Jeff

Entertaining
This episode really made for some fun and fascinating TV. I do not understand how Kate can live the way she does. Why treat yourself like that? She is missing out on living a better, more vibrant, not to mention healthier lifestyle. That would require spending money. She's been able to cut costs, but at what price? Can you really have good selfesteem diving into trash bins all the time?

I've watched some of the other episodes, mostly with horrified fascination. I don't understand how these people can be so proud of their lifestyles. It seems to me that being a cheapskate is synonymous with treating other people poorly, whether it's nickle and diming local businesses, feeding your family dumpster dived, scavenged, or road killed food, turning the water off when ur boyfriend showers, hiding money from your family in accounts, haggling working people at fast food restaurants, or buying your child thrift store items and not getting them needed braces, pinching the stems off...

There's being careful and frugal and then there's this.
The ways documented in these episodes are not so much helpful as they are exploitative and in the form of a mockumentary.

There's nothing here that is helpful to the average person trying to get buy on a limited income. I think most of us who went through the starving student phase are aware of ways to eat on the cheap (ramen noodles and frozen veggies 3x a day) This is more for shock value as indicated in the other comments about the goat's head dinner.

It's possible to be careful about money, live on a limited income and not be a complete idiot like the people in these episodes. Pulling food out of dumpsters and eating it let alone serving it to company is not only dangerous but if you managed to poison your company, you might be held responsible for their medical bills. So in an effort to save a couple dollars, you wind up owing tens of thousands thanks to a staph, e.coli or parasitic infection. How does this make sense?

Not only that, when giving...

Unbelievable
No on could make up the ways in which this person finds to save
money. I think that she could have made it through the Great Depression
of the 1930's without even missing having money.

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