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My kids are cheapskates. Yeah because we know those parents aren't giving an allowance

You can teach your kids to budget young. My mother use to get me to go find the cheapest and biggest box of something. Like the best option per price. Something might be a little more but if its twice the size then that's the one to go with... you dont need to go that hard

And HAVE all the money 😒🤨

My mom literally had 25 bags and 10 drawers full of shoes while I had to wear the ugliest shoes to school when I was little 😤

I give my 4 year old literally 12 cents and she askes if she can go buy a barbie with her money lmfao.

Maybe she goes to the neighbors for that too.

The show has makeup, hair and costume designers

i thought the same thing, but you gotta think, what's the point of saving money, if you arent saving it for anything? maybe thats what she saves it up for? Its like if someone saved up their money by not going to the movies all the time, and when they saved up enough they buy an at home movie theater.

@@CorchadoV most "cheapskates" I've met are only cheap in the things they don't care or think about much at all and use it as an excuse to spend it on some preferred areas

@@mentalpopcorn2304 It makes sense. I know quite a few people in my hometown will eat poorly and have some of the most badly worn out clothes but it's because they want to have that extra $30-60+ for doing nails and hair every week or other week. And to also eat out when they do those activities. Personally it's a waste but everyone has their preferences.

Walmart bread is under a dollar

@@gwendolynstata3775 You can get a fresh-baked loaf for 1 dollar... Most Walmart's even have a 'discount' shelf full of cheap baked goods. Stuff that didn't get sold fresh for $1 they sell for like...30c the next. Can get EXPENSIVE cakes and flatbreads and all sortsa stuff for cheap!

Imagine how many hands brushed past all the heels they're now eating.

@@CazadorSlayer WOW! I'm Canadian and have never seen bread that cheap over here - at least not since the 80's or maybe 90's - not even at walmart or giant tiger. That said, I'm from Ontario and the cost of living here is ridiculous and unaffordable for most. You got me dreaming of some sweet, sweet $1 bread over here! 😂

@@user-ri2qn4qo4k everything is more expensive in Canada. Shit, look at the prices of greeting cards. It literally says: US: $3.99 CANADA: $4.39

Hes smokin weed in the shed to cope 😊

I wonder how much tp she gets per day. There is no way you can get through on just 4 squares of toilet paper a day.

@@InnannasRainbow gotta be that fancy 3-ply for you to work with 4 pieces of toilet paper and even then that is a stretch. Not every single trip through the 2nd lane gonna be smooth. You might need a extra couple of wipes and 4 pieces of toilet paper isn't gonna cut it. Plus.......your hands. Side note: Dollar General sells a Smart and Simple 6 pack roll of toilet paper for $1.00. Definitely not the softest but you'll have plenty to use for cheap. I can use that 6 pack for nearly a month or more

She waters down the leftovers to make it last longer.

he looks like the combination of Giorgio Tsoukalos and Andrew Lincoln xD

@@Foozefighter I think he looks more like a combination of Rob Huebel and Giorgio Tsoukalos LOL

HE DOES LOOK LIKE THAT MEME

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father looks like he's toking in the shed to deal with her shit

I wouldn't have given her s***! That's what you call lazy as hell!😡

El Fredy Juega If she was lazy she could’ve just gotten her neighbors to deliver her their leftovers instead of going door to door. 😂🤷🏾‍♀️

I laughed until I realised I have the same forehead

@@sup8056 I laughed so hard I grew that forehead

That's not a forehead ... that's a fivehead 😄🤣

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“Baby Girls gonna need some bangs.🙏🏾🤣🤣😂😂

@TheRealBandito in some areas in Alabama, there are some INSANELY dirt cheap houses. Especially in the rural areas. Brought 4 homes for 11k total and they are in great condition. The prices of homes kinda rides on the areas they're surrounded by. Alabama have one of the worst wages rate and protection laws around so homes would fit around it. Heck there was one time some homes in Chicago cost 2 dollars to own(but there was a catch obviously: the houses was ruined but you can keep the land)

@@lightingthief4482 so completely worthless land. I'm Australian. Here, a piece of land/house in the middle of the desert, few thousand ks from any large city, will still cost $30k at the minimum.....

