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Extremely Fake Cheapskates! Season One Recap

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If you've been browsing Netflix lately, you may have noticed a recent influx of trashy reality TV shows.  While I normally avoid these like the plague, there was one that recently piqued my interest.  I've been reading the Mr. Money Mustache blog lately so I just HAD to watch Extreme Cheapskates .   Have these extremists used any of MMM's penny pinching tactics? Maybe there would be some useful tricks I could impress my wife with! I was not disappointed.  This show was a gold mine of hilarity, but it was rather inconsistent.  On one hand there are characters such as Jeff, a man who may out stash Mr. Mustache himself.  On the other, we have people like Vickie, John, and Abdul, who's money saving methods seemed about as real as an episode of Keeping up with the Kardashians . Lets meet the cast of characters that Extreme Cheapskates has lined up and see if we can filter out the real eagle squeezers.  I'll rate each one on a scale of 1 (Gucci hidden under the bed) t