How funny will that be when they unwrap their present and it's an etiquette book. ahahaaa Highlight the part where it says asking for money is tacky. Asking for people to pay for extras on your honeymoon is in very poor taste.

Good - I'm not the only one who thought it was extremely tacky. I wanted to get a gift anyway (just to be contrary, I guess) but the money-beggar is my husband's great-nephew and he saw nothing wrong with the request and gave money.

By the way, the wedding invitation was beautiful and the little card matched the invitation and was somehow attached with a matching ribbon/tassle. Probably needed the $ to pay for the invitations. Oh, I'm getting so hateful in my old age.

Also for his first wedding we gave him 3 very expensive pieces of crystal which was on their gift list. Never received a thank-you card. You got it, I don't like him very much.

My husband & I did our wedding, 11 years ago, for about $2500. That included a dress for me, he already had a suit, and the who thing at the hotel..we had the ceremony and reception at the Holiday Inn in Batavia. Flowers, too, and open bar.
I was in my late 40's at the time...no white wedding for me. I bought a very elegant Mother of the Bride dress for under $200

Is there a seperate book simply for wedding etiquette? Perhaps ill take two gifts and decide which one id like to give after seeing what goes on.

(10-18-2012, 10:56 AM)LuciferLynn Wrote: Is there a seperate book simply for wedding etiquette?

I think common sense will suffice. You're smart & you have a sense of class, you'll do fine I'm sure.

Huh. I just now noticed that Ramsey titled this EXTEME Cheapskate. She fucks up so often, I think they're starting to go right by me.

Well thank you! Rest assured if I ever get married again, there wont be any begging for money. I couldn't even live with myself.

I'm sure there are many books on wedding etiquette.

I cannot stand when people don't send thank you cards. I find that extremely rude. My kids have always sent thank you cards for gifts they received. Even to their friends after the birthday parties. Maybe it's considered old fashioned these days but to me good manners never go out of style.

When I was a kid my brothers & I were forced to send thank you cards for the gift we were sent, we couldn't spend the money, play with the toy or "whatever" until that card was sent.

Me too. Manners and etiquette were drummed into my head from birth. As a result, Ive drummed it into my children as well. This is why I have parents call me to tell me I have to most polite, well mannered children they've ever met.

Fuck thank you cards.

Dear Ramsey,

Thank you so much for the lovely Spongebob hand towels!! They're the perfect addition to our guest bath! We appreciate your thoughtfulness.

Sincerely,

User


Blah, blah, blah. I liked it when my kids were about 5 and they had pre-made thank you cards that said THANK YOU FOR THE ________! YOU MADE MY DAY! Sincerely, _______.

I don't have the time to be fucking around with thank you cards. It's not like I didn't dish out money to go to their stupid birthdays, baby showers, weddings ect...

(10-18-2012, 11:20 AM)username Wrote: Huh. I just now noticed that Ramsey titled this EXTEME Cheapskate. She fucks up so often, I think they're starting to go right by me.

BTW I hate Spongbob.

My wedding was about $2000 total. We planned it in 4 days. My dress and shoes were $150 total. I don't see the point of spending a crap ton of money for a 1 day event.

(10-18-2012, 10:56 AM)LuciferLynn Wrote: Is there a seperate book simply for wedding etiquette? Perhaps ill take two gifts and decide which one id like to give after seeing what goes on.

Great minds think alike. I went to a so called ritzy wedding, where I carried a card in an open envelope. I had a blank check in it, and only filled in the amount after seeing what and or how lavish the wedding actually was. It worked out fine for both me and them.

Planning a wedding is a full time job and everyone started taking over. I imagined this beautiful perfect scenario but quickly realized I didn't have enough time to fully invest. Family colliding and fighting over who got what room and you should do this and do that. It was just too much. It wasn't fun or exciting anymore.
So we didnt tell anyone and eloped. I had everything I wanted and the family got the boot.

I caught part of that Cheapskate show last night. It was disgusting! Nevermind the toilet paper, this chick just used a squirt bottle! And then she adds "when i take a DUMP, I just used these little shards of soap and my squirt bottle" eewwwww! She never does laundry either, she just puts her 10 year old t-shirt on the floor of the shower. You could tell it was not scripted, she was wackadoodle!

I watched a few clips of these people & I think they are fucked in the head. These aren't people who take being frugal to a whole new level, I think they have a mental illness.

What do they do when they have guests.....or maybe they don't have ever have any? Christ jesus if you're that worried about it, use the circle k on the corner to use the bathroom. You don't pay their water or electric bill.

A lot of "saving money" is just stupid. Like recycling for instance. I've seen people use .25c worth of soap and about 3c worth of hot water (not to mention 1c in infrastructure and 50c in time) to wash out a tin can that will cost more to recycle than it is worth. The world would be much richer if it were just tossed in the garbage. ADM is another one. We spend billions of dollars which makes the bosses wealthy and Congress wealthier to waste energy making alcohol to supposedly save gasoline. And when there's a corn shortage many will starve as ADM continues to waste money and corn producing alcohol.

People do the same thing on smaller scales all the time. There's a minimum that you can spend and if you try to go under it you'll waste your time and resources and, probably, damage your quality of life. I used to work with a guy who'd drive 20 miles to redeem a 25c coupon. Sometimes the net price wasn't even very good but he was able to operate a vehicle very frugally so believed a twenty mile trip was justified.