@@Wawawalulu one of the homes I brought was scraped and turned into a farmland. Growing all kinds of stuff that my aunt sells for some good money. So far I already got at least 3x my money back from it. Not all cheap land is worthless, especially in some states.

House in Texas for 8,000. It was in bad shape but I fixed it now and it's decent

@@Wawawalulu definitely not worthless land. Depends on how one utilizes it. Plenty of good farm land in Alabama. Also oil and minerals throughout Alabama too. I don't know what it's like currently but I used to work for a company out of Alabama and they had the lowest property taxes in the country at the time. I've been watching a lot of people on social media moving to the state to escape places like California and Ohio. That state gets a bad rap, but it's actually a wonderful place, especially if you enjoy outdoor activities and less government interference.

Laura E but then she can’t just be a housewife

I think she said when this show first came out years ago that it was the producers idea for her to bug her neighbors and she normally doesn’t do that.

Daycare for 3 kids would cost more than what she'd make, unfortunately. Not to mention that she's in Utah, and working moms there are HUGELY stigmatized.

Yeah, daycare for 3 kids would be more than what she could make in Utah. I’m pretty sure she’s LDS and if she’s actually hurting for food she can utilize the bishop’s storehouse.

@@rachelhasgp sound pretty believable as well

Corene Howe it shows they don’t care about other people’s money, or financial situation, only their own

That’s called “mooching”. By the way hope your situation gets better. Much love and blessings.

Corene Howe girl same Ik how u feel. Struggling financially here too ❤️hope ur situation gets better.

They just wanted a big house couldn't get it then started asking their neighbors for food. I think I would literally have to be starving to death to even consider asking my neighbors for groceries.

I hope your situation gets better soon 💪 you can do this! ♥

Imma do a line in the kitchen real quick, I'll be right back 😂

Doing lines of waffles is a slippery slope

I thought that was pretty normal, what was the brand that had a single line of waffles for snacks for kids? it was popular in the 90's and early 00's.

If they are bad, they only get a single square of the waffle.

@@greatleader4841 Big difference between snack and breakfast... There is no way them kids are eating as much as they should be.

Yeah she just needed one pack and she rode out the whole thing.

@@cornbreadisbetterthanpizza6866 one roll*

They got 1 square instead

Mhm hmm

LOL

😂

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My great-grandma would slap me if I threw away a tea bag after I used it once... But she did live through the Great Depression, that really impacted people!

I think my grandfather use a tea bag five times. He would hang it on the damper handle over the pot bellied stove in the kitchen.

I know people who do that. It is so weird man!

think she said when this show first came out years ago that it was the producers idea for her to bug her neighbors and she normally doesn’t do that.

Moxy Girl all the spit in there probably would make it taste a little off tho

@@itsmoon1996 it's still free lol

mdude i spent hours playing mmorpg, and making accounts, grinding and farming, then sellling those stacke accounts and made money while also fueling my gaming addiction

Ist faked

@DIO BRANDO I love watching R slash choosing beggars

Cause he didnt eat ALL 14 Cheerios smdh

I can relate to this, parents aren’t cheapskates but I have ARFID so I don’t get enough nutrients to grow and go through puberty, I’m in 9th grade and look a 10 year old

Giving her children terrible relationships with food

I think I remember her saying that she does give the kids more food if they're hungry but that she does in fact start them with that ration. I could be wrong, my memory does not always serve me well.

It’s not low key lol

Ha ha nothing "low key" about that! Lol

realy looks high all the time lmao

Weed’s not enough for this, he’s on heroine at this point

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No shit!!!

Shes too cheap to buy the seeds

@@vector6977 You can save the seeds from store bought veggies. You can also regrow a lot of stuff from scraps too. Seriously once the animals and chickens start f----ing you know they're going to be gone but the neighbors will have had to put up with the noise and smell for months before that.

