Ask Steemit: What is the craziest thing you have done to save money? 你为了省钱而做过最疯狂的事情是什么？
Ask Steemit是一个我在英文区开始的帖子。希望中文区的朋友们也能够来参加。
你为了省钱而做过最疯狂的事情是什么？
Announcing the winners from the previous week
The question from the previous week was What is a habit you’ve developed that has significantly improved your well being or productivity You can read the full post here
There were 2 joint winners this week who received 5 SBD each
The first winning comment this week was from @snooway who commented with the following:
“Regular walks at lunchtime really helps my well-being. I appreciate nature, count my blessings, take photos, and the fresh air gives me clarity to tackle the rest of the day.”
The second winning comment this week was from @helenliu who commented with the following:
“我每天讀經靈修，思想神的話語，這様幫助我行事為人不偏離主的道，焦急憂慮時，得以回到平靜安隠。最近我從事中英文翻譯，每晚把三篇英文禱告詞翻成中文，與教會群組朋友分享，大家一起為社區禱告，做為宣教的後盾。感謝主！在翻譯時，讓我一次次進入神的同在！
I read the Bible every day, meditating on God’s words. I thank God for His teaching because it always leads me on the right track. When I am anxious and worried, certain Bible verses will occur to me and peace of mind will be restored to me.
Recently I have been translating English prayers into Chinese to share with my church friends. Using these prayers, we pray for our community together. When I am doing the translation, I feel God’s presence more intensely. Thank the Lord for His grace.“
As usual, there were a lot of great answers, so please take some time to read through all the great responses.
The question for the Steemit community today is: What is the craziest thing you have ever done to save money?
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The craziest thing I did to save money was some years back in fact! I was in such a financial problem for a month that I did not know what to do to get some money!
You know what I did!? I locked myself in my house for 30 days(Well I only pick up the work transport to go work)! I lived with whatever I had in the house, I did not spend a penny that month.
Finally all the little money I had stayed there with me and I just added it to the next month.
Doing this exercise proved that most of the time we do unnecessary expenses. We can live very well if we refrain from expending like crazy!
Now whenever I am in such situation, the best way out is to LOCK YOURSELF UP! Lol!
Wow. Sounds extreme but effective!
Oh yes so extreme...but after doing this you feel you are saved and get breath again!
Sometime we really make unnecessary expenses when we have it all at home in stock!
Quite extreme, but I'm not blaming you.
lol. Haha next time I need to save some money, I’ll try this one too. :P Locking yourself up for 30 days sounds very painful. :)
I liked this part:
so true~
I did several things in the past to save money. I walked a non-trekkable distance just to save cash so as to eat dinner when I was in college. Lol. Another time was when I had to stay hungry just to use saved money to buy a shoe I had long wanted. Crazy thing to do.... I almost died. Lol
I think it may be the time I travelled for more than 30 hours on a cheap Royal Brunei flight from Melbourne to London, then took the train to Worcester and to save money I tried to take the bus instead of a taxi. I got lost and it took ages to find my accommodation. I was ready to collapse and ended up taking a "nap" and missed the keynote speech that evening! All to save a few pounds.
Haha nice. But if you made it to the Keynote speech, you’d probably be pretty happy with yourself saving some money. :)
Crazy indeed. Luckily you safely got to your accommodation place.
Yes
till now...i have done nothing to save money. my days are just starting. hehe
I skip my meal and my friends ask me what have u done? and said I am on diet but in reality im saving for my insurance policy hehe :) @nextgen622
The silliest has to be take a one hour walk home in the rain because taxi fares were more than I wanted to pay--even though they are ultra cheap in Korea. Second silliest is buying clothes on sale because they were a bargain, even though I didn't think they looked particularly good. Needless to say, I ended up recycling them. So by saving money, I actually spent money.
Upvoted n resteemed.
Haha I’ve done something similar with buying things just because it was on sale but finding out that I didn’t need it.
The craziest thing I can think of at this time is when I built a venturi system for the exhaust system of my dad's car so that the faster the car went, the more vacuum would be created to suck out the exhaust and lower the back-pressure on the engine. I later discovered that although this would increase gas mileage, it also destroys the engine itself because the engine is designed to require a certain amount of back pressure.
Kudos to you for trying something like that though. I’m hopeless at DIY stuff. :)
Everyone is given different gifts. I'm hopeless at music and being able to remember names and numbers. I'm also mildly face-blind.
Yeah true. :)
Living in a really cozy room with shared kitchen and bathroom!
craziest thing ever done to save money? I remember that when I was 18, there was a Bible Exposition somewhere in Manila - they give free dinner so I attended for the sake of saving dinner money back when I was just starting living on my own :)
not ashamed of it though I find it the craziest thing I've ever done
but in Asia it was normal :)
learned much about the Bible though so it was also worth it cause at that time, I was still in the Univ - helped me a lot during my religion class - yeah we had such in the Ph
haha i’ve heard of others who have done similar things. Learning more about the Bible is always worthwhile. :)
you bet I wasn't alone :D
we were a team , my friends and I and others who were there for the very sane reason :)
It is bit embarrassing to talk about. Many years ago it was turning off the fridge, not using air conditioning at all and also dumping my urine to save on the water bill. It was that tough at one time. You learn to do what you have to. God has blessed me since then and for that I am eternally grateful.
Must have been tough for you back then. I’m glad God has blessed you and things have improved. :)