a stress-FREE money saving tip

September 9, 2008 · Filed Under grotesque, happiness-boosters, stress-FREEDOM 

Frugality is an Epicurean virtue par-excellence. I have found a stress-FREE, original and synergic method to save money and at the same time secure some other ingredients of stress-FREEDOM:

  • no nagging questions about your whereabouts
  • no nagging questions about the whereabouts of your money
  • no instructions about taking out the garbage or the dog
  • no instructions about what to put on and what not to put on
  • no recaps of your sins
  •  … you may continue this list according to your personal experience of cohabitation

All you have to do is to get your room-mate to steal something and while she is doing the job you call the police. The results can be really rewarding.

Do you doubt the efficacy of this method?

I haven’t invented it: It has been tested and found true – in real life! (see excerpt and link below)

After you try it out, please let me know the results.

Here is the proof of this method:

JAILED MATE

Man Leaves Girlfriend Behind Bars to Save Money

A frugal man has declined an invitation from police to pay a €225 ($320) fine that would get his girlfriend out of jail. The woman is serving a 15-day sentence for fraud.

A man has opted to let his live-in girlfriend stay in jail rather than pay a €225 ($320) fine that would spare her from serving a 15-day sentence after she was caught stealing a bottle of shampoo, police said on Monday.

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“On Saturday morning a police officer telephoned her partner and asked if he could come and pay the fine. But he didn’t feel like coming to the police station,” police said in a statement.

The man still hadn’t shown up on Monday, police said, noting that he may have been influenced by the fact that the fine falls by €15 for each day spent in jail. “One has to make savings wherever one can these days,” police said.

You can read the whole story here: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,576967,00.html

 

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