@@daneeinglis1894 the seeds from most store bought veggies will not produce they are all genetically modified and therefore will not grow. That is why heirloom seeds are in such high demand, the days of sprouting your own veggies from produce purchased from grocery have long been over. A few of the organics might but for the most part what you buy at your local grocery isnt going to grow you anything

@@kes9612 I've had great sucess growing tomatos and a few other fresh produce veggies from their seeds here in Spain, the thing is Europe doesn't allow GMO seeds to be sold here or factory farming (yet). Recently we noticed spinach that must have resown itself in several places in the back yard and it's ready to be picked! My family are farmers in the USA, my dad heard about the 1 season shelf life and inability to propagate and so he avoided them (he also quit using products like Roundup and went organic long before it became popular) and took part in protests against factory farming with us and the grandkids. He was a man ahead of his time! I forgot to add, I've got two heads of romaine and a leek growing from scraps on my counter, that's a new thing for me, inspired by a youtube video. My son and I spent Tuesday starting a bunch of seeds for this summer in newspaper "cups" the pandemic might have broken us financially but not our spirits or determination!

Glad I'm not the only one thinking this

If it includes binge eating once you’re out of the house then definitely

"Hey man, got any lines?" "No, I can't afford the waffles."

That’s the first thing I thought too. Restricting from obsessive food counting or binge eating once they leave. It’s reminiscent of people who grew up during the depression and then overfed their own children because they were always starving as kids. It’s a slippery slope and super unnecessary. This chick is off her rocker.

Son in 20 years, "Well, I'm 23, so for breakfast, I should eat 23 rows of waffle."

I was a bit opposite in college. I had about $35 a week, which was more, but I spent about $20 on the calorie essentials and the other $15 was for produce/extra nutrition. I bought a lot of bulk brown rice, dried beans, dried lentils, potatoes, flour, didn't eat meat or cheese. I literally weighed out how much rice I would need per week for 500 cals/bowl and that's what I bought, same for the other goods, I only bought the weight in grams that I needed for calories over the next 7 days. I would spend the remaining $15 on fresh produce (optional, since I got all my calories from the bulk foods). I made huge bowls of oatmeal for breakfast everyday, black bean and brown rice taco bowls, and then a huge pot of lentil vegetable soup with homemade dinner rolls on the side. Honestly, I ate way better back then on a budget, and so hearty, than now when I am spending like $70/week and being lazy.

I used to just get little caesars pizza cuz it's only $5 for a pepperoni pizza and that'd last me a few meals That plus stealing food for my parents every time I went home

I started a scam and sold stolen ID's to feed myself in college.

@@greatleader4841 lol I sold Hentai to the tcg kids in 7th grade. Guess I lost that entrepreneurial spirit somewhere along the way..

People gotta stop romanticizing the struggle lmao this shit sad

My family of four lives off about 300 dollars a month in food and supplies, and we are not cheapskates. This $3000 price tag is ridiculous.

I cannot imagine dating any kids.

It's dang-near hard to go hungry if you actually try at all down here in the South. Every other church you go to hands out food at least once a week or something.

Yeah

Jolly Jester Yea

She could also hit up food banks... Though I wouldn't recommend it since they don't seem to be bad off and it's more of a choice of lifestyle she's doing.

Especially if she’s in a farming community. You just wake up to a bag of cucumbers or something on your porch bc someone grew a ton of them

Gotta have those notifications on

felt that

I am one of the chosen

we are the special few

Yuuuuup

"Rinse out your pad and use it again! You only get one a week!"

They'll get that horrible cup thing

Grifo Cold or the reusable pads 🤢

Old coffee filters and McDonald’s napkins

Go over to the neighbors. "Hey, do you have any used feminine products we can have?" Then rinse it off

Actually here in Spain I tend to bring a wad or two of TP from home, because lots of public toilets won't have a seat let alone toilet paper.

Did you see the wedding ring she has? Damn.

