Hundred percent. And it just dawned on me that the majority of their budget is going into the McDonald's that keeps the mom over 350lb. She looks like she could be pushing 400. According to Dr. Now, that takes like 4-5k in calories a day to maintain that size. That's a lot of Big Macs.
@@osirisatot19Idk that would have to be a lot of money. I mean maybe I would go stand there and chat for a few hours or less, but I’m not eating broken ground freezer meat in the summer or letting my kid bathe in a rusted tub
@@fastinradfordable our great great great grandparents did not have schools to go to and be surrounded by horrible children who can bully a child into taking their own life
@@frankf684 are you dense? duh, but schools have not always been a thing. plus not everyone had water back then? school was for the wealthy who obviously had running water and even then, to an extent. the difference is the time period and kids now having to go to school and be bullied by their peers.
The daughter probably only went back to show her husband what her family was like after he wouldn't believe her. She was 100% crying, you can see a tear in her right eye at the end... I feel so bad for the sons who haven't had a chance to get away yet.
@@Wabajck Why the fuck wouldn't she fake cry when she and her family all get paid to pretend to be these characters on this fake show? You put tiger conditioner under your eyes and you'll start dropping tears
I saw my neighbor doing this recently. Small pile of trash in their driveway they were burning. Looked like toilet paper and had this horrible smell in the alley that week. I'm convinced it was used tp.
I was thinking the same thing. I feel so awful for those kids. The one teenager looked miserable :( You know when you're a kid and you go to your friend's house or maybe a new acquaintance and you kind of see how their life is a little bit different than yours... It looks like the kids know it's definitely not normal or even really sane at all :(
I've been unemployed. I've had to use single ply toilet paper over the last few months, I've secretly complained in my mind about it. Using newspaper on purpose? No way. I'm only using the single ply because that's what the food bank gives. I'm thankful for it but still, NOT A CHOICE.
When me and my friends shared a house in college, my buddy figured out that one of his keys fit the key they had for the toilet paper at the college; so we'd just take it. It was really cheap stuff, but if they charge us 100 dollars for books we use for 4 months I think we deserved to take the tp.
@@stefanforrer2573 Aw man, y'know, I actually meant psychyjigglyilligicalicious...autocorrect got me again. They really need to update their dictionary.
I almost feel bad for these people because this is very quickly devolving from weird and quirky oddities and behaviors and into some level of collective undiagnosed mental illness and or a poor attempt to hide crippling poverty. Like, is it just me or, do these people seem like they need genuine help?
It is a mental illness tbh, like nothing they do makes sense. They spend all this money on battery powered lanterns that probably need new batteries very quickly, the shitload of BluRays they had, the fact that water isn't even expensive; it's like a kind of OCD.
My water bill ranges from $26-28/month regardless of how much water I use. Trying to save water like these people is pointless because you'll be charged to have water access no matter how much you use
@@osirisatot19 This. There are many, many non-profits and food shelves out there that will just _give_ you toilet paper if you ask them, there are ways to subsidize your electric bills, etc. These people are doing this because some part of their brain likes it, not because they have to or even feel like they have to. If they spent one-tenth the time they used coming up with 'novel' ways to save more money, just looking on Google for ways to get help paying the bills, they'd be fine.
@@romantic_hippie It really depends on where you live and how they charge. Mine is about a hundred every two months; but the only time I saw my bill even fluctuate was when I forgot to turn the hose off for like four hours.
Agreed, but so is tooth pain. I had an abscess for years that I couldn't afford to remove that even I had the thought a few times to self remove. Tooth removal isn't cheap and depending on your area dentists don't accept certain insurances. That said just go to the ER and get antibiotics sometimes until you can afford, that's crazy she did that if true Edit: or primary physician* for some reason mine told me to go to urgent care/ER for antibiotics though
Chris please start doing some of the old vh1 reality shows! Flavor of Love, I Love New York, I Love Money, Charm School, etc. It's a comedy goldmine I'm telling you 😂
It's also heavily recycled and bleached, the paper itself isn't healthy to "consume". The ink might actually be safer, since it's plant based these days. (Ironically)
Even if you were this cheap so much of what they say makes no sense. It looked like comfortable weather outside, why not just use the whole trailer and not cool it instead of all sleeping together?
That’s what confuses me, unless I’m wrong, if you aren’t running the heat or a/c the size of your home is irrelevant, right? You can use every room, nothing is running to heat or cool it. And they don’t use their electric for anything so that also goes out the window.
