Andy Rooney - 60 Minutes

I don't normally watch 60 Minutes but hubby was flipping through the channels and I was sitting on the floor cutting my Publix coupons ... Michael Phelps was on with Anderson Cooper so I was watching ... and then Andy Rooney came on with his commentary. First I watched cuz damn, he's older than dirt! Then I watched cuz what he was saying actually had my attention! Andy Knows How To Save Andy Rooney Shares His Favorite Ways To Save Money CBS) The following is a weekly 60 Minutes commentary by CBS News correspondent Andy Rooney. Everyone's talking about how bad our economy is. It's in the headlines every day, so I guess it is true. I don't know though. CBS is paying me the same as they paid me last year and I don't really understand anything as big and vague as what they call "the economy". I do know I have to be careful though, so I'm trying to save in little ways. For instance, I make my own coffee in the office every morning. I do it because downstairs, in the CBS cafeteria, one cup of coffee costs $1.50. This morning on my way to work I bought gas. I got eight gallons of regular 87 octane and eight gallons of premium 91 octane and it cost me a total of $36.80. If I'd bought 16 gallons of 89 octane it would have cost me $38.40, so by mixing the regular with the premium, I saved $1.60 and got 89 octane gas. My car doesn't seem to know the difference. I go to every New York Giants home game, which are, ironically, played in New Jersey. I take the bus from New York because if I drive it costs me $8 to go through the Lincoln Tunnel and $20 to park my car at the stadium. The bus tickets cost $2.20 each way. The game ticket costs $80 including tax. Don't ask me why I don't just watch the game home on television. At home I don't even have to pay $4 for a Coke. I take my shirts to the laundry. I used to wear them once, then I started wearing my shirts for two days. Now sometimes I wear them three times before I have them washed. You may have noticed. There's a shoeshine parlor downstairs at CBS but I don't have my shoes shined there because it costs $3.00. I bought a brush and some polish and I do my own. And it's very satisfying. When I go to a good restaurant here in New York for dinner I often slip a roll in my pocket for breakfast the next morning. Taking a roll at a restaurant, that's not stealing, is it? There's no doubt about it though. We're using up all the good things on Earth and if we don't start saving more, we're going to run out of everything.