so i was thinking, instead of buying good vodka, i wonder if i could just get some aristocrat and pour it through the brita to filter out the nastiness...

3/15/2008 8:23:01 PM

i'm thinking i should get crunk tonight

3/15/2008 8:23:34 PM

I'm not ashamed to say I love bottom-shelf vodka. Not Aristocrat, though.

3/15/2008 8:24:14 PM

the mythbusters episode where they did that was pretty awesome.

3/15/2008 8:24:23 PM

I've known people to do this, they said it tested better. I never tried it but I'm a little skeptical.

3/15/2008 8:25:32 PM

just buy Svedka, shit is cheap but really good

3/15/2008 8:26:08 PM

i typically just buy burnetts and will chase it with koolaid

3/15/2008 8:26:41 PM

In our younger days, we use to start with the good alcohol and end it with the cheap shit because you reach a point where the quality of your alcohol is wasted.

3/15/2008 8:28:10 PM

^^^ you are balls deep in some svedka tonight aren't you?


(it's good though, so that's ok)

[Edited on March 15, 2008 at 8:29 PM. Reason : and burnettes is suprisingly good for a $7 fifth.]

3/15/2008 8:28:49 PM

The filter definitely helps. Whether or not it will make up the whole difference I can't say, but it will improve it.

3/15/2008 8:28:50 PM

just stop drinking. duh

3/15/2008 8:28:54 PM

i didn't read the whole thread so someone might have said this, but i think they did this on mythbusters. or some show. filtering vodka. i can't remember. i THINK it was mythbusters? i'm sure google would have the answer

3/15/2008 8:30:04 PM

^ ahahahahahahahaha

3/15/2008 8:30:36 PM

They did. I saw it, but I don't remember what they came up with.

3/15/2008 8:31:38 PM

the filter made minimal difference

3/15/2008 8:41:37 PM

just do jenkem

3/15/2008 8:42:11 PM

huff antifreeze

3/15/2008 8:42:39 PM

I am friends with a millionaire. He brags on a daily basis about his money-saving techniques that he has used over the past 70 years. No, I'm not fucking him, and no, he's not interested. He does every one of these on a regular basis.

1.) Use frozen dinner box sides for notecards.
2.) Use a Folgers coffee resealable container for a compost container.
3.) Go "dumpster diving" near retail outlets and collect manufacturer-wrapped items, and sell them at garage sales.
4.) Collect church dinner and 50+% sales flyers for future use
5.) Drive North Raleigh roads for roadside discards and duct-tape them
6.) One regular discard is metallic and heavy-weight. Use it (in his case, a gate ornament) attached to a thin rope to throw over pecan tree branches, to lasso and shake the branch and shake loose the pecans. Wash, soak, dry, and crack said pecans to make a variety of dishes. parsonsb has seen both the millionaire and myself pecan-picking on campus.
7.) Fill your coffee filter halfway. Purchase sugar in tablet form, and insert two tablets into the coffee grounds instead of diluting the sugar in the brewed coffee.
8.) Treat dictionaries like they're the Bible. He's an atheist so he doesn't care about Bibles, but for the Christians, you know what I'm talking about. For the Christian linguists, you really know what I'm talking about because you rape your dictionaries like they are wearing petite Burkas and you're the Taliban.
9.) Contribute regularly to Christian and social causes funds for tax deductions.
10.) Back yourself up on hard-copy, no matter how tedious. This isn't a "creative way" to save money, just a practical one, should you ever lose your digital business files. It take a hell of a lot of time, but it's worth every second when your computer crashes.

[Edited on March 15, 2008 at 8:46 PM. Reason : Ok, most of these he's invented recently, but he's practiced theoretical moneysaving for a long time]

3/15/2008 8:42:58 PM

Quote :

"i didn't read the whole thread so someone might have said this"

you didn't bother reading the 10 posts above yours?

