Tips for hard economic times. How to avoid looking lower middle class.

Freeze bottled water and use it in your cooler instead of ice.
 
Nehalennia said:
Freeze bottled water and use it in your cooler instead of ice.
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thats not looking low class. thats smart packing. after a couple hours you'll have an ice cold water. :thumbsup:
 
Put your Starbucks Latte into a cup from the local gas station.
 
H2ONUT said:
Put your Starbucks Latte into a cup from the local gas station.
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Better yet, when at starbucks, take a bunch of extra cups with you as you leave. Then pour your own coffee into their cups as you head into work in the morning.
 
After Todd drinks his bottled water, crushes the empty bottle and tosses it in the dumpster, climb into the dumpster, find the empty crushed bottle, blow hard into the bottle so it un-crushes, go to a bubbler (public drinking fountain if you are not from Wisconsin) refill and walk around with it, making it look like you can afford to buy bottled water.
 
My in-laws used to take the "FANCY" wine in a box (I think this is an oxymoron anyway!) when it was empty and would pour generic wine back in the same box! The funniest part is that most people didn't notice the white wine on the box that had red wine coming out of it! It was pretty funny!
 
Reminds me of a story my dad tells me about when he was growing up. Cars with AC were considered to by high class, you were wealthy if you had AC in your car then. So folks would leave their windows up to make it look like they had AC. As he put it the cabin was hot as heck but it looked like you had AC.
 
work as hard as you can to keep your income < 250,000.... the further away, the better, so you get some of the obama $$$$$!

-VtSeaRay
 
Sundancer said:
My in-laws used to take the "FANCY" wine in a box (I think this is an oxymoron anyway!)
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:lol: I was going to say, wine in a box is fancy?

Collect other people's cigarette butts and keep them handy to throw away in front of people so they think you can afford cigarettes.

For the ladies, use a red sharpie instead of lipstick so you always have that "fresh from the salon" look.

Cubic zirconia.
 
Sundancer said:
My in-laws used to take the "FANCY" wine in a box (I think this is an oxymoron anyway!) when it was empty and would pour generic wine back in the same box! The funniest part is that most people didn't notice the white wine on the box that had red wine coming out of it! It was pretty funny!
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They poured wine into a box to make themselves look better?
 
roostrs said:
They poured wine into a box to make themselves look better?
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Look better? Heck no!! They were cheapa$$ and had an open door at the cabin for anyone who wanted to stop by after skiing for the day. That's why wine in a box is an oxymoron!! But taking crappy wine in a box (Ernest and Julio?) and replacing it with "generic" wine does make you look like lower middle class right? :grin:
 
Fill the boat at the street pump. I think tomorrow I'll be filling for Less than $3/gallon for the first time in a long time
 
Don't go to jail stealing $.50, might as well make it a 54'
 
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