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I'm not really frugal, I just don't buy food that's not on sale. And when I come home I put it in large boxes after I write the month & year of purchase on the can/box.
Perhaps I'm just lazy. The end result is that when I want something I always have it on hand.
Fresh vegetables are about the only exception. But then too, if the price is too high I just cook something else.
On hard items like washer-dryers we start looking before we need them so there's no sudden need to pay full price. With cars we buy pretty much what we like. But it'll be last years model, say a new 2010 model bought in 2011.
With computers it's always a no-name computer. Parts are replaced when better parts are cheap enough. My motherboard, bought a year ago, can use a CPU that cost $1000 then. Next year it may only be one or two hundred dollars, and I'll have a very noticeable bump in speed. After that perhaps a new video card. The end effect is like a new computer one part at a time, and each new part will make it faster.
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