<p>You know, many Asians aren't "middle class" ;). Of course, there are exceptions.</p>
<p>WOOT! I forgot, our family won $500 for grocery yesterday from a lottery! $500!!! That's enough for years!!</p>
<p>lol, My parents would definitely do that.</p>
<p>And I'm not at all Asian!</p>
<p>haha, it's so funny, before reading some of the threads on this forum, I wasn't really aware of the "inherent" cheepness of Asian parents. </p>
<p>Of the Asians I know at my school, about 6 are very bright, a couple are skaters, and then there are these three girls who wear expensive looking designer clothes and walk around giggling, whispering, and not really talking to other people.</p>
<p>well, yea im asian, filipino to be exact, but i go for the five star notebooks too. i find that since my locker is such a mess the regular notebooks get destoryed under a massive pile of books and stuff lol</p>
<p>does only buying stuff thats on sale count as being a "cheap" asian tho? lol. i like to buy nice stuff and like designer clothes and whatever, but my mom will only agree to it if its on sale. i guess my parents r somewhat cheap then ha</p>
<p>but yea most of my asian friends' parents will buy like a million notebooks or w/e and keep a stash in the attic lol</p>
<p>If you look closely on Target bags, they tell you how to recycle them. Like use it for other stuff.</p>
<p>Like melting them down and then forming a sculpture?</p>
<p>oh god don't even get me started on Asian Cheapness. My mother has totally made me into a bargain fanatic. I have been taught to feel guilty if i buy ANYTHING over like 10 bucks. for example i got jeans a coupla days ago, then we found another pair that was like 5 bucks cheaper and right away its like.. omg we have to buy those cheap ones and return the others!</p>
<p>Haha I've actually done that before.
My dad and his family have a lot of cheepness in them (he grew up on a farm in Mass.).</p>
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oh god don't even get me started on Asian Cheapness. My mother has totally made me into a bargain fanatic. I have been taught to feel guilty if i buy ANYTHING over like 10 bucks. for example i got jeans a coupla days ago, then we found another pair that was like 5 bucks cheaper and right away its like.. omg we have to buy those cheap ones and return the others!
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Hello, my long lost bargain sister. =)
As for the pants, I just did that today. -_-;</p>
<p>haha you have no idea how much i'm laughing as i'm reading these stories. i am literally crying and my stomach hurts now from laughing so much. </p>
<p>All I know that is I'm glad I'm not alone in the whole cheapness thing.</p>
<p>Jean story happens with me all the time. Once I saw a pair of jeans for $3 and then my mom and I were like omg we have to buy this regardless of whether or not it's a good fit. No matter if I have to jump and squirm to get into them, as long as they're $3 and this isn't a pricing mistake. </p>
<p>And everytime Walmart's notebooks are $.10, we overstook on them. No matter if we have somewhere to put them.</p>
<p>haha ditto here, I have an entire box of loose-leaf paper and notebooks in my room... </p>
<p>Just for kicks, I found this list online somewhere - although it specifically mentions Chinese, I'm sure some of the idiosyncrasies there are cross-culture ;)</p>
<ol>
<li>You look like you are 18.</li>
<li>You like to eat chicken feet.</li>
<li>You suck on fish heads and fish fins.</li>
<li>You have a Chinese knick-knack hanging on your rear view mirror.</li>
<li>You sing Karaoke.</li>
<li>Your house is covered in tile.</li>
<li>Your kitchen is covered by a sticky film of grease.</li>
<li>Your stove is covered in aluminum foil.</li>
<li>You leave the plastic covers on your remote control.</li>
<li>You've never kissed your mom or dad.</li>
<li>You've never hugged your mom or dad.</li>
<li>Your unassisted vision is worse than 20/500.</li>
<li>You wear contacts, to avoid wearing your coke bottle glasses.</li>
<li>You've worn glasses since you were in fifth grade.</li>
<li>Your hair sticks up when you wake up.</li>
<li>You'll haggle over something that is not negotiable.</li>
<li>You love to use coupons.</li>
<li>You drive around looking for the cheapest petrol.</li>
<li>You drive around for hours looking for the best parking space.</li>
<li>You take showers at night.</li>
<li>You avoid non-free snacks in hotel rooms.</li>
<li>You don't mind squeezing 20 people into one motel room.</li>
<li>Most girls have more body hair than you, if you are male.</li>
<li>You tap the table when someone pours tea for you.</li>
<li>You say Aiya! and Wah! frequently.</li>
<li>You don't want to wear your seatbelt because it is uncomfortable.</li>
<li>You love Las Vegas, slot machines, and blackjack.</li>
<li>You unwrap Christmas gifts very carefully, so you can reuse the paper.</li>
<li>You only buy Christmas cards after Christmas, when they are 50% off.</li>
<li>You have a vinyl table cloth on your kitchen table.</li>
<li>You spit bones and other food scraps on the table. (That' s why you need the vinyl tablecloth.)</li>
<li>You have stuff in the freezer since the beginning of time.</li>
