Shoplifting Strategies to Save Money

[MrMan]

While in Europe, I was reading the news about detergent prices in the US and how people in the US were stealing detergent. Some stores were putting detergent behind glass. All you need to do is go to that aisle when no one is looking and pour some into a foam coffee cup or an opaque water bottle for free detergent.

Put them back on the shelf, leave with the portion you skimmed from them. Technically, it's not exactly stealing because you put the product back on the shelf and you're only taking some samples to try before buying it.

I'll be posting more strategies soon.

That is stealing, and it is no way to live your life. I believe you reap what you sow. Some religions have ideas of karma or something like that, or what goes around comes around. Scamming credit cards, stealing bits of detergent, etc. are sowing bad things.

I've got a couple of pairs of pliers a guy I bought a used washing machine and his helper left at my house. I've tried to dig up what the address was to return them. I've got a floaty I accidentally took from a vacation rental that I need to return. I called the rental website company about what to do about it. They are supposed to follow up with me. I also accidentally left a girl's sock one of my girls had tried on out of a pack of uncomfortable socks that I need to remember to take back to Walmart, since I already returned the socks. Then there is the $9K+ an overseas employer over paid me a while back. I got a tax refund in that currency, and I just got the bank information to send it back, which took a while to get, and I can afford to do so without breaking the bank now. I think I'll add another cc to the email to verify that this is the right bank transfer info and send it on when I get the chance within a week or so.

I've got some investments that should hopefully liquidate with a profit. I suspect if I take care of my own debts that I mentioned, some of the money might start coming through. But if not....

But if not, it is still the right thing to do.

I try to take pens back if I accidentally take one for the bank that isn't offered from customers. I've got one to take back to church.

My advice is be conscientious about not stealing, even those little things you can do by mistake. Make it right. Even when I was poor, God took good care of me, and never let me be homeless. I've prayed for specific little things I needed, like a brand new pair of athletic shoes, or even just commented internally in prayer that I wished someone would give me $400, and someone gave me exactly $400 within a couple of hours or so of that.

[MrMan]

I thought I'd posted this by my internet went out.

I believe what you reap, you will sow. People from other religions talk about karma. There is the saying, "What goes around comes around." If you steal a bit of detergent out of a bottle in the store, that's still stealing. If you steal a 'sample', that's stealing. 'Skimming' is also used for a certain type of theft so that doesn't make it any better.

I've got a couple of pliers I need to return after someone delivered a washing machine. I've tried to find that address where I have to return them. I've got a sock I need to return to Walmart that one of my girls tried on but did not return in the package when I bought some stocks that were uncomfortable. I've got a floaty I've been trying to return after a Hotels.com trip and they haven't called me back like they were supposed to, or I haven't heard from them. I also have just got the bank info to return $9K for an overpayment from a previous employer that I'm planning on returning this week.

I have several investments that could potentially pay off well and liquidify and yield a profit this year. I am hoping if I pay off these debts of mine, that the investments will come through. But if not, it is the right thing to do and I plan to do these things anyway.

When I was poor, God took good care of my family and we were not homeless. I've had tax refunds come through in the nick of time. I prayed to new shoes at a thrift store I'd never been to, went there with an expectation for God to answer the prayer and find the shoes, which I'd prayed without be really cheap or free. I think they were $2 or maybe $4, brand new. I once prayed and told the Lord I wished someone would give me $400, and I someone did within a few hours. God takes good care of me, and I try to do what is right when it comes to theft, borrowing, etc.

[Natural_Born_Cynic]

@Tsar

Where are you buddy? If you are in America, apply for welfare. I don't think stealing is a good idea for you.

I wasn't exactly talking about myself. I want to someday write a guidebook for rogues, renegades, and rebels.

Sounds awfully like your current situation...Same as your "what do you do when your homeless" thread. If you hate America, love Russian culture and really want to be go rogue then go to Russia and join the Wagner group. Stop beating around the bush. Let us know how your doing.

[Cornfed]

You'd be better off painting yourself black and flat out looting stores in the appropriate areas. Stealing hand lotion? That's just childish.

[Natural_Born_Cynic]

You'd be better off painting yourself black and flat out looting stores in the appropriate areas. Stealing hand lotion? That's just childish.

Very childish indeed.

[Natural_Born_Cynic]

[Tsar]

@Tsar

Where are you buddy? If you are in America, apply for welfare. I don't think stealing is a good idea for you.

I wasn't exactly talking about myself. I want to someday write a guidebook for rogues, renegades, and rebels.

Sounds awfully like your current situation...Same as your "what do you do when your homeless" thread. If you hate America, love Russian culture and really want to be go rogue then go to Russia and join the Wagner group. Stop beating around the bush. Let us know how your doing.

I won't be fighting any nation. I'm a leader, not a soldier and not a grunt.

[MrMan]

You'd be better off painting yourself black and flat out looting stores in the appropriate areas. Stealing hand lotion? That's just childish.

But Black folks use a lot of hand lotion in the winter time don't they...especially Jergens, so that would have to be part of his 'cover' for your plan to work.