All they had to do was head to the library and use their free internet to google how to cool a home without AC and seen opening windows at night and using black out curtains/blankets/whatever during the day keeps the indoors cool. Pretty sure that newspaper window isn't getting opened so it's probably hot as hell in there.
A moment of silence for the real victim of this episode. The bf, the man who loves her so much that he would willingly endure that family visit. He HAS to get bribed with her doing that special thing he likes.
Chris, I've had such a depressing night. My parrot died and I spent a lot of the night crying. Watching your video at 11PM has been putting smiles on my face. Thanks for brightening my life a bit.
Funny story: my tech savy cousin who grew up in Pittsburgh was staying with us on my family's hobby farm. We had chickens at the time and our cell reception was spotty. My cousin was walking around in the yard talking with someone (I don't know if it was a friend or job-related) and our rooster crowed. The guy on the others end answered "Dude, was that rooster?"
A bathtub can actually be even more at 50 gallons and if someone takes a quick shower (with a normal shower head running at 2.5 gallons per minute and around 1.25 GPM for a low flow shower head), they can probably get away with 7 gallons. Which even further proves your point 👍
@@L33tSkE3t 50 gallons is a huge bathtub considering your body displaces the water. Also taking a 3 min shower is not sufficient enough to be a hygienic shower btw
@@Gingrninja123 you could definitely take a 5 minute shower and still be clean if your going fast. We had 5 minutes to get undressed, shower, and redress in basic training and I still got clean. My showers now take like 10 minutes and I have long hair that I shampoo and condition.
When she talked about not using half of her home, I was like “At this point you might as well just buy a tent & sell the trailer. That’ll really save you some money.” And the very next scene they were setting up a tent to stay in while their family visits.💀 At least she didn’t expect her daughter & *INFANT* grandchild to stay in the tent… but she did expect her grandchild to take their baths *outdoors* ?😭
I was looking for this comment. You can mix baking soda and water to clean your hair. And the oil could be to moisturize it. I remember my mom had an old book that actually recommended this
I remember one cheapskates episode where a lady decided to have her husband pull out her tooth than get it treated. TLC then filmed her husband removing it. Never watch cheapskates with a snack or meal
I can tell theyre lying/exaggerating in this one not because of the blurays but because if i was gonna wipe with newspaper i would not crumple an entire double page, you'd get more efficiency by folding a portion of it with a little crumple, maybe spray dampen it for some idk lol
Crumpling up whatever you use to wipe your arse is not as efficient as folding it over a few times. I learned that as a child, FFS! (Yes, I suspect some of these people are putting on an act for the camera)
@@redfoxtheposer8808 Then why wouldn't they sell them? And do you think these people were ever going to Christmas parties where people were giving out Blu-rays?
@osirisatot19 1) who knowsnor cares. Maybe they dont want to, maybe the producers try to axe all references to normal daily life amd 2) sure. Why wouldn't they? You dknt have to bring a gift to a family christmas party just to get $8 worth if 3 year old movies
@@redfoxtheposer8808 Well clearly you care lol. I've never even been given a gift at a family Christmas party, and I doubt these people have ether. Also this episode isn't brand new; Blu-rays weren't always cheap.
The thing I don't understand with people who actually are as cheap as the actors in these shows is...what's the point? Sure, you're saving money but like, for what? What are you saving for? What master plan do you have for the 5 bucks you saved?
Like, I doubt these people have got it like this but like, saving money in general is good. Money makes money and little shit adds up. Have that shit sit in the market for your working life and bam you've got a few million to retire on. Living paycheck to paycheck is a dead end and people do it at all income levels, as long as you're saving money and staying out of debt and have an income you're on track for that shit.
I feel like they have to be overdramatizing or something man because wouldn't someone call CPS?? So much of this is not hygenic. I admit that I don't deep clean enough, but these people make me feel dirty. Also, bringing some little infants and a toddler up in that home for even a day was effed up, let alone two weeks. I hope it was played up for the cameras.
It depends entirely on where this took place. In red states, you have an ultra-extreme-unbelievable bias towards keeping kids with their biological parents (or family, if the parents have passed.)
I worked with a dude that removed his own teeth using a boxcutter blade and idk what else. I thought my coworkers were joking til we were outside on break and we see him doing it in his truck. He even came over after and was like "Thank God that pain toothache is gone"
And why does the mom wear make up? The whole thing is straight up abuse, but the answer is abuse. Growing up, we never had money for the things my brothers and I needed. But the moment my mom wanted something? Suddenly there was money for it. At thirteen I had to scrape together what I had from odd jobs I did for the older folks at my grandma's church to buy my brothers school supplies because my mom claimed we didn't have the money, only to get a package soon after of books and movies she'd ordered from one of her catalogues.
