I\'m a cheap bastard
 

I'm starting up my third year of college now. This year, I've decided to live off campus (in an expensive area), and between rising tuition, less scholarship money, and less help from the folks, I've decided that I am very poor this year.

My roomate and I are trying to do things as cheaply as we can, and get whatever we can for free whenever possible. Examples of how cheap we are:
-we steal wireless internet from an open connection (which has a really weak signal, and results in constant disconnects [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img])
-instead of buying condiments, we take copious amounts from local fast food joints. we never pay for salt, pepper, ketchup, margerine, mustard, mayo, peanut butter, jam etc.
-my roomate does not attend school, so he does not get a bus pass with tuition. we are going to try and find someone from my school who looks somewhat like him to sell us his if he has a car, or does not use the bus much. the passes sold for regular transit passengers are far too expensive
-I buy my textbooks, take them to the copy shop and photocopy them, then return them

Who's in my boat, and what other great ideas have you come up with (I have moral issues against stealing anything besides internet and computer software)? Who has been through this in the past, any great stories?

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-I buy my textbooks, take them to the copy shop and photocopy them, then return them


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what kind of copy shop are you going to?

don't most of them charge like $.05 per page or something?

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(I have moral issues against stealing anything besides internet and computer software)

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And intellectual property. And condiments.

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-I buy my textbooks, take them to the copy shop and photocopy them, then return them


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what kind of copy shop are you going to?

don't most of them charge like $.05 per page or something?

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200 pages at 5 cents a page is 10 bucks

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I don't think I've ever seen a textbook that was 200 pages.

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-I buy my textbooks, take them to the copy shop and photocopy them, then return them


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what kind of copy shop are you going to?

don't most of them charge like $.05 per page or something?

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200 pages at 5 cents a page is 10 bucks

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(I have moral issues against stealing anything besides internet and computer software)

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And intellectual property. And condiments.

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OK you got me on the first one, but the condiments are free.
Even if McDonald's sees me filling up a large jar of ketchup, you don't actually think they are going to ask me to put it back do you?

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I don't think I've ever seen a textbook that was 200 pages.

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Well my textbooks cost on average $120, so unless they are 2400 pages, I'm doin OK.

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I don't think I've ever seen a textbook that was 200 pages.

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Well my textbooks cost on average $120, so unless they are 2400 pages, I'm doin OK.

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Ok, fair point. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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I have moral issues against stealing anything besides internet and computer software

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...and transportation and copyrighted printed material and pretty much anything else from anyone whom I feel can afford it...

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-instead of buying condiments, we take copious amounts from local fast food joints. we never pay for salt, pepper, ketchup, margerine, mustard, mayo, peanut butter, jam etc.

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What the hell fast food place has these?

BTW, quit being hood rich and just move into some place you can afford.