Tell me about the most thrifty person you have ever met. How frugal is it?

I know a man who is famous for his frugality. He has just been transferred here as an older man, and people in the company always think that he is poor from his clothes and words.

He got married at his colleague's house, and everyone was busy planning and doing it themselves. Had dinner together. I have no idea. He has a deposit.

Let's talk about dressing first. He is always the same. There were many shirts, most of which were issued by a certain unit at that time, and they were not changed frequently. There are still goods. Custom-made leather shoes, a pair of 150, worn for several years, made strong and patient. A pair of sandals has been worn for more than ten years and is still worn in autumn. Colleagues joked: When will you still wear sandals? No matter how frugal you are, you can't wear sandals, otherwise you will go barefoot and save socks and shoes.

One summer when I was on a business trip, he said it was hot by car. You can think hard or you can not guess. He wore half-length and half-sleeve trousers, with half sleeves on the top and trousers on the bottom, which was wonderful. My wife is a senior engineer. She has worked outside for more than ten years and earned more than 2 million yuan. She is also quite frugal and doesn't buy food and clothes. Fortunately, I like traveling. His wife quarrels every time she buys him clothes. Finally, I bought a pair of shoes 1800. Now I'm picking up my son's clothes to wear, whether they fit or not. It fits perfectly.

Not only is he famous for his frugality, but he gave everything to his son. Every time we travel, we buy cosmetics for our wives and cashmere sweaters for our husbands. He never spends a penny. That time, everyone advised me for a long time. He bought himself a razor and a big bag of instant noodles (four bags) for his son. It was really economical, so close the door.

In addition to decorating the house, the house 160 square meters. Scraping paint and scraping white only costs more than 2000 yuan, and TV background wall costs 800 yuan. I want to decorate it myself, so I won't say it. Just say that his wife has been away for more than ten years and worked hard to earn a lot of money. Tell him to see the festival. He said it would take 380 yuan to get a single sleeper. When my wife retired, her annual salary was 200,000 to 300,000. He won't even look. How much do you think he should save?

Going to the market to buy food, what is cheaper to buy, the key is to compare. Which one is missing a hair? My son wants to eat some seafood. He bought scallops at 15 yuan. Colleagues said: It's better to buy clams. 10 yuan weighs three Jin. My wife finally came home. He goes to the canteen at noon in the morning, which saves money and trouble.

Once, his wife said. Meat was too expensive during the epidemic, so I didn't eat much meat. His family spent a whole million dollars to buy a car and a house for their children. The stock market value exceeds one million. And financial management. That's private. Because it is too frugal, money is mostly numbers. It snowed heavily that day, and my wife said she wanted to eat mutton balls. He bought four or five taels. Oh, my God, is that enough? It doesn't take much to make meatball soup.

Speaking of travel, he said that we were defeated. Traveling is tiring and expensive. It is better to watch TV at home, which is equivalent to traveling everywhere. I am speechless and helpless to him. Everyone likes that kind of life. I will be happy as long as I like it at first. Isn't it interesting? I bought a garage and gave it back. Because buying a car and garage does not add value and is not recorded. His son said, you don't even want to take a taxi? Still planning to buy a car? Don't do it if you don't make money anyway. You can go to Wan Li, but don't take a taxi. Everything is fine.

Tell me about a relative of mine. Coordinates: the town below the fourth-tier city.

1, water. Their tap water drips 24 hours a day. It is said that they have studied that water meters cannot run. Then collect all the used water and store it in each bucket to flush the toilet. The washing machine at home has never been used, and washing clothes is always going to the pressure well at the street corner. Guess how much water their family collects on average every month? Six dollars. It will take half a year for the water company to issue a charge notice to them.

2. use electricity. The light in their house does not exceed 10 watt. According to them, only one light is on and the meter doesn't turn. Watching TV at night never turns on the light. Cooking with a coal stove does not require an electric cooker. My son installed an air conditioner at home. From installation to now, the covers of two machines, indoor and outdoor, have never been removed.

Their coal stove only burns one honeycomb briquette a day to boil water for cooking. How did you do that? What time do you turn on the stove every day, and then draw a line to indicate how much water the kettle receives and how much water can hold two water bottles. After boiling, seal the furnace. Don't start cooking until lunch is ready. How many meters to cook is also accurate, otherwise coal will not be used at night. After cooking, quickly seal it and heat the leftovers on it for dinner. When it's getting dark, boil a pot of water to wash your feet at night in a water bottle. This coal mine has completed the task of one day.