There’s no way that lady is living off of squirrels and frogs. She has to be spending a substantial amount of money on processed foods to maintain that figure.
They live off $1,000 a month? Dude I'm pretty damn close to that. *But I buy groceries, use electric, use water, have a gas stove, car insurance, pay for trash, use toilet paper 🧻, I even have 2 60lb pitbulls, and a 80lb American Bully, I even use every room in my house.* If you have a place you pay for, but aren't using all your rooms might as well give me a dollar I'll burn it for you 😂 How are they saving all this money, and still spending a thousand dollars a month?
My mom was a paralegal for a public defender. You'd be surprised how many people on food stamps and welfare/social security will use the funds for cable, expensive makeup, junk food, and expensive food.
Glad to hear they saved $2grand from not getting a free washing machine on Craigslist only to watch Armageddon on Blu-ray ...collecting dusk on a shelf 😂
I always feel bad for the kids in these types of situations like come on, the son can't just take a quick shower?? Forget doing a sport because he knows he has to come home and use the family's stale musty bathwater afterwards 🤢 I don't think you're even getting cleaner anyway.
I don't know that much about extreme cheapskates, but the little I do know means that I would never even think about watching an episode too soon before or after I've eaten, let alone while I'm eating
I really hope the episode really did just end there. Them sitting around the fire after dinner....Kind of like a mystery of what happened to them. "They never saw them again" *fade to black*... "update they died!"
god, this woman is brutal!! it’s so controlling, there’s TWO other bedrooms where both kids could have their own rooms but they have to sleep with their parents and i can’t even imagine how awful that is on a night to night basis
I, too, saved $2,000 on a new washing machine. But I did it by buying a new washing machine for $300. I bought the one that arrived at the store dented, and I still haven't found the dent.
The fact that this video is less than two minutes old and there's over ten comments says something. And that is that the universe pauses whenever Chris posts so we can all watch.
Loving the Chris James aesthetic glow up. You can see how you’ve grown so much over the years into yourself, but more importantly, your comedy and video quality. Thrilled every time you upload, good looks
1:35 - The baking soda is more than likely used to wash their hair. I worked with a guy that would wash his hair with it. He used apple cider vinegar as a kind of conditioner, so maybe that's what the olive oil is for.
We had to go without running water for 2 months. Had to buy gallons of water from Walmart and boil them for baths. Please never willingly do this to your family.
3:08 ever plug the bath tub well taking a shower to see how fast it fill? Cause it fills fast then the tap. Like 10 mins to fill a tub so if you take a longer then 10 min shower your using more water then a bath........ i always take a shower after a bath cause a bath is just soaking in your dirt and soap water
I was not 30 seconds in & INSTANTLY noticed your camera quality! Sir, it has improved DRASTICALLY🤌🎥 Like, it was already good. 0 complaints. But THIS? Sir, this is sheer cinema🎬 Truly ✨️iconic✨️
okay but during the ad spot when you said "if you knock, he bark" I felt that in my soul. My note for GrubHub is literally "leave it at my door. PLEASE DO NOT KNOCK the dogs will tell me youre here"
not nearly enough of you are appreciating the black and white and red all over joke I kinda cooked with that one
Yeah, kinda don't feel like thinking of her haemorrhoids. Thanks tho ;P
I appreciate you chris
You should do hoarders
@Chris I think it would be great if you calab with Papameat
Bro you didn't just cook with that joke you went full Gordon Ramsey
My sides still hurt from laughing at that line
This show needs a "To Catch a Predator" style reboot. Same exact show, except every episode ends with CPS showing up to save the kids.
😂 at the end Chris Hansen just pops out and says "have a seat".
I like it.
I take it you've been watching @CinnamonToastKen @BuffPro
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😂😂😂
That would imply that cps saves anyone but they don't. They're involved in trafficking.
Hundred percent. And it just dawned on me that the majority of their budget is going into the McDonald's that keeps the mom over 350lb. She looks like she could be pushing 400. According to Dr. Now, that takes like 4-5k in calories a day to maintain that size. That's a lot of Big Macs.
I feel so bad for the kids in this. You can tell they absolutely do not want to do the things their parents force them to do.
I'm amazed the daughter even still visits tbh.
The daughter not going entirely no contact especially when she has a baby is the most shocking thing
@@lux0rd01 The show probably paid her to go.
@@osirisatot19oh god yea I would never go back to that house again after the childhood trauma after that happened here 😭!!
