Weird things you do to be MM

[explorer2001]

What weird things do you do to be MM?

This thought brought to you by my figuring out how to fit 3 baking dished in the oven at one time so that I can make a pork roast, two plain (and freaking huge what the heck happened to chickens?) chicken breast and two "Malibu seasoned" (totally normal sized) chicken breasts at the same time. This means I won't have to turn the oven on for the rest of the week and can have lunches and dinner from left overs (don't worry I'll be freezing some) for that time. This is partially MM, partially I'm too lazy to cook every night, and partially I don't want to turn on the A/C yet or heat the house any more than I have to with the oven (it was 88* here today).

[livinitup]

I still have snow. I hate everyone with hot weather.

[irene adler]

explorer2001, we do the same thing. We also keep the crock pot in the garage and I can things from our garden outside over our burner for an outdoor turkey deep fryer.

[VillainV]

We do the same thing, but with the grill. Not really to save money but more for convenience. Though in addition to saving fuel and time, I guess it's MM because if we have already-prepared food on hand, we're more likely to eat it instead of ordering in on nights we're too tired to cook.

[Deleted]

I do lots of weird MM things!

No paper towels in the house (we use rags / bandannas)
I am obsessed with hypermiling and track my fuel consumption like nobody's business.
Clean my own house (seriously on MM this is weird!)
Unplug vampire appliances.
Keep our house at 60 in the winter and wear lots of long underwear

[v]

Shop at a grocery store that is a 30-block walk from home because it is way cheaper than the grocery stores that are closer.

And then walk those 30 blocks home with my groceries instead of taking the subway because I get cheap about the subway.

[sweetiesparkles]

Shop at Aldi
Buy used shoes/clothes at Goodwill/consigment (most are nwot or nwt)
Go to beauty school for facials, etc.
Eat from kids menu at Chipotle
Always get water when eating at restaurants
Ebay for luxury items (LV)
Minimize vacations (our family is weird and we dont like to travel)

[magdala]

Make my own bread, pitas, tomato sauce, enchilada sauce, spice mixes, and soup stock.
Make my lunch
Work from home as often as possible to cut down on gas costs
Carry a filtration water bottle everywhere so I don't buy cold drinks at the office or while running errands
Resole shoes.
Use cloth napkins instead of paper napkins.
Use white vinegar for basic cleaning

[raangoli]

Mar 24, 2015 7:14:06 GMT -5 @shoegal said:

I do lots of weird MM things!

No paper towels in the house (we use rags / bandannas)
I am obsessed with hypermiling and track my fuel consumption like nobody's business.
Clean my own house (seriously on MM this is weird!)
Unplug vampire appliances.
Keep our house at 60 in the winter and wear lots of long underwear

We do these things, too. Layers are your friend. 

And my standard answer - I reuse my ziploc bags for weeks at a time. So if I bring granola for my yogurt to work - I will use the same baggie over and over until it's spent. It's green and MM. 

[thebulldog]

We only have one car. We use metro to get to work and I hate driving. It is a pia at times but we save money in not having to pay for two cars to park downtown.

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[Deleted]

I line dry almost all of my clothes, which can be a little hard in an apartment, I use the metal banister on my stairs for this a lot. The dryer at my apartment costs $2.25/load!!

[gt7301b]

I try and coast through my subdivision to increase my gas mileage on my car.

[martini]

Clean my own house (I also make some of my cleaning supplies)
Line dry all of my clothes
Reuse baggies if it was dry food
Do my own mani/pedis except maybe once a year I'll get a pro pedicure- I don't think this is that uncommon but some of my friends act like it's odd.

[mrsfarmer]

We have my MIL on our cell phone family plan and pay that in exchange for babysitting (it isn't that much time and we feed her).
I garage sale for the girls' clothes, also we upcycle a lot of their stuff and are not too proud to accept hand me downs from friends for them.
Saturday mornings, a local grocery store marks down meat that hasn't sold during the week and I can get a whole chicken for 2-3 dollars. There is also a local meat market that does large quantity discounts so I can order ahead and stock up the freezer.

[irene adler]

There are things I will never ever order at restaurants because I can make them at home cheaper. Things like pancakes and basic Italian food – it might taste better at a restaurant, but I can't justify spending the money on something like that I can make decently myself.

[gibbinator]

I don't buy plastic wrap
I always run "quick" loads on my washing machine and line dry when the weather isn't freezing.
I cut the top off milk bags (yes yes Canada is weird) and they're the perfect size for sandwiches

[Deleted]

Mar 24, 2015 9:32:03 GMT -5 @vicmo said:

On Sundays I precook meat for lunch salads, and eggs/bacon for breakfasts, so there's no excuse for not being able to eat those meals from the fridge.

I spend more on groceries (especially convenience foods like rotisserie chickens) because expensive groceries are still cheaper and quicker than eating out on weeknights when we're too rushed to cook an elaborate meal.

H and I go to the movies separately and often alone because babysitters are $$$$$.

How do you pre-cook your eggs?  I've only tried it once, but it was a total fail.

[gt7301b]

Oh another thing, unless I absolutely have to be somewhere I volunteer to be bumped on a flight for the voucher. I don't mind spending a couple hours in an airport to get free airfare later on. Especially in the Atlanta airport, I know where the comfy chairs with chargers are.

[rikki]

Mar 24, 2015 7:38:03 GMT -5 v said:

Shop at a grocery store that is a 30-block walk from home because it is way cheaper than the grocery stores that are closer.

And then walk those 30 blocks home with my groceries instead of taking the subway because I get cheap about the subway.

