1. You unwrap Christmas gifts very carefully, so you can save and reuse the wrapping (and especially those bows) next year.

2. You only buy Christmas cards after Christmas, when they are 50% off.

3. When there is a sale on toilet paper, you buy 100 rolls and store them in your closet or in the bedroom of an adult child who has moved out.

4. You have a vinyl table cloth on your kitchen table.

5. Your stove is covered with aluminum foil.

6. Your kitchen has a sticky film of grease over it.

7. You have stuff in the freezer since the beginning of time.

8. You use the dishwasher as a dish rack.

9. You have never used your dishwasher.

10. You keep a Thermos of hot water available at all times.

11. You boil water and put it in the refrigerator.

12. You eat all meals in the kitchen.

13. You save grocery bags, tin foil, and tin containers.

14. You use grocery bags to hold garbage.

15. You always leave your shoes at the door.

16. You have a piano in your living room.

17. Your parents know how to launch nasal projectiles.

18. You iron your own shirts.

19. You play a musical instrument.

20. You pick your teeth at the dinner table (but you cover your mouth).

21. You twirl your pen around your fingers.

22. You hate to waste food

a. Even if you're totally full, if someone says they're going to throw away the leftovers on the table, you'll finish them.

b. You have Tupperware in your fridge with three bites of rice or one leftover chicken wing.

23. You don't own any real Tupperware--only a cupboard full of used but carefully rinsed margarine tubs, takeout containers, and jam jars.

24. You also use the jam jars as drinking glasses.

25. You've eaten a red bean popsicle.

26. You bring oranges (or other produce) with you as a gift when you visit people's homes.

27. You have a collection of minature shampoo bottles that you take every time you stay in a hotel.

28. The condiments in your fridge are either Price Club sized or come in plastic packets, which you save/steal every time you get take out or go to McDonald's.

29. Ditto paper napkins.

30. You never order room service.

31. You carry a stash of your own food whenever you travel (and travel means any car ride longer than 15 minutes)...These travel snacks are always dried. As in not just dried plums, dried ginger, and beef/pork jerky, but dried cuttlefish (SQUID).

32. You own a rice cooker.

33. You wash your rice at least 2-3 times before cooking it.

34. You spit bones and other food scraps on the table. (That's why you need the vinyl tablecloth).

35. Your parents vehemently refuse the sack of gold coin oranges that their guests just brought just to be courteous.

36. You fight over who pays the dinner bill

37. Your dad thinks he can fix everything himself.

38. You majored in something practical like engineering, medicine or law.

39. When you go to a dance party, there are a wall of guys surrounding the dance floor trying to look cool.

40. You live with your parents and you are 30 years old (and they prefer it that way). Or if you're married and 30 years old, you live in the apartment next door to your parents, or at least in the same neighborhood.

41. You don't use measuring cups.

42. You feel like you've gotten a good deal if you didn't pay tax.

43. You beat eggs with chopsticks.

44. Your parents' house is always cold.

45. You have a teacup with a cover on it.

46. You reuse teabags.

47. You have a drawer full of old pens, most of which don't write anymore.

48. If you're under age 20, you own a really expensive walkman if you're over 20, you own a really expensive camera.

49. Your mom drives her Mercedes to the Price Club.

50. You always look phone numbers up in the phone book, since calling Information costs 50 cents.

51. You tip Chinese delivery guys/waiters more.

52. You're a wok user.

53. You only make long distance calls after 11pm

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