It's safe to say that Jon is a thrifty guy. You know, the guy who bags 8 apples, sees some that cost 3 cents less a pound, and de-bags the old ones in order to purchase the 'cheaper' ones.
But today was an all-time low.
He called me excited because the Chinese restaurant gave him his food in a container that can be reused. Of course, he brought this home as if he were bringing home the Golden Ticket, taking it out of the plastic bag to hold it up and say "See?! Isn't this great?!". I am sorry to admit that I wasn't quite as excited as he expected. (for goodness' sake people, it was a used Chinese to-go container, what did he expect anyway? Confetti?)
As a side note, he had ordered his food to go to avoid the tip, which he believes upset the owners of the restaurant, but hey he is conscious about cutting any corners he can and apparently will go to any length, even if it is his fragile reputation with the only chance he has at Chinese food in town.
I, on the other hand, was buying superfluous body sprays at the Gap.
So, I guess we need to negotiate for our future survival; you know, somewhere between soy-spotted yucky containers and elysian body sprays.
2 comments:
A little unwarrented advice from a former waitress: Every tip counts, even the extra change left for a to-go order! :)
I hope to read more about your adventures in married Steubenville life. I am 2006 FUS graduate, now married and slugging it through my husband's graduate school. I totally understand the desire to make every cent count.
My parents- early in their marriage were VERY cheap. Dad would go back to the farm and get soybeans out of the silo. They'd boil them down and add ground beef (also very cheap from the farm) and you'd end up with a kind of pasty delight... that cost prob. 10 cents a pound.
Oh, and one thing to watch for Lauren- being cheap on medical. My dad was having a heart-attack (initially he thought it was just chest pains) and didn't want to go to the hospital to avoid a bill. Mom negotiated that they could drive to the hospital (it's 20 min. away) and sit in the parking lot; in case it was something serious. Well, by the time they got there it was game on!
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