Oh baby. As the mother of one I'm telling you: be proud of your brain case. Bigger head for bigger beautiful eyes, expressive cheeks and a lovely smile. Not just words of mom here, look at the poster-boys of any beauty: the athletes, actors, politicians, fantasy artwork, the beauties of every era from the ancients, to the emos, extreme weight models of any gender (not that I encourage any harmful lifestyle) tiny babies to the elderly- one thing 'beauty' types all seem to have in common is a larger than average head with that impossible-to-miss expresssive face. It's great for any body that you will carry as well. You'll never have that pin-headed look and you won't get the snow man effect unless you grow 7 or 8 chins- it will take a LOT of obesity to oval out that lucky stroke of a cranium. However! if you shave your head to fuzz and don't have nothing prominent from the neck down- if you are utterly flat in every way. You *Will* look like a Q-tip. So advice from mom: if it's compliments that you want, keep your weight at anything but utterly flat if you want that tennis ball fuzz and you will be stunning. But it will be hard to lie with that lovely face. You are so blessed I could hug you. And that baby girl is going to blow them out of the water when her beautiful hair grows in and her cheap ass mom lets her trim the scarecrow ends.

i have my dads 5 head

@@mikaylavlijter7045 Same here lol

Omg your pug picture is adorable there my favourite breed 😍

Same :'(

I'm kinda tempted to water down my own juice. I never considered that I could do that and often I find that juice flavors are too strong and I get overstimulated.

@@sweetsour4375 i agree they are WAY too sweet and have too much sugar

Their reaction to the watered-down juice actually confused the hell out of me. Do Americans not water-down their juice? It's the most common thing to do in Austria.

@@no-one03 I can’t speak for all but I’d say a vast majority don’t, just drink it straight from the container (or fruit if that’s an option)

When my daughter was a toddler, I bought her juice that was lower in sugar, but on occasion it wasn't available, or we were out & about, I'd add water... At 14 1/2, she still doesn't really crave anything sweet...

I was thinking that too. If I feel I should use mine, I do it right away. Usually I turn it backwards/inside out for a pb&j sandwich for my toddler. They only ever seem to notice or care if they can see it.

Maybe she gets the bread heels from her neighbors who don't eat them when she goes begging for leftovers? That's the only way her method makes any sense.

Sean Belbin I mean she makes sandwiches in advance and freezes them for packed lunches and also has 8 kids I’m sure it doesn’t take that long to get through a few loaves Anyway loads of this is staged she’s a RU-vidr and has been running businesses helping people be productive and save money for years now

i thought she was gonna take it a step further and be like "and we make croutons out of them" but nope lmao

I feed the birds with the ends 🎄

😂

yeah honestly they'd save so much more money and they'd save themselves some embarrassment just starting a garden. hell, they've got a neighbor who's willing to share produce -- just ask her how to get a garden going

I wondered about that too. Here in Berlin, people grow fruit and vegetables in pots. I mean, it doesn't get more organic than that.

Could you imagine if one of them had diarrhea though. "Sorry honey you already used your four squares for the month" while the kid's hand is covered in liquid shit. :/

@@azazellon "You get 10 seconds in the shower to wash your ass, not a second more!"

Who the hell uses almost a roll of toilet paper a day.

Steve Downey someone with a shit metabolism

I buy a bulk bag from Sam's club, it's $15.99. for two people it lasts me around five months. It has like 48 huge rolls. :| Edit: and I use alot of toilet paper when I shit cause I wrap my hand like a mummy. 😂😂 one wiper per side and I keep wiping till I'm confident theres no poo left over.

That was not nice on his part, for sure Was surprised for that coming from a dad

I mean....did you see that forehead though lol

@@rtskelton335 Pretty sure you need to lighten up.

It was the father's they where talking about

Jo Batgirl yeah and all the kids got the exact same one 😂

Chris;is you probably right tho

69th like

she used condoms. the problem was she would turn them inside out to reuse them

Omg you're probably right

"I was actually wondering if you had any condoms left over?" I mean it's probably been used but rubber doesn't rly expire rigt?

It works well too! In the summer, my mom would reduce the time it took to rise rolls in half by letting them rise in the car

But like watered down juice?