@@osirisatot19Idk that would have to be a lot of money. I mean maybe I would go stand there and chat for a few hours or less, but I’m not eating broken ground freezer meat in the summer or letting my kid bathe in a rusted tub
that cameraman knew what he was doing catching the blu-ray collection
They're wiping their asses with a form of paper that's insufficient for that job then they're sharing bathwater. You do the math.
I just made the same comment lol
Poopy water
"My daughter is wasteful." Yeah she's wasting her time visiting you.
They need cps called!!! Imagine having your poor child smelling funkier than a normal teen does and having no control over it. Poor baby
We are not better than our great great great grandparents who did not have running water.
Thankfully the show is very fake. The kid is fine (I hope).
@@fastinradfordable our great great great grandparents did not have schools to go to and be surrounded by horrible children who can bully a child into taking their own life
@@mcknitejryes they were,kids have always been evil.
@@frankf684 are you dense? duh, but schools have not always been a thing. plus not everyone had water back then? school was for the wealthy who obviously had running water and even then, to an extent. the difference is the time period and kids now having to go to school and be bullied by their peers.
The daughter probably only went back to show her husband what her family was like after he wouldn't believe her. She was 100% crying, you can see a tear in her right eye at the end... I feel so bad for the sons who haven't had a chance to get away yet.
I agree and some people want to say this is fake. I don't think shed be crying if this was all just an act for TV.
I love her partner’s deadpan expression during the entire thing like “damn she really DID grow up like this.”
@@Wabajck Why the fuck wouldn't she fake cry when she and her family all get paid to pretend to be these characters on this fake show? You put tiger conditioner under your eyes and you'll start dropping tears
"They're burning the shit trash again"
I actually yelled out loud "BURN IT!?" when she said that
I saw my neighbor doing this recently. Small pile of trash in their driveway they were burning. Looked like toilet paper and had this horrible smell in the alley that week. I'm convinced it was used tp.
This sounds like something Cousin Eddie would say. LOL🤣🤣🤣
@@waynawilliamsmore like something cousin Eddie would do 😂
I wonder if cps ever gets a lot of calls after these episodes air because most of these situations cannot be safe for the children!
I'm pretty sure you could show this episode to a judge and they'd take the kids away.
I was thinking the same thing. I feel so awful for those kids. The one teenager looked miserable :(
You know when you're a kid and you go to your friend's house or maybe a new acquaintance and you kind of see how their life is a little bit different than yours... It looks like the kids know it's definitely not normal or even really sane at all :(
@@osirisatot19you would be very surprised at the incompetence of the judges and CPS I think
Ive seen cps get called for far less than whats in this episode
@@gamerinc7410 I know, my mom was a social worker.
she speniding more on batteries for the lamp than turning the light on
Unless they’re charging during day with solar
Or even better water hydro power
They also block out the natural light from the windows
"Think about how much water a bath uses."
Hmm if only they invented a faster, cheaper, more hygienic way to bathe.😊
Hmm. Perhaps a sort of tap with holes that would “shower” its users? Like just shower them with water. Nah. What am I thinking? That’s nonsense
Honestly, we're lucky she doesn't collect water in a rain barrel and have them bathe in that.
I fully expected her to heat her daughters bath water with the newspaper and shit fire
I mean…. We don’t know that she didn’t
I've been unemployed. I've had to use single ply toilet paper over the last few months, I've secretly complained in my mind about it. Using newspaper on purpose? No way. I'm only using the single ply because that's what the food bank gives. I'm thankful for it but still, NOT A CHOICE.
Food banks save lives, I'm glad you have access to this kind of help and I hope you find income in whatever way works best for you soon 🏋🏼
When me and my friends shared a house in college, my buddy figured out that one of his keys fit the key they had for the toilet paper at the college; so we'd just take it. It was really cheap stuff, but if they charge us 100 dollars for books we use for 4 months I think we deserved to take the tp.
@@cherryjello777 i actually start work next week ❤️ thank you!
My friends used cheap coffee filters years ago.
@@bec7080🎉woohoo🎉 congrats, thats awesome
I swear TLC must offer an extra $500 for that bathroom shot and she couldn’t resist
Maybe five bucks.
@@GamesFromSpacemaybe 5 cents
@@dogcat823 maybe 5 shitty Blu-ray DVDS
@@dogcat823 Maybe 5 Trashy Blu-ray DVDs
"maybe don't eat while you watch it" sir i just sat down with a bowl of ramen you couldn't have warned me sooner??
