Oh, my God.
Oh, my.
Goodness. Looks like you had a good time.
You smell good from the moment they wake up.
Extreme cheapskates are thinking of new ways to cut costs from their daily routines.
Sometimes I actually do want to take my own shower for Melody Rose.
Saving money requires the help of the whole family.
My family and I are so cheap that we all share one tub of water a day.
We don't have cooties.
We're never that dirty.
It just makes sense to use the same water.
My husband will take a bath.
Then I do. Then Bob, then Ronnie.
Think about how much water a bathtub uses.
I bet there's probably 20, 25 gallons.
Four of us. That's 100 gallons a day.
I mean, think about it. How stupid is that?
When we do our shower together, it's strictly two minutes.
There's no hanky panky at all.
It's a two for one type deal.
We just get in and out so that we conserve our energy.
Our money. All right, honey, I'm ready for this.
Suds.
Rick uses the suds for my hair on his hair.
Thank you. So that looks like two for one on the shampoo.
More. Need some more.
One bottle of shampoo glasses.
Like eight months.
For cotton swabs.
Chris will use one end, and then when she's done, I'll use the other.
With the deodorant. We actually share that too.
And we're only allowed one wipe per armpit.
We share our toothbrush so we don't have to buy another toothbrush.
We're so cheap that we share our tooth floss.
There you go.
In our house, we have what we call Navy showers.
I go in, turn the water on, reach my body off.
Cut the water off, lather your body down.
Make sure you get every area because you can't come back to it.
Turn it back on, Reach the soap off my body.
And get out.
I don't really get to watch my full body.
I'm a grown ass man. I should be able to just get in there, take a manly shower.
Turn it off right now.
Patrick. Okay.
Hey, sugarplum. What?
Are you about done?
Yeah, a little bit.
I hear money going down the drain.
I don't want to set the stage.
So he just comes over and takes these long showers.
Hey.
Come on. Did you turn the water off?
Yeah.
Okay. That isn't the right way to prove a point.
Turn the water back on. Did I make it, though?
No.
Larry Melvin, a mechanic in McKinney, Texas, saves more than $10,000 a year living in his
garage. However, what he saves on rent and utilities, he loses in privacy.
I've accidentally walked in on Larry taking a shower.
That is a picture I will never get out of my head.
I have this basin that I step into.
I hook the water hose up to the faucet.
I can serve all of this water.
And I use it over the course of the day for various things mopping the floors, cleaning
cars.
There's nothing I won't do to save a couple bucks.
Aspiring pro wrestler Matt Rivera is single, but he still found a partner to help cut his
morning grooming costs down to almost nothing.
Mom, can you.
Help me shave?
Mom, look up.
I shaved my head. It's cost efficient.
No shampoo, no barber, no conditioner.
And on top of that, I look tough.
Slower, please. You're making me nervous.
Oh, you're such a chicken. Me and my.
Mom are, like, best friends.
She still does almost everything for me.
Can you help me shave my back, too?
I will do whatever math you needs to save as much as he can.
I'm pretty much a sucker when it comes to his mom.
Can you do this for me?
Okay.
Oh, you didn't even warn me on that one.
Oh. Wrestlers can pay close to $2,500 a year on hair removal.
But by having his mother wax him, Matt gets the same results without spending a dime.
Oh, that was a slow one.
Geez.
I buy cheap two ply.
Toilet paper.
But when it comes to toilet paper.
I get twice as much as anybody else does for the same price.
Everyone has a strategy on saving their money.
Utah mom Jordan Paige stretches out her toilet paper supply by rationing.
How much toilet paper do you think Hutch should have?
Cutting her family's use down to just 40 rolls a year.
The way to stretch your money is to make everything count.
Three. Should we do three?
Three. How much do you think Daddy should use?
Jordan always harps on me for using too much toilet paper.
Okay, let's try it. It's a sensitive subject for awesome.
Buying toilet paper just doesn't do anything for me.
I'm cutting toilet paper squares for our bathroom that we will wash and use instead of
paper products. We have a little bin underneath the basket that holds the little
toilet wipes where we put them so we can wash them later.