Desolate 🤣🤣🤣

@@spaceface9468 also a travesty >_

You prescribed the subprime mortgage crisis which begotten the Great Recession from the credit default that sent the financial sector in ruins. Isn’t it funny how the Fed and SEC were negligent in the 06-08?

Oof. I remember being in middle school and finishing in 08. Those were worrying times. Lots of people were losing work from the recession. Two of my close friends (out of like, 5 of us) had their dads lose their jobs and had their families fall on hard time. I remember my dad talking about lots of lay offs at his job.

Bruh 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

She saves years of her life by only having a birthday every two and a half years

😂😂😂💀💀💀😂😂😂😂

@@theponydalek7923 😂😂

@@GestressteKatze Yeah they did!! Lol

I watered down my children’s juice and my sister does it for her kids. I do it for other peoples kids and the kids just give me a weird look after trying it.

Interesting, we made a portable grill using a metal coffee can, charcoal, and a wire rack.

beauty products cost money

That’s the malnutrition and bacterial infections from not wiping adequately for 10 years lol

Maybe with all the money she saves she smokes like a chimney stack. :P

It's all that makeup

Wait hold up she’s 27!!!🤦🏽‍♂️

Oh. Shit, you’re right!

I think the real number that we all should be talking about is that the narrator said "cutting her use of toilet paper from 300 rolls per year to only 40."

Nah they buy their own and use as much as they want

Lol I’m single go through a roll in 2-3 days.

😭😭 I'm pursuing my BSW and this shit hit hard

Hahaha thank you for this comment 🤣😂

And "do they use both sides?"

But then it's not free :((((

mrs_operagirl_ miller a vegan child in my high school fell on a chicken and snapped its neck, and then was traumatised by it

AGREED. Hot damn, I was attacked by my family's chickens in 5th grade and I've been scared of them since..

yes they will, unless you get the nice kind, and that usually mean you have to work with those animals. working with animals take time, and guess what, time is money :P

@@neohuntley5872 "vegan child" why does that sound like something a Skyrim character would say?

@@j3in725 More like forced veganism

I bake a lot and I appreciate this knowledge lol

The fact that you didn't even finish the video lmao

the skeptic It’s a TV show nothing is real about it

96 I did but ok 😂

@@imjudgingyou000 If you did then you would see them getting farm animals near the end dumbass

@@stevedowney4056 except this woman still does the cheapskate thing even now. Shes a youtuber. Her videos are actually really useful lol

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'Cause the majority of this stuff is staged and scripted. "Reality" TV is an oxymoron at this point. Producers don't just let people live their daily lives. They script and rehearse these kind of scenes. Even those talent shows like Idol and The Voice are rigged.

Forgetting the reality tv thing since it doesn’t take away from how ridiculous it is, it’s more like a WW1 trench in that house 😭

​@@KirstenMarie_MS3you'd be surprised how many rich people live like this, its not reality TV when its actually happening

@nicholasbrown668 Maybe, maybe not. I'm not saying people don't live like this. I'm saying these shows are still heavily manipulated, be it deceptive editing, making participants come down the stairs 20 times and hit their marks, or having that shouting match 10 times. You still have to entertain your audience.

@@KirstenMarie_MS3 yeah but she actually DOES live like this, like she openly advertises her lifestyle online I had a neighbor im New York who lived like this, dude owned 2 businesses and made over 2 mil a year, yet he drove a damn near death trap car, never used electricity except a single light, he even shit in a bucket and dumped it once a week rich people are weird

I wonder if they'll share that meat with all the neighbors who have been feeding them in the mean time?

Lots of people kill their own meat. I think the lady knows she has to kill it.

Well, more likely she has to pay someone to butcher it properly and portion out the different cuts of meat. It's not super cheap. Plus she has to feed the animal and take care of it. Those chickens need a coop or they'll get killed by other animals.

As an owner of chickens I disagree on the cost. We had 12 we now have 4, the cost for food and upkeep was not worth the eggs we were getting. It was cheaper to just buy the freaking eggs!

