for dinner. Well, I'm here, but do it for dinner. Tachi Banna and McLean does it. Do a bento box. I love a bento box. Like to, I don't like the only thing I don't like is I don't like chef's choice. I'll choose what I want. Hi, Elliott in the morning. Hey, is this me? Yeah. Hi. Who's this? Hey, this is Ryan from Richmond. When we were kids, we had to hand wash our Styrofoam plates. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. It was only once you had a hole in it or in your hand. You had a hole in it or it was too orange from all of the spaghetti sauce that we could throw them away. Hysterical. All right, dude, I appreciate it. Thank you, sir. That's like you brought up Ziploc. That reminds me. And I think they may have told the story leading up to his funeral or at the funeral, like Jimmy Carter and a lot of people from the generation did this, but they'd wash out Ziploc bags. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. I know people who do that now for sure. What? Wash them out? Yeah. They're not people, not a Jimmy Carter person. People in their 30s who will wash their kids PB and J. Right. They'll wash that and dry it. Do you know anybody that brings a Ziploc bag to a restaurant for like the coleslaw or pickles and stuff like that? I may have done that for bread. Oh, here's somebody. My aunt saves money by taking home all the rolls from the bread basket at a restaurant. Yep. She's also taken restaurant Parmesan and pepper shakers. That's just theft. The bread? No, the bread I'll bring home. But will you bring a Ziploc? Like, you know, like if you go to a deli, they'll have like pickles or they'll have coleslaw. Will you bring a Ziploc? Even it's complimentary. It's like bread. Do you bring a Ziploc to take that home or is it just milkman that does that? Sarah, are you doing it because you know that bread is just going to be... It's going to go in the garbage. Yes. Yes. So you feel that. That's it. It's not really that you're penny pinching. You're just kind of like... It's going to get thrown out anyway. I know. I know. What would that be though? Just you want to see food? I will repurpose it though. Be wasted, like croutons? So if I go to a restaurant and there's only a little bit of something left, I will take it home anyway, even though there's hardly any left and then I'll make a new meal out of it. So that bread, even a little bit of the bread, like if it's a sliced bread that comes with the side of pasta. Right. So I'll take it home and then they'll melt cheese on it for the next day and have it with tomato soup or something. I'll repurpose all of the leftovers. Eight leftovers. Because I know the next day I'm going to doordash something new. Line two. Hi, Elliot. Good morning. Hi. Is this me? Yeah. Hi. Who's this? Hey, this is Wesley. Yes, sir. A long-time listener and first-time caller. You guys are the absolute best. Thank you. Hibby penny pincher. Now, my mom knows how to pinch a penny and we would have the paper towels and she's like, well, that's not too dirty yet and put it next to the roll so that when she's wiping counters, she can use those. See, I hate that. I hate that. That I don't like. That I don't like. And I don't know why it bothers me. I don't know why it bothers me, but it does. And the toothpaste thing, they'll try to get you, ever read the directions. It says put a one-inch strip. I've never known anyone to do that. All right, dude. Thank you, my friend. My tongue line three. Hi, Elliott. The morning. Hey, I 100% cut open my tubes of toiletries, especially eye cream because those tubes are already so small and they're so expensive. I want every single drop that's in there. Never even occurred to me. It's it's brilliant. The yeah. I mean, I don't use any of that, but I get that. I understand. I don't use any. This is all natural oil. This is all just oil. Yeah, that part's fine. You know what I will do, though, especially with my not soap radio because it's expensive. I'll take the container and turn it upside down so that I get like I do it with laundry detergent where I'll put it up. Yeah, store it upside down so it all drips out. I mean, a lot of condiment companies started putting the labels on upside down because everything was stored top down. Yes. Like my ketchup is like that. My mustard isn't. My ketchup is I don't know why they do that with Mayo. My Mayo's upside down, but Mayo doesn't leak down. That's probably the squeeze bottle. Yeah. Is that what you're thinking of? Yeah, but it doesn't leak down. It just stays at the end. We definitely because you're right, our mustard isn't like that, but we store it upside down and just lean it right against other bottles. Line eight. Hi, Elliott. The morning. Hi, this is Michael. Yes. What can I do for you, sir? I grew up in Georgetown and I went to a private school, but I never knew that aluminum foil was supposed to be flat and shiny because every day I went to school after I turned the aluminum foil where my sandwiches were in and my parents would wash it and we'd use it the next day and the next day and the next day. I always thought it was just this crumbly, crumbly thing and we'd use it probably the whole year long. I never remember changing, never saw in my life flat aluminum foil