Why she broke up with her tightwad boyfriend

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Posted Oct 29 2007, 08:40 AM by Karen Datko

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Filed under: spending, family, savings, marriage, love and money, food

A post by The Baglady about a former boyfriend makes for a lighthearted Monday morning read about how not to save money. He lives with his parents and rationalizes not paying rent because he serves as their ex officio "marriage counselor, system administrator and financial adviser." He eats cheap spaghetti every night (unless he was taking Baglady out to dine for free at a company party). He also is one of those nonflushers. (Don't want to waste any water, do we?) Baglady has no regrets about ending this relationship: "Looking back, I am pretty glad that I broke up with him because if I married him I would have had no wedding, and right now I would probably be living with his parents and eating 50-cent spaghetti." (BL is no bag lady, by the way. Her first job out of college came with a $60,000 salary.)

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