‘World’s stingiest mum’ rations kids food and loo roll and begs neighbours for leftovers
A skinflint mum is so determined to make her cash stretch as much as possible that she rations her children’s food and nabs her neighbour’s leftover food.
Even spending a penny at Jordan Page’s house is a thrifty affair as she rations the amount of loo roll her family can use.
The 27-year-old proudly calls herself the “ultimate cheapskate housewife” and is passing down her “skills” to her children to ensure they are stingy too.
Speaking on TLC’s Extreme Cheapskates, the Utah-based parent says: “My kids are total cheapskates, they know you don’t waste anything, you eat every bite of food on your plate, pick up every penny you see.”
Jordan counts out her kids’ cereal to save money to ensure minimum wastage and even waters down their juice to make it stretch further.
Her strong-headed mission to save as much money as possible means bacon is a Christmas treat for the family, and her penny-pinching means she freezes her own breast milk to make it go further.
Jordan’s money-saving ideas have no limits as she incredibly saves on her power costs by baking cookies on the dashboard of her car.
In her quest to tighten her belt as much as possible Jordan is not too embarrassed to visit her neighbours and relieve them of any leftovers they won’t eat.
She says: “People think my methods are a little extreme, they think I’m a little crazy but I don’t know if I care because it works.”
But her tightest trick to keep her costs down is rationing out toilet roll sheets for each family member day by day.
She has slashed the number of rolls her household uses from 300 to just 40.
Despite all the cost-cutting measures Jordan has drawn up a new innovative system to save even more money – much to the horror of her husband Bubba.
She now plans to buy six chickens and a goat for their garden, and raise a piglet off site, to provide the family with food and slash their meagre shopping bills even more.
According to her calculations this will provide the family with $12 worth of goat’s milk a day and half-a-dozen eggs.
Plus in just six months the Pages will have bacon every day for a year at a fraction of the hundreds of dollars it would cost them from a store.
She says: “Are we cut out to be backyard farmers? I don’t know but the numbers add up and there’s something to be said for saving that much money.”
