Thrift Clubber Gifts

Can I join Tightwads United? If you can pass the test. In a dumpster behind a restaurant, you find a quarter tuna sandwich soiled with coffee grinds and stuck with tape. Gross. Am I in? Denied.

"It looks like our house got sick and threw up the attic."

"It was terrifying experience being faced with that kind of compulsive, insane behaviour...I tell you it's positively the last time I put foot in the sales!"

Second hand furniture.

Thrift: New way to eat eggs (avoid needless transport costs).

Thrift: have your arms and legs amputated, use a pillow for a bed!

The dumpster code - find something, leave something.

Queen of Upcycling!

'It seems to work, I couldn't afford a blackberry!'

'If by 'great', you mean 'terrible', then yes, we have plenty of great beers for under $4.00 a six-pack.'

'We are entering an era of thrift, so in place of champagne and canapes, there will be a jumble sale.'

"I love these old decorations!"

That's supposed to say garage sale!

When Tia Carmen says... "I got it for a very good price!" it means...she stopped at a garage sale on the way home.

"I just..."

"There's more inside."

Limerick On A Grecian Urn

"I'm on a tight budget. Make it look like I cut at myself."

"I need something that says, 'Let's party,' but in a fiscally responsible manner."

Vintage Dresses: Your Frock Exchange

Welcome all to the monthly gathering of Tightwads United. Hi there. Hello. Hey. On tonight's agenda: Dumpster diving, coupon clipping, and a special lecture. How to carpool while always getting the other person to drive. I'm like a god. Woohoo!! Yeah!!! Clap clap clap clap clap clap clap. Tightwads United.

Crap others threw out

'The sick economy isn't why J.B.has cut back on spending. He always was a tightwad.'

"Enough with the garage sales, Harold."

'It's time for the annual wage review...' (Sign on the wall says 'Remember money isn't everything!')

Buy Back the Junk We Bought at Your Garage Sale

"I think I found the perfect time of year to sell my old clothes!"

'It took a six hour operation to remove this fiver from your fist.'

"Once again, how little did you pay for this room?"

"Times are perfect for us masochists!..."

Garage Sale (sign originally read 'Garbage' sale).

Electricity Bills

House sale.

"My doctor told me to get outdoors more, so now I put on more yard sales."

'I thought you wanted a clothes dryer.'