And then when it's time to wash, I just pour them in and I never have to touch them with
my hands. As a middle class family, that makes a good income.
I shouldn't have to go into debt to buy toilet paper.
All of our cloth wipes that we have in the house, we've been using them for more than
five years.
This is kind of dirty.
It's okay. It's clean.
I don't buy toilet paper.
I use newspapers that we get for free in town.
Pick up one sheet.
You don't need more than that.
You crumple it up.
You use it, and then you put it when you get done.
Into this bag.
And when this bag is full, we take it out and burn it.
But I'm not going to do this one because I haven't used it and I don't want to waste it.
I've had people say, Here, let me buy your roll of toilet paper.
It's not that I can't buy a roll of toilet paper.
I don't need to.
We don't need it now.
Sometimes I've come in here, I've got boys in the family.
They don't always replace newspapers.
I've insulated this window with newspapers.
Keeps the light out.
Helps with heating and cooling and saves me.
If I'm on the toilet and I need something, all I gotta do is lift this window.
And there's me. Some more toilet paper.
Looking to save on water and fertilizer.
Millionaire Victoria Hunt has come up with a system that does double duty.
This is where I deposit my urine.
I had read online that you can put your urine into your compost pile and I thought,
Wow, I can build my compost and not have to flush my toilet.
My water bill went from $30 a month to $20 a month.
I need you to start peeing in a bottle for me now.
How about if I get you your own special bottle?
You can have his and hers.
Okay, fine.
I'll try it one time.
But when it comes to saving money in the bathroom, no one is more frugal than Kate
Hashimoto.
I don't use toilet paper.
Who doesn't spend a dime on toilet paper?
I just use water and soap to clean myself off.
After going through the bathroom, I take this water bottle that I have and I rinse
myself off. I just urinate it.
I'm done with that, and then I dry myself off with the paper towels I have.
If I took a dump, then I also grab the soap, wipe myself down with the soap.
Then I take the water and rinse off the soap.
Would you mind if I throw in some laundry with you?
Just a few things. Not a lot.
Maybe a few things. I think the.
Last time I did laundry was maybe three years ago.
Whenever I have dirty clothes, I try to wash them while I'm showering.
And once I'm done showering, then I lather up the clothes.
I don't use a dryer.
Not only does the dryer waste money, but it shrinks clothes and wears clothes out faster.
Dish washing costs can add up fast.
Dishwashers are expensive at around $800, and the cost to run them can be several
thousand dollars in a year.
But like anything, there are ways around that.
Actually, save my water after my showers.
Take it to where I need to use it, including washing the dishes once a week.
I think it's kind of gross.
It's like taking a bath and washing your dishes in the bathtub with you.
You know, that's not what we consider to be hygienic by any stretch of the imagination.
Oh, hey, now I.
Can see myself in the plate.
In the.
Summertime when the kids are playing outside in the pool.
We can utilize that afterwards, too, To help clean our dishes.
We save money on the water bill.
We save money on the electric bill.
Are we going to become millionaires off of it?
Not per se, but it's going to help us to be able to allocate that money towards a better
purpose. See fun and.
Work.
My place came with a dishwasher.
The dishwasher is a waste of water and energy.
So now it's just storage space.
This is an electric stove that I got using a free gift certificate.
Stephanie Bennett allows herself to use the dishwasher but uses it to cook up something
special.
Now to save money, I multitask with washing dishes and cooking meals with my dishwasher.
I just got to make sure I wrap it really well or else the food will get wet.
With the dishwasher reaching a temperature of 170 degrees, the lasagna will be fully cooked
in 1.5 hours.
Smells might put these dishes in here.
But in order to maximize every penny, cost savings must be found in every corner of the
house.
We all share a bedroom.
We only utilize this one.
The rest of the house we blocked off to save on heating and cooling.
There's a four of us sleeping here on this king sized bed.
Wintertime. It saves a lot on heating bills because we have the body heat, but we don't
mind cuddling. We're just that kind of family.
So we can crawl up in here and just go to sleep at night.