So… i was a student traveling abroad w/gf in hong kong. We decided to check out Macau for a day so we took a ferry. As the story goes, I majorly fucked up and I overspent the ammount needed to get the ferry back (~$100USD i think, only had about $45). So I took a gamble… seriously. I went to a casino and bet everything we had in 1 go on a roullette table. All on black, we won (@$90 now), still not enough to get back. Again, all on black… we won again(@$180 now).
You would think i stopped here. At this point my GF was no longer pissed at me and more relieved but I said ‘fuck it, we missed the ferry so lets pocket 100 and have fun with it… we are sleeping in the street tonight anyways’. So now we start at 50 and decide to try Sic Bo (another card/dice game). We are both pretty good at math so we though lets run this for as long as we can. We ended up leaving with a modest $4k USD or something, stayed in the nicest hotel suite, and just went hog wild until sunrise for us to catch the ferry. Good times.
I’m a miser so I’ve got a couple:
Carried a microwave by hand for an hour on transit rather than have it delivered for like $10.
Rushing to hike up a mountain before sunset rather than taking an $8 gondola ride, I survived but my buddy who was with me had a sore foot for the next week.
Small suggestions? Start thinking of all your time at your hourly rate. You saved the $10 on a delivery fee but spent the hour of your time ‘delivering’ it yourself.
My brother and I have carried a portable AC unit to his apartment once. We dragged it across the parking lot to the bus stop, took it on the bus, took it off the bus, crossed the road, took it into the building, and carried it into the elevator. In our case, I’d say it was worth it; the bus stop was right across the street from the building, so a car would not have reduced the effort by much. And the reason we even bought that AC unit was that the one my brother ordered on Amazon got stolen.
I ate ramen for almost every meal for like a month and the doctor said my sodium is off the charts and that I need to stop.
Bought a house so I could pay $1200 in mortgage toward my own investment instead of $2k a month into someone else’s pocket. Insane, I know
