It's easy to live frugally when you buy used, but the cheaper everything you buy becomes the less you're willing to pay for all that normal priced stuff you need.
That's why scrimping is a slippery slope, and once you become a haggler you can never go back to paying the price marked on the tag.
I'm An Expert Haggler At Garage Sales is a dramatic performance of Jory John's cheapo script by David Harris, acted out as it is published on McSweeney's by the perfectly perturbing Matt Ingebretson.
It's so slice of life that you've probably met someone like this at one of your own garage sales, a penny-pincher who made you consider breaking a lamp over their head!
-Via Laughing Squid
The caveat is that I live in a really poor area where people need to buy clothing for a quarter a piece or a $5 dresser for their grandchildren.
once i had a pair of shoes for sale and i was asking $2. buyer offered $1. yes, $1, 1 shoe, $2, 2 shoes.