tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5831340837316208945.post1241464155499314504..comments2024-01-30T09:54:15.155+00:00Comments on The Tight Fist - Lessons In Frugality From A Real Jew: The Tight Fist ManifestoThe Tight Fisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12853527040756844624noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5831340837316208945.post-76888825745709597472015-04-23T07:55:44.370+01:002015-04-23T07:55:44.370+01:00Tight fisted? We South Asians are golden gloves o...Tight fisted? We South Asians are golden gloves of tight fistedness. 1) Get tissue and toilet paper from McDonalds and Starbucks for free ie) Napkins<br />2) Those Starbucks you talk about can be made free. You can using only 1 Five dollar gift card, register a birthday at least 30 days ahead of today. Then use that same card to buy another gift card and register another birthday 30 days ahead. You can make enough for 3 or 4 per day so you get to eat free food from Starbucks. The empty gift card that is registered needs to be dated so you can use it again next year. Make sure you use have a Starbucks barista reload the card using the same $5 that you had always been using. Do so about a month prior to the anniversary of the birthdate. This time rather than registering a new card, you simply need to reload the money from one card to another. But you need to do it at the till not online yourself so it becomes a purchase, not a transfer. You are going to take the next card and reload the next old card and pay for it with the card that you just reloaded it with. This creates a purchase which is necessary to activate a birthday once a year. The one five dollar will buy you thousand free drinks or food items from Starbucks. Imagine having a friend or coworker asking you to go grab a venti mocha for you. He gives you five bucks. You use your birthday reward, and you now got your five bucks back, and you still have five bucks in your card. Bounce the five dollars back and forth 30 times and you are a gold card holder with one card. You can now have free refills into your cup and never pay for coffee again. Before the end of the day, get an iced tea or coffee so they put it into a plastic cup. You can alternate from hot to cold from coffee to tea. This will give a legitimate excuse to have the barista change cups to new ones so it doesnt get old and break down. At the end of the day, a plastic cup sitting overnight in a cold beverage used to refill into a new cup they cant tell it is old as plastic doesn't decay. Get your coffee double cupped. If you have a friend who wants a coffee like a tall, get a hot tall water to go also, and pour from your venti free refill and dump out the hot water and give him a coffee. You have half of your coffee from the venti and you can ask for anther refill short while later. You can even charge your colleague for that tall coffee or treat him to it, and later maybe he will treat you to something non starbucks that isn't free. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5831340837316208945.post-60107716963026677892009-08-14T10:18:50.259+01:002009-08-14T10:18:50.259+01:00I believe thought is a valuable resource to be use...I believe thought is a valuable resource to be used sparringly.<br /><br />While I know i can't spend my way to happiness, I can't save my way to happiness either!<br /><br />Happiness is a state of mind not spending or saving. Once you get that the tight fist goal become easy!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5831340837316208945.post-52486505402737250202009-08-12T17:30:04.361+01:002009-08-12T17:30:04.361+01:00This philosophy sounds more like engineering than ...This philosophy sounds more like engineering than economics. All of the gadgets we depend on in our daily life could be made to run faster or be built cheaper or lighter, but a margin of error is built in. Its more important that my computer runs reliably than runs super-fast. My car is over-engineered to keep me safe during a statistically unlikely event. <br /><br />Because of a narrow minded focus on deriving material gain or excessive convenience, we become strangled in debt and obligation that keep us from making rational decisions. The tight-fisted one, who eschews immediate reward, makes better long term decisions - free of overwhelming financial anxiety, and will ultimately achieve greater success.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09939774355564395175noreply@blogger.com