My recent Ozbargain moment

Cheap Steve on 13/10/2011 - 16:18

When I arrived at touch footy last night I realised that I had forgotten my water bottle. I was very disappointed that I would now have to spend $3.50 to buy myself a bottle of water. However, as I reached over to the centre-console of the car to grab some loose change I spyed out of the corner of my eye my 5 year old son's bright, lime green "Rod The Robot" drink bottle and score..it was half-filled with warm water.

My immediate thought was "Great now I have just saved my self $3.50"

My second thought was "Oh no, I have been Ozbargainified*"

Just wondering if anyone else has gone beyond the call of duty lately and found themselves Ozbargainified?

cheers, Steve

  • Ozbargainified defn - sufferer of cheap-skate's disease
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  • llama on 13/10/2011 - 20:08
    +2

    The problem with that half-filled water bottle is that kids tend to produce a large amount of "backwash".

    Myself… I would never pay ANY money for a bottle of water - I get it from the tap. And I use my cupped hands as a drinking vessel.

    • Cheap Steve on 13/10/2011 - 21:04
      +3

      Ha, ha llama..I can just picture you running around the footy field with your cupped water in your hands…That truly would make you the ultimate Ozbargainer ;)

      • llama on 13/10/2011 - 23:47

        Hey - it's dangerous to drink and run!

        But seriously… you don't carry a water bottle with you while playing, surely?

        • Cheap Steve on 14/10/2011 - 07:51

          No, you don't carry a water bottle while playing…but you are playing in open park-land and hundreds of metres from the nearest tap. If you don't have a bottle of water with you on the sideline then dehydration will put you at a seriuos disadvantage.

    • kirasuran on 14/10/2011 - 02:17

      yeah i find it prettttttttty ridiculous that bottled water exists and costs so much. and that people are stupid enough to buy it. australia is one of the lucky countries to have drinkable tap water.

      the only time i ever get a bottle of water is on the rare occasions i get a fast food meal, and i'll choose the water…lame hahaha

  • leonheart1 on 13/10/2011 - 20:16

    cheap-skate's disease

    Disease?
    Well if that's wrong, I can't afford to be right.

  • samfisher5986 on 14/10/2011 - 00:52

    I personally wouldn't have done it, as llama pointed out, lots of backwash inside, I've seen people backwash actual food into their bottle.

    I'm a hardcore cheapskate, but I have standards :P

    • Cheap Steve on 14/10/2011 - 07:53
      +1

      Just to clarify the kid's bottle had one of those pop-up nozzles, impossible to "backwash" into.

  • Cheeper on 14/10/2011 - 00:55

    Football = = BEER & PIES mate !! C'mon!! (LOLLL)

    Drinkin water at the footy… aaaggghhhhhh!!!!!!! noooooooooooo…..

    cheers!

    • Cheap Steve on 14/10/2011 - 08:18
      +1

      Ha,ha..I was playing not watching.

  • kirasuran on 14/10/2011 - 02:16

    so did you pour out the warm (possibly contaminated) water and refill ???

    • Cheap Steve on 14/10/2011 - 08:14

      Yes, of course;)

      • llama on 14/10/2011 - 10:26
        +2

        Ahhhh, well if you refilled then that is OK then.

        But I reckon that a TRUE cheapskate would have found a discarded plastic bottle (dumpster diving FTW) and refilled that.

        LOL

        • llama on 14/10/2011 - 10:28
          +12

          …AND then driven to South Australia and cashed in the bottle for the 5c refund !!!!!

        • Ughhh on 16/10/2011 - 00:20
          +1

          its 10 cents per bottle now! Thats 50% more!

        • altomic on 16/10/2011 - 21:13

          don't forget OW will go 5% better and with moneybackco…..

        • Bigsta on 02/11/2011 - 10:15
          +1

          unfortunately i can never get the fuel and transport charges low enough to make the drive to SA to claim 10c a bottle worthwhile….

          Now if i had a postman friend with access to a free postal truck……….hhhhhmmmmmmmmmm

      • morphio on 14/10/2011 - 11:45
        +2

        hitchhiked!

        • llama on 14/10/2011 - 15:28

          Yes, of course… hitchhiked ROFL

  • Sage on 02/11/2011 - 03:01
    -2

    You're supposed to give examples of how we have also done similar things, you guys suck.
    (I haven't recently that I can think of been ozbargainified.)

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