This one is funny to me.  I would definitely go to the store with the less expensive groceries, but there is no way I am walking home with them, especially in the winter.

[oswin]

Not sure if these are weird but perhaps less common:

I don't outsource any personal care (no haircuts, no manicures, no pedicures, no waxing, etc, and I cut DH's hair too)
Bicycle instead of drive when possible (pregnant me is wussy about riding in the rain though)
Rarely eat out
Keep the A/C set to 78-80 during the summer (except at night)

[mbcdefg]

I don't know what counts as "weird," but:

We re-use most Ziplocs, tin foil, parchment paper, cheesecloth
I leave a box of cereal at my desk and bring in a mason jar of milk for breakfast every day
I wear clothes and shoes until they're absolutely worn out - I sew/repair them whenever possible
We leave the heat way down in the winter, unless we have company
Only the guest bedroom has an AC, so we sleep there in summer
I freeze bags of chicken bones and vegetable scraps for broth
I don't color my hair, get mani-pedis, go to spas or get massages, etc. (personal preference, mostly)
I probably get my hair cut four times a year (I thought having a hairdresser sister would mean free haircuts ... nope!)
Drugstore/ELF makeup, for the most part
We unplug most things that aren't in use (coffee pot, bedside lamps, etc.)
Most of our vacations are semi-local
Books are from the library or secondhand 
MH saves packing material for shipping out his breweriana trades 
I Pinned a recipe for a coffee grounds exfoliate that I'd like to try
We still buy paper towels, and paper napkins for parties, but we use cloth napkins and dishcloths as much as possible 
We got the refillable container of cat litter from Petco, rather than buying a new bag every time we need more
I make my own spice rubs/taco spice, pizza dough, pie crust, pasta sauce
MH builds furniture or refinishes stuff from thrift stores/Craigslist/the curb
We have a change jar, and I'm not above picking up coins on the sidewalk. I've paid for <$5 things with all coins on occasion. 
Told our extended families that we would only buy Christmas gifts for the kids, not the adults - we received nothing from them, which I'm very happy about because we don't need more clutter

ETA: I use my own grocery bags and cloth produce bags. My Shop Rite used to offer 5 cents per bag (including the produce bags), so I brought as many bags as possible and used them all, even if they just had one or two items apiece in them. But the store canceled that program I still use my own bags to avoid using plastic bags, and I keep a compact bag in my purse for random store trips (I save plastic bags for bathroom trash cans and for scooping the catbox). Whole Foods still gives a discount per bag, but I only shop there for special things, not regular grocery shopping.

[Deleted]

Mar 24, 2015 8:41:59 GMT -5 gt7301b said:

I try and coast through my subdivision to increase my gas mileage on my car.

Twins!

[Deleted]

Oh yes, I do my own pedicures and pay myself around 40-50$, depending on how good a job I did . Money goes into our travel account.

[sunshinedaydreams]

A lot of the stuff we do is more green living than MM, but they seem to go hand-in-hand a lot of the time.

- H and I carpool to work every day (in our Prius

- We play the gas swings around here.  Often prices swing by $0.30-0.50 within a couple of days.  If we notice the prices are low, we fill up even if we don't need to.

- I'm obsessive about doing all of our grocery shopping at Kroger to get gas points.  Then I wait until both of our cars need filled up and we take both cars and all of our gas cans for lawn equipment and fill them up for super cheap.  (Last month we saved $15 in one fill up!)

- No paper products in the house other than TP

- Clean everything with vinegar

- Obsessively unplug things and/or plug things into power strips so we can easily flip the switch

- Reuse ziplocs that my mom/grandma send food home with us in (we don't ever buy our own)

- Hang clothes to dry

- We have solar panels on our house

[shortstax]

Mar 24, 2015 8:25:51 GMT -5 milsaroo said:

This is embarrassing but I play Swagbucks movie trailers on my phone while I sleep so I earn points (which later turn into gift cards)

Yep, I do that too. It used to annoy the crap out of DH, ha. Did you see that the Amazon $5 gf was raised to 500 swagbucks? Boooooo

[Pom]

- I fulfill 1/2 of my diet coke supply with my coke rewards . My sister and mom save me caps and box codes too
-only run full loads of laundry, dishwasher etc.
-rain barrel on the deck for plants, drip hoses, timers, etc to conserve since we are drought restricted too
-hang clothes to dry
-shop sales, coupons for everything and I hate paying for shipping so I will always look for codes for best deal
-reward points/ECB for CVS/WAG

[212]

I do the laundry in the free communal machines in the basement of my building. I have a laundry room in my apartment, but the washer/dryer is electric and the energy consumption was ridiculous. Our electric bill has gone way down as a result.

[thumper55]

cut everyone's hair, including my own
do my own facials, mani, pedi, etc
resell stuff
buy some stuff used
shop at discount stores
I'll clear the shelf when I find a good deal. I haven't bought toothpaste in a year.
I drive our shitty looking small car instead of my Lexus SUV bcs of gas
Eat or freeze leftovers. I won't throw away food unless it's gone bad
wash clothing in cold water
We rarely use heat or AC
only full loads for washing dishes or clothes

[flatlan]

In addition to several other things mentioned in this post, I cut open tubes of lotion, face wash, hair products, etc to scrap out every little bit of product left inside.

[agnes]

Mar 24, 2015 7:38:03 GMT -5 v said:

Shop at a grocery store that is a 30-block walk from home because it is way cheaper than the grocery stores that are closer.

And then walk those 30 blocks home with my groceries instead of taking the subway because I get cheap about the subway.

so in miles how far would this be?