Cheap Or Thrifty: Children Share Their Parents’ Attempts At Saving

32. Hoarding Nails

When something breaks in your home, you want to be prepared to fix it and spend as little money as possible. That’s because most repairs are expensive if you hire someone else to get the job done. This dad thought he was skirting the issue by starting an extensive collection of nails. However, some of these nails were so old that they just broke when someone used them. It didn’t save them any money in the long run.