Generally, their mobile phones are only used to answer the phone, and the landline is used to dial the phone. Sometimes when I'm outside, unless it's a big event that the sky is falling, I'll call my landline at home.

Generally, the small things in their family are given away, and they are determined not to buy them. If there are no gifts, they will make their own waste. For example, supermarkets buy laundry detergent and give away stainless steel bowls or cups. They basically use gifts. Also, their seasoning boxes are all kinds of medicine bottles, and then they write so-and-so seasoning with their own pens ... (I laugh at what I write. )

6. Tell me one more thing about this world. Once his in-laws invited him to dinner, and his in-laws grandson broke a bowl. After that, all kinds of criticisms in front of his daughter-in-law came from a small town, and then they were spread to his in-laws, who bought a whole set of bowls and sent them to his home. His in-laws wanted to disgust him. Do you think he is ashamed to accept them? As a result, people accepted it without saying anything. Since then, his in-laws have never talked to him again.

Well, that's all I remember.

The most thrifty person I have ever met is my mother, and I will spit on her today. I have endured it for a long time, and I will list her very, very frugal crimes one by one.

There are four children in my family, and I am the youngest. There are three sisters above me, so in my impression, there are few opportunities to wear new clothes. They all wear clothes worn by their sisters. Anyway, it's just washing and mending, and then four people take turns wearing it.

It's nothing, the point is that I'm a boy! My mother doesn't like to go out for a haircut either. She almost cut my hair with scissors. The key is that this skill is still not good, and it has been cut several times like a dog.

This man is used to being careless and doesn't know much about saving, but the woman is different. My father puts a lot of oil in every cooking, while my mother only puts a little. I don't like putting too much oil. It doesn't matter whether I put it or not, but my father and three sisters like to put too much oil, saying that too much oil smells good. So I didn't argue about how much oil to put.

Now that life is getting better, I can afford to live in a commercial house. But my mother still hasn't got rid of the habit of thrift. For example, the water for washing feet, face and vegetables is put in a special bucket for flushing toilets. Sometimes my sister and my mother and I wash our feet or even our faces with a basin of water.

Garbage bags at home are also reused. My mother takes the trash can away directly every time she throws garbage, and then keeps the bag for next time.

There is also an unwritten rule in my family that you must turn off the lights and sleep at 10:30 every night. First, going to bed early is good for your health. The second is to save electricity.

I remember once I was drunk and lying unconscious on the sofa. My mother washed my face and feet. I feel guilty about my mother's love. But my mother washed my feet first, and then washed my face. Sure enough, my mother didn't mean to. Don't ask me how I know, it was recalled by my sisters afterwards.

Another time, we cooked so much powder that my mother kept it in the refrigerator and couldn't bear to throw it away. Then one day she reheated the powder and ate it. I have a bowl, and so does she. It took two days. That's all. The key is vomiting, which made me depressed for several days. And this has happened many times.

My mother also has two habits: first, she likes to pick up junk and go home. The cartons are full of bottles and cans, and even clothes lost by others.

Second, take all kinds of things with you wherever you go, such as plastic bags, towels, combs and all kinds of messy things.

Now my mother's room is almost empty, full of old things. She still has the clothes from many years ago, and she has been reluctant to wear the new clothes she bought for her. She always wears the old ones. And every time our clothes are lost, she secretly takes them back, saying that this is useful and that is useful.

The socks we wear here are also sewn, and they last for three years. This is not to say that the socks we bought are of good quality, but before we lost them, my mother mended the hole for you and lost the ball on it. Anyway, my mother's sewing is always faster than ours, so it's hard to impress her. Well, it took three years to sew and mend.

My mother can't bear to eat a bowl of powder when she goes out on the street. Even if she eats it, she needs plain powder. It's not that she doesn't like powder mixed with other things, but she wants to save a dollar or two.

Every time I go out, I like to walk home for an hour or two, also to save one or two yuan by bus. How many times I told her, she wouldn't listen, saying, "Walking more is good for your health."

My mother even exaggerates that underwear needs mending, but I am a boy after all, and I am embarrassed to let her do such a thing, but I can't beat her old man's house, so I have to learn to sew by myself.

But spit spit, I think some of these frugal behaviors my mother did are desirable. Although life is getting better and better now, I don't worry about food and clothing, but my mother has always maintained her initial heart. She won't feel that now that she has a good life, she can spend it casually. After all, she is poor, so she knows the importance of thrift.

We have forgotten the beginning now, never lived a hard life, even if we were poor, we have forgotten the taste of poverty and don't know how to be frugal and wasteful, so sometimes we feel that our parents' frugality is sometimes a problem.