A CAG Moment: I have no shame

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I was at the post office today to pick up my copy of Fable, which apparently couldn't fit in my mailbox.

After getting the package from the clerk, I decided to throw out the packaging so I didn't have to bring it home. While doing so, I noticed some Blockbuster coupons lying at the bottom of the trash can.
They were (3) Rent any movie or game for $.99 coupons. I immediately grabbed them and walked next door to Blockbuster where I rented Star Wars Battleground (Xbox) for $1.08 total.

I'm 31 years old and not too embarassed to take coupons out of a trash can in a public place.

Long live CAG!
 
Well done Cheapy! I too have aimlessly wandered into a few waste disposal units to save some gaming swag. My last encounter: EB's dumpster to "rescue" an in-store display for Donkey Konga.
 
[quote name='dude2003']haha nice
and you have 2 more to spare[/quote]

which perhaps will turn up in his tradelist :lol:
 
Hell, I know I'd be right there trying to grab them at the same time CheapyD would be. :lol:

It's important to be a cheapass in all things. :D
 
[quote name='spyhunterk19']This is ok, until it degrades to eating chocolate eclairs out of a trash can.[/quote]

Hey...theres nothing wrong with that....
 
Awesome. Let's all relate our stories of unabashed cheapness.

I work for GS, and part of my benefits include an employee discount. At the time that this story takes place, the discount was %20 (it has since decreased dramatically).

I walk into a local GS to buy a copy of Total Annihilation for PC, which at the time was $7. I approach the counter with my game and am greeted by an employee whom is well aware that I work at another store. He rings in my game, and gives me a total of around $7.50. I politely ask to add my employee discount. He looks at me in confusion and asks, "You want me to get out the manager log and input all that info, just so you can get $1.40 off?"

I said, "Yes, why not?" He says, "That's only $1.40!"
I said, "Are you going to do it or not?" He says, "I don't feel like it." I said, "Ok, I'll find someone that does feel like it." I walk across the store to talk to his manager, who knows me by name. "Hey Craig," I say. "Hey Robby, didn't see ya come in. What's up?" he asks. I ask if he would mind ringing me out with my employee discount. He looks at the counter and says Damon can do it just fine. I tell him, "Yeah, but Damon doesn't feel like doing it." Craig walked back to the counter and rang me up with the discount. Damon got a write up, simply because he refused to do his job, and because I wasn't leaving without my $1.40 discount. :lol:
 
[quote name='Ledhed']I said, "Yes, why not?" He says, "That's only $1.40!"[/quote]

Every dollar counts! :)

Speaking of trash diving, I found something cool once. Someone was throwing away a brand new, full-sized ping pong table. Nothing was wrong with it. Whoever owned it put it out for the trash collectors to pick up on their heavy brush route. I loaded it into my pickup and brought it home. Bought some cheap balls and paddles for a few bucks. Played with it for a week or so, but had to get rid of it since it took up a lot of room and there was nowhere to store it.

Sold it to a friend for about $50. :)
 
I am not being racist here, only speaking what I saw.

Puerto Ricans are real cheapasses. When I lived in Queens NY, whenever we threw out large furniture, within 5 minutes of walking away, a bunch of Puerto Ricans would walk up, pick up the furniture, and just leave. Every time. I don't think we ever actually threw out any furniture.
 
[quote name='SneakyPenguin']I am not being racist here, only speaking what I saw.

Puerto Ricans are real cheapasses. When I lived in Queens NY, whenever we threw out large furniture, within 5 minutes of walking away, a bunch of Puerto Ricans would walk up, pick up the furniture, and just leave. Every time. I don't think we ever actually threw out any furniture.[/quote]

the chair I am sitting in was taken from some office that threw out its furniture.

My dad saw all that stuff and pulled right over. I think we got like 5 chairs
 
lol sneaky i hear ya on that, My mom threw out my NES (with the box and instructions, pretty mint condition, top loader), when it was on the curb it took all but an hour for someone to get it :(

It was teh worst night, she dident even tell me till I tried to go play it :(
 
the very chair im sitting on is junk from my dad's work. i will buy a pickup when i grow up, insired by the ping pong table post. =D and if you ever get the chance, people throw away alot of stuff they dont sell at yard sales, so if you get the chance, skip the garage sale sat/sunday and go monday to see if they still got "your trash is my treasure"
 
[quote name='ChrisXE']lol sneaky i hear ya on that, My mom threw out my NES (with the box and instructions, pretty mint condition, top loader), when it was on the curb it took all but an hour for someone to get it :(

It was teh worst night, she dident even tell me till I tried to go play it :([/quote]

Why couldn't it have been the Atari Jaguar? : :lol:
 
[quote name='Ledhed']

I said, "Yes, why not?" He says, "That's only $1.40!"
:[/quote]

It's not just $1.40, clerk-boy. It's MY $1.40.

This should be said while gripping his throat with your thumb pressing into his carotid.
 
[quote name='CheapyD']I was at the post office today to pick up my copy of Fable, which apparently couldn't fit in my mailbox.

