What money saving tips do you think are a bit extreme?

[rance]

I saw in a thread once that people will carry hamburger buns with them all day and then order a double hamburger so they then have 2 hamburgers.

Seemed a bit extreme when you are spending 1000's on a trip.

Any other one's you have heard?

 

[DisGirl23]

I guess I'm not the best person to answer this question since I think it's a little extreme to use the hotel room's coffee maker to toast a Pop-Tart. But, to each their own...

 

[klinlin]

Anthing made to eat in the hotel room coffee pot! Saw a whole thread on that once. Eeeewwww....

 

[rance]

That`s funny. I heard someone at work once talking about bringing an electric frying pan to hotels and cooks those noodles that come in the block (ramon i think).

 

[nytimez]

I saw in a thread once that people will carry hamburger buns with them all day and then order a double hamburger so they then have 2 hamburgers.

Seemed a bit extreme when you are spending 1000's on a trip.

Any other one's you have heard?

I think the one in your example is about as extreme as it comes...

 

[Planogirl]

I think that carrying buns around is too much trouble even though you put them in a locker I suppose. But still....

Using coffeemakers to make food items is just grotesque. How do you even do that?

 

[twokids0204]

I've seen folks in Pecos Bill - taking the Lettuce, Tomato's and other toppings, and salad dressing to make mini salads.

To each there own.

 

[Suellen]

I wouldn't carry a bun.... but I did order a double burger while on QSDP and gave DD3 one of the patties. She doesn't eat much but will eat that if I chop it up.

Cooking in a coffee pot I would NOT do on vacation... though we plan to use the microwave for breakfast and late night popcorn in the room. Pair that with the free DVD rentals in the Gift shop and it can really take the sting out of a really rained out DTD evening!!

 

[Go Saints!]

LMAO When DS was 2 we took our first trip, and we used the coffee pot to boil water for grits. He gets in food kicks where he wants to eat the same thing three times a day for weeks on end. I wish he still liked grits, now its poptarts. I may need to find out how to toast a poptart using the coffee pot.

 

[Suellen]

I've seen folks in Pecos Bill - taking the Lettuce, Tomato's and other toppings, and salad dressing to make mini salads.

To each there own.

Without buying anything???

I must admit to taking extra pickles even though I ordered chicken just cuz I really like them. But at least I bought meals for my entire family!!

 

[Planogirl]

LMAO When DS was 2 we took our first trip, and we used the coffee pot to boil water for grits. He gets in food kicks where he wants to eat the same thing three times a day for weeks on end. I wish he still liked grits, now its poptarts. I may need to find out how to toast a poptart using the coffee pot.

I see nothing wrong with heating water in a coffeemaker for some things. I would do so for tea if the water didn't have a coffee smell to it.

I don't get the poptart thing at all. I like cold poptarts though.

 

[twokids0204]

Without buying anything???

I must admit to taking extra pickles even though I ordered chicken just cuz I really like them. But at least I bought meals for my entire family!!

I don't know if they bought something else or not... but they (it was a family of 3 or 4) were filling up the little paper cups, and then they took the dressing packets.

I stopped watching and ate my taco salad.

 

[mrbghd]

I wouldn't carry a bun.... but I did order a double burger while on QSDP and gave DD3 one of the patties. She doesn't eat much but will eat that if I chop it up.

That makes perfect sense. I have seen people do this a lot. Makes more sense than ordering her a whole burger she won't eat.

 

[Snape]

I think that carrying buns around is too much trouble even though you put them in a locker I suppose. But still....

Using coffeemakers to make food items is just grotesque. How do you even do that?

How about irons?

 

[Planogirl]

How about irons?

Wasn't there something about using an iron to make a grilled cheese sandwich? I just hope that they cleaned the iron well once they were done or the next person to use it would be in for a surprise.

 

[mrbghd]

I think the more effort you have to put into it the less worth it things become. Carrying water into the park-no brainer. Dragging a 10 foot long rolling cooler-not gonna do it.

 

[zhazhazsu]

I think the whole double patty and extra bun thing is a little wacky, but to each there own ( I totally get the chopping a patty up for a toddler though, but two grown people is different.)

 

[verticalchaos]

Without buying anything???

I must admit to taking extra pickles even though I ordered chicken just cuz I really like them. But at least I bought meals for my entire family!!

We saw a family in Columbia Harbor House unpack lunch meat, bread and cheese, then proceed to make their sandwiches using the toppings bar. They bought nothing at the restaurant.

 

[Fantasmic23]

How about irons?

There's a scene in the movie "Mr. Mom" (1983, Michael Keaton) where he makes his son a grilled cheese sandwich with an iron.

 

[nytimez]

I wouldn't carry a bun.... but I did order a double burger while on QSDP and gave DD3 one of the patties. She doesn't eat much but will eat that if I chop it up.

Don't feel bad about that at all! That's perfectly fine -- same as if you kept the burger whole and gave her bites, etc. etc. When I go with my daughter and mother, the two of them used to share a single adult CS meal.

I must admit to taking extra pickles even though I ordered chicken just cuz I really like them. But at least I bought meals for my entire family!!

Nothing extreme about that, either -- you paid for the meals, you're entitled to toppings!