A woman dubbed the 'world's tightest millionaire' says she never buys anything new and even tucks into cat food to keep down her costs.
Aimee Elizabeth, 50, is worth a whopping $5.3 million (£3.9m) but if you think that means she's happy to splash the cash, then you are very much mistaken as the penny-pinching millionaire keeps a very tight rein on her finances.
Aimee, who lives in Las Vegas, gives herself a monthly spending budget of $1,000 (£750) and refuses to go over it, instead she says she worked out ways to save money in all aspects of her life.
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Teach me your ways, Aimee.
Appearing on TLC's Extreme Cheapskates, Aimee said: "I keep my water heater turned off, I need 22 minutes to heat it up enough to get a shower so I turn it on every morning when I get up.
"I set it for 22 minutes so I know exactly when my shower's ready because God forbid I waste another minute on that water heater."
The multi-millionaire reckons this little trick saves her around $80 (£58) a month.
Aimee's home was given to her following her divorce from ex-husband Michael and, somewhat unusually, Michael offers to clean the property for free so she can save a few hundred dollars on cleaning bills each month.
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Aimee says the cleaning gives her ex a free workout and helps to keep him in shape, so it's a 'win win'.
If you say so.
Now, while we all like to save a penny or grab ourselves a bargain, one of Aimee's cost saving tricks could be a step too far for many as she also confesses to eating cat food to save 30c (20p) on buying tins of tuna.
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Instead of splashing out on the already fairly cheap tins of tuna, Aimee instead eats a cat food can labelled 'chicken and tuna dinner in light gravy'.
Aimee also admits to feeding this to her (human) guests. Delicious.
She said: "When I go to these extremes I think people see it and it annoys a lot of them but I don't care.
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"It saves money."
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