<li>You use the dishwasher as a dish rack.</li>
<li>You have never used your dishwasher.</li>
<li>You keep a Thermos of hot water available at all times.</li>
<li>You eat all meals in the kitchen.</li>
<li>You save grocery bags, tin foil, and tin containers.</li>
<li>You have a piano in your living room.</li>
<li>You pick your teeth at the dinner table (but you cover your mouth).</li>
<li>You twirl your pen around your fingers.</li>
<li>You hate to waste food.</li>
<li>You have Tupperware in your fridge with three bites of rice or one leftover chicken wing.</li>
<li>You don't own any real Tupperware only a cupboard full of used but carefully rinsed margarine tubs, take out containers, and jam jars.</li>
<li>You also use the jam jars as drinking glasses.</li>
<li>You have a collection of miniature shampoo bottles that you take every time you stay in a hotel.</li>
<li>You carry a stash of your own food whenever you travel (travel means any car ride longer than 15 minutes). These snacks are always dried and include dried plums. Mango, ginger, and squid.</li>
<li>You wash your rice at least 2-3 times before cooking it.</li>
<li>Your dad thinks he can fix everything himself.</li>
<li>The dash board of your Honda is covered by hundreds of small toys.</li>
<li>You don't use measuring cups.</li>
<li>You beat eggs with chopsticks.</li>
<li>You have a teacup with a cover on it.</li>
<li>You always look phone numbers up in the phone book, since calling information costs 50 cents.</li>
<li>You only make long distance calls after 11pm.</li>
<li>If you are male, you clap at something funny and if you are female, you giggle whilst placing a hand over your mouth.</li>
<li>You love Chinese films in their original undubbed versions.</li>
<li>You love Chinese Martial Arts films.</li>
<li>You've learnt some form of martial arts.</li>
<li>Shaolin actually means something to you.</li>
<li>You like congee with thousand year old egg.</li>
<li>You prefer your shrimp with the hands and legs still attached.</li>
<li>You never call your parents just to say hi.</li>
<li>If you don't live at home, when your parents call, they ask if you've eaten, even if it's midnight.</li>
<li>When you're sick, your parents tell you not to eat fried foods or baked foods due to yeet hay.</li>
<li>You know what yeet hay is.</li>
<li>You e-mail your Chinese friends at work, even though you are only 10 feet apart.</li>
<li>You use a face cloth.</li>
<li>You starve yourself before going to all you can eat places.</li>
<li>You know someone who can give you a good deal on jewellery or electronics.</li>
<li>You save your old Coke bottles glasses even though you're never going to use them again.</li>
<li>You own your own meat cleaver and sharpen it.</li>
<li>Your toothpaste tubes are all squeezed paper-thin.</li>
<li>You know what moon cakes are.</li>
<li>When there is a sale on toilet paper, you buy 100 rolls and store them in your closet or in the bedroom of an adult child who as moved out.</li>
<li>Your parents know how to launch nasal projectiles.</li>
<li>You iron your own shirts.</li>
<li>You play a musical instrument.</li>
<li>Even if you're totally full, if someone says they're going to throw away leftovers on the table, you'll finish them.</li>
<li>You've eaten a red bean popsicle.</li>
<li>You bring oranges (or other produce) with you as a gift when you visit people's homes.</li>
<li>You fight over who pays the dinner bill.</li>
<li>You majored in something practical like engineering, medicine or law.</li>
<li>You live with your parents and you are 30 years old (and they prefer it that way). Of if you're married and 30 years old, you live in the apartment next door to your parents, or at least in the same neighborhood.</li>
<li>You don't tip more than 10% at a restaurant, and if you do, you tip Chinese delivery guys/waiters more.</li>
<li>You have acquired a taste for bitter melon.</li>
<li>You eat every last grain of rice in your bowl, but don't eat the last piece of food on the table.</li>
<li>You know why there are 88 reasons.</li>
<li>You see the truth in this and then send it to all your Chinese friends.</li>
</ol>
<p>Well I think the list above is for the extreme Un-assimilated Chinese parents. I know my parents (and yes me too) do these things, but for sure not all. Like I can definetly say our kitchen is not covered by a sticky film of grease nor do we have mossy green fungus growing on our food that has been in our fridge "since the beginning of time". My mom is still stuck in the rut of cheapness, but my dad has officially converted to "normality" and is the one who sneaks behinds my mom's back and buys me stuff :-)</p>
<p>Though yea much of this is typical of the immigrant asian family. but hey, that's what makes us who we are. haha, besides the ridiculous cheapness (coupons?! 50 cents off?! GO GO GO!) I like being asian</p>
<p>I'd say that most of that is true for my family.</p>
<p>man, i love this thread :P</p>
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My family does that too. We double bag our stuff sometimes at the grocery store, just so we can have enough of those bags.
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Same over here. Russian family :)</p>