The Best Things In Life Are Free (Or Cheap)

[aurelie]

cheap makeup.... or cool shirts from the goodwill store! (yay, 99 cents!!!)

and can't forget that Dr. Pepper and sour straws... mmmm

[Meowlet]

LOL, silly Rumor  

Hm...cheap books are good...and chocolate...and candles...and gel pens!  I love writing with pretty gel pens!    Yeah, I get silly about it, but I don't care, it's one of my cheap joys in life.  

[Chewie]

Scented gel pens in pastel colours, and black paper to write on with them - v. nice.

Library books

And don't let me near Hobbycraft...that's not cheap at all!

[Scarlet]

Wow, my stationery fetish isn't really a fetish at all....everybody loves it!

[Katy M]

Hmm... Since I'm a money freak, even at my age. "Mom! You HAVE to buy the genaric! It's 33 cents cheaper!" everything I get is cheap... Except the bills from our vet. But...

Bandana's...
my 2 dollar sandals taht I havn't taken off yet,
Incense! CHEAp Incense.
Little smelly candles from teh dollar store.
Hmm...

[jixie]

Used fish tanks... *cough*

Although I'm not sure if that counts, because I only buy them when I find good ones. Anyways... just picked up a nice 20g long, and my mom thinks I'm crazy because I have two other empty ones and a bunch of other sized tanks.  

And I only have ONE betta!

Jixie
PS: The nice thing about tanks is when you have to many you can donate them to shelters, rescue, wildlife rehab, etc.

[Lin]

Greeting cards

I can browse through those aisles for hours.  They used to have a $.20 card shop around here but they closed down  


Office Supplies

I think this is a throw back to school supply shopping when I was a kid.  It was the only time my mom trusted me to pick out my own things.  "I 'need' this, and this, and this, and this"....skipping down the aisle for an hour.  I own things I don't even use.  I have a new three hole punch thank you very much (it's been new for two years).  

[NJartRat]

STICKERS!!!

I have a giant sticker collection. Not in books though, sticker books ruin stickers.. must keep them in the package!

When I have time and money to waste, I just go into the dollar store and buy a ton of stickers.  

hands down with the stickers!

[Apopli]

Cheap vintage collectable CRAP off of eBay. Like my She-Ra and He-Man zippo lighter  

[shannon]

Wooden toys, books, clothes for the kids from Value Village, and right now dishes too -- I just replaced the dishes I really didn't like that were handed down to us from hubby's older sisters.  Yay!  And neat mugs.

Getting groceries at a place called Farmer Jack's near here -- free cider, farm animals to gawk at, pyo apples & pumpkins in the fall, and yummy butter tarts    

Wrestling with the boys (my kids are 1.5 & 3)

Reading the Little House on the Praire books to my older son -- I read those over & over when I was little.  Sharing any book/video I loved when I was a kid with him

Visiting conservation areas in town

Ice cream (the cheap stuff in a 1 gallon tub)

Walks in the evening

climbing the big snow hills in our parking lots in the winter

houseplants, or flowers to plant outside from a nursery

funky straws

glitter (...for crafts for the kids.... realy....)

[Eowyn]

Plants
Toys for furkids
Watching furkids play
Cuddling a furkid
Television programs (just a few)
Forums online
Being out in nature


Books are expensive so do not belong on list

[Pangy]

trolls,
lighters,
And the fun things you stick on the end of pencils, I have an extensive collection of those too

[flannel]

Gee, this is a great thread to give one's secret pal hints...
Use it, that way you may actually get something you drool over!