MetaFilter posts tagged with cheap

Notch tubing without a notcher.

Mitheral — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:19:34 -0800

Cope pipe without a jig. Enter a few parameters and get a pdf that will give you a printable pattern that will allow you to notch tubing for welding or brazing to another pipe.

Lee press-on car

XMLicious — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 05:16:25 -0800

The Tata Nano (pic) is a car that costs less new than the amount I've spent on gas during single car trips, recently announced to the auto market in India. The Chery QQ ^, successful , wide ly ex por ted, and recognized as the Hostage Taker's Vehicle of Choice by China Car Times, is the runner-up for the world's cheapest car but is still approximately twice as expensive. Yes indeed, the price of gas is not going to come back down. So much for my coast-to-coast road trips. Forbes magazine's The World's Cheapest Cars (javascript slideshow)

Of course, the frames are probably made from Chinese toothpaste...

Arthur "Two Sheds" Jackson — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:24:01 -0800

A selection of eyeglasses for $8. (That's including your lens prescription.) Or if that's not to your liking, there's $39.

Cheap booze!

pompomtom — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:46:34 -0800

When happy hour's over, and it's time to cruise back to trash someone's loungeroom, continue the tight-arse tradition with Boozle!

100 Things You or Martha Stewart Can Make

ThePinkSuperhero — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:23:14 -0800

Since the US economy will soon explode and eat all our monies, I give you this: 100 Things You Can Make Yourself!

possum living

petsounds — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:53:16 -0800

POSSUM LIVING: How To Live Well Without a Job ..building a $100 Log Cabin, a geodesic dome out of cardboard.. handbook for cob building.. cheap solar power system.. stocking up on food.. some more

Airline travel on the cheap made easy

champthom — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:24:54 -0800

WhichBudget.com: a site that helps you find a low cost airline flight for your destination

Darren Sherman is cheap

jonson — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 14:57:06 -0800

Attention Darren Sherman: When you go on a date with someone, and they offer to split the tab, once you've declined their offer it can be perceived as bad ettiquette to threaten to get a court summons for the money if they refuse a second date with you. Voicemails & emails of a JDate gone awry.

Want to be obsessed with your grocery store?

scblackman — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 04:39:11 -0800

It took 30 years to spread from California to New York but the Trader Joe's grocery store chain is finally making a foothold in the Big Apple. The deniznes of NYC will now be able to obsess about something new . Not everyone is a fan, but maybe it's just that they haven't yet tried the Two-buck Chuck.

What does a dollar buy these days?

anjamu — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 23:40:38 -0800

"If ever a company needed a marketing department, it's New Choice, whose Original Flavor Round Crackers take the cake for stating the obvious. Points should be awarded for attempts to woo health-conscious consumers with facts about added DHA ("prevents heart attack, enhances eye sight"), but there's no two ways to look at Round Crackers: It's a badly executed Ritz rip-off." So sayeth the wits at the Onion A.V. Club, who scour the nation's dollar stores for food products to evaluate in their sporadic feature "Dining for a Dollar." Round crackers too boring? You might prefer Freakin' Nuts (tagline: Is it a chip? Is it a nut? Yes!), Thick Mints, or maybe just a handful of Balls. Their annual Cheap Toy Roundup is just as good; last year's featured products such as Preeminent Car ($1), Stretchy Body Bits ($1.19), and a DVD titled Clothes That Went to a Party ($2). Perhaps the all-time best, though, is the Mini Wooden Furniture: Table: a "plain, unadorned wooden table." ($1)