What is the most UN-frugal thing... - Page 5

[mnnice]

Originally Posted by SleeplessMommy

Two more wastes of money:

a) the diamond engagemnt ring "two months salary". A huge waste of money and not an "investment in the future"

b) expensive weddings!

No kidding! I think my ring cost dh more like two hours salary. : . I like it just fine, but I am so not a jewlery person.

My B and SIL were married in April of 2005 and their wedding just seemed like a way to spend as much money as possible. My mom bless her heart paid for my ds ringbears tux, I think because she didn't want to listen to me complain about how expensive is was for the next 10 years.

[Nickarolaberry]

Originally Posted by azzuranotte

Throwing out money... literally. I know a lady who throws out pennies.

I'll take them.

[Amys1st]

what is considered expensive for a wedding? our wedding 10 years ago was about 17K. Paid for by my parents. Great fun, its really a big party for the parents since a lot of their friends were there. I thought that was a average for our area. I have been to weddings that cost as low as 5K and as high as 75K. I might add though, it seems the crazier, more outlandish the wedding, the quicker the divorce comes.


Besides more people spend more time on their wedding than their marriage and thats where the issue is whether frugal or not.

[wonderwahine]

ours cost $300

[Amys1st]

When my younger sister got married 3 years ago, she told the bridesmaids to wear a black dress and we could pick it. I had already bought one for BIL's wedding in 2001 and it was hanging in my closet. Worked great and wore it for this wedding too. My sister in law thought it was wrong to not buy yet another black dress for the bridesmaid dress. I would have bought the exact same dress no doubt.

[azzuranotte]

Originally Posted by Nickarolaberry

I'll take them.

That's what I told her. She never took me up on it. I was serious though.

[velochic]

Our wedding was the cost of the marriage license. We got married at the courthouse and spent our money on a two-week trip to Malta!

[velochic]

Seriously, I think that the most unfrugal things are buying lots of designer clothes and shoes and buying more vehicle or home than you need. For example, SUVs and large trucks for families that neither deliver/haul things nor have a large family. I think the most ridiculous things I have ever seen are these "luxury" trucks. I just LMAO when I see these. Like they are saying, "I haul only CLEAN, EXPENSIVE dirt!" Basically, I think that buying things as status symbols instead of being practical about them is a waste. Who cares what other people think!

[Amys1st]

I love pennies and we save them and then use them...

There is a charity at our church that has you "fill the jars" w pennies, etc. So whenever it comes up, we collect the jars and sit dd down for a 1/2 and she fills them w the change.

Or my favorite:
Several years ago I received an unfair parking ticket in my town. The fine was $15. I brought it right away over to the police station to say- hey this is wrong!! The guy behind the counter was a jerk and said rules are rules blah blah blah. To fight it, I would have to go to court. That would be taking a day off work etc, the choice is better to pay it- I guess that was the scam of these tickets back then. I could also pay the ticket at that counter on the spot or by a certain date. So I went home, counted out $15 in pennies and put them in a bag. I called the next day and asked if they accept cash for the fine. They said yes as long as its exact amount. I said no problem!!
I went in right before closing and the same jerk was there. He said w a smirk- HEre to pay your fine? I said yes, you take cash right? He smiled and said YUP! I handed over a huge ziplock of pennies. He said he could not accept it. I said why- its legal tender and you just said you accept cash. He said can you come back with bills- I said, its closing and I will be out of town so you have to accept it RULES ARE RULEs I said w the same smirk. HE took it w his face flaming.

Irony- got another BS ticket a week later. Brought it in, same guy was working. Is said, I need to protest this or I will be back w more pennies. He said I could not do that and he got in trouble for taking it. I said pennies are legel tender no matter how inconvenient and to have his boss call me regarding the pennies and the ticket. I got a message the next day saying the ticket was cleared and it was a mistake. Never had an issue again...

[snowbunny]

Amy! That story is so funny!

Uggh the huge expensive weddings are soooo silly! It drives DH and I up the wall. I guess it's the bride and groom's choice, but come on, it's not necessary.

Our friends took out a loan to pay for much of their $30K wedding at the country club. They bought a home a few months later and within a year they thought they might have to give up the house because they couldn't afford both the home and wedding loan payments. I really feel sorry for them.

Our wedding cost $10 (the cost of a license ), we then could spend our money for our 10-day long trip to the Netherlands. Even with that honeymoon we still got out of the wedding for less than 10% of what our friends paid, no debt and loads of happy memories.

[SugarAndSun]

Originally Posted by janerose

My Mom & her fiance live in a large 4 bedroom (really the master bedroom is more of a suite), 3 bath house, dining room, 2 living rooms, office, finished cellar, attached 2 car garage, large screened porch, inground pool they never use, on a couple acres. They have her fiance's 2 kids (15 & 12 yo) 4-8 days a month. They are seriously talking about putting an addition onto the garage & possibly onto the family room as well. "We'd really love a fireplace...french doors going out onto the deck..." Oh, and they have a huge fifth wheel camper & the pick-up to tow it with that they never use and are now having an awful hard time selling. Plus a motorcycle, van & car (all purchased new).

This would all be fine if my Mom did not LITERALLY spend every minute of the day complaining about how much she wants to retire, how she'll never be able to retire, how she wishes she could retire like her fiance (who is disabled)....

I want to rip my hair out every time I have that conversation with her. :

Holly

My mom is like this.... complains she doesn't want to work, but buys, buys, buys!

[vamp127]

Pretty much everything mu ils do is unfrugal.

The 2 of them live in a 6000sqft house. They also have a house in FL. MIL has a bracelet that cost more than my car (brand new minivan). She collects colonial antiques and recently spent $12k on a "hope chest" for DD#1. What girl nowadays uses a hope chest? It has like 2 flakes of paint left on it.

She just bought a new set of dishes--service for 12. It's only the two of them, at most there are 7 when we visit. They do not entertain & have no friends. The dishes were $400 per place setting. She just had to have them because they matched her dining room. Huh? It's a white room with a walk-in fireplace!