How To Determine If You Are a Cheap Bastard: A Quiz

1. When you begin to feel cold in your house, do you:
   1. Turn up the heat
   2. Put on your thickest sweatshirt
   3. Cover yourself in chihuahuas
   4. Vacuum the house to warm yourself up

2. When you realize that you’ve exceeded your flexible medical spending account for the year, you:
   1. Write it off as a loss and resolve to estimate better next year
   2. Submit your excess medicals anyway and hope for accidental reimbursement
   3. Reschedule your appointments for next year — if it’s going to kill you, it will probably take a few months
   4. “Accidentally” forget to take some of the pills to make them last longer

3. You have invited all your in-laws to Thanksgiving at your house, and suddenly notice you only have 7 or 8 pieces of silverware, when you have a total attendence of 10. You:
1. Buy more sets of matching silverware
2. Borrow old silverware from your parents’ house — hey, they’re in California and won’t notice
3. Consider asking the in-laws to BYOS (bring your own…)
4. Suggest using some of the plastic spoons from your giant Costco pack
4. You notice that your keyboard is covered in bread crumbs, dog hair, and dust. The best way to clean it is to:
   1. Use one of those cans of compressed air to blow the stuff out
   2. Ask your husband to use one of those cans of compressed air so you don’t have to see the expensive air being “wasted”
   3. Use a chihuahua to lick out any edible bits
   4. Get a paper clip and laboriously pick out all the crumbs, hair, and dust

If you have answered anything other than A, then congratulations! You are a cheap bastard!

If you have answered mostly A, then please call me. I need to borrow some silverware.

Posted by: Supersonic Jane | November 21, 2006 | 12:56 pm
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