What Do You Do That Might Look Crazy To Someone Who Is Not Frugal?

Several years ago, I purchased a whole bunch of dried herbs and spices, thinking I would start getting into sausage making.

The cost of herbs and spices in the spice section was prohibitively expensive at the time and the amounts for the recipes were bewenn a half to a whole bottles worth each batch.

So, instead, I bought a number of them in bulk to save a few bucks each time I wanted to make a new batch.

Eventually, the sausage making fell by the wayside, leaving me with an abundance of herbs and spices in my place, so much so that I needed to get shelving units to store them.

Now, however, I use them everyday in recipes I make, not almost everyday, every single day.

And the people that taste my food always want more because I don't skimp on the spices so the dishes are full of flavor that would normally be minimized due to my frugal nature.

Whenever someone comes over, they look at my shelves as if I'm crazy, then they taste the food and are impressed.

What began as a way to cut costs for sausage making has turned into a way for me to impress others with the flavors I provide for minimal cost to myself.

Meanwhile, those spices I was attempting to avoid paying full price for have tripled, quadrupled, and even more in some cases, the cost to simply acquire them in the first place.

So, what do you do that, at first blush, seems crazy, until they see the logic behind it?