Hi, my name is Vicky Smith and I'm an extreme cheapskate.
Here's my husband, John.
He's a butcher. We have ten children.
Five still live at home.
And I've always just been a cheapskate.
And the more kids I have, the cheaper I've gotten.
I like this one.
You like that one? Yeah. That's a custom one.
This is the living room and it's pretty bare.
We don't want to go in debt for furniture.
So what you see is what we got.
It's driving everybody crazy because we don't have a phone here.
We used to spend about $120 a month on our phone bill, and that's just way too much.
If I need to get a hold of somebody, I just walk over to the library.
It's less than a block away.
All of my children have always worn hand-me-downs, but every little girl wants
new clothes. Sariah is no exception to the rule.
Mom, what do you need?
I don't have any clothes.
There's a dress that's horrible looking.
It's like for a four year old.
It's so cute.
Whether or not.
We try it on, there's nothing wrong with used clothing.
Well, I think it's cute.
Do you like any part of it?
Would you like. Like we can make a skirt with this part?
What should we do?
Should I burn it?
I know. Soraya's 13.
She's very self conscious about making sure she's not different from the rest of the
girls.
Hey. Hey.
You had a phone? I wouldn't have to walk over here all the time like a weirdo, but.
So what's she wearing?
A dress. Oh, okay.
So do you want to go shopping?
Because I wanted some new clothes, so I was wondering if you wanted to go with me.
Sure. Let me ask my mom.
I very rarely give my kids money to go shopping.
If I were to just give them $20, that takes me totally out of the picture.
Um, so can I go shopping with Allie?
Tell you what, why don't I go with you guys and then we can figure out how much you
really need when we get there? Okay?
Okay. I refuse to spend big bucks on clothes.
I'm going to change first.
Yeah.
I don't mind taking Sariah and Allie to the local flea market to look for clothes.
This looks like stuff my dead grandma would wear.
This still has a tag on it.
That's because it's so ugly.
No one wore it. That's something your mom would get you.
No, no. But those back.
Do you like yellow?
Yeah.
I avoid buying anything new.
If I can get it used, I'd much rather pay 75% off or less.
Find anything?
Yeah. Couple things.
So display.
Okay. So I need all of these.
I want these shoes.
How much are shoes?
Ooh.
This shirt. It's only $2.
$2 is a lot.
At a garage sale, it would be like $0.25.
So I want to make sure how much you like it.
I like it a lot.
Well, let's see. Two, four, six, eight, ten.
I don't think so. That's too much.
So which is your favorite shirt?
The yellow one.
Okay, tell you what.
Why don't we get this one?
Okay. I feel so good when I save money.
Are you ready? I hope so.
I kick myself when I could have saved money.
And I don't.
You're welcome. Have a great afternoon.
When I have to come up with birthday or Christmas presents.
We do a lot of homemade.
Vicki can make gloves and or little hats and things and we can save money by using them
for gifts. Okay, let's do it.
If I have a project that requires real fur and I was to go out and buy that fur from the
store, it's exorbitantly priced.
So here we go for roadkill.
Here we go.
Here we go for roadkill.
Furs are expensive, but if you can find it along the road, it can be a lot cheaper.
It saves me hundreds of dollars.
Something's fluffy.
It's a fox.
It's kind of weird to go find animals on the side of the road that probably have bugs in
them.
This one's not going to work.
I think we better go.
I don't need every piece of roadkill on the road.
I need something usable.
My mission is to find good roadkill on the road.
And if it's fresh, fresh, fresh and good.
I'm a butcher. I have no problem whatsoever eating something that's fresh and good.
When I go to find roadkill, it's to look for some high quality fur that I can use for some
craft projects.
The other roadkill that we found was a bunny that's pretty fresh.
It looks pretty cute.
The pelt is still good.
The legs are still good.
And so that was quite a find.
She'll make something out of it.
Maybe she'll make me a wallet one of these times.
My plan for the rabbit roadkill is to make some nice things for my family and for our
neighbors. I'm going to make these cute little purses because kids really like them
Nice. We're going to sew it and then we'll flip it inside out and you won't even see the
edges. It'll just be this cute little fur bag.
I'm excited to have my neighbors, Tammy and Yoshi, for dinner tonight.
We're serving barbecued rabbit and a tossed salad made with flowers that we've gathered.
Why do we need these?
We're going to make a really pretty salad for dinner.
Okay.
Let's go find something tasty looking.
It's so fun to be able to walk outside and know what you can pick and put in your salad,
and it doesn't cost you a cent.
Smell this one. This one doesn't smell tasty.
Yeah. Huh. Gross.
Why don't we just buy something from the store?
Because it costs money and we're cheap.
And then we eat these flowers, but.
They taste good.
It tastes gross. I just tried it.
Well.
You shouldn't really be eating it unless it's washed because the cows came through here
now. Oh, yeah, exactly.
It's a gourmet salad at a rock bottom.
Price free.
We're going to have our next door neighbors over for dinner tonight.
Don't you love how our plates match?
Why don't they match?
I'm not going to buy a whole new set.
We've got plenty of dishes.
You got it. When I invited Tammy and Yoshi.
I just asked them to bring their own chairs.
Oh, got it. Yoshi, let's put you right next to Soraya.
Then we'll put Tammy and then.
What's your name? Cody.
Let's put you next.
Okay. I guess we might as well dig in.
I've been waiting all day for this.
How about some barbecued rabbit there, Yoshi?
There goes Easter.
Somebody killed the Easter bunny.
Terrible. I can't eat it.
Strangely, this tastes just like chicken.
I'm going to try some of your salad.
Oh. What do you have in here?
There's clover and sage blossoms.
Is this a regular thing for you to is to pick.
Other people's yard trimmings.
They were our yard trimmings.
But it was weeds.
All weeds, dandelions, flowers, clovers.
Things that you just don't normally eat.
At least in my world.
Okay, good.
Okay. I have a little surprise for you.
Can you take. These are all things we made out of roadkill.
Oh, you take one of those.
That's for you.
I'm gonna take one and one for you.
Oh, and I know you wanted it, but you don't need that.
It's just not my thing.
Picking up roadkill.