THRIFTY HUMOR

Extreme Cost-Cutting Tips From The Cheapest Person On Earth

Which is me.

Bev Potter
4 min readSep 5, 2022

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A photo of the author’s perfectly good, gently-used paper towel.

The problem with having a day off is that, instead of doing something constructive, I do things like bring an office chair from upstairs down to my kitchen where I actually work, and in the process waste two hours playing with a computer that’s running Windows 2000.

Needless to say, I won’t be needing the chair upstairs. It can fulfill its idiom down here.

Now, I could buy a new chair to replace the kitchen chair my ass has been glued to for the last three years, but why waste money on that when you can risk your life dragging a heavy office chair down two flights of stairs backwards?

Things are getting expensive in this, the best of all possible worlds (apparently). So it’s time to ramp up the cost-savings by employing a few tactics that have been passed down through the generations in my family.

We’re not resorting to eating groundhog yet, but that day may come.

Paper Towels

I use a lot of paper towels. For one thing, I have a dog, and pets and paper towels just go together. My other problem is that I don’t feel like rags or towels or whatever other people use are really sanitary. I want to rip off a fresh Bounty…

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Bev Potter
Bev Potter

Written by Bev Potter

Legal secretary by day, insomniac by night. Ally. BA, MA. Humor, pop culture, and things that make you think. My weekly-ish newsletter is bevpotter.substack.com

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