Same I just made some nachos. The bath water is what got me to pause for a minute.
With all due respect, this is a youtube video, you can stop it!
I just sat down with a burger myself. I took his advice. I went to watch something else while I ate.
same! ramen and everything lol mine is chicken
I was actually about to go fix some ramen myself..... what's with everyone here eating instant noodles around the time we watch this?
The psychic whiplash at this episode's sponsorship going from Factor to Doordash is like witnessing the two wolves that live inside of Chris.
Inside Chris? More like I side most of us with too much money and not enough love of the concept of grocery shopping
I don't even want to think about food after gagging over the bathwater
do you mean psychological?
@@stefanforrer2573 Aw man, y'know, I actually meant psychyjigglyilligicalicious...autocorrect got me again. They really need to update their dictionary.
She puts her liquid soap in the most dainty breakable container ever that will slip out of your hands when wet 😂
Tea Cups are surprisingly more sturdy than people give them credit for being (I collect vintage and antique china)
Haha I was thinking the same exact thing. That little bugger would slip right out of your hands, especially with soapy hands! Oh lord xD
"Steep your baby in there like a bag of tea" is unhinged work 😂😂😂😂😂
I almost feel bad for these people because this is very quickly devolving from weird and quirky oddities and behaviors and into some level of collective undiagnosed mental illness and or a poor attempt to hide crippling poverty. Like, is it just me or, do these people seem like they need genuine help?
It is a mental illness tbh, like nothing they do makes sense. They spend all this money on battery powered lanterns that probably need new batteries very quickly, the shitload of BluRays they had, the fact that water isn't even expensive; it's like a kind of OCD.
They need genuine help. They're not even saving money.
My water bill ranges from $26-28/month regardless of how much water I use. Trying to save water like these people is pointless because you'll be charged to have water access no matter how much you use
@@osirisatot19 This. There are many, many non-profits and food shelves out there that will just _give_ you toilet paper if you ask them, there are ways to subsidize your electric bills, etc. These people are doing this because some part of their brain likes it, not because they have to or even feel like they have to. If they spent one-tenth the time they used coming up with 'novel' ways to save more money, just looking on Google for ways to get help paying the bills, they'd be fine.
@@romantic_hippie It really depends on where you live and how they charge. Mine is about a hundred every two months; but the only time I saw my bill even fluctuate was when I forgot to turn the hose off for like four hours.
The tooth bit....there is just no way. Chiseling pieces of your tooth off would be unbelievably painful
Agreed, but so is tooth pain. I had an abscess for years that I couldn't afford to remove that even I had the thought a few times to self remove. Tooth removal isn't cheap and depending on your area dentists don't accept certain insurances. That said just go to the ER and get antibiotics sometimes until you can afford, that's crazy she did that if true
Edit: or primary physician* for some reason mine told me to go to urgent care/ER for antibiotics though
why.... just why? I bet that daughter was out of there as soon as the cameras quit rolling
Chris please start doing some of the old vh1 reality shows! Flavor of Love, I Love New York, I Love Money, Charm School, etc. It's a comedy goldmine I'm telling you 😂
👹YYYEESSSSSS!!!
The Surreal Life!
Please give my I love new York lol
Yall check out @linnhuman she does these and is amazing
0:17 hurt me as i looked down at my delicious plate of sushi.
Me dipping my bread stick in marinara
For real
Was just about to get into some oatmeal 😂😭 I'll come back later
don't think wiping your bits with ink is theeeee smartest idea. Not a doctor though.
It's gonna be black, white, and red all over.
Edit: ahh, Chris already made this joke...
It's also heavily recycled and bleached, the paper itself isn't healthy to "consume". The ink might actually be safer, since it's plant based these days. (Ironically)
She's just smearing faeces all over her lower carriage newspaper is not the most absorbent compared to traditional toilet tissue
My question is just WHAT EXACTLY is the money they accumulated being used FOR ???!!! 🤔🙄🤦😬🤷
BluRays.
Clearly not for washing that trailer.
@@flyoma 😆😂😆😂
Probably porn
ending generational poverty is probably the excuse, but like... this is beyond messed up.
Even if you were this cheap so much of what they say makes no sense. It looked like comfortable weather outside, why not just use the whole trailer and not cool it instead of all sleeping together?
That’s what confuses me, unless I’m wrong, if you aren’t running the heat or a/c the size of your home is irrelevant, right?
You can use every room, nothing is running to heat or cool it. And they don’t use their electric for anything so that also goes out the window.
Also blocking the sunlight with newspaper then using battery powered lanterns???
