Clarence Day wrote for the The New Yorker in the 1920s and 1930s. His most famous work is Life With Father, which was adapted successfully into a stage play, a film, and a television series. It’s a bittersweet look at childhood in New York City during the 1890s.
One of the joys of Day’s stories is the good-natured honesty with which he approaches his characters. (Because Life With Father is an autobiography, his “characters” are actual family members.) “Father” is a gruff man — some would say unlikable — but Day views him with love. The book contains many short chapters, most of which revolve around comic situations.
One of my favorite chapters is “Father Tries to Make Mother Like Figures”. Here’s the start of it:

Father was always trying to make Mother keep track of the household expenses. He was systematic by nature and he had had a sound business training. He had a full set [...]

My cousin Nick remembers:

My dad was so cheap that he once drilled a hole in a nickel so that he wouldn’t have to pay eight cents for a washer.
My first memory of gas prices is driving home from my grandparents. We drove into a gas station, and pulled up to the pump. The guy came out and said, “Can I help you?” My dad said, “33 cents a gallon? No you can’t!” We drove off. Five miles down the road, we ran out of gas. We had to pay a farmer 50 cent cents a gallon.

Now Nick is the skinflint. But that’s a good thing. He’s accumulating wealth. He also runs the finances for our family business — he keeps us in line!

Today, as I was posting to Blogathon, I received a 419 message, a Nigerian advance fee scam:

My reason for contacting you is to solicit for your assistance and to stand as my trustee in having this cash successfully moved to your country, where i will have to invest it in a good business or if accepted by you, from a joint venture business with you, for the mutual benefit of both of us. Although am still very ready to pay you as a trustee or rather commit it same to the joint venture collaboration.Back in my country, trustee fee is within the range of 5 to 7% of the total fund. Upon your acceptance and willingness to stand as my trustee in handling this transaction, please do reply this mail, by contacting me strickly on this mail address as this mail using was the one myself and my husband were using when he was still [...]

Have you seen the shameless exaggeration, the tasteless products, and the pure hokum dispensed by all those infomercials that clog up the late night airwaves? Welcome to the Ridiculous Infomercial Review, the website that gleans laughs from the tacky world of television infomercials. All sorts of infomercials are featured here, old and new, famous and obscure — the more ludicrous the item and the lamer the sales pitch, the better.
This is a hilarious site. Its purpose isn’t to criticize or dispute the claims in informercials (thus I think they mean “revue”), but to mock them. Mercilessly. The reviews point out the silliness inherent in these ads.
Featured infomercials include:

Dr. Ho’s Muscle Massager
Alzare and ExtenZe (Ridiculous Infomercial Review says: “evidence that penis enlargement ads have outgrown your Inbox”)
The afore-mentioned manic Matthew Lesko
Rejuvenique
The Juiceman II
Dual Action Cleanse with Klee Irwin
And, of course, the one and only Richard Simmons pitching Farewell to Fat

Here’s a segment from Dual Action Cleanse [...]

Nick at Punny Money (who is also doing the Blogathon right now) points to Michelle Singletary’s annual Penny Pincher of the Year award.
Honorable Mention goes to a man who, when on business trips, always stays at the same small inn. Every night he stays he gets two free bottles of beer. He then takes these home and puts them in the fridge, which is fully stocked with these free bottles.
Third place goes to a woman who uses swimming diapers instead of normal diapers. They’re durable enough to survive several wash cycles, so they make a happy medium between disposables and cloth diapers.
Second place goes to a man who, at least one day a week, refuses to drive his car.
And the winner? The winner goes above-and-beyond:

First place goes to Tom Hagaman of Denver. He was nominated by his wife of two years, Emily, who says her husband deserves top honor for insisting they cut costs [...]

Most people just spend their money. Others turn it into art.
Take a look at this creepy spider fashioned from five dollar-bills:

Find more examples of this art at these sites:

Clay Randall’s Money Origami
Dollar-Bill Origami by Bob Nienhuis
Joseph Wu’s Origami Page
Sy’s Designs
Instructions on how to fold a shirt out of a dollar bill
Folding instructions for a Dollar Bill Door

I’ve always admired people who practice origami, though I’ve never tried it myself.