You Might Be a Cheapskate if…

1. Every light in the house is off right now, except the lamp you’re currently sitting under.
2. When you have people over to your house you point out every piece of furniture that you bought used or dumpster dove for….which is pretty much everything.
3. You have toilet paper tubes on your wall as decoration (I think these are so pretty! Who knew toilet paper tubes could be so classy?).
4. The only name brand things in your cupboard were bought with coupons or you got them free.
5. Your “honey-do” list is on the back of a junk mail envelope.
6. Your rag bag is full of holey socks and cut up old t-shirts.
7. Your liquid hand soap is watered down.
8. Your kid’s toy box is an old diaper box (not that you ever used disposable diapers…the neighbor was throwing the box out!).
9. Inside said box you’ll find toys made out of juice lids, oatmeal containers and toilet paper tubes.
10. The only thing credit cards are good for is scraping gunk off your pots and pans.
11. The sheets your kids sleep on are the ones your mom gave you when you went off to college. (This is true for Gracia!)
12. Your friends collect foreign coins and unique vases…you collect cool whip and yogurt containers.
13. You sleep in snow pants and hats in the winter to avoid turning up the thermostat.
14. You keep the price tag on your really good bargains so you can remember how good of a deal that was, and brag to your friends.
15. You actually like the scrapes and scratches on your  10 year old car…it makes you less of a target for car thieves.
16. Going out to eat for a family treat means going to McDonalds…waters all around and the dollar menu.
17. You say “hi” to the Goodwill workers, who you now recognize, but you feel like a foreigner when you go to the mall.
18. While at  the mall you can’t help but mosey on up to the lady looking at $100 jeans and tell her the jeans you’re stylin’ were $5 at Goodwill. Why is she looking at you like that? You’re just trying to help her save $95!
19. Your current pillow is actually 2 old flattened pillows that you made into 1 fluffy pillow.
20. You cannot wait for your husband to come home so you can tell him you found a quarter!!! A whole quarter! Usually it’s just pennies, but this is like finding 25 pennies!

Not all of these are true of me, but sadly…many of them are! haha!