26 People Who Mistook Stealing for 'Being Cheap'

Nathan Johnson Published 07/12/2021 in ftw

When you don't have many resources, you don't have many options. So sometimes you just gotta throw your hands up and do things the cheap way because you just gotta get it done.

These people all shared their life hacks for squeezing the most out of the absolute least and getting away with things when life doesn't give you much to work with.

Some people might try to shame these folks for their thriftiness, but they're the true superheroes. Superman could never stretch $1 into five Big Macs.

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This is stealing, no matter how you frame it or try to excuse it.
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Weird, but okay?
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That's using your noggin, and technically fraud.
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Again, not finessing but stealing or theft by deception.
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I wonder if that's the reason why he "used" to work there...
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Seeing how those places often have porta-potties, that's a shitty hiding place.
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There were a lot of walmart scams back in the day, a friend of mine got arrested for buying an item and returning one off the shelf trick.
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I guess that's on them if they didn't specify you couldn't take it to go!
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1.
This is stealing, no matter how you frame it or try to excuse it.
2.
3.
Weird, but okay?
4.
5.
That's using your noggin, and technically fraud.
6.
7.
Again, not finessing but stealing or theft by deception.
8.
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10.
I wonder if that's the reason why he "used" to work there...
11.
12.
13.
Seeing how those places often have porta-potties, that's a shitty hiding place.
14.
15.
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There were a lot of walmart scams back in the day, a friend of mine got arrested for buying an item and returning one off the shelf trick.
19.
20.
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I guess that's on them if they didn't specify you couldn't take it to go!
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