After getting the package from the clerk, I decided to throw out the packaging so I didn't have to bring it home. While doing so, I noticed some Blockbuster coupons lying at the bottom of the trash can.
They were (3) Rent any movie or game for $.99 coupons. I immediately grabbed them and walked next door to Blockbuster where I rented Star Wars Battleground (Xbox) for $1.08 total.

I'm 31 years old and not too embarassed to take coupons out of a trash can in a public place.

Long live CAG![/quote]


I have done that too in a trash can at the local currency exchange for five sheets of $.99 cents video game or movie coupons for hollywood video stores. Each sheet had two coupons so a total of ten coupons. :wink:
 
[quote name='Ledhed']Awesome. Let's all relate our stories of unabashed cheapness.

I work for GS, and part of my benefits include an employee discount. At the time that this story takes place, the discount was %20 (it has since decreased dramatically).

I walk into a local GS to buy a copy of Total Annihilation for PC, which at the time was $7. I approach the counter with my game and am greeted by an employee whom is well aware that I work at another store. He rings in my game, and gives me a total of around $7.50. I politely ask to add my employee discount. He looks at me in confusion and asks, "You want me to get out the manager log and input all that info, just so you can get $1.40 off?"

I said, "Yes, why not?" He says, "That's only $1.40!"
I said, "Are you going to do it or not?" He says, "I don't feel like it." I said, "Ok, I'll find someone that does feel like it." I walk across the store to talk to his manager, who knows me by name. "Hey Craig," I say. "Hey Robby, didn't see ya come in. What's up?" he asks. I ask if he would mind ringing me out with my employee discount. He looks at the counter and says Damon can do it just fine. I tell him, "Yeah, but Damon doesn't feel like doing it." Craig walked back to the counter and rang me up with the discount. Damon got a write up, simply because he refused to do his job, and because I wasn't leaving without my $1.40 discount. :lol:[/quote]

That's fuckin' awesome.
 
I think Cheapy has reached a new level of cheapness. Not that that's a bad thing. :D

I can't say that I'd do the same thing...but I'm very obsessive-compulsive, and even the thought of digging through garbage makes me start to shudder uncontrollably...
 
actually, those could have been from the "new resident" package they send out...my PO has them layin gon a counter...
 
I was at the beach one or two years ago and a group of teenagers were hanging out around the trash cans. Whenever someone would throw away any sort of food, they would wait for them to walk a few steps away from the can and then gleefully run over to grab whatever it was out of the can and eat it. Fries, a burger, half-eaten slice of pizza, whatever.

And these did not look like homeless/dirt poor teens. It appeared that eating stuff out of the trash was a hobby for them. I mean I guess they might have been poor, but it really did not look that way. It was really strange, though funny to watch.
 
nice reference there spyhunter.

i used to be so cheap when i worked at a movie theatre about 6 or 7 years ago (think before the matrix, before episode 1). i used to volunteer to take the garbage out to the dumpster just so i could have dibs on the remnants of the displays and then sell them to people. I also had no reserve about taking damaged food items (usually damaged by yours truly) out of a damaged food bin. this is bringing back memories... i would keep hotdogs in a freezer and reuse them everyday until they sold or until a week had passed. I would pick change off the ground and out of my dustpan. I would overcharge assholes and keep their excess change for myself as a type of "compensation" for dealing with them. When i would go to the movies outside of work as a regular customer i would use my key and go into the back room of the concession stand and take the damaged food items and make my own drinks so they wouldnt charge me for it.

i know there are others cheaper than me, but this was just as a teenager when much more of my income was disposable than it is now, just think of how cheap i am in my everyday life!!
 
tbhats not to bad, some kid in my school ate a sandwich outta the garbage, but he was messed up, he once took the trash can in science class ran around the roon so that the teacher couldn't get him and threw it out the window.

also once we had a sub, she sent him to the main office cause he was misbehaving and then just wondered in the hall for 40 min then school was over. also once he got the sub locked out side of the class room
 
[quote name='help1']also once he got the sub locked out side of the class room[/quote]

My Mom is a substitute teacher, and a few years back some kid locked her in a utility closet for about 10 minutes.
 
Ah the good old days of digging in the garbage. The memories are endless. My personal favorites were the McDonalds Monopoly game pieces. When I was about ten I would wait until people threw out their cups to get the game pieces. I even got a free Big Mac once. So many memories.
 
My cellphone is from my Dad's work he got it for $5 he is a great cheap ass Dad. Way to go cheapy!
 
Overcharging A-holes and keeping the excess is awesome.

Being a sub and getting locked in the utility closet would be a freaking nightmare.
 
Wow, I must be privileged, I got those same coupons in the mail :wink:

Most of the furniture in my apartment is either hand-me down or picked off the street. I have a couple new pieces though. I live off-campus so that's good because every semester people are moving.

It's weird because a lot of the furniture looks like it's from the 70's or is handmade. There's not a lot of the new particle board stuff.

One time, I was out with my bf and we drove past a cardboard box sitting on a tree lawn for garbage day with the words "VIDEO GAMES" written on it. I got really excited but when I got out of the car and opened the box, it just ended up being full of kitchen garbage...gross!
 
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