America’s Cheapest Mother | Extreme Cheapskates

[Music] my kids are total cheapskates they know we don't waste anything you eat everybody's food on your plate pick up every penny you see good job i'm jordan page and i'm the ultimate cheapskate housewife you want to sit here okay you can sit here a typical family of five can spend up to three thousand dollars a month on household necessities but jordan a 27 year old housewife in utah spends less than half of that juice we water it down big time one part juice to five parts water you guys want some waffles it's all about not wasting anything and the way to do that is we call it rationing I'll give you guys some cereal kay we're gonna give you 14 so tell me when to stop ready and remember you need to eat all your Cheerios or next time you only get 12 on a scale of 1 to 10 of being a cheapskate 10 being the highest I probably say at 11 or 12 hey pre are you ready for your two lines of waffles waffles are awesome because they have those lines like a grid and so hot just three so he gets three lines of waffles and I know that that's how much he can eat this is breast milk here and we love it because it's free while they're young and they don't eat very much I freeze as much breast milk as possible so that when they're done then I still have a few months worth frozen to stretch it that much farther people a lot of times think some of my methods are a little extreme Bacon's for Christmas they think I'm a little crazy but uh I don't know if I care because it works how much cut should have Jordan has found some of the biggest savings in the bathroom cutting her family's use of toilet paper from 300 rolls a year to only 40 the way to stretch your money is to make everything count c3 should we do three okay let's rip one what did you think daddy should use for Jordan always harm somebody for using too much toilet paper hey let's try it it's a sensitive subject but she wants to at least try and make that roll go farther Oh awesome okay now put that under Daddy's when I met Jordan she would always find a way to get a deal on something shortly after we were married an opportunity arose for us to build what we thought would be our forever home things changed with the economy really fast and suddenly we couldn't qualify for the loan for the house but we had already built the house losing the house really triggered in my opinion her being an extreme cheapskate today the Paige family is financially back on track and their extreme saving measures allowed them to purchase a million dollar home but Jordan didn't spend nearly that much the original owners bought it for over a million and we got it on short sale for about four hundred fifty thousand then we were scrappy and we sold the basement apartment to my parents for half so we pay 225 for this huge huge house that we love so much they live a lifestyle that would lead one to believe that they're much more affluent than they are she has an innate ability to be able to do that and I've always admired it as I'm willing to pretty much do anything to save a buck I was just wondering if you guys had any food that you're not using like leftovers she's not proud it's like hey if you're going on vacation you need empty out your fridge bring it over people are still willing to give for food hey Chris how's it going I was actually wondering if you guys had any leftovers or any food that you're not using um I've got some lettuce sometimes I'll give her eggs and sometimes some stuff from our garden but I know that she's very frugal and so I know she's probably gonna put it to good use somehow Jordans monthly food bill comes out to a mere $180 thanks to her creative money-saving solutions this is what I like to call an end loaf in our house we go through a lot of bread and a lot of people don't like to eat the heels of bread but Bubba likes it my kids love it and it's still good so after a while it makes an entire loaf worth Jordans been trying to find out even more ways of being a cheapskate at home so one of the ways she tried was Dashboard cookies a neighbor of mine she gave us some cookie dough that was about to expire I bake cookies without using any power and it doesn't make your house hot with the car temperature to 160 degrees she's finished baking for free in two hours and it's this cheap thinking that's led Jorden to her newest and perhaps most extreme penny pinching plan yet there's a new trend with backyard farming where I think we have plenty of space in the back and we're fenced no no hear me out we could raise a pig and then get a ton of pork out of it you can pay upwards of 350 per dozen for eggs you pay ten bucks for a chicken six chickens later you're getting a half dozen eggs a day I mean that's incredible that's great savings what would our neighbors our neighbors might think we're crazy but I think we could prove them wrong we could just look into it [Music] all these chickens Jordan spends only three and a half percent of the family's income on food two-thirds less than the national average today she hopes to lower that number even further we're in the market for some farm animals what do you want to look at well can we start with chickens absolutely the research I've done has shown that you can raise your own animals for a fraction of the cost as it would be to buy an organic package of meats or eggs or milk at the grocery store just hold it like this hold nice and firm nice don't let it get away so how many eggs will eat chicken late taken will lay an egg about every 26 hours oh that's awesome that's like half dozen a day that's a lot of eggs as soon as the chickens start squawking and making noise her neighbors are gonna be irritated with it here are some girls especially with the goats when they poop on our lawn she's not gonna like that have you milked a goat before we go through a lot of milk and this goat is gonna give us 12 bucks worth of milk a day that's awesome we actually can't have a pig where we live but could we buy one and then just have it raised here in turn will collect when it's big and fat yes ready for bacon yeah so this baby would cost $80 then you would have to pay $30 a month and feed at least the baby pig is gonna stay here so we don't have take care of it in six months the pages will be able to have bacon every day for a year at hundreds of dollars below store prices and honestly that amount of bacon yeah that might actually be worth it but we'll see how it goes [Music] oh my gosh I have no idea what its gonna be like having goats and chickens in our backyard hopefully they can't get out we let him go right here do that one they love it here well it looks like the goats doing this business that's a great start to having animals in our house huh not what we have in our backyards usually their swing sets and swimming pools and things like that but not farm animals and the pigs okay back at the farm he's doing just fine the costs of feed shelter and vet bills Jordan will reach her savings goal in two months chickens they would be laying half a dozen eggs a day the goats saving 12 bucks a day on a gallon of milk would be pretty awesome are we cut out to be backyard farmers I don't know but the numbers add up and something to be said for saving that much money [Laughter]

Channel: TLC

Views: 13,668,205

Rating: 4.6397057 out of 5

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Id: h7CVT1jcqsM

Length: 9min 24sec (564 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 17 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/moofthedog]

Absolutely pathetic, actually using toilet paper? I use a stillsuit that harvests the moisture from my sweat, shit, piss, and breath and condenses the water into drinkable form. It's so efficient I lose less than a thimbleful a day.

[u/larman14]

Unjerk. This is so dumb. If you’re that cheap, get a bidet attachment and a towel, bake your own bread, grow your own foods, get an acreage where you can keep animals, etc. This would just be annoying to live with someone like that.

Rejerk. Oh boy, sure is nice to have squares of toilet paper. I only need one square every few months...you don’t eat, you don’t poop. I also wish I could have some clean water. I have to drink out of rain catchment and sewers and rats don’t like sharing with me.

[u/nullbyte420]

FOUR PIECES FOR DADDY??

woah that's so wasteful with the toilet roll. He'll be fine with two, thats 50% saved right there. and damn is she spoiling the kids with meat and dairy. imagine what happens when she discovers crops, and how rainwater can keep them nourished.

[u/Deliciousbob]

this woman could save more money/cals if she left her family and moved to the sewers.

[u/God-of-Tomorrow]

These people go too far but there are gems in there water down juice you’d be surprised how far that stretches and that’s a health boost too more water and less sugar an it helps buying half as much juice.

[u/DJAllOut]

Our way of life has been exposed. What a sellout!

[u/OverSpeedClutch]

Look at this fatcat with her “Bacon’s for Christmas” catchphrase.

[u/Opossum_mypossum]

What a ridiculous sized house/land for someone who’s rationing Cheerios, you could probably get a knock off box of Cheerios for under two bucks.

I can understand rationing the juice but for fucks sake, some of this shit comes off as mentally unwell.

Also, I can not believe she’s 27. This woman looks like she’s in her late 30s

[u/rudolf_the_red]

unjerk. two lines of waffles. smh.