The title of the thread was meant to say "Money saving tips for NEETs" sorry

Don't buy toilet paper. Use water and towel to clean your butt(in my place water bill is included in rent). Also get some cheap towel for fapping only.

Eat out of dumpsters and sleep in a cardboard box on the side of the road

Tip from the asians: Use the toilet paper instead of tissues.

Public toilets have soap and paper?

>>6616
I dunno do they?, excluding washrooms from highschool, the last time I used a public washroom was in 2001/2002ish...

>>6617
Ok I just read my own post on the front page, and I was like whoa sounds interesting, not realizing it was my own, because I read it as something about exploding mushrooms.

/thought I should share.

Interesting advice OP. I don't exactly ever recommend cold showers in winter though.

>>6616
Bring a big cup to a public bathroom, and empty the liquid hand soap into it. And most bathrooms still have paper towels.

some Grocery Stores toss out food that's still days away from the expiration date.
Even so, I think most expiration dates can be ignored for at least a week after said date and still be fine.
oh and bread, they toss out a lot of bread, if it's a little hard, just heat it up a bit to soften it.

>-Use that stolen soap to wash EVERYTHING. Use it as dish detergent, body soap and shampoo. You don't truly need all those specialised soaps to clean things. Your hair might feel dry initially, but it'll eventually reach the same equilibrium as before. Case in point, I've used stolen hand soap to wash myself for the past year and my hair is pretty much the same as it was when I used shampoo.
I must disagree. Although detergents and soaps are indeed very similar in their uses, detergents are generally more concentrated, and work fine in hard water (water with many minerals), as opposed to soap (foam won't be formed on hard water). Their chemical compositions are similar, but different. See picture, top two are common detergents, bottom one is a common soap. Shampoos, however, have a very distinct functionality, and most are made with sodium laureth sulfate. I believe you should've experienced difficulties with combing your hair and such. Basically speaking, let's say that, while soap strips out most oils and detergents remove oil almost completely, shampoos keep some to ease the management of your hair, allowing your combs to slide and such. I don't think anyone needing money would have many choices, but do get the proper cleaning chemicals if you can afford them. I don't really think this is relevant to the discussion, but I want to share it. (disclaimer: I'm no chemistry expert, half of this came from what I remember about my high school classes and the other half came from wikipedia, so do take it with a grain of salt)

>>6626
Thats pretty interesting man.

Admittedly I live in Sydney and our water quality is amongst the best in the world, so there aren't any problems with hard water. The stolen hand soap still gets the job done for the dishes. Obviously not as well as detergent but yeah. And no, my hair combs just as easily as when I still used shampoo. This is just something I observe from practical experience. It makes sense right? Isn't hand soap designed to cut through hand grease, but not dry your skin out like hell? I noticed that after washing hands using that soap, my hands are still quite slippery, maybe thats got something to do with it.

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Buy oats in bulk.

You can eat them in every way imaginable, they're easy, and I think you can get them for a good price.

If you have a yard, grow rhubarb in it, you cab eat it and it grows without much care.

Shop second hand, you can get everything you need for almost nothing.

Scout out abandoned houses, if you ever are kicked out of home they can be a good place to squat.

Instead of making a new thread, i'll post in this one.
Those of you who live by themselves, but dont have a regular job, or a regular paycheck, how much do you spend per month? Whats your budget?

>>6681
I'd say around $100 - $200 a month.

>>6682
Is that including rent? Thats pretty good then.

>>6683
oh sorry, not by myself here, leaching.