All they had to do was head to the library and use their free internet to google how to cool a home without AC and seen opening windows at night and using black out curtains/blankets/whatever during the day keeps the indoors cool. Pretty sure that newspaper window isn't getting opened so it's probably hot as hell in there.
Even their house needs a bath
A moment of silence for the real victim of this episode. The bf, the man who loves her so much that he would willingly endure that family visit. He HAS to get bribed with her doing that special thing he likes.
They did waste on that tent. You can just string up a tarp.
Tarps aren't cheap. Gotta get a cardboard box
Chris, I've had such a depressing night. My parrot died and I spent a lot of the night crying. Watching your video at 11PM has been putting smiles on my face. Thanks for brightening my life a bit.
Sorry about your parrot.
The death of a pet is hard, I hope you take some time for yourself and get some restful sleep ❤
“steep your baby in there” got me dawg.
can you imagine how bad that god damn house smells
Funny story: my tech savy cousin who grew up in Pittsburgh was staying with us on my family's hobby farm. We had chickens at the time and our cell reception was spotty. My cousin was walking around in the yard talking with someone (I don't know if it was a friend or job-related) and our rooster crowed. The guy on the others end answered
"Dude, was that rooster?"
A five minute shower would use around 10 gallons of water whereas a bathtub half full would be around 25 gallons.
A bathtub can actually be even more at 50 gallons and if someone takes a quick shower (with a normal shower head running at 2.5 gallons per minute and around 1.25 GPM for a low flow shower head), they can probably get away with 7 gallons. Which even further proves your point 👍
Wull, we only change the water twice a month!
@@rinoz47🤮
@@L33tSkE3t 50 gallons is a huge bathtub considering your body displaces the water. Also taking a 3 min shower is not sufficient enough to be a hygienic shower btw
@@Gingrninja123 you could definitely take a 5 minute shower and still be clean if your going fast. We had 5 minutes to get undressed, shower, and redress in basic training and I still got clean. My showers now take like 10 minutes and I have long hair that I shampoo and condition.
This and worlds strictest parents would be awful to be a kid going to school the next day lol
Nah bro
School is their escape
When she talked about not using half of her home, I was like “At this point you might as well just buy a tent & sell the trailer. That’ll really save you some money.” And the very next scene they were setting up a tent to stay in while their family visits.💀 At least she didn’t expect her daughter & *INFANT* grandchild to stay in the tent… but she did expect her grandchild to take their baths *outdoors* ?😭
I know ppl make soap out of baking soda and olive oil. I’m sure that’s why they have it next to the bath tub.
I was looking for this comment. You can mix baking soda and water to clean your hair. And the oil could be to moisturize it. I remember my mom had an old book that actually recommended this
People also use baking soda for toothpaste and olive oil to preserve their razors.
Olive oil has to cost more than shampoo though. Even the cheapest olive oil.
That woman HATES her daughter
Paper cut on the old starfish.... I dont believe it tp is pretty cheap.
Yup. Even when I was poor as could be: 4 rolls for a buck. Course it was 1 ply but still
At least steal that shit from a gas station bathroom.
Just bought a washer and dryer from Lowe’s for my new home for 1100, including parts and install….
Yeah, and this episode is like 15 years old; like you'd have had to buy some crazy industrial washing machine for it to be 2 grand back then.
Congrats on your new place!! 🎉
I remember one cheapskates episode where a lady decided to have her husband pull out her tooth than get it treated. TLC then filmed her husband removing it. Never watch cheapskates with a snack or meal
13:46 why are they sitting around the outdoor bathtub like it’s a campfire? 😂
Probably because it’s making heat and they will NOT waste money burning perfectly good firewood.
I can tell theyre lying/exaggerating in this one not because of the blurays but because if i was gonna wipe with newspaper i would not crumple an entire double page, you'd get more efficiency by folding a portion of it with a little crumple, maybe spray dampen it for some idk lol
I was thinking that! I'm not exactly frugal with my tp use, but goddamn I at least know to use a little at a time until the job is done!
Crumpling up whatever you use to wipe your arse is not as efficient as folding it over a few times. I learned that as a child, FFS!
(Yes, I suspect some of these people are putting on an act for the camera)
100 percent those blurays were all on the free section of craigslist
Or they stole them.
Or they were acquired before they started the "saving" thing. You go to a christmas party in 2009, youre leaving with at least 3 blu rays
@@redfoxtheposer8808 Then why wouldn't they sell them? And do you think these people were ever going to Christmas parties where people were giving out Blu-rays?
