Comments on: Question of the week: Saving money http://loteriachicana.net/2008/01/17/question-of-the-week-saving-money Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:14:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: gffgdf http://loteriachicana.net/2008/01/17/question-of-the-week-saving-money/comment-page-1#comment-30299 gffgdf Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:44:00 +0000 http://loteriachicana.net/2008/01/17/question-of-the-week-saving-money/#comment-30299 Hehe, here's frugality Japanese style: Straining used frying oil into a mayo jar, and re-using it a few more times, adding new oil or even mixing in different meat for flavor. It's like the "olympic flame" of fried food. Loose tea, but brew it three or four times. Rice balls with a salted plum in it - the only wrapped food cheaper than a bean burrito. Reuse any soup for noodles, and even save soy sauce. Reuse everything that's "disposable"; dispose of things only after they've been used as some kind of trash can. Bleach cleans anything. Oh yeah, there's also Southern style frugality: Drink out of jars. Piss in a jug, and use it as fertilizer after it's aged. Save the bacon grease for "flavor." Cook up the vegetable stems in your stew. Save twigs and branches to build fences. Burn your trees for the BBQ (only hardwoods) or the fireplace (everything else). Gasoline or kerosene to clean grease off metal things. Thick, industrial acid instead of "Drano." We weren't poor. Just working class or "lower middle class" and not wasting money. People into this thread might like the frugality blogs out there like wisebread. Hehe, here’s frugality Japanese style: Straining used frying oil into a mayo jar, and re-using it a few more times, adding new oil or even mixing in different meat for flavor. It’s like the “olympic flame” of fried food. Loose tea, but brew it three or four times. Rice balls with a salted plum in it – the only wrapped food cheaper than a bean burrito. Reuse any soup for noodles, and even save soy sauce. Reuse everything that’s “disposable”; dispose of things only after they’ve been used as some kind of trash can. Bleach cleans anything.

Oh yeah, there’s also Southern style frugality: Drink out of jars. Piss in a jug, and use it as fertilizer after it’s aged. Save the bacon grease for “flavor.” Cook up the vegetable stems in your stew. Save twigs and branches to build fences. Burn your trees for the BBQ (only hardwoods) or the fireplace (everything else). Gasoline or kerosene to clean grease off metal things. Thick, industrial acid instead of “Drano.”

We weren’t poor. Just working class or “lower middle class” and not wasting money.

People into this thread might like the frugality blogs out there like wisebread.

]]> By: lo http://loteriachicana.net/2008/01/17/question-of-the-week-saving-money/comment-page-1#comment-30187 lo Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:12:36 +0000 http://loteriachicana.net/2008/01/17/question-of-the-week-saving-money/#comment-30187 I didn't notice before but can appreciate now: My mom and great aunts made me the most beautiful clothes, I think that is why the cost of 'couture' seems silly. And as for the men in my family, in Mexico you always purchased the entire bottle, it was not 'table service' with all its silly fees just drinking smart! I didn’t notice before but can appreciate now:

My mom and great aunts made me the most beautiful clothes, I think that is why the cost of ‘couture’ seems silly.

And as for the men in my family, in Mexico you always purchased the entire bottle, it was not ‘table service’ with all its silly fees just drinking smart!

]]> By: Jeff http://loteriachicana.net/2008/01/17/question-of-the-week-saving-money/comment-page-1#comment-30181 Jeff Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:49:14 +0000 http://loteriachicana.net/2008/01/17/question-of-the-week-saving-money/#comment-30181 Hmmm.. That is such an interesting question. I don't necessarily think my parents were frugal, but I think we genuinely couldn't afford much of anything. We really never had any Disneyland trips, or anything like that. Then again, we never asked for much as we were taught that what we had was more than most people had. I think perhaps this has molded me into what I am today. I'm still a kid at heart and I have purchased all the toys I wanted as a kid now (as an adult). So I have never really kept up with their non spending ways because of choice... I have just always been careful to differentiate between "luxuries" and "necessities". Hmmm.. That is such an interesting question.

I don’t necessarily think my parents were frugal, but I think we genuinely couldn’t afford much of anything. We really never had any Disneyland trips, or anything like that. Then again, we never asked for much as we were taught that what we had was more than most people had.

I think perhaps this has molded me into what I am today. I’m still a kid at heart and I have purchased all the toys I wanted as a kid now (as an adult). So I have never really kept up with their non spending ways because of choice… I have just always been careful to differentiate between “luxuries” and “necessities”.