It's like the saying goes "Work smarter, not harder"

Exactly

Damn it, I live in the South and I don't know any hunters! 😭 I want some ground deer meat!

OwO venison...

My grandparents have alot of venison and fish in their freezer too. Comes in handy in the winter :3 theyll give me some to help save money when things are tights.

The freezer gets full of deer meat when my dad is lucky enough to nab a deer when he goes out hunting. We’re talkin’ deer burgers, deer roast or tenderloin, deer jerky, and my favorite deer bologna.

Yeah, hes with his girlfriend.

"What are Laws?" - Life living out in the middle of nowhere, NC.

The suburbs

Kat Kasey I recently moved into city limits after living in the middle of no where in NC. I started a bonfire and apparently that’s illegal without a burn permit. 😅 like what’s a burn permit?

Brittany Cherry oh really? I live in the suburbs in NC and I’ve never gotten busted for that

Exactly! I live in western NC and we have goats, chickens, sheep, and rabbits; and we have bonfires and shoot guns all the time and there is no problem because the neighbors do the SAME EXACT THING lmao

So was I! I think it’s proof that the show has people do crazy stuff just to seem more extreme.

I do too think it’s all a skit for entertainment

Right!! She's way famous in the mom sector of RU-vid!

All about the warm fuzzy feelings and the mighty dollar.

I was thinking the same thing! I think her voice and look is similar to Rashida Jones, who plays Ann, and her energy is like the people who come to all the town hall meetings

Because it all feels like one big joke

Not wiping is anyone's worst nightmare

Yeah, that mom doesn't have a hairy ass. It's no wonder the dad says it's a touchy subject. You want me walking around smelling like shit?

Big Buff knows

Yeah,doctors will tell you to water kids kids down.its full of sugar.

@@crystolas810 absolutely, even natural sugars can be too much. Skip the processing and eat fruit, drink water. ✌

@@crystolas810 I just put frozen blueberries in my 3 year olds defuser cup. She crazy about her purple water 😂

I give my kids koolaid, but like, more sugar than recommended.

i'm pretty sure that i used to have my juice watered down when i was little. i don't think i ever liked the taste tho

You can bet Sarge never put up with no watered down juice.

i thought she was like 40 or somethin

Ah so that's not just me, I'm 30 and felt like she could be my mom.

Caroline Crisanto literally just commented the same thing. I’m 30 and look at least 10 years younger than her

I thought maybe late 30s to early 40s! 😂

Probably the markup

tell your kid the watery one is more healthy for her

I drank watery apple juice until high school when I stopped drinking juice as much. Honestly, apple juice tastes better watered down lol

Lmfaooo, "she came home woke".

.... I always had water down juice (I had juice maybe 2 a week as a kid). When I met my husband at 21 he pointed out how odd I was. Lol. But then I got him hooked on water down juice.

You say.. we don't have that juice, this is our juice. And show her the name brand juice jug that you emptied 1/2 out and filled with water (and froze the other 1/2 for the same purpose)

If possible try to juice the fruit yourself

@@kashishjain7163 or just eat the fruit?-

That's a little different than breastfeeding your child and mixing it with water the Kool-Aid thing I understand but I would never do that to breast milk

Yes! My mom did too and now I water down any juice I drink!

Or it's the only cooter he's ever experienced 😄🤣

Especially with that forehead lmao

Shes saving birthdays for later.

I'm pretty sure that's what she meant when she was saying it.

Gross 🤢🤮🤢

Hope you are Ok x

@@charlier.k4934 I actually got my first home 2 months after this comment😍👏 im doing a lot better now thank you ❤

@@pismith9892 thats great ❤ much respect that you still had your pride in a tough situation

@@pismith9892 I’m so glad you aren’t homeless anymore. I can’t imagine how difficult that would be.

@@maggiee639 at only 20 alone it was rough and I still struggle from what I went through but im so lucky to be out of that situation now and slowly getting on track 😅

My sister and I were in the middle of 4 boys, two older and two younger. You did not want to be last one on bath night!

Kids are better off with better parents that actually provide for them properly.