ECONOMICAL

Perfect Melancholies by nature cannot be wasteful; any they love to get a bargain. Fred cuts the money saving coupons out the paper neatly with scissors and saves them for the right moment. If I do it at all, I rip them out and arrive in the store with these odd, shaggy papers Fred’s moment in life is when he has a coupon worth a dollar of on a pound of coffee, and the supermarket has Double coupon days. Once there was also a double coupon in the can, and he was euphoric at actually being paid thirty-seven cents to drink the coffee. Popular sanguine never send those rebate coupons in, but perfect Melancholies make sure they get everything they deserve.Fred not only shops for bargains, but he checks he trash to make sure i don’t throw anything of value. He will decide a mayonnaise jar could be useful if I’d wash it, that the bananas I’ve tossed would be just in banana bread; and that there are still a few gods sweeps in the old broom. If I want to make sure he doesn’t scrounge something up, I have to take it next door and hide it in the neighbor’s trash.One perfect Melancholy lady I know puts every little leftover in a plastic container in the refrigerator. She writes on the top the name of the item and the date she put it away. She puts today’s entry in the back, pushing the other jars to the front. This way she eats the leftovers in order, and nothing ever goes to waste.