]]> By: chidolitis http://loteriachicana.net/2008/01/17/question-of-the-week-saving-money/comment-page-1#comment-30179 chidolitis Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:24:39 +0000 http://loteriachicana.net/2008/01/17/question-of-the-week-saving-money/#comment-30179 Yea we always brought our own food to theme parks. Getting the little UV stamp on your hand was part of the whole experience! My mom also tends to go to tiendas de segunda or as she calls them "Los viejitos"! :D Yea we always brought our own food to theme parks. Getting the little UV stamp on your hand was part of the whole experience! My mom also tends to go to tiendas de segunda or as she calls them “Los viejitos”! :D

]]> By: EL CHAVO! http://loteriachicana.net/2008/01/17/question-of-the-week-saving-money/comment-page-1#comment-30174 EL CHAVO! Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:57:36 +0000 http://loteriachicana.net/2008/01/17/question-of-the-week-saving-money/#comment-30174 Ha, I remember El Piojito! They had the coolest icon. Ha, I remember El Piojito! They had the coolest icon.

]]> By: Chicana Skies http://loteriachicana.net/2008/01/17/question-of-the-week-saving-money/comment-page-1#comment-30167 Chicana Skies Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:20:45 +0000 http://loteriachicana.net/2008/01/17/question-of-the-week-saving-money/#comment-30167 I started to write a response, then realized it was waaaay too long, lol. So, Cindylu, you inspired me to write a post about it on my blog! Thanks. :) I started to write a response, then realized it was waaaay too long, lol. So, Cindylu, you inspired me to write a post about it on my blog! Thanks. :)

]]> By: P-3000 http://loteriachicana.net/2008/01/17/question-of-the-week-saving-money/comment-page-1#comment-30159 P-3000 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:15:58 +0000 http://loteriachicana.net/2008/01/17/question-of-the-week-saving-money/#comment-30159 Mole jars were the drinking glasses My dad made me a base bat that lasted until I played with the bigger kids and they didn't use tennis balls We also sneaked food into the movies and Disneyland and Magic Mountain, we were good smugglers I've taught my daughter how to smuggle food and drinks into the movies, I put my arm around her and she holds it in the hand between us LOL! We shopped at El Piojito across from Mac Arthur Pk. Today is it still considered cool to shop at segundas, ooops I mean vintage stores and Goodwill? Well I do get some cool stuff and deals. My only splurge is Trader Joe's and farmer's markets, TRYING to avoid hormones and pesticides. Mole jars were the drinking glasses
My dad made me a base bat that lasted until I played with the bigger kids and they didn’t use tennis balls
We also sneaked food into the movies and Disneyland and Magic Mountain, we were good smugglers
I’ve taught my daughter how to smuggle food and drinks into the movies, I put my arm around her and she holds it in the hand between us LOL!
We shopped at El Piojito across from Mac Arthur Pk.
Today is it still considered cool to shop at segundas, ooops I mean vintage stores and Goodwill? Well I do get some cool stuff and deals.
My only splurge is Trader Joe’s and farmer’s markets, TRYING to avoid hormones and pesticides.

]]> By: Chano Santamaria http://loteriachicana.net/2008/01/17/question-of-the-week-saving-money/comment-page-1#comment-30155 Chano Santamaria Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:11:09 +0000 http://loteriachicana.net/2008/01/17/question-of-the-week-saving-money/#comment-30155 Our collection of Mole-jar cups is getting numerous. Have to start giving them as "ethnic" gifts. However, my wife remembers her abuela having a set of juice glasses similar to ours. Using bacon grease for the eggs and frijoles, cutting only the moldy part off a vegetable and using the rest, beans and corn tortillas being a meal, growing our own food. Our collection of Mole-jar cups is getting numerous. Have to start giving them as “ethnic” gifts. However, my wife remembers her abuela having a set of juice glasses similar to ours. Using bacon grease for the eggs and frijoles, cutting only the moldy part off a vegetable and using the rest, beans and corn tortillas being a meal, growing our own food.

]]> By: urban memo http://loteriachicana.net/2008/01/17/question-of-the-week-saving-money/comment-page-1#comment-30150 urban memo Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:06:57 +0000 http://loteriachicana.net/2008/01/17/question-of-the-week-saving-money/#comment-30150 el chavo: i love using mole jars as cups!!! el chavo:

i love using mole jars as cups!!!

]]> By: urban memo http://loteriachicana.net/2008/01/17/question-of-the-week-saving-money/comment-page-1#comment-30149 urban memo Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:06:48 +0000 http://loteriachicana.net/2008/01/17/question-of-the-week-saving-money/#comment-30149 i love using mole jars as cups!!! i love using mole jars as cups!!!

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