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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2015 10:32:16 GMT -5
I've been lurking over on Mr. Money Moustache and the 99.9% of the people there are whackadoodles. One thread was about towel usage and one woman and her husband share one towel for a week I'm sorry but I will work an extra 10 years if that's what it takes for me to not have to share a bath towel. others are talking about car insurance and basically recommending fraud. then there's the no shampoo/conditioner/soap thread. some of the threads are too unreal to be true.
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Post by The Captain on Feb 4, 2015 10:33:20 GMT -5
Makes us seem "normal" in comparison, doesn't it!
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Feb 4, 2015 10:42:41 GMT -5
Who needs towels when you can have millions in the bank when you're 90?
I wonder if that board is where they get some of the people featured on Extreme Cheapskates.
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Post by alabamagal on Feb 4, 2015 10:43:51 GMT -5
I will not share towels. But I did have to work on DH a later the kids to use 1 or 2 towels a week not 7
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Post by Lizard Queen on Feb 4, 2015 10:44:15 GMT -5
I've been over there a bit as well. I don't enjoy it nearly as much as this board, and have pretty much given up on going to the forum. There's a lot of extremely frugal people over there, and I have no interest in a lot of that as well. I find the blog posts and subsequent comments to them a lot more interesting.
It's all incremental though. Any little bit you can cut down on can mean you're that much closer to your goal. It doesn't mean you have to live like a hippy dippy like many over there.
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Post by ArchietheDragon on Feb 4, 2015 10:44:53 GMT -5
I can think of a lot grosser things I do with my wife than share a towel with her.
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Post by muttleynfelix on Feb 4, 2015 10:45:53 GMT -5
Admittedly, I rinse out baggies that are used to put an open package of something in - think like a bag of salad, or frozen veggies that are open. But dang people. That is nuts. The sharing towel thing is just ummmm.... weird. We have 8 zillion towels because we took some that were my Grandma's when she died - nothing says the 70s like bright orange towels with green stripes and then my mom got some new towels and we took the old ones. We've probably only bought 6 new ones in 10 years together. (We got a bunch as wedding presents).
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Post by Ombud on Feb 4, 2015 10:46:56 GMT -5
Aren't they the whackadoodles that want to exist on something like $500 a month? Not saying that's all life dealt them, saying it's a choice? As I sit here having my daily morning Starbucks
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Post by whoisjohngalt on Feb 4, 2015 10:49:22 GMT -5
How does sharing a towel saves you money?
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Post by Lizard Queen on Feb 4, 2015 10:54:22 GMT -5
How does sharing a towel saves you money? Less laundry? I don't know. I didn't read that thread. There's a lot of minimalists over there, and there's people that are from another board called, Early Retirement Extreme. That guy supposedly lived on $7000/year (for just him). MMM lives on $24k/year + a paid off house, which is pretty close to what my family lives on (if you add in the house payment). We drive, buy stuff, bathe regularly, etc. My point is, you have some extremists over there giving an impression that is a lot more extreme than the general slant of the board.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2015 10:55:09 GMT -5
I don't see the issue in sharing towels with a spouse. My ex and I used to keep two or three towels in the bathroom and change them out once a week or so. It's just drying off after the shower, I assume I'm clean when I get out of the shower.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Feb 4, 2015 10:57:14 GMT -5
Less laundry which means less gas/electric and less water used. You don't buy as many towels either so you save money not purchasing extras.
I'm not sure how much that actually saves. I am sure Phil can explain to us how sharing towels equals millions of dollars investments in 30 years.
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Post by wvugurl26 on Feb 4, 2015 10:57:28 GMT -5
Okay just no on the towel sharing. I used to only use a couple a week but for some reason in all my houses in MD they always dried smelling funky. So I use a new one every day. Life is short and people are crazy!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2015 10:57:31 GMT -5
I don't see the issue in sharing towels with a spouse. My ex and I used to keep two or three towels in the bathroom and change them out once a week or so. It's just drying off after the shower, I assume I'm clean when I get out of the shower. and what happens when you dry your face with the part of the towel he used to dry his a$$? I use 2 towels per shower and use them a max of 3 times.....I have a giant linen closet and can have towels for 20 in there. I'm not sharing my towels with anyone!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2015 10:58:34 GMT -5
Less laundry which means less gas/electric and less water used. You don't buy as many towels either so you save money not purchasing extras.
I'm not sure how much that actually saves. I am sure Phil can explain to us how sharing towels equals millions of dollars investments in 30 years. you can get a bath towel for $3.99 that lasts for let's say 4 years conservatively - so $1 per year. then maybe save $5 a year on laundry. like I said, I'd rather work an extra hour to cover that.
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Post by whoisjohngalt on Feb 4, 2015 10:59:03 GMT -5
OK, laundry. How much laundry do people do On my homeschooling forum there are often threads about routines and schedule and on ever single post there are "I do 2-3 loads of laundry a day" I don't get that. I have 3 kids who get VERY messy. I still only do a few loads a week. So, even if the entire family shared one towel, I would probably save 10 laundries a year or something.