@osirisatot19 1) who knowsnor cares. Maybe they dont want to, maybe the producers try to axe all references to normal daily life amd 2) sure. Why wouldn't they? You dknt have to bring a gift to a family christmas party just to get $8 worth if 3 year old movies
@@redfoxtheposer8808 Well clearly you care lol. I've never even been given a gift at a family Christmas party, and I doubt these people have ether. Also this episode isn't brand new; Blu-rays weren't always cheap.
The thing I don't understand with people who actually are as cheap as the actors in these shows is...what's the point? Sure, you're saving money but like, for what? What are you saving for? What master plan do you have for the 5 bucks you saved?
Like, I doubt these people have got it like this but like, saving money in general is good. Money makes money and little shit adds up. Have that shit sit in the market for your working life and bam you've got a few million to retire on. Living paycheck to paycheck is a dead end and people do it at all income levels, as long as you're saving money and staying out of debt and have an income you're on track for that shit.
I feel like they have to be overdramatizing or something man because wouldn't someone call CPS?? So much of this is not hygenic. I admit that I don't deep clean enough, but these people make me feel dirty.
Also, bringing some little infants and a toddler up in that home for even a day was effed up, let alone two weeks.
I hope it was played up for the cameras.
Many previous "cheapskates" featured on this show have said it's fake.
It's TLC, of _course_ it's played up. It's *_reality television_* ;)
It depends entirely on where this took place. In red states, you have an ultra-extreme-unbelievable bias towards keeping kids with their biological parents (or family, if the parents have passed.)
They're all mainly setups over dramatised all these so called reality shows all over the world fake as f
I worked with a dude that removed his own teeth using a boxcutter blade and idk what else. I thought my coworkers were joking til we were outside on break and we see him doing it in his truck. He even came over after and was like "Thank God that pain toothache is gone"
2:47 executive producer: Dan Schneider??
Special guest director Quintin Tarantino.
That's what I was thinking. 😂
I'm glad that I'm not the only one that thought of Dan.
How dare you and osirisatot19 beat me to the only 2 I know of and steal my joke before i can make it 😂
@@zmcginnis66 -insert you gotta be quicker than that meme-
If they’re so cheap, as you pointed out, WHY DO THEY HAVE SO MANY BLU RAYS?!
And why does the mom wear make up? The whole thing is straight up abuse, but the answer is abuse. Growing up, we never had money for the things my brothers and I needed. But the moment my mom wanted something? Suddenly there was money for it. At thirteen I had to scrape together what I had from odd jobs I did for the older folks at my grandma's church to buy my brothers school supplies because my mom claimed we didn't have the money, only to get a package soon after of books and movies she'd ordered from one of her catalogues.
I bet they hit up Little Free Libraries and trade in all that they acquire for movies. A slow, but sure way to build that "wealth."
They refuse to turn the lights on and they also "insulate" the windows to block the light out
0:16 I had my food prepared already. I sat here and ate it
Same me and my peanut butter and jelly were here waiting
There’s no way that lady is living off of squirrels and frogs. She has to be spending a substantial amount of money on processed foods to maintain that figure.
They live off $1,000 a month?
Dude I'm pretty damn close to that.
*But I buy groceries, use electric, use water, have a gas stove, car insurance, pay for trash, use toilet paper 🧻, I even have 2 60lb pitbulls, and a 80lb American Bully, I even use every room in my house.*
If you have a place you pay for, but aren't using all your rooms might as well give me a dollar I'll burn it for you 😂
How are they saving all this money, and still spending a thousand dollars a month?
Drugs I’m guessing lol
Yes. This sounds crazy. What are they using the rest of the money for?
My mom was a paralegal for a public defender. You'd be surprised how many people on food stamps and welfare/social security will use the funds for cable, expensive makeup, junk food, and expensive food.
Glad to hear they saved $2grand from not getting a free washing machine on Craigslist only to watch Armageddon on Blu-ray ...collecting dusk on a shelf 😂
I always feel bad for the kids in these types of situations like come on, the son can't just take a quick shower?? Forget doing a sport because he knows he has to come home and use the family's stale musty bathwater afterwards 🤢 I don't think you're even getting cleaner anyway.
I don't know that much about extreme cheapskates, but the little I do know means that I would never even think about watching an episode too soon before or after I've eaten, let alone while I'm eating
The absolute delirium to not only live like this but also wake up one day and think “our squalor needs to be documented”
The green stuff living on the siding of the mobil is a little more telling than the made up stuff for the show.
I really hope the episode really did just end there. Them sitting around the fire after dinner....Kind of like a mystery of what happened to them.
