“I’m not cheap. If anything, I could use a 12-week seminar on how to be more frugal. (Which, ironically, I’d probably overpay to attend.)

In fact, I feel like I’ve worked my whole life to prove the stereotypes about my chosen people wrong — overtipping, overbuying, overgifting, overtabpickingup.

And still… there remain little, simple things I just hate paying for. I think everyone has a few of these, and they’re different person-to-person. For instance, I don’t really sweat gas prices and I won’t drive out of my way to save eight or ten cents a gallon (which, over the course of a fill, adds up to a whopping $1.40 or so in savings)… but I know people who drive three cities over to save that buck-forty.

So here are the 11 little things I just hate paying for.”