[Edited on March 15, 2008 at 8:46 PM. Reason : ^ not one thing on that list is worthwhile.]

3/15/2008 8:43:08 PM

charcoal filtering cheap vodka does help some....

3/15/2008 8:44:18 PM

getting a higher paying job.

3/15/2008 8:44:49 PM

give head for money and eat the jizz for dinner instead of buying food

3/15/2008 8:45:30 PM

Mooching off your rich girlfriend.

Actually, you lose your dignity when you do that.

Don't listen to me.

3/15/2008 8:47:20 PM

ShawnaC123, you and I need to have a talk...

3/15/2008 8:47:24 PM

i like it when you put my name in user tags like that

3/15/2008 8:48:29 PM

I'm no Fred Flinstone, but I'll make your bed rock

3/15/2008 8:50:05 PM

ShawnaC123, did you have Frosted Flakes this morning, because you bring out the tiger in me.

/one up on EMCE

3/15/2008 8:51:40 PM

Quote :

"you didn't bother reading the 10 posts above yours?"

nope. suuuure didn't.

3/15/2008 8:52:23 PM

Put pocket change in a jar at the end of the day. I have a large old mason jar on a table next to my bedroom door and its filled up in the 2 years that I've had it there.

Instead of using a debit card for purchases get a credit card with a high APR and cash back. Just be sure to pay it off on time every month.

3/15/2008 8:58:18 PM

You could always pull a Superman III.

3/15/2008 9:14:15 PM

i know a couple of waiters that lived with each other. every night they put their coins from tips into a jar. by the end of the summer they'd saved enough coin to buy ticket from norfolk, va to australia. they split the cost of the other ticket and got a cheap ass ticket to the other side of the world.

3/15/2008 9:16:01 PM

Quote :

"Quote : "you didn't bother reading the 10 posts above yours?" "

Quote :

" nope. suuuure didn't. "

but you came back and read the whole thread to see if anyone talked about it

3/15/2008 9:23:13 PM

cook meals at home
stop drinking

hell maybe make your alcohol yourself

3/15/2008 9:26:04 PM

use plastic patio furniture indoors

3/15/2008 9:37:47 PM

Quote :

"just stop drinking. duh"

/thread

3/15/2008 9:39:08 PM

i have lots of disposable income now that i dont have any vices.. plus working doesnt hurt

3/15/2008 9:40:19 PM

Quote :

"stop drinking"

a fifth of aristocrat is what--six dollars? that's like a dollar per buzz...

3/15/2008 9:42:33 PM

ok, and lets say you buy one a week......

3/15/2008 9:43:48 PM

meh, i can just buy cheaper toilet tissue

3/15/2008 9:49:34 PM

liquor shits will need more tp.....

3/15/2008 9:50:25 PM

Quote :

"just get some aristocrat and pour it through the brita to filter out the nastiness..."

give it to Nerdchick and when she pees it out it will be Grey Goose

3/15/2008 9:50:25 PM

SAVE MONEY!

drink only water

3/15/2008 9:51:37 PM

use stolen plastic patio furniture indoors

3/15/2008 9:52:46 PM

dumpster dive bagels and eat them at least once a day

3/15/2008 9:54:13 PM

VIC card

3/15/2008 9:54:46 PM

sell your text books - I know you've got some laying around

collect aluminum to sell for scrap

start a garden this spring and eat what you produce

3/15/2008 9:59:04 PM

Quote :

"use stolen plastic patio furniture indoors"

haha, almost all of our furniture was free

3/15/2008 10:02:34 PM

eat your leftovers instead of making your roommates throw them away... I mean god damn, it isn't difficult

pack your lunch for work/school

wait till later to buy that thing you want so much - it will be cheaper then anyway

quit smoking

3/15/2008 10:04:05 PM

burnette's vodka really isn't that bad, especially watermelon

3/15/2008 10:05:35 PM

vanilla + tropical punch koolaid is money

3/15/2008 10:06:05 PM