until I was an adult living on my own. And aluminum foil re-usage was number one when it came to like penny-pinching hacks or little things like that. Everybody reuses aluminum foil. I never even thought of it. Aluminum foil. For years and years, just keep on reusing it. I never knew that it would come as a flat, shiny thing. I always thought it was this crumbly thing, this crumbly substance. Hysterical. As a kid growing up. Gotcha. Hey, I appreciate it. Thank you, sir. Let me grab a line. There's two on here that I love that nobody will, nobody will come with. Because they're so crazy. Yes. Hi, Elliot. Good morning. Is this me? Yeah. Hi. Who's this? Okay. This is Shanese. It's a foil and oil filter to dip you loose so they can only charge you for labor. That's a great one. You take your own part and then they'll just charge you for labor. That's great. Good for you. All right. Very good. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. Line three. Hi, Elliot. Good morning. Hey, before I run out of minutes. My man and her friend used to do this. So we grew up really poor, but we knew how to have a good time. So I don't know if they were doing it at the time or if they've eaten it, but we would go to the movies like the dollar show and we would get popcorn or we, they would get popcorn buckets and clean them out in the trash out of the trash can in the bathroom and reuse them and get popcorn. Oh, I see. I see. I see. I see. I see. I see. I see. I see. I see. I see. I see. I see. I see popcorn. Oh, that's smart. That is smart. It's disgusting. Yeah. No. It, you know what? As somebody that worked in a movie theater, you're fine. Like it's not that bad. Cups you have to be careful of because people use them as spittoons, but bags you're okay with. That you're fine with. Thank you, sir. I get that. I'm trying to think where your two may be from. Like what? We've covered so many different areas of life. Okay. I thought of it. I thought of a gross one. Go ahead. Which I don't do. Reusing dental floss? No. That's pretty gross. I don't know. Do people do that? You got to use it first, Elliott. I was going to say, I don't have dental floss. I could see somebody just washing off the thread. I was going to say somebody just throws it next to the sink and it's just there. Oh, not even cleaning it off. Ew. No. Ew. Who cares? You already used it. I don't have dental floss. There's so much gunk on it. You're like, I don't even want to use this anymore this time. When our neighbor's house would get toilet papered, which it did a lot. No way. No, please no. My ultra frugal husband realized he would carefully collect all of the toilet paper in a grocery bag and place it next to the toilet. Wow. I've never even forget heard of it. Thought that someone would do that looking up at a house that's been pranked. I save water by urinating into a laundry detergent bottle and waiting until it's almost full before I pee the last time in the toilet and then empty the detergent bottle into the toilet and flush it all together. I save money on water by only flushing once. That one I could see though. No, you can't. We've heard of people peeing into bottles. Yeah, it's like they're rowing them house. Lazy, but I'm just saying, like. Lazy. The toilet paper in the tree one is crazier than the peeing into a bottle one. No, I disagree because you still have the bottle sitting right there by the toilet. Yeah, but you're not flushing. If that's my make or break point, you're better off just going to pee in the yard. Just conservationists don't flush. Forget the money. Disgusting. But wiping your ass with tree toilet paper. But it's regular toilet paper. They didn't use it and throw it in a tree. They took a fresh roll and hurled it. I know, as we talked about yesterday, to a great length, I was not cool, but I know they're not using the toilet paper and then tee peeing the house. And I know that without having ever been invited to go do that, but I have seen. You've never toyed a paper in the house? Oh my God. No, but I've seen it on TV. Line twa. Hi, Elliott. Good morning. I got to get moving. Hello. Good morning. Is this me? Yes, hi. Who's this? Hi there. This is Katie from Baltimore. Yes, ma'am. I'm regarding your penny pinching. I use all of the produce bags and a few bread bags, any bags, newspaper bags as poop bags for my dog. Oh, you know what? Like that's totally fine. That's totally fine. I thought you were going to say you bring produce bags back and reuse those, but you don't charge for those. I'll take produce bags and put groceries in them. That I've done. Yeah. And I'll use the bread bags for like my sandwiches for work or what have you. So yeah. No, no, I'll use anything for a poop bag like that. You don't need just a poop bag for that. That's totally fine. Yep. Yep. Wait, line seven. Hey, thank you. I'll see you early in the morning. Is this me? Yeah. Hi. Who's this? Hi, this is Lisa. Um, two things I would, uh, not weigh the produce bag when I was in the grocery store. I would always weigh the produce first. And the other thing is when I lived with my aunt and my three cousins, um, they would put in bathwater and they would all use the same bathwater. I refuse to use it, but they all did. That's a good one.
