Just curious what you guys have been able to score recently.
I don’t have anything really good to share, been spending too much. Let me live vicariously (and frugally!) through you!
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Found I can get 5G at home. About half the cost of starlink.
Kid’s news print “doodle pads” are actually just decent drawing paper for about a quarter of the price
Found a brand new (still with original tags) Duluth Trading Co. “flannel jacket” for $7. It’s an oversized, fleece-lined flannel shirt. Nice quality, very warm & soft. The retail tags read $59.99, discontinued/clearance $29.95 with a date of 2013. Discontinued over a decade ago and it finally has a home (and I love it).
They do still sell these, with a few design improvements (side pockets), but they’re around $80 now I believe.
That reminds me, winter stuff is probably on sale now.
I found a new bar thanks to a friend. I pay $3 for a beer I’d pay $5-$6 at most places.
A brand new coffee grinder (hand crank) for free, and 15 silk neckties for €1 each.
Not a recent find, but I just realized that I’ve owned my Instant Pot for 7 years and paid under $99 Canadian for it brand new!
We use it almost daily and sometimes twice a day, and I can only imagine how much time and electricity it’s saved us over those years.
Indirectly, it’s allowed us to save a TON of money by cooking dried beans instead of buying cans. As a family of vegans, who used to buy dozens of canned beans per week, the savings are substantial.
Google Fi had an instant rebate offer on the Pixel 7a - $200 off if activated on an existing Google Fi account. I got mine for $300 plus tax. It’s last year’s model, but I’ll still get more than 4 years of security updates on it.
That’s a good deal.
I just got a Pixel 8, but it’s not all that frugal since I paid…not the full highest price, but high enough. That said, I plan to hold onto it for the full 7 years of updates–and thankfully, Pixels can be rooted so if I want I can slap my own stuff on there if I don’t like what Google’s doing a few years in.
I broke my previous real phone about a year ago when I didn’t have money to replace it, so I got THE cheapest smartphone in the universe to tide me over–and my god, it was horrible. A year of torture using that thing. I didn’t even think a smartphone COULD be that bad–I still think of it as a new technology, cutting edge, so how could any model possibly be awful?–but it was truly awful. Moto G Pure. Don’t get one. Awful awful awful. Basically, it just doesn’t have enough power to deal with ordinary apps–lots of freezing, lag, etc. Could barely keep one app at a time open. Like, it would choke on ordinary grocery shopping apps. So I’d be trying to apply this or that coupon, and I’d have to twiddle my thumbs in the middle of the aisle like an idiot until it decided to work (or not).
So I think I over-compensated with the Pixel 8 by getting the first flagship phone I’ve ever had.
…I do use Mint Mobile on the cheapest yearly plan, lol, so I have that going for me.
Found a cast iron griddle for 4$ at goodwill. I’m stripping it with easyoff and gonna order some lead tests on Monday. No branding whatsoever sadly but very decent shape so not complaining
