10 Easy Ways to save for Christmas.... To save money here are some tips and steps you might try… I have heard and learned from both blood relatives and especially from in-laws: 10 Easy Steps for the Holiday eating… 1. Calendar: Get a calendar and call friends and relatives, the first couple days of the month and invite yourself to eat with them. Always write down all events short and long term, even if you don’t like em, who cares as long as the vittles are good and don’t forget to write down the dates. Re-wrap bad and cheap presents that have been given to you and give them as gifts, or switch name labels on the presents when you put them down. 2. Free Food: Never ever turn down a free meal if it is offered. If the food doesn’t look good take a couple plates to go and sale them. Freeze them for hard-times. 3. Funeral Freebies: Funerals can be lucrative: like one of my in-law’s aunt used to do regardless if she knew them or not; she would use the newspaper and target at least four funerals per week. Remember she used her calendar! As long as there are vittles at the end… Besides she may have been doing them a favor…. I understand Hispanic folks feed good! 4. Uninvited: Go to uninvited functions. Go to family reunions. If you see one in the paper or at Lake Murray a lot of people put their names up in trees and pointing the way to paradise which makes easy Pickens, get all the information you can from them on Face-Book. Tell them you are a long lost cousin; ‘the way the Ardmore area is there is a good chance that you actually could be’. If you go to a black person’s funeral and stay to eat, I have been advised that three or more forms of ID and a heater may be needed…A Brother is not going to part with his BBQ without tangible proof, a letter of reference or two or more witnesses. 5. Bar or Batt Mitzvah is always great to attend. Lot of partying afterwards. Jewish folks and Greeks like to cut a rug and feed their guest… Let the wine and veal flow… 6. Church: I knew one guy that would go from church to church in Texas getting everything, then he would take the food and toiletries and sale them, to go out to eat with and that would cover his gasoline expenses… 7. Property Sales events: Go to their sales seminars and listen to their baloney. With any luck and by the Grace of God they will feed you first. If they do, excuse yourself tell them your prescriptions are in the car. Never park up close and leave quickly. If they feed you later eat and refer yourself to my leaving plan I just mentioned. 8. House sitting: If a friend, relative or neighbor asks you to house sit and they are going to be gone for a time ‘eat their food’. You are actually doing them a favor! 9. There is a fly in the food routine has been used more than once. Just start a scene and the manager 9 out of 10 times let you leave the restaurant without paying. 10. The billfold gag has works! A supposed evangelist once told us once at a seminar that he used to carry a empty billfold. After eating he would act like he was picking it up and then he would asked the folks at the next table, “Excuse me did anyone at you table loose their billfold”? When they would say ‘No’, he would tell them ‘I am taking this to the cashier would you please watch me for conformation, because I just want to do the right thing? He would then tell the cashier that the people at that table was paying for is meal, so just add it on their bill. The cashier would look at the people and sure enough every time they would be doing a thumbs up and shaking their heads yes… Good luck and Happy Holidays...
Posted on: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 20:06:22 +0000