I like reading articles about tightwads. I find it very inspiring. I found an article about a House Rep’s tightwaddiness. via a search on NYT. An excerpt:
In addition to the $103 he invested on a futon that he rolls out at the end of every day and stashes behind the sofa each morning, Sanford tries to limit his spending in the capital to the following: about $10 every two weeks on toiletries that he uses when he showers in the House gym, $1.90 every day on breakfast — orange juice and yogurt — in the House cafeteria and $7.50 on the members’ all-you-can-eat salad buffet. Sanford spends $1 per shirt for laundering back in Charleston, but he gets his money’s worth. ‘’If I go up to Washington on a Monday and stay through Thursday,'’ he says, ‘’one clean shirt will last me through the week.'’
