What is it like living with a Bum? 

 Vegas Babe Adventures

Bum, Cheap, Cheesy, Chintzy, Crummy, Loser, Punk and Sleazy

There are many words and phrases that could be used to describe your current station in life �?just the other day I was called a bum.

I have a dead end job and no official residence, so being called a bum really isn't far off. But I'm not homeless in the urban, change-bumming, street-sleeping sense of the word. Only in the lacking-of-residence sense. Like many other bums I just go from one home to another. it is call Room Surfing.

Personally, I prefer the word "dosser," a term often used in the UK, to being called a bum.

In a wild fit of English-major nerdiness, I looked up the etymology of dosser in the Oxford English Dictionary. The dictionary defines it as "one who frequents, or sleeps at, a common lodging-house."

This definition dates back to G.R. Sim's 1884 description of working-class housing people who "crowd in at night and sleep on the stairs of the houses. They call them (h)appy dossers. (H)appy dossers are people who sleep where they can."

Modern-day dossers usually have legitimate jobs (usually very low pay) and abnormal social lives (chatting in chat rooms until 6 a.m. is normal, right?). They just don't have proper homes or apartments.

Even if I could afford my own home, or apartment right now, I'm not sure if I would want to give up this cheap and exciting lifestyle.

Signs that You are Cheap 

Cheap people care about the cost of something

Cheap people try to get the lowest price on everything

Cheap people are inconsiderate. For example, when getting a meal with other people, if their food costs $7.95, they'll put in $8.00, knowing very well that tax and tip mean it's closer to $11

Cheap people keep a running tally with their friends, family, and co-workers

Cheap people are unreasonable and cannot understand why they can't get something for free. Sometimes this is an act, but sometimes it's not

Cheap people's cheapness affects those around them. Frugal people's frugality affects themselves.

Cheap people think short term. Frugal people think long term.

Cheap people are cheap all the time with everything, because they're in a constant worry about money and where it goes. They're willing to forego quality and durability for price--in effect, they are prey by price alone.