"They never saw them again" *fade to black*... "update they died!"
god, this woman is brutal!! it’s so controlling, there’s TWO other bedrooms where both kids could have their own rooms but they have to sleep with their parents and i can’t even imagine how awful that is on a night to night basis
They are playing this up hard. The Mom looks like she's going to laugh at multiple points when she says something particularly unhinged.
If you plug up the bathtub and take a shower you'll get like an eighth of what doing a full tub would do
I, too, saved $2,000 on a new washing machine. But I did it by buying a new washing machine for $300. I bought the one that arrived at the store dented, and I still haven't found the dent.
The fact that this video is less than two minutes old and there's over ten comments says something. And that is that the universe pauses whenever Chris posts so we can all watch.
I am so blessed that my parents are clean and organized. These kids need to be taken, and raised in a good, clean home. 🤢
I dont watch TLC unless i got a white boy to watch it with. Thank you Mr. James 🫡
Loving the Chris James aesthetic glow up. You can see how you’ve grown so much over the years into yourself, but more importantly, your comedy and video quality. Thrilled every time you upload, good looks
I LOVE WHEN YOU DO EXTREME CHEAPSKATES
1:35 - The baking soda is more than likely used to wash their hair. I worked with a guy that would wash his hair with it. He used apple cider vinegar as a kind of conditioner, so maybe that's what the olive oil is for.
Would explain why her hair looks perpetually greasy in every shot
I’m just hoping they don’t have kids. Pleeeeease don’t have kids. 2:19 god damm it.
We had to go without running water for 2 months. Had to buy gallons of water from Walmart and boil them for baths. Please never willingly do this to your family.
3:08 ever plug the bath tub well taking a shower to see how fast it fill? Cause it fills fast then the tap. Like 10 mins to fill a tub so if you take a longer then 10 min shower your using more water then a bath........ i always take a shower after a bath cause a bath is just soaking in your dirt and soap water
My Granny would make squirrel and dumplings when I was kid. It’s 10x worse than what you’re imagining right now.
Oh I’ve been waiting for you to do the “road kill” family 😂
No way this show has only had one "road kill family".
When I was in high school one of my classmates' Mom was on hoarders. He transferred schools shortly after. I always wonder what happened to him.
DAD POSTED COME ON EVERYONE
WOOO
Chris is 27, how old was he when he “had” you? 😂
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Rejoice!!!!!🎉
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The shared bath water is so much worse when you learn they aren't wiping properly 🤢
You warned me, you warned me NOT to eat and I didn’t listen
I hope chris still enjoys making videos, he's delightful to watch
Amazon BIDET $30 holy hell!!!
No see that uses water though.
They’re gonna find a way to make it reuse the water
That daughter was absolutely crying, and I really can't blame her.
We want longer videos!
This was a crazy episode Chris! 😂
The Son-in-law is just so done with the entire family at this point. 12:45
I scream a warlike YESSS everytime I see a chris james post
I'm sad and happy that they did not use the toilet news to light the fire in the garden
At the end it looks like there was only one plate of food that they were sharing.
🎶"There's a hole in the horse trough, dear Liza, dear Liza. There's a hole in the horse trough, dear Liza, a hole."🎶
0:23 appreciate that king 👑🙏 i'll be back, maybe. Probably
Christmas must be such a special and joyful occasion in that trailer
Chris, you're looking good brother. Keep up the olive oil and baking soda scrub, it's working!
I've plugged my tub and showered just to see. A shower takes 1/4 the water a bath does.
I love this show, but it creeps me out at the same time
Mom I got crap on my hand from the damn News paper!....well you ain't wasting no water you'll be able to take your bath in a couple days. 😆
I was not 30 seconds in & INSTANTLY noticed your camera quality! Sir, it has improved DRASTICALLY🤌🎥 Like, it was already good. 0 complaints. But THIS? Sir, this is sheer cinema🎬 Truly ✨️iconic✨️
okay but during the ad spot when you said "if you knock, he bark" I felt that in my soul. My note for GrubHub is literally "leave it at my door. PLEASE DO NOT KNOCK the dogs will tell me youre here"
Thank you for the disclaimer about not eating while I watch, cj!
I’ll just keep mainlining my vodka 😎👍
That family won't buy TP but has a monster Blu Ray collection.
If they don't use half the trailer then how do they know no one is secretly living in there?
Imagine if they rented out the other half of the trailer 🤣
Hey man, you look great! I can tell you’ve been working hard and lost some weight. I’m such a big fan and appreciate all you do.