1001 thrifty ideas.

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73. Invert a thing that keeps your feet warm.

74) Start a fight....make your own soap!! !

75) Break in the lipo suction clinics medical waste trash and harvest real human fat,
make fancy soap for rich bit<hes(out of that fat).

76) Sell rich bitc#es fat right back to them!!

77) get a life

78) Don't eat rocks.

79) Don't listen to werbert

80) Rob people lying out in the gutter (but bring a stun gun just in case they're not totally passed out!)

81) Don't pay for storage. Buy a plot in the graveyard and store your stuff in there.

82) Store your stuff at a friend's house.

83) Use the school locker room showers as opposed to the one at home.

84) Get free food and clothes from the church.

85) Go to church on Sundays. There's usually a reception with free food.

86) If there's a power failure in a store but it's still open, shoplift!

87) Panhandle.

88) Collect the bottles and cans out of recycling bins and trash cans.

89) If your house is worth less than it was worth before, get insurance and then burn the house.

90) Use candles and burn paper instead of using electricity. Wear a lot of clothes instead of heating your house. Create a "hot room" with a fireplace and the doors and windows sealed.

91) Use a bidet! It'll save you on toilet paper.

92) Steal toilet paper and liquid soap from public bathrooms.

93) Take (untouched) leftovers from people's plates in restaurants.

94) Dumpster-dive.

95) Go trick-or-treating.

96) Crash parties and eat the food.

97) Visit your grandparents. They'll probably let you stay for dinner.

98) Boil grass and dandelions and eat them.

99) Ketchup and water makes a good tomato soup.

100) Flush the toilet with a bucket of rain or lake or whatever water from outside.

101) Shower in the rain outside.

102) Steal milk out of milk trucks.

103) Hide in a school locker or something. When the school is closed, break into the caf and eat until you puke, then stuff your backpack, your underwear, your shoes and other places with food and money. To open the cash register drop it off the mezzanine in the gym. Find other cash registers in the school. Use a bolt-cutter to break into people's lockers.

104) Don't get caught!

105) Fake disabilities, or find disabilities within yourself, or ask a doctor for a note about a "disability", or go and get a disability, and get disability benefits from the govt.

106) Go to the library instead of buying books.

107) Sell all that unwanted junk your family bought for you. Have a garage sale or sell it to used book/clothing stores.

108) Sometimes Dollarama sells clothes.

109) Sometimes Dollarama sells regular white or whole wheat bread. If you're a "normal, square sandwich bread" type of person, go there instead of a supermarket.

110) If you like bottled water or Gatorade, or fruit punch or orange juice, or juice in boxes, you can also get all that at the dollar store sometimes.

111) Go to the hospital, sneak up to an inpatient floor and raid the fridge in the kitchen. If you know someone in the hospital, you can also do that. Or volunteer at the hospital to do that. Or dress up as a staff member. Or whatever. Just do it if you can.

112 ) Marry Ana54 she is bound to save you money.

113. Buy a reliant car, such as a Volvo, so you don't have to repair it that often.

(LOL, TheMachine1! Is that a hint you want to or don't want to? )


114. Barter your way up online like that guy did with a paper clip. Trade something for something worth a tiny bit more, then trade that for something that's worth a tiny bit more, etc. until you have what you want or something huge to sell so that you can buy something you want.


115. Sell drugs.

116. If you know someone mean who left their fortune to no one or someone else mean, force them at gunpoint to give you their bank card and PIN #.

117. After cleaning out their account, do the empty envelope thing at the ATM. (Be sure to wear a burka or something.)


118. Become an airport screener and sell the things you confiscate. (You can get away with confiscating a lot!)

119. Rent out rooms in your house.

120. In the winter, squat in someone's summer cottage.

121. If you are female, move to Quebec, rob a bank, and if you get caught they'll probably send you to Joliette-- a really lax prison where the inmates have parties.

122. Start an internet cafe with computers you found in the garbage.

123. Steal computers and graphic calculators from your school and sell them.

124. Go to food banks.
125. Eat at missions.
126. Join the police force... no experience or education required and it pays well.
127. Sneak into abandoned buildings and loot them.
128. Go to offices, like the welfare office, and get up to go to the bathroom, but don't go to the bathroom; go into empty offices and kitchenettes and stuff and steal stuff.
129. Go up to the break room in a store and hide in a locker until it's closed. Then come out and loot the place.
130. When there's a disaster, like Hurricane Katrina where people's files are wiped out, find out where refugees are being transported to, go there, blend in with them and get free stuff.