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What "frugal" tricks have you found to just not be worth it, either in time or money? (lemmy.world)
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I've noticed sometimes that there's some half-baked videos or blogs or whatever that purport this or that frugal trick, but if you look at the time or math, it's not actually frugal for you.

What are some examples of that you've come across? The things that "aren't worth it"?

For me it's couponing. (Although I haven't heard people talk about it recently--has it fallen out of "style", or have businesses caught up to the loopholes folks used to exploit?)

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[–] sir_pronoun@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Growing your own food. The only way to make that shit pay is to groom a cult to do it for you, large-scale.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 1 points 7 months ago

Eh, it really depends. I assume you don't mean all your food needs here. It's pretty easy in a lot of climates and situations to supplement nutrition and/or flavor by growing even one or two plants. Source: grew peppers, spinach, etc. on my tiny tokyo apartment's balcony and would gift friends whole plants to put on their balconies/windowsills for the same and now do small-scale farming in rural north Japan.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

The only thing I've successfully grown is tomatoes. And they tasted weird.