3 Ways to Save Money by Sacrificing Your Pride

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There’s nothing wrong about living on the cheap - the world is going through a financial crisis, after all. You’ve probably started biking to work now, and have given up trying to win all sorts of baubles on eBay. However, if you’ve started sleeping in airports to scrimp on hotel money, pawning off the designer wallets you got as presents, or scraping the lint off old pajamas, bath robes, and boxer shorts so you could recycle them as stuffings for old Teddy Bears, you may want to loosen your iron grip on your credit card wallet just a bit. You’re not living frugal; you’re living like insane!

Below are 3 more money-saving tips you shouldn’t let yourself be conned into doing. I don’t know who thought these up but whoever did it couldn’t possibly have your best interest at heart - unless being mistaken for homeless serves your best interest. These tips include

1. Separating two-ply tissue
Based on a hundred sheet a day scenario, you could save almost $10 a year for separating whisper-thin sheets. But, is saving $10 worth your dignity and all the hours you’ll have to spend working away on your toilet paper? Unless you’re one who thrives on self-inflicted torture, forget this.

2. Going to Tijuana to see a Mexican dentist
In pain because of an impacted wisdom tooth? Your neighborhood dentist will be more than happy to ease your pain, for a substantial fee. As much as you’d like to turn the other way and save your money, go ahead and pay that fee, anyway - even if it means whipping out your checkbook wallet. Trying to save on dental costs by going all the way to Tijuana where dentists work for the price of a burger will only give you a headache on top of your toothache.

3. Making your own tampons or panty liners
There’s a reason the invention of tampons and panty liners is taken to be a sign of progress, women! It is! If you really feel you have to go down the DIY route to save a few bucks here and there, please don’t do it on anything you intend to put inside yourself.

It’s great to
be frugal, just don’t take it to the extreme.

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