Internet Users Share Their Two Cents on the Fine Line Between Being Frugal and Being Cheap

I have a useful little exercise here for you to undertake if you ever wonder whether you are being unreasonable about saving money—one that the woman in this story could have benefitted from while she was standing in line for 20 minutes in order to demand a 5-cent refund.

Here’s the exercise: when you are about to undergo extraordinary efforts in order to save or get back money, ask yourself whether you could find this amount of money by digging around in your couch cushions. If the answer is yes, it’s time to rethink your life choices (and also to go find all that spare cash in your couch cushions).