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Post by whoisjohngalt on Feb 4, 2015 10:59:43 GMT -5
Okay just no on the towel sharing. I used to only use a couple a week but for some reason in all my houses in MD they always dried smelling funky. So I use a new one every day. Life is short and people are crazy! MD is evil!!!!
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Post by Lizard Queen on Feb 4, 2015 11:00:48 GMT -5
OK, laundry. How much laundry do people do On my homeschooling forum there are often threads about routines and schedule and on ever single post there are "I do 2-3 loads of laundry a day" I don't get that. I have 3 kids who get VERY messy. I still only do a few loads a week. So, even if the entire family shared one towel, I would probably save 10 laundries a year or something. Since my second was born, it seems my laundry has increased exponentially. I don't know, do you do really big loads? My front loader gets off-balance if the loads get too big, but I try to make them big enough to be worth my while.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2015 11:00:57 GMT -5
I don't see the issue in sharing towels with a spouse. My ex and I used to keep two or three towels in the bathroom and change them out once a week or so. It's just drying off after the shower, I assume I'm clean when I get out of the shower. and what happens when you dry your face with the part of the towel he used to dry his a$$? I use 2 towels per shower and use them a max of 3 times.....I have a giant linen closet and can have towels for 20 in there. I'm not sharing my towels with anyone! Again, I'm assuming we're clean. Who the heck shoves the towel up into their anus? For me, it's not about saving money, I just don't see the point of washing towels so often.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2015 11:01:33 GMT -5
I can think of a lot grosser things I do with my wife than share a towel with her. Bet she showers after... I like clean towels... My own.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Feb 4, 2015 11:02:21 GMT -5
I don't see the issue in sharing towels with a spouse. My ex and I used to keep two or three towels in the bathroom and change them out once a week or so. It's just drying off after the shower, I assume I'm clean when I get out of the shower. and what happens when you dry your face with the part of the towel he used to dry his a$$? I use 2 towels per shower and use them a max of 3 times.....I have a giant linen closet and can have towels for 20 in there. I'm not sharing my towels with anyone! Lol. I do the same with towels. My kids' towels we just use once. We have a crap-ton of towels. They take up 2 shelves in the linen closet.
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Post by ArchietheDragon on Feb 4, 2015 11:02:32 GMT -5
It is not the laundry savings itself. It is the mind set. Someone who shares towels is also savings by not having cable, not having a cell phone plan, buying clothes second hand, riding a bike instead of using a car, buying groceries from aldis, etc, etc, etc.
Any one thing doesn't make any difference, but once you start snow balling them all together it makes a dent. But it take a certain mind set to do it.
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Post by whoisjohngalt on Feb 4, 2015 11:04:06 GMT -5
Yeah, my washer is big, I guess.
I do a load of "hot" water load a week and a load of "cold". Towels. Bedding gets done every other week.
the thing is, I don't think new washers use that much electricity. I don't know. I think dryers eat up more electricity
In the summer, I do like to hang things out to dry, but that's not bc of the cost, I just like the smell of laundry that was hang outside.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2015 11:11:55 GMT -5
You people still use towels? My German Shepherd taught me to shake the water off a couple times and roll on the carpet.
I'm tempted to post this as a one up on their share a towel frugalness over there.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Feb 4, 2015 11:13:48 GMT -5
You people still use towels? My German Shepherd taught me to shake the water off a couple times and roll on the carpet. I'm tempted to post this as a one up on their share a towel frugalness over there. Lol---do it! do it!
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Post by Cookies Galore on Feb 4, 2015 11:15:52 GMT -5
I use two towels a week (hair and body) and hubs uses one. We have plenty of towels, it's just a time and kind of money thing (getting quarters is mildly irritating!) since we have a coin-operated laundry room in the basement. I'd much rather do one monthly load of towels than two.
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Post by CarolinaKat on Feb 4, 2015 11:20:45 GMT -5
How does sharing a towel saves you money? It probably saves them far less money than I do by not sharing towels and line drying them as opposed to the dryer.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Feb 4, 2015 11:22:24 GMT -5
How does sharing a towel saves you money? It probably saves them far less money than I do by not sharing towels and line drying them as opposed to the dryer. Oh, I'm sure they line-dry their towel as well...
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Post by CarolinaKat on Feb 4, 2015 11:24:18 GMT -5
It probably saves them far less money than I do by not sharing towels and line drying them as opposed to the dryer. Oh, I'm sure they line-dry their towel as well... Lol... ok. Well if someone can teach me how to get my husband to hang his towel on one of the MULTIPLE towel racks and not the corner of the door, then i'm interested
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2015 11:24:31 GMT -5
You wash towels every other week ? Like you use the same towel for two weeks?
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